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Plot
| "I love what we do. You, me, Marcus, Holmes, everyone. What we do for the city, the people that need our help, it's not just some report that shows up on my desk." — Gregson to Watson
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| At the 11th Precinct, Captain Gregson, Holmes and Watson show evidence to Hugo that he sewed numerous Raggedy Andy masks which he distributed to people who thought they were going to be part of a flash mob. He's then shown the knife that he stabbed his boss with while using the mob as cover and is encouraged to confess. Entering his office, Gregson is surprised by Deputy Commissioner Pat who has a bottle of scotch and wants to discuss the future of the Major Cases unit. USDA employee Everett Keck arrives at the honey farm of Belinda as part of testing to determine the cause of widespread bee colony deaths. Belinda returns to check on Keck and finds her bees and Keck both dead. Later at the scene, Holmes is released from police custody after stopping Officer Hayes from smelling Keck's bee smoker.
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| Pointing out the smoker had cyanide in it, Holmes believes that the corporation AgriNext is behind the colony collapse disorder (CCD) in the Northeast US. While Holmes heads to AgriNext, Watson is called to Gregson's office where he informs her that he's been offered a promotion to deputy chief. As his proposed replacement, Ann Vescey, had issues with theft at her precinct, he asks Watson to discretely check if Vescey can be trusted. At AgriNext, Holmes accuses executive Jonah Chait of his company murdering Keck in order to conceal their involvement in CCD. Denying his accusation, Chait indicates that AgriNext had a file on Keck who they found wasn't qualified, as he was a Buddhist seminary dropout, used drugs and was nearly suspended. He's confident that AgriNext was well prepared to discredit any accusations Keck might have made.
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| At The Brownstone, Holmes sees Watson with an NYPD file and deduces Gregson's promotion offer. Filling him in, Holmes doesn't share Watson's concern for their future at Major Cases if Gregson moves on. Watson notes the large amount of UDSA files with which Holmes has found that AgriNext was right about Keck's shortcomings. Noting that a neighbor of Belinda's, Darryl Jarvis, filed a complaint that Keck poisoned his bee hives with deadly mites, they head to Jarvis' home with police. Holmes finds evidence in Jarvis' trash that he manufactured cyanide from apple seeds. Confessing to poisoning Keck's smoker, Jarvis is adamant that he did so because Keck put mites in his hives. The next morning at the Brownstone, Watson finds Holmes on the phone while letting some of his bees sting his arm. He believes Keck was poisoning hives, and found that Keck's supervisor, Calvin Barnes, had a heart attack after being stung by bees, despite being in excellent health.
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| Barnes was investigating Keck but the matter was dropped after his heart attack, which made him an invalid. Holmes believes Barnes was given an injection that caused the attack and shows Watson that the wounds on his arm from bees stings and pins are identical. On the phone trying to get Barnes' medical records, he also shows Watson that Harlan Emple has statistically proven that mites appeared wherever Keck inspected hives. Since Barnes' attack occurred when Keck was away, Holmes concludes Keck had a partner. At the Barnes' home, Mrs. Barnes confirms Calvin had his attack in the hallway but she wasn't present when it happened. Holmes finds damage on a door frame and theorizes that a struggle occurred there where Calvin was injected with potassium chloride which stopped his heart. Later at the precinct, Detective Bell reports that other than many blonde hairs, assumed to be from the Barnes, no evidence was found.
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| Noting that prior to Keck poisoning hives, CCD was declining and funding for academics was decreasing, Watson suggests talking to organizers of an apiary conference at Garrison University. The organizers are two married professors, Tara and Griffin Parker, who are incredulous when told Keck has been poisoning hives and had a partner. They provide a list of attendees and while Holmes looks it over for suspects, he's surprised to find that Sheikh Nasser Al-Fayed, a member of the royal family in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), will be attending. Purported to be a recluse and to have the more expensive apiary in the world, Griffin says he's staying at the Cardiff Hotel. While Holmes heads to the Cardiff, Watson meets with a handwriting expert to review the property room logbook at Ann Vescey's precinct. Holmes calls that the sheikh is missing and he concludes he's been kidnapped.
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Trivia
- The beekeeping farm scene was shot at Congers, New York off Route 304.
- AgriNext executive Jonah Chait refers to the Barbara Conway case. ("Seed Money")
- Beecircuit.com is mentioned several times in the episode. Holmes helped its moderator, Vernon Joseph, retrieve several zebras and quaggas. ("The Female of the Species")
Quotes
We've solved one murder. Now we just have the remaining one hundred million.
— Holmes
Gallery
| Elementary Season Three Episodes | ||
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| Enough Nemesis To Go Around • The Five Orange Pipz • Just a Regular Irregular • Bella • Rip Off • Terra Pericolosa • The Adventure of the Nutmeg Concoction • End of Watch • The Eternity Injection • Seed Money • The Illustrious Client • The One That Got Away • Hemlock • The Female of the Species • When Your Number's Up • For All You Know • T-Bone and the Iceman • The View From Olympus • One Watson, One Holmes • A Stitch in Time • Under My Skin • The Best Way Out Is Always Through • Absconded • A Controlled Descent
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