Changes: Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing

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Cast

Main cast

Featured cast

Plot

"A lot of these stand-ups at these open mics talk about bombing, but, hey, I've lived through a real bombing."

— Dr. Eugene Hawes

At a stand-up comedy club, Dr. Eugene Hawes performs his act as Watson watches. Afterwards, Hawes tells Watson that performing is part of his therapy in dealing with the explosion that occurred in the Morgue. Excusing herself, at a bookshop, Watson meets Emil Kurtz, her mole in Morland's organization, where he provides information that the assassin who attempted to kill Morland, Ruslan Krasnov, had help escaping from jail. A policeman chasing a thief comes upon two dead men, one in an SUV and another on the pavement beside the vehicle. The next morning at The Brownstone, Sherlock shows Watson a cat he bought for Fiona's birthday while she lies about why she left the comedy club abruptly. Proceeding to the crime scene alone, Sherlock meets Detective Bell who identifies the driver as Jared Talt, a developer, and Butch Callahan, an army vet.

This is clearly a pathologist convention.

Examining the scene, they conclude that someone staged it to look like Talt and Callahan shot each other. Hearing a camera flash charging, Sherlock finds a camera in a dumpster which has blood on it and four pictures of Talt, dead in the SUV. At the 11th Precinct, Captain Gregson and Watson are shown the pictures which differ from how the bodies were found. Puzzled why the murders were staged, Watson reasons that Talt was the target. Gregson reports that Talt's wife, Ida, was upstate for the evening and is returning. He tells Bell and Sherlock to question Callahan's girlfriend, Roxanne Ortiz, while he and Watson see Jared's business partner, Davis Potter. Potter is distraught over Jared's death and doesn't know Callahan. He says their business was failing and all they had was liabilities. He claims a property near Lake Placid, which they bought for fracking before the state outlawed it, had them involved in a law suit. He provides evidence he was at a Knicks game when Jared was killed.

Obviously, all is not as it appears.

At Ortiz's, she confirms that a gun found next to Callahan was his. Formerly troubled with PTSD, Ortiz indicates that Callahan was better and they were discussing marriage. Sherlock finds several shirts in the garbage with red stains on them, which Ortiz is shocked to see. At the Morgue, Sherlock shows Watson three stained shirts which all match the shirt Jared was wearing when he died. The shirts were experiments to determine which stain looked most like blood for the fake murder. The camera was Callahan's and Sherlock believes they were shot while Callahan was taking pictures of Jared's staged murder. At the precinct, the evidence is reviewed with Gregson pondering what the staging was to have accomplished. Bell and Sherlock indicate that Callahan bought a pen recorder and believe that he and Jared intended to blackmail whoever hired Callahan to really kill Jared, after showing him the staged pictures.

Watson posits that the blackmail target came across the staging and is the killer.

Music

Zoe Keating - Exurgency plays as Sherlock finds Butch Callahan's camera in a dumpster.
Claudine - Ofai Tere plays as Sherlock views the wall of evidence of Gerald Talt.

Trivia

At Potter and Talt's property, after Watson traipses to the edge and back, she jokingly reports to Holmes that she found nothing, not even a smoke monster, referencing the TV show Lost.
Holmes mentions that Detective Nash told him Detective Bell was called to a scene of a shooting. Nash took Bell's desk when he went to work for Demographics. Bell paid Nash to get his desk back when he returned to Major Cases. ("All in the Family")

Quotes

You know me Watson, sticky fingers.
— Sherlock

Gallery

Elementary Season Four Episodes
The Past Is Parent • Evidence of Things Not Seen • Tag, You're Me • All My Exes Live in Essex • The Games Underfoot • The Cost of Doing Business • Miss Taken • A Burden of Blood • Murder Ex Machina • Alma Matters • Down Where the Dead Delight • A View with a Room • A Study in Charlotte • Who Is That Masked Man? • Up to Heaven and Down to Hell • Hounded • You've Got Me, Who's Got You? • Ready or Not • All In • Art Imitates Art • Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing • Turn It Upside Down • The Invisible Hand • A Difference in Kind
Season One • Season Two • Season Three • Season Four • Season Five • Season Six • Season Seven

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