Changes: Art Imitates Art

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Cast

Main cast

Featured cast

Plot

"The rise of social media has created a generation of narcissists eager to offer up their private images for public consumption. But like peacocks spreading their tails, such displays, whilst feeding self-esteem, also risk attracting the attention of predators."

— Holmes

After Watson confronts Lin Wen that they are half-sisters, Lin admits it and gives Watson details about their schizophrenic father. Having learned a few years before about Watson's family, Lin found out that Watson worked as a detective with Sherlock who had a brother named Mycroft. Desperate for help, she came to them and lied that she was Mycroft's lover to gain their cooperation. However, now that they've helped her, she has no desire to have a relationship with Watson, though Watson wants to know Lin. At night outside a NYC gym, Phoebe Elliot approaches a car she thinks is her ride-share. (♫ St. Lucia - Physical ♫) When she opens the rear passenger door, she's shot to death by the driver. (♫ The Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup ♫) The killer drives to Connecticut, parks the car, smashes the window which sets off the alarm, and leaves.

Why do you build me up...?

Later at the scene, Holmes is able to tell from the blood splatter that Phoebe was shot from a stopped car. While Watson thinks she recognizes Phoebe, Detective Bell reports that her brother, Keith, just finished jail time for car theft. Keith is adamant that he didn't kill Phoebe and offers his full cooperation. He believes a stalker may have killed her as she was getting a lot of attention from a selfie she took years before. At the art gallery of Ephraim Hill, Bell, Holmes and Watson view selfies that have been enlarged and are being sold as art, including one from Phoebe. Watson indicates the pieces have received wide-spread media exposure and some of the subjects were angry their selfies were being used in this manner. Hill arrives and believes they're there in response to a robbery in which five of the pieces were stolen. Told of Phoebe's murder, he has an alibi, indicates Phoebe liked the attention and has a suspect.

Where's the missing blood?

The suspect is Skyden, a young woman who posted an angry video threatening Hill. However, she indicates that the video was an act for a play and that she took pictures of Hill's pieces, before the robbery, which she was going to sell. Looking at a picture Skyden took of Phoebe's piece, Holmes notices differences from the one in the gallery and says that it has been replaced with a forgery. Phoebe's piece arrives at the Brownstone which Hill has confirmed is a fake and that it could only have switched out during the robbery. Noticing Watson is distracted, she tells Holmes about Lin and wonders why her biological father was able to maintain a family with Lin and her mother Jing-Mei, but not with her mother and brother. She hopes to find out, having left a phone message for Jing-Mei. Holmes shows Watson that in the background of Phoebe's piece, a man has been erased and the license plate altered.

Phoebe's selfie captures the man exiting this car.

Bell has found that the car belongs to Louis Bowman, who is serving life in prison for murder. Holmes believes the piece was switched out as the original proves that Bowman didn't commit murder.

Music

St. Lucia - Physical plays on Phoebe Elliot's head phones moments before she is shot from a car.
The Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup plays from the car that is used to shoot Phoebe.
The Lumineers - In the Light plays at episode end as Watson tells Lin Wen that her mother called her and invited Watson to tea.

Trivia

Phoebe Elliot requests a ride share from Zooss, the company that staffer Brandon Falchek worked for and used their software to stalk and attack Felice Armistead. ("The View From Olympus")

Quotes

Are you still irked that she and my brother once rode below the crupper? Did you think he was a virgin?
— Holmes to Watson concerning Lin Wen

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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