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Cast

Main cast

Featured cast

Plot

"The parts of you that keep my imagination occupied are fully clothed at the moment."

— C. to Holmes

At The Brownstone, Holmes is surprised to find a guest in the library, Gay. Watson explains that while examining Holmes' box of unsolved cases, she found the murder of Doug Newberg, in which a picture of his backyard had an unusual rock. A geology fellow, Gay has identified that the rock was dug up from well beneath the earth's surface. Planning to visit the site, Holmes is disappointed he cannot accompany them as his sponsee, Randy, is undergoing a crisis that requires his help. At a coffee shop, Randy tells Holmes that an ex who is a drug addict, Eve, has moved to NYC and wants to live with him while she gets sober. Holmes believes that Randy shouldn't see Eve at all. Without permission, Watson and Gay enter Newberg's backyard and find the rock still there. Gay says the rock is from the dinosaur era and likely contains an archeological specimen.

That's 65 million years ago.

Holmes meets Watson at the Morgue where a technician performs a CT scan on the rock. A complete skeleton of a small dinosaur is discovered inside it. At the Triboro Museum of Natural History, they meet with Dr. Jerome Thomas by a Dimetrodon skeleton which he indicates is the only complete one in the world. He's amazed at the CT scan and tells them the skeleton is a Nanotyrannus, the rock is likely from Mongolia, was taken from there illegally and is worth about $10M. At the Brownstone, Holmes builds an evidence wall of Newberg but is constantly interrupted by texts from Randy. He leaves to help Randy and returns late. In the morning Watson wakes Holmes to tell them they are going for ice cream, even though it's winter. She explains over breakfast that Newberg's best friend, Diego Salcedo, has a record and operates a fleet of ice cream trucks which she believes he's using to transport smuggled goods.

The dinosaur did escape my notice.

After staking out Salcedo and catching him selling Cuban cigars, he's brought to the 11th Precinct as a suspect in Newberg's murder. Denying he killed Newberg, he admits to taking delivery of the rock three years before, but didn't know it had a valuable fossil inside. The buyer backed out and believing he was being watched, he gave it to Newberg in his garage. After Newberg was killed, he thought the rock was probably the reason but figured the killer took the rock and didn't know it was in Newberg's backyard. During the questioning, Captain Gregson is interrupted that ICE agents have arrived for the rock. After Salcedo's questioning, he's told that a single ICE agent just arrived for it. Suspicious, they head to the evidence locker and find the first ICE agents were imposters who left with the rock.

Did you confirm their credentials?

Music

Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro (Overture) plays as Watson discovers Gay asleep on the library couch.
The Vespers - Better Now plays at the episode end as Randy confesses to Holmes that he got high the night before. They leave for a meeting.

Trivia

The events of this episode are shown to have happened in January 2014 in the episode "Over a Barrel".
Watson finds this case in Holmes' box of unsolved cases which he gave to her in "An Unnatural Arrangement".

Gallery

Elementary Season Two Episodes
Step Nine • Solve for X • We Are Everyone • Poison Pen • Ancient History • An Unnatural Arrangement • The Marchioness • Blood Is Thicker • On the Line • Tremors • Internal Audit • The Diabolical Kind • All in the Family • Dead Clade Walking • Corpse de Ballet • The One Percent Solution • Ears to You • The Hound of the Cancer Cells • The Many Mouths of Aaron Colville • No Lack of Void • The Man With the Twisted Lip • Paint It Black • Art in the Blood • The Grand Experiment
Season One • Season Two • Season Three • Season Four • Season Five • Season Six • Season Seven

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