Changes: Dead Man's Switch

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Cast

Main cast

Featured cast

Plot

"I have a particular disdain for blackmailers. They are in some respects more despicable to me than even murderers."

— Holmes

While touching up his tattoos, Watson reminds Holmes that the one-year anniversary of his sobriety is soon, and he will be receiving a commemoration chip from Alfredo. Holmes has no intention of accepting it though, finding it meaningless. They are interrupted by a call from Alfredo. Holmes and Watson meet him at New York home where they meet cello player Eva Whitman, and Alfredo's sponsor, Ken Whitman. (♫ Bach - Cello Suite No. 1 Prelude ♫) Ken tells them two years ago at a nightclub, Eva was drugged and raped by a man named Brent Garvey. Eva identified Garvey, as did other victims and he was imprisoned. Eva struggled afterwards but with therapy, recovered. Several months ago, Ken received a blackmail DVD of the rape. He paid in order to not have the video released on the internet and the blackmailer warned him that he had a partner, a fail-safe, who would act in his stead if anything happened to him. He paid a second demand but had enough when a third one arrived days before. Holmes vows to find the blackmailer and destroy all copies of the DVD.

I didn't want to see her get hurt again.

The account used to pay the blackmailer is traced to Charles Augustus Milverton, whose home Watson and Holmes stake out. When Milverton leaves, Holmes picks the lock, steps around Milverton's cat and finds numerous videos, pics and recordings being used for blackmail on his laptop. Watson calls Holmes that Milverton is returning to the front door, but when Holmes heads for the back door, he sees someone else approaching it. Trapped, Holmes hides in a room with the door ajar. Milverton sits at his laptop, hears a gun being cocked and is killed. The shooter takes Milverton's body, laptop and leaves. At the 11th Precinct, Holmes has Captain Gregson watch the DVD. He then explains his dilemma, if he reports Milverton's murder, his fail-safe will release all materials. Gregson agrees to keep the killing secret so the fail-safe can be found.

Milverton is a professional blackmailer.

At The Brownstone, Watson indicates there have been no reports of Milverton's death. She's also examined materials Holmes removed from Milverton's home including a ledger of payoffs from his victims. Holmes can only identify the killer's physical dimensions as he wore a mask and, the smell of cat litter masked any odors. He believes the killer was one of Milverton's victims who may have eliminated his fail-safe. Holmes intends to question Garvey, who may be Milverton's accomplice. Garvey is in the prison hospital, having been beaten up for child molestation crimes. Happy to see this prison justice, Holmes accuses him of giving the DVDs to Milverton who visited Garvey in prison. Garvey claims he's not a supplier of materials, nor the fail-safe. Milverton bought the storage unit Garvey kept the DVD in and was blackmailing him that he'd release it before his next parole hearing.

The contents went into auction.

At the Brownstone, Holmes finds regular payments in Milverton's ledger to a codename "HENRY8". Alfredo, who's been staking out Milverston's house, texts them that he had a visitor. Meeting Alfredo, he describes the man, including him wearing cowboy boots. He seems familiar to Alfredo but can't identify him until Watson plays a TV commercial advertising the services of attorney Duke "The Sheriff" Landers on her phone. Confronting Landers at his office, he denies knowing Milverton. Once Holmes demonstrates that several of Landers' diplomas are fake, he confesses that Milverton offered money if he came across sensitive information. Landers swears he's not the fail-safe and Holmes demands everything on Milverton in Landers' files.

You're a liar who lies.

At the Brownstone, Watson finds Holmes has bought many sobriety chips but, he doesn't want to discuss his situation. He found that Milverton referred one client to Duke Landers, a morbidly obese man named Abraham Zelner. He believes Zelner may the the HENRY8 referred to in Milverton's ledger. They are interrupted by a call from Gregson who reports an arrest of a man trying to dump Milverton's corpse at a construction site. The man, Anthony Pistone, admitted to the killing because his daughter was one of those filmed and raped by Garvey and, he was being blackmailed. Pistone's lawyer has spoken to the media meaning the fail-safe will find out. In "the box" at the precinct, Pistone's story is similiar to Ken Whitman's except, he made his last blackmail payment in cash and was able to follow Milverton home when he picked up the money. He later killed Milverton, which Holmes witnessed, smashed Milverton's laptop, threw it away and, smashed Milverton's head.

I snapped. Lifted my boot up and just...

Holmes confirms that Pistone matches the dimensions of the killer he saw, but calls Pistone a fool as his actions could result in videos of all Milverton's victims being released. Gregson believes sympathy for Pistone's situation could result in a light prison sentence. Detective Bell gives Holmes more bad news, all information on Zelner is a dead end and he can't be found. Watson calls and tells Holmes that Alfredo has reported that Ken Whitman just received a new blackmail demand from Milverton. At the Brownstone, Holmes examines the blackmail email and happily concludes that HENRY8 is the fail-safe but has decided to take over Milverton's affairs. Since the video haven't been released, this gives them time to find him by poring over Landers' files again. Before Alfredo leaves, he tells Holmes he'll see him the next day at a support group meeting to give him his one-year chip. Holmes declines, citing the anniversary as a reminder of his failure. Exasperated, Alfredo says the chip is an accomplishment to give others hope and that Holmes needs to stop being self-centered.

001 Dead Man's Switch episode still of Joan Watson, Sherlock Holmes and Alfredo Llamosa

Milverton's plan has backfired.

The next morning, Holmes wakes Watson by announcing that he knows the identity of HENRY8. According to Landers' files, Zelner's lawsuit was a nuisance suit claiming obesity discrimination. He accepted the first offer as his false identity would not stand up to scrutiny. Holmes looked into similar lawsuits, found a photo of the plaintiff and discovered the first one was from a Stuart Bloom. Zelner was a pseudonym and Holmes produces Bloom's DMV record with an address. After picking the lock at Bloom's home, they enter a dingy room and step on cat litter covering the floor. A foul smell makes them cough and reaching the bathroom, they find Bloom's putrefying corpse lying in the bathtub. Later, Gregson surveys the scene where Holmes points out a boot print on Bloom's chest which matches Milverton's shoe size. He also identifies the cat litter as the same brand as at Milverton's and doesn't believe Pistone to be Bloom's killer. What he doesn't know is who is now operating as the blackmailer.

Any idea why Milverton would kill his partner in crime?

At the Brownstone, with no new data, Holmes stares at a fire. He confesses to Watson that the reason he doesn't want to accept his 1-year sobriety chip is that the day he was admitted to Hemdale, he used. He's one day short of one year and the detail is important to him. He's ashamed but plans to share with Alfredo eventually. By email, Holmes receives Milverton's autopsy but doesn't look at it, having witnessed the killing. Watson looks and finds it odd that Pistone smashed in one side of Milverton's head. Holmes looks and remarks that the scars that were on Milverton's head are gone, almost like Pistone was targeting them. In Gregson's office, Holmes greets Pistone who has made bail. He and Watson tell him they discovered that Milverton was beaten four months ago. He told the hospital staff it was by a mugger but they believe Pistone beat him and show him photos of Milverton's head scars which match a cross-shaped ring Pistone wears.

He said he was mugged...

They believe that in order to save his life, Milverton offered to make Pistone his new partner in blackmailing. Since Milverton was unwilling to pay two partners, he killed Stuart Bloom. Pistone wasn't satisfied with half the business, so he killed Milverton. He stomped on Milverton's face obscure the scars made from his ring. As proof, they produce Milverton's laptop which Pistone claimed he smashed and threw away. Found at the office of Pistone's contracting firm, his brother has confessed to being Pistone's accomplice who sent the latest blackmails. Holmes tells Pistone he'll be in prison longer than he thought. At a support group meeting, Holmes tells Alfredo he won't be accepting his chip but takes him aside for a talk. Later that evening, Holmes tells Watson he's glad to have told Alfredo the truth and he's lucky to have him as his sponsor. (♫ Yo La Tengo - Two Trains ♫) He still doesn't want the chip but, it being past midnight, Watson gives him a gift. He opens it to find a framed poem passage.

Happy real anniversary.

Music

Bach - Cello Suite No. 1 Prelude plays when Holmes and Watson arrive at Ken Whitman's, Alfredo's sponsor.
Yo La Tengo - Two Trains plays at episode end.
When Holmes asks Gregson, "What is the first thing that comes to mind when I say Henry VIII?", Gregson replies, "Herman's Hermits?", naming the British pop band whose singles included "I'm Henery VIII, I Am".

Trivia

Alfredo references his sponsor, though not by name, in "The Long Fuse".
There are several direct parallels with the Arthur Conan Doyle story The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton:^[1]
- The blackmailing villain of that story is likewise named Charles Augustus Milverton.
- Holmes attempts to solve the problem of Milverton's latest victim by breaking into Milverton's home, only to watch as the man is murdered by one of his past victims.
- The murderer likewise grinds her heel into Milverton's face, as a vindictive gesture.
Titled Replacement of the Dead in Russian.^[2]
Watson's gift plaque to Holmes features the last lines of Robert Frost's poem Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening.

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References

↑ Michael Ausiello (April 16, 2013). "Ask Ausiello: Spoilers on Grey's, True Blood, NCIS, Big Bang, Chicago Fire, TVD and More". TVLine. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
↑ Элементарно (телесериал). ru.wikipedia.org. Retrieved May 23, 2013.

Elementary Season One Episodes
Pilot • While You Were Sleeping • Child Predator • The Rat Race • Lesser Evils • Flight Risk • One Way to Get Off • The Long Fuse • You Do It to Yourself • The Leviathan • Dirty Laundry • M. • The Red Team • The Deductionist • A Giant Gun, Filled with Drugs • Details • Possibility Two • Déjà Vu All Over Again • Snow Angels • Dead Man's Switch • A Landmark Story • Risk Management • The Woman • Heroine
Season One • Season Two • Season Three • Season Four • Season Five • Season Six • Season Seven

[Ask_Ausiello:_Spoilers_on_Grey's,_True_Blood,_NCIS,_Big_Bang,_Chicago_Fire,_TVD_and_More-1] Michael Ausiello (April 16, 2013). "Ask Ausiello: Spoilers on Grey's, True Blood, NCIS, Big Bang, Chicago Fire, TVD and More". TVLine. Retrieved April 19, 2013.

[Russian_Elementary_page-2] Элементарно (телесериал). ru.wikipedia.org. Retrieved May 23, 2013.

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-|text=While touching up his tattoos, [[Joan Watson|Watson]] reminds [[Sherlock Holmes|Holmes]] that the one-year anniversary of his sobriety is soon, and he will be receiving a commemoration chip from [[Alfredo Llamosa|Alfredo]]. Holmes has no intention of accepting it though, finding it meaningless. They are interrupted by a call from Alfredo. Holmes and Watson meet him at New York home where they meet cello player Eva Whitman, and Alfredo's sponsor, Ken Whitman. Ken tells them two years ago at a nightclub, Eva was drugged and raped by a man named Brent Garvey. Eva identified Garvey, as did other victims and he was imprisoned. Eva struggled afterwards but with therapy, recovered. Several months ago, Ken received a blackmail DVD of the rape. He paid in order to not have the video released on the internet and the blackmailer warned him that he had a partner, a fail-safe, who would act in his stead if anything happened to him. He paid a second demand but had enough when a third one arrived days before. Holmes vows to find the blackmailer and destroy all copies of the DVD.
+|text=While touching up his tattoos, [[Joan Watson|Watson]] reminds [[Sherlock Holmes|Holmes]] that the one-year anniversary of his sobriety is soon, and he will be receiving a commemoration chip from [[Alfredo Llamosa|Alfredo]]. Holmes has no intention of accepting it though, finding it meaningless. They are interrupted by a call from Alfredo. Holmes and Watson meet him at New York home where they meet cello player Eva Whitman, and Alfredo's sponsor, Ken Whitman. <small>(♫ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cello_Suites_(Bach)#Suite_No._1_in_G_major,_BWV_1007 Bach -  Cello Suite No. 1 Prelude] ♫)</small> Ken tells them two years ago at a nightclub, Eva was drugged and raped by a man named Brent Garvey. Eva identified Garvey, as did other victims and he was imprisoned. Eva struggled afterwards but with therapy, recovered. Several months ago, Ken received a blackmail DVD of the rape. He paid in order to not have the video released on the internet and the blackmailer warned him that he had a partner, a fail-safe, who would act in his stead if anything happened to him. He paid a second demand but had enough when a third one arrived days before. Holmes vows to find the blackmailer and destroy all copies of the DVD.
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-|text=At the [[The Brownstone]], Watson indicates there have been no reports of Milverton's death. She's also examined materials Holmes removed from Milverton's home including a ledger of payoffs from his victims. Holmes can only identify the killer's physical dimensions as the smell of cat litter masked any scents. He believes the killer was one of Milverton's victims who may have eliminated his fail-safe. Holmes intends to question Garvey, who may be Milverton's accomplice. Garvey is in the prison hospital, having been beaten up for child molestation crimes. Happy to see this prison justice, Holmes accuses him of giving the DVDs to Milverton who visited Garvey in prison. Garvey claims he's not a supplier of materials, nor the fail-safe. Milverton bought the storage unit Garvey kept the DVD in and was blackmailing him that he'd release it before his next parole hearing.
+|text=At [[The Brownstone]], Watson indicates there have been no reports of Milverton's death. She's also examined materials Holmes removed from Milverton's home including a ledger of payoffs from his victims. Holmes can only identify the killer's physical dimensions as he wore a mask and, the smell of cat litter masked any odors. He believes the killer was one of Milverton's victims who may have eliminated his fail-safe. Holmes intends to question Garvey, who may be Milverton's accomplice. Garvey is in the prison hospital, having been beaten up for child molestation crimes. Happy to see this prison justice, Holmes accuses him of giving the DVDs to Milverton who visited Garvey in prison. Garvey claims he's not a supplier of materials, nor the fail-safe. Milverton bought the storage unit Garvey kept the DVD in and was blackmailing him that he'd release it before his next parole hearing.
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-|text=At the Brownstone, Watson finds Holmes has bought many sobriety chips but, he doesn't want to discuss his situation. He found that Milverton referred one client to Duke Landers, a morbidly obese man named Abraham Zelner. He believes Zelner may the the HENRY8 referred to in Milverton's ledger. They are interrupted by a call from Gregson, reports an arrest of a man trying to dump Milverton's corpse at a construction site. The man, Anthony Pistone, admitted to the killing because his daughter was one of those filmed and raped by Garvey and, he was being blackmailed. Pistone's lawyer has spoken to the media meaning the fail-safe will find out. In "the box" at the precinct, Pistone's story is similiar to Ken Whitman's except, he made his last blackmail payment in cash and was able to follow Milverton home when he picked up the money. He later killed Milverton, which Holmes witnessed, smashed Milverton's laptop, threw it away and, smashed Milverton's head.
+|text=At the Brownstone, Watson finds Holmes has bought many sobriety chips but, he doesn't want to discuss his situation. He found that Milverton referred one client to Duke Landers, a morbidly obese man named Abraham Zelner. He believes Zelner may the the HENRY8 referred to in Milverton's ledger. They are interrupted by a call from Gregson who reports an arrest of a man trying to dump Milverton's corpse at a construction site. The man, Anthony Pistone, admitted to the killing because his daughter was one of those filmed and raped by Garvey and, he was being blackmailed. Pistone's lawyer has spoken to the media meaning the fail-safe will find out. In "the box" at the precinct, Pistone's story is similiar to Ken Whitman's except, he made his last blackmail payment in cash and was able to follow Milverton home when he picked up the money. He later killed Milverton, which Holmes witnessed, smashed Milverton's laptop, threw it away and, smashed Milverton's head.
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+|text=Holmes confirms that Pistone matches the dimensions of the killer he saw, but calls Pistone a fool as his actions could result in videos of all Milverton's victims being released. Gregson believes sympathy for Pistone's situation could result in a light prison sentence. [[Marcus Bell|Detective Bell]] gives Holmes more bad news, all information on Zelner is a dead end and he can't be found. Watson calls and tells Holmes that Alfredo has reported that Ken Whitman just received a new blackmail demand from Milverton. At the Brownstone, Holmes examines the blackmail email and happily concludes that HENRY8 is the fail-safe but has decided to take over Milverton's affairs. Since the video haven't been released, this gives them time to find him by poring over Landers' files again. Before Alfredo leaves, he tells Holmes he'll see him the next day at a support group meeting to give him his one-year chip. Holmes declines, citing the anniversary as a reminder of his failure. Exasperated, Alfredo says the chip is an accomplishment to give others hope and that Holmes needs to stop being self-centered.
-|text=Holmes has watched the interrogation from behind the glass, and, when Gregson emerges, cheerlessly confirms that Pistone is the same height and build as the killer Holmes saw. Gregson says its hard not to sympathize with Pistone, and Holmes angrily says Pistone is an idiot - by killing Milverton without first eliminating his fail-safe, Pistone has put all of Milverton's victims at risk, including his own daughter. Gregson says they may disagree with his actions, but they can still sympathize with his motives, and likely the District Attorney will as well - if Pistone ''"plays his cards right,"'' he will likely be charged with simple manslaughter, and serve only a few years in prison. [[Marcus Bell|Detective Bell]] approaches Holmes with more bad news: the home address in Duke Landers's files for "Abraham Zelner" was a butcher shop in Chinatown, and there is no record of the man in the DMV or NCIC databases, meaning the name is likely a fake. Holmes takes a call on his cell from Watson, asking her how the evening can possibly get any worse. Watson says she isn't sure if this is good news or bad news, but Alfredo is at the Brownstone to tell them that Ken Whitman just received a new blackmail demand - from Charles Milverton.
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+|text=The next morning, [[Holmes wakes Watson#Appearances|Holmes wakes Watson]] by announcing that he knows the identity of HENRY8. According to Landers' files, Zelner's lawsuit was a nuisance suit claiming obesity discrimination. He accepted the first offer as his false identity would not stand up to scrutiny. Holmes looked into similar lawsuits, found a photo of the plaintiff and discovered the first one was from a Stuart Bloom. Zelner was a pseudonym and Holmes produces Bloom's DMV record with an address. After picking the lock at Bloom's home, they enter a dingy room and step on cat litter covering the floor. A foul smell makes them cough and reaching the bathroom, they find Bloom's putrefying corpse lying in the bathtub. Later, Gregson surveys the scene where Holmes points out a boot print on Bloom's chest which matches Milverton's shoe size. He also identifies the cat litter as the same brand as at Milverton's and doesn't believe Pistone to be Bloom's killer. What he doesn't know is who is now operating as the blackmailer.
-|text=At the Brownstone, Holmes examines the email message, containing a fresh demand to transfer money to a numbered account. Holmes says the answer is simple: HENRY8, whoever he is, has decided to use Milverton's compromising materials to ''"take over the business"'' rather than fulfill his role as Milverton's fail-safe. Holmes surprises Alfredo by saying this is the best possible news under the circumstances: as long as HENRY8 prefers to continue squeezing Milverton's victims, their secrets are safe, at least for the moment. Since they still have time to find HENRY8, Holmes declares that he is going to reexamine Duke Landers's files: Abraham Zelner may be a pseudonym, but Holmes is still convinced that the obese man Landers represented is HENRY8.
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+|text=At the Brownstone, with no new data, Holmes stares at a fire. He confesses to Watson that the reason he doesn't want to accept his 1-year sobriety chip is that the day he was admitted to [[Hemdale Recovery Center|Hemdale]], he used. He's one day short of one year and the detail is important to him. He's ashamed but plans to share with Alfredo eventually. By email, Holmes receives Milverton's autopsy but doesn't look at it, having witnessed the killing. Watson looks and finds it odd that Pistone smashed in one side of Milverton's head. Holmes looks and remarks that the scars that were on Milverton's head are gone, almost like Pistone was targeting them. In Gregson's office, Holmes greets Pistone who has made bail. He and Watson tell him they discovered that Milverton was beaten four months ago. He told the hospital staff it was by a mugger but they believe Pistone beat him and show him photos of Milverton's head scars which match a cross-shaped ring Pistone wears.
-|text=Holmes thanks Alfredo for his assistance, then starts to prepare tea for the long night ahead. Alfredo follows him into the kitchen and asks if Holmes is still coming to the sobriety meeting the next day. Holmes says no, and the reason is simple, even if he didn't confess it to Watson before: most recovering addicts see their sobriety chips as cause for celebration, as if they had achieved something; to Holmes, however, it is just a painful reminder of the sorry state he was in a year ago, and his original "failure" by becoming addicted in the first place. It is nothing he wants to remind himself of. Alfredo, normally patient, becomes angry himself, telling Holmes that the point of the anniversary meeting is not about Holmes, it is about the other addicts in the group. Holmes, and other addicts who make it a year without using, serve as examples to addicts who still have a ways to go, and those examples are badly needed. With that, Alfredo leaves.
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+|text=They believe that in order to save his life, Milverton offered to make Pistone his new partner in blackmailing. Since Milverton was unwilling to pay two partners, he killed Stuart Bloom. Pistone wasn't satisfied with half the business, so he killed Milverton. He stomped on Milverton's face obscure the scars made from his ring. As proof, they produce Milverton's laptop which Pistone claimed he smashed and threw away. Found at the office of Pistone's contracting firm, his brother has confessed to being Pistone's accomplice who sent the latest blackmails. Holmes tells Pistone he'll be in prison longer than he thought. At a support group meeting, Holmes tells Alfredo he won't be accepting his chip but takes him aside for a talk. Later that evening, Holmes tells Watson he's glad to have told Alfredo the truth and he's lucky to have him as his sponsor. <small>(♫ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_La_Tengo Yo La Tengo - Two Trains] ♫)</small> He still doesn't want the chip but, it being past midnight, Watson gives him a gift. He opens it to find a framed poem passage.
-|text=The next morning, Watson is woken suddenly by the sight of Holmes sitting opposite her. Excitedly, he tells her he thinks he has discovered HENRY8's true identity. According to Landers's files, "Abraham Zelner"'s lawsuit against the airline had all the earmarks of a classic "nuisance" suit: after filing, "Zelner" immediately accepted the airline's first, low-ball settlement offer and abandoned the suit, probably because he knew his false identity would not stand up to scrutiny. This led to Holmes wondering if "Zelner" had done this before, and he looked up similar lawsuits on the East Coast, by obese men alleging discrimination and resulting in quick, ''"go-away payoffs." ''Holmes compiled a list of plaintiffs, whose names all match the same pattern: a single man chose a first name beginning with A, and moving forwards, and a last name beginning with Z, and working backwards. But one name did not match the pattern, a man named Stuart Bloom, even though news photos proved that he is the same man as one of the "pattern" plaintiffs. Watson understands what Holmes is getting at: the man code-named HENRY8 used his real name to file his first lawsuit. Triumphantly, Holmes produces a DMV record, showing that Stuart Bloom, unlike the fictitious Abraham Zelner, has a real home address.
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-|text=When no one answers the door to Bloom's home in Staten Island, Holmes and Watson enter, noticing that all the blinds have been drawn, and there is cat litter spread all over the floor, but no sign of a cat. Entering deeper into the house, they start to cough, and Holmes grimly surmises that the cat litter was put down to absorb odors, rather than for cats. By the time they reach the bathroom, they are both covering their mouths and noses, when they find Bloom's putrefying corpse lying in the bathtub.
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-|text=While the crime scene techs photograph the scene, Holmes "introduces" Gregson to Bloom, a.k.a. HENRY8. He also directs Gregson's attention to a boot-shaped bruise on Bloom's chest, where his killer, most likely Charles Milverton, forced him underwater. Gregson, surprised, asks why Anthony Pistone wouldn't be the killer, since he had the same motive. Holmes and Watson point out that the boot print is a match for Milverton, but too small for Pistone, plus the cat litter is the same brand in Milverton's home. Holmes guesses that, after Bloom was dead, his body was too large to move, so Milverton spread ''"a decade's worth of cat litter"'' around the house to obscure the smell of his decay. Gregson asks why Milverton would kill his own accomplice, and Watson can only guess that Bloom demanded a bigger cut of the operation. For Holmes, though, the more pressing question is this: Bloom has been dead for at least a week, so who is the new "HENRY8" who has taken over Milverton's business?
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-|text=That evening, Holmes is seated in front of the fire, staring at the bare wall. Watson asks where his "evidence wall" is, and Holmes irritably says he took it down, put it up, then took it down again. There is simply nowhere for his mind to go without new data. Watson starts to excuse herself, saying she will go over her share of the files again before going to bed, when Holmes makes a surprising confession. The true reason he refuses to accept his sobriety chip is that it would not mark his first full year of sobriety, it would mark his 364th day of sobriety. The day he was admitted to Hendale, he had accepted that he needed rehabilitation, but his addiction was so acute that he broke out of the facility, found a dealer, and "used" before returning. He has been sober for exactly one day less than everyone has been led to believe. Holmes says he knows what Watson will say, that a single day shouldn't be such a big deal, but to Holmes, as she well knows, the small details make all the difference. Moreover, he wasn't lying to Alfredo when he said he was ashamed: his last day of addiction was proof that that addiction was stronger than his rational mind, and his ability to control himself. Watson points out that losing control for one day doesn't change the fact that he kept it for the next 364. Holmes nods in acceptance, and further preempts Watson's advice that he share all this with Alfredo, and says he will do so, when he feels ready.
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-|text=Holmes's tablet beeps, and he picks it up, only to drop it in disgust: the coroner has emailed Milverton's autopsy report, which Holmes would consider new data, except that Holmes was on the scene when the man was shot. But Watson picks up the laptop and remarks on an odd detail: from his and Gregson's description, she'd assumed that Pistone went berserk and stomped all over Milverton's face, but the bruises and abrasions are only on the left side of his head. The next morning, Pistone (with a tracking bracelet on his ankle) and his attorney are waiting in Gregson's office when Holmes and Watson enter. Holmes "congratulates" Pistone on making bail, then mock-apologizes, because he's about to screw up Pistone's future plans. When Holmes saw Milverton, moments before he was shot, Holmes noticed a series of cross-shaped scars on the left side of his head, which were effaced by Pistone's stomping, almost as if Pistone was targeting them.
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-|text=Pistone's attorney demands proof, and Gregson produces Milverton's laptop in an evidence bag - the same laptop that Pistone claimed he smashed and threw in a dumpster. With the aid of a search warrant, the police just found it in the office of Pistone's contracting business, inside the desk of his brother - who has already confessed to being the accomplice who sent Ken Whitman the fresh blackmail demand while Pistone was in jail. Holmes says that, while the district attorney, the media, and the public at large were sure to sympathize with a blackmail victim turning the tables on his blackmailer to protect his daughter, they are less likely to sympathize with a cold-blooded killer turning on his own accomplice for the sake of greed. Pistone is silent. While Alfredo is setting up chairs at the rehab center, Holmes appears, saying he is not attending that night's meeting, but would like a few minutes with Alfredo in private.
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-|text=That evening, Holmes is touching up his tattoos again, when Watson comes over and asks how things went with Alfredo. Holmes admits that he told Alfredo the truth, that it was ''"liberating"'', as Watson predicted, and Holmes is lucky to have Alfredo as his sponsor. Despite this, he still has no interest in accepting a sobriety chip. Watson looks at the clock, sees it is midnight, and congratulates Holmes on his ''"real"'' anniversary. Even if he won't accept a chip, she has a commemorative present for him: a small framed passage from Robert Frost's poem, "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening": ''"I have promises to keep/And miles to go before I sleep/And miles to go before I sleep."''
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 ==Music==
 *''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cello_Suites_(Bach)#Suite_No._1_in_G_major,_BWV_1007 Bach -  Cello Suite No. 1 Prelude]'' plays when Holmes and Watson arrive at Ken Whitman's, Alfredo's sponsor.
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 ==Trivia==
-*Alfredo references his own sponsor, though not by name, from "[[The Long Fuse]]".
+*Alfredo references his sponsor, though not by name, in "[[The Long Fuse]]".
 *There are several direct parallels with the Arthur Conan Doyle story ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_Charles_Augustus_Milverton The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton]'':<ref name="Ask Ausiello: Spoilers on Grey's, True Blood, NCIS, Big Bang, Chicago Fire, TVD and More">Michael Ausiello (April 16, 2013). "[http://tvline.com/2013/04/16/true-blood-season-6-spoilers-death-ask-ausiello/2/ Ask Ausiello: Spoilers on Grey's, True Blood, NCIS, Big Bang, Chicago Fire, TVD and More]". TVLine. Retrieved April 19, 2013.</ref>
 **The blackmailing villain of that story is likewise named Charles Augustus Milverton.
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