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Plot
| "I don't care why you're back. Just stay out of my case." — Watson to Holmes
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| Watson meets drug lord Elana March for a tense lunch. March cattily denies being a criminal and taunts Watson, saying that she's wasted six month trying to convict her. However, Watson has found March's bookkeeper and invited March to lunch so that her bodyguards would be occupied. Police have arrested the bookkeeper who has given the police enough information to convict March. Captain Gregson arrives and takes March away. Days later at Watson's apartment, a client meets her in her home office when Detective Bell calls. He asks her to join him and the bookkeeper, Karen Lloyd, who wants to review the courthouse security again before she testifies against March. On her way out, Watson encounters new neighbor Andrew Mittal and helps him find a lost lizard. Watson meets Lloyd and reassures her she's safe as Lloyd enters the hotel elevator for court. Bell asks about Holmes but Watson hasn't heard from him in six months.
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| Alarms sound and detectives run down the hallway with Watson and Bell in tow. In the basement garage, the elevator reveals that Lloyd and Detective Palmer have been shot dead. Two months later at the 11th Precinct, Bell and Watson are still puzzled by the elevator shooting. The elevator didn't stop, no one entered and the bullets wounds reveal the shots were horizontal. Watson is called to meet with March whose lawyer accuses her of harassment and shows photos of Watson staking out March's daughter's school. Gregson warns Watson that the real purpose of March's visit was to show she can get to Watson. On a park bench, Watson notices a young woman watching her. Andrew, who is now her boyfriend, arrives with lunch. Suspicious, Watson approaches the woman, accuses her of working for March but the woman calls her "nuts" and leaves.
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| At the precinct, Gregson tells Bell and Watson a tip on the elevator shooting named a hotel guest, Kevin Elspeth. The name of the tipster is familiar to Watson. That evening, she visits The Brownstone and discovers the tipster's name is a composite from the names of two authors whose books Holmes had her read. Hearing a noise in the kitchen, she finds Holmes has returned from London. Holmes explains that his tip was a peace offering for having left nearly a year before without saying goodbye in person. Watson demands that Holmes stay out of her case but he points out how unsuccessful she's been and, that Elspeth has committed several other murders he's investigated. Holmes admits that he should have said goodbye properly but Watson is still bitter and says she doesn't need his help.
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| At the precinct, Holmes meets with Gregson and asks to consult with the NYPD again. Gregson is blunt about their past relationship being a means to an end and states that Holmes can only come back back if Watson agrees to it. Bell and Watson question Elspeth and show video of him checking into the hotel the day Lloyd was murdered. When asked why he used an alias, he indicates that he hires hookers. They point out that he uses aliases in many hotels and all locations had a murder committed when he visited. He knows about Lloyd's murder but admits no wrong doing. Outside, Bell notes how suspicious Elspeth is and parts ways with Watson. As Watson walks down the street, she's being followed by the woman she confronted at the park. Rounding a corner, the woman finds Watson has disappeared. Watson surprises her and pulls out her single-stick. The woman smiles, pulls out one of her own and they battle. Watson wins and the woman says she's Holmes' new partner.
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| At the Brownstone, Holmes chastizes Kitty for following Watson against his orders. Bored and wanting to match wits with Watson, Kitty couldn't resist a confrontation. In the hotel where Lloyd was murdered, Watson goes to use the elevator and finds Holmes inside, tracing the bullet shots. Annoyed that he isn't staying out of her case, he follows her to the hotel room Elspeth stayed in when Lloyd was killed. In Elspeth's room, Holmes explains that the woman Watson battled, Kitty, is his protégée and that she was following Watson as part of her training. Watson is surprised that Kitty was following her for a week and Holmes is disappointed it took Watson so long to notice. To gain her sympathy, he admits that he left NYC for London because he was afraid that with Watson moving out of the Brownstone, he might relapse.
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| If he used drugs in London, it wouldn't be in front of Watson. However, he missed the partnership with Watson and realized he was a teacher. He replicated the relationship he had with Watson and stayed sober. Largely ignoring him, Watson proceeds into the bathroom. Holmes notes it is beside the elevator Lloyd was killed in and, the bullet were shot towards his room. Holmes sits on the bench in the shower and reminds Watson that she should examine a crime scene from all perspectives, but she's too angry to take the hint. Holmes tells her that Gregson will allow him and Kitty to consult with the NYPD, but only with Watson's assent. Watson says she's glad he's figured so many things out, but leaves without giving her blessing.
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| At the Brownstone, Watson warily greets Kitty who indicates that Holmes has solved her case. With a model, Holmes shows Watson that Elspeth jammed four steel slugs in the side of the elevator and then positioned a large magnet in his hotel room bathroom. He monitored Lloyd's protective detail's radio messages and once she was in the elevator, pulled the magnet's switch. The steel slugs were pulled through the elevator, killing Lloyd and Palmer. Although he can't prove Elspeth committed the crime, he believes he can connect Elspeth to a crime committed to facilitate the elevator "shooting". Elspeth is called to the precinct where he's told about the magnet in the murders. Claiming there's no proof he was involved, he's informed that ten days prior to the murders, a magnet was stolen from a university. A security guard was badly beaten and fingerprints were left by the assailant. Bell says they'll get his fingerprints from those he's left in the room. Claiming he's not a killer, Elspeth leaves.
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| Elana March calls Watson to lunch and gives her a tip that the prints at the university will match a Romero Sosa. She denies knowing Elspeth and hypothetically, says whoever was behind the elevator murders was counting on Watson being in the elevator too. March then indicates that Watson may not have long to live. At Watson's apartment, Holmes brings her the news that the fingerprints at the university didn't match Elspeth's. Noticing that she had been watching hotel lobby footage of Elspeth, he mentions that the magnet used would weigh a ton. He offers to help Watson but she insists on working alone so he leaves. With the magnet weight in mind, she watches the video again and notices that Elspeth's bags were heavy when he checked in, but were easily knocked over by a patron when he checked out.
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Music
- Angus Powell - Monsters plays at the end of the episode as Kitty catches Watson outside The Brownstone and asks her why she gave up her previous career to learn from Holmes.
Quotes
I was afraid, Watson. That's why I left.
— 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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