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Plot
| "I did this for Ando. No one kills a yakuza but a yakuza." — Go Shinura
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| At the 11th Precinct, Hannah arrives unexpectedly and asks to speak to Captain Gregson in private. Responding to a fire in a residence, firefighters find a man dead and his throat slashed. At the crime scene, Detective Bell reports that the man is Ando Azuma, he worked in I.T. and immigrated from Japan four years before. Knocked unconscious and tied up before being killed, the fire was then started to burn any evidence. Missing part of his left pinky, Watson notes that wound healed some time ago. Holmes confirms that Azuma was a retired member of the Japanese crime syndicate, the yakuza, and that he wore a prosthetic finger which is missing. At The Brownstone, Holmes greets Bethany Ito who is the only Japanese-speaking prosthetics technician in NYC. Ito confirms to Holmes and Bell that she made Azuma's prosthetic pinky but that it also contained a flash drive. She provides them with the dark web account that Azuma used to pay for the pinky.
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| Watson meets Gregson in his office where he tells her that Hannah is an alcoholic going through AA. He asks Watson's advice on how best to help Hannah. At the Brownstone, Watson arrives to find Mason trying to hack into Azuma's dark web account while Holmes speaks to a Japanese policeman on the phone. Holmes confirms that Azuma was a retired yakuza who specialized in industrial espionage and blackmail but retired members are forbidden to engage in criminal activities. Mason breaks into the account which doesn't contain much money but has regular payments into it from a Go Shinura who lives in NYC and is yakuza. Confronting Shinura at a sumo gym, he admits that he was paying a lost bet off to Azuma and wanted him dead. However, he wasn't permitted to kill him unless he proved to the yakuza that Azuma was engaging in criminal activities. He photographed Azuma breaking into an industrial compound, sent the pictures to Japan and was waiting for permission to kill him.
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| Having no knowledge of the pinky drive, he suggests they investigate the compound which he believes Azuma robbed. That evening at the compound, Watson recommends waiting until morning to talk to whoever owns it but Holmes breaks in, wanting to investigate without any restrictions. Soon after entering the building, they are confronted by Air Force security and arrested. In the morning, Gregson is able to free them and they are met at the precinct by Lt. Colonel Robin Deakins and Major Beckam. Holmes deduces that the compound is a nuclear missile command centre and asks if they killed Azuma. Beckam indicates that Azuma was hired to break in as part of a security assessment of a technology upgrade. Holmes indicates he knows a program is underway to modernize the nuclear missile command and control network from 1970's floppy disk technology.
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Music
- Sixto Rodriquez - Hate Street Dialogue plays as Michael sits in his car outside Hannah's home. He hears her scream upon finding her roommate Maddie dead and then drives off.
Trivia
- Holmes speaks Japanese in this episode.
Quotes
Wait, his pinkie is a thumb drive?
— Bell
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