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| "Morland was the target. Someone tried to kill your father. And he's worried they're gonna try again." — Watson to Sherlock
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| In the kitchen at The Brownstone, Watson prepares for movie night and finds a box containing Clyde in the fridge. On his way out, Sherlock explains this allows Clyde to hibernate at a constant temperature. Wishing Sherlock a good time with Athena and Minerva, Watson is interrupted by a caller and finds Morland at the front door. She's surprised when he invites her to a restaurant opening and accepts. In front of a strip club, two Russian men are gunned down. The gunman jumps into a car and while speeding away, the driver loses control of the car which appears to be driven by remotely. The car crashes through the barrier of an overpass and hits the street below. Later at the strip club, Detective Bell and Watson question a witness, Harry Magarac, who left the club just after the Russians and saw a gray car speeding away.
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| Filling Captain Gregson in, the Russians are identified as Maxim Zolotov and his bodyguard. Watson calls Sherlock and finds him at the car crash scene. Bell and Watson join him where Sherlock's deduced that the car was hacked and taken over. He speculates that whoever hired the gunmen killed them to cover his tracks. At the Brownstone, Mason looks at the car's computer and finds foreign code was inserted. Watson mentions that Zolotov was a very rich oligarch who regularly used assassins. Having seen from the Brownstone's cameras that Morland visited, Sherlock is told by Watson of Morland's dinner invitation. Mason triumphantly reports who created the code, a cat-lover named Fiona, lead programmer at R&D firm Pentillion Edge. At Pentillion, Sherlock and Watson see the firm is involved in many fields including space exploration. Met by VP Phil Balsam, he insists that it isn't possible for Fiona to have hurt anyone.
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| Meeting Fiona, they discover that she's autistic and refuses to say anything untrue, no matter how innocuous. She's distressed to hear her code was used for violence and denies causing the crash. Balsam dismisses her and says that everyone at the office has access to her code. He also mentions that they were hacked by a competing firm, Tetra-Bit, in response to a hack by Pentillion. They found that Tetra-Bit's CEO, Carol Finelli, had many emails in Russian and he offers access to Pentillion's records to prove that they weren't doing business with Zolotov. Finelli comes to the 11th Precinct and reveals that Zolotov was buying New Haven's port and Tetra-Bit was to provide the automation. She never met Zolotov in person, didn't know he was in NYC and Zoltov's death scuttles a lucrative deal for her company. Responding to a question from Sherlock, she says that competing ports, such as NYC, would have motive to kill Zolotov.
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| Leaving Finelli, Watson mentions to Bell, Gregson and Sherlock that the shooting witness, Harry Magarac, is president of the Port of New York's dockworkers' union. Magarac meets with Bell and Gregson at the precinct and denies arranging Zoltov's murder. He was negotiating a deal with Zolotov at the strip club which would have benefited his union. As proof, he shows them a "consulting free" he received from Zolotov which would have been quintupled once the deal was completed. However, Zoltov's bodyguard was concerned about a stripper and they left before finishing the negotiations. Arriving at the Brownstone, Bell relates what Magarac said while Sherlock and Watson tell him they reviewed video from Zolotov's hotel and found an Asian woman with body guard visiting him multiple times. While Mason uses his facial recognition software to try and identify the woman, Bell and Sherlock head to the strip club to find the stripper.
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| At the strip club, Sherlock expresses his appreciation for the ladies' craft to Bell and asks a stripper, Olga, for a private dance. (♫ Zero 7 - Take Me Away ♫) He tells Olga that he's seen her dossier when working for MI6 and that she's a Russian spy. Olga says that Zoltov wasn't her assignment but that she heard him discussing business with Magarac. His body guard recognized her as they served in the military together. Zoltov was supposed to be on a mission for the Russian government, didn't want the New Haven business revealed and she speculates that's the reason he left. While enjoying dinner with Morland, he asks Watson to recommend a blood bank as he'd like to store blood in NYC for emergencies. Returning to the Brownstone, Watson finds Mason in a panic, his efforts to identify the Asian women having been back-traced. He leaves and Watson gets a call from Gregson that the woman is in his office.
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Music
- Zero 7 - Take Me Away plays as Sherlock and Bell arrive at the strip club "Obsess NYC."
Trivia
- Holmes speaks Ukrainian in this episode.
Quotes
I've got a certain appreciation for strippers. I like watching them work. Well, in their own way, they're experts in both deduction and human psychology.
— Sherlock
Gallery
| Elementary Season Four Episodes | ||
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| 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
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