Cast
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Plot
| "Killer's freeze ray was probably in the shop, so he used his lightning gun instead." — Captain Gregson
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| At the funeral of her biological father, Watson meets her sister Lin Wen who asks to have lunch with her that week. Arguing with his wife on the phone, Rohan Giri walks down a Manhattan street until struck in the chest by a bolt of lightning. Later, Holmes stops the ESU workers sent to transport Rohan's body. He tells them Rohan was murdered as the tall buildings would have acted as a lightning rod and prevented any strikes. At the Morgue, Holmes and Watson examine Rohan's body with Captain Gregson and learn Rohan was an inspector for the Dept. of Energy. Detective Bell has called Rohan's wife, Chloe, to the 11th Precinct for questioning. She is a suspect as she's a physicist and had several disputes with Rohan in public. Holmes and Bell learn she was having an affair and was with her lover when Rohan died. She doesn't have detailed knowledge of the laser-induced plasma channel (LIPC) which may have killed Rohan, but provides them with a lab that is making one.
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| Watson meets Lin for lunch but Lin can't stay. Lin received their father's possessions and the only item of value is a sealed envelope that he wrote to Watson. With some regret that nothing was left for her, Lin says that Watson was important to him. At the LIPC lab, Holmes and Bell are shown the LIPC by an engineer, Mr. Kwon. Loaded into a truck for testing, Kwon indicates that Rohan was inspecting a mini nuclear reactor that had been built to power the LIPC. Kwan insists his company had no motive to kill Rohan as even if they failed his inspection, it would be progress for them. Holmes notes that the truck was driven the night before and Kwon finds the LPIC logs have been wiped. The truck's seat setting indicates it was driven by a tall man which Kwon narrows to one of their financiers, Dave Ambelin.
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| A sickly looking Ambelin is questioned in "the box" at the precinct where he denies being exposed to radioactive materials. Learning he'd recently been to Japan and with traffic camera pictures of him driving the LPIC truck, Ambelin admits to accidentally killing Rohan. He bought plutonium in Japan that was being smuggling into the US but it was stolen. He hoped to hospitalize Rohan to buy time to find the plutonium before his inspection. Later, Gregson introduces them to Agent Don Kohler of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) who will be leading the search for the plutonium while the NYPD looks for the thief. Feeling symptoms of his concussion, Holmes and Watson leave for the Brownstone where Watson examines traffic footage from near the lab. Asking about Watson's lunch with Lin, Watson mentions the letter from her father which she lies that she threw away without reading.
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| Watson spots a suspicious delivery van in the footage and later with Bell and Kohler, the van is found. Reported stolen and then recovered, radiation is detected in the rear of the van. From the mileage logs and gravel Holmes finds in the tires, it's determined the van dropped off the plutonium in Bedminster, New Jersey. The home of a felon, Hayden Wischer, who was imprisoned for bomb-making is discovered in Bedminster, complete with a bunker. Kohler's men discover Wischer shot dead inside the bunker and evidence that he made a bomb with the plutonium, which is missing. Wischer was part of a white-power gang, PAIN, while in prison. Believing that PAIN intends to use the bomb, their leader Colm Frick, who is on parole, becomes the next search target.
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Music
- Hollow Coves - These Memories plays at the episode end as Watson meets Lin at their biological father's grave and tells her about the letter he wrote her.
Trivia
- Watson first mentions her biological father, who is schizophrenic and homeless, to Holmes as she helps Morris Gilroy who is also schizophrenic and homeless. ("Corpse de Ballet")
Gallery
| Elementary Season Six Episodes | ||
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| An Infinite Capacity for Taking Pains • Once You've Ruled Out God • Pushing Buttons • Our Time Is Up • Bits and Pieces • Give Me the Finger • Sober Companions • Sand Trap • Nobody Lives Forever • The Adventures of Ersatz Sobekneferu • You've Come a Long Way, Baby • Meet Your Maker • Breathe • Through the Fog • How to Get a Head • Uncanny Valley of the Dolls • The Worms Crawl in, the Worms Crawl Out • The Visions of Norman P. Horowitz • The Geek Interpreter • Fit to be Tied • Whatever Remains, However Improbable
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