Cast
Main cast
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Plot
"There are two things you should know, Mr. Springer. First is that I'm going to punch you in the face. Second is that we'll take your case." — Holmes to Springer
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In the kitchen of The Brownstone, Holmes complains to Watson that he's being disturbed by the sounds of sex from their neighbor Trent Garby which Watson can't hear. Attorney Lloyd Springer arrives with his son Brian to hire them to find a missing doctor, Vincent Bader. Showing great acrimony towards Holmes, Lloyd explains that Brian has chronic back pain and Bader was responsible for getting Brian addicted to pain meds. Lloyd stopped Brian from seeing Bader but he disobeyed and had an altercation with the doctor. As Watson takes the repressed Brian out of the room, Holmes deduces that Lloyd has been beating Brian and is responsible for his frail condition. After punching Lloyd in the face, Holmes says they'll take the case. Questioning Bader's wife Jennifer at her home, she's unconcerned that he's missing as she believes he's having an affair with a redhead.
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Bringing Holmes into the garage, he finds it filled with weapons and supplies. Jennifer explains that Vincent is a "prepper", who is convinced that society will collapse and, that he was obsessed with self-defense. At Vincent's practice, Watson questions Dr. Ira Wallace who doesn't believe Bader would have an affair. Indicating that he was on vacation at Lake Ronkonkoma the day Vincent disappeared, he spoke to Vincent on the phone that day and everything seemed fine. Discovering that a drug rep, Julie Monahan, is a redhead, Watson takes her business card. Later at the 11th Precinct, Watson and Detective Bell question Julie and her lawyer. Insisting she didn't know Bader was missing until they called her, Julie says that Bader was selling pills from the practice to drug dealers. Notified an audit was coming, and short $200,000 in pills, Julie agreed to lend him the pills, the audit passed and he gave them back. Although Bader swore he was done with the dealers, Julie believes they were involved in his disappearance.
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Later at the Brownstone, Watson takes a call from Holmes who has found that Bader never arrived at the gym he was heading to the day he disappeared. Believing he might be on the lam, Holmes also says that police are looking through Bader's phone records for calls to known drug dealers. Holmes' girlfriend Fiona Helbron arrives wanting to speak to Sherlock, but not finding him there, she tells Watson that she has a prepared speech and will come back later. Holmes returns to the Brownstone and in the basement, he and Watson discuss a drug dealer found calling Bader's phone that day, indicating that the dealers don't know Bader's whereabouts. Holmes intends to use a smelly chemical to provoke Trent into leaving temporarily as he now insists he can always hear him humming. Mentioning Fiona's pop-in, Watson asks if their relationship is OK but they're interrupted by a call from Bell that Bader's body has been found.
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At the Morgue with Dr. Grannis, Bader's body was found tied up in a tarp and dumped in a park. Noting wounds made from multiple weapons, Holmes shows them a multi-purpose tool, favored by preppers, that was used to split Bader's skull open. In Gregson's office, Bell and Captain Gregson break the news to Jennifer Bader who says she found that Vincent spent $100,000 on something called "The Keep."
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Music
- The Pines - Aerial Ocean plays at episode end as Sherlock explains to Fiona why he's being careful with her and she bluntly proposes they have sex.
Trivia
- As Ronnie Wright mentions to Sherlock that he's impressed with the circles that Morland Holmes moves in, Sherlock says that Morland frequents the Ninth Circle at that time of year, referencing Dante's Inferno.
Quotes
Along with the myriad doomsday scenarios that haunt ordinary preppers, global pandemic, nuclear holocaust, socialist zombies coming to eat their guns, the wealthy ones also worry that the poor are gonna rise up with torches and pitchforks. Which, one could argue, wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.
— Holmes
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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