Red Light, Green Light

"Red Light, Green Light"
Season 7
Season 7
Episode 4
Episode 4
Directed by	Jonny Lee Miller
Written by	Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Aired	June 13, 2019
Episode guide
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Cast

Main cast

Jonny Lee Milleras Sherlock Holmes

Lucy Liuas Joan Watson

Aidan Quinnas Tommy Gregson

Jon Michael Hillas Marcus Bell

Featured cast

Rob Bartlettas Captain Dwyer

Namir Smallwoodas Jarius Jackson (Truck Driver)

Rayquila Durhamas Tina

Jasmin Richard-Brooksas Chloe

Jon Huertasas Halcon

Jason Altmanas Agent Fisker

Maureen Sebastianas Agent Dia Tanyag

Variousas Everyone

David Rossmeras Saul Maranek-Halevi

Mac Brandtas Patrick Meers

David Christopher Wellsas Agent Heller

Nick Choksias Phil (Overlord)

Quentin Earl Darringtonas Mr. Dewashe

Heléne Yorkeas Holly Meers

Sam McMurrayas Cameron Maranek

Plot

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After dreaming of being at Captain Gregson's grave with Captain Dwyer and a scary clown, Holmes wakes up in his Victorian sensory deprivation chamber in his bedroom in the Brownstone. Seeing he's received numerous texts from Watson that Gregson is awake, he meets her at the hospital to see him. Holmes forgives Gregson and they put their differences in the past. A truck driver, Jarius Jackson, has his truck "T-boned" by a panel van. Three woman who are walking home from a club see the accident. One who is a nurse, Tina, runs over to help. While trying to open the van's driver door to free the unconscious driver, the passenger flees. The van then blows up.

You're nuts.

The next morning at the bombing scene, Detective Bell tells Watson that van had large containers of gas in the storage area and suspect it was part of a terrorist plot. From evidence on the burnt driver, Holmes deduces the van was being driven by Mara Tres gang members and plans to speak to their leader, Halcon. Watson is leery of Holmes speaking to him but Holmes believes Halcon will cooperate and will want to know if Mara Tres members are freelancing as terrorists. Watson meets Gregson at the hospital where he tells her that Patrick Meers lied to her about the sequence of events that led to his shooting. He questioned Patrick the day before he was shot, not just before. They both wonder why Patrick would lie about this.

I thought he killed Bledsoe.

Discovering that Halcon got out of Mara Tres and is living a peaceful life in Connecticut, Holmes is able to coerce him into using his contacts in the gang to reveal that the van was being used as a fuel skimmer for resale. The passenger who escaped from the van insists that the light was green for them at the intersection. Given that the witnesses to the crash said that the light was green for Darius' truck, Holmes realizes that the traffic light was hacked. Still believing the van was part of a terrorist attack, agents from many federal agencies attend a meeting at the 11th Precinct. Holmes and Watson show them evidence that the traffic light was hacked and accuse one of the agencies of being behind the hacking in order to brand Mara Tres a terrorist group and wipe it out. The agents are incensed and leave.

I'm done with Mara Tres.

Later, Holmes and Watson reveal to Captain Dwyer that the accusation was a ploy to determine if one of the agencies was involved. Satisfied they weren't, Bell says that one of agents from the FBI, Dia Tanyag, didn't leave. Tanyag relates that Mara Tres has nearly been destroyed but that there was a virus planted in the city's traffic system several months ago by a hacker known as "Overlord." At the Brownstone, having contacted Everyone for "Overlord's" identity, Holmes shows Watson the prank that Everyone has asked him to pull in exchange for the information. Watson tells him about Patrick Meers' lie and that a location app on his phone placed him a home just before Gregson was shot. At the precinct, Saul Maranek-Halevi from the Dept. of Transportation (DoT) shares the records on the "Overlord" hack with Bell. They weren't able to find his identity and Saul relates that the NSA took the only copy of the records.

He thinks the real terrorists are us.

Meeting Patrick Meers in prison, Watson is unsuccessful in getting him to admit he was involved in a ferry bombing plot. Patrick is uncomfortable when he learns that Gregson will survive being shot. With the help of NSA Agent McNally, Holmes has NSA Agent Heller bring "Overlord" to the Brownstone. Saying that "Overlord's" real name is Phil and that he's under NSA supervision, Heller doesn't believe that Phil is responsible for the latest traffic system hack. Believing one of Phil's hacker friends may be behind it, Phil and Heller review all the DoT data from van crash. Phil demonstrates that the code used isn't his but when Holmes sees the route along which the traffic lights were hacked, he realizes it was to make Jarius Jackson's truck crash.

We've been coming at this all wrong.

At the precinct, Bell and Holmes question Jarius. Discovering he's clean, they learn that he was hauling building supplies for a skyscraper construction. At the office of Mr. Dewashe, he tells Bell that the supplies were high-end elevators. Although insurance will pay for the cargo damage, Dewashe notes that his company won a bid for another building worth billions which is contingent on him finishing the current construction on time. When Bell hears that Maranek Construction will get the new bid due to the delay, he recognizes that the DoT official was also named Maranek by marriage.

Music

• The Walls Group - Perfect People plays as Jarius Jackson's truck is run into by a van.
• Reuben and the Dark - Bad Feeling plays at episode end as Patrick Meers meets Holly in prison.

Trivia

• While discussing Mara Tres and Halcon, Watson refers to the massacre of SBK gang members and, Holmes refers to the killer of Halcon's sister, Carmen, who was Tyus Wilcox. ("Hurt Me, Hurt You")

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