Cast
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Plot
| "We're not a couple of prison colonists. We're gonna arm-wrestle like gentlemen." — Holmes to Dana Kazmir
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| In the early morning, a businesswoman steps into a puddle and screams when she sees a severed hand in it. At The Brownstone, as Kitty conducts an experiment with Clyde, Holmes presents her with a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) that he compels her to sign. Called to the scene of the hand, Holmes quickly deduces that the owner is dead and leads Kitty and Detective Bell to a car impound lot. From the times on no parking signs for street cleaning and garbage patterns, Holmes explains that a car was towed from the scene and he finds a handless body caught underneath it. At the 15th precinct, Captain Tommy Gregson is released after admitting that he punched an officer there. At the Morgue, Dr. Grannis reports that the male victim was killed by a blow to the head, was recovering from cancer and has his attacker's DNA under his fingernails, which hasn't been identified. From his clothes, Holmes deduces the man was Jewish Orthodox.
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| At a synagogue, the man is identified as Moshe Shapiro, who owned a Postal Unlimited store near where he was killed. Holmes and Kitty question the only employee of the store, Amit Hattengatti, who wasn't at the store at 2am when Moshe was killed nearby. Holmes finds a hidden safe and inside, a coded ledger. He asks Amit to provide them all the store's records. At the 11th Precinct, Tommy's daughter Hannah rebukes him for hitting her partner, Officer Stotz. Acknowledging that Stotz hit her, she indicates that Tommy's actions have made her appear weak in front of her peers and that she doesn't need his help. At the Brownstone, while looking through the store's records, Kitty gets Holmes to reveal that the NDA is due to him finding that Watson wrote an unpublished book on the cases they worked on together. From shipping manifests and cloth that the safe was lined with, Holmes deduces that Moshe was a diamond smuggler.
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| Moshe would sell the diamonds to a wholesaler late at night and Holmes believes someone figured out his schedule and, robbed and killed him. Looking through files at the precinct, Holmes sees an officer with a briefcase with a handcuff on it that was found in a dumpster. Kitty opens the case and finding it full of diamonds, they realize it's Moshe's case and that his death wasn't a robbery. At the Brownstone, with the use of a realistic dummy, Holmes shows Bell that ripping the hand off someone with a broken wrist is possible. He identifies a weightlifting gym near the site of Moshe's death as a possible venue for suspects. Outside the 15th precinct, Tommy tells Hannah that in order to make things right, he's been asked to shake Stotz's hand at morning roll call. Tommy tells Hannah that revealing Stotz's abuse would prevent a re-occurence but she wants the matter settled so that she can continue pursuing her career aspirations.
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| At the gym, Holmes spots Dana Kazmir, a weightlifter who posted that he could lift 532 lbs. Noticing a scrap on his hand, Kazmir refuses to talk to Holmes so he challenges Kazmir to arm wrestle. However, he explains that the contest will be to pull the opponent's hand towards their chest. As Kazmir starts to pull, Holmes lets go and Kazmir's hand hits his nose, causing it to bleed. Bell intervenes and after Kazmir wipes his nose with a towel that he throws away, Kitty retrieves it and notes they now have a DNA sample to compare to that found under Moshe's fingernails.
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Trivia
- This is the first episode in which Joan Watson does not appear due to her being in Denmark with Andrew Mittal.
- Holmes shows Watson's writings to Kitty titled The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes which Watson was seen writing at the end of "We Are Everyone". It refers to the title of the final set of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.
Music
- Ben Howard - Time Is Dancing plays as Holmes tells Kitty that he's ripping up the NDA he made her sign and encourages her to keep a memoir of their work.
Quotes
I hereby forego my right to tell my nonexistent friends that I am pet-sitting a sociopathic tortoise.
— Kitty
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