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I don't guess. I observe. And once I've observed, I deduce.

— Holmes, "Pilot"

Sherlock Holmes is a consulting detective for the NYPD's 11th Precinct and Scotland Yard. Born on January 6, 1973[1] to May and Morland Holmes, he had a brother, Mycroft. He has a brilliant, deductive mind and instantly notices slight details that escape most people's attention. He has an incredible memory for items that assist in criminal investigations but is ignorant of common knowledge, such as pop culture, and can be uncaring and rude. An expert on many subjects including chemistry and self-defense (which he practices on Bob), he uses a network of "Irregulars" in his investigations. He is a beekeeper, plays the violin and has a pet tortoise, Clyde.

Biography

History

At the age of eight, he was sent to boarding school by his father, Morland Holmes,[2] where he was often physically bullied for being different due to his intelligence.[3] Sherlock met Captain Thomas Gregson while working for Scotland Yard. Although Sherlock mostly worked on homicides, and Gregson was there to observe the counter-terrorism bureau, their paths still crossed. Holmes was forced to end his relationship with Scotland Yard after excessive drug use due to believing that his lover Irene had been murdered. In 2011, he went into hiding and moved to New York City. After several months,[4] his father discovered his drug problems and forced him into rehabilitation. He spent six months at Hemdale, rarely communicating with anyone.[5] His father then hired Joan Watson to be his sober companion after he left rehab.

Season 1

He was a pain in the ass. But he was also very, very good.

— Gregson about Holmes, "While You Were Sleeping"
S01E01-Holmes shirtless

Sherlock Holmes Season One/Gallery

Holmes becomes a consulting detective for the NYPD under Captain Gregson while dealing with a sober companion, Joan Watson, imposed upon him by his father. Holmes meets Detective Bell, solves a case involving a twins' inheritance and interferes with Watson's relationship with Ty Morstan. Holmes thwarts a child predator, "The Balloon Man," and his protégé. Watson saves Holmes from a kidnapper and reveals his addiction to Gregson, who tells Holmes he already knew about it. Watson meets Holmes' friend Alistair and learns the cause of his addiction was the loss of his love, Irene. Holmes solves a bombing involving Heather Vanowen and is forced to choose a sobriety sponsor by Watson, settling on Alfredo Llamosa. Holmes discovers that Irene wasn't killed by Sebastian Moran and partners with him to track down Irene's killer, Moriarty, causing a rift between Holmes and Gregson. While investigating the murder of conspiracy theorist Len Pontecorvo, Holmes adopts Len's tortoise, Clyde. Gregson somewhat forgives Holmes but states he'll never trust him again. Holmes captures escaped serial killer Howard Ennis and finds the daughter of Rhys Kinlan. Holmes begins training Watson as his apprentice during the case of Gerald Lydon and repeatedly sends her to a dry cleaners. Holmes captures thieves who raid a federal money depository during a snowstorm and hires Ms. Hudson. Holmes is outsmarted several times by Moriarty, resulting in Moran's suicide. After finding Irene, Holmes is nearly killed by Isaac Proctor and discovers that Irene is Moriarty. Despite being warned by her to not oppose her plans, Watson figures out why Moriarty won't kill Holmes and they are able to trick and capture her.

Appearances in Season 1
"Pilot": After breaking out of Hemdale Recovery Center the day of his release, Holmes moves into a brownstone owned by his father. He contacts an old associate from Scotland Yard, Captain Thomas Gregson of the New York Police Department, and gets a job as a consulting detective for the NYPD. His father hires Joan Watson to be his sober companion for six weeks, which he claims he has no need for and suggests she should take the six weeks as a holiday instead. After a fight, Watson says she'll request another sober companion for him, but she later decides to stay on.
"While You Were Sleeping": Holmes and Watson attend his first addict group support meeting. He meets Detective Bell and demonstrates his power of deduction involving a murder which also involves a robbery. Holmes deduces that twins, Yvette and Rebecca Ellison, who are about to receive a large inheritance, are involved in murdering half-siblings so they cannot share in the estate. He proves that Yvette's doctor has been placing her in induced comas to create an alibi while she murders.
"Child Predator": Investigating the latest child abduction by "The Balloon Man", Holmes prevents a TV broadcast of Mariana Castillo's kidnapping. Holmes, Watson and Bell return to the Castillos' neighborhood and Watson's natterings help him identified a parked car which has been side-swiped, leaving brown and blue paint. He tells Bell to put out a BOLO on a decommissioned NYPD van which has been repainted dark brown and has a scrape on the right side. Finding the van, Holmes recognizes the driver as one of the Balloon Man's early victims, Adam Kemper. Holmes talks calmly to Adam and builds a repoire by telling of his time in an English boarding school where he was victimized by bullies for being a know-it-all. Holmes tells Gregson that he has a lead from Adam. He now knows that The Balloon Man works at night. Holmes deduces the Balloon Man delivers newspapers at night and identifies him as Samuel Abbott. Holmes convinces Adam to sign an immunity deal and he reveals Abbott's location. A CSU team arrests Abbott and saves Mariana. Viewing Abbott's apartment, Holmes realizes that Adam is the dominant one and has been killing those that he forced Abbott to kidnap. After mild protests Adam smugly confirms what Holmes has said and reminds him of the immunity deal for any crimes he committed in concert with Abbott. After taunting Holmes, Adam answers questions about his fifth victim. Holmes recounts that Adam's DNA was found under the victim's fingernails and that the abduction and killing occurred when Abbott was in hospital recovering from back surgery. Taken aback, Adam recalls the immunity deal which Holmes says only covers crimes Adam committed in consort with Abbott.
"The Rat Race": At the Brownstone, Holmes informs Watson they have been summoned to a meeting of the board of directors of Canon-Ebersol, a large investment firm. At the meeting, Chief Investment Officer Jim Fowkes informs them that a key executive, Peter Talbott disappeared before an important investor meeting. Fowkes' secretary, Donna Kaplan gives them access to Talbott's office and leaves. Holmes discovers that one of Talbott's books contains a menu of expensive prostitutes and meets with Talbott's accountant, Martin Rydell, who he blackmails into revealing an apartment Talbott uses. In the high-end apartment, they find Talbott dead in an easy chair, with a syringe sticking out of his arm. He deduces Talbott's death was staged and he was poisoned with heroin in a salad. Holmes discovers that several other executives died under suspicious circumstances. Holmes accuses Fowkes of arranging the murders but Fowkes provides an alibi when one of the executives died. Alone in a parking garage, Holmes confronts Donna Kaplan. Kaplan mocks Holmes' audacity and tases him into unconsciousness. Driving to Fowkes's country home, Kaplan plans to kill Holmes and bury his body, framing Fowkes. She uses Holmes phone to reply to texts from Watson. From the texts, Watson deduces someone other than Holmes is replying and a police team arrives just after Holmes is able to pick the lock on his handcuffs and tase Kaplan. Watson is able to draw a compliment from Holmes for saving his life but she says that she had to reveal Holmes' addiction to Gregson. Later, a humbled Holmes speaks with Gregson in his office. He explains that he withheld the truth about his addiction due to embarrassment as Gregson has always thought highly of him. Holmes apologizes and is then surprised to find out Gregson already knew.
"Lesser Evils": In a hospital morgue, Holmes chokes a corpse to study bruising and discovers another corpse who he believes was murdered. He locks himself and Watson into the hospital room the corpse was last in and after gathering evidence, is escorted out by security. Gregson talks the hospital administrator out of arresting Holmes, who not provide presonal information on the deceased. Holmes is able to ascertain that the deceased is Trent Kelty from a neighbor who also says Kelty had terminal cancer. Holmes theorizes Kelty was killed by an "angel of death." Holmes and Watson are able to get the hospital's records from Dr. Mason Baldwin, the head of surgery. Watson helps Holmes find nine patients who died when ephenephrine went missing from crash carts. Holmes finds himself in an elevator with the janitor he met in Kelty's room the previous day. From testimony from Dr. Cahill, Holmes shows Watson that the second victim was Ukrainian and spoke little English, however, someone helped her fill out consent forms. No hospital medical staff speak Ukrainian but Holmes says that as Watson knows, not all doctors stay doctors. Later, Holmes and Gregson interrogate Danilo Gura, the janitor Holmes encountered several times. Gura confesses to killing terminally ill patients who were suffering except for one, Samantha Cropsey. Holmes finds that Dr. Baldwin knew about Gura and altered Cropsey's records to make her a target for Gura after he made a mistake during her surgery.
"Flight Risk: When Sherlock's father invites him and Watson out to dinner, Sherlock tells Watson that his father never shows. Watson decides to go anyway, and at the restaurant she meets a man posing as Sherlock's father. Watson believes it is Morland Holmes at first, but when he starts asking strange questions, she knows something is up. The man turns out to be Sherlock's friend Alistair, a struggling actor, although he states Sherlock only hired him through his agent and that they've never met before. Watson later shows up at the bookstore Alistair works at, and asks him to tell her about Sherlock. She gets to know more about Sherlock's past with drugs, and learns about a woman named Irene. When she returns home, she asks Sherlock to tell her about the woman. Sherlock also solves a case involving a crashed small plane that kills several lawyers. He discovers that the charter flight company's owner and a pilot were involved in smuggling.
"One Way to Get Off": Angry at Watson for prying into his past with Irene, Holmes avoids her while working with Gregson on a case involving a killer who is copying the M.O. of incarcerated serial killer Wade Crewes. In the course of investigating, Holmes discovers a suspect is holding a Russian woman as a sex slave. Accompanying Gregson to question Crewes at Sing Sing, Crewes denies having an accomplice and claims innocence for the crimes he was imprisoned for. Holmes discovers that evidence was planted to frame Crewes and confronts Gregson. Holmes finds that Crewes secretly had a son from an affair who is responsible for the murders and provides evidence that Crewes did commit the crimes he was imprisoned for.
"The Long Fuse": After a bomb goes off in an office, Holmes finds shreds of newspaper that was used as the bomb's packing material indicating the bomb was homemade. Forced by Watson to meet with a potential sobriety sponsor, Adrian, Holmes is rude and dismissive. Holmes and Watson go to the corporate offices of Vanowen Strategic Communications (SC), a prominent public relations firm, who occupied the bombed office space in 2008. They meet with the company's president, Heather Vanowen, and her CFO, Earl Wheeler. At an addiction support meeting, Holmes flippantly selects an ex-car thief, Alfredo Llamosa, as his sponsor, believing Watson will object. Holmes doesn't show for a meeting with Alfredo and Watson. With Vanowen's co-operation, Holmes is able to examine the employee files in one of their meeting rooms. Holmes asks about a former employee, Pradeep Singh. Vanowen and Wheeler indicate that Pradip was a good employee and had been rapidly promoted but he became arrogant and argued with Wheeler. He disappeared in 2008 after issuing a threat when he was turned down for a promotion and was never found. Holmes discovers Pradip's body in the wall of his home and later, finds a tape of him having sex with a young Vanowen, who was a prostitute. Vanowen is arrested after Holmes shows her that her handwriting was on one of the pieces of paper used in the bomb. Alfredo shows up at the Brownstone and challenges Holmes to defeat the security system on a luxury car.
"You Do It to Yourself": After university professor Trent Annunzio is shot through both eyes and his teaching assistant Brendan O'Brian is framed for his murder, Holmes finds evidence that Trent arranged his own murder. Dying from eye cancer, and having been cruel to his wife Jun, Trent arranged his murder after finding that Brendan was in love with Jun. Holmes provides evidence of Trent's plot and prevents Jun from being deported after Brendan is cleared of charges and asks Jun to marry him.
"The Leviathan": After an evening with his paramours Gwen and Olivia Lynch, Holmes takes on a case involving the robbery of a supposedly impregnable vault, "The Leviathan", from Micah Erlich, head of Casterly Rock Security. While solving the case, Holmes finds and returns several priceless artworks and Holmes wakes Watson three times during the investigation. Holmes also meets Watson's mother Mary, brother Oren and his fiancee Gabrielle for dinner. He lauds Watson's role in helping with his recovery and his cases.
"Dirty Laundry": The murder of Teri Purcell leads Holmes to find she and her husband Oliver are Russian spies and Teri was killed by their handler, Geoffrey Silver, in order that Teri and Oliver's daughter, Carly, would also become a spy. Holmes is disappointed to discover that Watson doesn't intend to become a detective and has already lined up another client.
"M.": When a serial killer from Holmes' past starts killing in New York, he leaves a note in at the Brownstone, and is caught on tape by one of the security cameras. Now that he finally knows the face of the murderer, called "M.", he sets out to torture and murder him. Watson tries to stop him, but Holmes reveals he is doing this out of revenge, as M. was the one who killed Irene. With assistance from one of his "Irregulars", Teddy, Sherlock seeks M out and interrogates him at one of his father's empty properties. Discovering "M." is Sebastian Moran, Moran demonstrates that he didn't killed Irene, as he was in prison at the time. Moran suggests that his employer Moriarty was the one who killed Irene. When Holmes shows up at the 11th Precinct with Moran, Watson sees Holmes is in need of a friend, and asks his father if she can stay on a bit longer. His father refuses, but Watson stays on and lies to Holmes that his father renewed her contract. Holmes' actions with Moran cause a rift between him and Gregson.
"The Red Team": While investigating the murder of conspiracy theorist Len Pontecorvo, Holmes adopts Len's tortoise, Clyde. Discovering Len's house was bugged, Holmes believes it was due to the classified findings of a US Army war game group, the "Red Team." As members of the team are killed by one of its members, Harold Dresden, Holmes solves a hostage situation involving Dresden by deducing the classified findings of the team. Gregson somewhat repairs the rift with Holmes after punching him in the stomach and states that he'll never trust him again.
"The Deductionist": After practicing single stick on Bob, Holmes captures escaped serial killer Howard Ennis while dealing with a nemesis from the FBI, serial killer profiler Kathryn Drummond.
"A Giant Gun, Filled with Drugs": When Holmes' ex-drug dealer Rhys Kinlan comes to him for help to find his kidnapped daughter, Emily, he tries to get Holmes to do drugs again, claiming he it makes him a better detective. Angry, Holmes refuses and after finding Emily, tells Rhys he never wants to see him again. He then initiates attending a support group meeting with Watson.
"Details": Pretending to be an intruder at the Brownstone, Holmes threatens Watson to show her how much she needs to improve her ability to defend herself. Holmes investigates a drive-by shooting perpetrated on Detective Bell and finds it was a past lover of Bell's, Officer Paula Reyes. Holmes tells Watson he's known she lied that his father agreed for her to stay on as his sober companion. He tells her he is grateful for staying when he needed it, but claims that after some time, she stayed for herself, and proposes again that she should become his apprentice. She later accepts and Holmes starts training her.
"Possibility Two": At a crime scene, two security guards are lying next to each other in a parking lot, shot dead. Watson, in her new role as Holmes' apprentice, attempts to reconstruct what transpired and which direction the shooter went. They're approached by a limo driver, Crabtree, who asks them to speak to his employer, Gerald Lydon, CEO of a large corporation. Lydon is convinced he's been poisoned with a genetic disease, CAA. Holmes turns down his case until Lydon kills Crabtree and can't remember doing it. He accepts a rare bee as payment. While investigating, Holmes repeatedly sends Watson to a dry cleaners, Main Moon. Holmes and Watson find that the head of a genetic research company, Brian Watt, has CAA and poisoned several rich people with it so they would donate to finding a cure. Holmes praises Watson after she deduces that Main Moon is a front for crime and she has Bell arrest the staff.
"Déjà Vu All Over Again": Holmes gives Watson her first case to investigate without his help, the disappearance of Callie Burrell. Convinced that her husband Drew Gardner is responsible, Holmes shows her a technique known as "gaslighting" to try and entrap him. Holmes has to bail Watson out of jail after she's caught breaking into Drew's van. With Holmes' help, Watson finds evidence that Drew did kill Callie by copying a past murder that Callie referred to in a video.
"Snow Angels": During a snowstorm that shuts down NYC, Holmes and Watson find that a shooting and robbery of new phones is a cover for a heist at EROC (East Rutherford Operations Center), which contains the world's largest supply of U.S. cash. With the help of snow plow driver Pam, they eventually trap the thieves. Holmes also employs Ms. Hudson as his part-time maid.
"Dead Man's Switch": On the anniversary of his first year of sobriety, Holmes refuses to celebrate. He first claims it is pointless, as to him it doesn't celebrate a period of success, but rather the end of a period of great failure. He later reveals to Watson that he can't celebrate his anniversary because he had used drugs the day after he had agreed to enter rehabilitation, therefore, his anniversary wasn't really his real anniversary, but the day after. Watson gives Holmes a present to celebrate, a framed poem. He and Watson also ends the careers of several blackmailers as a result of Alfredo's sobriety sponsor's daughter being subjected to threats.
"A Landmark Story": At Newgate Prison, Moran tells Holmes that councilman Van Der Hoff was murdered by Moriarty's organization. After breaking into a funeral home with Watson and performing an autopsy on Van Der Hoff, Holmes deduces that Hoff's pacemaker was used to kill him. Finding the motive for Van Der Hoff's death, Holmes discovers that a meticulous killer is murdering those opposed to preserving a building's landmark status. He and Watson capture the killer, Daniel Gottlieb, aka "The Actuary." They learn he's working for Moriarty and Holmes is able to find the man who recruited Gottlieb, John Douglas, who is killed by a sniper. At the precinct, Gottlieb confesses to numerous murders and receives a coded message on his phone. Holmes shows Moran the message, who claims not to know what it says. Holmes is able to decode it the message, which blackmails Moran into suicide, but not in time to save Moran, who kills himself. Knowing he's been outsmarted several times by Moriarty and that he could have been shot by the sniper when meeting Douglas, Holmes tries to deduce Moriarty's game. Gottlieb's phone rings which Holmes puts on speaker while Watson records the call. The caller, with a British accent, introduces himself as Moriarty and indicates that they are overdue for a chat.
"Risk Management": Moriarty tells Holmes to find the killer of a man named Wallace Rourke, bring the killer to justice and he'll answers all Holmes' questions on what happened to Irene. Holmes proves that Katie Suter tricked her husband Darren into murdering Rourke. Leaving Katie's office, Holmes believes Moriarty's motive in assigning him the case was to demonstrate the cost of vengeance. Holmes receives a call from Moriarty congratulating him and texts him an address that will provide answers about Irene. If Holmes doesn't go to the address, he promises their paths will never cross again and is curious what Holmes will choose to do. The address Moriarty provided is a large estate. About to enter, Watson arrives having cloned the phone that Moriarty called on. Approaching the mansion, they find a key in the front door and enter. Searching through empty rooms, Holmes beckons Watson towards a solarium where he hears music. The solarium is crowded with paintings of scenes Holmes recognizes. His face trembling, he nearly collapses and points towards a woman painting. Calling out her name, Irene Adler turns around.
"The Woman": Appearing as if she has been held captive, Irene is checked into a hospital, and eventually moves into the Brownstone with Holmes, under his care. When someone breaks into his house and leaves a flower at her bed, Holmes takes her to a safe house and plans to elope with her. After Holmes sees her naked back and realizes one of her moles missing, he figures out that she has been faking her own death and reappearance, and suspects her of working for Moriarty. Watson examines pigments Adler was using in her paintings and discovers a rare sample that only a few shops in NYC sell. This leads to the police in finding an assassin in Moriarty's employ, Isaac Proctor. Holmes is shot by Isaac who in turn is killed by Irene who Holmes realizes is Moriarty.
"Heroine: After Moriarty warns Holmes to not interfere in her plans, Watson stitches up Holmes' gunshot wound. After meeting with Moriarty, Watson is able to figure out why she won't kill Holmes. Holmes fakes an overdose, and when Moriarty visits him in the hospital, he records their conversation, getting her confession to murder on tape. He and Watson foil Moriarty's plan to make billions by manipulating an agreement between Greece and Macedonia. Holmes also discovers a new species of bee which he names Euglossa Watsonia, after Watson.

Season 2

I am a drug addict, Marcus. A drug addict. And it might seem like an abstraction to you because I have been sober since I made your acquaintance. But two years ago, I was as pitiable a soul as you will ever meet. With help, I fought back, and I got a little bit better. I know what I'm supposed to do with my life. Do you?

— Holmes, "All in the Family"
S02E13-Holmes tuxedo

Sherlock Holmes Season Two/Gallery

Holmes and Watson visit London to find Gareth Lestrade and deal with Sherlock's brother, Mycroft who is living at 221B Baker St. Holmes finds the killer of several mathematicians with the help of Harlan Emple. Holmes fights the hacker collective "Everyone". He meets a woman from his past, Anne Barker, whose case formed his deductive abilities. Holmes introduces Watson to Dr. Eugene Hawes and the Morgue. Sherlock becomes protective of Watson when learning she slept with Mycroft and as a favor to Mycroft, he helps Nigella Mason. Holmes thwarts serial killer Lucas Bundsch. Holmes and Watson are subjected to an administrative hearing pertaining to a case in which Detective Bell is shot. Prompted by Alfredo, Holmes becomes Randy's sobriety sponsor. A case involving one of Moriarty's lieutenants, Devon Gaspar, sees Holmes and Watson involved in a kidnapping of Moriarty's biological daughter, Kayden Fuller. While solving the murder of a ballerina, Holmes shows great deference to Iris Lanzer. Holmes deals with Lestrade and two roosters, Romulus and Remus, while catching a bomber. After the death of Alistair, Holmes becomes self-destructive. Watson tells Sherlock she intends to move out of the Brownstone and is kidnapped by Marchef, a member of "Le Milieu", a French crime syndicate. After Mycroft rescues Watson and reveals he works for MI6, his handler, Tim Sherrington, convinces Sherlock to work on a case involving Arthur West. Sherlock discovers Sherrington is a mole and is able to thwart his attempts to frame Mycroft. With the help of NSA Agent McNally, Mycroft goes into hiding and with Watson moving out of the Brownstone, Sherlock accepts the offer of James Walter to work for MI6 and moves to London.

Appearances in Season 2
"Step Nine": After capturing an assassin of three U.S. Attorneys, a call on Holmes' phone results in him asking Watson to accompany him to London to help Gareth Lestrade, his old colleague. As they are packing, Holmes tells Watson his history with Lestrade. He calls him utterly adequate as a detective, but as credit for successes went to Lestrade, he began to crave the glory. At Scotland Yard, they are greeted by DCI Hopkins, Lestrade's superior. Describing the Mary Pendry case, in which Lestrade refused to let go of his suspicions and due to his extreme actions was suspended, Hopkins wants Holmes to find Lestrade. A cab delivers Holmes and Watson to 221B Baker St., Holmes's former residence in London. To his horror, he finds it has been totally remodelled and discovers that his brother Mycroft is living there. Sherlock finds Lestrade in a pub by tracking down various stashes of money that Lestrade knew about. Feeling guilty that he is responsible for Lestrade's addiction to fame, Sherlock agrees to look into the Pendry case. Sherlock finds that Mary's husband Lawrence did kill her using a plastic gun and is able to find evidence when Lawrence kills his handyman with the same weapon. Sherlock tells Lestrade that in order to break his addiction to fame, he is not to take credit for the arrest and if he does, Sherlock will discredit his involvement. The next morning, Sherlock and Watson see Lestrade on TV claiming the credit for Pendry's arrest. Mycroft texts Sherlock to meet him at a storage centre. He confesses that he didn't give away Sherlock's possessions but stored them at the centre. He says he learned from Watson that he must have Sherlock's attention when telling him something important and then blows up Sherlock's possessions using books on bomb building that were Sherlock's. Mycroft says he forgives Sherlock for everything and that things are different between them now.
"Solve for X": Bell and Holmes view the body of Felix Soto, a math tutor, on his living room floor. They both notice that one of Soto's rooms is completely empty. Holmes smells the walls and asks a confused Bell to find a black light. Holmes finds a stand-up lamp with one and once the blinds are drawn, he turns the light on to reveal math equations written on the walls. Harlan Emple explains to Holmes and Watson that Soto was trying to solve P vs. NP. He indicates that another P vs NP expert, Tanya Barrett, may know who Soto's partner is. Questioning Barrett, Holmes finds the partner is Cyril Nauer who is found dead by Detective Bell. At the Morgue, Holmes recounts that Nauer was killed an hour after Soto and, by the same killer. Barrett becomes a suspect but when questioned, provides an alibi which is confirmed by time-stamped video. Confronting Barrett in her classroom, Holmes shows that she killed Soto and Nauer as they were close to solving P vs NP and she'd altered the security footage digital time stamp.
"We Are Everyone": At the Brownstone, Holmes and Watson meet a new client, Mr. Mueller. Mueller says he represents a group of citizens concerned about Ezra Kleinfelter's safety, given that he has more secret documents he could leak. Mueller would like them to find and deliver Kleinfelter to him, so he can be taken to a friendly embassy. Holmes agrees to take the case and Mueller leaves. Having pick-pocketed a security guard's phone, who is connected to Ezra, Holmes discovers that he is a member of a cyber-activist collective "Everyone" and finds a message board, "Jamaica Quay." After Holmes wakes Watson, he reports that while debating on the board, he's deduced that a woman, Vanessa Hiskie, is hiding Kleinfelter. Watson picks the lock at Hiskie's apartment and they find her inside, dead. Having traced the security guard's phone to the Brownstone, Everyone subjects Holmes and Watson to a "life ruin". After discovering Ezra is leaving for Venezuela on a billionaire's jet, he arrested by Bell and Captain Gregson but is set free after threatening to reveal the identities of several deep cover federal agents. As Kleinfelter turns to board the plane, Watson grabs his wrist and warns him they will prove he killed Vanessa Hiskie. Watching the jet take-off, Watson produces Kleinfelter's wrist watch which she lifted from him. Impressed, Holmes asks Gregson to see if the DNA on the watch matches that found under Hiskie's fingernails. After Kleinfelter's arrest, Holmes sits by the fireplace and reads a letter from Jamie Moriarty.
"Poison Pen": Holmes and Watson are called to the home of Titus Delancey, CEO of a large financial firm, who was found dead in a bondage suit, by Mistress Felicia. Holmes discovers Titus was poisoned by nitroglycerin. Later, Holmes and Watson meet Titus' wife Peri and their nanny, Anne Barker. Holmes takes Watson outside and says that he knows her. She was the prime suspect in the poisoning death of her father, but was acquitted and her name was Abigail Spencer. In "the box" at the 11th Precinct, Gregson questions Anne who admits she was Abigail Spencer. She has no alibi but denies killing Titus. She changed her name and appearance to escape the media attention from her father's death, is angry that it will happen again and asks how they discovered her identity. Holmes says it was from her voice. Anne is released and Holmes believes that she is being framed. Watson deduces that Holmes didn't recognize Anne from her voice, but from a tattoo on her wrist. Impressed, Holmes relates that the poisoning of Anne's father catalyzed his interest in detective work. Holmes was able to deduce that she did kill her father, an abusive man, but only after the trial was over and she was acquitted. Despite this, he still believes that the framer must have discovered her past. Holmes visits Anne and reveals he is Sean Holmes. Beseiged by the media and fired as a nanny, she's still grateful to have Holmes to talk to. Bell and Watson find a tablet containing a video of Titus and Anne arguing. Later, Holmes shows Anne the video. Professing she didn't kill him, Holmes provides details from their correspondence that proves she did kill her father. Angry, Anne tells him to leave. After it's discovered Titus was abusing his son Grahame and circumstantial evidence is found that Grahame poisoned him, Anne falsely confesses to poisoning Titus. Holmes appeals to Anne but she says she's a murderer and blames herself for not noticing Graham's abuse. She views her confession as justice for what she did to her father. Holmes speaks with Graham by the river. Holmes tells him that they both know who killed Titus and that he'll be watched. He then asks Graham if he's getting help for being victimized. Graham doesn't see the point of talking about it, so Holmes provides some advice based on his past abuse and offers his services to Graham if he ever needs to talk.
"Ancient History": Watson tells Holmes about her friend Jennifer's request to find a man named Tony, who she had a one-night stand with. Pointing out that they are not busy, Holmes decides to find a case and takes Watson to the Morgue. Introducing her to Dr. Eugene Hawes, Holmes and Hawes play chess. Winning the game, Hawes gives Holmes access to the morgue's corpses. Hours later, Holmes comes upon the man who died in the motorcycle crash, Leo Banin. Holmes deduces that before Leo died, he killed someone. Watson visits the bar Jennifer met Tony at and discovers she met him on day of the Brazilian Parade. Holmes finds Watson about to watch a news tape showing the Brazilian Parade day at the bar. Unable to dissuade her, he admits that he is Tony. Shocked, she follows him to the kitchen where he explains that when she first started as his sober companion, he would follow her when she left for errands. Hoping to learn more about her, he saw her with Jennifer and passed himself off as Tony. He claims Jennifer seduced him and that once he found Watson's intentions as his sober companion were honorable, he stopped surveilling her. Holmes finds that Banin was killed by his wife, Lara, after he threatened to divorce her upon discovering she make porno movies when living in Poland. Watson meets Jennifer to let her know that Tony was Holmes but she already knows. Holmes explained everything to her and so impressed, she slept with him again. However, Jennifer is totally over Holmes. At the Brownstone as Holmes practices with Bob, Watson unsuccessfully tries to scare Holmes that he's impregnated Jennifer.
"An Unnatural Arrangement": In the holding cells at the 11th Precinct, Holmes has Watson deduce what caused the prisoners to be jailed by examining them. After Captain Gregson's wife Cheryl is threatened during a home invasion, Holmes and Watson discover the attacker entered the wrong house. This leads them to pursue various members of a US military detail who were guarding an archaeological dig in Afghanistan led by Beth Roney. Roney stole various artifacts and with her ex-husband Cameron's help, tried to sell them. Holmes and Watson provide evidence her ex was behind the Gregson's home invasion and several others in which Cameron killed members of the military detail. Holmes gives Watson a box with files on cases he hasn't been able to solve.
"The Marchioness": Mycroft asks for help with an acquaintance of his and Sherlock's. At Diogenes, Sherlock is not happy to see the acquaintance and introduces Watson to Nigella Mason, Mycroft's former fiancée. Mason explains that after Mycroft, she married a Marquess. Not fulfilling his conjugal duties, she had an affair with Dalton, who was the stable master. The affair caused her divorce but she retained her title and a champion race horse, Silver Blaze. Dalton was killed by an intruder at the stables who intended to kill the horse and she'd like them to find Dalton's killer. Deducing that Mycroft and Watson slept together when they were in London, Sherlock is protective of Watson. Sherlock captures Dalton's killer, an assassin nicknamed "El Mecánico" and finds that Nigella's troubles were her own doing after she fraudulently passed off another horse as Silver Blaze for studding a drug king's mare. Mycroft's terms for not informing the police of her fraud is her exiting the stud business and repaying those she's defrauded.
"Blood Is Thicker": Sherlock and Watson solve a case involving the murder of tech billionaire Ian Gale and his estranged daughter Haley Taylor. Both were killed by Ian's doctor wife, Natalie, for his estate. Mycroft unsuccessfully tries to lure Sherlock to return to live in London after Sherlock discusses the possibility with Watson.
"On the Line": Holmes and Watson thwart serial killer Lucas Bundsch and frees several women being held captive while dealing with a disgruntled detective, Gerry Coventry. Holmes punches Bundsch and breaks his finger. Holmes discusses Watson's rebuking of his lack of politeness with others. Although he understands the social benefits, he indicates he is not a nice man, never will be and that being acerbic helps his work. Watson points out that he is often nice to her and that he has changed since they first met, but Holmes demands that she accept that there will always be fallout from his behaviour.
"Tremors": Holmes and Watson are subjected to an administrative hearing pertaining to a case in which Detective Bell is shot. Prosecutor Cassandra Walker accuses them of breaking the law in the course of investigations. As they recount the events in solving the murder of Silas Cole, Holmes' arrogance brings retribution from a suspect, James Dylan. As Dylan tries to shoot Holmes, Bell intervenes and is hit. Bell is partly responsible for the decision to allow Holmes and Watson to continue to work with the NYPD. Holmes offers to pay for Bell to receive treatment for his arm from the foremost experts in the world which Bell declines. Bell tells Holmes to not visit him in hospital anymore and leaves.
"Internal Audit": At Alfredo's, is having a difficult time breaking into one of Alfredo's test cars. Feeling guilt for being responsible for Bell's shooting, Alfredo suggests going to a support group meeting which Holmes turns down. Investigating the murder of a corrupt hedge fund manager, Gerald Hauser, Holmes is frustrated when Watson won't let him use evidence that would reveal one of her past client's addiction. At Alfredo's, Holmes meet Randy, a recovering addict. Alfredo proposes that Holmes become Randy's sponsor. Alfredo points out that Holmes should give back to the program and it would help with the guilt he feels about Bell. Taken aback, Holmes explains that his work won't allow him to be a good sponsor. Later, Alfredo find Holmes inside his home late at night, having defeated the car's security system. Reflecting on Alfredo's request, Alfredo reminds Holmes that becoming a sponsor isn't about him. Holmes and Watson prove that Hauser was killed by Jacob Weiss, a charity CEO. Weiss and Hauser were partners in the scam but when Hauser's pyramid scheme was discovered, he told Weiss that he'd revealed the embezzlement. At the Brownstone, Holmes dictates his terms to be Randy's sponsor to him, which he accepts.
"The Diabolical Kind": When a seven-year-old girl named Kayden Fuller is kidnapped and her father shot, Holmes and Watson hear the ransom demand. Holmes quickly recognizes the voice as that of the man who previously pretended to be Moriarty, who Moriarty herself described as one of her subordinates. Assuming Moriarty gave the order for the kidnapping, Holmes and Watson visit her at a prison black site. She's made a large painting of Watson's face in perfect detail. Moriarty denies being involved in the kidnapping, but offers to give information in exchange for prison favors. Holmes refuses, but shortly afterwards discovers she has been recruited as a consulting agent by her FBI handler, Ramses Mattoo, who bring her to work with the NYPD. Moriarty provides information on the kidnappers and is accompanied to the kidnapping scene by Watson. Moriarty admits she finds Watson more intelligent and interesting than at first, and that part of the reason that she and Holmes write to one another is because they are the only ones who can understand and relate to the other. When the kidnappers ambush and kill two policemen, Holmes believes Moriarty is somehow responsible. Devon Gaspar, one of the kidnappers and a former Moriarty lieutenant calls and puts a frightened Kayden on the phone. Watson notices that Moriarty is angry when listening to the call. Moriarty is returned to her prison cell. Holmes discovers code in the sketches Moriarty made of the kidnappers but is surprised to find that Moriarty isn't behind the kidnapping she's a victim as Kayden is her daughter. Moriarty escapes her prison using glass shards of her paint jars to neutralize her stun bracelets (cutting her wrists badly) and strangles Mattoo unconscious. She tracks Gasper and the kidnappers down in an old building she owns and kills them all. She calls the police and demands that Holmes be the only one sent into for her. She tells Holmes that Kayden has been re-situated and she placed her for adoption knowing that knowledge of Kayden's existence would make her vulnerable. Moriarty believes she will soon be free and thanks Holmes for his letters. She begins to pass out from blood loss so Holmes carries her outside for treatment where Watson believes she will recover.
"All in the Family": After Bell departs the 11th for Demographics, Holmes and Watson deal with a number of incompetent detectives, including Detective Nash. At a recycling plant, Bell finds a headless, handless body in a green barrel and calls for Gregson. Bell is icy towards Holmes so Watson excuses themselves. Holmes notes the barrel's original color was blue and from a scar on the man's leg, Watson knows who the man is. In Gregson's office, he's identified as former mobster Bobby Pardillo. At Demographics, Holmes offers his and Watson's services to Commissioner Frank Da Silva. Seeing Holmes, Bell is irked to learn Holmes will be working there when Holmes knows Bell doesn't want to see him. Holmes belittles Bell's new role as an analyst and leaves. At the home of a suspect, Dante Scalice, Holmes and Watson witness him die when his car explodes. Finding printouts at Scalice's which show Bobby's movements, Holmes recognizes them as from the NSA. Holmes and Watson confront Dean McNally who denies being part of the NSA. Later in private, McNally indicates to Holmes that Da Silva asked for the printouts. Finding evidence that Da Silva is corrupt and worked for the mafia, Holmes and Watson have a difficult time convincing Bell. After Bell finds further evidence that Da Silva is dirty, Bell and Holmes set a trap in which Da Silva is caught planning to murder a mob boss. Bell returns to the Major Cases unit and makes up with Holmes.
"Dead Clade Walking": At the Brownstone, Holmes is surprised to find a guest in the library, Gay. Watson explains that while examining Holmes' box of unsolved cases, she found the murder of Doug Newberg, in which a picture of his backyard had an unusual rock. Holmes meets his sponsee, Randy, who is undergoing a crisis that requires his help. At a coffee shop, Randy tells Holmes that an ex who is a drug addict, Eve, has moved to NYC and wants to live with him while she gets sober. Without permission, Watson and Gay enter Newberg's backyard and find the rock still there. Gay says the rock is from the dinosaur era and likely contains an archaeological specimen. Holmes meets Watson at the Morgue where a technician performs a CT scan on the rock. A complete skeleton of a small dinosaur is discovered inside it. At the Triboro Museum of Natural History, they meet with Dr. Jerome Thomas by a Dimetrodon skeleton which he indicates is the only complete one in the world. After the fossil is stolen from the precinct, Holmes meets with C. who informs him that a man known only as the "Magpie" buys rare, expensive items and that if Holmes posts such as item on a website, the Magpie will reach out to him. Meeting Randy at a coffee shop, Holmes is exasperated to hear he's still involved with Eve and bluntly tells him to end it. Randy leaves the shop without Holmes knowing. On the way to the "Magpie's" home, Holmes tells Watson that Randy isn't answering his phone. Finding the door open, they enter and discover a dead man and the nanotyrannus rock smashed on the floor. At the Brownstone, Holmes wakes Watson and believes he's found the motive for smashing the fossil, a theory called "Dead Clade Walking" (DCW). At the museum, Holmes and Watson confront Dr. Jerome Thomas and accuse him of destroying the fossil and committing the murders as the fossil's existence would discredit Thomas. He's served a warrant for his DNA to match that on a murder weapon. Randy arrives and glumly tells Holmes that he got high with Eve the previous evening. He's cut Eve out of his life and understands if Holmes doesn't want to be his sponsor anymore. Holmes asks if he'd like to go to a support group meeting.
"Corpse de Ballet": At the scene of a bisected ballerina, Nell Solange, Gregson leads Holmes and Watson through the crime scene and reports that the killer took the hard drive containing the security videos. A box cutter belonging to ballerina Iris Lanzer is the murder weapon. Questioning Lanzer, Holmes is uncharacteristically polite and deferential and, he offers explanations for many of his colleagues questions. Lanzer's alibi doesn't check out and she's arrested after threatening to leave the country. After her attorney Nolan Sharp frees her, the next morning in the kitchen at the Brownstone, Watson is shocked to see Lanzer emerge from Holmes' bedroom. Confronting Holmes, he explains that Lanzer initiated the encounter and he accepted to learn more about her. Lanzer gives Holmes access to her files and at Sharp's office, Holmes starts looking over the files, he remarks on Sharp's automatic door closer. At the precinct, Bell has Holmes and Watson listen to a recording that a reporter received anonymously. Lanzer is heard leaving an angry message for Nell and it's apparent they were having an affair. At Sharp's office, they question Lanzer who admits the affair was a ploy to distract Nell from accepting the prima role. Nell ran into another dancer who Lanzer had employed the same tactics on but, Lanzer had begun to care for Nell. They made up and Nell deleted the message leading Sharp to ask how it was leaked. Holmes listens to the separated audio file on which he can hear a distinctive whirring sound he's heard before. Holmes is able to prove that the whirring sound is from Sharp's automatic door opener and he's arrested after the stolen hard drive is found in his office.
"The One Percent Solution": At the Brownstone, Watson arrives and finds Holmes has broken up a cock fighting ring. He's feeding two roosters, Romulus and Remus and intends to experiment if they can be trained to stop fighting. Gregson calls them to the scene of the explosion which killed several people from the Dept. of Labor (DoL) and a bank whose CEO is Richard Balsille. Gregson informs them that Balsille has a "security czar" they'll have to work with which, to Holmes' revulsion, turns out to be Gareth Lestrade. Holmes discovers Lestrade is arranging sexual partners for his employer, CEO Richard Balsille, and catches the bomber, MoL staffer Michelle Forrester. Fired from his job, Lestrade asks if he can stay at the Brownstone while Holmes' experiment with the roosters is a success.
"Ears to You": His confidence shattered, Lestrade is mugged and has difficulty picking a new job, despite several offers. Encouraged by Watson to solve the case of his mugging, Watson and Holmes deal with a case involving Gordon Cushing, whose wife Sarah disappeared years before. Receiving a package containing Sarah's ears, a ransom demand goes wrong and Holmes and Watson are baffled to find Sarah alive, with her ears intact. They discover her new husband, a plastic surgeon, grew ears on her back which were removed and used in the ransom demand. After finding his mugger, Lestrade believes that Holmes doctored the case to boost his confidence and seeing through Holmes' "ruse" has done the trick and he's accepted one of his job offers. He threatens to stay unless Holmes admits to the charade. Holmes shakes his hand, congratulates Lestrade and heads to the kitchen. Confused, Watson follows and asks Holmes why he didn't let her in on his plan. Holmes honestly says he's never heard of the mugger nor seen the mugging file but wanted Lestrade to move on.
"The Hound of the Cancer Cells": After Barry Granger is murdered at a laboratory, the head of the lab, Hank Prince, shows Holmes and Watson what Granger was working on, a device called "The Hound" that could detect lung cancer from breath. Without Granger and combined with an anonymous tipster who refuted the device's test results, Prince is ruined. Later, they show Prince who was behind the fake allegation and that Granger's work has been cleared. Believing that he and Granger may be the victims of corporate sabotage, Prince provides them with a list of rivals to "The Hound." Prince's wife, who he was divorcing, is then found dead. They discover that Prince discredited the Hound and killed Granger, which would temporarily lower his company's value, so that his wife wouldn't receive as much in the settlement. Once Holmes and Watson cleared the allegation against "The Hound", Prince killed his wife so she wouldn't share in its value. After much reflection, Holmes meets Bell at a party celebrating Bell's return to active duty.
"The Many Mouths of Aaron Colville": Watson learns of a "vampire killer" who bites his victims from Detective Loughlin and remembers from her time as a surgeon, Aaron Colville, a serial killer who also bit. After taking a plea deal, Colville died in 2005 during a surgery Watson was a part of. She visits Dr. Jonathan Fleming, who refuses to tell her what Colville whispered to him before he died. With the help of Everyone, Holmes gets dental records and match them to vampire killer's bite. They find that Colville's teeth were the model for dentures issued at Newgate prison. After finding a good suspect, prison dental assistant Stan Kovic, he's cleared of the murders. Watson confronts Fleming again who admits that Colville whispered that he'd killed two women. Watson tells Holmes about Fleming's confession which leads him to believe the killer knew about the dentures and wanted to cast doubt Aaron was the killer. Holmes and Watson discover Aaron's mother Ruth is the killer and find a copy of Aaron's dentures at her house.
"No Lack of Void": After discovering a man died on anthrax poisoning, Holmes reviews videos and tells Watson that Alistair died the week before of a heart attack. Gregson and Bell brief a task force that fingerprints of their prime suspect, Eugene MacIntosh. Holmes visits Alistair's partner, Ian, and discovers that Alistair was in good spirits and very healthy just before his death. He asks about Alistair's son Jeremy with whom Alistair had an acrimonious past. As Holmes stakes out a location the anthrax could be at, he notices a large delivery truck and has a conversation with an imagined Alistair which irks him. After seeing a case loaded into the truck, he breaks in and discovers the case is filled with jars of white powder and, there are letters to congressmen. Two men surprise him and in the struggle, he subdues them, but they are all covered with the powder. Later at a hospital, Watson meets Holmes who is miffed he's being tested as the powder was baby powder. Watson is angry Holmes took such a big risk when a police team was minutes away from the truck. She blames his reckless behaviour on what happened to Alistair. Watson confronts Holmes that he lied to her about Alistair who died of a heroin overdose. After an outburst from Holmes, she presses why he lied. Initially, Holmes says it was to protect Alistair's privacy but he eventually admits that Alistair helped him when he was high, something most recovering addicts wouldn't do. Given Alistair's strength, Holmes wants to find the cause of his relapse, hoping that its discovery will help him maintain his own sobriety. At Alistair's grave, Holmes imagines Alistair there apologizing for how he died. Holmes has made peace that Alistair's choices don't have to be his and, that he will miss him.
"The Man With the Twisted Lip": Mycroft returns to NYC and asks Watson out to eat at Diogenes while Sherlock and Watson search for a missing woman, Paige Dahl. At Diogenes, Mycroft proposes dating Watson and while she's interested, she's worried it would makes things with Sherlock difficult. At a park, Watson finds Paige dead in the woods while Sherlock finds a dead man, Zach Piller, against a rock. Sherlock is puzzled by shotgun blasts on the rocks around Piller and, the appearance of a mosquito, though it's winter. At Piller's former workplace, Sherlock and Watson find Piller worked for a company that makes drones. At Diogenes, Sherlock tries to stop Mycroft from dating Watson and takes a picture of a man he noticed there before. As Sherlock shows her the photo of the man, de Soto, who is a lieutenant in a French crime organization, Le Milieu, Watson expresses her anger at him interfering in her relationship with Mycroft. Believing that Mycroft is involved with Le Milieu, Sherlock then bolts out of his chair, grabs a glass and captures something on a table. Hearing clinking, he explains to Watson that he's captured a tiny surveillance drone. He now knows why there was a strange shotgun pattern around Piller's body, he and Paige were killed by drones. At Diogenes, Watson expresses her interest in dating Mycroft but indicates that she'll have to move out of the Brownstone first. She also sees a man, Marchef, who was sitting at the same table when she met Mycroft earlier and she takes his picture. At the precinct, she now agrees that Le Milieu is using Diogenes as a base and shows Sherlock her picture of Marchef who is linked to a massacre. Watson break into the office of an executive of the company Piller worked for while Sherlock meets the executive. They are able to prove that the executive ordered Piller to carry out a drone strike in Afghanistan which killed CIA operatives, then covered it up and had Piller killed. Watson heads to Diogenes where she's kidnapped by Marchef.
"Paint It Black": Hearing that Watson is kidnapped due to Mycroft's dealings with Le Milieu, Sherlock is furious with him. Mycroft explains that Pierce Norman, VP of Swiss Bank Credit Versoix, took details of thousands of their client's private banking accounts. Le Milieu wants the list. At Credit Versoix, they are shown into Norman's office by head of security, Kurt Yoder. Sherlock demands Yoder retrieve Norman's laptop and, finds a hiding place which contains a game pad. After looking at the pad, he smashes it in apparent frustration as it is useless in their investigation. At the Brownstone, Sherlock plays the video game he saw on Norman's game pad with his userid. Norman never played the game but used its chat function with one other gamer. Sherlock sends a chat to the user and waits for a response. They proceed to Westchester and question Norman's lover, Deron. A few hours after leaving Deron's, Sherlock finds a wooded river and a summer house with Norman's car outside. They proceed to the backyard where Sherlock finds a shallow grave containing Norman. Norman's body is brought into the kitchen. From a fly pupa on Norman's body, Sherlock shows that he died before the client list was stolen. Norman has been murdered and framed by someone with access to his computer. Yoder is lured to the Brownstone with news from Sherlock that they don't think Norman stole the list. Sherlock tases him into unconsciousness and after torturing him, Yoder provides the list's location. After retrieving the list, Mycroft tases Sherlock into unconsciousness.
"Art in the Blood": At the Brownstone, finding guards and Watson being attended to by a doctor, a furious Sherlock turns on Mycroft and believes Mycroft is being arrested by British Intelligence only to be told that he works for them. Meeting Mycroft's handler Tim Sherrington, he debriefs Sherlock on the rescue of Mycroft and Watson from Le Milieu and that they needn't be worried about repercussions. To Mycroft's surprise, Sherrington asks Sherlock to work on a case of an ex-MI6 analyst, Arthur West, who has been murdered. Over Mycroft's objections, Sherlock agrees to look into West. Returning to the Brownstone, Sherlock discovers that Watson wants to work so he fills her in on West's case. At the Morgue, they discover that Arthur's arms are missing. Arthur's wife, Marion, eventually reveals she tattooed numbers on Arthur's arms in infrared ink and gives them a picture of the tattoos, which are all numbers. She doesn't know what the numbers mean and that Arthur was convinced there is a mole in MI6. He did say the mole was selling secrets to a bookstore owner, Julian Afkhami. Sherlock deduces that the data represents dates and times, but to what, he doesn't know. Watson tells Sherlock that she's moving out of the Brownstone which he thinks is a knee-jerk reaction to her kidnapping. Explaining that she's planned it for a while and that she needs a life outside of detective work, he's stunned into silence and then leaves. The next morning, Sherlock meets Sherrington on a park bench, shows him the picture of the tattoos and tells him about the mole. Sherrington offers him a permanent job at MI6 but Sherlock refuses and says he's done investigating West. Gregson tells Sherlock that the gun that killed West was found with a very distinctive set of fingerprints on it that haven't been identified yet. Looking at the prints, Sherlock excuses himself suddenly and leaves. In bed at Mycroft's, Watson tells him that she's moving out of the Brownstone and that Sherlock didn't take the news well. Sherlock calls Sherrington and says he knows who the mole is. Breaking into Mycroft's, Sherlock catches them in bed and tells Mycroft that he's being framed for murder and treason.
"The Grand Experiment": At a safe house, Sherlock believes a mole in MI6 is framing Mycroft. He's told MI6 what he knows but also said that Mycroft is the mole. He hopes this will gain MI6's confidence and while pretending to work with them to find Mycroft, that he'll find the real mole. Sherlock meets MI6 Deputy Chief, Sir James Walter and Mycroft's handler, Tim Sherrington, but is unsuccessful in gaining access to their files. He lies that he'll let them know when he finds Mycroft. Sherlock and Watson break into Julian Afkhami's store and Sherlock finds a scrambler that Afkhami could use for certain calls. Arthur West wouldn't have understood the calls but Sherlock believes he would know the date, time and location of them. At the safe house, Sherlock examines the info West had tattooed on his arms. Although burner phones would have been used by Afkhami's contact, the code of the cell tower used would be part of the metadata of the call. Sherlock realizes this is what West tattooed on his arms. As he reads the locations and dates, Mycroft confirms that he was at locations. Watson deduces that Sherrington was also there and that he is the mole. Sherlock finds that the dates correspond to events that benefited Iran and that Sherrington provided secret information to make the events occur. At the safe house, Sherlock wakes Mycroft to tell him about Watson's encounter with Sherrington and, that he knows why he re-joined MI6. He's confused why Mycroft would make such a sacrifice when he owed Sherlock nothing but Mycroft simply states they are brothers. Sherlock vows to fix the Sherrington situation. After Sherlock and Watson find evidence that Afkhami killed a man who was having an affair with his wife, Gregson tells Sherlock that Afkhami gave Sherrington up. Sherrington turns up dead and Gregson tells Bell to put out a Finest Message for Mycroft. At the Brownstone, Sherlock and Watson confront Mycroft who says he didn't murder Sherrington. He contacted NSA Agent McNally who he traded MI6 secrets for the NSA arranging for Sherrington's murder. Sherlock deduces that the NSA has faked Mycroft's death which he confirms. Mycroft will have to disappear which he tries to apologize to Watson for. She leaves, frustrated and upset. Sherlock indicates that they were working on a solution for him that would take hard work which isn't Mycroft's way. Mycroft interrupts Sherlock's chastisement by hugging him, proclaiming his love, and then leaves. Eavesdropping outside Watson's bedroom, Sherlock hears her making an appointment to view an apartment. Distressed, he retrieves a hidden stash of heroin. He then visits Sir Walter and agrees to work for MI6.

Season 3

The things that I do, the things that you care about, you think that I do them because I'm a good person. I do them because it would hurt too much not to.

— Holmes to Agatha, "The View From Olympus"
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Sherlock Holmes Season Three/Gallery

After eight months in London, Holmes returns to NYC with a protégée, Kitty, but must gain Watson's approval to work with the NYPD again. Holmes saves Harlan Emple from a murderous math game. Holmes tries to determine if a piece of AI, named "Bella", is sentient. Holmes searches for an old map, deals with William Hull while trying to keep Kitty from dating. With the help of Ms. Hudson and The Nose, a mystery involving missing persons where their abduction scenes smell like nutmeg is solved. Alfredo helps Holmes when he struggles with maintaining his sobriety. Holmes pursues Del Gruner, who abducted and tortured Kitty. Once caught, he consuls Kitty on the dangers of revenge.

Appearances in Season 3
"Enough Nemesis To Go Around": Holmes anonymously provides a tip to Watson on a case involving the shooting death in an elevator of Karen Lloyd, the bookkeeper of a drug lord, Elana March. The tip leads Watson to the Brownstone where she discovers Holmes has returned and provided the tip. Holmes admits that he should have said goodbye properly but Watson is still bitter and says she doesn't need his help. At the 11th Precinct, Holmes meets with Captain Gregson and asks to consult with the NYPD again. Gregson is blunt about their past relationship being a means to an end and states that Holmes can only come back back if Watson agrees to it. After Kitty Winter has a single stick battle with Watson, Holmes chastizes Kitty for following Watson against his orders. In the hotel where Lloyd was murdered, Watson goes to use the elevator and finds Holmes inside, tracing the bullet shots. Annoyed that he isn't staying out of her case, he follows her to the hotel room Elspeth stayed in when Lloyd was killed. To gain her sympathy, he admits that he left NYC for London because he was afraid that with Watson moving out of the Brownstone, he might relapse. Largely ignoring him, Watson proceeds into the bathroom. Holmes notes it is beside the elevator Lloyd was killed in and, the bullet were shot towards his room. Holmes sits on the bench in the shower and reminds Watson that she should examine a crime scene from all perspectives, but she's too angry to take the hint. At the Brownstone, Watson warily greets Kitty who indicates that Holmes has solved her case. With a model, Holmes shows Watson that Elspeth jammed four steel slugs in the side of the elevator and then positioned a large magnet in his hotel room bathroom. He monitored Lloyd's protective detail's radio messages and once she was in the elevator, pulled the magnet's switch. The steel slugs were pulled through the elevator, killing Lloyd and Palmer. Later, Watson finds proof that Holmes' theory is correct, resulting in Elspeth and March's arrests. Watson arrives at the Brownstone to let Holmes know about March's arrest which he congratulates her on. She's also signed off on Holmes and Kitty working with the NYPD but insists that they work their own cases.
"The Five Orange Pipz": The murders of Elias Openshaw and his attorney, Theo Fordham, result in Watson allowing Holmes to join the case. Beads found at both men's murder scenes or "the Pipz", were made by Openshaw's company and when ingested, metabolized into GHB. A hallucinogen used as a "date rape" drug, nine children had been killed or poisoned by swallowing the Pipz. Meeting Gregson in his office, they're introduced to FBI Agent Vince Boden who indicates the FBI had proof Openshaw knew the Pipz were poison but sold them anyway. The FBI seized all of the Pipz and Boden has no suspects other than a list of the parents of the children who'd been poisoned. Holmes texts Watson to join him at the office of US Attorney Angela White, the prosecutor of the Pipz case. She denies Holmes' request for access to surveillance video of Theo, citing privacy concerns, and Kitty accuses her of not wanting them to find the real killer. Offended, White ends the meeting. Questioning Boden at his home, he denies knowing about an encounter between White and Openshaw but says that White had motive to kill Openshaw and Theo. White admits to the missing evidence, blackmail and agreeing to Openshaw skipping bail. However, she denies committing the murders. Holmes takes Watson to his bedroom and removing bricks in the fireplace, takes out a file on Kitty and gives it to Watson. He explains that Kitty was the victim of a horrific crime and was taken by a man who is still at large. Watson comments that Kitty had a good point about Boden which makes Holmes realize that perhaps Boden was trying to end the proceedings against Openshaw. Gregson and an ESU team catch Boden leaving a waste facility in a truck filled with boxes of the Pipz. Holmes compliments Kitty on the points she made that helped with the solving of the case. He warns her that becoming a detective is hard and that she'll be subject to many pains.
"Just a Regular Irregular": After Harlan Emple finds Ike Wallaczek while playing a math game that sends the participants to different locations, Holmes and Emple question another participant, Beka, who identifies Ike and provides the name of all those playing the game. Holmes and Bell are shot at by one of the players, Byron Lowenthal, with a shotgun. At Watson's apartment, Holmes has an uncomfortable first meeting with her boyfriend Andrew. After Andrew leaves, Watson advises Holmes to get Kitty help dealing with her past. At the Brownstone, Emple shows Holmes that whoever is running the puzzle, changed the clue which Lowenthal received after Emple found Ike's body. Emple solves the clue Lowenthal was given which leads Bell and Holmes to a location where Lowenthal's body is found, having been tortured and murdered. One of the players, Paul Ettinger, tells Emple, Holmes and Watson that he believes a blogger, "Mo Shellshocker" is the killer. In private, Emple admits he is "Mo" and explaining that he was fighting those that abuse math, Kitty finds he's wanted by the FBI. Holmes deduces Ettinger is the killer and saves Emple's life while arranging for police to capture Ettinger.
"Bella": At the Brownstone, as Holmes conducts an experiment on himself with leaches and watches Clyde, Kitty shows in a new client, Edwin Borstein. Head of an artificial intelligence (AI) company, one of his programs was stolen and he has a picture of the masked thief. Holmes isn't interested in the case until Borstein claims the program, called "Bella", is asking questions not in its programming. At Borstein's office, they meet his colleague Melinda Young, who has hooked Bella up to a doll. Holmes submits Bella to a Turing test, trying to see if Bella will provide an answer that couldn't have come from a human. Holmes spends many hours with Bella. The next day, Watson arrives at the Brownstone to find Holmes on video conference with many AI experts and a young "Irregular", computer expert Mason. Andrew tells Watson that Holmes has involved him in an on-line discussion on Bella. Watson is somewhat taken aback but says it's fine for him to help. Borstein is found dead, seemingly killed by Bella using a program that induced an epileptic seizure. With Kitty's help, Holmes is able to find Borstein's killer, a university professor named Isaac Pyke. However, without sufficient evidence, Holmes is unsuccessful in blackmailing a confession from Pyke.
"Rip Off": After a severed hand is found, Holmes leads Kitty and Detective Bell to a car impound lot where he finds a handless body under a car. 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. After the man is identified as Moshe Shapiro, Holmes and Kitty visit his store where Holmes finds a hidden safe and a coded ledger while questioning Moshe's employee, Amit Hattengatti. Suspecting a weightlifter, Dana Kazmir, killed Moshe, Holmes arm wrestles Kazmir and tricks him into providing DNA which is matched to that under the nails of Moshe's severed hand. Kazmir reveals he was hired by an anonymous man and provides the names of three other people that the man wanted him to kill. Holmes and Kitty find evidence that Amit is the man who hired Kazmir to kill Moshe and three others in order to take over his Moshe's diamond business.
"Terra Pericolosa": Holmes send Kitty to a library where she finds a security guard dead in a display case. Holmes deduces that a map, "The County of King James, Virginia, 1794" which was loaned to the library by the Bray family, was the target of theft. Visiting Margaret Bray at her charity's office, she agrees to help find other institutions who may have had thefts that went unreported. Holmes finds the map thief, Stuart Zupko, dead in his at his shop with all the stolen maps including the Bray map which is laid out. However, Holmes sees the Bray map is a fake. Discovering Kitty has a suitor, Holmes tries to keep her busy with trivial tasks. Holmes and Watson meet real estate tycoon William Hull, Hull is also interested in finding the Bray map and offers to hire them but Holmes walks out. He realizes the map itself isn't what is of interest, but the information on the original map. The next morning Holmes wakes Watson and shows her that the forged map and the original are identical. However, a river in the map has shifted its course over the last 200 years. A casino is planned for construction on a site on an Indian reservation, which due to the shifting of the river, is actually not on the reservation. Existence of the original map would spell the end of the casino project, costing billions. At the casino manager's office, Watson realizes who is behind the library theft and murder. At the precinct, Margaret is shown evidence she committed the murders and map theft in order for the casino to be built on land her family owned. Holmes confesses to Kitty that he's been keeping her busy to avoid being hurt by her suitor. Kitty indicates she knew what Holmes was doing and that it made her feel very protected and loved.
"The Adventure of the Nutmeg Concoction": After Kim Holder asks Watson to find her sister, Jessica, who disappeared five years before where the scene of her disappearance smelt like nutmeg, Holmes dismisses an FBI agent's theory that a serial killer is at work. After Kitty and Watson question a neighbor of Jessica's, Noah Kramer, Watson finds that Holmes has Ms. Hudson listening to the police scanner for reports of any crime scenes that smell like nutmeg. Holmes finds that Kramer told Jessica of several murders that one of his clients, Raymond Carpenter, committed. Visiting Sing Sing, where Carpenter is serving a life sentence, Holmes convinces him to confess to Jessica's murder in exchange for a desirable work assignment in prison. Holmes receives a text from Ms. Hudson reporting a shooting at a park band shell which smells like nutmeg. After smelling the scene, The Nose reports that nutmeg is used to cover up several other compounds including bleach and sodium hydroxide, used for dissolving bodies. Holmes deduces that the nutmeg crime scene aren't connected by the same killer, but by the same "cleaner" of bodies. Holmes finds Conrad Woodbine was a crime scene cleaner and Kitty discovers a nutmeg concoction there. Police later raid Woodbine's studio but Woodbine is missing and there is a strong smell of nutmeg. Holmes checks the drain of a large sink and finds an artificial knee tendon. Remembering Woodbine's limp, Holmes believes he's been murdered and cleaned using his own concoction which is later confirmed. Kitty establishes a connection between Woodbine and Raymond Carpenter's son, Jeremy, which results in Jeremy confessing to dissolving many bodies involved in crimes.
"End of Watch": After Officer Alec Flynn is killed, Watson notices fibers in a boot print left by the killer and Holmes discovers that Flynn's gun is an air pistol. Flynn's wife Brie admits to Detective Bell and Watson that after a football accident, Alec became addicted to Oxy. However, he recently became sober, came back home and was proud to return to active duty and leave working at the armory. Discovering Flynn sold his pistol and those at the armory to criminal Niko Buros, his inspector's funeral is cancelled. That evening, Buros kills another officer, Casey Hatem, and more fibers like the ones found at Flynn's murder scene are found. Holmes confronts Daren, who created a website using sayings Holmes uttered at support group meetings. Holmes threatens to reveal to Daren's wife that he is having an affair if he doesn't take the site down. Watson discovers Charlie Riggs supplied Alec with Oxy and introduced him to Buros. From his testimony, Holmes realizes Buros shot both Flynn and then Hatem in order for an inspector's funeral to be held in which the armory would be barely manned in order to rob it of its weapons. However, Buros successfully robs the armory. From one of Buros' weapons stashes that was seized, Watson deduces that Buros was hiding the guns in furniture which were then transported to Mexico. Holmes deduces that Buros was on a strict timetable for sending the weapons which points to use of a cargo ship bound for Veracruz. Buros is found by Bell and an ESU team and arrested. At a support group meeting, Holmes looks at the site Daren created which only says "I'm sorry."
"The Eternity Injection": At the Brownstone, Alfredo shows Holmes a new car security system that has a talking alarm called Odin. He asks for help beating the alarm and is distressed when Holmes declines going to a support group meeting. A nurse, Shauna Milius, arrives looking to hire Watson Milius reports that a fellow nurse, Marissa Ledbetter, disappeared and police haven't been able to find her. Holmes finds Marissa's body and that she died of head trauma and strangulation and, has DNA under her nails that matches a Chris Jacoby. Mason finds Chris was in a park using city surveillance footage and facial recognition software. Chris is found dead in the woods and Holmes discovers a journal hidden under a rock. Holmes finds that Chris received a $150,000 payment from the same company as Marissa, Purgatorium. Dr. Hawes finds Chris' brain was destroyed and an unidentified chemical found in his system. Holmes believes that Chris was part of an illegal drug trial that Marissa was the nurse on. The list found on Marissa showed five dosages, indicating that four other people were given the drug, EZM-77, and are being murdered to cover up the drug trial. Everyone provides a list of those that received payments from Purgatorium. Holmes and Watson find one of the drug trial members, Louis Carisle, who identifies Dr. Dwyer Kirke as the leader of the trial. Having found who funded Kirke's research, Holmes and Watson are shown into the palatial home of James Connaughton by his nurse Brett Won. Having been diagnosed with a terminal disease, Holmes cannot motivate James to admit guilt and he has his nurse take him to bed. Watson suggests that Won be brought to the precinct where the scale of the trial is made known to him. He reveals that he saw a contract for Purgatorium in James' safe and that two hitmen visited James who gave them the list of the participants. Accompanying Bell and police for James' arrest, Holmes and Watson find him in bed having taken a dose of EZM-77. His eyes twitching rapidly, James cannot be woken and Holmes speculates that he took the drug to experience as much time as possible in his remaining days.
"Seed Money": At the scene of the death of an elderly couple, Watson speculates they committed suicide but Holmes leads her and Bell into the building's basement where a burned body is found. Checking the third floor, the body is found to be Clay Dubrovensky, who had a doctorate in botany and genetic engineering. Holmes says that Clay's burning death, necklacing, is a trademark of a Brazilan gang, SDS. The next morning after breaking into Watson's apartment, Holmes wakes Watson by making her a smoothie with a blender. From some Russian coins found at Clay's, he's been able to identify the neighborhood the grow house is in. Watson tells Holmes that she's folding her private detective business and will be working for insurance company Leda as an in-house investigator. Meeting Captain Gregson at the grow house, they are puzzled to discover most of the pot plants are dead. Holmes spots a valuable, one-of-a-kind orchid, the Wutai Pingtung, on a shelf and believes Clay may have been killed over it. Barbara Conway, a senior VP at AgriNext is questioned by Bell, Holmes and Watson at her company's office. Having found that she bought a cabinet that had the orchid on it, she denies knowing Clay. Told they believe she killed Clay when he didn't deliver the orchid, she insists it was thrown in for free, the seller was anonymous and gives them the second orchid. Conway provided two bags of plant food and as Watson opens one filled with ground coffee and dried fish, Holmes tells her that's the wrong one for orchids. After Conway reveals that AgriNext was negotiating for Clay's release from the SDS in order to grow pot for them, Watson reviews AgriNext memos that proves this. In order to stimulate thought, Holmes opens the plant food bag with coffee and fish and the strong odor fills the room. Holmes tells Watson that he's decided to make Kitty his new partner. Watson calls Holmes and informs him of Conway's confession while he indicates that he's about to tell Kitty about her promotion. However, a call from Gregson interrupts asking for Holmes alone to come to a crime scene. Gregson shows Holmes the body of Melanie Vilkas, who went missing days before. Many burn marks are on Vilkas' back which match those that Kitty's abductor inflicted on her. They realize that the abductor has left London and is in NYC.
"The Illustrious Client":
"The One That Got Away":

Season 4

Being loved by you is a dangerous thing, Sherlock. Probably why I'm still alive. Men like us, we're not meant to make such connections.

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Sherlock Holmes Season Four/Gallery

After Sherlock assaults Oscar Rankin and relapses, his father Morland arrives in NYC.

Season 5

But what we do, it's not a job. It's a calling. We were born to do this work.

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Sherlock Holmes Season Five/Gallery

Holmes captures a serial bomber with the help of Shinwell Johnson, a former patient of Watson's.

Season 6

No. We're much better than that. We're two people that love each other. We always have been.

— Holmes to Watson, "Whatever Remains, However Improbable"
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Sherlock Holmes Season Six/Gallery

Dealing with post-concussion syndrome, Holmes meets Michael Rowan at a support group meeting.

Season 7

I became a consulting detective. I was, for a time, the only one in world. I invented a role for myself. I found a way to take my difference and turn it into something I could use to contribute.

— Holmes, "Miss Understood"
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Sherlock Holmes Season Seven/Gallery

While working on a case in London with Scotland Yard, Holmes and Watson learn from Detective Bell that Captain Gregson has been shot.

Skills

Singlestick

Holmes has shown himself to be formally trained in single stick combat. He is sufficiently skilled to train others in the practice.

Lock picking

Holmes is highly proficient in picking locks, and disabling security systems, such as chain locks. He is able to get through most locks in seconds, though electronic security systems will often take more time and planning.

Genius intellect

Holmes has a prodigious memory, never forgetting anything unless he deliberately tries to. He has memorized every fact that he finds interesting, or feels that would help his skills as a detective, including identifying numerous types of tobacco. He was even able to predict the end of a game of baseball with great accuracy based on the player's statistics. He also is very skilled at deductive reasoning, putting all the things he observes, and all the facts he knows together, to figure things out.

Escapology

Holmes has trained himself and Watson to be able to get out of handcuffs, and often practices getting out of straitjackets, and being tied up in different methods.

Polyglot

Holmes is fluent in several different languages, including Mandarin Chinese, French, Russian, and some level of knowledge of Arabic and Farsi.

Pugilist

Holmes is an experienced boxer.

Acute senses

Holmes often says his senses are much more acute than others, which often caused him to be overwhelmed by the things happening around him. This is further confirmed by his ability to detect scents and sounds that are too minute for most people to notice.

Ambidextrous

Holmes has trained himself to be able to use both hands with equal skill.

Tattooist

Holmes is a skilled, though self taught, tattoo artist. He claims many of his tattoos are done by himself.

Observation

Holmes is a trained observer, being able to notice several details that most just ignore in their day to day lives. Because of this he is able to tell if a person is lying by the subtle hints they subconsciously give.

Pickpocketing

Holmes has shown himself to be proficient in picking pockets.

Acting

Holmes is an accomplished actor, being able to assume personas with great ease, complete with their own accents.

Beekeeping

Holmes is a bee keeper, with a great deal of knowledge about bees, and their habits.

Lip reading

Holmes is a skilled lip reader. Being able to tell what a person is saying as well as if he could hear them, as long as he has a sufficiently clear view of their lips.

Relationships

Joan Watson

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"Cold feet on the warm deck Watson!"

The pair's relationship began rather rocky as Watson was Holmes's sober companion, but Holmes soon began to develop a respect for her potential skills in observation and deduction. As their relationship continued, Joan's willingness to not be bullied by him, and to give as good as she got, as well as her respect for him, began to cause his feelings to grow to affection, and eventually to the point he admitted that he loved her. His brother Mycroft even made the observation that Sherlock loved her more than anything else. This reached the point where Holmes willingly gave up his work as a detective to spend time caring for Watson during her cancer treatments.

A running gag on the show, Holmes often wakes Watson in amusing ways. Occasionally, Watson returns the favor.

Jamie Moriarty

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Holmes asks Irene out.

When Holmes interrupted several of her assassination plans in London, Moriarty at first considered killing him. Intrigued by his deductive abilities, which she compared to her own, she created the identity of Irene Adler and arranged for him to visit her. As Irene, she was an American in London who restored historic paintings, stealing some so that she could properly preserve them, which Holmes chose not to report her for. Moriarty's passion for art is one of the few characteristics she retained as Irene. She seduced Holmes so she could study him and finding he wasn't a threat to her other operations, she staged Irene's death (leaving a pool of her blood and a note signed "M", the modus operandi of her primary assassin Sebastian Moran), and resumed her business as Moriarty. Moriarty was unaware of Holmes' subsequent descent into drug addiction and showed genuine regret when she found out about it.

Fiona Helbron

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"I wasn't sure you'd say yes."

A computer programmer, Fiona is "neuroatypical" and likes cats. She meets Holmes during a case where her boss, Phil Balsam, is discovered to have employed hitmen in a drive-by shooting and misused Fiona's code to take over a car and kill the hitmen. Balsam's car is overtaken by Fiona and Holmes is able to get a confession from him.[6] Later, Fiona visits the Brownstone with thank you gifts for Watson but really wants to see Holmes. They go on the roof and she declares her interest in Holmes which genuinely astonishes him.[7] After dating for several months, Fiona breaks up with Holmes as she feels that he's being too careful and views her as a problem to be solved. Holmes changes her mind and they have sex for the first time.[8] After dating for over six months, Holmes breaks up with her.[9]

Trivia

  • His hobbies include beekeeping, single-stick on his practice dummy Bob, and odd scientific inquires.
  • First line was "Do you believe in love at first sight? I know what you're thinking. The world is a cynical place, and I must be a cynical man, thinking a woman like you would fall for a line like that. Thing is... it isn't a line, so please hear me when I say this. I have never loved anyone as I do you right now...in this moment."[10]
  • Plays the violin[11][12] and piano.[13]
  • He has a scar on his wrist, after falling from a fence when he was a boy. He later covered it up with a tattoo.[14]
  • He is ambidextrous[15] and scared of clowns.[16]
  • Holmes' patient number when at Hemdale was 11578.5698.[17]
  • He slept with his brother's fiancé Nigella Mason to prove that she was with him for money, and not love.[18]
  • Making Yorkshire puddings calms him down but he doesn't like to eat them.[19][20]
  • Holmes speaks 36 languages[21] including Mandarin,[22][23][24] Russian,[5][25] Norwegian,[26] Nepalese,[27] French,[28][29] Spanish,[30][21][31] Ukrainian,[6] Pashto,[32] Japanese[33] and Italian.[34]
  • He's been shot five times.[35]
  • His birthday and date were revealed in an obituary written by Norman Horowitz.[1]
  • See also Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, whom Elementary's Sherlock Holmes is based on.

Quotes

The danger with rulebooks, Watson, is that they offer the illusion that leading a moral life is a simple undertaking, that the world exists in black and white. Welcome to the grays.

— Holmes to Watson, "Tremors"

I have to say, Watson, I'm feeling a little bit judged. You're well aware that I view sex as an exercise. As do the women I entertain.

— Holmes, "Corpse de Ballet"

The great love of my life is a homicidal maniac. No one's perfect.

A bad man let his brains out for some fresh air. What else is there to discuss?

— Holmes about Jonathan Bloom, "The Past Is Parent"

Look, Sherlock is a grouch okay? Nobody knows that better than me.

— Watson, "Fidelity"

My estate. You'll be inheriting a lot less of it. You'll still get the house, of course, and my brain.

— Holmes to Watson, "The Visions of Norman P. Horowitz"

I became a consulting detective. I was, for a time, the only one in world. I invented a role for myself. I found a way to take my difference and turn it into something I could use to contribute.

— Holmes to Cassie, "Miss Understood"

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Season 6, episode 18: "The Visions of Norman P. Horowitz"
  2. Season 1, episode 3: "Child Predator"
  3. Season 2, episode 4: "Poison Pen"
  4. Elementary Writers (@ELEMENTARYStaff). "Several months." January 11, 2013.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Season 1, episode 7: "One Way to Get Off"
  6. 6.0 6.1 Season 4, episode 9: "Murder Ex Machina"
  7. Season 4, episode 12: "A View with a Room"
  8. Season 4, episode 18: "Ready or Not"
  9. Season 5, episode 6: "Ill Tidings"
  10. Season 1, episode 1: "Pilot"
  11. Season 1, episode 2: "While You Were Sleeping"
  12. Season 5, episode 3: "Render, and Then Seize Her"
  13. Season 1, episode 10: "The Leviathan"
  14. Season 1, episode 6: "Flight Risk"
  15. Season 1, episode 20: "Dead Man's Switch"
  16. Season 1, episode 14: "The Deductionist"
  17. Season 1, episode 18: "Déjà Vu All Over Again"
  18. Season 2, episode 7: "The Marchioness"
  19. Season 2, episode 10: "Tremors"
  20. Season 2, episode 16: "The One Percent Solution"
  21. 21.0 21.1 Season 4, episode 3: "Tag, You're Me"
  22. Season 1, episode 4: "Rat Race"
  23. Season 5, episode 2: "Worth Several Cities"
  24. Season 4, episode 14: "Who Is That Masked Man?"
  25. Season 4, episode 23: "The Invisible Hand"
  26. Season 1, episode 17: "Possibility Two"
  27. Season 3, episode 13: "Hemlock"
  28. Season 3, episode 15: "When Your Number's Up"
  29. Season 5, episode 10: "Pick Your Poison"
  30. Season 4, episode 1: "The Past Is Parent"
  31. Season 7, episode 9: "On the Scent"
  32. Season 5, episode 7: "Bang Bang Shoot Chute"
  33. Season 6, episode 6: "Give Me the Finger"
  34. Season 7, episode 12: "Reichenbach Falls"
  35. Season 5, episode 1: "Folie a Deux"
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