Cast
Main cast
Featured cast
Plot
| "If you're thinking of hugging me again, don't do that." — Holmes to Emple
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| Using a surrogate, Wiggins, with a telepresence device displaying Holmes' face strapped to his head, Holmes wakes Watson from a hotel room he's in with Athena. Athena's motivated Holmes to solve a cold case and he's calling Watson that Harland Emple has hired them. At Emple's, they learn that one of his doctoral students, Lily Zavala, is missing. Emple has had a crush on her for years and fears that he may be a suspect in her disappearance. Holmes is exasperated that Emple hasn't made his feelings known to Lily, having listened to Emple's excuses for not acting for years. FBI agents arrive at Emple's with news she's been kidnapped. In private, FBI Agent Polk informs Holmes and Watson of the kidnapping details and that Emple is a suspect. In the area Lily was kidnapped, Watson finds a witness who saw Lily being forced into a blue Toyota with a white door.
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| At The Brownstone, as Holmes builds an evidence wall, he again gripes about Emple's lack of action with Lily, with Emple's excuse being university rules against professor-student relationships. Having provided the tip about the Toyota to the police, Detective Bell calls them to an abandoned school where the car was spotted. In the school, evidence that Lily was there is found as is the body of James Cantrell, whose description matches that of the man who took Lily. Believing Cantrell had an accomplice, Holmes deduces that Lily wasn't kidnapped for ransom, but they had her doing mathematics and that once she's completed the task, she'll be killed. At the Brownstone, Holmes fills Emple in and confirms that Cantrell's phone was used to call in the ransom, which wasn't part of the plan, and his was killed over. Given that Emple's math skills exceed Lily's, Holmes has pointed out to the FBI that he's a poor suspect.
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| At the 11th Precinct, Bell and Watson learn from Cantrell's parole officer that he wasn't very smart and that the accomplice probably planned the kidnapping. He points them to Cantrell's landlord, Marvin Hathaway, and recommends they examine his apartment. Hathaway lets them into Cantrell's apartment and is more concerned with the back rent that he's owed than Cantrell's death. Finding evidence that Cantrell was a better, Holmes deduces that he frequented a bingo hall and Bell identifies which one. Confronting bookie Sylvia Kozar at her bingo hall, she claims to not know Cantrell. Holmes notices several numbers missing in the bingo ball blower and threatening to shut her hall down, she admits to knowing Cantrell but wasn't involved in the kidnapping. Cantrell paid his debt to her in full which she says may have been advance payment for the kidnapping.
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| At the Brownstone, while ruing the lack of suspects, Watson points out that Emple loving an unattainable woman is no different than Holmes' feelings for Moriarty. She also thinks he broke up with Fiona because she didn't compare to Moriarty. Emple calls that Lily managed to escape her captor and is with him. At the precinct, Lily tells Captain Gregson, Holmes and Watson how she escaped and there were two kidnappers who wore masks. The older accomplice was in charge and she heard an altercation between the two, after which the older accomplice alone took her to a different location. She went to Emple after escaping because the math she was forced to work on was his.
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(♫ Tim Hart - All In All ♫)
Music
- Tim Hart - All In All plays at episode end as Holmes asks Athena out.
Trivia
- The episode title references the Conan Doyle story The Greek Interpreter which introduced Sherlock's brother Mycroft.
Quotes
And you know why you broke up with her? Because she's not Moriarty. Harland is not the only one who needs to get out of his own way.
— Watson to Holmes
Gallery
| Elementary Season Six Episodes | ||
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| An Infinite Capacity for Taking Pains • Once You've Ruled Out God • Pushing Buttons • Our Time Is Up • Bits and Pieces • Give Me the Finger • Sober Companions • Sand Trap • Nobody Lives Forever • The Adventures of Ersatz Sobekneferu • You've Come a Long Way, Baby • Meet Your Maker • Breathe • Through the Fog • How to Get a Head • Uncanny Valley of the Dolls • The Worms Crawl in, the Worms Crawl Out • The Visions of Norman P. Horowitz • The Geek Interpreter • Fit to be Tied • Whatever Remains, However Improbable
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