Changes: The Red Team

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Cast

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Plot

"Don't think for a minute that I'm ever gonna forget that you were planning to murder someone on my watch. And don't think that I'm ever gonna really trust you again."

— Captain Gregson to Holmes

Days have passed since Holmes caught Sebastian Moran and his evidence board has grown considerably. Watson enters and comments that he slept for two days. As Watson has an appointment, Holmes indicates he'll be fine while he pursues a hobby, conspiracy theorists. Holmes indicates that he's been the source of several crackpot theories, all to watch the theorists take them seriously. Watson attends a therapy session with Dr. Reed and confesses the lie she made to Holmes. Reed wonders why Watson is staying with him while not being paid so she explains her concerns and that she'd like to heal the rift between Holmes and Captain Gregson. She gets a text from Holmes, asking her to meet him at a Brooklyn address. Arriving there, Holmes explains to her that "Zapruder", the moderator of an online conspiracy theorist chat room, was absent. Holmes long ago identified him as Len Pontecorvo and is checking in on him. After Holmes picks the lock, they find Pontecorvo has been hung.

He's got much larger problems than us.

Detective Bell examines the scene and reminds Holmes that he's supposed to be taking a break from working with the police. Bell believes it's a suicide, but Holmes points out several clues that indicate Pontecorvo was murdered and that he texted the M.E. Bell tells him to not work the case which Holmes agrees to, right after examining the rest of the home. Over Watson's protests, Holmes finds Len's binders on conspiracy theories and decides to take them. He also decides to take Len's pet tortoise Clyde, to prevent him from starving. Watson is touched until Holmes says he'll make a delicious soup. Holmes picks up a rock from Clyde's tank and finds a listening device inside it. At The Brownstone, Holmes smashes the bug after examining it. He's confirmed that the bug is government grade and he's found spyware on Len's laptop. Someone in the government was monitoring Pontecorvo.

Hello Clyde.

Holmes shows Watson the only one of Len's binders that contains a plausible conspiracy theory, "The Red Team". It refers to an annual exercise by the U.S. Army's War College. Two teams, the blue (US and allies) and red (their enemies) are given an exercise and create a plan for it. In 2009, the exercise was to plan a response to a sleeper terrorist cell in the US. The results and participants were classified and never published. Holmes believes the Red Team made a plan that exposed a hole in national security that if ever released, could result in the deaths of thousands. Further, after Red Team member Martin Nagowski was killed in a mugging, Len believed the government was eliminating the members. To test this theory, Holmes says he'll find the other team members since it is his day off from NYPD work. At the 11th Precinct, Watson pleads with Gregson to give Holmes a second chance but he can't forgive that Holmes nearly murdered Moran while working for him and believes Holmes isn't repentant.

It also doesn't sound as crazy as the other theories.

Holmes summons Watson to a sanatorium in Queens where he's identified another member of the Red Team, Carlo Anillo. Anillo has early-onset Alzheimer's yet his family has no history of the disease. Holmes believes Anillo was poisoned and his memory destroyed to mimic Alzheimer's. Holmes calls Bell to report his findings but Bell tells him that they have the man who killed Len in custody. At the precinct, Holmes interviews the man, Gary Sullivan, but doesn't believe he's the killer. Gregson pulls Holmes out, and threatens to have him arrested for trespassing if he gets into the interrogation room again. Holmes fumes while staking out Len's house in a parked car with Watson. He understands Gregson's anger but doesn't see the point in an apology and believes that punishing him is detracting from the greater good. The police having left Len's house, Holmes believes whoever planted the bug will arrive to remove any others. He's correct and they follow a phone company van to an office building.

I think he's having a micro-seizure.

Entering the building, they come upon a locked door. Holmes shows the pieces of the bug he took from Len's house to a camera and they are let in. Except for a long table, the office is empty and they are met by a friendly man in a suit, who introduces himself as Bill and asks what they want. Holmes shares his theory about the Red Team and their members but Bill says he has no knowledge of this and has never seen the bug before. He theorizes if the Army wanted to eliminate people, they'd have done it in one shot back in 2009. Leaving the office, Watson believes it was a waste of time but by Bill's reaction to some of the names Holmes said, he's able to deduce which were part of the Red Team. Bell calls with confirmation that Anillo was poisoned and Gregson summons him to the precinct. Later, the police have rounded up the members of the Red Team.

Your bug?

In a meeting room, Harold Dresden, Sheldon Frost, and Veena Mehta wait while Holmes shows in Lt Col (ret'd) Walter McClenahan who appears very nervous. McClenahan pretends he doesn't know those in the room, but after Holmes introduces everyone, he identifies them as the 2009 Red Team. McClenahan wants to leave but Dresden convinces him to stay. Holmes reveals they are in danger and asks them to provide insights as to who the killer might be. Frost and Mehta want to talk but Dresden reminds them of their secrecy oath. They all leave, but Mehta drops a piece of paper into the wastebasket and looks back. The note says to find their U.S. Army liaison, code-named "Yossarian." That evening, as Holmes browses through journals of the Army War College, he finds a picture of Bill, whose real name is Todd Clarke. He believes Clarke is Yossarian.

If we all talk, nobody can report anyone else.

The doorbell rings and two government agents inform Holmes that Colonel Clarke was just murdered and they are taking him for questioning. The agents point out the coincidence of Holmes questioning Clarke and his subsequent death so Holmes tells them what he knows about the Red Team's elimination. Since Clarke was their Army liaison, whatever they discovered, he would know too. Holmes implies they may have killed Clarke which brings a threat of deeper interrogation until Holmes mentions the Brownstone's cameras will prove he was there when Clarke was murdered. Watson meets Holmes after his release and points out the ordeal could have avoided by supplying his alibi earlier. However, Holmes allowed himself to be taken in so that he could determine if the agents knew about the Red Team's killings. Holmes says it's time for the rest of the Red Team to be taken into protective custody.

Why are you spouting a bunch of nonsense about government assassinations?

After no answer at McClenahan's place, two policemen enter and are hit by a booby-trapped shotgun. Later, Bell and Gregson review the scene, find many weapons and that the shotgun was loaded with rock salt. McClenahan looks to be the prime suspect. Holmes calls Bell and discovers Mehta and Frost are safe so Holmes indicates he's going to Dresden's. Dresden tends to his disabled wife, Sheila, who can barely move or speak. Holmes tells Dresden about the booby-trap and learns that McClenahan was paranoid and a loner. Dresden also says that after Nagowski was killed, McClenahan joked that there was one less person to reveal the plan. Dresden is afraid that McClenahan is planning to sell the Red Team's plan, is killing to drive the price up and provides a place McClenahan might be. Holmes calls Bell to report the info but Bell tells him McClenahan is dead.

That contraption's not the only weapon we found in the place.

While Watson stays behind to help Dresden prepare his wife to move to the police safe location, Holmes meets Bell at the crime scene. McClenahan is lying behind a dumpster in an alley, shot once in the head. Holmes notices that McClenahan was covered with a blanket by the killer, suggesting it was someone who knew him. Holmes realizes who the killer is and says they need to get to the safe location. At a small motel on the outskirts of the city, Detective Harris shows the Dresdens into their room. When Dresden finds the rest of the Red Team have arrived, he knocks Harris out and takes his gun. Dresden exits and seeing Mehta by a vending machine, aims at her but an officer shouts for him to freeze. Dresden runs back into his room with bullets flying by him.

Suggests an element of shame here.

When Holmes arrives, the police have the motel under siege and Dresden is holding Harris hostage. Strangely, he's demanding Mehta and Frost be delivered to him. Holmes tells Gregson that Dresden is on a suicide mission and will kill them. Holmes convinces Gregson to let him see Dresden as he knows how to stop him. Dresden lets Holmes in and reveals that he knows Dresden's plan to kill himself after killing Mehta and Frost. He doesn't know why Dresden waited two years though. Dresden says that after Sheila became sick, he was approached with an offer for the plan in exchange for a cure. He knew it was a lie but he realized that everyone has a price. The only safeguard was killing all the Red Team members. Dresden then thanks Holmes as he plans to shoot him to show the police how serious he is. Calmly, Holmes tells him the plan is known which Dresden doesn't believe. He cocks the gun, points it in Holmes' face and asks him what the plan is.

I'll get your man out safely.

A few minutes later, Holmes emerges with Dresden who surrenders. Harris is safe and Gregson asks Holmes how he did it. Holmes says he deduced the plan when Dresden had the gun to his face. Gregson asks Holmes to meet him at a bar in an hour. At the bar, Holmes apologizes for lying to Gregson but haughtily says the NYPD needs him. Gregson rebukes Holmes' self-centered behaviour but admits he is special and needs him. He'll never trust Holmes again, gives him a gut shot and as Holmes gasps for air, welcomes him back. At the Brownstone, Holmes is sipping from a bowl of soup when Watson enters the kitchen. (♫ Jake Bugg - Broken ♫) She's worried Holmes has cooked Clyde but Holmes places him on the table and expresses his admiration for tortoises. She can't get Holmes to talk about what happened with Gregson and remarks on Holmes' unpredictability.

You're not the person I thought you were.

Music

Jake Bugg - Broken plays at episode end.

Trivia

Len Pontecorvo's pen name, "Zapruder" is taken from the Zapruder Film, the home video which inadvertently captured U.S. President John F. Kennedy's assassination.
Todd Clarke's code name "Yossarian" is a reference to the main character in Catch-22.
First appearance of Clyde the tortoise.

Quotes

These are magnificent creatures. Clyde will likely outlive both of us. You didn't really think I would eat him, did you?
— Holmes to Watson

Gallery

Elementary Season One Episodes
Pilot • While You Were Sleeping • Child Predator • The Rat Race • Lesser Evils • Flight Risk • One Way to Get Off • The Long Fuse • You Do It to Yourself • The Leviathan • Dirty Laundry • M. • The Red Team • The Deductionist • A Giant Gun, Filled with Drugs • Details • Possibility Two • Déjà Vu All Over Again • Snow Angels • Dead Man's Switch • A Landmark Story • Risk Management • The Woman • Heroine
Season One • Season Two • Season Three • Season Four • Season Five • Season Six • Season Seven

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-|text=Days have passed since [[Sherlock Holmes|Holmes]] caught [[Sebastian Moran]] and his evidence board has grown considerably. [[Joan Watson|Watson]] enters and comments that he slept for two days. As Watson has an appointment, Holmes indicates he'll be fine while he pursues a hobby, conspiracy theorists. Holmes indicates that he's been the source of several crackpot theories, all to watch the theorists take them seriously. Watson attends a therapy session with [[Candace Reed|Dr. Reed]] and confesses the lie she made to Holmes. Reed wonders why Watson is staying with him while not being paid so she explains her concerns and that she'd like to heal the rift between Holmes and [[Thomas Gregson|Captain Gregson]]. She gets a text from Holmes, asking her to meet him at a Brooklyn address. Arriving there, Holmes explains to her that "Zapruder", the moderator of the online theorist chat room was absent. Holmes long ago identified him as Len Pontecorvo and is checking in on him. After Holmes picks the lock, they find Pontecorvo has been hung.
+|text=Days have passed since [[Sherlock Holmes|Holmes]] caught [[Sebastian Moran]] and his evidence board has grown considerably. [[Joan Watson|Watson]] enters and comments that he slept for two days. As Watson has an appointment, Holmes indicates he'll be fine while he pursues a hobby, conspiracy theorists. Holmes indicates that he's been the source of several crackpot theories, all to watch the theorists take them seriously. Watson attends a therapy session with [[Candace Reed|Dr. Reed]] and confesses the lie she made to Holmes. Reed wonders why Watson is staying with him while not being paid so she explains her concerns and that she'd like to heal the rift between Holmes and [[Thomas Gregson|Captain Gregson]]. She gets a text from Holmes, asking her to meet him at a Brooklyn address. Arriving there, Holmes explains to her that "Zapruder", the moderator of an online conspiracy theorist chat room, was absent. Holmes long ago identified him as Len Pontecorvo and is checking in on him. After Holmes picks the lock, they find Pontecorvo has been hung.
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+|text=[[Marcus Bell|Detective Bell]] examines the scene and reminds Holmes that he's supposed to be taking a break from working with the police. Bell believes it's a suicide, but Holmes points out several clues that indicate Pontecorvo was murdered and that he texted the M.E. Bell tells him to not work the case which Holmes agrees to, right after examining the rest of the home. Over Watson's protests, Holmes finds Len's binders on conspiracy theories and decides to take them. He also decides to take Len's pet tortoise [[Clyde]], to prevent him from starving. Watson is touched until Holmes says he'll make a delicious soup. Holmes picks up a rock from Clyde's tank and finds a listening device inside it. At [[The Brownstone]], Holmes smashes the bug after examining it. He's confirmed that the bug is government grade and he's found spyware on Len's laptop. Someone in the government was monitoring Pontecorvo.
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-The NYPD, led by [[Marcus Bell|Detective Bell]], is examining the crime scene. Bell takes one look at Pontecorvo's pants around his ankles and says auto-erotic misadventure, but Holmes pokes several holes in this hypothesis, pointing out that the belt Pontecorvo was hung with is the wrong size for his pants, and the index finger of his right hand (his ''"business hand"'') is broken. Bell rejoins that Holmes is no longer a consultant for the NYPD, which makes him a civilian. Holmes says, perfectly true, which is why he and Watson will be removing themselves from the crime scene immediately - that is, after he has examined the place thoroughly.
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-Aside, Watson protests, saying Holmes will only get himself in deeper trouble, but Holmes says that, whether they will admit it or not, the NYPD need his help, and he will share everything he finds with them. Noticing binders containing notes on Pontecorvo's various conspiracy theories, Holmes decides to take and read them - he is sure that there is some mundane reason Pontecorvo was killed, but his theories may nonetheless provide some clue as to his murderer. He also decides to take [[Clyde]], Pontecorvo's pet tortoise (identified by a nameplate on his tank). He points out that Clyde will starve to death if someone doesn't take care of him. Watson is touched - until Holmes further explains that tortoises make a delicious soup. But as they are about to leave, Holmes notices something strange about Clyde's tank, and opens one of the fake rocks inside, revealing a listening device inside a hidden cavity.
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+|text=Holmes shows Watson the only one of Len's binders that contains a plausible conspiracy theory, "The Red Team". It refers to an annual exercise by the U.S. Army's War College. Two teams, the blue (US and allies) and red (their enemies) are given an exercise and create a plan for it. In 2009, the exercise was to plan a response to a sleeper terrorist cell in the US. The results and participants were classified and never published. Holmes believes the Red Team made a plan that exposed a hole in national security that if ever released, could result in the deaths of thousands. Further, after Red Team member Martin Nagowski was killed in a mugging, Len believed the government was eliminating the members. To test this theory, Holmes says he'll find the other team members since it is his day off from NYPD work. At the [[11th Precinct]], Watson pleads with Gregson to give Holmes a second chance but he can't forgive that Holmes nearly murdered Moran while working for him and believes Holmes isn't repentant.
-|text=At [[The Brownstone]], Watson enters the living room just as Holmes has finished smashing the bug into pieces with his shoe. She is baffled - why remove the device from Pontecorvo's home and not examine it. Holmes says he already has, and doesn't want whoever is on the other end of the bug listening in. He has already confirmed that the bug is not commercially available, and a programming specialist in London just helped him find spyware on Pontecorvo's laptop. Someone was monitoring Pontecorvo, very likely someone connected to the government.
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-Watson wonders if Pontecorvo really had stumbled onto something sensitive or dangerous. Holmes says ''"Pontecorvo, rest his soul, was one of the laziest thinkers I have ever come across,"'' and most of his ideas are laughable - except one. Holmes props up a binder labeled ''"The Red Team"'', which refers to the annual exercises performed by the U.S. Army's War College. Every year, the results of the exercises are published in the College's journal, but in 2009, when the exercise was designed to test the military's response to a terrorist sleeper cell going active in New York, the results of the exercise and the names of the participants were immediately classified. Nobody knows why, but Len Pontecorvo had developed a theory: the "enemy" players, code-named the "Red Team," created a plan that revealed a gaping hole in national security that, if exploited, could lead to the deaths of thousands of people.
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+|text=Holmes summons Watson to a sanatorium in Queens where he's identified another member of the Red Team, Carlo Anillo. Anillo has early-onset Alzheimer's yet his family has no history of the disease. Holmes believes Anillo was poisoned and his memory destroyed to mimic Alzheimer's. Holmes calls Bell to report his findings but Bell tells him that they have the man who killed Len in custody. At the precinct, Holmes interviews the man, Gary Sullivan, but doesn't believe he's the killer. Gregson pulls Holmes out, and threatens to have him arrested for trespassing if he gets into the interrogation room again. Holmes fumes while staking out Len's house in a parked car with Watson. He understands Gregson's anger but doesn't see the point in an apology and believes that punishing him is detracting from the greater good. The police having left Len's house, Holmes believes whoever planted the bug will arrive to remove any others. He's correct and they follow a phone company van to an office building.
-|text=Alarmed, Watson says that theory is much more plausible than Pontecorvo's others. Holmes says it gets better: according to Pontecorvo's notes, he believed he had identified at least one member of the Red Team, an Army counterinsurgency expert named Martin Nagowski, who died in a mugging last year. Pontecorvo believed the man was murdered, and the government is systematically eliminating the Red Team to protect national security. Watson has more trouble believing that, and Holmes says it should be simple to test the theory: he shall simply identify the other members of the Red Team and check to see that they are alive and well. Watson points to a head of lettuce sitting on a bureau and asks how it fits in. Holmes thanks her for reminding him, and begins shredding the lettuce and dropping it into a drawer, Clyde's new home. He says Clyde will not make a good soup stock until he has been fattened up.
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+|text=Entering the building, they come upon a locked door. Holmes shows the pieces of the bug he took from Len's house to a camera and they are let in. Except for a long table, the office is empty and they are met by a friendly man in a suit, who introduces himself as Bill and asks what they want. Holmes shares his theory about the Red Team and their members but Bill says he has no knowledge of this and has never seen the bug before. He theorizes if the Army wanted to eliminate people, they'd have done it in one shot back in 2009. Leaving the office, Watson believes it was a waste of time but by Bill's reaction to some of the names Holmes said, he's able to deduce which were part of the Red Team. Bell calls with confirmation that Anillo was poisoned and Gregson summons him to the precinct. Later, the police have rounded up the members of the Red Team.
-|text=At the precinct, Watson pleads with Gregson that Holmes feels terrible about what he did, and will say so, if given half the chance. ''"You make it sound as if he borrowed my favorite shirt without asking,"'' Gregson retorts, not that Holmes planned to use his quasi-police authority as a cover to abduct and murder [[Sebastian Moran|a man]]. Moreover, Gregson wagers that, even now, Holmes doesn't feel the tiniest bit sorry about what he planned to do. Watson's phone beeps with a text message from Holmes, and Gregson sarcastically asks if Holmes is sending an apology. Naturally, he is not - instead, he is summoning Watson to a sanitorium in Queens. Holmes says he has identified another member of the Red Team, an ex-military expert named Carlo Anillo. Anillo is now a permanent resident of the sanitorium, having been diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer's Disease. The odd thing, Holmes says, is that Anillo's family has absolutely no history of Alzheimer's. Holmes has a different theory: someone poisoned Anillo with an acid solution that destroyed the memory portions of his brain, leaving him with symptoms virtually indistinguishable from an Alzheimer's patient's. After all, if someone is trying to silence the Red Team, then there are other ways to do so besides killing them. Holmes calls Bell with the clue, but is surprised to hear that Len Pontecorvo's murderer has already confessed, a friend who got into a heated argument with Pontecorvo over the Internet.
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+|text=In a meeting room, Harold Dresden, Sheldon Frost, and Veena Mehta wait while Holmes shows in Lt Col (ret'd) Walter McClenahan who appears very nervous. McClenahan pretends he doesn't know those in the room, but after Holmes introduces everyone, he identifies them as the 2009 Red Team. McClenahan wants to leave but Dresden convinces him to stay. Holmes reveals they are in danger and asks them to provide insights as to who the killer might be. Frost and Mehta want to talk but Dresden reminds them of their secrecy oath. They all leave, but Mehta drops a piece of paper into the wastebasket and looks back. The note says to find their U.S. Army liaison, code-named "Yossarian." That evening, as Holmes browses through journals of the Army War College, he finds a picture of Bill, whose real name is Todd Clarke. He believes Clarke is Yossarian.
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-At the precinct, Holmes interviews the man, Gary Sullivan, who says that he and Pontecorvo agreed that the Apollo moon landings never occurred, but got into a heated dispute over who was responsible for staging them. Gregson enters the interrogation room and pulls Holmes out, demanding to know what he is doing. Holmes says that a few minutes in Sullivan's company is enough to convince anyone that the man is not a mastermind of anything, but that doesn't mean Holmes is wrong about someone else targeting the Red Team. In a falsely hearty voice, Gregson thanks Holmes as a "concerned citizen" for the tip allowing them to arrest Sullivan, then threatens to have Holmes arrested for trespassing if he tricks his way into the interrogation room again.
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+|text=The doorbell rings and two government agents inform Holmes that Colonel Clarke was just murdered and they are taking him for questioning. The agents point out the coincidence of Holmes questioning Clarke and his subsequent death so Holmes tells them what he knows about the Red Team's elimination. Since Clarke was their Army liaison, whatever they discovered, he would know too. Holmes implies they may have killed Clarke which brings a threat of deeper interrogation until Holmes mentions the Brownstone's cameras will prove he was there when Clarke was murdered. Watson meets Holmes after his release and points out the ordeal could have avoided by supplying his alibi earlier. However, Holmes allowed himself to be taken in so that he could determine if the agents knew about the Red Team's killings. Holmes says it's time for the rest of the Red Team to be taken into protective custody.
-|text=In a rental car parked outside Len Pontecorvo's house, Holmes is fuming to Watson about Gregson's attitude. Watson gently suggests that an apology would go a long way towards repairing the rift, but Holmes says such an apology would be false. Holmes doesn't feel sorry about abducting and planning to murder [[Sebastian Moran]], and he understands why Gregson is upset, but, like it or not, the NYPD needs him, and Gregson is only doing the public a disservice by trying to shut him out. Watson gives up the conversation as pointless for the time being, and asks Holmes what they are doing there. Holmes says it is simple: whoever was bugging Len Pontecorvo's apartment would have planted more than one listening device, and now that the police have vacated the crime scene, will be sending someone to retrieve the other devices.
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+|text=After no answer at McClenahan's place, two policemen enter and are hit by a booby-trapped shotgun. Later, Bell and Gregson review the scene, find many weapons and that the shotgun was loaded with rock salt. McClenahan looks to be the prime suspect. Holmes calls Bell and discovers Mehta and Frost are safe so Holmes indicates he's going to Dresden's. Dresden tends to his disabled wife, Sheila, who can barely move or speak. Holmes tells Dresden about the booby-trap and learns that McClenahan was paranoid and a loner. Dresden also says that after Nagowski was killed, McClenahan joked that there was one less person to reveal the plan. Dresden is afraid that McClenahan is planning to sell the Red Team's plan, is killing to drive the price up and provides a place McClenahan might be. Holmes calls Bell to report the info but Bell tells him McClenahan is dead.
-|text=Sure enough, a man wearing a telephone company uniform enters the house and leaves a few minutes later. Holmes and Watson follow the van to an office building, and follow the man in the uniform to a locked door. Instead of knocking, Holmes leans into the eye of the surveillance camera and waggles the plastic bag holding the pieces of the bug he took from Pontecorvo's house. The door opens. In a spartan office suite that screams "U.S. government", Holmes and Watson are met by a man in a suit, who introduces himself as ''"Bill"'' and asks what they want. Holmes shares his theory that someone is targeting the Red Team, and Bill says he has no idea what they are talking about, and has never seen the bug in Holmes's possession before. But he adds that if, hypothetically, the U.S. government was targeting the Red Team, it would certainly have the resources and the firepower to take care of all of them in a single night - why do it in such a piecemeal fashion?
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+|text=While Watson stays behind to help Dresden prepare his wife to move to the police safe location, Holmes meets Bell at the crime scene. McClenahan is lying behind a dumpster in an alley, shot once in the head. Holmes notices that McClenahan was covered with a blanket by the killer, suggesting it was someone who knew him. Holmes realizes who the killer is and says they need to get to the safe location. At a small motel on the outskirts of the city, [[The Detectives#Appearances|Detective Harris]] shows the Dresdens into their room. When Dresden finds the rest of the Red Team have arrived, he knocks Harris out and takes his gun. Dresden exits and seeing Mehta by a vending machine, aims at her but an officer shouts for him to freeze. Dresden runs back into his room with bullets flying by him.
-|text=Walking away, Watson glumly reflects, ''"that was either a total waste of time or I'm going to be audited for the rest of my life."'' Holmes says it wasn't a waste of time at all: during their conversation, Holmes threw out names of the suspected Red Team, and noticed for which names the man in the suit unconsciously clenched his jaw. Now Holmes has the other team members. Reluctantly, Gregson and Bell apprehend the other members - Harold Dresden, Walter McClenahan, Sheldon Frost, and Veena Mehta - and bring them in for questioning. Holmes starts to tell them that they may be in danger, and wants to know who else might know about their plan. Dresden and McClenahan warn the rest that they are all sworn to total secrecy, and walk out. Mehta and Frost do the same, but Mehta drops a piece of paper into the wastebasket, with a significant look at Holmes. On the paper, Mehta has written a note to find their U.S. Army liaison, code-named "Yossarian."
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-That evening, Watson comes home and is upset to see Clyde lying upside down on a pile of Sherlock's papers. As she rights him, Sherlock chides her not to refer to "it" by name, as it will just make it harder for Watson to enjoy the soup. He also says he thinks he has identified "Yossarian," purely by accident. Browsing through the journal of the Army War College, Holmes happened upon a photograph of a Lieutenant Colonel Todd Clarke, who happens to be the ''"Bill"'' they met at the government office. Then the doorbell rings, and Holmes answers it to a man and a woman in nondescript suits, who inform him that Col. Clarke was just shot and killed outside his home, and they are taking Holmes in for questioning.
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+|text=When Holmes arrives, the police have the motel under siege and Dresden is holding Harris hostage. Strangely, he's demanding Mehta and Frost be delivered to him. Holmes tells Gregson that Dresden is on a suicide mission and will kill them. Holmes convinces Gregson to let him see Dresden as he knows how to stop him. Dresden lets Holmes in and reveals that he knows Dresden's plan to kill himself after killing Mehta and Frost. He doesn't know why Dresden waited two years though. Dresden says that after Sheila became sick, he was approached with an offer for the plan in exchange for a cure. He knew it was a lie but he realized that everyone has a price. The only safeguard was killing all the Red Team members. Dresden then thanks Holmes as he plans to shoot him to show the police how serious he is. Calmly, Holmes tells him the plan is known which Dresden doesn't believe. He cocks the gun, points it in Holmes' face and asks him what the plan is.
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-The man and the woman question Holmes, finding it suspicious that he accused Col. Clarke of masterminding a conspiracy to assassinate the Red Team, shortly before he himself was killed. Holmes says he can supply an alibi quite easily, since his home is rigged with surveillance cameras. He then surprises them by asking for their whereabouts, since, if he is not targeting the Red Team, clearly someone is. Watson arrives with videos from the surveillance cameras, confirming that Holmes was home when Clarke died. After Holmes is released, She grouses that he could have avoided the whole ordeal by showing them the videos at the house, but he says that would have defeated the whole purpose: he wanted to interrogate them as much as they wanted to interrogate him, and he has now established that the government knows nothing about who is targeting the Red Team, therefore, they are not behind the recent deaths. Holmes then telephones Gregson, saying it is time for the rest of the Red Team to be taken into protective custody.
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-Two uniformed police officers knock on Walter McClenahan's apartment door. When there is no answer, the superintendent opens the door - which has been booby-trapped with a shotgun.
-A short time later, Gregson arrives, reporting to Bell that, mercifully, the shotgun was loaded with rock salt instead of buckshot, meaning the two uniforms and the super escaped serious injury. McClenahan is nowhere to be found, but Gregson and Bell find a small arsenal in his home. As they talk, Holmes texts urgently, asking Bell if the rest of the Team is safe. Bell doesn't answer, until Holmes texts to say he's found McClenahan. Bell picks up, only for Holmes to say that was a bluff, he just wanted Bell to answer the phone. Holmes informs Bell that he and Watson are on their way to meet Harold Dresden, and not to wait for them. Then he rings off. Bell remarks, ''"probably be a lot easier to fire the guy if we paid him in the first place."''
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+|text=A few minutes later, Holmes emerges with Dresden who surrenders. Harris is safe and Gregson asks Holmes how he did it. Holmes says he deduced the plan when Dresden had the gun to his face. Gregson asks Holmes to meet him at a bar in an hour. At the bar, Holmes apologizes for lying to Gregson but haughtily says the NYPD needs him. Gregson rebukes Holmes' self-centered behaviour but admits he is special and needs him. He'll never trust Holmes again, gives him a gut shot and as Holmes gasps for air, welcomes him back. At the Brownstone, Holmes is sipping from a bowl of soup when Watson enters the kitchen. <small>(♫ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Bugg Jake Bugg - Broken] ♫)</small> She's worried Holmes has cooked Clyde but Holmes places him on the table and expresses his admiration for tortoises. She can't get Holmes to talk about what happened with Gregson and remarks on Holmes' unpredictability.
-|text=At his home, Dresden welcomes Holmes and Watson as he is tending to his wife, Sheila, who is in a wheelchair and unable to speak due to a progressive motor neuron disease. Holmes says that McClenahan is looking likely as a suspect in the recent killings, and asks Dresden if he has any idea where the man could be. Dresden says that McClenahan was paranoid and had few friends, except for Dresden himself. Dresden also confesses that when Martin Nagowski was killed, McClenahan joked - at least, Dresden thought it was a joke - that that made one less person to worry about revealing the plan. Now, Dresden is afraid that McClenahan is planning to sell the Red Team's plan to a hostile power, and has been eliminating anyone else with knowledge of the plan in order to drive the price up. As to his current whereabouts, Dresden mentions that McClenahan bought some land in New Jersey, saying he was planning to build a bunker.
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-Holmes calls Bell with the tip, only for Bell to say that McClenahan's body has been found, and the man has been dead for at least twenty-four hours. While Watson stays behind to help Dresden prepare his wife to moving to a safe location, Holmes meets Bell at the crime scene. McClenahan is lying behind a dumpster in an alley, shot once in the head. Holmes notices something odd: the killer covered McClenahan with a blanket after shooting him, suggesting it was someone who knew him, even liked him. Alarmed, Holmes says that they need to get to the hotel where the rest of the Red Team is being protected, as Holmes believes the killer is already there.
-At a small motel on the outskirts of the city, an NYPD detective shows the Dresdens into their room, mentioning that the department has reserved the whole floor, and they should be safe. Harold asks if the rest of the team members have arrived. When the detective answers yes, Dresden knocks him out and takes his gun.
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-Dresden emerges from his hotel room, sees Veena Mehta at the ice machine on the balcony, and takes aim at her with the detective's gun. Before he can fire, a uniformed cop raises his own gun and tells him to freeze. Mehta screams and runs inside her room, while Dresden ducks back into his. When Holmes arrives, the police have the hotel under siege. Gregson tells Holmes that his warning came just in time to save Mehta, but now Dresden is holding the detective hostage. Instead of demanding safe passage out of the hotel, Dresden has demanded that the surviving Team members - Mehta and Frost - be delivered to him. Holmes realizes that Dresden is not planning to sell the Red Team's plan, since he could hardly kill the other two team members at a hotel surrounded by police and expect to get away. Holmes asks that he be allowed to talk to Dresden. Gregson refuses to put his man's life into a suspended consultant's hands, but Holmes insists that he knows what to say to make Dresden surrender.
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-Holmes enters the motel room, unarmed, and sits at the small table. Holmes has figured out that Dresden is killing the rest of the Red Team to prevent their plan from leaking out, and once Mehta and Frost are dead, he plans to kill himself. What Holmes doesn't understand is why Dresden became so sure the plan would leak. Martin Nagowski, the first victim, wasn't killed until two years after the war game.
-Ruefully, Dresden remembers that Sheila was first diagnosed with her disease two years ago, and since then, Dresden has been unable to do anything except watch her get worse. All the members of the Red Team had been approached before, anonymously, about selling their plan, but Dresden hadn't given it much thought. Then one of these anonymous agents claimed he could help cure Sheila's disease. Dresden knew he was lying, but realized that, if the man had been able to do anything, Dresden would have told everything he knew. He came to realize that everyone has a breaking point, and believed it was only a matter of time before someone found his, or one of the other team member's. So he decided that the only way to safeguard the plan was to kill the Red Team, including himself, plus Clarke - ''"seven lives versus thousands - the math works."''
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-|text=Sardonically, Dresden congratulates Holmes for figuring out his plan, and thanks Holmes for helping him enact it. Having only one hostage, the detective, Dresden had no leverage, but after he shoots Holmes, the police will realize that Dresden is serious, and give in to his demands. Holmes doesn't blink, expressing amazement that Dresden hasn't yet figured out that ''"there really is no such thing as a secret."'' The Red Team's plan is written down in a memo, and it's been emailed back and forth. Any moderately intelligent person could gain access to it, and Holmes himself did so only a few hours after taking the case. Holmes has already sent another memo to an acquaintance - the secret is out, and Dresden will accomplish nothing by killing anyone else. Dresden says that if Holmes is telling the truth, ''"that's checkmate", ''then cocks the gun and demands that Holmes tell him the plan.
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-A few minutes later, Holmes emerges from the hotel room with Dresden, who surrenders. Entering the room, the police report to Gregson that the detective is alive and unharmed. Holmes admits that he didn't know the plan before entering the motel room, he just thought carefully and worked it out from the likely possibilities - ''"Gun to one's head... very powerful stimulus."'' Holmes says that he and Gregson owe each other a conversation. Gregson says he needs to clear up the mess at the hotel, but tells Holmes to meet him later.
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-|text=At a bar, Holmes tells Gregson that he is sorry for lying to Gregson, even if he doesn't regret his actions with respect to Moran. But Holmes says they both know that the NYPD needs him. Gregson angrily says Holmes is missing the point: Gregson has cut Holmes a lot of slack in the past, because of his worth to the department, but Holmes crossed a line and abused Gregson's trust, and Gregson can never trust him completely again. Holmes rejoins that Gregson doesn't need to trust him in order to take advantage of his abilities. Gregson agrees, and also agrees that he needs Holmes on his cases - ''"but I do need to get something out of my system first."'' With that, Gregson slugs Holmes in the gut, leaving him gasping over the bar. ''"Welcome back,"'' Gregson says on his way out the door. At the Brownstone, Holmes is sipping from a bowl of soup when Watson enters the kitchen. She is almost afraid to ask, but Holmes places Clyde, alive and well, on the table, chiding her for thinking he would ever kill such a remarkable creature, and assuring her that Clyde will probably outlive both of them. ''"With you, I can never tell,"'' she admits. She asks him if he is ready to talk about what happened with Gregson, and he shakes his head no.
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 ==Music==
 *''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Bugg Jake Bugg - Broken]'' plays at episode end.
-== Trivia ==
+==Trivia==
 *Len Pontecorvo's pen name, "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Zapruder Zapruder]" is taken from the Zapruder Film, the home video which inadvertently captured U.S. President John F. Kennedy's assassination.
 *Todd Clarke's code name "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yossarian Yossarian]" is a reference to the main character in ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22 Catch-22]''.
 *First appearance of [[Clyde]] the tortoise.
+==Quotes==
+{{quote|These are magnificent creatures. [[Clyde]] will likely outlive both of us. You didn't really think I would eat him, did you?|Holmes to Watson}}
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