Cast
Main cast
Featured cast
Plot
| "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
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| As Watson enters the library in The Brownstone, she finds Holmes putting out the "sex blanket" for a house guest, Agatha Spurrell. An esteemed climatologist who Holmes has used as an "Irregular" and a paramour, he offers to put Watson up at an expensive hotel while Agatha visits and gives a speech at a conference. Galen Barrow, a ride-share driver for the company Zooss, pulls his car out of a garage and idles curbside while reviewing the fares. (♫ Modest Mouse - Lampshades On Fire ♫) He's rear-ended and exiting his car to check the damage, the car that hit his car runs him over. The next morning at the Brownstone, Holmes makes breakfast for Agatha and is called away by Detective Bell. However, before he leaves, Agatha says she'd like to discuss something with him.
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| Holmes arrives at Barrow's crime scene to find the car and body already removed. Watson tells him Barrow's car appeared to be hit by a yellow taxi. Smelling a stain on the ground, Holmes indicates that it's vomit that is mainly gin and he saw an empty bottle around the corner. Watson and Bell check out a lead on a yellow cab with front end damage but discover it doesn't fit the crime scene damage. At the 11th Precinct garage, Holmes has deduced from a metal bumper strip left on Galen's car that he was hit by a specific car model that is a retired taxi and that the killing was made to appear to be the work of an angry cabbie. At the Brownstone, Watson meets Agatha and finds Holmes avoiding her by working in the basement. Holmes reports that Barrow was an internet journalist by trade and began working for Zooss recently. Watson presses Holmes as to why he's hiding from Agatha and he reveals that she asked if he'd impregnate her.
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| Called to the precinct by Bell, they question Gordon Meadows, a registered sex offender. Police found he bought the car used in the killing and after telling him about the gin bottle, he confesses to hitting Barrow but says he was blackmailed. After watching a schoolyard, he received anonymous texts with photos of him at the school and instructions how to kill Barrow, else the texter threatened to report his parole violation. Now seeking the texter, Holmes and Watson question Barrow's internet journalism employer, Lydia Guerrero. Claiming to know little of Barrow's personal life, she relates that his work was mainly puff pieces that wouldn't have resulted in motives for murder. Reviewing Barrow's work at the Brownstone, Watson finds he did an article on a fashion designer, Bobby Alacqua, who had an employee at his shop arrested for dealing cocaine. Distracted by Agatha's request, Holmes asks Watson to question Alacqua while he sees Agatha.
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| Alacqua tells Watson that Barrow never met his former employee who was convicted of dealing cocaine as he met him uptown near his apartment. Realizing this isn't the location of Barrow's apartment, but is that of Lydia Guerrero, she's brought to the precinct where she admits she was having an affair with Barrow. She was also blackmailed by an anonymous texter whose wording patterns match those of Gordon Meadows' blackmailer. Barrow knew about the blackmailing and against Lydia's advice, insisted on discovering who the blackmailer was. Looking at Lydia's phone, Holmes finds that both she and Meadows had the Zooss app installed on their phones.
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Music
- Modest Mouse - Lampshades On Fire plays in Galen's car as he is rear-ended.
- Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors - Live Forever plays as Holmes tells Agatha why he won't impregnate her.
Trivia
- Holmes mentions that Agatha helped him with a case that involved the Splügen Pass. This pass is mentioned in Conan Doyle's story The Adventure of the Illustrious Client.
Quotes
She's asked for a donation...to her uterus.
— Holmes about Agatha
Gallery
| Elementary Season Three Episodes | ||
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| Enough Nemesis To Go Around • The Five Orange Pipz • Just a Regular Irregular • Bella • Rip Off • Terra Pericolosa • The Adventure of the Nutmeg Concoction • End of Watch • The Eternity Injection • Seed Money • The Illustrious Client • The One That Got Away • Hemlock • The Female of the Species • When Your Number's Up • For All You Know • T-Bone and the Iceman • The View From Olympus • One Watson, One Holmes • A Stitch in Time • Under My Skin • The Best Way Out Is Always Through • Absconded • A Controlled Descent
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