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That night, a mysterious female follows the third heir into her apartment, carrying a gun - when the lights come up and a whole host of police officers, led by Gregson and Bell, point their guns at... Yvette Ellison.
 
   
 
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Revision as of 18:09, 22 September 2018

Cast

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Plot

"He was a pain in the ass. But he was also very, very good."
Captain Gregson to Watson
Holmes and Watson attend his first addict group support meeting. She notices that he is staring straight ahead, almost as if asleep. When she taps him on the shoulder, he bolts to his feet and yells "AMYGDALA!" Fortunately, the meeting was wrapping up anyway. As they are walking home, Watson is upset to learn that Holmes hypnotized himself to avoid cluttering his mind with the group's prattle. He uses a glass with water and oil to explain "Attic Theory", that too much useless information will crowd useful data out of his mind. Watson doesn't believe his theory and tell him that she'll be seeing a friend for dinner so Holmes will be alone that evening. Captain Gregson calls Holmes, requesting he attend a murder scene.



S01E02-Holmes attic theory
It's how my brain works.
On the top floor of an apartment building, Gregson shows Holmes the victim, Casey McManus, dead from a single gunshot to the forehead. Holmes meets Detective Bell, who believes that McManus surprised a burglar who shot him and then took his watch and wallet. Holmes examines the scene and deduces that the killer was sitting in McManus' apartment, waiting for him and that the killer is a woman from deodorant he smelt on the chair. Holmes also believes that the robber is a different person who also stole an antique amoire. Gregson and Bell are doubtful, until Watson shows them a photo taken inside the apartment, showing the armoire. Holmes follows the skid marks on the floor to the door of a neighbor who called 911 and is speaking to police. Over the neighbor's protests, Holmes kicks in his door revealing the armoire.



S01E02-First crime scene
This was a robbery & a homicide.
In the box at the 11th Precinct, the neighbor admits to the thefts, but not the murder. Bell is disbelieving, but Holmes forcefully provides evidence the neighbor is being truthful, annoying Gregson. Watson tactfully asks Holmes to get her a bag of chips and once out of the room, Watson asks Gregson about his past acquaintance with Holmes in London. Gregson praises Holmes' abilities but not his behaviour and Watson discovers Holmes lied to Gregson about where he was when he called to ask to work with him in NYC. In the hallway, Bell informs them that the neighbor says he saw a woman on the stairway which Bell believes he made up after overhearing Holmes' theory. Holmes asks for a sketch artist which Gregson approves over Bell's objections. Leaving the station, Watson reminds Holmes about her dinner. Holmes deduces the friend is an ex-boyfriend and advises her to sleep with him to improve her mood.



S01E02-Hallway arguement
He heard Harry Potter here say something...
Watson's dinner with her ex, Ty Morstan, doesn't go well as he expresses worry about her current career and that Watson's parents contacted him with similar concerns. Ty believes that Watson has become a sober companion as penance for the loss of the patient that cost her medical licence. The next morning, Holmes views photos from the coroner's report on Casey McManus. He notices Casey had a rare genetic deficiency, a clouding of the cornea of his eye. Watson asks why Holmes didn't tell Gregson he was in rehab. Holmes believes Gregson wouldn't let a recovering addict work on sensitive cases and threatens to sue Watson if she tells Gregson. They are interrupted by a call from Detective Bell who says he's found the woman the neighbor described for the sketch artist.



S01E02-Ty
You used to be a surgeon. Now you babysit drug addicts.
Holmes and Watson meet Bell outside a hospital and he explains that a uniformed cop recognized the woman in the sketch, Yvette Ellison, from an incident he was involved in. Bell shows them into Yvette's hospital room, where she has been lying in a coma for three days, after a failed suicide attempt. Bell concludes that the neighbor must have lied and states the obvious, that Holmes was mistaken as Yvette couldn't have killed McManus. Bell leaves and Holmes sniffs Yvette's armpit and recognizes the same brand of deodorant as at the crime scene. He looks for a syringe to stab Yvette in the thigh, convinced she must be faking her coma. Watson performs a simpler test that demonstrates the coma is real. They leave just as Yvette's doctor enters.



S01E02-Hospital w Yvette
You think she's faking?
Exiting the hospital, Holmes tells Watson that Yvette has a twin, Rebecca, which he deduced from a book by her bed. They are the surviving children of shipping magnate Charles Ellison. Rebecca administers the family's charitable foundation and both sisters are only days away from receiving their father's vast fortune. They visit the Ellison Foundation and Holmes is taken aback to meet Rebecca, who is Yvette's fraternal, not identical, twin. The two women do not resemble each other closely enough that the neighbor could have mistaken one for the other. That evening, Holmes is practising his lock-picking skills while puzzling over the case. Watson brings him a violin she found in a closet and suggests he play it. Holmes is evasive and when Watson is interrupted by a call from Ty, Holmes sets fire to it. They argue until a call from Gregson beacons them to a murder scene with the same M.O. as the first.



S01E02-Holmes burns violin
I felt like Jimmy Hendrix.
At the scene, Holmes examines the body of Anna Webster. He notices the same deodorant on a chair the shooter used, and medication for the same condition Casey McManus had. Holmes realizes that Webster and McManus are related and the time of death rules out McManus' neighbor as the killer. The next day at the precinct, Gregson reports that DNA tests confirm that McManus and Webster were half-siblings both born out of wedlock. Their mother is deceased but Webster reported to police that a man was following her who, from a picture she provided, Gregson recognizes as a law firm investigator named Michael McGee. They visit McGee but despite Gregson's relationship with him when they were on the force together, McGee won't provide details why he was following Webster. Holmes pulls McGee aside and threatens to expose his meth usage (which Holmes has deduced) unless he co-operates. McGee leaves the file on Webster on his desk for them to peruse and then leaves.



S01E02-Second crime scene
Captain, the link is quite discernible.
At Rebecca Ellison's office, Gregson, Bell, Holmes and Watson ask Rebecca why she hired attorneys to investigate Casey McManus and Anna Webster who they know were her father's illegitimate children and could have shared in his estate. Rebecca admits to the investigation but only to discover what kind of people they were. However, her sister Yvette became depressed and attempted suicide, resulting in her coma. Holmes thinks Rebecca is lying and used the investigators to learn personal details and kill them which results in a slap to his face. Returning home, Watson is surprised to see Ty standing outside their door, with a bottle of wine. Holmes is meddling in her life and has invited Ty to a supposed party. Watson walks an angry Ty away and then turns on Holmes. He proposes that they stay out of each other's personal lives. Gregson calls and reports that camera footage confirms Rebecca was at home when the murders occurred.



S01E02-Ty and Watson
Tell your friend he's lucky I didn't slug him.
Attending another group support meeting, Watson forces Holmes to pay attention. An addict named Elaine tells her story which sparks a breakthrough on the case with Holmes. He leaves the meeting over Watson's objections and finally she threatens him unless he trusts her with the breakthrough to which Holmes sighs assent. Holmes bursts into Yvette Ellison's hospital room, where Rebecca is reading to her. He causes a scene, saying he knows how she committed the murders and he gives details about an unknown third heir. A crowd gathers including Yvette's doctor until Holmes pushes Detective Bell who places him under arrest and carts him out. That evening, a woman carrying a gun breaks into a home and targets another woman until the lights are turned on to reveal Gregson, Bell, several officers and, Yvette Ellison.



S01E02-The ruse
Daddy's third bastard. I figured out who she is.

At the precinct, Rebecca stares in confusion at her sister, who is being held in custody. Watson explains that Yvette's coma was drug-induced by her doctor, who put her under and brought her out of it, as needed.

Holmes explains that, during the group meeting, he heard the story of a woman who seduced her doctor for the sake of his medical expertise, and realized that Yvette had done the same thing to her doctor, who helped her stage her suicide attempt and place her in a coma, to give her an airtight alibi for killing the two unwanted claimants to their father's fortune. It was not a perfect plan: being in a drug-induced coma left Yvette quite weak, which is why she had to sit down while lying in wait for McManus and Webster.

Holmes realized that, while Rebecca, who had a big heart, wanted to welcome their previously-unknown siblings into their lives and share the family fortune with them, Yvette wanted the exact opposite.

Rebecca asks about the third heir, the one Yvette just tried to kill, and Holmes confesses that he made her up. He staged the scene at the hospital, with Watson, Gregson and Bell's help, to set a trap for Yvette and her doctor lover. Not only did Holmes blurt out the name and address of the fictional third heir in front of the doctor, but he made it appear as if he - the only person intent on guarding the third heir's apartment - would be in jail for the evening, giving Yvette and her doctor a very small, very crucial window of opportunity. The woman that Yvette followed to her home is actually a police officer.

Rebecca begins to say that she needs to contact her family's attorneys and get Yvette some professional help, because, whatever crimes she has committed, they are still sisters. Holmes gingerly poses the question: why didn't Yvette "miraculously" wake up from her coma after eliminating the two pretermitted heirs? What else did she need an alibi for? Who else might she have been planning to kill? Could it be, Holmes wonders aloud, her own sister, the only other person standing between Yvette and the entirety of the family fortune?

Shocked, Rebecca looks through the glass at her sister, and gets a look of chilling indifference in reply. "You mind that big heart, Miss Ellison," Holmes advises, "it'll beat longer."

As Holmes and Watson are heading out, Gregson and Bell meet them, and Gregson invites them out for drinks at a local pub. Holmes is surprised by the offer, but declines politely.

That evening, Holmes and Watson sit down to a takeout dinner. With prodding, Holmes admits that listening at the support meeting helped him to solve the case. Watson asks Holmes if the reason he closes himself off to feelings and pleasurable experiences is not because it makes him a better detective, but as some form of penance? Holmes asks, penance for what? Watson says, for whatever happened in London that led to his drug addiction, not to mention the addiction itself. Watson supposes that someone may punish or deny himself (or herself) as a form of penance, maybe without even realizing it. Sadly, Holmes replies, "You always know it, Watson. If you didn't, it wouldn't be penance."

That evening, Watson is reading in bed, while Holmes sits in an easy chair, staring at his violin in its case, on his lap. In her room, Watson hears the violin being tuned and then tentatively played, and smiles.

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Trivia

  • The amygdalae (singular "amygdala") are a pair of nuclei in the brain, responsible for, among other things, memory function and decision-making.
  • Holmes's "attic theory" was first pronounced by the original Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet, when John Watson expresses surprise that Holmes has an encyclopedic knowledge of many subjects, yet remains ignorant of several fundamental facts, such as Copernican theory (i.e., the fact that the Earth revolves around the sun).
  • Ty Morstan's last name refers to Mary Morstan, Dr. John Watson's wife in the original Holmes canon.
  • Detective Marcus Bell debuts in this episode.
  • Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes also played the violin while thinking.
  • When Holmes tries to burn his violin, he facetiously compares himself to Jimi Hendrix, a rock performer who famously set his guitar on fire, while on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.
  • A similar premise was used in the episode "Mr. Monk and the Sleeping Suspect" of the USA mystery series Monk, in which the person with the clearest motive for murdering the victims has been lying in a coma for six months.

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