You've Come a Long Way, Baby

"You've Come a Long Way, Baby"
Season 6
Season 6
Episode 11
Episode 11
Directed by	Guy Ferland
Written by	Bob Goodman
Aired	July 16, 2018
Viewers (millions)	3.35
Episode guide
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Cast

Main cast

Jonny Lee Milleras Sherlock Holmes

Lucy Liuas Joan Watson

Aidan Quinnas Tommy Gregson

Jon Michael Hillas Marcus Bell

Featured cast

John Nobleas Morland Holmes

Jim Nortonas Sir James Walter

Tom Hewittas Aldo Ventura

Roger Bartas Kip Lowell

Phil McGlastonas Lowell's VP

Pej Vahdatas Tim Darsha / Agent Bakshi

John Hortonas The Nose

Shawn Andrewas CSU Commander

Jason Manuel Olazabalas Agent Nick Evaneer

Twinkle Burkeas Maggie Foltz

Wrenn Schmidtas Cashier / Ellory

C.J. Wilsonas Prashant Hobbs

Plot

"When the time comes, if it comes, the problem of Moriarty will be mine and mine alone." — Sherlock to Morland

Watson is called to the murder scene of Gilbert Pham by Detective Bell. A VP at a large accounting firm, Bell believes the scene has been staged to look like a home invasion. Watson notices signs that Pham was tied to a chair and believes he was tortured and, that his computer should be examined. At The Brownstone, Sherlock and Morland continue to discuss Morland being targeted by the assassin Vanja Borozan. Somewhat skeptical that Moriarty hired Borozan, Sherlock indicates he'll have to verify she's escaped. Morland understands and asks Sherlock to help him kill her. Sherlock meets the deputy chief of MI6, Sir James Walter who gives him all the items found on Borozan and in his hotel room before he committed suicide. Bell interrupts a celebration of a merger between two tobacco companies to inform the executives that Pham may have approved the merger under duress.

I hoped I would never have to make this request.

Questioning the four executives involved in the merger, they all confirm that the deal is good for both companies and all of them were in Ohio when Pham was killed. Kip Lowell, the president of Summit-Stow, appears to Sherlock to be looking for approval of his statements from a sales manager, Tim Darsha, which he denies. While Pham's accounting report is looked at in more detail, Sherlock believes Darsha is hiding something. At the 11th Precinct, Bell tells Watson that Pham's work checked out and that he was so thorough that it included the amount of cigarette cases moving through Summit-Stows' loading docks. More cigarettes were moving through the docks than the company records indicated and the surplus may have been smuggled to other states where cigarette prices are higher. Bell has obtained sample cartons of cigarettes being smuggled into NYC and they theorize that Pham was killed to prevent revealing the smuggling. Watson takes the sample cartons as she has a way to find out where they came from.

We don’t take alibis at people’s word.

At the Brownstone, Sherlock finds The Nose smelling the sample cartons. Miffed that Watson has asked for The Nose's help over his, he also tells Watson that Moriarty hired Borozan to kill Morland and found a clue to her whereabouts in Borozan's possessions. The Nose reports his findings from which Watson is able to find where the smugglers are bringing the cigarettes into NYC. Bell and an CSU team surround the location, a craft brewery, and are about to move in when Bell is called by Gregson and told to cancel the operation. Tim Darsha, who is really an ATF agent named Bakshi, is behind the smuggling which is a sting operation. At the precinct, Bakshi and Agent Evaneer explain they've been undercover for three years with Lowell's knowledge. Using Summit-Stow, they've sold to many smuggling operations in order to take them down. The merger was a surprise to them and saying they are paid on performance so have no motive to kill to protect the sting, they also believe Lowell has no motive to kill.

If you don’t mind, a little quiet, please?

Bell and Watson question Lowell in his hotel room where he indicates that he told Pham about the ATF sting operation. Lowell's office manager, Maggie Foltz, is present and opening her laptop, Watson notices her wallpaper is her with two English bulldogs. Lowell indicates that he and Foltz showed Pham in detail the cigarettes being loaded for the sting and those for the company's business, but didn't tell the ATF about the disclosure to Pham. Watching loading dock videos on Foltz's laptop, Bell notices the two ATF agents are driving very expensive cars. He asks where the money from the smuggling sting goes which Lowell doesn't know. Sherlock enters a café, which he saw Borozan bought coffee, from and sees a painting which he recognizes was made by Moriarty. He smashes a jar and asks the sales clerk to tell Moriarty that he wants to talk. At the Brownstone, Sherlock watches the loading dock videos and Watson informs him that the ATF agents have collected $30M which is totally unsupervised and they are spending, giving them motive to kill Pham.

So Pham asked you about the extra inventory?

Trivia

• The box of Concierge cigarettes Watson holds at 10:55 changes orientation between shots. Also, the cigarettes on the tray The Nose is smelling keep changing orientation from lined up to crooked between shots from 11:20 to 12:00.

Quotes

Moriarty intends to kill me. I need your help to kill her first.

— Morland

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