- Title: Elementary – Heroine
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“You look at people and you see puzzles. I see games. You’re a game I’ll win every time.”
After revealing herself to Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller), and saving his life, Moriarty (Natalie Dormer) promises to continue hurting the detective should he further interfere with any more of her plans. With Watson (Lucy Liu) and Gregson’s (Aidan Quinn) help, Holmes, still reeling from being shot and discovering The Woman is actually his arch nemesis, returns to the case he was investigating before being contacted by Moriarty – the scheme to take over a historic speakeasy and the downfall of the heads of a security firm for murder.
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- Title: Elementary – The Woman
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In the first-half of the show’s First Season finale, the discovery that Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) is still alive and worse the wear from years psychological torture while being held against her will, offers flashbacks beginning two years ago in London with the consulting’s first meeting with “The Woman” while investigating a forgery case. Blaming both himself and Moriarty for Irene’s condition, feeling the need to take care of her, and facing a tremendous blow to his ego that he never suspected Irene was still alive, Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) refuses to investigate the case leaving Watson (Lucy Liu) to fear for her friend while working the case with Captain Gregson (Aidan Quinn) and Detective Bell (Jon Michael Hill) without her mentor.
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- Title: Elementary – Risk Management
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“Consider me a spider. I sit motionless at the center of my web. That web has a thousand radiations and I know well every quiver of each of them. I do little myself. I only plan, but my agents are numerous and splendidly organized.”
After being contacted by a man claiming to be the ever elusive Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) agrees to investigate a unsolved case the voice on the other end of the phone brings to his attention concerning a man stabbed and robbed in Brooklyn several months ago. Despite Watson’s (Lucy Liu) legitimate concerns, Holmes agrees to investigate, hoping the case will reveal a connection between the murder victim and Moriarty’s organization and get him one step closer to the man he suspects murdered Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer).
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- Title: Elementary – A Landmark Story
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“The thing that’s different about me, empirically speaking, is you.”
Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) heads to prison to talk with Sebastian Moran (Vinnie Jones) who informs the consulting detective that an apparent heart attack victim who was targeted by Moriarty and most certainly did not die of natural causes. To check the murderer’s assertions, Holmes and Watson (Lucy Liu) break into a funeral home “in the middle of the night to perform an illicit autopsy” which proves at least part of Moran’s story is true. Believing the man’s murder had something to do with his vote on renovating a historical speakeasy, Holmes and Watson head over to talk with the contractor of the project who met with his own apparently accidental death via falling air conditioner that very morning. The game is definitely afoot.
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- Title: Elementary – Dead Man’s Switch
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As Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) nears a full year of sobriety, he and Watson (Lucy Liu) search for the accomplice of a murdered blackmailer (David Mogentale) who specialized in targeting the families of rape victims including a friend (Thomas Jay Ryan) of Alfredo (Ato Essandoh). Holmes gets Captain Gregson (Aidan Quinn) to agree to keep the murder under wraps giving the consulting detective a small window of time before the man’s accomplice learns of the murder and does something rash like publishing the video of the rape of Eva (Portia Reiners), along with those of other girls, online as a form of reprisal.
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- Title: Elementary – Snow Angels
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“Who’s driving you around?”
“Pam.”
On the eve of a brutal Northeast snow storm Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Watson (Lucy Liu) are called in to consult on what initially appears to be nothing more than a straightforward robbery and homicide. However, when Holmes discovers the thieves threw away all the brand new cell phones hours after killing a guard for them he begins to suspect the case may have more to hold his interest than he initially believed. Returning to the building, Holmes and Watson perform a more thorough investigation only to discover the thieves true robbery wasn’t the phones but blueprints in an architectural firm twelve flights up.
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- Title: Elementary – Deja Vu All Over Again
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Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) finds himself forced into taking a case involving the assistant (Geneva Carr) of one of his father’s lawyers who fears that her missing sister (Victoria Cartagena) may have been killed. Showing no interest in the case, Holmes hands it off to Watson (Lucy Liu) to solve on her own. Meanwhile, Holmes begins his own investigation into the murder of a young woman (Roxanna Hope) pushed in front of a subway train around the same time six months ago.
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- Title: Elementary – Possibility Two
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“A good detective knows that every task, every interaction, no matter how seemingly banal, has the potential to contain multitudes. I live my life alert to this possibility; I expect my colleagues to do the same.”
After making short work of the latest double homicide brought to him from Detective Bell (Jon Michael Hill), Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) is offered employment by a philanthropist (Dennis Boutsikaris) who wants Holmes’ to find the murderer he believes gave him the incurable illness which is slowly destroying his mind before eventually killing him. After initially turning down the potential client, Holmes has second thoughts when the police arrest the man for the murder of his driver (Steven Hauck).
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- Title: Elementary – Details
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“I am better with you, Watson.”
To Watson’s (Lucy Liu) increased consternation Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) has become obsessed with improving the good doctor’s self-defense following the altercation last week which nearly got her killed through setting up martial arts appointments for Watson and staging “guerrilla-style tests” of her ability to fight back. Meanwhile, the detective is called in to consult on a drive-by shooting whose intended target was Detective Bell (Jon Michael Hill).
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- Title: Elementary – A Giant Gun, Filled with Drugs
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“I believe in Sherlock Holmes.”
Watson’s (Lucy Liu) job of keeping Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) sober gets infinitely harder when the detective is hired by his old drug dealer (John Hannah) whose daughter (Allie Gallerani) has been kidnapped. In two days time the kidnappers demand $2.2 million, which is the exact amount Holmes’ old friend stole from his Dominican suppliers in 2011 before disappearing and starting a new life in Thailand. The situation isn’t helped by the the fact that the man spent almost all the money of the past 18 months or the dealer’s assertion that Holmes was a much better detective when he was using narcotics.
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