- Two heirs of a fortune are murder suspects, but one sister has an undeniable alibi and the other is a coma patient. Holmes is baffled as to how a coma patient could be the killer until another addict in his support group gives him an idea.
- Holmes is brought in on a case and very quickly deducts who the offender is. When the police go to make an arrest they discover Holmes could not possibly be right. Holmes obsessed with his own ability sets out to prove the police are wrong.—glenchapman@ruraltel.net
- A thieving neighbor of a murder victim witnessed a female leaving the victim's apartment. When a sketch of the woman begins circulation, a cop identifies her - as a woman who has been in a coma for several days. Although he discovers she has a twin, Holmes is disconcerted to find her twin does not resemble her. A second, similar murder reveals a genetic link between the victims, and another lead goes right back to the twins.—KGF Vissers
- "Elementary" - "While You Were Sleeping" - Oct. 4, 2012
Holmes and Watson are at an AA-type meeting with a man sharing. When Watson notices Holmes zoned out she touches his shoulder and he jumps up shouting "Amygdala!"
Turns out he's not into the whole 12 step thing, or really anything crowding his brain he doesn't deem "necessary" information so he puts himself in a trance when confronted with the unnecessary. He does this by internally chanting a mantra: amygdala.
They get a call from Gregson and head to the crime scene. A man has been shot in the head in an apartment building. He's a cop's brother so they have their best people on it including a young detective named Bell. They believe it was a robbery homicide. But with a few quick glances Holmes deduces it was a robbery AND a homicide committed by two different people.
He figures the robbery was done by a strong man because he notices a piece of furniture missing. He pins it quickly on the neighbor who called 911. The shooter on the other hand is still unknown but Holmes, after sniffing the chair where the shot originated, realizes it was a woman based on the remnant fragrances of her deodorant.
Back at the precinct house Bell is trying to get the neighbor to cop to the murder but he won't. And of course it's because he isn't the shooter as Holmes points out again to Gregson. He gets heated and Watson sends him to get some chips. She asks Gregson if he was like this before in London. Gregson says he was a pain in the ass but really good. He also notes that Holmes called him recently to get back to work, saying he was calling from Heathrow. Watson notes this.
Bell joins them and Holmes argues that a sketch artist should be brought in since the neighbor says he passed a woman on the stairs. Bell protests saying the neighbor overheard "Harry Potter" (Holmes) mention a woman and made it up. Gregson asks for one anyway saying Holmes might be wrong but he wants to check it out.
On their way out Watson says she's meeting a friend and Holmes deduces it's a male friend that is probably an ex that she might sleep with. He tells her she should since it will improve her mood.
Turns out Holmes was right as Watson meets with her ex, Ty, an assistant district attorney. He misses her and worries about her babysitting drug addicts and says if she's doing it as penance for losing a patient, she shouldn't. She says she does it because she's good at it. He notes her parents have reached out said she isn't returning their calls. She says she doesn't want to be lectured all the time.
The next morning Holmes notices on the autopsy that the dead guy had a special genetic condition that clouded his cornea. Watson wonders why it's relevant and Holmes says why not?
Bell calls them to a hospital. He has found the woman from the sketch. Unfortunately, she's been in a coma for three days having tried to commit suicide so she couldn't have killed the dead guy. Bell thanks Holmes for his help and says he'll take it from here.
Watson and Holmes stay behind to make sure the woman isn't faking. She isn't. But Holmes deduces that she has a twin thanks to the inscription on a book by her bed. They track down the twin but it's a dead end because she's fraternal.
Later at home, as Holmes practices lock picking, Watson unearths an old violin and encourages him to play as a form of therapy. He doesn't want to. She gets a call from Ty. As she answers, Holmes puts the violin in a trash can and sets it on fire. Watson, alarmed, throws a blanket over it but her ex is confused.
Holmes gets a call from Gregson and they head to another scene. A woman shot in the head with the same gun, by a seated shooter wearing the same deodorant. They also notice she has the same genetic corneal issue. Through DNA they figure out the first dead guy and the woman were half siblings with the same father. They didn't know each other and their families didn't know about them. Their mothers are dead and the families aren't helping.
Holmes, Watson, Bell and Gregson run down an investigator who was following the girl. Turns out Gregson knows him from their old days in the department. He says he can't tell them anything because it's to do with a case. Holmes pulls the guy out of the room and says he can tell he's been taking methamphetamines to stay awake and that his stash is nearby so unless he wants to get busted by the police he better help. The guy decides to simple "leave this file" on his desk and go to the bathroom.
Holmes and the gang head back to the fraternal twin who hired the detectives to investigate the victims. Turns out the victims were sired out of wedlock by the twins' dad and stood to inherit a fortune. Holmes theorizes the sisters had them investigated to figure out how to kill them. The woman says they only wanted to find out what kind of people they were, but before she and her sister could decide what to do her sister tried to commit suicide. Holmes implies that she tried to kill her sister to get even more of the inheritance. She slaps him and says she'd never hurt her sister. Bell and Gregson take her away but Holmes asks one more question: why go to all the trouble of dressing up like her sister, wig, deodorant, make-up to commit the crimes? She says he's insane.
They return to the brownstone and find Ty waiting for them with a bottle of wine in hand. He says Watson emailed him to come to the house for a dinner party. She shoos him off. Holmes hacked her email. He throws back in her face what she said about opening up to each other. He tells her smirkingly they don't have to be friends, they just have to get through the next five weeks and go their separate ways.
Watson drags Holmes to another meeting. But this time he listens, and as a woman shares about having an affair with a married doctor and using him to get drugs, Holmes has an epiphany. He charges out and Watson wants to know what's up. He says there isn't time. She says maybe they won't be friends but they need to trust each other so he has to let her in a bit.
They go to coma twin's hospital room and the other twin is reading to her. Holmes calls the awake twin a murderer and claims there is a third half sibling she didn't know about but that he will be protecting her himself at the address that he gives with her name. He then shoves Bell, who arrests him.
At the address Holmes gave, a woman is returning home. Someone else follows behind her into the house. As she's about to attack the police swoop in. It was all a trap of course. But the twist is that
it's coma sister holding the gun.
At the precinct Holmes explains that he realized coma sister enlisted her doctor for help. When they learned of the other heirs and her sister wanted to share, the doctor and coma sister came up with this elaborate plan: suicide attempt, coma to cover their tracks. He kept her in a medically induced coma when he wasn't around to fool everyone and woke her up to commit the murders. Awake sister wants to help coma sister even though she's a murderer. Holmes points out an important detail: why was coma sister still in a coma? She had killed all the heirs they knew about. Ah; that's right, she was going to kill her own sister. Oh, snap.
Case closed, Bell offers sincere thanks and Gregson invites Holmes and Watson for a drink. He takes a raincheck.
Back at the brownstone, over take out, Watson points out that Holmes listening in the meeting actually helped crack the case. He grudgingly thanks her. She asks if he ever thinks what he's doing is a form of penance without even knowing it. He says you have to know it, otherwise it isn't penance.
Later that night, while Watson is in bed upstairs, Holmes unearths another violin and begins to play.
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