Showing posts with label season 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label season 2. Show all posts

Monday, February 17, 2014

'Elementary' GifTweetCap: An Abundance of Asshattery

All of the following gifs are available on this Tumblr post. "Corpse de Ballet" is a somewhat gruesome "Elementary" episode, but that is not such a big surprise for this show. What was a very nice surprise was the fact that we got to delve a little deeper into Watson's (Lucy Liu) past. The episode is also filled with asshats, to an almost amusing degree.

The episode begins with a coitus sign on Sherlock's (Jonny Lee Miller) door. Watson offers Sherlock's latest conquest some coffee before she takes off. Sherlock then claims that sleeping with women from all walks of life -- such as the pastor who just left -- is a form of research.
Later, we see a few snooty ballerinas dancing around, until they hear a loud noise. Nell, one of their fellow dancers, has been cut in half!
The perp took the security footage of the crime, and there is very little blood. Her throat was slit first, with a box-cutter. Ballerinas use the box-cutters on their shoes, and the one used to kill Nell belonged to Iris (Aleksa Palladino), the bitchiest ballerina in the troupe.
Sherlock is quite smitten with Iris, despite her diva behavior -- Watson goes so far as to call him a ballerina fanboy. Gregson (Aidan Quinn) and Bell (Jon Michael Hill) don't care what Sherlock thinks of Iris, however. When she steps out of line with them, and even threatens them, they arrest her.
Her lawyer gets her out on bail quickly, and her first stop is... Sherlock's place!
Sherlock explains that he slept with Iris in order to learn about her arm, and whether she was capable of committing the crime. He believes she is not, because of an injury to her arm.
Sherlock and Watson learn that paparazzo Jake Picardo (Bill Sage) was stalking Iris until she broke his camera. Nolan (Scott Cohen), Iris' lawyer, accused him of using drugs, and he lost his job. He then decides it's a great idea to prove that he's great at basically stalking women by secretly recording Watson. Watson seriously considers violence.
Later, with his lawyer present, the pervy paparazzo hands them proof that he was much too busy being a perv to have committed the murder. He was actually installing hidden cameras at Nell's apartment so he could catch Nell and Iris in bed together.
It turns out that Nell and Iris were having an affair, but Iris only did it to manipulate Nell into giving her the lead role. When Nell realized that fact, she broke it off. The only problem was that Iris had actually fallen for her fellow ballerina, so she left her a voicemail telling her how unhappy she was about the split.
The voicemail is leaked to the media, and Sherlock looks into the ambient sound on the recording, which leads back to Nolan. He has a unique door opener, which reveals that he had secretly recorded the voicemail from his office.
Nell had retained Nolan as her own lawyer, and he quickly learned that Nell and Iris had been together. In his disturbingly sick mind, he realized that he could create a media sensation by setting Iris up for Nell's murder. A warrant turns up the stolen surveillance video, which shows a masked man of the same height and build as Nolan. He had saved it in order to get Iris off the hook after serving as her lawyer on the case through a long celebrity trial.
The subplot involves Morris (Curtis L. McClarin), a homeless guy who is off his meds. He seems to think that his homeless buddy "Frebo" (as in, Zeke Frebo) has been kidnapped, but the meanie cops won't listen. They just think he's nuts, but Watson sympathizes.
We then learn that Watson is invested in helping the homeless because her birth father is homeless. She began volunteering so she could see him, but he refused to get help or take medication. She hasn't seen him for about two years.
Watson visits Frebo's sister (Jennifer Laura Thompson), who seems very distressed about her missing brother. But when Watson visits with Morris after he has taken his medication and is now lucid, he says that Frebo was forced into a van. Worse yet, a photo he has of Frebo with his family reveals that the woman Watson met with is not Frebo's sister.
Watson returns to the "sister's" home, this time with cops in tow. Frebo's fake sister and her husband (Dan Cooney) seem very upset that they have to stop stealing veteran's benefits... and set the homeless veterans free from their dungeon... and go to prison. Such is life when you decide to be a horrible, sick, disgusting excuse for a human being.
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Thursday, February 6, 2014

'Elementary' GifTweetCap: Sherlock and Watson 'Drill Down' on a Case

"Dead Clade Walking" is the Scooby-Doo episode of Elementary. The best part of the episode is the tiny dinosaur, but there is also a nice bit of character development involving Sherlock's (Jonny Lee Miller) sponsorship work.
The episode starts off with Sherlock attempting to drill into a skull. He is interrupted by a text message from Randy (Stephen Tyrone Williams), the drug addict he is sponsoring.
On the way out, he meets Gay (Ashlie Atkinson).
Before Sherlock leaves, Watson (Lucy Liu) tells him about a case file she had been checking out. The file is from the time when Sherlock was continuously high, and it is therefore incomprehensible. Watson makes out enough of it to know that there is a rock she should be checking out in the backyard of a murder victim named Doug.
Watson takes Gay, a geologist, to check it out while Sherlock meets with Randy. The rock contains a Nanotyrannus dinosaur fossil.
Meanwhile, Randy is having trouble because his drug addict girlfriend wants to see him. Sherlock knows the girlfriend will drag Randy down, but Randy has trouble believing it. Consequently, he texts Sherlock numerous times throughout the day while he's trying to work.
Watson does much of the work on her own while Sherlock is off helping Randy. She finds that there may be a smuggling ring involving ice cream trucks. During a stakeout with Gregson (Aidan Quinn), they witness a deal going down in which a great deal of money changes hands for "winter ice cream." It's actually payment for illegal cigars.
The smuggler seems confused. He confesses to delivering the rock, but not his buddy Doug. Later, the rock is stolen out of evidence.
Sherlock believes that C, his dirty-talkin elderly pen-pal, can help with the case, as she's an executive at a top auction house. She says that someone who goes by the nickname Magpie could have something to do with it, but she has no way of contacting him. You have to own something the Magpie wants, and then he finds you.
In order for the Magpie to take notice, Sherlock creates a fake priceless thesis from 1895 in order to get his foot in the door.
Once again, Sherlock is interrupted while trying to drill into the skull. He meets with Randy again, and finally tells him that, if he wants to be sober, he will have to stay away from his girlfriend. He's stern, but let's Randy know that it's for his own good. It's not enough: Randy skips out.
Meanwhile, they finally hear from a buyer who sounds like the Magpie. When they go to meet with him, they find him dead, and the fossil rock smashed to pieces.
You can find most of the images below on this Tumblr post. I know this is way late, but I've had the gifs since last week, so I wanted to share them. Plus, it's worth reading just for the funny tweets! The DNA of a man named Donnelly (Joel Hatch) is found at the scene of the murder, but he is in a wheelchair. Doug's fossil would have disproven a lifetime of Donnelly's work, but he wasn't the murderer. Sherlock is spread too thin, and stuck on the case, so he decides to try a novel approach to gaining some enlightenment: he eats part of the Magpie case file.
Watson offers a small bit of insight, and Sherlock runs with it. Jerome Thomas (Jonno Roberts), a man who collaborated on a book with Donnelly, is just as opposed to Doug's work. He also has a penchant for faking fossils in order to further his career. But when Sherlock mentions that he left DNA at Doug's murder, he confesses.
Later, Sherlock makes a third attempt at drilling into the skull, when Watson interrupts him.
Watson enters with a gift: the remains of the Nanotyrranus fossil. Sherlock thanks Watson for ensuring that the case got solved, and jokingly offers to repay her by removing disturbing thoughts from her brain with his drill.
The episode closes with a visit from Randy. Randy went back to his girlfriend and relapsed. Well, at least now he knows that Sherlock speaks the truth about how to stay sober.
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Saturday, January 4, 2014

'Elementary' GifTweetCap: Moriarty is 'The Diabolical Kind'

Moriarty returns for the Elementary episode "The Diabolical Kind"! The title fits, as Moriarty proves just how diabolical she can be.
A small group of people in scary-looking night vision goggles and black clothing break into a home, kill a husband and father, then kidnap his daughter. Poor girl is terrified!
Meanwhile, Sherlock pulls out letters from Moriarty he has hidden with his bees. He's still writing to her!

Later, when Sherlock and Watson arrive at the scene of the murder-kidnapping, they find that the family had a state of the art security system. The kidnappers call the mother with their demand for $50 million, but Sherlock recognizes the voice as the man who had pretended to be Moriarty (or as Sherlock calls him, "Fauxiarty," played by Andrew Howard) in order to protect the real Moriarty's identity.
Gregson arranges a meeting with Moriarty. Sherlock is worried to find that she has been given concessions in return for information. He warns FBI Agent Ramses Mattoo (Faran Tahir), the only person allowed to communicate with Moriarty, that Moriarty is extremely dangerous. Mattoo insists that, as a gay man, he is immune from her charms.
As the gang walks into Moriarty's fancy cell, Moriarty rudely greets Sherlock with, "You look a bit tired." Quick-witted Sherlock responds with, "You look a bit evil." That evil is apparent when Joan is unnerved to find a giant excellent but creepy painting with her likeness leaning against the wall. Is Moriarty obsessed with Watson? Of course, she denies any involvement in the child's abduction, but agrees to share information about "Fauxiarty" and her other cohorts.
Watson's a bit upset to learn that Sherlock has been sharing details about his companions, including Watson's love life, with Moriarty. That wouldn't be such a problem if Moriarty were still locked in a maximum security prison. Even worse, Mattoo walks her out of her fancy cell and right into the precinct. Sherlock is amazed at the FBI's stupidity.

Moriarty gives the cops some sketches of the probable kidnappers, then requests to see the crime scene. Watson agrees to accompany her so she can ask about why Moriarty seems to be obsessed with her. Moriarty concedes that she is obsessed, but only because she doesn't understand the non-sociopathic Watson. She says that she will tire of the obsession once she gains satisfactory understanding, and insists that Sherlock will also tire of her for the same reasons because Moriarty is the only person he can relate to.

Sherlock is frustrated that none of the names and sketches Moriarty has supplied lead anywhere. In his frustration, he pulls out a rotary-dial phone so he can hang up on people "with more emphasis," all while speaking French.

Sherlock becomes even more frustrated when Watson shares her belief that Sherlock still has feelings for Moriarty. Still, he later admits that she was right.

Later, Moriarty's old pals kill a couple of cops just so they can steal their phones and look at Moriarty's sketches of them.

It turns out that they needed to see the sketches because Moriarty hid numbers in their sketch-stubble. Sherlock is furious when he deduces that the sketches are messages, knowing that Moriarty must be involved in the kidnapping. Her denial only serves to infuriate Sherlock further.

After her entirely predicted betrayal, Mattoo brings Moriarty back to her fancy room. Of course, Moriarty is much smarter than the agents. She figures out a way to escape by cutting the link of her electronic cuffs with glass, cutting herself in the process. She then proceeds to strangle Mattoo into a deep sleep without killing him.

Sherlock breaks the stubble code, along with their other means of communication, realizing that Moriarty wasn't in on it after all. The girl is Moriarty's daughter, and Fauxiarty and company really did kidnap her in order to get something of value (other than money) from her. Moriarty refuses to reveal what the object is, and nobody else can tell them either: she kills all of them in the process of saving her daughter.

Thankfully, Sherlock is not the father of the girl. In fact, the real father is probably the person who told Fauxiarty about Moriarty's child. Moriarty is slowly dying from her wrist-cutting escape wounds, and Sherlock hands her over to have her wounds tended to. Hopefully, the Feds have learned their lesson, and will discontinue all concessions.

Quick side note: at the beginning of the episode, there is a short clip of Bell trying to fire his gun during target practice. He still doesn't have full use of his hand, but at least he's still on the show (for now)! The previews indicate that he is in the next episode as well.

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