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Thursday, December 5, 2013

'Elementary' GifTweetCap: Sherlock's Actions are 'On the Line'

Quick note: I've had this almost finished for over a week, but got sidelined by Yahoo! TV telling me they'd begin publishing the recaps, then failing to review them, then by the holidays. Please enjoy this belated recap.

 "Elementary" changed things up this week, by going with a cat and mouse plot over the usual whodunit plot line in the episode "On the Line." By all accounts, the tweak was a huge success, with many fans exclaiming that this was their favorite episode of the season.

First off, we have what initially seems to be an appetizer of Arthur Conan Doyle canon: a woman named Samantha Wabash commits suicide by gun on a bridge while framing a man named Lucas Bundsch, whom she believes had killed her sister Ally six years earlier. Sherlock is called to the scene for a quick look at what the cops believe to be a suicide, and quickly finds the truth.
This has happened before. Sherlock has solved a small case in the first five minutes of the episode on several occasions, before moving on to a bigger case. This time is different. The man being framed for the crime had already agreed to a polygraph test to clear his name, and this is where it gets interesting. Sherlock notices that the man bites his tongue three different times during the polygraph, so Sherlock goes in to ask one more question: "Did you kill Ally Wabash?" With the answer, and the sensation of antiperspirant deodorant as he shakes Lucas's hand, Sherlock believes they have a serial killer on their hands. 
The original investigator on Ally's case, Det. Coventry, believes that Samantha was nuts for believing that Lucas had anything to do with her sister's murder, and shows Sherlock and Watson a photo of Ally calling Samantha from a payphone the day after her abduction. Sherlock isn't phased, and berates Coventry in front of the other cops in the station for doing a sloppy job.
Later, Lucas shows up at Sherlock's home. Coventry gave him Sherlock's address! Sherlock grabs a knife as he invites the suspected serial killer into his home, then proceeds to tell him what he and Watson have found this far: Lucas had kidnapped Ally and kept her somewhere for two weeks before killing her. When she called her sister from the phone, she was wearing a fake bomb that she thought was real.
Lucas gives Sherlock a veiled threat, saying that Samantha ruined her own life by obsessing over him, and Sherlock should not make the same mistake. Later, Lucas dupes Sherlock and Watson by making them believe that he is about to murder someone who wants to give them more information about the case, only to find that the original call had been faked. 
Lucas's antics send Sherlock over the edge, causing Shetlock to show up at Lucas's studio to have some words with him. Instead, Lucas goads Sherlock into punching him out (resulting in a broken finger), which forces Gregson to kick him off the case (which was also exactly what Coventry had wanted). Lucas also takes out a restraining order. 
Lucas abducts another girl, and calls Sherlock and Watson to the scene using the same fake phone number he had tricked them with earlier. Sherlock has had enough, and decides to frame Lucas, just as Samantha had tried to do when she committed suicide. Before jumping in on the frame job, Watson gives Sherlock an idea of where to look for the abducted woman.
Sherlock finds that Lucas submitted smaller square footage for a storage closet in his sound-proof studio than it had originally been built with. Gregson gets around the restraining order with a warrant, and Sherlock is the one to pull the abducted woman from Lucas's dungeon.

There's also a surprise inside: a woman who had been abducted earlier is also inside. Watson had interviewed the husband earlier, and he is both surprised and immensely relieved to find that his wife has been found.
Meanwhile, Sherlock and Watson have a spat because Sherlock gets so snarky with other people who are on the same side, leading to problems such as having a serial killer sent to their home and getting kicked off cases. Sherlock absolutely does not agree, and frustratingly throws out a childish piece of paper depicting Sherlock and Watson relieving themselves, which had been posted at the police station.
Later, Sherlock's snarkiness seems to pay off somewhat (at least for viewers) when Coventry's (or "Detective Hip-flask," as Sherlock calls him) true nature is revealed as he seems annoyed that a serial killer has been captured with Sherlock's help, just because he was wrong about the case.
At the end if the episode, Sherlock tells Watson how special she is to him, but that is the only reason he is nice to her. He explains that he is not a nice guy by nature, and that is usually an advantage for him rather than a deficit. Watson ominously informs him that a person can't live with that sort of attitude forever, and Sherlock simply responds, "to thine own self, Watson."



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Saturday, November 16, 2013

'Elementary' in Ani-gifs: 'Blood is Thicker,' but What's up with Mycroft?

Mycroft (Rhys Ifans) sticks around for "Blood is Thicker," his second episode in a row for "Elementary." He finally gets to spend some time with Sherlock! Well, maybe that's not such a good thing.

 The episode begins with a sparring match. Mycroft is fencing with Sherlock (Jonny Lee Miller) on the rooftop with an egg on his head. The loser is Mycroft, when his egg is broken. Good thing it's not a middle school exercise to protect an egg-baby!
Sherlock's and Watson's (Lucy Liu) first case of the episode begins when a kid hears something going on in a delivery van. The delivery guy shrugs it off, and winds up driving through town with a dead girl on his roof.
When Sherlock is finally called in, he is able to determine where the girl fell based on the location of the paint chips she knocked off the ceiling and onto the packages. Watson notices that a tree is missing off one of the balconies on the building, and they use that to determine from what room the girl fell.
Sherlock deduces that the dead girl was a "kept woman," but she is actually Haley (Kersti Bryan), the daughter of the rich owner of the building, Ian Gale (William Sadler), who is dying. He has a rare blood type, and needed a blood transfusion from her.
Some fans had a few additional things to say about the actor who plays Ian Gale.
...and, Mr. Gale also has a spectacular view from his hotel.
Watson offers to go to the morgue alone to study Haley's body so Sherlock can send some quality time with his brother at dinner. Sherlock tries to get out of it, going so far as to say that eating is a waste of his time, but Watson has already bought her vending-machine dinner.
It turns out that Haley would have died from her stab wound whether or not she had fallen off the balcony, which means the fall was a mistake. Her boyfriend Ray (Kieran Campion) says that Haley had been seriously ill with the flu for the last two weeks, but Christian Suarez (Elliot Villar), the lab tech who took her blood for her father, said she was fine. 

Ian Gale dies, and Sherlock soon realizes that he was murdered by his wife, Natalie (Margaret Colin). Natalie used Haley (her step-daughter) as a human incubator to create a custom toxin for her husband so it would appear that his body was rejecting his heart transplant. Christian confesses to taking a million dollars to do the job, while the wife would inherit $15 million.
Meanwhile, Sherlock finally shows up for dinner at Mycroft's restaurant after repeatedly standing him up. In order to be honest with his brother, Sherlock must label the dinner as "exquisite."
After the dinner, Mycroft makes the symbolic gesture of handing over the keys to 221B in London, just as Sherlock appears to be losing interest in their conversation. Mycroft then informs him that their father wants Sherlock to move back to London, or forfeit his financial help.
Sherlock asks Watson to come with him to London, but confesses that he doesn't really want to leave, because New York, and the people he has met there, have kept him on track with his recovery from drug addiction. Watson puts it much more simply: "screw him" (referring to his father). They can make it on their own, as long as they begin taking on paying jobs, once again.
The father is not the culprit, however. Sherlock has a nice moment with his brother, wherein he tells Mycroft that he has decided to stay in New York, and gives him a letter to pass to their father. When Mycroft is alone, he tears up the letter, then carries on a nefarious-sounding conversation with someone at a +44 country code (which is in the Isle of Man, U.K.). He says that the plan didn't work, mentions his father, and refers to Sherlock and Watson as "they," indicating that he is speaking with someone who probably shouldn't know about their personal business. Something is afoot!
 
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