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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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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

'Elementary' GifTweetCap: Bell is Back!

"Elementary" brings back Bell for the episode "All in the Family." Many fans worried that Bell may be back simply to say goodbye, and we didn't find out whether he was back for good until the end. Bell is a well-loved, fan-favorite character, so the episode really built up a great deal of stress in fans until the end.
The episode opens with Sherlock and Watson all dressed up, confronting a suspect.

It's actually a mini-case, wherein the owner of an art exhibit believed there was about to be a theft at the opening.  Sherlock solves the heist by demanding to see the suspect's leg. The goods are hidden in a secret compartment within the leg. Sherlock's new police collaborator, Det. Nash, manages to take all the credit for himself without doing any of the work, frustrating Sherlock and Watson to no end.
Meanwhile, Bell is working his new job counterterrorism job with the Demographic unit, and is called out to check some mysterious barrels that have shown up out of nowhere. Bell quickly finds a headless torso in one of the barrels.
Sherlock and Watson are soon on the case. The victim, "Handsome Bobby Pardillo," had been in the mob. His father says they stayed out of sight lately, communicating through email that appeared to be insurance spam. He also seems especially upset that his son did not have a proper burial.
Sherlock offers to work half the time for Demographics, which infuriates Bell. He still hasn't forgiven Sherlock for indirectly causing his injury, and Sherlock just rubs it in, calling Bell a "number cruncher."
Sherlock deduces that the killer is left-handed, which lines up with what Watson had found. Using her knowledge of the mob from when she followed the mob families as if they were a soap opera back when she was a kid, she comes up with a possible killer: a left-handed man named Dante Scalice. Watson and Sherlock start their investigation into him by digging through his trash. Looks as if Sherlock takes the paper trash, while Watson takes the dirty trash.

Scalice catches them snooping, and asks them to leave. As they are leaving, he hops into his car and.... BOOM!

Turns out the NSA was pulling the emails and phone records between Handsome Bobby and his father using PRISM, and sending them off to Scalice so he could triangulate the son's location and kill him. The NSA guy who Sherlock knows to be responsible refuses to help on that score, so Sherlock offers to subscribe him to "plushie" newsletters. Either way, they have proof that Scalise killed Bobby. Scalise's cupboard contains Bobby's head, dissolved in battery acid in a bucket.
In order to find Scalise's killer, Sherlock tests out the explosive used in the car bomb... in his freezer, giving Watson a near heart-attack.
Unfortunately, working with explosives can make it difficult to reach for a ringing cell phone.
A NSA agent meets with Sherlock to inform him that DeSilva, Bell's boss at Demographics, was the person who requested the emails and documents that were later sent to Scalice. When he informs Bell that his boss may be dirty, Bell just about loses it. They have a huge argument in which Sherlock gives Bell some tough love, and tells him about his drug addiction.
Bell finally considers the idea that his boss may be crooked, and proves that he is with just a little snooping. It turns out that DeSilva set the whole thing up. He wanted a mob war because he had been helping the Pardillo family for many years. The construction union has as well, but a new union election would throw all of his dealings out in the open because the new union rep is a reformist. With a mob war (and possibly the death of the leader, papa Pardillo), those dealings would never surface.
Bell tricks his boss by telling him the car bomb has been tracked to Pardillo, and that Gregson will be bringing him in soon. Da Silva calls up Pardillo to meet, and is arrested when the cops catch him preparing to murder Pardillo.
At the end of the episode, Bell moves back to his desk, while the arrogant Det. Nash moves back to where he came from.
Capping it off, Bell gives a nod of approval when he spots Sherlock and Watson walking past. Ahh, everything is back to normal!
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