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Agree. I loved the way Sherlock treated the erstatz Holmes - let him be, warning him to find a new identity for his own sake. Hated that he brought back Michael. I dislike the Michael storyline almost as much as I do Joan's yearning for a child. I want the hoodie, too. Does it come in black?

My favorite line was Bell's, who said that shooting a dummy at close range was cheating. In response to Holmes reminded him he was doing this to solve a crime, Bell replied "Don't worry. I am not throwing away my shot", a clear reference to Broadway's HAMILTON. Cast of HAMILTON at the White House singing "I am Not Throwing Away My Shot"

I was a day worker on Elementary a few years ago, quinni224, and I have worked with Andrew Bernard on other projects.

You're welcome, quinni224, and thanks in return for the article on the Sphere of Destiny. I think you might be right regarding the crystal ball being a deliberate reference to Arthur Conan Doyle. It's one of the things I love about this show, the way they integrate canon references in the episodes. Also the way way they drop in odd little facts (the "Dutch reach", for example). I also really love their set design. Few people realise how much thought goes into such things. Reiter's paper lamp, for example, was supposedly originally rented, but had to be re-rented (or more likely, bought) when Elementary's pilot episode sold.

I've posted this elsewhere, but just in case you didn't know, Clyde, and his understudy, Bonnie (yes, really), are alive and well.

Apologies, Efzee. It was a rhetorical question. I left off the emoticon ;) Cyanide is painful but quick and effective. A hitman would know that - though of course, a hitman would also know that it would be easy to discover, and thus, since he was known to be a hitman, it would be inconceivable that he would drink even a sweet wine tainted with cyanide, given its distinct odor (I know, I know, it does not always give off a scent, and not everyone can detect it). But now we're down The Princess Bride rabbithole ;) In other news, while I do enjoy the discussions between Sherlock and Watson, I am profoundly in the anti-child on the show camp. Also, is Holmes magically cured now? Did I miss something?

I'd have to watch again, but didn't the hitman know his days (at least as a free man) were over? That the hammer was about to come down? I think the idea was that he felt that dying, as long as he could exact his revenge in the process, was better than dying in prison. Now, why he chose cyanide, which is, as Watson said, an unpleasant death?

You're welcome. Here is an interesting interview with Elementary's Production designer Andrew Bernard back in 2014. The West Wing was another TV show where set designers had their little private jokes. CJ Cregg;s goldfish, Gail, usually had a decoration in her fishbowl that had to do with the episode.

Do you mean this? The big white thing is a paper lamp, made by NY artist Christopher Reiter. The other piece is a phrenology skull that was featured in a few episides and that Sherlock has named Angus

I'm sure it isn't. Set designers/dressers love little signatures like that.. Psych famously had its pineapples. Other shows have similar little touches. Just a little inside joke/nod for themselves. Very often, in many shows, when you see a family photo/photo of a loved one on a desk, most of the time, whoever is in that photo has some signifigence to the actor or set designer.

The UC Santa Barbara incident may have been the basis for Sherlock's comment about a member "who went on a rampage at his college, killing 12 people, mostly women", but Elliot Rodger, the incel who killed at UC, managed to kill only 6 people, 4 men, 2 women. The 1st 3 murders (all men) were killed not at the college, but at Rodger's own apartment. 2 women were killed at a sorority, and the 4th man was shot at a deli. Like I said, literary license.

Yes, I understood that the timing of the event wasn't accurate, but writers take literary license all the time. I suppose they could have made up an event, or used a more recent ones like Elliot Rodger's, or Alek Minassian's, but the Montreal massacre victims were all women, murdered because they were women, so I can see why they used that one, even though the timeline was incorrect. I remember it as well, but sadly, outside of Montreal, I doubt all that many people do. I saw the inclusion of the massacre in this episode as a kind of tribute to them. An acknowledgement that they are not forgotten. Exactly. They used a real event, just changed its place in time for purposes of clarity. Thngs like this happen in tvland quite often. Of course you have every right to "mind" this, or feel that it's "off", I just trying to understand why it would bother anyone, aside from the difference in the time the event happened. Eta: I just rewatched the scene in question. The Black Pill guy claims that posters on his site are joking. In response, Sherlock says "then how to you explain that one of your members went on a rampage at his college who went on a rampage, killing 12 people, mostly women, or the person who opened fire on a group of female engineers in Montreal?". I read that as Sherlock was refering to it in historical context, that it was something that has happened in the past and was not fodder for "jokes".

Why would you mind it at all? It was true and germane to the episode. It wasn't shoe-horned in - the year it happened in is irrelevant.

Northern Exposure featured a trebuchet in at least two episodes. Beauriful slo-mo recording of it in action. Yes, and we see them right after Watson had asked if they should attend in costume. No need for a line - that shot was plenty meta all by itself. It's a classic old gag. You get Watson's line about costumes and the next shot you see it "Holmes and Watson" in costume, filmed from behind - then pass them to see it isn't our Holmes and Watson, who immediately walk into the frame. Also, in the Elementary world, Holmes and Watson don't dress that way (though I think we did see a deerstalker once), and in canon, Watson is, of course, a man. That shot was almost breaking the fourth wall. Any comment would have been gilding the lily.

That was my recollection, thanks. I thought it was a mirror, and I don't think they verified he died - but like the Russian guy, he tried to kill himself to protect his family.

Hey johnfs! Is Moran still alive or not? I know he tried to kill himself, but did he succeed?

Truth told, I'm not sure they are male and female, much less mated. I do know, for a fact, that there were (and are) two tortoises that play Clyde. One is called Clyde, they other one Bonnie. It isn't like CJ's goldfish on The West Wing. Those two tortoises have been around from the get go. You are either seeing Clyde or Bonnie.

Thing is, that's so true to life. Criminals are, by and large, stupid people. They really are. Even Ted Bundy said he would have been a successful person if he spent the kind of energy he spent being, y'know, a thief and a psychopath, in more useful ways, he would have done well for himself. I mean, look at some of the polticians around. Dumb, sure, but real life. It happens ALL. THE. TIME. Damn, if tv teaches you nothing else, it's "SAY NOTHING UNTIL YOU SPEAK TO YOUR LAWYER". You have nothing to gain by speaking, and everything to lose. The promise of "we'll put a good word in for you" is utterly valueless.

You're very welcome, Trey. Bonnie and Clyde have lived together from the beginning (I met them both once, and they were very charming). My understanding is that they are both kept by a company member. I don't know that they are provided for like Elementary's "Clyde", but I'll check into it. I'm pretty sure I've got at decade's worth of care for them.

I had worked on Elementary in the past, though I didn't this year. I do know people who work on the show, and am informed, that, yes, it is Clyde, and visual differences may be because they might have used his understudy, Bonnie (I am not kidding about that).

Don't forget that Moran killed himself (or did he merely try to and was brain-damaged?), because he was worried what would happen to his family if he talked as well. There are dozens upon dozens of books about famous forgers. There is even a fairly recent book about forgers of old wines. There was an excellent short-lived show called Rayne, who was the title character detective who solved homicides by "speaking" to the murder victims. He was the only person who saw them, and they changed accordingly the more he learned about them. The detective was portrayed by Jeff Goldblum. It had a lot of potentional, but I think only had 6 or 7 episodes. Well worth the watch if you can find it.

It's pretty standard for AA. Modern treatment tends to focus more efficiently. not wasting time on things that don't matter.

That's it right there. It's personal. He asked to speak to Joan, and he rejects Joan's offer to involve Sherlock on this "personal" matter, which turns out to be sensitive information about his daughter's substance abuse problems. It shouldn't be necessary to say "Keep this to yourself". It's screamingly obvious. (Btw, my theory on how Joan knows Gregson wants to see her is simply that Gregson told others in the station "If Watson comes it, ask her to stop by my office". As to how Sherlock knows? We don't know, but Watson possibly told him that Gregson wanted to see her, in innocence, before she actually met Gregson. When Sherlock asked how her meeting with Gregson had gone, she doesn't seem suprised that he knows. Sherlock gets it wrong, though. He asks if Gregson was checking up on him, to which Joan replies "Sure, because everything is about you" - then Mason interrupts them. Later, after Holmes and Watson were detained by the Air Force, Sherlock asks Watson again what the Captain wanted to speak to Joan about. She demurs once "It's private", but when Sherlock says he'll just ask Gregson himself, she tells him. Gregson is visibly angry when Sherlock starts talking to him about Hannah. He even says "What makes you think I want to talk about this - to you?"

We are just tossing around theories for fun. They probably are (well, were) just roommates. Joan didn't disappear. She just stayed downstairs and let Sherlock answer the door. If it had been for her, all he would have had to do was to call down to her.

Or, she knows it's probable that an old brownstone in NYC has lead pipes or at least lead solder on copper pipes, and is hedging her bets. I remember that episode as well. There was a clown in it ;)