This episode probably has more to do with Lucy Liu than anything else. <br />There are articles on the Internet saying Lucy Liu is dating and practically engaged to an Israeli billionaire. Since she no longer really needs the money, perhaps she decided to go for broke and demanded a huge raise in exchange for continuing in the role of Watson and the producers of Elementary are calling her bluff by bringing in a competing actor and excluding Lucy Liu from an episode. Does anybody remember the Three's Company/Suzanne Somers fiasco?
