- Captain Gregson's team learns a bit about his personal life after his home is invaded. Holmes and Watson track the gunman.
- Captain Gregson's wife, who may soon become his ex (although he's in denial), is among the victims of a recent series of robberies. The prime suspect is found murdered at home. Holmes takes the case (Gregson must recuse himself) and traces it back to the suspect's Afghanistan unit and love life, only to stumble upon a profane motive.—KGF Vissers
- "Elementary" - "An Unnatural Arrangement" - Oct. 31, 2013
Sherlock and Watson are spending their Friday night sizing up the men in lock-up and deducing what they're in for. Watson runs into an attractive detective named Craig Baskin who works nights and wants help on a string of robberies. He only wants her help though since Sherlock was less than friendly when he met him. She agrees to lend a hand.
A woman comes home and is confronted by an intruder who says he's looking for her husband. She hits the alarm, runs upstairs, shoots him through the door and calls 911. The guy gets away but leaves a blood trail. It turns out she's Capt. Gregson's wife Cheryl.
Gregson arrives home and Sherlock and Joan and Bell arrive. She's tearful but okay. Bell talks to a neighbor named Jim Monroe who gives a partial description of the masked man. Cheryl also gives a description and says she would recognize his voice. Bell asks if anything unusual has been up and they both say no, but Gregson admits he's not living there at the moment and hasn't for a month.Sherlock warns him he'll be in his business in order to solve the case and Gregson tells him to do whatever he needs to do.
Watson and Holmes scan through his case files but Holmes thinks it's not someone in there. He also shares his disdain for marriage in general. They find a man who had been sending Gregson "fan mail."
The next day at the precinct Bell and Gregson debrief and Bell offers condolences for the separation. Gregson says it's just a trial separation and no big deal. Cheryl wants time alone and he's giving it to her.
Holmes and Watson go to see Gregson's biggest fan and he's bleeding on his bathroom floor. They realize he's not the killer though, even though he has a wall shrine to Gregson, because he's been shot in the wrong shoulder and figure he shot himself in order to confess to a crime he didn't do because he's obsessed with Gregson. They are right.
Another man is shot by the masked man.
The dead man is Sam Clennon and when they examine the body at the morgue they deduce he's military, between tours of duty. But Holmes also notices a stab wound that did not come from combat.
In the course of the investigation, Cheryl is assigned a protective detail and Bell tells Gregson they noticed a light blue pickup at his house a couple of times. Gregson claims he doesn't know anything about it.
Watson goes to Det. Baskin to let him know she's busy with Gregson but he says Holmes already solved the case. She goes home and angrily argues it was her case. Holmes says there is no his or hers, there is partnership.
Gregson goes home and confronts Cheryl about the light blue pickup. He knows it belongs to her longtime friend and their sometime contractor Steven. She says he's just a friend and that nothing is going to happen and Steven knows that. She also notes she can see whoever she wants. He said they never said anything about seeing other people and wonders if he should go out and pick up some girl at a bar. She tells him to be her guest. He wants to be with her. She notes this is cold comfort after 28 years of missed dinners. He says she always knew he was going to be a cop. She wonders when she said she was always going to be okay with that.
Bell, Holmes, and Watson go to see Sam Clennon's mom who is incredulous that her son was killed at home after being at war for so long.They ask about Gregson and she doesn't know him or who could've wanted to hurt her son. Sherlock asks about the stabbing and she notes that it was by a disturbed fellow soldier named Jacob Esparza. She also notes that their commanding officer was a Lt. Jim Monroe, Gregson's neighbor.
They realize that the killer did an address search online and when he looked for Monroe he was shown a picture of the Gregson house. He went to the wrong place. They call Gregson who is still near home and goes to Lt. Monroe's house with the protective detail and find Monroe is dead. It turns out that Esparza, who stabbed Clennon overseas, also had a beef with Monroe.
They bring Esparza in and he does appear to be a jerk and says he stabbed Clennon after he found out that Clennon was cheating on his wife. He was sensitive because he had just found out his fiance was cheating on him. He argued with Clennon but claims he was simply defending himself. When he doffs his shirt and proves he has no bullet wounds he's off the hook.
After the interrogation Sherlock confronts Gregson because it seemed like he wanted to say something. He admits he thought about asking Sherlock to investigate Steven but that it's a crazy idea and it's probably too late anyway because he doesn't think it's going to work out with Cheryl. Sherlock tells him if he needs someone to talk to he'll make Watson available to him.
Holmes and Watson go to see the woman Sam was cheating with: Beth, an archaeologist who was overseeing a dig in Afghanistan when Monroe and Clennon were there. She has an angry dog named Gotham who barks at strange men. They ask about Sam and the affair but she says it wasn't romantic, that they just got to know each other in Afghanistan. She is now divorced from her husband Cameron, but says even if it was romantic with Clennon, her husband wouldn't hurt anyone.
Sherlock and Watson continue to bicker about him solving what was supposed to be her case. She says she wanted to figure it out on her own. She says partnership implies equality and that she doesn't want busy work, she wants to be useful. Meanwhile, Sherlock has been looking at the excavation site and discovered that it was on top of a very large and lucrative copper deposit and also full of beautiful, priceless artifacts. They wonder if Clennon and Monroe had hatched a robbery and either it was a big success or never happened.
They find a list of artifacts and notice that a bowl is listed as being found in every temple but the one overseen by Monroe and Clennon. They get a picture and realize it was in Beth's house the previous day and that they had probably hatched the plot together and then she killed them with a partner to cut them out of profits. They go to see her with a warrant but the bowl is gone. She's brought down for interrogation but they don't have anything to hold her.
In the spirit of partnership Sherlock gives Watson his handful of cold cases to work on her skills. He notes there's little risk that he'll arrive at a solution before her and she might even succeed where he failed.
Sherlock deduces that it was Beth's ex-husband Cameron who was her accomplice because the neighbors reported no noise or visitors at her house. Since her dog Gotham barks at "strange men" they realize it was him because the dog didn't bark. When they tracked him down he rolled on her.
Sherlock looks into Steven the contractor and says he's clean. Gregson doesn't want to know. Sherlock says he normally cheers the end of marriage but he has recently come to appreciate partnership. He notes that small gestures can speak volumes and that Gregson had a partner and still might.
Gregson goes to see Cheryl and brings Gotham. He tells her he understands the separation is not just a waiting period, she deserves better than being second and he's not throwing in the towel. He's going to take this time to figure out what he can do better. She thanks him.
Watson opens the trunk of Holmes' cold cases as Holmes watches from the next room.
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