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Elementary – Season One

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Elementary - Season One

As a fan of the BBC’s Sherlock, I was more than a little skeptical to learn CBS had picked up their own show for a modern day retelling of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller). Set in New York, rather than London, the show broke with convention early and often starting with the decision to cast Lucy Liu as Joan Watson. Far more prolific in terms of the number of episodes, creator Robert Doherty gives Sherlock a run for its money in this smart, and far different, adaptation of the world’s greatest detective.

Recently released from rehab, we meet Sherlock Holmes for the first time through the eyes of former surgeon turned sober companion who we learn was hired by Holmes’ absentee father to help transition the former heroin addict to a sober life. For the first several episodes Watson’s main role is to keep Holmes on the straight and narrow, but her interest (and insight) into Holmes’ work soon begin to transition Miss Watson into the role of Holmes’ apprentice and partner as the show’s First Season unfolds.

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Elementary – Heroine

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“You look at people and you see puzzles. I see games. You’re a game I’ll win every time.”

Elementary - Heroine

After revealing herself to Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller), and saving his life, Moriarty (Natalie Dormer) promises to continue hurting the detective should he further interfere with any more of her plans. With Watson (Lucy Liu) and Gregson’s (Aidan Quinn) help, Holmes, still reeling from being shot and discovering The Woman is actually his arch nemesis, returns to the case he was investigating before being contacted by Moriarty – the scheme to take over a historic speakeasy and the downfall of the heads of a security firm for murder.

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Elementary – The Woman

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Elementary - The Woman

In the first-half of the show’s First Season finale, the discovery that Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) is still alive and worse the wear from years psychological torture while being held against her will, offers flashbacks beginning two years ago in London with the consulting’s first meeting with “The Woman” while investigating a forgery case. Blaming both himself and Moriarty for Irene’s condition, feeling the need to take care of her, and facing a tremendous blow to his ego that he never suspected Irene was still alive, Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) refuses to investigate the case leaving Watson (Lucy Liu) to fear for her friend while working the case with Captain Gregson (Aidan Quinn) and Detective Bell (Jon Michael Hill) without her mentor.

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Elementary – Risk Management

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“Consider me a spider. I sit motionless at the center of my web. That web has a thousand radiations and I know well every quiver of each of them. I do little myself. I only plan, but my agents are numerous and splendidly organized.”

Elementary - Risk Management

After being contacted by a man claiming to be the ever elusive Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) agrees to investigate a unsolved case the voice on the other end of the phone brings to his attention concerning a man stabbed and robbed in Brooklyn several months ago. Despite Watson’s (Lucy Liu) legitimate concerns, Holmes agrees to investigate, hoping the case will reveal a connection between the murder victim and Moriarty’s organization and get him one step closer to the man he suspects murdered Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer).

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Elementary – A Landmark Story

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  • Title: Elementary – A Landmark Story
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“The thing that’s different about me, empirically speaking, is you.”

Elementary - A Landmark Story

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) heads to prison to talk with Sebastian Moran (Vinnie Jones) who informs the consulting detective that an apparent heart attack victim who was targeted by Moriarty and most certainly did not die of natural causes. To check the murderer’s assertions, Holmes and Watson (Lucy Liu) break into a funeral home “in the middle of the night to perform an illicit autopsy” which proves at least part of Moran’s story is true. Believing the man’s murder had something to do with his vote on renovating a historical speakeasy, Holmes and Watson head over to talk with the contractor of the project who met with his own apparently accidental death via falling air conditioner that very morning. The game is definitely afoot.

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