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Elementary Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 2012 - 2013
Episode 1
Pilot
Thu, Sep 27, 201246 mins
NYPD detective Javier Abreu is delighted to have his weird English friend Sherlock Holmes on the case of robbery victim Dr. Richard Mantlo's apparently missing wife, whom Sherlock finds slaughtered in a safe room she had secretly installed. Sherlock, recently out of drug rehab, makes the best of his sober companion, Doctor Joan Watson, hired by his wealthy London father, actually a former surgeon whose people skills he can use. Sherlock quickly proves it's the work of a trophy-hunting serial killer, but finds his prime suspect the next victim.
Episode 2
While You Were Sleeping
Thu, Oct 4, 201244 mins
Holmes is brought in on a case and very quickly deducts who the offender is. When the police go to make an arrest they discover Holmes could not possibly be right. Holmes obsessed with his own ability sets out to prove the police are wrong.
Episode 3
Child Predator
Thu, Oct 18, 201244 mins
Holmes is excited to be consulted about the latest strike of 'balloon man', a serial killer who focuses on children. Analyzing the crime scene, Holmes' deductions lead to the recovery of the first victim, Adam Kemper (then 12, now 19). However, Adam somberly refuses to help police find his captor and his latest victim.
Episode 4
The Rat Race
Thu, Oct 25, 201244 mins
Sherlock eagerly exacts an excessive price and expenses when hired by one of the Wall Street investment companies he deeply despises to find a missing executive. Having found out the man had an adulterous love nest, where he apparently died from a heroin OD, Holmes convinces NYPD captain Tommy Gregson that must be a staged murder and fits a pattern of suspiciously stageable accidents killing executives in several of the form's branches throughout the US. Tying them together proves dangerous, with a surprising culprit. Watson's improved observation skill finally really helps out.
Episode 5
Lesser Evils
Thu, Nov 1, 201244 mins
Holmes is intrigued by the high mortality rate at a hospital. So he goes there and discovers that several patients who died may have been euthanised. So he and Watson investigate and discover that someone is killing anyone who might be terminal and/or in great pain. But they discover that one of them doesn't fit the mold. So they assume the killer is escalating. And Watson runs into a doctor she worked with and notices that doctor could be making a mistake.
Episode 6
Flight Risk
Thu, Nov 8, 201244 mins
Lacking any reported major crimes, Sherlock listens in to the police radio and rushes to a suspicious business jet crash, chartered by a law firm. He soon proves that one lawyer victim was in fact murdered earlier and elsewhere with a missing wrench, and tests various theories about motives and opportunities involving law - and air firms. Sherlock rightly dismisses Watson's insistence to attend a dinner with his visiting father as never going to happen and pulls a clever-cruel prank, then makes up by confiding something that slipped out from his private past.
Episode 7
One Way to Get Off
Thu, Nov 15, 201244 mins
Sherlock identifies new murders as the modus operandi of Wade Crewes, the serial killer whose arrest made Captain Thomas Gregson's NYPD career. Their friendship is strained by necessary questions of whether it's a copycat, a former accomplice, or even the real serial killer. Worse yet, what if Crewes' initial conviction rested on a trumped-up investigation, notably by Gregson's partner at the time.
Episode 8
The Long Fuse
Thu, Nov 29, 201244 mins
An explosion in a computer firm, where most could improvise such bomb hidden deep in the ventilation system, kills an employee. Holmes keeps changing his theory each time the NYPD has caught up with his previous one. The target was chosen amazingly precisely, but years in advance. Meanwhile Watson stubbornly keeps looking for her successor as Holmes' addiction buddy, only to find him as determined to scare them all away.
Episode 9
You Do It to Yourself
Thu, Dec 6, 201244 mins
Oriental studies professor Trent Annunzio was killed with a bullet in each eye. Sherlock works out he was a Mahjong gambling addict and in which establishment, where he forces the owner to hand over secret video recordings. Those identify Raul Ramirez, but he was hired anonymously. prime suspect is Trent's academic assistant Brendan O'Brien, whose career he sabotages recently by recommending against an Ivy league promotion, and who has an affair with Trent's Thai wife Jun Annunzio. Sherlock works out the hidden truth and meanwhile gives Watson the decisive push to help clear a former patient and lover, junkie Liam Danow.
Episode 10
The Leviathan
Thu, Dec 13, 201244 mins
Micah Erlich hires Holmes to urgently solve the robbery of diamonds in David Batonvert's Manhattan exchange from his world-reputed security firm's top-range vault model, the 'impregnable' Leviathan, before the news wrecks the manufacturer. Both men remember it was actually cracked once four years ago by a brilliant team of four who were tried and jailed, but draw different conclusions concerning a connection which Holmes has to revise while his investigation progresses with the help of his own consultants. Meanwhile he helps Watson deal with her unexpectedly visiting family rather than cancel her buddy job with him.
Episode 11
Dirty Laundry
Thu, Jan 3, 201344 mins
Terri Purcell, manager of a luxury hotel with many diplomatic guests, has been killed there by both blow and stabbing. Sherlock works out she discretely facilitated Geoffrey Silver's call girls network, but didn't profit from it. Investigating her husband Oliver Purcell and their teenage daughter Carly, Sherlock finds it's rather about compromised national security and an ensuing family drama.
Episode 12
M.
Thu, Jan 10, 201343 mins
For once, all the NYPD asks for precise instructions from Sherlock when M, the mysterious killer he couldn't catch in London due to his addiction, resulting from his beloved being murdered, starts his signature killings all over New York. After a corpse is left in his home, Sherlock sets a trap and catches the fiend, hell-bent on illegally merciless revenge, but is made to doubt by an apparently substantiated copycat claim.
Episode 13
The Red Team
Thu, Jan 31, 201344 mins
While suspended from police consultancy, Holmes still keeps the force informed, despite their unwillingness to cooperate, about his discoveries in the case of crackpot conspiracy theories website administrator, who is found hanged at home. Holmes proves it's about a single credible theory, concerning the only never-published exercise of the War College's annual war game. Holmes fears that the six members of the Red team which devised the extreme war threat is being killed off and must work out, almost alone, why and by whom, which proves dangerous for him too.
Episode 14
The Deductionist
Sun, Feb 3, 201344 mins
After entrapping a gang of sexy robbers out of boredom, Holmes is delighted to help the NYPD chase serial killer Martin Ennis, who murdered the surgical team which was to transplant his kidney to his otherwise terminal sister and escaped. To Holmes's frustration, the FBI sends Kathryn Drummond, the profiler who caught Ennis the first time, whom he hates since both worked in London and she published a non-explicit article spelling his pathology wold wreck him. Ennis also read her publications and spares no effort to disprove her profile systematically, laying false tracks, but Holmes takes that into account, as well as his inconspicuous, yet key accomplice.
Episode 15
A Giant Gun, Filled with Drugs
Thu, Feb 7, 201344 mins
Sherlock's former cocaine dealer Rhys Kinlan still has a key, so he's waiting for Holmes and Watson, naked from the shower, when Watson finds him and calls for Holmes. It's about his daughter Emily Grant who was kidnapped for a huge ransom, equaling the fortune he stole from Dominican drug cartel baron Reynaldo, but lost gambling in his Thai hideout. The fiend and his New York HQ, a nightclub, are watched by a DEA undercover agent. Rhys also has a dynamic effect on Sherlock's rehab attitude.
Episode 16
Details
Thu, Feb 14, 201343 mins
Detective Bell is nearly killed while driving home one night. A just-released felon is the first suspect but, when he's killed, suspicion moves to Bell's brother who, unlike the dedicated detective, has lived life on the wrong side of the law.
Episode 17
Possibility Two
Thu, Feb 21, 201344 mins
Gerald Lydon hires Holmes to check his extraordinary theory: being 'infected' with a rare and fatal genetic disease. Shortly after, Gerald's driver and henchman Crabtree is murdered. Consulting genetic researchers, Holmes learns genetic 'poisoning' is possible; the rare disease occurs improbably often with wealthy research donors but requires an expert. Meanwhile trainee detective Watson wrestles with the case of Holmes' Polish dry-cleaner Agnieszka.
Episode 18
Déjà Vu All Over Again
Thu, Mar 14, 201344 mins
Watson works a case on her own about a woman who has disappeared while Holmes deals with a subway murder. As they work their separate cases they gradually appear to be connected, even though they can't determine exactly how.
Episode 19
Snow Angels
Thu, Apr 4, 201344 mins
In the middle of a winter storm, Holmes and Watson must solve the murder of a guard during a botched robbery and unravel the killer's true plan. The pair also get an interesting new roommate.
Episode 20
Dead Man's Switch
Thu, Apr 25, 201344 mins
A blackmailer uses tapes of underage girls to get money from their fathers. When Holmes witnesses the blackmailer's murder, it becomes a race to find out who his accomplice is and prevent the videos from being released on the Internet.
Episode 21
A Landmark Story
Thu, May 2, 201344 mins
A man connected to the classification of a valuable building as a landmark trust dies when his pacemaker is deliberately short circuited. Holmes soon learns the one behind the murder is an old nemesis known to him only as "Moriarty".
Episode 22
Risk Management
Thu, May 9, 201344 mins
Moriarty asks Holmes to find out who murdered a mechanic in Brooklyn. Despite Watson's protests, Holmes thinks this case will help him uncover Moriarty's true identity, but it will, in fact, lead Holmes to something much worse.
Episode 23
The Woman
Thu, May 16, 201344 mins
Holmes reconnects with Irene, his one true love that he thought had been taken from him by Moriarity. He tries to protect her as she recovers from her trauma but he soon learns that it isn't she that needs protection.
Episode 24
Heroine
Thu, May 16, 201344 mins
While recovering from his gun shot wounds, Holmes eschews painkillers while working on a case of a Greek shipping magnate - involving an assassination and currency manipulation - before his final showdown with Moriarty.
