- A convicted killer who is supposed to donate a kidney to his sister ends up killing the surgical staff before escaping. Holmes is forced to work with a profiler (whom he can't stand) because she supposedly can predict what he will do next.
- 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.—KGF Vissers
- "Elementary" - "The Deductionist" - Feb. 3, 2013
Sherlock is enjoying a floor show in his house by two scantily clad chicks who are enjoying each other and then him, as they handcuff him to a chair and kiss on him. And then they stop kissing him and start robbing him. It was a set up for the cops who bust the women. Sherlock asks to keep the handcuffs.
The next day he practices whacking a dummy with a "single stick."
Watson announces she needs to go to her apartment to check on her subletters. He is confused by this. She calls it her sanctum sanctorum, which she sublets when she has a job. She chats with her landlord about her whistling radiator when she comes home. He tells her he saw a porno film that was shot in her apartment. It turns out that her subletters were in fact making a porno movie in her apartment. Her landlord says he's evicting her because of it. Watson confronts her subletter and he says he needed the money to pay the rent since his serious "documentary filmmaking" wasn't drawing any interest.
We see a patient arrive at a hospital, Mr. Ennis. He is there to donate a kidney to his sister, whom he won't be allowed to see. He is anesthetized for the surgery and then the police remove his cuffs. But he was just faking and he grabs a scalpel and attacks everyone in the OR, kills the guards, doctors, and nurse and skedaddles before the surgery is performed.
Turns out he was a serial killer, who flayed his victims. Capt. Gregson, Sherlock, and Watson go to see the carnage in the OR. Sherlock figures out what he did with the anesthesia and the fake out. He wrote a message in blood on the door: Shedir. It's a name for the star Cassiopeia.
Since Ennis was a serial killer, the profiler who helped put him away, Katherine Drummond, returns to run point for the case. She wrote a book about Ennis in which she theorized that he was sexually abused by his parents. She was sued for libel but it was thrown out of court. Sherlock worked with her in London when a U.S. serial killer crossed the pond. He calls her a buffoon and a snake oil salesman like all profilers. Katherine comes over to say hello and gloat about Sherlock's "troubles."
His sick sister, who needed the kidney transplant, feels terrible that it was she that sprung him. She says they were not in touch otherwise. She says she's glad that Katherine is helping since she helped catch Ennis the first time.
Sherlock looks at a model of Cassieopeia and it seems like Ennis' victims are chosen based on a pattern in it. Watson thinks it's great he discerned this but Sherlock thinks it's a red herring on Ennis' part to watch the cops scramble. He also confesses to Watson that he slept with Katherine Drummond as an FWB, which Watson now thinks explains the frostiness between them.Turns out she agrees with him about the red herring.
Ennis grabs another young woman, as well as killing several people in a convenience store. He has her take his picture as he is holding up a newspaper with his face on the front page. He then leaves the woman alive and leaves the store. Sherlock can't figure out the message that Ennis is leaving by these actions.
Watson finds out why Sherlock really hates Katherine. She profiled him. She never used his name but in a pyschiatric journal she referred to him as "the deductionist." She betrayed him. Even worse she predicted his struggles with addiction and also predicted that he would come to a bad end.
Gregson expresses his frustration with Katherine about her not being of much help as a profiler. Watson says maybe the confusion is the point. Ennis then calls the station. Gregson chats with him and he addresses Katherine. Sherlock deduces that Ennis hates her because she "solved" him and "demystified" him and now he's going to violate her profile of him. Ennis is impressed by this and knows that he's "the Deductionist." (He says he read everything Katherine wrote.) He says he wants to ruin her because she ruined his family and he says his father was a good man who didn't abuse him. His father killed himself and his mother died shortly thereafter. He tells Gregson that it would be easy to stop, he just wants Katherine. Sherlock thinks this is reasonable.
Sherlock confronts Katherine about her claims of sexual abuse in the Ennis family. He wonders if she truly cut corners and just made it up. He chats with Watson about it, who reassures him that Katherine's profile of him didn't all come true. She then notices that he's watching the porn made in her house. He of course isn't trying to get off he's just obsessed with the continuity errors in it. Watson then notices one of her own.
Watson and Holmes meet with Gregson on a false tip that Ennis broke into his sister's house. Watson and Holmes discover that her house is ripe with things that are the exact opposite of what a person with kidney problems should be consuming. She was sabotaging herself. It turns out that she was in cahoots with her brother. She was also angry about the death of her parents in the wake of Katherine's book. He convinced her to poision herself so he could go free during the kidney transplant and take Katherine down. Katherine goes to her and apologizes for making the abuse allegations in her book and the sister attacks her with scissors. She survives and the sister is arrested.
But then Ennis calls Gregson again. He tries to cover his tracks by fidding with a radio dial while he talks to Gregson. But Holmes tracks him down thanks to discerning the overlap between two stations that Ennis dialed by while he called Gregson. Ennis recognizes him as "The Deductionist." Holmes has laid out a gun and a set of handcuffs. He says if he goes for the handcuffs he'll be the coward profiled by Katherine. But if he goes for the gun he'll go against the profile. He warns that if he goes for the gun, Sherlock will go for him. Ennis goes for the gun and Sherlock beats him down with his "single stick," disarming him. The cops take him in.
After watching the porn and seeing a continuity error: in some scenes her radiator had electrical tape on it, in some it didn't. So Watson deduces that her landlord was there the whole time so he knew what was going on and he used as an opportunity to claim she violated her lease and so he can evict her from her rent-controlled apartment and charge market price for the rent. She points out that he participated in filming of an unlicensed production. So yes, she's moving out, but he'll be paying to put all her stuff in storage until she finds a place and $1200 for a new couch considering what happened on it.
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