Elementary: Season 2

Season 2 overview

Sherlock and Joan help Lestrade in London before returning to a run of investigations involving concealed evidence, fraud, and murder. Their cases repeatedly turn on clues that challenge the first apparent explanation.

Key story beats

  1. Lestrade's London Case — Sherlock and Joan find Lestrade and help him revisit the case that led to his suspension.
  2. A Suspended Inspector — Lestrade explains his accusation against a wealthy man and the lack of proof that resulted in his suspension.
  3. The Invisible Proof — The murder investigation reveals mathematical work concealed in invisible ink and a dispute over its value.
  4. The Runaway Contractor — Sherlock links a fugitive government contractor to a cyber-activist group and identifies a person sheltering him.
  5. The Poisoned Executive — The detectives investigate a wealthy man's poisoning and learn that his body was staged after death.
  6. A Hitman's Past — Sherlock recognizes a dead man as a former assassin and uncovers the violence connected to his final accident.
  7. Wrong House Intrusion — An intruder terrorizes Gregson's wife, but the investigation finds that the attacker went to the wrong house.
  8. The Racehorse Dispute — A killing connected to a retired champion racehorse draws Sherlock into a case involving Mycroft's former fiancée.
  9. An Inheritance Killing — A woman's death and a change to a wealthy man's will point investigators toward competing explanations.
  10. A Framed Suicide — Sherlock determines that a young woman's apparent attempt to frame a man followed her own plan to die.
  11. The Wrong Suspect — Sherlock concludes that a man who passed a polygraph had fooled the test and was responsible for an earlier murder.
  12. The Knight's Code — A young man arrives dressed as a knight and claims to have killed a queen, but Sherlock doubts that he killed his former girlfriend.
  13. A Dangerous Investigation — During an investigation involving a young man accused of murder, Bell is shot.
  14. A Reporter Is Killed — After a hedge fund manager is killed, the reporter who exposed his fraud is murdered and her laptop is taken.
  15. Moriarty's Bargain — Sherlock recognizes a caller's voice and brings Moriarty into a kidnapping investigation in exchange for favors.

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