Bernardo "Beppo" Pugliesi breaks into Sherlock's flat to smash the last of six "Royal Wedding 2018" busts, exposing the Black Pearl of the Borgias. DCI Athelney Jones slights "Doc" Joan, disliking gun-toting Americans. Popular tabloid model Lola Quin becomes the latest victim of acid attacks. They find the culprit's moped, a partial fingerprint, and Lola's cash, eliminating greed as motive. Distraught over her badly damaged face, Lola commits suicide. She had previously "got in a spat" via email
Taggers hear Gregson's car crash; Arnold splits, but Tremaine calls Five-O. Bell thanks him. Joan and Sherlock (aka Harlan Emple) return to New York City to help investigate. Gregson's wife Paige is now wheelchair-bound from MS. Sherlock revisits the scene. From skid-marks, he explores a different route, finding the crime scene and .380 shells. Smelling lye, Sherlock finds the eight months-dead body of Tim Bledsoe hidden inside a snack bar wall. Tim's mother Elise says his father Marty, a sergea
High-end foreign-trade zone storage facility manager Virgil Gwinn is murdered. Sherlock and Joan discover Gwinn secretly searched units for information to sell. Sherlock narrows clients down to one suspect; heiress Aura Swenson, whose deceased father had illegally amassed a religious artifact collection through his international construction company. Appraiser Sebastian Florenti claims he quit after Swenson asked him to forge the artifacts' provenance. Swenson proves she has no motive; she had n
A van collides with a semi at a city intersection then explodes, killing the van driver and a good Samaritan trying to help. The driver was a member of the Mara Tres gang. Sherlock and Joan discover the traffic lights were manipulated to cause the crash. Initially, the fuel-laden van is suspected to be part of a terrorist attack, but then Sherlock discovers that more traffic lights were hacked. The route of the sabotage shows that the real target was the semi's cargo: ultra-high-speed elevators
Isabel Perez is murdered during a race in the woods. Moonshiner Renny Henderson's corpse and a dead hog is found in a nearby pond. Sherlock believes Renny was forced to distill ricin, which he tested on the hog before his murder. Sherlock reconstructs a wine bottle from Henderson's shack. A fingerprint leads to wine dealer Todd Harris, who's been shot. Bottles of Chateau Baptiste '57 were stolen, the favorite vintage of hedge fund manager, Jason Wood. They set a trap for the killer, a bartender
Carla Whitmark's husband, NYPD ESU sniper Davis, suffering PTSD, goes missing. Bell fears a shooting spree. From Libby they learn Davis moonlights, editing pornography for Juliana, but without motive to kill. Sherlock locates Davis, who was blackmailed into shooting windows where Alwyn Smith safeguarded boxer Baron Wright. Davis' "scare" forced a move; someone else killed Baron. Endocrinologist Dr. Gregory Burgess admits swapping Baron's EPI medication to study Dunnigan-type lipodystrophy. Viola
Janice finds her boyfriend Ridley Dineen dead after raiding a drug dealer's stash house. Dr. Eugene Hawes' "money's on fentanyl" pending the tox screen, but according to the American College of Medical Toxicology, he doubts fentanyl-covered cash could kill. Sherlock finds cat hairs, but Ridley was allergic, leading to finding an inhaler containing aerosolized Kolokol-1, perhaps indicating espionage. Sherlock contacts stripper-cum-teacher spy Olga Berezhnaya (from "Murder Ex Machina") to assess R
Waiting at the brownstone is pathological liar, Cassie Lenue, "the impostor formerly known as Mina Davenport" (in "Miss Taken"), who's beaten charges for murdering Agent Underhill, but served twenty months for fraud. Joan recognizes "Lenue" as "LNU...last name unknown...the court's version of John Doe." Cassie claims Heather Foley, who was shot, is her foster mother. Judd Foley helps reveal his wife moonlit for Formula-Share; she had "concerns about the source." Sherlock smells a con. They meet
The "Ghost of Brooklyn" serial killer is suspected in metal sculptor Caroline Gibbs' murder. Reviewing previous victims like Hutchins' daughter Megan, they re-examine DNA, discovering there's no "Ghost" – Northwest Med Tech manager Albert Wu contaminated swabs. Artist Carson Mayfield faux-fought Caroline for publicity. Benjamin Long argued over barking dogs. They interview dog bite victims; Esther Kelton, Sasha, Zachary Fowler who's arrested for stealing phones. Joan discovers Caroline and Diana
A guide conducts a waking "murder tour" where Autumn Cleary was killed in 2001, finding another murder. Erika Vanderwey's certain her husband Hampton killed his mistress Autumn, but he's dead now. Durah lives where Autumn lived, and recognizes Jane Doe as Kamile Volodka, who shared their "model apartment." Sherlock enters from a secret elevator leading to where Kamile's corpse was found. A lawyer presents the building's owner, hedge fund manager Peyton Trask, who moved Kamile's body, but alibis
Reichenbach claimed Wesley stabbed his parents, but Sherlock planted webcams, which Reichenbach disabled, exactly like Sherlock's brownstone electronics. Morland helps create a false threat from Stewart Pringle, who's really his security firm employee, Wilson Kubiak. Third grade teacher Annie Spellman goes to kill Pringle. They confront her with the truth, asking who sent her and how they communicate. Joan finds Annie's "hit" missions assigned through TheSwagMachine.com. Three previous murders i
Annie's safe house burns down, killing her. Sherlock surmises Reichenbach's making mistakes, hiring professional hit men motivated by money, rather than zealots who'll maintain silence. Sensing surveillance at Morland's crime scene, Sherlock evacuates ESU before the car explodes. Morland's $100,000 1937 Patek Calatrava was stolen. Pawn broker Amir provides Bell a lead. ESU raids too late. Hawes identifies three Agrianos mercenaries burned in the oven; one escaped. Holmes confronts McNally at his
The Morning Show 3 news host announces Odin Reichenbach's sentencing, 148 years in prison on dozens of counts, although he wasn't charged with Sherlock's murder. Her guest, Joan Watson, published The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes. Captain Bell phones, "He's back." Afghanistan veteran-cum-nanny Rose lets little Arthur run to "Mommy!" Joan's assistant Sean says an attorney's downstairs. Ronald Adair declares, "Jamie Moriarty is dead....work-related." Joan inherits a parcel, "for Sherlock Holmes upon
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