So Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Lui are back for the second season of Elementary, portraying Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson and this episode was packed full of drama and explosive consequences. The episode opened with a seeminlgy crazed mad-man threatening to blow up a funeral with a grenade (you can't really get any weirder). We are then transported from the scene to Sherlock sitting down on a bench infront of a fountain watching pigeons.
Watson soon arrives and questions Sherlock about his motives and he reveals a long-winded analogy about following a carrier pigeon and then proceeds to run after a man, which Joan also pursues. After the man gives Sherlock the slip, Joan uses her new-found defensive skills to immobilise him, much to Sherlock's amusement. It's nice to see Joan taking the reigns in these new situations and reiterating that she's perfectly capable of taking care of herself (and subdueing criminals). Sherlock then receives a call from the Scotland Yard who inform him that the man who we saw in the beginning (with the grenade) is his old partner Lestrade, who believed the man at the funeral - Lawrence - killed his wife, Mary, and has escaped justice, but he can't prove it.
After much clever deduction, Sherlock and Watson manage to help Lestrade and figure out that Lawrence shot Mary with a gun made with a 3D printer, which he then disolved in Acetone and placed in his fridge to look like milk (literally, what the hell). This episode was orchestrated in true Elementary fashion and featured several amusing moments of which I will detail below. This episode was thoroughly enjoyable on the whole, and there are never moments of boredom or distraction when I watch Elementary, so here's hoping that continues. It was pleasant to see Holmes and Watson in a new environment in London, and the introduction of Sherlock's brother Mycroft, was a pleasing revelation and the casting was well-advised. Mycroft (or a.k.a fatty to Sherlock) offered up some amusing brotherly rivalvry with Sherlock, as it was revealed that Sherlock had an affair of sorts with Mycroft's fiancee.
Then to top it all of, Mycroft blows up Sherlock's remaining stored items in a cheeky and sort of touching display signifying resolution for the two brothers.
The scene in which Sherlock holds up signs to security camera's to get the attention of some mysterious person who can help them with the names of people who bought 3D printers was also hilarious and entertaining, as was the whole fiasco with the plastic gun. Overall, it was a firm start to a new season and if all the episodes turn out this well, then we should be in for quite a promising ride. So, did you enjoy the scenes with Mycroft Holmes? And did anyone else enjoy the bit where Sherlock stated that Joan would be sleeping with Mycroft as a surrogate for himself? - literally hilarious.
Reviewed by Mel.
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