1 00:00:02,102 --> 00:00:04,332 MAN 1 [ON TV]: The gate is down. It's a fantastic start 2 00:00:04,504 --> 00:00:06,802 for Dennis Bailey and Liam Sneed. 3 00:00:06,973 --> 00:00:08,406 MAN 2: The lioness lacks endurance 4 00:00:08,575 --> 00:00:11,100 and can only run at top speed for 100 yards. 5 00:00:11,277 --> 00:00:13,142 Don't you ever get tired of this memory game? 6 00:00:13,313 --> 00:00:15,577 - You do it every morning. - The mind is a muscle, Watson. 7 00:00:15,749 --> 00:00:18,912 It needs to be exercised regularly, lest it turn flabby. 8 00:00:19,586 --> 00:00:21,076 Most people just read a book. 9 00:00:21,254 --> 00:00:22,778 I am reading a book. 10 00:00:22,956 --> 00:00:24,856 Well, do you mind turning it off for a minute? 11 00:00:25,025 --> 00:00:28,119 I wanna finish our conversation from last night. 12 00:00:30,263 --> 00:00:31,457 Okay, I meant all of them. 13 00:00:31,631 --> 00:00:34,429 Absorbing and cataloging several pieces of information at the same time 14 00:00:34,601 --> 00:00:37,695 is the whole point. Talk away. 15 00:00:37,904 --> 00:00:41,465 Okay, well then, I want us to get more serious about finding a sponsor. 16 00:00:41,641 --> 00:00:44,201 Why do I need a sponsor when I have a companion? 17 00:00:44,377 --> 00:00:46,641 Because you only have me for a few more weeks. 18 00:00:46,813 --> 00:00:47,837 A sponsor is permanent. 19 00:00:48,014 --> 00:00:49,982 Someone who's struggled with their own addictions 20 00:00:50,150 --> 00:00:53,551 and is gonna offer you lifelong support and advice, which is what you need. 21 00:00:55,188 --> 00:00:57,656 "The drugs that I took seemed to light up my brain. 22 00:00:58,691 --> 00:01:02,650 Suddenly I realized the power I held, the power to rule, 23 00:01:02,829 --> 00:01:05,024 to make the world grovel at my feet." 24 00:01:07,267 --> 00:01:08,928 [REWINDS VIDEO] 25 00:01:09,102 --> 00:01:11,593 The drugs I took seemed to light up my brain. 26 00:01:12,038 --> 00:01:15,997 Suddenly I realized the power I held, the power to rule, 27 00:01:16,176 --> 00:01:19,771 to make the world grovel at my feet. 28 00:01:21,014 --> 00:01:23,209 Well, I know someone who might be a good fit for you. 29 00:01:23,383 --> 00:01:25,874 I've worked with him before. Let's have coffee with him, okay? 30 00:01:26,086 --> 00:01:28,520 If I needed a sponsor, that would sound delightful. 31 00:01:28,688 --> 00:01:31,623 I don't. Just like I didn't need a sober companion. 32 00:01:31,791 --> 00:01:34,453 And you didn't need rehab and you didn't need drug counseling 33 00:01:34,627 --> 00:01:38,324 and you didn't need any help of any kind, I know. 34 00:01:38,932 --> 00:01:40,331 It's just coffee. 35 00:01:41,568 --> 00:01:42,967 - Sherlock. - Fine, I'll go. 36 00:01:43,136 --> 00:01:46,367 Provided I can get some peace and quiet around here. 37 00:01:46,539 --> 00:01:48,769 [TELEVISIONS CHATTERING] 38 00:01:52,245 --> 00:01:55,237 We completely understand, Mr. McKeon. Fluid layout. 39 00:01:55,415 --> 00:01:56,746 No, we agree. 40 00:01:56,916 --> 00:01:59,851 Uh, grid-based design, it's gone the way of the dinosaur. 41 00:02:00,887 --> 00:02:02,252 Will do. 42 00:02:02,422 --> 00:02:04,822 All right. Take care. 43 00:02:05,024 --> 00:02:07,549 Our favorite client's still wringing his hands? 44 00:02:07,727 --> 00:02:09,718 Guy just does not get web design. 45 00:02:09,896 --> 00:02:12,831 Of course, he's like 45 or something. 46 00:02:14,801 --> 00:02:17,361 [BEEPING] 47 00:02:17,937 --> 00:02:19,598 Is that you? 48 00:02:20,006 --> 00:02:21,530 No. 49 00:02:24,544 --> 00:02:26,409 I think it's coming from inside the vent. 50 00:02:30,550 --> 00:02:33,041 [BEEPING CONTINUES] 51 00:02:33,219 --> 00:02:36,586 Yeah. Repair guy must have dropped his phone or something. 52 00:02:36,756 --> 00:02:38,018 It's gonna make us crazy. 53 00:02:38,191 --> 00:02:39,954 I'll call maintenance. 54 00:02:40,126 --> 00:02:42,651 [BEEPING] 55 00:02:46,633 --> 00:02:48,999 [POWERING UP] 56 00:03:18,198 --> 00:03:19,529 [POLICE RADIO CHATTERING] 57 00:03:19,699 --> 00:03:22,167 The blast detonated in the southeast corner of the office 58 00:03:22,335 --> 00:03:24,895 around 9:15 this morning. 59 00:03:25,071 --> 00:03:26,538 Killed two people, 60 00:03:27,073 --> 00:03:30,907 Dave Preston and Royce Maltz, and injured 11 more. 61 00:03:31,377 --> 00:03:32,969 Chemical composition of the device? 62 00:03:34,113 --> 00:03:35,171 Bomb squad's working on it. 63 00:03:35,348 --> 00:03:39,045 All they know for sure is that the bomb was stashed in that air vent. 64 00:03:39,219 --> 00:03:41,585 Both of the victims were employees of this company? 65 00:03:41,754 --> 00:03:43,085 Parabolic Web Industries. 66 00:03:43,256 --> 00:03:45,417 They design and maintain corporate websites. 67 00:03:45,592 --> 00:03:49,551 We're looking into whether anybody had beef with the firm. 68 00:03:49,729 --> 00:03:51,663 OFFICER: Captain? Detective Bell? Got a minute? 69 00:03:51,831 --> 00:03:52,889 GREGSON: Sure. 70 00:03:53,066 --> 00:03:54,624 OFFICER: Please watch your step there too. 71 00:04:08,181 --> 00:04:10,843 I imagine you won't miss this when you're gone. 72 00:04:12,252 --> 00:04:15,016 In a few weeks, you'll be with a new client. 73 00:04:15,188 --> 00:04:18,646 No more crime scenes, no more death and destruction. 74 00:04:18,825 --> 00:04:21,225 Most dangerous place you'll go is a support-group meeting 75 00:04:21,394 --> 00:04:24,124 where they run out of coffee. 76 00:04:24,764 --> 00:04:26,732 Firstly, I don't have a next client, 77 00:04:26,899 --> 00:04:29,993 and secondly, you're right, I'm not gonna miss seeing this stuff. 78 00:04:42,548 --> 00:04:45,483 You see this? That's packing paper. 79 00:04:45,652 --> 00:04:49,349 It's used to fill the gap between the fuel and the blast cap on a pipe bomb. 80 00:04:49,522 --> 00:04:52,184 When the bomb detonates, this paper is ejected through the barrel 81 00:04:52,358 --> 00:04:54,519 before it has time to fully combust. 82 00:04:54,694 --> 00:04:59,097 Now, weapons-grade munition uses pulp filler, not newspaper. 83 00:04:59,265 --> 00:05:01,529 Bomb Squad said the same thing. 84 00:05:01,701 --> 00:05:04,295 We're already running a check on recent commercial burglaries 85 00:05:04,470 --> 00:05:09,931 to see if anyone's missing any flammable chemicals or gunpowder. 86 00:05:12,278 --> 00:05:15,042 - You got something? - Motherboard. 87 00:05:15,214 --> 00:05:17,079 BELL: You know this is a computer company, right? 88 00:05:17,250 --> 00:05:19,218 Well, that's just it, detective. 89 00:05:19,385 --> 00:05:21,979 This is not from a computer. It's from a pager. 90 00:05:22,155 --> 00:05:26,251 Note the presence of a receiver but the absence of a transmitter. 91 00:05:26,426 --> 00:05:28,986 So, what's it doing here? Hmm? 92 00:05:29,162 --> 00:05:31,858 Pre-explosion, this place looked like the deck of a starship. 93 00:05:32,031 --> 00:05:34,465 It's unlikely any of the firm's employees would use technology 94 00:05:34,634 --> 00:05:36,329 as antiquated as a pager. 95 00:05:36,502 --> 00:05:38,163 You're saying it's part of the bomb? 96 00:05:38,338 --> 00:05:40,829 I'm saying this may be the bomb's detonator. 97 00:05:41,007 --> 00:05:43,373 The good news is, if it's not too badly damaged, 98 00:05:43,543 --> 00:05:45,272 you'll be able to trace the account. 99 00:05:45,445 --> 00:05:48,346 I'll get this to Tech Assist right away. 100 00:05:48,514 --> 00:05:51,005 I'll let you know when we hear something. 101 00:05:51,184 --> 00:05:52,708 If the motherboard is still functional, 102 00:05:52,885 --> 00:05:55,513 how long do you think it's gonna take the police to get a number? 103 00:05:55,688 --> 00:05:57,087 Two, maybe three hours. Why? 104 00:05:59,025 --> 00:06:00,515 WATSON: He'll be a great sponsor for you, 105 00:06:00,693 --> 00:06:02,558 and he works on the floor of the stock exchange. 106 00:06:03,029 --> 00:06:05,293 Good thinking, Watson. You know how much I enjoy bankers. 107 00:06:05,465 --> 00:06:08,059 Glad to see you've been paying attention over the last few weeks. 108 00:06:08,234 --> 00:06:10,532 Actually, he's an officer with the SEC. 109 00:06:10,703 --> 00:06:12,728 So he spends his days keeping bankers in line. 110 00:06:12,905 --> 00:06:15,203 He also spent four years at the London School of Economics, 111 00:06:15,375 --> 00:06:17,707 so he knows your old stomping grounds. 112 00:06:17,877 --> 00:06:19,674 You think I'd just pick any name out of a hat? 113 00:06:19,846 --> 00:06:22,314 Oh, there he is. Hey, Adrian. 114 00:06:23,483 --> 00:06:24,609 - Hi. - Hi. 115 00:06:24,784 --> 00:06:27,116 WATSON: Adrian, Sherlock. - Pleasure. 116 00:06:30,690 --> 00:06:33,784 Well, you guys talk. I'll be over there when you're ready. 117 00:06:38,731 --> 00:06:40,824 A hypothetical. I call you in the middle of the night, 118 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,935 I tell you I'm thinking of using again, and that if I don't, I might die. 119 00:06:44,103 --> 00:06:45,229 How do you respond? 120 00:06:45,705 --> 00:06:47,730 Well, Sherlock, I think I'd start by reminding you, 121 00:06:47,907 --> 00:06:51,274 you gotta take it one day at a time, and that every clean day is a victory. 122 00:06:51,444 --> 00:06:53,503 I call you and tell you that an enemy has poisoned me 123 00:06:53,679 --> 00:06:55,010 with a powerful neuroleptic agent. 124 00:06:55,181 --> 00:06:57,308 The only antidote is a healthy dose of diphenhydramine, 125 00:06:57,483 --> 00:07:00,008 of which I have plenty. Do you advise me to take it? 126 00:07:00,586 --> 00:07:02,679 - Diphenhy...? - Diphenhydramine. 127 00:07:02,855 --> 00:07:04,049 Oh. 128 00:07:04,223 --> 00:07:05,485 You find poisoning humorous? 129 00:07:05,658 --> 00:07:07,091 No, of course not. I just... 130 00:07:07,260 --> 00:07:09,023 The diphenhydramine, Adrian, do I take it? 131 00:07:10,663 --> 00:07:14,565 If it's gonna save your life, then, yeah, course you do. 132 00:07:25,411 --> 00:07:27,436 That's your idea of a good fit, seriously? 133 00:07:27,613 --> 00:07:29,513 I told you, he's one of the best sponsors I know. 134 00:07:29,682 --> 00:07:31,775 Peter Platitude? I was waiting for him to hold my hand 135 00:07:31,951 --> 00:07:33,441 so we could recite the Serenity Prayer. 136 00:07:33,619 --> 00:07:35,553 If you wanna hear something other than platitudes, 137 00:07:35,721 --> 00:07:37,712 try listening to the guy for more than two minutes. 138 00:07:37,890 --> 00:07:41,656 The man encouraged me to take diphenhydramine, Watson. A deliriant. 139 00:07:41,828 --> 00:07:44,729 The Republic of Zambia recently classified that a controlled substance. 140 00:07:44,897 --> 00:07:47,798 Now, what kind of a sponsor would allow his sponsee to risk their sobriety 141 00:07:47,967 --> 00:07:49,992 over a simple case of neuroleptic poisoning? 142 00:07:50,169 --> 00:07:53,502 Okay, you think I don't know there's no right answer to that question? 143 00:07:53,706 --> 00:07:55,697 You don't want Adrian? Okay. This is a process. 144 00:07:55,875 --> 00:07:57,809 We can look for other candidates at group tonight. 145 00:07:57,977 --> 00:08:02,539 But know this, we are gonna find you a sponsor before my stint is up, okay? 146 00:08:02,715 --> 00:08:05,616 [CELL PHONE RINGING] 147 00:08:05,785 --> 00:08:08,811 - Ha. Captain. - That motherboard you found, 148 00:08:08,988 --> 00:08:12,185 Bomb Squad confirmed it was part of the device, so touché. 149 00:08:12,358 --> 00:08:15,623 The pager it was part of was prepaid, so there was no subscriber info, 150 00:08:15,795 --> 00:08:19,390 but luckily, the Tech Assist was able to pull a number off it. 151 00:08:19,565 --> 00:08:23,194 And the same phone called the pager three times this morning, 152 00:08:23,369 --> 00:08:26,497 and each call was within seconds of the bomb going off. 153 00:08:26,672 --> 00:08:28,162 Were you able to trace the number? 154 00:08:28,341 --> 00:08:31,435 Yeah, to a plumber named Rennie Jacobs from Queens. 155 00:08:31,611 --> 00:08:33,841 And get this, he just did a six-year stretch 156 00:08:34,013 --> 00:08:37,449 for burning down his apartment in an insurance-fraud scheme. 157 00:08:37,783 --> 00:08:40,445 Any particular reason he'd want to depredate that web-design firm? 158 00:08:40,620 --> 00:08:45,887 No clue, but if you wanna see him live and in person, he just got here. 159 00:08:46,058 --> 00:08:48,720 I was just trying to call in a breakfast-sandwich order, that's it. 160 00:08:48,895 --> 00:08:51,386 Three times you called that pager, Mr. Jacobs. 161 00:08:51,564 --> 00:08:52,622 Three times. 162 00:08:52,798 --> 00:08:55,858 You said the pager number was 555-0164, right? 163 00:08:56,035 --> 00:08:57,332 212 area code? 164 00:08:57,503 --> 00:09:00,666 I was trying to call Miracle Deli on 113th. 165 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:04,708 Their number's off by one digit, 0165. 166 00:09:04,877 --> 00:09:06,310 I must've misdialled, 167 00:09:06,479 --> 00:09:09,141 because when they didn't answer, I hit redial. Twice. 168 00:09:09,315 --> 00:09:10,782 [LINE RINGING] 169 00:09:10,950 --> 00:09:12,611 MAN [ON PHONE]: Miracle Deli. Pickup or delivery? 170 00:09:12,785 --> 00:09:16,346 Hmm. He's telling the truth about the numbers being off by a single digit. 171 00:09:16,522 --> 00:09:17,614 Yeah, we know. 172 00:09:17,790 --> 00:09:20,588 Coincidence bugs me, but not enough to cut him loose. 173 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:22,625 BELL: A bomb goes off in downtown Manhattan... 174 00:09:22,795 --> 00:09:26,663 GREGSON: I gotta step out. Bomb Squad wants to brief me. 175 00:09:27,066 --> 00:09:29,967 BELL: Our guys found a pager in the rubble that they say was the detonator, 176 00:09:30,136 --> 00:09:31,603 so we traced the number that calls... 177 00:09:31,771 --> 00:09:33,432 WATSON: You don't look convinced. 178 00:09:33,606 --> 00:09:35,369 Bomb building is a dangerous venture. 179 00:09:35,541 --> 00:09:39,705 It requires patience, precision, attention to detail. 180 00:09:39,879 --> 00:09:41,710 Mr. Jacobs' wristwatch is nine minutes slow 181 00:09:41,881 --> 00:09:44,873 and his fly is three-quarters down. 182 00:09:45,251 --> 00:09:47,151 That doesn't scream "detail-oriented." 183 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:49,948 Ted Kaczynski looked like a hobo puked another hobo. 184 00:09:50,122 --> 00:09:52,022 He managed to hurt plenty of people. 185 00:09:52,725 --> 00:09:55,353 BELL: Trying to order a sandwich. - And point taken. 186 00:09:55,895 --> 00:09:57,362 BELL: Do you buy a story like that? 187 00:09:57,530 --> 00:10:00,431 BENNETT: This is our power source. - Yeah. 188 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:02,261 It was lying on the floor. 189 00:10:02,435 --> 00:10:04,335 GREGSON: Can I help you? 190 00:10:05,938 --> 00:10:08,338 This is the, uh, bomb's power source, I presume. 191 00:10:08,507 --> 00:10:09,531 Six-volt. 192 00:10:09,709 --> 00:10:11,677 Very interesting company, PrimSource Battery. 193 00:10:11,844 --> 00:10:13,709 Founded in 1888 by British ex-pat 194 00:10:13,879 --> 00:10:16,871 and purveyor of mechanical novelties Hubert Primler. 195 00:10:17,483 --> 00:10:19,974 They switched to making batteries full time in 1907, 196 00:10:20,152 --> 00:10:24,179 each one stamped with the company's now iconic rising-sun logo. 197 00:10:24,357 --> 00:10:26,621 The logo remained unchanged until 2008, 198 00:10:26,792 --> 00:10:28,157 when a small oak tree was added 199 00:10:28,327 --> 00:10:30,522 to commemorate the company's centenary. Hmm. 200 00:10:30,696 --> 00:10:32,561 Yet this one has no oak tree. 201 00:10:34,033 --> 00:10:37,491 That means that battery is more than four years old. 202 00:10:37,670 --> 00:10:39,001 Odd, isn't it? 203 00:10:39,171 --> 00:10:41,571 Go to all that trouble building an elaborate explosive device, 204 00:10:41,741 --> 00:10:44,266 and then power it with an old and potentially unreliable battery. 205 00:10:44,777 --> 00:10:46,506 Odd, yes, but not impossible. 206 00:10:47,013 --> 00:10:49,072 Holmes. Holmes, I've only got a few minutes here 207 00:10:49,248 --> 00:10:52,376 to pick Bennett's brain before I have to stand in front of 20 cameras 208 00:10:52,551 --> 00:10:54,041 to explain what happened this morning. 209 00:10:54,220 --> 00:10:56,381 - What about that? - What about what? 210 00:10:56,555 --> 00:10:58,614 BENNETT: It's the president. - Wrong. It's the senator. 211 00:10:58,791 --> 00:10:59,985 - Captain... - Senator Obama. 212 00:11:00,159 --> 00:11:03,322 Not President Obama. You can tell from the lack of gray in his hair. 213 00:11:03,496 --> 00:11:04,554 He's right. 214 00:11:04,730 --> 00:11:07,699 I can make out a date on this one. October 13th, 2008. 215 00:11:07,867 --> 00:11:09,528 So, what are you saying? 216 00:11:09,702 --> 00:11:10,896 That battery is four years old. 217 00:11:11,070 --> 00:11:12,799 These shreds of newspaper are four years old. 218 00:11:12,972 --> 00:11:15,600 The bomb that exploded this morning was four years old. 219 00:11:15,775 --> 00:11:19,074 Why would the suspect build a bomb and sit on it for four years? 220 00:11:19,245 --> 00:11:21,736 He wouldn't have. And in Rennie Jacobs's case, he couldn't have. 221 00:11:21,914 --> 00:11:23,245 He was in prison four years ago. 222 00:11:23,416 --> 00:11:24,940 I think he was telling the truth 223 00:11:25,117 --> 00:11:26,914 when he said he dialed the wrong number. 224 00:11:27,086 --> 00:11:30,214 We have the man who set it off accidentally in 2012. 225 00:11:30,389 --> 00:11:34,587 Now we just need the man who intended to set it off in 2008. 226 00:11:37,630 --> 00:11:39,359 You sure he's not the one who built the bomb? 227 00:11:39,532 --> 00:11:42,194 Sure? No. Reasonably certain? Yeah. 228 00:11:42,601 --> 00:11:44,626 The N.Y.P.D. Can continue to poke and prod him, 229 00:11:44,804 --> 00:11:48,638 in the meantime, you and I can push forward on this, our new front. 230 00:11:50,009 --> 00:11:52,068 - It is a lovely front. - Hmm. 231 00:11:52,244 --> 00:11:53,905 Vanowen Strategic Communications. 232 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:56,878 Public-relations consultancy founded in 1994 233 00:11:57,049 --> 00:11:59,916 by Harrington School of Business alumna Heather Vanowen. 234 00:12:00,086 --> 00:12:04,216 The firm is particularly adept at solving image crises of the corporate variety, 235 00:12:04,390 --> 00:12:07,621 making them one-stop shopping for many of the Fortune 500. 236 00:12:07,793 --> 00:12:10,387 Spin doctors of highest order, 237 00:12:10,563 --> 00:12:13,396 and former tenants of the midtown offices 238 00:12:13,566 --> 00:12:15,693 ravaged by a homemade bomb this morning. 239 00:12:15,868 --> 00:12:18,598 They occupied the space until December, 2008. 240 00:12:18,771 --> 00:12:21,638 Now, if I'm right and the bomb was planted that October, 241 00:12:21,807 --> 00:12:26,141 this company, or one of its employees, may have been the intended target. 242 00:12:26,312 --> 00:12:27,745 VANOWEN: Mr. Holmes? 243 00:12:28,914 --> 00:12:31,815 Heather Vanowen. This is Earl Wheeler, my CFO. 244 00:12:32,585 --> 00:12:35,076 We were told you work with the police. 245 00:12:35,254 --> 00:12:36,846 I'm their consultant. This is Miss Watson. 246 00:12:37,022 --> 00:12:40,287 She is my consultant-slash-housekeep. 247 00:12:40,459 --> 00:12:41,926 So how can we help you today? 248 00:12:42,094 --> 00:12:43,425 Well, you can start by telling us 249 00:12:43,596 --> 00:12:46,759 who may have wanted to blow you up in 2008. 250 00:12:48,367 --> 00:12:51,427 I'm stunned. I saw the story on the news this morning. 251 00:12:51,604 --> 00:12:54,072 I knew that was our old office space, 252 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:57,437 but I never would've guessed that that bomb was meant for us. 253 00:12:57,610 --> 00:13:00,636 So you honestly think it was just sitting there this whole time? 254 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:03,105 The police think it was tucked into an air vent. 255 00:13:03,282 --> 00:13:06,445 If that part of the building's climate control system never needed repair, 256 00:13:06,619 --> 00:13:08,849 and judging by this morning's events, it didn't, 257 00:13:09,021 --> 00:13:10,886 it could have gone undiscovered indefinitely. 258 00:13:11,457 --> 00:13:13,186 Okay, but why this morning? 259 00:13:13,359 --> 00:13:15,054 Why'd it go off after all this time? 260 00:13:15,227 --> 00:13:17,286 Bomb was detonated by a pager. 261 00:13:17,463 --> 00:13:20,660 In 2008, the company that made that pager 262 00:13:20,833 --> 00:13:24,360 had no signal towers within 42 blocks of your old offices. 263 00:13:24,537 --> 00:13:30,533 In 2010, they erected a new tower a mere three blocks away. 264 00:13:31,310 --> 00:13:34,677 So the bomb didn't detonate in 2008 because the call couldn't go through. 265 00:13:34,847 --> 00:13:37,179 The question is, who built the device, 266 00:13:37,349 --> 00:13:39,283 and what may they have had against your company? 267 00:13:39,451 --> 00:13:42,579 I'm sure that we've made our fair share of enemies along the way, 268 00:13:42,755 --> 00:13:45,189 but, uh, someone who would build a bomb? 269 00:13:45,357 --> 00:13:47,416 The ELM. 270 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:49,825 The Earth Liberty Militia. 271 00:13:49,995 --> 00:13:52,156 We got some threatening letters from them in 2008. 272 00:13:52,331 --> 00:13:53,798 They're an ecoterrorist group, right? 273 00:13:53,966 --> 00:13:55,831 They've bombed other companies over the years. 274 00:13:56,001 --> 00:13:58,697 What would an ecoterrorist group have against a PR firm? 275 00:13:59,305 --> 00:14:00,397 Our clients. 276 00:14:00,573 --> 00:14:03,406 We work with some of the major energy conglomerates. 277 00:14:03,576 --> 00:14:06,739 Occasionally, we have to help them smooth over their image after mishaps. 278 00:14:06,912 --> 00:14:09,710 Two hundred million gallons of oil spilling into the Gulf, for example? 279 00:14:09,882 --> 00:14:12,851 WHEELER: The ELM sent us seven letters in 2008. 280 00:14:13,219 --> 00:14:15,983 I think we have copies of them in our records room. Wanna take a look? 281 00:14:16,155 --> 00:14:17,679 We would. 282 00:14:19,859 --> 00:14:22,692 Effluvium, fussbudget, Cairo. 283 00:14:22,862 --> 00:14:25,922 Nine across, 14 down, 32 down. 284 00:14:26,699 --> 00:14:29,133 I have a sort of thing for puzzles. 285 00:14:33,239 --> 00:14:36,800 WOMAN: When I first tried getting clean, I started drinking. 286 00:14:37,576 --> 00:14:40,272 Before long, I realized that I had swapped one addiction for another. 287 00:14:40,446 --> 00:14:41,845 [WHISPERING] Please put those away. 288 00:14:42,014 --> 00:14:44,482 [WHISPERING] "You cannot stop this. You can only submit. 289 00:14:44,650 --> 00:14:46,709 Submit or be destroyed." 290 00:14:47,620 --> 00:14:50,088 That's something the ELM would say. Hmm. 291 00:14:50,522 --> 00:14:53,355 - Here. - Not the time, not the place. 292 00:14:53,525 --> 00:14:55,686 I'm sorry, but from my forensic linguistic standpoint, 293 00:14:55,861 --> 00:14:57,590 these threats are quite fascinating. 294 00:14:58,097 --> 00:15:00,725 For example, I see clues here that would suggest 295 00:15:00,900 --> 00:15:03,698 that the ELM was not an organization, per se, 296 00:15:03,869 --> 00:15:06,838 but one man posing as an organization. 297 00:15:09,008 --> 00:15:11,806 Seriously, can you just examine those at home? We have work to do here. 298 00:15:11,977 --> 00:15:14,241 Oh, yeah. Sponsor Search 2012. 299 00:15:15,481 --> 00:15:18,678 I have to say, Watson, it's a bit of a motley crew tonight. 300 00:15:18,851 --> 00:15:20,682 I don't think these are my kind of addicts. 301 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:23,483 I think this is gonna be a much longer 302 00:15:23,656 --> 00:15:25,886 and more involved process than we initially thought. 303 00:15:26,759 --> 00:15:29,922 You have 23 days, then our time is up. 304 00:15:31,597 --> 00:15:33,531 ALFREDO: My name is Alfredo and I'm an addict. 305 00:15:33,699 --> 00:15:36,065 ALL: Hi, Alfredo. 306 00:15:36,235 --> 00:15:38,795 ALFREDO: I started boosting cars when I was 14. 307 00:15:38,971 --> 00:15:42,566 By the time I turned 18, I was the best there is. 308 00:15:42,741 --> 00:15:44,971 Ain't a car in this city I can't steal. 309 00:15:45,444 --> 00:15:47,776 - Him. - Hmm? 310 00:15:47,947 --> 00:15:50,040 So I'm flush with cash, bored, I turn to drugs. 311 00:15:50,582 --> 00:15:52,379 I want him to be my sponsor. 312 00:15:52,551 --> 00:15:54,416 ALFREDO: Took my first hit at 19. 313 00:15:57,589 --> 00:16:02,788 This phrase, "On your beam ends," it appears in five of the seven threats. 314 00:16:02,962 --> 00:16:06,261 I'm certain I've heard it before, I just can't recall where. 315 00:16:06,432 --> 00:16:07,456 WATSON: "On your beam ends"? 316 00:16:07,633 --> 00:16:08,964 A nautical idiom first documented 317 00:16:09,134 --> 00:16:13,070 in Captain Frederick Marryat's 1830 novel The King's Own, 318 00:16:13,238 --> 00:16:16,071 signifying a situation of great peril. 319 00:16:16,241 --> 00:16:20,143 Strange for such an aberrant phrase to appear so repeatedly. 320 00:16:20,312 --> 00:16:22,177 Are you seriously gonna make me ask? 321 00:16:22,348 --> 00:16:24,748 - Ask what? - About your sponsor, Alfredo. 322 00:16:24,917 --> 00:16:27,647 Delightful fellow. He's agreed to meet us both tomorrow for coffee. 323 00:16:27,820 --> 00:16:30,084 So we can get to know one another. 324 00:16:30,255 --> 00:16:32,689 - You don't approve? - I'm just a little confused, that's all. 325 00:16:32,858 --> 00:16:34,120 I mean, you actually met Adrian. 326 00:16:34,293 --> 00:16:36,090 You talked to him before you turned him down. 327 00:16:36,261 --> 00:16:38,695 You heard Alfredo speak for 15 seconds. 328 00:16:38,864 --> 00:16:40,593 Oh. Have you not figured out by now 329 00:16:40,766 --> 00:16:43,166 that I see far more than your average addict? 330 00:16:43,335 --> 00:16:45,166 My observational skills are second to none. 331 00:16:45,337 --> 00:16:47,032 I know. I know that. I just... 332 00:16:47,206 --> 00:16:50,141 I wanna leave you in the best situation possible. It's important to me. 333 00:16:50,309 --> 00:16:52,072 - Got it. - Good, I'm glad. 334 00:16:52,244 --> 00:16:55,008 No, "On your beam ends." I've got it. 335 00:16:55,180 --> 00:16:58,081 I know where I was when I heard it. 336 00:17:02,755 --> 00:17:05,883 That one. That's where I saw it, weeks ago. 337 00:17:06,325 --> 00:17:08,589 But what was the context? 338 00:17:08,761 --> 00:17:10,524 [SIGHS] 339 00:17:11,964 --> 00:17:14,865 Yellow cartoon sponge man, sports news, 340 00:17:15,034 --> 00:17:16,968 mouthwash advert, Arctic Blue. 341 00:17:17,136 --> 00:17:20,264 - Wanna tell me what you're doing? - Method of loci, mnemonic device. 342 00:17:20,439 --> 00:17:22,270 Relies on memorized spatial relationships 343 00:17:22,441 --> 00:17:27,469 to establish, catalog, and recollect memorial content. 344 00:17:28,380 --> 00:17:30,075 If I remember what was on these six screens, 345 00:17:30,249 --> 00:17:32,444 I'll remember what was on the seventh. 346 00:17:36,055 --> 00:17:38,216 Fat lady, new cookbook, insufferable. 347 00:17:38,390 --> 00:17:39,721 Erectile dysfunction. 348 00:17:39,892 --> 00:17:43,726 Nature program, penguins and talk show. 349 00:17:43,896 --> 00:17:47,423 The topic was international whaling laws. 350 00:17:47,599 --> 00:17:51,057 The two guests got into an argument. 351 00:17:57,409 --> 00:17:59,343 MAN [ON VIDEO]: You are not seriously suggesting 352 00:17:59,511 --> 00:18:02,446 that cleaning out the Pacific Ocean is a good idea? 353 00:18:02,614 --> 00:18:04,445 What do you suggest we tell the Japanese worker 354 00:18:04,616 --> 00:18:06,277 whose livelihood depends upon this trade? 355 00:18:06,452 --> 00:18:08,716 You just... You don't get it. One day, 50 years from now, 356 00:18:08,887 --> 00:18:10,184 when you're on your beam ends, 357 00:18:10,355 --> 00:18:12,846 you'll wish you'd done more when you could have. 358 00:18:13,392 --> 00:18:16,259 That's the same bombast I read in the ELM letters. 359 00:18:16,428 --> 00:18:18,862 - It's the same hyperbole. - Same weird phrase. 360 00:18:19,031 --> 00:18:20,589 You really think it's him? 361 00:18:20,766 --> 00:18:22,393 I know a way to find out. 362 00:18:22,568 --> 00:18:24,468 KNOWLES: I'm confused, detective. 363 00:18:24,636 --> 00:18:28,003 You're accusing me of being some sort of ecoterrorist? 364 00:18:28,173 --> 00:18:31,267 One of our special consultants thinks your speech pattern 365 00:18:31,443 --> 00:18:33,274 is a match for these letters. 366 00:18:33,445 --> 00:18:37,108 For the last time, I have never seen these letters before. 367 00:18:37,282 --> 00:18:41,343 I don't know anything about the ELM, and I certainly didn't build any bombs. 368 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:44,580 Lie, lie, and lie. 369 00:18:45,157 --> 00:18:46,181 Who the hell are you? 370 00:18:46,358 --> 00:18:48,292 I am the man with the button. 371 00:18:48,794 --> 00:18:51,661 It's from the elevator down the hall. You pushed it to get to this floor. 372 00:18:51,830 --> 00:18:53,923 As soon as you disembarked, I removed it, 373 00:18:54,099 --> 00:18:56,363 took it to the department's Latent Print Unit. 374 00:18:56,535 --> 00:18:58,435 Has your fingerprint on it, you see. 375 00:18:58,604 --> 00:19:01,095 Which means it has a great deal in common 376 00:19:01,273 --> 00:19:03,833 with a component from a bomb the ELM detonated 377 00:19:04,009 --> 00:19:07,410 in a lumber mill in Utica in 2005. 378 00:19:07,579 --> 00:19:08,637 Button. 379 00:19:08,814 --> 00:19:09,974 Bomb. 380 00:19:10,149 --> 00:19:11,207 Button. 381 00:19:11,383 --> 00:19:12,407 Bomb. 382 00:19:12,584 --> 00:19:15,280 Similarities are quite striking, wouldn't you agree? 383 00:19:15,787 --> 00:19:17,254 You built the ELM bombs, Mr. Knowles. 384 00:19:17,422 --> 00:19:18,719 And you wrote those letters. 385 00:19:18,891 --> 00:19:21,553 It's too bad you didn't go back for the one you left at Vanowen S.C. 386 00:19:21,727 --> 00:19:23,092 When you realized it was defective. 387 00:19:23,262 --> 00:19:26,322 Maybe you wouldn't be facing two murder charges today. 388 00:19:27,633 --> 00:19:29,498 I bombed that lumber mill. 389 00:19:30,802 --> 00:19:34,033 And I wrote these letters to Vanowen S.C. 390 00:19:34,206 --> 00:19:36,436 But you know what I didn't do? 391 00:19:36,842 --> 00:19:38,070 Follow up on them. 392 00:19:39,211 --> 00:19:42,578 By 2008, I had successfully detonated nitrate-based bombs 393 00:19:42,748 --> 00:19:44,682 at five different companies. 394 00:19:44,850 --> 00:19:48,183 I was established, and I was taken very seriously. 395 00:19:48,353 --> 00:19:51,652 Vanowen S.C. Was one of several dozen businesses 396 00:19:51,823 --> 00:19:53,552 I threatened but never bombed. 397 00:19:53,725 --> 00:19:56,592 Why am I not surprised you take credit for every bombing 398 00:19:56,762 --> 00:19:59,822 except the one that killed two people? 399 00:19:59,998 --> 00:20:01,431 [EXPLOSION] 400 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:03,067 WATSON: Was that you? 401 00:20:03,302 --> 00:20:04,326 HOLMES: Was what me? 402 00:20:08,473 --> 00:20:10,270 What did those balls ever do to you? 403 00:20:11,977 --> 00:20:14,138 They're dying for a good cause, Watson. 404 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:16,841 - Of course they are. - Ah! 405 00:20:18,951 --> 00:20:20,851 Did you know that when a bomb explodes, 406 00:20:21,019 --> 00:20:23,852 the component that houses the fuel is often atomized? 407 00:20:24,022 --> 00:20:27,082 Now, this can make it difficult, if not downright impossible, 408 00:20:27,259 --> 00:20:29,693 to identify the device's chemical composition. 409 00:20:29,861 --> 00:20:32,853 The N.Y.P.D. Bomb Squad is currently struggling with this very conundrum, 410 00:20:33,031 --> 00:20:34,464 so I thought I would help. 411 00:20:34,633 --> 00:20:35,657 With tennis balls? 412 00:20:35,834 --> 00:20:38,234 I'm attempting to replicate the odor and burn pattern 413 00:20:38,403 --> 00:20:40,871 of the office bombing using a few of my own concoctions, 414 00:20:41,039 --> 00:20:44,998 and these balls make the perfect delivery mechanism. 415 00:20:54,419 --> 00:20:56,114 [SNIFFING] 416 00:20:56,855 --> 00:20:58,880 When Edgar Knowles was arrested this afternoon, 417 00:20:59,057 --> 00:21:02,117 he confessed to setting off five nitrate-based bombs 418 00:21:02,294 --> 00:21:03,352 at various businesses. 419 00:21:03,528 --> 00:21:05,462 No self-respecting eco-warrior 420 00:21:05,631 --> 00:21:08,191 would use toxic, man-made chemicals in his bombs. 421 00:21:08,367 --> 00:21:12,235 He would use natural ingredients. 422 00:21:12,404 --> 00:21:14,599 - It smells like fertilizer. - And with good reason. 423 00:21:14,773 --> 00:21:18,231 Beyond its horticultural employments, fertilizer can be distilled down 424 00:21:18,410 --> 00:21:21,470 and mixed into a rather potent nitrate accelerant. 425 00:21:21,647 --> 00:21:23,615 This ball is filled with the stuff. 426 00:21:23,949 --> 00:21:26,474 If Knowles did try to blow up Vanowen S.C., 427 00:21:26,652 --> 00:21:28,984 he would have used nitrates, and if he'd used nitrates, 428 00:21:29,154 --> 00:21:32,385 the bomb would have filled the air with an odor as pungent as it is distinctive. 429 00:21:32,557 --> 00:21:34,889 The same odor that you're smelling right now. 430 00:21:35,060 --> 00:21:37,654 The thing is, I didn't smell any fertilizer when we were there. 431 00:21:37,829 --> 00:21:39,524 I smelled something else. 432 00:21:39,698 --> 00:21:42,599 It was foreign to me in the moment, but I have managed to recreate it 433 00:21:42,768 --> 00:21:45,259 with the help of my little round friends here. 434 00:21:45,437 --> 00:21:48,634 I am now certain that the bomb was made using potassium chlorate. 435 00:21:48,807 --> 00:21:52,504 It's an accelerant made of gasoline, bleach and petroleum jelly. 436 00:21:52,878 --> 00:21:55,711 Are you saying that Edgar Knowles was telling the truth when he told you 437 00:21:55,881 --> 00:21:58,645 that he didn't build the bomb that exploded at Vanowen S. C? 438 00:21:58,950 --> 00:21:59,974 I am. 439 00:22:00,319 --> 00:22:02,048 Well, if he didn't build it, who did? 440 00:22:02,354 --> 00:22:04,754 Haven't the foggiest. 441 00:22:23,208 --> 00:22:24,641 Hey. 442 00:22:24,810 --> 00:22:26,903 Heard you were looking for me. 443 00:22:27,379 --> 00:22:30,246 Yesterday, you gave us Edgar Knowles on a silver platter. 444 00:22:30,415 --> 00:22:33,145 Now you're telling me he did every bomb 445 00:22:33,318 --> 00:22:35,218 except for the one from two days ago? 446 00:22:35,387 --> 00:22:38,550 As I said before, that bomb was built using potassium chlorate. 447 00:22:38,724 --> 00:22:41,420 Yeah, and Knowles only used ones with cow manure, I heard you. 448 00:22:41,593 --> 00:22:43,254 - That's not enough. - There's more. 449 00:22:43,428 --> 00:22:46,056 I came in this morning to re-examine the bomb's components. 450 00:22:46,231 --> 00:22:48,995 I pieced together some of the strips of packing paper that were used. 451 00:22:49,167 --> 00:22:50,759 I managed to form almost a third of a page 452 00:22:50,936 --> 00:22:53,166 of the October 13th edition of The New York Times. 453 00:22:53,338 --> 00:22:55,932 This particular clump caught my eye. 454 00:22:56,108 --> 00:22:59,339 I saw small, almost imperceptible indentations along the upper fringe. 455 00:23:00,812 --> 00:23:02,780 - I don't see anything. - You wouldn't. 456 00:23:04,015 --> 00:23:07,041 Right, most people wouldn't, which is why I traced over it. 457 00:23:10,489 --> 00:23:13,458 The paper that was used in the bomb was beneath another piece of paper 458 00:23:13,625 --> 00:23:14,853 when someone wrote that word. 459 00:23:15,026 --> 00:23:16,857 They pressed hard enough to make indentations. 460 00:23:17,028 --> 00:23:19,155 I checked it against Edgar Knowles' handwriting. 461 00:23:19,331 --> 00:23:20,355 It's not a match. 462 00:23:20,532 --> 00:23:22,329 With all due respect, Holmes, so what? 463 00:23:22,501 --> 00:23:23,934 Maybe he had help with the bomb. 464 00:23:24,102 --> 00:23:26,730 Maybe that person wrote some weird note on top of the newspaper. 465 00:23:26,905 --> 00:23:29,465 As I said previously, I believe that Edgar Knowles worked alone. 466 00:23:29,641 --> 00:23:33,668 And as I said previously, I still like him for the last bomb. 467 00:23:34,679 --> 00:23:36,840 The threats against Vanowen S.C. Were never made public, 468 00:23:37,015 --> 00:23:38,505 which means, aside from the police, 469 00:23:38,683 --> 00:23:41,151 the firm's employees were the only ones who were aware of them. 470 00:23:41,319 --> 00:23:44,413 I'd like you to subpoena their personnel files so that I can review them. 471 00:23:44,589 --> 00:23:45,715 For what? 472 00:23:45,891 --> 00:23:47,916 Well, imagine you're a disgruntled employee, hmm? 473 00:23:48,093 --> 00:23:50,561 You wanna strike out at the company but don't wanna get caught, 474 00:23:50,729 --> 00:23:52,424 so why not take advantage of the ELM threats 475 00:23:52,597 --> 00:23:53,962 to plant a device of your own, hmm? 476 00:23:54,166 --> 00:23:55,793 You get the blast, they get the blame. 477 00:23:55,967 --> 00:23:57,662 - No. - No? 478 00:23:57,836 --> 00:23:59,030 No subpoena. 479 00:23:59,204 --> 00:24:02,037 If you really wanna go poking around at Vanowen S.C., 480 00:24:02,207 --> 00:24:03,834 you're gonna have to take it up with them. 481 00:24:12,751 --> 00:24:14,685 I'm sure he's gonna be here any second. 482 00:24:17,956 --> 00:24:21,517 I really like those tattoos. 483 00:24:24,563 --> 00:24:28,055 You know, I'm just gonna text him again and see where he is. 484 00:24:31,369 --> 00:24:33,030 [CELL PHONE CHIMES] 485 00:24:37,008 --> 00:24:38,305 I'm really sorry, Alfredo, 486 00:24:38,477 --> 00:24:41,503 but doesn't look like Sherlock is gonna be joining us today. 487 00:24:42,013 --> 00:24:43,037 Be patient. 488 00:24:44,216 --> 00:24:45,706 First rule of good sponsorship. 489 00:24:46,485 --> 00:24:48,146 Newcomers like him don't always understand 490 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:49,651 the scope of the work involved. 491 00:24:49,988 --> 00:24:51,455 They get frustrated. 492 00:24:51,623 --> 00:24:53,818 We need to be patient and methodical with him. 493 00:24:54,926 --> 00:24:57,724 I was under the impression that you'd never been a sponsor before. 494 00:24:57,896 --> 00:25:00,296 Haven't. But I had a great one. 495 00:25:00,465 --> 00:25:02,296 Taught me everything he knows. 496 00:25:02,634 --> 00:25:06,126 Truth is, I've been wanting to be a sponsor for a while now. 497 00:25:06,671 --> 00:25:08,332 People never ask. 498 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:10,598 Think it's because I'm quiet. 499 00:25:10,775 --> 00:25:12,140 [CHUCKLES] 500 00:25:12,310 --> 00:25:14,005 I can help your friend, Miss Watson. 501 00:25:14,980 --> 00:25:16,914 He just needs to give me the chance. 502 00:25:28,326 --> 00:25:30,055 Doing okay? 503 00:25:30,395 --> 00:25:33,956 I am. And thank you again for allowing me to peruse these files. 504 00:25:34,132 --> 00:25:37,624 Oh, it was an easy decision to make. If you think there's anyone here 505 00:25:37,802 --> 00:25:40,965 who has something against this company, I would like to know. 506 00:25:45,577 --> 00:25:48,239 You're a fellow addict, aren't you? 507 00:25:49,147 --> 00:25:50,808 Crosswords. 508 00:25:50,982 --> 00:25:52,313 You couldn't have figured out 509 00:25:52,484 --> 00:25:54,645 those clues at my computer the other day if you weren't. 510 00:25:54,819 --> 00:25:56,218 I dabble. 511 00:25:56,388 --> 00:25:59,380 Well, I wish I could say I just dabbled. 512 00:25:59,558 --> 00:26:01,185 I used to have my habit under control, 513 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:03,657 back when the papers only issued one a day. 514 00:26:03,828 --> 00:26:08,322 Ever since they put the last 50 years of their archives online, I'm a lost cause. 515 00:26:08,500 --> 00:26:11,230 It's a miracle I get any work done at all. 516 00:26:13,071 --> 00:26:15,767 - You want sex? - Excuse me? 517 00:26:15,941 --> 00:26:19,342 I'm not averse, Ms. Vanowen, I'm just busy. 518 00:26:19,511 --> 00:26:21,604 Perhaps we could set an appointment. 519 00:26:22,347 --> 00:26:25,111 You're flirting. This crossword talk. 520 00:26:25,317 --> 00:26:27,717 You find me attractive. 521 00:26:28,186 --> 00:26:31,121 The feeling is mutual, mostly. 522 00:26:31,289 --> 00:26:33,120 The musculature of your legs, your shoulders, 523 00:26:33,291 --> 00:26:37,455 suggests a certain elasticity I find quite tantalizing. 524 00:26:37,896 --> 00:26:38,920 I must warn you, however, 525 00:26:39,097 --> 00:26:41,657 a relationship between us could never go beyond the physical. 526 00:26:43,335 --> 00:26:46,771 No offense to you, of course. It's just not my way. 527 00:26:46,938 --> 00:26:48,599 Hey. 528 00:26:49,341 --> 00:26:51,707 - Am I interrupting? - No. 529 00:26:52,644 --> 00:26:54,669 Not even a little. 530 00:26:59,784 --> 00:27:01,649 Sorry I missed our engagement, Watson. 531 00:27:01,853 --> 00:27:03,787 As you can see, I'm investigating the possibility 532 00:27:03,955 --> 00:27:06,753 that a Vanowen employee set the bomb. 533 00:27:06,925 --> 00:27:11,294 It's okay. I told Alfredo I'd be in touch and that we could reschedule. 534 00:27:17,202 --> 00:27:19,136 VANOWEN: Is that the whole piece? WHEELER: It's the... 535 00:27:19,304 --> 00:27:23,138 Pradeep Singh. Hired as a copywriter in December 2003. 536 00:27:23,308 --> 00:27:26,209 He was promoted to junior associate in January 2007, 537 00:27:26,378 --> 00:27:28,710 senior associate in June 2007, 538 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:32,782 and, finally, associate creative director in March 2008. 539 00:27:33,084 --> 00:27:36,247 I see here that he was written up by the Human Resources Department 540 00:27:36,421 --> 00:27:38,150 on October the 10th, 2008, 541 00:27:38,323 --> 00:27:40,814 for engaging in a shouting match with you, Mr. Wheeler. 542 00:27:40,992 --> 00:27:43,825 I see the Human Resources report and then nothing, no more papers. 543 00:27:43,995 --> 00:27:46,395 Yes, because his contract with this company was terminated. 544 00:27:46,564 --> 00:27:49,158 - Because he fought with you? - Because he disappeared. 545 00:27:49,334 --> 00:27:51,325 He came to work, left, and never came back. 546 00:27:51,836 --> 00:27:53,394 It was in all the papers at the time. 547 00:27:54,205 --> 00:27:56,400 The police got involved, never found him. 548 00:27:56,574 --> 00:28:00,340 May I ask what sparked the disagreement between the two of you? 549 00:28:02,180 --> 00:28:04,512 Pradeep wasn't happy. 550 00:28:04,683 --> 00:28:06,776 He was a model employee at the beginning, 551 00:28:06,951 --> 00:28:08,213 but something changed in him. 552 00:28:08,386 --> 00:28:10,547 He became, I don't know, arrogant. 553 00:28:10,722 --> 00:28:13,054 He started talking about how he wanted more power 554 00:28:13,224 --> 00:28:15,158 here at the company, more control. 555 00:28:15,326 --> 00:28:18,887 And we gave it to him at first. I mean, Pradeep was a capable guy. 556 00:28:19,064 --> 00:28:21,055 Then it all changed when he came in asking for 557 00:28:21,232 --> 00:28:23,723 his fourth raise in 18 months. 558 00:28:24,069 --> 00:28:25,536 You told him enough was enough? 559 00:28:25,704 --> 00:28:27,331 No, that's when he snapped. 560 00:28:27,505 --> 00:28:29,564 He told me I'd be sorry. 561 00:28:29,741 --> 00:28:31,231 He worked here for about another week, 562 00:28:31,409 --> 00:28:32,603 and after that, he was gone. 563 00:28:32,777 --> 00:28:34,745 Never saw him again. 564 00:28:35,580 --> 00:28:38,572 Pradeep is dead. He died in 2008. 565 00:28:38,750 --> 00:28:43,881 It was our understanding, Mrs. Singh, that he was never found, alive or dead. 566 00:28:44,389 --> 00:28:48,223 My husband loved me very much, just as I loved him. 567 00:28:48,393 --> 00:28:50,452 He never would run away. 568 00:28:50,628 --> 00:28:52,926 I held out hope for him for quite some time, 569 00:28:53,098 --> 00:28:54,759 but eventually I had to accept 570 00:28:54,933 --> 00:28:59,029 that the only possible explanation for his disappearance was death. 571 00:28:59,537 --> 00:29:01,402 You think he was a victim of foul play? 572 00:29:01,573 --> 00:29:04,770 If he had collapsed somewhere, had a heart attack or a stroke, 573 00:29:04,976 --> 00:29:07,240 someone would have found him. 574 00:29:07,412 --> 00:29:08,811 Pradeep was murdered. 575 00:29:08,980 --> 00:29:11,448 Or he snapped, planted a bomb at his workplace, 576 00:29:11,616 --> 00:29:14,346 and then dropped off the grid before it detonated. 577 00:29:14,519 --> 00:29:17,044 Do you have any idea who might have wanted to hurt your husband? 578 00:29:17,222 --> 00:29:18,883 No. 579 00:29:19,357 --> 00:29:21,825 There was the one man at his office he argued with 580 00:29:21,993 --> 00:29:25,520 a few days before he vanished, but the police were able to clear him. 581 00:29:25,697 --> 00:29:28,063 Other than that, he had no enemies... 582 00:29:28,233 --> 00:29:29,393 I'm just curious, Mrs. Singh. 583 00:29:29,567 --> 00:29:31,831 Have you had any work done in this room since 2008? 584 00:29:32,403 --> 00:29:34,064 - Work? - Remodeling, refurbishment, 585 00:29:34,239 --> 00:29:35,399 reconstruction. 586 00:29:35,573 --> 00:29:37,939 No, I haven't touched it since Pradeep disappeared. 587 00:29:38,109 --> 00:29:41,510 Not even to address the mold on the wall behind that cabinet? 588 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,781 - How did you...? - The nose knows. 589 00:29:45,383 --> 00:29:46,941 Might we take a look in your backyard? 590 00:29:47,552 --> 00:29:50,077 - Why? - Formality. 591 00:29:56,561 --> 00:29:57,721 [DOOR OPENS] 592 00:29:57,896 --> 00:29:59,989 Actually, I think I'll just use your facilities first. 593 00:30:00,165 --> 00:30:01,325 I think I had a dodgy egg. 594 00:30:01,499 --> 00:30:03,399 I'll join you presently. 595 00:30:03,568 --> 00:30:05,195 [DOOR CLOSES] 596 00:30:58,857 --> 00:31:01,621 [SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY] 597 00:31:06,264 --> 00:31:07,891 - Would you excuse us a moment? - Sure. 598 00:31:08,066 --> 00:31:09,658 Excuse me. 599 00:31:12,170 --> 00:31:14,035 Mrs. Singh was right. Her husband is dead. 600 00:31:14,205 --> 00:31:16,469 - He has been for some time. - What are you talking about? 601 00:31:16,641 --> 00:31:18,165 Photograph at the end of the mantelpiece 602 00:31:18,343 --> 00:31:19,935 shows Pradeep and Mrs. Singh on the sofa. 603 00:31:20,111 --> 00:31:21,772 It was taken in the same room we were in. 604 00:31:21,946 --> 00:31:24,506 I noticed several discrepancies between the wall in the photograph 605 00:31:24,682 --> 00:31:26,013 and the one that we were facing. 606 00:31:26,184 --> 00:31:28,709 The spacing between the paintings was all wrong. 607 00:31:29,487 --> 00:31:31,455 In the photograph, they're 18 centimeters apart. 608 00:31:31,623 --> 00:31:33,750 In the room, 12 centimeters. 609 00:31:33,925 --> 00:31:36,086 They also hang lower now by about ten centimeters. 610 00:31:36,261 --> 00:31:38,388 Someone took them all down, put them back up again, 611 00:31:38,563 --> 00:31:40,155 didn't get the measurements right. 612 00:31:40,331 --> 00:31:43,232 - So Himali moved them? - She said she hasn't had work done. 613 00:31:43,401 --> 00:31:45,801 When I took the frames off the wall, I saw that she was right. 614 00:31:45,970 --> 00:31:47,562 There's no old nail holes that correspond 615 00:31:47,739 --> 00:31:49,707 to the frames' original arrangement. 616 00:31:49,874 --> 00:31:52,206 There is, however, a slight bulge. 617 00:31:52,577 --> 00:31:53,601 Bulge? 618 00:31:53,778 --> 00:31:57,578 The center of the wall is almost imperceptibly convex. Why? 619 00:31:57,749 --> 00:32:00,513 Because the gasses released from Pradeep Singh's decomposing body 620 00:32:00,685 --> 00:32:03,518 expanded the plastic sheeting that he's wrapped in, pushing outwards. 621 00:32:03,688 --> 00:32:04,848 Wait a second. 622 00:32:05,023 --> 00:32:07,719 Are you telling me that Pradeep is in that wall? 623 00:32:07,892 --> 00:32:10,019 - That would explain the mold too. - No. 624 00:32:10,194 --> 00:32:12,719 His killer removed insulation to make space for his body. 625 00:32:12,897 --> 00:32:16,128 This creates a temperature differential between that section and the others. 626 00:32:16,301 --> 00:32:19,168 - Condensation formed... - Then mold. 627 00:32:19,337 --> 00:32:22,636 Four years ago, Pradeep's murderer tore down that section of wall, 628 00:32:22,807 --> 00:32:25,901 stashed him inside, and then replaced and repainted the drywall. 629 00:32:26,411 --> 00:32:27,435 Are you sure? 630 00:32:28,112 --> 00:32:29,602 I'm fairly sure. 631 00:32:39,057 --> 00:32:41,150 GREGSON: Himali Singh didn't kill her husband. 632 00:32:41,326 --> 00:32:42,793 ICE confirmed she was in Mumbai 633 00:32:42,961 --> 00:32:45,293 visiting family during most of October '08. 634 00:32:45,463 --> 00:32:49,297 She didn't even come home until she learned Pradeep was missing. 635 00:32:49,467 --> 00:32:50,491 Whoever murdered Pradeep, 636 00:32:50,668 --> 00:32:53,000 they probably knew that his wife was out of town. 637 00:32:53,204 --> 00:32:55,968 Her trip would have provided the privacy and time to kill him 638 00:32:56,140 --> 00:32:57,164 and stash him away. 639 00:32:57,342 --> 00:33:00,175 Maybe Singh had a co-conspirator, someone he built the bomb with. 640 00:33:00,345 --> 00:33:01,710 - Things went south... - Hmm. 641 00:33:01,879 --> 00:33:03,312 That's a reasonable theory, captain. 642 00:33:03,481 --> 00:33:08,384 Problem is, I no longer think that Pradeep had anything to do with it. 643 00:33:09,087 --> 00:33:10,782 GREGSON: What's that? Company newsletter? 644 00:33:10,955 --> 00:33:12,388 Now, that is Pradeep's desk. 645 00:33:12,557 --> 00:33:15,822 That is the air vent in which the bomb was concealed, right next to it. 646 00:33:15,994 --> 00:33:19,020 Now, if that had gone off when it was supposed to in 2008, 647 00:33:19,197 --> 00:33:21,791 it would have turned him into so much newly promoted hamburger. 648 00:33:21,966 --> 00:33:23,797 Van Owen S.C.'s personnel files showed 649 00:33:23,968 --> 00:33:26,368 that he did not miss a single day's work 650 00:33:26,537 --> 00:33:28,505 until the moment that he left for good. 651 00:33:28,673 --> 00:33:32,165 That means he spent almost a week in the early part of October 2008 652 00:33:32,343 --> 00:33:35,210 sitting within spitting distance of a live explosive device. 653 00:33:35,847 --> 00:33:38,111 You think it was meant for him. 654 00:33:38,282 --> 00:33:41,080 It is abundantly clear someone wanted Pradeep dead. 655 00:33:41,486 --> 00:33:46,150 The question is, who would be willing to go to such lengths and why? 656 00:33:46,324 --> 00:33:50,522 M.E. Confirms Pradeep Singh was killed by a gunshot wound to the chest. 657 00:33:50,695 --> 00:33:53,926 Death was followed by, and I quote, "pervasive mummification." 658 00:33:54,265 --> 00:33:56,699 That's everything we found in his pockets. It's kind of weird. 659 00:33:56,868 --> 00:33:59,735 There's a key on the key chain with a button to unlock a car door, 660 00:33:59,904 --> 00:34:02,600 but it's definitely not a car key. 661 00:34:03,574 --> 00:34:07,271 No, that is a safety deposit box key. You can tell by the teeth. 662 00:34:13,518 --> 00:34:15,611 GREGSON: "SLB." 663 00:34:16,054 --> 00:34:17,885 Sequoia Liberty Bank? 664 00:34:18,056 --> 00:34:20,183 Box number 699. 665 00:34:26,531 --> 00:34:27,725 Huh. 666 00:34:27,899 --> 00:34:30,026 Cheech & Chong's Next Movie? 667 00:34:30,201 --> 00:34:31,634 It's not a good movie, 668 00:34:31,803 --> 00:34:34,533 but it didn't make me wanna commit homicide. 669 00:34:36,174 --> 00:34:38,836 Hmm. The movie's gone. You see this slot here? 670 00:34:39,010 --> 00:34:41,001 It's there to stop you from recording over the tape. 671 00:34:41,179 --> 00:34:43,545 You put Scotch tape there, it allows you to do so. 672 00:34:43,714 --> 00:34:47,775 Now all we gotta do is find a VCR in 2012. 673 00:34:47,952 --> 00:34:50,250 Have you not been to my home yet, Detective Bell? 674 00:34:50,421 --> 00:34:53,515 I maintain several VCRs. 675 00:34:54,225 --> 00:34:57,786 I like to watch police interrogations from the '70s and '80s. 676 00:34:57,962 --> 00:35:01,864 Techniques were rawer back then, and you do, on occasion, 677 00:35:02,033 --> 00:35:03,193 learn something useful. 678 00:35:03,367 --> 00:35:04,459 [CELL PHONE RINGING] 679 00:35:04,635 --> 00:35:07,229 This is one of my Cls. I've been waiting to hear from him on another case. 680 00:35:07,405 --> 00:35:10,272 - You mind if I take this in private? - My parlor is at your disposal. 681 00:35:11,242 --> 00:35:13,767 What up, Carlo? Mm-hmm. 682 00:35:15,713 --> 00:35:18,546 So, listen, I texted Alfredo and we're all set for tomorrow. 683 00:35:18,716 --> 00:35:20,411 Coffee at 9. 684 00:35:20,585 --> 00:35:23,611 Alfredo. Yeah, uh, I don't think that's gonna work out. 685 00:35:23,788 --> 00:35:25,449 The spark's no longer there. 686 00:35:25,623 --> 00:35:28,183 I think I'm gonna have to seek sponsorship elsewhere. 687 00:35:28,359 --> 00:35:30,259 What are you talking about? You handpicked him. 688 00:35:30,428 --> 00:35:32,828 Mm, we can do better. 689 00:35:37,101 --> 00:35:39,035 - Is this about us? - Is what about us? 690 00:35:39,203 --> 00:35:40,534 Your reluctance to find a sponsor. 691 00:35:40,705 --> 00:35:43,435 I think you're being difficult because you don't want me to leave. 692 00:35:43,608 --> 00:35:44,973 You never told me you were funny. 693 00:35:45,143 --> 00:35:47,703 You picked Alfredo because you thought I wasn't gonna like him, 694 00:35:47,879 --> 00:35:49,710 but now that I do, you're trying to push him away too. 695 00:35:49,881 --> 00:35:50,905 [HOLMES SCOFFS] 696 00:35:51,082 --> 00:35:53,050 WATSON: What you're feeling right now, I've seen it before. 697 00:35:53,217 --> 00:35:55,310 Clients worry about what their lives are gonna be like 698 00:35:55,486 --> 00:35:59,047 after their companion leaves. They kind of get a separation anxiety. 699 00:35:59,223 --> 00:36:01,316 It's pretty standard, actually. 700 00:36:01,492 --> 00:36:03,926 Since you've never been anything but opposed to me being here, 701 00:36:04,095 --> 00:36:07,963 it never occurred to me that you might feel it too. 702 00:36:08,599 --> 00:36:11,727 I don't know what you're on, but old me would definitely have wanted some. 703 00:36:11,903 --> 00:36:14,064 - Listen, I am... - You're back. Excellent. 704 00:36:29,453 --> 00:36:31,114 BELL: Hey, is that Pradeep? 705 00:36:31,289 --> 00:36:33,280 He looks about 25 years old there. 706 00:36:33,457 --> 00:36:34,924 WOMAN: Hey, sweetie. 707 00:36:35,092 --> 00:36:36,821 I'm so glad we finally got to have this date. 708 00:36:36,994 --> 00:36:38,484 PRADEEP: Me too. WOMAN: You ready to party? 709 00:36:38,663 --> 00:36:40,187 PRADEEP: Yes. - She's a prostitute. 710 00:36:40,364 --> 00:36:41,922 That's interesting. 711 00:36:42,099 --> 00:36:43,657 High-end by the looks of it. 712 00:36:47,872 --> 00:36:50,705 WOMAN: Wanna help me with this? PRADEEP: Sure. 713 00:36:54,145 --> 00:36:55,908 Hello, Miss Vanowen. 714 00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:04,381 We can keep watching if you'd both like, 715 00:37:04,555 --> 00:37:06,750 but I'd say we found our bomber. 716 00:37:12,597 --> 00:37:15,464 All this just so you can ask me a few questions. 717 00:37:15,633 --> 00:37:19,296 Just a consent form, ma'am. Standard procedure. 718 00:37:20,104 --> 00:37:22,334 So now you wanna tell me what this is all about? 719 00:37:22,506 --> 00:37:23,939 VANOWEN [ON VIDEO]: Hey, sweetie. 720 00:37:24,108 --> 00:37:26,042 I'm so glad we finally got to have this date. 721 00:37:26,210 --> 00:37:27,438 PRADEEP: Me too. VANOWEN: You ready to party? 722 00:37:27,612 --> 00:37:29,637 PRADEEP: Yes. VANOWEN: Good. 723 00:37:30,348 --> 00:37:31,975 I'm sorry, was that supposed to be me? 724 00:37:32,550 --> 00:37:36,316 I've learned since we spoke that you come from modest origins. 725 00:37:36,754 --> 00:37:38,915 Father a contractor, mother a homemaker. 726 00:37:39,590 --> 00:37:42,684 So when you got into business school, you needed a source of income. 727 00:37:42,860 --> 00:37:44,384 Something to pay your tuition 728 00:37:44,562 --> 00:37:47,395 and provide you with seed money for your company. 729 00:37:47,565 --> 00:37:52,161 You turned, in your hour of need, to the world's oldest profession. 730 00:37:52,603 --> 00:37:55,436 Took to it with some gusto, I'd say. 731 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:59,105 Okay, please turn this off. 732 00:37:59,944 --> 00:38:02,310 You built a successful new life for yourself 733 00:38:02,513 --> 00:38:05,914 on the ashes of your old one, and no one was any the wiser. 734 00:38:06,617 --> 00:38:10,576 Until Pradeep Singh got a job at Vanowen. 735 00:38:10,755 --> 00:38:13,315 It probably took him a while to realize that his new boss 736 00:38:13,491 --> 00:38:16,426 was one of the women that he had secretly recorded years ago, 737 00:38:16,594 --> 00:38:19,620 but when he did, he turned the screw. 738 00:38:19,797 --> 00:38:21,788 So to speak. 739 00:38:21,966 --> 00:38:26,562 Hmm. Three promotions in a year. That smells like a payoff to me. 740 00:38:26,737 --> 00:38:29,729 No. I promoted Pradeep because he deserved it. 741 00:38:31,642 --> 00:38:33,610 Small confession. 742 00:38:33,778 --> 00:38:37,145 I find the anti-prostitution laws in this country rather Victorian. 743 00:38:37,315 --> 00:38:40,409 I mean, sex is a commodity. Why shouldn't there be a market for it? 744 00:38:40,584 --> 00:38:43,781 But, of course, not everyone thinks like I do. 745 00:38:44,822 --> 00:38:46,881 Which is why you had to pay Pradeep 746 00:38:47,058 --> 00:38:51,119 until his demands escalated past the point that you could meet them. 747 00:38:51,462 --> 00:38:54,192 Then you cast about for a way to kill him. 748 00:38:54,999 --> 00:38:58,799 Now, you already had threatening letters from the ELM, 749 00:38:58,969 --> 00:39:01,961 so you built a pipe bomb, planning to blame them. 750 00:39:02,139 --> 00:39:04,801 But when it didn't detonate, you simply shot Pradeep 751 00:39:04,975 --> 00:39:06,465 and walled him off. 752 00:39:06,644 --> 00:39:09,875 I imagine it was your father who taught you how to hang drywall. 753 00:39:11,482 --> 00:39:14,679 That's very creative. I'll give you that much. 754 00:39:15,219 --> 00:39:17,653 Can he just sling mud at me like this? 755 00:39:17,822 --> 00:39:19,619 You can seek counsel at any time, ma'am. 756 00:39:19,790 --> 00:39:21,280 Hardly surprising that you were the one 757 00:39:21,459 --> 00:39:23,927 to lead the search for new offices for Vanowen S.C. 758 00:39:24,095 --> 00:39:25,824 You were, after all, the only person who knew 759 00:39:25,996 --> 00:39:27,554 there was an unexploded bomb in the wall. 760 00:39:27,732 --> 00:39:31,498 You know what? I think I will actually call my lawyer. 761 00:39:31,669 --> 00:39:33,261 Well, if you do, Miss Vanowen, 762 00:39:33,437 --> 00:39:36,031 you might wanna tell him you're about to be arrested. 763 00:39:37,641 --> 00:39:40,667 You have an old videotape and some stupid theories. 764 00:39:40,845 --> 00:39:41,971 This is not evidence. 765 00:39:42,146 --> 00:39:44,637 Yes, well, I found something on one of the scraps of paper 766 00:39:44,815 --> 00:39:48,273 that was used to pack the bomb. An imprint of the word "novocaine." 767 00:39:48,452 --> 00:39:51,250 Useful handwriting sample, but the message itself, rather opaque. 768 00:39:51,422 --> 00:39:55,358 Until one considers your love of crosswords. Novocaine. 769 00:39:55,526 --> 00:39:57,426 Answer to 144 across 770 00:39:57,595 --> 00:40:00,496 in The New York Times crossword, October 13th, 2008. 771 00:40:00,664 --> 00:40:03,690 The clue was "pain's enemy," in case you forgot. 772 00:40:03,868 --> 00:40:05,893 HOLMES: Detective Bell and the Questioned Documents Unit 773 00:40:06,070 --> 00:40:08,368 have just matched it to a handwriting sample you gave us 774 00:40:08,539 --> 00:40:10,837 when you signed your consent form. 775 00:40:12,777 --> 00:40:15,109 Detective Bell, the honor is all yours. 776 00:40:15,279 --> 00:40:18,806 Miss Vanowen, would you face that way, please? 777 00:40:19,049 --> 00:40:21,176 You're under arrest for the bombing that took the lives 778 00:40:21,352 --> 00:40:24,287 of David Preston and Royce Maltz. 779 00:40:25,089 --> 00:40:27,148 [DOORBELL RINGS] 780 00:40:33,697 --> 00:40:35,096 This is a surprise. 781 00:40:35,266 --> 00:40:38,099 I was on my way over to show you something, then I got your message. 782 00:40:38,269 --> 00:40:39,759 Yeah, well... 783 00:40:40,104 --> 00:40:43,232 - It's nothing personal. - I don't take it personal. It's okay. 784 00:40:43,641 --> 00:40:45,768 But since I'm here... 785 00:40:47,711 --> 00:40:49,110 Ever since I got straightened out, 786 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,111 I've been picking up work with car companies. 787 00:40:51,282 --> 00:40:52,840 I test their security systems. 788 00:40:53,017 --> 00:40:55,315 I guess they figure anything that can keep me out 789 00:40:55,486 --> 00:40:57,181 is good enough for their customers. 790 00:40:57,721 --> 00:40:59,882 Last job just came in. 791 00:41:00,057 --> 00:41:02,150 Miss Watson tells me that you into lock-picking. 792 00:41:02,326 --> 00:41:03,816 Figure maybe you wanna give it a shot. 793 00:41:03,994 --> 00:41:06,963 Well, the truth is, Alfredo, I'm already quite adept 794 00:41:07,131 --> 00:41:08,621 at defeating security systems. 795 00:41:09,233 --> 00:41:11,497 This stuff's not even on the market yet. 796 00:41:11,702 --> 00:41:14,694 So really, how would you know if you could beat it? 797 00:41:22,413 --> 00:41:24,711 WATSON: You know you wanna try. 798 00:41:25,082 --> 00:41:27,175 Obviously your idea. 799 00:41:27,351 --> 00:41:29,285 Zeroing in on common ground. 800 00:41:29,453 --> 00:41:33,355 Hoping it's enough to make me reconsider him. It won't be. 801 00:41:34,425 --> 00:41:36,359 What's the harm in getting to know the guy? 802 00:41:39,330 --> 00:41:42,128 One way or the other, I'm gonna be out of your life in a few weeks. 803 00:41:43,734 --> 00:41:47,727 Maybe you're dreading that day, maybe you're counting the seconds. 804 00:41:48,606 --> 00:41:52,542 Either way, I'm gonna make sure you're ready when the time comes. 805 00:41:53,777 --> 00:41:55,677 I promise. 806 00:41:59,950 --> 00:42:01,349 If I help him with his assignment, 807 00:42:01,519 --> 00:42:03,885 it does not mean I am assenting to his sponsorship. 808 00:42:04,054 --> 00:42:05,078 Of course it doesn't. 809 00:42:05,489 --> 00:42:07,013 I am quite self-sufficient. 810 00:42:07,525 --> 00:42:09,584 Of course you are. 811 00:42:24,875 --> 00:42:28,402 HOLMES: Factory-installed immobilizer or after-market tracking system? 812 00:42:28,579 --> 00:42:29,603 Not telling. 813 00:42:32,483 --> 00:42:36,817 Well, that's quite all right. I'll just figure it out for myself. 814 00:42:38,989 --> 00:42:41,958 I'm entirely self-sufficient, you know.