1 00:00:02,168 --> 00:00:04,341 WEATHERMAN [ON TV]: FEMA officials are now saying 2 00:00:04,504 --> 00:00:07,348 if you can get out of the tristate area before this storm gets here, 3 00:00:07,507 --> 00:00:08,645 you really should. 4 00:00:08,808 --> 00:00:12,153 The National Weather Service equating the severity of this nor'easter 5 00:00:12,312 --> 00:00:13,882 with a Category 3 hurricane. 6 00:00:14,047 --> 00:00:15,754 - Now we are already picking up WOMAN: Help! 7 00:00:15,915 --> 00:00:17,451 sustained winds right here around... 8 00:00:17,617 --> 00:00:21,463 Help! Please, someone! 9 00:00:22,155 --> 00:00:24,499 Help! 10 00:00:25,959 --> 00:00:27,961 GUARD: What happened? - He mugged me. 11 00:00:28,128 --> 00:00:29,903 Here, come on. 12 00:00:32,999 --> 00:00:35,411 All right. Let me see what happened. 13 00:00:35,568 --> 00:00:37,172 - What? - I don't want to hurt you. 14 00:00:37,337 --> 00:00:39,783 Just do as I say and open the door. 15 00:00:41,941 --> 00:00:43,511 Don't! 16 00:01:19,412 --> 00:01:21,289 WATSON: Hey, I'm back. 17 00:01:21,448 --> 00:01:24,156 There was a run on the storm stuff, 18 00:01:24,317 --> 00:01:27,457 but I got, uh, bottled water, batteries, soup. 19 00:01:29,422 --> 00:01:32,665 Oh, hi. Um, I'm Joan Watson. 20 00:01:34,027 --> 00:01:37,008 Miss Hudson. Pleased to meet you. 21 00:01:37,163 --> 00:01:39,165 I'm sorry. I didn't realize we had a meeting. 22 00:01:39,332 --> 00:01:41,334 Oh, no, I'm not a client. 23 00:01:41,501 --> 00:01:43,481 I'm a mess. 24 00:01:44,104 --> 00:01:46,641 Oh. Do you wanna talk about it? 25 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:51,213 You know, love. Heh. 26 00:01:52,545 --> 00:01:55,151 You know what, let me put this stuff away. 27 00:01:55,315 --> 00:01:58,125 - Can I get you some coffee? - Uh, no. 28 00:01:59,519 --> 00:02:00,827 Maybe some tea. 29 00:02:03,123 --> 00:02:04,158 White Darjeeling. 30 00:02:06,826 --> 00:02:08,669 HOLMES: Miss Hudson is a fascinating woman. 31 00:02:08,828 --> 00:02:11,331 She has an Oxford don's knowledge of ancient Greek 32 00:02:11,498 --> 00:02:13,739 but she's a complete autodidact. 33 00:02:13,900 --> 00:02:17,848 She consulted with me for several cases I worked with Scotland Yard. 34 00:02:18,004 --> 00:02:20,644 Of course, you had more than one case involving ancient Greek. 35 00:02:20,807 --> 00:02:23,185 It's actually a very fitting field of study for Miss Hudson, 36 00:02:23,343 --> 00:02:26,552 considering she makes her living as something of a muse. 37 00:02:26,713 --> 00:02:29,887 Well, "muse" is not a job title. 38 00:02:30,049 --> 00:02:32,723 And yet our Miss Hudson consistently finds herself 39 00:02:32,886 --> 00:02:35,730 in the company of powerful men in crisis. 40 00:02:35,889 --> 00:02:38,733 A novelist who can't quite finish his masterpiece here, 41 00:02:38,892 --> 00:02:42,066 a designer abandoned by fickle inspiration there. 42 00:02:42,462 --> 00:02:44,271 At some point these men must realize 43 00:02:44,430 --> 00:02:47,172 - that Miss Hudson has-- - Has an Adam's apple, yes. Of course. 44 00:02:47,333 --> 00:02:50,940 It's all rather complicated, I imagine, but life is infinitely stranger 45 00:02:51,104 --> 00:02:53,482 than anything the mind of man could invent. 46 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:55,551 - Cod liver oil? - No. 47 00:02:56,743 --> 00:02:59,781 And what is the fascinating Miss Hudson doing in the library? 48 00:02:59,946 --> 00:03:03,826 She's recovering from her latest romantic contretemps. 49 00:03:03,983 --> 00:03:06,327 For the last year or so, Miss Hudson has been the kept woman 50 00:03:06,486 --> 00:03:09,763 of a Davis Renkin of 3T Enterprises. 51 00:03:09,923 --> 00:03:12,733 I gather Mrs. Renkin recently found out about the arrangement. 52 00:03:12,892 --> 00:03:17,204 The salient detail is she's been evicted from Mr. Renkin's pied-à-terre. 53 00:03:17,363 --> 00:03:20,276 Nevertheless, there's a blizzard on the way, she needed a place to stay. 54 00:03:20,433 --> 00:03:21,935 Oh, so we have a houseguest now. 55 00:03:22,101 --> 00:03:24,377 Yes. Would you have advised I throw her out on the street? 56 00:03:24,537 --> 00:03:27,347 Of course not, but you have a lot of work to do on this roommate thing. 57 00:03:27,507 --> 00:03:29,350 I mean, the polite thing would have been to ask 58 00:03:29,509 --> 00:03:30,954 before inviting her into the house. 59 00:03:31,110 --> 00:03:32,453 [CELL PHONE BUZZING] 60 00:03:32,612 --> 00:03:35,149 Just like it's polite to clean up after yourself in the kitchen. 61 00:03:35,315 --> 00:03:37,886 I clean the refrigerator once a month. That was our bargain. 62 00:03:38,051 --> 00:03:39,826 Yeah, and once a month, it is sparkling clean, 63 00:03:39,986 --> 00:03:42,557 and the rest of the time, it is a science experiment. 64 00:03:42,722 --> 00:03:45,430 This is all rather diverting but I'm afraid it's gonna have to wait. 65 00:03:45,592 --> 00:03:49,699 Captain Gregson needs our assistance investigating a homicide. 66 00:03:53,132 --> 00:03:55,078 GREGSON: You guys got here fast. 67 00:03:55,235 --> 00:03:56,737 L Train still running? 68 00:03:56,903 --> 00:04:00,112 Yeah. Orderly shutdown commences at midday. 69 00:04:02,208 --> 00:04:03,983 GREGSON: This is, uh, Frank Dempster. 70 00:04:04,143 --> 00:04:06,555 The cleaning crew found him at 5 this morning. 71 00:04:06,713 --> 00:04:08,590 He'd been dead for about three hours. 72 00:04:08,748 --> 00:04:11,456 Thief was long gone and nobody saw nothing. 73 00:04:11,618 --> 00:04:14,758 Hmm. The security footage is gone? 74 00:04:14,921 --> 00:04:16,298 Yeah. 75 00:04:17,423 --> 00:04:23,430 Well, no sign of forced entry, so Mr. Dempster let the murderer in. 76 00:04:23,830 --> 00:04:28,108 He was shot right there, dragged behind this station, 77 00:04:28,368 --> 00:04:30,939 at which point... 78 00:04:31,704 --> 00:04:33,149 [CLEARS THROAT] 79 00:04:38,511 --> 00:04:41,287 He wasn't dead yet, the guard. 80 00:04:42,815 --> 00:04:45,455 He got off one shot before he took his second wound. 81 00:04:45,618 --> 00:04:46,653 Ag reed. 82 00:04:46,819 --> 00:04:49,129 The height of the bullet lodged in the wall here 83 00:04:49,289 --> 00:04:53,396 and this blood splatter suggests that Mr. Dempster's final act 84 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:57,407 was blasting a hole through someone's abdomen. 85 00:04:57,563 --> 00:05:00,567 A through and through like that would require medical attention. 86 00:05:00,733 --> 00:05:03,646 Yeah, we put the word out to all the hospitals in the city. 87 00:05:03,803 --> 00:05:06,409 Red Cross storm shelters are gonna keep an eye out too. 88 00:05:06,572 --> 00:05:09,314 You said the killer was a thief. What was stolen? 89 00:05:09,676 --> 00:05:10,711 BELL: It's a hot, new toy. 90 00:05:10,877 --> 00:05:12,823 It's supposed to come out at midnight tomorrow. 91 00:05:12,979 --> 00:05:14,925 I don't know who lines up at midnight for a phone 92 00:05:15,081 --> 00:05:16,856 but somebody didn't wanna wait. 93 00:05:17,016 --> 00:05:20,190 They took the floor models then got about 200 from the supply room. 94 00:05:20,353 --> 00:05:22,629 You're looking for a group of thieves, one may be a woman, 95 00:05:22,789 --> 00:05:25,167 and I suspect that "she" did the shooting. 96 00:05:25,325 --> 00:05:29,239 This hair is synthetic. It comes from a cheap blonde wig. 97 00:05:29,395 --> 00:05:31,568 Probably got stuck to the packing tape 98 00:05:31,731 --> 00:05:35,269 when they opened up a box of Verzia 8's to verify its contents. 99 00:05:35,435 --> 00:05:38,382 Now, given the wig, I suspect that murdering a security guard, 100 00:05:38,538 --> 00:05:40,347 not part of the plan. 101 00:05:41,374 --> 00:05:42,751 You think she had help. 102 00:05:42,909 --> 00:05:45,412 Well, hard to imagine her toting all those phones 103 00:05:45,578 --> 00:05:48,354 after being shot in the gut. So I'd say two accomplices, 104 00:05:48,514 --> 00:05:50,653 plus, given the nature of parking in this neighborhood, 105 00:05:50,817 --> 00:05:53,297 a driver to help with the getaway. 106 00:05:53,853 --> 00:05:57,562 Just to be certain, uh, you want my assistance in solving this? 107 00:05:57,724 --> 00:06:01,103 - Yeah. That a problem? - No, it's just-- 108 00:06:01,828 --> 00:06:03,034 Due respect to Mr. Dempster, 109 00:06:03,196 --> 00:06:04,903 this is a garden-variety robbery-homicide. 110 00:06:05,064 --> 00:06:08,841 You find the phones, you catch the killers. So it's a bit... 111 00:06:11,204 --> 00:06:13,878 [PEOPLE GROANING AND CHATTERING] 112 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,350 Hey, captain, sounds like the whole city's dark. 113 00:06:16,509 --> 00:06:18,887 We're trying to figure out what's going on. 114 00:06:19,445 --> 00:06:21,049 If I have to solve this in the Stone Age, 115 00:06:21,214 --> 00:06:23,421 I suppose it might be interesting after all. 116 00:06:57,383 --> 00:06:59,624 GREGSON: Okay, we are on backup power. 117 00:06:59,786 --> 00:07:03,632 That means essential functions only so we don't overload the generator. 118 00:07:03,790 --> 00:07:04,996 This is Denise Castor. 119 00:07:05,158 --> 00:07:09,129 She and our friends at FEMA have come to our great city with a plan. 120 00:07:09,295 --> 00:07:11,434 Uh, sergeants, I want you to take a look. 121 00:07:11,597 --> 00:07:14,601 I want you to divvy up your people between road closures 122 00:07:14,767 --> 00:07:16,576 and rapid response. 123 00:07:16,736 --> 00:07:19,774 Okay, so we've got just a few hours before this storm hits. 124 00:07:19,939 --> 00:07:22,351 What I'm hearing out of Philly, it's not pretty. 125 00:07:22,508 --> 00:07:25,853 The winds knocked out a power plant and tripped the northeastern grid. 126 00:07:26,012 --> 00:07:28,219 So the power is not coming back, folks. 127 00:07:28,648 --> 00:07:30,889 Coordinated deployment just got that much more important. 128 00:07:31,417 --> 00:07:34,557 Not what they had in mind when they said "essential functions only." 129 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:36,859 This is essential. Conducting a murder investigation. 130 00:07:37,023 --> 00:07:38,866 You're browsing Instagram. 131 00:07:39,025 --> 00:07:41,733 Guys, I'm on rapid response as of now, 132 00:07:41,894 --> 00:07:44,500 but I managed to squeeze in a few calls on the murder case. 133 00:07:44,897 --> 00:07:47,776 I talked to someone from Toshiwo, the company that makes the phones. 134 00:07:47,934 --> 00:07:51,575 Wasn't good. Normally they'd be able to track down the missing batch with GPS 135 00:07:51,737 --> 00:07:55,344 soon as any of the phones got activated but the New York office is shut down. 136 00:07:55,508 --> 00:07:56,953 It was a good idea. 137 00:07:57,109 --> 00:07:59,851 Thoroughly unnecessary, good idea nonetheless. 138 00:08:00,012 --> 00:08:01,719 Look at this. 139 00:08:03,649 --> 00:08:06,528 BELL: Posted 45 minutes ago? These guys work fast. 140 00:08:06,686 --> 00:08:08,529 It looks like there's a line in the background. 141 00:08:08,688 --> 00:08:10,190 That picture stamped with a location? 142 00:08:10,356 --> 00:08:12,336 It may as well be. You see the shadow? 143 00:08:12,492 --> 00:08:15,268 Yeah. Looks like a shadow. 144 00:08:15,428 --> 00:08:18,671 Direct your attention to the curvature there. 145 00:08:18,831 --> 00:08:20,003 The brutal postmodern sweep. 146 00:08:20,166 --> 00:08:22,112 That is the amphitheater at Columbus Park. 147 00:08:22,268 --> 00:08:24,475 That is where they're selling the phones. 148 00:08:26,205 --> 00:08:28,185 That's the real thing, man. 149 00:08:28,341 --> 00:08:31,322 I can let you have it for $75. 150 00:08:31,477 --> 00:08:33,013 [CHATTERING] 151 00:08:33,179 --> 00:08:34,419 [WHISTLE BLOWS] 152 00:08:34,580 --> 00:08:37,083 Good afternoon, we are employees of the N.Y.P.D. 153 00:08:37,250 --> 00:08:40,026 We need a few moments alone with this gentleman 154 00:08:40,186 --> 00:08:42,723 to discuss stolen cell phones. Thank you. 155 00:08:44,023 --> 00:08:45,696 Thank you. 156 00:08:49,161 --> 00:08:51,402 Private Maggie, 157 00:08:51,898 --> 00:08:54,708 you masterminded any slick burglaries recently? 158 00:08:54,867 --> 00:08:55,902 What? 159 00:08:56,068 --> 00:08:58,708 No, I found these phones, man. 160 00:08:58,871 --> 00:09:01,681 Ain't nothing wrong with selling them. 161 00:09:01,841 --> 00:09:04,651 You found them? Where? 162 00:09:04,810 --> 00:09:07,654 Katy's, the bakery on Beach Street. 163 00:09:07,813 --> 00:09:10,817 The lady there gives me their old scones. 164 00:09:10,983 --> 00:09:15,728 I'm out back, asleep in the alley, and I hear this boom. 165 00:09:15,888 --> 00:09:18,926 Sounds like something big getting thrown in the Dumpster. 166 00:09:19,091 --> 00:09:22,561 So I get up to check the old in box, 167 00:09:22,728 --> 00:09:25,368 and there's all these phones right there on the bottom. 168 00:09:25,531 --> 00:09:28,011 - Hand to God. - Did you see who left them? 169 00:09:28,167 --> 00:09:29,976 Couple of big white dudes. 170 00:09:30,136 --> 00:09:34,414 I only saw them from behind while they were running off down the alley. 171 00:09:34,974 --> 00:09:37,454 Listen, your prices are too low. 172 00:09:37,610 --> 00:09:40,784 Residents of this neighborhood, they'd pay a bit more. 173 00:09:42,214 --> 00:09:45,286 Get yourself a room tonight, hmm? 174 00:09:45,851 --> 00:09:47,091 Come on. 175 00:09:47,353 --> 00:09:49,424 Wait, you're just gonna leave the phones there? 176 00:09:49,589 --> 00:09:51,762 Well, the killers didn't care about them. Why should we? 177 00:09:51,924 --> 00:09:54,666 No, the robbery of the phones was a distraction 178 00:09:54,827 --> 00:09:58,001 to put us off the scent of whatever they were really there to steal. 179 00:09:58,164 --> 00:10:02,010 Let's get back to the Flatiron before the taxis pack it in. 180 00:10:02,168 --> 00:10:04,444 WOMAN [ON TV]: The latest advisory from the mayor's office 181 00:10:04,604 --> 00:10:07,710 is urging citizens to return to their homes immediately. 182 00:10:07,873 --> 00:10:10,479 Hey, are you listening to this? 183 00:10:10,643 --> 00:10:13,556 The advisory is for citizens. We are not citizens. 184 00:10:13,713 --> 00:10:15,818 We're detectives. 185 00:10:17,016 --> 00:10:19,758 So if they weren't the real target, what was? Hmm? 186 00:10:19,919 --> 00:10:24,390 None of the other stores in the lobby were robbed. 187 00:10:25,057 --> 00:10:27,162 Must have gone upstairs. 188 00:10:29,295 --> 00:10:31,002 But the stairs were locked. 189 00:10:31,664 --> 00:10:34,304 The guard's elevator card was still in his jacket. 190 00:10:34,467 --> 00:10:37,004 You think they used it and then put it back? 191 00:10:37,169 --> 00:10:40,480 The thieves didn't want us to imagine they had access to any other floors. 192 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:42,176 Don't you have an app for that? 193 00:10:42,341 --> 00:10:45,254 Power is at a premium, Watson. Here. 194 00:10:49,448 --> 00:10:51,655 Note the shiny scratches. 195 00:10:51,817 --> 00:10:54,320 Someone was jittery after they shot the guard. 196 00:10:54,487 --> 00:10:56,558 They made a real hash of that. 197 00:10:56,722 --> 00:10:59,532 See if I can do any better, shall we? 198 00:11:00,259 --> 00:11:05,106 Any luck and we'll find similar scratches on another floor. 199 00:11:06,198 --> 00:11:08,872 So the killers picked the lock in the lobby, 200 00:11:09,035 --> 00:11:12,380 they walked up 12 flights of stairs, they picked their way into this foyer, 201 00:11:12,538 --> 00:11:15,485 - all so they could gain access to-- - An architectural firm. 202 00:11:15,641 --> 00:11:19,885 HOLMES: Mysteries abound. Answers reside within. 203 00:11:20,046 --> 00:11:22,253 - Wanna give it a go this time? - Um, sure. 204 00:11:22,415 --> 00:11:25,055 I called the police and we don't have anything to loot. 205 00:11:25,217 --> 00:11:27,094 We're not hereto loot you, we are the police. 206 00:11:27,253 --> 00:11:28,561 Let me see your badge then. 207 00:11:28,721 --> 00:11:30,701 Well, we're with the police. 208 00:11:30,856 --> 00:11:34,065 Look, we need to come in. We mean you no harm. 209 00:11:34,226 --> 00:11:37,139 If you intend to defend yourself with that knife, you're holding it wrong. 210 00:11:37,296 --> 00:11:41,039 My associate, Miss Watson, she holds several black belts. 211 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:44,670 I just figured, go camp out at the office, you know, get some work done. 212 00:11:44,837 --> 00:11:47,340 It's nice. Had the place to myself since I came in this morning. 213 00:11:47,506 --> 00:11:50,248 Hey, we should really hurry it up. It's getting bad out there. 214 00:11:50,409 --> 00:11:51,854 WORKER: Listen, man, I'm telling you, 215 00:11:52,011 --> 00:11:54,116 I haven't seen anything out of place since I got here. 216 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,022 The computers and stuff, they're all here. 217 00:11:57,550 --> 00:11:59,621 HOLMES: That's not what they were after. 218 00:12:00,286 --> 00:12:01,663 These drawers, not normally empty? 219 00:12:01,821 --> 00:12:04,165 Yeah, no way, we're seriously crimped for space. 220 00:12:04,323 --> 00:12:05,563 Then they stole blueprints. 221 00:12:05,725 --> 00:12:08,865 They killed a security guard and stole smart phones as a smoke screen 222 00:12:09,028 --> 00:12:11,065 so that we wouldn't know they wanted blueprints? 223 00:12:11,230 --> 00:12:12,436 Interesting, isn't it? 224 00:12:12,598 --> 00:12:14,600 Squatter, we need to know what the numbers 225 00:12:14,767 --> 00:12:19,807 9-2-Alpha-Uniform-5 to 9-4-Gulf-Yankee-2-3 mean. 226 00:12:19,972 --> 00:12:21,542 That's year and job code. 227 00:12:21,707 --> 00:12:24,415 Everything's listed online but, you know, the system's down. 228 00:12:24,577 --> 00:12:27,353 We do keep the plumbing and electrical specs in the brown cabinets. 229 00:12:27,513 --> 00:12:29,550 I need the ones to these missing blueprints 230 00:12:29,715 --> 00:12:32,093 - so I can see what was stolen. - I can't give you all of-- 231 00:12:32,251 --> 00:12:35,460 Tell me, do your employers look kindly on vagrancy, do they? 232 00:12:40,159 --> 00:12:43,106 WATSON: Oh, damn it. - Do you want to know what helps? 233 00:12:44,263 --> 00:12:47,267 You just make a little tepee out of the kindling, 234 00:12:47,433 --> 00:12:49,777 - and it acts like a chimney. - Oh. 235 00:12:49,935 --> 00:12:51,676 Do you mind if I...? 236 00:12:51,837 --> 00:12:53,783 Oh, please. 237 00:12:55,307 --> 00:12:56,786 [WATSON SIGHS] 238 00:12:58,077 --> 00:12:59,385 [CELL PHONE RINGING] 239 00:13:00,479 --> 00:13:03,949 - Hey, I think your phone is ringing. - Oh, that's Davis. 240 00:13:04,116 --> 00:13:07,325 He won't stop until the cell phone towers go down. 241 00:13:07,820 --> 00:13:09,060 The guy who kicked you out? 242 00:13:09,922 --> 00:13:12,698 He said he made a mistake. 243 00:13:13,025 --> 00:13:15,027 He said he wants me back. 244 00:13:15,194 --> 00:13:20,007 But he just wants to stick me in some walk-up, 245 00:13:20,166 --> 00:13:22,043 give me a clothing allowance. 246 00:13:22,201 --> 00:13:25,011 I think it's fair to expect more than that from a relationship. 247 00:13:29,175 --> 00:13:30,950 - Nice. - Merit badge. 248 00:13:31,110 --> 00:13:32,180 [KNOCKING ON DOOR] 249 00:13:32,344 --> 00:13:34,085 DAVIS: Baby, I know you're in there! 250 00:13:34,246 --> 00:13:36,226 It's Davis. 251 00:13:39,151 --> 00:13:42,428 I know she's here. I just need to talk to her, please. 252 00:13:42,588 --> 00:13:44,625 I think you should go home. 253 00:13:44,790 --> 00:13:48,829 I love you, baby. I'll leave her this time, I swear. 254 00:13:51,430 --> 00:13:53,205 HUDSON: It's okay. 255 00:13:56,735 --> 00:13:58,305 WATSON: Hello? 256 00:13:58,470 --> 00:14:01,041 HOLMES: I take it Mr. Renkin has come a-courting? 257 00:14:01,207 --> 00:14:04,381 So you noticed? Why are you hiding in here? 258 00:14:04,543 --> 00:14:07,046 Oh, be careful, I heated some very large rocks on our grill. 259 00:14:07,213 --> 00:14:08,385 They're in here for warmth. 260 00:14:08,547 --> 00:14:10,220 Well, there is a fire downstairs. 261 00:14:10,382 --> 00:14:12,521 There's also a lovers' tiff, and I need to work. 262 00:14:12,685 --> 00:14:16,895 Now, these electrical schematics match the blueprints that were stolen. 263 00:14:17,056 --> 00:14:20,003 Presumably, one of these places is a target for the thieves. 264 00:14:20,159 --> 00:14:24,437 But viewed as a whole, they comprise an incredibly mundane roster of clients. 265 00:14:24,597 --> 00:14:27,305 Unless the thieves are angling to steal onesies from a Baby Gap, 266 00:14:27,466 --> 00:14:29,275 very difficult to see what they're after. 267 00:14:29,435 --> 00:14:31,437 If you're gonna be up, will you keep your ears open, 268 00:14:31,604 --> 00:14:35,108 because I don't know if those two are making up or breaking up forever. 269 00:14:37,610 --> 00:14:38,645 Ow! 270 00:14:38,811 --> 00:14:41,724 - What? - Hot rock. 271 00:14:45,384 --> 00:14:47,830 Come on, rise and shine. Gotta get going. 272 00:14:47,987 --> 00:14:49,159 There's a blizzard. 273 00:14:49,321 --> 00:14:51,631 You should put on layers. Now, please, time to get dressed. 274 00:14:51,790 --> 00:14:54,134 It's not exactly gonna happen with an audience. 275 00:14:54,293 --> 00:14:55,636 HOLMES: Hmm. 276 00:14:56,128 --> 00:14:58,005 Are we fleeing from the scene of a murder? 277 00:14:58,163 --> 00:15:00,074 Because Miss Hudson and her boyfriend 278 00:15:00,232 --> 00:15:01,973 were up half the night yelling at each other. 279 00:15:02,134 --> 00:15:04,375 They've progressed to the quiet conversation stage. 280 00:15:04,536 --> 00:15:07,039 Miss Hudson assures me he will be leaving within the hour. 281 00:15:07,206 --> 00:15:09,049 Now, I have ascertained which building 282 00:15:09,208 --> 00:15:12,189 designed by Masslin & Associates the thieves intend to hit. 283 00:15:12,344 --> 00:15:13,914 The answer is none. 284 00:15:14,079 --> 00:15:16,685 Seems like a conversation that can wait until I'm clothed. 285 00:15:16,849 --> 00:15:18,522 When I was reviewing the accounting files, 286 00:15:18,684 --> 00:15:20,857 I noticed that several of the stolen blueprints 287 00:15:21,020 --> 00:15:23,899 lacked the accompanying plumbing schematics. 288 00:15:24,056 --> 00:15:26,832 These are jobs that Masslin & Associates bid on but didn't get. 289 00:15:26,992 --> 00:15:30,030 One of particular note, a classified government job, 290 00:15:30,195 --> 00:15:31,970 an addition to an existing government building 291 00:15:32,131 --> 00:15:34,611 - administered by the GSA. - What is that? 292 00:15:34,767 --> 00:15:38,305 It's the government's thrilling General Services Administration. 293 00:15:38,470 --> 00:15:40,507 Now, architects approved to bid on the addition, 294 00:15:40,673 --> 00:15:43,119 they had access to the building's original plans. 295 00:15:43,275 --> 00:15:47,189 These plans were the real prize the thieves were after. 296 00:15:47,346 --> 00:15:49,383 So, what building were they planning to hit? 297 00:15:49,548 --> 00:15:53,325 EROC. That's an acronym. East Rutherford Operations Center. 298 00:15:53,485 --> 00:15:55,192 It's a cash depository and processing center 299 00:15:55,354 --> 00:15:58,426 for the New York branch of the Federal Reserve, 300 00:15:58,590 --> 00:16:01,799 home to the largest cash vault in the world. 301 00:16:01,961 --> 00:16:04,464 I do not think for a minute the timing is an accident. 302 00:16:04,630 --> 00:16:06,667 The thieves intend to use the storm as a cover 303 00:16:06,832 --> 00:16:10,075 and strike when security is at dangerously depleted levels. 304 00:16:10,235 --> 00:16:12,476 So they were waiting for a storm? 305 00:16:12,638 --> 00:16:14,584 Yes. It's quite clever. 306 00:16:14,740 --> 00:16:16,811 I mean, global weather patterns are producing 307 00:16:16,976 --> 00:16:18,580 more and more powerful storms. 308 00:16:18,744 --> 00:16:21,520 You have a list of targets and cities that are likely to be struck. 309 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:23,626 You have a plan in place when the weather strikes. 310 00:16:23,782 --> 00:16:26,490 The ensuing chaos when police are otherwise engaged, 311 00:16:26,652 --> 00:16:29,599 ideal time for a robbery. Oh, good, you're ready. 312 00:16:30,422 --> 00:16:32,060 [SIGHS] 313 00:16:32,358 --> 00:16:33,564 You call Captain Gregson yet? 314 00:16:33,726 --> 00:16:36,832 I lost cell phone service at 3 a.m. The landline is down as well, 315 00:16:36,996 --> 00:16:39,067 and I cannibalized the echo board on my CB radio 316 00:16:39,231 --> 00:16:40,574 for an experiment last week, 317 00:16:40,733 --> 00:16:42,872 so we have no way to contact the police. 318 00:16:43,035 --> 00:16:46,539 We know that this team is capable of murder when provoked. 319 00:16:46,705 --> 00:16:48,514 We're gonna have to stop this ourselves. 320 00:16:48,674 --> 00:16:50,585 Hold on. How are we gonna stop it? 321 00:16:50,743 --> 00:16:52,654 I don't know. I'll think of something on the way. 322 00:16:52,811 --> 00:16:55,314 It's a long trek to East Rutherford. 323 00:17:24,209 --> 00:17:26,416 [MELLOW PIANO MUSIC PLAYING ON STEREO] 324 00:17:32,985 --> 00:17:35,090 Hello. Sorry. Shouldn't you be plowing? 325 00:17:35,254 --> 00:17:37,427 I'm on standby. Who the hell are you? 326 00:17:37,589 --> 00:17:39,125 My name's Sherlock Holmes. 327 00:17:39,291 --> 00:17:41,794 This is my associate, Joan Watson. 328 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:43,633 We're assisting the N.Y.P.D. with a matter 329 00:17:43,796 --> 00:17:45,434 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. 330 00:17:45,597 --> 00:17:48,134 Why is the N.Y.P.D. helping with something in Jersey? 331 00:17:48,300 --> 00:17:49,472 It's a bit complicated. 332 00:17:49,635 --> 00:17:53,014 Would you mind if we come in to escape this bone-freezing agony? 333 00:17:54,039 --> 00:17:55,950 - Come on. Come on. - Thank you. 334 00:17:58,477 --> 00:18:00,115 [HOLMES GRUNTING] 335 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:03,583 HOLMES: Ah. Ah. 336 00:18:03,982 --> 00:18:05,017 Oh, thank you. 337 00:18:05,184 --> 00:18:06,219 [MUSIC STOPS] 338 00:18:06,385 --> 00:18:09,161 - Hey, I was listening to that. - Right. Would you raise the police? 339 00:18:09,321 --> 00:18:11,597 We need to speak to the 11th precinct, please. 340 00:18:11,757 --> 00:18:13,031 It's rather urgent. 341 00:18:14,193 --> 00:18:17,640 Breaker 9, this is Pam calling from a plow truck in Greenpoint. 342 00:18:17,796 --> 00:18:21,471 I need police dispatch, 11th precinct. 343 00:18:22,768 --> 00:18:25,180 On the line for a bear with ears. Come back. 344 00:18:25,337 --> 00:18:27,908 Your CB handle is Pam? 345 00:18:28,073 --> 00:18:29,848 OFFICER: Copy, Pam. This is the 11th precinct. 346 00:18:30,008 --> 00:18:32,352 You're on the emergency channel. State your business. 347 00:18:32,511 --> 00:18:38,120 This is Sherlock Holmes, guest of Pam and consultant with N.Y.P.D. 348 00:18:38,283 --> 00:18:40,024 Need to speak with Captain Gregson. 349 00:18:40,552 --> 00:18:42,657 OFFICER: I can't put you on with Captain Gregson, sir. 350 00:18:42,821 --> 00:18:45,631 He's not here at the station. There's a storm. 351 00:18:46,125 --> 00:18:49,698 A storm, you say? We shall be on the lookout. 352 00:18:50,095 --> 00:18:52,166 Could you give him this message? 353 00:18:52,331 --> 00:18:56,643 Fairly certain E-R-O-C will be robbed today. 354 00:18:56,802 --> 00:18:59,373 Connected to security guard murder. 355 00:18:59,538 --> 00:19:03,042 Sherlock Holmes. Over. 356 00:19:03,208 --> 00:19:06,678 Right. We need to get to East Rutherford, New Jersey. 357 00:19:06,845 --> 00:19:08,552 I thought the whole reason we left the house 358 00:19:08,714 --> 00:19:10,318 was because we could not reach the police. 359 00:19:10,482 --> 00:19:12,587 We have no idea if they're going to get the message. 360 00:19:12,751 --> 00:19:14,458 Or if the authorities can spare the manpower 361 00:19:14,620 --> 00:19:16,327 if by some miracle they do get the message. 362 00:19:16,488 --> 00:19:18,399 We don't even have proof. Most sensible course is 363 00:19:18,557 --> 00:19:21,800 - for us to go to EROC ourselves. - And do what? 364 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:24,201 What if there are 50 commandos shooting up the place? 365 00:19:24,363 --> 00:19:25,398 Well, I have my whistle. 366 00:19:25,564 --> 00:19:28,568 I don't know what's gonna happen next. That's what makes this an adventure. 367 00:19:28,734 --> 00:19:31,340 But someone has to try and race ahead and warn the guards. 368 00:19:31,503 --> 00:19:33,141 So, Pam, very sorry to do this, 369 00:19:33,305 --> 00:19:36,218 but we're commandeering this vehicle on behalf of the N.Y.P.D. 370 00:19:36,375 --> 00:19:38,252 - And let's go. - You, get out. 371 00:19:38,410 --> 00:19:41,050 You, I can give a ride home to if you want. 372 00:19:41,213 --> 00:19:43,819 All right, forget commandeering. 373 00:19:43,982 --> 00:19:47,327 Let's just call it a rental, shall we? 374 00:19:50,255 --> 00:19:52,292 WOMAN [ON TV]: As you can see, we are still... 375 00:19:52,457 --> 00:19:54,869 - Hey, uh, Vince? - Yeah. 376 00:19:55,027 --> 00:19:56,199 Yeah. Detective Bell. 377 00:19:56,361 --> 00:19:59,399 I radioed in a little while ago. Uh, I think we spoke. 378 00:19:59,565 --> 00:20:02,409 I double-checked. We haven't had a gunshot victim in two weeks. 379 00:20:02,568 --> 00:20:04,809 Right. No, but here's the thing. 380 00:20:04,970 --> 00:20:07,416 None of the hospitals near the shooting had anybody come in, 381 00:20:07,573 --> 00:20:09,712 so now I'm just making the rounds looking for a patient 382 00:20:09,875 --> 00:20:11,320 with any kind of abdominal wound. 383 00:20:11,476 --> 00:20:14,320 Maybe the person I'm looking for came in with a different story. 384 00:20:14,479 --> 00:20:16,459 Well, it's hard to explain you got a bullet wound 385 00:20:16,615 --> 00:20:18,060 by falling down the stairs. 386 00:20:18,617 --> 00:20:22,463 Give me a break, man. I got 20 minutes off from snow patrol. 387 00:20:23,689 --> 00:20:24,724 VINCE: Um... 388 00:20:27,292 --> 00:20:31,638 Um, we do have one young woman. 389 00:20:31,797 --> 00:20:34,175 She's about to be discharged. She was stabbed. 390 00:20:34,633 --> 00:20:36,112 - Alysa Darvin. - Hmm. 391 00:20:36,268 --> 00:20:37,303 [KNOCK ON DOOR] 392 00:20:37,469 --> 00:20:38,777 I'm decent. 393 00:20:39,738 --> 00:20:43,151 Ms. Darvin? Detective Bell, N.Y.P.D. 394 00:20:43,308 --> 00:20:45,914 Oh, heh. I thought you were a nurse. 395 00:20:46,078 --> 00:20:48,319 They keep stopping by trying to talk me out of leaving. 396 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:51,120 - Yeah, why are you leaving? - No health insurance. 397 00:20:51,283 --> 00:20:52,921 Nobody can say that they won't charge me 398 00:20:53,085 --> 00:20:54,530 if I stay through the storm, so... 399 00:20:56,054 --> 00:20:58,534 I'm all stitched up. Heh. 400 00:20:58,690 --> 00:21:02,137 So is this good news? You guys find the bastard? 401 00:21:02,294 --> 00:21:03,864 BELL: Hmm? 402 00:21:05,631 --> 00:21:08,339 The mugger, the guy who stabbed me? 403 00:21:08,500 --> 00:21:10,776 No, sorry. This is about something else. 404 00:21:12,604 --> 00:21:13,674 Parking tickets? 405 00:21:14,206 --> 00:21:16,243 No, no, you're not in any trouble. I just... 406 00:21:16,408 --> 00:21:18,012 You mind if I take a look at your chad? 407 00:21:19,244 --> 00:21:20,587 Yeah. 408 00:21:24,549 --> 00:21:27,052 Two lacerations. Ouch. 409 00:21:27,753 --> 00:21:30,290 - Can you tell me what happened? - Uh... 410 00:21:30,455 --> 00:21:35,131 Okay. Well, um, this guy with a beard, he steps outwith a kitchen knife. 411 00:21:35,294 --> 00:21:38,832 I gave him my purse, but he said I was mouthy. 412 00:21:38,997 --> 00:21:42,137 You, uh, have a blond hair on your coat. 413 00:21:42,668 --> 00:21:45,808 Yeah, I loaned it to my friend last week, so must be hers. 414 00:21:56,581 --> 00:21:58,026 Okay. 415 00:21:59,918 --> 00:22:01,659 One more question. 416 00:22:02,154 --> 00:22:04,100 What hurt worse, getting shot 417 00:22:04,256 --> 00:22:06,862 or letting your friend stab you to disguise the wound? 418 00:22:07,025 --> 00:22:08,470 What? 419 00:22:09,127 --> 00:22:10,731 You see that? 420 00:22:10,896 --> 00:22:13,706 It's melted. Real hair doesn't do that. 421 00:22:13,865 --> 00:22:16,072 That came from a wig. Like the one you were wearing 422 00:22:16,234 --> 00:22:18,737 when you shot a security guard last night. 423 00:22:18,904 --> 00:22:20,747 I don't know what you're talking about. 424 00:22:20,906 --> 00:22:23,944 Right. Well, since you're checking out anyway, 425 00:22:24,109 --> 00:22:27,022 I'm afraid I'm gonna have to insist on giving you a ride. 426 00:22:30,482 --> 00:22:34,225 So you're with the N.Y.P.D. but you're not cops. 427 00:22:34,386 --> 00:22:36,263 How does that work, exactly? 428 00:22:36,421 --> 00:22:40,563 We met your price, Pam. I assumed it included freedom from small talk. 429 00:22:43,528 --> 00:22:46,873 He gets carsick, like a 6 year old. 430 00:22:47,566 --> 00:22:48,704 We consult. 431 00:22:49,534 --> 00:22:51,275 Oh, I got a bar, I'm gonna try the home line, 432 00:22:51,436 --> 00:22:54,315 see if the landlines are working now maybe. 433 00:22:54,473 --> 00:22:56,111 Why on earth would you call our house? 434 00:22:56,274 --> 00:22:58,015 I call the police, I get a weird signal. 435 00:22:58,176 --> 00:23:01,157 I wanna make sure that Davis is out of the house and Miss Hudson is okay. 436 00:23:01,313 --> 00:23:03,156 OPERATOR [ON PHONE]: The number you have dialed 437 00:23:03,315 --> 00:23:04,350 is not in service. 438 00:23:04,516 --> 00:23:07,087 Please check the number and try again. 439 00:23:07,252 --> 00:23:09,892 Our number is out of service and it is not because of an emergency. 440 00:23:10,055 --> 00:23:12,001 Do you have any idea why that would be-- 441 00:23:13,392 --> 00:23:14,962 Did you not pay the phone bill? 442 00:23:15,127 --> 00:23:19,473 In this day and age, a landline is like an appendix or a vestigial tail. 443 00:23:19,965 --> 00:23:22,571 I don't know why you care. You complained I took Miss Hudson in. 444 00:23:22,734 --> 00:23:24,372 I was upset because you brought a stranger 445 00:23:24,536 --> 00:23:26,243 into our shared living space without asking. 446 00:23:26,405 --> 00:23:29,249 Today she's no longer a stranger. I like Miss Hudson. 447 00:23:29,408 --> 00:23:31,149 She's lost, trying to figure herself out. 448 00:23:31,309 --> 00:23:33,516 You identify with her. She's like you before you met me. 449 00:23:33,678 --> 00:23:35,624 - What? - Lost, trying to figure yourself out. 450 00:23:35,781 --> 00:23:38,193 No. I reject that analogy. I wanna help her. 451 00:23:38,350 --> 00:23:42,196 It would be good if Miss Hudson learned to take care of herself. 452 00:23:43,588 --> 00:23:46,194 Well done, Pam. We're here. 453 00:23:54,466 --> 00:23:57,174 Little early for a plow, isn't it? Still coming down. 454 00:23:57,702 --> 00:23:59,841 We're not hereto shovel snow. There's an emergency. 455 00:24:03,041 --> 00:24:06,113 You wanna know why today's your lucky day? 456 00:24:06,645 --> 00:24:09,353 Normally these tests don't take any time at all. 457 00:24:09,514 --> 00:24:13,860 But we got no power. Can't run the test. 458 00:24:15,787 --> 00:24:19,098 Means you have a little window to be smart here. 459 00:24:19,257 --> 00:24:22,136 If you're ready to tell me what I already know, 460 00:24:22,294 --> 00:24:23,967 that you killed Frank Dempster, 461 00:24:24,129 --> 00:24:26,973 that you and your buddies stole 200 Verzia 8 phones, 462 00:24:27,132 --> 00:24:29,612 I'll get a DA in here and cut you a deal. 463 00:24:29,768 --> 00:24:31,839 You know what, why don't you shove--? 464 00:24:32,003 --> 00:24:34,176 Sorry to interrupt. 465 00:24:35,140 --> 00:24:37,984 Sounded like a "no." 466 00:24:40,612 --> 00:24:42,751 So let's switch gears. 467 00:24:43,215 --> 00:24:45,752 Why don't you tell us about EROC. 468 00:24:46,718 --> 00:24:49,358 You say you're with the N.Y.P.D., but we can't raise anybody 469 00:24:49,521 --> 00:24:50,898 on the radio to confirm that. 470 00:24:51,056 --> 00:24:53,468 They're a bit busy dealing with the storm of the century. 471 00:24:53,625 --> 00:24:56,538 Be that as it may, there's no way we're letting you past the control room. 472 00:24:56,695 --> 00:24:58,868 Nobody gets past the control room. 473 00:24:59,030 --> 00:25:02,102 This entire facility is automated, Mr. Holmes. 474 00:25:02,267 --> 00:25:04,713 Most days, nobody's allowed on the cash floor. 475 00:25:04,870 --> 00:25:07,510 Automated vehicles, our AGVs, 476 00:25:07,672 --> 00:25:09,948 they unload pallets of bills from the armored trucks 477 00:25:10,108 --> 00:25:11,314 that bring in the deposits. 478 00:25:11,476 --> 00:25:14,855 Then they take them into the vaults for processing and storage. 479 00:25:15,013 --> 00:25:17,323 It's all commanded remotely from rooms like these. 480 00:25:17,482 --> 00:25:19,086 There's no way, 481 00:25:19,251 --> 00:25:23,393 no chance you could get into our vault directly. 482 00:25:24,956 --> 00:25:26,230 Huh. 483 00:25:27,092 --> 00:25:29,538 - Is something wrong? - Nothing. It's all accounted for. 484 00:25:29,694 --> 00:25:33,232 I just didn't realize they were doing a sort today. 485 00:25:33,398 --> 00:25:36,072 Steve, did you hear about this? Machines ran about 980. 486 00:25:36,234 --> 00:25:38,680 An unscheduled, unsupervised sort of nearly a billion dollars 487 00:25:38,837 --> 00:25:40,748 run on auxiliary power. 488 00:25:40,906 --> 00:25:44,683 Okay, yes, it's weird, but nothing's missing. 489 00:25:44,843 --> 00:25:47,380 All the bills that ran through the machines are accounted for. 490 00:25:47,546 --> 00:25:48,923 System's tamperproof. 491 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,060 You destroy currency at this facility, do you not? 492 00:25:51,216 --> 00:25:53,958 Sure. If a bill gets too worn out, it gets sifted out and shredded. 493 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:55,621 Can we see where? 494 00:25:55,787 --> 00:25:57,562 The money's already been shredded, has it not? 495 00:25:57,722 --> 00:26:00,430 Miss Watson and myself are not here to steal confetti. 496 00:26:00,592 --> 00:26:03,869 MANAGER: Our processing machines read 70,000 bills an hour. 497 00:26:04,029 --> 00:26:07,169 These bills are from this morning's shred. 498 00:26:07,332 --> 00:26:10,142 Just under 33 million. 499 00:26:10,302 --> 00:26:13,010 That's about average for four hours. It's all here. 500 00:26:14,105 --> 00:26:17,609 Something was shredded here this morning but it's not U.S. currency. 501 00:26:18,009 --> 00:26:20,216 This is supposed to be cotton. This is regular paper. 502 00:26:20,378 --> 00:26:22,324 - This is fake. - That's not possible. 503 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,324 Well, you be sure to mention that in your exit interview. 504 00:26:25,483 --> 00:26:28,327 Yeah. Well, it's hard to say how the thieves got in, 505 00:26:28,486 --> 00:26:30,090 not without the blueprints they stole. 506 00:26:30,255 --> 00:26:32,667 They got into your control room, looped the security footage, 507 00:26:32,824 --> 00:26:35,168 and they gave themselves run of the place. 508 00:26:35,327 --> 00:26:38,001 They switched out the bales meant to be shredded with fake currency. 509 00:26:38,163 --> 00:26:40,803 Doesn't make sense. They could have taken as much as they wanted. 510 00:26:40,966 --> 00:26:44,209 But not without risking detection, inviting a massive manhunt. 511 00:26:44,369 --> 00:26:47,009 If these bales had gone to the landfill, as you'd intended, 512 00:26:47,172 --> 00:26:49,083 no one would even know there'd been a crime. 513 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:50,844 So we're not trying to prevent a robbery. 514 00:26:51,009 --> 00:26:56,118 We're trying to find these people before they disappear with $33 million. 515 00:27:00,051 --> 00:27:03,362 WATSON: It's freezing out. What are we looking at? 516 00:27:03,521 --> 00:27:06,229 HOLMES: This utility shed is the most remote point of access to EROC. 517 00:27:06,391 --> 00:27:08,393 Look at this. See the discoloration there? 518 00:27:08,893 --> 00:27:11,669 Rather than break down the door, they've unscrewed the keypad, 519 00:27:11,830 --> 00:27:14,208 they wired in, and then reattached it on their way out. 520 00:27:14,366 --> 00:27:17,074 Left hardly a trace. 521 00:27:17,235 --> 00:27:18,475 We're standing over a tunnel. 522 00:27:19,170 --> 00:27:20,513 Yeah. 523 00:27:20,672 --> 00:27:24,745 Without question, this was our point of ingress and egress onto the property. 524 00:27:24,909 --> 00:27:26,855 Well, it looks like someone's been smoking here. 525 00:27:27,012 --> 00:27:29,458 - You think it's normally guarded? - Huh. 526 00:27:29,614 --> 00:27:34,290 Unless a massive storm forces them to work with a skeleton crew. 527 00:27:34,452 --> 00:27:36,398 You have to admire the ingenuity of the plan. 528 00:27:36,554 --> 00:27:37,760 If they hadn't killed someone, 529 00:27:37,922 --> 00:27:40,300 I'd have half a mind to let them get away with it. 530 00:27:57,809 --> 00:28:00,790 They came out of EROC with $33 million in small bills. 531 00:28:00,945 --> 00:28:02,549 They loaded their haul into an ambulance, 532 00:28:02,714 --> 00:28:04,421 American-made, in the late '90s. 533 00:28:04,582 --> 00:28:07,461 They haven't been gone more than an hour. 534 00:28:07,886 --> 00:28:10,765 The driver had a lazy eye, the other two met at basketball camp, 535 00:28:10,922 --> 00:28:13,368 and one has canine lupus. 536 00:28:14,259 --> 00:28:17,536 You see how it feels? Just tell me how you know. 537 00:28:22,033 --> 00:28:24,536 These tire tracks, they are varying axle bases. 538 00:28:24,703 --> 00:28:26,478 The front wheels, little bit closer together. 539 00:28:26,638 --> 00:28:28,049 That is a very rare configuration. 540 00:28:28,206 --> 00:28:31,449 It's common only in ambulances and certain U-Haul-style box trucks. 541 00:28:31,609 --> 00:28:33,452 If I was trying to make my way unimpeded 542 00:28:33,611 --> 00:28:34,715 through a storm-locked area, 543 00:28:34,879 --> 00:28:38,417 I'd rather be in an ambulance than a U-Haul. Wouldn't you? 544 00:28:39,050 --> 00:28:41,496 Two inches of snow are falling every hour. 545 00:28:41,653 --> 00:28:43,462 Those tracks would be impossible to see 546 00:28:43,621 --> 00:28:46,602 unless they were here within what, the last 90 minutes or so? 547 00:28:46,758 --> 00:28:48,760 Very good, Watson. And given the current conditions, 548 00:28:48,927 --> 00:28:51,407 it's not too late to catch them. 549 00:28:53,498 --> 00:28:56,069 Did you know we have a satellite phone linkup 550 00:28:56,234 --> 00:28:57,611 to other law enforcement agencies? 551 00:28:57,769 --> 00:29:00,750 It's so we can stay in touch in case of emergencies. 552 00:29:01,439 --> 00:29:05,012 Alysa Darvin, the name you used at the hospital, it's an alias. 553 00:29:05,176 --> 00:29:08,020 You dropped it before. Your real name is Elle Bastin. 554 00:29:08,179 --> 00:29:09,658 You were born in Marseilles. 555 00:29:09,814 --> 00:29:15,093 You got dual citizenship with arrests for larceny in Germany and Portugal. 556 00:29:15,253 --> 00:29:20,464 Your husband, Ibn Casimir, was in on both jobs. 557 00:29:20,625 --> 00:29:22,434 Is that why you won't talk to us? 558 00:29:22,594 --> 00:29:25,131 Because you're married to a guy who decided, 559 00:29:25,296 --> 00:29:27,333 go ahead with the robbery after you got shot? 560 00:29:28,867 --> 00:29:33,213 Elle, tell us what he's up to, where we can find him. 561 00:29:33,371 --> 00:29:35,647 Otherwise, you're gonna eat a murder charge alone. 562 00:29:38,710 --> 00:29:40,849 [IN FRENCH ACCENT] You will never find my husband. 563 00:29:41,012 --> 00:29:42,047 [DOOR OPENS] 564 00:29:42,213 --> 00:29:43,715 OFFICER: Captain, sorry to interrupt. 565 00:29:43,882 --> 00:29:46,795 There's someone named Sherlock Holmes on the radio for you. 566 00:29:46,951 --> 00:29:48,828 He says EROC's already been robbed. 567 00:29:57,362 --> 00:29:58,739 HOLMES: You found the murderess? 568 00:29:58,897 --> 00:30:01,537 GREGSON [OVER RADIO]: Yeah, the murderess is named Elle Bastin. 569 00:30:01,699 --> 00:30:03,610 Detective Bell's been talking to Interpol. 570 00:30:03,768 --> 00:30:07,238 They say she's got four plane tickets booked out of BWI 571 00:30:07,405 --> 00:30:09,942 day after tomorrow, headed to Belize. 572 00:30:10,108 --> 00:30:12,987 HOLMES: And on to a non-extradition country from there, I assume. 573 00:30:13,144 --> 00:30:15,055 The good news is, if they're flying commercially, 574 00:30:15,213 --> 00:30:16,817 they will have to unload the money first. 575 00:30:16,981 --> 00:30:21,157 Thirty-three million dollars in cash takes up enormous physical space. 576 00:30:21,319 --> 00:30:23,526 They're carrying it in the back of an ambulance. 577 00:30:23,688 --> 00:30:26,567 What was she carrying on her when you arrested her? 578 00:30:26,724 --> 00:30:29,933 Uh, not much. She had a burner on her when I found her, 579 00:30:30,094 --> 00:30:31,835 but the texts are limited right now. 580 00:30:31,996 --> 00:30:34,374 Only managed to pull the last dozen numbers she dialed. 581 00:30:34,532 --> 00:30:36,307 You can use a reverse directory? 582 00:30:36,467 --> 00:30:38,572 BELL: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not my first day, Holmes. 583 00:30:38,736 --> 00:30:41,080 I did. She mostly called friends and family. 584 00:30:41,239 --> 00:30:43,776 There were a couple to Oak Knoll out in Queens. 585 00:30:44,242 --> 00:30:46,017 Who did she call at the racetrack? 586 00:30:46,177 --> 00:30:47,588 BELL: A guy named Joseph Leseur. 587 00:30:47,745 --> 00:30:50,248 He's the director of thoroughbred racing over there. 588 00:30:50,415 --> 00:30:53,828 Well, detective, what would you do if you had an enormous amount 589 00:30:53,985 --> 00:30:56,488 of old, worn-out bills with old serial numbers? 590 00:30:56,654 --> 00:30:58,565 I would swap them outwith nice, new, clean ones, 591 00:30:58,723 --> 00:31:00,100 little bit at a time. 592 00:31:00,258 --> 00:31:01,896 Especially if I had a contact who worked 593 00:31:02,060 --> 00:31:04,870 in one of the largest-volume cash businesses there is. 594 00:31:05,430 --> 00:31:08,604 Tell me, can we get an address for Mr. Leseur? 595 00:31:18,109 --> 00:31:20,749 - Who was driving you around? - Pam. 596 00:31:20,912 --> 00:31:22,789 So, what have you learned? 597 00:31:22,947 --> 00:31:25,655 Well, none of the, uh, neighbors spotted an ambulance 598 00:31:25,817 --> 00:31:27,990 driving up to Leseur's house. 599 00:31:28,686 --> 00:31:31,758 If they plan on coming here, they haven't done it yet. 600 00:31:32,891 --> 00:31:37,670 Takes time to move $33 million around a paralyzed city. 601 00:31:40,298 --> 00:31:42,244 Do you know where the term "stakeout" comes from? 602 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,243 No, but I'm guessing I'm about to find out. 603 00:31:44,402 --> 00:31:46,075 OFFICER [OVER RADIO]: All units be advised, 604 00:31:46,237 --> 00:31:48,308 a Stuyvesant Memorial ambulance passed a road closure 605 00:31:48,473 --> 00:31:50,578 and is driving east across the City Island Bridge. 606 00:31:50,742 --> 00:31:52,813 Copy that. Let them through. 607 00:31:52,977 --> 00:31:56,550 We'll arrest everybody after they pull up to Leseur's place. 608 00:32:02,587 --> 00:32:04,157 Hold it. 609 00:32:05,657 --> 00:32:07,534 Wait for the exchange. 610 00:32:14,165 --> 00:32:18,011 OFFICER: Detective, I think one of the EMTs just made me. I'm going in. 611 00:32:18,269 --> 00:32:19,714 [SIRENS WAILING] 612 00:32:28,179 --> 00:32:30,625 OFFICER: Police! Step away from the door. 613 00:32:30,782 --> 00:32:33,126 BELL: Go around back. OFFICER: Get on the ground now! 614 00:32:33,284 --> 00:32:36,128 EMT: Ah! What are you doing? - Don't move. You're under arrest. 615 00:32:36,287 --> 00:32:39,200 For what? We got a non-emergency call to this address. 616 00:32:39,357 --> 00:32:41,234 You telling me you don't have 33 million 617 00:32:41,392 --> 00:32:43,963 - in the back of that ambulance? - What? Of course not. 618 00:32:57,275 --> 00:32:59,721 BELL: Stretcher, medical supplies. 619 00:33:00,244 --> 00:33:02,349 Street value, maybe a few thousand. 620 00:33:02,513 --> 00:33:05,187 But, hey, it's not like we're busy today or anything. 621 00:33:08,386 --> 00:33:12,129 - I don't understand. - We've been duped. 622 00:33:18,896 --> 00:33:20,500 HOLMES: It doesn't make any sense. 623 00:33:20,665 --> 00:33:22,667 We were waiting for a Stuyvesant Memorial ambulance, 624 00:33:22,834 --> 00:33:24,313 and even though there was no emergency 625 00:33:24,469 --> 00:33:25,573 at Joseph Leseur's house, 626 00:33:25,737 --> 00:33:27,683 a Stuyvesant Memorial ambulance showed up. 627 00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:30,581 - Now, that can't be a coincidence. - So taking odds, 628 00:33:30,742 --> 00:33:33,586 you think that Davis has shacked up with Miss Hudson or not? 629 00:33:33,745 --> 00:33:36,419 Hey, listen. This was pretty fun. 630 00:33:36,581 --> 00:33:40,393 Uh, if you ever need, you know, a snowplow for hire again, 631 00:33:40,551 --> 00:33:42,428 give me a call. 632 00:33:44,989 --> 00:33:46,627 [WATSON SIGHS] 633 00:33:55,566 --> 00:33:57,568 Oh, my God. 634 00:33:59,537 --> 00:34:00,914 It's spotless. 635 00:34:01,072 --> 00:34:03,882 HUDSON: Don't hate me. - Hate you? I love you. 636 00:34:06,244 --> 00:34:07,416 How's it arranged? 637 00:34:07,578 --> 00:34:10,582 By subject matter, then by author. 638 00:34:10,748 --> 00:34:13,661 You start with hard sciences on the north wall 639 00:34:13,818 --> 00:34:17,095 and then you move clockwise around the room 640 00:34:17,255 --> 00:34:20,634 in descending order of academic rigor. 641 00:34:20,792 --> 00:34:25,798 That way, uh, Physics by Aristotle is as far away 642 00:34:25,963 --> 00:34:30,673 from You Can Learn Telepathy by Marion Zuckerman as possible. 643 00:34:31,235 --> 00:34:32,509 That's reasonable. 644 00:34:32,670 --> 00:34:36,846 Oh, and I stacked your monographs that you wrote on your desk. 645 00:34:37,008 --> 00:34:41,184 - I liked the one about queen bees. HOLMES: Hmm. 646 00:34:41,946 --> 00:34:43,857 WATSON: I'm impressed. 647 00:34:44,015 --> 00:34:46,427 I have a touch of OCD. 648 00:34:46,584 --> 00:34:49,588 - Seems to flare up after a breakup. - Davis? 649 00:34:50,121 --> 00:34:52,431 He stayed over the first night, 650 00:34:52,590 --> 00:34:58,131 but our thing wasn't really healthy or happy. 651 00:34:58,529 --> 00:35:00,475 I think maybe I have to take another look 652 00:35:00,631 --> 00:35:03,373 at that whole kept woman thing. 653 00:35:06,871 --> 00:35:09,750 Why does Clyde have tape on his back? 654 00:35:09,907 --> 00:35:13,116 It's a cross. He's an ambulance. He's the ambulance. 655 00:35:13,277 --> 00:35:17,054 Oh, I see. So the locks are checkpoints and road closures. 656 00:35:17,215 --> 00:35:20,321 Mm. According to Captain Gregson, we have reason to believe 657 00:35:20,485 --> 00:35:22,897 that Ibn Casimir and his compatriots were 658 00:35:23,888 --> 00:35:26,368 here at 3:00. 659 00:35:26,524 --> 00:35:28,197 That's when multiple eyewitnesses report 660 00:35:28,359 --> 00:35:30,339 seeing a Stuyvesant Memorial ambulance 661 00:35:30,495 --> 00:35:33,032 flagrantly disregarding a severe traffic accident 662 00:35:33,197 --> 00:35:34,904 on Soundview Terrace. 663 00:35:35,066 --> 00:35:37,979 It's odd for an ambulance to ignore those in distress. 664 00:35:38,136 --> 00:35:42,084 Less strange if it is carrying $33 million in cash 665 00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:44,049 instead of medical supplies. 666 00:35:44,609 --> 00:35:47,613 Let's presume the thieves learned that we were looking for them. 667 00:35:47,778 --> 00:35:51,783 They call in a false distress signal to Joseph Leseur's house, 668 00:35:51,949 --> 00:35:56,091 and then they take their stolen cargo elsewhere. 669 00:35:56,254 --> 00:35:58,131 It's hard to see where they could have gone. 670 00:35:58,289 --> 00:36:00,735 I mean, every cop was looking for them at that point. 671 00:36:00,892 --> 00:36:03,805 Mm. Exactly. And what's more, 672 00:36:03,961 --> 00:36:06,669 the streets were a maze of emergency checkpoints. 673 00:36:06,831 --> 00:36:09,573 The whole city was virtually locked down. 674 00:36:10,067 --> 00:36:12,604 I like what you did with, um, the locks and everything. 675 00:36:14,705 --> 00:36:16,878 I'm not trying to create a visual pun. 676 00:36:17,041 --> 00:36:19,453 I'm trying to see how an ambulance could have got anywhere, 677 00:36:19,610 --> 00:36:21,146 even a decent hiding place, 678 00:36:21,312 --> 00:36:23,417 when there was quite literally nowhere for it to turn. 679 00:36:23,581 --> 00:36:25,788 Seems impossible. Only way it could have got anywhere is 680 00:36:25,950 --> 00:36:28,021 if those checkpoints and road closures weren't there. 681 00:36:28,186 --> 00:36:29,358 But they were there. 682 00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,660 You can't just wish them away with a wave of your-- 683 00:36:33,191 --> 00:36:34,693 What? 684 00:36:34,926 --> 00:36:39,568 Most people can't just wish them away with a wave of their hand. 685 00:36:40,865 --> 00:36:43,038 GREGSON: So the stapler's the ambulance? 686 00:36:43,201 --> 00:36:46,546 Yeah. It was a tortoise last night. Bear with me. 687 00:36:46,704 --> 00:36:50,481 The stickers represent the checkpoints and closures. 688 00:36:50,641 --> 00:36:54,282 We know that the ambulance driven by Ibn Casimir and his associates 689 00:36:54,445 --> 00:36:57,085 was spotted here yesterday. 690 00:36:57,248 --> 00:37:00,092 We do not know how it got out of the city. 691 00:37:00,251 --> 00:37:03,391 Miss Watson has a copy of yesterday's dispatch log. 692 00:37:03,554 --> 00:37:06,967 A commendable attempt to catalog the blizzard's madness. 693 00:37:07,124 --> 00:37:10,697 Miss Watson, would you please read the events in question? 694 00:37:10,861 --> 00:37:14,104 Yes, of course. Um, at 3:32, a stretch of St. Ann's Avenue 695 00:37:14,265 --> 00:37:16,370 was reopened when officers manning a checkpoint 696 00:37:16,534 --> 00:37:18,445 were reassigned to Garvey Park. 697 00:37:19,136 --> 00:37:21,742 3:45, police officers at the Triborough Bridge 698 00:37:21,906 --> 00:37:26,355 were directed to investigate reports of a fire that turned out to be false. 699 00:37:26,510 --> 00:37:29,218 At ten to 4, the checkpoint at Astoria and 31st 700 00:37:29,380 --> 00:37:31,087 was deemed unnecessary and shut down. 701 00:37:31,249 --> 00:37:33,320 Yes. Now, see, there's more. There's many, many more, 702 00:37:33,484 --> 00:37:35,054 but you, uh, get the idea. 703 00:37:35,219 --> 00:37:38,826 A series of personnel maneuvers, on their own, unremarkable, 704 00:37:38,990 --> 00:37:40,833 but you consider them as a whole, 705 00:37:40,992 --> 00:37:43,973 they add up to quite a tidy escape route out of New York. 706 00:37:44,128 --> 00:37:47,302 You think someone was playing Moses parting the Red Sea? 707 00:37:47,465 --> 00:37:51,538 If you're right, they got a high-level player inside. 708 00:37:52,903 --> 00:37:56,009 So how's it been working with Miss Castor? 709 00:37:57,208 --> 00:37:59,654 GREGSON: It's fine. She's tough. Knows her job. 710 00:37:59,810 --> 00:38:02,689 Hmm. Sharp enough to be able to arrange the chessboard 711 00:38:02,847 --> 00:38:05,384 without arousing suspicion. 712 00:38:06,951 --> 00:38:09,124 Do you know what a FEMA emergency response administrator 713 00:38:09,287 --> 00:38:10,789 is paid in salary? 714 00:38:10,955 --> 00:38:13,060 She's GS-13 on the government pay scale. 715 00:38:13,224 --> 00:38:15,204 It is not exorbitant. 716 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:18,468 I don't make a fortune either. You want to make a citizen's arrest? 717 00:38:18,629 --> 00:38:21,735 I am merely suggesting a motive. She is paid the same amount 718 00:38:21,899 --> 00:38:25,847 as the postmaster of Sheboygan, Wisconsin. 719 00:38:26,170 --> 00:38:27,911 Perhaps she decided she needed a raise. 720 00:38:28,072 --> 00:38:30,279 That's all very interesting but we don't have a case. 721 00:38:30,441 --> 00:38:34,218 All I can point to is the few instances of her doing her job. 722 00:38:34,378 --> 00:38:38,849 Now, our thieves are gone, and the one we've got isn't talking. 723 00:38:39,050 --> 00:38:42,691 Ah. Why do you think Miss Bastin has decided not to bargain with us? 724 00:38:43,087 --> 00:38:45,829 I suppose it's possible in her case there is honor amongst thieves. 725 00:38:45,990 --> 00:38:47,765 But it's also possible that she's holding onto 726 00:38:47,925 --> 00:38:49,268 her most valuable bargaining chip, 727 00:38:49,427 --> 00:38:52,101 the identity of a corrupt government employee, 728 00:38:52,263 --> 00:38:54,675 until she is quite certain that her inside contact 729 00:38:54,832 --> 00:38:58,143 cannot facilitate her escape. 730 00:38:58,869 --> 00:39:00,371 I don't know about you, 731 00:39:00,538 --> 00:39:04,543 I'm quite hoping her faith in that remote possibility is redeemed. 732 00:39:12,917 --> 00:39:14,260 BELL: Ah. 733 00:39:15,019 --> 00:39:18,592 Do you know what a mass spectrometer is, Elle? 734 00:39:19,523 --> 00:39:21,799 Truth is, I don't really know how the thing works myself, 735 00:39:21,959 --> 00:39:24,872 so I'm not the best person to explain it, but I'll try. 736 00:39:25,029 --> 00:39:26,269 Here goes. 737 00:39:26,430 --> 00:39:30,537 A mass spectrometer is the thing that just ruined your life. 738 00:39:30,701 --> 00:39:31,907 The GSR test came back. 739 00:39:32,069 --> 00:39:35,710 You had gunshot residue all over your right palm. 740 00:39:35,873 --> 00:39:37,910 You're going down for the murder of Frank Dempster. 741 00:39:38,075 --> 00:39:40,248 We're gonna put you away for life. 742 00:39:42,380 --> 00:39:43,620 [BELL SIGHS] 743 00:39:43,781 --> 00:39:47,228 Guess the backup generator wasn't built for the long haul. 744 00:39:48,052 --> 00:39:50,589 Oh, right, I was talking about how they're clearing the roads 745 00:39:50,755 --> 00:39:53,065 and you're about to be transferred to Central Booking. 746 00:39:53,224 --> 00:39:54,669 [PEOPLE SHOUTING IN HALLWAY] 747 00:39:56,761 --> 00:39:57,796 What's going on? 748 00:39:59,730 --> 00:40:02,438 Somebody got stabbed in one of the holding cells during the blackout. 749 00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:03,670 Come on. You too. Let's go. 750 00:40:03,834 --> 00:40:05,472 Shouldn't somebody keep an eye on her? 751 00:40:05,636 --> 00:40:07,513 Come on. The door's gonna lock from the outside, 752 00:40:07,671 --> 00:40:09,742 Miss Bastin's not going anywhere. 753 00:40:13,310 --> 00:40:16,086 Detective Bell once confided in me he played Sky Masterson 754 00:40:16,247 --> 00:40:18,249 in his high school production of Guys and Dolls. 755 00:40:18,416 --> 00:40:20,760 I had not, until this moment, imagined that he was any good. 756 00:40:22,787 --> 00:40:27,361 The stage's loss is New York City's gain, I suppose. 757 00:40:27,558 --> 00:40:29,299 GREGSON [OVER RADIO]: How we looking, Holmes? 758 00:40:30,161 --> 00:40:32,232 Nothing yet. 759 00:40:32,396 --> 00:40:34,273 How's the riot? 760 00:40:34,432 --> 00:40:36,036 [CLAMORING] 761 00:40:55,386 --> 00:40:56,524 Not a word. 762 00:40:56,687 --> 00:40:57,893 Follow me. 763 00:40:58,055 --> 00:40:59,728 Here we go. 764 00:41:01,992 --> 00:41:05,303 The happy collaborators are on their way out, captain. 765 00:41:05,830 --> 00:41:07,639 Okay. 766 00:41:07,798 --> 00:41:11,575 Wait, wait. We can't charge them with escape until they clear the floor. 767 00:41:17,575 --> 00:41:19,020 Hurry HP- 768 00:41:20,911 --> 00:41:23,016 You didn't say anything to them, did you? 769 00:41:23,180 --> 00:41:25,160 Say anything about what? 770 00:41:40,764 --> 00:41:44,143 WATSON: Hey, Gregson just called. Denise Castor turned on her partners. 771 00:41:44,301 --> 00:41:47,248 Turns out the ambulance and the cash were in a garage in Rockaway. 772 00:41:47,404 --> 00:41:48,508 Wonderful. 773 00:41:48,672 --> 00:41:50,948 Oh. Redecorating already? 774 00:41:51,108 --> 00:41:52,280 [HORN HONKS OUTSIDE] 775 00:41:54,745 --> 00:41:56,520 Uh, what's Pam doing here? 776 00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:58,284 Miss Hudson needs a ride to her cousin's. 777 00:41:58,449 --> 00:42:00,520 Some of the roads still a bit dicey. 778 00:42:00,684 --> 00:42:02,721 That's me. 779 00:42:03,153 --> 00:42:05,360 Thank you. I'll see you Tuesday. 780 00:42:07,057 --> 00:42:08,092 What's Tuesday? 781 00:42:08,259 --> 00:42:10,705 Miss Hudson needs cash while she figures out her next move. 782 00:42:10,861 --> 00:42:13,239 I've engaged her to clean the place on a weekly basis. 783 00:42:13,397 --> 00:42:14,603 Oh. 784 00:42:18,035 --> 00:42:21,073 - That's very considerate. - I wasn't going to do it myself, was I? 785 00:42:21,238 --> 00:42:24,412 And you've decided to take on some extra casework to cover her fees. 786 00:42:25,276 --> 00:42:26,778 Excuse me, we never agreed to that. 787 00:42:26,944 --> 00:42:28,218 Well, 50-50 then. 788 00:42:30,414 --> 00:42:32,985 Now, come back in ten minutes, wear a blindfold, 789 00:42:33,150 --> 00:42:36,290 the bloodstains will be ready and the lesson can begin.