1 00:00:01,068 --> 00:00:03,433 NARRATOR: Previously on Elementary: Ripped By mstoll 2 00:00:03,603 --> 00:00:05,070 This is Manny Tarkanian. 3 00:00:05,238 --> 00:00:07,069 I'm gonna text you my contact information. 4 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:09,231 Are you gonna answer that? 5 00:00:09,409 --> 00:00:11,604 HOLMES: Gareth Lestrade, late of Scotland Yard. 6 00:00:11,778 --> 00:00:12,938 I owe you an apology. 7 00:00:13,113 --> 00:00:15,411 We gotta accommodate each other. I realize that now. 8 00:00:15,582 --> 00:00:16,844 Apology accepted. 9 00:00:17,017 --> 00:00:18,575 The company's not paying for my hotel. 10 00:00:18,752 --> 00:00:20,686 You can stay here. Just be quiet. 11 00:00:20,854 --> 00:00:23,015 We own chickens, don't we? 12 00:00:24,657 --> 00:00:25,988 [BEEPING] 13 00:00:32,799 --> 00:00:34,164 LESTRADE: Holmes! 14 00:00:34,334 --> 00:00:37,201 Your bloody rooster's at it again! 15 00:00:37,370 --> 00:00:39,770 Nineteen days. Nineteen days he has been here. 16 00:00:39,939 --> 00:00:41,770 You were the one who said he could stay with us 17 00:00:41,941 --> 00:00:44,375 until he figured out his next move. 18 00:00:45,178 --> 00:00:48,944 LESTRADE: Holmes! I'll pluck it! I swear it! 19 00:00:49,115 --> 00:00:51,447 - He has offers, remember? HOLMES: Course he does. 20 00:00:52,052 --> 00:00:53,952 He took credit for my successes at Scotland Yard. 21 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:55,246 Typically, a man is his work. 22 00:00:55,422 --> 00:00:58,789 In his case, he is my work, and who wouldn't want to hire me? 23 00:00:59,459 --> 00:01:02,724 You said your friend made that for you? 24 00:01:02,896 --> 00:01:05,194 Demolitions expert. He sends me devices from time to time. 25 00:01:05,365 --> 00:01:07,629 I'd hardly call him a friend. 26 00:01:09,002 --> 00:01:10,765 WATSON: And what happens if it hits zero? 27 00:01:10,937 --> 00:01:13,132 I confess to not knowing. 28 00:01:13,306 --> 00:01:17,003 Could be a spray of paint, an expulsion of fumes. 29 00:01:17,243 --> 00:01:21,509 I have yet to fail at defusing one. 30 00:01:21,681 --> 00:01:23,273 [BEEPING INCREASES] 31 00:01:23,850 --> 00:01:25,511 LESTRADE: Holmes! 32 00:01:25,685 --> 00:01:27,380 - I'm gonna see what he wants. - Yeah. 33 00:01:30,590 --> 00:01:32,922 LESTRADE: Holmes, can I get some help, please? 34 00:01:33,093 --> 00:01:35,220 - Hey. LESTRADE: Hi, Joan, brilliant. 35 00:01:35,395 --> 00:01:38,159 This one's got it in for me, I swear. What's it...? Remus? 36 00:01:38,331 --> 00:01:39,559 Actually, that's Romulus. 37 00:01:39,732 --> 00:01:42,166 Every time I go for the remote control to turn the TV on, 38 00:01:42,335 --> 00:01:44,496 it spreads its wings and it comes at me. 39 00:01:44,671 --> 00:01:48,107 Hey, Romulus. You want a little treat? Oh, there you go. 40 00:01:48,274 --> 00:01:50,367 Ah. Treat's in the pocket, very nice. 41 00:01:51,177 --> 00:01:53,543 - And then you go... Here you go. - Yo! Brilliant. 42 00:01:53,713 --> 00:01:56,511 Absolutely brilliant. Well done, you. Thank you very much. 43 00:01:56,683 --> 00:01:58,275 I got a few quid riding on this match. 44 00:01:58,451 --> 00:02:00,419 - My pleasure. - Uh, Joan? 45 00:02:01,921 --> 00:02:05,914 I wanted to say thank you for being so patient with me about all this. 46 00:02:06,092 --> 00:02:08,652 You know, the job's bullocks. 47 00:02:09,262 --> 00:02:11,890 Sherlock's sick of the sight of my face, isn't he? 48 00:02:12,065 --> 00:02:13,760 Well, you have a big decision to make, so... 49 00:02:13,933 --> 00:02:18,597 Well, you know, actually, I got another offer today, in fact. Yeah. 50 00:02:19,873 --> 00:02:23,809 Largest investigation company in São Paulo, Brazil. Romero e Blanco. 51 00:02:23,977 --> 00:02:25,239 Wow. 52 00:02:25,612 --> 00:02:27,204 Do you speak Portuguese? 53 00:02:27,380 --> 00:02:30,508 LESTRADE: Do I speak Portuguese? Well... 54 00:02:31,117 --> 00:02:32,982 No, not currently. 55 00:02:34,087 --> 00:02:37,420 Uh... You might wanna take a look at some of those offers 56 00:02:37,590 --> 00:02:39,581 on the table, you know? 57 00:02:39,759 --> 00:02:41,454 You might find one that you prefer 58 00:02:41,628 --> 00:02:44,256 more than working for the old cock-handler. 59 00:02:46,166 --> 00:02:48,600 Uh, I know what you meant. 60 00:02:56,809 --> 00:02:59,004 It's me, okay? You got me. 61 00:02:59,179 --> 00:03:01,204 - Excuse me? - I'm him. 62 00:03:01,381 --> 00:03:04,976 The guy you've seen on the news. I'm Gordon Cushing. 63 00:03:06,452 --> 00:03:08,283 That's what you're trying to figure out, right? 64 00:03:10,723 --> 00:03:12,520 Did you do it? 65 00:03:14,494 --> 00:03:17,122 Pull over here, would you? I'd like to get out. 66 00:04:13,253 --> 00:04:14,777 GREGSON: His name is Gordon Cushing, 67 00:04:14,954 --> 00:04:16,353 but maybe you already know that. 68 00:04:16,522 --> 00:04:18,319 His wife disappeared in 2010. 69 00:04:18,491 --> 00:04:21,460 Everyone thought he killed her. It was in all the papers back then. 70 00:04:21,628 --> 00:04:24,893 I endeavored to keep abreast of notorious crimes in other countries, 71 00:04:25,064 --> 00:04:27,532 but I confess to falling out of the habit during my habit. 72 00:04:27,700 --> 00:04:30,362 His wife, Sarah, was a partier. He didn't approve. 73 00:04:30,937 --> 00:04:33,428 They fought a lot, and so when she went missing... 74 00:04:33,606 --> 00:04:34,664 He was presumed a murderer? 75 00:04:34,841 --> 00:04:37,935 He was, but without a body, no one could make a case. 76 00:04:38,111 --> 00:04:39,635 A few hours ago, he called 911 77 00:04:39,812 --> 00:04:42,440 to say he received a box with two severed ears. 78 00:04:42,615 --> 00:04:46,415 There was a note inside saying they were his wife, Sarah's. 79 00:04:46,686 --> 00:04:50,850 If he forks over 2 million in cash to the person or persons who took her, 80 00:04:51,024 --> 00:04:52,048 he gets her back. 81 00:04:52,225 --> 00:04:54,989 And it's odd to get a ransom demand four years after an abduction. 82 00:04:55,161 --> 00:04:56,253 Well, you think that's odd? 83 00:04:56,429 --> 00:05:00,365 This isn't the first time he's claimed to have been contacted by kidnappers. 84 00:05:00,533 --> 00:05:03,798 He said he got a call from someone a year after Sarah disappeared, right? 85 00:05:03,970 --> 00:05:06,734 Yeah, she disappeared in May 2010. 86 00:05:06,906 --> 00:05:10,239 At the time, he said that she just packed her bags and left. 87 00:05:10,410 --> 00:05:14,642 But, allegedly, he gets a call in June of 2011. 88 00:05:14,814 --> 00:05:16,714 The guy says that he took her. 89 00:05:17,050 --> 00:05:19,541 He even puts her on the phone with him. 90 00:05:19,719 --> 00:05:21,619 Cushing follows his instructions to a tee. 91 00:05:21,788 --> 00:05:23,813 Doesn't call us, doesn't call the FBI, 92 00:05:23,990 --> 00:05:25,821 just gathers up a million bucks in cash 93 00:05:25,992 --> 00:05:28,552 and leaves it under a tree in Central Park. 94 00:05:28,861 --> 00:05:31,386 Days go by, no sign of Sarah. 95 00:05:31,564 --> 00:05:34,124 That's when he decides to reach out to the department. 96 00:05:34,300 --> 00:05:36,564 Only he couldn't prove that anyone had contacted him, 97 00:05:36,736 --> 00:05:38,260 so people thought he made the whole thing up. 98 00:05:38,438 --> 00:05:40,838 Well, obviously, he didn't make up two severed ears. 99 00:05:41,007 --> 00:05:45,239 I'm about to talk to him. Thought you might wanna sit in. 100 00:05:48,214 --> 00:05:53,618 I know how this is going to sound, but this is a good thing, isn't it? 101 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:55,844 It means Sarah's alive. 102 00:05:56,022 --> 00:05:58,616 The M.E. Is comparing the ears to strands of hair 103 00:05:58,791 --> 00:06:02,659 that we collected from her brush in your master bathroom in 2010. 104 00:06:02,829 --> 00:06:07,528 If the DNA is a match, then, yes, there's a good chance she's still alive. 105 00:06:07,700 --> 00:06:09,668 The ears are Sarah's. I know they are. 106 00:06:09,836 --> 00:06:11,633 Just look at the photographs I brought you. 107 00:06:16,576 --> 00:06:19,636 Wait. You still think I killed her, don't you? 108 00:06:19,812 --> 00:06:22,679 You think I took those ears from someone else 109 00:06:22,849 --> 00:06:24,316 and sent them to myself? 110 00:06:24,484 --> 00:06:26,213 No. I'm more concerned with what I know. 111 00:06:26,386 --> 00:06:30,152 I know someone was mutilated earlier tonight. 112 00:06:30,323 --> 00:06:32,382 I know I wanna help her. 113 00:06:32,558 --> 00:06:35,152 She is Sarah. She's alive and... 114 00:06:35,328 --> 00:06:36,795 Just as she was alive in 2011? 115 00:06:36,963 --> 00:06:39,363 The last time you were asked to finance her safe return? 116 00:06:40,666 --> 00:06:43,157 I dare say that ransom demands are becoming a tradition for you. 117 00:06:43,336 --> 00:06:45,065 I know I made a mistake three years ago. 118 00:06:45,238 --> 00:06:48,366 I should've called the police the second I got off the phone with the kidnapper, 119 00:06:48,541 --> 00:06:51,601 but I was scared, and Sarah was... She was terrified. 120 00:06:51,778 --> 00:06:53,803 I didn't wanna take any chances. I couldn't. 121 00:06:56,582 --> 00:07:00,609 There are phone records that show I got the call when I said I did. 122 00:07:00,787 --> 00:07:03,813 Bank statements that show I took out a million dollars. 123 00:07:03,990 --> 00:07:05,514 You could've called from a burner phone. 124 00:07:05,691 --> 00:07:07,556 You could've hidden that money anywhere. 125 00:07:07,727 --> 00:07:11,254 I have never been anything but honest with you people. 126 00:07:11,631 --> 00:07:14,759 And so I'm gonna keep being honest with you now. 127 00:07:15,501 --> 00:07:20,370 I fell out of love with my wife a long time before she disappeared. 128 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:24,906 She said and did things when she was drinking that I can never forgive. 129 00:07:26,012 --> 00:07:28,981 I don't want her back because I miss her. 130 00:07:29,449 --> 00:07:34,978 I want her back because I am tired of people looking at me 131 00:07:35,154 --> 00:07:37,554 the way you people are looking at me right now. 132 00:07:40,993 --> 00:07:42,893 HOLMES: Well, they do bear an uncanny resemblance 133 00:07:43,062 --> 00:07:45,292 to the ears in the photograph. 134 00:07:45,832 --> 00:07:49,734 That's hardly proof that they came from the head of Sarah Cushing, though. 135 00:07:49,902 --> 00:07:51,335 WATSON: What did you think of Gordon? 136 00:07:51,504 --> 00:07:53,165 HOLMES: Well, he seemed quite sincere. 137 00:07:53,539 --> 00:07:56,440 But then, so did infamous zoophile Ebenezer Cornell when he claimed 138 00:07:56,609 --> 00:08:00,773 he had not attempted to violate two ostriches at London Zoo, so... 139 00:08:00,947 --> 00:08:03,279 What did you think of Mr. Cushing? 140 00:08:03,449 --> 00:08:06,043 Well, it was interesting being in the same room with him. 141 00:08:06,219 --> 00:08:08,210 Before tonight, I'd only ever seen him on the news. 142 00:08:08,387 --> 00:08:09,649 Mm-hm. 143 00:08:09,822 --> 00:08:12,757 If he's telling the truth, then I guess I feel sorry for him. 144 00:08:12,925 --> 00:08:15,052 It would mean that someone made a pretty tragic mistake 145 00:08:15,228 --> 00:08:16,422 when they accused him. 146 00:08:16,596 --> 00:08:17,790 ["BAD DAY" PLAYING OVER PHONE] 147 00:08:17,964 --> 00:08:19,898 Speaking of tragic mistakes... 148 00:08:20,766 --> 00:08:22,825 WATSON: "Hate to bother, but locked out of house." 149 00:08:23,002 --> 00:08:24,026 Remarkable. 150 00:08:24,203 --> 00:08:26,671 "Looked under front and back mats. Found no keys." 151 00:08:26,839 --> 00:08:31,139 Because that's the kind of man I am. I leave keys under doormats. 152 00:08:33,746 --> 00:08:35,976 WATSON: I don't know why you're peeking inside. 153 00:08:36,449 --> 00:08:37,973 You know we're not in there. 154 00:08:38,150 --> 00:08:39,845 Trying to assess the damage, actually. 155 00:08:41,387 --> 00:08:42,479 What happened? 156 00:08:43,189 --> 00:08:45,657 Well, you know that football game that I put a bet on? 157 00:08:45,825 --> 00:08:47,588 I actually won. 158 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:49,284 Yeah, I went to go and get the winnings, 159 00:08:49,462 --> 00:08:51,692 on the way back, got myself into a bit of trouble. 160 00:08:51,864 --> 00:08:54,765 A rather unfriendly bloke took designs on my watch and wallet. 161 00:08:54,934 --> 00:08:56,993 You got mugged. 162 00:09:02,141 --> 00:09:03,733 I still think you should go to a hospital. 163 00:09:03,910 --> 00:09:06,174 What, about this? I've been kissed harder. 164 00:09:06,812 --> 00:09:09,713 Crying out loud. Bloody chicken. 165 00:09:09,882 --> 00:09:11,816 It's on my bed. Go on. 166 00:09:11,984 --> 00:09:13,474 Go on, off you go. Bugger off. 167 00:09:13,653 --> 00:09:14,984 [CLUCKING] 168 00:09:15,421 --> 00:09:18,049 I thought Sherlock said he was gonna send them to that petting zoo. 169 00:09:18,224 --> 00:09:20,158 They said they couldn't take them until next week. 170 00:09:20,526 --> 00:09:21,823 Walked into a room the other day, 171 00:09:21,994 --> 00:09:23,962 this darkened room, and he was standing in there. 172 00:09:24,130 --> 00:09:26,121 Pitch black, and he had one perched on his shoulder. 173 00:09:26,465 --> 00:09:28,126 Yeah. He'd been in there for ages. 174 00:09:28,301 --> 00:09:31,498 He said it was some kind of like balancing exercise. 175 00:09:31,671 --> 00:09:33,639 He was covered in feathers. 176 00:09:35,508 --> 00:09:37,806 - What? What? - You've been drinking. 177 00:09:38,678 --> 00:09:40,771 Yeah, I might have chucked a couple back in the pub 178 00:09:40,947 --> 00:09:42,471 when I was going to pick my winnings up. 179 00:09:42,648 --> 00:09:44,047 That was an hour ago, right? 180 00:09:44,350 --> 00:09:46,545 You've had a drink more recently than that. 181 00:09:47,119 --> 00:09:49,815 Whiskey, judging from your breath. And that damp spot on your shirt, 182 00:09:49,989 --> 00:09:51,980 I'd say sometime in the last ten minutes? 183 00:09:52,158 --> 00:09:53,352 There are no bars around here. 184 00:09:53,526 --> 00:09:55,517 Even if there were, how would you have paid for it? 185 00:09:55,695 --> 00:09:58,186 The mugger took all your money, didn't he? 186 00:09:58,564 --> 00:10:00,964 You and I talked about this when Sherlock said you could stay. 187 00:10:01,133 --> 00:10:02,657 You cannot drink around him. 188 00:10:02,835 --> 00:10:04,496 Yeah, well, he's an addict, actually, Joan. 189 00:10:04,670 --> 00:10:05,694 He's not an alcoholic. 190 00:10:05,871 --> 00:10:08,169 Unless you thought he was drinking heroin back in London. 191 00:10:08,341 --> 00:10:10,741 - Where did the whiskey come from? - I've got a secret stash. 192 00:10:10,910 --> 00:10:13,538 - I have a little shot, if I need one. - And how often is that? 193 00:10:13,713 --> 00:10:15,271 - Really? Really? - Gareth. 194 00:10:15,448 --> 00:10:16,472 Please. 195 00:10:16,649 --> 00:10:19,049 Come on. You don't understand what kind of pressure I'm under. 196 00:10:19,218 --> 00:10:21,618 - All these bloody offers. - You just have to make a decision. 197 00:10:21,787 --> 00:10:23,778 - It's a bit more complicated. - Is it? 198 00:10:23,956 --> 00:10:25,321 - You want me to say it? - Say what? 199 00:10:25,491 --> 00:10:27,516 Holmes was right about me. 200 00:10:29,061 --> 00:10:30,892 I can't 201 00:10:31,063 --> 00:10:33,623 do this job without him. I can't be a detective. 202 00:10:33,799 --> 00:10:36,131 You were a detective long before you knew him. 203 00:10:36,302 --> 00:10:38,827 Well, like, back in the day, you know, when I was adequate, 204 00:10:39,005 --> 00:10:40,563 when I was... When I was competent. 205 00:10:42,241 --> 00:10:44,732 Joan, these people, they don't want adequate. They want special. 206 00:10:44,910 --> 00:10:47,208 They want me to be the man I was when I was with him. 207 00:10:47,380 --> 00:10:49,280 I know that you have had your troubles, 208 00:10:49,448 --> 00:10:50,938 but you are overthinking this. 209 00:10:51,117 --> 00:10:53,847 That's easy for you to say, of course, isn't it? 210 00:10:54,854 --> 00:10:57,948 You know, because you're the one that's with him now. 211 00:10:59,425 --> 00:11:01,416 You're the one that gets to be special. 212 00:11:03,596 --> 00:11:08,260 Well, you know, just take it from someone who's been there. 213 00:11:10,102 --> 00:11:12,468 Just enjoy it while it lasts. 214 00:11:16,809 --> 00:11:18,936 [BEEPING] 215 00:11:19,412 --> 00:11:20,674 WATSON: Hey. 216 00:11:20,846 --> 00:11:24,111 Was that a hint of surprise I detect? I told you I received several of these. 217 00:11:24,483 --> 00:11:28,783 Well, I just thought you'd be neck-deep in files from the Sarah Cushing case. 218 00:11:28,954 --> 00:11:30,148 I was for most of the evening. 219 00:11:30,322 --> 00:11:31,914 Then the captain called and told me 220 00:11:32,091 --> 00:11:34,150 that the severed ears Gordon Cushing received 221 00:11:34,326 --> 00:11:36,123 were a DNA match for Sarah's. 222 00:11:36,295 --> 00:11:39,321 - You're kidding. - That's me, Watson. Joke machine. 223 00:11:39,932 --> 00:11:41,456 So Sarah Cushing is alive? 224 00:11:41,634 --> 00:11:44,569 She is. Or at least she was as of yesterday. 225 00:11:44,737 --> 00:11:47,501 Gordon will be paying for her safe, if earless, return presently. 226 00:11:47,673 --> 00:11:49,231 The N.Y.P.D. Will be watching. 227 00:11:49,408 --> 00:11:52,138 And since they hardly need the assistance of two consulting detectives 228 00:11:52,311 --> 00:11:55,144 to execute a simple ransom exchange... 229 00:12:03,489 --> 00:12:04,615 Balancing exercise? 230 00:12:06,058 --> 00:12:07,252 How'd you? 231 00:12:07,426 --> 00:12:08,450 Lestrade. 232 00:12:08,928 --> 00:12:10,122 Have you seen him this morning? 233 00:12:10,296 --> 00:12:13,163 I did not. I did hear him leave earlier on. 234 00:12:13,332 --> 00:12:16,130 This arrived for you from Detective Bell. 235 00:12:16,602 --> 00:12:17,967 You opened it? 236 00:12:18,137 --> 00:12:21,072 It's just a few files pertaining to recent muggings. 237 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:24,107 I'm curious, since when do we investigate common street crime? 238 00:12:24,276 --> 00:12:26,141 Since when do you open my mail? 239 00:12:26,312 --> 00:12:28,280 How long you lived here? 240 00:12:36,255 --> 00:12:38,382 GREGSON [OVER RADIO]: Ten a.m. On the dot, Mr. Cushing. 241 00:12:38,557 --> 00:12:40,252 Our guy should be here soon. 242 00:12:40,426 --> 00:12:43,224 MAN: Yeah, I got nothing. Let me know if you got eyes on him. 243 00:12:49,935 --> 00:12:51,562 Eyes forward. Don't look at me. 244 00:12:52,972 --> 00:12:53,996 GREGSON: It's going down. 245 00:12:54,173 --> 00:12:57,870 All right, be advised. Suspect is a white male, 35 years old, 246 00:12:58,043 --> 00:13:00,944 wearing a blue coat and a wool cap with sunglasses. 247 00:13:05,985 --> 00:13:07,009 Keep your phone on. 248 00:13:07,453 --> 00:13:10,183 One hour. Once I know I'm clear, I'll call with your wife's location. 249 00:13:10,723 --> 00:13:11,985 GREGSON: Suspect is on the move, 250 00:13:12,158 --> 00:13:14,353 heading south on the southbound platform 251 00:13:14,527 --> 00:13:15,721 towards the Varick exit. 252 00:13:15,895 --> 00:13:19,991 Blue team, I want you to cut him a wide berth. 253 00:13:21,267 --> 00:13:22,291 Are you seeing this? 254 00:13:22,701 --> 00:13:24,896 What is he doing? Where the hell is he going? 255 00:13:25,070 --> 00:13:27,061 Backup units, be advised, 256 00:13:27,239 --> 00:13:30,504 suspect is fleeing south into the southbound tunnel. 257 00:13:30,676 --> 00:13:33,975 Hold your positions and we'll pick him up as he exits. 258 00:13:34,146 --> 00:13:36,114 Do not attempt to follow. 259 00:13:36,282 --> 00:13:37,749 GORDON: What do you mean? He's gonna get away. 260 00:13:37,917 --> 00:13:39,646 GREGSON: We've got a tracer in the bag. 261 00:13:39,819 --> 00:13:40,911 Remember I showed it to you? 262 00:13:41,086 --> 00:13:43,782 I know, but what if he finds it? What if he changes bags? 263 00:13:43,956 --> 00:13:45,548 He's not supposed to be out of our sight. 264 00:13:45,724 --> 00:13:48,124 We've got people every place he might pop up. 265 00:13:48,294 --> 00:13:51,320 - Just let us do ourjob. - No, I'm sorry. 266 00:13:51,497 --> 00:13:54,261 Mr. Cushing, stay where you are. 267 00:13:54,767 --> 00:13:58,965 Command support, pull the box. Cut the power to the track, now. 268 00:14:07,546 --> 00:14:10,310 MAN: Hold. Hold your fire. 269 00:14:10,482 --> 00:14:12,541 Mr. Cushing. 270 00:14:12,852 --> 00:14:14,683 Mr. Cushing. 271 00:14:14,854 --> 00:14:16,048 Show us your hands. 272 00:14:16,222 --> 00:14:18,656 I was just trying to stop him. 273 00:14:19,358 --> 00:14:21,553 He wouldn't listen to me. 274 00:14:24,430 --> 00:14:25,863 He... 275 00:14:27,833 --> 00:14:29,824 He wouldn't listen. 276 00:14:31,837 --> 00:14:33,327 I was just trying to stop him. 277 00:14:43,115 --> 00:14:44,514 It all happened so fast. 278 00:14:44,683 --> 00:14:48,744 The man who took the money, he realized I was chasing him. 279 00:14:48,921 --> 00:14:50,115 He came at me. 280 00:14:50,289 --> 00:14:52,314 And so then you picked up the rebar? 281 00:14:52,491 --> 00:14:55,892 I don't even know how l... I think it was on the ground. 282 00:14:56,362 --> 00:14:59,160 I swung at him and I just... 283 00:14:59,832 --> 00:15:01,527 Have you been able to identify him? 284 00:15:01,700 --> 00:15:03,634 BELL: He wasn't carrying any identification. 285 00:15:03,802 --> 00:15:07,067 All he had in his pockets was a set of keys, some loose change. 286 00:15:07,239 --> 00:15:11,300 We ran his prints and DNA through the system. So far, no hits. 287 00:15:12,211 --> 00:15:13,838 You said yesterday he may have partners. 288 00:15:14,013 --> 00:15:15,844 Have you heard from them? 289 00:15:16,181 --> 00:15:17,739 No. 290 00:15:18,751 --> 00:15:21,345 But if he was working alone, that means 291 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:23,715 there's nobody there to take care of Sarah, right? 292 00:15:24,857 --> 00:15:27,325 Nobody to bring her food. Nobody to bring her water. 293 00:15:27,493 --> 00:15:29,324 It's a possibility. 294 00:15:30,562 --> 00:15:34,828 Four years I spent trying to convince people I didn't kill her. 295 00:15:36,368 --> 00:15:38,393 Now maybe I finally have. 296 00:15:47,947 --> 00:15:50,381 Stating the obvious here. This one's a mess. 297 00:15:50,549 --> 00:15:54,576 I got two severed ears, one dead body. No leads. 298 00:15:55,154 --> 00:15:57,884 Question is, is it a mess of Mr. Cushing's design? 299 00:15:58,057 --> 00:16:00,218 Could be 2011 all over again. 300 00:16:00,392 --> 00:16:01,882 He wants people to think he's innocent, 301 00:16:02,061 --> 00:16:04,359 so he hires this guy to pick up the money this morning, 302 00:16:04,763 --> 00:16:06,390 kills him to tie up loose ends. 303 00:16:06,565 --> 00:16:07,998 But that wouldn't explain the ears. 304 00:16:08,167 --> 00:16:10,863 They match Sarah Cushing's DNA. If Gordon's behind everything 305 00:16:11,036 --> 00:16:13,470 that means he's been keeping her somewhere for four years. 306 00:16:13,639 --> 00:16:15,698 If that's true, then why draw attention to himself? 307 00:16:15,874 --> 00:16:17,034 What would he stand to gain? 308 00:16:17,209 --> 00:16:19,473 Whatever the case, the dead man represents our best chance 309 00:16:19,645 --> 00:16:21,374 at uncovering the truth and getting to Sarah. 310 00:16:21,547 --> 00:16:23,913 With your blessing, Watson and I will withdraw to the morgue 311 00:16:24,083 --> 00:16:25,880 and examine the body and his personal effects. 312 00:16:26,051 --> 00:16:28,042 WOMAN: Miss Watson? - Yes? 313 00:16:28,220 --> 00:16:30,245 You have a visitor. 314 00:16:30,723 --> 00:16:32,247 Head to the morgue. I'll meet you there. 315 00:16:32,424 --> 00:16:33,823 - I thought... WATSON: It's okay. 316 00:16:33,993 --> 00:16:35,927 I'll be there as soon as I can. 317 00:16:36,462 --> 00:16:38,123 Thanks. 318 00:16:41,233 --> 00:16:43,758 Aren't you gonna offer me a nice cup of coffee? 319 00:16:43,936 --> 00:16:45,130 Or some tea? 320 00:16:46,405 --> 00:16:47,770 Perhaps even a doughnut? 321 00:16:47,940 --> 00:16:49,908 Well, I didn't invite you here to feed you. 322 00:16:50,075 --> 00:16:53,238 No, you invited me here to ask me to leave the brownstone. 323 00:16:53,645 --> 00:16:55,545 You have until the weekend. 324 00:16:55,714 --> 00:16:57,682 Take one of the offers, start your new life. 325 00:16:58,684 --> 00:17:00,515 I bet you two 326 00:17:01,453 --> 00:17:04,320 had quite a laugh last night, didn't you? About my... 327 00:17:04,790 --> 00:17:06,724 My little mishap. 328 00:17:06,892 --> 00:17:08,621 All the things that I said. 329 00:17:09,461 --> 00:17:11,292 Actually, I didn't say anything to Sherlock. 330 00:17:11,463 --> 00:17:13,863 I didn't think it was my place. 331 00:17:14,233 --> 00:17:18,067 But since you brought it up, I don't find your self-pity amusing. 332 00:17:18,237 --> 00:17:20,000 When Detective Bell was out of commission, 333 00:17:20,172 --> 00:17:22,970 Sherlock burned through a string of detectives. Seven of them. 334 00:17:23,142 --> 00:17:25,372 Good ones. Far more than adequate. 335 00:17:25,544 --> 00:17:28,342 But none of them good enough for him. Or me. 336 00:17:28,514 --> 00:17:30,175 He did the same thing in London, didn't he? 337 00:17:30,349 --> 00:17:32,078 Oh, until you. 338 00:17:32,251 --> 00:17:35,118 He stuck with you. He chose you. 339 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:42,984 What's this? 340 00:17:43,162 --> 00:17:44,823 Case files on a couple of muggings. 341 00:17:49,334 --> 00:17:51,598 Let's have a little look. 342 00:17:54,273 --> 00:17:57,504 Well, it's the same vicinity and MO as the little toe rag that did me. 343 00:17:59,611 --> 00:18:01,875 I take it you think that I'm the third in a string? 344 00:18:03,849 --> 00:18:06,647 And am I supposed to be doing something with these? 345 00:18:07,086 --> 00:18:08,576 Find the guy, be a detective. 346 00:18:08,754 --> 00:18:10,722 At the very least, you might get your cash back. 347 00:18:10,889 --> 00:18:15,019 At the most, you'll realize you were never just someone else's tagalong. 348 00:18:18,697 --> 00:18:22,360 So your friend, Lestrade, looked like he had a rough night. 349 00:18:22,801 --> 00:18:26,897 The calluses on his hands indicate that our Mr. Doe did manual labor. 350 00:18:27,072 --> 00:18:29,597 The traces of ceramic grit under his fingernails 351 00:18:29,775 --> 00:18:31,367 suggest he was a roofer. 352 00:18:31,743 --> 00:18:32,971 Now, this is a trade notorious 353 00:18:33,145 --> 00:18:35,306 for its mediocre pay and poor working conditions. 354 00:18:35,481 --> 00:18:38,507 It is the domain of the illegal immigrant and the recent parolees. 355 00:18:38,684 --> 00:18:40,151 So you're quite certain 356 00:18:40,319 --> 00:18:42,913 that this man's prints do not match anything on your database? 357 00:18:43,088 --> 00:18:44,783 - Not yet. - Hmm. 358 00:18:46,225 --> 00:18:47,522 Note these shoes. 359 00:18:47,860 --> 00:18:50,886 Several years old, paper-thin soles. This does not look like a man 360 00:18:51,063 --> 00:18:54,089 who's collected a seven-figure ransom three years previously 361 00:18:54,266 --> 00:18:57,030 and has masterminded a follow-up. 362 00:18:57,236 --> 00:18:59,534 Or perhaps we're looking at an errand boy. 363 00:18:59,705 --> 00:19:02,868 If that's the case, why haven't we heard from his partners? 364 00:19:03,809 --> 00:19:06,141 "Rabkin Hardware"? 365 00:19:06,578 --> 00:19:07,738 Yeah, it's in Hempstead. 366 00:19:07,913 --> 00:19:10,939 They gave out a few hundred of those as a promotion last year. 367 00:19:11,116 --> 00:19:13,050 I tried the owner, he didn't recognize our guy. 368 00:19:13,218 --> 00:19:16,119 Neither did any of his employees. 369 00:19:16,755 --> 00:19:19,223 Yeah, I saw those too. I'm not sure about the pattern. 370 00:19:19,391 --> 00:19:21,450 Could be some kind of gang insignia. 371 00:19:21,627 --> 00:19:23,254 Yeah, more of a club really. 372 00:19:23,428 --> 00:19:25,794 AA, CA, LA, NA. 373 00:19:25,964 --> 00:19:27,397 Pick your anonymous. 374 00:19:27,566 --> 00:19:30,501 The 30 represents 30 days. The six represents six months. 375 00:19:30,669 --> 00:19:31,693 Sobriety chips. 376 00:19:31,870 --> 00:19:34,338 Yeah, some people in recovery ink themselves 377 00:19:34,506 --> 00:19:35,973 to commemorate certain milestones. 378 00:19:36,141 --> 00:19:38,541 I, myself, find that practice idiotic. 379 00:19:38,710 --> 00:19:40,234 Chips are plastic and thin for a reason. 380 00:19:40,412 --> 00:19:41,936 They're fragile, easily lost. 381 00:19:42,114 --> 00:19:43,638 Just like the sobriety they represent. 382 00:19:43,815 --> 00:19:48,115 Anyway, fortunately for us, our man's hubris might help us identify him. 383 00:19:49,154 --> 00:19:50,587 Why do I get the feeling we're about 384 00:19:50,756 --> 00:19:54,214 to hit up some support-group meetings in Hempstead? 385 00:19:58,864 --> 00:20:00,354 Hey. How's it going? 386 00:20:00,766 --> 00:20:02,996 Not well. His face has yet to ring a bell. 387 00:20:04,102 --> 00:20:05,831 - Are you all right? - This was a mistake. 388 00:20:06,004 --> 00:20:08,336 - It was your idea. - It's an utter violation 389 00:20:08,507 --> 00:20:10,441 of the proud traditions of these meetings. 390 00:20:10,609 --> 00:20:11,974 They're meant to be anonymous. 391 00:20:12,144 --> 00:20:15,170 And here we are, asking these attendees to identify one of their own. 392 00:20:15,347 --> 00:20:18,510 - I did not think this through. - We are trying save a woman's life. 393 00:20:18,684 --> 00:20:20,174 So is Marcus at the meeting he went to. 394 00:20:20,352 --> 00:20:22,047 The people that I talk to, they get that. 395 00:20:22,654 --> 00:20:24,519 I don't think you should've interfered. 396 00:20:24,690 --> 00:20:26,885 - With what? - With Lestrade. 397 00:20:27,059 --> 00:20:28,890 The files you requested, they were for him. 398 00:20:29,061 --> 00:20:30,653 He was the victim of a mugging. 399 00:20:30,829 --> 00:20:32,558 You think putting him on the trail of the culprit 400 00:20:32,731 --> 00:20:34,722 will simultaneously solve his crisis of confidence 401 00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:37,300 and drag him out of whatever bottle he's crawled into. 402 00:20:37,469 --> 00:20:38,959 Wait, how did you know about that? 403 00:20:39,137 --> 00:20:40,661 I have a nose, Watson. 404 00:20:40,839 --> 00:20:42,306 And eyes and ears. 405 00:20:43,175 --> 00:20:44,836 If he wasn't concerned about his prospects, 406 00:20:45,010 --> 00:20:47,535 his stay with us would've only lasted a few days. 407 00:20:47,713 --> 00:20:49,874 - He's lost without me. - I don't understand. 408 00:20:50,048 --> 00:20:52,983 If you knew about it, why didn't you try and talk to him, try and help him? 409 00:20:53,151 --> 00:20:55,381 I have been helping him. By allowing him to bottom out. 410 00:20:56,421 --> 00:20:58,412 I told him of my concerns regarding his problems 411 00:20:58,590 --> 00:21:00,683 while you and I were in London. He chose to ignore me. 412 00:21:00,859 --> 00:21:02,656 He became the myrmidon of a wealthy pervert. 413 00:21:02,828 --> 00:21:04,386 Shockingly that didn't turn out. 414 00:21:04,563 --> 00:21:07,828 So now I'm of the firm opinion the next move should be his. 415 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,695 Even if that next move is implosion? 416 00:21:09,868 --> 00:21:10,994 I imploded. Look at me. 417 00:21:11,169 --> 00:21:13,637 - All I did was put him on a case. - I put him on many a case 418 00:21:13,805 --> 00:21:15,602 when we were in Scotland Yard. Look how that turned out. 419 00:21:15,774 --> 00:21:17,765 Are you saying he shouldn't be a detective anymore? 420 00:21:17,943 --> 00:21:22,642 I'm saying that I believe he needs to find his way out of this himself. 421 00:21:24,116 --> 00:21:26,380 The meeting's gonna start. Let's go. 422 00:21:28,220 --> 00:21:29,551 - Hold on. - Hmm? 423 00:21:32,724 --> 00:21:34,715 You know that woman? 424 00:21:35,527 --> 00:21:37,427 I think we both do. 425 00:21:42,601 --> 00:21:44,501 She's had a bit of work done, 426 00:21:44,670 --> 00:21:47,764 but not enough to conceal her true identity. At least not from me. 427 00:21:49,574 --> 00:21:53,704 - It's Sarah Cushing. - Yeah. Alive. 428 00:21:53,945 --> 00:21:56,311 And not in the least bit kidnapped. 429 00:21:56,481 --> 00:22:01,214 And if I'm not mistaken, in firm possession of both of her ears. 430 00:22:07,159 --> 00:22:08,751 You're right. 431 00:22:08,927 --> 00:22:10,417 I am Sarah Cushing. 432 00:22:11,663 --> 00:22:13,893 I was her, anyway. 433 00:22:14,232 --> 00:22:17,599 I go by Allison Drake now. I have for years. 434 00:22:17,769 --> 00:22:21,466 Everything Gordon told the police in 2010 was true. 435 00:22:21,907 --> 00:22:24,432 I packed my bags and left with no warning. 436 00:22:24,609 --> 00:22:27,271 Our fights just kept getting uglier, 437 00:22:27,446 --> 00:22:33,407 and even when we weren't arguing, I'd catch him just staring at me. 438 00:22:33,585 --> 00:22:37,954 The look on his face, it felt like he was going to hurt me. 439 00:22:38,590 --> 00:22:40,023 You never reached out to the police, 440 00:22:40,192 --> 00:22:42,956 even after they began to suspect Gordon murdered you. 441 00:22:43,128 --> 00:22:44,789 Is that because you were still scared? 442 00:22:45,997 --> 00:22:48,989 I thought of different ways to come forward, 443 00:22:49,434 --> 00:22:53,564 but every time I got close to doing it, I'd think of that look. 444 00:22:53,939 --> 00:22:57,466 I thought, Gordon's a determined man. 445 00:22:57,642 --> 00:23:00,702 If he knew I was out there and he wanted to find me... 446 00:23:03,415 --> 00:23:05,940 I made a new life for myself out here. 447 00:23:06,118 --> 00:23:09,713 I got sober, married a doctor. 448 00:23:09,888 --> 00:23:12,789 Ms. Cushing, this man 449 00:23:12,958 --> 00:23:15,392 managed to convince Gordon and the police 450 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:17,118 that he'd kidnapped you. 451 00:23:17,295 --> 00:23:19,388 Do you recognize him? 452 00:23:21,299 --> 00:23:22,357 Jim Browner. 453 00:23:22,634 --> 00:23:25,364 I met him here in a meeting. 454 00:23:26,104 --> 00:23:28,971 Somehow he figured out who I really was. 455 00:23:29,141 --> 00:23:30,574 He blackmailed me for a while. 456 00:23:31,176 --> 00:23:33,041 I guess he decided he could make more money 457 00:23:33,211 --> 00:23:34,974 by telling Gordon he abducted me. 458 00:23:37,282 --> 00:23:38,715 Jim's last ransom letter, 459 00:23:38,884 --> 00:23:42,285 it contained two human ears in the package. 460 00:23:42,454 --> 00:23:45,423 The DNA matched yours, but your ears are fine. 461 00:23:47,459 --> 00:23:49,825 Actually, I think I might be able to explain that. 462 00:23:51,029 --> 00:23:54,430 A few years ago, I saw a story on the news. 463 00:23:54,599 --> 00:23:57,033 A woman's body turned up in a marsh. 464 00:23:57,202 --> 00:23:58,829 The police thought it might be mine. 465 00:23:59,304 --> 00:24:01,295 So they compared DNA from the corpse 466 00:24:01,473 --> 00:24:04,670 to hairs on a brush they took out of my bathroom. 467 00:24:05,811 --> 00:24:07,506 Only that brush wasn't mine. 468 00:24:07,846 --> 00:24:09,939 I took mine with me when I left. 469 00:24:10,115 --> 00:24:12,879 You think your husband was seeing someone else in 2010. 470 00:24:13,285 --> 00:24:16,743 I think that brush belonged to the other woman. 471 00:24:17,589 --> 00:24:21,616 And those ears Gordon received, 472 00:24:21,793 --> 00:24:25,229 whoever she is, they have to be hers. 473 00:24:28,500 --> 00:24:30,195 LESTRADE: Mr. Roscoe Pelfrey? 474 00:24:30,702 --> 00:24:33,637 Hello. Yes, my name's Gareth Lestrade. I'm a... 475 00:24:33,805 --> 00:24:35,602 I'm a detective. 476 00:24:35,774 --> 00:24:37,537 I wondered if I might ask you a few questions 477 00:24:37,709 --> 00:24:40,610 about the man that mugged you. 478 00:24:40,879 --> 00:24:43,848 PELFREY: Did you get it? Did the file open up all right? 479 00:24:44,015 --> 00:24:46,074 Yeah, no, it's come through fine, Mr. Pelfrey. 480 00:24:46,251 --> 00:24:47,843 I'm just looking at it now, actually. 481 00:24:48,019 --> 00:24:49,919 It's like I told the cops. 482 00:24:50,088 --> 00:24:52,613 I came to New York for a sales convention. 483 00:24:52,791 --> 00:24:55,726 My wife's an architecture buff, so I made a video 484 00:24:55,894 --> 00:24:58,954 any time I saw something, you know, I thought she'd like. 485 00:24:59,130 --> 00:25:00,859 MAN 1: Everything you got! Give up right now! 486 00:25:01,032 --> 00:25:03,262 MAN 2: Hey! - No, you never got his face. 487 00:25:03,435 --> 00:25:05,733 PELFREY: Well, fella cracked me before I turned around. 488 00:25:05,904 --> 00:25:08,737 My camera fell into the gutter. That's the only reason I got it back. 489 00:25:08,907 --> 00:25:12,001 Can you think of anything at all that you haven't told the police, Mr. Pelfrey? 490 00:25:12,177 --> 00:25:14,509 You know, that might help me find this man. 491 00:25:14,679 --> 00:25:18,342 Sorry. Maybe you'll have better luck with the other fella who got mugged. 492 00:25:19,184 --> 00:25:21,277 PHILLIPS: I know I locked up my gallery for the night 493 00:25:21,453 --> 00:25:24,013 before he got to me, but after that, everything's fuzzy. 494 00:25:24,189 --> 00:25:26,749 I got quite a bad concussion when my head hit the pavement. 495 00:25:26,925 --> 00:25:28,586 Well, don't worry about that, Mr. Phillips. 496 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:32,321 I think it's so admirable that you're trying to find the man. 497 00:25:32,497 --> 00:25:34,488 You said you used to work for Scotland Yard, right? 498 00:25:34,666 --> 00:25:37,362 - Right. - That sounds so interesting. 499 00:25:37,536 --> 00:25:39,333 Yeah, well, I suppose it was, really. 500 00:25:39,504 --> 00:25:43,031 I have to say, I love your accent. 501 00:25:43,341 --> 00:25:45,104 Maybe we could meet for coffee one night, 502 00:25:45,277 --> 00:25:47,370 talk about something other than assault. 503 00:25:47,546 --> 00:25:52,108 Well, I never try to mix business with pleasure, Mr. Phillips. 504 00:25:52,584 --> 00:25:54,347 Are you sure there's nothing else you remember 505 00:25:54,519 --> 00:25:55,986 about the night of the mugging? 506 00:25:56,154 --> 00:25:58,952 Like I said, I was concussed. 507 00:25:59,124 --> 00:26:00,318 When I came to on the sidewalk, 508 00:26:00,492 --> 00:26:02,255 there were a couple of Good Samaritans. 509 00:26:02,427 --> 00:26:05,260 And there was this yellow bicycle chained to a tree. 510 00:26:05,430 --> 00:26:07,762 I thought it was a big banana. 511 00:26:08,199 --> 00:26:09,723 I'm sorry. 512 00:26:09,901 --> 00:26:12,699 Sorry. Excuse me. You say? 513 00:26:13,104 --> 00:26:15,732 You say a yellow bicycle? Is that right? 514 00:26:15,907 --> 00:26:19,673 Yes. It was garish. Big green handlebars. 515 00:26:19,844 --> 00:26:21,903 Can you blame me for thinking it was a banana? 516 00:26:23,281 --> 00:26:25,010 I'm sorry. I'm confused. 517 00:26:25,183 --> 00:26:27,344 Is the bicycle important? 518 00:26:27,552 --> 00:26:29,042 GORDON: Sarah's alive? 519 00:26:29,721 --> 00:26:31,313 The ears, they're obviously not Sarah's. 520 00:26:31,489 --> 00:26:32,888 How did they match her DNA? 521 00:26:33,058 --> 00:26:37,722 She believes that the hairbrush the police took for a DNA sample 522 00:26:37,896 --> 00:26:39,989 belonged to another woman. 523 00:26:40,265 --> 00:26:42,825 Perhaps a visitor to your bedroom? 524 00:26:43,468 --> 00:26:45,402 Is that possible? 525 00:26:46,271 --> 00:26:49,069 Yes. When things got truly miserable between us, 526 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:50,969 I started seeing someone else. 527 00:26:51,142 --> 00:26:52,939 You need to tell us about her. 528 00:26:53,111 --> 00:26:55,204 I know less about her than you'd probably like. 529 00:26:55,380 --> 00:26:57,211 It was a professional engagement. 530 00:26:57,983 --> 00:27:00,679 Her first name was Kendra. That was all I was ever given. 531 00:27:00,852 --> 00:27:02,979 She was blond, just like Sarah was back then, 532 00:27:03,154 --> 00:27:06,521 so I suppose the police could've mistaken her brush for Sarah's. 533 00:27:06,691 --> 00:27:09,660 - We're gonna need her contact info. - I can give you the name of the agency 534 00:27:09,828 --> 00:27:12,262 that referred her, but I don't think you'll have any luck. 535 00:27:12,530 --> 00:27:15,624 When Sarah disappeared and I was named a suspect, 536 00:27:16,167 --> 00:27:18,465 Kendra got frightened, stopped seeing me. 537 00:27:18,637 --> 00:27:19,934 Changed all of her numbers. 538 00:27:20,105 --> 00:27:21,629 My contact at her agency said 539 00:27:21,806 --> 00:27:25,469 that she disappeared every bit as thoroughly as Sarah did. 540 00:27:25,644 --> 00:27:29,876 You think Sarah is behind whatever's happened to Kendra? 541 00:27:30,815 --> 00:27:36,412 When I told you the other day that I never lied to the police, I meant it. 542 00:27:36,588 --> 00:27:40,217 When I said I spoke to Sarah on the phone in 2011... 543 00:27:40,392 --> 00:27:41,620 You meant that too. 544 00:27:41,793 --> 00:27:44,387 You were referring to the original ransom demand. 545 00:27:45,230 --> 00:27:47,027 She was in on it. 546 00:27:47,198 --> 00:27:48,290 She had to be. 547 00:27:48,867 --> 00:27:52,894 And if she was part of it then, she's part of it now. 548 00:27:56,007 --> 00:27:58,305 WOMAN [ON TV]: Friends and family are reeling at the news 549 00:27:58,476 --> 00:28:02,105 that Sarah Cushing has turned up alive and well on Long Island. 550 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:05,181 Her appearance has changed since 2010, 551 00:28:05,350 --> 00:28:06,840 and there are rumors that's compliments 552 00:28:07,018 --> 00:28:11,717 of the man she married in 2012, plastic surgeon Dr. Steven Edelman. 553 00:28:11,890 --> 00:28:14,188 Those rumors have yet to be confirmed. 554 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:15,417 MAN: Thank you, Toni. 555 00:28:15,593 --> 00:28:17,527 How long does it take to identify a prostitute? 556 00:28:17,696 --> 00:28:19,721 Well, Marcus said he was gonna call in an hour. 557 00:28:19,898 --> 00:28:21,297 It's been 45 minutes. 558 00:28:21,466 --> 00:28:24,367 To be fair, he only has a first name and a hair color. 559 00:28:24,636 --> 00:28:27,628 Luxury. I'll name that tart in 20 keystrokes. 560 00:28:30,508 --> 00:28:31,975 So you think that Gordon is right. 561 00:28:32,143 --> 00:28:34,907 You think that Sarah is behind everything. 562 00:28:35,213 --> 00:28:38,671 Let's say she took advantage of his predicament in 2011. 563 00:28:38,850 --> 00:28:41,614 If she did, she successfully extracted $1 million. 564 00:28:41,786 --> 00:28:44,380 Cut to the present day. She wants a second go-around. 565 00:28:44,556 --> 00:28:46,956 She knows Gordon won't just hand over the money a second time. 566 00:28:47,125 --> 00:28:48,149 He'll go to the police. 567 00:28:48,326 --> 00:28:51,022 She knows the truth about the hairbrush in the police's possession. 568 00:28:51,196 --> 00:28:53,096 She figured it out years ago. 569 00:28:53,264 --> 00:28:54,856 So she tracks down Kendra 570 00:28:55,033 --> 00:28:58,366 and she sends him a pair of ears that will match. Genetically, at least. 571 00:28:58,536 --> 00:29:00,731 Or he lied about getting that call in 2011. 572 00:29:00,905 --> 00:29:02,770 And now that he knows that Sarah's alive, 573 00:29:02,941 --> 00:29:06,308 he's trying to get back at her for all the hell she put him through. 574 00:29:06,478 --> 00:29:10,073 Hmm. In any case, if we can determine where Kendra was taken from, 575 00:29:10,248 --> 00:29:13,183 we may find clues to the identity of her abductor. 576 00:29:13,351 --> 00:29:14,511 Hmm. 577 00:29:16,121 --> 00:29:17,713 Have you heard from Lestrade today? 578 00:29:18,156 --> 00:29:20,488 No. Perhaps he's finally found his way to the gutter. 579 00:29:20,658 --> 00:29:23,593 If he has, the work to rebuild him can begin in earnest. 580 00:29:23,762 --> 00:29:26,026 Have you done as I requested? You left him alone? 581 00:29:26,197 --> 00:29:27,221 L... 582 00:29:27,398 --> 00:29:28,456 [CELL PHONE RINGING] 583 00:29:28,633 --> 00:29:30,567 It's Marcus. Hello? 584 00:29:30,735 --> 00:29:34,330 Hey. The escort service Cushing used doesn't exist anymore. 585 00:29:34,506 --> 00:29:37,373 But a friend of mine from Vice was able to put me in touch 586 00:29:37,542 --> 00:29:40,067 with one of the girls Kendra used to work with. 587 00:29:40,378 --> 00:29:41,436 And? 588 00:29:41,613 --> 00:29:45,276 Kendra's real name was Kelly Tasker. Emphasis on "was." 589 00:29:45,450 --> 00:29:47,850 She died in a car wreck three years ago. 590 00:29:48,019 --> 00:29:49,350 And she was cremated. 591 00:29:49,521 --> 00:29:50,749 So I don't know whose ears 592 00:29:50,922 --> 00:29:53,618 Gordon Cushing got in the mail the other day, 593 00:29:53,792 --> 00:29:54,850 but they weren't hers. 594 00:29:55,026 --> 00:29:56,960 [SIGHS] 595 00:30:02,167 --> 00:30:04,032 You're still up. 596 00:30:04,435 --> 00:30:06,562 Gordon Cushing received a pair of freshly severed ears 597 00:30:06,738 --> 00:30:08,262 in the mail two days ago. 598 00:30:08,439 --> 00:30:09,463 They were a DNA match 599 00:30:09,641 --> 00:30:12,439 for hairs taken from a brush believed to belong to Sarah Cushing. 600 00:30:12,610 --> 00:30:13,770 Only the brush wasn't hers. 601 00:30:13,945 --> 00:30:17,847 Gordon says it could only belong to Kelly Tasker, a.k.a. Kendra, 602 00:30:18,016 --> 00:30:19,415 only she's been dead for years. 603 00:30:19,584 --> 00:30:21,484 Obviously, the ears weren't hers. 604 00:30:21,653 --> 00:30:24,554 So the question remains, whose ears were they? 605 00:30:24,956 --> 00:30:26,719 When I went to bed, you were working upstairs, 606 00:30:26,891 --> 00:30:30,088 and now you are camped out down here right next to the guest room. 607 00:30:30,261 --> 00:30:32,661 Any chance it's because you're worried about Gareth? 608 00:30:32,831 --> 00:30:35,061 I'm here, Watson, because this is where we keep the food, 609 00:30:35,233 --> 00:30:36,894 and I'm hungry. 610 00:30:37,702 --> 00:30:39,693 - You're not eating. - I'm awaiting a breakthrough. 611 00:30:39,871 --> 00:30:42,840 Once I have one, I shall eat that banana. 612 00:30:44,475 --> 00:30:46,306 I've been thinking about what you said. 613 00:30:46,477 --> 00:30:48,502 About leaving him alone. 614 00:30:48,780 --> 00:30:50,714 I get it. Sort of. 615 00:30:50,882 --> 00:30:52,816 I mean, I have to think that there are better ways 616 00:30:52,984 --> 00:30:55,452 of helping him out than letting him bottom out. 617 00:30:55,620 --> 00:30:58,612 - As I already pointed out... - Yes, you bottomed out. I know. 618 00:30:58,790 --> 00:31:00,690 But he is not you. He is your friend. 619 00:31:00,859 --> 00:31:03,521 And I don't think you should be afraid of helping him. 620 00:31:03,695 --> 00:31:05,162 Hmm. 621 00:31:08,933 --> 00:31:10,696 Huh. New suspect? 622 00:31:11,236 --> 00:31:16,868 His name was Alphonse Bertillon, and he invented the mug shot. 623 00:31:18,276 --> 00:31:19,971 He was French, a policeman. 624 00:31:20,144 --> 00:31:21,805 He grew frustrated that there was no system 625 00:31:21,980 --> 00:31:24,471 by which he and his colleagues could identify captured criminals 626 00:31:24,649 --> 00:31:26,776 they had arrested before. 627 00:31:26,951 --> 00:31:28,441 So he devised one. 628 00:31:28,620 --> 00:31:31,487 He began cataloging them by their physical features, 629 00:31:31,656 --> 00:31:34,989 and he soon noticed something quite unusual about the human ear. 630 00:31:35,159 --> 00:31:36,888 No two are alike. 631 00:31:37,061 --> 00:31:38,926 They are as unique as fingerprints. 632 00:31:39,097 --> 00:31:40,792 This is why mug shots are taken in profile. 633 00:31:41,065 --> 00:31:44,466 He believed it crucial to capture a full view of the ear. 634 00:31:44,636 --> 00:31:46,160 That's very interesting. 635 00:31:46,337 --> 00:31:48,669 - Why is his picture here? - Because this case has forced me 636 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:50,808 to confront the possibility that he was wrong. 637 00:31:55,246 --> 00:31:58,147 Note the lobes, the thickness of the helices, 638 00:31:58,316 --> 00:31:59,749 the depth of the concha. 639 00:32:03,588 --> 00:32:05,215 WATSON: Mm. They're identical. 640 00:32:05,390 --> 00:32:08,359 Mm-hm. And yet Monsieur Bertillon would tell us that's impossible. 641 00:32:08,993 --> 00:32:11,086 Okay, let's say you're right about Sarah. 642 00:32:11,262 --> 00:32:12,889 Let's say she is behind everything. 643 00:32:13,064 --> 00:32:16,033 She found someone who had ears that looked like hers. 644 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,601 She kidnapped that person and then she sent her ears to Gordon. 645 00:32:20,672 --> 00:32:23,835 Can you imagine the time and effort it would take one person 646 00:32:24,008 --> 00:32:25,999 to find his or her ear twin? 647 00:32:26,177 --> 00:32:28,975 - Assuming such a thing even exists. - Okay, let's say she did. 648 00:32:29,147 --> 00:32:31,707 It still wouldn't explain how that person's DNA could work its way 649 00:32:31,883 --> 00:32:36,582 onto a brush recovered from a crime scene in 2010. 650 00:32:45,396 --> 00:32:47,557 The news report we watched earlier, 651 00:32:47,732 --> 00:32:50,758 it said that Sarah's new husband was a plastic surgeon, did it not? 652 00:32:50,935 --> 00:32:53,460 Yes. Why? 653 00:33:08,953 --> 00:33:12,047 LESTRADE: There once was a man Named Shawn Menck 654 00:33:12,223 --> 00:33:15,317 His home smelled so bad It done stank 655 00:33:15,493 --> 00:33:17,461 He rode on his bike He took what he liked 656 00:33:17,628 --> 00:33:20,597 And his head was thick as a plank 657 00:33:21,165 --> 00:33:24,157 That is how long I've been sitting here waiting for you to come home. 658 00:33:24,335 --> 00:33:25,802 Enough time to write a limerick. 659 00:33:26,070 --> 00:33:29,164 I don't know who you are, but you got about five seconds... 660 00:33:29,340 --> 00:33:33,333 Do you have any earthly idea, mate, how ugly your bicycle is? 661 00:33:33,544 --> 00:33:36,570 It's ridiculous. I only showed the picture to ten people in this neighborhood 662 00:33:36,748 --> 00:33:38,875 before I traced it back to you. 663 00:33:39,050 --> 00:33:42,281 You work for the local Indian restaurant around the corner making deliveries. 664 00:33:42,453 --> 00:33:44,751 When you make those deliveries, you mug people. 665 00:33:44,922 --> 00:33:45,946 Now, how do I know this? 666 00:33:46,991 --> 00:33:50,358 Your ugly bicycle was seen at the scene of two of the crimes. 667 00:33:50,528 --> 00:33:52,189 Now, I didn't notice it when you mugged me 668 00:33:52,363 --> 00:33:54,263 because quite frankly, well, I was in my cups. 669 00:33:54,732 --> 00:33:56,859 - Listen, man... - All three robberies occurred 670 00:33:57,035 --> 00:33:59,697 inside the delivery radius and when you were on a shift. 671 00:34:00,738 --> 00:34:01,796 And not only that. 672 00:34:01,973 --> 00:34:04,373 I mean, I discovered when I broke in here, mounds of evidence, 673 00:34:04,542 --> 00:34:06,442 including my very own wallet. 674 00:34:07,412 --> 00:34:09,642 I find the whole experience completely underwhelming. 675 00:34:09,814 --> 00:34:12,112 I mean, I thought there'd be a bit more cloak-and-dagger, 676 00:34:12,283 --> 00:34:14,080 a bit more thrill of the chase, but, no, no. 677 00:34:14,252 --> 00:34:17,278 In fact, I'm actually more depressed now than I was when I first started. 678 00:34:17,989 --> 00:34:21,220 So now, all I'm gonna ask you for, Shawnee, is, uh... 679 00:34:21,959 --> 00:34:24,291 Is for my money back. 680 00:34:24,762 --> 00:34:26,593 So I can leave here and I can go to the pub 681 00:34:26,764 --> 00:34:30,461 and buy myself a nice, refreshing pint. 682 00:34:33,337 --> 00:34:36,135 No, no, no, don't do that. 683 00:34:37,442 --> 00:34:39,569 No creeping up on me this time, mate. 684 00:34:41,446 --> 00:34:42,811 [GRUNTS] 685 00:34:44,916 --> 00:34:46,008 Really? 686 00:34:46,451 --> 00:34:47,975 Come on. 687 00:35:12,910 --> 00:35:14,707 We appreciate you coming in. 688 00:35:14,879 --> 00:35:16,278 Of course. 689 00:35:16,447 --> 00:35:18,506 You said on the phone you had some questions? 690 00:35:18,683 --> 00:35:19,980 We do. First among them, 691 00:35:20,151 --> 00:35:24,554 would you be so kind as to stand up and touch your toes? 692 00:35:26,257 --> 00:35:29,055 A simple enough command and yet it confounds you. 693 00:35:29,227 --> 00:35:31,787 Very well. Question number two, can we take a look at your back? 694 00:35:32,830 --> 00:35:36,095 I don't know what's going on here, but I don't think this is very funny. 695 00:35:36,267 --> 00:35:39,430 You don't want us to see your back because we'd see the surgical scars. 696 00:35:39,604 --> 00:35:42,266 That's why you've been sitting with your back so straight, isn't it? 697 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,908 The tissue's still healing and you do not wish to agitate it. 698 00:35:45,409 --> 00:35:48,037 I had some cancer removed a few days ago. 699 00:35:48,846 --> 00:35:50,143 WATSON: Let me guess. Two growths. 700 00:35:52,116 --> 00:35:53,743 Looked a lot like these? 701 00:35:55,186 --> 00:35:57,211 - I don't know... HOLMES: Last night, I was wondering 702 00:35:57,388 --> 00:35:59,686 how those ears could be a genetic match 703 00:35:59,857 --> 00:36:02,553 for strands of hair on a brush taken from your bathroom. 704 00:36:02,727 --> 00:36:04,092 You said the brush was not yours. 705 00:36:04,562 --> 00:36:07,224 And yet those ears, identical to your own, 706 00:36:07,398 --> 00:36:09,764 and as I've already said, the DNA's a match. 707 00:36:09,934 --> 00:36:11,868 Then it occurred to me, 708 00:36:12,036 --> 00:36:14,937 you lied when you said the brush belonged to someone else. It was yours. 709 00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:18,003 GREGSON: The ears are yours too, right? 710 00:36:18,409 --> 00:36:20,969 It's just they didn't come from your head. 711 00:36:21,279 --> 00:36:23,042 You realize how crazy this all sounds? 712 00:36:23,214 --> 00:36:25,205 People thought Dr. Charles Vacanti was crazy 713 00:36:25,383 --> 00:36:27,248 when he grew what looked like a human ear 714 00:36:27,418 --> 00:36:30,785 on the back of a lab mouse in 1997. I, myself, did not. 715 00:36:31,122 --> 00:36:32,521 WATSON: Ears are mostly cartilage, 716 00:36:32,690 --> 00:36:35,887 which means they're very difficult to repair once damaged. 717 00:36:36,060 --> 00:36:38,119 They also have a very complicated shape. 718 00:36:38,296 --> 00:36:40,924 HOLMES: Dr. Vacanti devised a method for growing human cartilage 719 00:36:41,098 --> 00:36:43,191 on a biodegradable ear-shaped scaffold. 720 00:36:43,701 --> 00:36:46,101 You place the scaffold beneath the subject's skin, 721 00:36:46,270 --> 00:36:49,171 and it dissolves over time, leaving nothing but the cartilage. 722 00:36:49,340 --> 00:36:50,864 If you're not familiar with the process, 723 00:36:51,042 --> 00:36:52,703 I encourage you to bend your husband's ear. 724 00:36:52,877 --> 00:36:55,778 Not only is he a plastic surgeon, he's done this kind of work before. 725 00:36:55,947 --> 00:36:56,971 We checked. 726 00:36:57,148 --> 00:36:59,275 He built two scaffolds that looked just like your ears, 727 00:36:59,450 --> 00:37:00,815 and then planted them in your back. 728 00:37:00,985 --> 00:37:04,785 Three days ago, he cut them off and he sent them to your ex. 729 00:37:04,956 --> 00:37:07,049 After that, it was a matter of collecting the ransom. 730 00:37:07,225 --> 00:37:09,716 A task for which you recruited the late Jim Browner. 731 00:37:10,328 --> 00:37:12,228 He didn't figure out who you were, you told him 732 00:37:12,396 --> 00:37:13,829 when you made him your accomplice. 733 00:37:14,198 --> 00:37:16,029 This is a court order 734 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,363 to collect a DNA sample to compare to the ears in the box. 735 00:37:19,537 --> 00:37:23,234 One way or the other, we're gonna prove they came from you. 736 00:37:26,877 --> 00:37:29,209 [DANIEL POWTER'S "BAD DAY" PLAYING OVER PHONE] 737 00:37:41,926 --> 00:37:44,190 - Lestrade? - Yes. What's going on? 738 00:37:44,362 --> 00:37:45,920 LESTRADE: Sherlock, Joan. 739 00:37:50,868 --> 00:37:53,598 Please, take a seat. 740 00:38:00,244 --> 00:38:02,474 First, I want you to know that there's no hard feelings. 741 00:38:02,647 --> 00:38:05,309 I know that you tried to put one over on me. 742 00:38:05,483 --> 00:38:08,281 And I know it was done with the best intentions. 743 00:38:08,452 --> 00:38:13,253 Right, so I captured Shawn Menck today. 744 00:38:15,192 --> 00:38:16,682 He was the man that robbed me. 745 00:38:16,861 --> 00:38:18,522 Oh, that's fantastic, Gareth. 746 00:38:19,397 --> 00:38:20,591 Yeah, well, it would have been 747 00:38:20,765 --> 00:38:23,734 had he not been handed to me on a silver platter. 748 00:38:24,268 --> 00:38:29,729 Yeah, I spoke to his two other victims today, Mr. Pelfrey and Mr. Phillips, 749 00:38:29,907 --> 00:38:34,571 and they, you'll be shocked to hear, were actually extremely helpful. 750 00:38:34,745 --> 00:38:37,043 Miraculously so, really. 751 00:38:37,214 --> 00:38:39,648 Are you approaching anything resembling a point? 752 00:38:39,817 --> 00:38:45,050 Yes, you got to these files first, didn't you, Sherlock? Hmm? 753 00:38:45,556 --> 00:38:47,319 You figured out the bit about the bike. 754 00:38:47,491 --> 00:38:48,788 And then you doctored these files 755 00:38:48,959 --> 00:38:53,760 so when I called Pelfrey and Phillips, I was in fact calling you instead. 756 00:38:53,931 --> 00:38:55,159 What is he talking about? 757 00:38:55,633 --> 00:38:57,931 Oh, you know, Joan, you can, you know, drop the act now. 758 00:38:58,102 --> 00:38:59,797 - What act? - You really don't know, do you? 759 00:38:59,970 --> 00:39:02,234 - Know what? - Well, your partner here 760 00:39:02,406 --> 00:39:04,306 decided to give me a shot in the arm. 761 00:39:04,475 --> 00:39:05,908 He'd get me back on the horse. 762 00:39:06,077 --> 00:39:08,375 He spoon-fed me the clues so I could find Menck. 763 00:39:08,546 --> 00:39:10,377 Those files were my idea. He didn't even... 764 00:39:10,548 --> 00:39:13,346 You don't know him like I know him. 765 00:39:13,517 --> 00:39:16,350 In fact, you don't know how well he knows you. 766 00:39:17,388 --> 00:39:20,482 You and your voices, Sherlock. 767 00:39:20,658 --> 00:39:24,094 I don't know who I preferred more actually, Pelfrey or Phillips. 768 00:39:24,261 --> 00:39:27,287 I have to say that asking me out for a cup of coffee was a really nice touch. 769 00:39:27,465 --> 00:39:30,696 I was actually quite flattered, to be honest. 770 00:39:31,302 --> 00:39:32,496 You should have seen me though, 771 00:39:32,670 --> 00:39:34,297 sitting there in Shawn Menck's apartment. 772 00:39:34,472 --> 00:39:38,499 I just couldn't believe how easy it was to find all of that evidence. 773 00:39:38,676 --> 00:39:42,942 Three of the wallets sitting neatly stacked on a little table. 774 00:39:43,114 --> 00:39:46,242 I mean, I thought it was impossible. But then 775 00:39:46,684 --> 00:39:49,915 just as I was about to leave, I found this. 776 00:39:51,489 --> 00:39:52,820 Yes. 777 00:39:55,126 --> 00:39:59,062 It's a rooster feather. Just like the ones on your pets. 778 00:39:59,230 --> 00:40:02,722 You'd set the table for me, hadn't you? But you'd just done too good a job of it. 779 00:40:02,900 --> 00:40:05,869 You see, if I hadn't found this, I'd still be... I don't know. 780 00:40:06,036 --> 00:40:09,096 - Moping around this brownstone with a right old bog on. 781 00:40:09,273 --> 00:40:10,831 But, no, thanks to seeing through a plot 782 00:40:11,008 --> 00:40:12,737 devised by the great Sherlock Holmes, 783 00:40:12,910 --> 00:40:16,311 I have decided to give detecting one last chance. 784 00:40:16,580 --> 00:40:18,241 So I accepted a job this morning. 785 00:40:18,716 --> 00:40:22,413 Yeah, it's a consultant position with the Garda in Cork. 786 00:40:22,753 --> 00:40:25,722 Wait, the Garda as in the Irish National Police? 787 00:40:25,890 --> 00:40:27,357 Yes, that's right. I leave tomorrow. 788 00:40:27,691 --> 00:40:30,353 So I've got rather a lot of packing to do. So if you'll excuse me. 789 00:40:30,528 --> 00:40:33,395 Unless, of course, you wanna continue this ridiculous charade, 790 00:40:33,564 --> 00:40:36,397 Sherlock, I will quite happily stay. 791 00:40:50,614 --> 00:40:52,673 Well played, sir. 792 00:40:53,317 --> 00:40:54,682 Well played. 793 00:41:04,562 --> 00:41:05,688 Now... 794 00:41:06,530 --> 00:41:11,229 I wouldn't feel too bad about him leaving you in the dark, Joan. 795 00:41:11,635 --> 00:41:14,502 I mean, you have to understand, of course, you are in the infancy 796 00:41:14,672 --> 00:41:16,902 of your partnership. 797 00:41:17,107 --> 00:41:21,544 Having spent as much time as I did with him, you'll figure him out as well. 798 00:41:29,220 --> 00:41:30,619 [DEVICE TICKING] 799 00:41:30,888 --> 00:41:33,356 Is that why you didn't want me to help him these couple of days 800 00:41:33,524 --> 00:41:36,459 because you had your own plan to build him up? 801 00:41:36,660 --> 00:41:40,562 I've never heard of Shawn Menck, Roscoe Pelfrey or Carlton Phillips. 802 00:41:41,131 --> 00:41:43,531 I did not manipulate those files. 803 00:41:43,701 --> 00:41:47,501 However easy it may have been, Lestrade closed that case on his own. 804 00:41:47,671 --> 00:41:49,366 The conspiracy he's describing is a product 805 00:41:49,540 --> 00:41:52,475 of his obviously very fertile imagination. 806 00:41:52,977 --> 00:41:56,606 As far as the feather that he found, that's a classic case of transference. 807 00:41:56,780 --> 00:41:59,908 - It fell from his clothes, not mine. - But you just said... 808 00:42:00,084 --> 00:42:03,019 What I thought would be most helpful to him. 809 00:42:03,654 --> 00:42:07,988 You were right. And the more he talked, the clearer it became. 810 00:42:08,325 --> 00:42:12,261 In some cases, there are other ways to assist a friend. 811 00:42:14,031 --> 00:42:17,228 So, what does that one do once it ticks down? 812 00:42:17,401 --> 00:42:19,460 Spray you with water? 813 00:42:19,904 --> 00:42:22,464 - Make a loud noise? - It explodes. 814 00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:26,132 I told my colleague I wanted more of a challenge, and he sent me this. 815 00:42:26,577 --> 00:42:28,272 Oh. 816 00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:31,545 You're staying? 817 00:42:32,249 --> 00:42:33,841 What can I say? 818 00:42:34,018 --> 00:42:36,043 I have faith. Ripped By mstoll