Elementary (2012–…): Season 4, Episode 22 - Turn It Upside Down - full transcript

HOLMES:
Previously on Elementary...

WATSON: Emil Kurtz.

Do I know you?

We have a friend in common:
Morland Holmes.

Oh, uh, nice to meet you.

Morland asked me to find
a mole in his office.

In other words,
he asked me to find you.

KURTZ:
That's everything I could find

on all our
recent dealings in Russia.

I think he's on to me.
Emil...

No. We're done.

Because if I keep helping you,

we are both gonna get caught.

Marcus Bell, Major Case.

What have we got?

Robbery gone bad, sounds like.

First victim...

Emil Kurtz.

BELL: The cook who
survived is outside,

giving his full statement.

He described the shooter as
a white male, sunglasses,

and a hoodie pulled tight
around his face.

Said he grabbed a female
customer near the door,

held her at gunpoint,

and demanded the money
in the register.

Any idea why it turned
into a bloodbath?

Cashier refuse or

go for a weapon?

Someone try
to be a hero?

BELL: Cook said there
was a lot of yelling,

he didn't make out.

Plus, he didn't see much,

'cause he was ducked behind

the counter the whole time.

But as far as he could tell,

everyone was trying
to cooperate.

Something must have
spooked the guy,

and he just opened fire.

Cashier's name was
Istvan Drakoulias.

Victim over there is Emil Kurtz.

Female hostage
was shot there.

Her name was Angela Lee.

She died en route to St. Bede's.

And Angela's sister, Jordan Lee,

caught a bullet in the arm.

She's also at St. Bede's,

but she's in stable condition.

Now, the owner of this place
lives out in Commack.

He's on his way here.

Did the cook know the order
the victims were shot in?

Whether it seemed
like the shooter

was targeting anyone
in particular?

Did he talk to any of the
customers before it all started?

I'll go find out.

Gonna make me ask,
aren't you?

Your fixation on the male
customer, Emil Kurtz.

I mean, to the best
of my knowledge,

his relevance to the crime
could only be described

as "victim from
barstool number six."

But to you, clearly,
his presence means more.

You think he was
the intended target.

You've been acting
secretively, for weeks now.

Sudden social engagements
with unnamed friends.

Last minute calls
to take your mother

to a doctor's appointment,
which you did not do.

I've respected your privacy
up to this point.

I thought perhaps
you had a new lover

that you didn't want
to talk about yet.

Whatever it was,
I trusted that you would

discuss it with me in time,
but now, now you're

withholding evidence that
pertains to three homicides.

I was going to tell you
when we got home, okay?

I just didn't want to get
into it in front of Marcus.

At least not
until we're sure.

Sure of what?

You're right.
I knew Emil Kurtz.

He's the person
I've been meeting with.

He worked for your father.

And if what I suspect is true,

this is not the scene
of a triple murder.

This is the scene of a double
murder and an assassination.

♪ Elementary 4x22 ♪
Turn It Upside Down
Original Air Date on April 24, 2016

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WATSON:
Sherlock.

How could you
have been so reckless?

Were you under the impression

you were dealing
with a nice man?

No. I...

Perhaps I under-played
the danger.

Perhaps my consistently
referring to my father

as the devil incarnate
wasn't clear.

He has armies on his payroll.

He has mercenaries
on speed dial.

There are countries that you
learned the name of as a child,

that no longer exist
because of him.

Would you just let me speak?
So you can explain to me

why you recruited an informant

inside his office
without telling me?

Only to leave him there
at his peril?!

Yes! Yes! And it is because

Morland is so dangerous
that I did.

Ever since we found out

that someone tried
to kill your father,

you said that we
could get caught

in the crossfire of a war.

And since he's
had Krasnov's name,

he's been keeping us
out of the loop.

One of us had to find out
what he was up to.

And your rationale for
acting behind my back?

Because maybe your judgment

when it comes to your father,
isn't the best.

You know that I trust you.

Just not when
it comes to Morland.

Yes, I took matters
into my own hands,

but I did not kill
those people in the diner.

The question is whether he did.

The first thing we need to
do is find the shooter.

Marcus said there
was another witness.

The sister
of the woman who died.

We should talk to her.

You do it.

Given our suspicions,
I think it's time

that Captain Gregson
learned about Morland Holmes.

And he should hear it from me.

Although, first,

I would like to look
my father in the eye.

MORLAND:
Sherlock.

We can finish later.

Something wrong?

Unfortunately, I'm here
to deliver some sad news.

There was a restaurant robbery

on the Upper East Side,
a few hours ago.

Gunfire broke out.

A number of people were killed.

An employee of yours
was among them.

Emil Kurtz.

Dear Lord.

How dreadful.

Has his wife been informed?

She's not here in New York.

They're from Boston, I think.

I'll have Elizabeth
give you the information.

(sighs) Is there anything
else I can do?

Actually, there is.

I'd like to review
Mr. Kurtz's work.

Take a look at his office,
his computer, his files,

phone records, obviously.

You said it was a robbery.

I assumed that Emil
was a bystander.

Do you suspect otherwise?

Not yet, but one cannot ignore
the nature of your work.

And given the history of attacks
against you and your business,

best to leave no stone unturned.

I'm going to say no, for now.

Emil was involved in sensitive
projects, still ongoing.

And, obviously,
I trust you to be discreet,

but, uh, I have to consider
what my clients will say.

If your investigation reveals

that Emil was a target,
I will reconsider.

I hope you understand.

Of course.

And you needn't worry, Father.

I'll be taking the lead
on this case.

I will find
whoever's responsible,

and I will see to it
that they pay.

JORDAN:
I guess he was in his 40s.

It was hard to tell.

NURSE:
Here you go.

Thank you.

JORDAN: The hood
and the sunglasses,

you could barely
see his face.

It happened so fast.

Uh, he was kind of tall,
I think.

Do you remember if he
had any facial hair?

He had gray and brown stubble.

WATSON:
The EMT said that

Angela didn't die
from the gunshot wound.

They said it was anaphylaxis.

Her airway shut from a
severe allergic reaction.

They gave her epinephrine
and tried to intubate,

but they couldn't save her.

Yeah. It happened just
after the guy ran off.

We were waiting for help.

Angie said she couldn't breathe,

and... she was wheezing.

I thought she was
going into shock,

so I tried to keep her calm
until the ambulance came.

But then her eyes started
to swell shut, and, um,

her, uh, her skin broke out.

She was unconscious before
the ambulance even got there.

Strange as it may sound,

if she was allergic to something
on the shooter's clothes,

it might help us catch him.

Was she having any symptoms
before he grabbed her?

Is it possible it was
something in the food?

No. She didn't have
any food allergies.

No one in my family does.

Had she ever had this
kind of reaction before?

Once. We were teenagers.

Our family went to go see
a talk show get filmed.

We had front row seats
and one of the guests

was an animal trainer.

He brought out
a bunch of animals.

Angie had
the same reaction then.

We had to take her to the ER.

You ever find out
which animal caused it?

Yeah, the doctor's ran tests.

They said the only one
she was allergic to

was the mountain lion.

GREGSON:
You know, that's the first time

you even mentioned your father,
more than just in passing.

My dad brokers in global misery

isn't the sort of thing
that usually comes up.

Well, it's just, uh...

This is a lot
to take in at once.

Do you really think he
might have arranged

a triple murder just to get rid
of a spy in his office?

He never heard
of just firing the guy?

I know it sounds extreme,

but my father
is a man of extremes.

You okay?

Why wouldn't I be?

You just told me you suspect
your own dad of murder.

"Are you okay?" seems like
a reasonable question.

I think perhaps you're imagining

a different sort
of father-son relationship.

Or a father-son relationship.

But thank you.

I'm not just asking
for your sake.

I have to think
about the case.

I should tell you, right now,
to keep your distance,

let us do our jobs.

But you and I both know
that wouldn't stop you.

So, instead,
I'm gonna trust you.

Let me guess:

You saw a mouse.

Are you familiar
with the term umwelt?

No, but I have a feeling
I'm about to me.

German origin.

Refers to one's
subjective experience,

as dictated by our biology.

If there were a mouse,

to it, you and I
would be giants.

To a giraffe, we are small.

And what animal are you trying

to see the world as
from up there?

Surveillance device.

Pretty sure I got 'em all.

Just having a last look around.

Emil Kurtz lived
in this apartment.

It was a company perk,
provided by your father.

Mm-hmm. I found drywall dust

on the floor,
beneath the spots

where these were hidden.

The floors were very
recently polished.

I'd say they were planted
somewhere in the last few days.

That would support our notion

that my father identified Emil
Kurtz as the mole and in turn,

our theory of motive.

Hm.

And your lion hunt?

Marcus and I called
the zoos around the city.

None of them have a mountain
lion on exhibit right now.

Could be our shooter
had one as a pet.

Yes, but that would be illegal.

And a triple murderer would
never risk a violation

from the Health Department.
The point is,

the lion wouldn't be registered,

so there would be no way
to search for it.

There is, however, a way to
search for dead mountain lions.

Taxidermists.

There are only three in the city
that deal with large mammals.

Marcus is checking
them out right now.

So do you think this is what

your father was doing in the
brownstone the other night?

Planting cameras to spy on us?

I checked.

There were none.

I was wrong to lay
into you so harshly,

when you told me about Kurtz.

You're right.

None of this is your fault.

It's his.

I mentioned

umwelt

because I've been
contemplating my own.

Biology dictates reality.

I am the son of Morland Holmes.

Make of that what you will.

(phone rings)

It's Marcus.

Hey. Sherlock's here, too.

BELL: Looking at taxidermists
was a good idea.

We just picked one up at Staten
Island who fits the description

of the shooter and he's been
working on a mountain lion.

We're bringing him
into the station now.

BELL:
We don't see any point

beating around
the bush, Mr. Tetch,

so here's where we're at.

Your hands tested positive
for gunshot residue.

So did the hoodie we found in
the Dumpster behind your shop.

The hoodie also had blood
spatter on it that...

let's be honest,

we all know it's going
to come back a match

for the people you shot
at the diner today.

So... we're not looking
for some kind of confession

or a way to prove
we got the right guy.

We know we got
the right guy.

GREGSON:
That being said,

some of our colleagues
have a theory

that you were hired
to shoot up that diner,

and that the person
that hired you

had a certain victim in mind.

Now if our
colleagues are right,

you'll do yourself
a favor by speaking up.

We'd relay your
cooperation to the DA--

Save your breath.

I'll take the deal.

I'll tell you about the guy.

I'm going to prison.

He's still out there.

I'm not even going to get
to keep the money he gave me,

so screw him.

Okay.

I only knew him as "Mr. King."

I had a sense it was fake
when he said it,

but that's all I got.

How'd you meet him?

He came into
the showroom a few times.

He bought a couple
of birds I'd stuffed.

We would talk.

What did Mr. King look like?

White.

Plain. In his 40s.

Someone who worked
for your father?

After this,
we'll go talk

to the middle-aged
white man he employs.

Oh, no, wait.

There are
several hundred.

I could tell he was
working his way up to something,

and eventually he asked me

if I was looking for
better-paying work.

He gave me 50 grand

and the gun to do it.

And instructions.

Where, when...

and a photo of the person
I was supposed to kill.

He said he'd make sure
they were there.

This the guy you
were hired to kill?

Yes.

That's Emil Kurtz.

Maybe I should be clearer.

Kurtz was today.

I'm still talking
about the first time.

Wait a second.

Are you saying the guy
that paid you to kill Kurtz

also paid you
to kill someone else?

A few weeks ago.

I told you I was going
to help you catch this guy.

It's not like I'm going
to go away any longer

for four bodies than three.

You guys want to hear
about the first one or not?

GREGSON: Yeah, we want to hear
about that one, too.

GREGSON: This is Joan Watson,
Sherlock Holmes.

Assistant District Attorney
Eric Madison.

The other murder
that Arthur Tetch confessed to,

Patricia Naylor,
turns out that she consulted

for the D.A.'s Office
as a forensic psychiatrist.

We know. We've been
looking into her, too.

Uh, Dr. Naylor
was shot to death

in her Greenwich home
three weeks ago.

The details appear to match
what Mr. Tetch described.

Detectives up there
thought she walked in

on a burglary in progress.

You're telling me it was
some kind of assassination.

Tetch gave up

where he dumped the
weapons from both crimes.

Ballistics were matches,

so, looks like
he's telling the truth.

Dr. Naylor did psych
evals for your office.

Is that correct?

She interviewed defendants
to determine

competency to stand trial.

And she would testify as an
expert witness to help juries

understand the legal burden
of an insanity defense.

If someone is, say,
a cannibal serial killer,

that's not enough
to call them crazy.

As long as you know that eating
and killing your victims

is wrong, you're considered sane
in the eyes of the law.

That's what the law says.

In the work that
Dr. Naylor did for you,

did the name Morland Holmes
ever come up?

Holmes? Related to you?

That's what the law says.

Well, the name's not familiar,
but Dr. Naylor consulted

on dozens of cases
over more than a decade.

I wouldn't know everyone
she dealt with.

Someone should look over
those cases. I can do that.

Dr. Naylor taught psychiatry
at SUNY Downstate.

Her office is
also worth a visit.

Hmm. All right.

We appreciate you coming by.

If we have any more questions,
we'll let you know.

Anything I can do to help.

Before you head out,
my office a minute?

I keep going over everything
Tetch told us last night,

and I keep coming back
to the same question.

Who hires a killer this way?

Some guy walks into the
shop of a total stranger.

No history that says that
that stranger is up for murder,

and offers him 50 grand a pop
for rubbing people out?

Obviously there would have been
some indication that Tetch

was open to such a proposal.

We can ask Mr. King
when we find him.

That why you
asked me in here?

I wanted to check
in one more time.

Given what we know

about who Dr. Naylor was,
and what she did,

and given the way
Tetch was hired,

you still think
this is all going

to lead back
to your father?

We both heard Tetch confirm
that Emil Kurtz was the target.

That gives my father motive.

We might not see
all the strings yet,

but he is a puppet master
of the highest order.

One more time before what?

You said you wanted
to check in one more time bef...

Before I pay him a visit.

You want me to join you?

No. Just me.

I want to see him for myself.

MORLAND:
Captain Gregson.

What an unexpected honor
to finally meet you.

Oh, well, thanks
for seeing me.

Oh, nonsense.

Tea?

No, no, I'm good.
I'm good.

Please.

Thanks.

I assume you're here about

the death of my associate,
Emil Kurtz.

One of my staff saw on the news
that you'd arrested a suspect.

The guy's name is Arthur Tetch.

Did you ever hear of him?

No, I don't think so.

Mm. Turns out
he was hired to do it.

Hired?

To rob a luncheonette?

Hired to kill Emil Kurtz
specifically.

All the other
people he shot

were just window dressing.

Does it surprise
you to hear that?

It does.

Emil was, uh... a good man.

Tetch claims it
wasn't his first hit.

That a couple weeks ago,

he was paid to
kill someone else--

a psychiatrist
named Patricia Naylor.

You ever heard of her?

Why would I?

Is it my imagination,
Captain,

or are you asking me questions
as if I were a suspect?

They're just questions.

Tetch said that the guy who
hired him was named King.

Does that ring any bells?

I know many kings.

Quite a few princes, too.

This guy's last name was King.

Captain, let's cut to the chase.

I'm aware that my son
thinks I'm a monster,

and I assume he's convinced you
of some outlandish things,

but I hope that won't color the
course of your investigation.

I got a pretty good head
on my shoulders...

but in my experience,
Sherlock is a pretty smart guy.

He also has a knack for
self-destruction.

Those close to him must always
take care not to follow suit.

Thanks for
taking the time.

Oh, isn't this the part where
you tell me not to leave town?

Listen, I'm just a cop.

You... you're... (sighs)

you got all this.

I know I couldn't keep you
in town even if I wanted to.

But you're right about Sherlock.

He has some
strong opinions about you.

About what you are.

And if he's right,

I got to wonder
if he and Joan are safe.

If anything happens to them,

the next time you see me,
I won't be a cop.

BELL:
Is it me,

or did Dr. Naylor testify
for the prosecution

in every one of these cases?

Never met a defendant
who wasn't sane?

Uh, I think she'd

sometimes decline to testify.

Maybe those were the times

she didn't see eye-to-eye
with the DA?

BELL: There's a follow-up
on this one.

Says the defendant
hanged himself in prison.

Maybe a family member
who thought he belonged

in a mental health facility,
took it out on Dr. Naylor.

What are the chances that
the same family member

wanted Emil Kurtz dead?

Dr. Naylor ever mention
the name Morland Holmes?

Sorry, no.

Calendars and contacts.

Are there any more that
we could see elsewhere?

You'd have to ask
her secretary-- Margaret.

She's not here.

The school only gave her two
weeks after Dr. Naylor died.

And where do you go, now?

Do you get assigned
another teacher?

I stay here,
help with continuity

when they choose
a new supervisor.

Our grant is funded
through the end of next year.

HOLMES:
Your grant.

You introduced yourself as
Dr. Naylor's research assistant.

What exactly is the
research you're doing here?

HOLMES: Dead cockroach.

What are you doing?

I'm testing the validity
of Dr. Naylor's work.

Innovations in criminology

are always interesting to me.

The late doctor was either
a genius or a fool,

and I'm curious
to know which one.

Moldy crabapple,
found on the street.

Drain hair.

Ooh, you also better have

a gallon of bleach
in that box.

Soiled sock found beneath
a bench in a holding cell.

I'd like to know

which of these items

you'd be willing to eat.

(grunts)
If you had to.

In fact,
I'd like you to rank them

in the order in which you'd be
willing to eat them.

Listen to your gut.

My gut is telling me very loudly
not to play this game.

(sighs)

I guess I could cut the mold

off the crabapple,
wash it really well,

and technically...

the cockroach is edible,
if I cook it...

I mean, do I seriously
have to keep going on?

No.

Your willingness to
choose even two items

suggests that the late
doctor was onto something.

Explain that.

Imagine you're a judge.

You're having to sentence

a child pornographer on one day,

and a man who imprisoned women
in his basement the next.

Both defendants
turn your stomach.

But does giving one
more prison time

imply that the other
deserves less?

Enter DANTE,

the Depravity and Atrocity
Numeration Test.

It's an online survey,

which asks its subjects
to score a series of statements,

from a scale of "strongly agree"

through to "strongly disagree."

"Killing to protect a loved one
is understandable,

even if the act is
premeditated."

"Taking pleasure in torture

is even worse than murder."

I think taking this test
would be torture.

It is a little macabre.

People take it voluntarily?

So far, they have done
by the thousands,

and in a dozen
different countries.

My question is whether the
results held any actual meaning.

Despite your revulsion,

and, I assume,

lack of experience eating
items such as these,

you were able to place them
in an intelligent order.

Now, Dr. Naylor reasoned

that, via the wisdom
of the masses,

the same could be done
for heinous crimes.

She hoped that her data
would be used by the courts

to create standardized
sentencing guidelines.

Do you think this had something
to do with why she was murdered?

The study did earn Dr. Naylor
her share of detractors.

Wealth and race presently play
a far greater role in sentencing

than anyone would care to admit.

Now, any attempt
to change that,

represents a seismic upsetting
of the applecart,

and it's easy to imagine any
number of father's cronies

liking the applecart
just the way it is.

(doorbell ringing)

Are you expecting anyone?

No.

Um...

you f...
you forgot your drain hair!

You and your colleagues believe

that I am guilty
of Emil's murder.

You asked for access
to his work.

I've decided to give it to you.

Thank you, gentlemen.

Please wait outside.

What is all this?

Emil's computer,
phone records,

uh, copies of every contract
he's been working on.

Every e-mail
for the last three months.

Going back long
before I asked you

to uncover a mole.

And long before
you obviously uncovered Emil.

You admit you knew about him.

Eventually, yes.

I confirmed his
treachery last week.

I didn't surmise yours
until this morning.

You had to had
known about Emil.

You had to have
told your Captain.

Otherwise, why would he think

that I was responsible
for multiple murders?

HOLMES: Kurtz told Watson you'd moved
him on to another project.

To restrict his access to
sensitive information, I assume.

It was.

So I could feed him
misinformation;

information that would
expose its recipients

and give me an advantage.

You're suggesting you were
involved in a long game,

one that required you to keep
Emil Kurtz alive.

You think that's going
to prove your innocence?

No.

I think... this will
prove my innocence.

I learned
from your captain

that Emil's death
was a paid hit.

Now, unlike you,

I know that
I did not order it.

And so I began to go back

through his files myself,
to see who may have.

When I first started
looking into it,

Emil was feeding information
about an oil deal to someone.

They were exchanging e-mails
with encoded messages.

If this e-mail is real,
it came from the same server.

Oh, more than that.

It came just hours
before Emil died.

Read the decrypted version,
you'll see.

Emil was instructed to go to
that luncheonette yesterday.

We'll have to authenticate it.

But if this is real,

if it says
what you say it does...

Then I didn't send Emil Kurtz
to his death.

The people
he was spying for did.

MORLAND:
What? No police?

No paddy wagon outside?

Would cautious optimism
be in order?

You may recall,

I have contacts inside
a hacker collective.

They were able to authenticate
the e-mail that you brought us,

and confirm that it was sent
from the same account

Watson flagged weeks ago.

They were not able to identify
the owner of that account,

but since I doubt even a man
as Machiavellian as you

would have lured Kurtz
into spying on him

only to kill him later,

it would appear
to support your innocence.

You seem displeased.

With myself.

I often say detection
should be an exact science.

It should be cold,
unclouded by emotion.

Otherwise, one tends to twist
facts to suit theories,

instead of theories
to suit facts.

That sounded like an apology.

(quiet laugh)

You like to see me as a villain.

You did not
commit these murders.

Your general nature's
not in dispute.

Anyway, thanks to you,

we now know more
than we did a day ago

about whoever was behind
Emil Kurtz's murder.

And by extension,
Dr. Naylor's.

It was the same individual
Kurtz was feeding information to

during your Colombian oil deal.

Given the timing
of his murder,

they may have become aware
that he was compromised,

and decided to tie up
a loose end.

And now you want to know to whom
did I lose the oil deal?

Come.

This is a matter better
discussed behind closed doors.

Watson mentioned
she found you

at the brownstone
the other night.

Unannounced.

I've been meaning
to apologize.

It was clear that
my presence startled her.

Said you were rather cryptic

about your reasons
for being there.

Nothing untoward.

I was simply looking for an item

that I had lost track of.

Years ago, I had brought an
antique ring over from London.

It was intended as a gift
for the Countess of Morcar.

I may be visiting
the countess shortly,

so I remembered the ring.

You haven't seen it, have you?

Ah.

The follow-up after
the Colombian oil deal.

Lyndon Rove.

CEO at, that time,
of RNJ Petrochemical.

The company
that won the contract.

So this is your
opposition research on him?

Your intelligence

on where his bodies
are buried?

He's a sex tourist.

There are corners of this Earth
where a man of means

can satisfy
any appetites he has;

appetites that a decent man
would find vile.

So I take it you acted
on this intelligence?

Threatened to expose him?

I used it to pressure Rove

into revealing
the identity of the spy.

He swore that no one at RNJ
knew who the mole was.

He admitted receiving the files,

but insisted that they had come
to his people anonymously,

and that they had
merely acted upon them.

You believed him?

Not at first,

but eventually I gave him
an ultimatum,

promising to disclose
his deviancy to RNJ's board.

He resigned his position before
I could make good on my threat.

Unlikely he would have
thrown himself on his sword,

if he could have
given up Kurtz instead.

So who else profited
when RNJ won the deal?

Quite a few people.

And, thus far,
my attempts to identify

who employed Emil
have failed.

Perhaps...

we'd get greater results
working together.

Hey, I got your text.

You said there was something up

with the shooter Arthur Tetch?

Yeah. CCS was going
through Tetch's computer

looking for anything that might
identify the guy who hired him.

No luck with that.

But they found
something else instead.

Now, Tetch told us he'd
never heard of Dr. Naylor,

or Emil Kurtz before his buddy
Mr. King hired him to kill them.

Thing is, CCS found this.

So, at least some of
what Arthur Tetch

has been telling us
has been a lie.

What am I looking at?

Your Internet
browser history

from about six months ago.

Free country, right?

You know, I actually didn't
produce any of this stuff.

I just watched it.

No, no. We don't care
about the porn.

The only thing
we care about

is the one
that's highlighted.

WATSON: You told us
you never heard

of Dr. Naylor until someone
hired you to kill her.

But six months ago,
you took her online survey.

That can't be a coincidence.

You were looking
into her, right?

BELL:
If you were,

that would suggest you were
in touch with the people

that wanted her
and Kurtz dead

for a lot longer
than you told us.

Your deal with
the DA's Office

is based on your
full cooperation.

We tell them you've been
holding back on us,

the deal's out the window.

I actually have no clue
what you're talking about.

What online survey?

Her project to rate
the severity of crimes.

Whether people think that incest
is as bad as murder,

or kidnapping
is worse than torture.

Yeah. I-I remember that.

Uh, the name is made up
of initials.

Something like Dumbo.

DANTE.

Right.
I take online surveys.

What do you call them,
clickbait?

"What Game of Thrones
character are you?"

I always get Joffrey.

So you took
the DANTE survey for fun?

Sure.

It was interesting.

A little long.

Dr. Naylor had
something to do with it?

(disco music blasting)

♪ Turn the beat around... ♪

Sherlock!

Oh, good timing.

Just finishing
the last questions.

(turning volume down)
Then you can review my answers,

and see if you agree
on a new theory.

WATSON: You're taking
Dr. Naylor's survey?

Why would you do
that to yourself?

And why are you
listening to disco?

I'm taking the test because
you said Arthur Tetch took it.

I'm listening to upbeat music
because taking the test

is analogous to
eating drain hair.

I came across this song

and the lyrics
seem fitting

for reasons that
will become clear.

I take it you
learned something

when you went
to see your father.

As part of our efforts
to determine

who profited from the
Colombian oil deal,

we reviewed
financial records

from the day that
it was announced.

As it turns out,
a great deal of money

was made in
Colombian oil that day...

fueled by a coinciding event.

I remember this.

There was a bomb scare at
an OPEC meeting in Geneva.

Suicide bomber tried to get
into the conference room.

This happened on the same day?

The bomber was killed
at the scene.

No one else was harmed.

But the incident
sent representatives

from 13 of the world's
oil-exporting nations

into temporary lockdown.

And, for that one day,

it also sent
oil-related investments,

in countries not part
of OPEC, through the roof.

Colombia: Not part of OPEC.

So you think someone
orchestrated the attack.

Morland's rival bidder?

It appears that they
were pawns as well.

I believe that
a third party

harnessed the oldest
investment strategy in the book:

Buy low; sell high.

Step one, buy low:

Invest in a company which
is poised to lose

a valuable oil contract.

Step two, with the help of
a mole inside Father's ranks,

manipulate events so that
said company wins the bid.

Step three:
Create a bomb scare,

skyrocketing
Colombian oil futures,

and the winning company's
stock with them.

Sell high. I get that.
But what does this have to do

with disco,
and the DANTE survey?

If you're let me finish.

If I'm right,

whoever controlled
Emil Kurtz and his killer,

also controlled
the Geneva bomber.

I reached out to
a friend at Interpol,

and I did what our own CCS did
with regards to Arthur Tetch.

I requested the bomber's
Internet search history,

hoping that it might lead
to his employer.

So the bomber
took the survey, too.

Okay, now I'm lost.

Obviously, this is
not a coincidence,

even though Tetch
thought it was.

What do you think is going on?

Dr. Naylor created the survey

to collect our common responses
to heinous crimes.

But it occurred to me,

if one were to invert
the arrangement of data,

turn it upside down,

one could instead identify
outlier respondents--

people who don't share
polite society's judgments

about torture and murder.

People who lack empathy.

Both Tetch and the
bomber took the test,

and seeing their results,

someone hired them
to be killers.

Someone is using
the DANTE survey

to identify
and recruit psychopaths.

(scraping)

(rustling)

WATSON: Hey, Marcus called
a little while ago.

He and a team
are executing the search.

He'll let us know
if there's any news.

Where did that come from?

When you found my father
here the other night...

he was looking for this
in our basement.

He stored it there,
some years ago.

He failed to find it
because I found it,

shortly after I moved in.

I stashed it here.

It's beautiful.

I didn't realize your father
used our house for storage.

Yes, he has, on occasion.

When he wants to keep something
out of sight and mind.

Me, for example.

This ring belonged to my mother.

Always struck me as odd that
he ever held onto it at all.

I never had him pegged
as the sentimental type.

As it turns out, he isn't.

He was just holding onto
it in case he needed it.

That's the nice thing about
jewelry, gemstones.

They're a very compact way of
smuggling money across a border,

without leaving a paper trail.

If, for instance,
one is dispensing bribes.

You think he was going
to give it to someone

who was going to help him
find Ruslan Krasnov.

Or whoever hired Krasnov.

He wishes to avenge the death of
his great love, Sabine Raoult.

It's understandable
him choosing not to tell me

that he wanted
Mother's ring for that.

He did, however,

recently find it fitting
to tell me...

that she was an opiate addict.

What do you mean?

Well, she hid it from me.

And then he hid it from me.

That's pretty huge.

Are you all right?

Biology dictates reality.

On the one hand, it helps me
blame myself less for what I am.

The first and oft-repeated
step of the program

is admitting
one's powerlessness.

I'm not responsible
for her drug use,

nor for any of the proclivities

I may have inherited from her.

On the other hand,

I really am no fan of abdicating
personal responsibility.

Hence the repetition
of the step.

Are you going to give
your father the ring?

So that he can give it
to some corrupt official

who may have some
specious information to sell?

Eh...

I think he can find
some other means.

He usually does.

(cell phone chimes twice)

Thanks for coming down,
Dr. Warren.

We were hoping you could
answer a handful of questions

that have come up about
Dr. Naylor and her work.

It could be a big help
to the investigation.

Sure. If I can.

They're all written down,
so if you don't mind,

maybe we could just
go through them together.

That sound all right?

Yeah.

I don't understand.

This is the DANTE survey.

Yeah, we were wondering,

have you ever taken
the test yourself?

Dr. Naylor never allowed it.

She didn't think anyone
on the team should take it.

She felt our responses would be
biased, and throw off the data.

HOLMES:
A reasonable concern.

Nonetheless, I'll be interested
to know your responses.

To know what you thought
was worse:

Murder for money?

Deliberately sending someone
into harm's way?

Eliciting others
to participate?

Your answers will be
particularly worthy of study,

because you've committed so many
of the crimes on the list.

WATSON: This morning, you
and your team were told

the computer lab was closed,
due to a maintenance issue.

The truth is, police were
examining your computer.

They confirmed that
someone has been isolating

psychopathic responses
to the survey,

and then sharing the IP
addresses of those respondents.

BELL:
We know it was you.

You tried to hide it,

changing up the log-in names
and passwords you used,

but when we compared the times
of the messages you sent

with the schedules
of all the other lab assistants,

you were the only one
who was free every time.

That got us a warrant
to pull your bank records.

You received a payment

every time you sent a new lead.

We counted six payments
for six psychopaths.

HOLMES:
We also found a recent

message you sent,
in which you informed

your mysterious benefactor
that you thought Dr. Naylor

was growing suspicious
of your activities.

That message directly
preceded Dr. Naylor's murder.

(suppressed crying)

(voice trembling):
I'm sorry.

Then help us.

You'll be helping yourself, too.

Two of the six psychopaths
we already know about.

The other four we're
working on identifying

off their IP addresses.

What we need from you
is the name of the person

you are sending information to.

The person that wanted to hire
these people to commit crimes.

Right now, all we have is
an anonymous e-mail account.

What can you
tell us about it?

About nine months ago,

a man approached me
outside of the school.

He showed me an I.D.
that looked real,

and said he worked for
the CIA... (crying quietly)

He told me what they wanted,

and said I would be
helping recruit people

to do special missions.

By the time I connected
what I was doing

with what I saw on the news,

I was in too deep,

and scared to stop.

And you liked the money.

BELL:
Any chance the name

of this CIA agent was Mr. King?

No. It wasn't King.

It was Agent Babbage.

Babbage.

Yeah.

Why?

Excuse me. A moment?

What was that all about?

Are you all right?

In here.

I don't know why
I didn't see it sooner.

See what?

The hiring of psychopaths.

The machinations.

The manipulation
of world events.

The name King,
that's common enough,

but Babbage,
that gave it away.

Joshua King,
Charles Babbage,

they're both Lucasian Chairs
of Mathematics at Cambridge.

I don't see
how that matters.

'Cause it's a pattern
I've seen before.

It's a gag she used
to name her operatives

for her own amusement.

She used for her amusement?

We've dealt with this
organization before, Watson.

It was run by Moriarty.

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