What I’m Watching: Elementary

Elementary: Season 1, Episode 6 “Flight Risk” (B+)

Sherlock has done it now twice in a row, creating a case out of thin air when no one else would have noticed anything out of the ordinary. Once again, there were multiple malicious elements, and the culprit apprehended mid-episode wasn’t the guilty man after all. Unlike other crime procedurals, the twists and turns on this show can’t really be seen coming, and it’s truly thrilling to watch Sherlock piece each part of the puzzle together. Giving the guilty man excessive amounts of water to drink to prove that he had patched up a wound was creative, and the incorporation of the extremely strong glue smell which disturbed Sherlock helped to set the prickly genius off. She didn’t get to do much, but it was nice to see Reiko Aylesworth, best known as Michelle Dessler from “24,” as the NTSB agent at the start of the episode. Sherlock’s certainty that his father wouldn’t show up for his dinner with Watson was unsettling, and he dealt with it in a rather harsh way by hiring his actor friend to pose as his father for an unsuspecting Watson. It turns out that Watson really is picking up on Sherlock’s tricks, deducing both that Allistair was an imposter and that he really did know Sherlock, thanks to his story about Sherlock’s childhood injury. Hearing about a young Sherlock made perfect sense, and his most recent history is clearly much darker. Watson bringing up Irene is definitely going to push his buttons, and it could really damage their relationship.