What I’m Watching: Elementary

Elementary: Season 2, Episode 4 “Poison Pen” (B+)

It’s strange to see Sherlock actually express emotion for someone, and you know that when he does, they have to be very important to him. That was the case for not one but two people in this episode, starting with dominatrix Mistress Felicia, who he calmly and helpfully instructed on what to do when she ended up with a dead body at her place of work. Anne/Abigail was interestingly the more complicated manner, since she and Sherlock had bonded so many years ago over letters, and therefore he was in a unique but definitely biased position to consider her guilt in the case. Laura Benanti, who played the part of Sherlock’s former pen pal, was last seen on “Royal Pains” as prospective buyer Shelby, and also recurred on the last show to regularly star Jonny Lee Miller, “Eli Stone.” I like that Sherlock went to go talk to Graham after realizing what he did do and warned him that he’d be watching rather than taking any more measures to ensure that he saw justice. Watson’s detective work was impressive, as has consistently been the case recently, and noticing that there were too many vents in the room managed to win Detective Bell over too. We haven’t seen all that much of either Bell or Captain Gregson recently, and therefore it was refreshing to see Bell get his own moment of glory, proclaiming that he’d stand in the fetish shop with his badge very visible while they waited for a warrant.