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On the police radio, Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) hears about a
child abduction that resembles a case from 7 years ago, committed by the
serial child abductor "Balloon Man" too closely for comfort, and
when he and Watson (Lucy Liu) are called in for advice, he's soon able to
track down the car of the culprit ... but when the driver of the car is
arrested it turns out to be the abducted boy from 7 years back, Adam
Kemper (Johnny Simmons), who apparently has over the years built up a
father-son relationship with the Balloon Man, and thus refuses to give up
his erstwhile abductor. And an attempt to track him down leaves the police
with a video where the Balloon Man (Christopher Evan Welch) threatens to
kill his latest abductee. The police now offers Adam an immunity deal - as
he's suspected to have played a part in the Balloon Man's other
kidnappings and murders - and thus the Balloon Man is tracked down ... and
he kills himself before the eyes of the police. But then Holmes finds out
the Balloon Man was never the actual killer but only a front for Adam, who
even as a kid had homicidal tendencies. But now that he has been granted
immunity, he's pretty much untouchable - until Holmes once more finds a
way ...
Now the story of this one is incredibly far-fetched and its
resolution doesn't ring at all true. Plus, it has pretty much "torn
from the headlines" stamped all over it, while not really aiming for
realism at all. So from the story perspective this is anything but a good
episode. But for Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu as Holmes and Watson it's
again watchable, as the former is as eccentric and erratic as ever, the
latter's effort to put up with him is really palpable, and the chemistry
between the two is just right. So not a total love, one would just love to
see the pair being given some better scripts.
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