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While routinely examining a few bodies in the morgue, more as a hobby, Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) rather by chance discovers that one of the corpses has not been killed by cancer as the charts suggest but was euthanized. Of course it's immediately off to the hospital that treated the man for Holmes and Watson (Lucy Liu), and before they know it, Holmes rather unorthodox methods get them into trouble, but eventually -

police Captain Gregson (Aidan Quinn) of the police backing him, Holmes can prove that over the years no less than 9 people have been euthanized. And from a witness he learns that at least one of the victims had a doctor, but not one of the staff, talking to him about passing over to the next world - so Holmes suspects an "Angel of Mercy". The first suspect Holmes comes up with is Dr. Cahill (Ben Rappaport), a guy a bit too jumpy for his own good, but it eventually turns out that has more to do with his opiate addiction and the fact that he steals opiates from the hospital supplies than anything else. Next in line is Dr. Baldwin (David Harbour), who's defense is that he's much too arrogant to be an "Angel of Mercy", as the life of others doesn't really interest him - and he also has an alibi for one of the murders. It's rather by chance that Holmes discovers that one of the victims was Ukrainian and hardly spoke any English - which would have hampered the Angel of Mercy's efforts to talk her into the next world ... well, unless the Angel spoke Ukrainian, too. And indeed, one of the hospital's janitors, Gura (David Costabile) does, and upon further investigation it turns out that Gura was a surgeon back in the Ukraine. And once interrogated, Gura quickly confesses, too, as in his mind, he has done nothing wrong, only released terminally ill patients from their pain a little early - which is right in 8 of the nine cases, with the ninth, the victim was on her path to recovery. This Gura strongly denies, even though hospital records don't lie. But Gura, who has already admitted to the murders, wouldn't lie about that detail either - which leads Holmes back to Dr. Baldwin, who might have used Gura without his knowledge to cover up one of his little mistakes ...

A parallel narrative thread sees Watson meeting up with an old surgeon friend, Carrie (Anika Noni Rose), and second guessing if it was the right decision to leave the medical profession behind like she did.

Probably the best episode of Elementary so far, as less of an emphasis is put on sensationalism and more on actual deduction. Also Holmes is less erratic in that one (though still erratic enough for some fun), which gives the story more room to breathe. And all that said, Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu once again make a great pairing in the leads.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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