Elementary

Previously on Elementary: The Nose. He’s an Irregular

I’ve used from time to time.

His sense of smell outpaces even my own.

Sherlock Holmes, meet Sir James Walter,

deputy chief S.I.S.

I anticipated that without Moriarty

her group would fall apart.

Someone else has taken over.

I did it for you, Sherlock.

You and Joan. So your only recourse

was to become head of an organization

which murders for profit.

How else would I dismantle it?

Your name is Vanja Borozan.

You are a high-priced assassin.

Who hired you to kill my father?

I understand that her FBI handlers

lost track of her some time ago.

She’s back, son,

and she wants what’s hers.

Moriarty.

Hey.

Just you?

Yeah. I got your message while I was out.

I actually thought that Sherlock would get here before me.

Don’t get me wrong. No one I’d

rather linger over a two-day-old corpse with.

Two days?

Neighbors noticed the pizza

had been sitting there a while, got concerned.

MLI says he’s been dead about 48 hours.

Victim’s name was Gilbert Pham.

He’s a lawyer at Kress & Howell,

one of the big accounting firms.

"VP, Discovery."

Yeah, they go over the books

of companies involved in deals,

vet mergers, things like that.

Talked to the pizza shop.

Cashier says Pham was a regular,

and it was definitely him who placed the order.

That was 9:00 p.m. night before last,

so we know he was still alive then.

Home invasion gone bad?

I’d say that’s what we’re supposed to think.

Kitchen door window’s busted from the outside.

We found the bolt unlocked.

Place has been tossed.

No money or loose valuables left behind.

But if someone broke that window and then opened this door,

the door would have swept the glass aside,

so this was done for show.

We also found a car service voucher

in Pham’s pocket.

Says they dropped him here at 7:00.

That’s two hours before he ordered the pizza.

I don’t know about you and your partner,

but when I get home, shoes and tie come off

as soon as I’m in the door.

So you’re wondering what happened in the two hours

between when he got home and when he was killed.

Did you notice these scratches?

I saw those bruises on his wrist.

I’m guessing that he spent some of that time

handcuffed to this chair.

Could be this whole

"home invasion" angle was just a distraction

to keep us from looking at his computer.

I’ll have CCS go over it, find out what kind of work

he did on it the night he died. All right.

I’ll call Sherlock again.

You can’t be certain that it was Moriarty

who hired Vanja Borozan to kill you.

Plenty of people want you dead.

Most of my life, I’ve wanted you dead.

No doubt.

But even you must be able to see

the sense in what I say.

Borozan trained in Moriarty’s camp.

I’ve made it my mission for the last two years

to destroy her empire.

That she should eventually

turn her attention to me was inevitable.

So, did every last one of her handlers die during her escape?

’Cause you’d think someone would have notified me.

As I understand it, she simply slipped through their fingers.

No bloodshed.

Makes one think she could have done it at any time.

I wouldn’t be too harsh on your FBI contacts.

The Bureau tried very hard to keep a lid on it.

Losing a prisoner as important as Moriarty, well...

must be quite an embarrassment.

What’s your excuse for not telling me?

I haven’t known for long.

I will, of course, need to verify all of this.

Of course.

Once you have, I’ll need your help.

I hoped I would never have to make this request.

We can both imagine how many lives would be lost

should she ascend to her former power.

And no one knows her better than you.

What’s the request?

Moriarty intends to kill me.

I need your help to kill her first.

You’ve been asking a lot of favors

of us lately, Holmes.

My time working for British Intelligence

may have been brief,

but I’d say I’d earned a few chits.

Indeed.

Per your request,

the personal effects of Vanja Borozan.

Everything we found on his body

or in his hotel room.

So far, our boys have failed to identify

whoever was paying his bills,

but I would not be surprised if you have greater success.

I’ll let you know what I find.

Holmes.

The last time we met,

I expressed my condolences

on the death of your brother.

But that time, they were

empty words, as you and I both knew that he was alive.

I am sorry for your loss.

To Washburn Tobacco

and Summit-Stow Distributors.

Congratulations, Kip.

You’re about to be a wealthy man.

Sorry to interrupt.

We’re looking for Aldo Ventura.

That would be me.

Is there a problem, Officer?

Detective, actually... Marcus Bell.

And I wouldn’t sign those contracts

if I were you. We’re pretty sure

your discovery lawyer gave this merger his blessing

with a gun to his head.

Summit-Stow Distributors is a tobacco wholesaler.

Is that right, Mr. Lowell?

So you buy cigarettes from the big companies

and sell them to retailers.

Only now you’re about to become

part of a big company.

That’s right.

Are you all right, Mr. Lowell?

Yeah. I’m sorry.

I, uh... I took a couple of lorazepam

for the flight in from Ohio.

For antianxiety.

Also, I drank some champagne, so...

Should you be signing contracts in your condition?

We’ve already read them. They’re very good for us.

Think what I just don’t get

is why you think one of us killed Gilbert Pham.

So you knew Mr. Pham?

Yeah, we spoke.

He worked at the accounting firm

that Washburn hired to go over our financials.

Mr. Pham logged into his firm’s network from home

the night he was killed.

He filed a report that gave this merger his sign-off.

And since Pham was hired by Washburn

to vet the deal, it seems likely

there was some bad news in your books

that one of you was worried about.

So you forced Pham to give the okay, and then killed him.

You’re looking at the only four employees at Summit-Stow

with any financial stake in this merger.

And we all flew in together this morning.

I can personally vouch

that we were all in Akron three nights ago.

We’re listening.

This is a murder investigation.

We don’t take alibis at people’s word.

You seem unimpaired.

Who are you?

Name’s Tim Darsha.

Tim’s one of

our sales managers.

Lamar over there is the other.

And you’re the president of the company,

so why did you look to him for permission to speak?

I didn’t.

He didn’t.

Sorry. You were saying? Your alibi.

We’d heard from Washburn that Pham

had signed off and that our deal would be

finalized soon, so we started celebrating early.

That night, we all, uh,

met up at a hotel and...

hired some entertainment.

You hired prostitutes.

All right, say that checks out,

and none of you were here the night of the murder.

Still could have hired someone.

A hit man?

Honestly, Detective, I wouldn’t know how.

So, obviously, we’ll have to wait

on a bunch of prostitutes in Akron