Elementary

Previously on Elementary...

I've done something new to anger you.

You didn't mention you were the target

of a failed assassination attempt

which left a woman named Sabine dead.

I was right.

Two years ago, he thought I was behind his near-murder.

And now?

According to him,

I am a former suspect

and I am not at the center of an elaborate revenge plot.

Sabine and I were... very close.

The would-be assassin has been dealt with.

Well, you're lying,

so I'll just have to investigate the matter myself.

Hey, it's okay, Frosty.

Hi, I'm so sorry to bother you,

but my car broke down up the road and my phone died.

Oh, Mon Dieu. Of all the nights. I know.

I feel like an idiot. Do you think I could use your phone

to call my friend to come and pick me up?

Uh...

Sure... Of course. Come in.

Thank you. You're a lifesaver.

Oh.

You're so cute.

Oh, this is Frosty.

I'm Soleil. I'm, uh,

I'm Nicolette.

Uh, here. The phone is in the study.

Uh, I'm not interrupting anything, am I?

Only The Creature from the Black Lagoon.

My favorite show got preempted by hockey.

Uh, you want a cup of tea?

Oh. That's so nice, thank you.

Yeah.

Keep warm!

Thanks so much.

Bye!

“Nicolette”?

Everyone within 100 miles of Montreal

has a sexy French name.

Would've been suspicious if I didn't.

What'd you find?

Soleil is a dutiful daughter.

She's kept her mother's letters,

her will and some other mementos.

Hopefully, the answers lie within.

If not, I shall resort to a séance

to interrogate Sabine Raoult.

You can't be that sure

that your father's girlfriend set him up.

She died in the attack.

Well, perhaps that's a convenient outcome

for whoever commissioned the crime.

Don't kill me! I beg you, don't kill me!

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Excuse me, excuse me.

Thank you, sorry. Thank you.

That's quite an audience today.

If it wasn't for the lack of paparazzi,

I'd assume a reality TV star got vivisected.

Three Chinese gangsters got shotgunned.

So less fun.

These folks are nervous.

They're worried this could be the beginning of a gang war.

What do you think?

I'd have a better idea

if I knew what he was thinking.

That's Meng Zhou, in the hat over there.

He's the head of the Snake Eye Boys.

Second largest Triad in the city.

It's his guys on the ground in there.

And who is Mr. Meng likely to blame?

Ghost Mountain.

Another Triad, just came to the States.

They control a few blocks near Columbus Park.

Beat cops say there's been some friction.

We were afraid of something like this.

The arcade is co-owned by the three victims.

Their rap sheets are all over the map.

When they weren't scamming credit cards and insurance companies, they were running

illegal drugs and protection rackets.

Sound like big earners.

Yeah. That's why

retribution will probably be fast and bloody.

We need to make a collar on this ASAP,

or this whole neighborhood could blow up.

So I count three blood spatters, two victims, one knife.

The last guy managed to get his switchblade out.

We think he got winged, made it around the corner

before the killer caught up with him.

I take it there were no witnesses?

Uh, we canvassed, talked to a few people who heard shots,

looked out their windows.

One couple saw a jogger.

Someone else saw a little old woman

hightailing it away from the gunfire. That's it.

Well, there are no surveillance cameras.

That's not surprising,

considering what this place was used for.

Is this MDMA?

That's $25,000 worth.

They kept their stash in a safe behind the counter.

So the killer couldn't break the lock?

I don't think he touched it.

Whatever this was, it wasn't a robbery.

Uh, I think it might have been a betrayal.

Ambush by an ally.

What makes you say that?

There's sodium bicarbonate here,

lying in a pool

of dried expectoration.

The killer put a fizzy pain reliever in his mouth

to fake a seizure.

To lure the victims to his aid.

They opened up, he opened fire.

They couldn't have been fooled by a stranger?

This man put a 9 and a 1 in his phone just before he was shot.

I don't think he would've brought the police

and the paramedics to his drug-slinging pit

if it wasn't for someone

he personally cared for. So the trigger man

was probably a Snake Eye, same as the victims.

So he switched allegiances

and now he's working with Ghost Mountain?

Hard theory to test.

Like I said, Ghost Mountain's new.

We don't have anyone plugged into their drama.

There are other ways to ascertain

whether Ghost Mountain has cultivated a double agent

in their enemy's organization.

Nothing to it, really.

Mr. Xi, we are consultants with the NYPD.

Do you have a minute?

I'll call you back in a while.

Who are you looking for?

You. Xi Hai Ching.

The so-called “489" of the Ghost Mountain Triad.

Everyone on this block pays you protection, Mr. Xi,

there's no sense denying it.

I do deny it. There's no one here named Xi.

The department has been keeping an eye on you since June.

We may not have all the information we want about you,

but we do know your name.

Three members of the Snake Eye Boys

were ambushed at an arcade last night.

We suspect you paid one of their fellows to double-cross them.

I am not leader of Ghost Mountain.

I never hear of Ghost Mountain.

I only speak for myself.

Well, you'd be wise to do so,

'cause as we see it,

no one stood to benefit more

from the carnage at Mott Street than you.

We know from your file you're very hands-on.

Maybe you watched the whole thing go down last night?

I was with a woman friend last night.

Her husband is out of town.

She's married,

so she won't be able to back up your story.

She won't have to.

She got a call from hospital.

Her nephew.

He was beaten and mugged.

We went there to be with him.

Which one?

St. Bede's. Go there.

Ask them if you don't believe me.

This is a dangerous neighborhood.

The police cannot keep us safe.

If people have to pay for protection,

maybe you should blame yourself.

I'll check his alibi

while you comb through his cell phone.

You saw that lift?

You swapped it out for a duplicate, right?

With malware and a dead battery.

Should give me enough time to review his call history,

flesh out the Ghost Mountain family tree.

With any luck, I should find the Snake Eye mole

before he has time to sound the alarm

and they all swap out their burners.

I'm here to update Mr. Gan's income tax.

Mmm. Thanks.

Wasn't aware you were back on this side of the globe.

My business brings me back to this city

more often than I'd like.

My son's behavior brings me back

to this brownstone more often than I'd like.

How have I offended now?

Why are you looking into Sabine?

What gave you the idea I am?

I was informed by the woman you robbed.

Did you really think that Soleil and I

would not still be in contact?

That's precisely what I'd assumed.

After the attack,

she could've blamed me for her mother's death.

Instead, she prayed for my recovery.