Elementary

Previously on Elementary...

And that, folks, is the principle on which Odker was built.

Simple solutions

for complicated problems.

Well, you can call me Odin. My friends do.

I haven't decided if we're going to be friends.

I have saved hundreds of lives.

You two understand the criminal mind.

Together, we could avert so many tragedies.

What on earth makes you think that we would ever consider

joining your stable of executioners?

Might be nice to help prevent some murders for a change.

Watson and I are very interested.

But it would have to be on our terms.

We would vet every single case to 100% certainty

before you did the irrevocable.

We got everything.

Now we're gonna start a case.

Is the entire NSA in Odin's pocket,

or is it just you?

Come to that, has it?

Well, what's a little murder if you can stop the next 9/11?

Our friend doesn't want to hurt any of you,

but I think it's important you realize

he could hurt all of you.

How'd it go with McNally?

The NSA has opened a case,

so there's nothing more for us to do.

Oh, that's what you do down here.

I'm working.

You missed a call from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.

Struck me as odd.

Didn't think you'd ever been to Arizona.

Not in real life, anyway.

Yeah, I've been looking into this murder in Phoenix.

So, two weeks ago,

a man named Parker Landis

was driving home, and he was rear-ended.

He got out of his car to yell at the other driver.

Then the guy shot him and then fled.

So no one got a good look

at the shooter's face or the license plate.

There are myriad crimes to solve here in New York.

If it's mundane commuter violence you're after,

you need look no further than the Bronx River Parkway.

Well, that's just the thing.

I don't think this case is mundane.

So I've been trying to recreate the collision

because I think Parker's assailant

hit his car on purpose.

Why would he do that?

This is why.

So two days ago, his sister went

to clean out his apartment and found a stash

of botulism samples.

He must have stolen it from the lab where he worked.

She also found a list of buffet restaurants in the area.

Landis was plotting a mass poisoning?

But he was killed before he could go through with it.

You think Odin Reichenbach is responsible.

He orchestrated Landis's death

to stop him from carrying out his plot?

It sounds like him, right?

So the call I missed was from the detective

handling the case.

She chalked up the shooting to road rage.

But I left her a message saying

she might want to take another look.

You told her about Odin?

No. A megalomaniacal billionaire

preemptively assassinating anyone

who says the wrong thing in an e-mail?

She would think I was nuts.

I just gave her my number and said she could reach out

if she wanted help IDing the killer.

You should disengage.

What do you mean? If that detective

shares her file, we could help her find the triggerman.

Put a dent in Odin's operation.

It's not ours to dent.

Odin Reichenbach has immeasurable resources

and power.

The people investigating him should, too, which is why

we entrusted this to the NSA.

That was a mutual decision, you'll recall.

- Sure, but... - I could share your concerns

with Agent McNally. I'm sure he'd appreciate it.

But moving forward, we should leave this to the NSA.

Inserting ourselves in their case...

it could cause untold problems.

Hey!

Knock it off!

Come on, you guys, quiet!

This better be good.

What's gotten into you guys?

Come on, relax.

Relax. Shh. Mama's here.

What's going on? Chill, calm down.

Boris. What the hell?

Who gave you steak?

What...?

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Occupied.

What is this?

What, uh... a-a friend of mine reached out...

A friend of mine reached out from the French police.

Someone robbed and sank a yacht off the coast of Toulon.

I reviewed the case file,

and I think that the police have it backwards.

I think the thief sank the boat first, and then plundered it.

So I'm just doing some experiments

with underwater safecracking.

No. What is this?

I found it under a stack of books in the library.

You said you were gonna give it to Agent McNally two days ago.

I was, I-I am, I just, I've been busy. Uh, my apologies.

You know how important this is.

This could be

a real lead on Odin. McNally needs to see it.

He will, just not right now.

We're needed at the 11th immediately.

All hands on deck, apparently.

The NYPD needs help finding a ghost.

The Ghost of Brooklyn.

Strangest serial killer I can recall.

You two remember him?

Of course. Early 2000s.

I was in the middle of my residency. I read all about him.

I was still in London. I've never heard of him.

I take it he killed four people?

His DNA first showed up at a murder scene in Bushwick,

January 2000. He went on to kill

three more people in the tristate area

over the next nine years.

There was no discernible pattern to his victims.

Different MO every time.

That's unusual for a serial.

Unusual for them to stop

on their own, too, but we thought maybe the Ghost did.

Ten years went by without a trace of his DNA turning up.

Everyone figured he was either dead or retired,

but then, he struck again two nights ago.

Caroline Gibbs.

Do I know that name?

If you're into sculpture.

She was an artist, made stuff out of metal.

Lived on Staten Island.

Neighbors said her dogs wouldn't stop barking Tuesday night.

They went over to check it out, found Caroline

with her head bashed in.

The murder weapon was just a piece of scrap metal

the killer found at the scene. It's not gonna help us

find the guy, but maybe this will.

Looks like part of a shirt.

The killer's.

CSU figures one of the victim's dogs

went after him, tore it off.

Initially, detectives out of the 1-2-5

caught the case. They were starting to circle

a rival artist, someone who had a beef with Caroline.

But then the lab report on that fabric came back.

It has the Ghost's DNA on it.

This is everything we've got on the guy.

All four of the original cases, plus the new one.

This whole investigation has been kicked up to us,

so let's get on it.

Megan's been gone 15 years now.

In a way, though,

I feel like I just lost her yesterday.

When we stopped hearing

about the Ghost of Brooklyn on the news,

I hoped it meant he was dead.

Finally in hell, where he belongs.

We're gonna find him this time, Mr. Hutchins.

You said you thought I could help you.

How?

During the original string of murders,

you were the closest anyone got to witnessing

one of the Ghost's crimes.

We have your statement, but we thought it might help if you

walked us through what you saw the night you found Megan.

We know it's difficult.

But in the light of the recent murder,

any detail which might have seemed trivial then

could be hugely important now.

Well, the, the night she died,

we were supposed to have dinner.

I went to pick her up,

but there was no answer when I knocked on her door.

So I looked through the window and, uh...

...she was on the ground.

Rope around her neck.

I broke the door down

and I ran to her and...

She was already gone?

Yeah. Her body was still warm.

I must have just missed him.

Did you see anyone suspicious as you approached the house?

No.

But I heard this sound.