The Elementary writers posted a Twitter pic of an upcoming script that references Clyde and Ms. Hudson. Also Alfredo will be back in a case involving Milverton.

Clyde will return, as will Alfredo and an appearance by Mrs. Hudson and Milverton. See Doyle's "The Adventrue of Charles Augustus Milverton" in the collection "The Return of Sherlock Holmes".

In the opening ambush after Joan is tripped by the wire, I believe Clyde is on the table behind her, but to paraphrase, "after my fifth viewing without seeing him, I may have been reaching". Clyde must have ninja-like skills of blending into the background. He may also be a teenager. As for his genetic make-up…

Now obsessively going through the episode frame by frame. Where's Zapruder when you need him?

It *does* get a bit meta when one talks about "Sherlock Holmes"and his various avatars. Dyess-Nugent said, "Some of the many attempts to adopt, update, or reimagine Sherlock Holmes
have run aground on the misconception that Holmes is a social crusader
who cares deeply about right and wrong, whose first commitment is…

No offense to Mr. Dyess-Nugent, but, while I agree with his rating I think he misses the point in a few areas in his review. "Elementary…understands that Sherlock Holmes is an artist, an
obsessive whose first commitment is to keep himself from being bored" is an over-exaggeration of one aspect of Doyle's creation, and…