No, not unless the wife's DNA were tested. The police know that severed ear DNA = Hair DNA. When the wife is found with ears, it is assumed that hair DNA (and severed ears) belong to another woman. The wife's DNA is unknown. But it doesn't occur to anyone that it should be tested, until Holmes' breakthrough. It is the…

Fuck The Killing. Nothing to see here.

Zu bisou bisou.

Just bunker down and take a chill pill.

The development time was short, and they failed when they tried to rush in front.

But Uncle Bill, you can't replace Mammy Louise with some limey cracker!

If you people aren't careful you'll incur the Wrath of Kublai Khan.

What's wrong with you people? That's Paterson Joseph.

I see Elba and Matthew McConaughey doing a stage show in which they play alternate versions of Rusty Cohle. The two Cohles debate the flat circularity of time until the universe does collapse on itself (or Brother Mouzone as Detective Gilbough screams as his head explodes).

Except for the Doctor.

Bringing guns and Robert's Rules of Order to the rainforest to maximize mother-fuckin' profits and avoid market over-saturization.

OK, let's try this again.

The usual term would be "ransom." Blackmail and embezzlement both have specific meanings that aren't related to this in any way. I suppose that "extortion" is peripherally related, but why not just use "ransom?"

Holmes 101: Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

To rule out what? I don't mean to be difficult, but really, she had two ears. Without Holmes' insight regarding the technology, how would it have been a reasonable or logical request?

Yes, it was an enjoyable, decent episode with a few clever moments. I admit that I somehow missed the "Previously On" tidbit that ruined the ending for the reviewer, so there's that.

Go to bed you hipster nihilist.

He'll be ensconced in the special VIP section, sponsored by Suits.

Yeah, my mistake, this latest generation is much too hip to ever become as pathetic as mine. No chance that Candace Glover or Adam Lambert will be reduced to celebrity cruises within 20 years, or that Hannah Horvath would want to go.

Wow, Vinnie Barbarino lived in the same building as Adam! How awesome! Where do the Puerto Rican Jews live?