Enter the splinter group!

I thought it might have been a subtle dig at Sherlock in response to his ridiculous antics in episode 8 when he thought she and Marcus were sleeping together.

Ha ha me too.

Morland is truly menacing and impossible to read. The prospect of having him run the organisation is terrifying. In the final scene, he acts as if he's a kind of hero - the good within a swarm of pure evil. It doesn't fool me for a second. Even the act of withdrawing from New York seemed like a threat. As Sherlock…

I half-wondered if Moriarty planted Vikner in top spot as revenge for revealing their daughter's existence because she knew it would ultimately bring his downfall (in a convoluted way). It was a way of indirectly killing him.

My point.

Unlike Genevieve, I'm not all that interested in sub-plots regarding Watson's family, particularly the ones dreamed up by the Elementary writers (eg. Joan's sleazy stepfather publishing stories about her and Sherlock sleeping together.). The Holmes family is far more fascinating.

My thoughts exactly. Explain a change in actor with the ol' 'plastic surgery' line. The unavailability of Natalie Dormer has really restricted Elementary's potential. Then again, I suspect it's the chemistry between the two specific actors - Dormer and Miller - that has left us wanting more.

He's got such an incredibly sculptural face. I was rewatching the Australian series Rake recently, and he appears on the show as an influential politician with his natural Australian accent. His face really suits a character of authority.

I agree. I've not enjoyed this season nearly as much as the other three, but this episode, with its focus on the relationships between regular characters, seems to have captured some of the spirit that made the first season so enjoyable.

The delivery of that test was really clever. I'm sure most viewers were silently contemplating their own choices. I'd probably start with crabapple, then hair, and then cockroach. I can't even consider the others!

He's got to know. His obvious act of surprise when Joan asked him about the message could also be just that - an act. But if he didn't suspect anything before Joan's questions about Morland's phone message, then he'd have done quite a bit of digging afterwards.

Yeah, if it was in the newspapers, it wouldn't be hard to do a bit more digging. Plus Joan's naturally very good at detective work, so perhaps it runs in the family.

yeah, if it was printed from Instagram, the image would have to go through some pretty major editing to reproduce a crisp print of that scale. Even if the numberplate was legible in the original Instagram picture, it could easily be manipulated in the editing process, and thus inadmissible as evidence. I was…

Yes, I enjoyed the Richard Prince instagram-gate reference too. Unfortunately, it's one of those cases where the real story is better than the fictional one. I think the SuicideGirls' revenge, where they, the victims, undercut Prince's $90k prints, makes for a much better story than Elementary's pseudo-activist's…

Wow that's some detail! I stand corrected. I might have to re-read the books. I read them in my teens some 20 years ago. I've seen many of the Basil Rathbone films, but not the Jeremy Brett series. I'll have to hunt them down.

Totally. He has a social conscience, and does a lot of pro bono work. He also seems to do quite well out of his private consulting work too - like the property he was given in exchange for a job (where he temporarily stashed 'Irene' in season 1). I assume it still remains empty (in one of the most expensive cities in…

Yeah, there's no continuity between episodes. We get interested in the Morland backstory, and then the next episode he's not mentioned at all. Then Fiona appears, we get interested, and again, she's gone in the next episode. Ultimately, it makes every backstory weaker and I tend to lose interest (or at least lose…

It was a wonderful rant about the 'vile subset'. But it still bugs me that he's sitting in front of a shiny computer in his rent-free brownstone thanks to his family's wealth.

I wish Joan could admit to being a geek herself, whether the interest was kindled by her brothers enthusiasms or not. I don't really care if she knows about video games, cult movie stars, comic book heroes etc. because her *brother* was a geek. It's plausible that she knows the comic book heroes from reading her…