Great review. I liked the episode when I first watched it—-I thought the acting was subtle and sharp—-but I like your looking at it through the lens of the Bible (Doyle did that in the stories, "The Crooked Man" and "The Golden Pince-Nez" immediately come to mind) that bring fresh insights to looking at the series as…

Mycroft's dead as far as the rest of the world is concerned. This isn't that other show where the greater London area except Watson and Lestrade seems to know that Sherlock is alive.

Episode 11 is titled "The Illustrious Client" which is the title of the Doyle story Kitty Winter was in.

An examination of the dentures would show if the sanding down was recent or not.

So much to like about this episode (and I never watched "G.I. Joe") but I enjoyed the Harmon sucks graffiti on the rock on the closing tag. Take that Harmon critics!

I honestly think I'm not being pedantic and I do understand that there is a fine line between what the viewer can figure out and what the characters can figure out. All the clues were available in scene to the characters. Holmes could and should have figured it out. It could have been written this way: when Sherlock…

I happen to disagree, especially since we're talking about Sherlock Holmes, who's just not anybody when it comes to catching clues and coming up with theories that no one else would. I was expecting better when I saw Robert Doherty's writing credit. I glad I'm in the minority when it comes to the assessment of this…

To both you Myles and That Crazy Tunt—If I as a not exceptionally bright viewer go "Gregson told the kidnapper that the mother wasn't in the room and the kidnapper still puts the child on the phone for the *specific reason of convincing the mother he's serious* and the only credible person in the room that the message…

"Plus the thought of Moriarty having a daughter isn't exactly the sort of thing that would immediately spring to mind, even if it was relatively easy for a viewer to spot." Exactly the point. If it is obvious to the viewer, and the dialog from Gregson about the mother not being in the room practically screams "major…

As a Sherlockian and a long-time defender of the show in the Sherlockian community, I have to say I was disappointed in this episode. Usually "Elementary" is smart, but with Gregson not figuring out Ramses Mattoo was gay and no one, especially Sherlock, figuring out that Moriarty was the mother of the kidnapped child…

Margaret Colin played Jane Watson to Michael Pennington's Sherlock Holmes in CBS's 1987's "The Return of Sherlock Holmes". Colin was the great-granddaughter of John H. Watson who thaws out a cryogenically frozen Holmes who had been infected by bubonic plague by Moriarty back in 1901. The female American Watson and…

I agree; it seems unlikely that Mycroft could sneak up on Sherlock at the meeting. Unless he really is his smarter brother.

Mycroft was sitting behind a large gentleman. In the establishing shots you can just make out there is someone behind him, but not who. It's another cheat like the empty coffee cup.

Even Doyle had "thin cases".

Holmes in the Canon quotes Shakespeare a lot; nice that the writers have Miller do it. Another Canonical touch. Holmes' famous phrase "The game's afoot" comes from Henry V.

The hair color change should have be another one of the clues that Sherlock mentions when he said he suspected the Gregsons were separated.

In the Canon it is Professor James Moriarty. Jamie is appropriate. One can think of Jaime King, who has used both Jamie and James professionally. I like to imagine Moriarty ironically using a heart over the "i" while mercilessly crushing her enemies in secondary school. We found out officially in "Step Nine" that…

no one That would call attention to the murder, Kleinfelter's hiding place and lead to his being caught. She should have picked a better screen name, one more in line with her future death.

Joan's "alluring curve of hock".

In "A Study in Scarlet" Watson, waiting the return of Holmes, writes "I sat stolidly puffing at my pipe and skipping over the pages of Henri Murger's Vie de Bohême" (probably looking for the racy parts). At the end of the third-person "The Country of the Saints" part of Study the narrator writes, "As to what occurred…