Elementary: Murder Ex Machina

January 22, 2016 12:59 PM - Season 4, Episode 9

Holmes and Watson pursue a computer hacker responsible for three murders, including the murder of a visiting Russian billionaire.
posted by oh yeah! (8 comments total)

Clyde hibernating in the fridge!!
posted by nicebookrack at 6:19 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]

I'd missed Clyde...although he was played by a box here.
posted by idb at 6:34 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]

Clyde's either preparing for the next TMNT reboot or he is in hiding because he tried to do Sherlock's Father Maggie Simpson style.
posted by KMB at 2:51 AM on January 23, 2016

I spent most of the Christmas/New Years holiday on a Netflix binge re-watch of Hart of Dixie, so, I was happy to see Josh Cooke getting work as the murderer-of-the-week.
posted by oh yeah! at 9:41 AM on January 23, 2016

Rocket engines! Self-driving cars!
That guy sure has a … musky smell.
posted by dominik at 12:25 PM on January 24, 2016 [1 favorite]

I thought this episode was great! Like last week I genuinely hadn't figured out the ending beforehand, and I felt like the twists were real and complicated without devolving into nonsense. Plus, Morland.
posted by purpleclover at 3:33 PM on January 24, 2016 [1 favorite]

Mphm. This one had a major GFE, "broke-the-plausibility-meter" moment for me - well, 2 related, actually. First, the idea that there's only one rocket engine actually being used in the world, and second, that it's a Russian engine, even (according to the show) for NASA rockets. I mean, I know we're in a world of multi-national corporations, and the Russians are no longer the Evil Communist Empire, but there's no way the US would make all of our orbital payload capability dependent on them. Especially since several of the dominant aerospace companies are American. Plus common sense would tell you that you'll want to put things of varying sizes into orbit, so physics + cost-effectiveness would require different size rockets, and thus different size engines.

The "GFE" is that the first hit Googling "current rocket engines" is Wikipedia:Comparison of orbital rocket engines and five minutes poking around that makes all of the above blindingly obvious. So then the whole plot falls apart.
posted by soundguy99 at 6:07 PM on February 3, 2016

OTOH, it did have one of Lucy Liu's Best Deadpans right after Sherlock says, "It's been a while since you've had . . . . . . an intimate connection."
posted by soundguy99 at 6:08 PM on February 3, 2016