![]() ![]() Joan is approached by a lawyer who says he represents Jamie Moriarty (the very missed Natalie Dormer), who has died, leaving behind a painting that falls into Joan’s hands since Sherlock is “dead.” This leads Joan to contact Sherlock, who rushes back to New York. In Elementary’s final hour, there is still a mystery to be solved, of course. In this respect, the finale is much like the rest of season seven - too rushed and uneven, but still strangely moving thanks to the cast’s considerable chemistry. This startling jump encapsulates the whiplash-inducing nature of “Their Last Bow,” directed by Christine Moore and written by series creator Robert Doherty, which doles out plot development and resolution so fast there’s no time to sit and savor the episode’s emotional beats - which include a twist so manipulative and miscalculated it nearly soured me on what does work. And for those wondering, yes, she’s still blonde. ![]() She somehow balances raising him with the demands of her life as a consulting detective and writer. Most importantly, Joan has adopted a young child named Arthur. Marcus Bell (Jon Michael Hill) has become captain of the precinct. Captain Gregson (Auden Quinn) has retired. ![]() The answer to that last question, at least, is that the finale flash-forwards three years into the future to Odin’s sentencing, which we learn about as Joan is on a morning show to talk about it and her new book on Sherlock. Would Odin Reichenbach (James Frain) - the kind of villain who purrs the word “delicious” when talking about murder and mayhem - get his comeuppance for using his software to pry into the lives of his users and execute them as he saw fit? Sherlock (Jonny Lee Miller) clearly faked his death, but would that ploy prove successful in the long run? How would his friendship with Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) fare in the wake of this? Would the NSA, in the form of Agent McNally (Tim Guinee), foil these plans? How could they even fit all the answers to these questions, plus emotional closure for seven seasons’ worth of character development, into a single one-hour episode? But his response to the situation.Going into last night’s series finale of Elementary, I wasn’t sure how showrunner Robert Doherty and his collaborators would be able to pull off a satisfying ending to the CBS procedural drama. And it's not that I don't feel deeply for Joel, who is clearly not ready or willing or able to lose another daughter. They are, to borrow a phrase, putting the needs of the many ahead of the needs of the few. ![]() (This is explained somewhat in yet another episode-opening flashback where we meet Ellie's mother and do in fact learn the incredible true story of how Ellie got her knife, a joke I made a few recaps ago that ended up coming true.)īut they are not, as far as we know, a community of sadistic evangelical vigilante brain-removers. Yes, they decide pretty quickly that the only way to study and transmit Ellie's immunity is to remove her brain. Unlike just about every other group of people we've run into in The Last of Us universe, there doesn't seem to be anything especially sinister about the Salt Lake City Fireflies. ![]()
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