Elementary, one of our favorite detective drama/comedies returns to CBS tonight with an all new Thursday February 12, season 3 episode 14 called, “The Female of the Species,” and we have your weekly recap below. On tonight’s episode, an unexpected event brings Watson [Lucy Liu] into contact with Elana March, the convicted crime boss she helped put behind bars. Meanwhile, Holmes [Jonny Lee Miller] teams with Det. Bell to investigate a robbery at a zoo.
On the last episode, when a debt collector was murdered, Holmes and Watson attempted to narrow down a suspect pool of thousands of consumers who owed the man money. Meanwhile, Watson’s relationship with Andrew progressed when he asked her to meet his father for the first time. Did you watch the last episode? If you missed it, we have a full and detailed recap right here for you.
On tonight’s episode as per the CBS synopsis, “an unexpected event brings Watson into contact again with Elana March, the crime boss she brought to justice. Also, with Watson distracted, Holmes enlists Detective Bell to join him in a temporary partnership to solve a theft at a local zoo. Series star Lucy Liu directed the episode. Gina Gershon guest stars as crime boss Elana March.”
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Joan waits to see Elana March at the prison who is brought in and shackled down. She tells her that her boyfriend drank hemlock and died. She says there was a woman in the coffee shop named Marion who was a French woman who has a Visa from Elana’s company. She says she’s an assassin and they found the hemlock and her but she claimed it was a random crime. Elana says she’s in prison until she does so finding out she did this won’t do anything.
Joan says this rivalry is between the two of them but Elana says if he was involved with her, so was he. Elana says she heard that Joan was going to dump him and that must be terrible. Gregson tells Joan that Elana could have heard again that they were breaking up. He says the warden found contraband in her cell and has her locked into solitary. Joan says Elana won’t come after her again for a while. Gregson says to switch up her travel patterns and he’ll put a unit outside her place.
She thanks him and goes. Sherlock follows her out and he says he can keep bringing her food. He says to let him know when she’s ready to get back to case work and then asks if she has counsel. He says he wants to be sure she has someone to talk to and says she can always talk to him. She says Andrew died because of her and there’s nothing more to say. The moderator from BeeCircuit.com comes to see Sherlock. He says he has a problem but Sherlock says he can’t help him.
Sherlock says he’s sent him 30 letters about how to deal with Colony Collapse disorder and never answered him. Sherlock tells him to hit the street and the guy asks how he can make it up to him. Sherlock says he can publish his work on gamma rays. The guy agrees to publish it and Sherlock says he also has to change his user name because it’s a bad pun. The guy agrees but isn’t pleased. Sherlock asks what’s the problem and the guy asks him to go on a field trip.
He takes him to the zoo. There are no zebras in the pen and the guy says someone broke in last night and stole their two pregnant zebras that are due in less than a week. Marcus meets Sherlock at the zoo and says he’s there on a vacation day. Sherlock says him about the stolen zebras and thought he could expose Marcus to some of his methods off duty. Sherlock says it’s a favor he can do Marcus. He says Sherlock wants someone to talk at but can’t bother Joan.
He offers to pay him, Marcus says no but does accept a donation to his favorite charity. They go check out a loading dock and Sherlock says he saw hoof prints but the security cameras were shut down. He says there were to sets of identical prints except one was deeper. Marcus says the deeper tread means they had something heavier on board like zebras. Marcus spots some paint on a metal bar and says it’s a purple truck.
Sherlock says the color is made by Axiom Parcel Delivery which means the thieves stole one or drive one for work. Marcus comes to the brownstone and asks why he has his photo on the wall at an Indian place. He says he helped them resolve a caste system issue. Sherlock says APD confirmed one of their trucks was stolen. Marcus asks why he’s weighing a toaster. He says he has the listing of each parcel and is weighing them all so he can figure out at what point the truck was stolen.
Sherlock says one of the packages had a dog collar with a GPS tracking chip and they may be able to track it. Marcus complains that Sherlock ordered food that was too spicy then calls in to track the GPS. They find the packages dumped off. Marcus asks how Joan is doing and he says he doesn’t know. Marcus says his first partner was in a shooting on the job and walked around for months with PTSD until Marcus insist he get treatment.
Sherlock finds a receipt in the trash. He says the receipt has faded but they bring out the ink by heating it. The receipt mentions an equine hospital. Andrew’s dad comes to see Joan with some items of hers that he found when he was cleaning Andrew’s apartment. She tells him she so sorry for what happened to Andrew and feels responsible. He asks her about Elana March and asks if Andrew knew he put her in jail. She says he did. He asks if Andrew thought she might target her.
He says he doesn’t hold her responsible for Andrew’s death and says she’s taken every precaution now but he wishes she had done more before his son died. He leaves. Sherlock and Marcus come to the equine hospital and are lurking outside. Marcus sees the purple truck peeking out of a loading bay. They go over to look around and Marcus peeks into the back.
They see hay on the floor but no missing zebras. Nearby, they hear hooves and go to check it out. They see the pregnant zebras and Marcus asks why steal them to dump them into a warehouse hours later. Sherlock says there should be four zebras since both were pregnant. They zebras whinny and Sherlock sees a medicine bottle he says that’s used to induce labor in equine species. He says both of them have given birth and Marcus asks why the thief wanted the babies but not the mothers.
Sherlock pokes around in the hay and finds a dead body with a lab coat and company laminate name tag on them. Sherlock says someone from the equine place was involved. Marcus says David Chang was a vet and was shot multiple times but fought back and they found DNA under his nails. Marcus says David helped steal the zebras and oversaw the birth of the zebra babies. Sherlock says he’s wrong. He says Chang did not steal them but forced him to help deliver the foals.
Marcus asks what evidence he has and Sherlock says he saw David’s phone and his wife was texting him because they were late for a flight. Sherlock says the guy left the truck because he broke the rear axle unloading them. Sherlock says he stole an SUV and spirited the zebras away. Sherlock says it’s likely to be in upstate New York. Sherlock brings food to Joan and she thanks him but says it’s unnecessary. She’s watching a football game.
She says he can work if he’s going to stay. He’s relieved and goes to a desk and pulls out his materials. Joan says she pulled away from him last year because she was getting sucked into the world he built. She says she wanted something normal that was hers. He says there’s nothing wrong with that but she says she’s not sure that she does. She says she can’t keep their work and her private life separate. She says he already knows that and that’s why he lives the way he does.
He says his choices don’t have to be hers but she says she may be better off living that way. She says Andrew would have been better off. Sherlock wakes at the desk the next morning and apologizes for dozing off. He says the zebra theft is also a murderer. He says he found confirmation of where the killer thief bought some feed. He says the man complained about a hail storm. She says he’s trying to figure out where there was hail near a place where zebras could be held.
Joan says there was a psychiatric hospital that had farming facilities but was shut down. He meets Marcus at the place and one of the cops radios to say they found something. They found a pen with one baby zebra in it. Sherlock says it’s not a zebra even though it sounds like one. Sherlock goes in the pen with it and says it’s quagga. He says it’s from South Africa. He says no one has seen one in 100 years and has been extinct since the 1800s.
They show the bee keeper guy Joseph the photos of the quagga and he says they’re extinct. Sherlock says he thinks it’s biotechnology and that the zebras were used as surrogates to carry them. Joseph is shocked to hear that someone has been checking on them regularly. Sherlock says the zebras came pregnant then used the zoo to take care of them. Sherlock says there is a robust market for rare and illegal animals and an extinct one would bring even more money.
They ask Joseph if he has an alibi. He does then they tell him they need his help. He takes Marcus and Sherlock to meet the zebra caregivers at the zoo. He says the men rescued the zebras. They applaud them. Sherlock says one of them murdered David Chang and stole the zebras. He says it’s Donovan Gaines. The guy says it’s not him. Sherlock asks to speak to Marcus in the corner. He tells Marcus that it’s not his suspect. Marcus asks why he accused a black guy when they know it was white.
He points out a man who is relieved that Donovan was accused. Sherlock says they’ll take Ben Reynolds to go. They put him in interrogation and Ben says he has one thing to say then wants a lawyer. He asks why anyone would do that and Sherlock says it was done to gestate quaggas. Sherlock says he has the degree and debt to pursue this. Marcus says they have DNA from Chang’s death and says he can offer a DNA sample or they’ll follow him until they get one. He demands his lawyer.
Sherlock says Ben likely has a DNA sample floating around they can get to. Sherlock knocks and brings her mail since he picked the lock at her mailbox. He also has food. He tells her that her hospital tip paid off. He says he had a contact at the zoo that dug out a grape soda can of his. Joan shows him a postcard sent from Elana March’s prison with a sketch of a coffee cup on it. Marcus calls and says Ben is in the wind.
He says they had a guard out front and back but when they came to arrest him, he was gone. Sherlock looks around and then opens the blinds. He says the phrase to 86 something came from speakeasies. He says when a raid was on the way, they rushed people out the door on the 86 address. Sherlock says that speakeasy is across the street. He says the police never figured out how the speakeasy brought in liquor. He says it was through a network of tunnels.
He steps on a section of floor that squeaks. They open a trap door under the rug and Sherlock says Ben didn’t vanish into thin air, but into a tunnel. At the brownstone, Sherlock talks through Ben’s escape and says he has only one chip to cash in – the infant quagga. Marcus asks why he’s there and says the work day is over. Sherlock says he needs person to person contact to fuel the frisson. Sherlock says the lines are blurred and he has to see it through using his methods.
He says there were no clues about the other quagga. Sherlock says they need to pose as buyers to meet him. Sherlock says there is a bidding war happening somewhere and they just need to find it and win it. Sherlock has notes on illegal exotic animal auctions. Marcus says other cops working this would have found the market place by now but Sherlock says people are not them. Marcus wakes on Sherlock’s couch to an alarm clock and note to meet him for breakfast in Greenpoint.
Sherlock says this cafe gives them the best vantage point. He says the sales were placed via classified ads. He says once in a while there’s an ad that used the phrase once in a blue moon. Marcus sees a police van outside. He says he found five ads and contacted Ben pretending to be someone else and outbid others to get the quagga. Marcus spots Ben and asks why they haven’t arrested him yet. Sherlock says they haven’t seen the quagga yet.
He shows it to them and then he’s arrested. Marcus says he could have arranged all this as they watch the bust go down. Sherlock tells him he was asleep. He puts on his jacket and holds out his hand. Marcus shakes it and says it was a pleasure. Sherlock says the pleasure was his and his alone. Marcus eats the breakfast Sherlock ordered for him. Joan gets a letter from Moriarty saying she heard about Elana’s attempt on her life.
She says that she doesn’t want her removed from Sherlock’s life until she wants her there. We see that Elana is dead in her cell. Joan shows Sherlock the letter from Moriarty and he says it’s a fool’s errand trying to connect Moriarty to the crime because she would have been careful. Sherlock asks how Joan feels and she says she’s okay but is now clear that their work is not just a job but who she is. She says she’s ready to embrace this and live in his world for the rest of her life.
He tells her it’s their world. She says she understands that now and accepts that she knows what it means. He asks what it means and she says that it’s ridiculous for her to think she can have a normal life. She says she wants to come back to the house and live with him so she can commit to the work completely. She says the best place for her to be is here. Sherlock is stunned.
THE END!
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