Brilliant Husband said, "It's the janitor" the moment Holmes got in the elevator with him, and I think I'd have said it myself—I just wish he'd given me a second or two more to be sure I was going to say it! I did think Holmes cut his list too short from the start. Surely there are lots of people in hospitals who aren't doctors or nurses—not only janitors but aides, orderlies, volunteers. . . . (My first thought was volunteer.)

Carrie's comment was cutting. She was glad Joan saved her patient, but she couldn't quite get over her resentment that Joan went behind her back. I was shocked, too, when she made that comment about Joan as a surgeon. Joan doesn't need her as a friend. But deleting those photos!—that made me sad. She smiled as she was looking at them.

". . . a doctor."
"Yes."
"Any good?"
"Very good."
They didn't have to say those lines in this one. I was so angry when I saw that they were making the first female, and the first non-white, Watson a bad doctor. But they didn't; she was a doctor who made a mistake, or a doctor who was unlucky, or both. Now I'm even more curious about how she lost that patient. Was there a test she didn't order?

I think Holmes hasn't asked because he's trying to work it out. My gosh, he's annoying; in some ways, he's worse than BBC Sherlock. BBC Sherlock is so obviously maladapted socially that one doesn't have to converse with him for very long to realize he has no filter. Holmes has a filter and chooses to disregard it frequently. I love Watson saying he had Tourette's!

My quibble is that I thought Holmes must have realized that Dr. Cahill was an addict; he was so twitchy, and Holmes pointed out that he relaxed when he found it he was being questioned about murder, so it was obvious that the doctor was worried the real crime was something else! I thought Holmes was about to say, and then I thought he hadn't said it only because he didn't care (though he ought to care), and I was rather horrified he hadn't caught it! Then again, he was too.

While I'm quibbling, I suppose I have a second quibble: between the suspect in plain sight that no one would suspect and the preservation of valuable evidence as digital photos, I thought it obvious the writers have been watching BBC Sherlock.

I'm also a little annoyed that in only five episodes, we have not only had multiple serial killers, we have had men who manipulate serial killers for their own ends twice. That's an awfully high number! The first time, it was very clever. The second time, they were reusing their own clever idea too soon!

Joan is awesome. She's saving lives whatever her job.

Now I'm even more curious about how she lost that patient. Was there a test she didn't order?

I'm wondering if perhaps she made an error during the surgery itself. Hence her freezing up now when a scalpel is in her hand (so she says).

My gosh, he's annoying; in some ways, he's worse than BBC Sherlock. BBC Sherlock is so obviously maladapted socially that one doesn't have to converse with him for very long to realize he has no filter. Holmes has a filter and chooses to disregard it frequently.

Yeah, he just keeps reeling you back with socially acceptable behavior and then slaps you in the face with some unfiltered comment.

I love Watson saying he had Tourette's!

THIS. Holmes totally has Tourette's way more than Sherlock is a sociopath.

I thought it obvious the writers have been watching BBC Sherlock.

This episode by far was the most Sherlock-like with the digital photos and Holmes defiling corpses to study post-mortem bruising.

I'm also a little annoyed that in only five episodes, we have not only had multiple serial killers, we have had men who manipulate serial killers for their own ends twice.

Thrice if you count Adam turning the tables on his kidnapper. Although, I guess the kidnapper wasn't technically a serial killer in his own right. The killer in the pilot, was he a serial killer? He'd attacked the other woman but she survived. Was there evidence to suggest he'd managed to kill others before the psychiatrist got a hold of him? Either way, though, it's a lot of "people manipulating killers" plots for so few episodes.

Joan is awesome. She's saving lives whatever her job.

I never would have thought in a million years back when Elementary was being developed that Joan would end up being the best thing ever about this show.

I suppose a mistake during surgery makes more sense.

BH said that he could totally see making a crack to a friend like Carrie made about being the surgeon here as a joke, and then realizing it went completely wrong and not wanting to call even more attention to it by apologizing. He does stick his foot in his mouth sometimes, though I didn't think that badly!

I don't know now if the killer in the pilot was a serial killer. I guess he had just made the one attack, and it was only after the second they decided that he was a serial offender. But you're right to add Adam—again, maybe not using a serial killer because we have no evidence that his kidnapper was (previously) a killer, but manipulating the bad guy into doing your own dirty work. . . . Ai.

Holmes totally has Tourette's way more than Sherlock is a sociopath.
HA!

This episode make me miss John and Sherlock, though. I love Joan and I can at least tolerate this Holmes, but I miss my BBC boys (and Mrs. Hudson, and Molly—Lestrade is one of the boys too).

He does stick his foot in his mouth sometimes, though I didn't think that badly!

There was also something distinctly not foot-in-mouth-ish about Carrie's delivery of that comment. It felt extremely intentional and direct.

This episode make me miss John and Sherlock, though. I love Joan and I can at least tolerate this Holmes, but I miss my BBC boys (and Mrs. Hudson, and Molly—Lestrade is one of the boys too).

I miss John, Lestrade, Sarah (I know she's gone and I'm not over it yet!), Molly, and Mrs. Hudson. Sherlock...eehhh...yeah, I'll get there soon enough.

Sherlock...eehhh...yeah, I'll get there soon enough.
Hee! I only really miss him for his interactions with John. I do hope Molly will be back.

I still miss Sarah too.