A nice episode both mystery and character-wise.
I was very, very pleased that this episode's mystery offered up one final twist in its last 15 minutes. The minute the janitor appeared, I recognized the actor from several other TV series and thus he was on my radar as being the Angel of Death throughout the entire thing. When he didn't show up again on screen for the bulk of the episode, I knew he was going to turn out to be the killer and was thus preemptively disappointed with the mystery. But clever, clever writers and casting directors because I was so preoccupied with the janitor that I totally forgot another crime could be folded into the larger one!
But once again the mystery as good as it was cannot compare to all the character stuff. And since Watson is my favorite character, it was all the better because it was about her past as a doctor. So it turns out she was only on suspension and made the choice to let her license expire and retire from medicine. And yet it seems her impeccable skills and instinct as a physician are far from rusty as Holmes pointed out. I was really pleased to see the swap in their relationship for this episode where he was the one pushing and challenging her which led to her holding her ground regarding the 12 year old patient. I felt a little torn by Carrie. On one hand it was good of her to acknowledge Joan saving her patient and potentially Carrie's career. But I was pretty shocked earlier when she threw Joan's surgical error in her face. Her parting comment that Joan was always a good friend but a better doctor could easily be taken as Joan being a good friend and thus a phenomenal doctor. But given her earlier comment it felt a little....backhanded to me.
Holmes and Watson genuinely worked together on this case with Watson offering up her medical knowledge to help Holmes focus his investigation. And like him, I was also pleased to see her in her old element and hope that she might return to it. The last image of her deleting all old photos didn't necessarily strike me as her turning her back on medicine forever. But perhaps saying goodbye to her old life, possibly as a surgeon. She can still be a doctor without picking up a scalpel. I have hope!
I was very, very pleased that this episode's mystery offered up one final twist in its last 15 minutes. The minute the janitor appeared, I recognized the actor from several other TV series and thus he was on my radar as being the Angel of Death throughout the entire thing. When he didn't show up again on screen for the bulk of the episode, I knew he was going to turn out to be the killer and was thus preemptively disappointed with the mystery. But clever, clever writers and casting directors because I was so preoccupied with the janitor that I totally forgot another crime could be folded into the larger one!
But once again the mystery as good as it was cannot compare to all the character stuff. And since Watson is my favorite character, it was all the better because it was about her past as a doctor. So it turns out she was only on suspension and made the choice to let her license expire and retire from medicine. And yet it seems her impeccable skills and instinct as a physician are far from rusty as Holmes pointed out. I was really pleased to see the swap in their relationship for this episode where he was the one pushing and challenging her which led to her holding her ground regarding the 12 year old patient. I felt a little torn by Carrie. On one hand it was good of her to acknowledge Joan saving her patient and potentially Carrie's career. But I was pretty shocked earlier when she threw Joan's surgical error in her face. Her parting comment that Joan was always a good friend but a better doctor could easily be taken as Joan being a good friend and thus a phenomenal doctor. But given her earlier comment it felt a little....backhanded to me.
Holmes and Watson genuinely worked together on this case with Watson offering up her medical knowledge to help Holmes focus his investigation. And like him, I was also pleased to see her in her old element and hope that she might return to it. The last image of her deleting all old photos didn't necessarily strike me as her turning her back on medicine forever. But perhaps saying goodbye to her old life, possibly as a surgeon. She can still be a doctor without picking up a scalpel. I have hope!
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