Review #3881: Elementary 1.10: “The Leviathan”
Contributor: Bronzethumb
Written by Corinne Brinkerhoff and Craig Sweeny
Directed by Peter Werner
“It’s this case,” says Sherlock Holmes, as the episode moves towards its final act. “It renews one’s faith in the profession.” He may as well have been talking about the show itself, because just as it seemed “Elementary” was slipping further and further from the promise it showed in episodes past, along comes “The Leviathan”, which delivers on just about every front. The show has yet to crack the storytelling boundaries of the mystery procedural, but this episode goes to show that within that bubble, “Elementary” can work, and work well.
Holmes is contracted by a security company to discover how two separate groups of thieves were able to crack “the Leviathan”, an expensive and supposedly-impenetrable design of bank vault. When his own efforts to crack the vault prove futile, Holmes is forced to investigate the first group of thieves, who were caught and imprisoned but never gave up their secrets, and he soon uncovers a conspiracy in the unlikeliest of places. Meanwhile, Watson’s family are converging on New York and she’s once again forced to justify her work to those who don’t understand it.
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