That feeling was only underscored when Emil turned up murdered at the end of last weeks episode.
Thingsdogo as expected, though, when Joan walks into the diner and sees Emil has been murdered.
It isnt long before shes asking specific questions of Marcus and Sherlock is getting suspicious of her behavior.
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Thus, she has no choice but to come clean to him about investigating Morland.
Either way, Sherlock decides its time he has a chat with his father.
He informs him of Emils murder and asks for all of his files and his computer.
She says that the shooter was tall and wore sunglasses and a hoodie.
More importantly, she says that as her sister died, she was having an allergic reaction.
Thats a hilarious and contrived little story, but this is TV, so lets just go with it!
They search his place and find the hoodie in question, complete with blood and gun residue.
Whats crazy is that he straight up confesses to the murders, saying he was hired to do it.
So what does she have to do with this murder?
Well, its not clear right away.
Sherlock does think hes on to something, though.
He discovers that Dr. Naylor was using an online morality test so you can lobby for more standardized sentences.
You go, Gregson!
Thus, Morlands enemies would have had him killed.
Hard to find a better alibi than that!
That leads Sherlock to demand more information about the oil deal from his father.
That leads Sherlock down an interesting path.
In other words, prices soared and someone benefited from it.
Furthermore, Sherlock discovers that the suicide bomber also took Naylors test.
So whats the connection?
Well, Sherlock posits that the test could be used to weed out psychopaths.
Whoever was collecting the data could isolate the IP addresses of the people who showed no empathy whatsoever.
He starts to connect the dots.
It looks like one of Sherlocks longest-standing foes is getting back in the mix.
Bring on the last two episodes of the season!
