Elementary (TV Series) The Rat Race (2012) User Reviews

Great little conversation at the end

[pedro_claro-131-773672 · 8/10 · 4 June 2019]

The episode was predictable like the rest of them but the secondary plot line was interesting. The last, a conversation, was especially cool to watch since it's sort of a meta-scene where Sherlock talks about the repercussions analytical skills he has and uses, and being that Watson starts to see the world in his way, as I do when I watch the show, it became very relatable and personal.

A Take Back Wall Street Wannabe

[stratus_phere · 4/10 · 15 August 2017]

I feel guilty, like I'm being so unforgivably generous with a 4 out of 10 rating. Whenever I hear people start bashing on wall street execs as the root of all evil, I know we've strayed into unintelligent hippy-think. Weak minded millennial writers love to jump on that "hate the banker" mentality for no other reason than that they really haven't done any research into the matter, but love to pretend they have and follow the hype.

So here we have our illustrious hero, with an IQ presumably way up there, who naturally hates bankers and naturally considers them the cause of any and all economic woes. Yet he never mentions politicians, or laws that expressly force bankers to make loans to individuals manifestly unable to pay back the loans for no other reason than than they ARE unable to pay them back...and then BLAME the bankers for it... Well, someone with such a lauded IQ would, in the real world, blame the politicians. But this story isn't about reality, intelligence, or common sense.

No thank you. I don't want to assault my brain cells or insult your intelligence by giving this episode anything less than a sub-standard review.

Elementary The Rat Race

[dalydj-918-255175 · 28 October 2012]

Watson comes to the police to find where Sherlock is. While she talks to the main police officer she has to tell him that she is his drug councilor only because she believes he has been using again. Our first shot of Sherlock in the episode is him tied up with handcuffs on. Two days earlier and Joan is on a set up with her friend's co-worker. While during the set up Sherlock sends texts to Watson which seem hard to crack. Sherlock and Watson are now going to a meeting with some bankers on Wall Street. Sherlock is called in because these bankers cannot find a co-worker of them who was not present for an important meeting. Once again Sherlock insults people by guessing personal things about people. While in Peter's office they find a book for booking women who can be very expensive. When the man Holmes put up a meeting with he tells him he lied to get more information from the guy who did not want to talk to him. Sherlock excepts a date for Joan and when the two go into Peter's apartment they find he has killed himself by injection. Sherlock comes out saying Peter did not kill himself saying he was killed by injection. The police interview Peter's wife who is shocked by his heroin use. Joan goes out on her date while Sherlock stays home thinking of the chain of connection between these two CEO company workers. Joan ends her date with a handshake. When Joan gets home she tells Sherlock she thinks he lied of being married which turned out to be true because he still was married. Also Sherlock's salad idea came true as it did have some heroine in it. Holmes then tells the bankers that so much of their workers have died strangely leaving the main guy as a suspect in the so called accidental deaths. Jim Fowkes then comes to meet Sherlock to explain he cannot be responsible. Aaron calls to explain himself to Joan. Sherlock goes to visit Donna the secretary of Jim to question her blaming her for the murders. She then shock's him which led top him tied up in the back of her car. When Donna texts for Sherlock Joan sees he did not text see you soon in single letters. Just as Sherlock is about to dig his grave the police come. Joan then told Sherlock she told Capitan Greg that he is a recovering drug addict and needs to talk to him. Greg then tells Sherlock he knew because he did some looking into his past.

EPISODE GRADE: C+ (MVP: Jonny Lee Milelr)