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Character NAME: Sherlock Holmes
Canon & MEDIUM: Elementary, TV series
Canon PULL-POINT: End of season one
Character AGE: Late 30's
Character ABILITIES:
Sherlock is a normal human with no super powers.
But then, he doesn't need them. His strengths lie in his intellect and perception. He is an incredibly observant person able to take in the smallest of details and link them together to derive information.
He's a highly intelligent character with a near encyclopaedic knowledge on topics relevant to his line of work and speaks many different languages.
Other than his deductive reasoning skills, Sherlock mentions that he dabbles with singlestick. He is also ambidextrous.
Character HISTORY:
Elementary is set on modern day Earth in New York city. Prior to the start of the series, Sherlock had been a consultant for Scotland Yard until drug problems caused him to check into a rehabilitation centre in the US and the series begins shortly after he has escaped on the day he was to be released. Since the cases aren't generally relevant to his history they'll only be mentioned in passing unless needed.
This history section is a combined effort with the Joan reserver, Amanda because writing up 24 episodes takes ages. The wiki does not hold a lot of detail, unfortunately.
( PILOT )
Sherlock is a former drug addict who has been assigned Joan Watson to be his sober companion by his father. Sherlock is initially very resistant to the very idea of having an 'addictsitter' watch him when he considers it unnecessary. He intends to keep himself busy and therefore off drugs by resuming the work he did back in London, but for the NYPD instead. Within minutes of meeting Joan, he whisks her off to investigate a murder. Sherlock continues with his insistent of not needing Joan eventually reaches a point where he frustrates her enough to say she's going to quit. However, he comes to realise that she is indeed helpful to him and he apologises and successfully convinces her to stay after which she proves to be an instrumental in solving his case.
( WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING )
This episode opens with Sherlock and Joans at a group support meeting for recovering addicts except Sherlock has hypnotised himself so he doesn't have to listen to everyone speak.
Joan is going to go and meet a friend and Sherlock correctly deduces that it's an ex and heavily encourages her to sleep with him because it would supposedly improve her mood. She later asks him about his lie to Captain Gregson of the NYPD because she had been told by him that Sherlock had called him two weeks ago saying he was in Heathrow when he had actually been at the rehab facility. He replies that it was the only way he would be allowed to work on cases for the police as they wouldn't allow a recovering addict to do so.
She brings up a violin that she found and suggests that Sherlock take it up again, but he claims he abandoned it because it was of no use to him, citing his 'attic theory' in which unnecessary information takes up too much information in the brain. He doesn't like the way she keeps inquiring into the details of his life while she informs him that this is how companionship works. Opening up to each other. Later Sherlock accesses her email to send a message to her ex to organise a meeting to make a point that their relationship doesn't require them to be friends. All Sherlock wants at this point is for their time to be over so they can go their separate ways. Joan essentially agrees and when Sherlock later has a breakthrough demands to know what he's realised because even if they don't need to have any sort of relationship other than addict and sober companion, she still needs to know what he's planning if she wants her help. The episode ends with Joan asking that if shutting out the things he used to enjoy was for unrealised penance to which Sherlock responds that it wouldn't be penance if you didn't know about it. As she's in bed, she hears the sounds of a violin.
( CHILD PREDATOR )
Sherlock tells Joan that her services to him in his line of work involve being the person that listens while he voices his thoughts out loud so he can make connections that he might not have seen before. However he realises the worth of listening and not just being the person listened to when Joan teaches him a technique to help him stay awake while he reads over information for his latest case.
( RAT RACE )
Joan gets set up on a blind date and appears to be interested in the guy, Sherlock without being told about it automatically figures it out and is actually rather encouraging of it. He gets hired by an investment firm to investigate the disappearance of one of their executives and Sherlock makes it clear his distaste for bankers. The disappearance turns out to be a murder case. However, the cause of death was an overdose of heroin, which was one of the drugs that Sherlock used to use. Sherlock insists that due to the case, he isn't at a risk of a relapse while Joan worries otherwise. But it is clear he's not as unaffected as he'd like to think even if he continues to insist otherwise. He manages to convince Joan to keep her date and encourages her deductive thinking when she returns with a suspicion that the guy wasn't honest with her.
Sherlock figures out the murderer in his case while Joan is meeting the man and decides to confront her himself and ends up tasered and tied up. Because Sherlock had been so eager to confront them he hadn't informed anyone of what he was doing. However due to the terms of his agreement with Joan, he is required to check in every two hours which he had failed to do so because he had been taken captive. The murderer had his phone and attempted to deflect attention from his missing status by sending a text, but Sherlock texts much like a teenager would. Joan initially approaches Captain Gregson to enlist his help and has to admit that Sherlock is a recovering addict. The text arrives just as she's finished explaining that she fears that he's relapsed, but the way the text was written makes her suspicious. The police track them both down where she was about to shoot Sherlock and he reveals he already had a plan because he could pick locks and their arrival buys him the time he needed to free himself. In his own little fashion, he thanks Joan for helping to save his life and compliments her deductive skills.
With all that done, Sherlock has to explain himself to Captain Gregson. It's a surprisingly heartfelt confession in which he admits to being embarrassed and not wanting to lose the other man's esteem by informing him of his history. It turns out to be superfluous as he had already known all along and was just waiting for Sherlock to tell him himself. Joan discovers that the guy she had been introduced to has stated to back off because he was intimidated by the fact that she had gotten suspicious enough of him to look him up. The episode ends with Sherlock cautioning her that being good at deduction has its costs.
( LESSER EVILS )
This episode is far more relevant to Joan than to Sherlock.
( FLIGHT RISK )
Joan informs Sherlock that his father has contacted her saying that he'd like to meet them for dinner. Sherlock laughs, to say he thinks of him as an absent parent is an understatement. He chooses not to go and despite his insistence that he would never show up Joan does. However, the man she meets is not his father and instead an actor who Sherlock had hired because he knew his father wouldn't show up. When she returns he mentions that she should have just trusted him when he said this would happen to which she replies that despite spending weeks with him, she knows basically nothing about Sherlock because he refuses to reveal anything personal to himself and how could she trust someone she doesn't know. Later Joan realises that the man she met was more than just a hired guy and learns that he is actual a friend of Sherlock's. He explains to her that with Sherlock you can't expect a conventional friendship and it is from him that she first learns of the name Irene.
( ONE WAY TO GET OFF )
Turns out that after Joan confronted Sherlock about this Irene, Sherlock has been giving her the silent treatment. He is rather passive-aggressive about making his displeasure known despite Joan's attempts at clearing the air and he goes as far as to pretend to make up before leaving her behind while he goes to investigate a case. Because of this incidenct he says that any good will that she has managed to accrue has been erased and he wants to merely stick to the terms of their agreement. In the mean time Sherlock helps to investigate a case that bears eerie resemblance to an old case that Captain Gregson had solved. Sherlock finds information that heavily suggests that the person who had originally been implicated in that murder had been framed by either him or his ex-partner. Because Captain Gregson is someone who Sherlock highly respects he tries to approach him directly about it. Despite the way he reacted at the accusation Captain Gregson does have his suspicions piqued and he confronts his ex-partner about it, learning that she had in fact, planted evidence at the crime scene years ago.
Joan visits the rehab facility that Sherlock went to and finds letters from Irene Adler left behind there. She refrains from reading them and tries to return them to Sherlock but he destroys them saying there was a reason he had left them behind. He's even more angry at her now for having gone behind his back after they'd agreed to stick strictly to the terms of their agreement.
His case, despite evidence of planted evidence, points to the someone copying the previous serial killer in a bid to ensure the release of the man originally incarcerated for those crimes. At the end of the episode, Sherlock reveals to Joan that Irene Adler was dead and that she was someone who was very important to him.
( THE LONG FUSE )
Joan reminds Sherlock that their time together is limited, that he is going to need to find himself a sponsor. Sherlock is predictably resistant to the idea of getting a sponsor, saying that there was no reason for him to have a sober companion in the first place so a sponsor is superfluous to him. She manages to successfully drag him to a meeting to find a sponsor and Sherlock seemingly chooses at random a former car thief to be his sponsor. But of course, Sherlock sees far more than the usual person and his choice turns out to be an excellent one.
However, Sherlock apparently changes his mind an decides he wants to pick a new sponsor. Joan suspects that this is because he doesn't want her to leave despite all of his words that he doesn't need her. Alfredo tries to convince him to keep him on as Sherlock's sober sponsor by offering to help him test out cars as part of his job as a tester of car security systems. He knows what they're doing and yet he falls for it anyway.
( YOU DO IT YOURSELF )
Sherlock is sick and is an awful patient and refuses to take care of himself. Meanwhile Joan helps a former boyfriend who has gotten into a bit of trouble with the law. Sherlock offers his services, but otherwise stays off her case and let's her solve it herself. He provides only minimal help and only when asked. Sherlock is displaying respect for personal boundaries!
( THE LEVIATHAN )
Joan and Sherlock investigate how people could break into a seemingly impregnable bank vault. During the first day of investigation, Joan reveals that she apparently has to meet her mother for brunch the next day, and that Sherlock has fallen into a bit of an obsession with trying to puzzle out how the vault was broken into which he agrees to. It's apparently a little bit maddening that others can break into the impregnable bank vault, but he can't figure out how. The next day before she departs, Sherlock comments how he hadn't realized how desperate Joan was to try and impress her. Brunch with her mother goes less than stellar. Her mother mentions that Oren, Joan's brother, called her, which is apparently something that is very rare. Joan follows up by saying that even she hasn't spoken to him in two months indicating that the she had not only distanced herself from her friends, but also her family as well. Dinner with the family is apparently set up for the next night, but even though Joan tells her mother that she simply can't leave Sherlock, her mother dismissively waves away Joan's job and calls it 'babysitting' much to Joan's displeasure. Their investigation leads them to the assumption that a master thief is the one behind the breaking and entering, and even though Joan is clearly skeptical because no one has ever caught this man, Sherlock confidently states that he himself had never been the one looking for him.
Oren arrives in New York and calls Joan. Despite not having spoken for two months, their relationship is still good - although Joan is surprised to hear that she apparently texted him telling her that she would be attending the dinner with Sherlock. Obviously this was Sherlock's own doing. Their investigations turn over new leads that turns it into a murder investigation, and Sherlock sends her off to go have dinner with her family claiming that he won't be attending, only she turns up to see he's already there and carrying on conversation with them. During the time she wasn't there, Sherlock had already told her family about his work, and consequently how she helped him solve several of them. Sherlock's praise sheds a new light on what she does to her family and Joan is grateful for it because they've never understood what she's done. Sherlock ends up brushing it off, showing a surprising amount of humility.
Her mother ends up surprising her by visiting the brownstone to speak to Joan. Her reason is that she wants to say how the reason she disapproved of her becoming a sober companion, was that it never seemed to make her happy. She was concerned that becoming a sober companion after ending her practice, she thought that it was out of obligation. But her work with Sherlock was apparent. She was enjoying herself. Joan's mother questions her if she would be happy with the next client, putting some second thoughts in her head.
( DIRTY LAUNDRY )
At this point, Joan has 10 days left of being his sober companion. Throughout the episode, Sherlock continues to offer to let her stay on with varying degrees of seriousness, starting with saying she could be his cleaner in exchange for letting her tag along on his cases to offering an apprenticeship while lying to his father about Sherlock's state so his cheques keep coming in. She actually declines his offer in the end and tells him that she's taken on another case.
( M. )
Joan's time with Sherlock is down to a mere several days and Joan attempts to carve out an exit strategy for Sherlock, something he is still meeting with resistance where she wishes to talk about his progress. Before that can happen, they're called away to a murder scene where they're met with a shockingly large amount of blood and Sherlock looks visibly shocked - a clear difference from prior crime scenes. This had been a scene he had seen before in the past in his time in London. Their suspect, 'M', had apparently racked up a count of 37 bodies since January 2002. Joan voices her concern over how 'chipper' Sherlock appeared to be despite a mad man reappearing on the scene. He had been an integral part of the investigation team ten years ago, but his use to the team fell through because his addiction had spun out of control. He claims that this is opportunity to take him down. Although Joan offers to help sift through the M files, Sherlock claims that he needs to start learning how to work without her and sends her on her way to her appointment with her therapist. Joan's therapist asks her how Sherlock is taking to her leaving, and pinpoints immediately that Joan is having mixed feelings about leaving, knowing that Sherlock's detective work is something that intrigues her, not so subtly suggesting that another career change wouldn't be a bad thing. Joan firmly denies that she has any interest in becoming an investigator. Despite this, her talk with her therapist apparently strikes a chord and when she meets up with Sherlock again to examine the body of the victim, she claims that she would miss working with him and she thought that what he did was amazing, apparently leaving him a little shocked as she leaves to go outside to get a cab.
They return to the brownstone to find that M has broken in and left behind a note. Gregson attempts to move them to a safe house but Sherlock refuses, saying that if M wanted to kill him, he could have easily done so and that this is all about the game to him. Joan also opts to stay at the brownstone despite the danger she knows is there. Upon Joan retiring to bed, Sherlock pulls out the hidden camera that he had installed in their home finally revealing who M is after all this time. When an associate of Holmes appears at the house to collect money for running into M, Joan discovers the hidden cameras and confronts him about it upon his return not only about that but the picture of M and why he would choose to share it with children but not the NYPD. We finally found out how and by whom Irene was killed by: M. Sherlock very plainly states that he has no intention on turning M in. He wants to torture and murder him in an act of revenge. He was in love with Irene, but he doesn't say as much. Joan was the one who stated it aloud. He tells her the bare details of his descent into his addiction as Joan tries to talk him out of his plan. She fails and he leaves to carry out his plan while she rushes off to Cpt. Gregson.
Sherlock catches M in the act of another murder and knocks him out before he can carry it out. He takes him to one of his father's properties in order to carry out his plan. When Sherlock confronts him about Irene, M states that it wasn't he who killed her because he was held up in jail at the time of her murder. Joan in the mean time, quickly makes the connections between Sherlock claiming to look at other places to live and where he could have taken M. M in the mean time is trying to make Sherlock see that he isn't a serial killer like he thinks he is, but an assassin. The hits he's given are sent by an employer but Sherlock still refuses to believe him, and M realizes that he's been sold out. His name is finally revealed: Sebastian Moran. He insists that the one who murdered Irene was Moriarty. Sherlock still refuses to believe him and we see him stab Moran just before the NYPD and Joan arrive at the warehouse. They get a call saying that both are back at the police department. Moran lies about what happened, claiming that they got into a struggle but Joan doesn't believe it for a minute. Sherlock confirms that Moran was telling the truth about not killing Irene and apologizes to Joan for lying to her. We see Joan reach out to Sherlock, even going as far to place a hand on his arm in comfort, and Sherlock allows her, finally saying that he too is going to miss working with her and having her there. He even mirrors what she said to him earlier and that he thought what she did was amazing. Joan tries to make a call to his father saying that she wants to stay on longer as his sober companion but is turned down. She tells Sherlock that she had contacted him but lied about the termination of her services.
( THE RED TEAM )
Sherlock is admittedly sceptical of the idea of Moriarty being this shadowy crimelord, but he admits that the idea holds some merit. Meanwhile Joan continues to withhold information from Sherlock, her contract expired a week ago, but she's continuing to mislead him. His actions in the prior episode had lead to him being suspended of his consultant duties. However he still manages to stumble onto a murder and steals a tortoise from the scene. By the end of the episode he is reinstated as a consultant but only because he does a lot of good. Captain Gregson no longer trusts him, but is willing to put up with him for the greater good.
( THE DEDUCTIONIST )
This episode sees the introduction of a FBI profiler called in to help with a case. She is actually an ex-girlfriend of Sherlock's. Their relationship had soured after she'd used him to write an article. He'd been hurt by the things she'd written by him and resented the fact that she had also predicted his issues with drugs while he didn't see it coming. Joan tells him that her predictions weren't all accurate because he'd managed to make a friend, her.
( A GIANT GUN, FILLED WITH DRUGS )
An old acquaintance (former drug-dealer) of Sherlock's asks him to help him find his kidnapped daughter. Joan is understandably apprehensive that this may trigger a relapse. Rhys believes that Sherlock was a far better detective when he was using and encourages him to use drugs again to find his daughter. Despite the drugs being offered to him, Sherlock manages to avoid a relapse. There is also an incident where the kidnapper attacks Rhys and Joan while Sherlock is out to do the swap, but they manage to get out of it although Rhys does get shot. At the end, Sherlock decides that he will share this incident with the cocaine offered to him at a group support meeting where previously he had merely been telling unrelated stories.
( DETAILS )
Sherlock decides that what happened in the previous episode was unacceptable and that Joan needs to learn how to defend herself. However the test comes in the form of pretending to be an attacker, Joan is understandably unimpressed. He continues to test her reflexes in other painful ways which just pisses her off.
Meanwhile Detective Bell survives a driveby shooting, but when the man who was suspected to be behind it shows up dead it starts to look like he did it. Sherlock suspects a framing despite the mounting evidence against him and helps hide certain details.
He also reveals that he'd known all along that Joan was no longer employed by his father to be his sober companion. Instead of being upset, he says he is grateful because she is someone who has become very important to him and asks her to stay on and be his partner in his investigations. She ends up agreeing with a few conditions of her own such as rent free lodgings, his continuing to go to group support meetings with her.
( POSSIBILITY TWO )
Sherlock teaches Joan the art of deduction and receives a rare bee in exchange for investigating a case. While investigating his own case, he sends Joan off to run errands for him to see if she can apply her deductive skills when she seemingly has no reason to do so.
( DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN )
Sherlock is forced by his father to take on a case from one of his associates. He gives the case onto Joan to take on solo while he investigates another case for the police, thinking that it would be a nice one to let her started.
( SNOW ANGELS )
Ms Hudson, an old friend of Sherlock's drops by to stay with them for a while to deal with a bad breakup. They eventually hire her as their housekeeper.
( DEAD MAN'S SWITCH )
Sherlock's one year anniversary of being sober approaches and Joan and Alfredo both encourage him to celebrate, but he is reluctant. This is because it wasn't actually his one year anniversary. The day he checked himself into a rehab facility he broke out and used drugs one more time. Although 1 day does not make a large difference, to him it meant everything. He had decided to get clean and he had failed when he chose to escape that one time.
( A LANDMARK STORY )
Sebastian Moran contacts Sherlock with news that he had a lead on Moriarty. Moran claims that a seemingly incidental death reported in the news was actually Moriarty's doing as he had been ordered to make a hit on that man before he had been caught. He initially believes that Moran's vendetta has clouded his judgement, but it turns out he was telling the truth and there is a case worth investigating here. He tracks down more people who work for Moriarty and gets closer and closer to finding the truth. However Moran commits suicide after a message threatening his sister reaches him from Moriarty, inadvertently delivered by Sherlock as he shows him a message he needed decrypting. At the end of the episode, a man claiming to be Moriarty calls Sherlock's phone.
( RISK MANAGEMENT )
Moriarty offers Sherlock a deal, if he manages to solve a case for him, he'll reveal to him the truth behind what happened to Irene Adler. Joan worries that Moriarty is going to try and kill him, but Sherlock is undaunted saying that if Moriarty wanted him dead he would have done it long ago and in fact had gone out of his way to keep Sherlock alive. Captain Gregson worries that someone might try and hurt Joan to get to Sherlock. While Joan brushes off his concern, she does ask Sherlock if he understands that going after him is not the only way to get to him. He promises her that he would never let anything happen to her, even though he knows that that kind of promise is impossible to keep. When the case is solved, Moriarty gives him a choice to walk away from this completely and him and Moriarty will never cross paths again or know what happened to Irene. He chooses the later and decides to leave Joan out of it following what he'd said about never letting her get hurt. She knew he'd do that and tracked Sherlock's phone to where he was going. She doesn't want to be coddled, but treated as an equal. They enter the house Moriarty had texted Sherlock and they find Irene Adler there, painting as if nothing had happened.
( THE WOMAN + HEROINE )
Irene and Sherlock first met when he sought her out for her advice on a case. They dated for a while before she was supposedly murdered by M although no body was found. After that Sherlock upgraded his dabbling to an outright addiction to drugs.
Irene had allegedly been held prisoner for all this time. Sherlock decides to look after her while he leaves the investigation to Joan. Irene is mentally traumatised by her experience which makes things difficult for them. Things are made worse when one of Moriarty's agents manages to break in to the Brownstone and leaves a peony behind. Sherlock takes Irene and goes into hiding and she convinces him to run away with him despite knowing that this would likely play into Moriarty's plans, but before they can leave the city for good Sherlock realises that Irene was never a captive because she managed to have a mole removed. He believes she is working for Moriarty and ends up leaving her and returning home. When he makes it back he is attacked by a gunman, the man who Joan and the police had been looking for. He'd been left to hang dry by Moriarty after his identity had been compromised and he'd come to kill Sherlock because he was someone Moriarty had ordered no one to touch. But before Sherlock is murdered Irene returns and shoots him, revealing herself as Moriarty. She'd used the Irene persona to get close to him to study him and when she'd deemed him not a problem, faked her death and left.
His mind cleared of emotional attachment, he dives back into figuring out Moriarty's plan. While he does figure it out, he's too late in stopping it from getting set into motion. Joan figures Moriarty out and hatches a plan, putting it into motion by making Sherlock look like he's out of control. He then returns to the Brownstone and fakes an overdose. This succeeds in making Moriarty visit him in the hospital. They were each other's mutual weak point and Moriarty tries to convince him to leave with her one last time before he reveals he was still drug free and the police come in to arrest her.
At the end Sherlock shows that he has bred a new species of bee which he names after Joan, Euglassia Watsonia.
Character PERSONALITY:
One of the first things we learn about Sherlock is that he is a recovering addict. While this isn't all to him, it does influence him. His original reasons for dabbling in drugs was to dull his senses. His observant nature means he sometimes sees more than he'd like to and it drove him to use drugs to stop the constant bombardment of information. And after Irene's alleged death, he used it for the oblivion.
"Sometimes I hate it when I'm right"
Sherlock is an empathetic character despite his attempts at appearing otherwise. He can't stand wrongdoing, his work isn't just about solving the puzzle. If he wanted to merely keep his mind busy there are other options he could have taken, but he chooses his detective work because it helps the police to catch criminals that they otherwise might not be able to. He's also shown to sympathise for victims, even going so far as to hiding certain facts from the police to avoid endangering the victim. But otherwise he's a very tenacious character and once he takes on a case he will do all he can to see it through to the end. Also the first time he met Joan he says she became a sober companion because she had lost someone close to her through addiction, but he deliberately made a false deduction to spare her feelings on the matter as it was actually because of malpractice. He does later screw it up when he gets frustrated enough to shove it all into her face.
"That's okay, but I can't stab her in the thigh?"
Sherlock is introduced as a character who doesn't always follow social conventions. Sometimes it's deliberate and other times he comes across as genuinely not understanding the situation. Despite this, he often tries to play off his behaviour as deliberately planned which leaves a certain level of ambiguity to his actions even though Joan often scoffs at whatever elaborate explanation he's come up with. But when someone tells him to stop with whatever he's doing, he does usually listen and tries to learn what he did wrong and why. However he does have a tendency to dig his feet in on subjects he deems pointless (see: most of the actions Joan encourages him to do regarding his recovery from addiction), but he's shown to be amenable to change as by the end of the episode he's persuaded to give it a try.
He's normally a very articulate character who has no trouble speaking their mind, unless the topic is personal to him. When he was explaining to Captain Gregson the reasons for not informing him of his history he stumbles over his words and stutters in places. Captain Gregson is also someone who he has the highest respect for and as such doesn't want to lie to him. He's a character that avoids telling other people how he feels so unless he's had time to prepare such as his speech to Joan on how important she'd come to mean to him, he's a lot more awkward with his words.
"My work is the greater good."
Sherlock wouldn't be Sherlock Holmes without a certain level of arrogance about his abilities. He knows he's smarter than most people and he isn't going to waste time pretending otherwise. He's a bit of a jerk in that respect, but it's a trait that is more likely to produce eyerolls than the urge to punch him in the face.
"I have no intention of capturing M, I have every intention of capturing, torturing and murdering him."
Joan's influence is clearest in the before and after Sherlock spoke this line. When he'd first said them, he had no reason to believe that their relationship would continue after her stint as his sober companion was up. For all he knew he was going to be left to his own devices again. He wanted revenge for Irene's death and was willing to pay whatever price was necessary to achieve it. But once she's agreed to stay with him, revenge is no longer the most important thing to him. He does still want to find the murderer, but it's limited to just that. His interactions with other people show that while he doesn't particularly care about forging relationships, he is capable of it. He deeply respects Captain Gregson and maintains a certain level of camaraderie with Detective Bell.
» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON:
Sherlock will pick up a container of Play-Doh from the vast selection available to him and deem it his choice. When moulded, it will temporarily become that object and as time goes on it'll be able to hold it's form for longer periods, more complicated shapes, with the possibility of even replicating a living being.
Character INVENTORY:
The clothes off his back, wallet, mobile phone, a pair of handcuffs without their key, lockpick and Clyde the tortoise.
» SAMPLES
First PERSON:
[These are separate texts sent rapidly one after the other.]
anakst socity wud men no polce dptmt [Anarchist society would mean no police department.]
wud lk 2 nw if bs arnd 4 apry [Would like to know if there are bees around for an apiary.]
need 2 keep mnd actve [Need to keep mind active.]
tia [Thanks in advance.]
[Isn't text language just wonderful?]
Third PERSON:
From the test drive meme.
» ADDITIONAL NOTES
Blanket permission to fourth wall Sherlock as his cultural significance makes that a little difficult to avoid, but preferably sticking with fourth walling through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's work rather than the show.
His usage of text language isn't used consistently, but I'm sticking with it as it was used as a plot point. Also it's likely the change is to make it easier for the viewer to read and quickly understand the message.
I also don't know where to put this, but he really hates bigwigs.
Player NAME: Michele
Current AGE: 21
Player TIME ZONE: GMT+12 (NZ)
Personal JOURNAL:
infinitechallengeIM & SERVICE: n/a it exists but I don't use it often enough to warrant listing.
Player PLURK:
Current CHARACTERS: n/a
» CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character NAME: Sherlock Holmes
Canon & MEDIUM: Elementary, TV series
Canon PULL-POINT: End of season one
Character AGE: Late 30's
Character ABILITIES:
Sherlock is a normal human with no super powers.
But then, he doesn't need them. His strengths lie in his intellect and perception. He is an incredibly observant person able to take in the smallest of details and link them together to derive information.
He's a highly intelligent character with a near encyclopaedic knowledge on topics relevant to his line of work and speaks many different languages.
Other than his deductive reasoning skills, Sherlock mentions that he dabbles with singlestick. He is also ambidextrous.
Character HISTORY:
Elementary is set on modern day Earth in New York city. Prior to the start of the series, Sherlock had been a consultant for Scotland Yard until drug problems caused him to check into a rehabilitation centre in the US and the series begins shortly after he has escaped on the day he was to be released. Since the cases aren't generally relevant to his history they'll only be mentioned in passing unless needed.
This history section is a combined effort with the Joan reserver, Amanda because writing up 24 episodes takes ages. The wiki does not hold a lot of detail, unfortunately.
( PILOT )
Sherlock is a former drug addict who has been assigned Joan Watson to be his sober companion by his father. Sherlock is initially very resistant to the very idea of having an 'addictsitter' watch him when he considers it unnecessary. He intends to keep himself busy and therefore off drugs by resuming the work he did back in London, but for the NYPD instead. Within minutes of meeting Joan, he whisks her off to investigate a murder. Sherlock continues with his insistent of not needing Joan eventually reaches a point where he frustrates her enough to say she's going to quit. However, he comes to realise that she is indeed helpful to him and he apologises and successfully convinces her to stay after which she proves to be an instrumental in solving his case.
( WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING )
This episode opens with Sherlock and Joans at a group support meeting for recovering addicts except Sherlock has hypnotised himself so he doesn't have to listen to everyone speak.
Joan is going to go and meet a friend and Sherlock correctly deduces that it's an ex and heavily encourages her to sleep with him because it would supposedly improve her mood. She later asks him about his lie to Captain Gregson of the NYPD because she had been told by him that Sherlock had called him two weeks ago saying he was in Heathrow when he had actually been at the rehab facility. He replies that it was the only way he would be allowed to work on cases for the police as they wouldn't allow a recovering addict to do so.
She brings up a violin that she found and suggests that Sherlock take it up again, but he claims he abandoned it because it was of no use to him, citing his 'attic theory' in which unnecessary information takes up too much information in the brain. He doesn't like the way she keeps inquiring into the details of his life while she informs him that this is how companionship works. Opening up to each other. Later Sherlock accesses her email to send a message to her ex to organise a meeting to make a point that their relationship doesn't require them to be friends. All Sherlock wants at this point is for their time to be over so they can go their separate ways. Joan essentially agrees and when Sherlock later has a breakthrough demands to know what he's realised because even if they don't need to have any sort of relationship other than addict and sober companion, she still needs to know what he's planning if she wants her help. The episode ends with Joan asking that if shutting out the things he used to enjoy was for unrealised penance to which Sherlock responds that it wouldn't be penance if you didn't know about it. As she's in bed, she hears the sounds of a violin.
( CHILD PREDATOR )
Sherlock tells Joan that her services to him in his line of work involve being the person that listens while he voices his thoughts out loud so he can make connections that he might not have seen before. However he realises the worth of listening and not just being the person listened to when Joan teaches him a technique to help him stay awake while he reads over information for his latest case.
( RAT RACE )
Joan gets set up on a blind date and appears to be interested in the guy, Sherlock without being told about it automatically figures it out and is actually rather encouraging of it. He gets hired by an investment firm to investigate the disappearance of one of their executives and Sherlock makes it clear his distaste for bankers. The disappearance turns out to be a murder case. However, the cause of death was an overdose of heroin, which was one of the drugs that Sherlock used to use. Sherlock insists that due to the case, he isn't at a risk of a relapse while Joan worries otherwise. But it is clear he's not as unaffected as he'd like to think even if he continues to insist otherwise. He manages to convince Joan to keep her date and encourages her deductive thinking when she returns with a suspicion that the guy wasn't honest with her.
Sherlock figures out the murderer in his case while Joan is meeting the man and decides to confront her himself and ends up tasered and tied up. Because Sherlock had been so eager to confront them he hadn't informed anyone of what he was doing. However due to the terms of his agreement with Joan, he is required to check in every two hours which he had failed to do so because he had been taken captive. The murderer had his phone and attempted to deflect attention from his missing status by sending a text, but Sherlock texts much like a teenager would. Joan initially approaches Captain Gregson to enlist his help and has to admit that Sherlock is a recovering addict. The text arrives just as she's finished explaining that she fears that he's relapsed, but the way the text was written makes her suspicious. The police track them both down where she was about to shoot Sherlock and he reveals he already had a plan because he could pick locks and their arrival buys him the time he needed to free himself. In his own little fashion, he thanks Joan for helping to save his life and compliments her deductive skills.
With all that done, Sherlock has to explain himself to Captain Gregson. It's a surprisingly heartfelt confession in which he admits to being embarrassed and not wanting to lose the other man's esteem by informing him of his history. It turns out to be superfluous as he had already known all along and was just waiting for Sherlock to tell him himself. Joan discovers that the guy she had been introduced to has stated to back off because he was intimidated by the fact that she had gotten suspicious enough of him to look him up. The episode ends with Sherlock cautioning her that being good at deduction has its costs.
( LESSER EVILS )
This episode is far more relevant to Joan than to Sherlock.
( FLIGHT RISK )
Joan informs Sherlock that his father has contacted her saying that he'd like to meet them for dinner. Sherlock laughs, to say he thinks of him as an absent parent is an understatement. He chooses not to go and despite his insistence that he would never show up Joan does. However, the man she meets is not his father and instead an actor who Sherlock had hired because he knew his father wouldn't show up. When she returns he mentions that she should have just trusted him when he said this would happen to which she replies that despite spending weeks with him, she knows basically nothing about Sherlock because he refuses to reveal anything personal to himself and how could she trust someone she doesn't know. Later Joan realises that the man she met was more than just a hired guy and learns that he is actual a friend of Sherlock's. He explains to her that with Sherlock you can't expect a conventional friendship and it is from him that she first learns of the name Irene.
( ONE WAY TO GET OFF )
Turns out that after Joan confronted Sherlock about this Irene, Sherlock has been giving her the silent treatment. He is rather passive-aggressive about making his displeasure known despite Joan's attempts at clearing the air and he goes as far as to pretend to make up before leaving her behind while he goes to investigate a case. Because of this incidenct he says that any good will that she has managed to accrue has been erased and he wants to merely stick to the terms of their agreement. In the mean time Sherlock helps to investigate a case that bears eerie resemblance to an old case that Captain Gregson had solved. Sherlock finds information that heavily suggests that the person who had originally been implicated in that murder had been framed by either him or his ex-partner. Because Captain Gregson is someone who Sherlock highly respects he tries to approach him directly about it. Despite the way he reacted at the accusation Captain Gregson does have his suspicions piqued and he confronts his ex-partner about it, learning that she had in fact, planted evidence at the crime scene years ago.
Joan visits the rehab facility that Sherlock went to and finds letters from Irene Adler left behind there. She refrains from reading them and tries to return them to Sherlock but he destroys them saying there was a reason he had left them behind. He's even more angry at her now for having gone behind his back after they'd agreed to stick strictly to the terms of their agreement.
His case, despite evidence of planted evidence, points to the someone copying the previous serial killer in a bid to ensure the release of the man originally incarcerated for those crimes. At the end of the episode, Sherlock reveals to Joan that Irene Adler was dead and that she was someone who was very important to him.
( THE LONG FUSE )
Joan reminds Sherlock that their time together is limited, that he is going to need to find himself a sponsor. Sherlock is predictably resistant to the idea of getting a sponsor, saying that there was no reason for him to have a sober companion in the first place so a sponsor is superfluous to him. She manages to successfully drag him to a meeting to find a sponsor and Sherlock seemingly chooses at random a former car thief to be his sponsor. But of course, Sherlock sees far more than the usual person and his choice turns out to be an excellent one.
However, Sherlock apparently changes his mind an decides he wants to pick a new sponsor. Joan suspects that this is because he doesn't want her to leave despite all of his words that he doesn't need her. Alfredo tries to convince him to keep him on as Sherlock's sober sponsor by offering to help him test out cars as part of his job as a tester of car security systems. He knows what they're doing and yet he falls for it anyway.
( YOU DO IT YOURSELF )
Sherlock is sick and is an awful patient and refuses to take care of himself. Meanwhile Joan helps a former boyfriend who has gotten into a bit of trouble with the law. Sherlock offers his services, but otherwise stays off her case and let's her solve it herself. He provides only minimal help and only when asked. Sherlock is displaying respect for personal boundaries!
( THE LEVIATHAN )
Joan and Sherlock investigate how people could break into a seemingly impregnable bank vault. During the first day of investigation, Joan reveals that she apparently has to meet her mother for brunch the next day, and that Sherlock has fallen into a bit of an obsession with trying to puzzle out how the vault was broken into which he agrees to. It's apparently a little bit maddening that others can break into the impregnable bank vault, but he can't figure out how. The next day before she departs, Sherlock comments how he hadn't realized how desperate Joan was to try and impress her. Brunch with her mother goes less than stellar. Her mother mentions that Oren, Joan's brother, called her, which is apparently something that is very rare. Joan follows up by saying that even she hasn't spoken to him in two months indicating that the she had not only distanced herself from her friends, but also her family as well. Dinner with the family is apparently set up for the next night, but even though Joan tells her mother that she simply can't leave Sherlock, her mother dismissively waves away Joan's job and calls it 'babysitting' much to Joan's displeasure. Their investigation leads them to the assumption that a master thief is the one behind the breaking and entering, and even though Joan is clearly skeptical because no one has ever caught this man, Sherlock confidently states that he himself had never been the one looking for him.
Oren arrives in New York and calls Joan. Despite not having spoken for two months, their relationship is still good - although Joan is surprised to hear that she apparently texted him telling her that she would be attending the dinner with Sherlock. Obviously this was Sherlock's own doing. Their investigations turn over new leads that turns it into a murder investigation, and Sherlock sends her off to go have dinner with her family claiming that he won't be attending, only she turns up to see he's already there and carrying on conversation with them. During the time she wasn't there, Sherlock had already told her family about his work, and consequently how she helped him solve several of them. Sherlock's praise sheds a new light on what she does to her family and Joan is grateful for it because they've never understood what she's done. Sherlock ends up brushing it off, showing a surprising amount of humility.
Her mother ends up surprising her by visiting the brownstone to speak to Joan. Her reason is that she wants to say how the reason she disapproved of her becoming a sober companion, was that it never seemed to make her happy. She was concerned that becoming a sober companion after ending her practice, she thought that it was out of obligation. But her work with Sherlock was apparent. She was enjoying herself. Joan's mother questions her if she would be happy with the next client, putting some second thoughts in her head.
( DIRTY LAUNDRY )
At this point, Joan has 10 days left of being his sober companion. Throughout the episode, Sherlock continues to offer to let her stay on with varying degrees of seriousness, starting with saying she could be his cleaner in exchange for letting her tag along on his cases to offering an apprenticeship while lying to his father about Sherlock's state so his cheques keep coming in. She actually declines his offer in the end and tells him that she's taken on another case.
( M. )
Joan's time with Sherlock is down to a mere several days and Joan attempts to carve out an exit strategy for Sherlock, something he is still meeting with resistance where she wishes to talk about his progress. Before that can happen, they're called away to a murder scene where they're met with a shockingly large amount of blood and Sherlock looks visibly shocked - a clear difference from prior crime scenes. This had been a scene he had seen before in the past in his time in London. Their suspect, 'M', had apparently racked up a count of 37 bodies since January 2002. Joan voices her concern over how 'chipper' Sherlock appeared to be despite a mad man reappearing on the scene. He had been an integral part of the investigation team ten years ago, but his use to the team fell through because his addiction had spun out of control. He claims that this is opportunity to take him down. Although Joan offers to help sift through the M files, Sherlock claims that he needs to start learning how to work without her and sends her on her way to her appointment with her therapist. Joan's therapist asks her how Sherlock is taking to her leaving, and pinpoints immediately that Joan is having mixed feelings about leaving, knowing that Sherlock's detective work is something that intrigues her, not so subtly suggesting that another career change wouldn't be a bad thing. Joan firmly denies that she has any interest in becoming an investigator. Despite this, her talk with her therapist apparently strikes a chord and when she meets up with Sherlock again to examine the body of the victim, she claims that she would miss working with him and she thought that what he did was amazing, apparently leaving him a little shocked as she leaves to go outside to get a cab.
They return to the brownstone to find that M has broken in and left behind a note. Gregson attempts to move them to a safe house but Sherlock refuses, saying that if M wanted to kill him, he could have easily done so and that this is all about the game to him. Joan also opts to stay at the brownstone despite the danger she knows is there. Upon Joan retiring to bed, Sherlock pulls out the hidden camera that he had installed in their home finally revealing who M is after all this time. When an associate of Holmes appears at the house to collect money for running into M, Joan discovers the hidden cameras and confronts him about it upon his return not only about that but the picture of M and why he would choose to share it with children but not the NYPD. We finally found out how and by whom Irene was killed by: M. Sherlock very plainly states that he has no intention on turning M in. He wants to torture and murder him in an act of revenge. He was in love with Irene, but he doesn't say as much. Joan was the one who stated it aloud. He tells her the bare details of his descent into his addiction as Joan tries to talk him out of his plan. She fails and he leaves to carry out his plan while she rushes off to Cpt. Gregson.
Sherlock catches M in the act of another murder and knocks him out before he can carry it out. He takes him to one of his father's properties in order to carry out his plan. When Sherlock confronts him about Irene, M states that it wasn't he who killed her because he was held up in jail at the time of her murder. Joan in the mean time, quickly makes the connections between Sherlock claiming to look at other places to live and where he could have taken M. M in the mean time is trying to make Sherlock see that he isn't a serial killer like he thinks he is, but an assassin. The hits he's given are sent by an employer but Sherlock still refuses to believe him, and M realizes that he's been sold out. His name is finally revealed: Sebastian Moran. He insists that the one who murdered Irene was Moriarty. Sherlock still refuses to believe him and we see him stab Moran just before the NYPD and Joan arrive at the warehouse. They get a call saying that both are back at the police department. Moran lies about what happened, claiming that they got into a struggle but Joan doesn't believe it for a minute. Sherlock confirms that Moran was telling the truth about not killing Irene and apologizes to Joan for lying to her. We see Joan reach out to Sherlock, even going as far to place a hand on his arm in comfort, and Sherlock allows her, finally saying that he too is going to miss working with her and having her there. He even mirrors what she said to him earlier and that he thought what she did was amazing. Joan tries to make a call to his father saying that she wants to stay on longer as his sober companion but is turned down. She tells Sherlock that she had contacted him but lied about the termination of her services.
( THE RED TEAM )
Sherlock is admittedly sceptical of the idea of Moriarty being this shadowy crimelord, but he admits that the idea holds some merit. Meanwhile Joan continues to withhold information from Sherlock, her contract expired a week ago, but she's continuing to mislead him. His actions in the prior episode had lead to him being suspended of his consultant duties. However he still manages to stumble onto a murder and steals a tortoise from the scene. By the end of the episode he is reinstated as a consultant but only because he does a lot of good. Captain Gregson no longer trusts him, but is willing to put up with him for the greater good.
( THE DEDUCTIONIST )
This episode sees the introduction of a FBI profiler called in to help with a case. She is actually an ex-girlfriend of Sherlock's. Their relationship had soured after she'd used him to write an article. He'd been hurt by the things she'd written by him and resented the fact that she had also predicted his issues with drugs while he didn't see it coming. Joan tells him that her predictions weren't all accurate because he'd managed to make a friend, her.
( A GIANT GUN, FILLED WITH DRUGS )
An old acquaintance (former drug-dealer) of Sherlock's asks him to help him find his kidnapped daughter. Joan is understandably apprehensive that this may trigger a relapse. Rhys believes that Sherlock was a far better detective when he was using and encourages him to use drugs again to find his daughter. Despite the drugs being offered to him, Sherlock manages to avoid a relapse. There is also an incident where the kidnapper attacks Rhys and Joan while Sherlock is out to do the swap, but they manage to get out of it although Rhys does get shot. At the end, Sherlock decides that he will share this incident with the cocaine offered to him at a group support meeting where previously he had merely been telling unrelated stories.
( DETAILS )
Sherlock decides that what happened in the previous episode was unacceptable and that Joan needs to learn how to defend herself. However the test comes in the form of pretending to be an attacker, Joan is understandably unimpressed. He continues to test her reflexes in other painful ways which just pisses her off.
Meanwhile Detective Bell survives a driveby shooting, but when the man who was suspected to be behind it shows up dead it starts to look like he did it. Sherlock suspects a framing despite the mounting evidence against him and helps hide certain details.
He also reveals that he'd known all along that Joan was no longer employed by his father to be his sober companion. Instead of being upset, he says he is grateful because she is someone who has become very important to him and asks her to stay on and be his partner in his investigations. She ends up agreeing with a few conditions of her own such as rent free lodgings, his continuing to go to group support meetings with her.
( POSSIBILITY TWO )
Sherlock teaches Joan the art of deduction and receives a rare bee in exchange for investigating a case. While investigating his own case, he sends Joan off to run errands for him to see if she can apply her deductive skills when she seemingly has no reason to do so.
( DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN )
Sherlock is forced by his father to take on a case from one of his associates. He gives the case onto Joan to take on solo while he investigates another case for the police, thinking that it would be a nice one to let her started.
( SNOW ANGELS )
Ms Hudson, an old friend of Sherlock's drops by to stay with them for a while to deal with a bad breakup. They eventually hire her as their housekeeper.
( DEAD MAN'S SWITCH )
Sherlock's one year anniversary of being sober approaches and Joan and Alfredo both encourage him to celebrate, but he is reluctant. This is because it wasn't actually his one year anniversary. The day he checked himself into a rehab facility he broke out and used drugs one more time. Although 1 day does not make a large difference, to him it meant everything. He had decided to get clean and he had failed when he chose to escape that one time.
( A LANDMARK STORY )
Sebastian Moran contacts Sherlock with news that he had a lead on Moriarty. Moran claims that a seemingly incidental death reported in the news was actually Moriarty's doing as he had been ordered to make a hit on that man before he had been caught. He initially believes that Moran's vendetta has clouded his judgement, but it turns out he was telling the truth and there is a case worth investigating here. He tracks down more people who work for Moriarty and gets closer and closer to finding the truth. However Moran commits suicide after a message threatening his sister reaches him from Moriarty, inadvertently delivered by Sherlock as he shows him a message he needed decrypting. At the end of the episode, a man claiming to be Moriarty calls Sherlock's phone.
( RISK MANAGEMENT )
Moriarty offers Sherlock a deal, if he manages to solve a case for him, he'll reveal to him the truth behind what happened to Irene Adler. Joan worries that Moriarty is going to try and kill him, but Sherlock is undaunted saying that if Moriarty wanted him dead he would have done it long ago and in fact had gone out of his way to keep Sherlock alive. Captain Gregson worries that someone might try and hurt Joan to get to Sherlock. While Joan brushes off his concern, she does ask Sherlock if he understands that going after him is not the only way to get to him. He promises her that he would never let anything happen to her, even though he knows that that kind of promise is impossible to keep. When the case is solved, Moriarty gives him a choice to walk away from this completely and him and Moriarty will never cross paths again or know what happened to Irene. He chooses the later and decides to leave Joan out of it following what he'd said about never letting her get hurt. She knew he'd do that and tracked Sherlock's phone to where he was going. She doesn't want to be coddled, but treated as an equal. They enter the house Moriarty had texted Sherlock and they find Irene Adler there, painting as if nothing had happened.
( THE WOMAN + HEROINE )
Irene and Sherlock first met when he sought her out for her advice on a case. They dated for a while before she was supposedly murdered by M although no body was found. After that Sherlock upgraded his dabbling to an outright addiction to drugs.
Irene had allegedly been held prisoner for all this time. Sherlock decides to look after her while he leaves the investigation to Joan. Irene is mentally traumatised by her experience which makes things difficult for them. Things are made worse when one of Moriarty's agents manages to break in to the Brownstone and leaves a peony behind. Sherlock takes Irene and goes into hiding and she convinces him to run away with him despite knowing that this would likely play into Moriarty's plans, but before they can leave the city for good Sherlock realises that Irene was never a captive because she managed to have a mole removed. He believes she is working for Moriarty and ends up leaving her and returning home. When he makes it back he is attacked by a gunman, the man who Joan and the police had been looking for. He'd been left to hang dry by Moriarty after his identity had been compromised and he'd come to kill Sherlock because he was someone Moriarty had ordered no one to touch. But before Sherlock is murdered Irene returns and shoots him, revealing herself as Moriarty. She'd used the Irene persona to get close to him to study him and when she'd deemed him not a problem, faked her death and left.
His mind cleared of emotional attachment, he dives back into figuring out Moriarty's plan. While he does figure it out, he's too late in stopping it from getting set into motion. Joan figures Moriarty out and hatches a plan, putting it into motion by making Sherlock look like he's out of control. He then returns to the Brownstone and fakes an overdose. This succeeds in making Moriarty visit him in the hospital. They were each other's mutual weak point and Moriarty tries to convince him to leave with her one last time before he reveals he was still drug free and the police come in to arrest her.
At the end Sherlock shows that he has bred a new species of bee which he names after Joan, Euglassia Watsonia.
Character PERSONALITY:
One of the first things we learn about Sherlock is that he is a recovering addict. While this isn't all to him, it does influence him. His original reasons for dabbling in drugs was to dull his senses. His observant nature means he sometimes sees more than he'd like to and it drove him to use drugs to stop the constant bombardment of information. And after Irene's alleged death, he used it for the oblivion.
Sherlock is an empathetic character despite his attempts at appearing otherwise. He can't stand wrongdoing, his work isn't just about solving the puzzle. If he wanted to merely keep his mind busy there are other options he could have taken, but he chooses his detective work because it helps the police to catch criminals that they otherwise might not be able to. He's also shown to sympathise for victims, even going so far as to hiding certain facts from the police to avoid endangering the victim. But otherwise he's a very tenacious character and once he takes on a case he will do all he can to see it through to the end. Also the first time he met Joan he says she became a sober companion because she had lost someone close to her through addiction, but he deliberately made a false deduction to spare her feelings on the matter as it was actually because of malpractice. He does later screw it up when he gets frustrated enough to shove it all into her face.
Sherlock is introduced as a character who doesn't always follow social conventions. Sometimes it's deliberate and other times he comes across as genuinely not understanding the situation. Despite this, he often tries to play off his behaviour as deliberately planned which leaves a certain level of ambiguity to his actions even though Joan often scoffs at whatever elaborate explanation he's come up with. But when someone tells him to stop with whatever he's doing, he does usually listen and tries to learn what he did wrong and why. However he does have a tendency to dig his feet in on subjects he deems pointless (see: most of the actions Joan encourages him to do regarding his recovery from addiction), but he's shown to be amenable to change as by the end of the episode he's persuaded to give it a try.
He's normally a very articulate character who has no trouble speaking their mind, unless the topic is personal to him. When he was explaining to Captain Gregson the reasons for not informing him of his history he stumbles over his words and stutters in places. Captain Gregson is also someone who he has the highest respect for and as such doesn't want to lie to him. He's a character that avoids telling other people how he feels so unless he's had time to prepare such as his speech to Joan on how important she'd come to mean to him, he's a lot more awkward with his words.
Sherlock wouldn't be Sherlock Holmes without a certain level of arrogance about his abilities. He knows he's smarter than most people and he isn't going to waste time pretending otherwise. He's a bit of a jerk in that respect, but it's a trait that is more likely to produce eyerolls than the urge to punch him in the face.
Joan's influence is clearest in the before and after Sherlock spoke this line. When he'd first said them, he had no reason to believe that their relationship would continue after her stint as his sober companion was up. For all he knew he was going to be left to his own devices again. He wanted revenge for Irene's death and was willing to pay whatever price was necessary to achieve it. But once she's agreed to stay with him, revenge is no longer the most important thing to him. He does still want to find the murderer, but it's limited to just that. His interactions with other people show that while he doesn't particularly care about forging relationships, he is capable of it. He deeply respects Captain Gregson and maintains a certain level of camaraderie with Detective Bell.
» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON:
Sherlock will pick up a container of Play-Doh from the vast selection available to him and deem it his choice. When moulded, it will temporarily become that object and as time goes on it'll be able to hold it's form for longer periods, more complicated shapes, with the possibility of even replicating a living being.
Character INVENTORY:
The clothes off his back, wallet, mobile phone, a pair of handcuffs without their key, lockpick and Clyde the tortoise.
» SAMPLES
First PERSON:
[These are separate texts sent rapidly one after the other.]
anakst socity wud men no polce dptmt [Anarchist society would mean no police department.]
wud lk 2 nw if bs arnd 4 apry [Would like to know if there are bees around for an apiary.]
need 2 keep mnd actve [Need to keep mind active.]
tia [Thanks in advance.]
[Isn't text language just wonderful?]
Third PERSON:
From the test drive meme.
» ADDITIONAL NOTES
Blanket permission to fourth wall Sherlock as his cultural significance makes that a little difficult to avoid, but preferably sticking with fourth walling through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's work rather than the show.
His usage of text language isn't used consistently, but I'm sticking with it as it was used as a plot point. Also it's likely the change is to make it easier for the viewer to read and quickly understand the message.
I also don't know where to put this, but he really hates bigwigs.