Watson (2024) s01e03 Episode Script
Wait for the Punchline
1
SHINWELL: Dr. Watson.
You were the best friend
Sherlock Holmes ever had.
Holmes!
SHINWELL: Three men
went over the waterfall.
Yourself, Sherlock Holmes and
the man we'd been chasing.
WATSON: James Moriarty.
SHINWELL: You've had
a knock on the head.
A traumatic brain injury.
Sherlock Holmes funded
a clinic for you to run.
I remember things about him.
- Him, James Moriarty?
- I see his hands.
His fingers are fused.
Almost like they make the shape
of an M.
An archvillain named Moriarty
whose hands make the shape of an M?
That sounds fictional.
Professor Moriarty has a task for you.
You are to empty the
bottle of tamsulosin
and replace it with these pills.
(CROWD LAUGHING)
Let's give it up for
Rob Doherty, everybody.
(CHEERING, APPLAUSE)
Glad you like the show tonight.
- That's Rob Doherty's mom
- STAGEHAND: Molly?
- You're up next.
- Uh
I thought I had more time.
The other guy bailed. Don't
tell me you're bailing, too.
All right, uh, we have a really funny
- lady coming out now, our next comic.
- Okay.
Give it up for Molly Jones.
Get on out here, Molly.
- Hi. Thank you - (APPLAUSE)
for, like, the very warm welcome.
Thankfully, judging from the last act,
you guys will literally
laugh at anything.
Great. Um, quick question.
Who here has anxiety?
Great. Cool. Do you have drugs?
Because I kind of lost mine backstage.
Whatever, they say
laughter's the best medicine.
But don't lay it on too
thick, because Big Pharma
will shut this place down.
Um, so, my mom
used to, um
say, uh
Sorry, could I get a
little water up here, maybe?
So
my mom used to say
to me, um,
(ECHOING): "Do you know why you'll
never make it as a comedian?"
(CROWD EXCLAIMING)
Call 911.
WATSON: Since the brain
injury, my symptoms include
increased insomnia, elevated heart rate.
Migraine with aura.
Speech is clear, as is
auditory comprehension.
Reading is jumbled, though.
Transient aphasia marks a
shift in migraine pattern.
My TBI symptoms shouldn't
be getting worse.
- You playing "diagnose the mystery head"?
- Archibald.
I call him
Archibald.
Looks more like a
Steven.
Where is he?
- In his office.
- In his office.
So, we're diagnosing
Harry while we wait?
- Steven.
- Archibald.
Loeys-Dietz syndrome?
No cleft palate, no hypertelorism.
Supposed to be a collaborative exercise.
Maybe suggest something?
(SHORT CHUCKLE) Watson said
it's a collaborative exercise.
He meant it's a competition.
Competition for what?
Glory. Vindication.
I don't know.
I keep my theories to myself.
And by "glory and vindication,"
you mean Watson's approval.
Mm, don't diagnose
us. Diagnose the head.
What are you up to, guv?
You know what, uh,
Shinwell? I just hadn't
played with this thing in a while.
It works.
Uh-huh.
So, here's you,
surveying the landscape, as one does,
and suddenly, you happen
to catch a glimpse of your ex-wife.
Mary is not my ex yet.
I'll be sure to pass that along
to her divorce lawyer, guv.
Mary and I used to meet there
in the mornings for coffee.
I was just wondering if she's meeting
with Devin Chaplin there now.
Gummi.
I believe there's a word
for observing a couple
- via telescope in a clandestine fashion.
- No, no,
I'm not spying,
Shinwell. Okay? I just
I-I haven't seen them together yet,
and I just want to confirm my theory.
Confirm via means of
(CHUCKLES) Okay, yes.
- Spying.
- Spying.
Once I know I'm right
I'll be able to let it go.
(HIGH-PITCHED RINGING)
- Guv?
- No, no, I'm good, I'm good, just
adjusting to my TBI
medication, that's all.
Speaking of which
Got a new prescription.
I need you to start on that today.
There's a young woman in reception.
Seems she took a knock on the head
and she's not happy with her doctors.
Yeah, we don't take walk-ins.
I know. There's one thing about
this particular young lady.
You've got red hair.
I hope you're not the one
the nurses call a genius.
John Watson. I'm a clinical
geneticist and an internist.
Molly Jones. Comedian
and data entry specialist.
Mind if I see your hair?
Yeah. Got five staples under there.
It's not exactly pretty.
You don't color it. Good.
Yes.
I'll see you.
You just have to join
the Redheaded League.
(LAUGHS SOFTLY)
Are you an actual doctor?
Redheaded League?
- It's the name for a long-term study.
- Okay.
Ever feel like a dentist
is purposely withholding
pain medication from you?
The gene variance responsible
for your red hair
it also makes you
require more anesthesia.
Okay.
So, this study, what is it
punch me in the face
and give me an aspirin?
That's funny.
You know, saying "that's
funny" isn't the same thing
as actually laughing.
You better be worth it.
So, what's your favorite joke?
You ever go to parties, Dr. Watson?
If I'm dragged.
So, do you like when a
person at a party asks you
to examine the rash on their elbow?
So, why'd you come down to the clinic?
Um, my doctors kept shrugging.
They said that maybe I have epilepsy,
that I should probably
talk to a neurologist
- (HIGH-PITCHED RINGING)- (FADING,
ECHOING): when I can get an appointment,
(REGULAR VOLUME): in,
like, seven months.
(GRUNTS SOFTLY)
Based on the
incident you describe,
I do think working you up
on a seizure disorder is indicated.
Yeah, I mean, it's the easy answer.
It's a great way to shoo off
the chronically underinsured.
That's not something I'd do.
I don't know, Doc.
Maybe I'm here because I'm scared.
Maybe I'm tired of people
telling me I have epilepsy.
I mean, neither of my parents had it.
Well, that's not dispositive.
Only about one third of the
epilepsy cases are inherited.
(HIGH-PITCHED RINGING)
- You okay?
- Yeah, no, I'm fine. I'm fine.
So, you said that neither of
your parents had the disorder.
Are they deceased?
May I ask how?
My father died in a car accident
and my mom had cancer.
(HEART BEATING)
What, is something wrong with my heart?
(HIGH-PITCHED RINGING)
Do you want to hear that joke?
So, my mom once said to me,
"You know why you'll never
make it as a comedian?"
Why not?
Dr. Watson?
Dr. Watson?
(WHIMPERS) Help!
♪
- SASHA: Dr. Watson, stay with us.
- ADAM: Stay with us, Watson.
Can you tell us where you are?
He's losing consciousness.
We're almost there, Doctor.
MAN: The scans are negative
for an intracranial bleed.
You took a hell of a hit.
Do you remember it?
Some.
Starting to come back to me.
What did you hear?
Just that you fell.
(LINE RINGING)
- Hello?
- WATSON: Molly. It's Dr. Watson.
I need to see you.
There's killing with a joke
and then there's whatever that was.
You didn't let me get to the punch line.
I'm all ears.
And swollen brain tissue.
- You should be resting.
- So, what'd you tell people?
When I fell, what did
you what'd you say?
I said you fell.
"Fell" or "collapsed"?
- Why?
- It's good news.
I'm taking you on as a
patient at the clinic.
We have four other
specialists, no wait times.
We even have a robot we call Clyde.
- Mm.
- Now I'm waiting for the punch line.
If anybody asks you what
happened and they will ask
you tell them that I spilled
some water and I slipped on it.
So, what's your story
are you an addict or something?
I have a traumatic brain injury.
I-I was there.
That was my second
traumatic brain injury.
So you're just collecting the whole set?
Yeah, three more and
I get a free car wash.
Puddles.
Very underrated hazard.
Yes, they are.
Watson.
- How are you?
- I slipped,
took a knock on the head, we move on.
I need to get another CT,
MRI, plus an EEG.
Ingrid's your neurologist.
I'm sure she's all over it.
The tests aren't for me. They're
for our patient, Molly Jones.
A new patient. Now?
I don't understand. She has epilepsy.
Where's the case?
She might have epilepsy.
You and your brother are
now on family history detail.
I'm pretty sure, during
her initial visit,
Molly lied about how her mother died.
- How did
- How'd I know this?
Stethoscope. Heart
rate. General intuition.
But if we're gonna find out
what's wrong with Molly Jones,
we need to know if the
fall caused the seizure
or if the seizure caused the fall.
We'll never get a full picture
until we have an
accurate family history.
Watson.
Do you need anything?
Thank you, Dr. Lubbock,
but the only thing I
need is for you to tell me
what's wrong with Molly Jones.
Holmes?
MARY (MUFFLED, ECHOING):
John. John. John.
(CLEARLY): John. Are
you okay? How are you?
Well, I'm not gonna sue.
Water on the floor, doctor falls.
Could be quite the lawsuit.
Um, I'm treating a comedian.
Apparently a sense of
humor is not contagious.
Who's gonna check on you tonight?
You have a concussion.
Someone needs to wake
you up to check on you.
You can stay at the house.
I'll make up the guest room.
I got a cut.
- Scans were negative.
- At least let me order you home care.
I've got Shinwell.
He can always scare off
any type of complication.
(PHONE CHIMES, VIBRATES)
(CHIMES, VIBRATES)
(TYPING)
We're not to be ignored.
We're not to be summoned.
What am I doing to the man?
These pills.
(PILLS RATTLE)
I looked up the ones
you had me swap out.
Watson was prescribing
himself tamsulosin.
0.4 milligrams to help with nightmares.
Now, what am I giving him instead?
If you want Watson dead so much,
why don't you just get on with it?!
And Moriarty's got people for that.
Why does it have to be me?!
This need for information
it's unhealthy, Shinwell.
Banish all thoughts
of why and wherefore.
An order arrives,
an order is executed.
(SIGHS)
How is Dr. Watson?
His mood is erratic.
Whatever it is you're giving him,
it's doing a number on the man.
And today's collapse?
Watson says he slipped.
- (CHUCKLING)
- Yeah.
I don't think anyone believes him.
Continue on the current course.
And do not ignore an outreach again.
ADAM: Are you seeing this with Molly?
I am a conscientious objector
in the Molly Jones
Family History Project.
I'm hoping that once the
new EEG results come in
Watson will lose interest
in whatever this is.
ADAM: This is the first
picture I can find of her.
She must be, what, like, 17?
It's like her whole
life came online at once.
So, her parents kept
her off social media?
What parents?
Her chart lists their names
as Bradley and Nancy Jones,
but I can't find anything online
that matches up when
and where she grew up.
Maybe the whole family was offline.
She says her father died
in a car accident in 2006.
There's no Bradley Jones that died
in a wreck in Allegheny
County that year.
There's no obituary for a Nancy Jones.
It's like they're made up.
Oh, um
Lauren's firm just
recruited a new attorney.
She just moved here from Minneapolis
- and she knows no one.
- So?
So, we were thinking that you
come over to dinner on Thursday.
We invite Allison, too
No. In every way "no"
can be conceived, no.
Lauren says she's very attractive.
So, my ex-fiancée,
currently in residence
with my identical twin,
has taken an interest in my love life,
and then we just eat dinner?
There are cannibal movies
that end less gruesomely than that.
Where are you going?
Did we learn something?
You waved your hands around to
simulate the act of thinking.
I thought.
That's our process.
INGRID: I spearheaded
four clinical trials
focused on developing new treatment
for chronic tetraplegia.
I brought the idea of pursuing
this Spinal Signal Project to
UHOP after its success overseas.
I am on the younger side, but
great projects are
driven by great passion.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Being young never stopped
Walter Kohn of Carnegie Mellon.
Walter Kohn. Nobel
Prize in chemistry, 1998.
If you're pandering to CMU grads,
you must be appealing to Cianfrani.
Trying to get into the
Spinal Signal Project?
Trying to run it.
Fifteen paralyzed patients
receiving spinal cord implants.
AI rerouting the signal
around the damaged tissue.
Sexy stuff. Good luck.
- It won't interfere with my work here.
- Speaking of.
One.
- Two. Three.
- What are you doing?
Well, you're my
neurologist. I hit my head.
I figured you'd be
hounding me for a follow-up.
This is my neuro exam.
- Six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
- We'll get to that.
I really can't count if
you keep interrupting me.
- Thirteen, 14, 15
- I want to know what happened yesterday.
You obviously collapsed.
You sustained a second TBI on
top of the one you already had.
You know how dangerous it is
to start stacking brain injuries.
So, why are you lying?
What makes you think I'm lying?
You do.
You've been training us to
spot lies for months now.
(KNOCKING) Watson.
I can tell you exactly what
happened to Molly's mother.
It was observed that Molly
Jones had virtually no history.
Why the passive voice,
man? I observed it.
It was observed that Molly
Jones had virtually no history
before she turned 17.
I asked the admitting
nurse what happened
when she ran Molly's license.
"The nurse was asked what happened."
There are duplicate charts.
"The charts were duplicated."
One belongs to Molly Jones.
The other belongs to Linda Mancini.
Why did she change her name?
Linda Mancini. It sounds familiar.
I'm not surprised.
If you paid attention
to the news circa 2002,
most people knew the name Mancini.
That is Molly Jones' mother.
She's been in prison for 23 years
for drowning her son and daughter.
Her own kids?
Molly was the only survivor.
You wanted a family history?
I got you a family history.
(MONITORS BEEPING STEADILY)
What's with the look?
I'm assessing my patient.
No, you have weird sympathy eyes.
- Weird sympathy eyes?
- They usually go with phrases like,
"Sorry, Ms. Jones. The job
went to another candidate."
Or, "It's not you, Molly. It's me."
Weird sympathy eyes.
It means you don't want to hurt me
but you're gonna have to anyway.
I'm here to discuss your family history.
We did that.
Your real family history.
I don't That's not my
history. My name's Molly Jones.
Molly, you can escape your family,
but you can't escape your genes.
I hardly recognize
or remember that woman
- and I I just want to go. I just want
- Okay, Molly, listen, no,
- I don't want to do this right now.
- I understand, Molly, but
an accurate history is the
foundation of what I do.
Okay.
- So, maybe I can speak to your father?
- Gone.
Twelve years of blackout drinking.
And cirrhosis of the liver.
I don't feel good.
I don't feel good.
Molly.
(MONITOR BEEPING RAPIDLY)
I need some help! Patient is seizing!
Give me three three migs Lorazepam!
She's already on levetiracetam,
Dr. Watson.
WATSON: Molly Jones may
look like she's having a seizure,
but there's no epileptic
activity on her EEG.
She doesn't have epilepsy.
What does she have?
Psychogenic seizures.
Not actually a thing. That's like
saying "a non-heart heart attack."
There's no abnormal brain activity.
They're not epileptiform.
Thyroid function tests? She's
had persistent tachycardia.
WATSON: Very good. Dr. Derian,
you supervise the tests.
Dr. Lubbock, as of this moment,
you are now the
official Molly whisperer.
Uh, what does that
mean and why is it me?
Clearly, these incidents
are triggered by distress.
You're kind. Your presence is soothing.
That would make you the Molly whisperer.
- I'm kind.
- No. You're nice.
The Crofts and I will be
on family history detail.
How? She doesn't want to talk about it.
We're not talking to Molly.
We're talking to her
only living relative.
Felicia Mancini?
- The child murderer?
- Find me another relative
before tomorrow, I'll
spare you a prison visit.
Dr. Lubbock. You have had your left hand
in the same spot this entire meeting.
Oh, my God! Why didn't you tell us?
(ADAM LAUGHS)
(VOICES BECOME MUFFLED)
SASHA (CLEARLY): I'm sorry,
y'all, it's just been crazy today.
- There hasn't been much time.
- ADAM: Congratulations.
We should celebrate,
get the whole story.
That is what people do.
You know? Meet up after work.
Oh, thank you. That is so sweet.
Um but, you know, I've got some
got some planning to do
the next couple of nights.
But we should do it sometime soon.
Did anyone expect more humble bragging?
SHINWELL: You thinking about him?
Those are Moriarty's hands.
Guv, I can't be a friend to
you if you won't talk to me.
Look, you asked me to go to Mary
if things got too bad for you,
to tell her that it wasn't safe for you
to be a doctor anymore.
Well, if that means you
never say anything to me,
no offense, Guv, I bleeding resign.
All right, they've been
on my mind, Shinwell.
Holmes and Moriarty.
It's like I see 'em everywhere.
I don't know, maybe it's
the second TBI, the drugs.
Things have been getting weird.
Weird. W
What's that mean?
Means I need to get some sleep.
Did you two read up on
Felicia Mancini last night?
STEPHENS: No more than necessary.
She murdered her toddlers.
She's also not our patient.
She told the police a strange story.
The way Felicia tells it, she was
playing with her kids
while they took a bath.
She said, "I'm gonna eat you up."
The kids took it literally,
which can happen before
kids develop an understanding
for speech idioms.
The twins started crying.
And a minute or so later,
they were dead in the bathwater.
Those kids were too old for SIDS.
Strange story. No cop
would ever believe it.
It's almost like she
wasn't in her right mind.
(PHONE WHOOSHES)
(PHONE CHIMES)
Why do you keep texting me?
I'm sending you pictures
of Allison Moore.
- Please stop. And she could be
- (PHONE WHOOSHES)
- Princess Grace of Monaco,
- (PHONE CHIMES)
I wouldn't be interested.
Princess Grace of Monaco?
Just quit trying to set me up, please.
I'm seeing somebody.
- Seriously?
- Seriously?
ADAM: That's great.
You should bring her.
Or him.
Or them?
(BUZZER SOUNDING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
WATSON: Have either of you two
ever seen the inside of a prison?
ADAM: Has anyone on the team?
WATSON: None of you have
seen the inside of a prison,
but nobody needs to see the inside
of a prison more than you two.
I love it when you talk in riddles.
That wasn't a riddle.
- (KEYS JANGLING)
- (CUFFS CLINKING)
Dr. Watson?
Ms. Mancini.
Please tell me my daughter's okay.
Uh, the COs didn't have any details.
What's wrong?
You're staring.
Your daughter is under
our care and she's stable.
But five seconds ago,
I would have said I don't
know what's wrong with her.
- But now I think I do.
- What?
- What?
- What happened five seconds ago?
I looked at you.
You can tell what's wrong with Linda
- just by looking at me?
- I can.
And I'll tell you something else.
The story that you told the police
about what happened to your twins
I believe it's true.
I don't think you killed your kids.
The entire world believes
I killed my babies.
My own daughter believes it.
You don't.
How?
Why?
Your eyes, your nose,
and your ears.
You have a depressed nasal bridge,
thin vermillion of your upper lip,
and low-set ears.
Combine all of that with
the circumstances your family
is surrounded by and
I infer that the
Mancinis have a mutation
in your CACNA1C gene.
You think she has long QT syndrome.
Someone's been doing their homework.
Long QT syndrome affects
the heart's rhythm.
It can cause arrhythmic
syncope. That is often mistaken
for fainting spells, seizures.
Those episodes, left untreated,
can degenerate to V-fib
and that, in turn,
can cause sudden death in adults.
And children.
Alarm clock kids.
Startle them and
The mutation can have
degrees of penetrance.
Your long QT syndrome must have been
less significant than Molly's, and hers
must be less than the
version your twins had.
Your son and your daughter
were literally capable
of being scared to death.
(SOBBING)
Linda has this thing, too?
I know her as Molly, but yes.
I-I wrote
her letters.
Every month s-since I've been in here.
They came back "return
to sender" for a while,
and after that I didn't
have an address for her.
But I wrote them anyway.
Would you give them to her?
Of course.
- Thank you.
- I told you I think you're innocent.
Now we got to prove it.
Felicia Mancini and Molly
Jones, born Linda Mancini.
Mother and daughter,
each carrying a mutation
for the CACNA1C gene,
responsible for long QT syndrome type 8.
Molly has been spot-treating her anxiety
with beta blockers.
That's how she made it this
far without a serious incident.
Molly whisperer.
How's she doing?
Stable. She was resting when I got
- your text to come back here.
- Okay, good.
Give her a regular dose of propranolol
and we'll see how the symptoms respond.
Also, give her a cardiac
MRI, stress EKG the whole
cardiac workup. She'll
need surgery to implant
a cardioverter-defibrillator.
And you can soothe her with
your engagement stories.
You know, the ones
that you don't tell us.
- We've been busy.
- I'm sure you have.
What about our second patient?
How do you treat a
patient with no symptoms?
WATSON: No symptoms?
Felicia Mancini suffers
from an acute case
of unjust incarceration.
The treatment
is exoneration.
"The treatment is exoneration."
Those are four words in English.
I'm just not sure they mean
anything in that combination.
What do you think happens
if we turn this case over to a lawyer
who knows nothing about genetics?
We believe Felicia's innocent.
We have the expertise to prove it.
That makes it our jobs.
Are these police reports?
Police reports, court documents.
Everything I could get from
my people at Scotland Yard.
Do you want us to
review this stuff, too?
WATSON: Those are letters
from Felicia to her daughter.
Once Molly is stable,
we'll tell her the truth
and give her that box.
- Okay.
- Bury yourselves in Felicia's case.
Find a handhold.
And treat your patient.
Question.
Yes, Dr. Derian?
(HIGH-PITCHED RINGING) Watson?
You guys know what to do.
Report your findings.
SASHA: Watson's not okay.
His concussion's clearly
worse than he's letting on.
He's barely holding it together.
STEPHENS: It's almost like
doctors make the worst patients.
He's increasing his odds of
developing post-concussion syndrome.
And he's at risk of making
a serious error with a patient.
He's a potential danger to
himself and others right now.
STEPHENS: If he's unfit to work,
one of us has the
authority to send him home.
Some might say one of us has
the duty to send him home.
ADAM: Ingrid.
Talking about you over here.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
INGRID: How big are a
two-year-old's lungs?
Alveolarization is complete by then.
Something like 170 grams, all in.
How much water do you think would fit
into a pair of lungs that size?
You need to go home.
You obviously haven't
been disclosing all your symptoms.
You shouldn't be here.
Ask Molly Jones if she thinks that.
Then ask Felicia Mancini if she
You're a patient, too.
And you're refusing to get treated.
I'm gonna find out what
happened when you collapsed.
You realize that, don't you?
There was a witness.
Molly Jones has long QT syndrome.
You can't interrogate her.
If you're here when I'm back from lunch,
I'll report my findings
to the medical director.
Security can escort
you from the building.
You can read up on Felicia
Mancini while you're home.
I circled the good stuff.
♪
- Invite him along, and the trip's ruined
- Good afternoon, ladies.
John.
Are you okay?
Devin Chaplin.
Executive director of human resources.
It's good to see you again.
How long have you guys
been eating lunch together?
- Is it often?
- BOTH: Uh
- Sometimes.
- Not usually.
No? 'Cause it's a
pretty sizable hospital.
What, about two dozen
departments in all?
- And how long have you been here, hmm?
- Um
That's nice.
I just had my one-year anniversary.
(LAUGHING): Got it, the one year.
Just long enough to know which
side of the bagel each one likes.
I'm sorry, I don't recall giving
you this spot in the divorce.
(CHUCKLES): Oh, but wait.
We haven't actually been
divorced yet, now have we?
And, Devin, can you
please remind me again
what is the policy about
disclosing workplace romances?
John Watson.
(FADING, ECHOING): What do you want?
(HIGH-PITCHED RINGING)
(CLEARLY): I'm sorry, I just
I shouldn't be here.
So, um
I'm sorry.
SHINWELL: Sorry. I was in the
canteen when your text come through.
Oi.
You all right?
I saw him, Shinwell.
Holmes.
Saw him the other night.
Sherlock Holmes.
He's dead.
Saw Moriarty, too.
His hands they're everywhere I look.
The way I think, the way I feel.
It's like there's a poison inside me.
It shouldn't be happening.
Thought I had years, Shinwell.
Months, at least. Just too fast.
Let's get you home.
Come on.
So, I'm staying with you tonight.
At least tonight.
Did you let her in here?
STILLWELL: No.
She must have slipped in
while you were upstairs.
What are these?
Why do you have letters from my mother?
What are you doing in here, Molly?
I came in here for an update.
The door was open but
nobody was in here.
Saw a pile of letters
with my name on them.
What is this, Dr. Watson?
I believe you have a
very dangerous mutation
to your CACNA1C gene.
Your brother and your
sister had it, too.
You all got it from your mother.
If you're too agitated,
if you're startled,
you can trigger a cardiac event.
Is that what happened
to Brett and Serena, too?
Is my mom innocent?
Think we should have that
conversation once you're stable.
She's been in prison for 23 years,
I haven't answered a
single one of her letters,
and you're telling me she didn't do it?
Molly, have you had
your beta blockers today?
She's been there this entire time.
My mom.
- Molly
- I left her there to carry it by herself.
I left her in prison.
Molly, Molly, take Hold
on, hold on, take deep breaths.
(COUGHS) Please
- Molly.
- (GRUNTING)
Molly.
Get the code cart.
Patient presented asystolic, no pulse.
EPI was administered.
We're now going to implant
a cardioverter-defibrillator.
(MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY)
(HIGH-PITCHED RINGING)
MARY: John. John.
The surgery's over, John.
They installed the ICD in
her heart. She's stable.
You saved her life.
But you still need to go home.
What happened earlier
You're a doctor on my staff,
and you clearly weren't yourself.
I have to document this.
My report goes into your HR file.
If that stack of paper gets too tall,
this won't be sustainable, John.
Ready for some sleep, guv?
Every time I take on a case,
I know it could be my last one.
These symptoms, they're
they're gonna take my career.
Gonna take my memory.
You're gonna call me John Watson
and I won't even know who that is.
I can't abandon these patients
in the middle of a case.
They need me.
I need them.
I cannot see where
you're abandoning anyone.
Hey?
Molly Jones knows what's wrong with her,
and she knows how to manage it.
I'm not thinking about Molly.
I'm thinking about Felicia.
Perverse though it may be,
she ain't going nowhere.
When you're ready to work,
she'll be right there
where you left her.
Huh?
Here.
Thank you, Shinwell.
For being here for me.
Where else would I be?
(GRUNTS)
(SIGHS)
Oh.
(PHONE RINGS)
NURSE: Everett Assisted Living.
Dr. Conrad Tran.
Yes?
You were the Allegheny County
Coroner for almost 20 years.
You did the autopsy on
Felicia Mancini's twins.
What do you want?
It's your lucky day.
Today, you get a chance to right
- your greatest wrong.
- (BEEP)
(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
Business with Dr. Morstan?
It's for his own good.
Watson told me to do this.
He told me to go see Mary.
You're familiar with a
man named Sebastian Moran?
(SIGHS)
Moriarty's hatchet.
He has a cottage in Wellington Mews,
directly adjacent to the one occupied
- by William and Nancy Evans.
- (SIGHS)
I see you remember Bakewell,
and Mr. and Mrs. Evans.
I gather they were quite kind to you.
Kinder than my own parents.
A single word from me or our employer
and Sebastian Moran will
call on the Evans family.
I promise you,
a hatchet would be the kindest option
available to them on that day.
One last thing.
You can swap these pills in
for the ones you've been replacing.
Tamsulosin.
0.4 milligrams,
just as the man's been prescribing.
Dr. Watson should be
feeling himself again soon.
Morning.
Morning.
Are you happy?
I beg your pardon?
You don't have to give us the details.
It's your private life.
I hope it was everything you wanted.
I hope that you're happy.
I'm happy.
MAN: Excuse me.
This is from Dr. Watson.
I'm supposed to tell you it's important.
Oh.
Thank you so much.
TRAN: My name is Conrad Tran.
Twenty-three years ago,
I performed an autopsy on twin children
born to Felicia Mancini and her husband.
The conclusion at the
crime scene was obvious:
Felicia Mancini drowned
her own children.
But my findings didn't support that.
The children had very
little water in their lungs.
I succumbed to the pressure.
I wrote a false finding.
I lied.
I wrote a false finding under
the entries of lung weight,
one that supported the
conclusion of drowning.
We knew so little of genetic medicine.
I chased the waterfalls ♪
I was the leaving kind ♪
I never wasted time ♪
You walked to watch my call ♪
You saw the warning
signs, didn't mean ♪
Shooting my shot here.
Dinner's still on.
No Allison, but you bring
this mysterious paramour.
We'd love to meet her.
Still a cannibal movie?
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
You're gnawing on my liver.
You are kind.
I mean, you're nice,
too, but you're also kind.
You build these worlds
in your head, though.
You create a universe where
you can never do anything wrong,
even when you're living with
your brother's ex-fiancée.
You asked for my permission,
and I said yes.
What else could I say?
Doesn't mean that I'm okay with it.
Doesn't mean that I'm
ready to see you together.
TRAN: There was no credible
explanation for how the children died.
I'm grateful to Dr. John Watson
for explaining to me
what really happened.
To Felicia Mancini and
her surviving child
I have no words.
Only the truth,
late though it may be.
I wish you peace and happiness
with your remaining days.
Whatever we're going through ♪
ZACH: Hey.
Hey, uh.
Sorry.
I-I did laundry.
I didn't mean to snoop. I
I did laundry and I found it.
I ruined the surprise.
It's okay, babe.
(LAUGHS)
Soon.
I promise, okay?
Mm-hmm.
Morning, Dr. Derian.
Watson. Nice to have you back.
Thank you.
For circling the lung
weight on the medical report.
They were heavier than the lungs
of a two-year-old could possibly be.
Even ones filled with water.
Did Dr. Tran record that
statement after you showed him?
Lay it all out in front of
him, and it's hard to deny.
Better to make a statement
and get ahead of everything.
- And Felicia?
- D.A. has the statement.
The results of the genetic
testing on Molly and Felicia.
It's gonna take some time,
but I'm confident she'll be freed.
Ingrid.
You did a good thing.
The Spinal Signal Project.
I heard they turned you down.
Cianfrani and I,
we graduated from CMU the same year.
I could talk to him.
I think you'd be an asset.
Is this a thank you
for helping with Felicia
or a bribe so that I don't find
out what happened when you fell?
That's water under the bridge, Ingrid.
I'm doing much better now.
I'm happy to put in a good word.
If you still need to dig
around last week's business
follow your conscience, I suppose.
MOLLY: Dr. Watson.
Hi.
They're discharging me today.
I think I'm ready to see her.
I concur.
Yeah, well, I'm not
letting you off that easy.
I want my doctor there.
I'm an alarm clock kid.
(DOOR BUZZES IN DISTANCE)
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
You okay?
Mm
I'm about to see my mother
for the first time in 23 years,
So, no, I'm not okay at all.
And I kind of want to hold your hand.
I understand.
(DOOR BUZZES, LOCK CLICKS)
- Hi! Hi.
- (GASPS)
(BOTH CRYING)
SHINWELL: Dr. Watson.
You were the best friend
Sherlock Holmes ever had.
Holmes!
SHINWELL: Three men
went over the waterfall.
Yourself, Sherlock Holmes and
the man we'd been chasing.
WATSON: James Moriarty.
SHINWELL: You've had
a knock on the head.
A traumatic brain injury.
Sherlock Holmes funded
a clinic for you to run.
I remember things about him.
- Him, James Moriarty?
- I see his hands.
His fingers are fused.
Almost like they make the shape
of an M.
An archvillain named Moriarty
whose hands make the shape of an M?
That sounds fictional.
Professor Moriarty has a task for you.
You are to empty the
bottle of tamsulosin
and replace it with these pills.
(CROWD LAUGHING)
Let's give it up for
Rob Doherty, everybody.
(CHEERING, APPLAUSE)
Glad you like the show tonight.
- That's Rob Doherty's mom
- STAGEHAND: Molly?
- You're up next.
- Uh
I thought I had more time.
The other guy bailed. Don't
tell me you're bailing, too.
All right, uh, we have a really funny
- lady coming out now, our next comic.
- Okay.
Give it up for Molly Jones.
Get on out here, Molly.
- Hi. Thank you - (APPLAUSE)
for, like, the very warm welcome.
Thankfully, judging from the last act,
you guys will literally
laugh at anything.
Great. Um, quick question.
Who here has anxiety?
Great. Cool. Do you have drugs?
Because I kind of lost mine backstage.
Whatever, they say
laughter's the best medicine.
But don't lay it on too
thick, because Big Pharma
will shut this place down.
Um, so, my mom
used to, um
say, uh
Sorry, could I get a
little water up here, maybe?
So
my mom used to say
to me, um,
(ECHOING): "Do you know why you'll
never make it as a comedian?"
(CROWD EXCLAIMING)
Call 911.
WATSON: Since the brain
injury, my symptoms include
increased insomnia, elevated heart rate.
Migraine with aura.
Speech is clear, as is
auditory comprehension.
Reading is jumbled, though.
Transient aphasia marks a
shift in migraine pattern.
My TBI symptoms shouldn't
be getting worse.
- You playing "diagnose the mystery head"?
- Archibald.
I call him
Archibald.
Looks more like a
Steven.
Where is he?
- In his office.
- In his office.
So, we're diagnosing
Harry while we wait?
- Steven.
- Archibald.
Loeys-Dietz syndrome?
No cleft palate, no hypertelorism.
Supposed to be a collaborative exercise.
Maybe suggest something?
(SHORT CHUCKLE) Watson said
it's a collaborative exercise.
He meant it's a competition.
Competition for what?
Glory. Vindication.
I don't know.
I keep my theories to myself.
And by "glory and vindication,"
you mean Watson's approval.
Mm, don't diagnose
us. Diagnose the head.
What are you up to, guv?
You know what, uh,
Shinwell? I just hadn't
played with this thing in a while.
It works.
Uh-huh.
So, here's you,
surveying the landscape, as one does,
and suddenly, you happen
to catch a glimpse of your ex-wife.
Mary is not my ex yet.
I'll be sure to pass that along
to her divorce lawyer, guv.
Mary and I used to meet there
in the mornings for coffee.
I was just wondering if she's meeting
with Devin Chaplin there now.
Gummi.
I believe there's a word
for observing a couple
- via telescope in a clandestine fashion.
- No, no,
I'm not spying,
Shinwell. Okay? I just
I-I haven't seen them together yet,
and I just want to confirm my theory.
Confirm via means of
(CHUCKLES) Okay, yes.
- Spying.
- Spying.
Once I know I'm right
I'll be able to let it go.
(HIGH-PITCHED RINGING)
- Guv?
- No, no, I'm good, I'm good, just
adjusting to my TBI
medication, that's all.
Speaking of which
Got a new prescription.
I need you to start on that today.
There's a young woman in reception.
Seems she took a knock on the head
and she's not happy with her doctors.
Yeah, we don't take walk-ins.
I know. There's one thing about
this particular young lady.
You've got red hair.
I hope you're not the one
the nurses call a genius.
John Watson. I'm a clinical
geneticist and an internist.
Molly Jones. Comedian
and data entry specialist.
Mind if I see your hair?
Yeah. Got five staples under there.
It's not exactly pretty.
You don't color it. Good.
Yes.
I'll see you.
You just have to join
the Redheaded League.
(LAUGHS SOFTLY)
Are you an actual doctor?
Redheaded League?
- It's the name for a long-term study.
- Okay.
Ever feel like a dentist
is purposely withholding
pain medication from you?
The gene variance responsible
for your red hair
it also makes you
require more anesthesia.
Okay.
So, this study, what is it
punch me in the face
and give me an aspirin?
That's funny.
You know, saying "that's
funny" isn't the same thing
as actually laughing.
You better be worth it.
So, what's your favorite joke?
You ever go to parties, Dr. Watson?
If I'm dragged.
So, do you like when a
person at a party asks you
to examine the rash on their elbow?
So, why'd you come down to the clinic?
Um, my doctors kept shrugging.
They said that maybe I have epilepsy,
that I should probably
talk to a neurologist
- (HIGH-PITCHED RINGING)- (FADING,
ECHOING): when I can get an appointment,
(REGULAR VOLUME): in,
like, seven months.
(GRUNTS SOFTLY)
Based on the
incident you describe,
I do think working you up
on a seizure disorder is indicated.
Yeah, I mean, it's the easy answer.
It's a great way to shoo off
the chronically underinsured.
That's not something I'd do.
I don't know, Doc.
Maybe I'm here because I'm scared.
Maybe I'm tired of people
telling me I have epilepsy.
I mean, neither of my parents had it.
Well, that's not dispositive.
Only about one third of the
epilepsy cases are inherited.
(HIGH-PITCHED RINGING)
- You okay?
- Yeah, no, I'm fine. I'm fine.
So, you said that neither of
your parents had the disorder.
Are they deceased?
May I ask how?
My father died in a car accident
and my mom had cancer.
(HEART BEATING)
What, is something wrong with my heart?
(HIGH-PITCHED RINGING)
Do you want to hear that joke?
So, my mom once said to me,
"You know why you'll never
make it as a comedian?"
Why not?
Dr. Watson?
Dr. Watson?
(WHIMPERS) Help!
♪
- SASHA: Dr. Watson, stay with us.
- ADAM: Stay with us, Watson.
Can you tell us where you are?
He's losing consciousness.
We're almost there, Doctor.
MAN: The scans are negative
for an intracranial bleed.
You took a hell of a hit.
Do you remember it?
Some.
Starting to come back to me.
What did you hear?
Just that you fell.
(LINE RINGING)
- Hello?
- WATSON: Molly. It's Dr. Watson.
I need to see you.
There's killing with a joke
and then there's whatever that was.
You didn't let me get to the punch line.
I'm all ears.
And swollen brain tissue.
- You should be resting.
- So, what'd you tell people?
When I fell, what did
you what'd you say?
I said you fell.
"Fell" or "collapsed"?
- Why?
- It's good news.
I'm taking you on as a
patient at the clinic.
We have four other
specialists, no wait times.
We even have a robot we call Clyde.
- Mm.
- Now I'm waiting for the punch line.
If anybody asks you what
happened and they will ask
you tell them that I spilled
some water and I slipped on it.
So, what's your story
are you an addict or something?
I have a traumatic brain injury.
I-I was there.
That was my second
traumatic brain injury.
So you're just collecting the whole set?
Yeah, three more and
I get a free car wash.
Puddles.
Very underrated hazard.
Yes, they are.
Watson.
- How are you?
- I slipped,
took a knock on the head, we move on.
I need to get another CT,
MRI, plus an EEG.
Ingrid's your neurologist.
I'm sure she's all over it.
The tests aren't for me. They're
for our patient, Molly Jones.
A new patient. Now?
I don't understand. She has epilepsy.
Where's the case?
She might have epilepsy.
You and your brother are
now on family history detail.
I'm pretty sure, during
her initial visit,
Molly lied about how her mother died.
- How did
- How'd I know this?
Stethoscope. Heart
rate. General intuition.
But if we're gonna find out
what's wrong with Molly Jones,
we need to know if the
fall caused the seizure
or if the seizure caused the fall.
We'll never get a full picture
until we have an
accurate family history.
Watson.
Do you need anything?
Thank you, Dr. Lubbock,
but the only thing I
need is for you to tell me
what's wrong with Molly Jones.
Holmes?
MARY (MUFFLED, ECHOING):
John. John. John.
(CLEARLY): John. Are
you okay? How are you?
Well, I'm not gonna sue.
Water on the floor, doctor falls.
Could be quite the lawsuit.
Um, I'm treating a comedian.
Apparently a sense of
humor is not contagious.
Who's gonna check on you tonight?
You have a concussion.
Someone needs to wake
you up to check on you.
You can stay at the house.
I'll make up the guest room.
I got a cut.
- Scans were negative.
- At least let me order you home care.
I've got Shinwell.
He can always scare off
any type of complication.
(PHONE CHIMES, VIBRATES)
(CHIMES, VIBRATES)
(TYPING)
We're not to be ignored.
We're not to be summoned.
What am I doing to the man?
These pills.
(PILLS RATTLE)
I looked up the ones
you had me swap out.
Watson was prescribing
himself tamsulosin.
0.4 milligrams to help with nightmares.
Now, what am I giving him instead?
If you want Watson dead so much,
why don't you just get on with it?!
And Moriarty's got people for that.
Why does it have to be me?!
This need for information
it's unhealthy, Shinwell.
Banish all thoughts
of why and wherefore.
An order arrives,
an order is executed.
(SIGHS)
How is Dr. Watson?
His mood is erratic.
Whatever it is you're giving him,
it's doing a number on the man.
And today's collapse?
Watson says he slipped.
- (CHUCKLING)
- Yeah.
I don't think anyone believes him.
Continue on the current course.
And do not ignore an outreach again.
ADAM: Are you seeing this with Molly?
I am a conscientious objector
in the Molly Jones
Family History Project.
I'm hoping that once the
new EEG results come in
Watson will lose interest
in whatever this is.
ADAM: This is the first
picture I can find of her.
She must be, what, like, 17?
It's like her whole
life came online at once.
So, her parents kept
her off social media?
What parents?
Her chart lists their names
as Bradley and Nancy Jones,
but I can't find anything online
that matches up when
and where she grew up.
Maybe the whole family was offline.
She says her father died
in a car accident in 2006.
There's no Bradley Jones that died
in a wreck in Allegheny
County that year.
There's no obituary for a Nancy Jones.
It's like they're made up.
Oh, um
Lauren's firm just
recruited a new attorney.
She just moved here from Minneapolis
- and she knows no one.
- So?
So, we were thinking that you
come over to dinner on Thursday.
We invite Allison, too
No. In every way "no"
can be conceived, no.
Lauren says she's very attractive.
So, my ex-fiancée,
currently in residence
with my identical twin,
has taken an interest in my love life,
and then we just eat dinner?
There are cannibal movies
that end less gruesomely than that.
Where are you going?
Did we learn something?
You waved your hands around to
simulate the act of thinking.
I thought.
That's our process.
INGRID: I spearheaded
four clinical trials
focused on developing new treatment
for chronic tetraplegia.
I brought the idea of pursuing
this Spinal Signal Project to
UHOP after its success overseas.
I am on the younger side, but
great projects are
driven by great passion.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Being young never stopped
Walter Kohn of Carnegie Mellon.
Walter Kohn. Nobel
Prize in chemistry, 1998.
If you're pandering to CMU grads,
you must be appealing to Cianfrani.
Trying to get into the
Spinal Signal Project?
Trying to run it.
Fifteen paralyzed patients
receiving spinal cord implants.
AI rerouting the signal
around the damaged tissue.
Sexy stuff. Good luck.
- It won't interfere with my work here.
- Speaking of.
One.
- Two. Three.
- What are you doing?
Well, you're my
neurologist. I hit my head.
I figured you'd be
hounding me for a follow-up.
This is my neuro exam.
- Six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
- We'll get to that.
I really can't count if
you keep interrupting me.
- Thirteen, 14, 15
- I want to know what happened yesterday.
You obviously collapsed.
You sustained a second TBI on
top of the one you already had.
You know how dangerous it is
to start stacking brain injuries.
So, why are you lying?
What makes you think I'm lying?
You do.
You've been training us to
spot lies for months now.
(KNOCKING) Watson.
I can tell you exactly what
happened to Molly's mother.
It was observed that Molly
Jones had virtually no history.
Why the passive voice,
man? I observed it.
It was observed that Molly
Jones had virtually no history
before she turned 17.
I asked the admitting
nurse what happened
when she ran Molly's license.
"The nurse was asked what happened."
There are duplicate charts.
"The charts were duplicated."
One belongs to Molly Jones.
The other belongs to Linda Mancini.
Why did she change her name?
Linda Mancini. It sounds familiar.
I'm not surprised.
If you paid attention
to the news circa 2002,
most people knew the name Mancini.
That is Molly Jones' mother.
She's been in prison for 23 years
for drowning her son and daughter.
Her own kids?
Molly was the only survivor.
You wanted a family history?
I got you a family history.
(MONITORS BEEPING STEADILY)
What's with the look?
I'm assessing my patient.
No, you have weird sympathy eyes.
- Weird sympathy eyes?
- They usually go with phrases like,
"Sorry, Ms. Jones. The job
went to another candidate."
Or, "It's not you, Molly. It's me."
Weird sympathy eyes.
It means you don't want to hurt me
but you're gonna have to anyway.
I'm here to discuss your family history.
We did that.
Your real family history.
I don't That's not my
history. My name's Molly Jones.
Molly, you can escape your family,
but you can't escape your genes.
I hardly recognize
or remember that woman
- and I I just want to go. I just want
- Okay, Molly, listen, no,
- I don't want to do this right now.
- I understand, Molly, but
an accurate history is the
foundation of what I do.
Okay.
- So, maybe I can speak to your father?
- Gone.
Twelve years of blackout drinking.
And cirrhosis of the liver.
I don't feel good.
I don't feel good.
Molly.
(MONITOR BEEPING RAPIDLY)
I need some help! Patient is seizing!
Give me three three migs Lorazepam!
She's already on levetiracetam,
Dr. Watson.
WATSON: Molly Jones may
look like she's having a seizure,
but there's no epileptic
activity on her EEG.
She doesn't have epilepsy.
What does she have?
Psychogenic seizures.
Not actually a thing. That's like
saying "a non-heart heart attack."
There's no abnormal brain activity.
They're not epileptiform.
Thyroid function tests? She's
had persistent tachycardia.
WATSON: Very good. Dr. Derian,
you supervise the tests.
Dr. Lubbock, as of this moment,
you are now the
official Molly whisperer.
Uh, what does that
mean and why is it me?
Clearly, these incidents
are triggered by distress.
You're kind. Your presence is soothing.
That would make you the Molly whisperer.
- I'm kind.
- No. You're nice.
The Crofts and I will be
on family history detail.
How? She doesn't want to talk about it.
We're not talking to Molly.
We're talking to her
only living relative.
Felicia Mancini?
- The child murderer?
- Find me another relative
before tomorrow, I'll
spare you a prison visit.
Dr. Lubbock. You have had your left hand
in the same spot this entire meeting.
Oh, my God! Why didn't you tell us?
(ADAM LAUGHS)
(VOICES BECOME MUFFLED)
SASHA (CLEARLY): I'm sorry,
y'all, it's just been crazy today.
- There hasn't been much time.
- ADAM: Congratulations.
We should celebrate,
get the whole story.
That is what people do.
You know? Meet up after work.
Oh, thank you. That is so sweet.
Um but, you know, I've got some
got some planning to do
the next couple of nights.
But we should do it sometime soon.
Did anyone expect more humble bragging?
SHINWELL: You thinking about him?
Those are Moriarty's hands.
Guv, I can't be a friend to
you if you won't talk to me.
Look, you asked me to go to Mary
if things got too bad for you,
to tell her that it wasn't safe for you
to be a doctor anymore.
Well, if that means you
never say anything to me,
no offense, Guv, I bleeding resign.
All right, they've been
on my mind, Shinwell.
Holmes and Moriarty.
It's like I see 'em everywhere.
I don't know, maybe it's
the second TBI, the drugs.
Things have been getting weird.
Weird. W
What's that mean?
Means I need to get some sleep.
Did you two read up on
Felicia Mancini last night?
STEPHENS: No more than necessary.
She murdered her toddlers.
She's also not our patient.
She told the police a strange story.
The way Felicia tells it, she was
playing with her kids
while they took a bath.
She said, "I'm gonna eat you up."
The kids took it literally,
which can happen before
kids develop an understanding
for speech idioms.
The twins started crying.
And a minute or so later,
they were dead in the bathwater.
Those kids were too old for SIDS.
Strange story. No cop
would ever believe it.
It's almost like she
wasn't in her right mind.
(PHONE WHOOSHES)
(PHONE CHIMES)
Why do you keep texting me?
I'm sending you pictures
of Allison Moore.
- Please stop. And she could be
- (PHONE WHOOSHES)
- Princess Grace of Monaco,
- (PHONE CHIMES)
I wouldn't be interested.
Princess Grace of Monaco?
Just quit trying to set me up, please.
I'm seeing somebody.
- Seriously?
- Seriously?
ADAM: That's great.
You should bring her.
Or him.
Or them?
(BUZZER SOUNDING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
WATSON: Have either of you two
ever seen the inside of a prison?
ADAM: Has anyone on the team?
WATSON: None of you have
seen the inside of a prison,
but nobody needs to see the inside
of a prison more than you two.
I love it when you talk in riddles.
That wasn't a riddle.
- (KEYS JANGLING)
- (CUFFS CLINKING)
Dr. Watson?
Ms. Mancini.
Please tell me my daughter's okay.
Uh, the COs didn't have any details.
What's wrong?
You're staring.
Your daughter is under
our care and she's stable.
But five seconds ago,
I would have said I don't
know what's wrong with her.
- But now I think I do.
- What?
- What?
- What happened five seconds ago?
I looked at you.
You can tell what's wrong with Linda
- just by looking at me?
- I can.
And I'll tell you something else.
The story that you told the police
about what happened to your twins
I believe it's true.
I don't think you killed your kids.
The entire world believes
I killed my babies.
My own daughter believes it.
You don't.
How?
Why?
Your eyes, your nose,
and your ears.
You have a depressed nasal bridge,
thin vermillion of your upper lip,
and low-set ears.
Combine all of that with
the circumstances your family
is surrounded by and
I infer that the
Mancinis have a mutation
in your CACNA1C gene.
You think she has long QT syndrome.
Someone's been doing their homework.
Long QT syndrome affects
the heart's rhythm.
It can cause arrhythmic
syncope. That is often mistaken
for fainting spells, seizures.
Those episodes, left untreated,
can degenerate to V-fib
and that, in turn,
can cause sudden death in adults.
And children.
Alarm clock kids.
Startle them and
The mutation can have
degrees of penetrance.
Your long QT syndrome must have been
less significant than Molly's, and hers
must be less than the
version your twins had.
Your son and your daughter
were literally capable
of being scared to death.
(SOBBING)
Linda has this thing, too?
I know her as Molly, but yes.
I-I wrote
her letters.
Every month s-since I've been in here.
They came back "return
to sender" for a while,
and after that I didn't
have an address for her.
But I wrote them anyway.
Would you give them to her?
Of course.
- Thank you.
- I told you I think you're innocent.
Now we got to prove it.
Felicia Mancini and Molly
Jones, born Linda Mancini.
Mother and daughter,
each carrying a mutation
for the CACNA1C gene,
responsible for long QT syndrome type 8.
Molly has been spot-treating her anxiety
with beta blockers.
That's how she made it this
far without a serious incident.
Molly whisperer.
How's she doing?
Stable. She was resting when I got
- your text to come back here.
- Okay, good.
Give her a regular dose of propranolol
and we'll see how the symptoms respond.
Also, give her a cardiac
MRI, stress EKG the whole
cardiac workup. She'll
need surgery to implant
a cardioverter-defibrillator.
And you can soothe her with
your engagement stories.
You know, the ones
that you don't tell us.
- We've been busy.
- I'm sure you have.
What about our second patient?
How do you treat a
patient with no symptoms?
WATSON: No symptoms?
Felicia Mancini suffers
from an acute case
of unjust incarceration.
The treatment
is exoneration.
"The treatment is exoneration."
Those are four words in English.
I'm just not sure they mean
anything in that combination.
What do you think happens
if we turn this case over to a lawyer
who knows nothing about genetics?
We believe Felicia's innocent.
We have the expertise to prove it.
That makes it our jobs.
Are these police reports?
Police reports, court documents.
Everything I could get from
my people at Scotland Yard.
Do you want us to
review this stuff, too?
WATSON: Those are letters
from Felicia to her daughter.
Once Molly is stable,
we'll tell her the truth
and give her that box.
- Okay.
- Bury yourselves in Felicia's case.
Find a handhold.
And treat your patient.
Question.
Yes, Dr. Derian?
(HIGH-PITCHED RINGING) Watson?
You guys know what to do.
Report your findings.
SASHA: Watson's not okay.
His concussion's clearly
worse than he's letting on.
He's barely holding it together.
STEPHENS: It's almost like
doctors make the worst patients.
He's increasing his odds of
developing post-concussion syndrome.
And he's at risk of making
a serious error with a patient.
He's a potential danger to
himself and others right now.
STEPHENS: If he's unfit to work,
one of us has the
authority to send him home.
Some might say one of us has
the duty to send him home.
ADAM: Ingrid.
Talking about you over here.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
INGRID: How big are a
two-year-old's lungs?
Alveolarization is complete by then.
Something like 170 grams, all in.
How much water do you think would fit
into a pair of lungs that size?
You need to go home.
You obviously haven't
been disclosing all your symptoms.
You shouldn't be here.
Ask Molly Jones if she thinks that.
Then ask Felicia Mancini if she
You're a patient, too.
And you're refusing to get treated.
I'm gonna find out what
happened when you collapsed.
You realize that, don't you?
There was a witness.
Molly Jones has long QT syndrome.
You can't interrogate her.
If you're here when I'm back from lunch,
I'll report my findings
to the medical director.
Security can escort
you from the building.
You can read up on Felicia
Mancini while you're home.
I circled the good stuff.
♪
- Invite him along, and the trip's ruined
- Good afternoon, ladies.
John.
Are you okay?
Devin Chaplin.
Executive director of human resources.
It's good to see you again.
How long have you guys
been eating lunch together?
- Is it often?
- BOTH: Uh
- Sometimes.
- Not usually.
No? 'Cause it's a
pretty sizable hospital.
What, about two dozen
departments in all?
- And how long have you been here, hmm?
- Um
That's nice.
I just had my one-year anniversary.
(LAUGHING): Got it, the one year.
Just long enough to know which
side of the bagel each one likes.
I'm sorry, I don't recall giving
you this spot in the divorce.
(CHUCKLES): Oh, but wait.
We haven't actually been
divorced yet, now have we?
And, Devin, can you
please remind me again
what is the policy about
disclosing workplace romances?
John Watson.
(FADING, ECHOING): What do you want?
(HIGH-PITCHED RINGING)
(CLEARLY): I'm sorry, I just
I shouldn't be here.
So, um
I'm sorry.
SHINWELL: Sorry. I was in the
canteen when your text come through.
Oi.
You all right?
I saw him, Shinwell.
Holmes.
Saw him the other night.
Sherlock Holmes.
He's dead.
Saw Moriarty, too.
His hands they're everywhere I look.
The way I think, the way I feel.
It's like there's a poison inside me.
It shouldn't be happening.
Thought I had years, Shinwell.
Months, at least. Just too fast.
Let's get you home.
Come on.
So, I'm staying with you tonight.
At least tonight.
Did you let her in here?
STILLWELL: No.
She must have slipped in
while you were upstairs.
What are these?
Why do you have letters from my mother?
What are you doing in here, Molly?
I came in here for an update.
The door was open but
nobody was in here.
Saw a pile of letters
with my name on them.
What is this, Dr. Watson?
I believe you have a
very dangerous mutation
to your CACNA1C gene.
Your brother and your
sister had it, too.
You all got it from your mother.
If you're too agitated,
if you're startled,
you can trigger a cardiac event.
Is that what happened
to Brett and Serena, too?
Is my mom innocent?
Think we should have that
conversation once you're stable.
She's been in prison for 23 years,
I haven't answered a
single one of her letters,
and you're telling me she didn't do it?
Molly, have you had
your beta blockers today?
She's been there this entire time.
My mom.
- Molly
- I left her there to carry it by herself.
I left her in prison.
Molly, Molly, take Hold
on, hold on, take deep breaths.
(COUGHS) Please
- Molly.
- (GRUNTING)
Molly.
Get the code cart.
Patient presented asystolic, no pulse.
EPI was administered.
We're now going to implant
a cardioverter-defibrillator.
(MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY)
(HIGH-PITCHED RINGING)
MARY: John. John.
The surgery's over, John.
They installed the ICD in
her heart. She's stable.
You saved her life.
But you still need to go home.
What happened earlier
You're a doctor on my staff,
and you clearly weren't yourself.
I have to document this.
My report goes into your HR file.
If that stack of paper gets too tall,
this won't be sustainable, John.
Ready for some sleep, guv?
Every time I take on a case,
I know it could be my last one.
These symptoms, they're
they're gonna take my career.
Gonna take my memory.
You're gonna call me John Watson
and I won't even know who that is.
I can't abandon these patients
in the middle of a case.
They need me.
I need them.
I cannot see where
you're abandoning anyone.
Hey?
Molly Jones knows what's wrong with her,
and she knows how to manage it.
I'm not thinking about Molly.
I'm thinking about Felicia.
Perverse though it may be,
she ain't going nowhere.
When you're ready to work,
she'll be right there
where you left her.
Huh?
Here.
Thank you, Shinwell.
For being here for me.
Where else would I be?
(GRUNTS)
(SIGHS)
Oh.
(PHONE RINGS)
NURSE: Everett Assisted Living.
Dr. Conrad Tran.
Yes?
You were the Allegheny County
Coroner for almost 20 years.
You did the autopsy on
Felicia Mancini's twins.
What do you want?
It's your lucky day.
Today, you get a chance to right
- your greatest wrong.
- (BEEP)
(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
Business with Dr. Morstan?
It's for his own good.
Watson told me to do this.
He told me to go see Mary.
You're familiar with a
man named Sebastian Moran?
(SIGHS)
Moriarty's hatchet.
He has a cottage in Wellington Mews,
directly adjacent to the one occupied
- by William and Nancy Evans.
- (SIGHS)
I see you remember Bakewell,
and Mr. and Mrs. Evans.
I gather they were quite kind to you.
Kinder than my own parents.
A single word from me or our employer
and Sebastian Moran will
call on the Evans family.
I promise you,
a hatchet would be the kindest option
available to them on that day.
One last thing.
You can swap these pills in
for the ones you've been replacing.
Tamsulosin.
0.4 milligrams,
just as the man's been prescribing.
Dr. Watson should be
feeling himself again soon.
Morning.
Morning.
Are you happy?
I beg your pardon?
You don't have to give us the details.
It's your private life.
I hope it was everything you wanted.
I hope that you're happy.
I'm happy.
MAN: Excuse me.
This is from Dr. Watson.
I'm supposed to tell you it's important.
Oh.
Thank you so much.
TRAN: My name is Conrad Tran.
Twenty-three years ago,
I performed an autopsy on twin children
born to Felicia Mancini and her husband.
The conclusion at the
crime scene was obvious:
Felicia Mancini drowned
her own children.
But my findings didn't support that.
The children had very
little water in their lungs.
I succumbed to the pressure.
I wrote a false finding.
I lied.
I wrote a false finding under
the entries of lung weight,
one that supported the
conclusion of drowning.
We knew so little of genetic medicine.
I chased the waterfalls ♪
I was the leaving kind ♪
I never wasted time ♪
You walked to watch my call ♪
You saw the warning
signs, didn't mean ♪
Shooting my shot here.
Dinner's still on.
No Allison, but you bring
this mysterious paramour.
We'd love to meet her.
Still a cannibal movie?
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
You're gnawing on my liver.
You are kind.
I mean, you're nice,
too, but you're also kind.
You build these worlds
in your head, though.
You create a universe where
you can never do anything wrong,
even when you're living with
your brother's ex-fiancée.
You asked for my permission,
and I said yes.
What else could I say?
Doesn't mean that I'm okay with it.
Doesn't mean that I'm
ready to see you together.
TRAN: There was no credible
explanation for how the children died.
I'm grateful to Dr. John Watson
for explaining to me
what really happened.
To Felicia Mancini and
her surviving child
I have no words.
Only the truth,
late though it may be.
I wish you peace and happiness
with your remaining days.
Whatever we're going through ♪
ZACH: Hey.
Hey, uh.
Sorry.
I-I did laundry.
I didn't mean to snoop. I
I did laundry and I found it.
I ruined the surprise.
It's okay, babe.
(LAUGHS)
Soon.
I promise, okay?
Mm-hmm.
Morning, Dr. Derian.
Watson. Nice to have you back.
Thank you.
For circling the lung
weight on the medical report.
They were heavier than the lungs
of a two-year-old could possibly be.
Even ones filled with water.
Did Dr. Tran record that
statement after you showed him?
Lay it all out in front of
him, and it's hard to deny.
Better to make a statement
and get ahead of everything.
- And Felicia?
- D.A. has the statement.
The results of the genetic
testing on Molly and Felicia.
It's gonna take some time,
but I'm confident she'll be freed.
Ingrid.
You did a good thing.
The Spinal Signal Project.
I heard they turned you down.
Cianfrani and I,
we graduated from CMU the same year.
I could talk to him.
I think you'd be an asset.
Is this a thank you
for helping with Felicia
or a bribe so that I don't find
out what happened when you fell?
That's water under the bridge, Ingrid.
I'm doing much better now.
I'm happy to put in a good word.
If you still need to dig
around last week's business
follow your conscience, I suppose.
MOLLY: Dr. Watson.
Hi.
They're discharging me today.
I think I'm ready to see her.
I concur.
Yeah, well, I'm not
letting you off that easy.
I want my doctor there.
I'm an alarm clock kid.
(DOOR BUZZES IN DISTANCE)
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
You okay?
Mm
I'm about to see my mother
for the first time in 23 years,
So, no, I'm not okay at all.
And I kind of want to hold your hand.
I understand.
(DOOR BUZZES, LOCK CLICKS)
- Hi! Hi.
- (GASPS)
(BOTH CRYING)