Watson (2024) s01e06 Episode Script
The Camgirl Inquiry
1
PORSCHE: Most men see me as an extension
of the body part they're interested in.
But not the guy next to me at the bar.
He was seeing the real me.
Kind of like you do.
He could've been you.
Handsome, smart,
eyes you can get lost in.
It's crazy, I was flirting with him,
but I was thinking about you.
Cool story.
Definitely made up, but cool.
Roleplay only works if we both commit.
Sorry.
The longer we do this,
the more I can tell
when you're, you know, in character.
Well, you do have nice eyes.
So grumpy.
You're in a mood tonight.
- How can I help?
- I don't know.
Tell me something real about yourself.
Never mind. I know you need boundaries.
I grew up in a rabbit
farm in New Mexico.
I know it sounds fake,
but I swear it's
No, I believe you.
That was real.
So do you harvest the
rabbits in the fall, or ?
(CHUCKLES)
Is it abnormally hot there?
You seem feverish and sweaty.
Think you need to see a doctor.
(GROANS) Smooth.
Why don't you just examine me right now?
I'm actually serious.
I can get you an appointment at UHOP.
I know that you live in Pittsburgh.
I can't help it. You
picked up some of the lingo.
Yesterday, you said "gum band."
Anywhere else, you
would've said "rubber band."
Porsche, I'm not trying to meet you.
I'm actually
worried, maybe?
I'll DM you all the details.
You won't need to see me.
Deal?
ADAM: Once and for all, who is she?
- (ELEVATOR DINGS)
- Who is who?
This woman you're seeing.
"Marcia"? Lauren and I have a bet.
My ex and my twin are making
wagers about my love life.
Because you give us nothing to go on.
Does she work here?
I say yes. Lauren says no.
You met her playing pickleball.
- How does Lauren know I play pickleball?
- I told her.
My take is, the average
pickleball player is over 50.
Lauren's take is, "Yes, and ?"
You guys talking about the
girl Stephens is seeing?
My money's on it being a
Fight Club situation.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
You said you and Lauren have a bet.
We are among the people in the wager.
I never said that the
dataset was complete.
Am I right? She your
imaginary doppelgänger?
Y'all really love talking about
other people's dating lives.
So sorry. Should we talk
about your engagement instead?
SHINWELL: 537.
That is the number of
unanswered petitions
from patients seeking
treatment at the Holmes Clinic.
Dr. Watson commends you all.
Tell him he's welcome.
Dr. Watson also requests your assistance
in whittling that number down
to a more manageable size.
What's a more manageable size?
You lot will be vital
partners as we launch
Project Zero.
"Naught," as we might
say back in Shoreditch.
That is the number
of unanswered requests
that will remain tonight
when the sun sets over the Allegheny.
Does the sun set over a river?
Do not lose yourselves
over questions, piggies.
Lose yourselves in casework.
INGRID: That's not a nine-year-old.
That's a full-grown man.
The application says
he's nine years old.
INGRID: My bet is it's
precocious puberty.
Refer him to a pediatric endocrinologist
and we're done here.
What if he has an
overactive pituitary gland?
Still a job for an endo.
We've got 411 more cases to get through.
Are you gonna weigh in?
Or are you texting your subconscious?
I do not have an imaginary doppelgänger.
INGRID: At least I'm crediting
you with an explanation.
Sasha's betting the
whole thing's made-up.
I did not say that.
Not exactly.
STEPHENS: You like analog machinery.
Of course. Helps me think.
Is there something I can
help you with, Dr. Croft?
A woman presents as
febrile and diaphoretic,
but she's unsure of the cause.
She mentions vaping and
drinking a red liquid.
Is this someone who wants
to come to our clinic?
Someone I know. She won't see a doctor.
You're a doctor, Dr. Croft.
I don't have a
immediate access to this person.
Well, if I had to guess, I would say
that the red liquid is cranberry juice.
And she's probably
treating herself for a UTI.
I thought of that, but cranberry juice
doesn't cure a urinary tract infection.
It barely even prevents it.
Very true, but the
internet doesn't know that.
So whatever access
you have to this woman,
I would say get her
to a doctor right away.
An unchecked UTI can go septic.
(VIDEO CALL RINGS)
PORSCHE: Daytime date.
I like it.
STEPHENS: I'm not trying to be annoying,
but I'm concerned.
The ED attending says you didn't show.
I get all the medicine I need from you.
Porsche. Please stop.
I wish this was a kink.
You look much sicker today.
Why do you even care so much?
Look, I'm sorry I didn't come in.
It may surprise you
to learn that this gig
doesn't come with benefits.
Besides, maybe seeing a
client in person isn't
I told you, you don't have to see me.
Message received, babe.
Concern noted.
You're here now, let's have some fun.
That is not why I logged on.
Hey.
Hey. Stay with me.
What's the address there?
I'm sending an ambulance.
Whoa. Take it slow, babe.
That's what I'm doing.
Stay with me, Porsche.
I'm with you. I'm just
Taking it slow
Hey.
♪
WATSON: So, what am I looking
at here? I mean, I think
I can put it together, but
- What exactly am I looking at?
- So here's the thing.
In a manner of speaking,
I, a man, a man like all others,
there are conditions and processes.
And time.
Do we need to reboot you
and put you back online?
I have, um
a cam girl.
I don't know her real name.
I don't know where she lives.
But that is her, right
now, and she needs help.
Go ahead.
Go ahead with what?
Mock me. Say that you're not surprised.
Or that you are surprised.
But whatever it's going
to be, do it quickly.
Stephens
you're lonely.
- What?
- And that is nothing to be ashamed about.
We all are. I mean, every single person
who works at this clinic,
pretty much everyone you know.
It goes hand in hand
with being a sensitive
and intelligent human.
That is not what I was expecting.
Oh, would you be more
comfortable if I made fun of you?
Listen, if you don't have a
sex dungeon in your basement,
you're beating the game
as far as I'm concerned.
Everyone needs to connect, Stephens.
This is fine.
We'll locate this woman
and we'll help her.
Thank you.
"We"?
I mean, there is a team here, yes?
Oh, I was hoping that you'd, uh
I don't know, just do
some Sherlock Holmes stuff,
look at the screen and
tell me where she is.
Oh.
No.
Let's get this over with.
SASHA: What are we looking at?
WATSON: You're looking
at Stephens's friend.
We don't know her name.
We don't know her address.
She might be septic.
A friend, but you don't
know her name or her address?
Anyone have their money
on Stephens and a cam girl?
WATSON: Feeling judgmental, Dr. Derian?
Stephens is embarrassed.
Obviously, he's embarrassed.
And he brought this
patient to us anyway.
Now, if he can do that,
I'm sure you can all tamp
down on your urge to giggle.
We should be grateful to Stephens,
because here is an opportunity.
You are all excellent doctors,
but as detectives, you're
pretty much newborn fawns.
Here's a problem worthy
of Sherlock Holmes.
Find this woman based on what
we see on the screen, or
she dies.
What do you know about her?
Um, she calls herself Porsche.
She grew up in New Mexico,
if she's telling the truth,
but now she lives in Pittsburgh.
What do we do?
What would he do?
Divide the problem into discrete tasks.
That's how Holmes always started.
Look at the curtain she pulled down.
Everything in front of it is Porsche,
her persona that she
presents to her clients.
Everything behind it belonged
to the woman who created Porsche.
Two different layers of clues.
One based in artifice,
the other in reality.
What do we see?
The vibrator on the
nightstand is interesting.
The brand is Charme Intime.
You can see the logo from here?
I recognize the shape.
We're being vulnerable, right?
Oh, are y'all prudes?
Oh It has a European plug.
They don't sell enough to
make a North American version.
Well, track down the brand,
see where they've shipped
here in Pittsburgh.
Other than your condo.
Oh, I'm sorry. I like orgasms.
We'll table that. Thank you.
What else do we see here?
Paintings on the back
wall are all prints.
Ophelia by Millais.
King Lear in the Storm.
Oberon and Titania.
STEPHENS: Everything's
based on Shakespeare.
That's where the name
Porsche comes from.
Not the car, the character.
INGRID: The one on the bottom
right's an original, though.
You can tell by the
way the paint builds up.
We can do a reverse image search.
It looks like Lawrenceville.
The painting's called Second Story View.
It's for sale at an e-store
run by someone named Porsche.
This is a view from her apartment.
She lives on Butler Street.
Sasha and Ingrid,
you're on sex toy detail.
Adam and Stephens, come with me.
It sounds like Sasha's
got it covered, but
okay.
Crofts, we're gonna find that apartment.
Shinwell, Stephens has a
cam girl who might be dying
on live feed in the conference room.
Watch it. Tell us if you see any change.
Anything else, guv?
(SPEAKING FRENCH) Je ne sais pas
quand le vibrator a été envoyé.
Juste qu'il est allé à Pittsburgh.
Je préfère ne pas rester
Okay, then. I guess I'm on hold.
(MUSIC PLAYING OVER PHONE SPEAKER)
So, you have to get the vibrator,
and the adapter to keep it charged?
Seems complicated.
You're smart. I'm sure you could manage.
Hey.
If you want one for your
birthday, just say so.
I do not want you to get me
a sex toy for my birthday.
Wait. How'd you know
my birthday's coming up?
'Cause you've been
dropping little clues.
Also, I asked Shinwell to
pull everybody's birthday
from their applications. (CHUCKLES)
Please flush that information
down a memory hole.
I'm not big on birthdays.
Hmm.
Are you a true birthday abstainer,
or are you just testing us?
I've never met someone
who doesn't actually
care about their birthday.
There are those that
say they don't care,
but really they're just
being passive-aggressive.
(PHONE LINE CRACKLES)
(WOMAN SPEAKING FRENCH) Merci
de votre patience, madame.
Nous vous aiderons en raison
- de cette situation grave.
- (PEN SCRIBBLING)
Nous avons livré deux
colis à Pittsburgh,
et nous vous envoyons les deux
adresses par email tout de suite.
- (DIAL TONE SOUNDS)
- Okay.
They've sent two orders to
Pittsburgh this past year.
Given the extreme
nature of the situation,
- they'll email me.
- I understand French.
(SPEAKS FRENCH) Évidemment.
One of the addresses might just be mine.
But the other? When it comes
in, we can head over there.
But in the meantime, Ingrid
I'm coming for you.
I've cracked every
abstainer I've come across,
and I'm gonna crack you, too.
As a neurologist,
I don't say this lightly:
you're having a stroke.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
♪
For the record, I understand.
Please don't.
Don't offer my understanding?
STEPHENS: It's out there,
just let it be out there.
The woman I'm seeing is a cam girl.
Tell Lauren. Tell Mom.
Tell our sixth-grade history teacher.
Post your extravagant understanding
on social media for
all the world to see.
I'm not gonna do that.
Still, though, you're not really
"seeing" her?
It's transactional.
I get that. I'm not that far gone.
Who says you're gone at all?
How does it work? Is it
like a genuine connection?
Can we please not do this
in front of the detective?
He's not saying anything.
That's exactly my point. He's just
watching.
It is a bit unsettling.
Could you stop, please?
Stop sitting here quietly?
Stop sitting like that.
Congratulations, Crofts.
Your suffering has ended.
That looks like the bakery
from Porsche's painting.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
ADAM AND STEPHENS: Nothing.
WATSON: I had better
luck in the bookstore.
The young woman behind the counter,
she was quite smitten with Porsche,
even if she didn't know her actual name.
Her best guess was that Porsche
either lives in this building
or that one, and based on her input
and this painting
I think Porsche lives right there.
(KNOCK AT DOOR)
The smell is incense, not weed.
Beyond that, I've got nothing to say.
WATSON: This won't take long.
We believe this woman is in danger.
We heard she lives here.
Annie hasn't been here for months.
Annie?
Does she have a last name?
WATSON: We're doctors from UHOP.
We believe Annie might have a
severe bloodstream infection.
- We need to find her.
- RICK: Why do you think that?
One of my colleagues was online
with her when she collapsed.
(CHUCKLING) Which one's her client?
Can you please just
tell us what you know?
Annie Wilson.
She left here about three months ago.
Changed her name.
Couldn't tell you where to find her.
Why did she change her name?
No clue, bro.
You'd have to ask her.
(SLAMS, LOCKS DOOR)
(PHONES CHIME)
WATSON: Tell me exactly
what you observe, Shinwell.
SHINWELL: Well, she's groaning, guv.
Like someone coming out the
wrong end of a nasty fight.
Tell me about her skin.
She got these marks all over.
They just came on. Purple-ish.
It's like she's covered in ugly lace.
Livedo reticularis.
I'll call you back.
Her sepsis has progressed
to septic shock.
Every hour she goes without help
decreases her chance of survival by
BOTH: nine percent.
If we want to save
Porsche, we need to find her
in the next four hours.
Not sure what I'm looking for, exactly.
WATSON (OVER PHONE): Anything
that might tell us where she is.
All right. Hang on. (GRUNTS)
Oh! Oh! Hang on. She's
got a lovely little corgi.
Call it to the camera. See
if you can read the tags.
- (DOG WHIMPERS)
- Don't know the animal's name, guv.
- (BARKS)
- WATSON: Guess.
ADAM: Porsche likes Shakespeare.
- Start there.
- Hamlet.
Oi, Iago. (CLUCKING TONGUE) Malvolio?
Stick with it.
Sasha, any luck tracking
down the vibrator?
We're on our way to the address now.
Let us know what you find.
We did some digging into Annie Wilson.
Can we just call her Porsche?
Porsche filed a restraining
order against her ex,
who we just met.
She's living under a new name.
So she's not Porsche,
she's not Annie, she's
some other name now?
We already tried the lawyer
who filed the restraining order.
She won't help us.
I do know one lawyer who might be able
- to weigh in here.
- No. No, you do not.
ADAM: Lauren. My girlfriend.
Your girlfriend. Stephens's ex.
That's complicated.
Agreed. Complicated, but necessary.
Shinwell.
Desdemona. Come here.
Hey, hey, Cleopatra.
Claudius, come up. Come here.
Just keep at it.
♪
INGRID: Which house is hers?
(SIGHS) There it is.
3368 Penn Avenue.
We won't be able to get a name
or an address without a warrant.
ADAM: Well, there's Lauren.
You go. I'm gonna sit this one out.
It's kind of weirder if you
just sit here in the car.
Adam, would you mind
giving us a second, please?
I stayed with Sherlock Holmes
for maybe about a year in total.
I do not need a lesson in how
to be a detective right now,
- thank you.
- He had one woman in his life.
It was a con artist named Irene.
She popped in and out.
Besides her, he had a
standing appointment with a
(CHUCKLES) a companion who
he introduced as "Mrs. Hudson."
She pretended to be the
landlady whenever she came by.
But the walls are very
thin on Baker Street.
Why are you telling me this?
You have a brain that keeps
the world at a distance.
It's a hard way to live.
It's even harder when you
punish yourself for it.
I'm supposed to tell my ex-fiancée,
currently dating my twin brother,
that the only woman in
my life is a cam girl.
That is objectively embarrassing.
But Porsche or Annie
You treated her with respect, right?
Of course.
Then give the people in
your life some credit.
They're not as hard on
you as you are on yourself.
What is with you today? You're being
nice.
You're a good person, Stephens.
You did something hard today.
(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER, BIRDS SINGING)
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY) Wow.
Okay. What's wrong?
Who says something's wrong?
You're coming to find
me during the workday.
And you're here
at all.
Nice to see you, by the way. Long time.
You two look like
you're on the same team.
It's really bad, huh?
I'm seeing a woman.
You're back out there. That's great.
"Seeing" is a term of art here.
She's a cam girl.
I pay her for her company
and I'm not ashamed.
Duly noted.
She's sick, Lauren.
We have her on a live
feed, and she's really sick.
Her former name is Annie Wilson,
but she took out a restraining order
against her ex and changed her name.
If we can find the name
that she's living under now,
we can find her.
We can help her.
Jane Millius filed
the restraining order.
- We called her office
- Yeah, Jane's tough.
I mean, she's not gonna give up
client details to a cold call.
I know her a little.
She's not the easiest to work with,
but she does care about her clients.
I'll give her a call,
vouch for you guys.
Try and get you a name.
Thank you.
Yes. Thank you.
Hey, Stephens.
It's good to see you.
SASHA: Oberon!
Uh
- Puck.
- No, I done Midsummer Night's Dream.
Done all the comedies,
done all the tragedies.
Shakespeare wrote history plays, too.
Ross? Macdonwald.
Macbeth ain't history, love.
I'll get me laptop.
You gonna jump in here?
- I don't like Shakespeare.
- You don't have to like him
to guess the dog's name.
Is there anything you
do for your birthday?
Just making conversation.
Gertrude.
- Ophelia?
- You're not making conversation,
you're making plans.
Yes. There's one thing I do
to celebrate my birthday every year.
It's the same thing, and it is private.
Hmm.
Do you do it with family?
I can barely remember my mother,
my father left when I was 16.
No one has ever planned
a birthday party for me
and that suits me just fine.
What is that face?
I just want to remind you
I know that you're wearing
a fake-ass engagement ring.
- The ring is real.
- The diamond is real,
the engagement is fake.
You go birthday Nazi on
me, I will expose you.
- (WHISPERS): I don't believe you.
- Hmm.
SASHA: Any luck with the lawyer?
She's still making calls.
Hopefully, we'll know more soon.
INGRID: Shinwell's been
through a few hundred names.
Of course, we're just assuming
that the dog's named after
a character from a Shakespeare play.
We're down to the histories, guv.
You got your various Henrys,
- your Edwards
- Brutus.
(WHIMPERS)
Wait. How did you do that?
- WATSON: Let's see the address, Brutus.
- SASHA: Come here, boy.
WATSON: Come on, Brutus.
Come here, Brutus! Brutus!
- INGRID: Brutus.
- SASHA: Hi, Brutus. Brutus.
- Come on, buddy.
- WATSON: Hey, Brutus.
- INGRID: Who's a good boy?
- (SHINWELL GROANS)
(SIGHS)
(BRUTUS BARKS)
INGRID: Brutus. Come on.
Come on. Come on, Brutus.
Look at all that mail.
I can't read the print.
(BRUTUS BARKING)
WATSON: Magnification doesn't help.
Still can't read the labels.
But look at that envelope.
"Kathryn Petruchio."
Why would she sign that
over and over again
Oh.
Porsche's got a brand-new name.
SHINWELL: There is one Kathryn Petruchio
listed for that area, guv.
One, and only one.
(BRUTUS BARKING)
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
Annie. Annie, can you hear us?
EMT: I can hear breath sounds.
Pulse is thready and weak.
(BRUTUS BARKS)
(MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY)
(DEVICE BEEPING)
♪
WATSON: Porsche is not
improving fast enough
on the vancomycin or ceftriaxone.
These are our best
antibiotics for treating
the more common causes of sepsis.
Porsche's lack of response indicates
that she has a more
rare type of infection.
How is she?
We have to work fast. Stephens?
I keep telling you I
barely even know her.
Why does everyone expect
me to be the expert?
I was gonna ask your opinion
as an infectious disease specialist.
Oh.
Initially, I figured it
must be an ignored UTI
or maybe pneumonia gone septic.
Porsche's symptoms leave
us with a lot of options.
She could have cat scratch fever.
Do you know if she's traveled recently?
Which brings us all
back to the fact that you
basically know nothing about her.
SASHA: Stephens.
Did she ever tell you anything real?
No.
Wait a minute.
The last time we talked,
Porsche said that she grew up
on a rabbit farm in New Mexico.
Rabbit farm in New Mexico?
No offense, Stephens,
that doesn't sound real.
I mean, do they even grow
rabbits in New Mexico?
Could be a lie, could
be a partial truth,
but we have a location: New Mexico.
We also have Porsche's
given name: Annie Wilson.
We can work with that.
Sasha and Stephens,
we're headed back to
Porsche's apartment.
We didn't get the time to
catalog everything there.
What are we doing?
Find the Wilsons in New Mexico,
See if any of them are Porsche's family.
We'll feed you everything we learn,
you can back us up with research.
Wow, sounds exciting.
WATSON: That's not your only job.
You're also taking care of Brutus.
(CRUNCHING)
INGRID: I don't get it.
People give it food, it
can go to the bathroom
more or less wherever it wants
Are you saying that you don't understand
or are you saying that
you're a little bit jealous?
I'm saying the owner-pet thing
seems a little one-sided
to me, that's all.
Love.
You feed him, you clean up after him,
and then, in return, you get love.
How do you measure that,
exactly?
You can't.
(PHONE VIBRATING) (PHONE CHIMING)
STEPHENS: Adam is annoying,
as always, but he's also not wrong.
Fermented liquids are
good for the microbiome.
She's well-read, but that
is not especially helpful.
Is it weird?
Porsche presents a certain
curated image to you.
We're seeing the real person here.
Must be some kind disconnect.
Not as weird as you might think.
Everyone has bills.
Everyone has damage.
When you give yourself to someone,
in whatever context, you are choosing
to forget all about
that for a little while,
to focus on whatever little part of us
isn't connected to
worry or doubt or fear.
Porsche and I did that.
Even with-with keyboards
and screens in the way,
we still did that.
I have no illusions about the
nature of our relationship,
but I wouldn't call it "weird."
I didn't mean the whole thing
was weird, I-I just meant
(CHUCKLES): having it out there.
I'm not the one to judge.
I don't, uh, give myself to
my boyfriend much these days,
- and he sure as hell ain't giving himself to me, so
- Boyfriend?
Zach's your fiancé now.
Of course. Just, um, getting
used to calling him that.
WATSON: Every resident in this place
has a storage unit in the garage,
and I have hit the mother lode.
Annie Wilson was a Hilltopper.
- What's a Hilltopper?
- A Hilltopper
is the official mascot
of Los Alamos High School.
INGRID: Annie Wilson, Los
Alamos High School class of 2014.
She was in the Shakespeare club.
Academic decathlon.
Sounds like her family values education.
The Los Alamos National Lab
employs some of the smartest
people in the country.
We've made inquiries.
Three Wilsons that we can find
in management positions
around that time.
One died, I've got calls
out to the other two.
SASHA: There are 12 other Wilsons
who fit the rough demographic.
We've reached out. A few aren't a match,
but we're waiting to
hear back from the others.
This feels passive. Like
we're back on our heels.
We are back on our heels.
ADAM: Stephens put himself out there.
He found this woman. We can't just
run the clock out.
There has to be
something that we can do.
Yes, there's always something we can do.
Porsche's condition is
bad, and it's getting worse.
She needs someone by her side.
I barely know her.
You're who she's got.
(MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY)
The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth as the
gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath.
It is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives
and him that takes.
WATSON: The Merchant of Venice.
You know all that by heart?
Guess I do. Hmm.
In the play, Portia says it,
so I figure it must
mean something to her.
Whoever she really is.
This all feels a little bit, um
useless.
She collapsed. She's dying.
We didn't change any of that.
We failed.
I failed.
Unfortunately, I know that feeling.
(SNIFFLES)
You don't believe me?
I have failed in ways most
people can never even imagine.
I lost my wife, for one.
Lost my best friend.
Sherlock Holmes?
You always ask me why I
why I never talk about him.
All of you.
It's because I failed him.
On the last day that he was alive
I failed Sherlock.
We spent five months
looking for James Moriarty.
We traced him to Reichenbach Falls.
Thought we had him cornered, and
(SIGHS)
But Holmes was walking into a trap.
He left me behind.
He woke up early, headed up
to the falls to meet his fate.
It wasn't your fault.
He left without you.
And Porsche's not your fault, either.
You two led completely separate lives.
Guilt lands where it
lands, it's not an accident.
If you feel that you
could've done more, then
listen to that.
So I should feel bad?
You should take every
opportunity to learn.
Even the ones that hurt.
(PHONE RINGING)
(SNIFFLES)
New Mexico area code.
Hello?
Hello, Ms. Wilson.
My name is Stephens Croft.
I'm a doctor in Pittsburgh.
I am so sorry to say that your
daughter is critically ill.
I-I'm sorry, ma'am.
I'll tell you everything.
But first
has she come to visit you lately?
Thank you, ma'am. Can
I call you right back?
That was her mother.
Porsche told me the truth.
She's from a farm in New Mexico.
The rabbits are real.
They do grow rabbits in New Mexico.
She told you something true.
- She likes you, Stephens.
- STEPHENS: Stop.
I cornered her, and she told
me one detail about her life.
If she didn't trust you,
she wouldn't even done that.
Porsche only said it because she
just got back from New Mexico.
Her mother said that she
had spent two weeks there.
Got back to Pittsburgh five days ago.
Did her mother mention
whether Porsche got bitten
- by a rabbit while she was visiting?
- She did.
What difference would it make anyway?
The antibiotics didn't really help.
Because it's not just pasteurellosis
or staph or strep.
The rabbit that bit her was
carrying Yersinia Pestis.
The Black Plague?
There's a handful of cases in
the United States every year.
The majority occur in
Arizona and New Mexico.
But if you're right, she should be dead.
Plague is almost 100%
fatal when it's septicemic.
Yeah, unless there's a genetic
variant of the FIBIN gene
that's associated with
survival in sepsis.
And based on what we're seeing,
I'd bet Porsche has it.
The rabbit bite put the
plague into her bloodstream,
so she has no buboes.
And that's why we missed it.
So a mutation kept her alive?
Yeah, this long.
The rest is up to us.
Dr. Croft?
Would you like the honor of
administering her treatment?
IV Gentamicin.
If we're not too late,
she'll make a full recovery.
WATSON: Good man.
Is Stephens hot now?
I mean, he's always
had a certain quality.
No one asked you, Vain Boy.
(LAUGHS)
♪
♪
What is that?
Burnt almond torte from Prantl's.
It's the best cake I ever had.
You don't want a thing so
I didn't do a thing, but
it is your birthday,
and someone knows that.
In the ending you
wrote, how did this go?
Like, do I start crying?
- Do I give you a little smile?
- "Ending"?
You write endings, that's what you do.
That's how you live.
It's just a cake. (CHUCKLES)
Nope.
It's the ending of a story
where you persist,
and I thank you for it,
and then we're friends.
That's how you control your
world and everything in it.
Is that a bad thing?
Being friends?
I told you I celebrate
my birthday privately.
You decided you were going to fix that,
even if I didn't want that.
You like how you look
next to your boyfriend,
so you decided the two of
you are gonna get married,
even if he doesn't want to.
You want to fix my life,
and we should all
assume yours is perfect.
I'm sorry.
Uh
I gotta head up to five
'cause I've got some
patients to round on.
Hey.
Hey!
It's a nice cake.
I like the cake.
I like you.
But you're not the
author of the universe.
You're just in it.
Same as everybody else.
♪
How did I get here?
You came in an ambulance.
The doctors I work with, we found you
and brought you here.
That rabbit that bit you in New Mexico?
You're infected with a bacteria
called Yersinia Pestis.
We're treating it.
You're gonna be all right.
And if you didn't find me?
You saved my life.
We did.
I did.
And the people you work with
you told them about
how we know each other?
I had to.
Thank you.
Guess it's a good thing I
told you about the rabbits.
It's a very good thing you
told me about the rabbits.
I kind of wanted to tell you more.
I honestly did.
But you know how it is.
I do.
I don't even know what to say to you.
You already said thank you.
That doesn't seem like enough.
I'd be dead if it wasn't for you.
Do we just
keep camming?
Do we have coffee?
I don't know.
Where does this leave us?
It leaves us right here.
You gave me something that I needed.
I'm grateful for that.
Truly, I am.
But I'm not sure I need it anymore.
I've never even seen
you in person before,
but you do look
different.
I'll check up on you, okay?
Thank you, Porsche no.
Thank you Annie.
Thank you, Kathryn.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
Thank you, "TallHotDoc."
(LAUGHS)
(LAUGHS) Sorry.
I only know your username.
♪
New medicine for you, guv.
Prescribed to yours truly,
for the treatment of one
John Watson.
Thank you.
I don't say that enough.
I believe you say it
roughly eight times daily.
There's saying it and then there's
there's saying it.
You're loyal to me, Shinwell,
and I appreciate that.
Not sure if I deserve
it, but I appreciate it.
I could have stopped it
from happening, Shinwell.
Sherlock didn't have to die.
He shouldn't have died.
Did Sherlock Holmes strike
you as an impressionable man?
Weak in his convictions?
He did not.
Mr. Holmes might have needed
you to get to Reichenbach Falls.
But the final dance with Moriarty?
Come on.
That was always destined
to be a one-on-one affair.
I loved the man
dearly.
And I am sorry to
interrupt your brooding.
But it was vanity that
killed Sherlock Holmes.
Not you, John.
Still and all
I appreciate you.
And I you.
Funny thing, though.
Loyalty, guv.
We stick together long enough,
I am sure
that I will disappoint you yet.
Well, you know what?
I wouldn't take that bet.
Not at all.
Right.
- (EXHALES)
- (PHONE BUZZES)
♪
(DOOR OPENS)
(DOOR CLOSES)
You found that again?
I got to get me a safe or something.
It's okay, Zach. You
don't have to hide it.
I want you to take it back.
I don't want it anymore.
Sasha, come on.
Thank you for everything.
I really mean that.
I need you to have your stuff
out of here in two weeks.
(SNIFFLES)
(INSECTS TRILLING)
(WATER LAPPING)
(PHONE BUZZING)
Cake's good.
Can't lie.
You doing whatever you do?
I am.
Want company?
I'm not trying to force myself on you.
Okay, I am, but it's not 'cause I,
I wrote us an ending, it's
I could just use some company.
Did you, did you hang up?
I'm here.
Tomorrow, okay?
All yours.
Tonight's for me.
I
am not the author of the universe.
I'll see you in the morning.
Good night, Dr. Lubbock.
PORSCHE: Most men see me as an extension
of the body part they're interested in.
But not the guy next to me at the bar.
He was seeing the real me.
Kind of like you do.
He could've been you.
Handsome, smart,
eyes you can get lost in.
It's crazy, I was flirting with him,
but I was thinking about you.
Cool story.
Definitely made up, but cool.
Roleplay only works if we both commit.
Sorry.
The longer we do this,
the more I can tell
when you're, you know, in character.
Well, you do have nice eyes.
So grumpy.
You're in a mood tonight.
- How can I help?
- I don't know.
Tell me something real about yourself.
Never mind. I know you need boundaries.
I grew up in a rabbit
farm in New Mexico.
I know it sounds fake,
but I swear it's
No, I believe you.
That was real.
So do you harvest the
rabbits in the fall, or ?
(CHUCKLES)
Is it abnormally hot there?
You seem feverish and sweaty.
Think you need to see a doctor.
(GROANS) Smooth.
Why don't you just examine me right now?
I'm actually serious.
I can get you an appointment at UHOP.
I know that you live in Pittsburgh.
I can't help it. You
picked up some of the lingo.
Yesterday, you said "gum band."
Anywhere else, you
would've said "rubber band."
Porsche, I'm not trying to meet you.
I'm actually
worried, maybe?
I'll DM you all the details.
You won't need to see me.
Deal?
ADAM: Once and for all, who is she?
- (ELEVATOR DINGS)
- Who is who?
This woman you're seeing.
"Marcia"? Lauren and I have a bet.
My ex and my twin are making
wagers about my love life.
Because you give us nothing to go on.
Does she work here?
I say yes. Lauren says no.
You met her playing pickleball.
- How does Lauren know I play pickleball?
- I told her.
My take is, the average
pickleball player is over 50.
Lauren's take is, "Yes, and ?"
You guys talking about the
girl Stephens is seeing?
My money's on it being a
Fight Club situation.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
You said you and Lauren have a bet.
We are among the people in the wager.
I never said that the
dataset was complete.
Am I right? She your
imaginary doppelgänger?
Y'all really love talking about
other people's dating lives.
So sorry. Should we talk
about your engagement instead?
SHINWELL: 537.
That is the number of
unanswered petitions
from patients seeking
treatment at the Holmes Clinic.
Dr. Watson commends you all.
Tell him he's welcome.
Dr. Watson also requests your assistance
in whittling that number down
to a more manageable size.
What's a more manageable size?
You lot will be vital
partners as we launch
Project Zero.
"Naught," as we might
say back in Shoreditch.
That is the number
of unanswered requests
that will remain tonight
when the sun sets over the Allegheny.
Does the sun set over a river?
Do not lose yourselves
over questions, piggies.
Lose yourselves in casework.
INGRID: That's not a nine-year-old.
That's a full-grown man.
The application says
he's nine years old.
INGRID: My bet is it's
precocious puberty.
Refer him to a pediatric endocrinologist
and we're done here.
What if he has an
overactive pituitary gland?
Still a job for an endo.
We've got 411 more cases to get through.
Are you gonna weigh in?
Or are you texting your subconscious?
I do not have an imaginary doppelgänger.
INGRID: At least I'm crediting
you with an explanation.
Sasha's betting the
whole thing's made-up.
I did not say that.
Not exactly.
STEPHENS: You like analog machinery.
Of course. Helps me think.
Is there something I can
help you with, Dr. Croft?
A woman presents as
febrile and diaphoretic,
but she's unsure of the cause.
She mentions vaping and
drinking a red liquid.
Is this someone who wants
to come to our clinic?
Someone I know. She won't see a doctor.
You're a doctor, Dr. Croft.
I don't have a
immediate access to this person.
Well, if I had to guess, I would say
that the red liquid is cranberry juice.
And she's probably
treating herself for a UTI.
I thought of that, but cranberry juice
doesn't cure a urinary tract infection.
It barely even prevents it.
Very true, but the
internet doesn't know that.
So whatever access
you have to this woman,
I would say get her
to a doctor right away.
An unchecked UTI can go septic.
(VIDEO CALL RINGS)
PORSCHE: Daytime date.
I like it.
STEPHENS: I'm not trying to be annoying,
but I'm concerned.
The ED attending says you didn't show.
I get all the medicine I need from you.
Porsche. Please stop.
I wish this was a kink.
You look much sicker today.
Why do you even care so much?
Look, I'm sorry I didn't come in.
It may surprise you
to learn that this gig
doesn't come with benefits.
Besides, maybe seeing a
client in person isn't
I told you, you don't have to see me.
Message received, babe.
Concern noted.
You're here now, let's have some fun.
That is not why I logged on.
Hey.
Hey. Stay with me.
What's the address there?
I'm sending an ambulance.
Whoa. Take it slow, babe.
That's what I'm doing.
Stay with me, Porsche.
I'm with you. I'm just
Taking it slow
Hey.
♪
WATSON: So, what am I looking
at here? I mean, I think
I can put it together, but
- What exactly am I looking at?
- So here's the thing.
In a manner of speaking,
I, a man, a man like all others,
there are conditions and processes.
And time.
Do we need to reboot you
and put you back online?
I have, um
a cam girl.
I don't know her real name.
I don't know where she lives.
But that is her, right
now, and she needs help.
Go ahead.
Go ahead with what?
Mock me. Say that you're not surprised.
Or that you are surprised.
But whatever it's going
to be, do it quickly.
Stephens
you're lonely.
- What?
- And that is nothing to be ashamed about.
We all are. I mean, every single person
who works at this clinic,
pretty much everyone you know.
It goes hand in hand
with being a sensitive
and intelligent human.
That is not what I was expecting.
Oh, would you be more
comfortable if I made fun of you?
Listen, if you don't have a
sex dungeon in your basement,
you're beating the game
as far as I'm concerned.
Everyone needs to connect, Stephens.
This is fine.
We'll locate this woman
and we'll help her.
Thank you.
"We"?
I mean, there is a team here, yes?
Oh, I was hoping that you'd, uh
I don't know, just do
some Sherlock Holmes stuff,
look at the screen and
tell me where she is.
Oh.
No.
Let's get this over with.
SASHA: What are we looking at?
WATSON: You're looking
at Stephens's friend.
We don't know her name.
We don't know her address.
She might be septic.
A friend, but you don't
know her name or her address?
Anyone have their money
on Stephens and a cam girl?
WATSON: Feeling judgmental, Dr. Derian?
Stephens is embarrassed.
Obviously, he's embarrassed.
And he brought this
patient to us anyway.
Now, if he can do that,
I'm sure you can all tamp
down on your urge to giggle.
We should be grateful to Stephens,
because here is an opportunity.
You are all excellent doctors,
but as detectives, you're
pretty much newborn fawns.
Here's a problem worthy
of Sherlock Holmes.
Find this woman based on what
we see on the screen, or
she dies.
What do you know about her?
Um, she calls herself Porsche.
She grew up in New Mexico,
if she's telling the truth,
but now she lives in Pittsburgh.
What do we do?
What would he do?
Divide the problem into discrete tasks.
That's how Holmes always started.
Look at the curtain she pulled down.
Everything in front of it is Porsche,
her persona that she
presents to her clients.
Everything behind it belonged
to the woman who created Porsche.
Two different layers of clues.
One based in artifice,
the other in reality.
What do we see?
The vibrator on the
nightstand is interesting.
The brand is Charme Intime.
You can see the logo from here?
I recognize the shape.
We're being vulnerable, right?
Oh, are y'all prudes?
Oh It has a European plug.
They don't sell enough to
make a North American version.
Well, track down the brand,
see where they've shipped
here in Pittsburgh.
Other than your condo.
Oh, I'm sorry. I like orgasms.
We'll table that. Thank you.
What else do we see here?
Paintings on the back
wall are all prints.
Ophelia by Millais.
King Lear in the Storm.
Oberon and Titania.
STEPHENS: Everything's
based on Shakespeare.
That's where the name
Porsche comes from.
Not the car, the character.
INGRID: The one on the bottom
right's an original, though.
You can tell by the
way the paint builds up.
We can do a reverse image search.
It looks like Lawrenceville.
The painting's called Second Story View.
It's for sale at an e-store
run by someone named Porsche.
This is a view from her apartment.
She lives on Butler Street.
Sasha and Ingrid,
you're on sex toy detail.
Adam and Stephens, come with me.
It sounds like Sasha's
got it covered, but
okay.
Crofts, we're gonna find that apartment.
Shinwell, Stephens has a
cam girl who might be dying
on live feed in the conference room.
Watch it. Tell us if you see any change.
Anything else, guv?
(SPEAKING FRENCH) Je ne sais pas
quand le vibrator a été envoyé.
Juste qu'il est allé à Pittsburgh.
Je préfère ne pas rester
Okay, then. I guess I'm on hold.
(MUSIC PLAYING OVER PHONE SPEAKER)
So, you have to get the vibrator,
and the adapter to keep it charged?
Seems complicated.
You're smart. I'm sure you could manage.
Hey.
If you want one for your
birthday, just say so.
I do not want you to get me
a sex toy for my birthday.
Wait. How'd you know
my birthday's coming up?
'Cause you've been
dropping little clues.
Also, I asked Shinwell to
pull everybody's birthday
from their applications. (CHUCKLES)
Please flush that information
down a memory hole.
I'm not big on birthdays.
Hmm.
Are you a true birthday abstainer,
or are you just testing us?
I've never met someone
who doesn't actually
care about their birthday.
There are those that
say they don't care,
but really they're just
being passive-aggressive.
(PHONE LINE CRACKLES)
(WOMAN SPEAKING FRENCH) Merci
de votre patience, madame.
Nous vous aiderons en raison
- de cette situation grave.
- (PEN SCRIBBLING)
Nous avons livré deux
colis à Pittsburgh,
et nous vous envoyons les deux
adresses par email tout de suite.
- (DIAL TONE SOUNDS)
- Okay.
They've sent two orders to
Pittsburgh this past year.
Given the extreme
nature of the situation,
- they'll email me.
- I understand French.
(SPEAKS FRENCH) Évidemment.
One of the addresses might just be mine.
But the other? When it comes
in, we can head over there.
But in the meantime, Ingrid
I'm coming for you.
I've cracked every
abstainer I've come across,
and I'm gonna crack you, too.
As a neurologist,
I don't say this lightly:
you're having a stroke.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
♪
For the record, I understand.
Please don't.
Don't offer my understanding?
STEPHENS: It's out there,
just let it be out there.
The woman I'm seeing is a cam girl.
Tell Lauren. Tell Mom.
Tell our sixth-grade history teacher.
Post your extravagant understanding
on social media for
all the world to see.
I'm not gonna do that.
Still, though, you're not really
"seeing" her?
It's transactional.
I get that. I'm not that far gone.
Who says you're gone at all?
How does it work? Is it
like a genuine connection?
Can we please not do this
in front of the detective?
He's not saying anything.
That's exactly my point. He's just
watching.
It is a bit unsettling.
Could you stop, please?
Stop sitting here quietly?
Stop sitting like that.
Congratulations, Crofts.
Your suffering has ended.
That looks like the bakery
from Porsche's painting.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
ADAM AND STEPHENS: Nothing.
WATSON: I had better
luck in the bookstore.
The young woman behind the counter,
she was quite smitten with Porsche,
even if she didn't know her actual name.
Her best guess was that Porsche
either lives in this building
or that one, and based on her input
and this painting
I think Porsche lives right there.
(KNOCK AT DOOR)
The smell is incense, not weed.
Beyond that, I've got nothing to say.
WATSON: This won't take long.
We believe this woman is in danger.
We heard she lives here.
Annie hasn't been here for months.
Annie?
Does she have a last name?
WATSON: We're doctors from UHOP.
We believe Annie might have a
severe bloodstream infection.
- We need to find her.
- RICK: Why do you think that?
One of my colleagues was online
with her when she collapsed.
(CHUCKLING) Which one's her client?
Can you please just
tell us what you know?
Annie Wilson.
She left here about three months ago.
Changed her name.
Couldn't tell you where to find her.
Why did she change her name?
No clue, bro.
You'd have to ask her.
(SLAMS, LOCKS DOOR)
(PHONES CHIME)
WATSON: Tell me exactly
what you observe, Shinwell.
SHINWELL: Well, she's groaning, guv.
Like someone coming out the
wrong end of a nasty fight.
Tell me about her skin.
She got these marks all over.
They just came on. Purple-ish.
It's like she's covered in ugly lace.
Livedo reticularis.
I'll call you back.
Her sepsis has progressed
to septic shock.
Every hour she goes without help
decreases her chance of survival by
BOTH: nine percent.
If we want to save
Porsche, we need to find her
in the next four hours.
Not sure what I'm looking for, exactly.
WATSON (OVER PHONE): Anything
that might tell us where she is.
All right. Hang on. (GRUNTS)
Oh! Oh! Hang on. She's
got a lovely little corgi.
Call it to the camera. See
if you can read the tags.
- (DOG WHIMPERS)
- Don't know the animal's name, guv.
- (BARKS)
- WATSON: Guess.
ADAM: Porsche likes Shakespeare.
- Start there.
- Hamlet.
Oi, Iago. (CLUCKING TONGUE) Malvolio?
Stick with it.
Sasha, any luck tracking
down the vibrator?
We're on our way to the address now.
Let us know what you find.
We did some digging into Annie Wilson.
Can we just call her Porsche?
Porsche filed a restraining
order against her ex,
who we just met.
She's living under a new name.
So she's not Porsche,
she's not Annie, she's
some other name now?
We already tried the lawyer
who filed the restraining order.
She won't help us.
I do know one lawyer who might be able
- to weigh in here.
- No. No, you do not.
ADAM: Lauren. My girlfriend.
Your girlfriend. Stephens's ex.
That's complicated.
Agreed. Complicated, but necessary.
Shinwell.
Desdemona. Come here.
Hey, hey, Cleopatra.
Claudius, come up. Come here.
Just keep at it.
♪
INGRID: Which house is hers?
(SIGHS) There it is.
3368 Penn Avenue.
We won't be able to get a name
or an address without a warrant.
ADAM: Well, there's Lauren.
You go. I'm gonna sit this one out.
It's kind of weirder if you
just sit here in the car.
Adam, would you mind
giving us a second, please?
I stayed with Sherlock Holmes
for maybe about a year in total.
I do not need a lesson in how
to be a detective right now,
- thank you.
- He had one woman in his life.
It was a con artist named Irene.
She popped in and out.
Besides her, he had a
standing appointment with a
(CHUCKLES) a companion who
he introduced as "Mrs. Hudson."
She pretended to be the
landlady whenever she came by.
But the walls are very
thin on Baker Street.
Why are you telling me this?
You have a brain that keeps
the world at a distance.
It's a hard way to live.
It's even harder when you
punish yourself for it.
I'm supposed to tell my ex-fiancée,
currently dating my twin brother,
that the only woman in
my life is a cam girl.
That is objectively embarrassing.
But Porsche or Annie
You treated her with respect, right?
Of course.
Then give the people in
your life some credit.
They're not as hard on
you as you are on yourself.
What is with you today? You're being
nice.
You're a good person, Stephens.
You did something hard today.
(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER, BIRDS SINGING)
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY) Wow.
Okay. What's wrong?
Who says something's wrong?
You're coming to find
me during the workday.
And you're here
at all.
Nice to see you, by the way. Long time.
You two look like
you're on the same team.
It's really bad, huh?
I'm seeing a woman.
You're back out there. That's great.
"Seeing" is a term of art here.
She's a cam girl.
I pay her for her company
and I'm not ashamed.
Duly noted.
She's sick, Lauren.
We have her on a live
feed, and she's really sick.
Her former name is Annie Wilson,
but she took out a restraining order
against her ex and changed her name.
If we can find the name
that she's living under now,
we can find her.
We can help her.
Jane Millius filed
the restraining order.
- We called her office
- Yeah, Jane's tough.
I mean, she's not gonna give up
client details to a cold call.
I know her a little.
She's not the easiest to work with,
but she does care about her clients.
I'll give her a call,
vouch for you guys.
Try and get you a name.
Thank you.
Yes. Thank you.
Hey, Stephens.
It's good to see you.
SASHA: Oberon!
Uh
- Puck.
- No, I done Midsummer Night's Dream.
Done all the comedies,
done all the tragedies.
Shakespeare wrote history plays, too.
Ross? Macdonwald.
Macbeth ain't history, love.
I'll get me laptop.
You gonna jump in here?
- I don't like Shakespeare.
- You don't have to like him
to guess the dog's name.
Is there anything you
do for your birthday?
Just making conversation.
Gertrude.
- Ophelia?
- You're not making conversation,
you're making plans.
Yes. There's one thing I do
to celebrate my birthday every year.
It's the same thing, and it is private.
Hmm.
Do you do it with family?
I can barely remember my mother,
my father left when I was 16.
No one has ever planned
a birthday party for me
and that suits me just fine.
What is that face?
I just want to remind you
I know that you're wearing
a fake-ass engagement ring.
- The ring is real.
- The diamond is real,
the engagement is fake.
You go birthday Nazi on
me, I will expose you.
- (WHISPERS): I don't believe you.
- Hmm.
SASHA: Any luck with the lawyer?
She's still making calls.
Hopefully, we'll know more soon.
INGRID: Shinwell's been
through a few hundred names.
Of course, we're just assuming
that the dog's named after
a character from a Shakespeare play.
We're down to the histories, guv.
You got your various Henrys,
- your Edwards
- Brutus.
(WHIMPERS)
Wait. How did you do that?
- WATSON: Let's see the address, Brutus.
- SASHA: Come here, boy.
WATSON: Come on, Brutus.
Come here, Brutus! Brutus!
- INGRID: Brutus.
- SASHA: Hi, Brutus. Brutus.
- Come on, buddy.
- WATSON: Hey, Brutus.
- INGRID: Who's a good boy?
- (SHINWELL GROANS)
(SIGHS)
(BRUTUS BARKS)
INGRID: Brutus. Come on.
Come on. Come on, Brutus.
Look at all that mail.
I can't read the print.
(BRUTUS BARKING)
WATSON: Magnification doesn't help.
Still can't read the labels.
But look at that envelope.
"Kathryn Petruchio."
Why would she sign that
over and over again
Oh.
Porsche's got a brand-new name.
SHINWELL: There is one Kathryn Petruchio
listed for that area, guv.
One, and only one.
(BRUTUS BARKING)
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
Annie. Annie, can you hear us?
EMT: I can hear breath sounds.
Pulse is thready and weak.
(BRUTUS BARKS)
(MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY)
(DEVICE BEEPING)
♪
WATSON: Porsche is not
improving fast enough
on the vancomycin or ceftriaxone.
These are our best
antibiotics for treating
the more common causes of sepsis.
Porsche's lack of response indicates
that she has a more
rare type of infection.
How is she?
We have to work fast. Stephens?
I keep telling you I
barely even know her.
Why does everyone expect
me to be the expert?
I was gonna ask your opinion
as an infectious disease specialist.
Oh.
Initially, I figured it
must be an ignored UTI
or maybe pneumonia gone septic.
Porsche's symptoms leave
us with a lot of options.
She could have cat scratch fever.
Do you know if she's traveled recently?
Which brings us all
back to the fact that you
basically know nothing about her.
SASHA: Stephens.
Did she ever tell you anything real?
No.
Wait a minute.
The last time we talked,
Porsche said that she grew up
on a rabbit farm in New Mexico.
Rabbit farm in New Mexico?
No offense, Stephens,
that doesn't sound real.
I mean, do they even grow
rabbits in New Mexico?
Could be a lie, could
be a partial truth,
but we have a location: New Mexico.
We also have Porsche's
given name: Annie Wilson.
We can work with that.
Sasha and Stephens,
we're headed back to
Porsche's apartment.
We didn't get the time to
catalog everything there.
What are we doing?
Find the Wilsons in New Mexico,
See if any of them are Porsche's family.
We'll feed you everything we learn,
you can back us up with research.
Wow, sounds exciting.
WATSON: That's not your only job.
You're also taking care of Brutus.
(CRUNCHING)
INGRID: I don't get it.
People give it food, it
can go to the bathroom
more or less wherever it wants
Are you saying that you don't understand
or are you saying that
you're a little bit jealous?
I'm saying the owner-pet thing
seems a little one-sided
to me, that's all.
Love.
You feed him, you clean up after him,
and then, in return, you get love.
How do you measure that,
exactly?
You can't.
(PHONE VIBRATING) (PHONE CHIMING)
STEPHENS: Adam is annoying,
as always, but he's also not wrong.
Fermented liquids are
good for the microbiome.
She's well-read, but that
is not especially helpful.
Is it weird?
Porsche presents a certain
curated image to you.
We're seeing the real person here.
Must be some kind disconnect.
Not as weird as you might think.
Everyone has bills.
Everyone has damage.
When you give yourself to someone,
in whatever context, you are choosing
to forget all about
that for a little while,
to focus on whatever little part of us
isn't connected to
worry or doubt or fear.
Porsche and I did that.
Even with-with keyboards
and screens in the way,
we still did that.
I have no illusions about the
nature of our relationship,
but I wouldn't call it "weird."
I didn't mean the whole thing
was weird, I-I just meant
(CHUCKLES): having it out there.
I'm not the one to judge.
I don't, uh, give myself to
my boyfriend much these days,
- and he sure as hell ain't giving himself to me, so
- Boyfriend?
Zach's your fiancé now.
Of course. Just, um, getting
used to calling him that.
WATSON: Every resident in this place
has a storage unit in the garage,
and I have hit the mother lode.
Annie Wilson was a Hilltopper.
- What's a Hilltopper?
- A Hilltopper
is the official mascot
of Los Alamos High School.
INGRID: Annie Wilson, Los
Alamos High School class of 2014.
She was in the Shakespeare club.
Academic decathlon.
Sounds like her family values education.
The Los Alamos National Lab
employs some of the smartest
people in the country.
We've made inquiries.
Three Wilsons that we can find
in management positions
around that time.
One died, I've got calls
out to the other two.
SASHA: There are 12 other Wilsons
who fit the rough demographic.
We've reached out. A few aren't a match,
but we're waiting to
hear back from the others.
This feels passive. Like
we're back on our heels.
We are back on our heels.
ADAM: Stephens put himself out there.
He found this woman. We can't just
run the clock out.
There has to be
something that we can do.
Yes, there's always something we can do.
Porsche's condition is
bad, and it's getting worse.
She needs someone by her side.
I barely know her.
You're who she's got.
(MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY)
The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth as the
gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath.
It is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives
and him that takes.
WATSON: The Merchant of Venice.
You know all that by heart?
Guess I do. Hmm.
In the play, Portia says it,
so I figure it must
mean something to her.
Whoever she really is.
This all feels a little bit, um
useless.
She collapsed. She's dying.
We didn't change any of that.
We failed.
I failed.
Unfortunately, I know that feeling.
(SNIFFLES)
You don't believe me?
I have failed in ways most
people can never even imagine.
I lost my wife, for one.
Lost my best friend.
Sherlock Holmes?
You always ask me why I
why I never talk about him.
All of you.
It's because I failed him.
On the last day that he was alive
I failed Sherlock.
We spent five months
looking for James Moriarty.
We traced him to Reichenbach Falls.
Thought we had him cornered, and
(SIGHS)
But Holmes was walking into a trap.
He left me behind.
He woke up early, headed up
to the falls to meet his fate.
It wasn't your fault.
He left without you.
And Porsche's not your fault, either.
You two led completely separate lives.
Guilt lands where it
lands, it's not an accident.
If you feel that you
could've done more, then
listen to that.
So I should feel bad?
You should take every
opportunity to learn.
Even the ones that hurt.
(PHONE RINGING)
(SNIFFLES)
New Mexico area code.
Hello?
Hello, Ms. Wilson.
My name is Stephens Croft.
I'm a doctor in Pittsburgh.
I am so sorry to say that your
daughter is critically ill.
I-I'm sorry, ma'am.
I'll tell you everything.
But first
has she come to visit you lately?
Thank you, ma'am. Can
I call you right back?
That was her mother.
Porsche told me the truth.
She's from a farm in New Mexico.
The rabbits are real.
They do grow rabbits in New Mexico.
She told you something true.
- She likes you, Stephens.
- STEPHENS: Stop.
I cornered her, and she told
me one detail about her life.
If she didn't trust you,
she wouldn't even done that.
Porsche only said it because she
just got back from New Mexico.
Her mother said that she
had spent two weeks there.
Got back to Pittsburgh five days ago.
Did her mother mention
whether Porsche got bitten
- by a rabbit while she was visiting?
- She did.
What difference would it make anyway?
The antibiotics didn't really help.
Because it's not just pasteurellosis
or staph or strep.
The rabbit that bit her was
carrying Yersinia Pestis.
The Black Plague?
There's a handful of cases in
the United States every year.
The majority occur in
Arizona and New Mexico.
But if you're right, she should be dead.
Plague is almost 100%
fatal when it's septicemic.
Yeah, unless there's a genetic
variant of the FIBIN gene
that's associated with
survival in sepsis.
And based on what we're seeing,
I'd bet Porsche has it.
The rabbit bite put the
plague into her bloodstream,
so she has no buboes.
And that's why we missed it.
So a mutation kept her alive?
Yeah, this long.
The rest is up to us.
Dr. Croft?
Would you like the honor of
administering her treatment?
IV Gentamicin.
If we're not too late,
she'll make a full recovery.
WATSON: Good man.
Is Stephens hot now?
I mean, he's always
had a certain quality.
No one asked you, Vain Boy.
(LAUGHS)
♪
♪
What is that?
Burnt almond torte from Prantl's.
It's the best cake I ever had.
You don't want a thing so
I didn't do a thing, but
it is your birthday,
and someone knows that.
In the ending you
wrote, how did this go?
Like, do I start crying?
- Do I give you a little smile?
- "Ending"?
You write endings, that's what you do.
That's how you live.
It's just a cake. (CHUCKLES)
Nope.
It's the ending of a story
where you persist,
and I thank you for it,
and then we're friends.
That's how you control your
world and everything in it.
Is that a bad thing?
Being friends?
I told you I celebrate
my birthday privately.
You decided you were going to fix that,
even if I didn't want that.
You like how you look
next to your boyfriend,
so you decided the two of
you are gonna get married,
even if he doesn't want to.
You want to fix my life,
and we should all
assume yours is perfect.
I'm sorry.
Uh
I gotta head up to five
'cause I've got some
patients to round on.
Hey.
Hey!
It's a nice cake.
I like the cake.
I like you.
But you're not the
author of the universe.
You're just in it.
Same as everybody else.
♪
How did I get here?
You came in an ambulance.
The doctors I work with, we found you
and brought you here.
That rabbit that bit you in New Mexico?
You're infected with a bacteria
called Yersinia Pestis.
We're treating it.
You're gonna be all right.
And if you didn't find me?
You saved my life.
We did.
I did.
And the people you work with
you told them about
how we know each other?
I had to.
Thank you.
Guess it's a good thing I
told you about the rabbits.
It's a very good thing you
told me about the rabbits.
I kind of wanted to tell you more.
I honestly did.
But you know how it is.
I do.
I don't even know what to say to you.
You already said thank you.
That doesn't seem like enough.
I'd be dead if it wasn't for you.
Do we just
keep camming?
Do we have coffee?
I don't know.
Where does this leave us?
It leaves us right here.
You gave me something that I needed.
I'm grateful for that.
Truly, I am.
But I'm not sure I need it anymore.
I've never even seen
you in person before,
but you do look
different.
I'll check up on you, okay?
Thank you, Porsche no.
Thank you Annie.
Thank you, Kathryn.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
Thank you, "TallHotDoc."
(LAUGHS)
(LAUGHS) Sorry.
I only know your username.
♪
New medicine for you, guv.
Prescribed to yours truly,
for the treatment of one
John Watson.
Thank you.
I don't say that enough.
I believe you say it
roughly eight times daily.
There's saying it and then there's
there's saying it.
You're loyal to me, Shinwell,
and I appreciate that.
Not sure if I deserve
it, but I appreciate it.
I could have stopped it
from happening, Shinwell.
Sherlock didn't have to die.
He shouldn't have died.
Did Sherlock Holmes strike
you as an impressionable man?
Weak in his convictions?
He did not.
Mr. Holmes might have needed
you to get to Reichenbach Falls.
But the final dance with Moriarty?
Come on.
That was always destined
to be a one-on-one affair.
I loved the man
dearly.
And I am sorry to
interrupt your brooding.
But it was vanity that
killed Sherlock Holmes.
Not you, John.
Still and all
I appreciate you.
And I you.
Funny thing, though.
Loyalty, guv.
We stick together long enough,
I am sure
that I will disappoint you yet.
Well, you know what?
I wouldn't take that bet.
Not at all.
Right.
- (EXHALES)
- (PHONE BUZZES)
♪
(DOOR OPENS)
(DOOR CLOSES)
You found that again?
I got to get me a safe or something.
It's okay, Zach. You
don't have to hide it.
I want you to take it back.
I don't want it anymore.
Sasha, come on.
Thank you for everything.
I really mean that.
I need you to have your stuff
out of here in two weeks.
(SNIFFLES)
(INSECTS TRILLING)
(WATER LAPPING)
(PHONE BUZZING)
Cake's good.
Can't lie.
You doing whatever you do?
I am.
Want company?
I'm not trying to force myself on you.
Okay, I am, but it's not 'cause I,
I wrote us an ending, it's
I could just use some company.
Did you, did you hang up?
I'm here.
Tomorrow, okay?
All yours.
Tonight's for me.
I
am not the author of the universe.
I'll see you in the morning.
Good night, Dr. Lubbock.