EPISODE

21. Fly Into a Rage, Make a Bad Landing

When Detective Bell's girlfriend Chantal is assaulted and her ex-husband is killed soon after, in what Holmes and Watson discover is a staged suicide, they search for one suspect behind the linked crimes. Also, as Bell fights the urge to seek his own brand of justice for Chantal, Sherlock makes a heartbreaking realization about the detective's past.

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Chantal is brutally beaten and hospitalized (after events in " The Art of Sleights and Deception "). Bell is convinced Chantal's assailant is her ex-husband Roy Booker. While urine found on Chantal's bed matches Booker's DNA, his alibi is verified. They find Booker shot dead, an apparent suicide. Attorney Ted Winthrop, Booker's boss at Sawyer Winthrop Rose (specializing in finding divorcing spouses' hidden assets), implicates Fyodor Ukhov, who's hiding $20M from Winthrop's client Lara Ukhov. Fyodor admits detecting Booker's surveillance and hitting his car, which explains his fingerprints. Sherlock injures Fyodor to prevent his flight to the Caymans, and to save Bell's career. They confront Fyodor's PI, Joseph Tommolino, who didn't provide details on Booker and Chantal until after the assault. They discover Booker used herbs to pass a drug test, and a client list with $100,000 in the bank. They uncover that Winthrop lied to his clients, low-balling how much money their husbands hid so he could steal the difference. Booker discovered Winthrop's scheme, extorting him for a cut. Learning of Booker's issues with Chantal, Winthrop attacked Chantal and staged Booker's suicide. He ordered his staff to take drug tests to obtain Booker's incriminating urine from the lab tech.

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