‘Elementary’ season 3, episode 2 review: What happened in Kitty’s past?

There were a lot of mixed reactions from “Elementary”  fans over the premiere and most of them had to do with Sherlock’s new protege Kitty. We haven’t seen much from her, but the connection between her and Holmes is a little weak. More then that it takes away form the Watson/Holmes dynamic that everyone is tuning in to see. For us we were a little disappointed that we didn’t see Holmes in the episode for over 20 minutes and then the big cliffhanger from last season of Holmes joining MI6 was quickly just brushed under the carpet almost like it didn’t happen. We are holding out hope that tonight’s episode will bring back some of the Watson/Holmes normalcy that we tune in for.

The case of the week has piqued the interest of both Holmes and Watson as two men are killed within a few hours of each other over a children’s toy that was poisonous. Watson gets the case from Gregson, but Holmes talks Watson into sort of sharing the case (two bodies, two detectives). Seems that Watson and Holmes are working together again, and he has sent Kitty off to do menial work, taking pictures of the crime scene with Marcus.

Kitty blows an opportunity to impress Holmes when she accuses someone that could help the case of obstruction which shuts the interview down.  While Holmes is telling her off, she reminds him that she used to get meaningful work when they were back in London and now that they are here and Watson is back she is getting all the menial work.

Marcus thinks that Kitty is pretty intense and that when Watson was working with Holmes she seemed to give him stability and this girl is creating the opposite affect. Watson does a little background check on Kitty and finds that there’s only information about her dating back for the past 5 years and nothing more. When she talks to Holmes about it he assures her that he’s done a background check on Kitty himself before taking her on. He tells her that Kitty was taken by a man and a horrible crime was committed against her, that’s why her records only go back so far – she’s here starting a new life. Holmes hands Watson an envelope all about the crime, but she decides not to read it… that is until Kitty tells her that she wants her to so that she willhave a better understanding of her.

Watching Watson and Holmes working together on a case makes it very difficult to embrace Kitty.  We get that there needs to be a point of contention between Holmes and Watson and Kitty is great to provide that, but this season is still struggling to get going. Episode grade: C-

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