By Montykins
There's a new killer in town… and it's Vinnie Jones! He likes to kill people by setting up an enormous tripod in their homes and then letting all their blood pool up on the floor before vanishing without a trace. Holmes recognizes this as the Modus Operandi of "M," a mysterious serial killer he tangled with in London. And that's who killed Irene Adler, so his plan is to find him, torture him and kill him.
He finds him pretty quickly, thanks to a reference to the Baker Street Irregulars, and soon Holmes has Vinnie Jones chained up in an abandoned loft, all set for torture. But Vinnie successfully argues that he didn't kill Irene, although he admits that he killed everyone else. So Holmes stabs him non-fatally and takes him to the police. He does not mention his plan to hunt down and torture Vinnie's boss, the mysterious Moriarty.
But the real action is in the Holmes-Watson relationship, because this is the episode where Watson was supposed to finally leave Holmes. There's a lot of talk about Holmes filling her bedroom with bees, but she admits that she'll miss working with him. And when Holmes is shaken by learning that Vinnie Jones isn't the one he wants to torture and kill, he admits to Watson that he'll miss working with her, too. She tries to get Holmes's father to extend her Sober Companion contract, but he declines. She then lies to Holmes and says his father said yes. So she's staying around, but she hasn't officially admitted that she wants to be a detective yet. Although she did advance the plot by the very Sherlock-Holmes technique of recognizing the white powder on Holmes's shoes at one point.
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