By Montykins
While Detective Bell is driving home, his car gets riddled by bullets. The obvious suspect is a drug kingpin who recently got out of jail. He doesn't admit anything when he gets interrogated, so Holmes steals his basketball and throws it on the roof. Holmes can be kind of a jerk sometimes. The morning, the kingpin is dead and Bell is suspect number one. Holmes finds the murder weapon in Bell's bathroom, which also looks bad for him.
Bell takes a moment to confront his brother, who just got out of prison and is given to muttering ominous things about how Bell should learn what it's like to be in prison. And punching Bell in the face in the police station with plenty of witnesses. But it probably wasn't him who framed Bell, because he's the person to turn up shot. And he writes a message in blood on the floor to exonerate Bell, which is a nice twist on the old dying-message routine.
While they're waiting for Bell's brother to come through surgery, Holmes discovers that Bell blew the whistle on his old boss, who planted heroin on that drug kingpin from earlier in the show. And that means that this other police officer -- who Bell used to date -- was trying to frame him. So Bell is cleared. Hooray!
And in more personal news, Holmes tells Watson that he knows she's not a sober companion anymore. He knows that she's sticking around because she's interested in his work, so he offers her a new job as his partner and apprentice. And she takes it! She'll still make him go to meetings, but we have finally moved on to a new phase of their relationship where her only purpose isn't to watch him like a hawk for signs of heroin use.
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