Incel: Who are they?
Sherlock: That's Homeland Security.
Incel: But...you promised you wouldn't tell them about me if I talked to you!
Sherlock: Yes, but you play den mother to a pack of would-be rapists and mass shooters, so you can see how lying to you would be the highlight of my day. Look on the bright side - you don't seem to enjoy the company of women, and that shouldn't be a problem for the next five to ten years.
Jon Sandys
22nd Oct 2025
Elementary (2012)
13th Sep 2025
Elementary (2012)
Plot hole: It's stated multiple times that the Semper Apex server room is protected from wireless signals, but Sofia's team sneaks in and plants a "ghost jack" with a wireless transmitter on it, which they say is slaved to an IP address. Except that wouldn't work in the server room. There'd be no way to get a signal to or from it.
2nd Sep 2025
Elementary (2012)
Revealing mistake: To demonstrate that "Clean This House" isn't a real company, Sherlock shows the man his phone displaying a 404 "file not found" message. Except the browser bar at the top simply shows "Clean This House", not a website domain. As written, he's just searched for the phrase, not tried to load a website.
4th Aug 2019
Elementary (2012)
Unfriended - S7-E11
Character mistake: Odin Reichenbach talks to Sherlock about "doing the irrevocable", but pronounces it "irrevOWEcable." It should be pronounced "irrevacable" in both British and American English. He's supposed to be a highly intelligent, highly educated person - not a mistake he should make.
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Suggested correction: Not necessarily. A lot of people have strange vocal tics where they pronounce a certain word in a certain way, usually without even realizing it. My grandfather was a smart guy, and he always mis-pronounced "toilet" as "ter-let."
14th Jun 2019
Elementary (2012)
Red Light, Green Light - S7-E4
Other mistake: The crash at the start is staged - the semi truck is driving at 20/30mph, is T-boned by the van, and stops instantly. No screech of brakes, no allowance for the driver's reaction time. In the shot of the impact it's moving at barely walking pace, hence being able to stop so quickly.
30th Sep 2018
Elementary (2012)
Character mistake: When they've worked out that the kidnappers were changing flood maps, Harlan says he "doesn't get why anyone would mess with flood maps in the first place." Looking at the maps it's blatantly obvious that the reworked flood zone excludes a chunk of land, and given property prices in New York it doesn't take a genius to figure it's at least connected to real estate, insurance, etc. Harlan is demonstrably a genius, and could certainly have figured that out for himself.
1st Nov 2013
Elementary (2012)
An Unnatural Arrangement - S2-E6
Continuity mistake: At the start, when The Woman first fires at the door the holes are quite dark and splintered. Then when she moves to pick up the phone the holes look far neater, like they've been drilled.
22nd Apr 2013
Elementary (2012)
Character mistake: When looking at the car near the start, Sherlock says he can tell by the pattern of the bullet holes that the gun was fired in 3 round bursts. But when we saw the attack earlier, the gun fired in bursts of different lengths.