#elementary 4x23

To be fair, it’s no wonder she relished that, since she had little else to do this episode except frown at her portrait. (How does she feel about having it in the house? How has she ever felt about this portrait existing? Did Sherlock consider it might be unnerving?) Even her frustration at “lying to our friends” about their real suspicions goes utterly unremarked-upon in the deluge of dad feelings and plot twists. Is that going to come back to bite them? Would we be able to tell?

It doesn't make sense to me that Vikner would be honoring Moriarty's “untouchable” command re: Sherlock & Watson - makes me wonder if he’s planting a sense of false security?

For the same reason, it also doesn't make sense that the succession was as smooth as Vikner implied, given the Moriarty we saw in 2x12. The fact that D’ohRob brought back The Giant Portrait of WTF makes me think he at least rewatched some of that episode, so I hope he also remembered how angry Moriarty was at the man who (she concluded) had leaked information about her child. I’d like to believe Moriarty is perhaps lulling Vikner into a false sense of security, and in the end will teach him the lesson in discretion she threatened in “The Diabolical Kind.”

When Sherlock told Watson that he can’t shake the feeling there’s someone else he should talk to, Watson assumed he meant Morland, and he didn’t respond except with a small grimace. That reaction is completely in character with any thought of his father, but I assumed he was choosing not to correct her (or irritate her) by explaining he actually meant Moriarty.