The Immortals by Matthew J. Elliott

Author:Matthew J. Elliott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sherlock Holmes, mystery, crime, british crime, sherlock holmes novels, BBC Sherlock, Elementary, Benedict Cumberbatch
ISBN: 9781780924915
Publisher: Andrews UK
Published: 2013-10-23T00:00:00+00:00

1X03: Child Predator

US Airdate: 18 October 2012

Writer: Peter Blake

Director: Rod Holcomb

Guest Cast: Johnny Simmons (Adam Kemper); Yancey Arias (Robert Castillo); Michael Countryman (Barry Kemper); Erin Dilly (Amanda Kemper); Selenis Leyva (Sara Castillo); Christopher Evan Welch (Samuel Abbott); Larisa Polonsky (Lori Thomas); Flint Beverage (Sgt. O’Donnell); Andrew M Chamberlain (Adam Kemper Aged 12); Don Guillory (News Cameraman); Brian O’Neill (Kemper Family Attorney); José Báez (Prisoner); Katelynn Bailey (Mariana Castillo)*; Ludovic Coutaud (Prostitute)*

*Uncredited

Plot: Holmes is alerted via his police scanner to the abduction of Mariana Castillo, a 7-year old child. It’s the work of a notorious criminal known as the Balloon Man (because of his habit of leaving a bunch of party balloons at the site of each crime).

Mr Castillo’s ex-mistress was outside the family home on the night Mariana was taken, and she recalls seeing a dark brown van speeding past. Holmes and Watson find evidence that the vehicle may have been repainted. With this information, the police are able to track down the Balloon Man’s decommissioned NYPD van. But the driver is too young to be the kidnapper. Holmes recognises him as Adam Kemper, the Balloon Man’s first victim, taken at age 12 in 2005.

The youth is far from forthcoming, but after speaking to him, Holmes realises that the Balloon Man has a night job delivering newspapers. From this deduction, the police are able to identify the kidnapper as Samuel Abbott, but when they storm his last known address, they find only a memory stick on which Abbott has recorded a demand for Adam’s return, in exchange for Mariana.

Adam accepts immunity and gives up the location of Abbott’s hideout. The police rescue the girl, but Abbott shoots himself rather than be captured. An examination of the apartment brings Holmes to a horrifying conclusion: Abbott isn’t the Balloon Man, Adam is! He’s dominated Abbott ever since he was snatched and from the age of 14 ordered the adult to commit further abductions.

The immunity agreement means that he can’t be charged for any crimes committed in concert with Abbott. But his abductor was in hospital during the killing of the fifth victim, William Crawford, in 2009. Adam therefore acted alone, and can be arrested for murder.

The best and the wisest man: Holmes lies to Watson about his intention to join her on a jog. He first became interested in the Balloon Man while still in London. He prefers to talk rather than to listen, once to a phrenology bust he named Angus (shades of the skull the BBC’s Sherlock deems a friend.) He was sent to boarding school at age 5. He tells Adam Kemper that he was bullied there by a boy named Anders Larson (the name has no Canonical associations whatsoever). He later indicates that the story may not have been entirely true. He doesn’t sleep during a case. He mans his scanner again in Flight Risk.

I am lost without my Boswell: Watson, too, remembers the Balloon Man’s crimes. She exercised to keep herself awake while cramming for tests at medical school, where she was valedictorian.

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