“Mrs. Sherlock Holmes” is episode seven of season two of Timeless.
This episode opens on March 4th, 1919, in New York City. Suffragettes are marching in the street to shouted abuse and they arrive at a hotel that is blocked by the police. Things get ugly as the police start beating the women, the President Woodrow Wilson arrives. One of the women makes a speech to the president that appears to have an effect on him.
Jiya and Rufus are talking about the vision she told Rufus about at the end of the last episode, “The King of the Delta Blues”. Jiya had told Rufus that she saw him by the ocean, surrounded by cowboy-types. Then he died. Jiya says that some things are still happening no matter what, just in a different way; JFK was still assassinated, as they discovered at the end of “The Kennedy Curse”, just in a different city. Rufus is not really taking it well and thinking that he knows when he’s going to die causes him to behave very rashly during the upcoming mission. Thought it’s pointed out that ‘not dying’ and ‘not hurt’ are not the same thing.
Lucy leaves Flynn’s room and Wyatt sees her do it. Wyatt does not take this well; it seems he hasn’t quite managed to accept that he’s back with his wife and is a bit torn between the two. The situation is a tad unusual admittedly.
Keynes is still fascinated with modern technology, summoning Emma at their new base – he had destroyed their previous one with a self-destruct (how very Evil Overlord) when Wyatt found it in the previous episode. Keynes says that Emma is the only person he can trust, and it seems he may have other feelings for her too. Keynes also hands Emma a folder.
When they get the mothership’s destination, Lucy says that it was the last day that President Wilson spent in the U.S. before heading to Europe for the negotiations for the Treaty of Versailles. Which had world-changing impact on many countries. Wyatt, who is having new problems with Flynn, doesn’t want him to come but Agent Christopher insists.
When they arrive at President Wilson’s hotel there is a gunshot. Not the president, though, but a Senator Wadsworth. A militant suffragette called Alice Paul has been arrested for killing him. Lucy says that Wadsworth was not really important, but that Alice Paul was, and that her speech – she was the woman at the beginning of the episode – changed the president’s mind.
Lucy and Wyatt go to the police station were Paul is being held whilst Rufus and Flynn check the murder scene. At the police station, the desk sergeant is not that cooperative and mentions Sherlock Holmes in passing. Which causes Lucy to ask if Grace Humiston is in the precinct. Lucy says that, in another time, Humiston would have been a cop; now they just call her in to help solve cases, giving her the nickname Mrs. Sherlock Holmes. Humiston definitely seems to be channelling Holmes, definitely resembling many portrayals of the fictional detective. Humiston also things that is isn’t plausible that Alice Paul would have killed the senator, and agrees to help.
There are more complications and an unexpected ally helps Rufus and Flynn – Emma. It seems she doesn’t agree with Keynes’ plans to quash the Nineteenth Amendment, and is willing to work with the others to stop them. For one mission only.
In the present, Mason is sorting through the debris recovered from Rittenhouse’s base.