Watson Season 1 Episode 7 “Teeth Marks” is a friendly reminder that there might be a medical reason for people that look like they’re going through an episode. I know that wasn’t Watson‘s intention with “Teeth Marks.” But all I could see with the patient of the week is how gentle John and the team were with her. This kind of understanding and patience is what I wish law enforcement would have more training in. Because that scared, violent, and confused person, maybe they need a helping hand and for someone to take a moment and listen to them.
No one listened to Ginny. And because they didn’t, she ran around town for God knows how long, her mind resetting her every 3 minutes or so. And I have to give it to her, in the midst of her having this condition, she was trying to figure out what was happening while also defending herself. That kind of resilience is something that I didn’t expect but really appreciate about the characters on Watson. John and the other doctors might be detectives. But every single person that comes to them for help, they don’t give up. They take risks, they fall and get back up, and they do it without the show ending up being cheesy.
I do think the weakest part of “Teeth Marks” is that I don’t get how a tumor in her lower abdomen led to her memory resetting. Sometimes medical dramas lean into the brilliance of it all and the mystery leading up to the solution, that they don’t explain the problem itself. In other shows, this might take the show out. But with more episodes that pass of Watson, the more that I like John and the other doctors. Me liking them and the increasing complexity of all of the characters’ backstories means that I don’t care as much when the show falters. And I do think that Watson falters when it comes to explaining why these medical mysteries happen.
I will give it to “Teeth Marks” that they finally circled back on the Moriarty of it all. Personally, I think they let it hang way too long. So seeing Randall Park’s character appear and be the one that has been teasing Ingrid all throughout the episode, that matters. It means that whatever plan he’s working on, it goes deeper than expected and somehow is tied to Ingrid. But it also makes me think that there is a deeper reason why John picked these people to be his doctors. It can’t just be a coincidence. And I’m curious as to who is Ingrid visiting and why the body was never reported.
The mystery thickens when it comes to what eyes Moriarty has in John’s office. Just as Shinwell was about to confess that he was switching John’s pills, the pharmacist walks in and gives Shinwell an out. That was planned in such a delicate and timely way that I only have two options to explain it. The first one is simple: Moriarty has cameras watching John and Co. at every moment. And two, one of the other doctors isn’t who they say they are. I prefer the latter because it will hurt. We’ve been getting to know all these doctors, little by little with each passing episodes. And I’ve gone from being passive about most of them to being intrigued. Finding out the someone else is working for Moriarty, maybe Ingrid herself if she’s never seen his face and that would hurt.
On an unhinged note, I do want to talk about Sherlock Holmes himself. Because in “Teeth Marks” we got to hear Holmes. And he’s voiced by Matt Berry aka Laszlo Cravensworth from What We Do in the Shadows. Maybe we’ve heard him before and it didn’t click for me. But now that I know, I don’t hear Sherlock Holmes. I hear Laszlo. And I’m convinced that Laszlo faked his death because he was tired and went back to his beautiful wife Nadja. Or this could just be an elaborate story, aka fanfic, from one of the greatest minds in our lifetime aka Laszlo. Either way, home’s voice is a delight and we need more of it.
Watson airs on Sundays at 9/8c on CBS.
