The first few episodes of Watson have focused on John and his TBI (now TBIs). Watson season 1, episode 4 gives Sasha’s character more time to breathe.
Caution: This post contains SPOILERS for Watson season 1, episode 4.
The new episode starts with a case of a man coming in with Cowden syndrome. This is genetic, and it leads to cancerous cells. Sure enough, the man ends up with cancer and he dies on the table. It’s not this that is the mystery for John and his team.
Sasha remembers a case that is very similar from her medical school days. We see that she cares deeply now, but she didn’t always think that way. It’s such an important look at the way her character has developed over the years so that we get to know her. Let’s take a look at the episode.
Sasha sees a link between her current patient and a past cadaver in Watson season 1, episode 4
The episode sees Sasha realize that a cadaver in the past cold have had Cowden’s disease. She remembers the lesions on the tongue, and now she feels terrible that she didn’t care at first. To be honest, why would she? The cadaver was dead, and she may have assumed that anything that came up in autopsies would have already been disclosed.
Now that she knows more about how the medical world works, she realizes that she was the one to say something. Now she needs to find out who the cadaver was. It’s only when Watson mentions that figuring out the identity is a mystery to solve that she decides that this is something to focus on. It’s not the dead-end it initially seemed. There is something that she can do. We’ve already seen that Sasha loves solving mysteries, so it’s not surprising that she decides that she wants to get to the bottom of the mystery once she has one.
We get to learn a little more about her past. She’s willing to break rules for her emotions. During medical school, she allowed an artist friend to break into the morgue to sketch her interesting cadaver. This led to bad blood between Sasha and Brenda, the medical examiner. However, it also explains why some of Sasha’s medical journal pages are missing. They are with the artist friend, who clearly still has feelings for Sasha. And Sasha still clearly has feelings for him. We see the stark difference between the way she reacts to people she loves and the people she’s in a relationship with for money and status. It’s an interesting look into her character, and Ingrid is definitely intrigued but also annoyed.
An Amish mystery to solve in Watson
The new mystery starts with a request to see the details of the cadaver, which means Watson bribes Brenda with Steelers tickets. We see Watson help Sasha remember the cadaver. She needs details of the cadaver to rule out which one it was. Of course, there’s human error, and it’s only because of the artist friend that John is able to figure things out.
He notices a tattoo. It reminds him of a quilt he was gifted by the Amish community, and sure enough, that community confirms that the cadaver was one of their own. With the mystery solved, it’s time to warn everyone about Cowden Syndrome, which leads to a mostly happy ending.
There’s just one issue: some who are directly related to the cadaver are gone. The cadaver and his sister, Rachel, broke away from the Amish community years ago. They live in Harrisburg, so it’s off on an adventure to find her and her son. When her son shows symptoms of thyroid cancer at just the age of eight, they all believe that he has Cowden and need to get him to the hospital right away.
It’s not the disease, though. It’s another medical mystery to solve, and I do enjoy that we get a couple of mysteries in an episode. It all comes down to unpasteurized camel milk. I’m not surprised the series has focused on the dangers of unpasteurized milk. There’s been a huge rise in this raw milk trend, and it’s dangerous for so many people. Once John has gotten to the bottom of it and the bacterial infection that’s causing the symptoms, it’s an easy fix.
One thing that I do love is how the Amish community embrace Rachel and her son. We see so many shows where someone breaks away from the community and is completely shunned. While that is certainly the case with a lot of communities, not all are the same. The fact that this community were welcome to John coming to them and getting medical treatment shows that they are the more modern versions of their community, so we get to see them being understanding of those who broke away; and maybe they know that it wasn’t all Rachel and was mostly her brother who pulled her away.
Watson isn’t contesting his divorce in Watson season 1, episode 4
Throughout the episode, the personal story for Watson is the divorce with Mary. She’s done with him not turning up to mediation and she wants to know who his divorce lawyer is. At first, he just keeps going along with it. Eventually, he admits that he doesn’t have a divorce lawyer, because he isn’t contesting the divorce.
I think this is a way to get Mary to fall for him again. He’s going to play nice so that she sees the kindness in him. She’ll see the qualities that she fell in love with, and there’s hope that the two will end up back together.
Of course, it could just be that he’s made peace with the end of his marriage. I’m in two minds about this.
The supporting characters are finally getting interesting
While Sasha got the most focus, there was also some development for other characters. We got to see more interaction between Adam and Ingrid throughout the episode, with Adam making it clear that Ingrid is Watson’s favorite. I do wonder if that’s because she’s more of a mystery to him. She doesn’t show much emotion, and that’s because we know she’s likely a sociopath.
Stephens doesn’t get as much time in this episode, but the previous one gave us some development for him. I’m glad we don’t have much of the twins arguing with each other. That was getting old, and I think I’d tire of it every single episode. We need to see the other characters interact more.
Watson season 1, episode 4 was the episode where we needed to see more development to really care for the characters. I’m glad to see we got that, but I’m still not invested in this show. My main investment is in the Moriarty storyline that plays in the background.
Watson airs on Sundays at 9/8c on CBS. Catch up the following day on Paramount+.
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