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The following contains spoilers from Watson Season 1, Episode 6, "The Camgirl Inquiry," which debuted Sunday, March 16 on CBS.

Watson Season 1, Episode 6, "The Camgirl Inquiry" finally takes some time to focus on the literary elephant not in the room. The CBS show's pilot episode opened with the death of Sherlock Holmes, and for the show to work it couldn't dwell on his absence. Series creator Craig Sweeny resisted the urge to mine the source material and mentions of Sherlock Holmes, so Watson has been able to establish itself and Morris Chestnut's take on the titular character as a solo act.

Rather than presenting vivid physical reality, Watson literally takes a wider view, highlighting real neighborhoods as the team solves the mystery of the week. The full picture of their patients' humanity and place in the community is how Watson and team discover the cure for what ails each person. That's particularly true in "The Camgirl Inquiry,...

Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Watson Episode 6.Watsonfinally hit its stride last week, and with Episode 6, “The Camgirl Inquiry,” the series is proving there’s a lot of truth to the sentiment that the best is yet to come. Just two episodes ago, the series revealed that Stephens Croft (Peter Mark Kendall) is secretly seeing a camgirl to fill the void left by his ex-fiance, who ended up with his twin and, as the title reveals, she is the latest patient-of-the-week. Porsche (Sofie Kane) is noticeably unwell as she talks with Stephens one night in a private chat room, but he’s the one not really responding to the roleplay scenario she’s trying to entice him with. He’s looking for something real and manages to convince her to tell him something about her real life. It’s relatively mundane—she was raised on a rabbit...