22. Paint It Black

Complete story — includes the ending

Mycroft receives a call from Joan's kidnapper. Le Milieu previously offered Mycroft money to open up Diogenes in New York to serve as their headquarters, followed by various requests. Meanwhile, Swiss bank executive Pierce Norman plans to sell a list of thousands of bank executives' names and information to the black market. The NSA is onto Norman, but Sherlock wants to get to him first. Norman's boyfriend points the brothers to a remote home his lover owned. There, they find Norman's corpse. Norman was killed before the list was downloaded and was framed. Joan, meanwhile, operates on a Le Milleu soldier who was shot in the abdomen. She insists that the man be taken to a hospital or he will die; her kidnapped shoots him. That night, Sherlock and Mycroft track down the real perpetrator, Norman's employer's head of security, Kurt Yoder. Yoder is interrogated that night at the brownstone and eventually mentions the hard drive the list is on. After recovering it, Sherlock decides to call the NSA, fearing that Le Milieu will betray them, but Mycroft, who is under orders from a British contact, incapacitates Sherlock with a taser and heads out to meet the dealers, while the NSA later refuses Sherlock's requests to save Joan. Mycroft gives Yoder and the list to the dealers, but de Soto orders his henchmen to kill them, and leaves. Mycroft signals British Intelligence snipers, who kill de Soto's men.