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3. Tag, You're Me

When Sherlock finds himself distracted by his father's ongoing presence in New York City, he offers to help Morland resolve a work issue in exchange for his prompt departure home. Also, Holmes and Watson's investigation into the double murder of two men who looked alike leads them into the world of facial recognition technology.

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Two strangers who look like each other are murdered. Dorion Moll spoke with both by phone. Moll runs a website that finds people's doppelgängers, using a stolen and modified facial recognition system. Moll thinks that Countenance Technologies, the firm he stole the software from, wants to kill him; he previously escaped a masked man with a knife. One of the victims, Timothy Wagner, offered a third doppelgänger, Evan Farrow, $10,000 to take a DNA test, pretending to be Wagner. Farrow turned him down. Harold Cudlow, an Oriskany Falls University fraternity pledge, disappeared years before; his body was found in concrete when a building was being demolished. Cudlow fought against his killer; scrapings were found under his fingernails. Every member of the fraternity, including Wagner, was asked to submit to a DNA test. A policeman, Cudlow's brother, confesses to the two murders. However, Wagner's DNA does not match what was under Cudlow's fingernails. However, Countenance executive Curtis Tofano is on the original police list of suspects. Tofano also used Moll's site to hire a double to take his DNA test. Tofano strangled Cudlow to death and tried to kill Moll to cover his tracks. Meanwhile, Morland tries to reconcile with Sherlock, intending to stay in New York indefinitely.

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