On next week's episode of "Elementary," "Absconded," the duo will look into the death of someone close to them.

"Holmes and Watson look into the death of a member of Holmes' online beekeeping community who was a researcher looking into a deadly Northeast honey bee outbreak," Spoilers Guide reports. "During the investigation, they meet Tara Parker, a brilliant entomologist, academic and the leader of New York's beekeeping society. Also, Captain Gregson enlists Watson's services in an off-book investigation that helps him make a life-changing decision."

When a judge is murdered on Thursday's episode, Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Watson (Lucy Liu) find that they have become involved in an interstate attempt to locate the prime suspect who happens to be an escaped convict from a privatized prison.

As reported in TV Equals, the episode titled “The Best Way Out Is Always Through” has Holmes using his deductive reasoning on Detective Bell’s (Jon Michael Hill ) new relationship, which subsequently ends up hitting a rough patch.

In an interview in Ten Play, Jon Michael Hill, the young actor who has had stints on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and “Person of Interest,” talked about reading Sherlock Holmes books to prepare for his role in the series, which did not actually exist in the original Arthur Conan Doyle novels, saying, “It was fun to discover how absolutely consumed Sherlock is in his work and how animated and outlandish his behavior can be. He's really very exciting.”

Hill, an actor known for being adept at both stage and screen, noted the oddness of his craft, saying: “Everything about what we do is weird. Standing on a stage in front of a bunch of strangers in clothes that aren't yours, convinced that the scenery around you is the actual place you say it is at any given place and time... is weird.”

“So is staging a fake murder on a real street and planting clues for yourself to find while huge machines capture your every breath and twitch,” he adds, “It's all very weird.”

The next two episodes of “Elementary,” "Absconded" and "A Controlled Descent," will each deal in some ways with the weirdness of Holmes’ old drug demons.

Episode 22 of Season 3 airs April 30 on the CBS Television Network. Episode 23 airs on May 7.