Recaps

Lanny survived the Workhouse case, became entangled with Sherlock and Mycroft, and began university, where he met Professor Moriarty. After noticing signs of a possible planned attack and being followed, Lanny returned home with Mycroft and kept his school concerns from Sherlock.

• Lanny survived the shop explosion, met Sherlock and Mycroft, and moved into a room at 221B Baker Street with Sherlock and Watson.
• Sherlock, Watson, and Lanny investigated the Workhouse murders, where Lanny was stabbed and pushed into a drainage channel before the police caught the attackers.
• Lanny helped Lestrade investigate Rhodes’s missing inheritance, and Sherlock exposed Qiaosen as the killer after Rhodes’s body was found.
• Lanny read the updated comic and recognized himself as the passerby who had escaped the Workhouse explosion, while Sherlock practiced saying Lanny’s Chinese name.
• Lanny attended University of London orientation, met William, and learned that he was Professor Moriarty, then skipped Moriarty’s lectures before watching a recording of one.
• Moriarty visited Lanny and discussed intuition with him, while the manga preview showed Moriarty imagining a lecture-hall massacre and asking Lanny how to make an inevitable event random.
• Lanny suspected he was being targeted after noticing someone following him at night, and Mycroft drove off the pursuer and took him home.
• Sherlock invited Lanny to explain what was troubling him, but Lanny decided not to discuss his concerns about Professor Moriarty and waited for Watson to return.

Lanny became entangled in Professor Moriarty’s investigations and joined Sherlock, Watson, and their friends aboard the Noah, where a murder and a fire disrupted the cruise. After returning to Liverpool, Lanny met Louis Moriarty and accepted his chess challenge, while the manga hinted that the Noah Incident was not over.

• Watson told Lanny about a shooting in the Mathematics Department, and Lanny asked Lucian to help him find friends to invite to dinner.
• Lestrade questioned Lanny about Lily Schneider’s murder, then released him after the killer, a professor, was exposed, and Moriarty invited Lanny to meet during the Christmas break, but Lanny refused.
• Lanny warned Moriarty that another coordinated crime was imminent and agreed to act as a suspect while Moriarty supplied his alibi.
• Lanny visited Moriarty at his home to collect study materials, found him asleep in the library, and touched his cheek before Moriarty woke.
• Lanny decided to stay with Mrs. Hudson, Watson, and Sherlock, then joined them on Lucian’s cruise aboard the Noah despite worrying about Moriarty’s presence.
• Sherlock and Lanny investigated a missing body, while Lanny helped Maren Flynn and discovered her husband had been hidden aboard the ship, and Sherlock suspected a group of consultants was behind the crimes.
• Maren and Valentine Butler’s scheme was exposed, but a fire broke out during the escape, and Lanny feared Moriarty had manipulated events, and the manga suggested the Noah Incident would continue.
• After Sherlock reassured Lanny and lent him his scarf, Lanny met Louis Moriarty in Liverpool and accepted Louis’s chess wager to stay away from Moriarty if he lost.