Why Are Lemon Presses for Lemons on Elementary's Child Predator?

Summary: Lemon juice appears from lemons in lemon presses that avow absence and assignation that afterward aid crime-solving on Elementary's Child Predator.

closeup of lemon tree (Citrus limon); Berkeley, eastern San Francisco Bay, northern Alameda County, west central California; Thursday, Jan. 6, 2005: Allen Timothy Chang, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

One Prosecco bottle and two corkscrews, lemon presses and pepper mills each respectively assist in arresting abductors and analyzing reconciliation on Elementary procedural drama television series episode Child Predator Oct. 18, 2012.

Director Rod Holcomb and writer Peter Blake brandish corkscrews, lemon presses and pepper mills because of the Castillo couple breaking up and then being back together. The wine container in Season One's third episode carries Atlantic Avenue bottle-bottom, not neighborhood bodega ("cellar") bottle-top, price tags and covers a clandestine conversation between ex-lovers. Lori Thomas (Larisa Polonsky), after driving to the Castillo's Queens domicile, discerns the dark brown van of Robert's (Yancey Arias) and Sara's (Selenis Leyva) daughter's abductor.

Sherlock Holmes espies too many corkscrews, lemon presses and pepper mills; elicits the ex-lover's eyewitness testimony; and exposes a decommissioned New York Police Department van driver.

Lemon presses furnish from fresh lemons fresh lemon juice, with 5 percent of weight in citric acid; niacin, riboflavin and thiamin B vitamins; and vitamin C.

Lemon trees grow indoors and outdoors, perhaps in an indoor-outdoor container on the Castillo family grounds for daughter Mariana (Katelynn Bailey) to gather fragrantly fresh lemons. They happen from two-plus-week-germinated seeds at 55.4 degrees Fahrenheit (13 degrees Celsius) or seedling-budded or grafted two-year-old grapefruit, mandarin, sour or sweet orange, or tangelo rootstock. Five to ten 9.52-inch- (0.38-millimeter-) long seeds, with white interiors, inhabit the acidic, 8- to 10-segmented, juicy, white-yellow pulp inside each aromatic, oval lemon tree fruit.

Lemon trees juggle oval, 2.75- to 4.72-inch (7- to 12-centimeter) by 0.24- to 0.39-inch (6- to 10-millimeter), white-yellow fruits with oil glands in their thick peels.

Lemon trees keep their 1,500-some fruits within inner, spongy peels known as albedos (from Latin albēdō, "whiteness") and flavorful, fragrant, outer, yellow peels known as rinds.

Lemon trees locate lemon fruits, asymmetrical with their growing, lower ends broadly mounded, and clustered or solitary, semi-fragrant, sweet-scented flowers amid evergreen foliage and sharp-thorned twigs. Axils (from Latin axilla, "armpit"), where leaf stalks meet twiggy branches, maintain fruits with maximum 1.97-inch (50-millimeter) diameters and flowers with purple lower, white upper surfaces. Lemon trees, named Citrus limon (from Latin citrus, "citron" and Persian لیمون, "lemon"), net red buds and four to five 0.79-inch- (2-centimeter-) long petals per flower.

Lemon trees, observed by Carl Linnaeus (May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778) and Pehr Osbeck (May 9, 1723-Dec. 23, 1805), offer 20 to 40 stamens per flower.

Each pollen-receiving carpel (from French carpelle, "ovary") and pollen-producing yellow-anthered (from Greek ἀνθηρός, "blooming") stamen (from Latin stāmen, "thread") perform respectively female and male reproductive roles.

Lemon trees queue atop slender-winged petioles (stalks, from Latin petiolus, "footlet") immaturely red, maturely black-green upper-surfaced, green-white lower-surfaced, 2.46- to 4.43-inch- (6.25- to 11.25-centimeter-) long leaves. They realize 5.91- to 20.01-foot (1.8- to 6.1-meter) heights and 5.91- to 10.01-foot (1.8- to 3.05-meter) spreads with 4.92- to 26.25-foot (1.5- to 8-meter) spacing intervals. Flowers, fruits, elliptical-oval fine-toothed foliage and wood suffer respectively below 29, 28, 22, 20 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 1.67, minus 2.22, minus 5.56, minus 6.67 degrees Celsius).

Moist, sunny, well-drained soil pHs 4.8 to 8.3 and 9.84- to 49.21-inch (25- to 125-centimeter) annual rainfall trigger 12-plus years of lemons for Elementary's lemon presses.

After staying up all night to wade through his files on open serial murders, Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) cancels jogging with sober companion Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) and decodes what "agree" means in his vocabulary in CBS Elementary's Child Predator (season 1 episode 3): Elementary @CBSElementary, via Facebook Oct. 18, 2012

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

closeup of lemon tree (Citrus limon); Berkeley, eastern San Francisco Bay, northern Alameda County, west central California; Thursday, Jan. 6, 2005: Allen Timothy Chang, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lemon_tree_Berkeley_closeup.jpg

After staying up all night to wade through his files on open serial murders, Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) cancels jogging with sober companion Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) and decodes what "agree" means in his vocabulary in CBS Elementary's Child Predator (season 1 episode 3): Elementary @CBSElementary, via Facebook Oct. 18, 2012, @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/photos/a.151627898295663/190782197713566

For further information:

"Child Predator." Elementary: The First Season. Los Angeles CA: Paramount Pictures Corporation, Oct. 18, 2019.

"Citrus limon." Missouri Botanical Garden > Gardens & Gardening > Your Garden > Plant Finder.
Available @ http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=b548

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. 1892. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London, England: George Newnes Ltd.

Elementary @CBSElementary. 18 October 2012. "Miss this moment? Watch the full episode on CBS.com: http://bit.ly/QVc6ap." Facebook.
Available @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/photos/a.151627898295663/190782197713566

Marriner, Derdriu. 8 October 2012. "Bach Chaconne Absorbs Anguish on Elementary's While You Were Sleeping." Earth and Space News. Monday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 29 September 2012. "Are Lesser Clovers Sherlock's Lucky Shamrocks on Elementary's Pilot?" Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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