Tonight on CBS Watson returns with an all-new Sunday, November 17, 2025, season 2 episode 6 called, “Buying Time,” and we have your weekly Watson recap below.
In tonight’s Watson season 2 episode 6 called “Buying Time,” as per the CBS synopsis, “Watson and the fellows race against time to save the life of Xavier, a 21-year-old athlete with a fast-growing, seemingly incurable cancer.
Meanwhile, Mycroft Holmes lets Watson know his team’s work at UHOP may no longer have funding available.”
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In tonight’s Watson episode, Sherlock’s suppose final act towards his brother was to screw him out billions. Mycroft Holmes even lost his company. Now, Mycroft wants revenge. He couldn’t take it out against Sherlock because Sherlock was still technically dead to a world. Mycroft decided to take out his anger on the next best thing.
He targeted Dr. John Watson. Holmes demanded that Watson pursue aggressive research. Watson told him no and so Mycroft pulled his funding. The Holmes Clinic was operated by the Holmes foundation. Mycroft was the last living Holmes and the Holmes foundation answers only to him. And so now would be the perfect time for Sherlock to tell the world he’s not really dead.
Until that happened, Watson was stuck with Mycroft. He refused to pursue “aggressive” research. He didn’t want his research being used solely to make Mycroft richer because John believed in a higher calling.
He wanted to use his research to save lives. He didn’t want it used by one company that would hold the patent to whatever he or his team found for the rest of time. Watson wanted to save millions. Not whoever can afford him. Its why he took on Casey Zink as a patient. He was referred to them by a friend.
Casey was complaining of pain. He’s been in pain for the past two months. He doesn’t have insurance. He kept going to the free clinic and they were not equipped to provide medical care.
Casey was just twenty-three. He could have played professional baseball only he chose college. He lost his scholarship after he got injured. He feared he only knew how to throw a ball. He couldn’t afford any tests at a hospital. He agreed to go to the Holmes Clinic as long as he wasn’t charged for the MRI.
They promised him that wasn’t going to be an issue with them. They did the test and then Mary had bad news for them. One, their patient has a spinal tumor.
Two, the Holmes foundation was refusing to cover the costs or hospital stay for Casey. Watson tried calling Mycroft and Mycroft wanted to force him into working for him. Watson refused to budge. He even agreed to pay for Casey’s care out of his own pocket. He got help with the funding though. He managed to find a sugar daddy. He went to go work for billionaire, Joseph Bell.
Bell started his own company called Anti-Ageing Generation. He wanted to be able to stop father time. He wanted people to live well past a hundred and he swears he was going to be the first. He wanted to climb a mountain at a hundred. He wanted to father a child at a hundred and fifteen. He was an egotistical man that proved to be more dangerous than Watson realized. Watson did what Bell wanted in exchange Bell covered Casey’s medical bills for a month. They thought they could treat Casey’s tumor like they did every other cancer.
Cut, poison, burn. Only it didn’t work with Casey. Casey’s situation was different. The surgery to remove the tumor failed because the tumor appeared to be fused to his spine. They couldn’t treat with chemotherapy because a biopsy showed a full blast of the stuff wasn’t enough to weaken it in the slightest. Casey’s cancer wasn’t natural. It was man-made. It was created in a lab to attack him and never stop. Casey said it best. He was given immortal cancer. He eventually lost his sight and he was unable to move.
This genetically created cancer was done by any of the case studies that Casey signed up for. He was broke. He was living out of his car. He kept signing on for many studies and one of them stuck out. He signed up for Primal Bio Tech’s vitamin study. He was fine afterwards. He began feeling back pain months later and by then he thought it was a symptom of him living out of his car. It wasn’t. It was the cancer. The immortal cancer that was created by Primal Bio Tech. It was actually a shell company for Bell’s AAG.
Bell has been testing on young patients trying to buy them extra time. He thought if it worked for them that he could take some himself. He was a little too hasty because he injected himself with the same thing that Casey got. Casey got cancer. Bell now has cancer. Bell just didn’t realize it in time because he thought the liver of a twenty-two year old was enough to give him an extra five to ten years. He had Watson working with him in taking his vitals. He works out. He eats right. He thought he was healthy until Watson made the connection between AAG and Primal Bio Tech.
Adam stole a sample of whatever they gave Casey from Bell’s refrigerator. He then ran it against the DNA sample of both Casey as well as Bell. They both have the same type of cancer. It was in their spines. It wouldn’t come up on a normal blood draw. They were both dying. The Holmes Clinic managed to find a way to convince the cancer to kill itself. Thus they can treat both men, but first Bell has to pay for what he put Casey through. It was Watson’s one condition before he treated Bell for his cancer.
Not that it worked for Bell. His cancer mutated way too fast. Bell eventually died and Casey got to live. Casey got the money. He bought a car and he was finally decided what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. Watson later had another meeting with Mycroft. Mycroft figured out that his brother was alive. He demanded that Watson help him find his brother or he was going to keep up his tactics. Even threaten the clinic itself. Watson then had to decide where his loyalty lies. Was it with the people he treated or his best friend who came back from the dead?
Stephens also learned something about himself in a conversation with Ingrid. Ingird pointed out that she thought he was depressed. He might be. He was also afraid to be. He’ll never go to therapy to check for himself. His father was depressed after the divorce and he saw four psychiatrists before he found one he liked. He was attached to that last one. Yet, he still got into a car accident. Something Stephens never believed was an accident at all. He’s never told anyone that. He only told Ingrid because he wanted someone to know why he would never go to therapy.
He literally would rather spend time with hospice patients than go.
THE END!