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: Irene reveals her employer was Professor Moriarty. While Holmes and Watson were focused on Blackwood, Moriarty used the chaos to steal a key radio-based component from Blackwood’s machinery, setting the stage for future conflicts. Official Streaming and Information
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: While Watson prepares to move out of 221B Baker Street to marry Mary Morstan, Holmes is visited by his former adversary and lover, Irene Adler. She asks him to find Reordan, but Holmes discovers she is secretly working for a mysterious employer.
: The film begins in 1890 London, where Holmes and Watson apprehend Lord Blackwood as he attempts a ritualistic murder. Blackwood is sentenced to death and hanged, with Watson himself pronouncing him dead. Official Streaming and Information : Check availability on
: Holmes deduces that Blackwood’s "supernatural" powers are actually clever scientific tricks, including a system of hooks to survive his hanging. The climax occurs atop the unfinished Tower Bridge , where Holmes foils Blackwood’s plan to release a chemical weapon in Parliament. Blackwood dies during the fight, accidentally hanging himself with a chain.
: Shortly after his burial, rumors spread that Blackwood has risen from the grave. When his tomb is opened, the body of another man, a scientist named Reordan, is found inside instead. She asks him to find Reordan, but Holmes
In the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes , directed by Guy Ritchie , detective Sherlock Holmes ( Robert Downey Jr. ) and Dr. John Watson (Jude Law) must stop the villainous Lord Henry Blackwood, an aristocrat who uses occult rituals and advanced science to attempt a takeover of the British government.
