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Synopsis: When a string of brutal murders terrorizes London, it doesn't take long for legendary detective Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) and his crime-solving partner, Dr. Watson (Jude Law), to find the killer, Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong). A devotee of the dark arts, Blackwood has a bigger scheme in mind, and his execution plays right into his plans. The game is afoot when Blackwood seems to rise from the grave, plunging Holmes and Watson into the world of the occult and strange technologies.
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures/Village Roadshow
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 27 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
57
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
PG-13
Year:
2009
128 min
$208,711,166
Website
6,621 Views


33A.

30 CONTINUED:
(4) 30

She stands and pulls out a large bag of coins.

HOLMES:

Keep your money. I didn't say I'd

take the case.

She ignores him. Holmes examines the envelope. On it is

stamped the letterhead of the Grand Hotel. She pauses

behind him as she exits.

IRENE:

They gave me our old room.

As she walks out she puts her photo back upright.

31 INT. 221 BAKER ST. - STAIRS 31

Irene descends the stairs just as Watson is coming in.

He lifts his hat, waits for her to pass --

IRENE:

Hello, John.

-- does a speechless double-take when he sees who it is.

Irene keeps moving.

34.

32 EXT. LONDON STREET 32

We PICK UP Irene crossing a street. She passes a DARK

ALLEYWAY. Pauses. Looks. She turns into the alley.

HOLD ON the alley for a long beat. Too dark to see much

in there.

CUT TO:

IRENE:

emerges from the alley holding a lovely bunch of roses.

She sniffs them appreciatively, walks on.

CUT TO:

IRENE:

approaches a waiting carriage, looks around her, gets in.

CUT TO:

33 33

INT. CARRIAGE

Irene sits, turns to address a man-shaped shadow filling

the opposite corner of the carriage. Before she can

speak, a gesture from the shadow stills her. This is

PROFESSOR MORIARTY.

Irene is made to wait as Moriarty finishes writing a

complex mathematical equation (in astronomy), folds the

paper to reveal that it is addressed to THE ROYAL

ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, cracks open the carriage window and

slides the folded paper partway out.

Someone waiting outside takes the paper, and their

footsteps clatter away.

Moriarty closes the window, and the carriage starts

moving. A full beat goes by before he turns to Irene,

finally prepared to engage with her.

MORIARTY:

I assume he'll do it?

IRENE:

Not for money, but for me. I

wager he'll find our man within

twenty-four hours.

MORIARTY:

You wager?

(CONTINUED)

34aA.

33 CONTINUED:
33

IRENE:

I'm certain.

MORIARTY:

A better word. I sincerely hope

it's accurate.

IRENE:

I --

Suddenly, the coach comes to a halt, they lurch forward.

34 EXT. LONDON STREET 34

A rough-looking BEGGAR wearing an eye patch has fallen

under a wheel of the coach.

BEGGAR:

Ow, me leg!

(CONTINUED)

34A.

34 CONTINUED:
34

COACH DRIVER:

Get out of it!

BEGGAR:

You run me over, sir, yes you did!

COACH DRIVER:

You fell right into the carriage!

The Beggar is up, limping toward the window where

Moriarty and Irene sit. He has disgusting blackened

teeth.

BEGGAR:

A little charity would go a long

way, yes it would, sir.

(CONTINUED)

35.

34 CONTINUED:
(2) 34

He reaches toward the window. Within a nanosecond,

Moriarty extends his hand into which a PISTOL appears,

delivered by a concealed mechanism (Travis Bickle style).

The gun rests on the Beggar's forehead. The cold eyes of

the man that holds the weapon bore into the skull of the

Beggar, who backs off in fear. The carriage moves on.

35 INT. 221 BAKER ST. - HOLMES' APARTMENT 35

Holmes is washing his face in a basin on the other side

of the room, completely transformed now, utterly alive.

Watson approaches, very concerned, almost enraged.

WATSON:

Look at you, I can't believe you

ran after her like a schoolboy

again. Leaping about, all

aflutter. Are you a masochist?

HOLMES:

Allow me to explain.

WATSON:

Don't you remember what she did to

you? She turned you inside out,

she made a proper idiot of you.

I'm sorry, you were going to

explain something...

HOLMES:

Thank you, I --

WATSON:

I know, instead of just being

tricked into being a witness at

her wedding like last time --

HOLMES:

I don't believe --

WATSON:

You dress up as clergyman and

actually perform the ceremony.

She'd love that.

HOLMES:

You've had your fun.

This is a hopeless cause -- Watson won't stop.

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Simon Kinberg

Simon David Kinberg (born August 2, 1973) is an British-born American screenwriter and film producer. He is best known for his work in the X-Men film franchise, and wrote and/or produced several other box-office successes such as Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Sherlock Holmes, Cinderella, and The Martian, earning an Academy Award nomination for the latter. His production company is Genre Films (usually credited as Kinberg Genre), which has a first-look deal with 20th Century Fox. more…

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