MAN 2: Thank you. MAN 1: Anarchists suspected...
...in Strasbourg bombing!
Bombing in Strasbourg!
[CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]
[BELL TOLLING]
...100 pounds?
One hundred. Thank you, sir.
HOFFMANSTAHL: Please, give this to him. He's expecting it.
Tell him our friend thinks I delivered it to his sister.
Uh-- Stay...
...while I check the contents.
I was assured full payment would be there.
Yes, but assured by whom?
Have you ever met him in person?
Seen his face?
HOLMES: Hold it, hold it. Please, don't move it.
Judging from size and weight, it's not the payment you were expecting.
HOFFMANSTAHL: Have you previewed the items for auction?
HOLMES: Difficult to rationalize the expenditure.
Hello, darling.
Hello.
HOFFMANSTAHL: Who's this?
[WHIRRING]
Oh, dear. I told you not to move it. It seems a secondary charge has been activated.
Sweet thing, I might need your help in the disposal of this parcel.
ADLER: Oh, I don't know how I feel about that. You know how long it takes me to get...
- Well, good luck. - One million pounds.
Oh, and by the way, fire.
Fire!
[CROWD CLAMORS]
Leave my side, you'll be dead in an hour.
And don't be late for dinner.
My schedule will be quite tight because of these activities here.
I've never been late in my life, only early.
Mm. Mm-mm. Mm!
Very witty. So confident, even in retreat.
I'll hold on to that. We'll read it together over an aperitif.
Fine. Dinner and a show.
COMMENTARY: The relationship between Robert and I was really fun.
That's a fun dance, and getting the pitch of that just right.
It's a bit of, you know, a cat-and-mouse game...
...and who's going to reveal their feelings first...
...or, you know, how much.
So, yeah, sort of finding a balance between the love relationship...
...and then their working relationship, for lack of a better term.
Because they really don't work together, they work against each other.
So,yeah, it's just finding a middle ground.
MAN: Hyah!
[HORSES WHINNYING]
[CHATTERING]
COMMENTARY: When you're dealing with Sherlock and emotion, you have to be careful...
...because he doesn't show that emotion.
He's very complex in that way.
Yet we wanted to have an emotional drive to the story.
We have one very nice and naturally between he and Watson...
...because they're two people you want to see that friendship grow...
...and you wanna see that friendship remain strong.
So that's there, and that works really well for us.
But we also brought in a stronger emotional element or drive for Sherlock...
...in Irene Adler.
And we established in the first movie that she is the woman for Sherlock.
She's the only one who gets under his skin.
She's the only one that's ever bested him.
Moriarty is very aware of that.
We also established in the first movie that Moriarty has Irene working for him.
We'll discover how Moriarty uses and exploits how Holmes feels about Irene.
And once he experiences that...
...and sees what Moriarty has done, it drives him.
[DOOR CLOSES]
MORIARTY: I don't blame you.
I blame myself.
It's been apparent to me for some time that you had succumbed to your feelings for him.
And this isn't the first occasion Mr. Holmes has inconvenienced me in recent months.
COMMENTARY: So this is-- Yeah, I-- it's my first-- Is it my first death?
No. I think I've had overdoses, but not deaths per se.
Yeah, so that was interesting. I was sort of trying to--
I was trying to figure out, you know, what actually happens...
...when a person is poisoned...
...and I came across these really scary YouTube videos with, like...
Oh, everything's on YouTube nowadays. You have to be so careful.
And they had, like, cadavers, and they--
Cutting them open and showing, like, "This is what happened to her liver" and--
Anyway, so the research was interesting, to say the least.
You know, it's an exciting, dramatic way to go...
...and it was just kind of a nice bonus for my character.
[ADLER COUGHING]
[CHATTERING]
COMMENTARY: Sound, Rob.
Pull back.
And track out.
[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
[KNOCKS ON DOOR]
WATSON: Mrs. Hudson?
Oh, Mrs. Hudson?
[GLADSTONE BARKS]
Holmes, you in there?
[SIGHS]
Your hedge needs trimming.
[GOAT BLEATS]
HOLMES [WHISPERING]: Where am I?
WATSON: I don't care where you are as long as you're ready.
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
HOLMES: I'm waiting.
[ANIMAL HOOTS]
I'm not gonna play this game.
Remember, I have to catch the last...
[BLEATS]
-...train. HOLMES [IN NORMAL VOICE]: Uh-oh.
- That's you dead, I'm afraid. - You win.
I lose. Game over.
HOLMES: Still don't see me?
[HOLMES LAUGHS]
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
I'm not going out with you dressed like that.
Would you prefer I joined you in the fashion faux pas...
...of wearing fine military dress with that heinous handmade scarf...
...clearly one of your fiancée's early efforts?
Oh, how I've missed you, Holmes.
Have you? Why?
I've barely noticed your absence. Then again, I'm knee-deep in research.
Extracting fluids from the adrenal glands of sheep...
...and designing my own urban camouflage...
...all the while verging on a decisive breakthrough...
...in the single most important case of my career, perhaps of all time.
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]
Mrs. Hudson, how are you?
Oh. I'm so pleased to see you, doctor. Thank you for inviting me tomorrow.
And thank you for looking after Gladstone.
Dear, dear sickly-sweet Nanny, might I have a word?
Yummy. Feed the snake, woman.
You feed it.
Touchy, touchy.
Doctor, you must get him to a sanatorium.
He's been on a diet of coffee, tobacco, and coca leaves.
He never sleeps. I hear multiple voices as if he's rehearsing a play.
[CHUCKLES]
Leave him to me.
Says here he died of a heart attack.
Has all my instruction been for naught? You still read the official statement and believe it.
It's a game, dear man, a shadowy game.
We're playing cat and mouse, the professor and I. Cloak and dagger.
I thought it was spider and fly?
I'm not a fly, I'm a cat.
Not a mouse, but a dagger.
You're drinking embalming fluid.
Ooh. Yes. Care for a drop?
You do seem--
- Excited? - Manic.
- I am. - Verging on--
- Ecstatic? - Psychotic.
- Should've brought a sedative. - I'll give my life to see his demise.
He must be stopped before his evil machinations come to a crescendo.
And how will he do all this?
Don't be a dingy bird. Bad people do bad things because they can.
No one, not the victims, the police, the governments, not anyone--
- Except the great Sherlock Holmes... - Correct.
-...on this diet, will work it all out. - Right.
- Or thereabouts. - Thereabouts, not quite there.
Here's to your good health.
Dingy bird.
[GLADSTONE WHIMPERS THEN THUDS]
What have you done to Gladstone now?
Ricinus communis. The fruit is highly toxic.
He's barely breathing.
What an excellent opportunity.
This may be just the thing.
[GLADSTONE WHIMPERS]
Sorry, do you mind terribly if I try my adrenal extract?
How many times are you going to kill my dog, Holmes?
[GRUNTS THEN BARKS]
Took off like a monkey from a box.
- Hmm. - I may need one of those in a few hours.
HOLMES: Consider it a wedding gift.
Watson, might we use an alternative exit?
Is there something different about you?
I'm under observation.
As you should be.
HOLMES: You drive.
WATSON: If you're under observation, isn't all this a little conspicuous?
HOLMES: It's so overt, it's covert.
WATSON: Very well. Where are we heading? - Limehouse.
WATSON: Oh, I'll go due east through lslington.
HOLMES: No, down to the river, left along the embankment.
WATSON: I don't want to get held up in Covent Garden.
HOLMES: I don't want to argue with you about the best route. Go where you like.
WATSON: Trafalgar Square. You must be safe by now.
COMMENTARY: Where's the--? Where's the shaker button?
LAW: On here. RITCHIE: Press the shaker button again.
I like the shaker button.
Oh, I like that.
HOLMES: I'm so very worried. Your vitality's--
COMMENTARY: How far now? - I don't think I'll make it.
[HONKING]
MAN: Out of the way!
HOLMES: Answering to a woman. - Being in a relationship.
A life in matrimony, the possibility of a family.
Who wants to die alone?
MAN 1: Square in the back. MAN 2: Try one like that.
Let's try one. I'll sit next to him.
COMMENTARY: Anyway, it's easier to know it than to explain to you how I know it.
WATSON: Not bad, that.
HOLMES: Anyway...
Loitering in the woodshed again, are we, Myccie?
- Good evening, Sherly. - Well.
Your bootmaker is ill, I see.
COMMENTARY: Making the first, we said if we do another, bring Mycroft in.
He's such a fun, eccentric, wonderful character.
And then he fit perfectly into what we decided to do plot-wise with this...
...because we took it into an international element.
And that's Mycroft's business, in that he works for the queen...
...but he has his hands in everything that, you know, is going on internationally.
The thing is, he's as intelligent, if not more so, than Sherlock...
...but he's incredibly lazy.
He doesn't like to leave his home.
And we play with that because we force him out of his home a couple of times.
When we were doing the first one, we thought, "Okay, if we can do this again...
...and we can have Mycroft, who do we want?"
And Stephen Fry was the first name that came to everyone's mind...
...in that he just seemed perfect.
He seemed like Holmes' older brother.
He seemed like Robert's older brother...
...who you completely believe he's as intelligent as Holmes is...
...and you also believe that he may not be quite as adventurous as Holmes.
So we had so much fun with that character.
MYCROFT: I am here to prevent a dire catastrophe.
If the concerns of two nations...
...which shall remain nameless...
...but I can tell you they speak French and German...
...if they're not dealt with tonight, I shall be forced to go to Switzerland...
...where I--
--which shall remain nameless...
...but I can tell you they speak French and German...
...are not dealt with tonight, I shall be forced to go to Switzerland...
...to attend the ghastly peace summit in Reichenbach.
The worst thing about Switzerland is the altitude.
It gives me nosebleeds, exacerbates my asthma...
I'm so glad you invited your brother.
[BAND PLAYING LIVELY MUSIC]
[PEOPLE LAUGHING AND CHEERING]
This looks promising.
WOMAN: And your poison of choice, gentlemen? WATSON: We'll start with the champagne.
We may need several more chairs.
Perhaps a good cigar.
And don't bother with the chairs.
What is it your brother does exactly?
He's the keeper of the broom cupboard of state.
No ambition, no energy...
...yet I'm repeatedly told that he's indispensable to the British government...
...particularly the Foreign Office.
- I would like to propose a toast. - Really?
To my dear friend, Dr. John...
Touch of pepper.
Flip the omelet.
Additional seasoning required.
Breakfast is served.
Come with me. I need you alive. Now.
WOMAN: Oh!
[WOMAN GASPING]
[BAND PLAYING LIVELY MUSIC]
COMMENTARY: I didn't wanna repeat Holmesavision.
- Half-speed, one. MAN: Three, two, one. Action.
[GRUNTING]
Guy made it very clear what he wanted to create.
He was true to his word.
[LAUGHS]
Aah!
COMMENTARY: Cut.
And action.
WOMAN: Oh, my God.
MAN: Marcus.
ORAM: This is a visual medium...
...so we may like a certain sequence in terms of its movement...
...but once it's captured and we view it, we say, "Oh, that doesn't work."
So ultimately, it's a constant exploration...
...on how to marry motion with visual storytelling.
Wing chun's forte is the short, quick, economical knockouts...
...and sometimes the movement is so fast and so quick...
...that it may not read for a particular shot and effectively tell that story.
If it's too quick, then we sort of sometimes find we leave the audience behind.
So we might have to elongate a movement to really show its motion and its impact...
...to tell the story.
MAN 1: And come back.
MAN 2: And action.
On "win," Jude.
WATSON: All mine?
COMMENTARY: And go!
MAN 2: Rob!
[PEOPLE YELLING]
WATSON: Now, wait a minute.
[CROWD YELLING]
COMMENTARY: And cut it!
Nice aesthetic, chaps. And action, Robert.
ROBERT: She's running away.
He's a ninja. Hai-ya!
Oh, shit, she's got a knife.
Is she gonna kill him? No, he's gonna fucking kill her.
I come in, I get him all tied up.
Boom! Kill shot!
Walk back over.
Help her off the ground. She doesn't need my help.
She says, "He was smelly after all."
WATSON: Holmes!
Where's you?
Just had a fight.
- Just had a fight. - Yes.
Where were you?
Had my hands on hoards of money.
Hoards of money was in my hands.
And you just come and blew it all away.
They wanted my money.
HOLMES: By no means.
I'll drive.
- Nope.No.No. WATSON: Please? Please let me drive.
Ho-honk. Ha-ha-ha.
WATSON: Let's have another drink. - No, no, I think you've had quite enough.
[ENGINE BACKFIRES]
[PLAYING LOUDLY]
COMMENTARY: I'm asleep back here?
- With a bottle of brandy. ROBERT: Yeah, and I could put--
I could have a pillow here for you too or something.
That's great. He drives me there.
RITCHIE: At the same time-- MAN: Lean your head back.
RITCHIE: Like that. He can't-- Can you? - I'm gonna do it.
MAN: You look over at me... RITCHIE: You're gonna get decapitated.
This is so stupid, and they have done it in a million movies...
-...but you're sleeping, right? - Yeah.
- I better not do that. Sorry. ROBERT: Now, wait--
If you're sleeping, wake up and see how your driver's doing.
Yeah.
[ALL LAUGH]
ROBERT: And then what do you--? - We're just going: beep, beep!
Yeah.
[SNORING]
[SNORTS]
[CROWD APPLAUDING]
[BAGPIPES PLAYING]
[CREW SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[ENGINE STARTS]
MAN: I've been to a wedding here before.
Funeral too.
The professor wants to meet.
I'd expected to hear from him sooner, in light of recent events.
He was wondering if it'd be convenient for you to come by the college this afternoon.
His lecture concludes at 4.
Looking forward.
One side, chummy.
[HORN HONKS]
[ENGINE BACKFIRES]
[BELL TOLLING]
[CHATTERING]
COMMENTARY: I like that he's not twirling a mustache...
...and he doesn't have endless monologues...
...that give away everything that was cool about him...
...by saying what his plan is.
He never tells me he's going to kill me...
...and then leave me there with a way to get out. Heh, heh.
HOLMES: "Give up your foolish trickery." -"This fish you cannot cheat."
I hope I'm not intruding.
Excuse me. Matthew, take these up to Mr. Williams.
And make sure he packs my white tie and tails.
- I'll take care of it, professor. - Thank you. I do apologize.
I'm off on a blasted lecture tour. Would you care for some tea or coffee?
- Neither. - Something stronger, perhaps?
No, but might I trouble you for an inscription?
COMMENTARY: We get a lot of our ideas from reading the stories.
I find that constantly rereading the stories while we're shooting is very inspiring.
But at this point, I think we're, in a way, trying to--
We're more focused on trying to improve our game on our own terms...
...than we are in terms of following the canon.
Obviously, there are--
You know, there is the character of Moriarty and--
Oh, we have two new characters. Obviously, we have Moriarty and Mycroft.
And certainly we are mindful of certain things that we--
You know, in terms of how they're defined in the books.
We don't want to go too far from that.
At the same time, there are certain things--
There's a certain amount of license we have to take and a story we're telling...
...which is our own story, as opposed to, you know, a specific story from the books.
And we have to follow that and be true to that.
HOLMES: --endeavors.
I take that as a compliment.
I have the utmost regard for your talents.
It's a pleasure to finally meet you...
...officially.
Are you familiar with the study of graphology?
I've never given it any serious thought, no.
The psychological analysis of handwriting.
The upward strokes on the P, the J, and the M indicate a genius-level intellect.
While the flourishes on the lower zone...
...denote a highly creative yet meticulous nature.
But if one observes the overall slant and the pressure of the writing...
...there's a suggestion of acute narcissism, a complete lack of empathy...
-...and a pronounced inclination toward-- - No.
--Moral insanity.
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
I'm sorry, madam. You can't use the lavatory while the train's in the station.
You're Mrs. Watson.
Give me that bottle.
John, there is nowhere else in the world I would rather be.
There's no one I'd rather be with.
Why do you have a gun stuffed down the back of your trousers?
Old habits.
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
Ahem. Come in.
- Oh, yes, please. - We didn't order that.
With our compliments, sir.
Thank you. Put it there.
[TRAIN HORN BLOWS]
Open the door, John.
I think it's time for you to leave.
Sit down.
Shh.
[BLOWS LANDING]
[GUN COCKS]
I agree it's not my best disguise, but I had to make do.
- My God. - They'll be back.
- John, shut the door. - They'll only shoot through it.
HOLMES: He's right, you know. - Oh, my God.
[GUNSHOT]
- I understand. - Do you?
Terribly inconvenient.
We don't have much time.
- How many are we expecting? - Half a dozen.
WATSON: Who are they? - A wedding present from Moriarty.
Lovely ceremony, by the way. Many a tear shed in joy.
MARY: Oh, John?
[GUNSHOT]
Yeah, just a minute, darling.
- Do you trust me? - No.
Well, then I shall have to do something about that.
[MARY SCREAMS]
Who's up to bat next, you bastards?
[GUNSHOT]
Send out the fast bowler!
John, do shut the door.
It had to be done.
She's safe now.
In my own defense, I timed it perfectly.
Did you kill my wife?!
Did you just kill my new wife?!
Of course not!
I think you'll find that second class is more comfortable.
The coast is clear.
To the south, quick march.
[WOMAN WHIMPERS]
Lie down with me, Watson.
- Why? - I insist.
[GRUNTS]
COMMENTARY: I feel about Jude the way Sherlock feels about John.
He's the best partner a guy could ask for.
HOLMES: --smoking.
- Patiently waiting. - For what?
Your window of opportunity.
[CLICKING]
Make it count.
[SCREAMING]
I said make it count. How many windows must I provide?
[SCREAMING]
Who'd have known that honeymooning in Brighton was such a dangerous notion?
Is that what this is about?
By your own admission, you've never enjoyed it there.
I've never been to Brighton.
Or you're just too fragile to remember at present.
Oh, shut up.
Tell me my wife's safe.
I can't do both.
I promise. As I said, I timed it perfectly.
[MARY SCREAMS]
MYCROFT: Over here, madam!
I believe congratulations are in order, Mrs. Watson.
COMMENTARY: Stephen Fry, they love to describe him in London...
...as a national treasure. You spend a little time with him, you feel that way too.
MARY: Could this evening get any better?
Why were Mary and I targeted at all?
Excellent question. The answer is twofold.
He's after us because of you.
I'm afraid you must bear half the responsibility.
- Here it comes. So predictable. - Had you and Mary...
...not been hell-bent on wedding, we could've solved this case.
- Oh, it's my fault now. - The argument could be made...
- No, it couldn't. -...that your nuptials were poorly timed.
Thus, our relationship--
Relationship?
Very well, partnership.
--Has not yet run its course.
My dear fellow, if you could be bothered to see this through to the end...
...I shall never again ask you to assist me.
Once more unto the breach.
That's the spirit. Now, to the question.
This is so deliciously complicated. You may be asking yourself...
...what does a criminal mastermind want with a simple gypsy fortune teller?
It's her brother, I tell you. When we find him, and we must--
After you find my luggage.
Go on.
Wait.
Where is it we're going?
Paris, the most sensible honeymoon destination of all.
COMMENTARY: The process is always based on the script and the character.
So if you know that Watson is a military man...
...you will look to a rather military style of dress, even in civilians.
My uncle was a major and he always dressed very neatly.
And I think that's a sort of mark of someone who's been in the military.
So that was quite an easy sense for Watson.
And we did try on some existing stock...
...to see if we could find good shapes on him.
And the thing that seemed clear was that all the tweeds were a bit too smooth.
But when we draped him in bit of Harris Tweed...
...which is a much gutsier cloth, suddenly Watson became.
For Holmes, I just tried to think about where on earth he'd get these clothes.
There was a sense in the script that he did borrow them off Watson.
In the first script.
And then I just thought, well, you know, probably vintage.
He'd have found them in other people's houses...
...and just do an eclectic mix of things that maybe didn't even fit perfectly, but...
And the dark coat that was the sort of iconic Holmes look in the first one...
...was just trying different things on Robert and seeing what worked best.
[MAN 1 CHUCKLES]
MAN 1: What? You've got a prop on the other side anyway.
MAN 2: Okay. Rehearsing.
HARRIS: The Dynamics... MAN 2: Thank you, sir.
- Stand by. HARRIS: ...of a Hemorrhoid.
MAN 2: And action.
Thank you, professor.
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
And my ticket?
[MAN 2 SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
Unfortunately, you won't be needing yours.
That's a shame. I was looking forward to it.
I was looking forward to Don Giovanni.
MAN 3: Stay where you are.
All right.
MORAN: Follow Meinhard.
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
[MAN SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[HORSE NEIGHING]
[MEN YELLING]
[VIOLIN PLAYING LIVELY MUSIC]
[WATSON SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
[WATSON WHISTLES TWICE]
Wake up, we're here.
Brace yourself. We're about to be violated.
Don't be so cynical.
COMMENTARY: It's true to say that both Conan Doyle and Guy Ritchie...
...have a very great appetite and love...
...of the travelers and gypsies.
HOLMES: Laugh them away, Watson. I have her bag.
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
[LAUGHS]]
WATSON: You had her bag.
Now they have my coat.
Where is Madam Simza?
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
[LAUGHS]]
TAMAS: This is Simza.
[GOOSE SQUAWKING]
[LAUGHS]]
Sim is a goose.
[CROWD CHUCKLING]
I am Sim. Ha-ha-ha.
Nice scarf. I like.
[HENS CLUCKING]
[CHUCKLING]
[IN FRENCH]
- You hungry? - Famished.
Madam, this is a glorious hedgehog goulash.
I can't remember ever having had better.
Do tell me, when was the last time you had a hedgehog goulash?
I told you, Watson, I can't remember.
[WHISPERING] Perhaps you've repressed it.
[CHUCKLES]
That's where we differ. Unlike you, I repress nothing.
[IN NORMAL VOICE] Perfectly normal.
How dare you be rude to this woman who has invited us into her tent...
...offered us her hedgehog?
Says the man who throws women from trains.
Who are you two?
Concerned citizens.
Why did someone try to kill me?
Your brother has become involved with a very dangerous man...
...who clearly believes that Rene has told you something you shouldn't know.
I don't know anything.
I've been looking for him for over a year.
That was why I was in London.
- It's the last place anyone saw him. - It's clear that your brother loves you.
He'd never send you a message that would put you in harm's way.
Any information, therefore, would be, by default, unintentional.
Has he sent you anything else?
Just a few drawings.
Let's just see what they have to tell us.
Unusual choice of paper. Thicker gauge, designed for a printing press.
- And it's the same stock as the letter. - Mm.
[GASPS]
Oh, good morning, Mrs. Watson.
- Have you had breakfast? -I--
Stanley here does a wonderful deviled kidney.
[TRAY RATTLING]
MARY: Ahem.
- Carruthers? - Morning, sir.
Telegram for Mrs. Watson.
Uh...
It just doesn't make any sense.
Allow me.
Oh, yes.
"My most loathed Mary, I do not love you. I never wish to see you again.
Every moment I count away from you is a blessing."
Fret not. It's a double encryption, my dear...
...that Sherly and I have used since we were boys.
If the first letter of the message is a consonant...
...then what follows is the mirrored truth.
- I see. - Hmm.
Stanley!
You know, although our time together has been but a brief interlude...
...I'm beginning to understand how a man of particular disposition...
...under certain circumstances, extreme ones perhaps...
...might grow to enjoy the company of...
-...a person of your gender. Hmm. - Hmm.
Thank you so much.
Most charming.
May--? Terribly sorry. Thank you.
Where are you going, Stanley?
[BELL TOLLING]
[HOOVES PATTERING]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
CARRIAGE DRIVER: Whoa, whoa.
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
[CHATTERING]
Still hiding in basements?
RAVACHE [IN FRENCH]:
I'm not here to see you.
[IN ENGLISH] Yeah.
RAVACHE [IN FRENCH]:
[IN ENGLISH] --with your English friends.
1789, a seminal vintage.
The year of our glorious revolution.
- Is he here? - When freedom triumphed over tyranny.
Is my brother here?
I haven't seen him for a long time.
You're lying.
Sit, please.
A letter was received from Rene using this same paper.
Of course. He took it with him wherever he went.
He's telling the truth. Rene isn't here.
- He was given another assignment by an-- - An anonymous benefactor.
Another Englishman...
...with money, power, who supported our cause.
He dictates our every move...
...demanding I take...
Demanding I take responsibility for his act of terror.
Yeah.
But after tonight...
...it will be over.
--Is almost done.
He's had you plant another bomb, hasn't he?
Claude, please.
These men can help you.
I wish they could.
You see, gentlemen...
...he has my wife and children.
HOLMES: If you tell us where the bomb is...
...I'll find a way to help your family. RAVACHE: That's already taken care of.
HOLMES: If you tell us where the bomb is...
...I'll find a way to help your family. RAVACHE: That's already taken care of.
We have a deal.
He and I.
No loose ends.
There's only one thing I can do to keep my family safe.
- You have less than ten minutes. - Don't!
[GUNSHOT]
COMMENTARY: Cut it. Thank you. MAN: Okay. Camera, reload it.
[EXHALES]
HOLMES: He has no further need of that pistol. Why don't you take it and cover the stairs?
[MEN YELLING]
WATSON: There's only one way out of this place.
Right you are.
Quickly as you can.
Quickly as we can.
You know what to do with that sandbag, Watson.
WATSON: Quick now.
MAN: Slam.
HOLMES: Doctor, could you secure that lever?
You could have told me.
Ravache was strong. He lived for liberty. He would never take his own life.
HOLMES: Calm yourself.
My brother, he's weak.
Sim, I need you to take a deep breath...
...and follow us.
To the opera.
COMMENTARY: It's extraordinary, really. You know, we can re--
You know, we can place our characters and our action in different countries...
...without actually going there ourselves by using green screen.
And the brilliant technique is that you--
You know, the actual places where we want to be do still exist, albeit in modern form.
And it's actually easier to film the actual places...
...and then take out the modern bits and add old bits, almost like a painting.
And the effect is quite extraordinary.
[SINGING IN ITALIAN]
MAN 1: And action!
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]
MAN 2: Cut it. MAN 3: Cut it!
[GRUNTS]
[SINGING IN ITALIAN]
HOLMES: I was mistaken.
- What? - I made a mistake.
[MEN YELLING INDISTINCTLY]
[IN FRENCH]
MAN: And action!
Three, two, one, bang!
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
[SINGING IN ITALIAN]
[CROWD YELLING]
WATSON: He took the shot from here.
Using a tripod and a shooting stick.
And realized there was a better position.
There's a faint scrape where he dragged his tripod and set it up here.
- Six hundred yards? WATSON: Or 650?
HOLMES: Not to mention a seven- or eight-mile-an-hour wind.
He would've needed a wind gauge.
Which he placed here.
HOLMES: And put a cigarette down here.
SIM: Can anyone shoot that far?
Not more than half a dozen men in all of Europe.
How many of those men served in Afghanistan?
- Why? - Hirschsprung with a touch of Tekel.
Must have fallen out when he was rolling up.
Wasn't that the blend you all smoked?
- Didn't I read something about a colonel? - Sebastian Moran.
Best marksman in the British army.
Dishonorable discharge.
He's likely now a gun for hire. This is the second victim of his that I've encountered.
WATSON: What better way to conceal a killing?
No one looks for a bullet hole in a bomb blast.
WATSON: Twenty minutes late. SIM: He must come soon.
I don't have any papers.
WATSON: And I am a foreigner.
SIM: He must come soon.
- I don't have any papers. WATSON: And I am a for--
Omelet fines herbes was divine...
...but they spared every expense on the tea.
Now shall we compare moods, or consider what we know?
Last night's bombing was clearly meant...
...to look like Germany's retaliation for Strasbourg.
However, the bomb was also meant to conceal the murder of just one man.
The man killed by the gunshot was none other than Alfred Meinhard.
Huh.
He makes guns. Big guns.
Only days ago, a large share of his company was bought by an unknown investor.
Moriarty.
The clues point in one direction, but to avoid repeating last night's debacle...
...I was obliged to collect more sufficient data, hence my tardiness.
Train departs in 40 minutes, sir.
WAITER: Whoa!
[HOLMES SNIFFS]
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
- Just the bags. - But...
We have enough time for me to indulge my little habit.
Yes.
HOLMES: His habit of feeding that urban species, the feral pigeon.
COMMENTARY: A big part of the political fabric of our world, uh...
...is the military-industrial complex.
And this period of industrialization very much sees the beginning...
...of the military-industrial complex, with the big weapons manufacturers...
...building newer, more dangerous, more powerful weapons...
...for people to kill each other with...
...and that's also partly what our story is about.
And I think that obviously has a great resonance for today...
...and probably will forever, sadly.
HOLMES: Unfortunately, due to the bombing...
...the crossing between France and Germany is to be closed.
I'm afraid our pursuit is over unless we can happen upon a comrade...
...who knows their way around borders.
[SOLDIERS CHATTERING]
Are you happy.?
- What? - At this moment...
...are you as happy as you would be on your honeymoon in Brighton?
I'm not going to grace that question with an answer.
- Are you happy? - I think we're here for another reason.
- Okay. - Shall we get on--?
- Simple question. - Will we do something?
- Or wait for them to come back round? - What time is it?
- Three-fifteen. - Over there...
...in the residential part of the complex should be a telegraph office.
Send this to Mycroft. Be back here on the hour.
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]
[GUARDS CHATTERING]
PRODUCER: You show up on the day, read it through, see what works, what doesn't work.
Sometimes it's a small part of the scene, sometimes it's the whole thing feels bad.
And you say, "Okay, well, what do we need to accomplish in this scene?
What do we need to accomplish from a plot standpoint, an action standpoint...
...from a character standpoint?"
And then as a group we come together and we start to reconfigure it.
And, you know, more often than not...
...it's a version of what we started the day with.
It's just far more sophisticated, humorous, detailed.
And then we furiously type it up.
We send it out to everybody, and then they kill it again.
And then we type up some more stuff, and then they kill it again.
And finally at some point in the day we have to start shooting...
...so we lay it down and let the actors discover more stuff with Guy.
And Guy will come in and kind of adjust...
...you know, the interaction a little bit and we end up with the scene.
Guy knows exactly what he wants.
I think he's got a very clear idea in his head. He's particularly interested in--
Focused on tone.
It's all about the tone of a scene. And I think one of the great, you know--
The things I like best about our films...
...is the way we're able to go from, you know...
...very serious emotional drama to humor within the same scene...
...and it works seamlessly.
And we can have a good joke and have fun...
...but there's an edge to everything, which I think is quite unique.
And I think it's what makes our films quite special, I think.
And I think Guy is really in charge of that and he understands how to do that.
I try not to make it feel like work.
So I'd like to think that we remain creative up until the very last moment.
- Do it. Yeah. - Okay.
MAN: That's what you get, Mr. Holmes, when industry marries arms.
Now put your gun down.
It's a bit old-fashioned.
What you need is one of these.
Go on.
Pick one.
Machine pistol, self-repeating.
Takes 7.63 caliber rounds...
...in one of these.
A 'IO-shot box magazine.
- Easy enough to load. - Hmm.
I'd imagine one would have to retract the bolt to engage the first round.
Easier done than said.
Take him to the surgery.
I'll find the doctor.
"Come at once if convenient.
If inconvenient, come all the same."
[SNIFFS]
MAN: This is schnapps.
MORIARTY: A telegram was sent from here.
[HOLMES CLEARS THROAT]
This isn't schnapps, it's aquavit, distilled from potato mash.
A common misconception. Thank you, by the way.
Who was it sent to?
My horror at your crimes is matched only...
...by my admiration at the skill it took to achieve them.
Who was it sent to?
HOLMES: You used the anarchists and their bombs to create a crisis in Europe...
...nation against nation.
[GUNSHOT]
MORIARTY: Let's try this again, shall we?
To whom did you send the telegram?
TO FT1Y
[GRUNTING]
[HOLMES GASPS]
To my brother Mycroft.
What are you playing at?
That's not fair.
I've just got one more question for you.
Which one of us is the fisherman...
...and which the trout?
Holmes?
- Holmes? HOLMES: Unh.
Take your time. Take your time.
[HOLMES GROANS]
Uh...
[GRUNTS]
Always good to see you, Watson.
- What were you thinking? - Wait.
Wait?
Well, if you must know, I was thinking I had him right where I wanted him.
Right. Crack on, then.
Professor.
[SHOUTS IN GERMAN]
[COUGHS]
[GRUNTING]
[GUARD SHOUTS IN GERMAN]
[GRUNTS]
[TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING]
SIM: Go! Go!
WATSON: Come on!
[PANTS]
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
[GUNSHOT]
Marko! Marko!
[SIGHS]
[SIM SINGING IN ROMANI]
He's not breathing.
Cradle his head.
Raise his legs.
Bloody well not gonna die on me.
[WATSON GRUNTING]
I'm not gonna make this easy on you.
Come on. Come on.
Come on.
[GRUNTING]
Come on.
I know you can hear me, you selfish bastard.
Come on!
I know you can hear me, you bastard.
[SOBS]
His wedding gift.
[SCREAMING]
HOLMES: Terrible dream.
You, Mary, Gladstone and I were in a restaurant.
That satanic pony was there as well, a massive fork in his hoof...
...and he turned on me!
What have you administered?
Your wedding present.
Who's been dancing on my chest?!
Me.
Why is my ankle so itchy?
You have a large piece of wood sticking out of it.
Good Lord. You, Tamas.
I have an important job to discuss with you Remind me of it later.
Sit down. Drink this.
I need to get that out before it turns septic.
Did you call me "selfish--"?
COMMENTARY: In the second movie, we wanted to make sure that we could up the stakes...
...up the action, and up the scope of the movie.
LAW: I think we all agreed we wanted it to be more exciting, funnier...
...more thrilling, more mysterious than the first.
HOLMES: I'm sorry you didn't get to Brighton.
Me too.
- I think we should go home. - I concur.
We're going home.
Via Switzerland.
What better place to start a war than a peace summit?
We'll drop in and see my brother. I'm sure he's missed you. Hm?
COMMENTARY: I still don't understand why the summit can't be canceled.
Well, believe me, it's gonna happen whether we like it or not.
RITCHIE: Stephen's very good, isn't he?
He keeps the crew and cast very entertained with his witty anecdotes.
The good thing about Stephen is Stephen can tell you a story...
...which is incredibly informative...
...and sounds sort of rather like a professor is giving you...
...some kind of a sort of intellectual sermon.
But he's managed to edit the bit...
...that makes him sound like he's giving you a lecture.
You know, so rather than--
There's no negativity with him and his stories.
MYCROFT: But where's your evidence?
He's too good to leave evidence.
He doesn't leave loose ends.
SIM: Oh, he's alive.
Sherly, put that down.
What is this contraption? May I have it? The effect is most invigorating.
That's my private and personal supply of oxygen, and you're not to touch it.
This argument is getting us nowhere.
I've arranged for documents to be prepared which allow you into the ball. Carruthers.
Stanley, Stanley.
You haven't aged a day. Is that my favorite chutney?
Fact is, we don't really know what he's planning.
SIM: It won't be another bomb. WATSON: No, it wouldn't be.
SIM: It doesn't make sense.
Why would he attack all the nations only to unite them?
It'll be an assassination.
By a lone gunman at close range.
Rene.
Unfortunately, yes.
- You knew. - I had my suspicions.
But having seen who would be attending, I'm now certain.
MYCROFT: Well, at least we know who to look out for.
Rene will be the evidence.
If we can find him and stop him, we will perhaps not only save his life...
...but prevent the collapse of Western civilization.
No pressure.
Welcome, ambassador.
Professor James Moriarty.
[WALTZ MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
MYCROFT: Now we're all present...
...I can tell you that the targets are the German chancellor and his ambassador...
...the French prime minister and his man.
And the other nations are really working out which side to take should hostilities erupt.
Prince Michael, a cousin of the czar, and the Russian ambassador.
The Archduke Karl Ludwig and the Austro-Hungarian ambassador.
The Romanian Prime Minister and his ambassador.
And of course our prime minister and the British ambassador.
He'll choose a moment when the dignitaries are assembled, preferably standing still.
Is there to be an official photograph?
Indeed, yes. In 38 minutes.
In which case, we might as well dance.
I've never done this before.
Just follow my lead.
- What do you see? - Everything.
[GUESTS CHATTERING]
That is my curse.
But you don't see what you're looking for.
I thought you'd never ask.
Over my shoulder.
Young man, German uniform, ceremonial sword.
Got him.
HOLMES: Professional opinion?
WATSON: Trauma.
Major injury.
But excellent repair work.
Dr. Hoffmanstahl.
HOLMES: You did say he was at the forefront of a medical innovation.
We've already seen an example of his skills.
Those twins weren't twins.
My suspicions were aroused in Heilbronn...
...when one failed to go to the aid of the other.
I also noticed the discreet but unmistakable puckering behind the ear...
...where his skin had been drawn back. I should've realized then...
...that they were a surgical experiment.
To see if it is possible to make one man look like another.
HOLMES: His face is no longer his own.
What better way to guarantee his world war than to make the assassin...
One of the ambassadors.
[MUFFLED GRUNTING]
That narrows down the possibility to one of six.
You and Sim shall find her brother.
- Of this I have no doubt. - Holmes.
You know my methods.
And I know where you'll be.
No possible solution could be more congenial to me than this.
By the way, who taught you how to dance?
You did.
Well, I've done a fine job.
Be careful.
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]
COMMENTARY: Background. And action.
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]
[TALKING INDISTINCTLY]
[LAUGHING]
RITCHIE:: Sorry. MAN: He was acting his socks off in there.
LAW: What did I do? RITCHIE: One more time.
MAN: I'm having so much fun. RITCHIE: One more time.
First time I've actually shown somebody that.
Now, can I do it?
MAN: Here we go. We're still rolling.
- Guy, still rolling. RITCHIE: I know.
MORIARTY: I'm sorry.
Is this a bad time?
Never better.
- Would you bring that clock? - Heh.
We get to play that game after all.
Here we are.
Don't want you to catch a cold.
A five-minute game?
If you think you can manage it.
[GUESTS CHATTERING]
We both have two bishops.
I may be absent from the room, but my methods are not.
You can't mean Dr. Watson, surely.
That doesn't seem fair.
[WALTZ MUSIC PLAYING]
WATSON: Right. The surgery will have left scars.
Only four of them have the hairline to hide them.
MYCROFT: Well, the targets are likely to be the German chancellor and his ambassador...
...the French prime minister and his man.
The other countries are merely working out what to do if hostilities do erupt.
There's Prince Michael, a cousin of the czar, and the Russian ambassador, of course.
Archduke Ferdinand and the Austro-Hungarian ambassador.
The Romanian Prime Minister and his ambassador.
And of course our PM and the British ambassador.
COMMENTARY: In the books, Moriarty is a wonderfully mysterious character.
We know that he's the spider at the center of a web.
We know that he is the greatest criminal mastermind of all time.
But we don't actually know the specifics of that.
So what we had to do, the challenge in a way, with this film...
...was to come up with specifics of what this legendary criminal is actually doing...
...and how do we literalize that and still keep it exciting?
You know, the great thing about it in the books...
...is it's all left to your imagination.
In this, we have to make more sense of it.
I like the plot of this film a lot.
And I like its ambition and I like Moriarty's ambition.
So I think it was only Holmes that cottoned on...
...to the complexity...
...and the disparate sources of Moriarty's interests...
...and could recognize a larger picture.
SIM: I don't know.
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]
HOLMES: So perhaps it's the opposite:
A failure to behave naturally.
An actor so consumed with his performance...
...that the one characteristic he cannot accommodate...
...is spontaneous reaction.
[PEOPLE GASPING]
[IN ROMANI]
[YELLS IN ROMANI]
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
Carruthers, protect the prime minister.
[RENE SCREAMING]
[IN ENGLISH] Germany will pay! Mark my words!
That doesn't bode well, does it?
Seems your bishop was of some benefit after all.
The game is still young.
Actually, it's in its adolescence.
[RENE CONTINUES SCREAMING]
RENE: There are more of us!
Germany will DEV!
[RENE GRUNTS]
[WOMAN YELLING IN FRENCH]
[PEOPLE MURMURING]
No loose ends.
[PEOPLE CHATTERING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
What happened to him? I'm a doctor. A doctor!
[RENE GASPING]
[CHATTERING]
[GUARDS YELLING IN GERMAN]
SIM [IN ENGLISH]: What happened?
- Curare. - What's wrong with him?
It's poison.
Do something!
[SIM SPEAKS IN ROMANI]
Doctor, do something!
No.
[BOTH SPEAK IN ROMANI]
[SHOUTS IN ROMANI]
[SIM SHOUTING IN DISTANCE]
I think you've just lost your most valuable piece.
But a winning strategy sometimes necessitates sacrifice.
A war has been averted.
Mm. Oh, I disagree.
How so?
Didn't you find it strange that the telegram you sent...
...didn't inspire any action to stop me?
You see, hidden within the unconscious...
...is an insatiable desire for conflict.
So you're not fighting me so much as you are the human condition.
All I want to do is own the bullets and the bandages.
War on an industrial scale is inevitable.
They'll do it themselves within a few years.
All I have to do is wait.
I like Switzerland.
They respect a man's privacy here.
Particularly if he has a fortune.
Bishop takes knight. Check.
The game is over.
You should get that shoulder looked at.
About that fortune of yours.
I believe it's just been substantially reduced.
- King to rook two. - I attended several of your lectures.
The equations of motion, which you will find in my book.
The energy that is required to release these explosions is...
HOLMES: It was in Oslo when I first caught a glimpse of your little notebook...
...red leather-bound from Smythson of Bond Street.
Rook to king's rook three. Check.
Bishop to rook three.
Its importance was not fully apparent to me...
until I observed your penchant for feeding pigeons.
Then it occurred that with an empire so enormous...
...even you must keep a record of it somewhere.
Bishop takes bishop.
Rook to bishop four.
I then only required the notebook itself.
You didn't make it easy.
[HOLMES SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
Just the bags.
I would need to endure a considerable amount of pain.
[GASPS]
Mycroft...
...care of Her Majesty's Secret Service.
But the notebook would undoubtedly be encoded, so how then to break the code?
- Rook takes rook. - Pawn takes rook.
Bishop to bishop seven.
Queen takes knight pawn.
Does The Art of Domestic Horticulture mean anything to you?
How could a man as meticulous as you own such a book...
...yet completely neglect the flowers in his own window box? Irony abounds.
Never mind, it's safe, in London...
...where my colleagues are making good use of it.
The most formidable criminal mind in Europe has just had all his money stolen...
...by perhaps the most inept inspector in the history of Scotland Yard.
Any chance of a cup of tea?
Box 0403.
CLARK: Tick. MARY: Box 0801.
- How much more is there? MARY: That's the end...
Any attempt at finding the bodies was absolutely hopeless.
And so there...
...deep down in that dreadful caldron of swirling water and seething foam...
...will lie for all time...
the most dangerous criminal
...and the foremost champion of the law of their generation.
I shall ever regard him as the best...
COMMENTARY: We thought it was very important for this film...
...to try and do what Conan Doyle did in the books...
...which is to have Watson as the narrator of our story.
So this particular story provided a very good opportunity for that...
...and we think it works very well.
MARY: You should probably pack.
It's half past 2...
-...and the carriage is coming at 4. - Mm-hm.
It's gonna be a beautiful week in Brighton.
Yes, it'll be fun.
I'm looking forward to it.
You know I miss him too...
...in my own way.
He would have wanted us to go.
[CHUCKLES]
He would have wanted to come with us.
When's Mrs. Hudson coming for Gladstone?
Oh, soon.
Three o'clock.
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