Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest of them all... until now. And there is a new criminal mastermind on the loose, Professor James Moriarty (Jared Harris), and not only is he on the same intellectual level as Holmes; Furthermore, his capacity for evil, combined with a complete lack of conscience, could give him a certain advantage over the famous detective. Shocking news is being produced around the world: a scandal destroys an Indian cotton magnate, a Chinese opium trader dies of an apparent overdose, bombs explode in Strasbourg and Vienna, an American steel magnate dies... Nobody He sees no connection between these seemingly random events, except the great Sherlock , who has divined a deliberate web of death and destruction. And at its center, like a particularly sinister spider, is Moriarty. Holmes's investigation of Moriarty's plan becomes more dangerous when it causes him to leave London, along with Watson, for France, Germany and, finally, Switzerland.