Case of Evil

Infobox Film
name = Case of Evil


imdb_id = 0337593
writer = Piers Ashworth
starring = James D'Arcy
Vincent D'Onofrio
Gabrielle Anwar
director = Graham Theakston
producer = Tim Bradley
Brad Wyman
distributor = Miramax Films
released = October 25, 2002
runtime = 100 Minutes
language = English
music = Mike Moran

Case of Evil is a 2002 made-for-television movie focusing on Sherlock Holmes (James D'Arcy) as a young adult in his 20s. The story noticeably departs from the style and backstory of the original material.

Plot Summary

As the movie opens, Sherlock is in pursuit of the criminal Professor Moriarty (Vincent D'Onofrio) and apparently shoots him to death. His body cannot be found, however, as it falls in a sewer. After this incident, Holmes gains notoriety with the press and the police for his apparent killing of Moriarty, and meets Dr. Watson (Roger Morlidge), an early practitioner of autopsies, for the first time. Together, they start an investigation into the murder of several crime lords and become convinced that Moriarty is alive and behind a plot to organize drug dealing. Given that Moriarty is supposedly dead, Holmes finds it hard to convince Inspector Lestrade (Nicholas Gecks) of this claim. Holmes' investigation leads him to a prostitute (Gabrielle Anwar), who posed as a rich woman to lure Holmes into the plot. Richard E. Grant also appears as Holmes' brother, Mycroft, who was addicted to opium by Moriarty when Sherlock was young.

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*imdb title|id=0337593|title=Case of Evil