This chapter of Sherlock Holmes’ cinematic history could have just ended on that loose cliffhanger, but if all goes according to plan, then Watson will soon discover that his best friend is still alive.
When we last left off with Sherlock Holmes in A Game of Shadows, the public believed him to be dead after, just like in the original short story “The Final Problem,” he and his arch-nemesis, Professor James Moriarty, fell into Reichenbach Falls.
While it appears that Moriarty met a permanent and messy end, in the movie’s final minutes, Sherlock was revealed to have lived, and, having camouflaged himself within John Watson’s office, he quickly went to the typewriter after the good doctor left the room, read the end of the memoirs and added a question mark after “The End.”