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Jane Watson (Margaret Colin), descendant of the famed Doctor Watson, is
running a detective agency in LA these days - and rather badly so, as
she's in deep debt. So she decides to sell her family's estate in the UK -
when she finds a cryogenically frozen Sherlock Holmes (Michael Pennington)
in the basement of said place, thaws him, cures him from the bulbonic
plague administered by one of his enemies back in the day (which is why he
froze himself to wait until a cure is found), and takes him with her to
the USA. Once there, it doesn't take them long to be involved knee deep in
an investigation, as Violet Morstan (Connie Booth) hires them to
investigate the murder of her father (Barry Morse). Soon Holmes and Watson
find out that he and three others (that drop like flies over the course of
this movie) were FBI agents who were involved in the payment of ransom
money, but apparently replaced the actual money with forged bills. The FBI
gets interested in the case of course, and they send their agent Tobias
Gregory (Nicholas Guest) to shadow Holmes and Watson, first by romancing
Watson and offering bits of help, but once his cover's blown, the FBI gets
involved officially. After the usual to and fro, it turns out the killer
of Marston ... was actually Marston himself who killed an attacker and
burned him beyond recognition, then his colleagues in the ransom case, to
get his hands on the ransom money they kept hidden until things blew over
all for himself. Of course thanks to Holmes he's apprehended. Now
transporting Sherlock Holmes into the 1980s might not be too original an
idea but it makes for some good laughs at least. But aside from that, this
movie is a disappointingly routine TV thriller, with all the usual
characters and plottwists you'd expect from a story like this, and even if
the resolution is a bit of a surprise, one could have guessed it if one
invested enough interest into the on-screen goings-on. Frankly, it's easy
to see why this one wasn't picked up for a series.
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