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"Part Four: And Death Shall Have No Dominion": In 1891, Sherlock Holmes battled Professor James Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. Ultimately, Holmes, through his martial art skills in baritsu, prevails and Moriarty is thrown down the waterfall. Moriarty, grievously and mor

Quote1 I am a reanimated corpse with a barely reined craving for human flesh--and only now you question my sanity?! Quote2
Professor James Moriarty

Victorian Undead #4 is an issue of the series Victorian Undead (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 2010. It was published on February 24, 2010.

Synopsis for "Part Four: And Death Shall Have No Dominion"

In 1891, Sherlock Holmes battled Professor James Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. Ultimately, Holmes, through his martial art skills in baritsu, prevails and Moriarty is thrown down the waterfall. Moriarty, grievously and mortally injured, is soon found by Colonel Sebastian Moran. Moran, as per ordered by his master, pulls out a syringe and injects its content containing a serum based on the undead virus into Moriarty's heart. Moriarty reacts violently and is turned into a zombie. Just as Moran is about to shoot Moriarty, the Professor shows that he still has total control and sentience over his now undead body.

In the present, the undead have overrun London. From Moriarty's hideout, Moran professes to his master that given the situation they can have the government to yield to him. But Moriarty reveals that he doesn't want anything from what the government has for him. In reality, he intends to turn London into his necropolis and from there he will spread the outbreak further and forging the world into an undead empire. Moriarty then offers Moran the chance to be turned into a sentient undead like him. But Moran, finally seeing that his master is completely insane, refuses to be turned into a zombie. Moriarty is disappointed with Moran's response and sic his zombies on his underling. Moran fights off the zombies but he is bitten by Moriarty before making his escape.

At Baker Street, Holmes, Watson and Mrs. Hudson have been confined in their building for several days since the outbreak. During this time Holmes has been trying to connect the relationships between the undead, the comet in 1854, and Moriarty while everyone in the household is almost on their last rations. Suddenly, a loud rumbling is felt through the building and everyone looks out the windows to see a military convoy of tanks and armoured soldiers on the street, slaughtering the undead with mounted machine guns and running them over. The captain of the convoy greets them and notifies Holmes that his brother Mycroft had ordered the rescue for him and his friends, and is to be evacuate as soon as possible.

Just as everyone is about to leave Baker Street, Moran appears and is badly wounded and bitten multiple times. He is then beset by more zombies before the soldiers open fire on the revenants. Holmes, Watson, and the captain rush over to Moran and find that there is nothing more to save him. As Moran lies dying, he warns Holmes about Moriarty being the mastermind of the outbreak and his undead condition. Moran then finally dies and is shot in the head by the captain from reanimating. Now knowing that their nemesis is behind the outbreak, Holmes scrapes mud off of Moran's left shoe and declares to Watson that "the game is finally afoot!"

Appearing in "Part Four: And Death Shall Have No Dominion"

Featured Characters:

  • Sherlock Holmes (Flashback and main story)
  • Dr. John Watson

Supporting Characters:

  • Mrs. Hudson
  • Colonel Sebastian Moran (Flashback and main story) (Final appearance; dies)

Antagonists:

  • Professor James Moriarty (Flashback and main story)
  • Zombies

Other Characters:


Locations:

Vehicles:

  • Tanks

Notes

Trivia

  • The tanks heavily resembles to the British Mark IV tank, which in reality was introduced in 1917 during World War I. Their anachronism are noted by Watson and Holmes.
  • Holmes' description of the tanks as "the shape of things to come, I fear" is a reference to H. G. Wells' 1933 novel of the same name The Shape of Things to Come.


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