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Plot

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are called to Whitechapel after learning about a series of strange murders only two years after the Jack the Ripper murders in the same neighborhood. The local belief is that the killings are the work of a vampire brought back from a recent mission in

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. As they investigate the deaths, they engage in an ongoing debate about the

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, with Watson believing in the possibility of vampires and Holmes remaining skeptical until he is able to prove the murders are the works of a living human, rather than any undead creature. At one point, the investigation leads them to the psychic Madame Karasky, who says that Holmes will be saved by the church. Shortly thereafter, Holmes is pushed in front of a moving carriage by the supposed vampire, only to be saved by a pedestrian. In order to catch the murderer, Holmes disguises himself as a monk and reveals that the vampire was Brother Abel, who hoped to get revenge on the monks who didn't listen to him when he believed that the bats were causing rabies in the South American mission, when he was infected. The film ends at Baker Street, when Mrs. Hudson gives Holmes his pipe, delivered by the same man that saved Holmes from being run over. When Holmes asks his name, Mrs. Hudson says his name was Reginald Church.

Cast

* Matt Frewer -

* Kenneth Welsh -

* Kathleen McAuliffe -

Mrs. Hudson Mrs. Hudson is a fictional character in the Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. She is the landlady of 221B Baker Street, the London residence in which Sherlock Holmes lives. Mrs. Hudson appears or is mentioned in man ...

* Michel Perron - Inspector Jones * Joel Miller - Brother Caulder * Danny Blanco - Hector de la Rosa * Norris Domingue - Brother Sinclair * Isabel Dos Santos - Signora de la Rosa * Kathleen Fee - Mme Karavsky * Jere Gillis - The Thing

Production

* Director - Rodney Gibbons * Writer - Rodney Gibbons * Writer - Arthur Conan Doyle

List of Hallmark Sherlock Holmes films

* '' The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (2000) * '' The Sign of the Four'' (2001) * '' The Royal Scandal'' (2001) * ''The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire'' (2002)

References

External links

* 2002 television films 2002 films Sherlock Holmes films based on works by Arthur Conan Doyle 2000s mystery films Films directed by Rodney Gibbons 2000s English-language films {{mystery-film-stub