In this final scene from Sherlock Holmes, it is revealed that a radio wave-based remote control device was actually the most dangerous element of a doomsday machine created to murder the entire British Parliament, placing control of the government in the hands of a secret society ruled by old white men. While the intended mass murder was successfully foiled by Holmes, his emergent arch-nemesis, Professor Moriarty stole the radio remote device for as-yet-untold nefariousness. Holmes' final soliloquy, "A technology of that kind would be worth an untold fortune. Imagine being able to control any device simply by sending a command via radio waves. It's the future, Watson!" both sets up the inevitable sequel to the film franchise and alludes to a technology that was indeed nascent in the late 19th century. The privileging of radio waves at this moment in history (and in the context of this film's reassertion of science/rationalism over magic/superstition bears further scrutiny in relation to the "magical" properties that were attributed to early wireless technologies emerging at the turn of the 20th century.