MORIARTY THE PATRIOT tells the prequel to the recurring character in Arthur Conan Doyle's mystery series SHERLOCK HOLMES: that of the head giant Jim Moriarty. BBC transplanted Doyle's distinctive characters to modern-day London, famously helping the cult series to new glories. Young James Moriarty is a professor of mathematics in 1870s London and is not at all happy with the social differences of the time. This dissatisfaction gives rise to the idea of a vigilante group - a kind of private army to fight discrimination, but one that does not always use legal means to achieve its goals. MORIARTY THE PATRIOT describes the way of the good citizen James to the chief giant Moriarty! A wonderful series to sweeten the waiting time for the new season of SHERLOCK - and which gives insight into why Moriarty is.