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  1. In Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, why does Moriarty want a sniper to additionally shoot the man in the hotel? Was the bomb not enough?

  2. In the first movie, the purpose of Professor Moriarty was stealing the remote control, but it is not mentioned in the second movie at all! Was there a point?

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The bomb actually was a coverup to the assassination of the designated target. If the specified target alone is killed with the bullet, Moriarty might have deduced that any of the threads for plotting the murder could be traced back to him or his accomplices. So, he wanted to cover it up with a bomb to blow up everyone to spark a political conspiracy rather than making it a single person assassination hit.

Your second question is correct. I don't recollect that aspect being used in the second movie, but I think the director used it as a major plot element to introduce Moriarty to viewers — after all, Moriarty is Holmes's greatest adversary.

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thank you , as for the first question , what i wanted to say is that the bomb was enough alone to kill everybody even the target with no need to use an additional sniper – user1907 Aug 19 '12 at 7:57
It was not necessarily enough, the guy might have got lucky. Moran was there to make sure any luck the guy got was bad. – Stefan Aug 20 '12 at 12:01

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