Right on the heels of the first two character posters for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Warner Brothers and iTunes Trailers have gifted us with the first teaser trailer for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows!

Holmes and Watson seem to be up to the same sorts of chicanery and hijinks that we saw in the first film (If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,) indeed the end cap to the trailer gives us a repeat of a particular instance of their clever verbal badinage from the earlier film, except in reverse. Love it.  We open with the put-upon Dr. Watson (Jude Law), who is on his honeymoon with the lovely Mary Morstan (Kelly Reilly) dealing with the unwelcome intrusion of Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr.) I can’t wait to find out why he’s in drag for most of it.  We also get a look at Noomi Rapace’s character, Sim, a gypsy fortune-teller. This film picks up where the first one ended, with Sherlock learning about the evil Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris). It will be up to Sherlock to stop the evil genius, easily his intellectual equal, although lacking Sherlock’s moral fiber, before Moriarty can put his master plan into action. Along for the ride this time will be Sherlock’s older brother, Mycroft (Stephen Fry).

And thanks to USA Today, we have our first look at Jared Harris as Moriarty:

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows will be afoot in theaters beginning December 16!