Plot Summary
Enola Holmes opens her own detective agency, but struggles to get clients unlike her famous detective brother Sherlock Holmes. A factory girl named Bessie asks Enola to help find her missing sister Sarah Chapman. Bessie takes Enola to the match factory, which is experiencing a deadly typhus epidemic, and encounters Mae, who worked alongside the sisters. Enola follows Mae to the Paragon Theatre where Mae and Sarah work as dancers. She finds a poem written to Sarah by a secret lover. On her way home, Enola comes across a drunken Sherlock and brings him home to 221B Baker Street.
He is struggling to solve his latest case involving the blackmail of government officials, but he cannot trace the owner of the accounts where the money is sent. Enola deduces that the poem is a code leading to a home in Whitechapel. There, she finds Mae dying of a stab wound. Enola discovers a piece of sheet music in Mae’s dress but is interrupted by Superintendent Grail who accuses her of murder. Enola escapes to Sherlock’s flat and deduces that Sarah’s lover will be at a ball hosted by the Lyon family. There, she meets Cicely, a friendly noblewoman, and Mira Troy, secretary to Treasury Minister Lord Charles McIntyre.
Enola reunites with Tewkesbury, who teaches her how to dance so she can find an opportunity to get closer to William Lyon, the son of the match factory’s owner and Sarah’s lover. Meanwhile, Sherlock pieces together a message in the blackmail scheme from its mastermind Moriarty. Enola is arrested by Grail before she can speak with William, but Sherlock enlists their mother Eudoria and her fellow radical suffragette Edith to break Enola out of prison. While visiting Tewkesbury, Enola realizes that Sarah is Cicely and that she, Mae, and William had discovered that white phosphorus, not typhus, was killing the workers and were planning to expose it.
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Info & Stats
Director:
Harry Bradbeer
Writers:
Jack Thorne, Harry Bradbeer, Nancy Springer
Stars:
Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, David Thewlis
Categories:
Adventure, Mystery, Crime
Budget:
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Revenue:
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Age: PG13Â Â |Â Â Duration: 2h 9m
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