Sarah’s friend Mae turns up dead in an apartment where Sarah was meant to meet her lover. Enola arrives just as she dies and the police arrive not much later, including Lestrade and Superintendent Grail. Grail accuses Enola of murdering Mae but she runs away. She attends a ball where she tries to get information out of William Lyon, the factory owner Henry Lyon’s son and also Sarah’s lover. Before she can talk to him, Grail’s men arrive and arrest Enola for murder. With the help of her mother Eudoria and her friend Edith, Enola escapes prison. ..
Sherlock is investigating a financial scam in which there were unaccounted money transfers across government offices. The scam seems to be happening more and more, and he is trying to find the perpetrator behind the account numbers.
In the concluding pages of Enola Holmes 2, we learn that Holmes has finally been apprehended and is being held in a maximum security prison. However, it is not over yet! In order to close the case of the death of Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective, Holmes must continue to fight for his life.
What was killing the match girls?
After escaping prison, Enola gets back to Bessie and tells her to move to a safer place. While she packs, Enola notices the plants on the desk and finds that one has red powder in it while another has white. She remembers seeing two jars of flies in the apartment where Mae was killed. In the one with red powder, the flies were alive. In the one with white powder, they were dead. In Bessie’s room, Enola finds white powder in the cheese Sarah would leave out for the mice. Nearby, she finds a dead mouse.
Enola realizes that two years ago, the factory shifted from using the red powder to the white, cheaper one. That was the same time the girls started dying. She deduces that the phosphorous in the white powder was killing them.
Does Enola find Sarah Chapman?
Enola heads to Tewkesbury, where she admits that she needs help. They are talking about her case when someone knocks on the door. It’s Cicely, a woman Enola encountered at the ball where she met William Lyon. Cicely needs to tell Tewkesbury something important but he promises to meet her later on account of Enola.
When she leaves, Tewkesbury begins to confess his feelings to Enola but her thoughts are elsewhere. She remembers how Cicely had no chaperone at the ball, how she wore a dress Enola saw at the music hall, and how her fingernails showed the blackened phosphorous. Tewkesbury is Sarah! And she was not only in love with William Lyon but also working with him and Mae to uncover his father’s crimes. Enola then confesses that she loves Tewkesbury too.
How were Enola and Sherlock’s cases connected?
After her big realization, Enola heads back to the match factory with Tewkesbury. Inside, she tussles with a stranger who turns out to be Sherlock. He tells her that the trail for his opponent led him here as the factory is in the vicinity of all five banks that were used to deposit money. ..
Meanwhile, he’s also figured out that the account numbers referred to the language of dance. After decoding the numbers, he finds the name Moriarty. ..
What did the music sheet mean?
At the factory, Enola and Sherlock find the dead body of William Lyon. In his hand, they find a torn piece of a music sheet, the same one that Enola took from Mae’s pocket when she died. Tewkesbury says that the piece’s title ‘Truth of the Gods’ could refer to the theatre as the top row is called ‘The Gods’.
Enola takes a closer look at the music sheet and realizes that the various symbols represent a map to the theatre. The map points to a specific seat. ..
Do Enola and team manage to expose the truth?
The three of them rush to the theatre, to the particular seat where they find hidden papers. Sarah Chapman, no longer in the guise of Cicely, arrives and tells them that those papers show the contract between Henry Lyon and Lord McIntyre (the treasury minister) and their decision to change the phosphorous. There are also the papers Sarah stole from the factory’s register, showing the names of the all the dead girls.
Just as they thought they had won, Superintendent Grail turns up with Bessie in tow and a knife at the girl’s neck. He tells Enola to hand over the papers, as more officers surround the others. Bessie bites his hand and a long fight sequence ensues. At the end, Enola and her team overpower Grail and his men.
Who is Moriarty?
Sherlock Holmes and John Watson are called to the scene of a financial scam in which a secretary named Ms. Mira Tory has been caught. Tory confesses to the scam, revealing that it was actually her boss, Sherlock Holmes’ secretary Ms. Mira who was behind the scam. Tory says she had fun doing it, enjoying working under Holmes and Watson’s guidance. Lestrade arrests Tory for blackmailing Holmes, but she promises to dance with them yet again when she’s released.
What happens to the other match girls?
As Moriarty is taken away, McIntyre burns the paper that proves his corruption. Sarah, Bessie and Enola go to the match factory. Sarah makes a passionate speech about how the phosphorous is killing them. She persuades the girls to leave together. It doesn’t seem to work and she’s about to leave, when Bessie begins stamping her foot in protest. They all begin to stamp their feet and then walk out of the factory together. From the side lines, Eudoria Holmes and Edith watch them.
How does Enola Holmes 2 end?
Enola reopens her detective’s office and Sherlock offers her a partnership. She politely declines, saying she would always be in his shadow. He gives her a newspaper that shows Tewkesbury managed to get McIntyre arrested. They agree to check in on each other from time to time, with Enola insisting Sherlock needs a friend. They agree on Thursday at 4:00 p.m. Tewkesbury arrives with flowers and the young couple go on a walk while bantering as they usually do. ..
Sarah Chapman’s character is based on a real person who ignited a matchgirls’ strike. It was one of the first industrial protests for women by women.
A mid-credit scene shows Sherlock Holmes in his study on Thursday at 4 p.m. when someone knocks on his door. It’s a man who claims to have come in response to a call for a flat mate. He says he was given the address and time by a young girl. Sherlock smiles and invites in him asking for his name. He replies: “Doctor John Watson.” ..
Enola Holmes is back in a new movie and it doesn’t disappoint. The film follows her life after she’s released from prison and starts a new life with her new husband. The film is well-made and has a great story line.
