Sherlock Holmes is a consulting detective and the older brother of Enola Holmes in the novel series by Nancy Springer and its 2020 film adaptation. In the film, he is portrayed by Henry Cavill.
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Early Life[]
Sherlock was born to Mr. Holmes and Eudoria Holmes. He is the younger brother to Mycroft Holmes and the older brother to Enola Holmes. In the books and films, it is stated that he left home to open his detective practice in London and because of a disagreement he and his brother had with their family after their father's death.
Sherlock only had a few memories of Enola in both the film and books. In the books, he remembers Enola as a four-year-old girl that couldn't keep her nose clean after their father passed away. In the film, he remembered Enola used to pull a decorated pinecone calling it Dash. This angered their father and Eudoria kept Dash under her pillow before her disappearance.
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Sherlock and Mycroft arrive to a train station to meet Enola after she sent them a telegram. Upon arriving at the train station, both Sherlock and Mycroft fail to recognize their sister. After she introduces herself, Mycroft is confused as to why Enola had not brought the carriage he pays for, only to find their mother had not actually bought one. After hiring a carriage, they return to the house, where they find the house in a frightful state of disarray. After inspecting Eudoria's room, specifically her supply of drawing pencils, Sherlock concludes their mother had left with her full wits about her, and not due to foul play.
While talking to his brother in their mother's home, Mycroft states they have two objectives: to find Enola a boarding school with the help of his friend Ms. Harrison and to find their mother. He considers his goal to be the former while assigning the latter to Sherlock. Mycroft believes his mother, wild and dangerous, had raised a wild child. Sherlock, however, finds her to be intelligent.
After getting dressed by Ms. Harrison, Enola begs her brothers not to send her to the school, but Mycroft decides it is necessary. He informs her that she will never find a husband in her current state, which she says she does not want, anyway, and turns to Sherlock for help. Sherlock states it is not his responsibility to educate her but is left astonished when Enola says he had allowed Mycroft to be cruel to their mother.
As Enola sketches, she is joined by Sherlock.
As Enola sketches in a field, Sherlock joins her, sharing the few memories he has of her when she was a child. Enola finds these memories embarrassing, especially when her brother points out how they could never get her to wear trousers. However, Enola informs Sherlock that she is upset he's only come back due to their mother going missing.
After Enola escapes the next day, Sherlock tracks Edith down using his mother's letters to ask her if she knows where Eudoria is but receives no answer. One day, Sherlock visits her at her boarding school. He tells her he has not found their mother but congratulates her on becoming a good detective. He also gives her Dash, which he found under Eudoria's pillow, indicating she's kept it all these years. Enola is not happy with Sherlock, however, and he soon leaves.
At the police station, Sherlock is received by Lestrade, where he tells the inspector his analysis that the Dowager is behind the plot to have Tewkesbury killed. She stood against a reform bill that would extend the vote, while Tewkesbury and his father supported it, prompting her to have them both killed so the young man's more traditional uncle could take over and vote the way she wanted. When Lestrade questions why the uncle couldn't have had Tewkesbury killed himself, Sherlock deduced his uncle was not present during the murdering of Tewkesbury's father, as he had been serving in Afghan war at the time. Sherlock was startled, however, when Inspector Lestrade asked him how Enola had managed to put the pieces together before he had.
Afterwards, Sherlock set a puzzle on the newspaper styled after his sister's communications with their mother, which instructed Enola to meet him at the Royal Academy. While waiting for her to arrive, Mycroft asked Sherlock if he really thought Enola would think the message was from Eudoria, to which he said no, but he thought she would be curious enough to come anyway. Then, Sherlock asked Mycroft to let Enola be his ward, offering to take care of her, which Mycroft accepted. They discussed Tewkesbury, who turned out to be the decisive vote, and Sherlock suspected had a thing for Enola. As they left to get a drink, Sherlock found Dash on the statue in the middle and realized Enola had been there without him even noticing.
Enola Holmes 2 (Netflix film)[]
Sherlock is still a respectable detective consultant. He works on investigating a case involving "Moriarty" who later becomes his archnemesis. In the film, he bumps into Enola drunk after she went undercover on a case. He is helped into his lodgings by Enola. Sherlock discovers that his sister's case got tangled up with dangerous and corrupt criminals. He went about to rescue her and help her in any way he could to even enlisting Edith and his mother's help when Enola chooses to see the case to the end.
When he realized that his case intertwined with his sister's case, he shares everything he knows with Enola. He realizes that the corrupt officials used phosphorous to lift Enola's prints on a weapon to frame her. When that didn't fool Sherlock, he enlisted Edith's and his mother's help to free Enola and put her in hiding until he got to the bottom of things. Sherlock and Enola use their individual skills to discover with the help of Tewksbury the true puzzle to their cases. The room which they found William Lyon dead in was staged to misdirect them. Tewksbury discovers that the music sheet that Enola took away from Mae was actually a map to a theater where sensitive information was hidden about the matchmaking girls' working conditions.
When the corrupt officials tried to arrest the group, Sarah Chapman, and Bessie Chapman, a fight ensued. Sherlock was grazed by a bullet when trying to escape but he was able to fight his captors off despite his injury. In the fight, he later threw Tewksbury a sword hidden in his cane for him to fight off an armed captor. Sherlock later reveals that the mastermind behind the case was "Moriarty" who used the alias, Moira Troy. He later watches as "Moriarty" was taken in handcuffs laughing maniacally at Sherlock.
After successfully solving both cases, Sherlock offers his sister to join him in his detective consulting agency. But Enola declines the offer as she finds that she would be living in her brother's shadow too much. Sherlock later found out that "Moriarty" escaped from police custody which later begins his stories of him going up against his archnemesis. In the post-credits scene, he later finds that his sister found him a flat mate by the name of Doctor John Watson to check up on her brother when she couldn't come and to help Sherlock with his rent.
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- Several of the pictures of Sherlock from the beginning of the film are Sidney Paget illustrations from the original Holmes stories, two of which are modified to give Holmes Henry Cavill's face.