1. Power
Air date: 2008-01-24 · 60 min
There is disagreement whether Toronto should continue with Edison's DC system or Nikola Tesla's AC system, differences that seemingly result in murder. While the electrocution of a young woman leads Murdoch to a war between these rival electricity suppliers, Crabtree finds himself attracted to a suspect.
Open episode 1 ↗2. Glass Ceiling
Air date: 2008-01-31 · 60 min
A vicious criminal, known for his deadly use of a stiletto may have escaped from jail to revenge himself on those public servants that helped convict him.
Open episode 2 ↗3. The Knockdown
Air date: 2008-02-07 · 60 min
Black professional boxer Amos Robinson is supposed to throw a fight to a local Toronto favorite but knocks him out instead and is murdered before the night is out.
Open episode 3 ↗4. Elementary, My Dear Murdoch
Air date: 2008-02-14 · 60 min
Arthur Conan Doyle is visiting Toronto to give a lecture on spiritualism and offers to help Murdoch solve the murder of a member of a spiritualist society.
Open episode 4 ↗5. Til Death Us Do Part
Air date: 2008-02-21 · 60 min
After the heir to a profitable business is murdered in church only minutes before his marriage of convenience, a post-mortem discloses he had recently engaged in sexual activity.
Open episode 5 ↗6. Let Loose the Dogs
Air date: 2008-02-28 · 60 min
One of the conspirators running a fixed dog fighting competition is murdered and the drunkard who is the prime suspect happens to be Murdoch's estranged father.
Open episode 6 ↗7. Body Double
Air date: 2008-03-06 · 60 min
When a skeletal corpse falls to the stage during a performance, Murdoch discovers not only a sinister murder plot, but Brackenreid's secret love for the theatre.
Open episode 7 ↗8. Still Waters
Air date: 2008-03-13 · 60 min
The affluent and influential young man who recently replaced one of the rowers for the 1896 Olympic rowing team is found drowned in the river.
Open episode 8 ↗9. Belly Speaker
Air date: 2008-03-20 · 60 min
When a drunken, philandering wastrel is found dead in his room, having had varnish forced down in his throat, his estranged disturbed ventriloquist son is found in a wardrobe.
Open episode 9 ↗10. Child's Play
Air date: 2008-03-27 · 60 min
Howard Rookwood is murdered in the horse stables of his glue factory; but who would want to kill a humanitarian involved with placing troubled English youth in foster homes?
Open episode 10 ↗11. Bad Medicine
Air date: 2008-04-03 · 60 min
After a physician researching brain abnormalities is murdered with a crossbow, Murdoch traces the hooded killer to the patients of his institute.
Open episode 11 ↗12. The Prince and the Rebel
Air date: 2008-04-10 · 60 min
Prince Alfred, grandson of Queen Victoria, is visiting Toronto and Murdoch is assigned to protect the reckless playboy a from Fenian conspiracy.
Open episode 12 ↗13. The Annoying Red Planet
Air date: 2008-04-17 · 60 min
Murdoch investigates the hanging of a farmer found in a freshly plowed field with no footprints around it. Crabtree suspects extraterrestrial involvement.
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