When Julia asks William what just happened, Murdoch explains that he believes he may be the Artful Detective in the racing sheet.īrackenreid tells Murdoch to take a trip to the armoury if he's been thrown into the game, just to be on the safe side, but Murdoch comes up with another idea. Suddenly, the blonde man who had delivered the racing sheet to the printers attempts to kill Murdoch, but Murdoch disarms him, and he runs into the road, only to get hit by an oncoming car. But it turns out that the printer was lying when he said he didn't receive a seventh race, and that there was a seventh race, with a new entry named 'Artful Detective'. Outside their hotel, Julia insists on picking up a copy of the racing sheet, even though William points out there is no seventh race. Then she tells them that the other victim died from being shot several times at around 9-11pm. Emily tells Murdoch and Julia that the victim was found in his cold storage in a butcher shop, which makes him one of the contestants on the race sheet 'Butcher's Gaff'. Since they found a cigar cutter in Mildred's purse, it's likely she used them to cut the thumb off instead of using it to cut cigars. But then Brackenreid notices that Blechman was betting on the seventh race at Woodbine, and apparently, there is no seventh race at Woodbine, so why was Horace Blechman betting on a race that didn't exist?Īt the City Morgue, the victim shot with an arrow and missing a thumb would prove that Mildred Abernathy killed the victim. Brackenreid finds the same racing sheet that had been found on the other victims, and Murdoch proposes the idea that Blechman had been gambling to raise funds for his inventions. Murdoch and Brackenreid have located the inventor's laboratory, only to discover a bunch of insane invention ideas, and rejection letters asking for funds for his inventions. And just like the others, Blechman is missing his thumb. George finds a business card on the victim, which reveals his name to be Horace Blechman, an inventor.
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Henry informs them that a resident of the boarding house found him, and reveals that there were no witnesses to the murder. Once again, another body has been located – found on the toilet in a shed. Murdoch suggests that if she was an archer, perhaps Julia knows who she is. Brackenreid comments 'a cigar chewing gambler who liked to shoot arrows. Murdoch finds a copy of the racing sheet in her purse, as well as a cigar cutter. But she too, is missing her thumb, just like the others. This time, the victim is female, and was killed by a rather large knife. When Murdoch and Brackenreid arrive to yet another murder, they find Dr Grace already examining the corpse. Before he leaves, he promises to her that Archie will never lay a finger on her or Simon again. George swears he'll never let that happen, and tries to get Edna to stay with him since she has nowhere else to go, but Edna won't budge. George can't believe this, telling Edna that 'after what he did to you, he'll kill me?' to which Edna tells him that Archie will kill her too. She tries to get George to leave, warning him that if Archie finds him here, he'll kill him.
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When George asks what Archibald did to her, she slowly comes out of the pantry and reveals a bruise by her eye. George arrives at Edna's apartment and calls out for Edna and Simon, but Edna tells George to go away.
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But with no evidence to prove King's guilt, they're forced to leave without King in their custody. Suggesting that King had McCann kill Galbraith because of the debt, Bernie prompts them to speak with McCann, but then they inform him that McCann is also dead. They inform him of Professor Galbraith's death, and it turns out he was one of King's clients, who was heavily in debt to him. Another body's been found.Īt Bernie King's club, Brackenreid introduces Murdoch to King, the biggest bookmaker in all of Toronto.
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Inspector Brackenreid informs Murdoch that the victim is William McCann, who was a low life worker of Bernie King, the bookmaker, but before Brackenreid can continue, George appears at the Inspector's office door. Higgins only got a brief look at him, Detective Murdoch searches the victim's coat - and finds a human thumb. Too late to catch the killer, Constable Higgins arrives and blows his whistle to call for help. In the dead of night during a cold winter in Toronto, a young man is about to get attacked by another in an alleyway, but not before he's garroted and killed, scaring the young man away from the crime. While Murdoch hunts for the culprit, Crabtree deals with a perilous situation of his own. As bodies stack up in the morgue, the victims killed in different ways but most are missing the same macabre trophy, it appears that a sequential killer is on the loose in Toronto.