Body Double

"Body Double"
Season	1
Episode	7
Airdate	March 2, 2008
Writer	R.B. Carney
Director	Shawn Thompson
Guests	Kate Trotter as Stella Smart Amy Rutherford as Ellen Granger Paul Miller as Arthur Wellesley David Christo as David Martin
Recurring	Lachlan Murdoch as Constable Higgins
Previous	"Let Loose the Dogs"
Next	"Still Waters"

"Body Double" is the seventh episode of the first season of the Murdoch Mysteries and the seventh episode of the series.

Summary

Inspector Thomas Brackenreid is attending a performance of Macbeth when a desiccated body falls onto the stage from high in the rigging. William Murdoch and Julia Ogden arrive at the theater to investigate.

Character Revelations

• Murdoch was educated by Jesuits.
• Brackenreid once performed, as an amateur, in a play by William Shakespeare.
• "Me Ol' Mucker" Count: 0

Historical References

• The kinetoscope reel showed in the opening is called "Fred Ott's Sneeze" and was the first motion picture patented in the US.

Errors

• When Mrs. Smart put her copy of 'Macbeth' on the stack of books, we can see a copy 'The War in the Air' by H.G. Wells. However, this series is set in and around 1895, whereas 'The War in the Air' wasn't published until 1908.
  • William Murdoch reminds Stella Smart that her first husband, Virgil Smart, died on May 11, 1892, however, when we see Virgil's tombstone it is dated May 21, 1892.

Cast

Starring

• Yannick Bisson as William Murdoch
• Hélène Joy as Julia Ogden
• Thomas Craig as Thomas Brackenreid
• Jonny Harris as George Crabtree

Guest Starring

• Kate Trotter as Stella Smart
• Amy Rutherford as Ellen Granger
• Paul Miller as Arthur Wellesley
• David Christo as David Martin

Other Cast

• Lachlan Murdoch as Constable Henry Higgins
• Martin Moreau as Constable Morrison
• Anthony Dunn as Dentist Murphey
• Robin Archer as Patient

References

• Kinetoscope
• "Fred Ott's Sneeze"
• Grand Theatre
• Virgil Smart
• Toronto Gazette
• Victoria Hospital for Sick Children
• Dr. Watkins
• Wilhelm His
• Eddie Green

Gallery

"Fred Ott's Sneeze"

Macbeth at the Grand

Surprise Entrance

A Sensitive Lot

Alas, Poor Yorick!

Lead Us Not Into Temptation

Eddie Green

Machiavellian Plot

Stella Smart

Lady Macbeth

Truly Cursed

Life's But A Walking Shadow