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"Dash to Death" is the tenth episode of the sixteenth season of Murdoch Mysteries and the two hundred forty-ninth episode of the series (not including the three stand-alone holiday specials). It first airs on November 14, 2022.
Summary
Murdoch investigates the murder of an elite athlete impaled by a javelin, while Violet Hart and Arthur plot her father's demise.
The morning after a track-and-field event that announced plans for upcoming the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm where Dr. Ogden and Iggy Roswell advocated for women to be included, a hotshot male sprinter who had jeered and hurled insults is found dead on the field with a javelin through his chest.
Character Revelations
- Susannah has been ill the past week and has kept her parents sleepless.
- Violet and Arthur have reached the end of their tether and resort to murder.
Continuity
- Maurice Majors is burning through the Hart-Carmichael fortune, and continues to blackmail his daughter into submission.
- Concern for his daughter's quick and complete recovery, William invents a blue thirst quenching blueberry drink.
Historical References
- This episode takes place in Toronto 1911 – King George V is King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.
- Blueberry season in Canada is usually between July and September.
- At the 1912 Summer Olympics, Canada will compete with 37 competitors, all men, in 30 events in 7 sports.
- John Armstrong Howard, known as Army Howard and Canada's first black Olympian, is the top Canadian sprinter from 1912-15, and wins both the 100 y and 220 y at the 1913 Canadian Championships.
- Edward Blake Archibald is a Canadian athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault and competed for Canada in the 1908 Summer Olympics, also serving as the nation’s flag bearer in the Opening Ceremony.
- Young Myrtle Cook will become a Hall of Fame Canadian athlete who wins the gold medal in the women's 4 x 100 metres with her team mates.
Trivia
- There is a nod to Gatorade Cool Blue Thirst Quencher with Murdoch's new invention.
- Station House 4 has a test dummy named Constable Buster - a possible nod to Mythbusters' dummy Buster.
Cast
Main Cast
Yannick Bisson as Detective William Murdoch
Hélène Joy as Dr. Julia Ogden
Thomas Craig as Inspector Thomas Brackenreid
Jonny Harris as Constable George Crabtree
Recurring Cast
Shanice Banton as Violet Hart
Roger Cross as Maurice Majors
James Graham as Arthur Carmichael
Guest Cast
Joey Beliore as Timothy Irons
Davis W. Keeley as Mr. Kolt Irons
James Gangl as Coach June Kittering
Julia Tomasone as Iggy Roswell
Tony Ofori as John Armstrong Howard
Adam Maros as Walter Knox
Lorenz Damiani as Ed Archibald
Andre De Grasse as Demarc Anderson
Daniel Gravelle as Scotty Scorch
Alyssa Gervasi as Myrtle Cook
James Madge as Reporter
Non-Credited Cast
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