From Buffalo With Love

"From Buffalo With Love"
Season	9
Episode	17
Airdate	March 14, 2016
Writer	Michelle Ricci
Director	Peter Mitchell
Previous	Bl..dy H.ll
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"From Buffalo With Love" is the seventeenth episode of the ninth season of the Murdoch Mysteries and the one hundredth thirty-first episode of the series. It first aired on March 14, 2016.

Summary

A man is shot in the head at the infamous Star Room, but none of the patrons saw what happened—including Geroge Crabtree who was there enjoying the burlesque performance. Murdoch and Brackenreid travel to Buffalo, the victim's hometown, where they find connections to the Black Hand.

Character Revelations

• For George, a new romance blossoms with Star Room dancer, Nina Bloom who calls him her favorite Mr. Wednesday. George has been attending the burlesque regularly to see her, presumably on Wednesdays.
• Julia has always wondered what it looked like inside the infamous Star Room.
• When Murdoch suggests to Crabtree that they spend an evening together at the vaudeville, George confesses that he has gone off vaudeville a bit because it's too competitive (ep 809).
• Nina's best friend and fellow dancer, Lydia Hall, figures prominently (though unwittingly) in the murder.

Continuity

• The return of Giuseppe Falcone, founder of the Buffalo chapter of The Black Hand.

• George must be in love with Nina, he walked right past the new Hot Sausages stand (see ep.1004).

Historical References

• Murdoch mentions the Royal Society of Geologists hosting a talk on tectonics.
• The world famous Buffalo wing was invented at Buffalo, New York's own Anchor Bar; the pub where Brackenreid enjoys his chicken wings. The bar has many anchors decorating the room in homage.
• In his desperate hunger, Brackenreid unwittingly invents the Buffalo wing. Prior to the latter half of the twentieth century, chicken wings were considered extremely low-quality cuts of meat, generally used only for stock or discarded altogether. The Buffalo restaurant owner even comments, "The Canadians are eating our garbage!"

Trivia

• This is the second episode to take place partially in Buffalo, New York. The first was Buffalo Shuffle. Buffalo is mentioned in This One Goes to Eleven when art appraiser Luca Carducci sneers that thieves would try to sell the reproduction of a valuable painting to nouveau riche there. In Hot Wheels of Thunder, Julia, Rebecca, Nina, and Lydia take on the Buffalo Queens roller-racing team in Toronto.
• This is the second time the Hot Sausages stand appears, the first was in Journey to the Centre of Toronto, when George bought one for Emily.
• Robert Carli, the music composer for Murdoch Mysteries, makes a cameo appearance, playing the piano at The Star Room Theatre.
• Filmed in Peterborough, ON, playing Buffalo, NY.
• It is funny that George says he has gone off vaudeville for being too competitive since the actor, Jonny Harris is also known for stand-up comedy, which has its origins in vaudeville.

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

Lachlan Murdoch as Constable Henry Higgins
Arwen Humphreys as Margaret Brackenreid
Michael A. Miranda as Giuseppe Falcone

Guest Cast

Erin Agostino as Nina Bloom
Katy Breier as Lydia Hall
Austin Di Iulio as Joe Falcone
Hannah Cheeseman as Mrs. Sachs
Charlie Gallant as Miles Hart
Tayo Jacob as Bartender
Patrick McManus as Detective Harvey Walker
David Fraser as Chef
Sidonie Wybourn as Hermione Greenhammer

Gallery

Scene of the crime

Proposing marriage? Missing the hot sausages?