Hades Hath No Fury

"Hades Hath No Fury"
Season	10
Episode	15
Airdate	February 20, 2017
Writer	Michelle Ricci
Director	Leslie Hope
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"Hades Hath No Fury" is the fifteenth episode of the tenth season of the Murdoch Mysteries and the one hundred forty-seventh of the series. It first aired on February 20, 2017.

Summary

An explosion involving the missing woman Watts has been investigating leads Murdoch to a surreptitious community.

The mysterious explosion leads Detective Watts to discover the woman he has been trying to track down– Muriel Bruce.

Muriel Bruce disappeared without a trace two years ago. Then, one year later, she is seen with a Lynn Clark on a streetcar, just before Miss Clark's disappearance. In May of this year, she is seen at St. Stephen-in-the-Fields with a Miss Natalie Sykes. And Miss Sykes was never seen again, Detective Watts is convinced that Muriel Bruce's death has something to do with these missing women.

Detectives Murdoch and Watts discover that the Greenwood Estate in Rosedale is now a sanctuary for modern-day Amazons, women who lived without men. It's a man's world, where women seek refuge with explosive consequences. Watts suggests that they need a man on the inside, "You mean a woman," points out Inspector Brackenreid.

Character Revelations

• The investigation has a profound personal impact on Detective Watts whose first name is Llewellyn.
• Nate has a secret he is keeping from Rebecca which Inspector Brackenreid unwittingly discovers.
• Dr. Ogden notes the shock for Det. Watts finding his sister to Murdoch, but Watts seems to be preoccupied with his original cases. Julia observes, "A man who avoids his feelings by occupying himself with work. I should think you two have found common ground at last."
• There is a parallel between William and Susannah with Llewellyn and his sister, Clarissa – now known as 'Athena'; Watts asks Murdoch: "Would your sister forsake you for a house of women who have eschewed the world in which you live?" Murdoch's sister was a nun. (ep.410)

Continuity

• Detective Watts’ on-going investigation gets a big break and Muriel's book from Mr. Murdoch's Neighbourhood is an important clue.
• Private Investigator Freddie Pink returns and goes undercover to assist the investigation.
• This is the second time Inspector Brackenreid uses "canoodling", the first time was in Murdoch Ahoy.
• Station House No. 4 is disrupted by another explosive experiment in Murdoch's office.
• Reproductive manipulation? Julia is fascinated and Freddie suggests she talk with Demeter, who is attempting to fertilize the egg outside the womb; "She'd be thrilled to discuss her work with someone who understands it". Dr. Ogden will follow through on this in Season 11.
• "The truth is absolute, unyielding, and eternal, Jackson. It is our one constant in a turbulent universe," to which Constable Jackson offers Det. Watts his favorite soft baked pretzel (ep.1012), thinking he could use one in the end scene.

Historical References

• This episode takes place in Toronto 1905 – the Edwardian Era (1901-1910) a time when King Edward VII rules the British Empire; It is also known as the Belle Époque era, conventionally dated from the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
• Clues in the case reach back to the ancient Greek goddesses, but like modern "Amazons, the warrior women who lived without men." Detective Watts points out that "the Ancient Greeks are the founders of our modern patriarchy; Even Aristotle thought of women as little more than 'deformed men."
• Nettie Stevens (1861–1912) was an early American geneticist and one of the first American women to be recognized for her contribution to science.
• The medical procedure whereby an egg is fertilized by sperm in a test tube or elsewhere outside the body is called 'in vitro fertilization' (IVF); early research began at the turn of the century.
• St. Stephen-in-the-Fields Anglican Church

Trivia

• Filmed at Batterwood House, the primary Massey estate in Canton, Ontario. Queen Elizabeth II has stayed there.
• Filmed in part on Queen Street, Port Hope, Ontario.
• Watts is not the first character in the series who has the first name Llewellyn – Dr. Llewellyn Francis.
• Constable George Crabtree (Jonny Harris) does not appear in this episode, along with Constable Henry Higgins (Lachlan Murdoch).

Errors

• A James Elroy Flecker verse is seen on the hearth of the Greenwood estate: “Give all thy day to dreaming and all thy night to sleep / Let not Ambition's Tyger devour Contentment's Sheep!” The earliest possible dissemination of this quote could have been from the 1913 publication of Flecker’s poem “The Golden Journey to Samarkand,” 9 years after the episode is set (but more likely in 1922 or 1923, when his larger dramatic work Hassan was published & then staged).

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

Mouna Traoré as Rebecca James
Kristian Bruun as Constable Jackson
Alex Paxton-Beesley as Winnifred “Freddie” Pink
Daniel Maslany as Detective Llewellyn Watts
Jordan Johnson-Hinds as Nate Desmond
Jonathan Robbins as Norman Bruce

Guest Cast

Elizabeth Whitmere as Clarissa Watts
Natasha Greenblatt as Artemis
Greta Onieogou as Themis
Sophie Goulet as Demeter
Stephen Guy-McGrath as Hector Coleman

Gallery

Crime Scene

The bombing victim Muriel Bruce

At the City Morgue, traces of TNT...

Freddie infiltrates the sanctuary

Finds the mystery key's door...

Athena, Themis and Artemis

Demeter discovers a body in the cellar

The Inspector gets it wrong

Freddie and Detective Watts

Watts and his sister Clarissa - no forgiveness