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" Smoke Gets In Your Eyes " is the twenty-third episode of the seventeenth season of Murdoch Mysteries and the two hundred eighty-sixth episode of the series (not including the three stand-alone holiday specials). It first aired on April 1, 2024.
Summary
After a man dies in a drunken brawl at the Starbright Lounge, Murdoch’s suspect is another detective.
Crabtree questions a bar patron who had witnessed a man in his forties assault the victim then went out the back door. Murdoch finds a letter on the deceased, addressed to a Mr. McCormack, the enclosed letter reads: “ Thank you for speaking with me and for all of the help you've given me. I shall never forget it. Yours truly, Danielle." Murdoch sends George to go to the address to find out what he can. With constables, Murdoch proceeds to the back-alley where Higgins finds a man passed out who is wearing a badge. At the Station House, Detective Richard Tauber admits to the fight but had no intention of killing the man. He refuses to cooperate further and states the Chief Constable is the only one he’ll talk to.
As it happens, Chief Constable Stewart is recommending Inspector Brackenreid to replace him at a luncheon the next day and Dr. Ogden is attending to solicit donations to buy an electrocardiograph machine for the new Women's College Hospital.
On that very morning, it’s payday at the Station House. After questioning his month’s wage total, Crabtree shows Murdoch a well-worn address book with Tauber’s name inside; Mr. McCormack and Det. Tauber were not strangers. To further complicate the case, they find Tauber dead in his cell with a bloody razor, "Looks as though the killer has killed himself". Soon Murdoch discovers that constables at Station House Four have been cutting corners every shift by not securing the cell keys in the lockbox.
At the City Morgue, the pinpoint hemorrhages on the lungs lead Miss Hart to believe Tauber died of asphyxiation, not a loss of blood. He was strangled and then his wrists were cut after the fact – a staged suicide. But how? Tauber was in a cell. Murdoch asks for his personal effects to search for fingermarks. Crabtree has learned that McCormack and Tauber were partners at Station House Three and is sent there with Higgins to dig further now that there is an intentional death to solve and a possible cover up.
Character Revelations
- Looks like congratulations are in order for Chief Inspector Brackenreid.
- Constable McNabb has a new baby at home.
- Ruth Higgins-Newsome knows every jewelry store in town.
Continuity
- Crabtree's pay for this month is $18.00.
- Brackenreid is not pleased with a dead man..."in our cells. Hardly the news I want to bring to a luncheon with the chief constable".
- Detective Murdoch gives the Station House Four constables a 'shape-up, no overtime pay' lecture.
Historical References
- This episode takes place in Toronto December 1911 – 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.
Trivia
- CEO of Gonez Media, Brandon Gonez, makes his acting debut in this episode as a journalist and a key witness to a crime.
- Recast actor Mark Caven was first seen on Murdoch Mysteries as Eugene Andersen in Victor, Victorian.
Errors
- The Mona Lisa was stolen August 1911 (19 episodes ago); The Christmas List was the ninth episode of this season. This episode’s year is stated through the reference: “20 years ago…almost to the day,” which the case file dates as December 1, 1891; The season timeline continuity is off once again. The release of MM episodes may not be controlled by MM executive producers and the Writers' Room, thus the chronology is not always accurate.
- This episode's end credits for Paul Irving as Constable Paul has added the surname Harris for the first time, when in previous episodes Paul was his surname (as it is a 'wink' to the actor's first name).
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-Newsome
Shanice Banton as Violet Hart
Kenzie Delo as Constable Tucker
Nathan Hoppe as Constable McNabb
Paul Irving as Constable Paul Harris
Guest Cast
R.H. Thomson as Chief Constable Francis Stewart
Mark Caven as Chadwick Vaughan
Melanie Leon as Danielle Baker
Sean Sullivan as Ivan Wetzman
Aaron Walpole as Richard Tauber
Brandon Gonez as Bar Patron
Daniel Williston as Mason Jeffries
Non-Credited Cast
Gallery
Murdoch Mysteries Season 17 |
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Do the Right Thing Part 1 • Do the Right Thing Part 2 • Murdoch and the Mona Lisa • Bottom of the Barrel • Station House of Horrors • Dying to be Enlightened • Cool Million • The Cottage in the Woods • The Christmas List • Mrs. Crabtree's Neighborhood • A Heavy Event •Wheel of Bad Fortune • Train to Nowhere • The Smell of Alarm • Murdoch and the Treasure of Lima • Preacher Jimmy Wilde • The Fantastic Mr. Fawkes • Spirits in the Night • A Most Surprising Bond • Rhapsody in Blood • Engaged to be Murdered • Why Is Everybody Singing? • Smoke Gets In Your Eyes • For the Greater Good Season 1 • Season 2 • Season 3 • Season 4 • Season 5 • Season 6 • Season 7 • Season 8 • Season 9 • Season 10 • Season 11 • Season 12 • Season 13 • Season 14 • Season 15 •Season 16 |