The Talking Dead

"The Talking Dead"
Season	11
Episode	1109
Airdate	December 11, 2017
Writer	Lori Spring
Director	Eleanore Lindo
Guests	Jay 'Christian' Reso as Leonard Stoker
Previous	Brackenreid Boudoir
Next	F.L.A.S.H.!

“The Talking Dead” is the ninth episode of the eleventh season and the one hundred-fifty-ninth of the Murdoch Mysteries series. It first aired on December 11, 2017.

Summary

After obituaries are published in advance of two men's deaths, Murdoch discovers more intended victims, including a member of Station House No. 4 – Detective Watts

Character Revelations

• Nina asks George to go to Paris with her; he thinks Paris is a veritable den of thieves and cutthroats and that The City of Lights is Buffalo.
• George Crabtree prefers."...to love with the lights off", confessing that he is bashful to Watts.
• Detective Watts tells Crabtree go to Paris today, for tomorrow he might die.
• This episode presents a very different kind of criminal.
• While the Inspector does not like the French, Thomas Brackenreid met a young woman named Céline in Paris: "Her name meant heaven. Oh, and by God, Crabtree, she took me to heaven and back on numerous occasions." Crabtree gets his time off.

Continuity

• The Toronto Gazette's obituary page is used as a calling card to murder.
• Constable Higgins loses a suspect yet again.
• If William and Julia are successful in their endeavors to have a child, "we must be sure to choose good godparents." George unknowingly enters on cue.

• Eddie Crawford from Bl**dy Hell returns.

Historical References

• The Moulin Rouge is the renowned dance hall of the late 19th century, famously captured by the nightclub's famous habitué Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Trivia

• A handful of story seeds are planted in this episode by the MM Writers Room.
• Showrunner Peter Mitchell revealed, "..bike riding scenes are hard as it is difficult to find any 'run' of usable heritage space in all of Southern Ontario (except if we go full-on rural). You'd be surprised how many ATM's there are."
• Craig Brown as Eddie Crawford was first seen in Toronto's Girl Problem.
• Hélène Joy wanted William and Julia to honeymoon in Paris, but they went to New York instead in Murdoch Takes Manhattan

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

Daniel Maslany as Detective Watts
Lachlan Murdoch as Constable Henry Higgins
Charles Vandervaart as John Brackenreid
Shanice Banton as Violet Hart
Erin Agostino as Nina Bloom
Craig Brown as Eddie Crawford

Guest Cast

Madison Brydges as Agnes Swift
Krystin Pellerin as Virginia Swift
Nancy Beatty as Sister Annamaria
Jay Reso as Leonard Stoker
Angela Besharah as Dorothy McAllister
Kevin Hare as Harrison McAllister
Ian Rayburn as Driver
Lauren Spring as Angry Weeping Woman
John Connolly as Weight Guesser

Non-credited Cast

Nathan Hoppe as Constable McNabb

Gallery

Toronto Gazette