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This One Goes to Eleven

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"This One Goes to Eleven" is the sixth episode of the third season of the Murdoch Mysteries and the thirty-second episode of the series. It first aired on March 23, 2010 (UK).

Summary

Wealthy James Pendrick enlists the Toronto Constabulary to guard his priceless Rembrandt, but an audacious thief manages to steal it, killing a man along the way.

James Pendrick has just finished the construction of the Pendrick Building now the tallest building on Toronto, which he himself designed. To celebrate, he and his wife hold a gathering and unveiling of Bathsheba at Her Bath by Rembrandt. After its successful showing, the painting is retired for the evening to be put back into storage as the party continues. The elevator carrying the large framed painting and one security officer descends non-stop from the 11th floor directly to the first floor where Constables Crabtree and Higgins await, but when the doors open, they discover the dead body of Clarkson and no painting.

Eventually, Murdoch finds evidence of a false car above the elevator which leads him to the thieves, both dead, but there is no sign of the painting. They were professional thieves from Chicago and Murdoch determines that it is all part of a scheme to sell forgeries of the painting in question.

While he tracks down the forger, he's not sure he's found the mastermind behind the scheme. The detective pursues the criminal and demands the know the name of his employer. However, the forger overpowers him, but is about to speak when James Pendrick shoots the man, saving Murdoch's life and possibly silencing him. Murdoch remains suspicious that Pendrick was somehow involved in the complicated theft, as inside information was needed to perform the heist.

Character Revelations

Continuity

Historical References

  • This episode takes place in Toronto and Bristol, England, 1897 – Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria 1819 - 1901) is Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and Empress of India.
  • In 1896, the tallest building in Toronto was the Temple Building.
  • This episode features Bathsheba at Her Bath by Rembrandt. The actual painting was donated to The Louvre (same fate as the one in the episode) in 1869.
  • Eise Jeltes Eisinga (1744 –1828), an amateur astronomer and wood carver, built a Planetarium in his house in Franeker, Dutch Republic, completed in 1781.  He calculated the movement of the planets to an accuracy within seconds. Pendrick’s model of the solar system fits into the palm of one’s hand.
  • Murdoch shares being fascinated by the idea that one day, tiny electrical circuits will be capable of calculating vast mathematical algorithms; Pendrick believes miniaturisation is the key to the future.

Trivia

Cast

Main Cast

Yannick Bisson as William Murdoch
Hélène Joy as Julia Ogden
Thomas Craig as Thomas Brackenreid
Jonny Harris as George Crabtree

Recurring Cast

Lachlan Murdoch as Henry Higgins
Peter Stebbings as James Pendrick
Kate Greenhouse as Sally Pendrick

Guest Cast

Salvatore Antonio as Luca Carducci
Christopher Ralph as Burt Lightman

Non-Credited Cast

Sean Harraher as Constable Worseley


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Murdoch Mysteries Season 3
"The Murdoch Identity" • "The Great Wall" • "Victor, Victorian" • "Rich Boy, Poor Boy" • "Me, Myself and Murdoch" • "This One Goes to Eleven" • "Blood and Circuses" • "Future Imperfect" • "Love and Human Remains" • "The Curse of Beaton Manor" • "Hangman" • "In the Altogether" • "The Tesla Effect"
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