Welcome to Paradise

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"Welcome to Paradise"
Season	18
Episode	1808
Airdate	January 6, 2025
Writer	Cristina Ray
Director	Elsbeth McCall
Previous	Measure of My Dreams
Next	When Rubber Meets the Road

“Welcome to Paradise” is the eighth episode of the eighteenth season of Murdoch Mysteries and the two hundred ninety-sixth episode of the series (not including the three stand-alone holiday specials). It first aired on January 6, 2025.

Summary

Murdoch’s countryside cycling journey takes a dark turn after decomposing bodies are found in a field with gunshot wounds, Murdoch fears that a sequential killer may be on the loose and who might be targeting men from other cultures. As the bodies are excavated and photographed, Inspector Choi confirms that the victims were specifically targeted.

Character Revelations

• George Crabtree has taken time off to write a novel.
• According to Higgins, one doesn't touch the telegraph machine without Constable McNabb and "don't touch the main ledger at the booking desk without asking MacLaren".
• Constable Teddy Roberts is a champion marksman and prefers horses to bicycles.

Continuity

• A new constable joins Station House Four.
• Inspector Choi goes undercover as a Korean real estate investor.
• Both the Bulletproof Vest and Trackizer are used in catching the culprits.

Historical References

• This episode takes place in Toronto 1912 – 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.
• Electrocuting an Elephant (also known as Electrocution of an Elephant) is a 1903 American silent short film depicting the killing of the elephant Topsy by electrocution at a Coney Island amusement park, filmed by Edison film company. Topsy was sentenced to death by Luna Park officials based on the belief that she had become a "bad" elephant.
• Themistocles Gluck (1853-1942) is a German physician and surgeon who first invented endoprostheses from ivory in 1890 in Berlin, when he performed the first documented total wrist Arthroplasty and he received the 1st State Prize of the Berlin University for his work on nerve suturing and nerve regeneration.
• During the 19th century, the Chatham area was the northern terminus of the Underground Railroad. By the 1850s, the city of Chatham was referred to as the "black mecca of Canada". John Brown, the abolitionist, planned his raid on the Harpers Ferry Arsenal in Chatham and recruited local men to participate in the raid. As a result, Chatham-Kent is now part of the African-Canadian Heritage Tour.

Trivia

• This episode was filmed in part in Thorold as the episode's story is set in Grimsby (25 min, 37.9 km from Thorold), a town on Lake Ontario in the Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada. MM producer Jeremy Hood told ThoroldToday that downtown Thorold was an ideal location because of its heritage buildings.
• Dr. Rebecca James and Nate Desmond moved to Chatham, Ontario, in Season 11.

Cast

Original Main Cast

Yannick Bisson as Detective William Murdoch
Thomas Craig as Chief Constable Thomas Brackenreid
Jonny Harris as Constable George Crabtree

Recurring Cast

Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Inspector Albert Choi
Daniel Maslany as Detective Llewellyn Watts
Shanice Banton as Violet Hart
Lachlan Murdoch as Constable Henry Higgins-Newsome
Kataem O'Connor as Constable Teddy Roberts

Guest Cast

Hannah Cheesmaan as Myra Perkins
Nicolas Van Burek as Nicolai Kinsky
Andy Trithardt as Percival Magnus
Erin Mick as Gertrude Klobenfelster
Glen Michael Grant as Joel MaAfee
Dave Dewar as Guthrie Blaine
Michael Orr as Clark Diggs

Non-Credited Cast

Paul Irving as Constable Paul

Gallery

Crime scene