Murdoch Mysteries Season 9 Episodes

Episode 0

A Merry Murdoch Christmas

85 mins

At a Christmas party, the police find the body of Alistair McGowan, a rich businessman renowned for his generosity for giving at Christmas-time. The investigation quickly reveals that McGowan wasn't quite the philanthropist he made himself out to be - the Christmas gifts for the children, now missing, were usually paid for by reducing his employees' wages, something his work force resented. Mrs. McGowan points the finger at her husband's business rival Cyrus Lynch, who is now missing. The police find some of the missing presents and an old gentleman with a long white beard who says he's Kris Kringle. With rumors that a mythical creature, The Krampus, is lurking in the woods, the solution to the murder is found much closer to home.

Episode 1

Nolo Contendere

42 mins

Constable Crabtree and Chief Constable Giles, both stripped of their positions, are behind bars at the Don Jail, as Murdoch is called to investigate a burglary at the deserted residence of George's former fiancée Edna Brooks. When Murdoch visits George in prison, he lets Murdoch know that he did not, in fact, kill Archibald Brooks and they both search for clues to determine the identity of the real killer.

Episode 2

Marked Twain

42 mins

When anti-Imperialist Mark Twain is invited to speak at the Empire Club the members are anything but welcoming. In fact, someone takes a shot at him. Murdoch investigates but Inspector Brackenreid - whose application for membership in the empire Club - is under pressure to get Twain to leave town as soon as possible. When Dr. Ogden learn from Twain that his wife is dying and that he is flat broke, she invites him to stay and give paid lectures to her women's group. Murdoch meanwhile investigates Club members and anyone who may have invested in the many failed schemes Twain had proposed to them. The issue is far simpler than Murdoch could have imagined.

Episode 3

Double Life

42 mins

Just as Lillian and Dr. Grace are finally preparing to go to London to continue their suffrage movement there, Lillian is murdered. Naturally Emily is devastated and rather confused as to what to do next. As the title suggests we are made aware of just how much Dr. Grace really knows about her companion.

Episode 4

Barenaked Ladies

42 mins

A realistic statue of a naked woman is discovered in the park drawing scandalized on-lookers until one takes matters into his own hands. The discovery that it's a murder, leads Murdoch and Julia on the trail of what may be a sequential killer.

Episode 5

24 Hours Til Doomsday

42 mins

Murdoch finds himself working to save Canada - a request from the Prime Minister, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, no less. Working with Canadian spy Terrence Meyers, Murdoch has less than 24 hours to stop whoever is blackmailing the government for $4 million - or they will fire a rocket on New York City. Information leads them to the wilds of Mississauga where Murdoch comes across none other than James Pendrick who admits to building a rocket. With the information Murdoch gives him, Pendrick realizes someone has been stealing his work. Together, Pendrick and Murdoch race to Niagara-on-the-Lake to stop the missile from being fired.

Episode 6

The Local Option

42 mins

When the lone holdout on the city council against a contentious fight to enact prohibition dies after a night in the cells of Station House 4, Murdoch and company investigate, even as the Brackenreid home hosts the prohibition movement's principal protagonist, Carrie Nation.

Episode 7

Summer of '75

42 mins

After a nearly 30-year interval, Murdoch is reacquainted with a fellow scholarship camper, a woman now working with a private investigator, who assists Murdoch in a present-day murder case linked to seven campmates apparently being targeted by the perpetrator of a murder at the camp in 1875.

Episode 8

Pipe Dreamzzz

42 mins

Detective Murdoch investigates the death of university student Byron Sutton who died while smoking opium at the home of his oriental studies professor, Aldous Lawrence. Several other students were there that night- in fact this was a weekly event hosted by Lawrence. The dead boy's father, Dr. Louis Sutton, blames Lawrence and wants him arrested without delay. Dr. Ogden is having trouble determining the exact cause of death however.

Episode 9

Raised on Robbery

42 mins

While Murdoch is in the bank to apply for a house mortgage, there's an alert from the vault. Initially the banker believes only to bags of cash stolen, later he realizes the plates for printing bank notes are also missing, to his head office director's horror. The loot was probably evacuated easily at it's 'baby day', when young parents can earn $5 by opening an account for their kid. Brackenried conveys the commissioner's worries how it will look that such major theft was committed in a detective's presence. Murdoch and Crabtree proceed to a painstaking series of reconstruction attempts, interlacing with Brackenreid's initiative to host a live football (socker) match report for his supports club, starring Crabtree. These are complicated as they involve many people and technology, but Murdoch outsmarts everyone, yet can't prevent a tragic finale with a major aftermath for him and Julia.

Episode 10

The Big Chill

42 mins

Celebrated Arctic expedition captain Joseph-Elzéar Bernier is in Toronto attempting to raise funds for a Canadian expedition to the North Pole, racing against the Swediss explorer Bjorn Nordenskjold to claim permafrost territory. Incriminating slides slipped into his lecture anonymously accuse Bernier of murdering scientist Arthur Pimblett, who served as a navigator and physician on Bernier's previous expeditions. Pimblett's body has been preserved in salt and repatriated by Bernier. Dr. Ogden re-hydrates it to find that he did not die of hypothermia, but was skull-smashed first. Murdoch suspects the Arctic explorer Captain Bernier and his crew of withholding evidence while a Swedish expeditionary team is probably implicated. Crabtree befriends and makes a nickelodeon picture starring Bernier's crew Inuit Nuniq, which yields crucial evidence.

Episode 11

A Case of the Yips

42 mins

Brackenreidt sticks his nose into the murder on the golf links, fearing even Murdoch is bound to get sucked in by the addicted 'demon game'. James Benedict had his skull smashed fatally while looking for a stray ball. To Crabtree's horror, he not only his to dive into the stinking pond to retrieve dumped clubs as potential murder weapons, but among the fellow golfers on the prime suspects list is Roger Newsome, the rude rogue who left him at a strangler's mercy during the auto club case. The list also includes champion George Lyon, who sells life insurance to club members to fiance his dream of partaking in the Olumpics, but gets frustrated by William's perfect stroke training invention. James's brother Wilbur didn't play, but is his life insurance beneficiary. Murdoch works out the MO from a specially flawed-designed custom golf ball.

Episode 12

Unlucky in Love

42 mins

Inspector Thomas Brackenreid's wife Margereth started as wedding planner, but her first bride Elizabeth Cummersworth's much elder groom Oliver Pym is fatally electrocuted when his cane touches a floral display minutes after their vows, due to bared electric isolation. The apparent accident proves suspicious as the black widow already inherited richly from her four previous husbands after various accidents, and haughtily denies any cooperation, shielded by her coachman and companion. Looking into these old cases yields a common mystery henchman, yet identifying him isn't the conclusion. Meanwhile Crabtree organizes a writing course for budding authors, which gets few candidates, one by one dropping out discouraged or offended, except most promising Lucy Maud Montgomery from out of Toronto, whom he dates and coaches to conceive her novel.

Episode 13

Colour Blinded

42 mins

Mr. Frank Parker, a white man, who was visiting an all black church for Sunday's service, was found dead by Miss James, Dr. Ogden's protégé. The new Chief Constable seems to be in a hurry to charge a black paritioner even before the crime has been investigated by Murdoch.

Episode 14

Wild Child

42 mins

An unidentified man was beaten to death in the forest. Prime suspect is wild girl Fen, showed off as attraction by traveler Mick Travis, who keeps her caged with legal authorization but didn't notice the lock was recently broken. Murdoch and Cravtree disprove his claim she was raised by wolves until he found her in the Appalachians, joining the search with Brackenred, mainly to prevent a lynching. Fen is arrested, having bitten Crabtree. Julia wins Fen's confidence and studies her sign language, but later another corpse is found, Hugo de Jaager, completing the foundling plot. Private detective Winifred 'Freddie' Pink was hired by Julia to discover Roland's real mother, the assumed one being found infertile, but finds her penniless immigrant widower father Harold Connor is alive in Toronto, posing a dilemma.

Episode 15

House of Industry

42 mins

After a newbie was murdered in the Toronto municipal work house, where none of the 'guest' talks to police, the victim is identified as an investigative reporter, whose code notes are impossible to decipher even for his editor, who reported him missing, Murdoch risks going undercover using an alias. He gets protection from his studly bunk neighbor John Dempsey. When they are assigned to an illegal work detail at a private saw mill, William is chosen for the owner's nympho wife's 'indoor chores', but notices his mates fear a certain beat cop. This leads the team to more crimes involving police corruption. Meanwhile Crabtree and Higgins are eager to taste the novelty banana split, but fall victim instead to a 'mother and son' fraudster scam pretending their car hit the knave so she can demand money for medical care.

Episode 16

Bl**dy H*ll

42 mins

Murdoch and Brackenreid unwittingly put their careers at risk when they investigate high-level police corruption.

Episode 17

From Buffalo with Love

42 mins

Lonely Crabtree is attending the somewhat infamous burlesque club the Star Room wile a man in the audience, also a regular, well-behaved visitor, is discretely murdered during a performance, so he's warned against such places but also posted there, with Henry, as witness and to interview staff and regulars with knowledge of the place. Julia insists William should offer him an alternative as male friend, but that goes awkwardly, like the fact Crabtree can't quite resist the siren charms of the star performer he now finally gets to approach. Murdoch and Inspector Brackenreid travel to Buffalo, New York, to discover the identity of the victim, who came from there, and who ware after him, involving the Falcone mob family.

Episode 18

Cometh the Archer

42 mins

While the Murdochs prepare to leave their comfortable hotel for a new home, someone intrudes and shoots Julia. She's hospitalized with bleak prospects ever to get out of coma, beyond medical help so William completes his electrical brain wave detector to monitor her bedside, despite the doctor in charge's 'quack' objections. Inspector Thomas Brackenreid is confident he and Crabtree can find the culprit, but make little progress, except it's probably a disgruntled former mental patient from Julia's clinic days, only they arrest the wrong one. They must step up their efforts as the intruder strikes again, managing to abduct William, far from Toronto. That shocking news makes Julia rise from coma and set chase for her beloved, who must meanwhile deal psychologically with his dangerously eluded captor.

Episode 31

Episode #9.31

Christmas Special: When a wealthy philanthropist is found dead before his annual presentation of Christmas presents to orphans.