This episode could have easily been a 10 because it began with a mysterious death on a dark and stormy night in the typical haunted house. The show allowed Constable Crabtree to regale all who would listen with his theories about the afterlife, a story of his aunt's seeing his uncle's apparition, zombies, etc. However, because the producers of Murdoch Mysteries are determined to bombard us with what they perceive to be "politically correct," Timothy, the dead Beaton brother, who is believed to have returned from the dead, is a mulatto. Then we hear Dr. Ogden claim she knew Timothy and he was a "sweet man." No "respectable" white woman of this time period would have said such a thing. If this wasn't enough, we are then expected to believe the wife of the eldest Beaton brother was initially interested in Timothy, the mulatto. Had this been the case, the elder brother, who despised and resented Timothy, would have never married her. Just how credulous do the producers of this show think we are? How about some authenticity? However, the Haitain maid's sticking pins in a voodoo doll toward the end was a nice touch.
