- A telephone operator with ambitions to be a detective believes she's heard a woman strangled on an open line but Brackenreid is reluctant to believe her.
- Det. Murdoch and Const. Crabtree investigate the murder of a street urchin who they subsequently learn went by the name of Pip. Dr. Ogden determines that the boy was strangled with something that left a unique mark on the his neck. She also notes that he was wearing a proper and quite new suit of clothes, something odd for a boy who lived on the street. Their investigation leads them to another young boy named Dorrie. It seems pretty clear that the children are the bottom rung of a gang that specializes in burglarizing homes while the occupants are away on holidays or business trips. The police are assisted throughout by a young telephone operator, Tess Moffatt, who would love to be an investigator. Meanwhile Inspector Brackenreid hits the campaign trail in his quest for a seat on city council.—garykmcd
- Telephone operator Tess Moffatt, who dreams of becoming a detective, reports to believe she's heard a woman strangled on an open line, but Brackenreid dismisses her until Murdoch and Crabtree find that fits the murder by strangulation with an unusual object of a street urchin who is later identified as Pip, and wore suspiciously fine clothes. While Brackenreid wrestles with the vestimentary and more manipulative instructions of his political alderman campaign manager, the duo works out via bright street boy Dorrie that someone runs a burglarizing gang, using the knaves and identifying which homes are unattended.—KGF Vissers
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