Murdoch and Crabtree find the fatal sword-stabbing of British gentleman Reginald Mayfair leads to his nightlife companion and war buddy, none other then peer and Boer War hero Winston Churchill, drunk amnesiac, for whose Toronto lecture Brackenreid bought tickets, yet the latter's sympathy, despite a bloody sword being found in his hotel room, flops when refused an autograph, a practice dismissed as numskull. Still Murdoch agrees to attempt stirring Winston's memory by reconstructing the mates' wild night. It shows they attended a gentlemen's club, where Winston bravely condemned his friend's desecration of the Sudanese Mahdi's grave, and temperance lady Gertrude Miller's party, ordering whiskey, hence were pursued by her irate husband towards an Irish bar, which they fled having belted Rule Britannia. Dr. Grace's finding the actual sword was a scimitar in inspires reconsidering an earlier dismissed unreliable witness pointing at an African, like Winston's Egyptian footman Ahmadi and black boot-boy, but it also fits one barely noticed before. William decides to put Julie first, now she failed to lie in court to get an annulment, even if the church forbids wedding a divorcee.
—KGF Vissers