- As a visit to Toronto for a speaking engagement by Mark Twain leads to controversy, Murdoch and the team from Station House 4 are tasked with protecting him.
- 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.—garykmcd
- Inspector Brackenreid attends the posh, royalist Empire Club, hoping to be invited to join, his wife's socialite dream. Meawnhile he attends the opening of the lecture season there, which the president, his sponsor Clarence Eldridge, promised to open with a mystery guest. It's famous US author Mark Twain, but many members protest, some even leave, given his anti-British anti anti-monarchy reputation. Someone even shoots at the podium, but misses. Cued by his sponsor, Brackenreid insists Twain should leave the club, preferably the country, but he won't be chased, so stays in his hotel with a police guard, and his new assistant, former club concierge Benson, who gets mildly wounded when another shot is aimed there but misses again. Crabtree finds it hard to handle his (temporary) demotion as Henry enjoys playing his superior too much, claiming star parts while delegating the lousy chores (but often counter-manipulated by brighter George), even taking credit for capable George's results, both go undercover in the club. Julia's suffragette society offers Twain, who needs speaker fees after squandering his savings on a poor invention, to lecture for them, despite William's urgency for prudence, but this time a rifle kills Benson. Murdoch completes and scrutinizes his suspect list after establishing another possible motive taking into account the repeated misses.—KGF Vissers
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