Canada's 1906 immigration act abruptly orders the mass deportation of criminal, unemployed and/or sick migrants. Brackenreid bends the rules to help his Greek carpenter Athos Rella avoid expulsion, which blows up in his face when the man becomes the prime suspect in the murder of James McBride, the Toronto immigration officer in charge of expulsions. A subsequent series of xenophobic articles by Louise Cherry incite violence against the local Greek community, leading Murdoch to suspect that Greek immigrants are being deliberately demonized as part of a larger conspiracy, linking to manipulation of city construction contracts. Julia braves hospital brass by illegally treating Polish migrant Jakub Czarnecki, who won't survive a ship voyage back, .
—KGF Vissers