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Post by Lucy on Sept 3, 2009 10:41:28 GMT
Original air date - 3rd April 2008
Detective Murdoch investigates the murder of Dr. Francis Grout who was killed by a hooded and robed figure using a crossbow. The doctor worked at the Greyson Institute for the Mind that specializes in researching brain functions and those who have special skills not found among the general population. As the murders continue, the police must find the common link among them. Murdoch is shaken when medium Sarah Pensell tells him she has seen these murders in a vision. While she can't identify the robed figure, she is able to identify the killer's last victim - Murdoch.
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Post by shangas on Dec 4, 2011 12:01:30 GMT
The ending of this episode was fantastic. It was so suspenseful. I loved it! This whole episode was very enjoyable.
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Post by CosmicCavalcade on May 3, 2013 0:41:48 GMT
I loved the ending part after the arrow. I love how Pensell asks what his relationship is to Julia, like she's some sort of shipper and then Murdoch obliges and keeps going on and on and on about her which makes her magically appear!
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Post by snacky on Mar 29, 2014 8:27:29 GMT
This is one of my favorite episodes. Regarding the end scene, I also love how shocked Julia looks when William is kissing Ms. Pensell's hand. She was a fascinating person and a serious potential rival. I also wonder if this is part of the reason Julia drifted into psychiatry, too.
Another thing I really liked about the episode was the pseudoscience about women having less brain capacity than men, and how denying that is just like those throwbacks that deny Darwin. The false steps toward the future is one of my favorite things about Murdoch Mysteries, and I believe they could do a lot more with the utter misconceptions about women. Congrats to William for maintaining his skepticism in the face of the "scientific facts". I also liked the humanity he showed in opposition to the "acceptable risks" of science. The Jesuits were totally wrong about him being "too rational" to appreciate human things. This reminded me of his rejection of eugenics.
While William can't see cars or coffee as the wave of the future, in a way he is more modern than the moderns, since he can see scientistic thinking leading to technocratic dystopias, and he's already considering how to remedy that to keep the world a fit place for human beings.
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Post by wildhorseannie on Apr 10, 2014 21:40:18 GMT
I loved the ending part after the arrow. I love how Pensell asks what his relationship is to Julia, like she's some sort of shipper and then Murdoch obliges and keeps going on and on and on about her which makes her magically appear! Julia always struck me as being a creeper at this point...I mean, she just stands there watching for a little while. Kinda weird, I thought.  |
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Post by snacky on Apr 10, 2014 22:46:49 GMT
I loved the ending part after the arrow. I love how Pensell asks what his relationship is to Julia, like she's some sort of shipper and then Murdoch obliges and keeps going on and on and on about her which makes her magically appear! Julia always struck me as being a creeper at this point...I mean, she just stands there watching for a little while. Kinda weird, I thought. That was too much of a coincidence. Perhaps Julia was stalking William a bit. Perhaps she was trying to figure out what William's relationship to Ms. Pensell was? While Julia was William's intellectual match, Ms. Pensell would have won on beauty points. I wonder if that's when Julia started to consider going blond and upgrading her hats? She actually wears Ms. Pensell's hat in the Mars episode!!! Thought I thought Yannick and Helene had chemistry and came up with some great shippy stage business, the writers seemed really awkward with Jilliam in the early seasons, especially in Season 1. There were a lot of things I just didn't buy. One was William's inquiry about whether women were attracted to men who live in their minds: I liked the conversation, but somehow the scripting just seemed overdone. Also, any flirting should have been subtle at best before William came to terms with Liza's death. Another weird spot was Ms. Pensell asking about William's relationship with Julia. I didn't see William throwing that in her face, and it just seems too personal a question for a Victorian conversation. It might have worked better if Ms. Pensell had seen William flirting with Julia first. I did love how distressed Julia looked when William kissed Ms. Pensell's hand. In the earlier seasons, perhaps the writers should have no tried to script in the shippiness, but instead made a stage direction note: "actors should improvise some flirtation here". |
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Post by lea on Jun 24, 2015 6:42:20 GMT
I had a nightmare about this episode the last time I watched it. Sleep paralysis and the whole thing. I was hesitant to watch it again. However, here we are on day 11 of an episode a day until season 9!
1. Julia's jokes were so on point in this episode. This is my type of humor. Also, I think green suits her well! I always think she looks great in green.
2. "What are you doing?" "What do you think I'm doing, I'm THINKING!" This bit gets me every time. I love the Inspector!
3. I love the nice things William says about Julia. She totally over hears all of it! Squeee! (I never noticed Julia being jealous before until this viewing.)
4. I kind of wish they would have brought Sarah Pensell back, surely she didn't stay in Prague forever! I liked her character quite a bit. It was fun to see William explore that world since it's somewhat far and away from what he believes.
5. I bet William has some bad-ass scars!
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