A powerfully moving episode, especially for anyone who wonders if it's not too late to have the life they've always wanted. (It's also a welcome - and uplifting - climax...or is it??...to Murdoch and Dr Ogden's will-they-or-won't-they love story.) After episodes involving microwave-based sci-fi death rays and eugenics societies, I suspect this "time travel" episode (which is explained convincingly in the end) is as far-fetched as this delightful show will stray in its story lines for some time. I've always loved Murdoch Mysteries' good ol' fashioned "solving murders in Victorian-era Toronto with cutting-edge-for-the-time technology" (which we nicknamed "CSI: Toronto") especially with "guest appearances" of historical figures from Nikola Tesla to Alexander Graham Bell. But this episode is a triumphal achievement on its OWN merits, as both an innovative departure from the traditional tone of the series, and its adherence to the show's core principals.
4 Reviews
by far the best of the bunch so far...and that's saying something
editor-578-19766110 January 2013
Warning: Spoilers
Future imperfect
miles-3310812 November 2016
Warning: Spoilers
A man seems to have foreknowledge of the immediate future and prevents first a murder, then a tragic accident. He claims to know these things will happen because he has visited the future in a time machine operated by a Professor Harms.
Murdoch's scientific understanding of time does not permit him to accept this explanation, so he searches in many directions for other answers. While looking for them, he encounters Dr Ogden at the lunatic asylum, where she admits to having received the novel treatment of electro-convulsive therapy, though she does not call it that. She was there for treatment of her anxiety following having been buried alive. She tells Murdoch that she has become fascinated by the discipline of psychoanalysis, and is contemplating a future in it.
Murdoch hears that Professor Harms is offering trips into the future at $1000 each, and suspects that the real reason for Professor Harms doing this is to con the gullible out of their money for personal gain. Harms seeks to allay Murdoch's fears by offering him a trip to 1912, to which Murdoch apprehensively agrees. When, a short time later, Murdoch steps from the time machine, he says he has seen his own future. As to the supposed money making scheme, Harms' lawyer says that the money raised from the trips to the future is tied up in trust for maintaining the Professor's equipment and he himself has no access to it.
Where does Murdoch go from there? He has no explanation for his own time travel, and the main suspect has no personal financial motives for bilking the public.
The episode continues with some highly detailed scientific discussions between Murdoch and Harms, before rather more mundane police work points the way forward.
In the end, through truth is uncovered, not only in the mystery, but also among several of the leading characters. All in all, an excellent season finale.
Murdoch's scientific understanding of time does not permit him to accept this explanation, so he searches in many directions for other answers. While looking for them, he encounters Dr Ogden at the lunatic asylum, where she admits to having received the novel treatment of electro-convulsive therapy, though she does not call it that. She was there for treatment of her anxiety following having been buried alive. She tells Murdoch that she has become fascinated by the discipline of psychoanalysis, and is contemplating a future in it.
Murdoch hears that Professor Harms is offering trips into the future at $1000 each, and suspects that the real reason for Professor Harms doing this is to con the gullible out of their money for personal gain. Harms seeks to allay Murdoch's fears by offering him a trip to 1912, to which Murdoch apprehensively agrees. When, a short time later, Murdoch steps from the time machine, he says he has seen his own future. As to the supposed money making scheme, Harms' lawyer says that the money raised from the trips to the future is tied up in trust for maintaining the Professor's equipment and he himself has no access to it.
Where does Murdoch go from there? He has no explanation for his own time travel, and the main suspect has no personal financial motives for bilking the public.
The episode continues with some highly detailed scientific discussions between Murdoch and Harms, before rather more mundane police work points the way forward.
In the end, through truth is uncovered, not only in the mystery, but also among several of the leading characters. All in all, an excellent season finale.
Future fantasy, fools Murdoch
ctyankee120 April 2015
Warning: Spoilers
Murdoch meets a man named Turner that believes he can save people from being killed or murdered. Turner believes he can see the future.
Brackenreid is probably the most sensible in this series. He does not by science experimentation with good results as true or legitimate.
Murdoch arrest Turner because he assaulted police and ran. It is quite funny Turner runs out of the police station after hitting the police. He is caught and Murdoch has him examined by his psychiatrist, Dr Roberts Turner escapes the mental ward which is also funny and saves a boy from being killed.
Lots of changes in this episode. Inspector Brackenreid considers taking another police job in a different city, Dr Ogden has second thoughts on her husband Darcy. Murdoch considers a second dimension in time travel that he did not believe before but goes to test it out to prove it is false. As usual Murdoch is fooled and wakes up in fantasy land and comes out believing in it.
I wrote before on hypnotism and Murdoch's doctor, Roberts and how it is a form of brainwashing when you let someone hypnotize you.
In this episode it comes out that Dr Ogden explains to Murdoch that post hypnotic suggestion can be used on people to make them believe what the hypnotizer wants them to believe. She thought this is why Murdoch thought he went in another dimension.
So now we will see what relationships take place.
Brackenreid is probably the most sensible in this series. He does not by science experimentation with good results as true or legitimate.
Murdoch arrest Turner because he assaulted police and ran. It is quite funny Turner runs out of the police station after hitting the police. He is caught and Murdoch has him examined by his psychiatrist, Dr Roberts Turner escapes the mental ward which is also funny and saves a boy from being killed.
Lots of changes in this episode. Inspector Brackenreid considers taking another police job in a different city, Dr Ogden has second thoughts on her husband Darcy. Murdoch considers a second dimension in time travel that he did not believe before but goes to test it out to prove it is false. As usual Murdoch is fooled and wakes up in fantasy land and comes out believing in it.
I wrote before on hypnotism and Murdoch's doctor, Roberts and how it is a form of brainwashing when you let someone hypnotize you.
In this episode it comes out that Dr Ogden explains to Murdoch that post hypnotic suggestion can be used on people to make them believe what the hypnotizer wants them to believe. She thought this is why Murdoch thought he went in another dimension.
So now we will see what relationships take place.
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