Murdoch finds Jacob Oliver, one of a select group of medical professionals and regular guests at a remote inn, died from what turns out a series of experiments, selecting each victim by faro cards game, to induce a state of clinical death, long enough to study the aftermath experience, this time failing to revive the young man timely. Dr. Grace is a member and must perform the autopsy there an then, the ferry being blocked by storm damage, finding fatal metal in his throat: murder by one of the club, so William must dig for hidden motives like jealousy. Meanwhile Brackenreid reluctantly accepts to guard Ned Watts, the reluctant crown witness against never-identified, lethal master criminal Randolph the Razor, whom Crabtree fears may have gained access seeing storm shelter in near-abandoned police station.
—KGF Vissers