This season, Murdoch and his team investigate brand new cases, including the killing of a man during a battlefield re-enactment, the veracity of a ‘Missing Link’ skull, a murder at a Charles Dickens convention, threats to a silent film star throwing Murdoch into a cinematic adventure and the foiling a theft of the world’s largest ruby. The season also explores social issues of the time, including a worker’s strike at a factory, an early instance of low-income housing, competing public hydro projects and immigrants trying to purchase land in the ‘paradise’ wilds of Canada.