But with no evidence to prove King's guilt, they're forced to leave without King in their custody. Suggesting that King had McCann kill Galbraith because of the debt, Bernie prompts them to speak with McCann, but then they inform him that McCann is also dead. They inform him of Professor Galbraith's death, and it turns out he was one of King's clients, who was heavily in debt to him. Another body's been found.Īt Bernie King's club, Brackenreid introduces Murdoch to King, the biggest bookmaker in all of Toronto. Inspector Brackenreid informs Murdoch that the victim is William McCann, who was a low life worker of Bernie King, the bookmaker, but before Brackenreid can continue, George appears at the Inspector's office door. Higgins only got a brief look at him, Detective Murdoch searches the victim's coat - and finds a human thumb.

Too late to catch the killer, Constable Higgins arrives and blows his whistle to call for help. In the dead of night during a cold winter in Toronto, a young man is about to get attacked by another in an alleyway, but not before he's garroted and killed, scaring the young man away from the crime. While Murdoch hunts for the culprit, Crabtree deals with a perilous situation of his own. As bodies stack up in the morgue, the victims killed in different ways but most are missing the same macabre trophy, it appears that a sequential killer is on the loose in Toronto.

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