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* MrExposition: Jack London explains Isaac [[=McKay=]]'s dredging plans to Murdoch, Elizabeth and the audience, including how they could relate to the murder.
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* MrExposition: Jack London explains Isaac [[=McKay=]]'s [=McKay=]'s dredging plans to Murdoch, Elizabeth and the audience, including how they could relate to the murder.
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* MrExposition: Jack London explains Isaac [[McKay]]'s dredging plans to Murdoch, Elizabeth and the audience, including how they could relate to the murder.
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* MrExposition: Jack London explains Isaac [[McKay]]'s [[=McKay=]]'s dredging plans to Murdoch, Elizabeth and the audience, including how they could relate to the murder.
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* BookEnds: Murdoch shows his alienation from his job by throwing his police badge into a river. Jack London gives it back to him right before he returns to Toronto, having found it in the water.
* ClearTheirName: Murdoch does this for his landlady Elizabeth Bryant, who's been framed for murder.
* ClearTheirName: Murdoch does this for his landlady Elizabeth Bryant, who's been framed for murder.
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* HesBack: Murdoch signifies this by putting on his traditional detective's suit and Homburg hat when he resolves to help Elizabeth.
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* MrExposition: Jack London explains Isaac [[McKay]]'s dredging plans to Murdoch, Elizabeth and the audience, including how they could relate to the murder.
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* TheWatson: A young Jack London serves as this to Murdoch, even returning his badge when Murdoch tossed it into a river.
* WhatTheHellHero: Elizabeth tears a strip off Murdoch when he initially refuses to help her, saying he was no longer a detective.
* WhatTheHellHero: Elizabeth tears a strip off Murdoch when he initially refuses to help her, saying he was no longer a detective.
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* RedHerring: Mining man Isaac [=McKay=] is poised to make a huge profit from dredging the creek (a project the murder victims were obstructing), has his bodyguards pick a fight with Murdoch when he first asks to examine the body and pointedly asks Murdoch to leave town. He doesn't stoop to dishonest methods to get his way, though, and seems pleased by the knowledge that his operation will benefit all of the other townspeople.
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* RedHerring: Mining man Isaac [=McKay=] is poised to make a huge profit from dredging the creek (a project the murder victims were obstructing), has his bodyguards pick a fight with Murdoch when he first asks to examine the body and pointedly asks Murdoch to leave town. He doesn't stoop to dishonest methods to get his way, though, and seems pleased by the knowledge that his operation will benefit all of the other townspeople.is innocent.
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* RedHerring: Mining man Isaac [=McKay=] is poised to make a huge profit from dredging the creek (a project the murder victims were obstructing), has his bodyguards pick a fight with Murdoch when he first asks to examine the body and pointedly asks Murdoch to leave town. He doesn't stoop to dishonest methods to get his way, though, and seems pleased by the knowledge that his operation will benefit all of the other townspeople.
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* GoldFever: Among the people of the town. They try to find gold and get rich. Not many have had success.
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* GoldFever: Among The episode is set near the people end of the Canadian gold rush. Gold also proves to tie into the motive for the murder Murdoch ends up investigating: [[spoiler:the two victims were the last holdouts preventing a dredging operation from setting up in the area, which would at least temporarily revitalize the withering town. They try to find gold One of the victims also owned a local hotel, so by killing her and get rich. Not many have had success.framing her competitor for her murder, the killer planned to end up owning the only hotel in the area and cleaning up on profits from the miners and workers of the dredging operation.]]
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Serves as a key clue to Crabtree's investigation of a murder when the perpetrator slips and reveals they know the victim was shot.
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* GoldFever: Among the people of the town.
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* HistoricalInJoke: Murdoch mentions the phrase"Literature/TheCallOfTheWild" ''Literature/TheCallOfTheWild'' to Creator/JackLondon.
* HistoricalInJoke: Murdoch mentions the phrase
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* GoldFever: Among the people of the town.
* HistoricalInJoke: Murdoch mentions the phrase "TheCallOfTheWild" to Creator/JackLondon.
* YoungFutureFamousPeople: The episode features Jack London before he was a writer.
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* GoldFever: Among the people of the town.
* HistoricalInJoke: Murdoch mentions the phrase "TheCallOfTheWild" to Creator/JackLondon.
* YoungFutureFamousPeople: The episode features Jack London before he was a writer.
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