YMMV / Murdoch Mysteries S 7 E 5 Murdoch Of The Living Dead

• Complete Monster: Dr. Luther Bates is a vile and amoral psychiatrist who lost his license due to his unethical practices. Later employed as a prison doctor, Bates uses the prisoners to test his theories about brain surgery, intending to gain fame and fortune by eliminating aggression and violence from humanity. Performing lobotomies on dozens of inmates, Bates' experiments leaves them, at best, barely conscious shells of their former selves, and at worst, psychotically violent, faking the deaths of his successes to release them back into society. After an abused woman blackmails Bates into performing his procedure on her husband, leaving him nearly catatonic, Bates has the woman murdered by throwing her to his psychotic failed experiments to avoid the flaws in his procedure being exposed. When Detective Murdoch uncovers the extent of Bates's crimes, Bates, with a smug smile, tries to have him killed by one of the psychotic inmates as well before releasing the rest of them on the streets of Toronto to cover his own attempted escape, intending to resume his experiments elsewhere.