YMMV / Murdoch Mysteries S 4 E 2 Kommando

• Complete Monster: Major Gregory Cole is a British officer in charge of a squad of Canadian soldiers. Although seemingly a stern, but devoted commander, Cole is revealed to have experimented on his men, dosing them with methamphetamine to test the drug's effectiveness. On a training mission in South Africa, Cole, in an attempt to justify British colonialism, drugged his troops and manipulated them into murdering innocent British families, then had them launch an equally brutal assault on a Boer militia camp, with Cole only revealing the truth to his men after the deed was done, forcing them to keep the atrocity secret. When one soldier, Corporal Matthew Larson, proves unable to cope with his actions, Cole gives him an overdose of methamphetamine, leaving Larson deranged and permanently damaged, then discards him, later having his troops hunt for Larson to silence him, caring nothing when several soldiers are killed in the attempt. When confronted for his crimes, Cole is unapologetic, coldly dismissing his actions as "preserving" the British Empire.