Murdoch Mysteries

Thank you for taking the time out of your schedule, Dr Talbot.

I always have time for a little agitation, Miss Martin.

I hope it doesn't come to that.

- Dr Talbot. - Katherine, please.

You raised quite a stir when I told Dr Forbes

you were attending this rally. I think he assumed

you were here solely for the medical conference.

Was he pleased to learn that you'd be attending the rally as well?

I wouldn't think so.

Look at us, a pair of troublemakers.

It's a very good crowd.

Your name carries weight, Dr Talbot.

Hm. Not as much as it once did.

- Well, we shouldn't try their patience. - Of course not.

I'll be cheering you on from the audience.

Ruth isn't coming?

Ruthie doesn't want to trouble herself with the bother of voting.

She thinks it's nothing but a load of fiddle-faddle.

Hmm... somehow, I'm not surprised.

- Miss Newsome, I trust you're well? - Indeed.

I must admit to being excited to hear Dr Talbot speak.

I've long admired her.

Henry, look at this chap.

I've seen him before at a suffrage speech.

I arrested him for causing trouble a couple of months ago.

Perhaps you'll get to again. Oy! You there!

- Out of here, this minute! - I have a right to be here.

But you don't have a right to drink in a public place!

- You care for a day in the cells, Mr McReardy? - Ah,

I couldn't be bothered to listen to them anyway.

They'll just spout the same nonsense they always do.

This way, ladies.

There's Agnes Cunningham.

I was wondering if she'd be here.

- She's still at it? - I saw her at the last suffrage meeting.

She tried to shout Clara down.

: From what I can gather,

I wouldn't recommend it with Katherine Talbot.

That last meeting, I didn't see you,

or the one before that.

Life has a way of intruding, from time to time.

Oh, so you're settling in to domestic responsibility

like Agnes Cunningham recommends we all do.

I don't know what you all do to banish the idle hours, but

this morning, I was on a train wondering if I am a person.

And I came to the conclusion I must be. I am sentient,

capable of determining right from wrong, and I can fend for myself,

but perhaps I'm wrong.

Perhaps I'm not a person, and

that would mean that you are not,

nor you, or you.

How can this be?

Because we are not considered persons.

Male politicians have deemed it so, and as such,

we are denied our right to the vote.

But we are people, and as people,

- we must demand what we deserve. - What are you doing there?

Henry, make sure everybody gets out!

Dr Talbot!

- Dr Talbot, are you all right? - Yes.

- Are you sure? - Yes.

: Oh, Lord!

I'm fine, I'm fine. Go see if she's OK.

Clara?

Clara?

Effie, I need you to apply pressure to this wound firmly.

George, we need an ambulance immediately.

Sir! Sir?

I want your report as soon as you have it.

Of course. I'll need a couple of constables

- to help me transport the body. - Right. You two, assist Miss Hart.

- Where's Julia? Is she all right? - Sir, yes.

Her and Dr Talbot are already off to the hospital.

- They're tending on Miss Martin. - How's her condition?

She's alive. Beyond that, I don't know.

All right. Where was Dr Talbot standing?

Oh, about here.

So, quite a ways from the explosion.

Perhaps it wasn't meant for her.

Perhaps the explosion was merely a distraction from the proceedings.

Sir, perhaps somebody meant to fling it.

I mean, wait until Dr Talbot was mid-bluster, and then...

It exploded early.

Perhaps he wasn't very experienced.

Explosives is not a field to learn on the job.

Sirs, do you mind if I have a word with Miss Newsome?

- Of course. - What did you see, Higgins?

- Not much, sir. - Well, there's a bloody surprise!

George and I were speaking to a man at the back.

We asked him to leave shortly before the speech began.

- (MURDOCH): Why? - He was drinking,

and he'd caused trouble at events like this in the past.

- Did you get a name? - McReardy. Walter McReardy.

Right. Henry, have the men gather every piece from this explosion

and bring it to the station house immediately.

- After that, find Mr McReardy. - Sirs.

Was Dr Talbot hurt at all?

- What business is it of yours, Mrs...? - Mrs Agnes Cunningham.

Simply curious.

If you have no further questions,

we are in the middle of a police investigation.

Well, if she was hurt,

she would only have gotten what she'd long been asking for.

Dr Ogden, can you hold that back? Clamp!

Very good.

- There's another bit right there. - Yeah, I see it.

How's her heart rate?

It's still steady.

Do you see any other areas of damage?

No.

- Due diligence, before we close her up. - Of course.

You have experience with this kind of injury?

Did it once or twice. Can you just

clear that blood out of here? I need to see what I'm doing.

What were you doing at that rally?

Wanted to hear what kind of rot

- they were going to spout this time. - "This time"?

You make a habit of attending suffrage rallies?

Well, if you're asking, you already know.

But I was out of the hall well before the explosion.

You could have set the bomb and left.

I could have, but I didn't.

You and your men have disrupted a number of these rallies.

Simply voicing our opinion.

I believe that's our right, last time I looked.

Disrupting a legally sanctioned gathering

is not the same as voicing an opinion.

Well, one of your men escorted me out

before any disrupting could take place.

So, other than enjoying a drink in a place I shouldn't,

I did nothing wrong. Can I go?

Boss is not going to be too pleased I'm not at work.

Hey, you know what I think?

I think if you try and disrupt the natural order of things,

nothing good's going to come of it.

That's all you're seeing here.

She will recover.

What happened to Ms. Martin is not your fault.

Thank you, but trouble does seem to follow me around.

Progress is not without cost.

But I'm never the one to pay it.

You should be thankful for that.

What have you, Miss Hart?

- I've only just begun to examine... - I need to know

the nature of that device, or as best you can tell me,

and how close the victim was to the centre of the blast.

- And you will have it. - When?

As soon as I can, Detective.

Good.

"And Father, I have secured employment in Toronto.

I shall be arriving once I have completed my classes.

I do hope to be able to see you again,

and perhaps meet your family."

- Sir? - Oh, Murdoch! Come in.

- What do you know about the dead man? - Very little,

but the good news is Ms. Martin survived the operation.

I'm glad that Margaret never had the time for any of this.

Any sense of who planted the bomb?

Someone opposed to women having the right to vote, I assume.

The world's bloody changing, Murdoch:

unions, suffragettes,

no one knows how to keep up with it.

Product of the times we live in, I suppose.

Well, I've had enough of it.

That's no reason to pack it in, sir.

I'm not about to...

Oh, you're making a joke.

Don't. It's not your strength, Murdoch.

Right, then. I'm off to see this minister again,

to talk about the state of my marriage.

Waste of bloody time, if you ask me!

- Perhaps you'll get something out of... - The only reason I'm doing this

is to stay out of the dog box. Toodle-pip!

Detective, we've avoided the subject all night:

what exactly do you know of what happened today?

Not as much as I would like to know, unfortunately.

I've questioned a man who has disrupted

events like yours in the past, but

I had no reason to hold him.

Julia, do you know Agnes Cunningham?

I do. She's the head of Women United Against Suffrage.

She was at the event?

You know her?

She wrote me a long missive demanding I not speak.

Absolute rot!

How about the dead man? Do you know anything about him?

Oh, we were hoping you might know him.

I'm sorry, I

took a quick glance at him,

but it certainly wasn't a face I recognised.

It's hard to think I looked into the eyes

of a man who tried to kill me.

We don't yet know if he was the bomber, or an innocent victim.

I should hardly be surprised, I suppose.

Seems whether one is in the new world or the old,

there are always those opposed to equal rights for women.

Just as there are those in favour.

Someone wanted me dead.

It's not the first time.

I was giving a speech in London six years ago.