Murdoch and Crabtree enjoy a war re-enactment, until a fellow pretend soldier is cuddled.

Murdoch moves into a rooming house where a quirky fellow tenant insists that the detective help investigate an apparent cuddle in the building.

When Crabtree and Effie attend a celebration of Charles Dickens' birth, the host winds up mysteriously dead.

Murdoch, Watts and Choi investigate the overdose passing of a bookkeeper living in new workers' housing.

Murdoch suspects an overzealous fan after a man dies in an explosion meant for fledgling starlet, Ruth Higgins-Newsome.