Murdoch's Mysteries Episode 1

Murdoch’s Mysteries

Villain: The criminal in the end of the episode was an unsuccessful hotel manager who ran the bar in the hotel, his motive was that he wanted all the people who came for the gold rush to come to his hotel as the other hotel manager was running him out of business. There was a second criminal in this episode and she was the wife of the man who was murdered, she hired a man to murder her husband as she was upset with him as he did not “fulfil her desires” and she quoted that she was “in a passionless marriage,” therefore she was sentenced to the noose and her punishment was to be hanged.

Hero: The hero is an ex police officer who goes by the name of Murdoch. Murdoch's Mysteries is a prime example of an eponymous TV show where the name of the programme is named after the main character. He is a crime investigator and he solves his investigations by investigating the usual items such as the victim’s body, the crime scene and the murder weapon etc. I noticed as I was watching the show that Murdoch picks up on small details such as the soil left on the murder weapon and scratches on the back of a pocket watch indicating it had belonged to someone else beforehand and had been stolen. He uses occasional sarcasm in a comedic sense although he is a perfect cop and abides strictly to the law.

Victim:  The victim was an older male shot through the heart, who had a wife but no kids. His wife had hired someone to execute him due to certain desires not being met and they had a passionless marriage. Another victim was a fairly young woman who ran a successful business as a hotel manager. She was killed by a pick axe to the head which instantly killed her.

Set Pieces:
-Flashbacks A flashback was used once the criminal was exposed in order to put the killer in the position of the murder at the crime scene and to react the murder. This was effective as we could all the clues coming together and this rounded off the episode well.
-Multiple suspects The show used multiple suspects and it was a closed narrative which kept the viewer in suspense. For example there were a couple of suspects that were all possible to be the murderers as they all had good motives such as Mrs Bryant whose motive was that the victim had stolen her dead husbands pocket watch which she kept as a memo to remember him, so it was very precious to her. Mrs Bryant was the original suspect but Murdoch managed to relieve her of her punishment and put the two criminals to rest. There were also other suspects that were not spoken too much about such as a man who was with Mrs Bryant but then disappeared at the time of the murder.

CSI: New York (Not sure what episode)

Villain: Travis Moss, was a very calm shooter, used the gun 3 times in 2 days, one shot at an officer and another at a friend’s leg, and the third killed a guy. Who had a row with his girlfriend, Crystal, who is a burlesque dancer and walked outside looking for a fight. He later attempted to kill his ex girlfriend at her work place but was stopped by the CSI and was taken to prison for murder
Hero: The hero is Mac Taylor, a citizen of New York, also a crime investigator for NY Crime Scene Investigators. He took control of the case and he did the investigating. He is a very calm investigator and when he is trying to make someone talk he does it by winding them up until they crack open and spill the answers that he's looking for.
Victim: Another victim in this episode was an older male who was killed from a bullet wound to the head when he was at his job as a stall owner, his got paid for being shot at by paintballs, and then he was taunting all the customers in order to get them to play the game, then he was taunting the villain with a gun in his pocket and then he got a gun pulled out on him and then got shot in the head.
Set Pieces:
-Flashbacks A flashback took place when the officer was being interrogated; the flashback was of the officer throwing the victim out of the bar that he works at.
The flashback was short and quick and had a quick flash transition and it just showed the victim drunk and being aggressive, and then getting thrown out of the bar.
There was also a flashback of the shooting from the officer and it was shown multiple times from different people’s sides of the story, and then in the end it was shown one final time of the actual shooting that actually happened.
-Montages There is a montage of Mac Taylor when he is having test runs of using a gun to see the trajectory of the bullet. He was also testing the weapon to see how much gun residue splattered out onto the shirt of the person standing next to the victim when he was shot. There was music playing but it was more to set the atmosphere rather than music from a band.
The victim was a young male (Pete Miller) who had been drinking earlier on that night with 2 officers of CSI , he was killed by a bullet wound straight to the heart from one of the female officers who used Sgt. Messers (one of the officers) weapon. The officer shot the man as he pulled out a gun and was about to shoot the officers.

-Mac Munter

Dexter: The fourth Season: Episode 1

Motives: Dexter was motivated to commit the murder of the criminal Benito Gomez because he let him walk from court due to him bringing the wrong notes and this made Dexter feel guilty as Benito was clearly guilty. Also after the court case, Detective Joseph Quinn who was observing Dexter and also is working on the case showed Dexter the Explicit images of the victim of Benito Gomez which created emotion for Dexter and made him feel more guilty which eventually lead to the murder of Benito Gomez.

Victim: A Criminal (Benito Gomez) who murdered a father of two and was also previously imprisoned for 5 years for beating his girlfriend. Died from a single stab wound to the chest (heart) and has no close family or friends that would notice his disappearance. Although he lives in a very busy crowded area in a trailer park with lots of children running around and lots of people able to see so Dexter planned his murder in a rundown bar that Benito goes to. His murder was rather strange in this episode as it is the Investigator that is the one who commits the murder and the criminal that is murdered

Hero (Anti Hero): Dexter plans his murder on the victim Benito Gomez very well and he takes his time to make sure he gets everything inch perfect which suggests to us that he has done the job before and knows what he is doing. When Dexter plans out the murder, he has no doubts of to whether or not he will kill him. And once the victim (Benito Gomez) is kidnapped by Dexter, he takes him to a rundown boxing ring and sets up a very carefully planned procedural death. He kills him with one stab to the chest also emphasising that he has dealt with murder before and also he hides the evidence of the crime very well and very carefully and makes sure that there is no possible way that he can be accused of the murder.