It's Baby Day at the bank, so the bank is full of mothers with babies each there to take advantage of the bank's offer to open an account for the baby, matching the mother's initial deposit, up to $5.00. Detective Murdoch is there to apply for a loan to build his house. While he is there, the alarm sounds...
The vault has been breached. The manager finds $30,000 is missing. The doors are locked, and nobody is allowed out of the bank until they have been questioned and searched. However, with everyone searched, the money is still missing. Murdoch looks for places the money may have been hidden around the buildings, and discovers it in a lift shaft. Everyone is pleased, until the bank manager raises the alarm once more: plates used to print banknotes have gone missing...
There may or may not be clues left behind, including a baby's bonnet, a whistle that does not work, and a small puddle of water on the bank vault floor. While Detective Murdoch busies himself working out how much time the thief may have had after the alarm to get away from the vault, Inspector Brackenreid wrestles with a much more intractable problem, how to keep up with Sheffield Wednesday's most important match of the season in real time, across the Atlantic.
Murdoch creates a replica of the bank from children's building blocks, secured by wooden dowels, so that they will not let go of each other. When he populates the model with people he notices the one of the bank tellers is not where she should be, so he calls her into the station to question her about it. She tells him that she was in the wrong place because she had been over to the door, to assist a man who seemingly couldn't get in, but by the time she got to the door, the man had gone. Murdoch is puzzled by this because the alarm had not yet been raised, and so the door should not have been locked.
Murdoch also spends time trying to recreate breaking into the vault without setting the alarm off, but every attempt fails.
When the bank president calls at the branch, he has a discussion with the manager about the Baby Day promotion, which he thinks is a wonderful idea on the part of the manager. Until then the manager had believed it was a head office idea. This discussion leads to the discovery of a fake memorandum from head office, one of two discovered in the bank. The other fake memorandum concerned the delivery of some new furniture to make customers feel more comfortable.
Inspector Brackenreid has solved his problem by means of setting up a telegraph post at Police Station 4, and inviting Sheffield Wednesday fans to split the bill with him. He enlists the services of Constables Crabtree and Jackson to give a running commentary on the game translated from the dots and dashes.
How will Murdoch find his way through the clues? Where are the printing plates? Well Inspector Brackenreid make a profit or loss on the game?
Once more the writers have excelled themselves with this episode. We have two inventions, though the scientific one is due to Brackenreid rather than Murdoch. Above all, Murdoch must find a scientific explanation for some of the more bizarre aspects of the robbery.
The vault has been breached. The manager finds $30,000 is missing. The doors are locked, and nobody is allowed out of the bank until they have been questioned and searched. However, with everyone searched, the money is still missing. Murdoch looks for places the money may have been hidden around the buildings, and discovers it in a lift shaft. Everyone is pleased, until the bank manager raises the alarm once more: plates used to print banknotes have gone missing...
There may or may not be clues left behind, including a baby's bonnet, a whistle that does not work, and a small puddle of water on the bank vault floor. While Detective Murdoch busies himself working out how much time the thief may have had after the alarm to get away from the vault, Inspector Brackenreid wrestles with a much more intractable problem, how to keep up with Sheffield Wednesday's most important match of the season in real time, across the Atlantic.
Murdoch creates a replica of the bank from children's building blocks, secured by wooden dowels, so that they will not let go of each other. When he populates the model with people he notices the one of the bank tellers is not where she should be, so he calls her into the station to question her about it. She tells him that she was in the wrong place because she had been over to the door, to assist a man who seemingly couldn't get in, but by the time she got to the door, the man had gone. Murdoch is puzzled by this because the alarm had not yet been raised, and so the door should not have been locked.
Murdoch also spends time trying to recreate breaking into the vault without setting the alarm off, but every attempt fails.
When the bank president calls at the branch, he has a discussion with the manager about the Baby Day promotion, which he thinks is a wonderful idea on the part of the manager. Until then the manager had believed it was a head office idea. This discussion leads to the discovery of a fake memorandum from head office, one of two discovered in the bank. The other fake memorandum concerned the delivery of some new furniture to make customers feel more comfortable.
Inspector Brackenreid has solved his problem by means of setting up a telegraph post at Police Station 4, and inviting Sheffield Wednesday fans to split the bill with him. He enlists the services of Constables Crabtree and Jackson to give a running commentary on the game translated from the dots and dashes.
How will Murdoch find his way through the clues? Where are the printing plates? Well Inspector Brackenreid make a profit or loss on the game?
Once more the writers have excelled themselves with this episode. We have two inventions, though the scientific one is due to Brackenreid rather than Murdoch. Above all, Murdoch must find a scientific explanation for some of the more bizarre aspects of the robbery.
