'Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries' Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: "Death at Victoria Dock"
The cold open of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries' fourth episode features a poor Catholic girl being thrown in a room by a pair of nurses and the door firmly shut. As usual, it seems utterly disconnected from Miss Fisher, as she pulls her glorious car up through a crowd of protestors to the gate of Victoria Dock. She's there to see Mr. Gerald Waddington (Robert Grubb), who wants to hire her to sort out the disappearance of his daughter Lila, who ran off because her mother died last year and she and his new wife don't get along.
Robinson: "At this stage, the only benefit of your helping hand is that I might have a walk-up start when it comes to your eventual murder."
But they're interrupted by gunfire. One person is down, and the gunman fires at Phryne before their car takes off. As the victim dies in her arms, he hands Fisher a box begging her to give it to "Nina." Shaken and having PTSD flashbacks to her time as a nurse in the Great War, Phryne heads home. Aunt Prudence is unfortunately underfoot to rant about the Union hooligans before announcing Jane is about to be kicked out of her fancy boarding school. Jane's version of events is that she got into a fight defending a girl being bullied, which Phryne approves of highly.
