"I'm not going to shoot you William, that's final!"

"But Julia, I need to know if it works."

"Alright, you shoot and I hold it then."

"Not a chance, what if it doesn't work?"

"Oh so it's alright for me to shoot and kill you if you made a mistake in your … thing here but not the other way around?"

"Alright, I get your point. But I need to find a way to test it."

"Maybe a way in which none of us has to shoot at the other, like … put it against a box or something?" Julia proposed, taking a wooden box from under the table and putting it on top of it.

William busied himself with fixing his latest invention on a frame. He asked Julia to move aside and fire the arrow.

"It worked! The arrow was stopped!" William explained, a grin on his face. "See, you could have shot at me."

"William, get this into that wonderful head of yours once and for all, I will never shoot at you. I love you too much to take such a risk." she said, getting closer to him, putting the crossbow on the table.

"I guess that's a good reason." William laughed, pulling her to him to kiss her.

As they were separating, the door of William's office opened and the inspector entered.

"Need I remind you that this is a workplace Murdoch? I swear every time I open this bloody door I find you two kissing these days."

"Well you could knock first." Julia mumbled silently so only William could hear.

"I'm sorry Sir, but I'm off duty right now. We were just conducting an experiment before going home." William explained, showing him the crossbow and the arrow stuck in different layers of cloths.

"Well, I'm sorry to interrupt you in your … experiment, but you're not getting home anytime soon. We just got a call from the University and you're needed there, a professor was found shot. Doctor, I assume you're going with him?"

"I need to call the morgue to let them know but yes, I'll go right away, I have my bag with me."

"Alright then. Get there as soon as you can, these university people are already getting on my nerve." he said, getting out of the office. "And leave that bloody door open!"

"Are you alright?" Julia asked as she watched her husband pacing in her office as she was finishing her report.

"What?"

"Are you alright?"

"Yes."

"Really? So you pacing for the last ten minutes with a severe brooding look on your face is completely normal? I wonder who I have been living with for the last few years ..." she laughed.

"I'm sorry, Julia it's just … you know these two students who asked to follow me in my investigation, Mr. Perry and Mr. Gillies ?" William asked, sitting on the corner of her desk.

"Yes, you talked about them last night. What about them?"

"I don't know. Something is … strange about them. They keep coming up with new ideas, they don't seem to mind how everything they say will impact the people around them. The first day I met them they practically told me that their professor, Godfrey, had killed Professor Bennet. They seemed to like the idea. It was … sort of disturbing."

"Maybe they had real doubts about the professor." Julia said, closing the file she was working on.

"I don't know, it rather seemed like they wanted to convince me that it was him, see if I would take their idea in consideration without questioning it further. As if … as if it were a sort of game for them." William continued, helping her into her coat.

"Don't worry William, you will get to the bottom of this. You always do. And you are almost always right." Julia said as they walked out of the morgue.

"Almost always?"

"Well, you cannot win against me William, you shoud be used to it by now." she laughed.

When William got out of the university building, Julia was waiting for him by the door.

"Professor Murdoch, your lecture was fantastic, could I talk to you more about something in your office?" she asked, laughing.

"Don't make fun of me please, I was terrified. Talking in front of all these people, not knowing if everything would work as I imagined it ..."

"Well, it didn't show. You seemed very sure of yourself. And every one was convinced by your demonstration." Julia reassured him. "And you caught the murderers, that's the important part. Are they going to hang?" she asked as they walked the path to exit the university and catch a carriage to thestation house.

"I don't know. I'm sure their parents will hire very good lawyers. Money can do a lot of things, saving you from the noose is one of them." William sighed.

"Well, if it's any consolation and at the risk of repeating myself, you made a great professor. Maybe you should create a school to train the new detectives, teach them all your methods and secrets."

"I already have my hands full with George." He laughed.

"And you're doing a very good job."