'Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries' Season 2, Episode 4 Recap: "Deadweight"

This week's Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries opens at another carnival, Biggs Boxing Troupe, as a dead man falls through a poster. The next morning, Collins is over at Fisher's, getting patched up by Dot after a brawl at the boxing gym he's been running for wayward youth. Conveniently, both she and Dot are in the room to hear about the murder when Jack rings. Collins recognizes the dead man on arrival: Kevin Bradley, the head of the Woopackers gang, one of the two rivals his gym is targeting to keep off the streets. But Collins swears he didn't see any knives at last night's brawl, and Kevin wasn't there anyway.

Dr. Mac: So should I just put this brain back where I found it?

The issue turns out to be more than just one brawl. There was a melee a week prior, where an officer, Constable Fry, was stabbed and died. Collins was there, and says it would have gone nowhere had the Woolpackers' main rival, the Portsiders, not turned up. Flour bombs flew — the Woolpacker's second, Freckles Delahunty (Scott Smart), is a baker's apprentice — as Tom Derrimut (Mark Coles Smith), the leader of the Portsiders, attempted to break things up. Fry chased a gang member down an alleyway and never came back out.