Murdoch and George Crabtree are making a drop for a kidnapped girl in a greenhouse, when everything goes wrong and Crabtree accidentally knocks him out. Suddenly, Murdoch is catapulted to the future, where he's bemused by an angry Detective Crabtree, a woman sergeant, Narcotics Officer Julia, automobiles, skyscrapers, slang and a strange case that parallels his own back in the past.