James Gillies

James Gillies is a recurring villain in Murdoch Mysteries.

Big Murderer on Campus
James Gillies and Robert Perry were highly intelligent students when it comes to physics. Gillies schemed a device to kill Professor Samuel Bennett.

Once Detective William Murdoch arrrived on Campus to inverstigate Professor's murder, Gillies and Perry both joined detective seemingly helping him to discover who was responsible for murder.

By time Detective started to suspect the two students, they correctly deduced that Perry is weaker than Gillies and tricked him into believe that the latter was trying to kill him for his knowledge of murder.

Believe he is convicted, to save himself from hanging, Perry confessed to the murder revealing Gillies as his partner and mastermind behind the murder. When the Murdoch revealed to Perry that he was tricked, the latter was shocked and both students were arrested by the police.

At the end, Julia Odgen asks Murdoch if she is to assume that Mr. Gillies and Mr. Perry will hang, Murdoch replies that "Their families will hire the best lawyers in the land. But at the very least, they can look forward to life in prison.". Julia then asks what was their motive, Murdoch responds that Gillies had a theory and wanted to test it (Applied physics) and Mr. Perry, for whatever reason, went along with him