Da Vinci's Demons
Leonardo da Vinci's world comes crashing down when the city of Otranto is torn apart by an Ottoman invasion. On the battlefield, the Turks use da Vinci's own weapons against him. When Rome instigates a Crusade against the Turks, he seizes the opportunity to join, but his mission is complicated by a series of grisly murders that terrorize Italy and threaten the Crusade itself.
- Metascore63
- 2013-2015
- 3 seasons
- Starz
- Action & Adventure, Documentary, Drama, Fantasy, Suspense
- TV-MA
Leonardo da Vinci's world comes crashing down when the city of Otranto is torn apart by an Ottoman invasion. On the battlefield, the Turks use da Vinci's own weapons against him. When Rome instigates a Crusade against the Turks, he seizes the opportunity to join, but his mission is complicated by a series of grisly murders that terrorize Italy and threaten the Crusade itself.
Season 3 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2015
Episode 1
Semper Infidelis
Sat, Oct 24, 2015 50 mins
Leonardo and his allies are forced to retreat when the Ottoman Empire storms the city of Otranto.
Episode 2
Abbadon
Sat, Oct 24, 2015 54 mins
Leonardo and friends have to help survivors escape the city. Vanessa must help the Signori decide the fate of Florence. Pope Sixtus continues to raise an army for his Crusade. Clarice continues her search for Carlo.
Episode 3
Modus Operandi
Sat, Oct 24, 2015 53 mins
Leonardo investigates a horrific murder that may result in the Labyrinth being exposed.
Episode 4
The Labrys
Sat, Oct 24, 2015 53 mins
Carlos's attempt to program Leonardo into becoming "one" with the Labyrinth leads him to slip into an alternate reality that could prove life-threatening.
Episode 5
Anima Venator
Sat, Oct 24, 2015 57 mins
A paranoid Leonardo becomes shut off from his friends, while an endangered Lucrezia searches for a way to make amends for past sins.
Episode 6
Liberum Arbitrium
Sat, Oct 24, 2015 54 mins
Riario fights his own inner demons. Leonardo is struggling with his conciousness - is he an enlightened inventor or just an inventor of weapons of mass destruction? Lucrezia has found out the inconvenient truth about her former ally.
Episode 7
Alis Volat Propriis
Sat, Oct 24, 2015 56 mins
Cities are falling to form the Crusade and Leonardo is seeking for the solution to reverse it. Lorenzo is back but heavy experience really changed him to become a tyrant.
Episode 8
La Confessione Della Macchina
Sat, Oct 24, 2015 54 mins
Leonardo and Riario are to be sacrificed by Sapa Inca; Zo and Nico are to be enslaved. However, they escape, and Leo takes the key to the vault back from Ima. They enter the vault, but instead of the Book, find a brazen head with Leonardo's mother's voice recorded in it. Using makeshift parachutes, they escape from the vault; Ima is devastated by the absence of the Book of Leaves. Leonardo and the others are picked up by Amerigo. Outside Constantinople, Lucrezia convinces the Sultan's son to visit the Pope in Rome, who promptly rejects his offer of peace and humiliates him. In Naples, Lorenzo is forced to surrender to King Ferrante and The Pope.
Episode 9
Angelus Iratissimus
Sat, Oct 24, 2015 53 mins
Leonardo and Sophia struggle with focusing their weapon, a problem that Zo inadvertently resolves. Lorenzo and Vanessa continue their relations though Vanessa makes clear she is not to be bought. Sixtus absolves responsibility for Riario's fate in Florence as the trial is swiftly conducted and the sentence of death handed down. Vlad is introduced to Sixtus by Nico. Sophia reveals she easily decoded Leonardo's cipher and asks about his journal. Leonardo notes that he and Sophia are only half-siblings, her father likely being Aslan Al-Rahim. As Leonardo, Sophia and Zo reach the arranged meeting point informed by Vlad. But Zo and Sophia are caught.
Episode 10
Ira Deorum
Sat, Oct 24, 2015 49 mins
As the final battle draws near, Lorenzo and Vanessa are becoming increasingly intimate. An imprisoned Lucrezia kills the Sultan's son, enabling the escape of her, Sophia and Zo to complete Leonardo's plan. However, Lucrezia is killed by an arrow in the process. At his planned hanging, Riario confesses to murdering Clarice; however, he talks his way out of being killed by swaying the crowd with his speech primed by The Architect. Leonardo draws the Turks into battle in an open field, where Vlad is killed by his brother, the Turkish Commander. On the brink of victory, the Turks are killed by an electrical field that is created by the completion of a circuit created by a kite that Lucrezia released before dying. Vlad is then shown to be undead. Riario returns to the Vatican where he kills his father, Sixtus, cuts the papal ring off Sixtus' hand, puts it on and kisses it. Lorenzo recognizes the bastard child as his, making Vanessa happy and proclaiming his prosperous future. Leonardo and Zo head back to Florence with Sophia, while Nico stays in Naples to help with rebuilding. As a final line, Leonardo quoted Verrocchio to Zo: "People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
