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13 Episodes 2001 - 2002
Episode 1
44 mins
Da Vinci, Shannon, and Leary investigate an apparent suicide in the woods of an ex-convict released on day parole. Patricia starts her new job as a professor at the university. Sunny finds some interesting artifacts in historic Chinatown. Kosmo tries a new approach to an old unsolved case.
Episode 2
44 mins
Patricia, Sunny, and Kosmo's new assignments are progressing. Patricia gets an office at the university. Sonny learns of another skeleton found at the archaeological dig site. Kosmo gains the trust of the some of the girls and johns in her investigation of the missing prostitutes, thinking that they might assist in noticing unusual behavior during the course of their transactions. Kosmo also befriends a young prostitute named Sue, who is thus far pretty open about her dangerous life. Meanwhile, Da Vinci investigates two separate deaths. The first is of an elderly woman named Ariana Welles, who is found in a public park washroom after hours. Park maintenance was letting her sleep in the washroom at night, the door to which she barricaded from the inside. This fact seems odd since rumors are that she has enough money not to have to live on the street. Da Vinci later learns that she did have money, but had decided to live on the street for reasons of independence from her daughter. Back at the scene, a pair of scissors was found under her body, the scissors indicating that whoever may have killed her might have sustained injuries him/herself. Also at the scene, a young man named Dave seems oddly interested in the situation despite not knowing Ariana. In canvassing the neighborhood, Leary and Shannon learn about a hooker who took refuge at a local shelter the evening of the death, the hooker who looked to have been injured. This information leads back to Dave, who ultimately tells the story of Ariana's death. The other death Da Vinci is investigating is that of Jack Finnigan, who died of a heart attack in the back of limousine. One of Finnigan's business clients, Felix Reynard, thinks Finnigan was murdered because Finnigan allegedly swindled his clients, including Reynard. In the course of the investigation, a problem occurs when someone steals the limousine with Finnigan's body still in the back. Da Vinci eventually learns who stole the car and the body--a thief who was literally out for his pound of flesh.
Episode 3
44 mins
Da Vinci is feeling a little down about life in general, and isn't sure why. He unfortunately takes it out on those around him. Gabriella offers some possible explanations, all just speculation on her part. But he realizes it's something he's just going to have to work through. Unfortunately he still has to work while he's feeling this way. The case he is investigating doesn't help as it involves a child, eight year-old Cynthia Jorgensen. Her parents took her to the hospital emergency ward where she was diagnosed with the flu. Cynthia died half a day later at home. From the autopsy, it is discovered she died of malaria. This discovery is odd since she had not been to the tropics. With this discovery, Da Vinci tries to find more information from the Jorgensens. He is too late as Cynthia's mother, Melissa, also dies of malaria. Further results from toxicology regarding Cynthia's autopsy, findings from Melissa's autopsy and information about the one only other recent case of malaria in the province provide all the answers as to how Cynthia contracted the disease. Meanwhile, Leary and Shannon investigate the shooting deaths of Curtis Thompson and Lisa, who worked respectively as a bouncer and a stripper at a local strip club. They were found in Curtis' car parked in a public but remote area, the situation which looked to be a sexual liaison. Constable Josie Hutchens was the first officer on the scene and she did much of the leg work prior to Leary and Shannon's arrival. Hutchens seems keen about her work, this case and about Leary himself. Leary and Shannon learn that despite Curtis and Lisa being friendly people without many or any enemies at all, they think that the killer may have been involved with organized crime trying to infiltrate the club, a patron at the club with whom Curtis had an altercation and/or a stalking fan of Lisa's. The two most likely suspects are a Vietnamese fellow named Tran, who Curtis kicked out of the club, and Raymond Ford, Lisa's biggest admirer. Information from Ford brings the investigation full circle. Following up on Ford's information, Leary and Shannon are unable to yet solve the case. Elsewhere, Kosmo fosters her relationship with Sue to test her reliability as a future informant in the missing women's case. And Morris Steadman, still looking for answers acceptable to him, harasses the new tenants at his daughter's old apartment.
Episode 4
44 mins
Thirty-three year-old Mei-Ling Zhang, a Chinese refugee claimant, dies while in custody. She was on a hunger strike protesting the delay in her immigration hearing, which was six-months and counting, and the fact that she was basically being held in prison. She was only one of thirty-six such Chinese refugee claimants across the province on a hunger strike. Through Gina Otaviani, Da Vinci learns that Mei-Ling was force fed against her wishes which may have led to her death through fluid in the lungs. Da Vinci considers pursuing homicide charges against the prison warden and her staff, especially after he learns of an eyewitness - another refugee in custody - to support the story. However he has to convince the Crown or the police to back him up. Meanwhile, Leary and Shannon continue with their investigation of the shooting deaths of Curtis and Lisa. One new piece of evidence is that there were two guns involved as Chick finds the shell casings in the car. Josie Hutchens continues to offer her assistance, and continues her personal pursuit of Leary. Although he states that he isn't looking for a relationship with Josie since he is still seeing Sunny, Leary doesn't dissuade Josie's advances. But Leary and Shannon catch Josie in some mis-truths which may implicate her in the shooting. On Kurtz' directive, Leary and Shannon confront her with a warrant. Leary and Shannon providing a fellow officer with some leeway proves to be costly mistake for all three involved. Elsewhere, some vandalism occurs at the archaeological dig site. Kosmo gets Sue out of a jam. And Shannon admits feelings of jealousy regarding Carla, which scares him.
Episode 5
44 mins
Leary and Shannon confronting Officer Josie Hutchens about the double shooting of Curtis and Lisa leads to Josie fleeing, pulling her weapon and firing a shot, Leary pulling his gun and shooting blind, with ultimately Josie being shot to death. Leary and Shannon are in shock. Logistically, Leary and Shannon are taken off the double shooting case, Kosmo takes that case over and Kurtz herself leads the investigation of Josie's death. With Leary and Shannon, Leary takes the stance of a "I have nothing to hide" feeling and thus doesn't feel he needs any support, whereas Shannon is a little more pragmatic and uses the union's lawyer in his dealings. However, Shannon is not averse to bending the truth for his and Leary's benefits. This includes stealing some evidence which pisses off both Kosmo and Leary. Det. Rose Williams is on site as a union representative, and Det. Bobby Marlowe speaks to Leary as part of the internal trauma unit. Back at the morgue, Patricia conducts the autopsy due to Sunny's relationship with Leary. Patricia determines that the fatal shot was fired at close range, indicating that Josie shot herself. It also looks as if she also planted a gun in Raymond Ford's car to implicate him in Lisa's murder. Kurtz orders both Leary and Shannon undergo psychiatric care before going back on active duty. The only things Leary has to worry about are his own emotions and the wrath of Josie's distraught sister.
Episode 6
44 mins
Leary and Shannon are back at work following Josie's shooting. Leary is still feeling the emotions of the incident, and reflects on his life. Shannon wants to make Leary feel that he is there for him by telling him a dark secret about his past. With work, Kurtz delegates the worst jobs to them, their first case being an abandoned car belonging to Jessica Bailey. Homicide is investigating if only because there is a good deal of blood on the back seat. Jessica is missing despite having her car listed for sale. She is pregnant and soon to give birth. Her bank account has systematically been emptied. She was contemplating giving the baby up for adoption since her boyfriend was not too happy about the pregnancy. Meanwhile, the dead body of Donna Sykes is found in a motor boat run aground on the beach, the death an apparent suicide. Donna's husband, Warren, cannot understand why his wife would commit suicide, especially since she had just given birth to her first baby, a baby that the Sykes had been trying to conceive for quite some time. The cases of Jessica Bailey and Donna Sykes merge into one when Jessica Bailey is found, when Wanda's autopsy provides some interesting findings and when Warren finds some blood stained sheets in his house. Elsewhere, Patricia wants to use the deceased body of Queenie King to do an autopsy for her class, Da Vinci not too happy that Patricia seemed to purposely circumvent him to achieve the necessary approvals. At the archaeological dig, two bystanders seem overly interested at what's going on. And Kosmo continues to foster her relationship with Sue, who uses Kosmo at every turn she can.
Episode 7
44 mins
A young John Doe is found dead in a locked boxcar in the railroad yard. Da Vinci accuses the railroad security guard of purposely locking him in the boxcar, an accusation the security guard does not take too kindly. Da Vinci's words have a greater impact than he could ever have imagined. With the John Doe's notebook in hand, Helen tries to determine who this young man was. If she can't, he will be ultimately be buried in a pauper's funeral. Da Vinci's second case is that of Roger Wilford, a jumper off the Burrard Street Bridge, Wilford's dead body which is fished out of English Bay. Leary and Shannon locate Eric, the man who was reported on the bridge with Wilford when he jumped. From Eric, they learn of Wilford's story before his death. Wilford's death ultimately hits Eric a little harder than he lets on. Back at the morgue, Patricia is doing the autopsy on Queenie King for her class, when she notices bruising on her wrists and ankles made by restraints. Queenie's death is now a possible homicide. Upon further investigation, Kosmo notices that some of the prostitutes in the area also have those same marks, which seem to be made by zap straps. Irish Billy Mulvaney, Queenie's pimp who is currently in custody, plea bargains and gives up a fellow by the name of Alex Mills, who according to Mulvaney is "up to some weird shit" with the hookers he picks up, such as restraining them. Kosmo thinks that Mills may have something to do with her missing prostitutes. Patricia also wants to find out about Queenie's tubal ligation, which she thinks was unnecessary. The doctor who is reported to have done the procedure Patricia learns has a suspected history of such unnecessary operations. Meanwhile, Leary is still quietly suffering pangs of guilt in Josie's death. To make matters worse, Sunny questions Leary about rumors she's heard about his possible personal involvement with Josie.
Episode 8
44 mins
Da Vinci and Traffic Inspector Zack Mc Nab investigate a highway accident in which the driver is missing. Shannon and Leary investigate the murder of an elderly lady in a penthouse. Kosmo is stymied with her prime suspect in the case of the missing prostitutes.
Episode 9
44 mins
A basement suite fire claims the lives of two, Daniel Dupont and his infant son Peter, the house which was owned by Daniel's father who is distraught over the incident. Da Vinci and the fire investigator are about to rule the fire accidental, until Daniel's father offers some information about threatening shoplifters at Daniel's collector LP business and until the investigators find some cigarette butts outside the basement suite's window. Rose Williams, who helped Da Vinci with some robbery information, tries to use this case as a stepping stone into Homicide. Kosmo, in her continuing investigation of Alex Mills, wants to dig up a newly poured concrete floor in one of his abandoned houses, Kosmo thinking that Alex's wife, Sarah, is buried underneath. Some new evidence prematurely stops the excavation at the house, but not before Chick finds a body, however not that of Sarah. Despite finding the body, Kosmo can no longer hold Mills, but convinces Kurtz to allow her to conduct an undercover surveillance operation on Mills. Kosmo is somewhat surprised at Kurtz's choice of the undercover operator. At the archaeological dig site, Sunny discovers more bodies in shipping crates and a separate body with a bullet wound to the head. Chick surmises that the separate body was someone of Chinese descent. The Chinese community becomes involved, wanting to ensure the bodies get a proper burial. On a personal front, Leary and Sunny's relationship seems to be on the skids.
Episode 10
44 mins
As a favor to Gina Otaviani, Da Vinci looks into the case of Hanna Reese, a young incarcerated woman who gave birth in custody; the baby died shortly thereafter. Hanna tells of a difficult delivery made more difficult by harsh treatment by prison officials while in labor, especially guard Dolores Williams, who left Hanna shackled during delivery. The investigation shifts from the shackling to Hanna's prenatal care or lack thereof as a possible contributing factor of the death. It ends up being a case of he said/she said, with Da Vinci having to come to his own conclusions. Sunny's autopsy also uncovers some unsettling information about the baby's health status, which has major implications for all involved in the case. Meanwhile, Kosmo gets her surveillance team in place. Although they will monitor Alex's movement, they focus their surveillance on Sarah at the bar at which she works. Kosmo's team includes Junior and Alfie who have infiltrated the bar as regulars, Maria as waitress, and Danny Leary as bartender. Danny manages quickly to strike up a friendship cum relationship with Sarah to assist in the surveillance. On the personal side, Danny would like to start things up with Kosmo again, but Kosmo keeps her emotional distance. And Mick and Sunny's relationship totally deteriorates. At the archaeological dig site, Chick uncovers a notebook which may lead to the identity of the body with the bullet wound to the head.
Episode 11
44 mins
The dead body of Alexander Winchester is found in an apartment complex courtyard. An eyewitness who saw him fall from the sky. Alexander, a Jamaican national wanting to emigrate to Canada, was staying in his brother John's apartment in the complex. While canvassing the complex's tenants, Da Vinci learns that music was blaring from the apartment at the time of the incident and that Alexander was having an argument on the third floor with someone else or arguing with himself just before the fall. Leary and Shannon, investigating for Homicide, eventually speak to John, who was not present when the death occurred. John tells them that Alexander was a schizophrenic and that as such the Immigration Department was even denying him landed-immigrant status. Because of this, Alexander was living much of his existence in Canada under John's identity so that he could get work (as a dishwasher at a Gastown restaurant) and get medication for his illness. When Leary and Shannon learn that the restaurant where Alexander worked was raided by the Immigration Department the night before the death, they think they have the mystery of Alexander's death solved. Meanwhile, Da Vinci is wandering the streets of the Downtown Eastside looking for Rita Samuels to give her the unfortunate news of her brother's death. Between that task and trying to find a few minutes to grab some lunch, Da Vinci has philosophical chats with colleagues and locals about surveillance cameras, fly fishing, and life in general.
Episode 12
44 mins
Eleven year-old Nelson Kauf is found dead, hanging off the roller coaster. He is known to police as he continually called them regarding domestic problems at home. These were all deemed by the police to be nuisance calls. He was also cited by others for mischief. Da Vinci learns that Nelson was on antidepressants, the prescribing doctor - Dr. Ludlow - who has a history of over-prescription. Da Vinci is about to sign off that Nelson's medication dosage and his death have no relationship, until he learns more about the earlier death of Nelson's father, also with a history of depression and suicide attempts and whose doctor was also Dr. Ludlow. Meanwhile, Kurtz is pressuring Kosmo for results from the surveillance on Alex and Sarah regarding the body found under the concrete floor in one of Alex's houses. Kosmo turns up the heat on both Alex and Sarah. Kosmo is playing both husband and wife off each other, a tactic she openly plays to Sarah. As such, Sarah is feeling backed into a corner, and she turns to Danny for advice. The tactic pays off. With the investigation into the tubal ligations of the young aboriginal women, Patricia decides to question the operating doctor, Dr. Wyman, but she is too late to ever get any useful information from the doctor.
Episode 13
44 mins
McNab and Da Vinci find a dead body in the trunk of an abandoned car, a totaled car which was involved in a high-speed chase and eventual traffic accident. The second car is nowhere in sight. The dead man--Joseph Leroni, a known bank robber--died of carbon monoxide poisoning. The car, reported stolen, belongs to a Charlie Victor, who works at the racetrack as a trainer and whom Da Vinci personally knows more casually as Victor Charlie. Victor doesn't know Leroni or how the car got stolen (no sign of forcible entry). An eyewitness comes forward who can identify the driver of the other car. Da Vinci begins to learn the truth regarding the accident and Leroni's death when he confronts the driver. An unanswered question remains: who was chasing the car that caused the accident to occur. A second case that Da Vinci investigates involves the dead body of a homeless man found in former polar bear enclosure at Stanley Park: he appears to have died of a head injury. The victim was living in the former bear pit. Personal effects found in the pit indicate that he was a war hero. Leary and Shannon canvass the neighborhood for information about the homeless man, only hearing stories of an interesting old stranger. With personnel issues, Kurtz wants to recruit Rose Williams into Homicide, much to Shannon's chagrin. Leary isn't too excited about his and Kurtz's discussion about her wanting him to partner with someone else other than Shannon, a discussion he doesn't divulge to Shannon. Kosmo fosters her relationship with Sue, becoming a big sister in addition to being her unofficial handler. And still undercover, Danny Leary leaves Vancouver but not before emotional goodbyes to both Kosmo and his brother.