Da Vinci's Inquest

- Season 3

(2000)

Da Vinci investigates the death of a man found lying in the entrance of an apartment building on the downtown east side. Kosmo investigates a woman found killed by a chopstick through her eye. While investigating a double murder, Leary becomes concerned about Shannon's health and covers for him with their sergeant.

An inmate serving a life sentence for killing a police officer forces Da Vinci to interpret a heart stoppage in an ambulance as a death in custody. Mick and Shannon search for the son of a woman who was beaten to death in her apartment. Winston is trapped in an elevator with a corpse. Da Vinci looks for a piano for Gabriella's birthday.

Cory Wilkins, a squeegee kid, is beaten to death while washing a windshield. His girlfriend, Lily, happened upon the scene immediately following the beating and only caught a brief glimpse of a woman running away from the scene, that woman who either did the beating or possibly knows who did. They do find the woman, a junkie, who did witness the beating by the driver of the car she was chasing. They do identify the vehicle, which was reported stolen by its owner, Frank Carver. Leary, Shannon and Savoy recover some evidence from the found car and a possible murder ...

Da Vinci and Kosmo investigate the relationship between a young boxer and his mother's abusive boyfriend. Shannon and Leary investigate the latest in a string of cab driver murders. Patricia and Bobby Marlowe teach a group of medical students about crime scene investigation.

A human skeleton is found in the Grandview Cut, just below an overpass. The body is determined to be that of Elaine Walker, a woman that has been missing for a year. The authorities suspect her husband, Robert Walker, as her killer as he has a $1 million double indemnity life insurance policy on her, a policy on which he was trying to collect even before conclusive evidence that she was dead. He also admits he was in an extramarital affair with a woman by the name of Melanie Stone at the time Elaine went missing, Melanie who currently lives with him. Leary and Kosmo ...

Eric DeWitt is found dead, his lungs filled with fluid, his mouth stuffed with dirt and his arms with burn marks. The authorities discover that DeWitt has a criminal past mainly related to drugs. Da Vinci pieces the information together that DeWitt was operating a crystal meth lab. DeWitt must have died from a leak at the lab. The problem facing the authorities now is to find the location of this potentially explosive lab. Sandy, DeWitt's strung-out junkie girlfriend, is of no assistance. The authorities ultimately find the lab when two more dead bodies, those of ...

Da Vinci investigates the death of a young man working for his father's construction company. Shannon and Leary investigate a decomposed body discovered in the back of a stolen truck. Kosmo helps a woman who thinks her husband is an impostor.

A charred dead body is found outside the wreckage of a burning car, the body which was bound before the fire. The car is registered to Phil Wilkins, a pool hustler. After uncovering some evidence, Shannon and Leary learn that the body is that of Wilkins, who lived life high but had no money. But the nature of the fire indicates that the perpetrator would have also suffered significant burns. Shannon and Leary suspect either one of his pool colleagues who he stiffed or Bobby, the manager of Wilkins' local pool hall as Wilkins was having a clandestine affair with ...

Five year old Alex Woods goes missing, presumably drowned by the log booms in the Fraser River after he supposedly jumped or fell off a pier. The death becomes suspicious when Helen discovers that Alex's mother, Sarah, lost another child five years previous in another outdoor accidental situation. But Da Vinci has to walk a fine line as there is a possibility she is innocent in both deaths. The suspicions continue after they find Alex's body. Both Da Vinci and Kurtz are also concerned that Sarah has yet another infant child at home, and that at least the two youngest ...

Da Vinci investigates a jockey found dead in a race track stall. A former member of the Guatemalan secret police staggers into a hospital, claiming to have been punctured with a fatal poison. Investigating the assault, Leary confronts the violent truth about the victim's past.

In a back alley in the Downtown east side, Da Vinci and Zack McNab investigate a fatal hit and run. During the course of the investigation, the on duty female police constable reminds Da Vinci that during one of his drunken sprees a few years back, he made a play for her but had not called her since that night, her and the incident Da Vinci only vaguely remembers. Da Vinci later finds out that the constable is Zack's daughter, Ramona. Simultaneously around the corner from the hit and run, Shannon, Leary and robbery detective Rose Williams investigate the shooting ...

Da Vinci investigates the death of Tom Hill, a well-known Native activist who advocated for the rights of Natives and the disadvantaged in his neighborhood, the Downtown Eastside. Hill was found in the middle of a residential street on the west side of town--not his own neighborhood--with head injuries, broken legs, and no footwear. At the scene, all Da Vinci can determine is that Hill was run over buy a vehicle, but the actual cause of death is uncertain. Back at the morgue, Sunny and Patricia can't definitively conclude the sequence of events leading to his death. ...

A pre-trial hearing is held in the suspected stabbing murder of Stacy Miller, a young female hiker, by Joel Hardy. Using Da Vinci's, Patricia's, and Homicide's notes from the initial investigation, Hardy's lawyer is trying to prove his client's innocence based on an alternative theory: that Miller was killed by a cougar attack--an alternative theory that had been considered during the coroner/pathologists exam. Da Vinci knows that is not the case, Patricia knows that is not the case, and Homicide knows that is not the case, but Hardy's lawyer is using the notes ...