Da Vinci's Inquest

- Season 5

(2002)

Da Vinci and Fire Marshal Sid Fleming investigate a massive house fire which claimed the lives of two children and their mother. The sole survivor of the fire is the father/husband of the deceased, Glen Moorehouse, he who suffered severe burns. The troubling aspect is that Moorehouse is a survivor of another remarkably similar house fire five years earlier, where his first wife and their children died. Tragic coincidence or...? Equally troubling for Da Vinci is that Morris Steadman is on the scene, still grieving and still angry. Elsewhere, Leary and Shannon are ...

In the vicinity of the kiddie stroll, a dead beaten body of a male is found next to a still running car. After doing some canvassing, Leary and Shannon learn that there have been altercations between "spotters" protecting the prostitutes and the neighborhood residents, who have an organized patrol to get the prostitutes and johns out of the area. The deceased was a john, leaving the prime suspects being either neighborhood patrol or spotters. Glen Paul, also known as Shorty, is a spotter who seems to be in the middle of the incident. Da Vinci investigates the death of...

Leary and Shannon investigate a home invasion double homicide. While in his basement, George Brooks heard his wife screaming upstairs. Getting to her, Brooks found an intruder who killed her and the intruder who Brooks subsequently killed. The intruder is identified as a homeless man who did odd jobs around the neighbourhood and who had self-professed mental health issues. Something about Brooks' story doesn't sit right with Shannon, who looks for evidence to corroborate his gut feeling. Elsewhere, Da Vinci is dealing with two longer term cases. One is the moving of ...

The boyfriend of one of Taylor's informants is washed ashore Burrard Inlet, dead, after what looks to be a drug deal gone bad. However, the informant says that a dirty cop is involved, which Taylor has no reason to doubt. Kosmo suspects she knows who the cop is, which she has yet to divulge. She asks Kurtz to stay on this "cop chasing" case, which Kurtz cautions. Leary, Shannon and Williams investigate a gas station robbery, which resulted in the death of the clerk. There have been a string of gas station robberies, this one being the first involving a death. Viewing ...

Da Vinci, McNab and McNab's daughter Ramona investigate what looks to be a hit and run death. Although they find evidence at the site, they can't conclusively fit the pieces together. It isn't until they find out about the deceased's history in the area and locate the flatbed truck that was seen at the site of the death that they get their necessary answers. Leary and Shannon continue their investigation of the gas station robbery. All they know at this point is that the primary suspects are two aboriginal men. They apprehend Tommy, an arms dealer who they suspect ...

Da Vinci investigates the death of a man who fell from the sky landing on top of a stolen pickup truck. He learns that the dead man is William Walter Freed, a United States military private who had gone AWOL. Da Vinci traces Freed back to the hotel where he was staying. He and Constable Carter think they put the pieces together when they arrive at the hotel and speak to Freed's companion. Leary and Shannon investigate the death of Marlene Quinte. Her husband, Lorne, who called 911, was with her in the back seat of their car when the authorities arrived. Marlene was ...

With the gas station robbery, Williams tracks down the names of the suspects, Rob Walker and Kerry Walker, father and son. Along with Leary and Shannon, Williams locates Rob's brother, Vern, and decides to see if he can shed any light on his brother's whereabouts. Upon questioning, they learn that Vern is a crack user and Rob, down from the family home in Ocean Falls, came to the city to bring Vern home to get away from the drugs. Other than that, Vern says Rob is a model citizen. Leary and Shannon decide to tail Vern, who sails up Indian Arm to a self-made camp in ...

During a drunken evening, Leary loses his gun. Shannon does whatever he can to help his partner find the weapon, but only Leary knows what he did. As Leary frantically retraces his steps from the previous evening, Shannon begins a bond with Williams over a personal matter. The two decide to follow up on the tail of the Walkers, Vern who is still camping in the bushes. They stumble upon Rob and Kerry, the tail ending in tragic consequences. In the murders of Danny Zinn and Carla, Taylor, after viewing the dead body of her informant and friend Carla on the autopsy table...

During Shannon and Williams' tail, Rob Walker accidentally drives into the inlet to avoid a collision with another vehicle. Rob's son, Kerry, ends up drowning. Shannon and Williams, although doing nothing wrong in the pursuit and not at all a cause of the accident, feel somewhat responsible. In addition, they find out that Rob and Kerry are probably not the two responsible for the gas station robberies and homicide as they originally suspected. Kosmo continues her clandestine investigation of Curtis in Danny Zinn and Carla's murders. Taylor offers whatever support she...

John Wiley, a member of a fishing boat crew, is found dead in his bunk while the boat is out to sea. He had a head wound, probably received in a fight the evening before. Da Vinci traces Wiley's steps from that evening, which included a bar crawl, several drinks and an altercation with bouncers at a bar. Da Vinci has to determine if the bouncers' actions directly caused Wiley's death. Some paint fragments embedded into Wiley's head wound may provide some vital answers. With Carla and Danny's murders, Kurtz orders Kosmo to drop the investigation on Curtis, thinking ...

Two mysterious deaths happen overnight. The first is a cabbie who is found in his vehicle. His last fare is located, who admits having an argument with the cabbie, but nothing beyond that. The second is that of Chester Womack who is found pinned underneath two parked vehicles. After the two investigations start, Da Vinci believes the two deaths may be related. A young woman who Womack tried to pick up may be able to shed some light on the situation. A third death is investigated by Da Vinci, that of Louis Green, a young wheelchair bound quadriplegic who drowned in ...

Laura Maitland ends up killing a man in the garage of her apartment building, the man who she claims is her stalker. However, her story is taken with a grain of salt as Kurtz has found out that she has a history of mental illness, which is consistent with the the fact that her stories to date have had a sense of unreality. The deceased is Daniel Cousins, a resident of the building. She also reports that he had an accomplice who managed to get away. In their investigation, Leary and Shannon discover that Cousins was a pretty straight-laced individual with a couple of ...

Within an abandoned car parked in a loading zone in a back alley across the street from the police station, Laura Maitland's dead body is found inside the trunk. Although the cause of her death may have been by the hands of her alleged stalker, certain evidence points to the death being self-induced: she may have placed herself in a tenuous position in the likelihood that she would be found before dying. Under Curtis' blackmail, Pierce publicly does not endorse the concept of a red light district, which causes Da Vinci to go on a tirade against Pierce. Despite their ...