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7 October 1998Da Vinci investigates numerous prostitute murders over several months. Leary questions a local diner owner who received the mail of some of the victims.
14 October 1998Da Vinci reopens several cases of prostitutes ruled to have died by alcohol poisoning through self neglect, causing a further rift with his ex-wife.
21 October 1998Da Vinci continues to track Charlie Josephs, the owner of the diner frequented by the murdered prostitutes.
28 October 1998An inquest is held into the mercy killing of an AIDS patient after a television news reporter's story and Leary's pursuing of the death as a homicide.
4 November 1998Da Vinci investigates the disappearance of a dead drug addict's child.
11 November 1998A deadly fire at a retirement home instantly reveals signs of neglect and leads to a couple who have an extended history of retirement home mismanagement.
18 November 1998The autopsy of a body found in a parking garage reveals some questions, leading Da Vinci to find the answers from a dominatrix and a mystery figure.
Season 1, Episode 8: Gabriel
25 November 1998Da Vinci investigates the death of a street kid on the docks and comes to terms with the death of his brother at a young age.
2 December 1998Da Vinci and Homicide investigate the death of 15-year old Jodie French at an unsupervised house party. The death was caused by a single gunshot wound to the heart, the gun in Jodie's lifeless hand. Although an initial look at the evidence indicates that it was a suicide, rumors float around Jody's school that a boy by the name of Peter Florick and Jody had an argument prior to her death. There are however conflicting stories of Peter's whereabouts when the death happened. On questioning, Peter admits that he and Jodie had a special and intimate friendship with most of their conversations, verbal or otherwise, in special code only known to the two of them. Information surfaces that their relationship was much like Romeo and Juliet, with each family disapproving of the relationship. Both the authorities and Jodie and Peter's classmates are on opposing sides, half of whom think Jodie killed herself, the other half who think Peter killed her. Of their classmates who think Peter killed her, they let him know that he is not welcome around them. To end the speculation, Peter decides to take matters into his own hands. This case takes its toll on Patricia and Dominic, who are starting to have problems with an increasingly secretive Gabriella, who is about the same age as Jodie. Meanwhile, Danny continues with his shady dealings in trying to open his new club, with Leon admitting that he killed a narcotics officer who has been pestering them for a cut of the deal.
Season 1, Episode 10: The Bridge
9 December 1998Da Vinci is suspected of causing a hit-and-run accident after coming home drunk one night and not being able to find his car the next day.
13 January 1999Patricia is asked to be a guest speaker at conference, and her presentation leads her to re-examining the case of the missing prostitutes. Sioux, who is now a police informant for Kosmo, implicates Danny in the drug trade. Kosmo is forced to examine her feelings for Danny.
Season 1, Episode 12: The Hunt
27 January 1999At a Seattle conference, Da Vinci, Leary and Sunny discover similar cases across the Pacific Northwest, including the death Da Vinci is currently working to solve.
3 February 1999A victim escapes, leading to a manhunt for a pair of suspects and a critical decision for the investigation on both sides of the border.
6 October 1999Da Vinci calls for Vancouver to establish a red light district following the death of a high-priced escort and with the continuing mystery of the 28 missing prostitutes, all presumed dead.
13 October 1999Da Vinci calls for Vancouver to establish a red light district following the death of a high-priced escort and with the continuing mystery of the 28 missing prostitutes, all presumed dead.
20 October 1999Da Vinci investigates a death inside a prison and implications of police corruption. The death of an elderly woman during a suspected home invasion pits rookie Coroner Winston against the Chief Pathologist.
27 October 1999Da Vinci investigates two fatalities that happened during a controversial high-speed police car chase. Shannon and Leary investigate the hold-up of an armored car.
Season 2, Episode 5: His Wife
3 November 1999Da Vinci investigates two deaths. The first death is that of Marjorie Diggens, found at the bottom of her basement stairwell by her husband, Louis. Da Vinci believes the death to be an accidental fall down the stairs, but Patricia thinks it may be an from a fight between husband and wife. Leary and Kosmo, the Homicide investigators, discover the Diggens had a history of reported domestic problems. And because the determination of possible homicide was delayed, the accident scene has been contaminated, therefore there is no usable forensic evidence. When Chick discovers a blood stained hockey stick which could be the murder weapon, Leary and Kosmo uncover what happened, but it's not quite what they originally think. The second death is that of Alan Bush, a federal cabinet minister. He is reported and found dead in his bedroom, but Da Vinci, upon first look, knows that the body was moved there after death. Shannon, the homicide investigator, discovers that Bush may have died in a hotel room, the room registered to a Rita Morgan. Those who obviously know what happened aren't cooperating, those people being Rita Morgan, Bush's wife, his ministerial assistant and someone working in the hotel. It isn't until Rita Morgan decides to cooperate that the full story is revealed. Meanwhile, Leary receives an unexpected and unwanted visit from his estranged wife, Kim, a fact which he hides from Sunny. And Da Vinci receives some sad personal news.
10 November 1999While dealing with his own grief, Da Vinci investigates a boating accident in which three experienced fishermen drown. Da Vinci must wade through the difficulties of a divided family, a belligerent corporate lawyer, and his own sympathies to discover the truth.
17 November 1999The Coroner's Office and Homicide investigate the finding of dead body - Robert Magus - buried in the yard of a private home. Beyond the fact that the body was obviously buried, the initial findings do not seem to indicate foul play. When a second body is found on site, the investigation points to the previous owner of the home, Viola McKnight, who ran a bordering house for pensioners there and where Magus was living when it is assumed he dies. An elderly woman, Viola, with her mentally challenged adult son Bert, has run a series of boarding houses catering to pensioners with mental issues. She currently is doing so at another site. In reality, Viola, has been taking charge of her tenants' finances, systematically poisoning and burying them, and then committing fraud by taking on that identity and collecting on their personal incomes such as pension checks. With each move, she has taken on that as an assumed name, her current alias being Elizabeth Grass. When the authorities catch up with Viola/Elizabeth, they know that she is guilty, but she plays her caring but doddering little old lady routine to a T. Homicide admits they don't have enough concrete evidence for a conviction. Viola's son, Bert, may be of some assistance, especially after his dog, Plato, is found dead after a tenant feeds him her poisoned food. The balance the authorities face is placing all the guilt on Viola without implicating an obviously innocent Bert.
24 November 1999Adolescent Byron Mizlowski is found dead on the shores of Burrard Inlet. It looks as if he either jumped or was pushed off the Ironworker's Memorial Bridge. Byron was a bright and responsible child and his parents gave him much leeway. They think that his biological father may have something to do with the death as Byron was physically abused by him in the past. However Patricia discovers in the autopsy that Byron was also sexually abused, as recent as the night of his death. Det. Bobby Marlowe from Sex Crimes thinks this case is linked to his case involving alleged sexual molestation of children by Byron's band teacher, Richard Zeto. Marlowe has a victim, Ryner Paget, who is remembering the sexual molestation incidents after the fact. To appease the territorial issue between Homicide and Sex Crimes, Da Vinci suggests he seize Zeto's property under the Coroner's Act to share between the investigators. After formally talking to Zeto, the authorities have much evidence against him but not enough to convict on any of the supposed charges. Once news spreads within the community of the investigation against Zeto, other evidence surfaces. Tragic consequences occur before the authorities discover who killed Byron. Meanwhile, Leary investigates a blood spattered apartment but no body. And Winston has a hit and run dead body. They don't yet know that they two are related.
1 December 1999Simon Sloan, wielding a knife, is fatally shot by Constable Lyle Rook in what looks to be on the surface an attempted robbery at a retail store. The Coroner's Office decides to take the case to inquest to determine if there was any police misconduct in the shooting. Flynn wants Da Vinci to take a particularly hard stance against the police department as the inquest is heavily populated by individuals representing the police. In the words of one police officer on the scene, Sloan wanted to die. Most testify that the police took adequate and appropriate measures under the circumstances, except for the fact that a police dog was on the scene and although Constable Rook asked for the dog to be released, the dog master didn't do so. The inquest also brings to light that Sloan had a history of mental and violent issues. Who Da Vinci really wants on the stand is a Louis Holly, who was a former roommate of Sloan's. Da Vinci wants Holly's testimony to shed some light on Sloan as a human being and not just an anonymous knife wielding man. Da Vinci does eventually speak to Holly who provides important information, but it is ultimately Constable Rook who provides the most important piece of information while on the stand. A letter written by Sloan to Holly received after the inquest conclusion corroborates the inquest findings.
8 December 1999The dead body of Clarence O'Malley is found by his long time best friend, George. It looks like Clarence died of natural causes. What Da Vinci and Shannon also find in O'Malley's apartment is a series of lottery tickets. Although drunk at the time the winning numbers are announced, Shannon is lucid enough to know that Clarence owns a ticket worth $2 million. Da Vinci and Shannon contemplate what to do with this knowledge. They go through a series of options, including keeping the ticket for themselves, especially if Clarence had no living relatives. Their resolve to "do the right thing" strengthens when they meet who looks to be Clarence's only surviving relative, an opportunistic Rick O'Malley. Da Vinci and Shannon definitely do not want Rick, who cared nothing for Clarence, to get the money. Da Vinci and Shannon finally decide on an option they feel is equitable and humanistic. Meanwhile, Leary is involved in a high stakes poker game at a private gambling club on what looks to be his off time. The players are all pretty intense on the game except for chatty Greg Prentice. Prentice's chattiness gets Leary talking, which suits the two men's purposes just fine. But Leary gets the final say in the conversation.
5 January 2000Three year old Terrence Ellison is found dead by his eight year old sister, Julie, in their backyard from what looks to be a head injury sustained from a fall from the swing. Based on the autopsy, Patricia and Sunny surmise he died from being shaken. On first glance, neither the parents, Ben and Claire, or Julie are capable of committing such a violent act, but the authorities cannot see how it could not have been one of the three that caused the death. Upon a site visit, Family Services is unconcerned about Julie being also physically abused if it was one of the parents. After hearing the news of how Terrence died, Ben is in denial, while Claire questions every move in her childrearing. After Da Vinci takes drastic measures with Julie, the steadfast resolve of the collective Ellison family crumbles when one member admits to what happened. Meanwhile, Shannon and Winston investigate the death of Bobby Symes, who was shot twice in the head. The first leads they have are missed telephone calls on his cell phone from Ed, a photo of his girlfriend Ruby in his wallet, and small amount of dope stashed in his wallet. Both Ed and Ruby don't seem totally forthright in their statements. In fact, both provide misleading and intentionally wrong information. Called on their individual lies by Shannon, both Ed and Ruby tell conflicting stories of what really happened. It isn't until Ruby and Ed get face to face that the truth comes out.
Season 2, Episode 12: Fantasy
12 January 2000The police discover a man concealing a sex trade worker bound and gagged in his truck. Da Vinci questions whether the situation represents a consensual act or the work of a serial killer.
Season 2, Episode 13: Reality
19 January 2000A suspected serial killer has been released on bail. Da Vinci and the police must find enough evidence to recapture him before his fantasies lead him to kill again.
4 October 2000Da Vinci investigates the death of a man found laying 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.
11 October 2000An 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.
18 October 2000Cory 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 weapon close to where the car was abandoned, which points to one probable suspect. Although the junkie girl cannot positively identify the suspect, Lily, who happened to be at the police station when the suspect is brought in, can. Da Vinci investigates the death of Janie Steadman, who was found in the aftermath of a house fire. Da Vinci rules the death accidental, the fire started by a tipped over candle. This information is insufficient for Janie's father, Morris Steadman, who wants to know exactly and everything that happened in his daughter's death. Not wanting to think that his daughter did anything wrong in her life (the autopsy identified cocaine in her system), Steadman hires a private investigator, Tom Sprawl, whose mandate seems to be to provide Steadman with the information he wants to hear. Sprawl seems to be working on his own motives. Back at the morgue, Patricia is facing a case of déjà vu - she is to perform an autopsy on a John Doe, but she swears she did an autopsy on that same man two days prior, that John Doe with a $50 bill in his right shoe, this John Doe with a $50 bill in his left shoe. Wayne backs up Patricia's memory of the situation. Are they going crazy or is there a plausible explanation for the two identical John Does? Da Vinci finds a piano for him and Patricia to buy as a present for Gabriella. The problem is getting the piano from its present location back to the house.
25 October 2000Da 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.
8 November 2000A 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 go undercover as a couple who are looking after the house next door to Walker's house. They want to discover conclusive evidence of his guilt through surveillance. When they find out Walker has purchased a single one-way ticket to Jamaica, they inform Melanie that her life may be in danger. Melanie says she believed in Walker's innocence up to this point, but decides to provide whatever information she knows against Walker. Once the authorities discover the murder weapon in the Cut based on Melanie's testimony, the information provided by Melanie as a whole becomes more useful to them in solving the case than Melanie could have ever imagined. Da Vinci holds an inquest into a vehicle crash between a propane truck and a minivan. The minivan driver, Herbert Carlyle, died at the scene of a heart attack. The resulting explosion from the accident also caused the disfigurement of John Cray, a bystander coming to the aid of Carlyle and his wife, Gladys, the minivan's passenger. The inquest not only will try to prove what caused the accident, but also put the spotlight on the lack of safety of hazardous materials trucks operating on residential streets. The problem Da Vinci is having is that the key impartial witness, Cray, refuses to testify as his disfigurement has caused him to become a recluse. Da Vinci requires the assistance of sheriffs to bring Cray to the inquest; Cray testifies but obviously against his wishes. Back at the Coroner's Office, Kelly starts his new job as Chief Coroner, burying his staff under mounds of paperwork. And Gabriella starts piano lessons.
15 November 2000Eric 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 innocent victims, are found at a local motel from crystal meth fumes circulating through the motel's ventilation system. Sandy eventually gives up Paul, DeWitt's meth partner, and the site of another lab. Unfortunately, the authorities arrive on that scene a split second too late. Meanwhile, Joe and Leanne McNally are distraught when they discover that their infant daughter is missing from her crib. Joe eventually finds her dead in a garage down the street from their house. Although both parents are suspects in the death, the authorities don't really believe the parents did it. Patricia determines that the baby was sexually molested before death, but that there was no pattern of previous molestation. The authorities discover that William Collette, a suspected child molester, lives in the neighborhood, but all the evidence they have on him is circumstantial. Joe does whatever he can to ensure that justice in his mind is done.
22 November 2000Da 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.
29 November 2000A 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 Bobby's wife, Janice. When story of an insurance scam surfaces related to Wilkins, Leary and Shannon think they have their answer to the death. Janice is just relieved that Bobby doesn't have to be told of her affair. Da Vinci investigates the death of a young teen-aged woman, who was found dead inside a shipping truck. Someone was shipping her across the border from Portland to Vancouver, but a delay in transport caused the oxygen supply she was carrying to run out. The addressee, Darryl Morris, states that he was not expecting a shipment. Later, a second identical trunk addressed to Darryl Morris is found in the bonding warehouse, this time with a dead young teen-aged boy. Da Vinci decides the only way to find out who the trunks were actually being delivered to is to make the delivery and see who picks up the trunks. Nobody does. It isn't until Patricia determines that the deceased were brother and sister and probably from Mexico that Da Vinci pieces together the puzzle with some further information from Morris. Back at the coroner's office, Morris Steadman, still grieving over the death of his daughter, asks to review all Da Vinci's files as he still thinks her death was homicide. Da Vinci agrees to let Steadman review the files if only he agrees to see a grief counselor. On some personal fronts, Sunny's car is keyed; Leary thinks he knows the culprit. And Da Vinci starts what looks to be a relationship with Gabriella's piano teacher.
9 January 2001Five 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 a similar situation. But Da Vinci feels he 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 were somewhat "unwanted" pregnancies from the fathers' perspectives. Elsewhere, Dr. Ian Stroud dies in an automobile accident. During the autopsy, Sunny finds that Dr. Stroud was killed by a gunshot wound to the head, the reason it not noticed at the accident scene being that the bullet had exited his body and the shot was clean. The rational for the shooting becomes clearer when Leary and Shannon discover he performed abortions and was on an anti-abortion hit list. They narrow down the killer after determining the shot was fired at close range, meaning that it was a someone in another car on the road at the time. Fred Turner is suspected of murdering his wife, Susan, based on speculation by a neighbor, Molly Wolnic, who had reported domestic disturbances at the Turner's previously. This time, she heard an argument, saw Fred carry something outside, and since that incident Susan has not been seen despite usually working in her garden. Kosmo and LaBoucane investigate the story, and Fred seems like a up-front guy to them, until they catch him in a few lies, namely about some blood in the kitchen and stories about his missing dog, Ginger. They hold Fred down in remand on suspicion of murder. It isn't until Susan's body is discovered that the full story emerges in both Fred and Susan's favors. Meanwhile, Leary learns of Shannon's clandestine dance lessons.
16 January 2001Da 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.
23 January 2001In 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 homicide of a convenience store clerk named Jim. Jim was a popular figure in the neighborhood, running tabs for his regular customers until they received their bi-weekly welfare cheques. Rose also mentions to Shannon and Leary that Jim had been robbed 4 times in the past two months by a historically non-violent junkie named Lucas Ross, a kid originally from a stable upper middle class family. After it was determined that Lucas had previously broken into the store to steal cash to support his habit, Jim preferred to hand over a small amount of cash to Lucas than to go through the pain and cost of any property damage caused by a break-in. Despite these robberies, Lucas was one of Jim's regulars and treated him as such. The two investigations merge when the driver of the car is found, she being a high school friend of Lucas'. From the driver's information, the investigators determine that Lucas is holed up in a padlocked abandoned building in the alley. Uncertain as to Lucas' mental state as well as whether he is armed and dangerous seeing as to Jim's shooting, the investigators are unsure what to do. Da Vinci, with Leary and Rose's support, takes matters into his own hands and negotiates with Lucas to come out of the building, to which Lucas replies through a young woman junkie also holed up in the building that he will come out peacefully after Da Vinci gives him a hit of dope. Despite Da Vinci's negotiations, Zack wants Shannon to make the decisions about what to do since he is the senior officer at the scene. Shannon nervously decides that he will give Lucas 5 minutes to come out of the building, after which he will call in the ERT. Meanwhile Da Vinci, with Leary's assistance, scores some dope for Lucas. Da Vinci tells the dope dealer that Leary, flashing his badge, will arrest him if he doesn't sell Da Vinci the dope: "what can I say, it's backwards day" is Da Vinci's line. Da Vinci makes it back to the building with the dope before the arrival of the ERT to negotiate his way into the building successfully. True to their word to each other, Da Vinci gives Lucas the dope for his much needed hit and Lucas and Da Vinci exit the building peacefully, however not before Da Vinci makes Lucas tell the real story of the shooting and the hit and run.
30 January 2001Da 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, 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. Charles Downey, a Native ex-con junkie, tells Da Vinci that he witnessed two police constables earlier that evening forcibly hauling Hill off from his Downtown Eastside neighborhood. Downey is reluctant to provide any official information to the police because he is afraid that his testimony - from a junkie on parole - would not hold up against that of police officers and that there would be possible retaliation. As such, Da Vinci promises Downey that he will act as his intermediary in the investigation. Other witnesses come forward, with some useful but inconclusive information which includes Hill sustaining a possible beating causing the head injuries prior to being run over. And when officially questioned, the two police officers who allegedly hauled Hill off - Constables Miller and Kozak - tell a somewhat unusual but credible enough story against the theory that they were the ones who hauled Hill off. With all this information, Da Vinci is still convinced that the two constables took Hill on a midnight ride, or what Shannon calls a sparkle tour, named because the victim can count the number of stars on the cold walk home to while away the time. Da Vinci ultimately learns who ran over Hill - the story which is convoluted enough - but is still certain the constables played a role in his death. Meanwhile, Kosmo and LaBoucane investigate the death of Rachel Rosenblum, whose dead body was found in a residential dumpster. They learn that she died of an overdose of barbiturates and alcohol. Her casual boyfriend, Lee, states that he is unaware of what happened in her death. However, Kosmo and LaBoucane catch him in some lies, which forces him to confess what he knows. Although Lee did not kill Rachel, his story disgusts Kosmo.
6 February 2001A pre-trial hearing is held in the suspected stabbing murder of Stacy Miller, a young female hiker, by Joel Hardy. With Da Vinci, Patricia and Homicide's notes from the initial investigation, Hardy's lawyer is trying to prove his client's innocence by playing on the discussed theory that Miller was killed by a cougar attack. 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 against their writers. To further support his case, Hardy's lawyer calls in an expert witness - a pathologist specializing on animal attacks - and subpoenas Sunny who has to recall her discussions with Patricia and Da Vinci about the investigation. Elsewhere, Leary, Shannon and Da Vinci investigate the break and enter shooting death of Abigail Jefferson. A former cancer patient, Abigail was shot through the heart while in her bedroom, the murder weapon being her own gun. The murder occurred while her husband and two adult children were out shopping. The initial suspect is a neighborhood kid who does odd jobs for the Jeffersons, but certain aspects of the Jeffersons' collective stories do not quite add up, including a delay between them finding the body and the call to 911. In addition, the investigators learn that Abigail's cancer was not in remission as she told her family. It isn't until Chick uncovers some evidence regarding the gun that the pieces of the story start to fall together. On other fronts, Morris Steadman continues his crusade to find evidence as to foul play in his daughter's death, Da Vinci continues his relationship with Suzanne Reilly, and Shannon wrestles with the thought of putting his wife Lana into an extended care facility.
30 September 2001Da 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.
14 October 2001Patricia, Sunny and Kosmo's new assignments are progressing. Patricia gets an office at the university. Another skeleton is found at the archaeological dig site. And Kosmo gains the trust of the some of the girls and johns in her investigation of the missing prostitutes, thinking that they may be able to assist in noticing unusual behavior during the course of their transactions. Kosmo 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 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, the thief who was literally out for his pound of flesh.
21 October 2001Da Vinci investigates the death of an eight-year-old child. Shannon and Leary investigate the double shooting of a bouncer and a stripper.
28 October 2001Da Vinci investigates a Chinese boat migrant who dies on a hunger strike while in detention. Shannon and Leary's prime suspect in a double shooting is a possible stalker.
Season 4, Episode 5: Ugly Quick
4 November 2001Da Vinci and Kurtz investigate Leary's shooting of an officer.
11 November 2001Leary 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.