Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 6 (2003)

For twenty years, Farris Dunlap has been threatened by Wendell Quinn, who believes Dunlap killed his brother, Roger. Dunlap denies even knowing the Quinn brothers. The latest round of threats started when Quinn was released from prison, he being there for manslaughter. This threat includes the mailing of a severed finger to Dunlap. On the flip side, Quinn states that Roger was a police informant who witnessed some wrong-doing by Dunlap. Just as Roger was supposed to testify, Wendell received the severed finger, which he knows belongs to his brother due to a scar. ...

A severed body is found by the railroad tracks, apparently run over by a train. It turns out to be a young teen-aged boy by the name of Shane Tyler. It sounds as if Shane was down by the tracks dealing drugs. Da Vinci learns that Shane came from a troubled home, and that his mother, Matty, is also a drug dealer. After the autopsy, Da Vinci further learns that Shane was chronically abused. Da Vinci is certain that Matty is his abuser. Although Da Vinci never confirms the root cause for Shane's death, he speculates Shane may have taken his own life to escape his abusive...

Kosmo and Leary investigate the death of Sarah Peters, her body found in the underground parking lot of her apartment building. They learn from William Chen that Peters was a material witness for the Crown in the homicide case against Roy Willetts. Chen also tells them that Willetts was incarcerated with Peters' estranged brother, Gary. Kosmo later also learns from Sue that someone is selling merchandise purchased with Sarah Peters' credit card. That someone is Dennis Lucas, who Kosmo and Leary pick up. Lucas admits that he knows who killed Sarah, but that the killer ...

Da Vinci investigates the deaths of Ray Stone and Gloria Keane. It looks to be a double suicide, with a succinct suicide note for the pair: "AIDS x 2". Some alarm bells ring in Da Vinci's head when he finds some prescription bottles for AIDS medication in their apartment, as the prescribing doctor is Gus Cook, whose license was once pulled by Da Vinci for malpractice and who Da Vinci is currently investigating concerning the recent death of a boxer. Meanwhile, a woman by the name of Kathleen Mills comes in to speak to Shannon and Williams because of her nightmares. ...

The dead body of Robert Camden is found on the rocks offshore of Stanley Park. Da Vinci and the cops' first inclination is that his death is related to the fact that they are near a known gay stroll. Local reporter, Josh Warner, feeds the fire as he tells Da Vinci that the previous night, the police questioned but let go a bunch of rowdies in the area who were uttering gay slurs. The trail runs cold after speaking to all the known witnesses. But feathers are ruffled when the press runs with speculative stories. Kosmo and Leary investigate the death of a man on the top...

Da Vinci is involved in a vehicular hit and run traffic accident, the other vehicle doing the running. Da Vinci ends up with a gash on his head. There were two eyewitnesses, each with a different viewpoint of who caused the accident. Despite this bad start to his day, Da Vinci goes to work. His first case is that of Nick McLeod, who was found hanging in a new unoccupied house for sale. He is the realtor. He looks to have been squatting in the house. They later learn he was separated from his wife. But the unusual aspect of his death is that there is no physical way he...

A traffic incident occurs when a man driving a stolen vehicle stops an ambulance, the driver of the stolen vehicle, wielding a shotgun, demanding morphine from the paramedic. After the incident, the driver of the stolen vehicle flees on foot, leaving the vehicle behind. The ambulance delay causes the death of the elderly woman being transported. Fingerprints retrieved from the stolen vehicle indicate the driver is probably Douglas James Shelby, who kidnapped his young daughter, Jennifer, from his estranged wife, with Shelby and Jennifer in tow currently on the run. ...

An eyewitness sees a car drive into False Creek. One male passenger in the vehicle managed to make it out of the water and flee the scene, whereas one female passenger drowned. The male ends up being university professor Harold Stanley Keller (it was his car), the deceased female one of his students named Ellen DeWitt. Shannon and Williams interrogate Keller, who initially tells a story of a purely innocent professor/student relationship and a malfunctioning car. After Shannon and Williams find some evidence to the contrary, Keller eventually tells them that he was ...

Sue stumbles into Rick Prentice's apartment and finds him dead. Totally freaked, she runs out, but the next day informs the authorities. During the investigation, Homicide - which includes Kosmo, Leary, Shannon and Williams - freeze Curtis out, who tries to get in on the premise that Rick was his informant. In reality, the Homicide detectives all know in their hearts that Curtis killed Rick. With Rick's murder, Councilor Pierce finally decides to talk to Homicide about being blackmailed by Curtis, and admittedly asking Curtis if he could make Rick just "go away". ...

With Williams away on another case in Seattle, Shannon is temporarily partnered with Donna. They are working on a case of a gunshot dead body washed ashore by the port, his face covered with a seven tentacled octopus. They discover he is Lawrence Brownfield, an American journalist. He apparently was working on a story about the drug trade and drug smuggling in and out of Vancouver. Shannon and Donna piece together the story and if it was somebody on the drug side of things who was not too happy about the story who killed him. Kosmo and Leary start their investigation ...