7.5/1019 votesLoading...#1 - Dizzy Looking Down
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 12/8/2002
Leary and Shannon investigate whether a hermit killed his wife. Meanwhile, Da Vinci looks into the death of a man who appears to have fallen out of the sky.
Director: Lynne Stopkewich
Writer: Chris Haddock
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#2 - Jungle's Dark But Full of Diamonds
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 2/8/2004
The team investiages a man found hanging in a vacant house and an elderly man found dead in the woods.
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Writer: N/A
7.6/1036 votesLoading...#3 - All Tricked Up
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/29/2000
When the body of a woman is discovered in a trunk shipped across the border, Da Vinci is called in to investigate. Shannon and Leary pursue the killer of a pool hustler burned to death in a car fire.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chris Haddock
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#4 - Gather Up All The Little People
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/2002
Da Vinci looks into the suicide of an eleven year-old boy in an amusement park. Undercover detective Danny Leary pushes for a confession as time is running out on Kosmo's missing women operation.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: Larry Campbell
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#5 - Send In The Clowns
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 11/23/2003
Da Vinci investigates the death of an ex-cop turned boxer. Meanwhile, Mick and Angela, investigate a body found in a house.
Director: Anne Wheeler
Writer: Chris Haddock
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#6 - Out Of The Bag And All Over The Street
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 1/25/2004
Da Vinci tries to piece together an apparent murder/suicide. Meanwhile, Shannon and Rose investigate a severed head found in a bucket.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#7 - Okay It's Official
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 3/21/2004
Da Vinci and Zack investigate a death on a golf course. Meanwhile, Shannon and Rose look into a student's drowning.
Director: Morris Panych
Writer: N/A
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#8 - A Man When He's Down
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 4/4/2004
Da Vinci investigates an overdose, while resisting pressure to use grief stricken parents to further his bid for Chief of Police. Meanwhile, Shannon and Rose call in Kosmo and Leary when a homicide is connected to their case against Brian.
Director: George Mihalka
Writer: Chris Haddock
7.8/1046 votesLoading...#9 - The Quality of Mercy
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/1998
When television news reporter Hope Martin (Lynda Boyd) breaks a story about mercy killing, Detectives Leary and Shannon start digging around for more details, and Da Vinci calls a Coroner's Inquest to force Martin to reveal her source. The issue of euthanasia is divisive and as the investigation proceeds Da Vinci finds himself at odds with the police and his superiors about the reality and the ethics of what happened. His elderly father's recent debilitating stroke further complicates his response. Danny Leary is back in town, but the reunion with his older brother Mick is far from idyllic. It looks like he is hooked on drugs and, unbeknownst to Mick, hanging around with two hoods that turn up dead.
Director: Stephen Surjik
Writer: Chris Haddock
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#10 - Sixes and Sevens
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 12/2/2001
Traffic Inspector Zack Mc Nab calls in Da Vinci to investigate a suspicious highway accident that's missing a driver. Shannon and Leary look into the murder of an elderly lady in a west end penthouse. Kosmo runs into a dead end with her prime suspect in the case of the missing prostitutes.
Director: David Frazee
Writer: Chris Haddock
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#11 - You Got Monkey Chatter
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 2/23/2003
Da Vinci investigates a homicide after a body is found amongst some blackberry bushes. Meanwhile, Laura Maitland creates new problems for Kurtz.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#12 - Thanks For The Toaster Oven
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 11/23/2003
While Da Vinci is concerned about a potential surge in elderly deaths, he receives a surprising proposal. Meanwhile, Kosmo and Leary investigate a body found in a grow op house.
Director: George Mihalka
Writer: Chris Haddock
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#13 - Not So Pretty Now
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 10/12/2004
Da Vinci investigates a hit-and-run involving the mayor's car. Meanwhile, Leary & Kosmo looks into the suspicious beating death of a drug dealer.
Director: Stephen Surjik
Writer: Chris Haddock
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#14 - First The Seducing Then The Screwing
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 11/23/2004
Da Vinci discovers he's the target of a private investigation. Meanwhile, Brian further implicates Sue in the murder of one of his informants.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chris Haddock
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#15 - Better Go Herd Your Ducks
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 12/7/2004
Da Vinci is up to his eyeballs when the media learns of the mayor's involvement in the hit-and-run, at the same time the wife of a dead longshoreman insists her husband was killed by his co-workers. Meanwhile, Leary uncovers a possible Russian connection in the murder of his childhood friend.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chris Haddock
7.9/1044 votesLoading...#16 - We All Fall Down
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/1998
The Coroner's office investigates the cause of a devastating fire at a seniors' care facility that left most of the residents dead and an elderly man missing. Arson or accident may have caused the fire but while he investigates with Chief Fire Investigator Henry Whiteside, Da Vinci uncovers evidence of abuse at the home. The harsh realities of caring for the elderly are brought into sharp focus by his own mother's increasing inability to care for his father alone. Mick's partner Kosmo and his brother Danny have struck up a friendship that has the potential for a romance. Danny's club looks like it might get off the ground, although his business partners appear to be mob-connected.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1029 votesLoading...#17 - An Act of God
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/22/2000
A decomposed body in the back of a stolen truck puts Shannon and Leary on the trail of a bounty hunter. A young man dies working for his father's contruction company: Da Vinci investigates. Kosmo helps a woman who thinks her husband is an imposter.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chris Haddock
7.9/1028 votesLoading...#18 - You See How It Begins?
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1/16/2001
A jockey is found dead in a stall at the race track. Da Vinci investigates. A former member of the Guatemalan secret police claims to be dying after being attacked at a bus stop. Pursuing the attacker, Leary confronts the harsh truth about the victim's past.
Director: Donnelly Rhodes
Writer: Chris Haddock
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#19 - Oppenheimer Park
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/14/2001
Da Vinci has to track down a body that is stolen conspicuously from the death scene. Shannon and Leary investigate an elderly woman found dead in the washroom of Vancouver's most notorious park.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chris Haddock
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#20 - A Big Enough Fan
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 11/10/2002
Da Vinci investigates a cemetery with remains buried together, and declares it a crime scene. Meanwhile, a man claims that ahomeless man killed his wife, and another man is injured in a suspicious house fire.
Director: Robert Cuffley
Writer: Chris Haddock
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#21 - Doing The Chicken Scratch
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 1/19/2003
After a drinking binge, Leary scrambles to piece together the events of the previous night, leaving Shannon and Rose to have to work together. Meanwhile, Da Vinci thinks he knows who's responsible for commingling the bodies at the cemetery.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chris Haddock
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#22 - The Ducks Are Too Depressing
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 2/9/2003
Da Vinci and Zack have different theories about a possible hit and run. Meanwhile, Leary and Shannon try to figure out what happened to a cabbie found dead in his taxi.
Director: David Frazee
Writer: Chris Haddock
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#23 - Can Bend But I Won't Break
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 1/18/2004
A woman finds her husband dead from an apparent suicide. Meanwhile, Kosmo and Leary investigate a body found in a parking garage.
Director: John Fawcett
Writer: Chris Haddock
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#24 - Ride A Crippled Horse
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 1/11/2005
Da Vinci investigates a body in the sewer. Meanwhile, Brian accompanies Rose on a homicide case, and Kosmo is troubled by a witness from the past, at the same time that Shannon, while moonlighting as a hotel security guard, discovers some dirt.
Director: David Frazee
Writer: Chris Haddock
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#25 - A Delicate Bloodbath
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 1/18/2005
Da Vinci manipulates both sides in the upcoming race to his own advantage. Meanwhile, Brian and Rose investigate the suspicious suicide of a key witness.
Director: Chris Haddock
Writer: Chris Haddock
The Worst Episodes of Da Vinci's Inquest
Every episode of Da Vinci's Inquest ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Da Vinci's Inquest!
Da Vinci's Inquest is a Canadian dramatic television series that aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2005. While never a ratings blockbuster, seven seasons...
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Network:CBC Television
Worst Episodes Summary
"Dizzy Looking Down" is the worst rated episode of "Da Vinci's Inquest". It scored 7.5/10 based on 19 votes. Directed by Lynne Stopkewich and written by Chris Haddock, it aired on 12/8/2002. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Jungle's Dark But Full of Diamonds".