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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...
Genres:CrimeDrama
Episodes
91
Avg. Rating
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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".

  • Dizzy Looking Down
    7.5/10(19)
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    #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

  • Jungle's Dark But Full of Diamonds
    7.5/10(13)
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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

  • All Tricked Up
    7.6/10(36)
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    #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

  • Gather Up All The Little People
    7.6/10(15)
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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

  • Send In The Clowns
    7.6/10(14)
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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

  • Out Of The Bag And All Over The Street
    7.6/10(15)
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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

  • Okay It's Official
    7.7/10(15)
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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

  • A Man When He's Down
    7.7/10(18)
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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

  • The Quality of Mercy
    7.8/10(46)
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    #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

  • Sixes and Sevens
    7.8/10(19)
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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

  • You Got Monkey Chatter
    7.8/10(17)
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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

  • Thanks For The Toaster Oven
    7.8/10(16)
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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

  • Not So Pretty Now
    7.8/10(13)
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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

  • First The Seducing Then The Screwing
    7.8/10(15)
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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

  • Better Go Herd Your Ducks
    7.8/10(12)
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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

  • We All Fall Down
    7.9/10(44)
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    #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

  • An Act of God
    7.9/10(29)
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    #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

  • You See How It Begins?
    7.9/10(28)
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    #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

  • Oppenheimer Park
    7.9/10(19)
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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

  • A Big Enough Fan
    7.9/10(18)
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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

  • Doing The Chicken Scratch
    7.9/10(19)
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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

  • The Ducks Are Too Depressing
    7.9/10(15)
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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

  • Can Bend But I Won't Break
    7.9/10(13)
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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

  • Ride A Crippled Horse
    7.9/10(18)
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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

  • A Delicate Bloodbath
    7.9/10(13)
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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