Da Vinci's Inquest

While Shannon and Leary delve into the robbery and double murder of a Russian couple, Da Vinci relentlessly investigates the death of a homeless man found in the doorway of a newly gentrified Eastside apartment. Kosmo probes a dog walker's bizarre death by chopstick.

Da Vinci struggles to close a legal loophole: can a convict serving a life sentence gain release after flat-lining in custody but being resuscitated? Shannon and Leary search for a missing boy after his mother dies from a drug-related assault.

Second-guessed by a bereaved father and a private investigator at every step, Da Vinci examines the death of a young woman in a house fire. Meanwhile, Shannon and Leary locate a highly unreliable witness in the beating death of a 17-year-old squeegee kid.

A cabbie's death directs Shannon and Leary to a dance studio operated by the dead man's partner. Da Vinci and Kosmo unravel the complicated relationship shared by a young boxer, his mother, and her abusive boyfriend.

As Leary and Kosmo set up surveillance on a suspected wife-killer, Da Vinci deals with a very reluctant witness--a Good Samaritan tragically burned in a traffic accident involving the explosion of a propane truck.

The body of an OD victim dumped outside a hospital with dirt around his mouth leads Da Vinci to a meth operation. Meanwhile, the entire homicide team scrambles to catch the killer of an 11-month-old boy apparently abducted from his crib.

After a partially decomposed body turns up in a coffin in the back of a camper, Shannon and Leary follow the trail to a bounty hunter. Da Vinci attempts to determine whether a death at a construction site was an accident, negligence, or something else entirely.

Chick Savoy's forensic expertise proves crucial in two cases--Da Vinci's inquiry into a trunk shipped from the States carrying a woman's body, and Shannon and Leary's probe of a car fire that claimed the life of a professional pool player.

Trying to investigate the suspicious drowning of a five-year-old boy, Da Vinci faces resistance from the new, budget-conscious chief coroner. Shannon and Leary track down the shooter in a doctor's death, and Kosmo follows up a tip on a missing and possibly murdered woman.

As Da Vinci scrutinizes a jockey's death, Leary takes on the case of a former police officer from Guatemala who claims he was stabbed and poisoned in a stealth attack at a bus stop. The investigation forces Leary to confront the man's dark past.

In a "real-time" episode, the pressure mounts on Da Vinci, busy with a fatal collision involving two apparently stolen cars on the east side, and on Shannon and Leary, who pursue the killer of a convenience store clerk.

When Native Peoples activist Tom Hill turns up shoeless and dead in the middle of a residential street, Da Vinci begins to suspect something more than a simple hit and run. Kosmo and Winston look into the death of a woman found in a dumpster.

While preoccupied with the shooting death of an elderly cancer patient, Da Vinci endures hostile cross-examination in a hearing involving the possible murder of a young woman.