The BEST episodes written by Chris Haddock

#1 - Blues in A-Minor

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 2 - Episode 8

The death of a child always hits hard for those who have to investigate, especially when it looks like suicide. Da Vinci tries to rein in a community on a quest to publicly expose a suspect.

#2 - Thanks For The Toaster Oven

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 6 - Episode 1

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.

#3 - A Delicate Bloodbath

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 7 - Episode 11

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.

#4 - Twenty Five Dollar Conversation

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 6 - Episode 5

Da Vinci investigates a body found by the train tracks. Meanwhile, Shannon and Rose ask Suki for help on a case.

#5 - Iffy Areas Around The Edges

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 6 - Episode 4

Da Vinci investigates the death of an Aboriginal Peoples needle-exchange worker. Meanwhile, Rose and Leo take on a case after a man receives a severed finger through the mail.

#6 - Send In The Clowns

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 6 - Episode 2

Da Vinci investigates the death of an ex-cop turned boxer. Meanwhile, Mick and Angela, investigate a body found in a house.

#7 - Everybody Needs A Working Girl

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 5 - Episode 13

Shannon and Leary investigate the death of a woman whose body is found in the trunk of her car. Meanwhile, Da Vinci and Kosmo deal with a single, welfare mother.

#8 - A Nice Place in the Country

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 2 - Episode 7

The excavation for a water main turns up human bones. Kosmo takes up the challenge of piecing together the puzzle of Vancouver's 28 missing prostitutes.

#9 - Can Bend But I Won't Break

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 6 - Episode 6

A woman finds her husband dead from an apparent suicide. Meanwhile, Kosmo and Leary investigate a body found in a parking garage.

#10 - Not So Pretty Now

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 7 - Episode 1

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.

#11 - That's Why They Call It A Conspiracy

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 7 - Episode 5

Da Vinci begins to suspect that a widespread conspiracy is protecting the Mayor in the hit-and-run investigation. Meanwhile, a murdered drug runner turns out to be a childhood friend of Leary's and Kosmo's relationship with Sue attracts the attention of Internal Affairs.

#12 - Wash the Blood Out of the Ring

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 7 - Episode 2

Da Vinci investigates the death of man who fell off the roof of his apartment building while attempting to steal cable. Meanwhile Kosmo and Leary uncover a witness in the police beating of a young drug dealer. Later, Zack and Da Vinci uncover some startling news about the mayor.

#13 - First The Seducing Then The Screwing

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 7 - Episode 7

Da Vinci discovers he's the target of a private investigation. Meanwhile, Brian further implicates Sue in the murder of one of his informants.

#14 - You Promised Me A Celebrity

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 7 - Episode 6

While Da Vinci remains at odds with the Mayor and Police Chief he attracts attention from Ottawa. Meanwhile, Leary and Kosmo discover that a murdered drug runner was under police surveillance and Shannon's reaction to a personal loss puts his job in jeopardy.

#15 - Mr. Ellis Himself Woulda Been Proud

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 7 - Episode 4

The Mayor & the new Police Chief stand in the way of Da Vinci and his on-going investigations of a hit-and-run and a police beating. Meanwhile, Kosmo is investigated by Internal Affairs and Shannon & Rose work the case of a mummified baby found in a dumpster.

#16 - Bury My Own Bones

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 6 - Episode 3

Da Vinci lobbies for the creation of a safe drug-use site, as well as a red-light district. Meanwhile, Kosmo and Leary look into a possible multiple-homicide case.

#17 - The Ol' Coco Bop

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 7 - Episode 8

Da Vinci must get the support of the mayor and police for his red light district proposal. Meanwhile, Sue is secretly interrogated by Internal Affairs and Angela desperately tries to get her.

#18 - Sister's Light

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 2 - Episode 6

A fishing boat goes down in calm seas and three men with more than a century of experience die. Da Vinci, who is coping with his own grief, must navigate his way through the secrets of a grieving family, a stonewalling corporation and his own sympathies to find the truth.

#19 - Ride A Crippled Horse

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 7 - Episode 10

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.

#20 - A Man When He's Down

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 6 - Episode 12

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.

#21 - His Wife

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 2 - Episode 5

Kosmo and Leary discover that when it comes to spousal abuse nothing is simple. Da Vinci steers through a political minefield when a body turns up under suspicious circumstances.

#22 - Seven Tentacles

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 6 - Episode 13

Da Vinci prepares for his interview in front of the police board. Meanwhile, Shannon investigates the murder of an American journalist.

#23 - The Ducks Are Too Depressing

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 5 - Episode 11

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.

#24 - Dogs Don't Bite People

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 5 - Episode 10

Da Vinci is called to a fishing boat after a crew member is found dead in his bunk. Meanwhile, Kosmo encounters some obstacles as she continues to search for the killer of a small-time drug dealer.

#25 - Gabriel

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 1 - Episode 8

When a street kid turns up dead on the dockside Leary is convinced that the young runaway was tortured to death by other kids and Sunny backs up his theory. The killing reminds Da Vinci of a tragedy in his past in which a police investigation proved fruitless. Determined not to let that happen in this case, Da Vinci pursues a suspect who may help him resolve whether police negligence was involved in the boy's death.

#26 - Doing The Chicken Scratch

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 5 - Episode 8

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.

#27 - Better Go Herd Your Ducks

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 7 - Episode 9

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.

#28 - Tommy's on the Corner

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 2 - Episode 4

Da Vinci has to untangle the truth of two fatalities that happened during a controversial high-speed police car chase. Shannon and Leary try to solve that the hold up of an armoured car.

#29 - The Challenge

MacGyver - Season 4 - Episode 12

An inner city youth club is threatened when a black resident is framed for auto theft by a neighborhood racist who'll stop at nothing to close the center—even murder.

#30 - The Invisible Killer

MacGyver - Season 4 - Episode 15

MacGyver heads up a trip with four other Phoenix Foundation employees into the wilderness as part of a stress reduction program. After discovering that a prison bus accident has freed several prisoners, the employees begin to question each other's behavior. MacGyver must now figure out which man, if any, is not to be trusted before it's too late.

#31 - The Capture (2)

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 1 - Episode 13

Da Vinci, Leary and Sunny are in Seattle at a conference, and are shocked to discover similar cases across the Pacific Northwest, that appears to include the death Da Vinci is currently working to solve.

#32 - A Cinderella Story (1)

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 2 - Episode 1

Da Vinci is back in the headlines when he calls for Vancouver City to set up a red light district following the death of a high-priced escort, and the continuing mystery of the 28 missing prostitutes who are presumed dead.

#33 - The Looking Glass

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 2 - Episode 9

A police shooting is always a complicated, politically charged matter. Da Vinci convenes a Coroner's Court to investigate, and untangle the web of conflicting evidence, some of it presented by his closest colleagues

#34 - A Cinderella Story (2)

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 2 - Episode 2

#35 - That Sounds Like What We Call A Mutiny

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 7 - Episode 3

Da Vinci investigates a death among the mutinous crew of a Chinese freighter. Meanwhile, Kosmo and Leary delve deeper into the police beating of a young drug dealer.

#36 - Before They Twist The Knife

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 7 - Episode 12

A decision from the Mayor and a fatality at the safe injection site bring Da Vinci's political future into focus. Meanwhile, despite being demoted to robbery, Kosmo is happy to learn the Crown is investigating Brian's policework, and Leary catches a break when a potential witness to Will's murder comes forward.

#37 - Must Be A Night For Fires

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 7 - Episode 13

Da Vinci gathers his political allies hoping to emerge as a front-runner for mayor. Meanwhile, Leary races to arrest Will's murderer before the DEA can slip him across the border, and a body in a burned-out car and an arson fire at Kosmo's house may be ominously connected.

#38 - Little Sister (2)

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 1 - Episode 2

Da Vinci reopens several cases, causing a further rift with his ex-wife.

#39 - Pressure Drop

Intelligence - Season 1 - Episode 6

The bikers try to squeeze Reardon out of the ATM business, giving him an ultimatum. Mary wants Reardon to move another gun shipment for Bingham, but he refuses unless Mary gives him info on the bikers. The mole, Lee, reveals that the Triad group he works for (The Red Eagles) wants to kill an incoming Chinese dissident. The bikers begin taking over Reardon's growers on the Island, and Reardon needs a new supply source or he'll go out of business. Ted tells the DEA the best way into the Reardon organization is through Ronnie or Michael. Karl, an old prison buddy of Michael's, shows up, offering to supply marijuana. Ronnie wants to hit the bikers back or they'll never let up. Reardon's lawyer advises Reardon to move his money offshore. The bikers rip Michael on his next cash run and almost kill him. Mary witnesses Donny, Lee's contact in the Red Eagles, execute Lee.

#40 - The Hunt (1)

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 1 - Episode 12

Da Vinci, Leary, and Sunny are in Seattle attending an international Homicide Conference. A presentation by San Francisco-based FBI Special Agent Charlotte Turner turns up similar cases across the Pacific Northwest, and appears to include the death Da Vinci is currently working to solve. Turner comes to Vancouver and Da Vinci finds himself coordinating an investigation that has international implications. As more abductions/murders fit the pattern it seems that a couple, Dean and his wife Mona, are responsible. Joanna, a young woman who was abducted but managed to escape, leads Shannon and Leary back to the farmhouse where she was held and they arrest Dean. Mona, however, has managed to sneak across the border into the States and Da Vinci offers Danny a deal if he can find out where she is. Meanwhile Da Vinci finds himself struggling with the ethics of paying Dean for information about other victims.

#41 - Ugly Quick

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 4 - Episode 5

An officer is shot dead and Detective Leary is in the hot seat. Da Vinci and Kurtz investigate the circumstances surrounding the police shooting.

#42 - Fantasy

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 2 - Episode 12

The police catch a man with a sex-trade worker bound and gagged in his truck. Da Vinci questions whether this was a consensual act or the work of a man who has killed before.

#43 - The Quality of Mercy

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 1 - Episode 4

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.

#44 - Sixes and Sevens

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 4 - Episode 8

Traffic Inspector Zack McNab 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.

#45 - Too Late For Mr. Early

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 4 - Episode 1

Working with Shannon and Leary, Da Vinci investigates 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 artifacts of interest in historic Chinatown. Detective Kosmo tries a new approach to an old unsolved case.

#46 - God Forbid We Call It What It Is

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 5 - Episode 7

Da Vinci uncovers some disturbing information about one of the commingled bodies. Meanwhile, Kosmo finds more evidence that a cop may be involved in a drug dealer's death and Rose continues to help Shannon and Leary in their search for a killer.

#47 - Birds Have Been At Her

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 4 - Episode 6

When a dead woman is found floating at sea in a small boat, Da Vinci is called in to investigate. Shannon and Leary probe the disappearance of a young pregnant woman.

#48 - Banging on the Wall

Da Vinci's Inquest - Season 4 - Episode 3

An eight year old's mysterious death leaves Da Vinci demanding answers. Shannon and Leary look into the double shooting of a stripper and a bouncer.

#49 - Bone for Tuna

Boardwalk Empire - Season 3 - Episode 3

Nucky reluctantly joins Margaret to receive a high honor from the church. Gyp makes a one-time deal with Nucky. Van Alden regrets trying to socialize. Margaret pitches her women's clinic. Lucky and Meyer protect their investments.

#50 - Where Good Men Die Like Dogs

Intelligence - Season 1 - Episode 1

Crime boss Jimmy Reardon continues his informer-role with Organized Crime Unit Director Mary Spalding, at the same time shipping his own grower-turned-snitch, Bill, off to Mexico. Mary is still being groomed for a position at CSIS, though pressure is mounting to prove Reardon's value as an informer. Reardon tips Mary off that one of her wire-room operators is actually a mole working for the Chinese Triads, hoping in return Mary can help him in his custody battle with his ex-wife Francine. But with a mole in her wire room, the future of Mary's whole unit is now in jeopardy. And it doesn't help either Mary or Reardon when Bill suddenly turns up dead. Mary's Deputy-Director, Ted Altman, is pleased, wanting to undermine Mary as much as possible. Reardon denies involvement, but his own suspicions point to his impulsive brother, Michael.