Tue, Jan 11, 2005
On a dark and stormy night, a not too happy Da Vinci is wandering through a storm sewer, down which a dead body is floating. Because of the dark and circuitous route of the drain system, the city worker, the constables and Da Vinci are having trouble trying to locate the body. At City Hall, Council is dealing with two issues that have recently hit the media: the red light district proposal which has Da Vinci's name officially attached to it, and the Mayor's possible involvement in the hit and run death. Da Vinci tries to find out the scuttlebutt of who a possible replacement would be if the Mayor decided to step down. But he also receives an interesting proposal from the Mayor via Richard Norton. Regardless, Da Vinci tries to strengthen the case against the Mayor by speaking to his illegal alien housekeeper. Leary and Kosmo interview Ivan the Russian regarding Will Summers' death. Following that interview, Leary and Kosmo lose an important lead in the case. With Internal's investigation, Sue, denied bail, begins her pre-trial detention. With people on the employment move, Kurtz begins the process to evaluate Curtis' fitness as a Homicide detective, the process which includes Curtis accompanying Williams on a call. Kosmo feels that she is being pushed out of Homicide and contemplates using new information about an old case to bring Kurtz down with her. Shannon starts his temporary work in security at an upscale hotel. He catches some interesting activity on the hotel's security camera. And Rosario meets with the police union chief to discuss working for him as a civilian. Rosario quickly learns that there is more to the job than meets the eye.
Tue, Jan 18, 2005
Shannon continues his cooperative relationship with Anna de la Costa - the Mayor's housekeeper - who is being pursued by immigration officials. Da Vinci learns from Pierce that Council is contemplating pushing the Mayor out of office, leaving conservative Deputy Mayor Joyce Simkins as the leading candidate to replace him. However, Pierce thinks that his left leaning party would have a chance of winning the next election with Da Vinci as the mayoral candidate, an idea Da Vinci thinks ludicrous. But Da Vinci, with Kelly's assistance, plays both sides when he speaks further to Sandonovo and Gohill about the federal government's view of who and what they would like to see in City Hall. Also ludicrous in Da Vinci's mind is the City's new anti-panhandling by-law, but that doesn't stop him from being a victim of a panhandler. Williams and Curtis attend to a death they think is a suicide. The victim is known to Curtis. A mystery occurs in that investigation when important evidence goes missing. Sue's new friend in detention, Wendy Hopkins, shows her true colors when she has a visitor. "Bad cop" Marla checks in with Leary regarding the Will Summers case. Leary finally confronts Rob Simms with the DEA, who was the one who put Will under surveillance. Kurtz and Kosmo have a discussion about Kosmo's professional future. And Shannon shares with Da Vinci who and what he saw in the hotel's surveillance cameras.
Sun, Jan 23, 2005
Two suspicious fires are investigated. The first is a car fire which killed the car's occupant. And the second is on the exterior of Kosmo's house, the fire which took place while she was at home. Evidence indicates the two were set by the same person. Sue is rushed to hospital on a possible OD. As with all of Curtis' cases, the murder charges against Sue are going to be stayed of which she is unaware, leading to her taking an extraordinary measure while in the hospital. In preparation for the announcement of his candidacy for mayor, Da Vinci brings his team together to discuss his platform, including the controversial issues of expanding the number of safe injection sites and creating a red light district. However some leaked news indicates that there is a mole in Da Vinci's team working in part for his political foe and possible mayoral candidate, the acting mayor Joyce Simkins. Da Vinci uses this mole for his own purposes. He also learns he has an ally in the opposing camp. Leary accuses Simms of knowing and covering up that Tuan was behind Summers' death. Chick and Carter monitor Tuan's movement, thinking he is being aided by Simms to flee to the States while Leary tries to secure an arrest warrant to nab him before he flees. Leary receives pressure from Jacobs and Klotchko to do something he doesn't want to do in this case. What Leary decides to do is based on where he sees his professional future. And the perpetrator of a slew of bank robberies is found dead, the perpetrator well-known to those in the Police Department.