Da Vinci's City Hall/Zero to Sixty Pretty Quick

Zero to Sixty Pretty Quick
Season 1, Episode 1
Airdate	October 25, 2005
Written by	Chris Haddock
Directed by	Nicholas Campbell
— N/A	1x02 → Cat in a Tree, Lunatic in the Street
Da Vinci's City Hall — Season One

Zero to Sixty Pretty Quick is the first episode of the first season of Da Vinci's City Hall.

Nicholas Campbell (Mayor Dominic Da Vinci), Mylène Dinh-Robic (Rita Mah), Benjamin Ratner (Sam Berger), Ian Tracey (Mick Leary), Venus Terzo (Detective Angela Kosmo), Patrick Gallagher (Detective Joe Finn), Brian Markinson (Police Chief Bill Jacobs), Hrothgar Mathews (Sergeant Charlie Klotchko), Stephen E. Miller (Zack McNab)

Also Appearing: Eugene Lipinski (Lloyd Manning), Charles Martin Smith (Joe Friedland), Alex Diakun (Detective Chick Savoy)

Chris Britton (Richard Norton), Fred Keating (Jack Pierce), Kaären de Zilva (Forsythe), Rebecca Robbins (Marcie), Dee Jay Jackson (Lou), Zaib Shaikh (Shakil Khan), Gina Holden (Claire), Evan Adams (Jason Horne), Marco Soriano (Glenn), Sammy Fattedad (Roger Woo), Marcus Hondro (Witness), Johnson Phan (Man), Dan Jukich (Track Announcer), Robin J. Kelley (Mrs. Lundquist), Fagin Woodcock (Jim Layton), Simone Bailly (Constable #1), Colin Matthews (Constable #2), Elfina Luk (Protester), Rick Dobran (Reporter), Sarah Penikett (Tracy), Anita Brown (Suzette), Rajinder Singh Cheema (Ahluwalia)

Uncredited: Linda Darlow (Ferlinger)

Plot Overview

Recently elected Mayor Dominic Da Vinci has his plate full his first week. He must deal with the accusation of billionaire Lloyd Manning regarding losing an advertising contract. In addition to a gay-bashing incident, he also has to ease the tension between a group of squatters and the police.

Dominic and Chief of Police Bill Jacobs also butt heads over a violent incident between a patient at a halfway house and a few constables, which is being investigated by Homicide detectives Angela Kosmo and Joe Finn.

Coroner Lou and detective Chick point fresh Coroner Mick Leary to a site with the remains of young aboriginal boys.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• A man is attacked and found drowned in Stanley Park. Councillor Jason Horne wants it pursued as a hate crime because it happened in a well known gay stroll. Dominic puts in a call to Homicide and make them aware of the community's concern.

• Dominic meets Roger Woo from the breeder's association who hopes Dominic can save the racetrack and suggests adding slot machines.

• Lloyd Manning comes to Dominic to claim that he lost his bid to the advertising contract to Pacific Com because City Council's votes were bought. The campaign manager for the previous to administrations committed suicide, the only possible person who might know about Pacific's influence.

• Kosmo and Finn investigate a police shooting a halfway house for drug-addicted mental patients involving a machete. A witness claims he saw him attacking the dog when the police showed up. They find the dog has been picked up by the pound and a record for attacking. The attacks match with the victim's.

• Dominic meets with City Administrator Julia Forsythe to discuss cross-training firemen and police.

• Chick and Lou find small skeletal remains in the woods. Lou discovers skeletal remains were found five years ago in the same area and comes to Mick with it. He finds they were in close proximity and suspects they could be related. He searches missing persons and finds a couple of matches, a pair of 14-year-old native boys. Rumoured to have started in the sex trade, he talks with the Vice cop investigating it who heard someone rich might have been snapped them up.

• About 50 squatters, their de facto leader being a man named Joe Friedland from the Eastend Poverty Coalition, occupy an abandoned department store. Due to the poor conditions, they want housing or will remain in the building. Jacobs sends police to disperse them, but Dominic manages to get them to back off while he gives the squatters 24 hours to keep them off the streets until he can give them beds. Dominic suspects Jacobs has inserted an operative in the midst and sends Zack in to find out.

Characters

• Dominic successfully won the mayoral election has begun his first term.

• Mick is now the city coroner.

• Chick is now working in Homicide. In addition to confirming that Leo retired, he reveals that Rose moved back east.

• Kosmo has now been returned to Homicide with Finn now working as her partner.

• Zack has now retired.

Quotes

• Sam: Why don't you go talk to Jason. I'll see what the homeless guys want. Huh?

Dominic: You know what they want, don't you? They want homes.