Da Vinci's Inquest/Be a Cruel Twist

Be a Cruel Twist
Season 4, Episode 9
Airdate	January 6, 2002
Written by	Frank Borg & Alan Di Fiore & Chris Haddock
Directed by	John Fawcett
← 4x08 Sixes and Sevens	4x10 → Simple, Sad
Da Vinci's Inquest — Season Four

Be a Cruel Twist is the ninth episode of the fourth season of Da Vinci's Inquest, and the forty-eighth episode overall.

Nicholas Campbell (Dominic Da Vinci), Suleka Mathew (Dr. Sunita "Sunny" Ramen), Gerard Plunkett (Chief Coroner Bob Kelly) (credit only), Sarah-Jane Redmond (Sergeant Sheila Kurtz), Donnelly Rhodes (Detective Leo Shannon), Venus Terzo (Detective Angela Kosmo), Ian Tracey (Detective Mick Leary), Gwynyth Walsh (Dr. Patricia Da Vinci) (credit only)

Guest Starring: Jay Brazeau (Daniel Dupont), Brendan Fletcher (Gary), Kim Hawthorne (Rose Williams), John Shaw (Alex Mills), Chang Tseng (Mr. Yu), Sarah Strange (Helen), Alex Diakun (Chick Savoy), Nancy Sivak (Sarah Mills), Nathaniel DeVeaux (Morris Steadman), Dan Joffre (Emilio Hildalgo), Terry Chen (William Chen), Doug Abrahams (Fire Investigator)

Robert Harper (Gordon), Mercedes De La Zerda (Alberta Vale), Thomas De Shutter (Uniform #1), Caley Honeywell (Uniform #2), Jim S. Smith (Booth Attendant)

Plot Overview

Dominic tries to figure out what caused a fire that claimed the life of a father and son.

Kosmo shifts her focus towards finding out what happened to Alex Mills's wife.

Leo and Mick are called into the dig site when one of the skeletons is found with a bullet hole in its skull.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• At least 12 boxes are found and revealed to be what the bones are contained in while they're being waited to be shipped back to China. Homicide is called to investigate the dig site when one of the uncovered skeletons is found with a hole in its skull.

• Chen reaches out on behalf of the Chinese Benevolent Association to see the bodies of those dug up are returned and buried. He sets up an interview with Homicide and they learn the place where the skeletons were found was burned down in 1907 on the night of a riot against Chinese immigrants. It's later confirmed the murder victim was not part of the other skeletons found.

• Kosmo gets a warrant to bust up the basement of one of Alex's former houses, just as his wife, Sarah, shows up. However, forensics finds a skeleton. After identifying the remains, Kosmo interviews the woman's sister and suggests she might have been rolled up in the Mills's welfare scam or something else. Kurtz signs off on a surveillance warrant with Danny Leary being the undercover operative.

• Dominic calls in Steadman, who's been drinking, and tries to get him to having a conversation with Mister Dupont due to have gone through something similar.

Characters

• Sunny and Mick's relationship is clearly beginning to sour. At the site, she almost never directly addresses or looks at Mick. He explains to Leo that they're not getting along too well. This is made clear when they talk soon after.

Quotes

• Kosmo: Chick, I gotta shut this down. The guy's wife turned up alive.

Chick: She showed up?

Kosmo: Yeah. You gotta wrap this up.

Chick: Okay. What do you want me to do with that skeleton I found in there?