Da Vinci's Inquest/Must Be a Night for Fires

Must Be a Night for Fires
Season 7, Episode 13
Airdate	January 23, 2005
Written by	Chris Haddock & Sylvia Leung & Jesse McKeown
Directed by	Nicholas Campbell
← 7x12 Before They Twist the Knife	— N/A
Da Vinci's Inquest — Season Seven

Must Be a Night for Fires is the thirteenth episode of the seventh season of Da Vinci's Inquest, and the ninety-first episode overall.

Starring: Nicholas Campbell (Dominic Da Vinci), Ian Tracey (Detective Mick Leary), Gerard Plunkett (Chief Coroner Bob Kelly), Venus Terzo (Detective Angela Kosmo), Alex Diakun (Chick Savoy), Donnelly Rhodes (Detective Leo Shannon), Sarah-Jane Redmond (Sergeant Sheila Kurtz), Sarah Strange (Helen), Kim Hawthorne (Detective Rose Williams)

Also Appearing: Stephen E. Miller (Detective Zack McNab), Hrothgar Mathews (Sergeant Charlie Klotchko), Alisen Down (Dr. Maria Donato), Brian Markinson (Police Chief Bill Jacobs), John Cassini (Dino Rosario), Emily Perkins (Sue Lewis), Camille Sullivan (Detective Suki Taylor), Dhirendra (Sanjay Gohill), Fred Keating (Jack Pierce), Chris Britton (Richard Norton)

Co-Starring: Patrick Gallagher (Joe Finn), Veena Sood (Joyce Simkins), Cedric De Souza (Ted Fellows), Linda Darlow (Ferlinger), Viv Leacock (Simms), Terry Chen (William Chen), Tuan Phan (Vin), Samantha Ferris (Samantha Townsend), Dean Marshall (Constable Carter), Meghan Currie (Inmate), Kathryn Kirkpatrick (Corrections Officer), Francesco Alongi (Francesco), Dave Cameron (Paramedic), Leanne Adachi (Claire), Hayden Thomas (Doctor), Phoenix Ly (Guy), Elizabeth Thai (Lila), Ben Cotton (Anson), Braden Haggerty (Tremaine), Parm Soor (Sergeant Parmir), Michael Eklund (Horvath), Syndy De Silva (Nurse), Robin Richardson (Steven Dennison), Laurie Brunetti (Carmine)

Uncredited: Rajinder Singh Cheema (Rajinder Ahluwalia)

Plot Overview

Dominic plans to announce his run for Mayor, but must outsmart interim Joyce Simkins who strongly opposes his red light proposal.

A fire started at Kosmo's house may be tied to a man found immolated in his car.

Mick rushes to catch his lead suspect before he slips past the border.

Sue suffers an overdose in prison.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Someone starts a fire at Kosmo's. A body is later found burned in a car, the rags in the trunk matches those used on Kosmo's house. He is later identified as Trent Murphy.

• Mick confronts Simms that he lied about not knowing about Will's death and that he's using Vin to infiltrate his distribution network stateside. Simms then contacts Vin and tells him that he need to leave for Seattle. Mick catches Vin before he makes it, but get word from Jacobs that he has to let him go because he's valuable to the DEA. Mick sneaks him out and the Crown brings homicide charges against him.

• Sue has an overdose. She's taken to the hospital and later escapes.

• Sanjay confronts Dominic about sandbagging him. He agrees to back Dominic's red light district on the condition that he lays off Russ during his campaign.

• One of the robbers responsible for the bank robbery gets into an accident fleeing the scene of another robbery and is killed. It's found to be Dino.

Characters

• Dominic announces his run for Mayor at the site of his proposed red light district.

• Dominic gets Jacobs to give Leo full retirement benefits at an Inspector's rate in exchange for giving him the tape of he and Kurtz in the elevator he claims someone else on the force got.

• Zack returns to work.

Referbacks

• Dominic chides Carmine for that "phone thing again" as he did in "Better Go Herd Your Ducks".

Trivia

The Show

• The last appearance of Leo, Rose, Suki, Helen, and Sue.

Quotes

• Klotchko: Well, the Chief is not going to be happy about this. He is going to have your ass on the carpet.

Mick: Yeah, okay, well, you tell the Chief if he wants my ass, he can find it at the Coroner's Office from now on.