Da Vinci's Inquest/Everybody Needs a Working Girl

Everybody Needs a Working Girl
Season 5, Episode 13
Airdate	February 23, 2003
Written by	Chris Haddock & Alan Di Fiore
Directed by	John Fawcett
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Da Vinci's Inquest — Season Five

Everybody Needs a Working Girl is the thirteenth episode of the fifth season of Da Vinci's Inquest, and the sixty-fifth episode overall.

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

Also Appearing: Emily Perkins (Sue Lewis) Camille Sullivan (Detective Suki Taylor), Joy Coghill (Portia Da Vinci) Colin Cunningham (Detective Brian Curtis)

Co-Starring: Leanne Adachi (Uniform #1), Enid-Raye Adams (Laura Maitland), Nathaniel De Veaux (Morris Steadman), Troy Healy (Rick), Fred Keating (Jack Pierce), Travis MacDonald (Shoeshine), Zook Matthews (Tow Driver), Stefany Mathias (Brenda Eberhart), Stephen Park (Rory), Oracle Arrand (Paramedic #1), Ray Galletti (Uniform #2), Jessica Lowry (Woman), D. Neil Mark (Uniform #4), Jim Tai (Kitchen Worker), T.T. (Laura Body Double), Kirsten Williamson (Uniform #3)

Plot Overview

Kurtz's neighbour is found in the trunk of her car, and again, her psychiatric history makes piecing together the circumstances that led to her death difficult.

Dominic gets news that Jack Pierce has pulled his support for the red light district.

Kosmo tries to bring Sue back to her side.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Maitland manages to evade surveillance and is found in the trunk of her car with a bag over her head and died of suffocation. There are a few anomalies, but most everything paints the picture that she staged the incident to substantiate her claim of being stalked and attacked. This is backed up by the fact that there was no footage of a second man leaving the parking garage, the dead man had no defensive wounds, and his knife matched one Rose saw in her apartment that's no longer there. It's believed she set everything up, assuming to be found, but died before that could happen.

• Steadman has his daughter's body exhumed.

• Jack caves into Curtis and publicly retracts his support for Dominic's red light district, infuriating him. This means he loses two additional councillors and his proposal is dead in the water. He believes someone put him up to and asks Brenda to find out, which she agrees.

• Kelly rejects publicly supporting Dominic's red light district in order to allow him to utilise the office and its resources to keep it pushed.

• After lashing out at him for not getting Brenda out, Curtis has Rick make sure not to have her say anything to anyone.

• Dominic runs into shoeshine again and tells him his friend was electrocuted after getting kicked out of his house and ran an extension chord out into the alley and it rained. With burial a bit expensive, shoeshine considers getting him cremated and spreading his ashes over the Lions Gate Bridge.

• Rose tells Leo that a couple of native were caught in Winnipeg robbing a gas station with the murder weapon in the back of their truck. They'll presumably be sent to Vancouver to face murder charges.

Characters

• Kosmo finds Sue and apologises. Sue tells her she's considering going away to Hawaii and quitting dope.

Trivia

The Show

• This episode marks the last appearance of Dominic's mother, Portia, in the series.

Quotes

• Jack Pierce: Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got a meeting to go to.

Dominic: A meeting. Hell is a meeting. That's what Hell is, a bunch of people sitting around a table, yap, yap, yap for centuries and doing sweet F.A. about it! Go to your meeting, buddy! Go to Hell!