Da Vinci's Inquest/Seven Tentacles

Seven Tentacles
Season 6, Episode 13
Airdate	April 4, 2004
Written by	Chris Haddock & Alan Di Fiore
Directed by	Nicholas Campbell
← 6x12 A Man When He's Down	7x01 → Not So Pretty Now
Da Vinci's Inquest — Season Six

Seven Tentacles is the thirteenth episode of the sixth season of Da Vinci's Inquest, and the seventy-eighth episode overall.

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

Also Appearing: Stephen E. Miller (Detective Zack McNab), Brian Markinson (Bill Jacobs), Fred Keating (Jack Pierce), Emily Perkins (Sue Lewis), Christianne Hirt (Donna), Alisen Down (Dr. Maria Donato), Kandyse McClure (Marla), Colin Cunningham (Detective Brian Curtis), Bill Dow (Mayor Russ Hathaway), Camille Sullivan (Detective Suki Taylor), Rob LaBelle (Phil Rosen), Leanne Adachi (Claire)

Co-Starring: Raugi Yu (Uniform #1), Dee Jay Jackson (Lou), Adrian Holmes (Uniform #2), Sonya Anand (Hotel Clerk #1), Nicole Rudell (Jan), Rick Tae (Ident #1), Peter Mustapic (Uniform #3), Robert Bruce (Uniform #4), Parnelli Parnes (Hotel Clerk #2), Rondel Reynoldson (Shelley Ryan), Ben Cotton (Tommy), Robert Luft (Carl), Ann Warn Pegg (Landlady), Tony Ali (Cabbie)

Plot Overview

As Dominic makes final preparations for his interview with the police board, Leo is tagged with a temporary partner to investigate the death of an American journalist.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Brian rents a garage where he retrieve the linoleum knife used on Rick. A constable catches him coming out, claiming he was seeing his mother. Suki hears about and since his mother's dead, she tells Mick and Kosmo about and takes them to it. They quietly go get a warrant.

• Brian picks up Sue to put the knife in Pierce's car. He tells her to go into his unlocked car, pop the trunk, and put it in. She pockets it instead.

• Dominic has his interview with the police board.

Characters

• Suki has been in an off-and-on relationship with a constable.

• Mick and Kosmo enjoy their relationship. Mick admits this is why he's passed on her offer to sleep on her couch, for fear of it leading something to spoil it.

• Pierce admits his recent trouble had him considering suicide via sleeping pills, but it was Dominic saying he'd meet him later that stopped him.

Referbacks

• Pierce recounts when Dominic warned him about his relationship with Brenda from "At First It Was Funny".