Da Vinci's Inquest/The Most Dangerous Time

The Most Dangerous Time
Season 1, Episode 9
Airdate	December 2, 1998
Written by	John Krizanc
Directed by	Alan Simmonds
← 1x08 Gabriel	1x10 → The Bridge
Da Vinci's Inquest — Season One

The Most Dangerous Time is the ninth episode of the first season of Da Vinci's Inquest.

Starring: Nicholas Campbell (Dominic Da Vinci), Sue Mathew (Dr. Sunita "Sunny" Ramen), Donnelly Rhodes (Detective Leo Shannon), Venus Terzo (Detective Angela Kosmo), Ian Tracey (Detective Mick Leary), Gwynyth Walsh (Dr. Patricia Da Vinci), Robert Wisden (Chief Coroner Dr. James Flynn)

Guest Starring: Max Martini (Danny Leary), John Tench (Leon), Cyrus Thiedeke (Peter Florick), Sean Day Michael (Connor French), Chilton Crane (Barbara Westerman), Emily Perkins (Carmen), Crystal Lowe (Shelley Dunne), Sarah Strange (Helen), Jewel Staite (Gabriella Da Vinci), Alex Diakun (Chick Savoy), Duncan Fraser (Staff Sgt. Regan)

Co-Starring: Enuka Okuma (Summer), Tony Sampson (David Crayling), Katey Wright (Dr. Rose), A.J. Bond (Keith), Sheelah Megill (Mrs. Shannon), Fulvio Cecere (Uniform #1), Peter Mustapic (Uniform #2), Michelle Wright (Jodie)

Uncredited: Gerard Plunkett (Bob Kelly)

Plot Overview

A high school girl is found shot at a party. The implications of it being suicide are clouded by rumours circulating around her boyfriend. Dominic's peak into teenage life during the investigation doesn't help his understanding of his daughter.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Leon tells Danny that he killed the narc.

Characters

• Patricia got an offer from the Atlanta Institute for Forensic Science to come out for a year, but she doesn't take it. However, she didn't tell Flynn. When asked where he fits in, Patricia tells him that she's starting to enjoy the freedom she didn't have when she was married.

• After talking to his wife on the phone about not her not remembering he dropped her off somewhere, he comes home to find she's using her keys on the wrong apartment door.

Trivia

The Show

• The closing credits of this episode are played over a closing scene of Dominic speaking in front of a student auditorium. This marks the only time in the series that does not close over footage of the Lions Gate Bridge.

Goofs

• When Dominic flipping through the diary in his office, the pages he's on change between shots.

Quotes

• Leo: You know, I've been to two dozen suicides by gunshot. In almost every damn one of them, the guys shoot themselves in the head and the girls shoot themselves in the heart.

Chick: The exception would have been my ex. She didn't have one.

• Dominic: What about you? When you were at school, were you a geek, or were you, uh, were you popular?

Helen: Well, everyone thinks they're a geek somewhere, even popular ones. I was popular with myself.

• Dominic: (speaking in front of a school assembly) If you make it to the age of 21, count yourself lucky because if drinking and driving doesn't kill you, you're lucky. If drugs don't get you, you're real lucky. If depression over the lack of a secure future, over a broken heart - if that doesn't get you, you're lucky. Now, if you are unlucky, that's when you meet me. And what I do is I have you stripped naked and then I lay you on a metal slab. My pathologists will cut open every organ in your body, and all your secrets are now open for the whole world to know.