Da Vinci’s Inquest - Season 3 Episode 3

Cory Wilkins, a squeegee kid, is beaten to death while washing a windshield. His girlfriend, Lily, happened upon the scene immediately following the beating and only caught a brief glimpse of a woman running away from the scene, that woman who either did the beating or possibly knows who did. They do find the woman, a junkie, who did witness the beating by the driver of the car she was chasing. They do identify the vehicle, which was reported stolen by its owner, Frank Carver. Leary, Shannon and Savoy recover some evidence from the found car and a possible murder weapon close to where the car was abandoned, which points to one probable suspect. Although the junkie girl cannot positively identify the suspect, Lily, who happened to be at the police station when the suspect is brought in, can. Da Vinci investigates the death of Janie Steadman, who was found in the aftermath of a house fire. Da Vinci rules the death accidental, the fire started by a tipped over candle. This information is insufficient for Janie's father, Morris Steadman, who wants to know exactly and everything that happened in his daughter's death. Not wanting to think that his daughter did anything wrong in her life (the autopsy identified cocaine in her system), Steadman hires a private investigator, Tom Sprawl, whose mandate seems to be to provide Steadman with the information he wants to hear. Sprawl seems to be working on his own motives. Back at the morgue, Patricia is facing a case of déjà vu – she is to perform an autopsy on a John Doe, but she swears she did an autopsy on that same man two days prior, that John Doe with a $50 bill in his right shoe, this John Doe with a $50 bill in his left shoe. Wayne backs up Patricia's memory of the situation. Are they going crazy or is there a plausible explanation for the two identical John Does? Da Vinci finds a piano for him and Patricia to buy as a present for Gabriella. The problem is getting the piano from its present location back to the house.