From the low track to the fast lane, from the back alleys to the corridors of power, join Dominic Da Vinci as he takes you behind the closed doors where the deals that shape the city are made and broken.

Da Vinci's City Hall. Same Da Vinci. Same Vancouver. More lives in the balance.

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Dominic Da Vinci has been elected Mayor of the City of Vancouver in a convincing win. The new one-hour dramatic series that has evolved from the critically acclaimed hit drama Da Vinci's Inquest.

Starring Nicholas Campbell as Mayor Dominic Da Vinci, the country's most controversial mayor, DA VINCI'S CITY HALL opens a new chapter in the life of the outspoken former coroner. Known as a man who advocates change and disruption of the status quo, Dominic Da Vinci's foray into city politics will upset the "old boys' network" that has held Vancouver in its grasp for the last hundred years. The series expands its roots from the medical, legal and police procedural world to include politics and power. Dynamic, realistic and gritty, DA VINCI'S CITY HALL is a no-holds-barred dramatic portrayal of a city, and its citizens.

While the show resides at City Hall, it lives and breathes in the multicultural communities of Vancouver as both its setting and substance. The cast of DA VINCI'S CITY HALL includes many recognizable Da Vinci's Inquest alumni including Ian Tracey, Venus Terzo, Stephen E. Miller and Brian Markinson, as well as new and dynamic players such as Mylene Dinh-Robic, Ben Ratner, and Evan Adams.

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In a Chinatown restaurant, Leary warns Clarke Messner about pedophile suspect James Dubreau: he's a powerful and well-connected developer who donated land for a crucial youth centre that would help the street kids Messner works with. If Leary goes after Dubreau, the plans for the youth centre are likely to fall through.

Elsewhere in the city, Da Vinci finds more trouble brewing in the Red Zone. A citizen's group is harrassing the hookers and johns by taking their photos.

A new day brings new developments: the Red Zone protestors appear to be a front group as none of them own property in the area. Meanwhile, Dubreau's lawyer, Richard Norton, pays Leary a visit and assures him that Dubreau is willing to cooperate in any way he can. Worried that Dubreau has gotten wind of his investigation, Leary decides to take the case to homicide on the slimmest of threads--a rope fibre suggesting that one of the boys was bound. He also interviews a former street hustler, Manny Zappata, who once accused Dubreau of trying to drug him. According to Zappata, he was also threatened by a police officer who had previously arrested him but was now working for Dubreau. Leary checks Zappata's arrest records and discovers that the officer involved was none other than Brian Curtis.

Trouble starts brewing in the grow-op shooting case when Fire and Rescue learns of Ferris' claims of seeing a fire notice at the grow-op. When an irate Komori claims that he did not post a notice and that he's being scapegoated for the botched police raid, Da Vinci convenes a meeting with the heads of both the police and fire departments and insists that they work together on his grow-op initiative. Behind the scenes, Klotchko meets with Ferris and assures her that he knows how they can "make this work."

Another crisis looms on the waterfront when the Port Authority threatens to seek an injunction against the Crab Park squatters. Meanwhile, Lloyd Manning conspires to flip his newly acquired racetrack to Roger Woo, despite his promises otherwise. Da Vinci, however, has his hands full trying to arrange for the Prime Minister to tour the Red Zone during an upcoming visit to Vancouver. He again enlists the aid of Paula Hunter from the sex trade workers' union. Paula tells him the trade will return to the zone if Da Vinci can keep the cops and citizen's groups from harassing the girls. To this end, Da Vinci meets with Billie Simms. He has guessed that she is funding the Red Zone protestors and tells her that any plans she has for waterfront development are contingent on her support of the Red Zone. Billie agrees to do what she can.

The tenuous peace is disturbed by a sinister revelation: a second search of the grow-op crime scene has turned up the missing fire notice.

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Brian Curtis gets a call: someone has a job that needs taking care of. A short time later, a wiry figure clambers up the fire escape of the Coroner's Office and breaks into Leary's office. In the morning, Leary discovers that his laptop--containing sensitive notes about the pedophile case--has been stolen...

In their on-going policy wars, Da Vinci and Chief Jacobs both maneuver for the upper hand. Da Vinci confides to Bob Kelly that the recently discovered fire notice might have been planted and that Jacobs is exploiting the situation to argue against police - fire cooperation. Jacobs, meanwhile, tries to gain some positive press for the police department by putting Vera on media point regarding the missing women's case. The spin: the police could not have known about the gravity of the missing women situation because the department's missing persons unit has been under-funded for over a decade. Da Vinci, meanwhile, spins some favorable exposure of his own for the Red Zone by arranging for a reporter to tour the area. His ultimate goal: convince the Prime Minister to visit the zone during his up-coming swing out west.

Klotchko continues with his damage control of the grow-op shooting incident and his campaign against cross-training. He offers Const. Ferris a job in Winnipeg to get her out of the picture, and advises union reps Forrest and Sweeney to spread the word that cross-training is tantamount to union-busting.

Leary catches a break when Sex Crimes turns up more photos of the missing boys, Garth and Dennis. A hotel robe crest in one of the photos is later matched to the Century Club, a private club for the city's wealthiest business people and socialites. But the case hits another snag when the main suspect, Dubreau, enlists Brian Curtis to intimidate the witnesses against him. Suddenly, neither Manny Zappata nor Clarke Messner is interested in testifying against Dubreau.

In the gay-bash case; more evidence mounts against the high school student, Katie, when she is arrested for assaulting another girl. The assault victim, Alison, tells Carter and Lineham that she was attacked by Katie for talking to the police. According to Alison, everybody at school knew that Katie was the instigator of the gay-bashing. Down at the Crab Park squat, Zack becomes suspicious of Friedland's identity when a man they meet in a grocery is convinced Friedland is a former high school teacher named Mike Franklin. Zack has a constable run the names Friedland and Franklin and discovers that Friedland died as an infant and that Mike Franklin was a former teacher who disappeared in a boating incident. Meanwhile, Billie Simms presents a waterfront development plan which shows a cruise ship terminal built on Crab Park. Da Vinci in turn shows the development model to Chief Fred Joseph whose native band has title to the waterfront land. Chief Joseph is none too pleased to see Crab Park gone.

The day comes to a close with a plan to placate Chief Jacobs with an offer of fifty new police officers--funded by the projected slot machine revenues. After hearing from City Administrator Forsythe that the scheme will work if money from the slots is funnelled into general revenues, Da Vinci reveals the last part of his plan to Berger and Rita: the new officers will come with conditions stipulating where they will work - the red zone, or on the grow-op initiative with the firemen.

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The Organized Crime report on the grow-op shooting drops a bombshell: a fire inspection notice tipped off the grower to an impending raid, giving him time to barricade and arm himself. When Komori insists on an independent investigation to exonerate himself, Fire Chief Welles takes the case to the Police Complaints Commissioner. Da Vinci tries to intervene to avert a war between the fire and police but is told that as head of the Police Board, his involvement would appear to be politically motivated. The probe will go ahead.

The constables involved in the shooting, Ferris, Jones, and Winters, meanwhile, have grown uneasy about their situation. Although they have not been reinstated to full duty, they decide they will attend Const. Tremaine's funeral in uniform. Winters, however, tips Klotchko that Ferris is going to the funeral. Klotchko races to the church and steers Ferris away by telling her that Tremaine's parents don't want her there. Ferris warns Klotchko that she wants to land on her feet--in Vancouver, not Winnipeg. Klotchko assures her that he'll find her something good.

Leary's pedophile case is complicated by the involvement of Chief Jacobs. Sensing positive press for the police, Jacobs gives the case priority. Leary also gets help from an unexpected source: Brian Curtis pays him a visit and volunteers to dish up dirt on prime suspect James Dubreau. Leary discusses the developments with Kosmo and Finn and Sgt. Kurtz. They conclude that even if Curtis is not to be trusted, he might yet be useful.

At City Hall, Rita finally succeeds in getting a 'yes' from Sandra Ferlinger on the slots issue. With her support, Da Vinci is confident of winning the vote and schedules it for the next council meeting. He also manages to finally speak with the Prime Minister, and they make tentative plans to meet. Across town, Chief Jacobs is also angling for the PM's time and attention.

A visit from Bob Kelly convinces Da Vinci that the best way to handle Chief Jacobs is to let Jacobs appear to be the one who is interfering. But whether Da Vinci's strategy will pay off remains to be seen: Berger enters with disturbing news from the fire department: half the shifts have called in sick.

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The rift between fire and police appears to be widening: a distraught woman jumps from a building and the police suggest they might have saved her if a ladder truck had arrived sooner. Da Vinci's limo is stopped in the ensuing road block and Leary tells Da Vinci about the time discrepancy between when the police claim to have called Fire and Rescue and the time the ladder truck arrived. Da Vinci is preoccupied, however, with the Prime Minister's impending visit. He is so far only invited to a dinner with 200 other guests and has not been able to get a hold of the Prime Minister's schedule nor a firm commitment to tour the red zone.

Chief Jacobs, too, is jockeying for the Prime Minister's ear and manages to get in on a luncheon with the PM. Bob Kelly reports back to Da Vinci that Jacobs criticized Da Vinci's safe injection site and red zone initiatives to the PM, and it does not appear now that the red zone tour will happen.

In the grow-op shooting case, Da Vinci tries one last time to dissuade Complaints Commissioner Kaspar from pursuing his investigation. When Kaspar insists on going ahead, Da Vinci reminds Fire Chief Welles that the fire department must accept the results of Kaspar's probe, even if they are not exonerated as they expect. The police, meanwhile, scramble to cover their tracks. Klotchko warns Ferris about the new probe and counsels her to refer the investigators to her lawyer. She can also plead post-traumatic stress disorder. If all goes well, he has a job lined up for her as coroner's liaison. Klotchko promises Ferris that after a year or so, she will be granted full reinstatement.

Leary gets evidence that the pedophile ring is still active when Brian Curtis introduces him to an underage hustler who says he was recently taken to the Century Club. The case is jeopardized, however, when Jacobs decides he wants to make a speedy arrest. Leary tells Jacobs that if they arrest Dubreau now, the others involved in the ring will likely scatter. Jacobs agrees to hold off for a few days more.

Back at City Hall, the crucial slots vote is defeated when an opposition councillor returns unexpectedly from vacation and Sandra Ferlinger reneges on her promise to vote in favour. To make matters worse, Berger learns that Lloyd Manning flipped the track to Roger Woo just before the vote. When Woo threatens to flip the track again and demands casino licences to keep the track afloat, Councillors Ferlinger and Solomon come up with a scheme of declaring Hastings Park a Class A heritage site to prevent Woo from selling it or running it into the ground. Ahluwalia also reveals that Woo has been secretly assembling land for a new track in Delta and never intended to make Hastings Park a success. Da Vinci skips the dinner with the PM and pulls an all-nighter with his councillors to hash out the heritage designation by morning.

All seems to have worked out when the Prime Minister decides to tour the red zone after all. But Da Vinci and the PM pull up to the gates only to discover a police situation inside: a dispute between a john and a prostitute has ended in homicide.

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Picking up where the previous episode left off, the Prime Minister is whisked away from the red zone homicide. Details of the murder are still sketchy: an unidentified john has been found stabbed to death in his car, with no leads with regard to motive or suspects. Berger arrives on the scene and tries to coordinate damage control, but he is undermined by Klotchko who immediately informs the national press.

In the morning, the red zone murder is the lead story across the country, and Da Vinci is besieged by outraged calls for the zone's closure. Councillors Solomon and Khan approach Da Vinci with their fears of a lawsuit and threaten to bring up a motion in council to close the zone. Not long after, a civil suit against the city and Da Vinci is indeed filed by the victim's widow and anti-red zone crusader, Mina Basra.

Elsewhere, trouble and complications abound. Roger Woo, irate over the Hastings Park heritage designation, insists that the City buy back his lease. A distinctive birthmark appearing in one of the pedophile photos links Dubreau to the missing boys, but the investigation is threatened by Jacobs' desire for a speedy arrest. In the gay-bashing case, teen suspect Katie has implicated two adult men for the crime, but they in turn accuse her of being the instigator. Friedland confronts Zack about being an undercover operator, but Zack in turn confronts Friedland about his false identity. Zack admits that he was once working for the mayor, but professes that he has been on his own ticket the past few weeks. Friedland, meanwhile, confesses that he is Mike Franklin, a former teacher turned banker who embezzled tens of millions of dollars from his employers. The two agree that it is for the best if neither of them goes public with what they know about the other.

Complaints Commissioner Kaspar's probe into the grow-op shooting is stone-walled at every turn by a lack of cooperation from the police. Da Vinci takes this opportunity to ask Kaspar if he will investigate all of Chief Jacobs' insubordinations. When Kaspar explains that he does not have a mandate to investigate Jacobs, Da Vinci begins to collect his own evidence against the chief and enlists the help of Downtown Eastside lawyer, Phil Rosen.

The situation boils over when Kaspar's team shows up at Komori's firehall to search his office. Furious that the investigation meant to exonerate him is now targeting him, Komori refuses to let the investigators in and is arrested for obstruction. Chief Welles arrives just as Komori is being led away in handcuffs. Da Vinci and Kaspar also converge on the scene while Welles and the other firemen surround the investigators' car, chanting, "take the cuffs off, take the cuffs off!"

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In a clandestine meeting at the Granville Island fish docks, an old friend warns Da Vinci that he is being set up to take a fall. Disapproving of Da Vinci's policies toward the safe injection site, the Crab Park squat, and the red zone, the Solicitor General is scheming to come after Da Vinci in an effort to ultimately take over control of the city police. Da Vinci soon learns the form the attack will take: Police Complaints Commissioner Kaspar begins a new investigation, sanctioned by the Solicitor General, whose mandate includes Da Vinci's relationship with Chief Jacobs.

In the original grow-op shooting probe, Kaspar returns an inconclusive verdict citing non-cooperation from both police and fire, and the reaction to his decision is swift. Fire Captain Komori leads a protest in which the city firemen wear civilian clothes instead of their uniforms. Chief Jacobs, meanwhile, orders an internal investigation of Constables Ferris, Winters, and Jones to remove any suspicion of obstruction from himself.

Jacobs' eagerness to make a speedy and high-profile arrest in the pedophile case backfires when Brian Curtis warns suspect James Dubreau, giving Dubreau time to flee the country. Despite the setback, Leary, Kosmo, and Finn make headway in the case when the Century Club is raided and its records seized. Finn later discovers that the club has been arranging safe passage to Costa Rica for other known pedophiles.

Progress is also made in the red zone murder. Chick uncovers a previous relationship between the dead john and the prostitute who attacked him, suggesting that the murder was a domestic dispute. The mystery behind Mina Basra's civil lawsuit in the case is also clarified when Berger finds out that Mina Basra's cousin is married to Billie Simms' sister-in-law, and that Basra's lawyer is Simms' ex-husband. Da Vinci confronts Simms and tells her that approval of her waterfront development is contingent on her support of the red zone. He also suggests that she might be behind the Port Authority's harrassment of the Crab Park squatters. Simms tells Da Vinci he has over-estimated her influence. Zack, however, has gotten wind that the horsemen are indeed getting ready to clear the squat out. Da Vinci decides to put the squatters in an abandoned hotel across from the police station.

Another disaster appears to be looming for Da Vinci when Lloyd Manning finds evidence that he lost his coveted city ad contract because of bribery on council. A teary Sandra Ferlinger then gives up Jack Pierce who admits to his wrongdoing. Manning, however, brings good tidings: he doesn't want to bring down the city, he just wants Da Vinci's help in getting the ad contract back. If Da Vinci can deliver, Manning can deliver the Prime Minister, and as long as the PM is in Da Vinci's corner, the Solicitor General poses no threat.

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The prostitute in the red zone murder turns herself in, but the damage to Da Vinci now seems irreversible. Councilors Khan and Solomon threaten to introduce a motion in Council calling for the red zone's closure. The Solicitor General, meanwhile, appears to be using the red zone issue to try and rest control of the police away from the mayor. Da Vinci gets wind of the plan when Fire Captain Komori warns him that there are new investigators "casting their nets a little wider." Moments later, Da Vinci learns that lawyers have arrived to search his offices, armed with a warrant to seize any correspondence between Da Vinci and Chief Jacobs.

When Da Vinci confronts Police Complaints Commissioner Kaspar about the new investigation, Kaspar reveals that Chief Jacobs has filed a complaint of harassment and obstruction against Da Vinci. To support his case, Jacobs has secretly been feeding the Solicitor General's office evidence that Da Vinci initiated red zone and cross-training policies without Police Board approval. Da Vinci's cross-training memos are also leaked to the police and fire unions who immediately begin planning a retaliation.

In the internal police probe into the grow-op shooting, Klotchko scrambles to cover his tracks. He suggests to Const. Winters and Jones that they misunderstood him if they thought he told them to be non-cooperative with any investigators. He urges them now to be fully forthcoming, especially with regard to any irregularities involving Const. Ferris. The internal investigation subsequently recommends that Ferris be placed under psychiatric observation.

The stakes are raised in the pedophile case despite the escape of prime suspect Dubreau to Costa Rica. Brian Curtis convinces witness Manny Zappata to leave the country, and tries to intimidate witnesses Messner and Mason to do the same. Mason, however, reveals to Leary how boys were secretly brought to the Century Club. He also identifies Cody Bell as a boy who ran away from the Club to resist a sexual assault and was then killed by a car. Based on this testimony, Leary decides Cody Bell's death can now be ruled a homicide.

All the backroom maneuvering comes to a head on the eve of the annual Policemen's Ball. Although the mayor is traditionally the keynote speaker, Da Vinci is disinvited and replaced by none other than the Solicitor General. When Chief Jacobs asks for assurance that Da Vinci will indeed make himself absent, Da Vinci decides to crash the party. His plan is foiled, however, by a police union picket line outside the hall. Cut off at the pass, Da Vinci can only retreat into the night.

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In the season finale, Da Vinci finds himself beseiged by problems with his red zone and grow-op initiatives, a Solicitor General's investigation against him, and a rancorous relationship with his chief of police. To placate the rank-and-file of both police and fire who are angered that cross-training will result in job cuts, Da Vinci meets with the heads of both unions and reiterates his promise of 50 new jobs, 20 of which will go to cross-trained firemen.

In the public eye, Da Vinci is still taking a beating. Frustrated with negative press, he accuses one newspaper editor, Martha Mellors, of taking editorial direction from the Solicitor General's office and asks for more balanced reporting in the future. When Mellors subsequently calls Da Vinci "a thug" in print, he orders her unlicenced newspaper boxes to be pulled from the streets.

Chief Jacobs, meanwhile, schemes with Solicitor General Ito to further undermine Da Vinci's power. Ito assures Jacobs that he will use the Police Board to reign Da Vinci in. If the Police Board is unable to comply, Ito will replace it with new members opposed to Da Vinci's policies. Soon thereafter, Ito pays Da Vinci a visit and directs him to allow both the Police Board and the Solicitor General's office to have input into his policing policies.

A break in the grow-op shooting investigation, however, gives Da Vinci a chance for a counter-offensive. Leary alerts Da Vinci of evidence that the plywood cover at the grow-op crime scene was removed on two occasions, suggesting that someone may have entered and planted the fire inspection notice that was subsequently found by Chick Savoy. Da Vinci quickly informs the police and fire unions as well as Complaints Commissioner Kaspar about Leary's impending bombshell. He also asks Komori to start putting together the cooperative police-fire task force on grow-ops. When the news breaks that the notice was planted, Da Vinci wants to ensure that police and fire are working together.

Alarmed by the implication that he was involved in a cover-up of the planted notice, Chief Jacobs instructs Klotchko to make certain that Const. Ferris takes full responsibility. Ferris, however, begins wilting under the pressure, and Klotchko arranges for her to hide out in his remote vacation cabin. But before she can leave, Inspector Arkin arrives at her apartment with a warrant. In the ensuing search, Arkin finds a pad of blank fire inspection notices. Klotchko then advises Ferris that the only way for her to avoid criminal prosecution is to take sole responsibility and seek psychiatric care.

Da Vinci has won one battle, but all is not well in his Vancouver. He learns that his ally Lloyd Manning has been conspiring to monopolize the advertising industry for over a decade. In the gay-bashing case, two adult men will stand trial for hate crimes, but the high school girl who may have been the main instigator will likely go unpunished. Pedophile suspect James Dubreau returns to Canada and is arrested, but not before the murder of one of the witnesses against him. Councillors Khan and Solomon defect from Da Vinci's Civic Alliance to sit as independents. Eastside Advocacy lawyer Phil Rosen is beaten by police. A few blocks away, Zack discovers Friedland has fallen into bad habits and is down twenty big ones in a backroom poker game.

As Season One concludes, Chief Jacobs makes a peace offering, but it is summarily rejected by Da Vinci. Then, as the mayor tries to share an evening drink with aides Berger and Rita, fire engines and police cars converge on City Hall in protest of the grow-op cover-up, promising that the remainder of Da Vinci's term will be no less tumultuous than its beginnings.

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