Da Vinci's City Hall

In his first week as mayor, Da Vinci must deal with an apparent gay-bashing death; squatters in an abandoned department store; and a local tycoon upset over losing a city contract. Kosmo and Finn investigate the police shooting of a recovering mental patient. Leary links two missing aboriginal boys to skeletal remains found in the woods.

A war of words heats up between Da Vinci and Police Chief Jacobs over a police shooting at a halfway house. Zack goes undercover with a group of squatters. Leary uncovers a suspected pedophile ring preying on aboriginal boys.

Da Vinci gives the go-ahead to establish the Red Light zone despite the opposition of Chief Jacobs and community groups. Ferris and her cohorts plan another grow-op bust only to find their target cleared out. Finn and Kosmo investigate the drive-by shooting of a teacher on his way to school. Detective Carter gets a lead in the gay-bashing case.

Things are finally going Da Vinci's way: the newly established Red Light zone is operating smoothly; both Lloyd Manning and Roger Woo are interested in buying the racetrack; the homeless squatters have moved to Crab Park; and one of the candidates for the police chief job assures Da Vinci of the viability of cross-training fire and police.

Da Vinci and Chief Jacobs negotiate a tenuous compromise on the level of police cooperation with the Crab Park squat, the Red Light zone, and the Fire Department initiative of posting notices on grow houses. But when a grow-op raid goes tragically wrong, the police circle the wagons to protect their own.

Da Vinci must defuse an impending war between the city's most powerful unions when the Police suggest that a Fire Department inspection notice tipped off a grow operator to an impending raid, causing an officer's death. Leary's investigation of a pedophile ring leads to a prominent developer and an old nemesis.