Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci was a suspect in the murder investigation of torturer Mateo Arias in Hell to Pay (Case #12 of Travel in Time), prior to which he was mentioned during the events of The Talking Dead (Case #8 of Mysteries of the Past) and four more cases in Travel in Time.

Profile
It is known that Da Vinci knows anatomy and plays Triumph.

The 1960s
Seeing that T.I.M.E. had not picked the team up although they had sent Chief Scott a letter and had set up the homing beacon, the team decided to prepare for their backup plan. When asked for it, Kai insisted that the coding formula of the time machine was sabotaged. He then asked the team to get "Ruminations On Time", the treatise Da Vinci wrote in 1512 on which time travel was based, for him so he would understand the formula. By using S.A.R.A.'s network, the team found out that the treatise was recently auctioned off to Hollywood actress Lorna Westerberg.

After arresting Lorna’s killer, the team discovered that she had bought the treatise for Soviet ambassador Lev Romanov. They were then able to get catburglar Nicoletta Marconi teamed up with the team to steal the treatise, asking the team to meet her outside the Washington, D.C.

There, after the arrest of Lev’s killer, Nicoletta told the team that she had found the treatise and kept it behind some bushes in the embassy driveaway. Unfortunately, the pages with the needed formula were missing. The team then decided to travel to Renaissance France to get help from Da Vinci himself regarding the formula.

A Tudor Murder
After arresting Queen Catherine of Aragon’s killer, Penelope and the player asked French musketeer Alexandre Devereaux, who (alongside Da Vinci) was working for King Francis I, regarding Da Vinci’s whereabouts. Devereaux then informed them that Da Vinci never showed up at the French royal court two months prior and that Francis suspected King Henry VIII of wanting to steal Da Vinci. Devereaux then suggested them to intercept the communications between the King and his spies.

In the royal palace, the team found a coded message, which (per Orlando) stated that Da Vinci was arrested by Spanish Inquisition. Knowing that the Inquisition had been using violent measures, they rushed to Spain to save him from the Inquisition.

Trivia

 * Outside the Criminal Case universe, Leonardo da Vinci was a renown Italian polymath during the Renaissance period.
 * Leonardo is one of the characters who animate (or move) during at least one cutscene in the game.

Case appearances

 * The Talking Dead (Case #8 of Mysteries of the Past; mentioned)
 * Houston, We Have a Problem (Case #8 of Travel in Time; mentioned)
 * What Happens in Vegas... (Case #9 of Travel in Time; mentioned)
 * Crime and Punishment (Case #10 of Travel in Time; mentioned)
 * A Tudor Murder (Case #11 of Travel in Time; mentioned)
 * Hell to Pay (Case #12 of Travel in Time)