About this season
Anthology crime series penned by some of the foremost contemporary Italian noir writers (Camilleri, Faletti, De Cataldo, Carofiglio, Lucarelli, Fois...)
Episodes (8)
1. Too Many Misunderstandings
Aired 6 December 2006 • 99 min
One Sunday morning in Catania, Bruno Costa, an employee of a telephone company, goes to the house of Anna Zanchi, the woman he is madly in love with, and finds her butchered corpse. Afraid of being accused of the murder, Bruno runs away. The police commissioner Giacomo Chimenti arrives at the crime scene and is entrusted with the investigation. Based on the homonymous story by Andrea Camilleri.
2. Teresa's Lair
Aired 13 December 2006 • 102 min
In Naples Luigi Reale, a young carabiniere, investigates a robbery involving Marco Portosalvo's runaway gangster, now hiding in the house of his neighbor Teresa. Based on the story of the same name by Diego De Silva.
3. Quickly
Aired 20 December 2006 • 107 min
Only four days, but one that runs fast. Four characters, and symmetrical to each other. Everyone has to act, but they have to do it very quickly. Written by Carlo Lucarelli.
4. Shock Therapy
Aired 27 December 2006 • 101 min
On his mother's deathbed, a boy discovers he has a brother. What he will discover on his journey to the Island of Elba will be a chilling truth: his brother was murdered as a child.
5. The Child and the Befana
Aired 3 January 2007 • 101 min
Close to the Epiphany Piazza Navona is full of people. So much so that for Adriana, kidnapping little Carletto from his mother Laura is child's play.
6. Death of a Confidant
Aired 12 January 2007 • 107 min
Giulio Campagna is a policeman with a long experience and not always polite manners. Following an investigation that went badly he swore to himself that he would never again use information from confidants. But the boss gives him another such mission.
7. The Last Gag
Aired 31 August 2007 • 102 min
Samuele was a famous comedian. He and Luca, his partner on the scene, had a moment of great popularity. Then Samuele started drinking. Caterina, his wife, left him for Luca. Over the years, Samuele has a small restaurant. But one evening Luca is assassinated... Based on the story of the same name by Sandrone Dazieri.
8. Blood Drawing
Aired 21 December 2007 • 102 min
As soon as he landed in Cagliari from Civitavecchia, Commissioner Giacomo Curreli finds himself faced with two realities: the distrust of his new workmates and a murder that apparently no one wants to solve. (Written by Marcello Fois and Giancarlo de Cataldo)