Detective Montalbano: Episode 37 [DVD]

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I have been rewatching the series in preparation for the grand finale and recently watched that episode where they toast Pasquano with cannoli. We learn that the murder victim was Carmelo Catalanotti, a strange man who divided his time between loan-sharking and overseeing Trinacriate, a cult-like theater group of aspiring thespians who so revere their leader that they are willing to do anything he says. The Rizzitanos were a violent family, but Lillo was a bookish and gentle youth who was repelled by the behaviour of his own family. Multiple new sources, including the daily newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano, quote Angelo Russo confirming two more episodes for the series in a June 2021 interview with Tele Iblea news.

Montalbano receives a visit from Ernesto Sabatello who brings him some films shot for six consecutive years by Sabatello's deceased father, which always depict the same thing: the fixed shot of a wall. After negotiating a series of red herrings and lies, he realizes that Nicotra’s death and the attack on Piscopo are connected through a group of six construction companies owned by mafia families who are colluding on public construction contracts. Among the butlers in livery, Montalbano's barons and queens are a bit uncomfortable, while "an unknown person" breaks into Montalbano's house at Marinella three times: they do not steal anything but turn everything upside down, they seem to be looking for something. At the completion of the investigation, Montalbano and Augello spend the evening celebrating the end of Augello's life as a bachelor, and Fazio plucks up the courage to invite Barbara to go out with him on a date. On a computer it can be done, but it would be nice if there was a DVD version that could be viewed in Europe.The investigation, already complicated by the impossibility of identifying the body found, becomes even more intricate due to the reporting by the beautiful Dolores of the disappearance of her husband, a maritime officer, related to the mafia family of Balduccio Sinagra.

Montalbano investigates a brutal attack on a young woman, who manages to drive herself to the entrance to an apartment block, where her naked body is found wrapped in a blood-soaked towel. Inspector Montalbano is sought out by a distraught man who is unable to contact his retired elderly parents. He was taken ill during the filming of three new episodes in 2019 and Luca Zingaretti took over the direction. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.The episode opens with Montalbano's discovery, in an abandoned villa, of the naked body of Michela Licalzi, a young woman who was married to a wealthy and complaisant older man. Montalbano comes under pressure from his superiors as the politicians involved in the two cases deplore his attitude and his handling of the cases.

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Montalbano discovers that Sanfilippo had recently rented and remodelled an outbuilding on land belonging to the missing couple. Catarella is hopelessly committed to solving crossword puzzles and rebus and Montalbano reads a novel by Simenon when he is unexpectedly forced to play the Bruce Willis partin an American movie. It also created a spike in tourism in Sicily, dubbed the “Montalbano Effect,” that locals worry may now be in jeopardy. Having been found, Montalbano discovers that the mafia war that erupted between the families is not due to issues of succession to power, but because the young foreigner having fallen in love, reciprocated, with the husband of the daughter of one of the gang leaders which unleash jealousy and then the physical elimination. Montalbano discovers that the boy has survived on his own for several days by stealing snacks from other children at his school.

Montalbano dreams that he is in an old quarry with a box containing the corpse of his boss, Bonetti Alderighi, with Catarella muttering in Latin. Penguin Books: New York, 2016 and "Come contò Aulo Gellio" in Un mese con Montalbano by Andrea Camilleri (not yet translated into English). But time is running out and Montalbano goes to the police station, where the owner of some Vigata fishing boats shows up in his office, telling him "to suspect" that two of his fishing boats are involved in drug trafficking. A month previously, however, Barletta fell in love with a new girl, to whom he promised a large sum of money and a house, and on the day of the murder he was about to change his will in her favour.

Montalbano, after numerous clues, find that the accountant Gargano after stealing money and killing his partner went to the house of his secretary, who, feeling sorry for him because he was having a severe mental breakdown after doing what he did, and to spare him suffering, killed him.