"Mortally Wounded" "Good morning." "Good morning, you sleep well?" "I had to fight all night for sheets and blankets and from 3 on, you tried to ste al my pillow." "You're not used to sleeping in company, right?" " Okay." "From one point of view it should reassure you." " I don't know." "Maybe the others don't remain asleep, but I use the bathroom first." "And I'm very well." "Hello?" " Good morning, I was looking for Salvo." " I'll call him." "Who are you?" "I'm his father." "Tell him to call me when he can." "Good day, Miss ..." "Livia." "Have a good day." "Doctor!" " Dindo!" "Doctor ..." "Don't overload the motor, it is dangerous." "I do it so people eat." "I always bring something new to eat." " But it becomes dangerous." "What are you doing?" " Giving you the rest." "Giving me the rest as a tip?" "The next time bring some Trapani sauce, the one from Company Caruso with the green cap." "So long Dindo." "Who was that?" " Dindo the boy from the supermarket." "He remained a little child." "Porto ..." " We talk later." " Yes?" "He usually talks a lot, but today he did not want to do it." "You're my first Sicilian boyfriend." " Really?" "Come back this weekend?" "But ..." "Ah!" " What?" "This "but"." "You have a guilty conscience!" "You know that sooner or later you will need to come to me and Boccadasse." "I know, but I'm very busy with work." "When I have a little time, I'll come and find you." "Enjoy your trip." "Commissioner, this case is easily answered." "But this is a democracy." "Sorry." ""The lady is a Briguccio P. ..?"" ""Every citizen may respond to the referendum. "" " He's taking it." "He doesn't like it." "Hello, Catarella." "Good morning." "Have you seen Dr. Augello?" "Yes." "He's in his office." " In my ... ?" "No, in his." "I'll call him." "No, thank you." "Thank you." "Next!" "Mimi, you know Mrs. Briguccio?" " Elena?" "Yes." "You know her so well?" " We made friends in the gym." "A healthy friendship between sportsmen because maybe you're sporting!" "Don't break my balls!" "Why don't you ask her?" "Do you know about the referendum?" "No." " There are posters throughout Vigata where one wonders if Mrs. Elena Briguccio is or is not a "P"." "That "P" stands for what I'm thinking?" " You are perceptive!" "I had not realized it, I thought "Fishwife", "professor"." "Are you kidding me?" "I would never dare." "I'll check." "Sorry, you know her well, how you would respond to the referendum?" "When I return, I'll give you an answer." "Good morning." " Good morning, Fazio." "Welcome back." " Thanks." "There is a lot of activity this morning!" "Come!" "Doctor!" " Fazio, welcome back!" "How are you?" "Well, thank you." "I'm ready for service." "I am reborn!" "It 's safe?" " Can't you see?" "I'm healthy as a fish!" " How healthy is a fish?" "What do the doctors say?" "The usual things!" " You could stand another couple of weeks." "Do not talk to me about home and rest, I'm discouraged." "You can't understand." "You're young and not married." "Okay, but nothing stressful." "As soon as you feel fatigued, I'll put you in an office, a quiet one." "I'm sorry, Doctor." "Fazio, sorry, too, I could make you feel bad again." "What do you want?" " He called, the Mayor, City Hall has problems." "So let's go." "Cuckold, open this door!" "What's going on?" "Son of a bitch, open up!" "If you quit, I'll say no more." "Your hours are numbered." "Who is this?" "Xavier Briguccio." "It must be rough with the flyers of his wife." " Get him out of here." "Mr. Briguccio, calm down, go to the bar and let it rest." " Yes" "What would you do if he wrote that your wife is a "P"?" "Maybe it doesn't make sense." "Maybe it is a generic "P"." "A generic "P"!" " Come on." "I want to talk to the mayor." "Later!" "If you talk now, you won't be calm." "Later!" "No, I want to talk now." "Sit down." " You saved me and Deputy Mayor Guarnotta." "Thanks in advance." "Sit down." " What's going on?" "Why Briguccio wants to talk with me?" " It 's an old story." "Briguccio, Deputy Mayor Guarnotta and I fought in the same party, but with different issues." "The Deputy Mayor and I have opinions not shared by Briguccio." "When De Gasperi ..." "No, Mr. Mayor." "Why was Briguccio here today?" "You are aware of the referendum popular?" " The, uh ..." " Yes" "Briguccio believes that the libel of his wife is just a political issue." "Do you think that we are behind the document that defines "cuckold"?" "Commissioner, that's absurd." "Yeah, it's crazy!" " He's right." "What does Mr. Briguccio want you to do?" " Remove the flyers." "It 'a sensible request." "We said we would do it even without his stormy request." "The fee for posting of the leaflets has not been paid ." "So what?" " So ..." " We had to explain the problem to him." "The removal will take a few days." "That doesn't remove them immediately." "We have only 8 municipal guards." "I am very busy with daily business." "I see." "He, hearing the situation, began to insult us." "As if it were up to us!" "Would we do such a thing?" "Want to make a complaint for assault?" "No, sir!" "We do not do things like that." "Joke?" "There are about 100 posters." "I've never seen so many people willing to vote in a referendum." "This is called direct democracy." "What do the first results say?" "For now, all votes are "yes"." "Poor Elena is unquestionably a ..." " Do you think she is or not?" "There is at least a 15 year age difference between Elena and Xavier Briguccio." "She is 30 years old and he is about 45, a merchant, loves politics." "Everything divides them, and then in the town, rumors make it worse." "Briguccio ..." " What?" "Impotent." " The poor lady is "forced" to betray her husband." "Yes, forced." "She must find companionship where she can." "Maybe in the sports, among sportsmen like you." "This I would not tell you ever. - The husband knows of companions?" "He knows, but he's always been patient because there were only rumors." "But now, with this referendum, as a politician he is ruined." "Could it be a political maneuver by his opponents?" "Yes, but it could also be the punishment of a lover." "Elena never has lasting relationships." "It's her way of remaining faithful to her husband." "Oh, a "one-night-stand" girl." " Sometimes you are very vulgar." "But it is so." " In my opinion, this story is bullshit." "Let's get back to taking care of serious business." "Who is it?" "What?" "Who is it?" "The wife of my dentist." "And maybe you're dentist." "No, I would never." "Santa Adelina!" "What the fuck!" "Hello?" " Hello, Salvo, I thought you weren't there." " Hello, Livia!" "How are you?" "The trip went well?" "Yes, I went directly to work." "You must be tired." "Now that I have told you everything, you can rest well." " Sure." "So goodnight." " Goodnight, Livia." " Did you call your father?" "I was going to now, but you called me." "Okay, good night." "Good night." "Who is it at this hour?" "Hello?" " Doctor, Gerlando Piccolo was shot in his home." "Where?" "Give me the address." "I don't need to, Gallo is coming to pick you up." "Paterno and Fazio are there already?" "Fazio at this hour?" "Fazio took the call because I had gone to the toilet." "Okay, I'm coming." "Paterno, what the fuck are you doing?" "Are you drinking?" " No, this is the granddaughter of the victim." "and upset." " Where's the body?" " Upstairs." "You climb the exterior staircase." "You wait here." " Why?" "Don't ask useless questions." "Fazio I don't want you to come out at this time of night." "I got the call." "No excuses, you should not be tempting fate." "Okay, sit down." "This is Gerlando Piccolo, 67, widowed, 6-year-old retired and for most of his life, worked as a broker." "And naked." "There's a revolver." " Yes, He was killed, but not with that." "His niece shot it." "Who?" " The murderer." "There is another thing unclear." "Who was sleeping next to him?" "The bed is unmade from both sides." "Fazio, continue here." " Okay." "Commissioner Montalbano." " Pleasure." "Grace." "Grace, what's in the room above, The locked room?" "The office of my uncle Gerlando, but I can't get into it." "The Office?" " Where he received people." " Which people?" "Those that came to borrow money." "Were there many such people?" "I don't know, they didn't go through the house." "To enter the office, customers went by the staircase arriving at the door which is always closed." "Only my uncle had the key." "Paterno, get the keys and check the room with Fazio." "Immediately." "Have you always lived here?" "No." "My parents died in a car accident when I was 5 years old." "Uncle Gerlando is the brother of my mother." "He and my aunt Titina took me into their home." " Were you happy here?" "They loved you?" " They needed me to do the cleaning." "Were you sent to school?" "No, I do not know how to read or write." "My aunt was ill." "When I was 15, she died." " What did she die of?" "Heart, and from that day, my uncle has changed towards me." "He started to buy me clothes, to take me to town with him." "He embraced me." "He became affectionate with me." "You have a boyfriend?" " Me?" "No!" "Doctor, I apologize, but we have opened the office." "If you want to check, I'll wait here." " Okay." "Be right back." " Ok." "Gerlando used this staircase for his customers." "Which customers?" " He was a loan shark." "The safe is locked." "Take a look at the card file, it must have the names of customers." "There is no other material." "I'll go back to the girl." " Okay." "Have a little more vermouth." "Stay there." "Grace, tell me what happened tonight." "Yes, my uncle Gerlando, like every night at 10:00 PM, turned off the television and went to sleep." "I took the broom and dustpan and I swept the kitchen." "Then I went to bed." "Who shut the door?" " He did." "Before coming to eat, he locked it with the keys and then put them on a nail attached to the door." " They are there." "There are no signs of forced entry, the killer may have had a copy." "You use the singular?" "When he was shot, he couldn't have been alone." " He was alone." "I had just gone to bed." "I heard a bang and I woke up." "I thought that my uncle had felt sick and scared." "He ate very little and had some dizziness." "I went upstairs no shoes, barefoot" "I saw the light was on in his room." "The first thing I saw" "My uncle was on the bed with the blood on his mouth, chest and head and on the headboard." "Then I heard a noise and saw someone running." "Then I remembered the pistol he had in the drawer." "I got it and I shot him through the window." "I shot him when he was in the yard." "Then I went down below to chase him, but couldn't see him because it was dark." "I went back upstairs and even then I knew that my uncle had died." "I had dropped the gun on the ground." "I was powerless." "The last thing I did was to call you." "Gallo, let's go." "Commissioner." "What is it?" "Look what's here." "The blood of the murderer." "She must have hit him in the back." "Put someone here to protect this, I'll wait outside." " I'll do it immediately." "Doctor, excuse me, I wanted to update you on the Piccolo case." " Not now." "We'll talk later." "Sit down, order something to eat, but something light." "Grilled fish, boiled ham ..." "You can drink the wine?" " Yes" "It 's better not, the wine is bad." "I agree!" "Fazio, you're pale." "No, I'm fine." "But if you look at me that way, I feel bad." "We drink a glass of wine?" "Sure." " Okay." "But soon!" "Soon." "Cheers!" "Cheers." "Tell me." " We put the seals on the house of Gerlando Piccolo." "The niece did not know where to go and Paterno and his wife have taken her in." "Bravo, Paterno!" "You told the judge that the bed was used by two people?" "Yes and do you know what Judge Tommaseo said?" "He believes that it is a homosexual crime of passion." "Piccolo could have brought one home." "After getting what he wanted he robbed and then shot him." "What did Grace say in that regard?" "She said that her uncle always had female companions but women she has never seen, passed from the outside staircase." "When finished, left by the same route." "Then her uncle closed the gate." "As we found it." " Yes" "But Grace also said he uses the entire bed" "It does not necessarily mean that his uncle had company." "He ate very little and often had the illness which made him shake when he was in bed." " Hey!" "What are you doing?" "Go away!" "What are you laughing at, fool?" "Paterno, how is Grace?" "After interrogation by judge Tommaseo, she was exhausted." "I called a doctor." "He gave her an injection to put her to sleep." "We pity her." "Let me ask you something." "She said something about the gun?" " I don't understand." "Does it seem odd that she said "I've seen Uncle's assassin"" "or whether it took a cool head to take a gun and shoot?" "I asked the same question." "She said she is not afraid of anything and that their uncle had taught her to shoot." " He feared retaliation." "Maybe." " And to feel comfortable, he used his niece as a defense." "It may be so." "Yeah." "Hello?" " I speak "in person" with her, doctor?" " Yes, tell me." "Briguccio shot someone." " Who?" " Charles Manifa." "He killed him?" " No, he was hit in osso pizziddo." "Where's osso pizziddo?" "Where it belongs." "And serious?" " No, Augello took him to the hospital and now the judge wants to question him." "Okay, I'll be right there." "Doctor, I have found this busiate of pasta in the refrigerator." "You eat with Trapani pesto, right?" "Now you check the fridge?" "And I really like the pesto." "Too bad for you!" "But I am a serious person and I never will." "I eat the busiate as I prefer, OK?" "OK, but I forgot to bring pesto. - better!" "Preparing them for you with my sauce." "This woman is terrible." "What is osso pizziddo?" " I don't know." " Where was Manifa hit?" "At his home." "I meant in that part of the body." "He was shot in the ankle." "And all morning ..." "Tell me everything." "How is Manifa?" "He's in the hospital and is in shock." "He doesn't talk and we couldn't question him." "What do you think has happened?" "There are two hypotheses." "The first is that an idiot, in revenge for Elena, has attacked these posters without regard to effect." "The second one wants to destroy Briguccio's nerves." "A political issue." "Briguccio is the strongest opponent of Mayor Tortorici." "As regards the first hypothesis, the lover left ..." "Do you know who attended Mrs. Elena in this last period?" "Why do you call her "Mrs."?" "How should I call her?" "You say "Mrs." in a certain way ... as if to say, "bitch"." "The what?" "I would never!" " Sure." "I have to find out about Elena's relationships, but I'm sure Briguccio shot the wrong person." " Yeah, it was better to shoot you." "It seems that Charles Manifa, even if he is a handsome man, is a faithful man." "And married, no children, loves his wife, teaches Italian in high school and is a scholar well known abroad." "Trust me, I know these things." "It 's impossible that Elena has had an affair with Manifa." "The Manifas and the Briguccios knew each other?" " Do you not know?" "What?" " They live in the same landing." "Don't you have anything helpful to say?" " Who would have told me?" "Catarella?" "Do you know if Briguccio was questioned by the prosecutor?" "He told us that Manifa tried, but Elena refused him and he retaliated with the posters." "Excuse me, Mrs. "Pinuccia" is here, she can wait?" "Briguccio, please." "Elena!" "Please be seated." "Thanks." "I came to testify of my own free will and to explain the behavior of my husband, Xavier." " Yes, tell us." "We know that you and the Manifas are neighbors." " Yes, sir." "Just yesterday my other anguish has turned into a nightmare." "Carlo Manifa tried to rape me." "He lured me into his house with the excuse of a book." "I Just entered he pushed me on the couch and tried to strip me, but I defended myself." "And thank God, I fled to my house." " Yes" "I suppose she has told everything to her husband, right?" " No." "To avoid dramatic consequences, I did not say anything to Xavier" "But Manifa, in revenge for my refusal, did the flyers." "Xavier got mad and I had to tell the truth." "Also see these." "And confronted with this evidence, Xavier lost control." "As you see, he is not able to answer." "Manifa just gives the numbers." "What does he say?" " I mean literally, "39-18-19"." "He repeats them until he is exhausted." "I thought I'd play them on the lottery." "You never know!" "You've done well." "Is there a phone here?" "Yes, just down the hall." "It looks like a phone number." "But operatore 12 told me that there is no listing in Vigata." "It belongs to another telephone district." "I'll get Fazio to check." "I need to speak with Manifa's wife." " She's not in Vigata." " Where is she?" "She went to visit an American friend in Denver, and will return tomorrow." "Commissioner, the keys are always left with me because I do the cleaning and I water the plants." "We were very scared when we heard the shot." "Mrs. Briguccio at home?" " No, she went to her father in Montelusa." "Come in." "To the left is the study, on this side are the kitchen ..." "Okay, thanks, you can go." "We can do it alone." ""Myth and History in the Bible."" ""The Pentateuch."" "Here, he wrote this." ""Exegesis of Genesis," Carlo Manifa." "There's fuck-all." "There are few issues on the agenda and 39-18-19 is not written anywhere." "To find anything here, would take a long time." "Okay, let's go." "Gallo, Paterna, Fazio, come here!" "Commissioner." "Doctor." "Fazio, contact numbers of customers who were in the card file Piccolo." "Try to talk to them." "We need information." "Paterno, speaks as much as possible with Grace, becomes her friend." "Perhaps some details will come to mind." "You can go." "Doctor, I?" " I called you too?" " Yes, you did?" "You'll be in the office, available." "Whatever you say." "Commissioner, what do you seek?" "The Trapani pesto?" " Yes" "Dindo didn't bring it to you, true?" " He has forgotten." "Dindo is large, but thinks like a child." "He stops working and goes around for the campaign." "He just disappears!" "And I get calls from customers who want to protest." "He's a nice guy, don't be angry with him." " I can not blame him." "But I hope he returns soon." "He left his moped." "The Trapani pesto is gone?" "The Caruso Company is on strike." "They make no deliveries." " What do you say?" "There is the strike on pesto?" "But I can give you the Bolognese sauce." " No, the sauce ..." "A hot one, this Genoese pesto." "Never mind, I'll eat out." "I'm sorry." " Don't worry." "Adelina will not make the pesto, But this sauce is heavenly on busiate." "Brothers, please call the number you see on the screen and we will send you a free Bible because the salvation of man is this sacred text." " Bible for free?" "It 's a bargain!" "We want everyone to hear the counsel of the Word of God" "Friends, we read together the Bible." "Deuteronomy 20-19-20 ..." "Montalbano, you really are an asshole!" ""When you shall besiege a city a long time "" "Hotel Pirandello, talk to me." "I am Inspector Montalbano." "Do your rooms have Bibles?" "Genesis, Chapter 39, verses 18 and 19." ""But as soon as I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house." Joseph and the Potiphar's wife." " What do you say?" "I understand what those numbers mean." "They are verses from Genesis." "Manifa is an expert in biblical texts." "He wants to tell us the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife." "If you must tell ..." "Doit tomorrow!" "Joseph worked for Potiphar who was one of the captains of Pharaoh." "The Bible says his appearance was beautiful and then his wife became infatuated with him." "It advanced to the point that many times she invited him to stay with her." "But Joseph never consented." "Never?" " Never." "But once she lost control and jumped on him." "Joseph managed to escape and she, in revenge for this last rejection, told her husband" "Joseph had tried to rape her and as proof she showed the clothes that he had left in the chamber." "Potiphar had Joseph put in prison." "End of story." "Evocative!" "Now you'll also tell me The Parable of the Prodigal Son?" "You really don't understand?" " No." "With this history, Manifa wanted to tell the truth." "He is the victim, not Mrs. Briguccio." "Damn." "Excuse me, if Elena has done this, who printed and posted posters of the referendum?" "Mimi, what are you doing?" "Where are you?" "Good evening." "Go back to bed." "I'm just going out to buy milk for breakfast." "Just to buy milk." "Not even any snacks?" "Unless, you don't like the way I look, don't tell anyone." "If her husband finds out, I'd be drilled to death without anesthesia." "I feel good." "I don't know ..." "You read the Bible and have a good night." "So long." "Elena Briguccio fell in love with a man she couldn't have." "And Carlo Manifa, always pretended not to notice." "Manifa's wife went away and Elena took advantage of the opportunity." "Yes, but Manifa refused but this time, for her, the offense was unbearable." "She decided to take revenge." "She convinced one of her fans with a printer and PC to prepare these posters." "But an odd thing." "A 25-year-old at the gym has fallen in love with Elena." "The son of Advocate Petruzzello." "You know that young people use the PC." "She convinced her husband that Manifa tried to rape her." "Maybe even convinced him this story of the referendum was Manifa's revenge." "Xavier Briguccio just had to shoot Manifa." "But it wasn't prudent." " Exactly." "Tomorrow I'm going to talk with the boy in love with Elena." "Only he may have written and printed the posters." "Good morning, doctor." "Garfish wants to talk to you." " Pass him through." "I can not." "Mr. Aguglia is in your office." "You're still there?" "Good morning, Commissioner." "Hello, be comfortable." " Thanks." "Tell me." " Remember that Dindo did not come to work?" "He did not come even this morning." "Not even for his moped?" " No." "It 's very strange." " That's why I'm here." "I want to make a complaint." " Okay." "Paterno." "Commissioner." " Mr. Aguglia wants to file a complaint." "You're looking for Dindo." " He's gone?" "Sometimes he's like a child." "Perhaps he got lost following a butterfly." "Then find them both." "Thank you." "Goodbye." " Goodbye." "Follow me." "You're welcome." "Can I?" "Come, Fazio." "Tell me." " Names that I've taken from Piccolo's card file relate to customers with minimal debt." "Ranging from 100,000 Lira to 20-30 million." "I think he had customers with larger debts." "There must be another file." "Whatever else Piccolo was, alive he was a bad man." " What?" "In every country they do the same thing." "They should make a monument to whoever killed him." "If you owed one hundred, in six months it increased to a thousand." "He didn't take just the money." "What do you mean?" "He took advantage of all females who were in need." "First he wanted a loan payment then the interest in actions." "You spoke with someone else?" " Only with one." "She is ashamed and nervous." "She especially doesn't want to bring harm to the murderer." "I understand." "If Piccolo took advantage of the females add some distraught husband or brother to the list of suspects." "We must add even the little victims." "If I may say, I don't think this was a robbery escalated into murder." "Do you think it was?" "No." " Me neither." "Do you think they're stupid because they're young?" " I dare not." "Did Piccolo know what to do if anyone rebelled?" "Someone was sent and they paid." "Who is it?" " I don't know, but it must be someone who doesn't joke." "I'll find out all in 24 hours." " I'm sure you will." "Also call the locksmith, Lachino." "Open Piccolo's safe." "Maybe we need the other files." " We have the keys." "What are you doing, eating?" "It was a snack." "I was very hungry, but I'll make it disappear immediately." "And last bite." "Wait." "They are the whims of the throat." " Good." "Meet Ugo Petruzzello." "Doctor, the spoon." "Pleasure, Salvo Montalbano." "He has already confessed everything." "I didn't think it was serious." "Elena told me it was a game." "In prison?" "What do you say?" "Petruzzello, think of those of your age!" "Gallo, take the boy into my office." " Come." "After his deposition, I'll have to ask for an arrest warrant for Elena." "If it's okay, I'll take care of it." "It's a bit of a delicate situation." "I do it for Elena." " Sure." "Enjoy." " Thanks." "It 's good." "It was good." "Put everything away." "We give a bad impression." " I'll wash the dishes." "I'm sorry I'm late." "My wife left to go shopping." "As soon as she comes back." "Do not panic, Paterna." "I have to talk to Grace." " Come in." "He laughs." " It's Francesco." "This is the commissioner." "Come." "Hello, Grace." "How are you?" "Good morning, Commissioner." "I'm fine." "I can not thank Officer Paterno and his wife enough." "How beautiful these children are." "It 's true." "I must ask you something." "Your uncle Gerlando knew a person." "Maybe he was in business with him." "It could be his tax collector." "Have you ever met this person?" " No, I told you." "All those who came to my uncle's office ascended the staircase." "I've never met anyone." "Okay." "Commissioner, have you found something?" "There are 200,000 Lira." "This must be the file that Fazio said must be here." "In fact, there are loans 50 million and up." "Looks like a Swiss bank account." "There are only 200,000 Lira." "They found any money in Piccolo's clothes?" " 300,000 Lira." "He had more money in his pockets than in that safe?" "If it was a robbery, he would have taken that money." "That wasn't done." "Doctor, the photos arrived from Montelusa." " Yes" "At last, the photographer has been most thorough." "Remember when she stepped on these pictures?" "I saw the broken glass and stepped over as you did." "You avoided them like I did." "Instead Grace told us when she got up, she was barefooted." "The light was on." "We have also seen her." "Grace is very used to walking barefoot." "She will have very tough calluses." "This may be so, but check." "Just send Paterno to my office." "Come with me." " Yes" "Commissioner, I'm here." "By chance did you notice if Grace limps?" "She is a magician." "Yesterday evening she complained she had twinges in the soles of her feet." "Her feet were bleeding and were filled with pieces of glass." "My wife has taken them out, one at a time with the tweezers." "I'm sorry." "An anonymous phone call alerted us to a corpse" "Contrada Pizzutello." " Come on." "People come here to make love in the car." " Be Romantic?" "I noticed that we are very close to the house of Gerlando Piccolo?" "It 's true." "It's just over a kilometer away." "And Dindo." "Dindo." "Who could have done this to this innocent creature?" "It was Grace." "Grace?" "She did so involuntarily after Dindo shot Gerlando." "Dindo was a murderer?" "If things are as I think, there must be a gun around here with which Dindo shot Gerlando." "Let's find it ..." "Doctor, Montalbano." "Oh, for heaven's sake, who else could ruin my day also over the air?" "What do you want?" " Have you looked at the corpse of Gerlando Piccolo?" "Yes, inside and out." "What can you tell me?" " Nothing." "They killed him with one shot." "You will find the details in my report." "He would have lived healthy up to 100 years." "He had just finished having fun with someone." " Immediately before?" "No, after!" "He began to make love in death." "Any more fucking questions?" " Never mind." "Come to Pizzutello Contrada." "There's more work for you." "Idiot." "Doctor, we can't find the gun." "I'll go back to the police station." "You follow up with the lab and the doctor." "Compare the fingerprints of Dindo with what we found in Piccolo's room." "Compare also the blood of Dindo with what was in front of the house." "Okay." "In 15 minutes go to your house." "Get her up." "Bring her to the Piccolo house." "Don't tell her anything of Dindo." "Okay." "Come in." "A problem?" "No." "The lady Briguccio is here to make a voluntary confession." " So I'll leave you in peace." "No, Madam." "I can not understand." "For your own personal vendetta, you sent a man to the hospital and almost the cemetery." "You imprison your husband, although he accepted your betrayal." "You used a boy and you are totally shameless." "Why?" "Commissioner, you do not understand women." "Ask Dr. Augello." "He understands everything." "Write, Gallo." "Write." "Goodbye." "We need to rebuild what happened." "Paterno, go in the bedroom and make noise." "You were in your room asleep." " Yes" " Let's go." "You must do exactly what you did that night." "Wait, Grace." "The glass door was open?" " Yes" "The light in the corridor, was it on or off?" " It was turned off." "How did you run in the dark?" "I know the house by heart." "Okay." "This door was?" "It was wide open." "From the corridor I saw that the light was on." "Okay, enter." "I saw my uncle lying here." "He had blood on his mouth." "I thought I had misheard." "Then I bent over him and saw that he'd been shot." "Then what happened?" " I looked up because of a noise." "I saw a man coming out from behind the door where he had hidden when I arrived." " Here?" " Yes" "You said you were barefoot." " Yes, I called twice, to my uncle." "Paterno, you be the murderer." "Go down the stairs and through the yard." "Show me how you saw him and did the shooting." " Okay." "Run." "I shot him." "The times correspond." "Now explain something to me." "If it was dark in the house and in the yard, how did you know you could hit him from here?" " I heard the footsteps." "I fired at random." "I didn't expect to hit anything." " But you shot well." "He went into hiding nearby to bleed to death." "He's dead?" "Now what do I do?" "They can not get anything." "But maybe you knew who murdered your uncle." "Dindo was, the boy from the supermarket." "It was Dindo?" "That brought us our groceries?" "He had nothing to do with it!" "He was naive." "I killed him?" "I killed him?" "I killed him." "Stay here with her." "I killed him." "No!" "I killed him." "Commissioner." "Judge." "I come from Contrada Pizzutello." "I want to see the girl." "Really?" "It 's quite obvious." "After the discovery of the body of Dindo Salvatore Trupia now I know for sure." "What evidence do you have?" "The night he was killed" "Piccolo Gerlando had a carnal congress with Trupia." "It 's impossible." "What does he say?" "The Doctor confirms that Pasquano Piccolo had just had sex." "It happened." "Piccolo rises at the appointed time." "Goes down, goes to open the door and lets in Trupia." "I know because he brought the money." "He get's in and does not close the door." "Afterward, they argue." "Trupia enraged, kills him and snatches the money." " Mr. Judge, does not explain everything." "Do not make me waste time." "Trupia then tries to escape but the niece wakes and shoots him." "Trupia is left to bleed to death." "He does this because if he went to the hospital they would realize that he is linked to the murder of Piccolo." "My intuition will be confirmed with fingerprints and blood." "If you do not mind, I will question his niece." "She's inside?" " Yes, but you are assuming many things unclear." "Montalbano, don't worry." "Everything will become clear." "Miss, your uncle was gay?" "No, he liked women." "In the village everyone knew he was not homosexual." "Sure!" "Young lady, you absolutely know that your uncle frequented only women?" "I never saw those who came in the night." " There may be men?" "I can not exclude that there were men." "Your Honor, this is absurd." "You know about bisexuality?" "This kind of perverted practice today is very widespread." "You are young, but I have seen many bisexuals." "Make no distinction whatsoever." "In Sicily would you say they are ... promiscuous." "Come in." "It's Mr. Aguglia." "Send him in." "Commissioner." "Good morning, Mr. Aguglia." "When can I get my scooter?" "Patience, have a few days courtesy." "I'm sorry that I do not seem to show concern for Dindo." "I know that's not the case." "Listen, Commissioner." "Yesterday evening I saw the interview with the judge." "For the sake of truth I must tell you something." "The judge said only lies about Dindo." "We know." " Dindo did not go with either boys or with girls." "He would not steal money even from a loan shark." "He could not steal even a toothpick." "At the supermarket, he could take what he wanted, but if he needed something, he asked and paid." "He was an honest man." "I know." "Do you know where Dindo lived?" "Yes, with his father near the port." "Good morning." "Good morning." "I am Inspector Montalbano." "Are you the father of Dindo?" "Yes, I'm his father." "Sit down." "Dindo was very late and perhaps because of this I'm a little worried." "Sorry to get so ..." "Commissioner." "I am sick, widowed and I never had much money." "Do not worry." "I'm just here for information on Dindo." "I know only that he was killed." "The story of us poor people is not made by us poor." "They make the television shows." "Were you living together here?" "No." "Why?" "Did you fight?" "No." "How can you argue with an innocent creature?" "When he began to work in the supermarket four years ago, he said he wanted to live alone and I gave him the room next to me." "You saw him often?" "No." "Over the past two months he had changed." "How can you say if you did not see him?" "There was no need." "For three months he was singing out loud, the morning when he woke up and in the evening when he returned from work." "May I go in?" "Take the key." "It 's the one near the door." "I'm curious," "Why they called Dindo?" "Because he liked the bells." "When playing, he moved his head and say "ding, dong"." ""Din, Don."" ""The most beautiful fairy tales."" ""Justice."" "Doctor, is something wrong?" "No." "You know the tale of Bluebeard?" "No, sir." "But I can ask an expert." "No, thank you." "Tell me." " Let's talk about the Piccolo murder." "I can't accept the way in which the court has settled the case." "Why should Dindo kill Piccolo?" "The story of a sexual encounter is absurd." "I know, but we know only that Dindo Gerlando wanted to kill Piccolo." "It's so." "The ransacked room was just to fake the theft." "Someone put the gun in Dindo's hand because he couldn't own a gun." "Whoever armed him, convinced him that Piccolo deserved death." "Yes, but there's one thing to clarify." "How Dindo entered the house?" "There are no signs of forced entry on the door." "Someone gave him a duplicate key." "Only someone who moves freely in the house would have duplicate keys." "In addition to Grace, who could come and go freely?" "The man who collected the money for Piccolo." "Perfect." "Then get to work." "Find the first and last name of this distinguished gentleman." "We're booked by Calogero." " You really want to take me to the restaurant now?" "Fazio, any news?" "Yes, I found an informant." "You found out the name of the debt collector?" "Yes, but he does not confess." "Does he want money?" " No, he wants to meet you tonight." "You have to meet where there are whores." "This thing does not convince me either." "I'll tell him ..." "No, no, I'll go there alone." "Safe?" " Yes, don't worry." "Okay." "See you." "See you later." "Montalbano, your face is like a policeman." "At least I have a face." "How long should I wait to see yours?" "Where are you?" "At school you ate all the rice balls with meat sauce" "You were my mother." "Gege Gullotta!" "Hello." "Are you still the same old fool!" "When I heard that you were the new commissioner of Vigata" "I did not believe it." " How is your sister?" "And beautiful as the sun, but I know that you're involved with a woman from the North." "You know it all." "I am informed." "Your father?" "Ages, but it's okay." "You're not with him?" "I never lived with him." "Why should I have to live with him now?" "What do you do for a living?" "Do you remember Di Vincenzo?" "She was our teacher." "She said I was an unruly child." "With her we were all good." "This is my home." "The girls work protected and safeguarded." "It was meant to be." "You were to become a lawyer." "I had to become a criminal." "Do you know about the debt collector of Gerlando Piccolo?" "Come with me." "I'll take you to someone you can trust." "Hi, Donna Rosalia." "Hello, Gege." "This is Inspector Montalbano." "Pleasure." "Take a seat." "Thanks." "I'm sorry to bother you at this time." " Don't worry." "Old age has stolen sleep." "The Commissioner wanted to ask of the debt of Gerlando Piccolo." "Commissioner, I worked 30 years." "I worked in the workshop and in the store." "I worked for Gerlando Piccolo." "He paid well." "I became rich." "When I realized what he was asking of the customers, it disgusted me and I left." "He collected women, especially the young ones." "He was sick." "It 's true." "I didn't want to do anything." "I want to die a good person." "When I said Gege you wanted the name of" "Piccolo's debt collector, I thought that was the right thing to do." "I understand." "So tell me this name." "His name is Alfonso Arica." "His soul is as black as hell." "Thanks, Gege." " Stop it." "If you stay here, you know where to find me." "But no preaching." "Don't bullshit me." "Say hello to your sister." "I salute you." "Don't worry." "Take care of yourself." "You too." "You have a friend, Gege." "Alfonso Arica, alias Rosario Arica, alias Assunta D'Agostino." "Born in Vigata 40 years." "He has a sister and a brother." "His brother emigrated to Germany." "You OK, Doctor?" "You seem distracted." "I'm not distracted." "Go on." "I am interested in the details." "I'm done." "Arica is not a reliable person." "He's a gambler." "He deals in theft and violence." "This is the photo." "What a beauty!" "Do you want him found and brought in here." " Go with Gallo." "Whatever you say." "If you like fairy tales, I'll give you a more current edition." "It's a book from when you were little?" " No." "It belonged to Dindo." "Remember him?" " Yes, the boy the supermarket." " I remember him." "They killed him." "They killed him?" "Yes, you had to see where he lived." "You got the book over there?" " Yes." "He was a lover of fairy tales." "He especially liked "Bluebeard", the tale of Perrault." "The rich and horrible Bluebeard married girls, abused and then killed them." " Yes" "Then came the gentleman who killed the old tormentor and lived happily ever after with his last wife." "Dindo had written on each page the word "justice"." "Maybe he was struck by something, or would like to be a hero." "The gentleman who killed Bluebeard and freed the girl." " I thought so too." "There is one thing ..." "I'm not convinced." "Lately Dindo had begun to sing." "He had never done this before." "Why would a wretch who lived in that place start singing without having ever done so before?" "Come in." "Hello, sir. - Hello, Gallo." "Good." "Good." "Do you have news of Alfonso Arica?" "Nothing." "The neighbors have not seen him for a week." "They say he always leaves like this and is away for days." "If you want, I'll go back and see if ..." "No need." "For now it's OK." "You're safe?" " Yes, If I need you, I'll call you." " OK." "Hello, Cingoli." "How are you?" " Hey, Montalbano." "Hello." "I'm fine." "You?" "Well." "I need a favor." "Tell me." " You can put in a phone tap?" "Oh, Mimi." "Fazio hasn't arrived yet?" "He had a checkup with the cardiologist, but he's coming." "I'm going out." "If you need me, call me." "Yes." "Commissioner, I made coffee." "Thanks." " You're welcome." "Francis, go with your mother." "Grace, I'm here to tell you something." "If you want, you can return to your home." "You give me good news." "I would go on living there even in view of what's happened." "I'll accompany you." " If you're worried about something, call me." "I'm not afraid of anything." "What should I be afraid of now?" "Alfonso Arica." "Perhaps he will return." "For Gerlando Piccolo's files?" "Yes, they're worth a fortune." "Tomorrow I'll ask for authorization to confiscate them." "So you can rest easy." "Okay." "Thank you." "What will you do?" "I'll return to my home." "Thanks for being concerned about me." "Hello." " Cingoli is on the phone." "Put him on?" " OK" "Hello, Cingoli." "Tell me all." "He called the girl." "It was a male voice." "She said that she had gone home and there was no surveillance." "He said she had to give him two things." "He said that he would go to her after midnight." "Thank you." "You were very helpful." "Gallo, Paterna." "Go back home to eat and after, come here." "Tell your families that you'll be busy tonight." "What is it?" "I'll tell you later." " Hello, Doctor." "Any news on when Piccolo?" "How was your check-up?" "May I speak?" "Yes" "I came to submit my retirement." "I must retire." "You decided suddenly?" "Actually, no." "When I had the illness, the doctors said I had to stay home." "But I could not just stay at home." "You continued to work as if nothing had happened." "Bravo, congratulations!" "The tests I did today have shown frightening facts." "They are not good." "I understand." "The hospital has already sent the note to the police." "You would have known in a few days." "So I decided to tell him myself." "You have done well." "Fazio ..." "You know that I am very sorry, but I have no alternative." "Tell me the truth." "Is the Piccolo case about to close?" "Yes." "If all goes well, the story may end tonight." "I do not like to leave in the middle of things I have started." "Before retiring, you must allow me to take part in the capture of that animal that killed Dindo." " I can not." "It 's useless to insist." "I can not." "If something happens, what do I say to your family?" "You say we captured Dindo's killer." "Please, Doctor." "But you take Gallo's place." "You stay in the car and do nothing." "You must swear it." "I swear." "Okay." "Thank you, Doctor." "Hello, Livia." "Hello, Salvo." "Dad." "He was in Vigata and came to see you." "I called to talk with you, but I found Livia." "We can go to Calogero." "No" " No, I can't." "I must leave now." "It 's a very important thing." "Can't it wait?" "No." " It does not matter." "See you again." "I've seen you." "I can go home happy." "But you have to come see my vines." "You've got to see them." "You've never seen them." "I'm glad I stopped by." "I met your beautiful girl." "Thanks for your hospitality." "Can I hug you?" "Thanks." "I wait for your visit." "We will come." " Thanks." "I'll walk with you." " Yes." "Thanks, Livia." "What do you expect, sir?" "Alfonso Arica." "The debt collector." "Arica is here?" " I think so, but I must have some confirmation." "Grace came here to be a servant when she was five." "The aunt died and she became her uncle's lover." "But Gerlando's was sick sex and she hated him." "He kept her at home like a prisoner." "The only chance to save her was a person who frequented the house." "Alfonso Arica." " The tax collector." "Between Arica and Grace a relationship was born." "The two had an idea." "Kill Gerlando, inherit the money and continue his business." "They needed another person to kill him without arousing suspicion." "They picked poor Dindo." "The idea was Grace's." "She began being kind to him and he was willing." "When he falls in love, she rejects him because she's a prisoner of her uncle." "Dindo wants to do justice and she convinces him to kill her uncle." "Arica brings the gun." "That night Grace leaves the door open." "The gun is there." "She goes into the uncle's bedroom to have sex with him." "She wants to be certain that Dindo shoots." "So he finds her in bed with her uncle." "Dindo shoots." "But when he sees the body, he realizes what he has done and goes crazy." "He started to break the pictures and statue of the Madonna." "Then he runs away." "Grace is afraid and doesn't know what to do because Dindo knows the whole story." "She takes the gun from her uncle, chases Dindo and shoots." "Dindo wanted to surrender." "Why didn't he ask someone for help when he was injured?" "When the bullet hits him, he becomes an adult." "I do not understand. - Before he was a boy in love." "Then he realized he had been set up." "That bullet killed not only his body." "It also revealed Grace's betrayal." "He decided to let himself die." "Grace and Arica had already decided that the killing of Dindo would be safe, and possible." "Grace sees that Dindo stops and turns in the light of the courtyard." "She sees the blood on the ground, but does not know he's mortally wounded." "It makes her nervous and she makes the only error in a brilliant plan." "She opens the safe and takes the money." "Leaving only two notes of 100,000 Lira." "Dindo was to take the gun." "Perhaps he didn't." "Grace thinks that Arica will be blamed for the gun." "So he hides in the house with the money." "When we searched the house we searched nothing beyond the room and office because it wasn't necessary." " How do you know about the weapon?" " I guessed." "I had a tap put on Gerland's phone." "When she got home, Grace called Arica." "He said she has to give him two things." "In my opinion, they are the gun and money." "Now we are waiting." "We're here for the night." "We'll embrace and celebrate, as soon as Arica leaves, and we arrest him." "If we find the gun and money, he's in trouble." " Commissioner." "I am a fool." "I felt pity for the girl." "She was in my house with my children." " Who imagined the woman was capable of such a diabolical plan?" "I'm an idiot. - Someone's coming." "He's here." "Fazio cannot leave the car." "Okay?" "Paterno, come with me." "Arica's been in there for two hours." "He must come out here." "Are you ready?" "Arica, stop!" "Police!" "Stop!" "I told you to stop." "Commissioner, we're losing him." "Fazio." "You get him." "Fazio!" "Fazio, how are you?" "That was a thrill!" "Did you get him?" "Yes, but how are you?" " OK." "You see, I didn't get out of the car?" "Please Fazio!" "So, where were you going?" "What's this?" "Ahh, a gun and money." "Bravo." "You know you're a goner?" "I know you don't believe me, but she arranged it all." "Really?" "Fazio, are you really alright?" "Yes, I'm not a kid anymore." "I remain calm, otherwise I'll be ill." "Yes, but tomorrow you stay at home, not back in the police station." "Can I come and take my things?" " No jokes." "You may come." "Then stay home." "Take this." "And this." "I used it only once, many years ago to shoot in the air as a warning." "It should work." "Good night, sir." "Goodnight, Fazio." "Did you sleep a little?" "Yes, But you're tired." "I no longer sleep." "My father was pleased to meet you." "He wanted to talk." "He said your relationship is complicated." "complicated?" "He hoped that your transfer here would have allowed him to see you more." "Instead he figured out that if you don't look at him, you won't ever seek him out." "He has feelings of guilt to have left you alone after the death of your mother." "I was not alone." "I lived with my uncles." "He said he worked very hard in that period and there was never time." "Were you shocked by his betrayal." "Things did not go as he told you." "When I was little, I really missed my father." "One day I decided not to go to school and went to find him in Syracuse, where he worked." "It was the worst idea of my life." "I never imagined to see what I saw." "You found him with another companion?" "We had a complicated relationship as you said." "He lived with this woman who already had two children by another." "He created another family when he already had one in Vigata." "I'm sorry." "At first I hated him because I thought he had betrayed the memory of my mother." "But then I thought better of it and realized that he had betrayed me." "I had forgotten about the outsiders." "Now things are back to normal." "That woman died." "The children went away and he returned to Vigata as if nothing had happened." "Now he doesn't want to be alone." "With age, one becomes fragile." "What harm would there be?" "No harm." "But I still feel very sad about the child I was." "I can not forgive him for not having felt sorry for me." "Excuse me Doctor. - Fazio, please." "Come in." "I came to get my stuff and say goodbye." " You have done well." "My son is also here." "Join us." "It's alright?" "How are you?" "Well." "I'll stay a few days and then back to Rome." "In two weeks I take the oath." "I hope that dad will not be there because it excites him." "These emotions do not hurt." " My son wanted to speak with you." " Certainly." " No, Dad." "Forget it." " Why?" "What's wrong?" "Can I participate in this talk too?" "No, forget it." "Okay." "I'll tell you." "He must take up his post soon and wants to apply for my position." "You weren't supposed to say." " Why?" "No problem." "I know you're a good boy." "I'll ask the Police of Montelusa and we can hope." "Really?" "Yes" "Thank you, Doctor." "You're welcome." "Just don't raise hell like your father." " Promise?" "It 's a promise." "Yes" " Okay." "Perfect." "OK, smile some more." "So you get us all in?" "A little closer." "There we are." "What are you doing?" "Crying?" " Doctor, I am moved." "Farewells bother me very much." "Do you have a CLIX?" "A what?" " A tissue." "Keep it." "Thanks." " Are you ready?" "Yes." "English Subtitles by genew"