- Do you know where is the police station? - Near here.
- Do you know the inspector Montalbano? - I saw him once
Well.
Ringing Phone
- Hello? - Doctor, is it you "personally" in person?
Sure, Catarella, what happened?
- There is the new inspector, Dott "Alluccello". -But what are you saying!?
He presented himself so, dott. vice Alluccello, new inspector.
- Now he's in his studio. - Put Fazio on. - He isn't.
He received a call from someone who sells iron and brass for a theft.
- Come immediately, dottore! - Alright
- Dottore! - You must not let anybody in my office.
- But the dottore told me that he was a dottore! - I do not care!
Yes, sure!
Now I must leave you, I'll call you later.
Hello, my joy. You're Dr. Montalbano, right?
If you don't immediately justify your behaviour, I'll have you arrested.
- Why? What have I done? - You smuggled yourself as the new inspector,
you took possession of my office and used my phone.
- Sorry.
- But the officer at the switchboard... - Catarella.
Did not he tell you who I am?
I am the Deputy Inspector Domenico Augello, Mimi` to his friends.
Sorry, I thought you'd been told.
- Do not touch the desk, you put it in disorder. - Yes, sure.
This is the fax where the prefect tells you of my appointment.
- Then, Augello ... - You can call me Mimi`. - Augello.
Here, the phone is only used for business purposes.
Before I was on the phone with a colleague from the old police station.
I'd left her an investigation.
Salvo, she's a beautiful girl.
In this police station we're all men and called by surname.
So for you, I'm Montalbano. Now follow me.
This is your new office.
- Do you like it? - Are we not a bit too far?
- We should cooperate closely. - No, here you'll be fine.
- This, you can keep it. - Can I ask an officer to help me?
- By myself I'll do it in one month. -Today there are no agents.
All are engaged in important tasks.
- I can not assign you any. - It does not matter.
Welcome to our police station and good work.
Augello.
Stinker!
Phone rings - Hello? - Dottore, it's Fazio.
- Did you finish with the guy from the hardware store? - What hardware store?
What about the robbery at the home of a guy who sells iron and brass?
Catarella has got it wrong as usual.
I am in Gallotta, at surveryor Ettore Ferro's. Come at once.
- Sorry. - No problem.
Good day.
- I wanted to apologize for earlier, but I ... - You are grumpy, I see it.
- But they also told me that you're good. - I'm not grumpy.
You're going out for some investigation? May I come with you?
- I do not like who meddles in my affairs. - It's my business too.
- I'm your closest collaborator. - Not yet.
- And it is not certain that you will become it. Phone rings.
Come on, there's a house robbery.
Catarella, you're not doing anything, you could...
Catarella is engaged in an urgent matter. Come on!
After I did a course all'lnterpol in Geneva
where there are beautiful women, emancipated.
- You know what Godard said? - Yes, that the most beautiful women are in Geneva.
- But I prefer Truffaut. - Truffaut ...
It was the most beautiful moment of my life.
Certain experiences, certain memories ...
Unforgettable!
Even here in Vigata there are beautiful women. You are married, engaged ...
No, do you want to invite me to dinner?
He's nice too!
- I am Deputy Inspector Domenico Augello. - Fazio.
- "For friends, Mimi`." - The thieves came in through the cellar.
Strange, that with a house like this, they only entered the cellar.
- Maybe they keep there the important things. - The owner is there.
- What did they steal? - He'll tell you himself.
Surveyor, sir, how did you manage to get these barrels in?
I had them built here.
I designed this cellar.
It goes far beyond the walls of this house.
- You're a winemaker? - No. - Laughing?
- You made me come here to mock me? - I would never do that.
What's above there?
The freezer, a refrigerator and some boxes.
- Are you a merchant? - No
I worked for forty years at the Technical Office of the City of Vigata.
I am now retired.
Why do you want to know what I do for living?
I am gathering information to...
Never mind, what did they steal?
On 2nd April, two days ago, I finished sealing
the box containing the caps of beer I'd been drinking Iast year.
They were 365, one per day.
The other day I got the new supply of beer.
36 boxes of 10 beers each, plus 5 bottles of beer loose.
Beer Torrefelice! You know it, don't you?
- It 'a small factory near Messina. - Over there, what is it?
Nothing, unusable pieces of string.
Here all is divided by year.
Elastic bands 1978, 1979, 1980.
Used canottiere, 1979, 1980, 1981.
I do not throw anything, I have been keeping everything for 20 years.
- The rest of the house is the same, the surveyor keeps everything. -Everything!
Okay, let's go.
We'll start the investigations, ask questions.
It won't be easy, but we will do what we can.
- What do you keep in the barrels? - My biological waste. - What?
Inspector, I am desperate.
It is as if they had stolen a part of my life.
Do not worry. Is there only this way out?
- Yes, this only. - Augello, lead the way.
Excuse me.
In those barrels, there are not only excrement, but also his fingernails
the hairs of the beard, the hair... For him it's a normal thing.
- How sick! - And in the cold storage, what does he keep?
All that he may need for 365 days.
He calculates how much meat he will eat in one year, how much fish, rice ...
Then he orders, the vans arrive and he stores the stuff.
- Has he got relatives? - Only one nephew who lives in Venice.
He'll leave him the house, but it shall remain the way it is now.
- I can imagine his grandson when he will open the barrels! - Gallo, write the minutes.
Sure.
Why would thieves enter a cellar
to steal beer bottle caps?
- They are already mounting the kiosks. - Why? What happens tomorrow?
- It's the celebration for the patron saint. - It's a picnic. - In theory.
- In practice it is a big dinner. -The boys from the police and I will come.
- Will you come? - I prefer to work. - Dottor Augello, will you come? - Yes.
Any girls?
- Enjoy your meal, sir. - Thanks, Calogero.
Big competition Valkyrie Beer!
Open the bottle and look under the cap.
You can win rich prizes.
Ringing Phone
- Hello? - Augello, it's Montalbano. Already asleep at this hour?
I struggled to tidy up the office. What do you want?
I wanted to tell you that you might take care of
the theft of surveyor Ferro's caps.
You could start off by investigating the Torrefelice company.
You call me at this hour to ask me to take care of a case
which is a real bullshit?
You must get used to this, here it works like this.
Goodnight.
Damn!
Avanti!
- May I come in? - Sit down.
- Did you sleep well? - Lousily. - The bed was uncomfortable? - No.
If I wake up in the first sleep, I sleep no more, I am done so.
You're done bad.
- So you have not... - Instead, since I am up since 7am
I know everything about the Torrefelice company. Their activity began three years ago.
Now they're expanding.
- Who is the owner? - Don't know yet.
How does the company fit in the theft of the caps?
Fazio said that the caps
were very valuable for Ferro. Perhaps they are so for the thief too.
- Another collector of caps? - Do not say bullshit.
- Do you know if the Torrefelice has launched a contest with prizes? - No.
- No in the sense that you don't know or that they did not? - I do not know.
But national companies do these things
those who can afford advertising. - Okay.
Call sergeant Picone of the Guardia di Finanza of Montelusa.
- He'll tell you the owner's name... - I will do it tomorrow. - Why?
Today is St. Calorio.
Fazio and the boys are waiting for me, you want something to eat?
No, I manage alone.
- You got acquainted soon. - I am a sociable type.
Hurry up, or it'll cool.
Cuttlefish with peas, fried mixed plate and seafood risotto.
Bread, water and wine.
Cutlery, glass for wine and glass for water.
- Thanks! - Then I'll come back to collect.
Thanks.
Ringing Phone
Shit!
- Hello? - Sir, it's Fazio. I am in Piano Torretta
with Catarella and all the others.
- So what? - We have seen confusion, weeping women.
- What happened? - A little girl of 3 years has disappeared. -How did it happen?
I do not know, we're looking for her. If we do not find her soon
we shall organize the search. Maybe it's better if you come here.
- Okay, I am on my way. - I'll see you soon.
- Dottore, they found the little girl a little ago - Wounded? - No.
- Where are the others? - In a villa, 6 km from here, they found her there.
She did a 6 km walk in the rain and no one noticed her?
- I don't know. - Let's go.
- Catarella, wait here. - At your commands!
- Dottore! - Her parents? - Arrived. - And the others?
Gallo and Paterno`, with their families, returned home. Augello's here.
Those are the Mongiardinos, the maternal grandparents of the child.
- The young one is Gerlando, her uncle. - I would like to see the girl. - Come.
Unrecognisable voices
- I'm Dr. Riguccio, the landlord. - Dottore.
I had the girl placed in my room
and I only allowed her parents in. - Well done.
- You visited her? -A superficial look, she suffered a trauma.
The child can neither speak nor cry.
- Who found her? - She showed herself up at the gate.
My wife found her and took her in.
Augello and Paterno` were looking for her, they called here and found her.
Did you find any signs of beatings?
She had a swollen left cheek, maybe hit somewhere.
- Could it have been a slap? - Yes, it is possible.
- If you want to see her, she's over there. - Thanks
- That is the room. - Salvo, can I present Miss Burlando?
- She's a friend of the girl's mother. - Inspector Montalbano. -Livia.
- How's the little girl? - Fine, her parents are with her.
Alright. Excuse me.
- Inspector Montalbano. - Fernando Belli. She is Giovanna, my wife.
- Hi. -Hi. -This is the dress the girl was wearing? -Yes.
- The shoes? - They are under the bed.
- When did you notice the disappearance? - Before it rained.
We were out with three cars, my in-laws, my brother in law
and the family of a friend. We loaded the stuff to go home
and then we realized that Laura was not there more.
Up to 5 minutes before, she played with the ball a few meters away.
We started calling, looking for her.
Other people we do not know joined the search.
- It was terrible. - I can imagine.
- Where were you guys exactly? - On the edge of the Piano
close to the hedges. - Any idea of what might have happened?
I think Laura, perhaps chasing the ball, arrived to the road
and did not know how to get back.
Maybe she was collected by a motorist
who accompanied her to the first house. - Sure.
But between Piano Torretta and here there are a dozen homes.
- If you wish, tomorrow I shall wait for you in the police station for a talk. - Okay.
- Goodbye. - Goodbye. - Goodbye. - Goodbye!
- Fazio. - Yes? - Bring her clothes to the Scientific squad
and then I want to know everything about Ferdinando Belli. - Okay.
Dottore, good-bye and thanks.
Want a ride to the police station?
- No thanks, I stay to ask a few more questions. - Goodbye.
Let's go, Catarella.
Knocks at the door.
- Excuse me, dottore. - What is it?
On the phone, there's "Beautiful Bernardo" who wants to talk, shall I pass him?
Passamelo.
Excuse me, dottore.
Telephone ring Mr. Belli, good morning.
Good morning, this morning I should have come, but I cannot.
- Why? Is the girl ill? - No, she's pretty good
although still not talking, but it's me with a high fever.
- Maybe it was the fear or the rain from yesterday. - Okay.
- If you agree, I'll come in the afternoon to see you - Okay, see you later.
Later.
Of course, excuse me a moment, now I must leave.
Shall I call you at lunch? Sure, I can tell him. Bye.
Greetings from Livia, Giovanna Mongiardino's friend.
- Yesterday you did not ask enough questions? - What about it?
Speaking, we found that there is a certain affinity.
- I do not care. Fazio, tell us something about Fernando Belli. - Yes.
Fernando Belli, born in Genoa in 1954
and married to a woman from Vigata, Giovanna Mongiardino.
He's the manager of Vigamare, a wholesale fish company.
In town he's seen rarely because he does most of his business in Genoa
where he has another company of wholesale fish. - Since when is he here?
They arrived in Vigata four days ago, to spend with Mongiardinos
St. Calorio's celebrations. So do they at Christmas and Easter.
How did them two meet?
Gerlando, the lady's brother, and Belli met in the army.
Freed from military service, Belli came to see his friend,
met the lady and fell in love.
- If Belli is in Genoa, who is responsible for the company here? -Gerlando.
- But it seems ... - What?
That Belli is not happy with the way he manages the things.
- Every time he comes here, they argue. - The reason for these quarrels?
- I do not know. - They may have kidnapped the little girl for a ransom.
You're wrong, the child has been freed.
- Maybe she ran away. - Stop it. - Or the kidnappers changed their minds.
Why do you say bullshit? Why would they?
What if it was a sex maniac?
That eventually did not manage to take advantage of the girl?
Fazio, a maniac would have had ample time to do what he wanted.
Why did they drop Laura at Riguccio's villa then?
The question is different: why did the person who took Laura
kept her with him for two hours in the car without doing her any harm?
Perhaps the person who took Laura was a woman.
Maybe the girl was seen by a married woman who cannot have children.
She sees the little girl is lost and her instinct is to foster her.
She brings her into the car and is torn between the desire to kidnap her
and that to return her to the parents. Her motherhood...
What a good movie is telling us the super cop Mimi` Augello!
- Why don't you try and "take it" up into that place? - How dare you?
We've met one day ago.
After how long are you authorized to to send to fuck off a subordinate?
- I have the same degree as yours. - It seems to me that you're the deputy.
Out of my office, please.
Don't you think you were a little too harsh with dottor Augello?
Basically his theory was not so absurd.
Yes, but he exaggerated, he must learn to stay in his place.
We do not know yet the reason of the quarrels between Belli and Mongiardino.
I shall find information immediately.
Excuse me, it was a work call.
Thanks for your kind availability.
I do not understand the reason for your insistence.
The story has ended well and I'm not going to complain formally.
- It was the abduction of a child. - Now my daughter is fine.
- Are you sure it was a kidnapping? - I wanted to talk just about that.
I told you everything I knew. The girl has been found
is fine and I do not want complications.
- If I may, I must leave, I have an engagement. - The fever is gone.
Yes, I feel better, thanks, and then the job is important.
- Could I talk with your wife? - She's got a severe headache
and does not want to see anyone, I apologize.
- Inspector, goodbye. - Goodbye.
The rose is beautiful.
- Hello. - Hello, who are you?
- I am Salvo and you? - I am Laura.
- You're doing the drawings? You're good! - Livia is teaching me.
- How is she? - Better, she also began to speak.
- Did she say anything ... - No, she says nothing of what happened yesterday
and if someone asks her, she closes up in her silence.
- Okay, I go, bye. - Bye!
- Goodbye. - Goodbye.
Dottore, it is already two meters long and still going.
Wait, I'll help.
This is sent by marshal Picone, from Guardia di Finanza.
Bring the rest to dottor augello when it is over.
Avanti!
- May I? - What do you want? - Can I offer you the peace coffee?
Are you are really an asshole or just do anything to appear so?
You'll find it out over time.
- Picone has worked a miracle. - Investigations on Torrefelice? - Yes.
- Obviously you've read it before me. - Of course.
- And of course you have the case solution. - Do not exaggerate. Just an hypothesis!
Take the papers.
Knocking at the door.
- Good afternoon. - Good afternoon. - Did you find them?
- No, do you keep the boxes of beer Torrefelice? - Sure.
- If it is three years that they deliver it to you, you should have ninety boxes. - Exactly.
Let's see them.
Here, this is the beer department. Be careful.
Here you go.
1990.
- This is from last year. - Yeah. - These are from the other years.
- Yes. - '89. - These too. - '88.
Let's see.
Check there.
- Here there is nothing. - So?
- Do the suppliers know that you always keep everything? - Yes.
Okay, we can pack all back.
Let me, you are not used.
- Now you can talk? - One second.
First things first. Picone told us that the company Torrefelice
belongs to Pizzuso brothers of Messina and so far everything is ok
because they are not previous offenders.
We have the customers' list and we know they do deliveries
with five vans registered to them. - Did you find a suspicious client?
Yes, Vincent Cacciatore. He lives near surveyor Ferro.
Furthermore, Cacciatore drinks beer like an Irishman.
Thirty cratescases of ten, every three months. And Fazio gave me another piece of information.
Cacciatore was arrested several times for smuggling drug.
- Where do these clues lead us to? - The Pizzusos are not honest.
They are drug dealers, I do not know what kind of drug
but it can surely be hidden in the bottle caps.
Among their customers, in Vigata, there's Vincenzo Cacciatore.
Once the courier mistakenly gave the case with the asterisk
to surveyor Ferro instead of Cacciatore.
- Then the Pizzusos noticed it, but they could not do anything more. - Yeah.
- With what excuse could they ask Ferro the beer back? - Right.
So they waited, knowing that the surveyor does not throw away anything.
They waited a year, then went to his house
and stole the box of three hundred sixty five caps and drugs.
Now what shall we do?
Cacciatore receives the load of beer every 10th of the month.
It's two days to next delivery, we could stop the truck
uncork a bottle and find the drugs in the cap.
- Yes, Augello, we will do so. -Thanks, Salvo. But you can call me Mimi`.
There is no hurry.
Excuse me, Doctor, there's a monsignore who wants to talk to her.
A prelate?
- Let him in. - Please, monsignore
Please sit down, tell me.
Inspector, first of all, I must tell you something.
I came here because my wife gives me no peace.
- Excuse me, monsignore, I fear I have understood. - Monsignore?
No, Bonsignore! My name is Ernesto Bonsignore
and I have a shop selling fruit and vegetables in Gallotta. - It's clear.
- Tell me. - Can I start with a question?
Have you received any report of the abduction of a child?
- Why do you ask? - For there is one thing that happened yesterday.
We went to St. Calorio's feast, but immediately after lunch
as it was starting to rain, we decided to get back.
We were driving along the road that goes around Piano Torretta
when the car ahead of us indicated that it'd move to the center
to pass another car stopped with the rear door open.
< What did you do? < Inspector, what could I do?
< I kept going because behind us a queue had formed.
< While overcoming the car with the girl, the flood started.
< Could you see what was happening in thre car? < I could not see.
I had to pay attention to the road but my wife saw.
Your wife thought of a kidnapping.
She was determined and thought that the man could not be the child's father
because he was treating her... - How? - Too hard.
In fact my wife said: "Cruelly".
Gallo and Paterno`, you will stop here.
Fazio, you reach me on the other side and then... A knock on the door
- Augello... - Montalbano, you need me?
No, I wanted to tell you that Bonsignore came, he appears to be a witness
of the girl's kidnapping. I just wanted to let you know. - Thanks.
But now I am preparing for the ambush to Pizzuso brothers.
- I hope to be informed of the plan as soon as possible. - Certainly.
Then, when you are done with organising the "landing in Normandy"
come see me at home. - is that an invitation to dinner? - No.
- If I work overtime, I want to be comfortable. - Well. Let's recap.
- You found a nice place here. - It was a stroke of luck.
- Red wine? - No, with clams a white is better, it is in the fridge.
- This one? - Yes.
Let's not talk anymore, in a little while the pasta will be ready.
And you do not talk when you eat.
It's a habit I picked up as a child.
- What did Bonsignore say? - Remember when you said
that the kidnapping might have been caused by a disappointed maternity?
- Still want to tease? - No, but maybe it was caused
by a disappointed paternity.
Bonsignore was passing in Piano Torretta, but at some point
he saw some girl who tried to escape from a car.
A man grabbed her back onboard with great cruelty.
- Have you had the man described? - No.
- Did he say what car was it? - I did not ask. - Why?
If I had asked more questions, the whole village now would talk about this.
The Bonsignores will not forget a single detail of this story
and if we need information, we will question them.
This confirms that there was a kidnapping attempt.
Yes, but it will not push us forward in the investigation.
- We lack a fundamental fact. - What?
The kidnapper took the first girl he has met
or did he grab the girl because he knew she was Belli's daughter?
If he wanted any, then everything is dictated by chance
and an investigation becomes difficult.
But he took her knowing who she was, the abduction was not random.
- The abductor will have been in possession of other information. - Sure.
He knew that Bellis and Mongiardinos would go to Piano Torretta.
When did they decide it? Whom did they tell? The pasta!!
Perhaps the kidnapper lurked by the house and followed them.
- San Calorio's day out is not compulsory. - True.
Besides the slap he gave her, he did nothing
indeed, he took care that she would end in the right hands.
When he saw Dr. Riguccio's house, he left her opposite it
so that she would not cross the road. Why these precautions?
Maybe he was afraid to meet him one more cruel than him.
Eat.
Livia! Listen what I thought.
You want to know who knew Belli's movements.
Livia is a friend of Giovanna's and she may get to know this thing.
- I'll call her... - You take advantage of the investigations to be with a woman.
- Are you jealous? - What do you say? - You like her too. - I do not like her.
- If you like her, I move aside. - She's pretty, but not because of this
one must go for it. - We are very different.
The parmigiano?
- Are you crazy? The parmesan cheese with clams? - Yes. - Not right there.
You're right, we're very different.
- Are you still here? - I talked with Livia. - So?
We met for a coffee. She had a shirt...
I do not fucking care. You had the information needed?
Of course, I had to sacrifice in return, by inviting her to dinner.
- Tell me. -The night before the party, Belli said to Giovanna, his wife,
that he did not want to go on a trip with the Mongiardino family,
that she could go alone and that he would stay home. - Why?
After lunch, there's been a violent argument with Gerlando.
- Giovanna told Livia why the discussion? - No.
Then Giovanna changed her husband's mind, but there's been a change
and instead of going to Marina Sicula, they'd go to Piano Torretta.
- Why? - The idea is by Belli, Piano Torretta is closer to Vigata
and perhaps in this way they would spend less time with her brother in law.
So Giovanna announced the change to her brother.
- The Bellis and the Mongiardinos knew of the change. - And Livia too.
But who told the kidnapper they would change the destination?
I do not know, but at Mongiardino's the atmosphere is heavy.
After the quarrel of the two brothers, Giovanna discussed with her husband.
- Why? - She blamed on him everything that happened
because he preferred to go to Piano Torretta.
Had they gone to Marina Sicula, nothing would have happened.
- What kind of logic is this? - You know how women are.
...
- Inspector, what do I owe the honour to? - Good morning, sir.
I need to talk with your son-in-law, Fernando. Is he the house?
My son, my daughter and the girl left suddenly.
They returned to Genoa.
Fernando received a phone call, packed up in a hurry
and gave no explanation. - They are gone like this?
- Livia left too? - No, she had a few more days of leave
and would not return to Genoa. I told her she could stay here
but she preferred a room at the Hotel Pirandello. - I understand.
- Can I ask you some questions? - Of course.
But let's go out, it's better.
- Can I get you anything? No, thank you.
- This sudden departure surprises me a lot. - Me too.
They should have stayed another three days.
This is a ball of raw rubber, I'd bought it for Laura
and now I'd have to paint it.
It's like the one that she had at the feast of St. Calorio and then lost.
Sir, I will be honest with you.
There is not much doubt now
about the fact that it was a kidnapping attempt.
How can you say it? Could it be...
Two witnesses saw a man dragging Laura in a car.
My God!
Do you know if Fernando, your son-in-law, has enemies?
No, on the contrary, they all love him.
Can you tell me why your son and Fernando
do not go well together?
They have strong differences on the conduction of the company.
The reason for Fernando
no longer wanted to participate to the outing of San Calorio,
was it linked to the nth discussion with Gerlando?
- Yes. - Maybe that's why Fernando and his daughter have left early
and not for the mysterious phone call from Genoa. - It may be so.
I fear that those two have gotten to the point of rupture.
Unaudbile
- We do not sell retail. -Excuse me, I'm Inspector Montalbano.
- A couple? - But I said no retail. - I...
- Inspector. - Hello.
- Your behaviour is wrong. - I came to buy fish.
Do not pretend you do not understand. You asked my father questions
that have nothing to do with what happened to my granddaughter. Please.
About your niece's disappearance, something bothers me.
- To clear my mind, I must speak with all your family. - Fine.
You think she's been kidnapped. But what does the alleged kidnapping have to do
with your questions to my father about my relationship with Fernando? - Right!
- Why do you argue so much? - For the conduction of the company.
What is the disparity of views with respect to your company?
I want that Vigamare expands to new markets
and he wants it remains as-is. - He does not want to expand, why?
- Can I be honest? - Of course.
Fernando made this company for my sister.
Giovanna wanted to fix me and hoped the Vigamare
forced her husband to return to Vigata.
Fernando is not interested in Vigamare.
Your father told me that your relationship is at a breaking point.
- It is so. - In what sense?
Fernando left the company before his departure.
- We went to the notary on the same evening. - Who bought the share?
- Io. - Congratulations! - Thank you.
- I hope I clarified your doubts. - Sure, goodbye.
- Have a good day. - Good day to you.
- Inspector, what's up? The sardines are not good? - I'm not hungry.
That's it.
...
- Good evening. - Good evening, Inspector, you too here! - Yes.
I'm here almost every day.
He introduced me to this place.
- Join us. - No, I was about to leave.
Stay a while, five minutes.
- Salvo goes to bed early usually. - I'll drink the last glass of wine with you.
Cheers!
Good!
I told Mimi` that I was surprised by Giovanna's departure.
I called her at home, but nobody answers.
It's strange, usually there's always someone.
After what they have gone through, they'll wish for some tranquility.
Mimi` said that two witnesses
would confirm the abduction.
Mimi` has the fault of speaking too much.
A police officer should be careful to spread information.
That little advantage that we sometimes have on criminals
can be thrown away by revelations so reckless. - Do you hear?
- Talks like a school teacher. - But the lesson is interesting.
If it's been a kidnapping, it was the fastest in history.
Perhaps it was a warning to Fernando
to make him understand they could touch his dearest affections.
Who would do such a thing here? Fernando lives and works in Genoa.
- Have you decided? - I leave you to your dinner.
- Good evening. - Good evening to you. - See you tomorrow, Montalbano.
- Mimi`, tomorrow morning I come and pick you up at 5am. - At 5am?
- At 5am. - You said at 10.
Didn't they teach you, at Interpol, that for an ambush
you should check the territory, the place, the escape routes...
These are things that require many hours.
Miss, you send him to bed early.
Sure, I too want to go to bed early tonight.
- Goodbye. - Goodbye. Then, marinated anchovies
fried squid, red mullet...
This motherfucker is late.
Why did we come here four hours ago?
- It's strange that you do not know... - You're a huge asshole.
If you were interested in Livia, you could say it, instead of behaving like this.
I go almost every night to Calogero's.
- And then she invited me to the table. - You are hypocritical. -And you, a dongiovanni.
- You are ridiculous, Mimi`. I called you Mimi`, are you happy? - I am dongiovanni.
- But I'm better than you who pretend holiness... - Shut up.
- I speak as much as I want. - Shut up, look.
- Finally! All right? Had a good trip? - Yes.
- Stop, police! - Is there a meeting? - To the wall!
Inspector, I have not done anything.
- You're making a big mistake, there's nothing. - Now we'll see.
- Has beer drinking become a crime? - Shut up.
- Is there nothing? - There's nothing.
Next time, grown ups should do these things.
- You shut up. - And this?
- Take him! - Stop!
Stop him!
Fazio! Are you all right?
- The heart. - What? - I'm sick, dottore.
Gallo, take the car! Hurry up!
Fazio!
- Excuse me, Resuscitation? - At the bottom. - Thanks.
- Madam! - Inspector! - News? - I know nothing.
- No one gives me the news. - Be strong, all will go well.
- Did you call your son? - Yes.
- Inspector Montalbano? - Yes. - There is a phone call for you.
Here it is.
- Hello? - How's Fazio? - Do not know yet.
- You have news? - Yes, good news, you were right.
The drug was not under the round, it was the round itself.
I also have the results of the analyses of little Laura's clothes.
On the dress there were traces of sauce, jam and motor oil.
The panties were dirty of pee, she must have scared a lot.
We'll talk later in the police station. Now I must go, bye bye.
- Where are you going? - I am Inspector Montalbano. He is a friend of mine.
- Sorry, you cannot enter. - At least tell me how is he.
- He'll do. - Consequences?
- The gentleman will enjoy a peaceful retirement. - A retirement?
- So he won't work again? - He had a heart attack.
His job has become too risky for him.
Goodbye.
Bastards! Mafia! Cowards!
- You do not even dare to put your head out! - Calm down!
You will come to a heart attack! Calm down.
I'm just peacefully expressing my thoughts.
I do not do anything wrong. Bastards! Infamous! Come out!
- Calm down, nobody will come. - What happens?
- Now we'll fix everything. - I am an honest citizen.
I am protesting against a corrupted system.
- I'm just doing this. - If you do not go away, I'll have you arrested.
Bravo, arrest me and let don Balduccio Sinagra free
and those like him who are killing free enterprise.
- Mr. Farruggia, come here, please. - I seize this.
- How do you do, Inspector Montalbano. - Inspector of "cops and robbers"?
I'll pretend I have not heard, what's the problem?
I own a small construction company.
I can not get a contract for months.
I am always beaten by unknown companies.
- Do you know these companies? - They are linked to the dummy Don Sinagra.
Now that the charges against him have expired,
I can declare bankruptcy because I am an honest person.
- What's your intention? Do you want to press charges? - What's the use?
However there would be a way to succeed in obtaining a contract.
Don Sisino Cuffaro, Don Balduccio Sinagra's historic rival,
once sent a henchman to offer me protection.
I would have gotten contracts
and he would have joined the Board of Directors
although I would have remained officially the administrator.
- In your opinion, what did I do? - You sent him away.
I do not think Farruggia has lied, he knew what he was saying.
I want the names of all of Sinagra's companies together with their registered address.
You'll find something in Court or the Chamber of Commerce.
- I can find this information, but then? - What does "then" mean?
He's a boss who resumed business within construction.
- It's something bigger than us. - Things are not bigger than us.
We feel too little about the things to must be addressed.
Say it again! I want to write it, it is beautiful.
- Stop it. - I go.
- Augello! - What else do you want? I wanted to tell you...
What?
Livia!
- How are you? - Fine, I must speak with Salvo. It's an important thing.
- Say. - I must speak. - Now? - Yes.
Okay, let's go.
I was thinking of what we said at the restaurant.
- Can I call you by name? - Of course.
The most normal thing would be to talk to the girl.
Then I remembered that she so loves to draw
and after the abduction she has made many drawings. - Yes.
I thought they could help and I brought them. Want to see them?
- Sure. - We sit here?
- This... - Tells you something?
You can recognize some elements of the kidnapping scene. The car, the man.
Even the ball, Laura had one.
But it is strange that both the man and Laura are out of the car.
Laura was not wet, then during the storm she was indoors.
That's right.
However they are inside this rectangle.
- You can expect that it was indoors. - Maybe it's a garage.
It could be.
While we were looking for her, she was in a garage?
On Laura's clothes were traces of motor oil, so...
- So it is so. - Yes, it's so.
- Thanks, you were precious. - Thank you.
- Hello? - Hello, Giuseppe, I would like to know how's your father.
- He is better, they dismissed him. - Already? - You know my father.
He protested that he wanted to return to work.
- They dismissed him in despair. He is now resting. - Okay.
Tell your father that one of these days I'll come to see him
and that he must do what the doctors say. - Okay.
- See you soon! - Bye!
Phone rings
- Hello? It's Montalbano. - But you always answer like this? - Lie this how?
Like a policeman.
I'm a cop. How are you?
- Fine, I wanted to know if there are news. - News? No.
I was thinking about what we have discovered by studying the Laura's drawings
and I would like to find the garage in which she has been held.
The area should not be large.
I know that it is not regular, but could I come with you tomorrow?
What? Come with me?
- You really wish to come with me? - Is it not possible?
It isn't. However...
- All right, I'll come and pick you in the afternoon? - Ok, see you tomorrow.
- Sleep well. - You too.
Shit!
This sent to you by the Police of Montelusa.
- They said you requested it. - It has finally arrived. Thanks, you may go.
What do you want? I said you can go.
Thanks.
- You're welcome, dottore. - Augello...
- "Augello"! - Why are you laughing?
Do not pretend not to understand, have you "concluded" with the Genoese?
"Have you concluded?" But how do you speak?
I stepped aside because it is evident she likes you.
But if you do not want to do your duty to the end, let me know
because I get up from the "bench" and start doing the "warming up".
I pretend not to have heard. Do you have anything serious to tell me?
Yes. I have come to refer on the financial investigation.
I note with pleasure that occasionally you work. Bravo.
Thanks.
- What is it? - You take notes like Fazio?
Even so? We are not here to learn poems by heart
like at school! You are absurd.
So...
Balduccio Sinagra has and has not four companies enable to compete
to contracts for public works.
We begin with this bullshit? "He has and has not"?
For some time these companies were in difficulty.
To return to work they would have to fix the debts
but there was no money.
Three months ago the miracle happens.
The four companies find the money to come into compliance, but...
But? Are they forced to change hands.
No, you are wrong. They do not change hands.
The administrator remains in place and the board is the same.
However now in the board there is Balduccio.
He always appears together with another name.
In these four companies officially Balduccio counts little.
However unofficially he is the owner of the four companies.
- The others are dummies. - Exactly.
Balduccio put the money to stabilize the companies.
We must begin to count the dead. Cuffaros will not stay put
and watch one of Sinagra's doing as he wishes.
Do you think that the feud war could start over?
You said that in the new boards together with Balduccio
always appears another name. Which?
- Calogero Infantino. - Who?
Calogero Infantino. He's got a clean record. He had a shop,
a wholesale of electrical household appliances.
- Now what? - Do you know who is Calogero Infantino?
- No. - The husband of Angelina Cuffaro.
Shit.
Sinagras and Cuffaros together?
One of Cuffaro's men proposed to Farruggia to sell.
There won't be dead to count, the two clans will go along.
Definitely.
At least until one of them will not stop the ceasefire
to have more power or for matters related to money and everything will return as before.
Have you a photo of Calogero Infantino?
I think so. Here it is.
- Is it him? - Him who?
This is the man who talked with Gerland Mongiardino.
Sinagras and Cuffaros share the property market
and act in every direction. They also took the Vigamare.
You mean the mafia gave Mongiardino money
to take the share from the brother in law?
I think so. In fact, I'm sure.
You needed to be a little more central
and nothing would have happened to the girl - Yes, it's true.
What will you do to find the garage?
We must look well from here up to Dr. Riguccio's villa
and see if the houses have a garage with rolling shutters.
- How are your diopters? - Eleven-tenths. - Good.
- Why are we stopping here? - I must deliver something.
- I do it in a minute, wait here? - No, I come with you.
Come on, do not be dismayed.
I did not want to say anything, it was an impossible task.
I did not think it was so hard to tell whether a house has a garage.
- I've wasted your time, sorry. - I had fun.
I warn you, it is a strange person.
- In what sense? - Now you see.
My caps!
Thank you, Inspector. Thank you.
You make me happy.
- The caps? - Yes, I'll explain you later.
Surveyor, the caps rounds are missing. However you will have read the papers.
Yes, patience.
Excuse me, why did you bother to come here?
You could have called me, I would have come to pick them up.
What inconvenience? I was passing by for a survey
that has proved fruitless in the end.
I'm sorry, what was it?
I am following an investigation.
I have to see what homes in this area have a masonry garage.
- But it was not possible to tell it. - Miss, Inspector!
Come with me.
I've worked forty years at Vigata's City Council.
I took care of the technical department.
Come.
However I believe...
I think I can be helpful.
- What are they? - The maps of the town.
You may verify rapidly and with certainty
which homes have masonry garages.
Did I help you back, Mr. Inspector?
You do not know how much!
Here I am. Sorry, but as a dinner it is not the best.
- In the area there are three houses with garages. - Yes.
I have transcribed the names of the owners. Bonito, Di Gregorio...
And Zirretta. It will be easy to find something about them.
- We did a good job. - Yes.
What an idiot! I forgot the bread.
Avanti.
Catarella said you sought me.
- You all right? - Yes, why do you ask?
No reason, you have a strange face.
- What are those? - Drawings that the little Laura Belli did
in these last days.
We watched them with Livia ...
I understand that perhaps while she was abducted
she was kept in a garage.
- If you say so! - I obtained a map
that extends from Piano Torretta to Gallotta.
Together with Li... I made a list of all the owners
of apartments with garages. Gaspare Bonito, Francesco Di Gregorio
Federico Zirretta.
Let me know all about these people. Questions?
One. Have you concluded?
- What the fuck are you doing? If you hit me in the face, you kill me! - Go.
I do not know!
- He's in the terrace. - Do I disturb him? - No, he'll be happy.
I won't talk shop.
Dad, Inspector Montalbano has come to see you.
- Dottore, what a pleasure! - Don't! How are you?
- Fine - I'll leave you alone. - Thank you, Giuseppe.
Only doctors do not understand anything.
According to them I should be one month convalescing.
A month passes quickly.
I get bored staying all this time without doing anything!
Now Giuseppe too leaves, he goes to Rome.
- He finished the leave. I am left alone. - He's a good kid.
- You two look alike very much. - To me he looks like her mother.
"Do not do this, do not do that."
Any progress on the investigations on the kidnapped girl?
No, there's nothing new.
I asked Augello to make checks on some suspects.
- We wait. - Dottor Augello? He does not know anyone.
- He would risk to spoil everything. - You do not worry.
- Augello knows how to work. - You're right, I am sorry.
Doing nothing, the brain...
Here is a really nice place.
Had I known, I'd have brought a cards deck.
- I would have give you a briscola lesson. - You mock me? - No.
Salvo.
- Montalbano, I have the information you asked for. - Good.
Now. Bonito is cashier in the branch that Tenacra has in the harbor.
They all said that is an honest man.
The other two?
Zirretta is employed for thirty years in the Prison.
The manager said he is a model employee
and also promotes initiatives in favor of the prisoners.
- The last? - Now things get interesting.
Three months ago, Di Gregorio rented the villa to a certain...
Hold on.
Arena Giacomo, fifty years.
Arena calls himself a hauler.
- He has a van with which he does small transportations. - So?
Arena is not clean, two years ago he was arrested with a gun
without a firearms license.
- Is that all? - He's the son of Arena Romualdo called "Rorro`".
He belonged to the Sinagra family.
Three months ago Giacomo Arena, a sort of pauper
rented a villa that can cost ... - A million a month.
He also did a one-year contract and bought a nice car.
Salvo, I think he works for Don Balduccio
like his father before him.
I think so too, but we have no evidence.
Let us follow him without being discovered
and try to take a good photograph of his face.
The gate is opening.
- Go - I did not make it in time.
- Now. - Nothing.
- There's the tree. - Shit!
- I do not see him, just the back. - Wait.
Where the fuck are you going?
Where is he going?
I can see him, but the shoulders only.
Excuse me!
Excuse me.
- I've seen that you deal with removals. I... - Not anymore!
- Fuck you! - Thanks anyway.
The next time you take an initiative I'll break your ass!
- Did you shoot? - Something, but not sure.
Did you understand whom Arena works for?
For the unsuspected wholesaler of electrical appliances Infantino.
Don Cuffaro's daughter's husband.
One of Cuffaros gives a job to the child of a boss of the Sinagra family.
The two great enemies have become allies. Why?
The war between families is a hindrance to business.
So don Balduccio offered Cuffaros some sort of mafia peace.
When Don Balduccio wanted to expand to the fish market
he found an obstacle, Fernando Belli.
He's an honest person and did not want to deal with him.
Balduccio identified the weakest link of the company, Mongiardino.
He explained the advantages he could get
if he had entered the company. - Exactly.
Gerlando will have spoken to Fernando, but he will have sent him packing.
Mongiardino, what interest has he got to agree with Balduccio?
Maybe he thinks that in this way he will have more freedom
to take the money from the company.
When Don Balduccio understands that Gerlando is not enough
to convince Fernando to give the Vigamare away
he decides to kidnap his daughter.
He asked Gerlando about the places that Bellis would frequent.
Maybe he said it'd be a fake kidnapping
and would not hurt the little girl.
To carry out the kidnapping he called Giacomo Arena.
It's plausible. However what proofs do we have?
Words!
Maybe now we have a proof.
Coming!
- Good afternoon. - Good afternoon.
I wanted to thank you for what you did for my son.
- I made these now. - That's what I think?
Please sit down. Is it what I think?
I thank you!
- Holy Mother! Can I? - I've done it for you.
- Dottore, forgive me. - Say. - You do the cleaning by yourself?
What cleaning? I never have time.
Of course, in a house you need a female hand.
Right!
Excuse me, weren't you working part-time at some family's?
Could you also come to mine to do some cleaning and cooking?
- What do you think? - Dottore, I am very happy.
- I'm happy. Deal done. - Done!
- Good morning. - Inspector, what do I owe the pleasure to?
It's a formality.
- Who is this gentleman? - Don't you recognize him?
Could it be the person you saw with the girl?
Now that I think of it there is a certain similarity.
However I do not feel... You see, inspector?
- It's all been very fast. - Show one to your wife.
It's no use, my wife is short-sighted and wore no glasses.
- Inspector, I'm sorry. - Okay. Goodbye.
Goodbye.
- Sorry I'm late. - It does not matter.
What's the matter with you? - I'm at a dead end.
I have the photo of the man who might have kidnapped the girl
but witnesses say they did not see him well.
The questore will not authorize me to search the garage
because he says that I have nothing real. - What do you hope to find there?
It's the same question the questore asked. I do not know.
So why do you persist?
Do you think you may find something that Laura has lost in those hours.
However when Laura was back
she wore the same things as when she was kidnapped.
- Bracelets, necklaces, rings. - None.
- Clips in the head, ribbons. - No.
Dead end.
It 's strange. Tomorrow I go back to work, but I'm sad.
It 's the first time that this happens to me.
Usually when I'm so far away from home, I want to go back.
Not this time.
I am sorry too, that you are leaving.
The days that we've been together...
I wish you do not think now that I'm trying...
- Alright
- I... - You?
What the h...
- Sorry. - Careful!
I said that I...
- What happens? - The ball. - The ball?
When Laura was kidnapped, she had a ball.
When we found her at Riguccio's, she did not have it anymore.
It's true.
Livia, sorry. I must run to the police station.
I'll call you tomorrow so I'll tell you... We'll talk tomorrow!
- Are you still awake? - What happened?
I think I know how to frame Arena.
- But I need the cooperation of everybody. - Now? - No.
Now I must explain the plan.
Tomorrow take Paterno` and a car and go to Infantino.
You'll ask of all Arena's day deliveries.
Infantino sees the police car and gets nervous!
That's what I want. Let me speak.
After you have had this information you follow Arena.
When you are in a secure and isolated place, you stop him.
- With what excuse? - Any. A broken taillight.
I do not know. However you have to do this very slowly.
He needs to lose the patience. Then you arrest him for resistance or outrage
and bring him here. - Meanwhile, what will you do?
I'm going to talk to a gentleman
whose only guilt is having a useless child.
You have been right from the beginning.
I could not think he could go that low.
You think you can make him pay for it?
I am not asking it for me, but for those two terrible hours
that he inflicted to an innocent child.
I will succeed if you will help me.
- What should I do? - You must give me this.
- It's the same as the one you'd done for your niece. - Identical.
However I can only lend it.
I want to send it to Laura to Genoa.
Okay.
- Catarella, what is this mess? - Dottore, a mess!
- What happened? - All right, I only received four punches.
- All in my face! - Arena is in the security cell.
- Has it been difficult? - When we stopped him, I was recognized.
He said: "You are the removal's one!"
"You are following me, shitty cops!" He tried to punch me.
I have been quickerand hit him in the nose.
However he was able to attack Paterno`.
- Did it hurt you? - No! - Why are you pissed with me?
Now you take Gallo and with the sirens you go to Vigamare
and bring me Gerlando Mongiardino. - Shall I arrest him?
- No, but treat him badly. - Then? - Then comes the complicated part.
We must be good and act all at the right time.
- We must make a "shortcut". - What?
...
Avanti.
- Inspector, I do not understand. - What?
If you wanted to see me, you'd call and I'd come.
- I've been treated like a crook! - Mimi`, are you mad?
Did I order you to treat Mr. Mongiardino like a criminal?
- No. - No! You always act like you want! Go, we'll talk about it later.
I apologise, we did not want to treat you like a criminal.
Please be seated.
Inspector, I do not have much time. It is not an excuse.
- I have an appointment in half an hour. - A business appointment?
No, of another kind.
- Females? - Every so often a little distraction.
- You're a man, you understand. - I understand well.
However I will not steal more than ten minutes, I swear. Please sit down.
What shall we talk about?
There are news about the alleged abduction of your niece.
I wanted to ask if you know a certain Giacomo Arena.
Arena...
- No, I think. - No?
No. That is...
This? Yes.
It is the ball your niece was playing with when she was kidnapped.
- We found it. - Where?
Avanti!
Leave me! What the fuck you want from me?
- I was drinking... - Shut up! - Head of a fuck!
You have to shut up! Shouting since this morning.
- You're done with him? - For now I'm done with him.
- Back in the cell. - Head of a fuck!
Excuse me. It was Mr. Giacomo Arena.
In his garage we found your niece's ball.
This proves that there's been a kidnapping.
Two witnesses of whom I have spoken last time
recognised Arena in a couple of photographs.
What do I have to do with this Mr Arena?
The problem is that this gentleman
has begun to name a few.
- For example, who? - For example.
Balduccio Sinagra, Calogero Infantino and...
- And? - You, great piece of shit.
Inspector, I did not want.
I did not want. It was Balduccio Sinagra, he organized everything.
- I assure you that it was not my intention ... - Shh.
No need, you'lltell the whole in front of the DA.
Calmly, there's no hurry.
Do not worry.
- At Interpol, did they not teach you the shortcut? - No.
- But you should give a refresher course. - Yes.
It's late.
Have you noticed? While we were doing the shortcut with Mongiardino
Mimi` called me twice. - Maybe you deserved it.
It's late, I have an urgent business.
Montalbano, you work too hard!
Can you come down a minute?
- What have you done? - I ran.
- I wanted to tell you it's done. - Tell me.
Gerlando confessed.
He gave the names of Infantino whom we stopped and Sinagra.
- Sinagra? - Not yet, was not at home.
He'll have escaped.
- He's again a fugitive. - I'm sorry for Giovanna.
However I never liked the brother. I'm glad.
- But now I must go. - I can give you a ride to the airport.
What time do you have the fly?
Maybe I can take one more day of vacation.
Will you embrace me?
Subtitled by Marco Venturini Autieri http://shade-of-light.com