Based on the bestselling mystery novels by Maurizio de Giovanni, this RAI TV series recounts the story of a police station located on a hilltop district in Naples called Pizzofalcone, named for the falconry practiced there at one time. The police station had been involved in some very corrupt drug trafficking, and now the protagonist, Giuseppe Lojacono has been transferred there as a kind of punishment. He and his co-workers (all with troubled pasts) have the task of setting things right at the station before it closes down.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Detective Lojacono is transferred to a police station that is considered to be the worst of the worst. Judging from his first encounter there, it seems he has his work cut out for him.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Detective Lojacono meets his team and learns why they talk about the "bastards." He also learns what the future holds for the police station.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Special agent Aragona read the files on all his colleagues and relates his findings to Lojacono. And we find out what Lojacono did, too. We also discover where he has his meals.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
At the police station, Lojacono takes a phone call about a homicide. The team has been instructed expressly not to take on anything other than ordinary business. This is decidedly not ordinary business, but Lojacono is no ordinary policeman, apparently.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono has a careful look at the corpse and the surrounding area and draws some conclusions. His superior shows up and naturally wants to put Lojacono in his place, sending him right back to the station house, with the district attorney looking on.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Commissioner Palma is quite angry with Lojacono for disobeying his express orders not to handle any homicides. Meanwhile, a call comes in from a peculiar old lady and two agents go to check out her story.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Di Nardo and Romano decide to check out the apartment across the street, without much hope of success. That evening, there is news on TV about the murder and both Lojacono and the district attorney tune in from their respective apartments.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The DA has asked Lojacono to meet her for coffee. They joust a bit, but the DA has seniority and gets some answers from him.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The "burglary gone wrong" is in the news and is not reflecting well on the city of Naples. The commissioner has summoned Palma and Lojacono to talk about this and makes a surprising decision.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono, Aragona, and DA Piras go back to the crime scene to have a better look at the victim's collection of glass balls. The DA and Lojacono exchange ideas about the murder, but then he and Aragona have to go back to the station house.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Now that the case is in their hands, Lojacano and Aragona go back to the notary to ask more questions. They get some answers Di Vincenzo failed to obtain.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono and Aragona interview 2 of the notary's employees, while Romano and Di Nardo go back to the mysterious girl's apartment, this time with a warrant.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The architect is not happy about his visitors from the police and is on the defensive about Nunzia, the girl. As he is having dinner at his usual spot, Lojacono gets a phone call from the PM.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Aragona meets up with Marina outside of the workplace and she feels freer to give up some information. Then Lojacono and Aragona go to see the notary again. He is not alone.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Di Nardo and Romano go to see Nunzia's mother. She and her two sons are surprised by the visit and are on the defensive but one name keeps coming up as the policemen question them. At headquarters, Pisanello is studying a series of alleged suicides he is suspicious about.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Alex goes to see Nunzia by herself, to see if she can help her, but she gets an unexpected reaction from the girl.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
After work, Aragona and Lojacono walk towards their respective homes together. Aragona says he is home, but is he? Pisanello goes home and makes tea, all the while telling someone (probably his wife?)about his day. Lojacono goes home and gets a phonecall from a certain Sonia...
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Pisanelli goes to see Friar Leonardo and remarks how peaceful it is there in the cloister. Lojacono and Aragona go to see the head of Forensics and learn some new details about the evidence.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Forensics recovers an email that opens up some new avenues in the investigation. Lojacono and Aragona go see the notary at his workplace. Di Nardo's parents want to meet her boyfriend.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
We get a glimpse of Francesco's home life in this segment. He has a lot of pent-up anger and doesn't have it very well under control. Lojacono and Aragona are following Miss Russo and have a little conversation about patience.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono has a conversation with Iolanda Russo and learns some new details. Later he has a meeting with his superiors.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The pressure is on Palma, and consequently on his team, to solve the murder alla svelta (quickly), but they haven't gotten very far. They are still in alto mare (a long way away).
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono and Aragona scour the city to find a glass globe like the one that killed the notary's wife.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Having discovered who bought the glass globe, Lojacono and Aragona could easily figure out who had killed the notary's wife. They go to see the suspect.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono and Aragona, with De Lucia's recounting, are able to reconstruct the murder. We then learn what was written in the letter the notary's wife sent to him.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
There's a press conference announcing the success of the investigation. Rather than singling out Lojacono and Aragona, Palma gives credit to his entire team, as well as to Dr. Piras.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
After working on the case together, the members of the team go home to deal with their personal lives. Not everyone is enthusiastic about going out for pizza with the chief.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The pizza party ends up just being Palma and Ottavia who make the best of it. Palma would like them to be on a first-name basis, but he is Ottavia's boss and she has trouble with that. He talks about dare del tu, which means addressing someone informally instead of dare del Lei, which implies addressing someone formally. It can still mean using someone's first name, but the pronouns (and conjugations) change.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The team at Pizzofalone are back in full force. And there is a crime to investigate in the middle of the night.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The two women tell conflicting stories about the murder and it is frustrating for the officers. De Nardo has some uncomfortable conversations at home with her parents.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
At police headquarters, Ottavia discovers some surprising information about Ramaglia, the driver, so Lojacono and Aragona go back to see the Filangeri sisters, who seem as confused as ever. Palma reports to his boss, who is familiar with the Filangeri family.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Francesco Romano is not happy to have reports to take care of and he takes it out on a colleague. Palma has to step in. De Nardo is going to meet up with someone at a hotel. Lojacono goes to his usual restaurant, where he shares his worries with Letizia.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Francesco is at dinner at the home of Giorgia's parents. He's scontroso (surly) and seems to have a huge chip on his shoulder. Alex Di Nardo has spent the night with someone and needs to get back to Naples in time to start work.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono and Aragona go to Ramaglia's house to talk to his wife and daughter. After some questioning, the daughter Rosa remembers someone that might turn out to be important. Later on at headquarters, Aragona has a hard time using appropriate nomenclature for Blacks and people of color as they discuss the case.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono and Di Nardo go to talk to Doctor Martone in Forensics. Di Nardo appears to know quite a bit about weapons. Back at headquarters, Romano and Aragona report to the Chief about what they found out from the prison director.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Romano goes home expecting to see Giorgia, but she's not there. Di Nardo has her parents to deal with, but also gets an interesting text while sitting in front of the TV. The next morning, Ramaglia's daughter is trying to identify the person who had argued with her father before his death.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono and Aragona are able to find Bukhar and question him. Ottavia goes home with some fried rice balls, thinking they will be appreciated, but her husband criticizes her.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono meets his friend Paolo for dinner and they talk about the case in which Lojacono had been falsely accused. The next day, Bukhar is questioned at headquarters.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The team hears about a new homicide that likely is connected to the first one, so they have to go back to square one, more or less. The forensics expert wonders why Di Nardo doesn't answer her text messages.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The team goes to search Capuano's home and then they go to the club to get more information about him. That leads them to a boxing club.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Romano and Aragona go to talk to Castrovetere, who is in prison, to find out what he might have had to do with the murders. Pisaniello is on the huge escalator down to the metropolitana when he sees people running. He rushes to find out what's going on.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Ottavia is having a hard time with her complicated family situation. Lojacono and D.A. Piras go to see the Filangeri sisters to show them the photo of Capuano.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono and DA Piras once again go to see the Filangeri sisters who say they had never met Cosimo Capuano. The sisters and some friends have plans to play the game of Burraco, a card game. Later, Ottavia does a bit of research about Capuano and the team connects some dots. Lojacono goes to the Alba Rossa Yacht Club to do some checking up.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Some members of the team go back to the prison to have another chat with Castrotevere, who gives them some very important information. And then they go back to the Filangieri house, where the old ladies are still playing cards.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The agents arrive at the Filangieri house with a warrant and Lojacono asks Clelia some questions about the girl in the photo. Clelia decides to send her friends home, canceling the Burraco game.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
As far as Clelia is concerned, she has told the police everything about how the murder took place. The DA and Lojacono still have grave doubts.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono and the DA go back to the nightclub to see the homeless guy. He knows what kind of car he saw the night of the murder.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Pisanelli goes to see a pharmacist friend who gives him a hand in his private investigation. Romano brought home pizza, but once again, Giorgia arrives late. At police headquarters, the team is celebrating having solved the case.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Giacinta and her friends narrate their version of the events surrounding the murder of Ramaglia and Capuano to the whole team of Pizzofalcone. Palma goes to see his superior to assess the situation.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
After a long work day, everyone on the team goes home to a different situation, and it isn't always a happy one.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Dottoressa Piras and Lojacono continue their conversation in the car in front of Lojacono's building. They address some serious topics that have nothing to do with the case they have just solved.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono hasn't seen his daughter in a year, and would like to catch up. She has something to tell him, but doesn't say a whole lot more. Meanwhile, another crime has been committed in the city.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
There is a new case for the team at Pizzofalcone and Lojacono and Aragona go to the scene of the crime. A young cleaning woman was found dead in the basement of an apartment building.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono goes to talk with the Scognamiglios, where Teresa had worked as a maid.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono and Aragona talk to different residents of the building where Teresa was killed. Everyone has something to say about her.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono and Aragona go to see the husband of the ex-door person. He confirms the fight between Giacomo Scognamiglio and Teresa's husband. Back at headquarters, Romano objects to always having to stay there instead of going out as Lojacono and Aragona do.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacano can't wait to have some time with his daughter, but she has other plans. Pisanelli goes to see his friar friend, Leonardo, at the monastery.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono, Romano, and Di Nardo go to talk to Teresa's husband again. He reveals the reason for the fight he had had with Giacomo. The team goes back to the building where the Scognomiglios live and they run into the ex-door person.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono would like to talk to Giacomo Scognamiglio, but his mother says he is out. He then goes to talk to Signor Vassallo downstairs in the same building.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Carmen Esposito tells the police everything she knows. Then Lojacono meets with Aragona and Palma at the DA's office to discuss the case.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono takes his daughter Marinella to Letizia's trattoria and the two women hit it off. Ottavia reports on the victim's phone records.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono and Di Nardo go to forensics to find out about evidence on the victim's body and clothing. Palma and Piras question Giacomo Scognamiglio, or at least, they try.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono, Palma, and the DA discuss the interview they had had with Giacomo. When they go back to the apartment building where the crime had been committed, they encounter some of the residents whom they now are acquainted with.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
A woman (from the Veneto region) in the building remembered something she thought might be important. The police questioned Teresa's husband again. Palma asks Ottavia for help finding an apartment.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Pisanelli meets up with Mr. Musella and goes home with him. They talk about being widowers. Lojacono is waiting for his daughter to come home. Here is where she was.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono and Marinella have a frank conversation about the past. Palma talks to his superior about the case, to let him know that the Scognamiglio son is a suspect.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Marco has lunch with his father who thinks he needs a better job and wants to help. Lojacono makes a phone call as a result of his talk with Marinella. At police headquarters, the team is talking about asking Giacomo Scognamiglio to come in again.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono and Giacomo have what seems like a fruitful conversation and Lojacono relates what he has learned to the team back at police headquarters. That evening, Di Nardo is stuck at home playing cards with her parents.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The team is putting two and two together regarding the phone records. They discover whose cellphone number had been calling Teresa, repeatedly, before she died. Three detectives go and see someone who had clearly lied to them.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Fabio Vassallo tells the police he had been involved with Teresa but insists he didn't kill her. Then his wife comes home with the groceries.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Pietro is asking Ottavia to look at an apartment with him when Ottavia's husband shows up needing a favor. Lojacono has a conversation with Teresa's husband and they clear up some things. Later, Mrs. Vassallo has another meeting with the investigators and the DA.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono and Laura are discussing the case at the crime scene when they discover someone listening to them. This adds a new element to the investigation. As they are leaving the building, they run into the former door person, Rosetta, who is curious about the case. Back at headquarters, Ottavia does some research and Pisanelli's memory is jogged about an old case.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The photo of the dead girl reminds Lojacono and Aragona of the statuette they had seen in Marino's shop and Lojacono goes there to have a little chat with the man.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Mario tells, in detail, what he did. The DA has a few more questions, but then this chapter of the case comes to a close.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono says goodbye to Marinella, who is going back to be with her mother. They make some promises to each other. Pisanelli is watching a building where he suspects something will happen. Aragona is in his hotel room and gets a pleasant surprise.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
De Nardo is waiting for her friend at the pizzeria. Lojacono calls Laura about their relationship.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
As the team shows up at headquarters for a new day of work, a frantic phone call comes in about a boy found dead. Lojacono and Di Nardo head off to the address provided, to assess the situation.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono discovers a second dead body at the scene of the crime. The coroner arrives and Lojacono and the DA go to talk to the kid who discovered the body.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono and the others are at the scene of the crime trying to figure out how the murders happened. Back at headquarters, Palma receives more information about the family of the two victims. Later, Lojacono runs into Chanel on the street.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
When Lojacono gets home, he gets a video call from Marinella who has heard about the murder and is upset. The next day, Lojacono and Di Nardo go looking for Grazia's boyfriend at his workplace, hoping to get some useful information.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono and Alex are able to interview Nick, who seems overcome with grief about his girlfriend's death.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono and his team go to talk to Grazia's agent, Mr. Cava. He provides some interesting information about Grazia. Ottavia goes home and tries to broach the subject of getting a dog for Riccardo.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono asks Laura to go with him to question Nick again. They want to know why he hadn't told them about Grazia being a model.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
From the results of the autopsy, there are no signs of rape, indicating that the scene was staged. Lojacono and Alex go to talk to Biagio's ex-girlfriend.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Alex's father isn't happy, but she manages to go out for the evening, to have pizza with Rosaria. Francesco is home watching TV, and doesn't seem happy.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Alex and Lojacono go to see Biagio's friend and colleague, Renato, and Renato's father, who had been Biagio's professor. Palma talks to his superiors, who want to get involved in the case to speed things along.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Palma and the team have just forty-eight hours to find Varicchio, the father of the two victims. Meanwhile, Palma has to buy furniture, Lojacono meets up with the DA, and Alex comes home late to an angry father.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
At police headquarters, Guida is settling in to work on his puzzles, but someone with a familiar face walks in.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
At the police station the team discusses the case and then they disperse. Lojacono sets up a date with Laura, Palma goes to his new place, Pisanelli goes to spy on his friend the monk, and Ottavia is working late at home.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Marinella is shocked to hear on the news that a father might have killed his own children and she calls her father for some reassurance. The team goes to the funeral of Grazia and Biagio, in order to observe the behaviors of the various suspects and witnesses.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono follows Varricchio to his hotel to ask a few more questions, in private.
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