The case has been solved, one gets the feeling that if the murderer had been Varricchio, a common ex-convict, instead of a promising biologist, son of a prominent professor, the outcome would have been more palatable to the city and to the press.

Lojacono is confident he knows how the murder happened and is able to trick Renato into saying something he couldn't have heard on the news.

Lojacono and Di Nardo go to see Biagio's ex-girlfriend to ask her one more question. She happens to remember something that gives them a new lead. They then go and talk to Renato, Biagio's friend and colleague.

Laura and Lojacono go to Laura's house and she begins cooking dinner. At his hotel, Aragona has a chance to see Irene, the new housemaid, in the dining room and can't take his eyes off her. Francesco brings Giorgia breakfast in bed. It's una graffa (a kind of doughnut).

At the hotel where Aragona stays, he tries to find out who the new housekeeping person is. Down at the police station, there is news concerning the prostitute Varricchio says he spent time with the night of the murder.

Lojacono goes to Letizia's trattoria and tells her about the bad news about the witness. She tries to reassure him but also has a new customer to attend to. Francesco can't let Giorgia go and sleeps in the car in front of her house.

Varricchio is back in the DA's office and tells a different story, admitting he had lied the first time. But is there proof of his new version? At home, Lojacono is shocked by some news he hears on the TV.

Ottavia and Palma talk about his new apartment and the fact that it is still empty. Lojacono gets some good news from his friend Paolo and shares it with Marinella. He goes to the train station to wait for Laura and gets an idea about the case.

Lojacono is not at all convinced that Varricchio killed his own children, especially after talking to him. Pisanelli got some bad news about another retiree having taken his own life. Pisanelli had been watching over the wrong home.

Lojacono follows Varricchio to his hotel to ask a few more questions, in private.

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.

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.

At police headquarters, Guida is settling in to work on his puzzles, but someone with a familiar face walks in.

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.

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.