It turns out Lenni's will contains some surprises. Someone important is excluded completely and another person, quite unexpectedly, is included. Meanwhile, Caterina is puzzled by Doctor Masini's behaviour the day of Lenni's death.

Manara visits the dead professor's daughter and it becomes ever clearer to Manara that the mother's alibi won't hold.

Lara Rubino visits Lenni's villa and finds that his wife has broken in. Manara uses his considerable charm on a vet.

The autopsy shows that the victim couldn't have pulled the trigger, but Manara's boss insists on suicide. Manara and his team have other ideas.

From the gardener, Michele, we learn that the dead professor was not well liked. Rubino lets us know about her soured friendship with Manara at the police academy.

Manara arrives at his hotel, and the clerk is curt with him until she learns he's the new commissioner. Manara and the deceased are the topics discussed by Rubino and her aunt.

Rubino, the new inspector, can't stand being in the same room with Manara. And when he doesn't even remember why, she really gets angry. But then they get some interesting news from the morgue...

Commissioner Manara meets up with Lara Rubino, his old classmate from the police academy. She's less than happy to see him and slaps him right across the face.

Manara meets his new boss and from the outset there's tension. We learn that Manara was transferred to his new post because of an affair between Manara and the wife of his former boss.

Commissioner Manara arrives on the scene of the supposed suicide. He questions a witness, and talks to the victim's doctor, and to the medical examiner, who turns out to be an attractive woman who has no problem with shyness.

Il Commissioner Manara is an Italian TV series set in the Maremma (southern Tuscany), which centers on Luca Manara, an unorthodox and highly seductive, newly arrived police commissioner, played by Guido Caprino.

A parishioner shows up at police headquarters with photos she thinks are compromising. Lojacono and Alex then go to question the volunteers as to whether the insinuations could carry any weight.

Lojacono surprises Laura at dinnertime. Di Nardo has dinner with Rosaria, who has an invitation for her. At the dinner table, Giorgia has something to discuss with Francesco.

The young volunteers talk about how they met and what they were doing the night of the murder. Aragona and Romano come back to headquarters with a photo they found at the victim's home.

Lojacono and DA Piras arrive at the scene of the crime and meet Don Michele. The next morning Lojacono goes with Di Nardo to talk to the kids who had been in the parish hall with the victim.