Matteo makes his way to his uncle's apartment. Never mind that his uncle was supposed to come to the station to get him... They agree that there is no point in worrying Matteo's father with the truth.

Camilla and Gaetano still have some loose ends to tie up, but they are not thinking of the same loose ends. He finally manages to tell her he is leaving for a new job.

Imma and Calogiuri confront De Nardis with the prints from the photographic plates. He admitted to knowing about them, but that was all. While they are there, Calogiuri receives a phone call that might provide some leads as to the red Panda.

We meet a few of the musicians attending the conservatory and the orchestra conductor, who is no-nonsense and stern.

Torre is cooking in the archives! Berardi shows up and they talk. Later, Berardi meets up with Camilla to fill her in on the case.

While chatting with her mother, Imma discovers who Peppino Pez Pez was. Diana has the prints from the plates found in Stella's cave dwelling.

A young man is departing by train and says goodbye to his two parents in different ways. In another scene, a little girl is going to school very reluctantly and her brother has to practically drag her there.

The case has been solved and it's the last day of school for Camilla and her students. Who will flunk and who will be promoted?

Mattioli's widow recounts the story, told through her eyes, of the murder, including what she heard in the stairwell of the building.

Both Camilla and Gaetano, for different reasons, arrived at a similar conclusion about the earring. Piccolo and Ferrari have a job to do, but they also do some personal talking.

Camilla and Renzo go down to the morgue to identify the dead body. They take with them the earring Renzo found in the stairwell near Mattioli's office. Back home in bed, they discuss some peculiarities regarding the earrings and the corpse.

It's time for an official introduction to Camilla's mother's fiance. Everyone is a bit tense. Camilla then gets a phone call that changes the course of the evening.

Mattioli's wife talks to Berardi and tells him what she knows so that they can find the body of the nurse. At school, Camilla's class discusses the book "L'Esclusa" by Pirandello. The usual translation of the title is "The Outcast," but literally, it is "the excluded woman."

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.

The police question the man they caught fleeing the martial arts center and are able to tie up a lot of loose ends. Gaetano and Sonia discuss the case over dinner, but the inspector's mind is elsewhere. Renzo is finally convinced that Camilla wasn't having hallucinations when she saw the nurse's body upstairs.