"Chief of Police Manara" is an Italian crime drama about an unconventional Sicilian police commissioner working in Tuscany. Luca Manara, played by Guido Caprino, breaks all the rules, while his partner, Inspector Lara Rubino, played by Roberta Giarusso, tries to do things by the book. All kinds of sparks fly between them. The show ran very successfully for two seasons.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian Tuscan
Putting the victim's picture in the newspaper has borne fruit. We start matching faces with names.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian Tuscan
A very strangely arranged dead body has been found, and meanwhile Luca's sister, Teresa, has been busy in Luca's office. And did anyone remember Barbagalli's scooter? Hm.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
And we're off and running with a new episode. This time Manara's sister shows up with a nickname for him he'd rather forget...
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Manara has an interesting conversation with his boss, another, a bit embarrassing, with his colleagues, and still another (even more embarrassing) with Lara, which brings us to the end of this episode.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Dreams can become nightmares when we go too far.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Progress is being made on all fronts!
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Luca finally gets to talk to Ridolfi, but the bank director is quite adept at dodging questions. Lara's aunt has been a bit more successful in getting information.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The "murderer" comes in for questioning, and Manara asks him some questions point-blank. Meanwhile Lara's aunt goes to the bank for a new ATM card (called Bancomat in Italian), and learns something interesting pertinent to the case.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Finally there's a bit of action.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
A left-handed suspect turns up, and has a bad temper to boot. Luca offers Lara a ride home on his motorcycle...
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Some left-handed patients have been found, and the questioning begins.
*To understand captions 40 and 41 more fully, see this vocabulary insight.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Luca, as usual, has a run-in with his boss about the case, and then has a run-in with the bank director whose answers are anything but helpful.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Federica remembers some "insignificant" details, and Lara discovers a highly significant detail.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lara and Luca are trying to get more information about Bianciardi and about the girl who suffers from memory loss. On a romantic level, Lara isn't making things easy for Luca! It is interesting to notice that in Italian, the terms "Dottore" (abbr. Dott.) and Dottoressa (abbr. Dott.ssa) can also be used for people who have undergraduate degrees or no degree at all. They are used as a formal and obsequious title. It is difficult to find an equivalent in English and many people simplify the title by using Ms./Mrs./Miss. or using no term at all.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The case has just begun and we've already found the murderer. Too easy!
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