Toscani obtains some precious information, but as usual, he's not so quick on the draw to know how important it is. His wife, Sardi, has gotten handy with the software to crack the cell phone. Lara and Luca will be going to two different and unusual places of entertainment in the evening: Luca to a country music motorcycle joint, and Lara to the circus.

The third person "impersonal" has mostly gone out of fashion in English, but in Italian it's used all the time. Although in English it's common to use "you" or the passive voice, we've used the impersonal "one" here, in order to understand better how it works.

The Naples Christmas market from up close. It's a rowdy scene, and there's a lot going on all at once. The famous horn shaped talisman called the cornetto is taken quite seriously as well as other instruments for keeping away the malocchio (evil eye). For more information about the cornetto, and the three r's referred to in the video, see this article in Italian.

It's time to check the eggplant in the oven. And what about the slices that were a bit too sottili (thin)? Will they have burned? Note that English mostly uses eggplant as a collective noun (in the singular) but Italian, unless referring specifically to a single eggplant, uses the plural le melanzane when referring to eggplant in general, and to the slices themselves.

There's a meeting to report new information on the case, and Luca asks a very unusual favor of Lara. You won't want to miss the scene.

To conclude this three-part lesson on positive and neutral adjectives, Daniela talks about neutral adjectives in the plural.

Nek sings a simple song about how people are made to love one another, despite everything. The song came in second at the Sanremo Festival.

Marika prepares the eggplant slices by baking them in the oven—a much lighter way of preparing the eggplant layers than the traditional frying method.

Luca and Lara find Sally at the supermarket and question her. Ginevra explains the results of the autopsy to Luca, but there's still plenty of mystery surrounding this case.

Daniela continues explaining how to use adjectives in Italian. This time she focuses on so-called neutral adjectives.

Annalisa's "Una Finestra tra le Stelle" [A Window Among the Stars] was one of the top songs at the 2015 Sanremo Festival. The video was filmed at a famed Veneto villa, Villa Mosconi Bertani, where Valpolicella wine is produced.

Marika explains when to use the prepositions: in (to), da (from), di (of, from), and per (for, to, by). There's no need to learn them all at once!

Personal relations between Luca and Lara may be tenuous, but where work is concerned, they're a great team.

Giovanni Ballarini talks about what the kitchens of Italian restaurants were like in the fifties and sixties. To make sense of how he describes them, see Yabla lesson Parole Alterate - Modifying Words to Create New Ones, as well as video lesson Marika spiega: Parole alterate. Gianni Mura talks about some of the trends found on restaurant menus today.

Marchesi's friends and clients talk about Milan in the 1980s and how the fashion business helped it become such a cosmopolitan city. Reference is made to Florence's "Sala Bianca," [White Hall] in the Pitti Palace, where fashion shows took place before Milan became synonymous with high fashion.