The Octopus

S03 E01 · 1987-04-05 · 63 min

Good and Evil

After the mafia killed his family, and a number of people who trusted him, Cattani sees a couple of criminals condemned to light sentences only. A DEA team brings him back from the mountain retreat with good monks, to the evil world of a drugs-for-arms deal. Solace comes in the form of new affections for a banker's daughters, who look like his lost wife and daughter.

S03 E02 · 1987-04-06 · 60 min

No Escape

Cattani uses a TV interview to reveal he found out about one of The Octopus telephone numbers. That is enough to spread havoc in the criminal rang, but the mafia leaves the American investigators no escape.

S03 E03 · 1987-04-12 · 63 min

Thirsting for Vengeance

Cattani falls in love with Giulia, but his inquest does not go far, until Giulia's father dies, and her grandfather takes hold of the family bank again.

S03 E04 · 1987-04-13 · 63 min

Refuge

The Antinari bank is backing the illegal arms deal, trusted friends and servants may not be what they seem, and Cattani is undecided between personal vendetta and life in a monastery.

S03 E05 · 1987-04-19 · 58 min

Massacre

Anna Antinari gets hold of documents that are essential for the arms deal, and trusts her life and that of her child daughter Greta to the good monks who were already hosting Cattani. For the mafia in liaison with a member of parliament, monastery walls are no protection against a new massacre.

S03 E06 · 1987-04-20 · 56 min

To the South Again

Cattani meets Giulia again at her mother's funeral, and research and luck bring him up North to Rome, in order to discover the way to the South again, from where a ship will depart with an illegal arms cargo.

S03 E07 · 1987-04-13 · 51 min

Episode 7

Giulia reconciles with her grandfather Nicola, and her second meeting with chief inspector Corrado Cattani is yet a probe for his loyalty to duty. One man ends a life of power tragically; the other hangs desperately to life because, as Giulia says, "He lost; and quite a lot!"

S04 E01 · 1989-03-05 · 103 min

Episode 1

S04 E02 · 1989-03-06 · 100 min

Episode 2

S04 E03 · 1989-03-12 · 98 min

Episode 3

S04 E04 · 1989-03-13 · 103 min

Episode 4

S04 E05 · 1989-03-19 · 92 min

Episode 5

S04 E06 · 1989-03-20 · 60 min

Episode 6

S05 E01 · 1990-08-14 · 113 min

Episode 1

Judge Silvia Conti and Davide Licata are in a quest for vengeance against the Mafia.

S05 E02 · 1990-08-15 · 111 min

Episode 2

S05 E03 · 1990-08-21 · 102 min

Episode 3

S05 E04 · 1990-08-22 · 100 min

Episode 4

S05 E05 · 1990-08-28 · 96 min

Episode 5

S06 E01 · 1992-11-30 · 106 min

The Killing Attempt

Police detective Davide Licata survives badly wounded, so much so that his personal and love life will be affected.

S06 E02 · 1992-12-06 · 98 min

The Core

Licata is tempted by the General directing the Government's "nucleous of operations and investigations (NOI)", a secret service built to do the dirty anti-crime jobs that the police can't do.

S06 E03 · 1992-12-07 · 101 min

The Man of the Letters

The hideout of Tani Cariddi in deep Africa becomes known - and again, the retired detective and the retired criminal must come to grips with violent action in Europe.

S06 E04 · 1992-12-13 · 97 min

The Trap

Not one but several traps are set from both sides of the law.

S06 E05 · 1992-12-14 · 105 min

Codename: West

A desperate chase is given by The Core and two countries magistrates to catch the new drug lords that are aiming at deluging drugs into Europe's Eastern countries from a former Nazi concentration camp in the West.

S06 E06 · 1992-12-20 · 114 min

A Secret is Revealed

The detective exposes and destroys the man who secretively had taken the place of the octopus's head - but the crime will not stop, because the criminal's son escapes with enough power to restart it all.

S07 E01 · 1995-03-05 · 101 min

Return to Sicily

Several characters return to the little town where, years ago, the police commissary Cattani was set up and murdered by the Mafia.

S07 E02 · 1995-03-06 · 104 min

The Barrottii Gang

Sara and Biagio, her brother, create an extortion gang, named after the village's suburbs where they live. They are taking the "business" out of Nuzzio's hands.

S07 E03 · 1995-03-12 · 107 min

Look Out for Saverio

Saverio comes home to reunite with Nuzzio against the higher powers of the Mafia, but these are alert and after him, after torturing his mistress in St. Petersburg. Also after him, is his wife, still under the protection of Oleg, Saverio's bodyguard.

S07 E04 · 1995-03-13 · 104 min

The Inquest

The local television channel, owned by Olga Camastra, puts the blame of her husband's death on Silvia Conti's harsh interrogation of the old man. Saverio's ascension to power seems unstoppable: he masters over Nuzzio with his superior intelligence, and helps him escape an ambush; the Barrotti gang is massacred by Nuzzio's men; and he breaks and enters into the countess's palace, frightening her, and demanding the names list.

S07 E05 · 1995-03-19 · 108 min

The Killing Attempt

Silvia is blamed for another strange death, the young commissary Breda is sent away to his hometown far north - something he had requested before he was into this case - and their only witness, Sara, is pressed by a police inspector and the new prosecutor to deny her earlier testimony.

S07 E06 · 1995-03-20 · 99 min

The Sentence

The killing attempt worked almost to perfection, and more blood runs in the streets. Silvia Conti's life is spared due to the intervention of Oleg, Saverio's bodyguard, who decided against Nuzzio's opinion that she would be more valuable to them alive.

S08 E01 · 1997-10-05 · 98 min

Episode 1

S08 E02 · 1997-10-06 · 97 min

Episode 2

S09 E01 · 1998-03-09 · 102 min

Episode 1

S09 E02 · 1998-03-16 · 97 min

Episode 2

S10 E01 · 2001-01-10 · 102 min

Episode 1

S10 E02 · 2001-01-17 · 101 min

Episode 2