Which means the episode "An apricot" of the "Young Montalbano" series. It's definitely not one of my favourite episodes, but it's not bad. This is Montalbano's last week in Sicilia before leaving for Genova. Livia (Sarah Felberbaum) flies down to spend some time with him, but as always he has little time for her because he's too interested in the case, even if he's supposed to leave all the work to Mimì (Alessio Vassallo), and to help him packing, basically she does it all. It's clearly very painful for him to leave his home for what is, well, sort of a different world, and she asks him if he still wants to live with her or if he's changed his mind, but he says he hasn't, till the last he seemes determined to go. He regrets leaving his home country, but wants to stay with her (and as he said in the previous episode, the honest thief one, he need to move to grow up). I was hoping we might get al least one episode in Genova, that would have been lovely, but no, he never catches that flight. Once his investigation is complete, he is (more or less) ready to leave, when the fact happens. I had seen it coming from the pieces of tv-news here and there on the current crime climate in Sicilia: Falcone's murder, an event so big and tragic that shocks everyone and Livia tells him to stay because 'that's your land', because in a way he can't leave Sicilia after such a wound. At least he didn't back down. Livia might even be able to believe that he would have really gone through with it, although to be honest, he had no real reason to come back into town at the end, so why did he? He had just said that he didn't like goodbyes and because of that he didn't want to stop at the police station, and yet it's exactly what he does. It was quite a scene: having already emptied his house and transferred all his duties to Mimì, the new 'commissario', he sets off early in the morning intending to drive up to Genova, apparently, but before heading for the motorway he turns left, towards Vigata, to say goodbye I guess. He drives through streets and places totally deserted, there's nobody to be seen anywhere, and of course this is so odd he starts wondering why. He arrives at the station and still not a soul anywhere. He can hear words on the radio of people injured and killed, and finally he runs inside. Catarella is crying, the others are all inside Mimì's office looking at the tv-news. Giovanni Falcone has been assassinated, a bomb that blew up his car, the road, also killing three of his guards. After such a terrible thing of course Livia tells him to stay, to help his country, his land that now needs him.
By the way, was he supposed to go to the airport or did he think to drive all the way, to keep his car and his bags with him? It's far way, but the phone call with Livia suggests driving all the way.
This episode's case plot was not interesting. Montalbano (Michele Riondino) accidentally finds the dead body of model Annarosa. An accident, a suicide or a murder? They spent/wasted some time on this question, which was rather pointless considering they eventually learn she died hours before her car fell down on the rocks. The title refers to an apricot kernel in her throat. That seemed a bit random. The guy, her ex-boyfriend, knew she was allergic to apricots so after killing her he faked an accident and planted the apricot kernel to mislead the investigation :-/ He killed her because she had discovered that his new girlfriend and her father were secretly importing drugs.
After Montalbano figured out his involvement, his girlfriend and her dad had him killed to make sure he wouldn't talk about the drug business they had going on. Rather boring, actually.
The part that made me laugh out loud was Catarella trying to learn a folk song in genovese, trying to get the accent right, and then he sang it to Salvo and he asked "what language is that?" :lol:
I don't know, maybe it had a big effect on me just because it's very rare to hear this dialect on tv.
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