Of course Livia is upset, but they’ve known each other a long time now, they know what to expect.
As soon as he’s back in Sicilia, he can see for himself that Fazio was right, Mimì is convinced of an absurd theory that is totally wrong. It happened that a 67-year-old woman, Maria, was killed. She still worked as a prostitute, despite being married a long time and having two grown-up children. She had a devoted husband who always knew about her job but never judged her and kept loving her till the end. She also had two sons who were always ashamed of her... well, it’s understandable that it must have been difficult for two children to grow up with everybody knowing what their mother did, and yet it was sad to hear one of them, the only one who attended the funeral, speak that way of her, who loved them very much, and provided for them a good education and a good life.
Mimì follows the sex-lead, thinking that it must be someone who likes to have sex with old women and that killed her by accident during a sex-game, but that’s Mimì for you, he always thinks about sex :-/
Montalbano and Fazio investigate Maria’s life more deeply; Catarella is excited because he thinks he solved the case watching a movie on television about a serial killer who murdered prostitutes because he was the son of a prostitute, and even buys the dvd for Montalbano :-p
Salvo doesn’t think much of this theory, but when he watches the dvd with Livia, who came down to Vigata to be with him, he realizes one thing that he hadn’t realized before: Maria had a picture at home of a boy that was not one of her sons. She had another son for a couple that could not have children, a lawyer and his wife. Later she regretted giving him up though, and always thought of him and kept his picture where she could see it. The lawyer is now old and with dementia, his wife is dead, and his son Marco cares for him. When Marco met Maria she confessed to him about being his mother, and they talked a lot and liked each other, but when Marco found his father near her dead body he thought that he had killed her and tried to protect him, eventually killing a man who wanted to blackmail him. Montalbano realizes though that neither of them killed Maria. He suspected the husband for a moment, but he never hurt her, no. Actually it was the local school principal, who had been a friend of Maria for many years, and had advised her many times on how to invest her money or where to send her children to school, and some time ago had borrowed a lot of money from her for some risky investment. He had never been able to repay the debt, and when she asked for her money back or she would press charges against him, he felt betrayed and killed her.
During his investigation, while going to question the principal at school Montalbano stumbled on another case, of a woman saying that a teacher had molested her little girl. Carefully questioning the child, and through some investigation of his own, Montalbano finds out the truth that the woman used her child to take revenge on the man that had left her after falling in love with another woman.
Side notes: Livia has a dog that she called Selene :-) Montalbano has a smartphone, and a kid teaches him how to send pictures... I didn’t know he had a smartphone, I’ll re-watch the latest episodes to see when it happened, if they said something :-p
The funniest moments: when Fazio and Montalbano are discussing Mimì’s theory, Fazio asks: “can I speak freely?” , and Salvo considers it a moment and then says “No!” :lol: and then, since Maria’s neighbour is a very attractive woman, Salvo warns Mimì to be careful because Beba is not dumb and he should stop going after other women, but Mimì who is his usual despicable self says that that’s his nature and he can’t help it, and Salvo says that if Beba murders him because of it he won’t put her in jail, and to this Mimì totally agrees, even tells him that she’d be totally right and that he can instruct him since now to do everything possible to help her in such a case :-p
The conclusion of this matter is rather annoying, because Salvo finds Mimì in the house of that woman, having sex; when he realized it he sent Fazio out of the house hoping he wouldn’t found out, but Mimì had tried to hide in the only available place, on the little balcony, and Fazio saw him from the street, but of course he won’t say a word about it.. Needless to say I never liked Mimì, I only bear his presence in the show because I like the actor, I think he’s really good, although I don’t like the mustache one bit :-/
As always I wish Fazio had more space ...
Montalbano-Luca Zingaretti
Augello-Cesare Bocci
Fazio-Peppino Mazzotta
Livia-Sonia Bergamasco
Pasquano-Marcello Perracchio
Catarella-Angelo Russo
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