The essential episodes of The Octopus
Watch these 15 in order and you've got The Octopus — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Corrado Cattani replaces the murdered Palermo chief of police Marineo.
- 02
Cattani discovers what happened the night Marineo was murdered, but the information is dangerous.
- 03
Cattani focuses his investigation on rich business men, while his private life is getting more and more difficult.
- 04
Cattani sets a trap for some of the key mafia players, resulting in the kidnapping of his only daughter.
- 05
Cattani hides the truth about his daughters disappearance from his wife and colleagues while at the same time fighting opposition in his work place.
- 06
Cattani tries to settle the score with his enemies.
- 07
Cattani is approached by the Number 2 of his best friend in Rome to conspire against him, and ends up fighting for his life in prison, against thugs who are friends of his worst enemy. Cattani must swallow his pride, and recurs to the lustful Contessa who has other friends in common.
- 08
Cattani's love life is as confused as his behaviour; he sleeps with the enemy, and is recruited to ITALA, the cultural association for the study of the ancestral popular traditions of Italy, The Octopus by another name.
- 09
Cattani's major achievement so far leaves him without friends in Rome; his former teacher explains between whiskeys how easy it is for an intelligent man to fall into criminal ambition.
- 10
Cattani's takes one year leave without pay from his desk job at the Intelligence Services, and then destiny presents him with a couple of revenge opportunities against the tandem of corrupt politicians and mafia expatriates, again at heavy personal cost.
- 11
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.
- 12
- 13
Judge Silvia Conti and Davide Licata are in a quest for vengeance against the Mafia.
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