Overall a good episode, except for the ridiculousness of the staged meeting with Montalbano and the heads. A mafia don's son-in-law is found dead at the bottom of a quarry. No accident, his face was blown off before his fall. It seems to have all the signs of a mob hit. Needless to say, it starts a mob war between the Cuffaros and Sinagras. Only Montalbano doesn't think it's a mob hit at all.
Meanwhile, an elderly man reports his young Russian caregiver missing.
Catarella gets a much bigger role in this episode, a lot more character development. First, he's physically out at the quarry taking care of things. As he's searching for snails for dinner, he happens on an abandoned scooter and has the good sense to haul it to the station. As he's heading there with it, he bumps into Mimi and family on the way. And he's crucial to the hunt for the caregiver's kidnapper.
Spoilers in comments section.
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The dead man and the Russian girl was having a serious affair, so his wife, who also happened to be the Mafia don's daughter, put out her own personal hits on them.
The husband was dispatched pretty successfully, but the Russian escaped her pursuers. In a bizarre twist of fate, she bumps into a psycho rapist killer who kidnaps her. Montalbano's team finds him and they all end up in a shootout. Catarella, who'd been relieving himself up on the hill, ends up behind the suspect and shoots him to death. The girl's found and sent to hospital.
Montalbano gets the two crime families to make up. The boss and cohorts escort the other perps to Montalbano. With the confessions, he closes in on the wife. She ends up diving to her death over the same quarry cliff her husband went over.
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