Inspector Montalbano, the plot of the episode Un covo di vipere on Rai 1
Tonight, Sunday 4 February 2024, at 9.25 pm on Rai 1, the film Inspector Montalbano’s Den of Vipers is broadcast, a successful series of films starring Luca Zingaretti which has enjoyed great success with the public for years. But what is the plot (summary) of the episode Inspector Montalbano’s Den of Vipers broadcast tonight? Below is all the information.
The entrepreneur Cosimo Barletta is killed by a gunshot to the head while he is having his morning breakfast in his seaside villa. During the investigations, around twenty envelopes were discovered containing photographs of young naked girls taken during relationships with Barletta. The victim was also a known loan shark and had many enemies in Vigata. The results of the autopsy on the body are a real surprise: Barletta was actually poisoned with a powerful medicine dissolved in coffee, while the shot occurred at a later time. Inspector Montalbano realizes that the crime was committed by two different murderers, who acted almost simultaneously but without each other’s knowledge. Initially the investigations focus on the girls blackmailed by the victim, who however all have unassailable alibis.
From the investigations, however, it emerges that in the last month Barletta had fallen in love with a new girl, to whom he had promised a large sum of money, a house and was in the process – on the very morning of the murder – of changing his will, to allocate all his possessions to her. But who killed the entrepreneur in the Inspector Montalbano episode A Den of Vipers? Our protagonist will discover that the gunshot was fired by Arturo Barletta, the victim’s disinherited son with serious financial problems, while the poisoning was caused by his daughter Giovanna, who had been having an incestuous relationship with her father for some time and was therefore jealous of his new girlfriend, as well as fearful of losing a large part of the inheritance too.
To confirm the suspicions, the vagabond Camastra, who has become a friend of Montalbano and Livia, who discover that the old man, too cultured and refined to be a simple homeless person, was once a famous surgeon who fell into disgrace after the death of a patient, tells of having witnessed the suicide of Barletta’s wife, who threw herself into the sea after discovering the affair between her husband and daughter. Shortly before her arrest, Giovanna commits suicide with the same poison used for her father and leaving a letter…
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We have seen the plot (summary) of the episode A Den of Vipers, but where can we see today’s episode? Simple, the episode will be broadcast live on TV (rerun) tonight, Sunday 4 February 2024, at 9.20 pm on Rai 1. It will also be possible to follow the Montalbano episode in live streaming via the free platform RaiPlay.it.