Signora Volpe
An Anxious Aunt
7/15/2026 | 1h 28m 23sVideo has Closed Captions
Disillusioned with her work at MI6, spy Sylvia Fox travels to Italy for the wedding of her niece.
Disillusioned with her work at MI6, spy Sylvia Fox travels to Italy for the wedding of her niece. Although her relationship with her sister, Isabel, is troubled, Sylvia is welcomed warmly by her family. But when the groom goes missing, leaving a dead woman behind, Sylvia feels compelled to investigate. The trail leads her from an empty pizza box and stolen children's book to a deadly showdown.
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Signora Volpe
An Anxious Aunt
7/15/2026 | 1h 28m 23sVideo has Closed Captions
Disillusioned with her work at MI6, spy Sylvia Fox travels to Italy for the wedding of her niece. Although her relationship with her sister, Isabel, is troubled, Sylvia is welcomed warmly by her family. But when the groom goes missing, leaving a dead woman behind, Sylvia feels compelled to investigate. The trail leads her from an empty pizza box and stolen children's book to a deadly showdown.
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- How the hell do you do that?
- What?
- Know what time it is when your eyes are shut?
- I just do.
- Hm.
- Why are you up so early?
- You know, you could let me keep a couple of clean shirts here.
Then I could stay and make you breakfast.
- Don't push it.
- [Adam] Or at least stop throwing away my toothbrushes.
(water gushing) (instrumental music) (gulls squawking) (instrumental music continues) (jogger panting) (instrumental music continues) (instrumental music continues) (people chattering) (instrumental music continues) - Morning, ma'am.
- Morning, CJ.
Thanks.
- [Rabia] Sylvia Fox's office, how can I help?
(Rabia speaking indistinctly) (instrumental music continues) (instrumental music continues) (instrumental music continues) Felicity's office called.
The meeting's started.
- I thought it was at 4:00.
- Seems they moved it up.
And you can get away early tonight.
Buy that gift?
Sylvia, it's your niece's wedding.
- I'm not sure I'm going.
Tricky time to take leave.
(PA announcer speaking indistinctly) - Ah, Sylvia, thank you for joining.
You know Imgonen Blake from the Foreign Office?
- Yes, of course.
- [Felicity] Imogen, would you bring Sylvia up to speed?
- As you're aware, we've been working hard to improve diplomatic relations with the Emirate of Hezrah.
As part of that initiative, we've agreed to share certain limited intelligence with their authorities.
- How limited?
- Terrorism related issues essentially.
- The Hezrahni regime makes no distinction between terrorists and dissidents.
- We see recent changes at the top in Hezrah as grounds for optimism.
- Do you?
I don't.
The new guard is basically the old guard in smarter suits and speaking better English.
- I'm not here to argue.
- Of course you aren't, dear.
You're with the Foreign Office.
- There'll be nothing handed over that compromises any of my sources?
- Their identities will of course remain secret.
- That's not enough.
I need sight of everything that goes to the Hezrahnis, so that it can't be traced back to any of my people.
- Not possible I'm afraid.
- It's not up to you, is it?
You're seriously prepared to expose my assets to the risk of- - Your assets?
- I'm standing down the Hezrahni operation, as of now.
(Sylvia sighs) - I'll get out there tonight and start closing it down.
- No.
You're management now.
Which means sitting behind a desk and managing, not dashing across time zones on a whim.
- Can't just- - And there must be no contact with the individuals involved without my specific authorization.
Sylvia, wait.
Come on.
- That was an ambush, and you led me straight into it.
So that's why you were up at dawn.
- We couldn't jeopardize the negotiations.
- You don't trust me?
- I used to be married to you, remember?
- What's that supposed to mean?
- It means I know you.
I know that you put your loyalty to your agents above everything else.
Including your career.
- Why am I even surprised by this?
Dame Felicity wrote the book on betrayal.
- Just, uh, just breathe.
- Don't patronize me, Adam.
I had enough of that in there.
- Look, I'll come over later.
We'll talk.
Tomorrow then.
- I won't be here tomorrow.
I'm taking a few days leave.
- Wait, wait, wait.
You, you're not going to Hezrah I hope.
- I'm not that stupid.
- Well, so where are you going?
- You're a bloody spy, Adam.
You work it out.
(suspenseful music) (suspenseful music continues) (bell dings) (suspenseful music continues) (people chattering) - Hi.
- Hi.
(people speaking in foreign language) (suspenseful music continues) (suspenseful music continues) (suspenseful music continues) (tracker beeping) (suspenseful music continues) (tracker continues beeping) (suspenseful music continues) (suspenseful music continues) (intense music) (gulls squawking) (Sylvia panting) (intense music) (gulls squawking) (intense music continues) (intense music continues) (intense music continues) (phone beeps) (intense music continues) (intense music continues) (Sylvia sighs) (charming music) (charming music continues) (charming music continues) (charming music continues) (charming music continues) (charming music continues) (charming music continues) (birds chirping) (vocalist singing in foreign language) (vocalist continues singing in foreign language) (vocalist continues singing in foreign language) (vocalist continues singing in foreign language) (vocalist continues singing in foreign language) (vocalist continues singing in foreign language) (vocalist continues singing in foreign language) (vocalist continues singing in foreign language) (vocalist continues singing in foreign language) - Welcome.
Isabel, your sister is here.
(bittersweet music) - Hi.
- You made it.
- Of course I did.
(birds chirping) - We're up here.
(birds chirping) (Isabel laughs) - Sylvia.
Sylvia.
- Matteo.
- So wonderful to see you here at last.
Ciao.
Ciao.
- Ciao.
- What about a Negroni, huh?
- Isabel, I like your husband a lot.
(all laughing) - This is for you.
- Grazie.
- Here, my dear.
- Mm-hmm.
- So, let's start as we mean to go on, hm?
Salute.
- Salute.
- Salute.
- Salute.
(Matteo speaking in foreign language) - Hm.
Hm.
- Hm.
- [Matteo] Hm.
Hmm.
- This place is incredible.
I can't believe you actually live here.
(laughs) - It's been in Matteo's family nearly 200 years.
- I can't believe you are seeing it for the first time.
- Yeah, well, we've invited her often enough.
- [Matteo] Hm.
- [Isabel] Anyway, you need to change.
- Yeah, uh, we're going out to eat with all the family.
- Oh, wonderful.
(chuckles) - [Matteo] Yeah.
(chuckles) - You look so well.
(Isabel chuckles) And happy.
- Of course she does.
She married an Italian.
- Anyway, come on, I'll show you your room.
(charming music) (charming music continues) (group chattering indistinctly) (charming music continues) (Matteo chattering indistinctly) (charming music continues) (charming music continues) (bell tolling) (Matteo chattering indistinctly) - Is that her?
Matteo's mother?
- Mama.
- Hm.
(Sylvia speaks indistinctly) - Welcome.
- Sylvia, my mother.
(speaks in foreign language) (Matteo speaks in foreign language) - Stop it.
I'll tell you later, don't worry, don't worry.
Italian mothers.
Please.
- [Sylvia] That's not the story that she told me.
I can't believe you did that, that's amazing.
- Alice and Tommaso should be here by now.
- They are young and in love, Isabella, don't fuss.
- My sister didn't tell me that you were such a romantic, Signora Vitale.
- Antonella, please.
You're family.
I'm glad you came.
Isabella did not think you would.
- Mama.
- Couldn't miss my niece's wedding.
(Matteo speaking in foreign language) - Ah, they're here.
Aah.
Hey.
(Matteo speaks in foreign language) - [Alice] Ah, you made it!
- Why does everyone keep saying that?
- [Antonella] Doesn't she look beautiful.
- This is my Aunt Sylvia, and this is my Tommaso.
- Lovely.
Lovely to meet you, Sylvia.
- And you.
- Uh, Alice told me all about her favorite aunt.
- Her only aunt.
(laughs) But she hasn't told me nearly enough about you.
Come.
- Is that so?
- Darling.
- Mama, you look gorgeous.
- Isabel.
Good to see you.
- Ciao.
- Ciao.
(Tommaso and Matteo speaking in foreign language) - You did not come when Matteo married Isabella.
- I was working in the Middle East.
- [Antonella] You have a very important job.
- I'm a civil servant, it's very boring.
What do you do?
- Me?
- Hm.
- I am a notario.
Like a lawyer but less money.
- [Matteo] Which is not true.
- Also very boring.
- That's true.
(all laughing) - We should order.
- Yes.
- Uh, do you want me to translate the menu for you?
(waiter speaking in foreign language) (Antonella speaking in foreign language) - Okay?
Then, Sylvia, you should order, mm, Porchetta al finocchio.
Umberto cooks it almost as well as I do.
- See, when Mama's around we don't need menus.
- [Alice] Hey.
(all toasting in foreign language) - Cheers.
- Oh, more emotion than that.
- Antonella, this is delicious, you were right.
- Go on, admit it.
You'd have been just as happy with fish fingers.
- [Matteo] Fingers?
Fingers what?
(Alice speaking in foreign language) - Oh, Madonna!
(all laughing) - [Alice] Mum was right though, 'cause Sylvia's freezer is full of them.
- How would you know?
- There is nothing wrong with fish fingers.
I appreciate good food, I just can't cook it.
- It's not true.
- Mm-hmm.
- It is true.
- You poor girl.
(all laughing) It's nothing to laugh about.
(group chattering) (charming music) (Tommaso speaking in foreign language) (Tommaso continues speaking in foreign language) (Tommaso continues speaking in foreign language) (solemn music) (group chattering) - [Alice] No, I'm, I'm so grateful.
No, I'm so grateful.
- So... So you spent a lot of time together in London, huh?
That's nice.
I didn't know that.
- Me neither.
- I took the starving student out for dinner occasionally.
- Really?
- Yeah, the exhibitions, restaurants, we got around a bit.
We had some adventures.
- How did you meet Tommaso?
- Oh, yes, tell the story.
- Oh, well now, I mean... - Sorry.
- [Alice] Sylvia was just asking me how we met.
- [Tommaso] Oh, she did?
- Um, so... Uh, you remember when I was waitressing at that restaurant in Perugia?
So I was working one night and Tommaso came in and I served him.
- And, she forgot half my order.
- Stop!
- So, I came back the next night and the one after, just to see how long it would take her to get it right.
(all laughing) - I knew something was up when Alice said she wasn't coming back to London and wouldn't tell me why.
- I was afraid you might disapprove.
- Disapprove?
Of me?
- No, of me.
For picking a man over a master's degree.
- Well, lucky for me she did.
She made me believe in myself.
- Aah.
(Matteo speaking in foreign language) - What about after the wedding?
What are your plans?
- God, I haven't really thought beyond the honeymoon.
Have you?
- Crete.
- Tommaso's booked the most fantastic villa.
Can you show them the pictures?
- [Isabel] Look Alice, your friends are here.
(friends chattering) - [Alice] We're gonna get a quick drink.
Sylvia, do you wanna join us?
- No, you go and have a great time.
- Okay.
- I'll come.
- Yes.
- No.
No, Mama.
- Yes.
(Antonella speaking in foreign language) - It was a real pleasure.
- Ciao.
- Ciao.
- See you tomorrow.
- See you tomorrow.
- [Isabel] Did Tommaso pass the test?
- Well, he seems delightful.
- They're very much in love, you know?
- I can see that.
- But?
- But nothing.
(gravel crunching) - Are you okay, my love?
- Yeah.
- [Matteo] You sure?
(solemn music) (solemn music continues) (solemn music continues) (solemn music continues) (solemn music continues) (car doors thudding) (couple chattering) (solemn music continues) (couple continue chattering) (solemn music continues) (solemn music continues) (couple continue chattering) (solemn music continues) (couple continue chattering) (solemn music continues) - [Sylvia] DV 079FD.
(solemn music continues) (solemn music continues) (solemn music continues) It's lovely.
(veil rustling) - Do you like him?
- (sighs) He's handsome, charming, and he adores you.
And your dress is beautiful.
- But it's not me though.
Is it?
(closet rasping) It's in here somewhere.
Ah.
(gentle music) It's an old one of mum's.
Do you think she'll mind if I wear it tomorrow?
- Oh.
- I don't think she'll mind at all.
(gentle music) (laughs) (solemn music) (door latch clicking) (door squeaking) (tense music) (tense music continues) (tense music continues) (tense music continues) (speaking in foreign language) (birds chirping) (ethereal music) (ethereal music continues) (ethereal music continues) - [Alice] Mum!
There's no hot water!
- Sorry, I heard you.
- Mum!
- I heard you.
- Mum!
- [Matteo] I'm coming.
(Isabel and Matteo speaking in foreign language) (ethereal music) (birds chirping) (people chattering) (people continue chattering) (bell tolling) (bell continues tolling) (solemn music) (solemn music continues) - [Isabel] Sylvia.
(indistinct) - It's so lovely.
- What was wrong with the church?
- Alice isn't a catholic, you know that.
- [Antonella] Hm.
- Alice seems so happy that Matteo's giving her away.
- He's been more of a father to her than Richard ever was.
(people chattering) (people continue chattering) - [Sylvia] Who's here from Tommaso's side?
- Uh... He, he hasn't anyone really.
His parents are both dead.
And there's a sister in Canada.
- That's a shame.
Is that his best man?
- Yeah.
Franco.
He's a, a neighbor, I think.
Why, Sylv?
- Hm?
- Why?
- Where's the groom?
He should be here by now.
- I'll just go and talk to Franco.
Um, Franco... (Isabel speaking indistinctly) (solemn music) (door opens) Darling, Tommaso's not here.
(people chattering) What, what are you doing?
Darling.
Darling.
Wait, darling.
Darling!
(tense music) Alice, wait!
(Matteo speaking in foreign language) (solemn music) - [Matteo] Wait, please.
- Something's happened, hasn't it?
Is Tommaso dead?
- [Isabel] No, of course not.
- Alice, call him.
- Okay.
(solemn music) (operator speaking in foreign language) - [Operator] The number you've dialed is not- - No.
- [Isabel] Matteo, try.
(Alice sniffles) (solemn music) - [Matteo] Who knows, maybe he... - [Sylvia] Alice, are there any other friends of Tommaso's you can contact?
- Well, I really think we should call the police.
- No.
- Why not, darling?
And if there has been an accident and if- - And if there hasn't?
What do we say?
That I was dumped at the altar?
(Matteo speaking in foreign language) - He lives in Magione, doesn't he?
You give me the address and I'll go and- - No, no, no, please, just, just leave it.
Please.
(Alice sniffles) - How could he do this to her?
(Matteo sighs) - I call the Carabinieri.
- No, don't.
I think you should let Alice decide how to handle this.
(Matteo sighs) (Sylvia sighs) (birds chirping) (engine revving) (intense music) (intense music continues) (intense music continues) (intense music continues) - [GPS] You have arrived at your destination.
(intense music continues) (intense music continues) (Sylvia grunts) (dog barking) (door rattling) (Sylvia grunts) (suspenseful music) (suspenseful music continues) (Sylvia panting) (suspenseful music continues) (suspenseful music continues) (Sylvia exhales sharply) - Hm.
(door latch clicks) (door creaking) (suspenseful music) (suspenseful music continues) (suspenseful music continues) (suspenseful music continues) (suspenseful music continues) (water lapping) (intense music) (intense music continues) (intense music continues) (birds chirping) (camera clicks) (intense music continues) (intense music continues) (intense music continues) (intense music continues) (intense music continues) (scooter engine puttering) (intense music continues) (scooter engine continues puttering) (suspenseful music) (metal rasps) (suspenseful music continues) (Sylvia gasps) (door lock rattles) (door rattling) (suspenseful music) (footstep thuds) (suspenseful music continues) (door latch clicking) (suspenseful music continues) (door creaking) (suspenseful music continues) Alice?
- What are you doing here?
- The same thing as you.
He's not here.
- Jesus, is that blood?
- How did you get here?
- I- - How did you get here, Alice?
- My scooter, I- - You get back on your bike and you go straight home.
You talk to no one and you were never here, okay?
Okay?
Just go.
- Yeah.
(intense music) (door latch clicks) (door creaking) (phone ringing) - Hi, boss.
Shouldn't you be dancing with a tall, dark, Italian stranger?
- There's been a slight hitch.
Listen, this is strictly under the radar.
I've got some prints I need ID'd.
(investigators speaking in foreign language) (phone beeps) - I'm on it.
(investigators speaking in foreign language) (banging and grunting) (investigators speaking in foreign language) (grim music) (birds chirping) - Signora Sylvia Fox?
- Yes.
Who are you?
- Brigadiere Samir Hamdani, Carabinieri.
This is your house?
- If it was my house I would have let you in rather than leaving you to break down the gate.
- What are you doing here?
- The man who lives here was supposed to marry my niece today.
He didn't turn up, so I came to look for him.
- [Samir] How did you get in?
- I climbed over the wall.
- And you saw the body from here?
- Bird watcher.
I always travel with binoculars.
- At least the signora didn't waste her journey.
I think that's a osprey.
- Too small.
Probably a seagull.
- Hm.
Giovanni Riva, Capitano dei Carabinieri.
Are you English?
- Yes.
- [Giovanni] And you found her?
- [Samir] Where is your niece, Signora Fox?
- At her parents' house in Panicale.
- She didn't come with you?
- No.
(investigators speaking in foreign language) (investigators continue speaking in foreign language) (grim music) - The signora should leave now, so we can search through the property.
- What were you going to say to Signor Rossi if he would have been home?
Or do to him?
- I hadn't quite decided.
- [Giovanni] Hm.
(grim music) (birds chirping) (Samir sighs) (car engine roaring) - [Sylvia] Rabia?
- [Rabia] I have a match on the fingerprints.
- That was fast.
Does she have a criminal record?
- No, but she's entered the States a couple of times.
Laura Boscolo.
Italian national, born Civitavecchia 1986.
Now resident in Perugia.
- Laura Boscolo.
Thanks.
- [Rabia] Look, I don't know what's going on out there.
But do you need me to send in a clean-up crew?
- No, it's okay.
I covered my tracks before I called the police.
Speaking of which, can you get me background on a Carabinieri officer?
Capitano Giovanni Riva.
R-I-V-A.
Based in Umbria, probably Perugia.
Thanks, Rabia.
(door opening) - [Alice] Hm.
- This morning, when you found out Tommaso hadn't arrived, you thought he was dead, why?
- I, I don't know, I was panicking.
The blood.
Is it his?
- There was a woman's body in the lake.
Now we've only got a few minutes before the police arrive.
So you need to talk to me.
Does the name Laura Boscolo mean anything to you?
- No.
- Sure?
- [Alice] Hm.
- And you've had no word from him, from either of his mobiles?
- [Alice] No.
- Okay.
You weren't at Tommaso's house.
You haven't seen me since this morning.
You know nothing about the body or about Tommaso's whereabouts.
You haven't heard from him and you're devastated.
- I am devastated.
(Alice sighs) - And, uh, how much you know about Mr.
Rossi's work?
- Tommaso is a registered notario, he has an office in Perugia.
- Did Tommaso introduce you to any of his clients?
- No.
Why?
- And you're sure you don't recognize the woman in this photograph?
- Never seen her before in my life.
That body has nothing to do with me or with Tommaso.
- You can only make the promise for yourself, signorina.
But not for Signor Rossi.
(phone buzzing) So, tell me again, when was the last time you met Signor Rossi?
(phone buzzing) - [Alice] Um, the night before our wedding, that evening.
(phone continues buzzing) - Giovanni Riva.
Worked out of the Bari Command for 20 years.
He was moved to the regional crime office in Perugia a year ago.
- Doesn't sound like a promotion.
Is he bad news?
- [Rabia] Sorry, Sylvia, that's all I've got.
(door opening) (Giovanni, Samir, and Matteo speaking in foreign language) - Signora Fox.
- Hello again.
Have you found Signor Rossi?
- Not yet.
- Has the dead woman been identified?
If you don't mind me asking.
- Do you recognize her?
- No.
But I think you did.
- Are you a doctor, signora?
Or maybe a police officer?
- Neither.
- Most people panic at the sight of dead bodies, but you were very calm.
- I never got that close.
- Oh, of course, the binoculars.
Right.
Well, goodbye, Signora Fox.
Or should I say Signora Volpe?
Hm.
- Sounds better in Italian.
- Everything sounds better in Italian.
(Giovanni speaking in foreign language) (light instrumental music) Hm.
(light instrumental music continues) (car engine turning and revving) (light instrumental music continues) (footsteps tapping) (Matteo chattering indistinctly) - Where did you disappear to earlier?
- [Sylvia] I drove up into the hills, went for a walk.
- You know they've found a woman's body in the lake near Tommaso's house?
- Yes, the Carabinieri officer outside told me.
- Well, I can't believe Tommaso had anything to do with it.
- If he didn't, where is he now?
- How's Alice?
- How do you think?
(cutlery clanking) (crickets chirping) (door creaks and thuds) - Sylvia?
- Are you okay?
- That's her isn't it?
The woman they found at Tommaso's house?
- Let's see?
- That's the, uh, "Gazzetta di Perugia."
I remember that night, Tommaso said he had a work thing but that I couldn't go.
And I was upset because it was our three month anniversary.
Who is she to him?
(thoughtful instrumental music) (keyboard clacking) (thoughtful instrumental music continues) (pen clicking) (thoughtful instrumental music continues) (thoughtful instrumental music continues) (engine sputters) (people speaking in foreign language) (people continue speaking in foreign language) (thoughtful instrumental music) (thoughtful instrumental music continues) - Signora?
- Can I have a table for one please?
- Sorry, we're fully booked.
A birthday party, 30 children.
Believe me, you don't want to be here.
- Well, that's great to see that you're doing so well.
I was on the EU subcommittee that approved your funding?
- Now I feel terrible.
Maybe you could come back another day?
Please?
Let me know you are coming and we'll treat you like a queen.
- I think it's wonderful what you're doing, training up so many disadvantaged young people.
And I so enjoyed meeting your co-owner, um, Laura Boscolo, when we did the funding panel?
I'd like to get in touch with her again.
I wonder if I could have her number?
- Uh, sorry, I'm not permitted to give out personal numbers.
You understand, signora?
- Carson, Dawn Carson.
Perhaps I could give you mine?
- Of course.
(light music) (light music continues) (utensils clinking) (light music continues) - Grazie.
- Thank you.
(light music continues) (engine rumbling) (people chattering) (phone ringing) (Carla speaking in foreign language) - [Sylvia] Could I speak to Carla Galli, please?
- Yes, who's this?
- [Sylvia] Signora Galli, my name is Sylvia Fox.
I've been reading some of your articles, and I wanted to ask you about a Laura Boscolo?
- Sorry, I'm not interested.
(dial tone droning) (suspenseful music) (suspenseful music continues) (people chattering) (suspenseful music continues) (people chattering) (suspenseful music continues) (suspenseful music continues) (wheelchair whirring) (suspenseful music continues) (suspenseful music continues) (people chattering) (suspenseful music continues) - [Sylvia] Oh.
Do you need some help?
- I'm, I'm okay, thanks.
- You're Carla Galli aren't you?
My name's Sylvia, I called you earlier.
Please.
I just need a moment.
- [Carla] What do you want?
- You hung up on me.
Was it because I mentioned Laura Boscolo?
- Look, I, I've only just started working and I don't have time to speak to every person who thinks they have a story.
- You had an accident?
- Six months ago.
The doctors say I may even walk again one day.
- I'm sorry.
Did you know that Laura Boscolo has been murdered?
- Yes.
- Her body was found very close to the house of a man named Tommaso Rossi.
My niece was due to marry Rossi yesterday.
But he didn't turn up.
- Look, I've never heard of Tommaso Rossi.
But if he had anything to do with Laura Boscolo, your niece has had a lucky escape.
(intense music) (tense music) (tense music continues) (Richelmo speaking in foreign language) - Si.
(Richelmo speaking in foreign language) (tense music) (tense music continues) (Giovanni speaking in foreign language) (tense music continues) (Richelmo sighs) (tense music continues) (lighter clicking) (Samir speaking in foreign language) (tense music continues) (car engines rumbling) (bell tolling) (intense instrumental music) (intense instrumental music continues) (intense instrumental music continues) - Oh, I'm so sorry, let me help.
I didn't see you there.
(delivery driver speaking in foreign language) I'm really sorry.
(birds chirping) (footsteps plodding) (Richelmo speaking in foreign language) (Giovanni speaking in foreign language) (Samir speaking in foreign language) - [Richelmo] No.
(Giovanni speaking in foreign language) (Richelmo speaking in foreign language) (Enrico speaking in foreign language) (worker speaks in foreign language) (Enrico speaking in foreign language) (worker speaks in foreign language) (Enrico speaking in foreign language) (Enrico continues speaking in foreign language) (door slams) (tense music) (Enrico and worker speaking in foreign language) (tense music) (footsteps plodding) (birds chirping) (tense music) (children shouting) (tense music) (people chattering) - Signora?
(officer speaking in foreign language) - Grazie.
(people speaking in foreign language) (knuckles rapping) (Giovanni speaking in foreign language) - Ah, Signora Volpe.
Have you found another body?
- No.
But I did find these.
They're from my sister's garden.
- Oh, thank you.
Please, sit.
- I wondered if there was any news about Tommaso Rossi?
- No, but, uh, if Alice hears from him, will you tell me?
- I don't think she has.
- I believe that you work for the UK government, signora?
- Hm.
- Hm.
Doing what?
- Agricultural exports.
Negotiations mainly.
- Hm, but that sounds very straight forward for someone with your security clearance.
- I met Carla Galli.
- Galli?
Yeah, good journalist.
It's just terrible what happened to her.
The accident.
- Was it an accident?
- Well, we found no proof of criminality.
- So you did investigate?
- The brakes of her car failed, but we did not find anything else.
I mean, what did Signora Galli tell you?
- Capitano Riva.
- Hm.
- Should I be worried for my niece?
- You should take care, signora, for your family and yourself.
(tense music) (tense music continues) - Hello?
Ciao, I was given your number by a friend.
I'm looking for something to take to a Christening party.
I wondered if you could help?
Today if possible.
(Raffaella speaking in foreign language) (child speaking in foreign language) - [Raffaella] Okay.
(Raffaella speaking in foreign language) (child and Raffaella speaking in foreign language) (people speaking in foreign language) (Raffaella speaking in foreign language) - [Sylvia] Are you Raffaella?
- Yes, and you?
- Miss Francis.
- Uh... Oh, yes, the special order?
A Christening party, right?
- [Sylvia] That's right.
- So, what do you need?
(intense music) - An electronic tag for a mobile phone.
- I have a shadow tracker, will that do?
- Yes.
- Okay, good.
Your phone, please?
(tense music) Thank you.
(machine beeps) (intense music) Okay.
You got the software now.
- Thanks.
- You know how it works?
- I access the OS of the target device then use this code?
- Exactly.
It will give you a location to within 10 meters, plus access to all data from the host device, and you can listen in to calls.
- Perfect.
- Is there anything else I can help you with?
- Possibly.
(tense music) (tense music continues) (intense music) (intense music continues) (birds chirping) (gun clicking) (intense music continues) (intense music continues) (gunshots popping) (intense music continues) (birds chirping) (gunshots popping) (intense music continues) (gunshot popping) (intense music soaring) (birds chirping) (gunshot popping) (solemn music) I thought you gave that up years ago?
- Filthy art school habit.
I've gone from hiding it from Mum to hiding it from Matteo.
- How's Alice?
- I think she's scared Tommaso might have killed that woman.
And that he might be dead too.
(Isabel sighs) (solemn music) (solemn music continues) (door closes) (tense music) (water gushing) (tense music) (phone buzzing) (Sylvia whispering indistinctly) (phone buzzing) (tense music) - Buenos Aires?
(phone buzzing) (water gushing) (phone buzzing) (tense music) (phone continues buzzing) (tense music continues) (paper rustling) (tense music continues) - Come on, come on.
- Ow!
Ow!
Ah!
(camera clicks) (door latch clicks) (tense music) (knuckles rapping) - Are you okay?
- Yeah.
Just stepped on a pistachio shell in the hall.
- Ouch.
- [Alice] Yeah, yeah.
(solemn music) (Sylvia sighs) (solemn music continues) (keyboard clicking) (solemn music continues) (Sylvia sighs) (intense music) (intense music continues) (intense music continues) (phone beeps) (intense music continues) (birds chirping) (utensils clanking) - Is everything okay?
- [Isabel] Hm.
- I didn't know Sylvia had friends in Italy.
- Oh, she has friends all over the world.
And enemies too probably.
Bound to in her line of work.
- Trade negotiations.
- Oh, darling.
You don't believe all that stuff about her being a boring civil servant, do you?
Sylvia's a spy.
(scoffs) She's a spy.
(laughs) - She told you that?
- No, she didn't need to.
Studied Arabic at Cambridge, conspicuously dull diplomatic career, endless postings abroad, what else could she be?
My mother never guessed, and I didn't let on.
- Why haven't you told me this before?
- I can keep secrets too.
Is that coffee ready?
- Hm?
- Coffee.
- Oh, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
The coffee.
Of course.
Your secret coffee, secret cigarette in your secret studio with your secret family.
(dramatic music) (dramatic music continues) (gulls squawking) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) - It's a long time ago.
In any case, students records are confidential.
- Well, is there someone who might remember?
(administrator speaking in foreign language) - I don't have much family left, so it would really help if I could find him.
- Sorry, signora.
(administrator speaking in foreign language) (administrator continues speaking in foreign language) (Naro speaking in foreign language) - I can't recall a Tommaso Rossi.
Are you sure he was a pupil here?
- Well, the man I'm looking for seems to have treasured this.
- Mm-hmm.
Many of the children have no books of their own.
They fall in love with one, and it's natural they want to keep it.
- This is a picture of him.
Does he look like any of the boys that you taught 20 years ago?
- It's a type, you know?
I am sorry.
- Please, signora.
What about this boy?
The hair might not be quite right.
- I can't help you, signora.
Signora?
(children chattering and squealing) He wasn't a pupil.
He was the caretaker's boy.
His name was, uh... Luciano?
Yes, Luciano Rinaldi.
- What do you remember about him?
- Not much.
They left when his father died.
He was murdered.
Goodbye, signora.
(intense music) (intense music continues) (intense music continues) - Cast your net well and the fish will come.
- Hello, Ercole.
- (laughs) Ah.
- Ah.
(Sylvia laughing) How's retirement?
- (laughs) Fantastic.
I'm fighting seagulls rather than terrorists now.
And it's a battle I intend to win.
(Sylvia laughs) You want to know about Laura Boscolo?
- Did you find much?
- Boscolo moved to Perugia a couple of years ago.
Clean, as far as I can tell, immaculate in fact.
- [Sylvia] Hm.
- Which is interesting.
'Cause her brother is Richelmo Gregori.
The boss who pretty much runs this place.
- What are his specialties?
- Drugs, intimidation, violence definitely.
Murder almost certainly.
But no one has ever been able to lay a finger on him.
Except once.
When he was indicted for fraud.
- How long did he serve?
- Not a day.
Another man took the plane and went to jail instead.
- Was the man's name Luciano Rinaldi by any chance?
(Ercole applauding) (Ercole speaking in foreign language) Sylvia, you are not sanctioned here.
And Gregori will go a long way to keep his sister's business legit, dead or not.
(intense music) (intense music continues) (intense music continues) (phone keypad clicking) (intense music continues) (intense music continues) (intense music continues) (gun clicks) - Turn around.
Slowly.
(intruder panting) (intruder grunting) - [Tommaso] No, no, no, no.
- Tommaso?
(Tommaso pants and grunts) Wait!
(engine revving) (engine roaring) (intense music) (intense music continues) - Tommaso?
- You just missed him.
I saw someone watching the house.
Thought it was one of Gregori's men.
Aren't you gonna ask who's Gregori?
- I know who Richelmo Gregori is.
Tommaso used to work for him.
- But he wasn't Tommaso then, was he?
He was Luciano Rinaldi.
- Clever Auntie Sylvia.
- We can talk about this now, or I can shout questions through your door later so your mother can hear?
When did Tommaso tell you the truth about himself?
- When he realized things were getting serious between us.
- And you weren't concerned that he was living under a false name?
- It wasn't like that.
- What was it like?
- Tommaso was just a boy when his father died.
He said Gregori made him stay on at school, helped him qualify to be a notario, gave him work.
- And then they wouldn't let him go?
And so you decided to take off to South America without telling your mother even though you knew it would break her heart?
- Don't lecture me, I'm family, Sylvia.
Where were you when my grandma was dying?
- You're not gonna believe this, but I didn't know that she was ill.
- Yeah, you're right.
I don't believe you.
- What's it gonna take, Alice?
Isn't a dead woman in a lake enough?
- Aren't you coming?
(spoon clinking) - How was Rome?
And your friend?
- [Sylvia] Both good, thanks.
- You didn't go to Rome, did you?
And there is no friend.
Work, I suppose.
I should have guessed.
Probably the only reason you came to the wedding.
- Oh, that's not true.
For Christ's sake.
- If you've found out anything about Tommaso, tell me.
I'm Alice's mother, I have a right to know.
- Why didn't you tell me when Mum went in to hospital?
- You were on the other side of the world.
- That's why God invented aeroplanes.
- Ugh.
Mum was so proud of you and your glittering career, she didn't want to bother you.
- Well, it bothers me that I didn't get to say goodbye.
You didn't tell me, but you're still angry with me that I wasn't there!
- No, I'm angry because- - I have to go to Perugia.
- See another friend?
(footsteps tapping) - [Sylvia] I heard about Laura Boscolo, I wanted to offer my condolences, I'm sorry.
- Yes.
(Enrico speaking in foreign language) - Will the restaurant survive?
Without her, I mean.
- I hope so.
(footsteps tapping) (phone keypad clicking) Ah, the rest of the team are at our training kitchen a few minutes away.
You want to see?
- Very much.
- My car is very near.
- Mine is just outside.
(footsteps tapping) Did you and Laura set up the restaurant together?
- My father started it.
Laura stepped in a few years ago when we were losing money.
Turn here please.
Laura's money saved us.
This training program was her idea.
- How do you recruit the trainees?
- We take the young people nobody wants.
You can park through here.
(lookout whistles) (tires screeching) (Enrico speaking in foreign language) (tense music) (Enrico speaking in foreign language) (dramatic music) (tires screeching) (group shouting) (engines roaring) (Enrico speaking in foreign language) (engines roaring) (Enrico speaking in foreign language) (tires screeching) (Enrico screaming) (Enrico speaking in foreign language) (gunshot popping) (Enrico speaking in foreign language) (intense music) (Enrico speaking in foreign language) (engines roaring) (tires screeching) (engine roaring) (intense music) (Enrico speaking in foreign language) (Enrico continues speaking in foreign language) (phone ringing) (Enrico speaking in foreign language) - Is it Gregori?
(phone ringing) - [Enrico] No!
(Enrico speaking in foreign language) - You're crazy.
He just wanted to talk.
- There's nothing in those pizza boxes.
Was the restaurant always a front?
- No.
I was in debt, Laura put money into the business, she kept us going, I was so grateful.
- But then you found out the cost of her help.
- It was only weed at first.
- Drugs?
- Now, there's no point even putting pizzas in the boxes.
- Get out.
- We must be 20 kilometers away.
- [Sylvia] Get out.
(window whirring) (Enrico speaking in foreign language) (intense music) (intense music continues) (Sylvia exhales) (wheelchair rattling) - It wasn't an accident, was it?
- Someone who worked with Boscolo asked to talk.
He said he wanted to help.
(sniffs) I was stupid enough to believe him.
- He set you up?
- When I was driving back from our meeting my brakes failed.
- The investigation said it was an accident?
- [Galli] What investigation?
- The police told me that- - The police?
People like them own the police.
- The man you met, the one who set you up, was it Tommaso Rossi?
- I told you, I've never heard of Tommaso Rossi.
He called himself Pietro.
- [Sylvia] Is this the man?
- That's him.
(solemn music) (solemn music continues) (solemn music continues) - Do you think I'm stupid, signora?
Or corrupt?
I'm an Italian police officer so I must be one or the other, right?
- I know you're not stupid.
- You know nothing of how things work here.
- [Sylvia] Rossi worked for Boscolo, presumably.
- [Giovanni] It seems Rossi stole from Boscolo, she found out, and they killed her and ran away.
For your family's sake, you should really hope he's very far away.
(intense instrumental music) (intense instrumental music continues) (intense instrumental music continues) (intense instrumental music continues) (Sylvia gasps) (phone buzzing) (solemn instrumental music) (solemn instrumental music continues) (Sylvia exhales) - [Isabel] Oh, darling, um, do you want some coffee?
- [Alice] No time, I have to go to Perugia to answer some more questions from the Carabinieri.
- Oh, well, shall I come with you?
- No, it's fine.
Thanks, Mum.
- [Isabel] Oh.
Ah.
She seems brighter, don't you think?
- Hm.
I should get going too.
(footsteps tapping) (solemn instrumental music) (scooter engine revving) (scooter engine roaring) (solemn music) (birds chirping) (intense music) (intense music continues) (intense music continues) (intense music continues) (people chattering) (people continue chattering) - [Tommaso] Alice!
- [Alice] Hey.
- Hm.
Hm.
Did you bring your passport?
- The woman in the lake, Laura Boscolo, did you kill her?
- I had no choice.
It was her or me.
- I don't understand.
- The train for Rome leaves in 10 minutes.
Once we are on it, you can ask me any questions you like.
- No, no, no, no, no.
Now.
Why was she there?
At your house?
- Because she found out I was going away, she came to stop me.
- Why, you're just a notario, she could hire another one.
- It's more complicated than that.
Laura is Gregori's sister.
And I went to prison for him.
- Prison?
- That's why he let me leave Civitavecchia.
He owns me.
He always will.
Unless I get far away from here.
- Nobody can own another person.
- Not in your world maybe.
In mine it happens all the time.
Alice, I love you.
You made me realize that I could change and live a better life.
(Enrico speaking in foreign language) - Then it will be okay.
I promise.
You're so beautiful.
(Tommaso laughs) (Enrico speaking in foreign language) (Enrico grunting) - I'll be right back.
- Okay.
(intense music) (intense music continues) (intense music continues) (water gushing) - Don't do it, Alice.
- What are you doing here?
- Trying to stop you throwing your life away on a killer.
- It was self-defense.
- He stabbed her to death with a kitchen knife.
Where did you think this money was coming from?
For your new life in South America?
- I don't know and neither do you.
(door opens) - Did he tell you about the journalist?
- What journalist?
- Carla Galli was investigating Laura Boscolo when they got to her.
She was lucky she survived.
She said she might even walk again one day.
- That's terrible.
But it had nothing to do with Tommaso.
- It has everything to do with Tommaso.
He set her up.
Do you think you can run forever?
They'll find him wherever you go and they'll kill him.
And they'll kill you too.
Don't do this.
He has to give himself up, it's his only hope.
If you love him you'll tell him- - Just stay out of this, Sylvia.
(footsteps shuffling) (Sylvia sighs) - Okay?
Ready?
Ready?
- The money for South America, did you steal it from her?
- No.
- From Laura?
- I earned it.
I thought we'd be gone before she found out.
- Why didn't you just give it back?
- Because she'd have taken it and put a bullet in my head.
That's why.
Come on, we, we don't have much time.
- But the journalist, the journalist, Carla something.
- Good girl.
- [Alice] Did you set her up?
- I met Galli to tell her what I knew, Laura must have found out and had me followed.
They cut her brakes, not me.
- I don't think I can do this, Tommaso.
- Yes, we can.
- No, you have to give yourself up.
It's the only way, you must see that.
Please, I need you, please.
(intense music) (intense music continues) - Ask him how my sister found out about this little meeting with Carla Galli.
Go on, ask him.
(chair rattling) She looked at his phone while he was sleeping in bed beside her.
(tense music) (Richelmo chuckles) You can go if you like, Luciano.
I won't try to stop you.
I'll just kill this young lady in your place.
What?
Good.
Here's what's going to happen.
(phone beeping) (tense music) (intense music) - [Sylvia] Where are you?
(tense music) (tense music continues) (tense music continues) (Sylvia exhales) (intense music) (intense music continues) (Richelmo speaking in foreign language) (intense music continues) (Richelmo speaking in foreign language) (gravel crunching) (intense music) - [Richelmo] Stop here.
- Let her go.
- I will.
When I've finished with you.
Or maybe I won't.
You'll never know, will you?
(Richelmo speaking in foreign language) (dramatic music) (gun clicking) (Richelmo grunting) (Richelmo grunting) - Take this.
(henchperson grunts) Tie him up, quickly.
(intense music) (intense music continues) (intense music continues) Get out of here as fast as you can.
Don't stop, don't talk to anyone.
- Come on.
- Not him.
Just you.
- No.
- Don't you understand?
It's true what he said.
Everything.
Me and Laura, true.
The money, that journalist, everything.
- [Alice] No.
Please.
- Go, Alice.
Just go!
(gravel crunching) (Tommaso pants) - You really do love her, don't you?
- I had a life with her.
But it wasn't mine, was it?
- The police will be here any minute, you have no chance of escape.
Gregori brought you here at gunpoint, but you disarmed him, you could have killed him, but you didn't.
That should count for something.
(sirens wailing) Tell them everything you know about Gregori and Boscolo.
Don't tell them Alice was here.
- Why are you doing this for me?
Who are you?
- Just an anxious aunt.
(solemn instrumental music) (solemn instrumental music continues) (solemn instrumental music continues) (officers speaking in foreign language) (solemn instrumental music continues) (henchperson speaking in foreign language) (officers speaking in foreign language) - Signora Volpe, what a surprise.
- Take a look in the black SUV.
(solemn music) (Giovanni speaking in foreign language) (Enrico coughs) (Enrico speaking in foreign language) - Sylvia?
(vocalist singing in foreign language) (vocalist continues singing in foreign language) (vocalist continues singing in foreign language) (vocalist continues singing in foreign language) (vocalist continues singing in foreign language) (vocalist continues singing in foreign language) (vocalist continues singing in foreign language) - Capitano Riva was here.
You just missed him.
- And?
- Tommaso's been arrested, but, uh, Riva thinks he might be able to claim self-defense.
- I'm sorry to hear about Tommaso.
- But not surprised.
- That's very good.
- Yeah, maybe I'll actually get to finish it now.
(Sylvia laughs) I think that policeman, El Capitano, likes you.
- Riva?
- Hm.
- He can't stand me.
- For someone so perceptive you can be very dense at times, Sylv.
- For you.
- Really?
What is it?
How did you know?
- When I'm not being dense, sometimes I can be quite perceptive.
It's been good to see you.
I wish I didn't have to leave.
- Oh.
Well, why don't you stay for a bit?
I mean, you've hardly seen anything of the place yet.
- Of course not.
- Sylvia?
Thank you.
- Oh, my pleasure.
- I wasn't talking about the perfume.
(gravel crunching) - You think I've been an idiot, don't you?
- I think you fell in love.
- When he first met me, at the restaurant, he was there working for Laura, wasn't he?
He's been playing me since the start.
- I don't think he was playing you.
I think he loved you as much as he was capable of loving anyone.
Do you still love him?
(birds chirping) (Sylvia panting) (phone buzzing) Hello?
- Don't you mean buonasera?
Well, I mean, I tried to smooth things over, but Felicity seems determined to put you in charge of liaison with the Ministry of Defense.
(Sylvia laughs) - Retribution.
(Adam laughs) - When are you coming back?
I miss you.
- We've been missing each other for a long time, Adam.
Bye.
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