When CEO Claudio is engulfed in a financial scandal affecting his bank, he begins to receive threats to his life and family, and becomes the main suspect in the murder of his colleague and friend.

Inspector Agnese Serravalle starts working on the Caruana case, certain of his guilt. The Caruana family begins a new life in disguise. These are difficult times for everyone, especially the boys.

Silvia is devastated by the discovery that Claudio was with Gloria, his lover, on the night of the murder, and from the pub where she works she tries unsuccessfully to get in touch with her to testify to her husband's innocence.

Inspector Serravalle is convinced that the Caruanas are alive and in hiding. She manages to track down Alessio's boyfriend Mario and asks him for help in tracing them. Alessio makes an appointment with Mario in Gaeta.

Claudio asks Udo, a brilliant computer scientist with a serious personality disorder, for help in finding images of the night Riccardo was murdered, to prove that he was in the car with Gloria Santini at the time.

After discovering that it was a waitress from the pub where Silvia works who phoned Gloria, Serravalle feels she has reached a real turning point in her investigation. Silvia asks Casiraghi for help.