In the series premiere, parish priest Don Matteo investigates a young man's apparent suicide.

A little girl goes into a coma after an operation, and her doctor is found dead.

Don Matteo's help is needed by a young woman, whose family is in financial distress and being blackmailed. The citizens, surprised about their priest's meetings with this beautiful woman, start to spread rumours.

Don Matteo investigates allegations of theft against Anna, a young Albanian woman.

An inmate is killed in jail. Suspicion falls on a prisoner who claims to be not guilty, although his fingerprints were found on the murder weapon. A scorpion fight, organized by the citizens, points Don Matteo in the right direction.

In Italian with English subtitles. The town's truffle hunters are up in arms when it appears that their dogs have been poisoned! Only one is still alive, whose master is now accused of committing the crime. Don Matteo discovers the poison, along with who really had it in for the dogs.