S1 • E1
Triest police commissioner Proteo Laurenti investigates the bomb which killed Croatian-born a well-loved delicatessen owner and his family in his suburb villa. His father, dodgy Antonio Gubian, warns he's ready to take revenge. Proteo's unruly student son Marco keeps getting into trouble, but also opens father's eyes to police prejudice. The luxury fish supplies suggest possible motives in smuggling, post-Yugoslavian war profits and drug trade. A chilling execution murder follows.
S1 • E2
Commissario Proteo Laurenti, recently promoted chief of Triest's criminal police (detectives), has little time for son Marco's uninsured stolen Vespa scooter, wife Laura's dream villa or miss election ambitions of teen daughter Livia. He worries duly about the beaching of a runaway luxury yacht belonging to dodgy Austrian entrepreneur Bruno Kopfersberg, whom Laurenti failed, years ago, to prove guilty of the murder of his wife by dragging behind such yacht, the official ruling being shark attack. Next is found the corpse of a young 'easy model' employed by his company, which uses 'greased' political contacts to secure contracts, and now his managing director, Croatian Viktor Drakic, brother of the boss's girl, is after the coordination of EU aid to Turkish earthquake relief. His politician superiors want the commissioner and his assistant, Antonio Sgubin, to solve the case discretely, without trouble with influential people like the Kopfersbergs, but they find proof that company blackmails VIPs with photographs of adulterous prostitution with Eastern European girls they illegally import as 'models'. Kopfersberg son and heir Spartaco is found to have his own bloody grudge on Bruno Kopfersberg, whose hand-less corpse is found.
S1 • E3
Parttaking in the protection of the visiting German chancellor (PM) seemed boring, until a man is fatally hit running in front of the line, wearing only a surgical gown. It's an illegal Moldavian, officially missing nowhere. Commissario Laurenti soon traces his suspicion to a nearby private luxury clinic, whose chief surgeon is murdered next by genitalia-slashing, as Laurenti son suspects all linked to illegal organ trade. He also mistrusts his inquisitive new neighbor and is countered by powerful people, who accuse him of corruption although e acquired his new beach house by trading his town house for it with the recently retired coroner Galvano, who helps out informally.
S1 • E4
At an exchange of documents for cash, a fire-fight ensues in which Michele Giustina accidentally kills his brother Paolo, making him the only heir of grandfather Salvio Giustina, a mysterious crime baron. The papers are snatched away by deaf-mute Russian street beggar Irina, who ends up offering the to just-retired coroner Galvano, who keeps it from the police hoping to write the book a murder prevented, exposing Salvio's fortune started by denouncing Jews to the Nazis for spoils. Commissario Laurenti gets no cooperation from his superiors, who give priority to another case and the secret police warns him against spying on Drakic's arms deals, ignoring his female goon fought the Giustina brothers and is after he documents again.
S1 • E5
Commissario Laurenti initially ignores, despite a suspicious near-car crash, his ex prosecutor Albas's warning,Croat mob baron Viktor Drakic put a price on his head. Laurenti focuses instead on mysterious murders which link with industrial espionage and arms trade trough a consul who also runs import-export firms from her offices. Laurenti and his family are targeted while the team works out Viktor's sister must be involved, ignoring her plastic surgery, but luckily the Drakic goons are incompetent fools, yet he must resort to legally dubious methods.
