The BEST episodes of Don Matteo season 4
Every episode of Don Matteo season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Don Matteo season 4!
Don Matteo's mission is to unmask the guilty and make it clear that, between evil and good, the latter is the only way to live well with oneself and with others. This detective, in the service of God, possesses an extraordinary intuition which, combined with his deep knowledge of the human soul, successfully guides him into the very depths of crime. Generous, simple, cunning, intuitive, intelligent, meticulous, tenacious, informal, without prejudice: his main task is to awaken consciences in good people.
#1 - Murder in the Library
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/19/2004
Don Matteo's bishop friend, who has become a cardinal, calls the priest into the library of a Roman basilica to find out what lies behind the murder of an elderly scholar. With the collaboration of Anceschi and Cecchini, disguised as priests for the occasion, Don Matteo will bring to light the truth about this intricate crime.
#2 - My Father has been in Jail
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/25/2004
Nerino's father, released from prison, tries to mend the relationship with his son by bringing him to live with him. Nerino, however, suspects that his father still keeps bad company. In reality, the man is collaborating with Anceschi, who has asked him to infiltrate the band of a dangerous robber...
#3 - A Debt for Life
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/25/2004
Captain Anceschi is seriously injured trying to foil a robbery in a supermarket. He is saved thanks to the blood donation of a girl, who is found dead a few days later. During his convalescence in the rectory, the captain will begin his own personal investigation and together with Don Matteo will discover a close link between the supermarket robbery and the girl's death...
#4 - Dance Competition
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/26/2004
A well-known tango dancer dies suddenly during a dance competition organized by the municipality. Suspicions pin on an irreproachable pharmacist. To blame him for the murder is even the daughter, life and dance partner of the victim, who accuses the father of having killed the dancer to prevent their love story. Doesn't the girl know that a more complex truth binds her family to the victim...
#5 - Death at Dawn
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/26/2004
Natalina is rushed to the hospital for a tachycardia attack. While Don Matteo is in the hospital to assist the housekeeper, a strange accident occurs: a doctor falls from the fourth floor of the hospital. Suicide is thought of, but Don Matteo has collected his last words: disconnected syllables apparently meaningless. To overcome the code of silence that reigns in the hospital, Anceschi decides to infiltrate Cecchini as a nurse in the ward. The marshal, with the help of Don Matteo, will discover a strange round of drugs and medicines; and some mysterious deaths...
#6 - Mysteries and Lies
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/8/2004
A forty-year-old aristocratic lady is found murdered in her villa. The investigations immediately focus on the clandestine and stormy relationship that the woman had with one of her employees. However, many other and more intricate secrets are hidden behind the prestigious family name: a professional killer, fragile lives built on secrets and lies.
#7 - The Suspect
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/22/2004
A prominent winemaker is killed in his cellar. Suspect number one is a childhood friend, the son of a family maid, who was unjustly fired. But the man, who fled after the murder, was not alone; with him was Laura, the mayor. Torn between a sense of duty and feeling, torn apart by suspicions and jealousy, Anceschi is no longer able to trust her...
#8 - Election Campaign
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/19/2004
A young journalist and a candidate for mayor of Gubbio is killed during the election campaign, perhaps because of his environmental projects. Soon, however, investigation of burning that the young man was leading comes to light. Meanwhile, Laura Respighi, intelligent and attractive woman comes to Gubbio, as replacement of candidate. She not only wins the election but will also lose her head to Captain Anceschi.
#9 - The Suitcase
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/18/2004
For a trivial exchange of suitcases Natalina is involved in an international intrigue: the suitcase found by the housekeeper belongs in fact to an attractive model, a former TV starlet, who has just returned to Gubbio from the United States and was found dead in her apartment. As the investigation proceeds, someone is keeping an eye on Natalina...
#10 - The Stranger
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/1/2004
Matteucci, a collaborator with justice, is about to testify in a trial when his daughter is kidnapped together with Assuntina, the daughter of Marshal Cecchini. The two families therefore find themselves facing a dramatic dilemma: do their duty with justice to the end or worry about the safety of the two girls?
#11 - Paragraph 23
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/11/2004
Marshal Cecchini finds himself involved in a family drama: due to an accident, his daughter Patrizia risks losing her sight. She urgently needs eye surgery. To deal with the substantial medical expenses, Cecchini, instead of asking his friends for help, relies on a financial institution, thus ending up the victim of a legalized scam. When he realizes it, it's too late, the trap has already been sprung.
#12 - Private Investigations
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/1/2004
The man responsible for the death of Captain Anceschi's father is assassinated after being released from prison. The captain, who had sworn to take revenge, is seriously suspected and suspended from duty. Don Matteo and Marshal Cecchini set to work with a confidential investigation...
#13 - Precious Goods
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/15/2004
A man is attacked and injured at home, in full view of his wife. While the police investigate the case, another family reports the disappearance of their son Bruno. The case seems to be resolved when it is discovered that Camilla has been hiding a runaway boy in the rectory for some time. But the case instead gets complicated: the child Camilla found is not Bruno and moreover he refuses for fear of revealing his identity. Where is he from? What is he running from? What is the connection between the two cases?
#14 - The Poisoned Chalice
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/11/2004
A tramp is found dying in Don Matteo's church. He drank the mass wine found in the sacristy, the same wine that Don Matteo should have drunk. Who poisoned the wine? A few days later Don Matteo was wounded in the shoulder by a gunshot. Who wants to kill Don Matteo?...
#15 - The Twists of the Heart
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/25/2004
A couple of ice skaters have an accident in training: the girl is seriously injured. Suspects pin first on a custodian of the building, then on another competitor in the race. Don Matteo will bring to light the intrigues and passions that lie behind the pairs of skaters in the competition.
#16 - Stolen Love
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/18/2004
Emilia, a young high school student who has just returned to Gubbio, is raped during a school visit to the town's food and wine fair. Suspicions focus on the eccentric Professor Ridolfi, for whom Emilia has a strong admiration. But Don Matteo notices the strange behavior of some of the girl's classmates...
#17 - The Gift
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/15/2004
During a pastry competition that brings Italy's most famous pastry chefs to Gubbio, a young industrialist, promoter of the competition, is poisoned by a slice of cake "stuffed" with strychnine. The police investigations focus almost immediately on the ex-girlfriend, the beneficiary of a billion-dollar insurance policy. Thanks to Don Matteo's help, it will be discovered that the industrialist's death was actually caused by an "error" in person: one of the confectioners in the competition had to die. And it is in a secret recipe that the solution to the mystery is discovered...
#18 - The Baby-Bottle Crime
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/6/2004
In the darkness of the confessional, a woman entrusts Don Matteo with a mysterious package which turns out to contain a baby of a few months. While the life of the rectory is turned upside down by the newcomer, the woman's body is recovered from the waters of the lake. Don Matteo finds himself involved in a disturbing murder...
#19 - Three Shots in the Dark
Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/6/2004
Amelia, an elderly and combative nun friend of Don Matteo, fortuitously escapes a murder. The nun, who had recently worked to avoid the expropriation of a senior citizen center, seems to be the object of ancient grudges. While Don Matteo is engaged in solving the case, Anceschi finds himself having to face a formidable rival in love.
#20 - Murder LIve
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/25/2004
Paco, a young rebel DJ of a small private radio station, is killed live during a broadcast. The investigations focus first on the owner of the radio, who wanted to bend Paco to his own ends, then on the members of an emerging rock group, the Crysis, discovered but also exploited by the DJ. It will be Don Matteo, for the occasion the conductor of a radio broadcast, who will read between the lines the truth about Paco and the whole story.
#21 - Behind the Curtain
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/8/2004
Giulia, a famous opera singer, is poisoned during a dinner in her honor held in Don Matteo's rectory. The first suspicions fall on the young collaborator, tired of undergoing the whims of the woman, and on her husband, who would have betrayed her. The skein becomes even more tangled when the singer accuses herself of poisoning. The solution to the case lies instead in the woman's past, behind the curtain of her career and her success...
#22 - The Laws of Change
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/22/2004
A building contractor is found dead on his construction site. The carabinieri's suspicions focus on those responsible for "Casa Domani", a center for dyslexic children, which was about to be evicted by the builder. But mysterious events that occurred on the night of the crime and the discovery of the body of a man with no identity reopen the games. Don Matteo and the carabinieri discover the key to solving the mystery in the collapse of a building that occurred years earlier: a mystery in which chance played its part...
#23 - Lonely Hearts
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/29/2004
A man is killed in his own home during a candlelit dinner. Suspicions are concentrated in two directions: the man's ex-wife and the infamous "Pimpernel Scarlet", a professional theft, who lures men through some marriage agencies. Captain Anceschi and Marshal Cecchini investigate the "Lonely Hearts" agency while Don Matteo, worried about Pippo, who has decided to move in with his new girlfriend, begins to shed light on the murder. The culprit turns out to be the owner of "Lonely Hearts", who is in love and jealous of Gloria, a young woman who is his accomplice in the agency's scams, when faced with the news of the love that has blossomed between her and a client, and her following don't work for him anymore, he killed the woman's lover during an argument....
#24 - Cows and Cattle
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/29/2004
An infectious epidemic of animal origin, following the consumption of infected dairy products, broke out in Gubbio and the situation immediately revealed itself to be dramatic. Laura, the mayor, is in danger of life and Captain Anceschi is shocked. It's up to Don Matteo to instill courage and hope in his community, improve the lives of Titti, his father and the man they hold responsible for their mother's death. The person responsible for the bovine contagion turns out to be the veterinarian, who falsified the bovine registry for 14 animals from Romania.