The WORST episodes of The Octopus

#1 - A Secret is Revealed

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/20/1992

The detective exposes and destroys the man who secretively had taken the place of the octopus's head - but the crime will not stop, because the criminal's son escapes with enough power to restart it all.

#2 - Episode 2

Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/28/1999

#3 - Episode 5

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/19/1989

#4 - Episode 1

Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/10/2001

#5 - Episode 1

Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/19/1999

#6 - The Inquest

Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/13/1995

The local television channel, owned by Olga Camastra, puts the blame of her husband's death on Silvia Conti's harsh interrogation of the old man. Saverio's ascension to power seems unstoppable: he masters over Nuzzio with his superior intelligence, and helps him escape an ambush; the Barrotti gang is massacred by Nuzzio's men; and he breaks and enters into the countess's palace, frightening her, and demanding the names list.

#7 - Episode 2

Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/21/1999

#8 - The Killing Attempt

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/19/1995

Silvia is blamed for another strange death, the young commissary Breda is sent away to his hometown far north - something he had requested before he was into this case - and their only witness, Sara, is pressed by a police inspector and the new prosecutor to deny her earlier testimony.

#9 - Criminal Ambition

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/26/1986

Cattani's major achievement so far leaves him without friends in Rome; his former teacher explains between whiskeys how easy it is for an intelligent man to fall into criminal ambition.

#10 - Episode 1

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/5/1989

#11 - Quarta Puntata

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/19/1984

Cattani sets a trap for some of the key mafia players, resulting in the kidnapping of his only daughter.

#12 - The Barrottii Gang

Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/6/1995

Sara and Biagio, her brother, create an extortion gang, named after the village's suburbs where they live. They are taking the "business" out of Nuzzio's hands.

#13 - Episode 4

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/13/1989

#14 - Massacre

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/19/1987

Anna Antinari gets hold of documents that are essential for the arms deal, and trusts her life and that of her child daughter Greta to the good monks who were already hosting Cattani. For the mafia in liaison with a member of parliament, monastery walls are no protection against a new massacre.

#15 - Meeting Again

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/26/1987

Giulia reconciles with her grandfather Nicola, and her second meeting with chief inspector Corrado Cattani is yet a probe for his loyalty to duty. One man ends a life of power tragically; the other hangs desperately to life because, as Giulia says, "He lost; and quite a lot!"

#16 - Episode 2

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/6/1989

#17 - Thirsting for Vengeance

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/12/1987

Cattani falls in love with Giulia, but his inquest does not go far, until Giulia's father dies, and her grandfather takes hold of the family bank again.

#18 - Refuge

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/13/1987

The Antinari bank is backing the illegal arms deal, trusted friends and servants may not be what they seem, and Cattani is undecided between personal vendetta and life in a monastery.

#19 - No Escape

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/6/1987

Cattani uses a TV interview to reveal he found out about one of The Octopus telephone numbers. That is enough to spread havoc in the criminal rang, but the mafia leaves the American investigators no escape.

#20 - The Core

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/6/1992

Licata is tempted by the General directing the Government's "nucleous of operations and investigations (NOI)", a secret service built to do the dirty anti-crime jobs that the police can't do.

#21 - Episode 6

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/20/1989

#22 - Episode 3

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/12/1989

#23 - Good and Evil

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/5/1987

After the mafia killed his family, and a number of people who trusted him, Cattani sees a couple of criminals condemned to light sentences only. A DEA team brings him back from the mountain retreat with good monks, to the evil world of a drugs-for-arms deal. Solace comes in the form of new affections for a banker's daughters, who look like his lost wife and daughter.

#24 - To the South Again

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/20/1987

Cattani meets Giulia again at her mother's funeral, and research and luck bring him up North to Rome, in order to discover the way to the South again, from where a ship will depart with an illegal arms cargo.

#25 - Return to Rome

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/19/1986

Cattani's love life is as confused as his behaviour; he sleeps with the enemy, and is recruited to ITALA, the cultural association for the study of the ancestral popular traditions of Italy, The Octopus by another name.