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The Octopus

Season 3 1987
TV-14

  • 1987-04-05T18:30:00Z on Rai 1
  • 1h
  • 6h 54m (7 episodes)
  • Italy
  • Italian
  • Drama, Crime
An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.

7 episodes

Season Premiere

1987-04-05T18:30:00Z

3x01 Good and Evil

Season Premiere

3x01 Good and Evil

  • 1987-04-05T18:30:00Z1h 3m

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.

1987-04-06T18:30:00Z

3x02 No Escape

3x02 No Escape

  • 1987-04-06T18:30:00Z1h

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.

1987-04-12T18:30:00Z

3x03 Thirsting for Vengeance

3x03 Thirsting for Vengeance

  • 1987-04-12T18:30:00Z1h 3m

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.

1987-04-13T18:30:00Z

3x04 Refuge

3x04 Refuge

  • 1987-04-13T18:30:00Z1h 3m

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.

1987-04-19T18:30:00Z

3x05 Massacre

3x05 Massacre

  • 1987-04-19T18:30:00Z58m

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.

1987-04-20T18:30:00Z

3x06 To the South Again

3x06 To the South Again

  • 1987-04-20T18:30:00Z56m

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.

Season Finale

1987-04-13T18:30:00Z

3x07 Episode 7

Season Finale

3x07 Episode 7

  • 1987-04-13T18:30:00Z51m

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!"

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