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- A spin off from the Austrian series Kommissar (Inspector) Rex. Rex the Police Dog moves from Vienna to Rome to continue his career.
- Victor's wife leaves him, and on the same day he loses his job. Depressed, he tries to find someone to listen to his grief, but the only person ready to show some empathy is the simple-minded Michou whom Victor finds irritating.
- A swordsman's wife is murdered by followers of the evil Goddess Rani. He vows vengeance upon the cult and journeys to the Ark of the Templars to get a magic crossbow that will help him accomplish his mission.
- The story of Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy, whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes.
- A despotic father, film producer, can not have a completely peaceful relationship with his daughter and struggles to distinguish life from work.
- Anna Grimaldi, an attractive widow, lives in a luxury villa amid tropical landscape on a Caribbean island. Her late husband only left her his debts, and now she is forced to turn the villa into a luxury boarding-house. Anna worries permanently about money, and is very relieved when she finally finds guests for the season. But Anna's nephew Max is causing her concern yet again. Max, a difficult young man, is unable to stand on his own two feet. His insatiable desire for a life of luxury and his compulsive gambling keep getting him into trouble with both the criminal underworld and the police. He urges his aunt to give him money, but this time Anna is insistent that he should work with her to resolve their financial problems. Her entire attention in this respect is focused on a newly-arrived guest at the hotel. The guest is Bianca Mayers, heiress to an immense fortune, who has come to the villa to recuperate from a terrible experience: Bianca witnessed the suicide of her father Dr Mayer, a famous physician. Suffering from severe shock, she drove off in her car and had a serious accident. Since that day she has been blind. Anna offers a fraudulent business partnership to Bianca. When the latter refuses, Anna asks Max to exert his charms on Bianca instead; but Max's initial attempt to gain her affections is extremely clumsy, and Bianca rejects him decisively. The other guests at the hotel also have a keen interest in Bianca - especially Dominik, a young German businessman who has grown weary of his alcoholic and chronically jealous wife. When she notices that Dominik is pursuing Bianca she throws several violent scenes. Meanwhile Silvia Rollins, a young authoress, has made friends with Bianca - but her interest isn't selfless either. She is after some tapes containing Bianca's diary entries, and wants to use them as inspiration for her next novel. After Bianca has agreed to cooperate with Silvia, the authoress gradually begins to develop a strong erotic attraction to her. This results in a fierce argument between Silvia and her girlfriend Joan, who suddenly feels ignored. The only guest in fact who actually seems to be going out of his way to avoid the rich heiress is Dr Ruby, a married doctor, who has come to the hotel to quietly prepare a speech. The atmosphere of desire and jealousy in the villa grows increasingly intense, and finally an appalling murder is committed. One night Bianca is brutally killed with a kitchen knife. Inspector Gray, an affable man in his fifties, and his attractive young assistant Paula Anson take over the case. The fact that the murder weapon is a kitchen knife is clear proof to Gray that one of the guests or someone living in the villa must have been the murderer. The experienced policeman thus puts everyone in the villa under house arrest, for each of them had a possible motive: the widow, greedy for money, and her dubious nephew; the rejected Dominik and his jealous wife; the famous authoress and her obsessive girlfriend. Even Dr Ruby's complete avoidance of Bianca is suspect. During his visits to the villa Gray, a master of deduction, has detailed discussions with all those involved. He soon realises that the guests are playing an unpleasant game: each is trying to shift the blame on to the others. They are all anxious, and want to leave the villa as quickly as possible. Three days later the murderer strikes again - the victim this time is Silvia's secretary Joan, who is shot at during the night. As if by a miracle, she is unharmed. The guests now blame Gray for exposing them all to deadly danger by keeping them at the villa, and Dominik makes it clear to the inspector that his wife Julia is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The following night Gray's assistant Paula notices Max stealing out of the villa to pursue his nefarious business dealings, despite the curfew imposed by the police inspector. She follows him and ends up in real danger when Max's accomplices kidnap her and threaten to kill her. Max goes back to the villa. Meanwhile, Paula manages to escape from the gangsters, and she tells Gray about what happened. The inspector decides to do nothing about Max for the time being, though, hoping that he'll give them an important lead. The inspector's hunch seems to be correct when Max inadvertently leads them to Manolo, who is hiding in the attic at the villa. Manolo is the son of one of the maids, and Max had talked him into robbing a bank. After the robbery went wrong, Manolo insisted that Max should hide him in the villa. Manolo is carrying a gun, and taking Julia as a hostage, he barricades himself in. In this situation Julia's husband Dominik shows real strength of character. He liberates Julia and succeeds in overpowering Manolo. This incident has a positive outcome: Julia discovers a new meaning in her marriage, and decides to give up alcohol for good. Everyone is convinced that it was Manolo who killed Bianca. But Inspector Gray is still unconvinced: why should Manolo have used a kitchen knife when he had a gun all the time? Gray has nothing to go on, though. One night he suddenly hears Bianca's voice: he realises that someone has placed the cassette with Bianca's diary entries into the stereo unit. Gray calls all the guests together and plays the tape to its conclusion. From Bianca's observations it becomes clear that Dr Ruby must have been her murderer. Although the whole solution seems just a bit too simple to Gray, he still has the doctor placed under arrest. Doubt continues to nag at Gray. While the relieved guests are all preparing for departure he keeps wondering who could have placed the cassette in the stereo. Listening to it again, he suddenly has an answer: the recording isn't Bianca's diary at all, but a fictitious storyline that Bianca had worked out with Silvia for her new novel! At this point Paula discovers a new clue, proving that only Joan could have known where the cassette was that Silvia had been searching for all the time. Silvia intervenes without success, pointing out that Gray has already arrested Ruby as the murderer. But when Gray proves to Joan that she faked the attempt on her life, she breaks down. She admits that she killed Bianca in a fit of jealousy, because she felt she was intruding on her relationship with Silvia.
- Lucca, Tuscany. A young woman is driving at high speed through the streets of the city. On a sharp bend she starts to overtake - she hesitates for a split-second - but it's too late. Her tiny car crashes straight into a lorry coming in the opposite direction. Shortly afterwards Chiara, an attractive woman in the prime of life, is watching a film report of the dramatic accident on television when she is suddenly gripped by the anxiety that the accident victim could actually be her daughter. After several phone calls and tortuously long hours of waiting Chiara finally realises that her worst fears have come true. She goes cold with horror when she sees her daughter Gianna lying there in the hospital: the young woman is very seriously injured and in a coma. From this moment on, Chiara's entire life is shattered. Her boyfriend Giulio, a famous lawyer, tries to reassure her without success. Chiara becomes aware for the first time how estranged she has become from her own daughter ever since Gianna moved out of the house several years previously. Racked by guilt, Chiara now decides to discover more about her daughter's life. It comes as a huge shock to Chiara when she hears from a close friend of Gianna's that her daughter had married without her knowledge, and that after the wedding to Alec, a young sensitive musician, she realised that she would never be able to have any children. Chiara also finds out that Gianna, driven by her desire to have children, had made use of the most recent medical advances in this sector - by applying for artificially insemination. After that she had wanted to ask her mother - her nearest relative - to bear her child to the full term. Chiara is utterly horrified! But once she's recovered from her initial shock she starts considering how she can fulfil her daughter's last request. She asks Giulio for advice, but he doesn't feel up to giving her an opinion either. In his helplessness he even proposes marriage to Chiara without realising the bad timimg. Chiara spends the weeks that follow at her daughter's bedside. The doctors are hoping that her closeness and warmth will help Gianna recover. At the hospital Chiara also gets to meet Gianna's husband, Alec. But like Giulio, the young man is not in a position to make Chiara's decision about the wished-for child any easier. As a result of her daughter's unusual request, Chiara is torn this way and that between feelings of sympathy, responsibility and helplessness. Eventually she visits Gianna's gynaecologist, Professor Guidi, who was responsible for the artificial insemination and has preserved the ovum via a special method. Quite candidly he outlines the risks to Chiara of surrogate motherhood at her age. Nevertheless, after a lot of consideration, Chiara's feelings finally win out. For her daughter's sake Chiara makes the decision to brave the dangers and to bear her daughter's child to the full term. After the operation, Chiara goes to see her daughter again. At Gianna's bedside she holds her daughter's limp hand in a tender effort to summon her back to life. This desperate cry for help actually seems to reach her unconscious daughter. In astonishment, Chiara sees Gianna give a weak yet unmistakeable sign of life... Gianna has awoken from her coma, and is now on the road to recovery. When she is finally released from hospital, still rather unsteady on her legs, Chiara is beside herself with joy. Gianna accepts her suggestion that she should stay at her house with Alec for the time being. So far mother and daughter have not exchanged a word about Chiara's pregnancy. It is only when Chiara learns from Professor Guidi a short while later that she is definitely pregnant that she feels prepared to reveal the truth to her daughter. Gianna, deeply moved, bursts into tears. However, the new life Chiara is carrying within her soon results in conflict. Giulio sees the strange child as a threat to his male pride. Chiara is forced to look on helplessly as the gulf between them starts to grow ever wider. Chiara thus turns now for comfort to Gianna, who is following the course of her mother's pregnancy closely. But despite Gianna's efforts it soon becomes obvious that she's not up to the role. Tempers finally fray when Alec puts his hand on his mother-in-law's belly one evening to feel his child moving. Gianna reacts to this intimate gesture with a sudden outburst of jealousy. She's no longer the loving daughter, but a mistrustful and deeply injured young woman, and she accuses her mother of making too much of a fuss about her pregnancy and even of cheating her out of her child. Gianna's desire for children underwent an involuntary change after her near-death experience. Gianna admits to her husband that having a baby is not as important to her now. She finally decides to move out of Chiara's house, although she knows how hard a blow this will be for her mother. Meanwhile even Chiara is starting to have doubts about whether deciding to have her daughter's baby was the right thing after all. She's all on her own now, abandoned by everyone, though she does respect Gianna's desire for isolation. When Chiara suddenly suffers agonising cramps one evening, in her loneliness she rings Gianna, who follows her to the hospital. Once there, mother and daughter are both horrified to learn that Chiara had almost lost the child. This shock reawakens the memory in Chiara of her own pregnancy years beforehand, when after her boyfriend's sudden departure she had to make the decision to have the baby all by herself. This gives Chiara renewed courage. She realises just how deeply indebted she is to her daughter. In Chiara's house the two women clear matters up in a candid conversation, talking about Gianna's father for the first time, who was missed by his child her whole life long. Mother and daughter smile at one another. They've come a long way, and have had to go through a great deal in order to prove their affection for one another. But both of them now feel that together they are more than strong enough to chase away the shadows of the past. Together, they look forward to the birth of their common child.
- The complicated puzzled story of a therapist and his teenager adopted daughter who finds access to his patients' stories of murder and supernatural events.
- Rex moved to Rome with Fabbri. There, a third man is shot with the same weapon as the two Austrians in the allegedly closed case. Fabbri asks Viennese colleague Erika Hedl to come to Rome this time.
- Art critic Kurt Castro has been murdered in his home. It is alleged from sources in the police that it has to do with homosexual prostitution. But is it so?