Claudio announces to Alice that he will probably become the director of the Institute and tells the girl that he wants to meet her parents, to make their love official. The romantic atmosphere is abruptly interrupted by the tragic wounding of Deputy Chief Calligaris in front of the institute's entrance. The investigations will progressively distance Claudio and Alice: their ways of reacting to emotions, pain and adversity are too different.

• Peter Exacoustos
• Alessia Gazzola

• Chiara Mastalli
• Paolo Giovannucci
• Ray Lovelock