S01-15 -720p Ita--mir... - Il Commissario Montalbano

It's an archaeologist, Dr. Elena Spada (Catarella: " Spoon ... Spada ... same difference, no?"). She explains that the "Seal of the Fifth Moon" was used to trap the anima rinserrata —the "enclosed soul"—of a person who died by betrayal. The ritual required placing a personal object of the betrayer inside the vase. Montalbano looks at the woman's shoe on his desk.

In the final scene, Montalbano confronts Grasso at the police station. The contractor sneers. "You have no direct evidence. The vase is a copy. The shoe could be anyone's." Il Commissario Montalbano S01-15 -720p Ita--Mir...

The vase, Montalbano learns from an antiquities expert in Trapani, is a "Seal of the Fifth Moon"—a pre-Christian artifact used in obscure funeral rites. It hasn't been opened in two thousand years. The shoe is a modern designer label, with traces of sea salt but no sand. It's an archaeologist, Dr

He returns to the necropolis at midnight with Fazio and a portable ultrasound device borrowed from the local hospital. Behind a false wall in tomb number seven, they find not gold, but a fresh concrete slab. Inside, wrapped in a tarp and sealed with a replica "Seal of the Fifth Moon" (placed there by Grasso as a sick, ironic gesture), is the body of Laura Patanè. She had discovered Grasso was using the ancient tombs as a dumping ground for toxic construction waste. same difference, no

For once, Grasso has nothing to say. Fazio handcuffs him.