The Homicide Squad

Season 1
In Italian with English subtitles. A demented serial killer twists Dante's poetry into pure evil in this blockbuster Italian crime drama from the writer of the seminal Mafia series The Octopus (La Piovra). The ancient meets the modern as the homicide squad scrambles to use the latest forensic technology as well as their own instincts to find the Dante Killer before he closes in on them all.
IMDb 5.820046 episodes13+
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Blood Ties

    January 1, 2004
    1 h 35 min
    13+
    In Italian with English subtitles. As the homicide squad moves into new quarters and welcomes new members, a dead woman in a park begins a new case, even as their legendary former boss Antonio Lazzaro [Massimo Ghini] returns from chasing drug dealers in Latin America. But the pivotal witness may well be a young boy.
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  2. S1 E2 - Lost Game

    January 1, 2004
    1 h 36 min
    13+
    In Italian with English subtitles. Is the Dante-quoting serial killer gunning for homicide squad honcho Lazzaro? Meanwhile, there's the murder to solve of the soccer-playing girl, her body dumped in a seaside warehouse, even as ex-lover/colleague Simona Colli finds a flimsy excuse to move in with Lazzaro to provide round-the-clock protection.
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  3. S1 E3 - Charade

    January 1, 2004
    1 h 35 min
    13+
    In Italian with English subtitles. Tough problem for Lazzaro's squad: outside the office where a financial wheeler dealer lies dead, security cameras show everyone who came and went--but the two groups don't match up. And, after examining a cell completely lined with a hand-written copy of Dante's Divine Comedy, Lazzaro stalks colleague Simona Colli, even as a serial killer stalks him.
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  4. S1 E4 - Crime for Crime

    January 1, 2004
    1 h 35 min
    13+
    In Italian with English subtitles. At a local arts center, one young man is hung, the other asphyxiated. Double suicide, right? Wrong! as the squad investigates what exactly broke up that group of kids at the conservatory, Lazzaro and Simona come to a kind of understanding, and the killer that haunts them leaves a bequest.
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  5. S1 E5 - The Doves Man

    January 1, 2004
    1 h 34 min
    13+
    In Italian with English subtitles. When a little boy disappears from an orphanage, the local homeless bum with a special way with birds looks good as the top suspect, but Lazzaro isn't satisfied, even as he has to contend with a further revelation from Simona, and a face to face meeting with his murderous stalker.
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  6. S1 E6 - I Believe We Are Going to the Suffering City

    January 1, 2004
    1 h 30 min
    13+
    In Italian with English subtitles. Looks like Lazzaro's murderous stalker has definitely kidnapped the little girl Lazzaro has recently learned is his and Simona's daughter. Two guesses as to what he's going to want to trade for her. Will Lazzaro be the last notch on the revenger's gun? The suspenseful finale to this six-part mini-series.
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Content advisory

Violencefoul languagesexual content

Subtitles

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Directors

Riccardo Milani

Producers

RAI

Cast

Massimo GhiniLuisa RanieriOmero Antonutti

Studio

MHz Networks
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