The Bad Guy - Episode Guide

Investigating magistrate Nino Scotellaro is on the trail of Mariano Suro. He has been hunting the fugitive boss of Cosa Nostra for years. This time he really is just one step away from catching him. But when the arrest fails, a furious Nino points his finger at the institutions, which he believes are accomplices. This accusation, however, will backfire, eventually taking everything away from him.

Everyone is convinced that Nino Scotellaro is dead, including his wife Luvi and his sister Leonarda. In reality, Nino is alive in a remote village. He is a guest of Don Salvatore Tracina, the only person who can help him. An unlikely alliance begins between the two that will transform the magistrate Nino Scotellaro into the Mafioso Balduccio Remora.

Now that Nino is "free" again, it is hard for him not to think about his previous life. But the desire to avenge all he has lost takes over. And so, in his new identity as a Mafioso, he becomes part of another "family": the Tracinas, a clan in decline, rivals to Suro. Together with them, he begins his revenge. To fight Suro, though, they need weapons.

Don Salvatore is out of control. Nino, with no more allies, devises a new plan while watching the rescue of a loggerhead turtle. They will take Teresa back to her family, and use the opportunity to get to Suro. To find her son Marianuccio, who has been kidnapped by her father, Teresa accepts. Their hopes, however, are crushed by the two families who have something else in mind for them.

The power vacuum at Wowterworld allows Nino to adopt a new command strategy, one that is unheard of in the Mafia: democracy. Thinking about ways for the Tracinas to make money, Teresa has a brilliant idea: adapt extortion to the digital age. Christmas is coming. Will the clan manage to take advantage of the most magical moment of the year to extort as much money as possible?

The carnage carried out by the Mafia clans to find Suro's hiding place is spectacular. This makes it clear to Nino that to capture the boss he has to act more like a Mafioso than a magistrate. With the support of the Cosa Nostra families, Nino implements his final plan to capture Suro. What he does not know is that his sister and wife are also on the trail of the boss.

Nino, arriving in front of Suro, understands that there is a superior enemy: all those people who for years have helped the boss in his fugitive status. People very dear to Nino. To have proof and discover who is involved, you have to get to the archive. The same archive that Luvi, his wife, is also looking for to erase a secret linked to her past that she would like to get rid of.

Nino convinces Teresa to get her hands on the archive and so she sets up an appointment with Calogero, unaware that Leonarda and Costardello are with the man. But he is not the only one who wants the archive, the State is also looking for it and Testanuda is willing to do anything to find it. Luvi, meanwhile, gets dangerously close to a truth that could change her life.

Nino runs away with Suro, an unlikely traveling companion, with the hope of being able to return to his old life. However, he has not taken into account what those who have decided to protect the corrupt part of the State are willing to do. And above all, he has not taken into account the fact that Luvi's life is about to collide with his own.

Suro has been arrested, the objective of Nino Scotellaro, a former magistrate, has been accomplished. But can Nino's thirst for truth and revenge really end with this arrest? This is what Nino asks himself as he returns home for the showdown with Luvi, while his sister Leonarda sets out on the trail of Balduccio Remora, unaware that her brother is behind that name.

Nino and Teresa intend to wage war on the State. To do so, they need the support of the entire gynaeceum of Suro sisters and cousins, a myriad of mice, and eight hundred copies of The Count of Monte Cristo. Meanwhile, Leonarda continues her research to find Balduccio Remora, while Luvi, repentant, seeks a way to find evidence of the State's collusion and bring justice.

The State on one side, Cosa Nostra on the other, Nino and Teresa have reopened negotiations with the State and for Nino the goal is clear: to get to the archive, at any cost. But is it really by reaching that truth that Nino will find his peace? Unfortunately, he has not yet come to terms with his new enemies who are, if that is possible, more ruthless than those of the past.