Amedeo suspects the Princess due to gunshots being fired at the cat and her being experienced with firearms; after reporting this to the police, her apartment is raided and revealed to be an illegal brothel.

After no gunshot wounds are found on the cat's body, Amedeo searches the apartment of a group of musicians while Ofelia unsuccessfully tries to seduce the priest Don Pezzolla.

After finding a corpse in the trunk of the two men's car, the siblings follow them to a beachfront home owned by a male politician who was in a relationship with Salvatore, Don Garofalo's gay butler.

Don Garofalo sends an assassin to kill Wanda, who eludes him and attempts to flee the country, Amedeo follows her, and receives the incriminating tapes from her.

[2] After the difficulties experienced with Tonino Valerii and Damiano Damiani, he chose a director he fully trusted, the veteran Luigi Comencini, for whom in 1952 he had been assistant in Girls Marked Danger.