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8.3/1090 votesLoading...#3 - Episode 6
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/19/1984
Cattani tries to settle the score with his enemies.
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8.2/1093 votesLoading...#6 - Episode 4
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/13/1989
Cattani sets a trap for some of the key mafia players, resulting in the kidnapping of his only daughter.
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8.2/1091 votesLoading...#7 - Episode 5
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/19/1989
Cattani hides the truth about his daughters disappearance from his wife and colleagues while at the same time fighting opposition in his work place.
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8.2/1065 votesLoading...#8 - Destiny
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 1/27/1986
Cattani's takes one year leave without pay from his desk job at the Intelligence Services, and then destiny presents him with a couple of revenge opportunities against the tandem of corrupt politicians and mafia expatriates, again at heavy personal cost.
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8.2/1071 votesLoading...#9 - Good and Evil
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 4/5/1987
After the mafia killed his family, and a number of people who trusted him, Cattani sees a couple of criminals condemned to light sentences only. A DEA team brings him back from the mountain retreat with good monks, to the evil world of a drugs-for-arms deal. Solace comes in the form of new affections for a banker's daughters, who look like his lost wife and daughter.
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8.1/10115 votesLoading...#13 - Episode 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/11/1984
Corrado Cattani replaces the murdered Palermo chief of police Marineo.
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8.1/10104 votesLoading...#14 - Episode 2
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/6/1989
Cattani discovers what happened the night Marineo was murdered, but the information is dangerous.
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8.1/1096 votesLoading...#15 - Episode 3
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/12/1989
Cattani focuses his investigation on rich business men, while his private life is getting more and more difficult.
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8.1/1070 votesLoading...#16 - Paola
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/12/1986
Police Inspector Cattani fights a losing battle to save his loved daughter's sanity, after what she suffered (see "La Piovra", original mini-series). He loses her, and his only trusted magistrate in the fight against The Octopus.
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8.1/1069 votesLoading...#17 - Friends in Common
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/1986
Cattani is approached by the Number 2 of his best friend in Rome to conspire against him, and ends up fighting for his life in prison, against thugs who are friends of his worst enemy. Cattani must swallow his pride, and recurs to the lustful Contessa who has other friends in common.
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8.0/1070 votesLoading...#20 - Vengeance
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 1/20/1986
It leaves an acrid taste in Cattani's mouth, as he loses yet another important ally, and severes his ties with the beautiful Contessa, when he wakes up fire in enemy ground.
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8.0/1069 votesLoading...#21 - Criminal Ambition
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 1/26/1986
Cattani's major achievement so far leaves him without friends in Rome; his former teacher explains between whiskeys how easy it is for an intelligent man to fall into criminal ambition.
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8.0/1064 votesLoading...#22 - To the South Again
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 4/20/1987
Cattani meets Giulia again at her mother's funeral, and research and luck bring him up North to Rome, in order to discover the way to the South again, from where a ship will depart with an illegal arms cargo.
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8.0/1066 votesLoading...#23 - Episode 7
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 4/13/1987
Giulia reconciles with her grandfather Nicola, and her second meeting with chief inspector Corrado Cattani is yet a probe for his loyalty to duty. One man ends a life of power tragically; the other hangs desperately to life because, as Giulia says, "He lost; and quite a lot!"
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7.9/1064 votesLoading...#25 - Massacre
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 4/19/1987
Anna Antinari gets hold of documents that are essential for the arms deal, and trusts her life and that of her child daughter Greta to the good monks who were already hosting Cattani. For the mafia in liaison with a member of parliament, monastery walls are no protection against a new massacre.
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The Best Episodes of The Octopus
Every episode of The Octopus ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Octopus!
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Best Episodes Summary
"Episode 6" is the best rated episode of "The Octopus". It scored 8.7/10 based on 71 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/20/1989. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Episode 1".