Lopez's death has left an unfillable void in the Spaccanapoli police station. While waiting for a new manager to arrive, command is temporarily entrusted to Ciccone who, from the start, feels burdened with too much responsibility. Sciacca and Battiston investigate the death of a businessman from the upper class of Naples. In the elegant shop where the man was killed, a pair of women's sunglasses are found: could it be a crime of passion? The victim's wife, outraged, rules out that her husband could have had a lover and firmly believes that it was a robbery. Yet the takings have not been touched. The two policemen have no choice but to find the owner of the mysterious glasses. A nativity scene shop is robbed. The owner, instead of going to the police, asks for help from the new neighborhood boss, Michele Malinconico. A passerby who witnessed the theft alerts the police at the Spaccanapoli police station.