'A Taste For Murder' Serves Up "The Perfect Breakfast"
As Gennaro preps the fish, he explains its colors attract mates, and protect its nest from predators – distraction display, practiced by many species. Joe looks thoughtful and comments that humans do too. “Best bloody breakfast ever,” Joe adds.
A Taste for Murder's “The Perfect Breakfast” (La colazione perfetta) opens as tensions grow within the Gennaro-Mottram family. However, most of the action in this episode takes place in a villa on Capri, where there’s a whole lot of screaming going on. A couple of women are exploring the villa’s cellars by candlelight and find a skull, which by daylight is clearly fake; they are thrilled to win complimentary tickets to Andrea Carlotti (Giuseppe Bonifati) and photographer Santino Musella’s (Rocco Fasano) gala event, dinner, and a ghost hunt.
Mottram and his daughter, Angelica, disembark from the ferry from Capri. They have, for the moment, made peace with each other; he’s learning to listen, and she’s being truthful. They have different destinations – Angelica is off to see her favorite movie, Roman Holiday, with her boyfriend Daniele, whose sleazy side is not yet obvious enough to put her off. Joe is off to the police station for a final briefing on the case in which he unofficially assisted Inspector Lara Sarrancino.
When he arrives, Martin Laxman (Peter Hamilton Dyer), of the British Consul, is hobnobbing with Lara’s boss, Commissario Curti (Pasquale Esposito). Martin is thrilled to meet Joe, who is held in high regard by the Consulate – “The pride of British policing!” Martin offers Joe a drink and has a favor to ask: his writer niece, Camilla, was to present a murder mystery event, but she's sick, and his brilliant idea is to have a real British cop replace her. It’s a paying gig, so Joe agrees. A storm blows in as Gennaro decides to close the restaurant for the night. With no work, Daria agrees to be Joe’s date; dressed up, she’s stunningly beautiful.
