'A Taste for Murder' Episode 4 Has Too Many Ingredients
Lara: Your wife is dead. She's gone, and I'm sorry for you. You can't stop living. You can't put every bad man behind bars, Joe, and even if we could, it won't bring her back.
A Taste for Murder continues with what is, unfortunately, a less-than-satisfying episode: we have the local Mafia, a diving accident that could be murder, and Inspector Lara Sarrancino giving Joe a lesson on the wild side. Even this week’s dish, Arancini Coccanti (Crunchy Fried Risotto Balls), isn’t really connected to the case, which begins when a marine archaeologist from Florida, hunting for a prehistoric wreck, turns up dead.
Joe seems to have remembered he’s on holiday, and is relaxing with his daughter Angelica on sous-chef Luca’s boat. As they approach the dock, Joe sees Gianni and heads over to find out what’s going on. Angelica complains to Luca about her dad’s bloodhound tendencies; he’s sympathetic, but reminds Angelica that her dad got him out of a lot of trouble recently.
The lead researcher, Sadie Mayweather (Kosha Engler), is the wife of the now late Nick Mayweather (James Anderson). She was supposed to dive with Luisa Zenati-Hughes (Kaisa Hammarlund), but Luisa waffled, leading Nick to take her spot. At the last minute, however, Sadie gave up her tanks when Luisa changed her mind, only to turn around and find Nick dead. Leo Hughes (Fred Pearce), Luisa’s stepson, pulled him out. Lara insists most drownings at sea are accidents, but Joe finds that Nick ran a cryptocurrency business, which resulted in massive losses. Lara agrees to look at the postmortem, as she rolls her eyes, and Gianni smiles.
