When we learned that Terence Hill was leaving Don Matteo we figured out how the writers would have undertaken to justify the farewell. The hypothesis of death rejected – we are not a DOC -, the door remained open for the transfer to another location or, in a more extreme way, the loss of vocation, but we never expected an exit like the one that aired on Thursday 21 April, when Don Matteo, after having a last look at the crucifix placed on the altar, is forcibly dragged into a car that whizzes through the streets of Spoleto swallowed by the darkness of the night, a bit like a Batmobile snaking among the Gotham City tunnels.
We know nothing of this alleged kidnapping, since in the course of the fourth episode of the fiction no clue is launched, however the bitterness of the spectators who are confronted with this farewell is great. Above all because it does not seem in any way to do justice either to Hill’s trial or to the same disposition of Don Matteo, the same parish priest who, during the eleventh season, he cycled so fast to Spoleto that he intercepted the car of a criminal who was trying to escape. To tell us something more about this extremely hasty leave are the first frames of the fifth episode, the one that sees the entrance on the scene of the new parish priest, Don Massimo, played by Raoul Bova.
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Judging from the first pictures, it seems, in fact, that Don Massimo arrived in Spoleto precisely by the will of Don Matteowho nevertheless allegedly kept silent from Natalina, Cecchini – during the fourth episode, at one point she tenderly tells him that she has learned from his closeness what it means to have a friend – the reasons for his absence. Don Massimo and Don Matteo know each other, they talk to each other, but, nevertheless, the former is bound to keep the secret and not to share it with the others until the character of Terence Hill gives him the green light. Waiting to find out what the writers have come up with, it seems evident that this ending was thinking precisely to confuse the viewer and, at this point, we can say that they have succeeded in a great way.
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