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16. Dramma Giocoso

There's high drama in the opera house when a young violinist is pushed to her death and Detectives Logan and Barek check out the arrogant conductor Reinhardt. Turns out Reinhardt also has been conducting an affair with his soprano, Gillian -- who happens to be the victim's mother. While the detectives theorize that Reinhardt actually was romancing both women, they receive jarring medical news that sheds harsh new light on the evidence.

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A young violinist, Laura Booth ( Marin Ireland ), is pushed to her death during intermission at an opera performance. Detectives Logan and Barek initially suspect the arrogant conductor Philip Reinhardt ( Julian Sands ) who has been conducting an affair with Laura's mother, soprano Gillian Booth ( Alice Krige ). While gathering evidence, the detectives discover that Gillian is in the early stage of a debilitating form of dementia. Meanwhile, she marries the maestro so she wouldn't be able to testify against him and hoping that he will care for her as she declines. However, when the detectives reveal Gillian's condition to Reinhardt, he callously rejects her and she confesses that she killed her daughter because she perceived her as a threat to her relationship with Reinhardt.

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