Rex: A Cop's Best Friend

Inspector Lorenzo Fabbri and his assistant, Morini, investigate a lead when the skeletal remains of Austrian Lukas Weber are discovered at a construction site in Rome.

Rex moves to Rome with Commissioner Lorenzo Fabbri after her first joint investigation in Vienna, and the pair are soon confronted with the murder of Gianni Bottura.

A Chinese restaurant owner is beaten up by the brutal gangster Chen when he cannot afford to pay for any protection money. His daughter Shushu manages to escape, but her uncle is shot in cold blood.

An art critic is found choked to death and there are several fingerprints left all over the crime scene, leading the detectives to a suspect.

A man brutally murders his lover after discovering she is pregnant. The situation begins to snowball when the murderer is then blackmailed by another criminal.

When little Giovanni disappears during an afternoon spent in a park, the keeper finds him disorientated after being hit by a stone, but the the sprinklers have washed away every possible clue.

The manager of a well-known restaurant is murdered and two cases of renowned and expensive wine are stolen from his cellar.

Barbara is kidnapped on her way home from school by two men who also kill her bodyguard. Since the bodyguard is an old colleague of Fabbri's, he is deeply concerned by the investigation.