LA PORTA ROSSA 3.08

Currently listening to LPR3 soundtrack... and I can't help myself but think that it ended... For some reason I can't even explain, because really, I can't understand, this series completely took my heart. It was 2017 when it began and now... everything ended, leaving a hole in my heart even though the finale was perfect.

I can't say how much I miss and will miss Leo and everyone, because all of them were so well-written that they were like true persons and not characters... Everything was so perfect, the circle closed itself, and everything was connected by the very first season. Leo and Vanessa's connection, the fact that he was her shadow because once, long before becoming a policeman, he saved her father, allowing her to be born... and yet, being unable to save her beloved Anna from death "because it was fate" and leaving their beloved daughter an orphan... it was painful, tragical and yet, so perfect... as if it was a karmic effect.

I'm happy that Vanessa the elder got her happy ending... she needed it too, after years of searching and suffering. I like to imagine that, one day, she will join the police as well, or little Vanessa will, following in the steps of her parents. I'm happy for Diego and Stella: Diego showed a maturity I couldn't even imagine, wanting to genuinely support his Stella (and it seems to me that in the end, they decided to keep the baby) and... he cherished both Anna and Leo.

And Anna... my beautiful homonym... Anna, who was the one and only for Leo and who loved Leo because "He is the man I've always loved and that I will love forever"... I honestly couldn't imagine that she would die... I expected some kind of closure between them, yes, but not her death... and yet, she figured everything out: the way everything was connected to Leo's very first investigation. Amongst all the characters, she was definitely the smartest and the most brilliant, Anna was exactly as Leo told: "I thought you couldn't keep my pace, but the truth is that I could never keep yours". And Leo, unable to save her, unable to prevent her to cross the red door, could just share one small fragment with her, before screaming desperately about his being powerless... so, what remained to him was the hope that once crossed the red door, they would be together again... and I hope that it could happen...

I appreciate a lot that it wasn't shown: only the dead should know what it's after: we just can imagine. And the fact that Leo told us that it was his final investigation... it was great, simply.

So, farewell, Leonardo Cagliostro, you'll be missed, and with you, your wonderful and tragic story! 😭❤️❤️

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About LPR3

Here I am, able, at last, to write something about the so-waited final season of La Porta Rossa. What can I say? It was so long... I'd been waiting for ages and then, the end has come. On Wednesday, all the mysteries (I hope) will be unveiled and I can't wait for that moment to come. On another side, I love this series so much, so thinking that there won't be anything else... well... it makes me so sad. By now, even season 3 doesn't disappoint.

For starters, LPR is the story of police commissioner Leonardo Cagliostro who was KIA but was unable to cross the door (la porta rossa=the red door) which separates the world of the living from the other side. Leo chooses willingly to stay among the living because of a vision (at the end of season two he understands that those precognitions can be dangerous) in which his pregnant wife is about to be killed. Also, the first season is about his (and his former colleagues) investigation in order to find the real culprit of his murder and the mastermind behind the events.

The second season was a roller-coaster because, while Leo's powers increase, new enemies, a new case, and especially, the revelation of both Leo's past and his relationship with the culprits of the seasons, gave life to a very complex and well-written drama. The season finale was amazing too: Leo, who was ready to fulfill his promise to Anna and little Vanessa (their newborn daughter), was about to cross the red door after paying his farewell to them and to the elder Vanessa (the medium girl who helped him in both seasons) but, unexpectedly, Vanessa keeps him in the living realm by using compulsion: the season ends with Leo unable to go and the mystery revolves around his bond with Vanessa, telling us he was her shadow.

Now, three years time skip: Leo is still wandering in the living realm, keeping an eye on his family, his bad tantrum showing to the point of deciding to not speak a word anymore (even though he has the loving habit of telling his sleeping daughter stories of his past as a cop), but more of all, he doesn't want to see Vanessa because he firmly hates her for compelling him to stay. Moreover, while everybody goes on with their lives, Anna, who was supposed to overcome the loss of her husband, still thinks of him, to the point of keeping the bullet that almost killed Leo during his first investigation as a necklace pendant and being unable to truly moving on with other relationships. Leo, on his part, even if he feels some kind of betrayal, reluctantly encourages her to find love again. Also, this time, things got more and more complicated for everybody: a new threat coming from a rebellion in the city, a mysterious blackout during the night, and a fire started in the power plant, Vanessa's mother (who was the one who tried to convince Leo to help her daughter who, in the meantime, was a student of Para-Psychology) killed in a car accident during the same night.

What we know is that Vanessa learns how to control Leo, summoning him independently from his will. It results in Leo losing control of himself and believing he's going crazy. Leo also has a vision in which he himself pushes Vanessa down from a high place which is revealed to be a hot-air balloon.

So, while their roads cross again, the Police (under Diego's guidance) investigate the disorders, finding unexpected relationships between criminality and politics (hello, we're in Italy, after all), while Anna, who was about to move to Siena with little Vanessa, decides to stay and to investigate on Vanessa's mother's death.

Where are we now? Well... while Leo, understanding that the moment in which he hurts Vanessa is coming, asks her to let him go, while Diego meets a temporary dead end during a tailing and Anna suddenly finds out the truth but... she's a victim of an explosion that leaves her apparently dead. Only, before dying (her status is unknown at the moment), she tears off her necklace and keeps Leo's bullet in her hand. Now... what I think is that this season is some kind of circle closure. Anna, during her parallel investigation, reads the documents about Leo's last investigation, which was about a dr*g that was poisoning to death youngsters in Trieste. This dr*g has been made stronger during this season, so I think that there must be some kind of link between the cases, as well as the fact that the bullet could be a hint. Now... Leo said, in a flashback from season two, that the bullet was from his very first investigation when he was a rookie and it almost caught his heart. I believe that it could be Anna's desperate way to help Diego (who was about to catch up with her) to figure things out, to connect the dots, and to understand that, probably, the answer lies in Leo's past.

Also, Leo's past and his bond with Vanessa, aka the million dollars question. The opening ends with the image of both of them: Leo in the shadows, Vanessa looking away from him. I thought (and read) several theories: the one I found more hilarious is that Vanessa the elder is the older version of little Vanessa. Both are able to see him (little Vanessa sees him in the mirror, telling Anna that "Daddy is in the mirror and he looks angry"). But unless the way of the time paradox is completely ignored... well, I don't think it's the case. I also thought that older Vanessa could be Leo's first daughter, but not only he didn't know about her, nor Vanessa's mother EVER mentioned something this big. Also, she dies without even looking at him while he was desperately calling for help... Sooooo... So, I believe that the answer is in the mysterious videotape that Vanessa and her aunt haven't watched yet. It should be about Vanessa's childhood if I'm not wrong, but neither of them was ready to watch it.

Also, Leo's flashbacks (I'm so glad that this season is showing us a LOT of flashbacks) show us that Leo used to live in a children's house (because he was abandoned at birth by his mother and Rambelli, his foster mentor, father-figure, and murderer, later) in Prosecco, a quartier of Trieste known for the homonym wine and a place inhabited by a lot of Slovenian people... and, if I'm not wrong, Vanessa's family used to live in the surroundings. Now, let's do the math: Leo was born in 1986 (yeah, the best year 😁) and he died in 2017, making him 31 yo. Vanessa was... I guess 17/18 at the beginning of the first season and now, she's 21/22 yo after the time skip (they're technically still in 2020, considering the timeline). She should be 2 years old when the fire at her house burnt everything. A flashback from last week's episode shows that Leo, at 17, had spent a lot of time in a hospital, recovering from an illness.

So... 2017 - 17 = 2000. 2017 - 16/17 (it depends on Vanessa's correct age) = 2001/2000. Now... I think that, or Leo helped somehow Vanessa's family during the fire (and, considering how reckless he was and is, maybe he got caught in gunfire), or he simply met young Vanessa during the time spent at the hospital and something occurred (a blood transfusion, a transplant, something that made them linked forever). I remember that the fire at Vanessa's house was started by a vindicative ghost who was Vanessa's mother's shadow and the same ghost implied something at the end of the first season but I'm too lazy to make a rewatch... what I think is that their connection could be more a "technical" one than a mystic coincidence...

Next week, all the answers will be given! I can't wait to see it... And also... I hope that Anna and Leo will get their happy ending, somehow... 😭😭😭😭😭