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Nancy meets Tara on the plane and hears the story of how Rolf has drowned in a Venetian canal after being shot in his gondola from a fondamenta. Carson is in Venice helping his client Crystalia Glass Company negotiate to buy the Falcone glassworks. Negotiations hit a snag when Pietro, the master glassblower, is kidnapped.