Excavations in 2009, 2014 and 2016, guided by eyewitness accounts and ground-penetrating radar, have turned up nothing: no bones, no clothing, no bullets. This episode moves past the empty grave to trace the full life of Federico García Lorca, born in 1898 in rural Andalusia to a sugar-boom landowner and a teacher, and obsessed first not with poetry but with the piano. We follow the grief after his conservatory teacher's death in 1916 that pushed him to write prose modeled on musical forms, and the move to Madrid's Residencia de Estudiantes, where he fell in with Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel.

We cover the 1920 theatrical disaster about a cockroach and a butterfly that was laughed off the stage after four performances, the runaway success of his Andalusian ballads and the gypsy poet label he resented, Dalí's rejection, the film he read as a ...