06x05 - Coups.de.theatre

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{\an8}NICO: Hello.

{\an8}Hello, Astrid?
Raphaëlle isn't with you?

{\an8}- Cmdr Coste has been infected with

{\an8}Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome coronavirus 2.

{\an8}She did not respect
social distancing measures.

{\an8}- Social distancing isn't
her thing, you know? Right?

{\an8}Aren't you coming?
- Mm-mmm.

{\an8}- This is the first I've been to a
crime scene without Cmdr Coste.

{\an8}- Let me reassure you right away,
it's not a crime scene. Not yet.

{\an8}- I don't understand.
- I'll explain: we're in front

Twist of Fate

{\an8}of a couple's house-
- Yes, Mr & Mrs Davre's.

Karen Davre is a hospital
ER doctor, and Joachim Davre is

a former Olympic p*stol-sh**ting champion.

He currently heads
a major sh**ting club.

- The head of Karen Davre's
department reported her missing.

He can't imagine her abandoning
her post during this pandemic.

- Oh.
- And according to Karen's colleagues,

her relationship with her husband
has been very strained of late.

One told me she was afraid of him.

Obviously, we're imagining the worst.
- 'The worst'?

- That her husband k*lled her.
- Oh.

- Shall we?

ASTRID: All right.

- Hello, Mr Davre.
- Come in.

- Thank you.

- Thank you for coming so quickly.

I'm so worried about Karen.
Door closes

I knew she needed rest, but it's
strange, not informing her department.

- How do you know?
- She sent me a text.

- Can you show me?
- Of course.

NICO: Thanks.

NICO: 'It's too hard, I need
a few days off. Don't worry,

I'll call you this weekend. Love you.'

That was Thursday, right?
- Yes. She hasn't called,

not that weekend or since.

I tried calling her, but it
goes straight to voicemail.

DAVRE: I hope she hasn't
cracked under the pressure.

Their pace at the hospital
is crazy, it's inhuman.

- Do you still sh**t?
DAVRE: Occasionally.

Ironically, my duties at my sh**ting
club leave me with very little free time.

- Mm-mmm.

- What is it, Astrid?

- There, in the channel
of the French window.

Insistently
Mm-mmm!

- It looks like blood.
I'm calling Forensics.

RAPH: Contact or no contact,
I don't care, I'll be back tomorrow.

{\an8}- Listen, don't mess around.

Did you hear they opened a temporary
morgue in a Rungis warehouse?

NICO: Funeral homes are
completely overwhelmed.

- Where are we on the Davre case?

- Forensics analyzed the drop of blood
from the channel of the French window,

it is indeed Karen Davre's blood.

{\an9}- Her husband says
she loves tending
her flowers,

{\an9}she may have
hurt herself pruning
the roses,

{\an9}then went inside
to take care of it.

- This hypothesis cannot be ruled out.

And yet yesterday during the search,

a scarf with a large bloodstain was
found near Mr & Mrs Davre's home.

- And that could be
Karen Davre's blood too?

- Exactly.

- And what about Joachim Davre's clothes?

{\an9}- They found gunpowder
residue on a yellow

{\an9}t-shirt in the
laundry basket.

- I have to say,
it's starting to be a lot.

A husband who lies constantly,

the wife's colleagues
describe him as borderline,

a bloodstain in the house,
a bloodstained scarf,

and now: gunpowder residue.

If this were a movie
we'd already know the ending.

- Commander,

the evidence is pointing
in the same direction,

but Karen Davre's body
has not yet been found.

- Yeah...

but I'm convinced he k*lled his wife.

{\an8}Chanting 'Justice for Karen'

...Remember, it was in April 2020,

{\an4}At the Palace
of Justice

{\an6}Our lives are
being dismissed

three weeks after the
start of the first lockdown.

Karen Davre, an ER doctor, was
one of the heroes we applauded

from our windows, every day at 8 pm.
This morning many of them

crowded in front of the
courthouse as soon as it opened,

{\an7}Don't forget
where you
are from

some close to the victim, as you can see,

{\an8}Not one more.
We don't want to count our...

many came to support the cause
of violence against women,

for though Karen Davre's
body has never been found,

her husband Joachim Davre,
the main suspect in the case,

is now on the stand, on
trial for the m*rder of his wife,

and risks life imprisonment.

- If I could've taken your
place, I would have, but

you're the only one from the squad
who followed the entire investigation,

Raph had a possible exposure,
the Commissioner was sick,

and I was there
every other day.

Don't worry, the folder is all square.
- Mm-mmm. The folder is not square,

Capt Perran, it is rectangular.
And not completely accurate.

- Yes, I know Exhibits
CM2020-406 and CM2020-421

can't strictly be compared, but-
- Absolutely.

NICO: Frankly, we have a whole lot
of evidence accusing the husband.

You said it yourself:

'All the evidence points to
Joachim Davre k*lling his wife.'

He did a great job hiding the body,

but he k*lled her, huh?

He needs to go to prison.

You present the facts and answer
the questions, that's all. All right?

- Present the facts,
answer the questions. All right.

- See you soon.

Whispering

Mobile vibrates

Alarmed
[[Ah ah ah ah ah...]]

- You're next, Lt Nielsen!

MP: All right; Lt Nielsen, raise
your right hand and say 'I swear.'

- I swear.

- You have the floor to
present your investigation report.

{\an8}Exhibit

{\an8}Blood Analysis

- April 7, 2020. At the request
of Cmdr Coste, I visited

the home of Mr & Mrs Joachim Davre.

The worrying disappearance, of his wife,

Karen Davre...

had...

had been reported...

the day before.
- Is something wrong, Lt Nielsen?

- Yes.

Something's wrong.

The body of evidence
no longer agrees.

- Could you be more specific?

- An element of the investigation

has just been called into question.

An important element.

- But what?
- Madam President, this is about

an element that could call into question

the potential guilt of Joachim Davre.

{\an8}General murmuring

- Silence, please!

FOX: Are you saying
Mr Davre is innocent

in front of the victim's
grieving sister?

How dare you!

- Counselor Fox, please.
Sit down.

MP: Continue, Lt Nielsen.

- Counselor Fox, I did not
say that Mr Davre is innocent.

I said...

that one element of the
investigation, an important element,

calls into question
the potential guilt of Mr Davre.

That does not mean

that this element constitutes
proof of his innocence.

{\an8}Upset general murmuring

MP: Come back! Lt Nielsen!

Knocking

RAPH: [Oh! f*ck...]

Come in.

NORAH: Hello!

'Discreetly at my place'— is that
a work meeting or a gossip session?

- I'm going to show you something.

Look.

NORAH: What are these photos?

Where did this device come from?

- It's the camera of the guy
who was following Astrid.

- Why follow Astrid?
There are only photos of Tetsuo.

- That's exactly what I was wondering.

- And where's the guy?

- I think he ran off.

I thought I'd caught him,
but then I fell flat on my face.

I was just able to rip that away from him.

Norah, this is going to
seem strange to you, but

I'd like you to find out
more about Tetsuo.

If the guy took all these photos,
there must be a reason.

- Okay.

- Okay.
- I'll take care of it.

I'm guessing I'm not
discussing it with Astrid?

- Exactly.

The trial is bothering her enough already.

Rapid nervous tapping

Astrid? Nicolas told me,
I came as fast as I could.

What happened?

- The analysis.

The results for the blood
sample taken from the scarf.

I received the additional analysis
just before my court appearance.

The first had read 'SARS-CoV-2 negative,'

This one reads 'SARS-CoV-2 positive.'

Covid has an incubation
period of 3 to 5 days,

which means that the blood
collected from the headscarf

is older than the one
collected from the channel.

- The bloodstained scarf
was placed there later?

- Yes.

- Is Joachim Davre the
victim of a staged crime scene?

- It's possible.
- [[Oh f*ck, I don't believe it.]]

- And if Mr Davre was
set up with a fake crime scene,

it could mean he is innocent.

The file wasn't completely accurate;
a file must be completely accurate.

Your cane.
Raphaëlle, you've forgotten your cane.

- No, the physiotherapist
told me I don't need it anymore.

- It's in cases like this that
a Commissioner is useful, huh?

- Mm-hmm.
When's the new one arriving?

- In a few days.

- You said that 22 days ago, Lt Mansour.

What is the range of days that
can be considered 'a few days'?

- I don't know, Astrid.
- Oh.

- Well, we have
two solutions:

remain silent about
this new element-

{\an3}- Mm-mmm. [font color="#4a4a4a"].

and let this
trial continue—

{\an3}Mm-mmm. [font color="#4a4a4a"].

—undoubtedly leading
to Joachim Davre
being implicated-

{\an3}- Mm-mmm. [font color="#4a4a4a"].

[font color="#4a4a4a"]. - Yes, Astrid?

{\an3}- Failing to inform the
court of this new element

{\an3}would be a major ethical
breach of the highest order.

- Or, go see the
tribunal president,

which amounts to
handing the defense

an element that could
exonerate Joachim Davre.

{\an3}- There it is. [font color="#4a4a4a"].

- We have no choice, we need to

inform the tribunal president
so that she can adjourn the trial.

In the meantime, we reopen the
investigation and prove his guilt.

- If he's truly guilty.
RAPH: If he's truly guilty.

- I'm sorry Capt Perran,
but I can't postpone this trial.

- But Mdm President, you must admit
this warrants further investigation.

Indeed, but it was obtained
outside the investigation deadlines,

it's inadmissible.

However, as required by
the Code of Criminal Procedure,

I must notify the parties
of this new element.

- Yes. Article 114 of the
Code of Criminal Procedure.

MP: Exactly.
- Yes.

- But Mdm President,
disclosing this element

will give the defense
the benefit of the doubt.

- Absolutely. Come on, we'll resume
the hearing with you, Lt Nielsen.

Anxiously
- [Ah ah ah ah.]

- It's going to be okay, Astrid. Coming?
Bell rings

- In pro-active policing,

the points I have just presented may have
led you to consider Mr Joachim Davre

as being the prime suspect in the
m*rder of his wife Karen Davre.

RAVEN: Tell me, Lt Nielsen,
you just used the past tense,

you said 'may have led.'

- I was just about to
get to that, Mr Raven.

Lt Nielsen and Capt Perran
brought me a document earlier

that I consider inadmissible.

It was an analysis concerning
document CM 2020-421,

which the bailiff
will distribute to you.

- Thank you for this document
and your impressive judgement,
it's obviously inadmissible.

- Absolutely, it was obtained
outside the investigation deadlines.

It cannot be considered proof at all.

- Lt Nielsen.
- Yes.

- If I understand correctly,
what this document expresses

is that these additional analyses
could suggest that the scarf

was placed near the
crime scene after the fact?

- That is not what this document
expresses, it is what it implies.

- If you don't mind, Lt Nielsen, I have
an important question to ask you.

Have you ever heard
of the 'tunnel effect'?

- Yes.
- Very good, and

can you explain what this is?

- The tunnel effect occurs when a
criminal investigation

focuses too exclusively on a
lead, a hypothesis, or a suspect,

to the detriment of other
possible perspectives.

- That's it exactly, yes.
A focus that can lead

to the disregarding of clues, evidence,

or alternative leads. Furthermore,
did the Crime Squad's investigation

ever consider any hypothesis other than

my client being guilty?

- A body of converging
evidence quickly pointed

to Mr Davre as being the prime suspect.
RAVEN: Yes, a body of evidence.

Let's talk about this body of evidence.

Traces of gunpowder on a t-shirt of a man

who heads a major sh**ting club.

Do you find that convincing, Lt Nielsen?

- Counselor Raven,
a body of converging evidence

essentially comprises several indicators.

Traces of gunpowder on his
t-shirt is just one of the elements

which pointed towards Mr Davre.

- You're not answering
my question, Lt Nielsen.

The gunpowder on his t-shirt:
does it constitute proof?

- Traces of gunpowder on
his t-shirt do not constitute proof.

They constitute an indicator.

Moreover, Mr Joachim Davre stated
that he only shoots very occasionally.

And at the time of the
events, Mr Davre was,

like all French citizens,
confined since March 17, 2020.

- Yes, March 17th.
- Yes.

- Yes. But who's to say my
client didn't sh**t on March 16th,

when it was still allowed?
And he told us he forgot his t-shirt

in his sports bag, only putting it in
the laundry around April 5th or 6th.

Need I remind you

of the state of shock
into which the pandemic,

and announcement of
the lockdown, plunged us?

Furthermore, the
investigation report highlights

my client's apparent lack of concern

for his wife during the interrogations,
even though we were all wearing masks.

How, Lt Nielsen, can you possibly
perceive the slightest emotion

on the face of someone
wearing a mask?

RAVEN: During Covid, the whole society

was adrift. Moreover, Lt Nielsen,

at that time, you weren't a police officer?

- Mm-mmm.

I was a Document Resource
Manager in Criminal Documentation.

- Let us note that during
Covid, that uncertain period,

the police sent their documentalists
to crime scenes.

- I was already collaborating
with Cmdr Coste before lockdown,

with the official agreement
of Cmsr Bachert.

- But you were collaborating
as an observer.

And yet, it is you who are here today,

and it is you delivering
the criminal investigation report to us.

Because, at the time, no officer from
the Judicial Police Crime Squad

followed the entire case—

- Counselor Raven-

- Yes Madam President, I'm almost finished—

—not to mention that during
the Crime Squad's investigation,

Karen Davre's body was not found

and, without a body,

all possibilities remain open.

Like, that of a voluntary
disappearance by Mrs Davre,

and making my client take the blame.

I'm finished, Madam President.

- What I'm sure of is that Raven has
completely turned the jurors' heads.

- Well, we need to reopen
the investigation, hmm?

- The judge refused on the
day of the trial, we can't reopen it.

- We need to reopen it
just between us, I mean.

Off the record. We'll go over
all the elements together;

on the sly.
NORAH: I'm in.

- Ah!

- If it puts a piece of trash in jail.
- Very good. And you, Nico?

- The Commissioner
wouldn't have gone for it.

- Yes, but we would've done it
anyway. We'd get yelled at, but...

We would've done what seemed right.

Well, anyway, with no commissioner
I'm the one who decides.

- Okay.

- So let's go over all
the elements again, Nico.

When the hearing resumes
tomorrow, you'll go back.

If you hear anything that might lead
us to something, call me, all right?

That how we'll do it?
That's how we'll do it.

Knocking

Coming!

Oh, Norah, come on in.
So, what did you find?

NORAH: Tanaka.
- Yeah?

NORAH: Not his real name.
- What do you mean, 'not his real name'?

- It's not his real name.
His papers are fake.

His name is Tetsuo Hoshida,

he's from one of the
richest families in Japan.

- Wait, I don't understand.
Why would he change his identity?

- I don't know about that.

All I can say is his family reported
him missing seven years ago.

- Oh f*ck, sh*t.

[font color="#4a4a4a"]. Hm-hmm!

TETSUO: Good game, Astrid.

- Thank you.

I won.
- Yes, you won.

ASTRID: Yes.

- Otherwise, I was wondering...

Is Tetsuo's family nice?

- I only know his uncle, Apu Tanaka.

- Oh yes?
And his parents?

Not even via video call?
- Mm-mmm.

- Okay. But they were invited
to the wedding, weren't they?

- They were not on Tetsuo's guest list.
- Oh.

Um... Didn't that intrigue you?
- Mm-mmm.

Raphaëlle-
- Hmm?

- Why should that
have intrigued me?

- I don't know.
But I would've been curious.

Mobile vibrates

. . .

Yes, Nico?

- Well Raph, listen, this
doesn't look good for the plaintiff.

Joachim Davre is described
as a perfect, upright guy.

who fought against
sexism in his sh**ting club.

There was Karen's colleague, who
acknowledged that Karen's mood change

was perhaps due more to the Covid crisis
than to her relationship with her husband.

And then Raven, Davre's lawyer,

went to great lengths
to influence the jury.

He spoke of ICUs being
completely overwhelmed,

patients dying en masse.
He even recalled

the Rungis Temporary Morgue. Remember that?

- Yeah, I remember.

- The Rungis Temporary Morgue! Hm-hmm!

- Astrid?

Wait Nico, I'll call you back.

Astrid? Astrid?

Astrid?
- Yes?

- Ah! Are you all right?

- In May 2020, a case was
opened following the discovery

of five unidentified bodies at
the Rungis Temporary Morgue.

The case was closed
without further action.

You're in your socks.

- It so happens. And you as well.

- The shoes remained in the Paper Room.

- Astrid, it's crazy, everything matches!

The date the body arrived in Rungis,

physical description, age, everything.

There it is. We finally know where
Joachim Davre hid his wife's body.

- According to the file,
the body came from

the hospital where
Karen Davre worked.

- How do we know that?

- Your desk is very tidy. Hm-hmm.

- Thank you.
- It's thanks to the number

on the body bag.
NORAH: Hold on, let me recap:

Davre kills his wife,

hides her in a body bag,
and drops it off at the morgue.

This is during Covid, everyone's
covered from head to toe,

he can easily move around a
hospital without being recognized.

And from there, overnight,
she's transferred to Rungis.

You have to admit,
the guy's a genius.

- I'm not sure that 'genius' is the
appropriate term, Lt Mansour.

- No, he wasn't a genius
to k*ll his wife, but he was clever.

- Well, I hope the administrator of the
Rungis morgue may be able to tell us more.

And where's Raph?

- I don't know. She simply said she
had something important to do,

and that we're more qualified than she to

interview the administrator of
the Rungis Temporary Morgue.

- Okay. Well, shall we go?

- [[Ah ah ah!]]

- Hello, Raphaëlle!

Everything all right?

- Mr Hoshida.

We need to talk, Tetsuo.

- So, you know.
- Yeah, I know, yes.

I know that you're the heir
to a prominent Japanese family,

but not why you changed your identity.

- I'll explain everything to you, Rapha-
- No no no no.

I'm not the one you need
to explain it to, don't you think?

ADMIN: It might
be our daily life, but

I won't hide from
you that this episode

was a real trauma
for the entire corporation.

A cold storage warehouse
in Rungis, can you imagine?

Families were being welcomed
where, just a few weeks earlier,

there had been stalls
selling meat and bananas.

- All right. Can you tell us anything
about the unidentified body

registered ID-R2020-0413-73
found in your premises?

- Uh, yes, um...
- There.

- 'Female subject, unidentified.'
- We know that already.

- 'Cremated on April 16, 2020.'

- Yes, it's written there.

- That's all.

NICO: What do you mean 'that's all'?

The Forensics team
didn't come to take photos?

- They were supposed to,
but no one ever came.

On our side of the street,
instructions were extremely strict:

Cremation within three
days of a body being deposited.

- Mr Rungis Temporary
Morgue Administrator,

did you keep any identifying documents?

- Of course, we did our job.
- Hm-hmm.

- A bone sample was taken,
as the protocol required,

and we passed it on
to Forensic Identification.

Uh, I suppose your colleagues did
what was necessary in their turn?

Coughs uncomfortably
- Thank you, sir.

- You're welcome.

- So?
- Forensic Identification is about to send

the DNA comparison between

Karen Davre and the unidentified
body found in Rungis. Notification

- I have it.

f*ck, a match!

- Yes, but only 50%. What does that mean?
Partial match

- It means that these
two people share family DNA.

RAPH: Hello, you've reached
Cmdr Coste's voicemail.

Please leave me a
message after the "beep."

- Raph, call me back, it's urgent.

We can't wait. Can you
come with me, Astrid?

- Yes.

- Get your things.
- Yes.

- So if we refer to your
testimony in the police report,

you claim not to have heard any shots.

- You can't interrupt a hearing.
- [Don't worry, I know what I'm doing.]

- ...and when I hear-
- Madam President!

- Capt Perran, what are you doing?

- I'm interrupting the hearing, Mdm President.
- For what reason?

- Because this woman
is not Karen Davre's sister!

This woman, Madam President,
is Karen Davre!

- No, that's wrong.
- That's wrong! That's wrong!

MP: Silence!

- Wait— you just walked
into the court like that,

interrupting the presiding
judge and lawyers?

- Yeah.
- Yes, he interrupted the hearing.

- Yeah, well, I thought that's
what needed to be done, so...

- In any case, I wouldn't
have done it any other way.

So, if I understand correctly,

we were searching for Karen Davre's body

while Karen Davre was at the trial, right?
- Mm-hmm.

- Right before our eyes.

And how did you figure it out?

- The DNA,
- Yeah, the DNA

from the body found in Rungis
matched that of Karen Davre,

but only at 50%.

Fifty percent is the genetic
heritage you share

with your father or mother.

Or a brother or sister.

- Yeah. True, they look alike;

the eyes, the mouth.

- Mm-mmm. In this photo, Karen Davre
has an increased auriculocephalic angle.

- Uh- what?
- It means she has protruding ears.

- Oh yeah, that's right, okay.

RAPH: So she had work done?
- Yeah, yeah,

Karen Davre underwent several
operations to look like her sister,

between May 12, 2020, end of
the first lockdown, and October 30

the beginning of the second.
She had profiloplasty, otoplasty...

- What are they?
- Profiloplasty is a non-surgical

aesthetic medical technique, aimed
at harmonizing a patient's profile

by reshaping your face or part of
it with hyaluronic acid injections—

—you should know what
we're talking about Cmdr Coste.

- No idea what
you mean, Astrid.

- Otoplasty, on the other hand, is a
technique used to pin back the ears.

- All right.
- After that, she moved

so as not to be recognized.

- Mmm. So it was easy
to take over her sister's job

since she was also a translator—

—English medical texts to French, at home.

- Divorced for six years, with no children.

- Was she living alone?
- No, with her mother,

who's since passed away, but at the time

was suffering from
advanced stage Alzheimer's.

But when you have the perfect hideout...

- But why take her sister's
place? That's what I don't get.

Leaving a job she
loved, friends, a husband.

It's strange to want to live
in seclusion like that, isn't it?

- There must be a good reason

for enduring that kind of sacrifice.
- Mmm.

COP: Cmdr Coste?
- Mm-hmm?

- Karen Davre has arrived.
- Mmm. Thanks.

Well, you'll tell me about it, Captain?

- Fine, Commander.

- You called him 'captain,' hm-hmm.
- Mm-hmm. Hmm.

- Ms Davre, I need to understand.

Did you leave off your sister's
body at the Rungis morgue?

Why? To hide her body
because you k*lled her?

- I didn't k*ll my sister.

I would never have done such
a thing, we adored each other.

My sister was already dead
when I got to her house.

- 'Already dead'?

- I'd decided to stop by her place
after work, after leaving the hospital.

I knew she had caught Covid
and now... she wasn't responding.

I was worried.

When I got there,
I knew immediately when I saw her.

She must've been dead from respiratory
distress for at least 24 hours.

I arrived too late.

My mother probably didn't even
understand what had happened.

- I don't understand why you didn't
notify funeral services or the police.

- I was lost!

All that mattered to me then
was taking care of my mother.

So, I rushed home,
and got a few things.

- And you didn't tell your husband?

- When I got there
he was already very drunk.

He saw me packing my bag
and thought I was leaving him.

KAREN:
I'd been afraid of him for some time now,

I didn't want to talk to him.

And then...

Sighs tensely

NICO: He shot at you?

- Yeah.

Fortunately, no vital organs were affected.

I blacked out.

When I woke up,

night was falling.

I was lying in the woods. I was in pain.

Moans, gasps

Joachim must have left
me there, thinking I was dead.

And then I turned my head.

I saw him next to his car.
He was taking out some tools.

I realized he was going to bury me.

I got up and rushed straight ahead.

Gasping

When he saw I was
no longer there, I heard g*nshots.

Shot

- And then?

- And then I went to my sister's
house, and I took care of myself.

- And you stole her identity,

and a few days later
made her body disappear.

You placed a scarf with
your blood on it near the house.

so your husband would
be accused of m*rder.

- But he k*lled me!

- Why didn't you call the police, Karen?

- Because he would've
k*lled me for good, like the other one.

I was terrified at the idea,
and then he threatened

to go after my mother, and my sister-
- Hold on,

what 'other one'?

- Before firing he yelled,
'No one leaves me,

you're gonna end up like that b*tch Coco!'

- I don't know what to think anymore.

And her story is amazing.

- Sweetie- Uh, 'Nico'-

what does your gut tell you?
- She's sincere. I want to believe her.

- Hmmp.

- Okay, so that means
Joachim Davre k*lled a woman

before meeting Karen Davre.
We have to find her.

- Except we only have the diminutive
of the woman's first name: Coco.

I've gone through all the transcripts
of the interviews with Joachim's relatives,

I found no trace of a woman
whose first name fits with 'Coco.'

- The same goes for his socials.

- What does that mean, we're stuck?
ASTRID: Mm-mmm.

We're not stuck. Hm-hmm.
- Oh,

you have something in mind, Astrid?

- We searched for clues along the
wrong axis, that's why we were stuck.

- What's a 'wrong axis'?
- We looked for a woman

in Joachim Davre's circle
whose first name could

correspond to the diminutive 'Coco'-
- Mm-hmm.

- ...and that he allegedly k*lled her,
according to Karen Davre's testimony.

So if Karen Davre's testimony is valid,

that means this woman must have been
declared either deceased or missing.

- Ah, so we could
start with deceased

or missing persons whose
first name might match,

then target Davre's
circle of acquaintances.

We've actually been looking
in the opposite direction.

- Absolutely. You, you
move around a lot.

- Yeah, sorry.

- To narrow the search,
I assumed that this woman

died or disappeared in Ile-de-France.

Great.
- Hm-hmm.

By cross-referencing
Criminal Documentation files

and Missing Persons
files for the last 15 years,

I found three Corinnes and two Colettes.

Two of these deaths were
unambiguously attributed to perpetrators.

Another death was
ultimately ruled accidental.

- Those ones, hup.
Whistles

- Absolutely.
Whistles

I excluded those three persons.

As for the other two persons,

these are 'worrying disappearances':

Corinne Ginet and Colette Blangevin.

I found two Cocos.

- So, the first Coco...

Colette Blangevin, born in 1950.

That doesn't seem to fit.

- Here's something that fits better.

Corinne Ginet, Canadian, 25,
living in France starting in 2015,

and dropped of the
radar after five months.

I think we've found our Coco.

- Hm-hmm!

- I found Corinne
Ginet's BFF on Facebook.

- Well?
- I contacted her.

- BFF? I'm not familiar
with that acronym.

- "Best Friend Forever."

That means she's her best friend,
kind of like you and I, you're my BFF.

- I'm your BFF. Hm-hmm!

You too are my "Best Friend Forever."

- Corinne Ginet told her at
dinner that she was madly in love,

but she doesn't know any
more about the guy's identity.

However, the only info she has

is that he lives in the
countryside near Paris.

- It fits, but it won't be
enough to justify police custody.

- I knew I had seen something,
but without knowing what.

She has it. Hm-hmm!

Search

Sir?

- Yes?

- Social distancing.

There.

Under the shelf. There, yes.

Hm-hmm!

- So, what's this all about now?

- An earring was found in your
basement during our search in 2020,

and which belongs to Corinne Ginet.

NICO: We suspect you of having
k*lled Corinne Ginet, Mr Davre.

- I think this whole thing is starting to
look suspiciously like police harassment.

Is this supposed to prove something?

A manufactured product issued
in tens of thousands of copies.

- You know, when a foreigner
disappears in the country,

protocol dictates that the
judicial police record their DNA,

to be able to compare it to
unidentified bodies that could be found.

- And Corinne Ginet's
DNA matches this earring.

RAPH:
Do you still deny knowing her, Mr Davre?

RAVEN: I recommend silence.

Otherwise, Commander,
do you have the body of Corinne Ginet?

Or are you pulling the
fake death trick on me again?

- According to Karen Davre, her husband

left her in the industrial park
while he went for his tools.

- Think he could've hidden
Corinne's body there too?

- It's a hypothesis.

But where?

- There's a cemetery there.

- That's seriously super twisted, though.

- Shall we go with a team?

RAPH: Okay.

NORAH: They managed to
do it, the team at the cemetery?

Was this earring on a corpse?

RAPH: Exactly, a corpse
in the Davre family vault.

- And that's where Joachim Davre
disposed of Corinne Ginet's body.

- And it's also where he
planned to dispose of his wife's body.

Courtrooms

- ...of course, we're not here
to try the Corinne Ginet case.

This m*rder will be the
subject of a new investigation,

in which Mr Davre has
been formally charged.

However, I would like to
bring up this case again,

because it allows us to understand
what Joachim Davre is capable of.

So yes, I say it loud and clear:

This man clearly tried to k*ll his wife.

I'm done, Madam President.

- Counselor Raven, you have the floor.

- Karen Davre accuses her
husband of attempted homicide, but—

—how can we give any
credence to a woman who lied,

who lied to the police,

who lied to justice, and who even
went so far as to impersonate her sister,

without declaring her death?

I ask you.

- After five days of debate
full of twists and turns, it's official:

Joachim Davre was found guilty of
the attempted m*rder of his wife Karen.

I'll remind you that
attempted homicide

is punished to the same
extent as homicide itself.

And Joachim Davre is now implicated
in the m*rder of Corinne Ginet,

and is the subject
of another investigation.

- Of course, he wasn't tried
for his wife's m*rder, he was tried for

attempted voluntary manslaughter.
He got 20 years, 13 mandatory.

- Yes, as if he had k*lled her.
- Yes,

"voluntas pro facto":
intentionality applies to the act.

- He'll also be tried for
Corinne Ginet's m*rder.

- And Karen Davre?

- She'll be tried too, for identity
theft and concealing a corpse.

But in my opinion she'll benefit
from mitigating circumstances.

- Yes.

- Well, I wanted to congratulate you two,

You did a really great job.
- Thanks.

- Without you, Joachim Davre
would've been released,

and we wouldn't have
justice for Corinne Ginet.

- I have to leave. I don't want to be late,

Tetsuo should arrive
at my place in 57 minutes.

RAPH: Astrid?

If you need me, I'm here.

- Why would I need you?

- Nothing.
ASTRID: Ah.

- Goodbye.
NICO: Goodbye.

Knock

- Good evening, Tetsuo.
- Good evening, Astrid.

- I've prepared your bed
on the sofa, as planned.

- Astrid,

I have something important to tell you.

- Oh. All right.

- There's something I've
needed to tell you for a long time.

My name is not Tetsuo Tanaka.

My real name is Tetsuo Hoshida.

My father was the head of
an industrial empire in Japan.

In my capacity as eldest son,

I was supposed to take over
from him as head of his company.

But, I never recognized
myself in that role.

Especially since my father ran
his company without any humanity,

crushing its employees under pressure.

To reject this legacy,

would have been perceived
as a huge dishonor.

And talking to my father was...

So, seven years ago,

I preferred to disappear.

To evaporate.

I am a "jouhatsu".*
* Purposely vanished

A company helped me disappear.

They put me in touch
with Apu Tanaka in France.

Apu took me under his wing.

He became like an uncle to me.

And I ended up taking his name.

And that's when... I met you.

I wanted to tell you, Astrid.

I've wanted to do it so many times.

And then...

I'm sorry I lied to you, Astrid.

I hope you don't hold it against me.

- Mr Hoshida, I can't blame you,
since I don't know you.

- Astrid, I am the one you met.

I am Tetsuo Tanaka.
- Mm-mmm,

you just said,
Tetsuo Tanaka does not exist.

You are Tetsuo Hoshida,
and I do not know Tetsuo Hoshida.

I think it would be appropriate for you
to leave my apartment, Mr Hoshida.

Now.

Now.