04x05 - L'effet râteau

[bunniefuu]

MORGANE GROANS

I don't fit into anything
anymore! See this, my favorite?

It's not even worth putting on anymore-
AFIDA: Ooooh!

- Hey! No, but- Okay!
BITTER LAUGH

- Stretchy. I dunno, what do
the boys think? Is it my color?

ELIOTT: Yeah, not bad!
LUDO: Not bad.

ELIOTT: I like it,
I like the color.

- Oh yeah?
LUDO: It's nice.

AFIDA: 'Not bad'?
THEA: Woo-hoo?

- The truth? It looks
vulgar on you. Sorry!

No no no no! There's no more
bread? I bought it yesterday,

are you kidding me?
- (No, she understands everything.)

(She also took your nail polish
and false eyelashes too.)

I've had it!

The cup is full, huh?

You've been squatting
at my home for 6 weeks now.

Well it's high time you went, I'll explain—

ELECTRICITY BUZZES

ELECTRICAL SHORT

ECHOING
DAPHNE: Karmic payback!

Karmic payback!

OVERLAPPING
Karma! Karma!

—take your stuff and...

and move into Eliott's room!

- Huh?
MORGANE: Yes, yes!

Ha ha! And your bed is much better!

- Yeah but-
- Well, Afida is our guest,

and she's going to end
up breaking her back

on that shitty bed,
huh? So we're going to...

PIGEON COOING

GILLES: So get moving!

He'll be here in a minute!

Everything has to
be perfect! Perfect!

- Well thanks for the phone
call on Saturday morning, huh?

If people could avoid getting
k*lled on the weekend, it'd suit me.

- Morgane, that's not at all
an outfit for a crime scene.

- No, don't you start,
I look good in it.

- No, but really, you're late-

- I look good in it!
- All right, but get dressed,

he'll be here in a
minute for his big return!

Please!
OFFICER1: Hello, Commander.

ADAM: Hello; hello.
OFFICER2: Hello.

- Ah! Commander!

- Ah! Commander!- Gilles.

GILLES: Welcome back!
ADAM: Thank you.

Hello, Morgane.

- Hello.

- Well, there you go, happy?

SCOFFS
This ugly bump...

. . .

Meh!

She's not showing anything,
well hidden, there you go!

- Gee...

I have the impression
someone did a CloClo* here.

* REF TO A SINGER WHO
WAS ELECTROCUTED

- Cathy Barriot, 50. In-home
hairdresser, no husband, a daughter.

A neighbor found her like this.
- Cause of death?

- Dr Benzaoui says the cause was
electrocution from one of her hair dryers.

- Mmm.

Uh, okay... ba*ls
underfoot on the floor,

what do we think about
an accident as a theory?

- Oh, oh no! Are you serious, an accident?

Well it's anything but an
accident, looking at the ba*ls!

They're all more or less the
same distance from each other.

Oh, you're going to tell me, 'Well,
they might've got like that by chance

when the jar broke and messed her up.'

No!

LAUGHS
No, you're talking yourselves

into a rake here!

Fine, so... you have a rake.

A cognitive bias makes us tend to
exaggerate the regularity of chance, OK?

ADAM: Yes.
- Example! Example, uh...

If you flip a coin 100 times in a row.

TAILS

HEADS

TAILS

Right, you tell yourself that
you're going to land on tails,

HEADS

TAILS

HEADS

TAILS

with more or less the same
regularity as the points of a rake:

Tails - heads - tails - heads - tails - heads!

Yeah— no way! Not at all,
because in fact, in real life,

chance is much messier
than that. So yes, on average,

you'll land on tails as
many times as on heads.

but the distribution of
results is not at all the same!

It looks more like this.

Okay? So it's the
same for the little ba*ls.

Oh, ,well here: Jean-Claude,
pass me the jar there.

That's it. Thanks.
- No, you-

So, if it they spread out by
chance, they'd look more like this.

MORGANE: There!

So, someone put the ba*ls like that

to make us believe it was an accident.

So, she was bumped off.

Come on, to work!

- See Commander? Morgane hasn't changed!

- A little bit, anyway.

HIGH INTELLECTUAL POTENTIAL

RAKE EFFECT

WOMAN:
Here's our Giant menu!

- Thank you.

- Thanks!

Sorry, I know you were
looking forward to

seeing the young chick,
but I've become too much lady.

- No worries.

- Apart from that— you?

Leaving Financial is all right?
- Mm-hmm.

- No, because... you haven't
told me much new lately.

- No.

- But you...

You still remember,

you know, our last conversation?

About the fact that I'm pregnant, and that-

- Oh yes, your little joke
about babies, very good, yes,

very funny! I nearly
believed it for 5 seconds!

Except I remembered:
we never slept together.

- Yeah, no, Karadec—

—actually, that's understandable,

you don't remember
because we were on LSD.

- Oh, well obviously that
day was just a lot of noise.

And, it was April 1st that day-

- I wasn't joking, Karadec, all right?

I don't believe it,
you don't remember anything?

We both danced!

We caressed trees!
We spun each other around!

No? Nothing?

- Wait, it's coming back to me—

—yes! We slept together.
HE CHUCKLES

- Of course!

- You were kissing a unicorn
that was with us, and we

rode it over a rainbow!
- Here's the rest of it!

- Thanks for everything.
- Thank you!

BOTH: Have a good day, goodbye!

RELIEVED
Whew!

So...

- Hello.

MARTIN: Yes, hello?

- Cmdr Karadec, Judicial Police.
Morgane Alvaro.

- Hello!

- We're looking to speak with
Juliette Barriot, is she here?

- Uh, yes, she's in the shower.

Ju-ju!

HUMMING,
♪ THE WEDDING MARCH ♪

I proposed last tonight.
- Great!

MUFFLED
Hello!

JULIETTE: Uh- hello? What is it?
Who is it? What's happening?

- The police, my love,
apparently they want to talk to you.

- Hello ma'am.
- Hello...

ADAM: It's about your mother.

- Yes? What... what-
what did my mother do?

- Can we sit down?

- I'm sorry.

CRIES QUIETLY

My condolences.

. . .

ADAM:
Did you have good relations with her?

JULIETTE: Me, with her?

My father left her when
she was pregnant with me.

ADAM: And your last contact
with her? When was that?

JULIETTE: (Last night.)

SNIFFLING
I called- I called to tell her.

She was super happy for me.

MORGANE: Hey! Don't overdo it.

There are only personal
development books in your library!

So what do we have here?
Breaking Out of Family Domination.

Guide Against Toxic Parenting.

And my favorite:

How To Get Rid of Maternal Pressure.

LAUGHING
Excuse me, but your calendar here—

—the only weekend you
have booked in advance

is on the other side of
France, on her birthday!

So in my opinion you
couldn't stand your mother.

And I'm not throwing stones,
because I know a lot about the subject.

SELF-DEPRECATING CHUCKLE

- Is it true, were you in conflict with her?

- Yes.
- Why?

- Because she made advances to me.

- What?

- (Can I say?)
Do you have to protect her...

- I'm not protecting her!

When I met Martin, mom
didn't approve of our relationship,

Martin was too- too timid, to-

- Timid, too uptight, too dark.
Not ambitious, she once said.

- Yes, that's right.

- And then, there was
what happened in Sicily.

DRINK POURING
- Last summer-

Last summer, I wanted to ask
my mom to come on a trip with us.

I wanted her to get closer to Martin,

so she'd get to know him better.

Well, I wasn't disappointed.

'Martin, can you put
some sunscreen on me?'

'Martin, will you go shopping with me?'

Martin-this, Martin-that,
she monopolized him all the time.

And, at the end of the trip...

- She came into the bathroom
while I was taking a shower.

To proposition me...

- ((There it is.))

That's when I understood that
Martin wasn't the problem at all!

No!

The problem was just me,
she can't stand me being happy,

me being fine, it was
impossible for her. So, yeah—

—yeah, I cut ties. It's true.

(I didn't k*ll her.)

I wouldn't k*ll her,
it's completely idiotic!

Last night, when,

when you proposed, the
first thing I did was call her.

I wanted her to celebrate for me,
I wanted her to be happy for me,

I mean, I wanted
her to be my mother,

damn it, and she wasn't
even capable of doing that!

She was way too much
of a narcissist for that!

- We should hide until he's
finished with the interrogation.

DAPHNE: Gilles, I'm working!
HE SCOFFS

- (Yes!)
SHE SCOFFS

TEXT ALERT

GILLES AND DAPHNE
ARGUE IN GRUNTS

FROM: THEA
LOOK, MOM...

- Uh, Daphne? Excuse me,

I have a little question about
karma, the pigeon, and all that.

Well, you know that I've been
hosting, for free, for over 6 weeks now,

LAUGHS CASUALLY
a young woman in distress, anyway-

- Mmm, no. I didn't know.

- Yes, well, doesn't matter.
All right, well,

let's say I want to kick her out
because, really, she's abusing it, OK?

Do we agree I still keep all the
points I've accumulated thanks to her?

SMUG LAUGH
- Well, no.

- Why?

- Morgane, if you kick her out

you start from scratch— even worse!

Plus, it's winter, so you'd better
find her an apartment to rent.

And I'd say at least a T4.*
* 4 ROOMS +KTCHN & BATH

- T4?
- At least!
* 4 ROOMS +KTCHN & BATH

- A T4? She doesn't even have a job!

- Oh, don't talk sh*t. You
haven't found her a job?

CELINE YELLING
- Thanks. Wait a second,

No, I already explained, we're
only taking emergencies today,

that's how it is!

Yes, ma'am, it a 4th floor.
Yes, it includes utilities. OK?

Hello? No, it's not- oh sh*t!
SCREAMS

- Wait, High Voltage Jerome isn't here?

- Oh, yes, this morning
he took 4 weeks off.

The Commissioner is
trying to find a replacement.

- Come on! Come on,
come on, the banner, right now!

CROSSTALK
- Unroll it!

- Four, three, two, one—

CONFETTI CANNON POPS

Welcome back!
NOISEMAKERS TOOT

NOISEMAKERS TOOT

- So where are we?

- Uh, well... I've dug
up the victim's daughter,

but I don't think she's
our culprit, this morning

she was jogging at
the time of the crime.

A friend jogging with her remembers
their precise schedule and route.

- Oh, well, having
people who remember the

important things in
life so precisely is good!

LANDLINE RINGS
DAPHNE: Forestier.

When- you?

All right. What kind of cases?

Okay, fine, thank you.

That was Forensics. They
found DNA at the crime scene,

but when they ran it through the database

it matched three other cases.

- They're sure of the information?

- Yeah, they sent me the file.

The victims are all
women from the Lille area.

and their deaths were
classified as accidental each time.

- Oh f*ck...

- Oh f*ck— guys, we have a...

"Serial k*ller"!

- ...anyone?
- Yes, you're in front of me.

so it's like you're talking to me!
HE LAUGHS

- Morgane, do you read me Morgane?
- Yes, I read you-

- Please? Hello, everyone,
can I ask you for silence?

Silence? Thanks a lot.

So, I've called us together

because, as you know,
DNA found on our victim

shows a match with samples
taken in 3 recent cases.

The coincidence is disturbing,

but I ask that you not
jump to any conclusions.

DOOR OPENS

CARON: Excuse me, is this
the serial k*ller meeting?

- What do you think?
- Oh, yes...

- Sit down.
- All right...

CELINE: So, as I was saying:

I'm counting on each of you

to avoid any suggestions likely
to stir up imaginations, you see?

SMALL FEEDBACK
- Oh, hold on a sec,

can you hear me? Woo-hoo!
- AMUSED Yes, yes...

- Before we start the meeting,
a very important question:

what do we call our psychopath?

No, because if we don't take
the lead, what will happen?

The press will take care
of it and we'll end up with

a completely rotten name
like 'The Upper France k*ller,'

FEEDBACK,
CELINE TRIES TO MUTE HER

forget about ever changing it- uh- Hello?

Hello?
- Let's let the commander and

the lieutenant present the facts.

- Yes, so here's what we
know about the 3 cases:

Emilie Levain, 32. Found
dead at her home on October 14—

—apparent drug overdose.

No injuries, no break-in. No witnesses.

- We could call him:
'The Shadow of the North'!

DAPHNE: OK, next we
have Claire Noval, 46,

found dead at the bottom
of her stairs on January 20.

The police concluded
that it too was an accident.

- Yeah, or we can go with accident, like:

The- the- 'The Accidenteur'! No!

'The Accident-tueur'!
- Ahem!

- Next we have Mariam Ango, 19,

she was found having fallen from
her bedroom balcony on February 17.

Here the police first
concluded it was suicide

and then changed their mind

to conclude that it was an accident too.

- 'Be careful of the Ch'ti* Psychopath.'
* NORTHEAST PERSON

- Good one! Not bad!

- Wait, even better, even better:

- 'The Ch'ticopath'! 'The Ch'ticopath.'
MORGANE LAUGHS

CELINE BANGS TABLE

ADAM: Finally, Cathy Barriot,
found electrocuted in her bath.

Her death seems accidental too,

but in reality is a homicide.

Suspect DNA was found
at each of the victims' homes,

but not on the bodies.
- So please,

in-house these are 'potential victims'

since at this stage of the investigation

there is no evidence that
these deaths are homicides.

Isn't it, Dr Benzaoui?

KARIM: I've studied the
reports of my colleagues, and

the causes of death of the 3 victims
are good fits for the accident theory.

But we obviously cannot exclude
the intervention of a third party.

- Well, I'll call the prosecutor so
he can refer the other 3 cases to me.

- Oh my, this seems really premature to me.

- Oh! I have it, I have it!

'The Saturday k*ller'!

- Morgane, that's enough now!

- Well, it rocks, doesn't it?
- We've just seen the presentation

and for now there are no
commonalities among the 4 cases-

Why 'The Saturday k*ller'?

- Well, the dates.

October 14, January 20,
February 17, and today.

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday,
Saturday. So there: The Saturday k*ller.

- Ah, 'No commonalities,' you said. Hmm.

- Very well. We'll request
the referral of all 3 cases.

Now I warn you, this does not
at all mean 'unlimited budget.'

So no national call for witnesses,
no systematic DNA testing,

we're not getting carried
away, is that clear?

MOBILE RINGS

- Yes? Hold on.

(Yeah- wait-
don't move, I'll come get you. Yup.)

MORGANE: Come. Go on.

Okay, listen, it's not complicated.
You put yourself here,

RECEPTION

You answer the phone and then

redirect people according
to the department, all right?

Let's go, test problem: Next person?
Come up ma'am, your turn.

COUGHS

"Happy face"!

- Yeah, what is it?
- Well, I...

I'm here about purse, it was stolen.

- And? Is that all?

- No, I'm doing-
- So, ma'am, uh...

Complaints is on the 3rd floor.
You're welcome!

Thank you and have a nice day!
(Are you serious?)

- FAINTLY In cases like this...
- She doesn't apologize for a theft!

You're the police now! Yeah, it's hard
but you're gonna have to love it! OK?

Come on, "happy face"!
- Who are you?

Commissioner, you've come to
the right place. May I introduce Afida,

who is the new girl at Reception.

- She's a new start and
I haven't validated recruitment?

- Yeah, no, I've picked out
the best of the best, all right?

We're talking about someone with complete
training at Lille South, all right?

MOBILE VIBRATES

As well as other areas of study,

the feather in her cap being
5 years of penitentary experience,

so in terms of CV she
really has it up to there! So...

MOBILE VIBRATES, CAMERA CLICKS
MORGANE: Um...

It's also really her childhood
dream to have this one job, so

LANDLINE RINGS,
SHE TRAILS OFF

OK really, regarding taking a psycho-
feminologist, which is the minimum, well...

- Well will you pick it up?

- Hello, Police Nationale, go ahead.

- Oh, Mr Prosecutor.
Oh, yes, he's with me.

Well you forget that we don't
have the budget for a criminologist...

- There's some sh*t near your house?

How many grams?

No sir, you mustn't
buy it, it might be stolen.

- I asked Forensics to come back
and examine this crime scene.

None of the others are preserved.

Are you sure we're not
missing something this time?

Samuel, hello!
You doing well?

- Fine, thanks.
- Thanks for coming on a weekend.

The file. Do you know-?

- Special Agent Alvaro, FBI.

- Yes, we know each other,

you're regularly at crime scenes.

Give me 5 minutes to study
the file and I'm at your disposal.

ADAM: Very good.

POLICE RADIO CHATTER

ADAM: According to her daughter,
Cathy wasn't the type to let a stranger in.

So he either broke in, or he knew her.

- Karadec?
- Yes?

- Look!

- What's up?

♪ Monday Monday, la la,

la la-la la! La la! ♪

♪ La la-la la! ♪

♪ A la la la- ♪

Well, you don't remember?

- Morgane, less is more,you're
starting to really be annoying.

- I'm not kidding!
You could make an effort

on your part to remember!
- Okay, I believe you.

- Oh! Really!
- Yes, I'm joking around.

SHE SIGHS

You were hallucinating, okay?
After taking LSD.

It was a moment in
your life when you were

going through a fragile
time with Timothée.

Here I am, a
reassuring male figure,

and your imagination got
a little carried away there.

Let's go!

- Okay.

Your suspect DNA was taken
from 3 surfaces with fingerprints.

We have a first sample:
here on this radiator.

MORGANE REMEMBERS
- We have a... "Serial k*ller"!

SCREAMING

CINEMATIC SCREAM, FADING

OK, well if it was a hallucination,

how would I know you were wearing
black underwear that night, huh?

- Well I don't know, maybe because
it's the color of 50% of men's underwear.

Sorry, I'm listening.

- We have a second sample on this glass.

Can you turn on the light please?
- Yes.

ELECTRONIC FLASH
RECHARGING

CINEMATIC SCREAM, FADING

- Okay. Well done on the underwear.

But in this case,

how would I know you
have a mole on the right side?

Huh?

- I don't know, maybe because
you saw me in the shower

when you came into my
bathroom without knocking.

- And here is the last spot they touched.

- The instant hot water.

Why the water heater?

The water in the glass is cloudy.

Sometimes a radiator purge looks like that.

Maybe he's a heating engineer.

We know he enters the
victim's homes without violence.

. . .

ELECTRICITY SHORTING

- He's not a heating engineer.
In fact, he's pretending.

Look what I found by the bed.

There's a label with the price on it.

In my opinion it's his.

He dresses up as a heating engineer.

I swear, the guy is super creepy.

He has the intelligence
of the Zodiac k*ller,

the barbarism of Jack the Ripper, and me,

me, I have to get my hands on him

before he claims another
victim next Saturday,

you can imagine the pressure
I have on my shoulders.

Huh? Hey! Are you there?
- What?

- Listen, are you with me or what?

- Yes! You- you're under pressure.

- Oh, yeah, all right. Okay.

Uh, tell me Afida: where are
we with finding an apartment?

- Come on, after Reception, I'm dead.

GRUMBLING
- 'I'm dead, I'm dead,' but seriously,

it's not her chasing a psychopath all day!

- Well, no.
- 'Well no'! People don't realize

getting into a monster's
head, it's not nothing!

Do you have any idea
about the after-effects on me?

- Hey, over here! Annoying!
- I-

I warn you, if you sleep with
her under my roof you can get out!

- Me?
- Yes, you.

- Oh!
- 'Oh oh oh oh'!

- I'm not like that. SCOFFS
- Oh, Ludo, help me stretch?

- Okay, I'm coming!
SHE MOCKS HIM

- Go on, run!
Not limping anymore?

- You all right mom? You look stressed.
- Meh.

- It didn't go well with Supercop?

- Well, no, I dunno...

the guy has the memory of a
goldfish, what do you want me to say?

Okay, so we were on drugs, but
from that to remembering nothing?

It's annoying!
SIGHS

- You know what? Relax,
you're getting a massage, OK,

you have to take care of yourself.
- Aww!

Oh yeah! Good!
SIGHS

Oh, the feet too! The feet,
the feet, the feet. Ahhh!

Go ahead, a little more, lovely.

Ah, yes, there, something there....

SHRIEKS
Ah! That's not good!

What's wrong with you?

- We need your blood

to do a prenatal paternity
test in Belgium.

- Huh?
- We don't have a choice,

you'll need diapers in 3 months,
we have to secure child support!

ELIOTT: I have to find
saliva from the three fathers.

We're set for David.

But then you have to ask Timothee
and Karadec to spit in one of these things.

- You're even crazier
than my psychopath! No,

I'm not asking them
to spit in those things.

One thinks I'm a crazy sex maniac,

the other is convinced that I
made up this baby story for a joke,

so no! Uh-

Gimme that.

A lock of hair, you
can say it's for my class

- Get out, get out, I don't want
to see you anymore! (Oh jeez.)

MOBILE RINGS

BREATHING HARD

Hello?

MENACING
MAN: Hello, my beautiful.

What are you doing Saturday?

- Jeez, it's him! It's my serial k*ller!

Call Karadec while I stall him, all right?

- Uh, hello? Uh... so...

Uh, Saturday,
I need to find my calendar,

stay on the line with me, huh?

- Don't try to trace this call.

We have a date, you and I. With death!
EVIL LAUGH

EVIL LAUGH IS IN THE HOUSE

LUDO LAUGHING
- YOU ARE COMPLETELY LAME!

THERE'S A SERIAL k*ller OUT
THERE AND YOU'RE LAUGHING!

WHAT MENTAL AGE ARE YOU?

Oh, you're really not helping, huh?

CELINE: Hello everyone, before we
start I'm going to ask you to welcome

Cmsr Charniere of OCRVP,*
* VIOLENT CRIMES AGAINST PERSONS

and Capt Florentin Dupaule from
the "Cold Case" squad in Nanterre,

who are joining us today.
And of course the Prosecutor,

who you know, who is
joining us given the stakes.

Commander, do you want to tackle it?
- Thank you.

At this point we think
the k*ller enters the homes

of the victims by pretending
to be a heating engineer,

mostly because of this tool
newly found at the crime.

- Yes! So yeah, that's
me who discovered it.

So how did I do it? Well, I put
myself in the k*ller's head and then-

- Lt Forestier is currently
contacting all the stores

in the region that sell this
model of adjustable wrench,

hoping this will allow us to
identify a suspect quickly.

- Thanks for all the good work.

Commissioner, have you been
able to move forward on a profile?

I imagine, given the seriousness of the
matter, you've consulted a criminologist?

I know it helped us a lot in the Lily
k*ller case, with Pierre-Emmanuel.

NERVOUSLY
- Yes, of course. Well,

for the sake of discretion, I
preferred to ask someone internally.

but the profile is almost
finished— isn't it, Lt Vandraud?

- Hmm?
CELINE: Lt Vandraud, here present,

had a complete training in
psycho-criminology in— what, 2021?

He volunteered to build the profile.

Lieutenant, you have the floor.
- Yee-ah, uh, it was

more of a one-week course.

- Yes, one week, at the end of which

you finished at the top of
the class, congratulations,

and you said how happy you
were to have the opportunity

to make the training cost worthwhile.
HE LAUGHS NERVOUSLY

CROSSTALK
PROSECUTOR: Lieutenant?

Would you like to share
your initial thoughts with us?

- Well- well- well, of
course, of course, of course...

Uh, but given the specificities
of the criminal scenario

and the dominant statistics,

that those k*lled were women,

I can already tell you, with certainty,

that we are dealing with,

a man?

PROSECUTOR: A man? Indeed,
is that what the DNA indicates?

MOBILE RINGS

Anything else?
MOBILE RINGS

- Yes Daphne?
- Ah. Heh.

Maybe we should wait...
- Okay, great.

Great, thanks.

The suspect used his credit
card to pay for the wrench.

- There!
- We have a name.

RELIEVED LAUGHS

VIAL: Miss?
- Yes?

- Excuse me, do we know each other?
- No.

- I'm sure we know each other,
you're from the neighborhood?

MISS: Yes.

MORGANE: FBI! DON'T MOVE!
- Arrrgh! Morgane!

Police!
- Hands in the air, hands behind your back!

BOTH: Hands on the hood!

SIREN

- End of the road, "bro"!
Don't try anything stupid,

because the helicopters will
be here any minute, understand?

- Morgane? GET BACK!

Turn around, hands on the hood!

- What did I do?

- Simon Vial?
- Yes?

- Hold on hold on hold on,
what do we have here?

- I'm placing you under arrest as part of

the Cathy Barriot investigation.

- What? What are you doing?
I didn't do anything!

- Karadec!
BUZZER

- You know this woman, Cathy Barriot?
- No.

Why?

- Because we found
your wrench at her place.

The one you bought last Tuesday,

with other tools.

Work clothes, rope.

Explain to me what a retired insurance
man is doing with that in his car.

- Hold on, it's not at all what you think.

Commander? I'm sorry, the prosecutor
insisted I attend the interrogation,

and I give you a profile of the suspect.

- The prosecutor?
- (Yes.)

- You didn't tell me he was
an expert in criminology. Gilles.

- (I had no choice, it was Gilles or Morgane!)

- Hold on, stop for a bit,

the Commissioner asked me to take notes.

CROSSTALK

Okay, it's good.

MORGANE: So?
ADAM SIGHS

- Gilles, you want to start?

- Oh, if you want-
- Be my guest. Go ahead.

- Okay. Hello Mr Vial.
- Hello.

- Uh... (what should I ask...)

A SERIAL k*ller IS A
PSYCHOPATH CHARACTERIZED BY...

Your mother? You get
along well with your mother?

- Uh, yes. Very well, yes.

- Oh, okay. (Okay.)

GILLES: Are you sure?

- Yes.
- Um...

Do you happen to have
another maternal figure

among your friends, like,
a big sister, or maybe an aunt?

A little bossy?

- No.

YAWNS OSTENTATIOUSLY

- I yawned!

He didn't yawn back!

So he has no empathy,
so he's a psychopath!

Game over, yeah?

Gilles, it's not the same with you...

Okay! Another test!

Listen to me carefully:
this is a story about a guy

who goes to his mother's funeral.

On the way, he meets a girl and
the next day kills his father. Why?

You'll see, watch this.
Ha! So?

So? Huh?

- We were informed you were
at Cathy's on Saturday morning.

Witnesses saw you.

- You're married!

That's the problem,
isn't it, she's a castrator?

So you let off steam
outside of your family unit.

QUIETLY
- Okay... Okay.

Okay, fine, you've cornered me.

I've always had urges.

So from time to time I take action.

I'll spot a woman,

on the street, or in a store.

She obsesses me, until...

I tried to stop, but I can't do it!

- How many women?

- About fifteen. Actually...

Maybe more if we count the
ones I didn't go all the way with.

- I take it you're admitting
you k*lled Cathy Barriot.

Mariam Ango.

Claire Noval.

Emilie Levain.

No, wait, not at all,
what are you talking about?

- The women you k*lled by

pretending to be a
heating engineer, Dr Lecter!

- But I've k*lled no one!

I was a heating engineer just with Cathy!

She loved role playing games.

She's dead?

- You're telling us Cathy was your lover?
- Yes.

For a few months now.

Nothing serious, but
we got along well in bed.

She's been teasing me
with her outfits for weeks.

Then it was the heating engineer fantasy.

So I invested in some gear.

But when I arrived at
her house yesterday, she

told me she was no longer in
the mood, and threw me out.

Frustrated? For sure,
but actually k*ll her?

No.

No, I didn't do that, I didn't
do all these bad things.

- Would you agree to take a DNA test?

- Yes, do all the tests you
want, I didn't do anything!

You won't say anything to my wife?

MORGANE & GILLES
SIGH, GRUMBLE

- Yes, give it to me.

You're sure? There's no
possible margin of error? ((sh*t!))

Mmm. All right, very well.

He was the right one?

Your suspect's DNA doesn't match
those found at the crime scenes.

- Yeah, and I found no links
between him and the other victims.

- Well, are you sure? It's weird,

the yawning trick works
every time, it's scientific! Wha-?

- You have anything new
on the other 3 murders?

No, at the time we learned nothing
interesting from the witnesses.

On the other hand,
I might've found a new victim:

Emma Perrin, 29.

Disappeared without a trace
on Friday, April 15, 2022,

while going to Arras by car.

CHUCKLES
- Well, that's a Friday. Not our guy!

- Yes, indeed, it doesn't
fit with the other cases.

Are you sure?

- Uh, the team in charge
of the case at the time

concluded she
disappeared voluntarily

because they found her car
abandoned near a train station.

Except according to
the file, Forensics found

a drop of blood in the
passenger compartment.

According to the lab, it matches our DNA.

- April 2022 is more than a
year before the other murders.

- This young woman could
be an earlier victim of the k*ller.

- Yes. Maybe the first.

- I- I'm going to go pee. Yes, uh...
ADAM: Daphne?

Can you send me the file, please?
CELINE SIGHS

- Hurry up, we're going to get caught!

- What the hell are you doing here?

- Actually, we're... studying
wastestream sorting!

It's for school.

- I said no DNA test,
are you crazy or what?

Don't tell me you're going to
bug Timothee with this too?

- It's fine, we're not stupid! We
know you don't want to hear about it.

So we delegated.

- 'Delegated' how?

MOBILE VIBRATES

SCOFFS

MOBILE VIBRATES,
HE SIGHS

MOBILE VIBRATES

- Morgane? I told you to stop calling me.
- No, so

wait, Timothee, I
know you don't want to

talk to me anymore,
but believe me,

you have to...
MARIE: Hi there!

HE SHRIEKS
MORGANE: Hello?

HE PANTS
Timothee?

PANTING
- (Stay calm!)

TIMOTHEE: I have money.

- Timothee, put the lady on! Put
the lady on! Can you hear me?

- Spit in here!

Spit in here!

SPITTING

- Ow.

- OK, it's not very subtle, but
don't worry, he won't know it's you.

- And stop bothering Morgane, or-
CUTTING SOUND

MORGANE: Timothee!

Stole your client's saliva?

I'm tracking a serial k*ller,
Ms Lawyer, do you think I'm a fool?

Uh, well, 'Morgane' is
a very common first name

among 35-to-50 year-olds,
so that doesn't prove anything, huh?

Hello?

Hello?

((Oh sh*t!))

There'll be a complaint
against me, are you happy?

Well done!

- She made me!

- Shut up! You shut up!

- Yeah, me too! She forced us!

- Of course.
THEA: Are you serious here?

Hey, I just wanted to
help, I'll have you know!

- I don't need your help, okay?

WHAT IS THIS OBSESSION WITH
THE BABY'S FATHER ANYWAY?

I DON'T CARE! I'LL MANAGE!

- You don't handle anything at
all, you're just afraid of the outcome!

I know you'd like it to be Supercop,

but HE DOESN'T CARE mom!

If you continue like this,
this kid won't have a father!

You know what? I don't care!

It's not my business anymore.
CRYING

- Where do I throw this...
- Shut up.

LEO: It was Friday.

Emma went to her parents' for the weekend.

It was for their wedding anniversary.

She wanted to surprise them.

The investigation found that's
the last time you saw Emma, right?

PASCAL: Yeah.

The next day Leo had no
news from her, so he called us.

She never arrived.

We didn't know she was
coming, so we weren't worried.

CORINNE: Sorry, but we've
already told you all of this.

I think you have news for us.

Have you found my daughter or not?

- I'm sorry ma'am, um,
I don't want to give you false hope.

We have no new
information regarding Emma.

We're working on another case.

There may be a connection with
your daughter's disappearance.

- What kind of case?

- A "serial k*ller"! Yeah!

Shouldn't I have said that?

- Nothing is certain at this stage.

DNA identical to that
found in Emma's vehicle

and appearing in several other cases

is what we're working on at the moment.

- I knew something happened.

Your colleagues
told us over and over

that she had
disappeared voluntarily.

But she would never
have done that to us!

Never. Instead of looking for her they-
- Corinne...

We don't know what happened.

- I understand that it's difficult.

I can't guarantee that we'll do
better than our predecessors,

but I promise to try.

Would you like to start from the beginning?

Where was Emma last seen?

ADAM: Do you recognize this woman?

We're trying to understand
what happened to her.

She disappeared on April 15,
2022, as you see in this video.

She got gas here that day.

This video is the last
sign of her that we have.

CLERK:
I'm sorry, I don't remember her.

- Are you sure?

- Can I get the key to the toilet please?

YAWNS OSTENTATIOUSLY

- Morgane, I wasn't
finished with my questions.

And stop yawning all the
time. Honestly, it's ridiculous.

- Didn't I tell you it's infallible?
What, you don't watch TV?

- Here you are.
- Thank you.

What did I tell you? Infallible!

- Why the bathroom key? You wanted
to see if she's a right-handed sociopath?

- No, the bathroom key
is because I need to pee.

She wasn't alone.

- What do you mean?
- She wasn't alone!

Look.
- Yes.

- Back the video up a bit...

There. There!
- Yeah?

- She pays for the gas, right?
And then,

she asks the clerk for the
key to the toilet, and look.

The clerk hands her the
keys with: the wooden key fob.

Oh look! The key to women's toilet

is the one with the crocheted frog!

The wooden one over there is
the other one, it's the guys one.

So...?

- She was accompanied by a man, right?

Her husband confirmed
that she went alone.

Unless she picked up someone on the way.
- ((A hitchhiker...))

A hitchhiker! Yes,
isn't that a psychopath thing?

- There's more in the other video,

we can see the men's toilet.

- Oh f*ck.

Okay, let's say she was
going the speed limit.

It has to be before the gas
station, logically it was this road.

- Wait. The speed limit is 110 kph,

and she lives about
there. And we're here.

- There, yes.
- How far is it?

50 km at 110 kph— a half-hour.

TIME=DISTANCE/SPEED

And twice as far. Why?

- Okay. And why
avoid the national highway?

- Because it was closed.
- How do you know?

- Look here. There's a town
called Ligny-sur-Canche,

because there's the Canche, it's a river.
- Okay...

- There's the national road
which passes just below.

But that evening it was raining cats &
dogs, according to our suspect's raincoat.

So?

- So they block the road for flooding,

and she had to take a detour.

And she took this road there! Yes!

Yes!

SHE SNIFFLES
Did I do something wrong?

- No, nothing.

- ba*ls.
- No, it's nothing.

- Well, yes! Ha...
- No! Well...

- What is it?
- It's just that you...

- What?
- You have sort of the same face as...

As the time when...

BABBLES

You know what I mean?

- Yeah.
- You have to stop this right now!

You're being heavy-handed.

You told me we could work
together, we set certain limits Morgane!

You agreed!
- Okay, sorry.

- What's going on?
- Okay, my bad,

it was a bad joke.

So, if she took this route,

where could she have
picked up a hitchhiker?

ADAM: What's this building?

ADAM: Do you recognize this individual?

- It looks like Jonathan in shipping.

Is this about the thing with Géraldine?

He's not really so bad.

- What's the thing with Géraldine?

- Oh nothing, it was all an accident.

- Want to tell me about it?

- He followed her out of the factory...

YAWNS OSTENTATIOUSLY

MORGANE: I am just dead!
GASPS SLIGHTLY

- Do you like riddles?

So this is the story of a guy
who goes to his mother's funeral.

FLUSTERED
He meets a girl.

On the way he meets his father—
or, uh, no, his mother-

- Who died?
- No one! No one.

I'm going to call my colleague who-

- Careful of the machine! It's dangerous!

ADAM: Police!
SHE SHRIEKS

JONATHAN WHEEZES

We received the results of the comparison.

Your DNA matches that found with
all the victims that I just named for you.

- Yes, there's a good explanation.

ADAM: Certainly.

ADAM: Yes, it's that you
were there when they died.
SIPPING & MUNCHING

ADAM: Claire Noval.

Emilie Levain.

Mariam Ango.

Cathy Barriot.

- I don't know these women.

- Let's find out where
you were last week.

- I was at home.

- Is there a witness to that?

- No. No one.

I was alone, I was sleeping.

- All day?

Frankly, I was looking after my
father on the "weekends", but

now he's dead, so
when I'm not at the factory...

I sleep.

- The factory. Let's talk about it.

One of your colleagues
is planning to go to HR.

According to her, you followed
her one evening after work.

She was so afraid, she ran across
the road and almost got hit by a truck.

- Géraldine.

I didn't want to scare her.
I just wanted to talk to her.

- Talk to her?

About?

- I don't know.

She seemed nice.

- 'She seemed nice'!

He must've thought that when he saw me!

That's why he wanted to k*ll me!

- Sssh! Morgane! Sssh!

- And her?
She is Emma Perrin.

We have a video proving that she picked
you up hitchhiking on April 15, 2022.

I guess you don't recognize her either.

- Oh!

Yes. I remember.

I was coming back from the
factory, but there were no more buses

and it was raining hard.

She was kind.

- She disappeared that night.

We've never found her body.

What did you do?

- I did what, with whom?

She picked me up and dropped
me off at home. That's all.

- Look, Gilles! Look!

The evil in his eyes! Ahh!

- Morgane, you're going to make
us miss the confession! Sssh!

- A spot of your blood was found in
her car. Do you have an explanation?

- I must have had a nosebleed.

It's the drugs the doctor
gave me after dad died.

They cause them.

- Oh jeez, oh no,

Disappointing!
- What, AGAIN?

- Enough, enough, you're cured!
There you go, he's not a "serial k*ller."

- What do you mean,
'not a "serial k*ller" '?

- Well, no: look!

Look, he's sweating like
a pig there— don't you see?

He's staying moist,

here, here, here, here, the moustache.

I guess it's a side
effect of the medication

he's been taking
since his father died.

- Fine, okay, he's sweating— so?

- 'So'?
The guy works in a cosmetics factory,

so he spends his days
packaging wipes and cotton swabs,

like the ones Forensics
uses at crime scenes.

I'm guessing that in his
job he has to wear gloves,

SWABS

but seeing how he sweats, at some
point he wipes his face, and BAM—

he contaminates them with his DNA.

They end up in a Forensics
gear case, and there you go.

You can imagine the rest.

- Wait, is what you're saying that

this could contaminate
an entire collection kit?

It makes no sense!
Then how do you explain

your theory of a k*ller who
kills only on Saturdays?

- Oh, that.

It has nothing to do with it, it's
because the Forensics guy is Jewish.

SHOCKED MURMURS

- Your friend Samuel,
who takes all the samples,

he wasn't at the crime
scene Saturday morning.

He joined us in the
afternoon and came on foot,

and then he managed not
to touch the light switches.

- Can you turn on the light please?

- So I conclude he's observing Shabbat.

Suddenly on Saturday evening
he's replaced by another guy

and this is the guy who has
the contaminated swabs.

- Wait, you mean the original
investigators were right,

the women's deaths were accidents?
- Yes,

apart from Cathy Barriot
with her bath bombs,

so I can assure you
that she was indeed k*lled.

And besides, uh...

I think we should maybe
refocus on her a little bit,

because lately it's
been a little scattered.

- That's true.
- Yes.

CROSSTALK

- You're the one who told
them about a serial first!

- I was just following the facts! How
could I know your Forensics blew it

with contaminated supplies?
- They're not my Forensics!

- Yes, your Forensics!

- What're you doing here,
looking at real estate?

- Hold on.

CAMERA SHUTTER
- What are you doing here?

- Listen, someone left a lot of
old cardboard boxes on a table,

so I'm selling everything on the
internet. I have lots of buyers, seriously.

- What old cardboard boxes,
that's evidence from the victim's!

- Oh...!
- Put it all back before someone sees.

Wait. Oh, well I'm surprised
you have so many customers,

this thing's not antique,
you see them for 5 bucks!

- What? No!

- The manufacturer of this lighter has
developed a super complicated code

to drive collectors nuts—
I know, my father was one.

A thing with dots, slashes, roman numerals,

each corresponding to
a year of manufacture.

You get the gimmick?
- Uh, okay.

- For example, see,
this has two backslashes,

so it dates from '86.
- So you think I can get more of this?

- No, I don't think you can!
You can't sell evidence,

otherwise I would've already done it!

You'd get hard time.
You don't need that.

(Oh f*ck, it's the Lannisters!)

(It's the Lannisters!)

Karadec! Come here, come here!
- What is it?

CHUCKLING
- Yeah! Oh, right— Cathy, the victim:

we agree that Sophie told us
she was doing everything she could

to split up her and her boyfriend Martin?
- Yes.

except it's not because
they wouldn't last, she actually

wanted to prevent them from
doing something hugely stupid.

Because look: this lighter from Cathy's.

See the logo?
- Yes...

- It's from Martin's work:
Vallès & Son Imports.

It's a goodie, something
companies give their best customers.

What the hell was it doing at Cathy's?

The lighter.

- I don't know, maybe it's
a son-in-law gift to Cathy?

- HA! I thought so too, except that

the lighter dates from 1986!
Look, it's written on the bottom.

In 1986 Martin was still in
diapers, so he didn't give it to her.

So, the business is called
'Vallès & Son,' so I conclude

that the giver was the one
who was the boss at the time.

And the boss was? It was?
FLICKING LIGHTER

Oh f*ck, I had a final flourish
like that— (oh, f*ck). . . .

- Do you recognize this lighter?

- No.

- We found it in a box
at Cathy's. Are you sure?

It's your company logo.

The company your
father founded in the '80s.

According to Cathy's relatives, at age 35

she had an affair with a married man.

She got pregnant.

But he refused to recognize the child.

They ended up breaking
up, and since then

she cut off all
contact with him.

The child he fathered? It's Juliette.

And that lover is your father.

We checked the time of the crime.

When your fiancee was
jogging, you had 45 minutes

to leave your house and
go to your mother-in-law's.

And there you k*lled her.

- When Juliette was jogging,

I was on Cloud 9.

We're going to get married,

I was so happy.

And then... Cathy called, and...

she asked me to come see her.

And I said to myself, I don't know...

Did she want to bury the hatchet?

Did she want to give me
a family ring for Juliette?

What is it?

I got to her house.

She showed me an old
photo of her with my dad.

She told me, just like that,
that I couldn't marry Juliette

because she's actually my sister.

That our relationship was over,

I had to leave her.

I told her that I couldn't,

'Ju- Juliette is...

Juliette's my life, I love her,

we're going to get married, everything.'

Then she began to repeat it, on a loop:
'You can't - you can't - you can't'!

'Do you realize you can't?
She's your sister,

you can't, you can't marry her
she's your sister, she's your sister.'

I pushed her, to make her stop talking.

PRENATAL PATERNITY TEST
SIMPLE AND RELIABLE

SIGHS

AFIDA MOANING

. . .

f*ck. Ludo...

- What did I do?

. . .

AFIDA SCREAMS

. . .

MORGANE & GILLES SCREAM

WAIT!

Morgane, no! No no no no no!

Your colleagues
told us over and over

that she had
disappeared voluntarily.

She would never
have done that to us!

CELINE: I'm going.
- Okay...

- Well done on Martin Vallès.
- Thank you.

- We finally came to the end of the case.

- Almost, actually.

We still don't know what happened
to Emma Perrin, our missing person.

- Well, send the new elements to
our colleagues in Arras, they'll dig.

- Okay.

BOTH: Good night.

FOOTSTEPS

PIGEON COOS

KISSING,
PIGEON CLUCKS

♪

MORGANE'S LAUGH ECHOS

sh*t.

♪ RAGA VERSION OF HPI THEME ♪