01x04 - No More Walks in The Woods

[bunniefuu]

[laughing]


- [Thomas]

Cheers!
- [Alex]

Down it! [Alex]

For f*ck's sake! You can't help yourself, can you? [Sophie]

What? What's that look? Are you jealous? Give me that phone!
- [Alex]

Stop filming!
- [Thomas]

Yeah! Relax, your missus isn't around for once! [Alex]

Yeah, right.

Stop! That's enough! [eerie sounds]

Did you hear that? [Thomas]

Oh sh*t, it must be Alex's girlfriend Yeah, that's really funny! [eerie sounds]

[gasping]

[Sophie]

f*ck! This is where it's coming from What is that thing? I have no idea what it is f*ck! That's not an animal noise [Alex]

Something's there! [Alex]

What's this? [sinister music playing]

[Thomas]

OK, let's split! [Thomas]

Sophie?
- [Thomas]

Sophie!
- [Alex]

Where did she go? [Thomas]

I don't know!
- [Thomas]

But don't worry, we'll find her!
- [Alex]

Sophie! Sophie! [strange noise]

[Sophie screaming]


- f*ck! Over there! Come on!
- [Thomas]

Wait for me! [Alex]

Sophie! [Thomas]

Wait for me, dammit! [Thomas]

Oh no, it can't be real! I can't believe it! Sophie!
- [Thomas]

What the hell happened?
- Thomas, behind you! [Alex screams]

[melancholic music playing]

[erotic sigh]

[unsettling music playing]

[Bertrand]

Sorry BLACK SPO [light music playing]

[Laurène]

Cora? [Thomas]

I can't believe it! Sophie!
- [Thomas]

What the hell happened?
- [Alex]

Thomas, behind you! [Alex screams]

[Camille]

A hiker found it this morning near the Cuveaux.

He was trying to find out who the owner was.

[Hermann]

It's a high
-schooler from Villefranche: Alexis Petour.

[Hermann]

The parents say he went out last night with his friend Thomas Milon.

[Hermann]

He hasn't gone home.

Yes, and the Milons have no news from their son.

[Franck]

What about the girl? [Hermann]

Sophie Perrallat.

Also a local, but nobody answered when we called her home.

[Nounours]

The video doesn't show much.

Any thoughts? Major, are you with us? PLEASE CALL ME BACK! MOM.

I think we should already be on location.

[sinister music playing]

[zipping sound]

[flies buzzing]


- Tell me something, Ferrandis,
- Hmm? is this normal? I mean, even by Villefranche standards? This has got to rank pretty high.

[crows squawking]


- [Laurène]

Teddy Bear!
- Yeah! [zipping sound]

[Laurène]

Can you take this, please? [feint shout]

Help! [man shouting distantly]

Help! [man shouting distantly]

Help! Hey, can you hear me? Hello! You take care of him! Hush, it's OK.

Stay with me.

[Thomas sobbing]

[unsettling music playing]

[voices over police radio]

[Leila]

His throat wasn't slit with a Kn*fe, the gash's too wide.

And the other boy? He's not injured, but he's in shock.

And the girl? We only found her dress.

What's with the bones up there? It means we're looking for a nutcase.

At least we got a psychological profile to work from It's not human blood on that dress.

Perhaps we ought to wait for the lab results.

Go on then! You do it! Our priority is to find Sophie.

I called for back
-up,
- they'll search the entire area.


- [Laurène]

OK.

[sinister music playing]

[girl sobbing]

[Roman]

Is that you? What do you want? What do you want from us?
- [Cora]

Nothing
- Huh? I don't want anything.


- Please, let me go!
- XXX You like to ask lots of questions? What do you want? You work for your mom?
- No!
- Huh?
- She doesn't know about this.


- You don't? Hey, see this here? Weedkiller, you stupid bitch.

Swallow a few drops and you're dead.


- [Roman]

Do you want to taste it?
- No, stop! So, why were you looking for us? What do you want? Nothing I want I want to fight by your side! Against the Steiners! [Cora]

I did everything to make their lives miserable! Slaughterhouses, GMOs The sawmill protests, that was me! [Cora]

I ended up in a cell! [Cora]

If I'm with you guys, they'll take me seriously! Let me tell you something: we don't need some emo kid on our side,
- especially a pig's daughter.

Got that?
- Of course, you do! I could get you intel nobody else has! [Roman]

You know what? [music intensifies]

I think I'll decline.

No, stop! No! Stop it! [music abates]

[Cora]

It's just water Roman? [Cora laughs wryly]

You OK?
- Let me go! Let me go!
- Shh.

Shh.

It's over.

It's over.

It's over.

[Cora]

Hi, you've reached Cora's voicemail, leave a message and I'll call back Maybe Cora? It's me again.

I'd really like to know where you are.

I'm getting worried.

Call me back.

[unsettling music playing]

[creaking sound]

[girl sobbing]

[Laurène]

Hey.


- [Sophie]

I didn't do it.


- [Laurène]

Are you OK?
- I didn't do it! I promise!
- You're not hurt? [Laurène]

It's OK.

It's over.

[Laurène]

What happened? We didn't k*ll anyone.

We just wanted to scare them [Nounours]

With the animal blood, right? It wasn't supposed to be like this.

They were about to turn 18.

It was their All
-nighter [crows squawking]

What do they mean by "All
-nighter"? The All
-nighter? It's an old Villefranche tradition.

When you turn 18, your elders initiate you.

[Hermann]

You stay the whole night in the woods.

[Hermann]

That's how it is.

[Nounours]

Yeah, but these boys didn't know it was their All
-nighter.

[Nounours]

The girl was used as bait to lure them into the woods, and in the woods, two jackasses, Simon Lavigne and Eloi Cambert, were waiting so they could scare them.

You think they could've done that to their friends? Yeah, why not? So, to sum up We have one body, one boy who was traumatized by a stupid rite What's that? Nothing stupid about All
-nighters.

They usually rock.

This one didn't, but I'm happy I did mine.

Even though I was terrified at one point.

[Nounours]

In short, you need to experience it [uneasy music playing]

[Nounours]

Around here, once you've done it, you know why you live here.

From an outside perspective, it's not so obvious Yeah, well So, why did they k*ll their friend? [Laurène]

Can you call them in? OK.

[door slams shut]

Is it something I said? Her All
-nighter wasn't her best memory
- [Franck]

What do you mean?
- [somber music playing]

What? [Bertrand]

You don't have to, you know? [Bertrand]

You can go home.

I won't say anything.

[unsettling music playing]

[Laurène]

It's OK, I'll be safe, it's just for one night.

See you tomorrow then.

See you tomorrow.

[feint whispering in the wind]

[sobbing]


- It used to be a hotel.


- [dog barking]

[dramatic music playing]

[Roman]

Welcome to the Children of Arduinna's HQ.

[Cora]

Wow! You run all this?
- No, the forest gives us the orders.


- [beeping sounds]

We're here to remind people it won't roll over.

What's up? She's with me.

[Cora]

So, you guys have been around since the '70s? Way longer.

The w*r's been going on forever.

It's just that people don't see us.


- What's inside?
- Stuff to annoy the mayor.

What do you mean? You're pretty curious, huh? [Thomas]

Sophie? Sophie!
- [Simon]

They're gonna sh*t themselves!
- [Thomas]

It can't be true! [Thomas]

I can't believe it! Sophie
- [Alex]

Thomas, behind you!
- [Thomas]

No! No, no!
- [Simon]

Are you enjoying the woods, guys?
- Simon? [Simon laughs]

We got you guys! [Thomas]

This is so lame! You didn't have anything better to do? [Sophie]

It's your All
-nighter, guys, you'll remember it your entire lives! [Simon]

Come on! What did you do with that shovel? What did you do with it? You were carrying it, right?
- [Simon]

Yeah, but I don't know
- What's that?
- I
- Where is it? That's your face on here, right?
- You're holding it.

Where the hell is it?
- I left it in the woods near the No! You didn't leave it in the woods!
- [sinister music playing]


- We looked everywhere! [Hermann]

So, where the f*ck did you put it? [Hermann]

It could be the shovel that k*lled Alex! [Hermann]

You know that, right? You're in deep sh*t, kiddo!
- I didn't k*ll Alex.


- [Hermann]

What?
- I didn't k*ll Alex.


- [Hermann]

Any proof of that? [Hermann]

Any proof at all? f*cking idiot.

[Nounours]

You think it's fun to scare your friends? I asked you if you think it's fun.

[Nounours]

Oh [Nounours]

You tied him Look at me! [Nounours]

You tied him to a tree! You think that's funny? [Eloi]

No Cheers! [Eloi]

There you are!
- [Eloi]

You're a champ!
- [Simon]

Oh no, that's gross! The trophy! [Simon]

To the All
-nighter! [Eloi]

Cheers! [Thomas]

Help!
- [Eloi]

He's already had enough!
- [Simon]

No? We got to see this! [Simon]

Give me that phone! Is it filming? He's so scared! Hurry up! Get his head!
- [Simon]

What's the matter?
- [Thomas]

Untie me! Come on! Untie me!
- I'm begging you!
- [Eloi]

We're good Please, Simon! Simon, untie me!
- [Thomas]

Simon, wait no!
- [Sophie]

Alex? Alex? [Sophie]

Oh, f*ck! [Simon]

Oh, no! [Sophie]

Help! Stop it! No! Please, guys! So, you just left them there.

I heard you'd dated Alexis.

Old news.


- Alex dumped me.


- Why? I don't know.

I guess he fell for another girl.


- Did you hate him for that?
- Of course [unsettling music playing]

Why do you ask all these questions? I told you I didn't do anything.

I want to go home.

Can you please call my parents? I want to see them I'm afraid we can't do that right now [gate shuts]


- Is it one of them?
- I don't know, we may have missed something.


- A detail, an attitude
- I'm on it.


- What do we do?
- They stay for the night.

One of them could start talking.


- The parents won't like it.


- They're all over 18.


- [Hermann]

People will talk.


- What do you want me to do?
- And now?
- [Roman]

You wait.

[Roman]

We'll get in touch.

I could turn you in.

[Cora]

sh*t, it's my mom [car door opens]

[car door shuts]

Where were you? With Roman.

You didn't have a minute to answer my calls? It's my fault, ma'am.

Time flew so fast.

Keep in touch.

[motorbike engine starts]


- [dog barking]


- What? Who's this? Come on, he's a friend.

Enough with your questions! You understand I was worried, right? A boy from the high
-school got k*lled last night,
- during his All
-nighter.


- [owl hooting]


- Who?
- [Laurène]

Alexis Petour.

[Laurène]

We don't know what happened yet.

[Laurène]

Did you know him? A little, not much Bleak [unsettling music playing]

See you tomorrow.

[feint whispering in the wind]

[gasps]

[dramatic music playing]

[Laurene shouting]

[Thomas]

Help! [Sophie laughs]


- [Eloi]

He's already had enough!
- [Simon]

No? We got to see this! [Thomas]

Guys! I'm not kidding! Come over here! [Thomas]

Help me! [Simon]

We got to see this.

Give me that phone! [Thomas]

Come on! Untie me
- I'm begging you
- [Simon]

We're good [Thomas]

XXX [Sophie screams]

Wait! Can I help you? No.

You keep studying.

You don't need to deal with this sh*t.

[Simon shouting]

f*ck! Sophie! [sinister music playing]

[Thomas]

Wait! Guys f*cking crows.

[lively rock music playing]

[Laurène]

What about you? The guy with the 'stache? Do you like that? He's fat! Hold on Got one! The dude in the leather jacket? Kind of cute, right? No.


- He doesn't have that local vibe.


- No.

[Laurène]

Looks like a man who'll buy you a beer to hump you outside.

That's exactly my type.

Will you excuse me?
- [Anna]

She'll never change!
- It's just Leila.


- So?
- [Leila]

It's all good!
- Meaning?
- Meaning "it's all good"! [man]

May I buy you a beer? [man]

And another couple for me.

[Anna]

One at a time! I'm sorry though, gotta go.

I got to work early tomorrow.


- Have a good one.


- You too.


- Good night.


- Good night.

[man]

Your friend told me you're the local sheriff Yup Is that why no one flirts with you? You scare them?
- Are you scared of me?
- I'll take that risk.

sh*t Disaster avoided.

[door clicks open]

You OK? [Lea]

What do you think? Hang on in there.


- We'll find her.

I know it.


- [Lea]

Yeah, right, I just need to pray except we don't have a church.

I don't need your pity.

You'll soon get what you wanted.

[Lea sniffs]

I've seen you around Bertrand!
- [Lea]

You both think I'm stupid
- Stop talking nonsense.

[Lea]

Yeah, as if you wouldn't love to! [door squeaks open]

[door closes]

[man]

I'm sorry about what happened earlier.

Don't worry about it.

But I got to be going.

[whispered speech]

[car engine starts]

[slow rock music playing]

[Steiner speaking softly]

[man]

Mister Mayor! Hey! When are you gonna ban All
-nighters? [man]

Let's wait for another kid to get k*lled! Now is not the time to talk about this.

Oh yeah? Why is my son still being held? [man]

He didn't do sh*t.

I said it's not the time for this, I mean it! It's on my mind, though! [Sabine]

It would be a mistake to ban it, Bertrand.

It's one of the last things that connects us to the forest.

Everybody knows that.

[calming music playing]

[Sabine]

It has always kept us warm, fed, and has protected us when we needed it A pact binds us together.

a flimsy, private pact, that we all build ourselves.

[Sabine]

It bestows us with its life force, its power, and even, occasionally, its v*olence.

We cut that link and we lose a part of us.

It's easy for you to say that: you didn't lose a kid in the woods.

[feint whispering in the wind]

[Simon]

I can't believe it! Sophie! [Simon]

What the hell happened? [screaming]


- Hello!
- Hello!
- [Eloi]

This is so lame!
- [Simon]

You mean it's awesome? [Eloi]

It could've ended badly.

Did you spend the night outside and bathe in a lake? [Laurène]

Did the kids talk? They keep saying they didn't k*ll Alexis, and it seems they didn't get much sleep.

[Hermann]

We can start a club then.

I spent my night watching the footage.


- [Simon]

First off, I need to get up.


- [Eloi]

Sophie, tag along.

Watch this.

Are you coming with me? [Hermann]

Nine minutes in, Simon left to water the daisies.

[Hermann]

Twenty minutes later, Eloi left to gather wood.

[Hermann]

And a little later, Sophie left to get them a drink.

[Hermann]

So, anyone of them could've done it.

I won't be able to keep them here much longer.

[Camille]

XXX Very well.

It was the hospital.

Thomas Milon's feeling better, he's getting out.

[unsettling music playing]

Shall we go? [Simon]

Come on Sophie! You're gonna cry? Wait! Rewind it a bit.

Stop.

What's that shadow there? A tree.


- A moving tree?
- [Franck]

It could be the wind.

No, that's a deer A young roebuck.


- A what?
- [Hermann]

A roebuck, a roe deer buck.

[Laurène]

It wasn't a deer that k*lled Alexis.

Nor was it a tree.

There's someone there.

Or something.

[music intensifies]

[music stops]

[elevator pings]


- Can we talk to Thomas, please?
- [Mr.

Milon]

Not now.


- We need to understand what happened.


- Well, he needs some rest.

[Franck]

One friend dead, the others in a cell It's a pressing matter for everyone in town.

Did you see anyone while you were tied up? I heard something behind the trees.


- Several times
- Did you see anything? I wasn't facing the right way but the noise got closer at one point near Alex.

Alexis had a new girlfriend.

You were his best friend, you know her? He never talked about her.

Since they started dating, he wouldn't wait for me after school.

[Mrs.

Milon]

So, you got what you were looking for? Thank you, Thomas.

Alexis went through a lot of trouble to hide his girlfriend.

There is no trace of her on the phone records.

They had to have a way to contact each other.

We need to free the other three before we have a riot on our hands.

[Laurène]

Are you coming? Now that I'm here, I might as well do a quick medical checkup.

Right.

Because of your allergy to Villefranche? [Franck]

Spot on.

[sinister music playing]

[Franck]

Hello.

Frank Siriani, District Attorney.

I need some medical records.

[phone ringing]

[nurse]

Well, well, well Is there a name? It was about 20 years ago.

A young woman who was taken in after an accident in the woods.

Laurène Weiss.

[Rudy]

Why did you say you wanted to join them? Are you out of your mind? I was scared.

I just blurted it out.

You're gonna own up and tell your mom, right? [calming music playing]

OK.

Go see that nut job Roman in his library, give him his f*cking books back and say: "Sorry, I don't want to be in your g*ng of lunatics.

" I can't do that.

I need to wait for him to call me back.

Why do you want to go back? I think I know where Marion is.

[Cora]

She's being held in a truck guarded by a dog.

[Gloria]

That's your stop, lady.

There you go.

Alexis asked me to drop him off here at 5:45, every day after school.

[Gloria]

Such an ugly way to go.

He was never a problem.

No one's ever a problem on your bus, Gloria.

Those who are get to walk home!
- [Gloria laughs]


- Yeah, right.

What was he doing around here?
- A phone booth in this town?
- [Gloria]

The last one.

There's no cell phone coverage around here, so when the phone company came for the booth, people fired at them.

I was there And you didn't do anything? They were coming for our booth! [reflective music playing]

[Bertrand]

We will never forget Alexis.

[Bertrand]

None of us will forget his smile, his love of life.

[Bertrand]

The All
-nighter was meant to put him on the path to adulthood, but unfortunately, it spelled his death.

[Bertrand]

I know to us Villefranche people, this tradition has always been of the utmost importance.

When you elected me to be the mayor of this town, you trusted me with a mission, and it includes protecting our children.

[Bertrand]

So I can no longer tolerate that the forest takes the people we love.

[Bertrand]

This is why I have decided to ban All
-nighters indefinitely.

[man]

This is an outrage! Such a load of bull! Come on, let's go.

He didn't waste any time.

There you go.

We got the records from the booth.

[Nounours]

The same number was often called around 5:45 PM.

[Nounours]

We'll call it to check whose number it is.

[sinister music playing]


- I don't want to wait.


- What? [crows squawking]

[phone ringing]

[Mrs Milon]

We watched Alexis grow up.

He was always at our house.

It wasn't supposed to happen I wanted it to stop right away, but Alexis wouldn't let go.

He said I was beautiful, that he wanted to be with me [Mrs.

Milon]

I knew I was wrong, but it made me feel good.

[Mrs.

Milon sighs]

Do you realize that makes your husband the main suspect now? We watched our backs.

I don't think he knew.

Are you really sure about that?
- There you go.


- Thanks.

"I took a shovel, I got close to that little bastard and I bled him.

" It's a bit blunt, but it's straight to the point.

[door slams shut]

Hello.

[Franck]

Mister Mayor.

Congrats.

Making an arrest during a funeral, great job.

You're sure it was him? [Franck]

He just confessed everything.

[Bertrand]

OK.

If he confessed, then Case closed.

You don't seem convinced, Major.

[Laurène]

He was a bit vague on many points He can't remember where he hid the w*apon.

Did he or did he not confess? [Franck]

You think he's covering for someone? I don't know.

His wife was in town, his son was tied up So who was that on the footage? I don't know.

We've got to keep digging.

[Laurène]

I think we need a reenactment.

[Bertrand]

That's out of the question.

You're always contradicting me.

[Bertrand]

These people can't go through this again, it can't happen! [Laurene[ What I want, is to solve this case.

[Laurène]

What is it that you want, Bertrand? It would be nice if you didn't let some rando in a bar hit on you.

Who do you think you are? You know what? [Franck]

Let's do the reenactment.

Yeah.

[light music playing]

[sinister music playing]

OK, good.

Now, Mr.

Milon, show us where you hid the shovel.

[Mr.

Milon]

It was dark and I fled And I think it was over there.

[Mr.

Milon]

No, wait.

It was over there.

Are you sure? There you go.


- What else did you expect?
- He's not the person in this pic.

Who do you think it is, then? Is it a wrap, then? [unsettling music playing]

[Franck]

Sorry about your dad.

But, come on, your mom sleeping with Alexis, it must've made you mad, right? [Franck]

Whenever your dad and yourself had your backs turned, bam, she'd be getting laid with your best friend.

[Franck]

You didn't catch them doing it, did you? Oh Because no one would want to see their mom being well, you know
- Shut up!
- [Mr.

Milon]

Don't say anything, Thomas! [Franck]

What was he doing to her? I'm sure you remember it all.


- f*cking assh*le!
- Thomas, don't! Your mom must have some tricks up her sleeve Do you think I have a chance? Maybe she's only into younger men?
- Will you shut your f*cking mouth!
- Come on! Stop! [Thomas]

Let go of me! You did this in our home, you slut! [Thomas]

When I k*lled that son of a bitch, he kept saying he loved you
- [Thomas]

f*ck off!
- [Franck]

Enough! [Thomas]

Get off me!
- [Franck]

Calm down.


- [Thomas]

Get the f*ck off me!
- [Franck]

Thomas, stop!
- [Thomas]

Let go of me! [Mrs.

Milon sobs]

[Laurène]

We'll take care of you.

[Camille]

Please come with us.

The knot that was used was a boat hitch.

A mooring knot.

They're easy to do and undo.

Simon Lavigne was probably involved.

I never saw you as the old sea dog type.

I never set foot on a boat.

By the way, you can be a real jerk when you need to.

I'll take this as a compliment.

[somber music playing]

[sinister music playing]

[dog barking]

Why did I have to bring my bow? [Roman]

For later I need to show you something first.

We'll show the Steiners who call the sh*ts from now on.

[Lea]

So, you've made your decision Yeah, I need a break or I'm going to lose it, I'll go insane.

[melancholic music playing]

[Bertrand]

But I want you to come with me.

Just the two of us for a few days, to give us a chance.

[suspenseful music playing]


- [Cora]

Is it the Steiners' car?
- Get the arrows out.


- What are you doing?
- Just a precaution.

In case you'd want to talk to your mom.

[Roman]

Now you're really part of our g*ng.

[music intensifies]

[music abates and stops]

[sinister music playing]

[voices over video]

[calming music playing]

[intense musical bang]

[light music playing]