05x03 - Mandala

[bunniefuu]

OVERTONE SINGING,
GRUNTING IN PAIN/FEAR

. . .

GASPS

AUDREY: Maxime?

Are you all right?

MAX:
No. No, it's that nightmare again!

I swear, I'm going to lose it!

- Yes, Max, we can't continue like this,

because I can't continue like this.
- Sorry, I know. Sorry.

I'll find a solution, all right?

- Yeah.

NICO: Hi.

How are you?
RAPH: I'm fine.

- We haven't talked about what happened.

I think it would be good if we did.

- Maybe if we don't talk
about it, Nico? It’s all good, huh?

- It's not nothing either,
it’s still a trauma.

- You're being dramatic.

- Raph, please-
- Nico, I'm telling you, everything's fine.

Astrid, are you doing well?

- Good morning. Yes.

NICO: Good morning, Astrid.
- Good morning, Capt Perran.

RAPH: What's making the
commissioner gesticulate like that?

Do you understand anything they're saying?

CARL: Coste?

- Sorry.

- I'd prefer having this
conversation in private.

- But Astrid-
- See you later, Captain.

CARL: This is Maxime Rivière.
- Hello.

- Hello.

CARL: Maxime's a very close friend.
- Hello, Mr Rivière.

CARL: Maxime, er, AHEM

uh, saw a m*rder.

- Oh?
Where and when?

- Actually, he didn't really
see it with his own eyes.

- Commissioner, the eyes are the only
organs in the body that allow us to see.

To my knowledge it is only possible
to see with one's own eyes.

- He saw it in a dream.

- You're asking me
to investigate a dream?

- Yes, but Maxime has had this dream

every night for months.
I'm simply asking you to listen, Coste.

He may have witnessed a homicide

without understanding what he was seeing.

- OK, Astrid, take notes.
Go ahead.

SIGHING
- Thank you.

It may sound crazy, but,
it happens with crazy precision.

I see a Buddhist monk, with the
burgundy robe, shaved head and everything.

He has a big scar on his cheek.

A bloodstain appears on his
side and it gets bigger and bigger.

I see him on his knees.

LAUGHS

- This m*rder has already
happened. I know the file,

it took place on May 20, 1996, exactly.

- When, you say?

- May 20, 1996. Mm-hmm.

- That's my date of birth.

MAX:
It's him, he's the monk from my dream.

ASTRID:
Lama Norbu was a Tibetan monk,

exiled in France starting October 19, 1994.

He resided in a monastery
of an order in Ile-de-France.

Lama Norbu was found dead
on May 20, 1996 at 6:23 am,

in the forest surrounding the monastery.

- There are a lot of drug
addicts living in that forest.

Apparently there were often problems.
MANDALA

- Exactly.
An individual who died of an overdose

was found near the monk's body.

This individual had the
victim's personal effects on him.

Already having convictions, investigators

concluded that he
was the culprit in this m*rder.

CARL:
According to the autopsy report,

the victim was first injured in the stomach

with an unidentified pointed object.

ASTRID: Yes, a chiseled tip,

but that's not what k*lled him.

The victim died after
suffering a severe concussion,

caused by repeated blows to his skull.

- I also see a kind of sun,

and an old green ship's wheel—

—you know, like on old wooden boats.

- You never told me about that, Max.

- Mm-mmm.

CARL: You say it's green?

- Yes.

- Okay, come with me.

- Where are we going?

- To the monastery. Something
like this needs to be checked out.

ASTRID: Thank you.

- Tell me, Astrid. Er...

Has Raphaëlle spoken to you lately?

- We talked in the car, on the way here.

- I mean, has she confided in you?

- About what?

- About...
about her lost baby.

- We haven't talked
about it since she told me.

- Even at your Monday dinner?

- Raphaëlle canceled Monday
dinner, invoking an emergency,

in accordance with
our cancellation protocol.

GYANTSE: Carl,

what a pleasure to see you again!

- 'Carl'? All right.

Do you know each other?

- May I present Gyantse Rinpoche,
the lama at the head of this monastery.

GYANTSE:
Are you coming for the mandala?

We started it this morning.

- No, Rinpoche. After 7 years
I'm here as a police officer.

Could we see the library?

- Of course. Come in.

OVERTONE SINGING

CARL: It's a mandala.

Some see it as a work of art, but

for them it's a spiritual practice.

When it's finished they will destroy it.

- Why destroy a work that is
so complex and long to complete?

- To remind us of the
impermanence of all things,

calling us to let go.

- 'Let go.'

- That is to say, accepting
that we cannot plan everything.

- This seems particularly
difficult to accept, to me.

SINGING BELL CHIMES

RAPH: What are they doing?

- Tibetan bowls are sacred ritual objects

for Buddhists, and in this monastery

each monk spends time choosing his bowl,

that he personalizes
and keeps all his life.

RAPH: Wait, each monk
keeps his bowl all his life?

CARL: Yes.

- You know a lot of things.

- Yes, Coste, I'm Buddhist.
- [Oh, sh*t!]

You're Buddhist, seriously?

Do you meditate and everything?
- Yes.

How do you think
I can stand you?

MAX: The ship's wheel.

Like in my dream.

- It's a dharma wheel.

Gyantse Rinpoche,
aren't they usually yellow?

- Yes, to my knowledge
this is the only green one.

In France, anyway.

RAPH: Maxime, are you
sure you've never been here?

- Absolutely certain.

I was born in Peru and came back to
France a few years ago for my studies.

Really, I didn't know
this place even existed.

- Maxime, you're sure you saw this wheel
in your dream at the time of the crime?

- Commissioner, you're
not thinking what I'm thinking?

- We need to check, Coste.

If Maxime really saw
this wheel in his dream,

perhaps it's because
Lama Norbu was m*rder*d here.

It would call into question
the entire investigation.

FORENSICS: The traces
are faint because they're old,

but it must have been
dripping with blood here.

We'll check, there's a great chance
we're at the primary crime scene.

- Thank you.

I have enough information to ask
the prosecutor to reopen the case.

- In 1996, the drug
addict was so obvious

that they didn't think of
looking inside the monastery.

- What are you thinking?

- Have you ever heard of...

...reincarnation, Coste?

- Yeah, it's the soul surviving after death,

I know it's a Buddhist thing.

CARL: It's not a soul as
we generally understand it, it's...

...the "samsara."

The eternal cycle of rebirths.

Maxime was born the day
Lama Norbu was m*rder*d.

- Maxime is the reincarnation
of the victim? Ah...

CARL:
If you're simply saying nothing proves

that this explains his dream,

nothing proves that it doesn't.

- You've spent too much
time with Astrid, Commissioner.

ASTRID: Here.

We need to carry out tests on this object.

This slightly rounded
chiseled point perfectly matches

the description in the autopsy report.

FORENSICS: Traces of blood.
ASTRID: Hm-mmm!

There is consistent evidence suggesting

it could be one of the m*rder weapons.

TETSUO: Hello, Astrid.

Gilles let me in.

- Tetsuo.

I don't have much time.

I must take a copy of
this file to the Crime Squad.

- I just came to tell you that

I'm taking my plane the
day after tomorrow for Tokyo,

at 4:40 pm.

- So, we won't play our Go game on Friday.

- No.
I just wanted to say

goodbye before leaving.

- All right.

Goodbye.

- Goodbye, Astrid.

- This "chakpur" has been
in our monastery since 1994.

We inherited it after
the death of Tulku Lingpa.

It's a great honor for us.

CARL: This was him.

Tulku Lingpa was a great Tibetan master,

he stood up to the Chinese
and united the Tibetan resistance.

- He is a very important figure for us.

Unfortunately, we have
not yet found his reincarnation.

- Ha, all right.

And how do we... get our hands on, uh,

a reincarnation?
- Ah!

- As he nears the end
of his earthly existence,

the lama leaves behind writings

providing signs to recognize
the child in whom he will be reborn.

MURMURS APPROVINGLY

- And what did Tulku Lingpa write?

- He'd be reincarnated in the setting of 'a mountain between two streams.'

- Pretty.
- Mm-hmm.

- Pretty, but not precise.

SHRUG-MURMURS

I'm not surprised it's
hard to find a reincarnate.

- Did you bring us the list

of monks who were at the
monastery when Lama Norbu died?

- Yes of course, here it is.

- It's your play, Coste.

- Lama Loden only speaks Tibetan?

THANGPA: Not only that.
Lama Loden is mute from birth,

this fills him with wisdom.

Lama Loden says of Lama Norbu
that he was a being of peace,

deeply devoted to others.

He helped many young people in difficulty.

- Were there some who
came to the monastery?

- Yes.

He had a very positive
impact on some of them,

like Lama Thokmé, for example.

THOKME: It is thanks to Lama Norbu

that I found meaning in my life,

after years in a home.

Today, I'm the one who takes care of
helping young people find their way.

I followed his path.

- I see from the register that
a young man named Nelson Pradier

left the monastery just
after the death of Lama Norbu.

- Yes, he helped prepare meals.

But a life entirely devoted to
enlightenment was not for him.

- So, you're saying that Nakshu
Rinpoche, the head of your monastery,

had strictly banned access to the temple,



- Correct, he never told us why.

- Thanks for your availability, thank you.

- Thank you, thank you.

Oh, excuse me!

Lama Loden wants to
be sure of what you said.

The m*rder of Lama Norbu did
indeed take place inside the temple?

- Yes. The m*rder*r
first struck with the "chakpur,"

and hit him violently
on the head several times.

RAPH: He then moved
the body outside the temple,

to make people
believe in a false lead.

- Lama Loden said the m*rder*r
must've had a lot of anger inside him—

—like you.

- Like me?
- Yes.

Lama Loden senses
things, and people's auras.

He feels your anger.

- I- I'm doing very well, sir.

Thank you, sir. Lama. Thank you.

- So our victim is a monk
who has never made waves,

as pacifist as the Dalai Lama.

- And who helped lots of
young people with difficulties.

- That's not going to
help us find a motive.

- We still know that Nakshu Rinpoche,

the monastery leader, hid something

in the room where Lama Norbu was k*lled.

Do you think it's related to his death?

- Maybe, but he was
the only one who knew

what was hidden in
the room, and he died.

- Nico's questioning Pradier,
the monk who left at the time.

NELSON: Lama Norbu.

Quite a paragon.

He was like a father to me.

When I met him I was adrift, as they say.

He offered me a job
in the monastery kitchen.

It did me good, letting me-

- Why did you leave the
monastery just after his death?

- Well, I was there for him,

I had no reason to stay
when he was no longer there.

- Nakshu Rinpoche had
banned access to the temple



Do you know what
was hidden there, or—?

- No.

- Oh, no! You mean who he was hiding.

- What do you mean, 'who'?

- Nakshu Rinpoche asked me
to prepare 2 extras at each meal.

I had to put them on a tray

for Lama Loden to collect. And then-

- Hold on: Lama Loden,
you're sure about that?

- Oh, yes, sure. Why?

- [Okay.] Thanks.

ASTRID: What does the umbrella mean?
THANGPA: It's a parasol.

It symbolizes the activity
which protects men from

all evils, especially suffering.

But Lama Loden, who supervises
the creation of the mandala,

likes to associate the symbols
together to reinforce their meaning.

Here, for example,

the parasol and the
two yellow and green carps

mean that we must get rid of suffering,

to achieve healing.

MOBILE VIBRATES

. . .

. . .

- I'm sorry, I-

Hello?

[Raphaëlle?]

- Astrid, are you still at the monastery?
- Yes.

- You should keep an eye on Lama Loden,

ensure he doesn't leave the monastery,

I'm sending a team to arrest him.

- Ah! Lama Loden does not

participate in creation
of the mandala right now,

I don't know where he is.

- Listen, Astrid. Nakshu Rinpoche
hid two people in the temple,

and Loden knew. Why?
Because he brought them food.

He was careful not to tell us.

- Raphaëlle?

- Yes, what's going on?
- I think I have found Lama Loden.

It is indeed Lama Loden.

He will not leave the monastery grounds,

and that is a certainty.
- Good.

- You will not be able to
question him, and that is a certainty.

- All right, but why is that?

- He is dead.
- Oh...

- He jumped from the 1st floor.

- Suicide, it may be an admission of guilt.

He could've been afraid of being
exposed as Lama Norbu's m*rder*r.

ASTRID:
Lama Loden did not commit suicide.

- Why do you say that, Astrid?

- The petals.

From the window, there and there.
p*nsy petals.

- Yes, on the balcony.

They clung to his robes when
he climbed over the railing.

- If Lama Loden had climbed over the balcony

to throw himself into the void,
the petals would have stuck

to the front of his robes.
They are stuck to the back.

RAPH: He was pushed?

- Yes.

Afterward the k*ller turned him over

to make it look like suicide.
But it was m*rder.

- Fournier established the presence of

subdural edema low on the neck.

This is his confirmation
of Astrid's hypothesis.

- The hypothesis that the m*rder*r of

Lama Loden was the same as Lama Norbu 28 years ago.

- Right. He would want to protect himself
because Lama Loden could identify him.

- Okay. Astrid, could you
do further research

ATTENTUATED
in your files?

ATTENTUATED
Maybe we can find similarities.

SAMI: Astrid?

You're not responding to Cmdr Coste?

ATTENTUATED
- Astrid?

- You shouldn't be here.

ATTENTUATED
- Are you okay, Astrid?

- You shouldn't be here.

You should leave.

Now.

LANDLINE RINGS

. . .

. . .

- Uh... Ahem...

...Something doesn't add up.

All the Tibetan monks who live at
the monastery have applied for asylum.

All except the first victim, Lama Norbu.

- OK, well keep looking in this
direction. Nico, anything else?

- Uh, maybe.

Uh, in April or May 1996,
the two months preceding

the death of Lama Norbu,
Lama Loden and Nakshu Rinpoche

made trips to Briançon,
the last one was on May 14.

- Try to find out why
they made all these trips.

I'm going to see Astrid.
- Wait, Raph.

- What?
- Don't worry.

You know Astrid, she's
used to this type of exit.

- No, something's wrong.

I can be reached on my mobile.

WILLIAM: Astrid? What's going on?

- It's started again.
- What are you talking about?

- I am subject to epileptic seizures.

WILLIAM: My God.

I didn't know.

- I never told you.

My last attack was when I was 18.

I haven't had one since.

It started again.

- You had a seizure?
- Mm-mmm.

I saw Sami.

- Sami? The boy who
came to the workshop?

- Yes.

Only he couldn't be there.

It was a complex focal seizure.

This causes hallucinatory
phenomena and motor shutdown.

These crises are arbitrary.

Random.

Unpredictable.

- Astrid?

I've been looking
for you everywhere.

I even went to see the
doc, but I couldn't find you.

So I called William.

We talked.

These are epileptic seizures,
what are happening to you.

Should I call a doctor?

Astrid?

I feel helpless, what can I do?

- [Nothing.]

- [All right.]

- Thank you.

- Are you feeling better, Astrid?

- Yes.

I'm full of beans.

- Good! Great,
that reassures me.

I don't ... I don't
like it when you're ill.

- It's normal.
You are my friend.

A friend doesn't like
to see her friend ill.

Right, Raphaëlle?
- Mmm.

- Raphaëlle?

- Yes?

- You lost your bean.

Your embryo, your baby.

So I thought...
you might need...

to have this bean.

The day I found Lama Loden's body,

I saw new symbols on the mandala,

Tibetan characters that appeared
before Lama Loden disappeared.

There is a body of consistent
evidence which seems to

indicate that he
was ex*cuted in haste,

without using the "chakpur."

- As if he had wanted to
convey a message in a hurry?

- It's possible.

THANGPA:
These are Tibetan characters.

RAPH:
What do they mean exactly?

- That's what's surprising, in this order

the characters don't mean anything.

RAPH: Oh.

Uh, I'll be right back, Astrid.

Commissioner?

What are you doing there?

- Maxime is disturbed
by this story of reincarnation,

he asked to take a test.

- A test?

- Yes.

Gyantse Rinpoche is
showing him various objects,

some of which belonged to Lama Norbu.

If Maxime recognizes one of them, it's

a sign that he is the
reincarnation of Lama Norbu.

AUDREY: Maxime, it doesn't make any sense.
- Mom,

I need to know if I'm
the reincarnation of this lama.

- It doesn't make sense, it's ridiculous.

- [I tend to agree with the mother.]
MOTHER SIGHS

METAL RINGS
MAX: Oh!

GYANTSE:
Among all the objects presented,

this "dorje" is the only one
that belonged to Lama Norbu.

- And this object emitted
a metallic vibration as it fell,

as if it were made
up of several pieces.

- You are wrong, surely.
- Mm-mmm.

- The "dorje" are traditionally forged from

a single piece of metal.
ASTRID: Mm-mmm.

Er, Cmdr Coste?

- Well yes, take... Can
she pick it up, touch it?

- You are welcome to.

- Thank you.

Mm-hmm!

You were wrong.
You must not be wrong.

- That's strange.

GYANTSE: A "yuan bao."
RAPH: A what?

ASTRID: A "yuan bao." Mm-hmm.

- What is it?

- A Chinese lucky charm.

RAPH: Chinese?
GYANTSE: Yes, Chinese.

- It's not Tibetan? Chinese.
MOBILE VIBRATES

Ahem.

Yes Norah, yes?

- I couldn't find any trace of our victim

in the immigration services' files

because he was not Tibetan.

- Chinese?
- How do you know?

- We just discovered a small object,

"Made in China."

- Our 1996 victim, Lama Norbu,

is actually Chinese.

He became a Buddhist monk at a young age,

his vocation was

looking after an
orphanage for a long time.

But in the 1990s, in a big turnaround,

he got closer to the
Chinese Communist Party

and then went to live in Tibet.

He notably participated in
the repression of the Tibetans

during the Lhasa riots.

During the clashes between the Chinese
and Tibetans he was injured on the cheek.

- The Chinese government
turned him against the Tibetans.

RAPH: To make him a spy?

An undercover spy,
at the monastery? It's a bit...

- It's plausible. At the time
Tulku Lingpa had just died, the Chinese

wanted to block the Tibetans
by pointing to his reincarnation.

ASTRID: The individual whose
reincarnation the Tibetan monks sought,

at 'a mountain between two streams.'

- The Tibetans hadn't yet found theirs,

so the Chinese designated
one to take them by surprise.

NICO KNOCKS
DOOR OPENS

- The Briançon stationmaster at the time

remembers two Buddhist monks

with purple robes
who came several times.

Loden and Nakshu were
going to a village called La Grave.

- What's there?

- Not much, it's a
mountaineering resort, but

the tourist office
describes the village as,

'like a jewel case in the mountains
between several streams.'

- Captain, can you repeat that?

- Did I say something stupid?

ASTRID: Mm-mmm. You said,

'like a jewel case in the mountains
between several streams.'

- Yes...?

- Like the reincarnation prediction.

NICO:
So you think that Lama Loden could've

discovered the reincarnation
of Tulku Lingpa in La Grave?

- In any case, he believed it very strongly.

If we're talking about an individual
born at the time of the lama's death,

it had to be a child.
NICO: Yeah.

CARL: They would have
brought him back with them and

hidden him in the monastery.

It was who was hidden in the library.

- That would mean the nice Lama
Norbu, who's really a Chinese spy,

could've discovered everything
and received orders to eliminate him.

- Certainly, it gave the Chinese more
latitude to establish their authority

by putting through their candidate.

- Only, it was Lama Norbu who died,
not Tulku Lingpa's reincarnation.

- Okay.

INVESTIGATION FILE

ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE
CLEMENT BAILLEUL

RAPH:
An attempted m*rder in La Grave?

ASTRID: Yes.

Against Clément Bailleul,
a 2-year-old child.

His mother, Aurore Bailleul, filed
a complaint on March 29, 1996.

There. However, the
complaint was dismissed

because Aurore Bailleul and her
son left La Grave on May 14, 1996.

- That's exactly the
date of the last trip of-

- Nakshu Rinpoche and Lama Loden.

BOTH: Exactly.

- Hmm.

- There are clues indicating that
Aurore and her son followed them.

- That's why, they thought the
Baillleul child was their reincarnate,

that's why they hid the
mother and kid in the monastery.

- In the library.
RAPH: Yeah.

Dinner?

- Yes.

RAPH: "Bon app'."

- Mmm.

- Where are you with

your epileptic seizures?

- I haven't had a new attack,

but that doesn't mean
I won't have one again.

- Do we know why this suddenly
happened? I mean, why now?

- It can be caused
by a major emotional shock.

That's what the doctor
told me the first time I had it.

- Could it be because of the pregnancy?

- I thought about this hypothesis. Only,

there is no more pregnancy.

Maybe they are related
to Tetsuo's departure.

- Tetsuo is leaving?

- Tetsuo is going back to live in Japan.

- No no, he, he's going on vacation,

he's going to come back.
- Mm-mmm.

His scholarship was revoked,
he no longer has a residence permit.

This morning...

he came to say goodbye to me.

- Like that?

He said goodbye
to you like that, he-

Did he break up with you?

- He did not formulate
it that way, mm-mmm.

He simply informed me of his departure.

His plane leaves
tomorrow at 4:40 pm.

- And how...
did you take the news?

- We will no longer play Go.

I think I'm sad.

- I'm sorry, I can't believe it!

Why didn't you tell me about it earlier?

- Because— you didn't ask me.

Mmm.

- [[Sorry.]]

Hey?
- Hmm?

- Did you know about Tetsuo?

He's going back to
Japan, did you know?

- Astrid spoke to you?
- Yes, evidently she left out the best friend.

- Yeah, he got some visa sh*t.

- Visa sh*t? Oh, pull the other one!

It's not for a few days.
He wanted to leave, that's all.

- Oh, but we can understand, it
isn't necessarily easy for him either.

- Pardon?

'Supporting Astrid isn't easy'?
Is that what you're saying?

- Calm down, Raph, you're freaking out.

- I trusted him.

I thought he was a nice guy!

He's leaving her like that in a few days!

Can you imagine the state she's in?

- You know, I don't actually
even know h* dumped who.

- How so?

- He went over, told her
he loved her, she didn't answer,

she threw him out. There's
something confusing about it.

- Did he ask her?

- What?
- If she loved him.

- Uh- no, I don't think so, no.

NORAH: I looked into this
complaint identified by Astrid.

Look at what I found!

This is Aurore Bailleul, the person

who filed the complaint 28 years ago.

And this is Audrey Rivière,
the mother of the Commissioner's friend.

Not bad, right?

- First of all, it's the same person.

Wait!

You're telling me the
m*rder*d kid we're looking for,

the reincarnated one,

is Maxime, the Commissioner's friend?
- That's it.

RAPH: Ms Rivière,

don't you think this
woman looks a lot like you?

RAPH: And...

...your son Maxime— well, Clement, I mean.

He wasn't born on May 20, 1996,

he was born on December


DOOR OPENS

DOOR CLOSES

CARL: Audrey?

CARL: Look at Maxime.

CARL: He has nightmares
that've been ruining his life for months.

CARL: Audrey?

Your child is becoming a father himself.

CARL: You owe him the truth.

AUDREY SOBS

- That monk with the
scar, he wanted to k*ll him.

- Lama Norbu?

SNIFFLES

- I have always been very,

very close to Buddhist spirituality.
COUGHS

AUDREY: So when
. . .

Nakshu Rinpoche and
Lama Loden came to see me,

that my son was the
reincarnation of Tulku Lingpa, I-

I was very troubled.

I was afraid of this new
destiny for my little boy.

- And then there was this attempted m*rder

for which you filed a complaint.

- Yes.

The next day, they came
back to see me, to tell me that-

-how my little Clément was in danger.

that we had to get to safety
before he was officially designated.

- And they hid you at the monastery?

- Yeah.

In a room under lock and key.

Only Nakshu Rinpoche could open it.

But someone managed to get into the room.

A monk.

At first I thought he was sent by Rinpoche,

then I saw him getting ready-

-to hit my son with a, a "dorje."

- [The one that Maxime recognized.]

- I took what I found at hand, I-

-in the window, there was a "chakpur," I-

SOBBING
I stabbed him with it!

. . .

He fell to the ground,

I took my son in my arms and I left.

. . .

I didn't want to k*ll him,
I just took the "chakpur"-

RAPH: Ms Rivière, Ms Rivière,

you stabbed him to
protect your son, all right?

Then you hit him on the head
because he was chasing you.

- No, no no no, I didn't hit
him on the head, I stabbed him!

Then I ran away!

- If Audrey Rivière's telling the truth,

she couldn't have k*lled Lama Norbu.

- She just hurt him?

- Someone came and finished the job?

- Yes, someone who smashed Lama
Norbu's skull with extreme violence.

And he eliminated Lama Loden.

- Someone inside the monastery.

A monk.
CHIMING TEXT ALERT

Excuse me.
CHIMING TEXT ALERT

- The bowls.

- The bowls?
- The monks' bowls.

The monks want to erase the mandala,
they must not erase the mandala!

- What's this about bowls, Astrid?

- We must go to the monastery. Now.

- Right away?
- Yes.

- All right.

- We're going on ahead.
RAPH: Okay.

- Mm-mmm, do not touch,

do not sweep the mandala, mm-mmm.

NICO: Give me that.

- Lama Loden's message

is not a phrase, mm-mmm.

Excuse me.

Hm-hmm!

All these characters
were represented on the mandala

by Lama Loden, except this one.

I think Lama Loden wanted to draw

our attention to the bowl kept here.

- Which monk keeps his bowl in this spot?

- It’s Lama Thokmé.

- Hm-mmm!

- Etienne Locurteau,

ordained a monk under
the name 'Lama Thokmé,'

an orphan entrusted to the DDASS,*
* DEPT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES

you were bounced
* DEPT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES

between foster homes-

- Until I encountered Buddhism,

which saved my life.

- Buddhism, or Lama Norbu?

- I should have felt your anger.

I'm very angry too.

I experienced something... traumatic

And I acted like it was no big deal.

And you?

How do you live with your anger,

Lama Thokmé?

- Anger is an
illusion of the ego.

Buddhism teaches us the path

to finding peace.

CARL: It teaches us.

But our humanity can come out.

Uncontrollably.

Especially when someone disappoints you.

CARL: I imagine you a young man.

very battered.

You trust Lama Norbu.

He's a father to you.

CARL: Until the day you
catch him trying to k*ll a child.

- He ruined everything.

Lama Norbu had literally saved my life,

by teaching me to love others.

And suddenly, he was there,

injured, on the ground,

ordering me to chase a mother
and child who were running away,

ordering me to k*ll a child.

I have never seen so much
hate in someone's eyes.

- You hit him?

- I didn't understand anything anymore!

- You k*lled him with your bowl.

After the tragedy,

you made it disappear
by pretending to misplace it.

- At the time, Lama Loden
recorded in his stewardship records

the purchase of a bowl for you.

RAPH: During our interrogation,
he made the connection

between the blows
to the head and the bowl.

- When he learned that the
m*rder occurred in the monastery

he knew you were the culprit.

- He was going to report you,

so you k*lled him.

- But he had time to point to you,

in the mandala.

THOKME: He saw my guilt,

it was impossible to lie to him.

We say in Tibetan,

TIBETAN

'I refrain from k*lling life.'

It is one of the five
precepts of Buddhism.

He told me that he wouldn't
report me if I left the monastery.

But I didn't want to leave.

I couldn't leave.

CARL: Thank you, Coste.

- I just did my job, huh?

- You trusted me.

- Are we sure your friend is
the reincarnation of Tulku Lingpa?

- I just know that his real
date of birth is December 14, 1994.

- Wait: the date of death of Tulku Lingpa?

- What do you think?

ASTRID: The mandala no longer exists.
RAPH: It was so beautiful.

Astrid?

How do you feel about Tetsuo leaving?

- I don't know.

Tetsuo has become much
more than a reference point for me.

I won't smell him anymore.

- Did you tell him that?
- Mm-mmm.

He didn't ask me.

- You know, not asking doesn't
mean he doesn't need to hear it.

- Oh.

- I think it's time to tell him.

SIREN
...

- Let us know how you are, OK?

NICO: And I'll give you
news about Astrid, I promise.

- You don't want to miss
your plane, we have to go, sir.

- Go on, go.

- Astrid?

- Raphaëlle drove very quickly.

She used her flashing light in a manner

not conforming with procedure,

in order for me to tell you something.

- Yes?

- I don't want to play Go with anyone else.

Contact with your skin is not unbearable.

I can look you in the eyes,

and I particularly appreciate

the convolutions of the
pupillary edge of your iris.

I love hearing you talk
about the golden ratio.

I remember precisely

the 476 kisses we exchanged.

You smell good.

There is a body of consistent evidence

which seems to indicate

that I love you.

- Nico, I wanted to tell you...
- No, Raph, it's okay, I know.

You don't want to talk about it
anymore, I understand, it's OK,

I shouldn't have insisted, don't worry, OK?

- I need to talk about it.

I didn't want to see it, but-

even if I can't imagine
having another child one day, I-

I wanted this child.

I wanted it because it was with you.

TETSUO: I'll be back very soon

to play Go with you.

I promise.

I'll come back.

JAPANESE
I'll definitely come back.

- I'll make some tea.

RAPH YELPS

- Oh!

Close the door!

Have we already done it on the table?
- Three times.

SHE GASPS

- Wait!

- Go ahead, go ahead.

Go ahead.
PATRICIA: Hello, darling!

- Mom?

LAUGHS

Uh, how did you- how did you get in?

- Your babysitter was
very accommodating.

Won't you introduce me?

- Uh... Nico.
- Nicolas.

- Nice to meet you, Nicolas. Patricia.

- She's Patricia my mother, she's my mom.
- Yes, it's the mom.

- Should I make tea?

- Why not! Thank you, Nicolas!

So, darling... Happy?