06x07 - La.Veuve

[bunniefuu]

FANNY: Sir? Sir, I have a
flat tire, can you help me?

My car is a ways down there.

- Sorry, I can't leave my post.
- Please!

Have you seen the time? If I call
a repairman, it'll cost me a fortune!

I have a spare tire in
the trunk, but I'm all by itself.

It won't take much time!

- I can't leave my post.
- Wait! It'll only take five minutes!

- Where's your car?
- It's right there!

Thank you again! Did it take too long?
- No, it's fine.



Softly
Oh f*ck!

Hey! Who's there?

You have no business being here!

Whoa!

Oh f*ck!

♪

VÉRO: Hello, Ms Nielsen.

- How do you know my name?

- Sorry, I saw it on
the organizational chart.
The Widow

- Ma'am, this is a

judicial archive space reserved
for a very small circle of individuals.

I don't understand what are you doing here.

- I'm authorized, don't worry.

Tell me...

Is this really the file from the
investigation into the Landru case?

- Do not touch, do not touch the file,
it's written on the spine.

ASTRID: The Henri Désiré Landru case.

Could you state your name, please ?

Véronique Beauvois. Sorry.
- Ah.

'Véronique Beauvois Sorry.'

- I head the national Judicial Data unit.

You're no doubt aware that, since
the tragic death of your last director-

- He was m*rder*d.

- ...your department has been
attached to the interministerial office.

I've been director of Criminal
Documentation for five years.

As well as other services.
- I know.

- I haven't taken the time to look
into Criminal Documentation until now.

- In five years, you didn't find the time?
- Yes, five years.

However, I am fascinated by your expertise.

So I've set up my office
on the premises for a few weeks.

I want to get to know
your department a little better.

{\an3}Mobile
vibrates

- My telephone, it's ringing.

Thank you for not
touching anything

under any circumstances,
I have to answer.

Yes? Hello, Raphaëlle.

Absolutely. I'm in the
Criminal Documentation office

with a lady, Ms Beauvois.
She's following me,

thank you for not following me.

I- I'll explain.

- Anyway, I was just wondering...
Tetsuo, have you seen him again?

- Yes, I saw Mr Hoshida again.

I don't call him
by his first name,

We've only just met.
- Oh! Really; all right.

You're pretending you don't know him.

- Mm-mmm, you know very
well that's not what I said.

Tetsuo Hoshida is the son
from a large Japanese family.

He knows Apu Tanaka quite well,
who owns the grocery store where I shop,

but he has no family connection with him.
- Hmmp.

Are you going to see him again?

- Yes. Mr Hoshida appreciates
the music of Johann Sebastian Bach,

I suggested to him
that we listen together.

- At your place?

- Mm-mmm. It would
be socially inappropriate

to invite a near-stranger
to my home, we only just met.

And we will meet in the park, on the
bench where we introduced ourselves.

- That's romantic.
- Your shoelace is untied.

- Oh! Yes, you're a love.

- Would you like
me to tie your
shoelace for you?

- No no no, really,
I'll manage;

I'll manage.

Well... I'd like that, yes.

- There, it's done. Hm-hmm!

Dad taught me how to tie my shoelaces.

- Thank you, Astrid. Shall we go?

- Yes.

ASTRID: Raphaëlle?

- Do we have the victim's identity?
NICO: Yes. He had his wallet on him.

Julien Zimmer, 40,
marketing projects manager

at the leading French toy retailer.

Say, are you aware of the
Commissioner's new protocol?

- Which protocol?
He laughs quietly

I hate him.

- Cmdr Coste,
wearing a protective suit

allows for maximum preservation
of the integrity of a crime scene.

Thank you, sir.

This clothing is perfectly
suited to the situation,

and the protective measures
for my backpack are in place.

- I think it suits you very well.

- I'm certain of it. Thank you, Nico.

So- no...

f*cking sh*t.

FOURNIER: Oh! Okay.

- Hello, Fournier.
- Hello and good morning,

Lieutenant, Captain, Commander.

- Hello, Dr Fournier.
- Hello, Astrid.

FOURNIER: So if you're
looking for the head, it's right there.

ASTRID: Hm-hmm!
RAPH: Well... and, um,

what did they use to behead him?

ASTRID: The soft tissues
were cut in a very clear way.

FOURNIER: Exactly.

ASTRID: There doesn't
appear to be any tear at the cut.

FOURNIER: Quite.
- There are also no

fractures to the neck bones.

- Therefore-?
- Therefore it means the victim

was decapitated using a guillotine.

- A guillotine?

FOURNIER: A guillotine.
ASTRID: Hmm.

FOURNIER: Or 'Climbs
Reluctantly Abbey,' if you prefer,

or 'cigar cutter,' a 'national
razor,' 'great widow.'

ASTRID: Dr Fournier, I
don't think that's the question,

there is no widow, cigar, or razor.

The guillotine is a decapitation-
based instrument of execution.

- Hold on, you're telling
me that this person

was guillotined
here in this building?

- Yes. There are three
types of bloodstains:

Projected stains, passive
stains, and transferred stains.

Here, is clearly a passive stain.

Blood flowed from the
victim's body after the decapitation.

Here, is a projected stain;

the neck was severed here.

Afterward, the heart
continued pumping until death,

causing significant blood loss.

- Couldn't have said it better.
- Hm-hmm!

- Charming.
ASTRID: I'm not sure that

"charming" is the appropriate
adjective, Cmdr Coste.

This is how the French state
carried out the death penalty until 1981.

There are many files in
Criminal Documentation, I know the files.

- Okay. So, in 2025,

this person was
beheaded by a guillotine.

I have a feeling the new
commissioner is going to love it.

- Yeah, he's gonna love it.

NICO: [No.] Thank you, Fournier.
FOURNIER: Come on.

VASSIEUX: You say it's three meters high?

And how much does it weigh?

- A guillotine can weigh
between 250 and 300 kg.

Scoff of disbelief
- Of...

Are you trying to tell me,
that a machine 3 meters high

and weighing 300 kilos,

was moved inside the
building to guillotine the victim.

Then it was taken out
again without anyone noticing—

—and in 30 minutes.
- In less than 34 minutes.

- Put like that, it does
seem rather impossible.

- Don't be afraid of the
word, Captain. It's impossible.

- Astrid thinks the victim-
Crosstalk

- ...was guillotined on the spot.
Yes, fine.

I understand, Coste.

Don't you think it's time to add
some method to your investigating,

rather than relying
on your teammates' hunches?

- Astrid doesn't operate on hunches.

She establishes the facts.

And our method here,
Commissioner, is the teamwork.

- 'The- '?

- 'The teamwork'!
VASSIEUX: Well there you go, perfect!

Would you be kind
enough to use this teamwork

to find out where the
victim was guillotined?

- It's been done: the victim
was guillotined on the spot.

- Good! Lt Nielsen-
- Don't yell.

...they couldn't lug around a guillotine!
- Don't shout.

To get it in and out of the crime
scene in 30 minutes doesn't add up!

- Don't yell.

- Excuse me, I think
she'd like you not to yell-

NICO: Raph? Raph?
- ...I think she asked you twice!

- What?
NICO: I have some things to show you.

NICO: Now.

- And I expect the official report of
your findings before noon, Coste!

Muttering
- Can't mess with me...
watching my every move...

- I wasn't mistaken, the
victim was guillotined on the spot.

- Astrid, you're not mistaken; it's him,
he doesn't know anything about this.

'JACKAL methods,'
I'll give him methods.

- I checked all the CCTV in the area,
even though we don't have many,

and I didn't see any vehicles

capable of transporting a guillotine.

- And the license plate of the woman
whose tire the guard helped change?

- Unreadable. And besides,
the description he gave us is no help.

- And the victim?
- Nothing exciting;

Julien Zimmer has no criminal record;

he was a model employee in the
marketing department for 15 years.

As for his phone records,
he called the office and his mother.

- 'Mr Clean-cut,' what else.

- Okay, let's continue
studying the victim's profile.

Search for all the guillotines you
can find, and we'll go see Fournier.

- Mm-mmm. The
Commissioner asked you

to hand in your
official report before noon.

It is 10:52.

- Yes? Well, the Commissioner will wait.

- Raph, I'll go to the ME
with Astrid if you want.

- All right. Okay, fine,
I'll get the report typed up.

- You have 1 hour and 7 minutes.

- Thanks for that.

- Oh!
NICO: Hi, Fournier.

- Hello again. Look!

I have this for you.

- What is this?
ASTRID: Hm-hmm!

These are metal residues. Hm-hmm.
- Yes, or more precisely,

these are residues of hardened
steel with a high carbon content.

- Did it come from the guillotine?
- Yes, or more likely, from the blade.

I've looked into this; this metal
alloy is typical of the 19th century.

- Okay.

- Mm-mmm.

There. On the neck,

there is a 1 cm tear

which wasn't visible at
the crime scene, mm-mmm.

- Yes, it's certainly fair to say
that the blade has a small defect,

but that's for the second report.

- The blade has a defect?
FOURNIER: All right, yes,

I'll even write it down now.

- Thank you, Fournier.

- Ms Nielsen!

- Ms Beauvois.

- Please, just pretend I'm not here.

- I can't pretend you're
not here, since you're here.

- I meant continue your work,
I don't want to bother you.

- You are bothering me.

- I don't know how you
manage to find your way around.

It's so vast!

How many levels are there exacty?
- Five.

- Oh my!

- Each floor being 1,750
square meters, that makes...

- 8,750 square meters.

- Yes. 8,750 square meters of archives.

It's fascinating.

I have to leave you. And with regret.

I hope we'll have the opportunity
to continue this little conversation.

Goodbye, Ms Nielsen!

NORAH: I found two guillotines.

One at the Police Prefecture Museum,
the other at the MuCEM in Marseille.

They checked, according to them
they haven't moved from the cellars.

- Okay. According to Fournier,

we're looking for a 19th century
guillotine with a defect on the blade.

- 19th and-?
NICO: Defect on the blade.

- Okay; working.

- Commissioner? A moment?

- I wasn't mistaken,
I didn't make a mistake.

May I?

- Go ahead.

What're you doing? This
isn't a puzzle workshop, is it?

- You're right, this is
not the puzzle workshop.

The puzzle workshop takes place on
the first Thursday of each month at 7pm.

To participate, you need to register.

I can give you contact details if you wish.

- That's all right, thank you.
- Ah.

- A technical drawing of
a Berger-model guillotine,

which I have cut up to aid comprehension.

This is the model which
beheaded Julien Zimmer

in less than 34 minutes
inside the disused building.

- We need to talk about that, I'm telling
you, the victim wasn't guillotined in situ.

- And I'm telling you 'yes'—
this model has a modular design

making it easy to
disassemble and transport.

I made a model.

This model is made up of 15 pieces:

the winder, the 'sheep,'
the blade, the lunettes,

the basket, the "bascule"-
- All right, we got it!

Crosstalk

- I'm not finished. There are fifteen.

- Yes, fifteen pieces, I understand.
- Mm-mmm, you didn't understand—

—fifteen guillotine bearers.

Yes. I did some calculations,

and if each piece is carried
by a different individual,

it is possible to assemble the
guillotine, carry out the execution,

then disassemble the
guillotine in less than 34 minutes,

inside the disused building.

'In situ,' as you say. I did not make
a mistake, do not make a mistake.

- Hold on: Are you trying to tell
me that there are 15 crazy people

walking around Paris, each
with a piece of a guillotine?

- I didn't say '15 crazy people,'
I said fifteen guillotine bearers.

- So, we need to find fifteen culprits.

ASTRID: Hm-hmm.

DELPHINE: Yes, they're
not all unbalanced people.

In my opinion, using the
guillotine makes sense to them.

- You mean they staged an execution?

- Precisely.
- Julien Zimmer has not committed

any crime identified by the police.

Furthermore, he doesn't appear in
any Criminal Documentation records.

- Or perhaps it's a crime
that went undetected.

- I was told the victim was
guillotined in a vacant building?

- Not quite, since the building was
under surveillance by a security guard.

DELPHINE: They didn't
choose the building at random.

There must be a link between them

and the crime they believe he's guilty of.

They've taken many risks,
otherwise your K*llers are organized.

They have a head, a
boss, someone who decides,

who brought them into his morbid scheme.

- So we need to find the head.

- And cut it off.

NORAH: I may have found the guillotine.

NICO: Where?
- Does 'Raymond Lenoir' ring a bell?

- Yeah, I saw it...

Here. He was the Hautes-Alpes
executioner from 1967 to 1991, right?

- That's right, the last
active executioner in France.


- 210!

A serial k*ller civil servant.

- The position of executioner
was passed down to sons,

Raymond Lenoir passed it
down to a son named Georges,

and Georges manages
his father's museum.

- His what?

- An unusual museum with a
collection of instruments of t*rture.

And?

- His dad's guillotine?
- A Berger with a slight

defect on the blade.
- Great, Norah! I'll call Raph.

GEORGES: I have insurance,
you know, it covers death.

- Deaths? Insurance?
What are you talking about?

- Insurance that covers
my professional activities.

- Cmdr Coste, I think Mr Lenoir

is talking to you about his
work as a neurosurgeon

at the Montfaucon Clinic.
- It's a precise profession,

and extremely risky;
a mistake can always happen.

And with society becoming Americanized...

- Yes, I understand.

Th problem is, you're not here
about the death of a patient, Mr Lenoir.

- Mm-mmm.

- Why then?
- You're here because you're suspected

for having used your guillotine
to execute a 'Julien Zimmer.'

- Pardon me?

- Just like your father did.

- My father did want
me to take over from him.

At age 16 I assisted him
in my first and last execution.

You know, seeing a jet of blood
spurt from a body being guillotined,

a head roll,

the eyes.

I will never forget the
condemned man's eyes.

They still blinked even though the
head was already detached from the body.

- I think we understand
each other perfectly.

- I wouldn't wish anyone to
witness an execution, Commander.

I don't cut off heads, I fix them.

- Hm-hmm.

RAPH: Yet what we're looking
for is your father's guillotine

You know, the one
you display in your museum.

- The one I could no longer
bear to have in my home?

That was sold at auction two months ago?

- Ah.

- Why didn't we get information
about this auction sooner?

- Because it's reserved for a circle of
connoisseurs, they avoid advertising.

Human rights groups have succeeded
in having this type of sale overturned,

so the rest are very discreet.

- Wait, is that legal?
- Yeah, perfectly legal.

- Why did that one cost so much?

- Because it cut off the heads of famous
people during the French Revolution.

- Oh yes, all right. And what
about Lenoir's? Where do we find it?

NORAH: This is it. And it sold
for a good price too, because

it beheaded the last person
condemned to death in France.

- Charming.

- I'm not sure 'charming'
is the appropriate term.

- It was sold by Arthur
Duplessis on February 26, 2025,

an auctioneer at an
auction house.Hm-hmm!

- 'Duplessis.'

ARTHUR: The auctioneer is
subject to a duty of confidentiality.

- Absolutely. This duty of confidentiality

is governed by Article R321-38
of the Commercial Code.

- That's right, yes,
you're well informed.

- Mr Duplessis, we're interested
in an auction you organized.

that you organized, during
which you offered a guillotine.

ARTHUR:
Absolutely, yes, I hated that sale.

My area of ​​expertise is 19th
century paintings, not t*rture devices.

But they do well.

The guillotine sold for over €250,000.

- And could we have the name of the buyer?

- I suppose you can
produce a warrant for me?

- Mm-mmm-
- Eh.

- Well,
I'll save us some time:

Typing
So... that guillotine was sold to...

Here it is.

Mr Xiao Wenzhing, a Hong Kong national.

But you'll have trouble getting in
touch, I had to use an intermediary.

- Oof! You'd be surprised at how

people suddenly become
available when the police call.

RAPH: What do you
mean 'it's not possible'?

- Listen, diplomatic relations
between Paris and Beijing

are on a knife's edge,
can you understand that?

- Mm-mmm.

- And you told Quai d'Orsay*
* Foreign Ministry

the suspect has some skeletons
in his closet, for violence?

And especially that he collects
t*rture devices? Did you say that?

Because we still have a guy
walking around chopping off heads!

- What do you think, Coste, that
I just stood back and watched?

I insisted, and my Foreign Affairs
contact will do what he can,

but Xiao Wenzhing is a very
high-ranking entrepreneur

who, unluckily for us, plays a
key role in the French economy.

- So French economic interests are
more important than Julien Zimmer's life.

- And that of Cyril Dupuy?

The body of a man named Cyril Dupuy
was found on the banks of the Marne.

He was guillotined.

Nervously
- Hm-hmm.

Peanut chicken, an Indonesian recipe.
RAPH: Mmm, I love it.

Mmp— I admire the way Astrid
erased Tetsuo from her memory.

- Is that really possible?
- Yes, I think it's similar to shock.

- It's horrible for Tetsuo,
can you imagine?

- Mmm, yeah...

Well, if you think
about it for five minutes,

I wouldn't mind forgetting you

in order to meet you again.
That's romantic.

He chuckles

- I'd be afraid you wouldn't
fall in love with me again.

- Why do you say that?
- No, stop Raph, you're being a pain! No!

I need the peanuts, it's 'peanut chicken'!

- Oh, it's fine, I'll peel some more.

- So...

- I don't want peanuts anymore.

[[I want you.]]

- No, wait Raph, you're being a pain!
- Yes!

Laughing

♪
Thema and Variations 1-5,
from Goldberg Variations

. . .

- It's crazy, Bach's music is-
- Mm-mmm!

. . .

You were about to interrupt him.

That's inappropriate. Now you can speak.

- Bach's music is like
mathematical reasoning:

initial hypothesis; the theme;

rigorous development; conclusion.

- They are also constructed
like mechanical puzzles. Hm-hmm!

Another one!

♪

. . .

NICO: Raph?
- Hmm?

- I did some research into
the execution sites like you asked-

- Delphine believes there is a
link between the execution site

and the supposed crime for
which they are being punished.

- Mm-hmm?

- Excuse me, Nico, sorry.
You were saying? Did you find anything?

- No. No, nothing. The warehouse
where Julien Zimmer was guillotined

has been vacant three years.
Before that it was an aeronautics company

that went bankrupt and dropped
off the radar with its records.

- Eh... and the riverbank crime scene?

- No, nothing special.
VASSIEUX: Coste!

Despite my directive you
contacted Delphine Simon
regarding your investigation?

- Yes. What's the
problem, Commissioner?

- The problem is this way of testing and
constantly challenging the hierarchy.

An investigation needs rules.

- Our m*rder*r isn't going to stop at
two executions, given how he's started.

And I can't seem to question
our suspect, Xiao Wenzhing.

So, the rules...

. . .

Is it because you're afraid
of upsetting your bosses

and jeopardizing your career?

Isn't that the real
problem, Commissioner?

- Is that all? Are you finished?

- Yes.

- So maybe you could look at
the text I sent you an hour ago.

- An hour?
Rustles papers

Rustles papers

Exaggerated sigh

Oh?
He's in the interview room?

VASSIEUX: He's in the interview
room. He's not happy at all.

Neither was the Quai d'Orsay.
I hope he's worth risking my career.

Contritely
- Thank you.

- Don't forget your
overdue reports either.

Door closes

- Yes, okay okay, he's very efficient.
But he's a pain with my reports!

- Although, if you
turned them in on time...

- We can't delay our reports.

- Oh- oh! It's all right, late reports
never hindered an investigation.

- What we'll do is, Norah and
I will take care of Wenzhing.

That way you'll have
time to finish your reports.

- Huh? No— are you serious?

Norah?

- [Buck up!]

- Do you realize the risk
you're taking by detaining me?

- What?

Are you gonna pillory us—
which you acquired in London in 2010?

Or maybe you'll tear us apart
with your rack— New York 2012?

Maybe we should put your spiked
collar around our necks, is that it?

- Hmmp. Well, it's not a crime
to possess these instruments.

- No, but only on the
condition that you don't use them.

Laughs

- I am a collector.
- Ah!

- And my collection is
very reputable in China.

{\an7}NICO: Stop
playing games!
You acquired a

{\an7}Berger model guillotine
two months ago.

{\an7}Berger model guillotine
two months ago.
Where is it?

- The guillotine?
Let me tell you:

I will no longer buy artworks in France.

Your administration kills me.
Worse than the Communist Party.

- Sorry, I don't understand.

- I'm still in France because

I'm waiting for permission
to take it out of the country.

Luckily the auctioneer who sold it to
me is helping me with the process.

He kindly rents me his warehouse

while waiting for the
situation to be resolved.

- Are talking about Arthur Duplessis?

- That's him.

He's a connoisseur of the guillotine.

And he explained to me
perfectly how to use it.

- What would motivate a guy
like Duplessis to guillotine people?

His taste for the morbid?
- Not just that.

Astrid researched him.
Duplessis is his mother's name,

his father's name is
Brubaker, Michel Brubaker.

- Yes. His name appears in a death
recorded in Criminal Documentation,

I found the file.
- And what did Brubaker do?

- Michel Brubaker managed
a prison in Île-de-France

from 1971 to 1982,
when he was m*rder*d

by Claude Bongeais, an inmate
who was serving a life sentence.

RAPH: That's exactly the case
anti-abolitionists used as an example.

Claude Bongeais should've
been beheaded in 1981,

but the death penalty
had already been abolished.

For them Michel Brubaker
was collateral damage—

—he wouldn't have been k*lled
if Bongeais had been ex*cuted.

You have an idea?
- What became of Bongeais?

- He died. In prison in 1996.

- I don't get why Duplessis
would seek revenge

on Julien Zimmer or Cyril Dupuy?

What do they have to do
with his father, the prison director?

- Ideology? Maybe Duplessis
doesn't want vengeance,

maybe he wants to
reinstate the death penalty.

- If he wants to reinstate the death
penalty with his sort-of armed militia,

how many heads will he cut off?

- We went to his office to summon
Duplessis, but the warehouse is empty.

No trace of the guillotine.
- Oh.

NORAH: Thanks, guys.
GUY: You're welcome, lieutenant.

Receding footsteps

Thunder

- Well! You really screwed us over.

- I don't see what you're talking about.

NICO: Ah- you hid that you had Mr
Wenzhing's guillotine in your warehouse.

- I, I, I forgot. I often
do that for my clients,

check it out.
- Mm-hmm.

The problem is that, as I speak to you,

the guillotine is no
longer in your warehouse.

- There was a theft. It happens!

- We took the liberty of paying
a little visit to your apartment.

A guillotine lunette was found.

From a Berger model.
Exactly like the one we're looking for.

The one who k*lled
two people, two innocents!

- They're criminals.

NICO: What are you accusing them of?

- They k*lled someone.
- Who?

Who's working with you, Mr Duplessis?

Who are the other guillotine bearers?

Know what I think? I think you found
some easily manipulated people,

each one discreetly moving
a piece of the guillotine!

- I manipulated no one!

- Yes! You have them under your
control. As head of the network,

you're taking a huge risk—
very huge!

ARTHUR: I'm not the head!

NICO: I don't believe you,

you're the one who hid
the guillotine from us!

- I did it for her!
- 'Her' who?

- The widow!

ARTHUR: Both of them were k*lled for her.

VASSIEUX: All right,
so their leader's a woman.

- He calls her 'the widow.'
According to Duplessis

the group came out of a support group

which brings together relatives of victims
of m*rder and other crimes.

- Initially they discussed their problems.
Then, encouraged by the widow,

They concluded that the guilty
parties too often went unpunished.

- Yeah. They decided to
punish them themselves.

- Right. Duplessis says it's
called the Committee for Justice.

- Okay, now what? Find me
a list of this group and arrest them.

Oh dear, if it were that simple.

The support group is anonymous,
Duplessis doesn't have names.

- Are you telling me we
have no way of identifying them?

ASTRID: Yes, there is a way.

The files.

VASSIEUX: What files?

- The people who are
on the Committee for Justice

meet in a support group—
like the Social Skills workshop.

They discuss a topic that unites them:

these are the criminal
cases they experienced.

We need to find the files.

- What Astrid means, Commissioner,
is that if we look at things backwards,

if we go back through their histories,
we'll be able to identify them.

ARTHUR: One member,

her sister was r*ped and then k*lled while she was running in the woods.

- Do you have more details?

- It was during the
Christmas holidays.

- I found the file.
- Yes...

RAPH V.O.
'Judith Vivant, 32.'

'k*lled in the Rambouillet
forest December 27, 2020.'

'A man was suspected and tried,

but he was released for lack of evidence.'

- A mother in the group said she
dreamed about the knife wounds

her son had received;
there were 11 of them.

- 'Moussa Kanté. Stabbed
eleven times in a parking lot.'

'The k*ller was questioned,

but was judged not
responsible and not tried.'

- ...he was sure a medical
error was what k*lled his wife.

He came from a certain background,
it took place in a high-end hospital,

in Saint-Cloud.

- 'Marie Diaz, wife of Michel Bressy,

died at the Verber Clinic in Saint-Cloud.'

- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,



One is missing.

- The widow's.

- Exactly.

VASSIEUX: There was
nothing else about her?

- She was discreet.

We called her 'the widow'

because all she said
was that her fiancé had died.

At the same time, it's funny,

because when she brought us together
to create the Committee for Justice,

she had transformed.

She told me we
were 'an army of good.'

I would have k*lled for her.

- Yeah. You k*lled two people for her.
- Almost three.

- What's that? There's
a third person? Who is it?

- I, I don't know,
the widow used to come see me

at my house and give me the name of the next person to be guillotined.

She was supposed to come this morning.

- It's impossible that
we didn't catch a single one!

Not one of them's at home
and none of their phones work,

isn't it insane?
- That means they're on the way

to guillotine their next victim.

- There must be a lead
right before our eyes,

something we haven't
seen, it's impossible.

- Let's try your method.

- What, the JACKAL method?

- Collect clues. Hypotheses.

- Analyses. Coordination.
- Interviews. Authentication.

Well, we'll review everything
we know about her.

- She's about forty.

- She's avenging
the death of her fiancé.

- k*lled by three people.

- Who've never
been prosecuted.

- The grief caused her to miscarry.

- Pardon?

- Duplessis said it to me as we
were leaving the interview room,

I didn't pay attention until now.
ASTRID: Hm-hmm!

- I am familiar with the file.

- So this is Criminal Documentation.

- Yes. This is Astrid's refuge.

Don't touch!

Don't touch.

- And she can find what's in here?

- Like in a haystack, Commissioner.

- I found the file: 'Fanny Norban.'

- Do you think she's the widow?
ASTRID: Yes.

- What makes you certain?

- Twenty years ago, Fanny Norban
assaulted a police commissioner,

accusing him of conducting a poor
investigation of her fiancé's death.

She notably stated that he
and those who k*lled her fiancé

were responsible for the loss
of the child she carried. Hm-hmm.

- The miscarriage.
ASTRID: Yes.

- Do we know who her fiancé was?
- Absolutely: Gilles Jacquemin.

- What happened?

- According to the file,
Gilles Jacquemin died

following an alcohol-induced
coma after a student party.

- He was studying at the
Grand International School of Paris,

it's an engineering school.

Look at the address.

- It's the disused building.

- And the student party took place
near the banks of the Marne,

On a barge moored at the spot where
the body of the second victim was found.

- Hm-hmm! Delphine Simon was
right, the location is important.

ASTRID: Hmm.

VASSIEUX: Thank you, Astrid.

- I'll call you back. I'll call you back!

Julien Zimmer and Cyril
Dupuy were students

at the Grand International
School of Paris in 2005.

Come see what I found
in the school's website archives.

It's Gilles Jacquemin with Julien Zimmer,

Cyril Dupuy, and Auguste Grandin.

- Auguste Grandin?
Is he the next victim?

- He didn't show up
at his office this morning,

and his wife can't reach him;
his phone isn't showing up at all.

- He's at the execution site.

- Yes, where is it, the execution site?

- Delphine Simon said there's a link

between execution sites
and the initial case.

I know the next execution site:

the first victim's body was found in

the former premises of the
Grand International School of Paris;

the second victim's body was
found on the banks of the Marne,

near where the barge on which the
student party took place was moored.

- The widow is recreating
her fiancé's ordeal?

- Exactly. Hmm!
Logically, the third execution

should take place at the spot where

Gilles Jacquemin's body was found.
- And where's that, Lieutenant?

- In the Vincennes Woods,
in a triangle formed by

Route Merisiers, Route
Bosquet Mortemart, and

the Lake Minimes circle route.

- Coste, Perran!

FANNY: Auguste Grandin!

The Committee for Justice finds you guilty

of the m*rder of Gilles Jacquemin,

and condemns you to death!
- STOP!

NORAH: Out of the way!

NICO: Don't move! Down! Down!

Crosstalk

RAPH: DON'T MOVE!

- "Stop"! Stop!

Stop! Down!

Breathes tensely

. . .

Shot. Groan.

Shout of pain

. . .

Gasping

RAPH: Mr Grandin, it's the police!

Everything's fine, sir. Everything's fine.

VASSIEUX: Bring me all of that!
Fanny gasping

- Let's go!

- Coste— why didn't you sh**t?

- I don't know Commissioner,
my g*n jammed, I don't understand.

Quietly
- Well, that's what I'll say in my report.

But if I were you, I'd
see someone about that hand.

RAPH: Ms Norban, you are accused of

two murders and one attempted m*rder;

you're the one behind all these beheadings.

- It isn't m*rder, it's about justice!

- We don't take the law into our own
hands. Otherwise it would be chaos.

- The police botched the
investigation into Gilles' death.

They concluded Gilles was
responsible for his blood alcohol level.

But they're the ones who made him drink it.
- Who are 'they'?

Julien Zimmer?

Cyril Dupuy? Auguste Grandin?

- Yes. The cops didn't listen to me!

They said Gilles shouldn't
have drunk so much,

but it was them!

- How can you be so sure?
- Gilles hated drinking.

But they forced him.

Gilles had become their whipping boy,

all because he wasn't from the same
world as those arrogant little Parisians.

He thought this school was his chance!

He didn't want to be a farmer
like his father, he wanted time, holidays.

So we could be together with our baby-

FANNY: -euh. They came from high
society. Grandin's father was a lawyer.

I'm sure he protected
his son and his friends.

Grandin was the worst!

Gilles was afraid of him.

I'm sure it was him who
forced Gilles to drink that night.

- Mr Grandin made your husband
his whipping boy, for sure.

But I'm sorry, he wasn't
at the party that night.

- That's wrong!

- He was in the hospital with appendicitis.

- He's lying! He k*lled Gilles!

- We checked.

- Gilles...

I miss him so much!

- I want to congratulate you all on this
investigation, for keeping your cool.

And Lt Nielsen, I owe you an apology.

You have a different way of thinking.

That's an added value for us.

- I am qualified.
- Yes. You are.

And you too, Coste,
have a way of doing things that,

in any case, is different from mine.

I think I'm starting to appreciate it.

So I suggest we restart
our relationship on a new footing.

RAPH: Good to meet you, Commissioner.

And I'm looking forward to
seeing what our collaboration will bring.

TETSUO: I've never found sunsets poetic.

You know, Astrid...

I had a girlfriend.

I wasn't honest with her.

I didn't tell her everything about
myself, especially about my past.

I wanted to protect her, but
I should have told her everything,

who I really was.

I regret not having done it.

- I had a boyfriend too.

He also didn't tell me
everything about his past.

But now I understand that
if he hadn't told me about it,

it's because I had never asked questions.

I regret not having done it.

- In Japan, it is said that
the past cannot be changed.

- Could you...

tell me about your past... Tetsuo?

- Yes, Astrid.

- Yes, Mr Prefect.

An aberration.



I think it deserves more attention.

I will initiate an audit
as early as next week.

Good evening, Mr Prefect.