-Sophie?
Sophie?
- Boo!! -You're crazy.
-I killed him.
I killed him.
-That's good. Thanks for the info, if necessary we will call you back.
-Thank you. -Goodbye.
What's wrong with him?
- He found something.
A body.
-This afternoon,
I will accompany you. - No, you'll be late.
It's the police academy.
-I will come to get you. -OK.
My last experience in an educational place
was not a success.
I'm especially apprehensive
about going back to school.
- They were teenagers then. You will be with adults now.
It's a forensic science school, that's your field.
There you will be the most popular girl in the class.
-Me ? Popular ?
-Yes you.
- We're going to be late, we can't be late.
-Isn't Nico here? -He's away for the weekend with Emma.
- Is the body over there? -Yeah.
Found by officers after being alerted by their dog.
The girl accuses herself of having killed him, she had a club.
- Do we have her name? -She hasn't been identified,
her speech is not coherent.
- Is it "Dances with Wolves"? - It's a traditional Indian outfit.
- No, the Indians wear a doti. Women, a sari.
You refer to the indigenous peoples of North America.
The term "Indian" is therefore inappropriate.
We have to talk about first nations,
of native Americans. Max, from the social skills workshop,
is very particular about it. He comes from a Cheyenne tribe.
-Oh yeah ? -He arrived in France when he was 8 years old.
-Let's go ?
-Yes.
Miss, can you tell us what happened?
Miss.
Eh.
-It's the crow.
She led me here.
And I killed him.
- Did you kill the crow? -Nope.
The man.
I killed him. -Who ?
- Great Spirit, I beg your pardon.
- This young woman has very dilated pupils.
Her neck is throbbing, she has tachycardia.
She's sweating, she's hyperthermic. It's necessary
to check her blood pressure. She is
under the effect of a psychotropic agent.
-Miss ?
Ooh ooh.
What is your name ?
-I am the son of the wind.
The brother of the 6 seasons.
And the child of the rivers.
- Well, we'll try to put that on file.
Tell me your name.
Your real name.
-Adriel Quittish.
- We're taking her to the hospital.
And we'll put her room under surveillance.
Check the files for Adriel Quittish.
- How do you spell that?
-It's up to you to find out, Arthur, son of the Moon.
- Are you the son of the Moon?
Dr. Fournier.
-It's not a crime scene, it's an archaeological site.
- Seen his skull, it's a crime scene. But not possible
that this young woman is the murderer. No, Miss Nielsen.
I have a doctorate in forensic anthropology.
I did my thesis on bone diagenesis
and its involvement
in post-mortem dating diagnosis.
- Tweezers, please. - Of course, here they are.
I can affirm
that this victim has been there for at least 20 years.
-Don't move. Thank you.
- She couldn't kill her.
-It is the tip of this club that was driven into this skull.
-She didn't kill him but she had the murder weapon in her hand.
-Miss.
Miss.
You hear me ?
-There you are. At last. - Has it started?
- Did you cut your weekend short? -It was great. And you?
-We're starting the meeting, Astrid.
*-Coste, I don't like "cold cases".
-We found the girl with the murder weapon in her hand.
- A crime from 20 years ago. -Yeah.
- What do we have? -A few things.
*Her vital prognosis is not changed but she is unconscious.
- And on the victim, what do we have? - The scientist is on the spot.
-It was all about the body. -These kinds of amulets,
the face paintings evoke Native Americans.
*-Atikamekw.
-Excuse me, Astrid?
-Atikamekw, with a W.
A French-speaking tribe originally from Canada. An Atikamekw delegation
*lived in
this village in 2001, the presumed date of the victim's death.
-You found this at the Doc. *-Yes.
-And ? *-If this information
is in the criminal documentation it comes from
*an investigation file. There was another murder
in PrГ©monville in 2001 and it was committed with the same weapon.
- Thank you, Astrid.
Is it the same weapon?
-Perhaps. I sent the forensic report
to Dr. Fournier to compare. But the victim of the murder committed
in PrГ©monville 21 years ago had his head smashed.
-Who is the victim ? -Robert Petiquay.
He was the head of the tribal council.
- Did we find a culprit? -Yes, the investigation lead
to a member of the Atikamekw delegation, Douglas Newashish.
-He was arrested ?
-He disappeared.
Douglas Newashish is on the loose
since the murder, possibly in Canada. Witnesses
saw him at a hotel in Le Havre, his bank card
was used, he would have boarded a freighter for Canada.
-Any news since? -None. The file has been transferred
to Canada, but without success.
- What happened to the members of the delegation?
- There is little information on this subject.
- But you look happy. -Yes.
Because I think I know who could help us.
-I was born in the land of my ancestors in the Cheyenne tribe.
My parents came to France when I was 8 years old. I didn't speak.
-Now Max speaks 14 languages.
-41 with Native American languages.
-Sorry.
-I stayed in touch with my family there,
I often go to the reserve to participate in pow-wows.
-The reserve is a territory. -Powwows are parties
holy men dance in their regalia.
-Traditional costumes. -Yes.
-Workshop members love it when Max talks about his culture.
It has become a very pronounced common interest,
especially for me, I'm gaga.
-We Native Americans take care
of our identity. We don't live in teepees
with bows and arrows. We have a contemporary lifestyle.
-Astrid told me that the community
of the native americans is small
in France, do you know of
the Atikamekw delegation?
-With a W.
-Who lived in PrГ©monville.
-We all know the story of the murder.
A real trauma
for our community. A man who killed a member of his tribe...
-Someone went missing
and they moved back to Canada?
There was a second murder
20 years ago. -21 years old.
In 2001.
-One Atikamekw arrived with the delegation and didn't leave.
Can I take you?
Patrick LavallГ©e is a shaman.
-Shaman? Does they really exist? -Yeah.
His traditional name is Mascovoci, which means
"strong as a bear". Here he is.
- Careful, it's slippery.
-Max. -Hello, Mascovici.
-The crow told me you were coming. - The crow?
- The crow perceives the illusion that humanity gives to the world.
-OK. We are from the police.
-About business from 20 years ago. -21 years old.
- Did the crow say it? - No, it's common sense.
Let's go.
Until the 1990s, the Canadian state removed
Atikamekw children to families to put them in boarding school
catholic in order to kill the indian
in them and turn them into good little whites.
- What is the relationship with PrГ©monville?
-Douglas Newashish, was charged with murder.
He had lost a boy at boarding school.
-Robert Petiquay is involved?
-Douglas reproached him for having been an accomplice
to kidnappings, but no one thought Douglas would kill him.
-That's Robert Petiquay, there. -Yes.
-The club is the same as the one the girl had this morning.
-It's not a club,
it is a brain teaser, a weapon. -The word brain teaser is a very
very violent word, it has nothing to do with mechanical puzzles, nothing.
-Do you recognise
this girl ?
-A wolf can be recognized by its young.
-Mr Mascovici,
we are investigating a murder. We found
a body in PrГ©monville and we think
that it is someone who was killed at the same time with the same
weapon as Robert Petiquay. Possibly a second murder by Douglas Newashish.
-The young woman in the photo is Abigail Newashish,
Douglas's daughter.
-She didn't go back to Canada with the delegation?
-Her family remained in France after Petiquay's murder.
Can I ask you a question, Commander?
- Please do.
- Could I see the body? -Why ?
-If it's a murdered Atikamekw, his soul must be stuck here.
I want to help it move on.
- What does it consist of?
-Nothing that will harm the investigation. - Commander Coste.
The victim must be identified. Maybe Mr. Mascovici
could help us identify the skeleton and help us
connect it to the Atikamekw.
-OK.
- Thank you, Commander. -But...
You're still on my suspect list, don't forget.
-We're kind of colleagues. -Ah, are you a medical examiner too?
- No, I take care
of deaths.
-What exactly is he doing?
Are these American techniques?
- No, it must be
a funeral rite. Which still smells very strongly.
-Is this a joke?
-Fournier, I'm not into religious things, but this guy
spent 20 years in a hole, let's be tolerant.
- What should I write?
- Identification of corpse.
- Okay, sorry.
- Thank you, Commander. -You are welcome.
-I can tell you that this man was not killed
by Douglas Newashish.
-What makes you so sure of yourself?
-It's him,
Douglas Newashish.
-He has been identified.
It's Douglas Newashish.
There.
Thank you Tetzuo.
You are punctual, it is 2:34 p.m.,
the 1st class is at 3 p.m., I won't be late, I can't be.
-It's wonderful to go to school my dear, you know.
You will make friends.
Don't be afraid. It's going to be fine this time.
-It never went well.
Father.
-My first day at the faculty of mathematics,
I was paralyzed with fear. -Ah.
-I barely spoke French, I didn't know the customs.
- How did you overcome your fear?
-I did not defeat it.
I just accepted it.
And the others were like me.
I was the only Japanese, but we were
all at the same level.
-All at the same level.
Thank you.
Tetzuo.
Goodbye.
-Douglas Newashish, who was believed to be on the run
and who was accused of killing Robert Petiquay 20 years ago,
was found dead and buried.
Fournier confirmed that the same weapon killed Petiquay and Newashish.
It's a double murder. -Don't say that.
Is it Douglas Newashish? -The shaman confirmed his identity.
- With a skeleton?
- With 2 silver prongs, a brooch on the wrist. It tallies.
- We're waiting for the DNA match with Abigail Newashish.
- The young woman found there? - With the murder weapon.
-She was on her father's grave
with the weapon from 20 years ago?
-She was totally high. - We got the results.
Her blood is full of mescaline,
phenylethylamine and lophophorine, the alkaloids
peyote, a cactus used for rituals.
- She had enough for horse. All right, we're going to interview her family.
- Are you going with Miss Nielsen? - No, Astrid is busy.
Course ringtone. - It's 3 p.m.
The lesson should start at 3 p.m.
There.
It's 3:01 p.m., class hasn't started, it's starting late.
Hello ma'am. The lesson should start at 3 p.m.
- It's 3 p.m. - No, it's not 3 p.m. anymore.
It's 3:02 p.m. Coming soon 03. 1, 2, 3.
-Well, come in, we're not spending all day on this.
Go in. -Yes.
-Hello, I am Mrs. Langlais, professor of forensic science.
We are going to start the first unit on
contextual analysis
to establish adaptation to different crime scenes.
-I am qualified.
-M. Newashish? -We are closed,
sorry.
-Commander Coste, criminal squad.
-Abigail didn't come home yesterday. -She is at the hospital.
She is out of danger. I'm here about your brother Douglas Newashish.
-Douglas?
Is that you ?
Douglas.
- My wife has Alzheimer's.
Things get mixed up in her head. Marcel,
take granny to the living room.
-Grandma, let's go to the living room.
-Douglas, did you find him?
- We found his body. I'm sorry.
-Don't be sorry.
He is a murderer, an unrepentant sinner. It's up to God
to judge him.
-It's complicated, Mr. Newashish.
He was murdered.
- But by whom? -That's what I am looking into.
Can I see Abigail's room?
-Follow me.
-Thank you.
May I ? -You are welcome.
-Was Abigail seeking to
restore her father's reputation? -She never accepted
having a father who was a killer.
-Linda Newashish.
-Her mother.
- Died of liver failure?
-We couldn't find a
donor for the transplant. -And what is this ?
-It's Atikamekw.
I didn't know she spoke it. -I taught her that.
-I don't want to hear any more Atikamekw. -Dad, she wanted to speak
her father's language.
- Well, we'll talk about it later, show the commander out.
-Thank you. -You are welcome.
-The principles of Locard and Kirk
form the basis
of forensics in establishing the value of the index.
-Mm mm. -Yes ?
-You are wrong.
-Ah.
-Your incomplete presentation gives a distorted view of Locard.
-It was a general overview.
-I haven't finished. - We will go into details next.
So you can shine, miss...
Nielsen.
-Astrid Nielsen. -Yes.
We will talk about it again.
At the end of this year, those who achieve the grade, will become
police officers
judiciary is not a job or a diploma, it's much more than that.
It is a responsibility. So I'm not going to spare you.
Good evening.
- Here I am, I'm on time
and you are late.
-Yes.
It's 4:12 p.m.
The class started late and finished late.
- Didn't it go well, Astrid? -I don't know.
I don't think so.
I didn't even get out
my pencil case, I haven't opened my bag.
- We are going to do practical work.
A tailor-made thing. It will change your mind. Hop in.
-Your Linda Newashish was
more than 15 years ago. - We want to see her file.
-I want 3 nurses. -It's a priority.
- More of a priority than 3 patients in intensive care?
We even have trouble finding a file.
-It's very messy. Thank you very much sir.
-We'll get by.
-Files.
Here it is.
-18 minutes.
-Yes.
I lost time because of the alphadecimal mode used to tidy up.
-Part of the file
was in Abigail's computer, named "Douglas Restoration".
A connection to the murder?
-I don't know, but the file yes. Here.
-Yeah.
The transplant that was to
save Linda Newashish was scheduled for the week following
the murder of Robert Petiquay, who was the donor.
-Abigail had discovered that the donor was Robert Petiquay.
She knew her father couldn't have killed her mother's saviour.
- It confirms the leads to the double murder. And you?
-I contacted the Canadian police about the return of the Atikamekw.
-So what ?
-Robert Petiquay was the tribal leader, he was opposed
to a dam built by Eufrat that would flood their land.
- And the connection with the murders?
-Once he was killed,
the contract was signed after the
tribe returned.
-You're dancing ?
-I am intimidated by this place
that you told us about. -You're dancing.
-Yes.
I ask for help from the spirits, from the spirits of my ancestors.
To ask them for courage.
-OK.
Here are the emails. Commander Coste
retrieved them from Abigail's computer.
They are written in Atikamekw.
-It is a language of the Anishinaabemowin language family.
Thank you. - It's quite a chance that you speak
atikamekw, the other
Atikamekw people in France being all suspects,
makes it difficult to find a translator. -I speak 34 languages
out of 140 Native American languages.
All the same.
-Why learn them since so few people speak them?
-Precisely,
language is identity. When a language disappears,
it is the identity of the people who also die.
I learn languages вЂ‹вЂ‹to save
the culture and because I like it. Like you with puzzles.
-And forensics. -Yes.
Won't you stay with me? -I have to check something.
Keep working. I'll be right back, Max.
- She has been coming to see me for a long time.
Crows live for over 20 years.
The crow is the animal of the great mysteries.
With it the present, the past,
the future mingle, she sees beyond things.
But you're not here for that.
- Last time I saw something,
I didn't know I had seen it.
It took me a long time to understand what I had seen.
What do the shapes engraved on the handle of this weapon represent?
-The totem animals of those who have
owned the brain teaser. Sorry, club.
-There's one more thing.
This.
Who was not in the photo when it was taken.
-It's the totem animal
of the one who owned the club after Robert Petiquay.
It is...
A winged bison.
It is the totem animal of John Ottawa, the current tribal chief.
- John Ottawa.
OK.
- Knock before entering.
-Ah.
-Ah OK.
The Atikamekw tribe.
-Max is not an Atikamekw, he is from a Cheyenne tribe.
-Yes. Cheyenne tribe.
-Coste. -Commissioner.
It is a miscarriage of justice.
Astrid.
-The murder weapon was possessed by the successor
of Robert Petiquay: John Ottawa, the current leader.
-Nico.
-Named 20 years ago after
the murder of Petiquay, he signed an agreement for a dam
with enormous financial stakes. -Max.
- I did not translate
all of Abigail's emails, but it's pretty virulent. She says...
He speaks Atikamekw. -Max.
You are the only one here who speaks Atikamekw. With a W.
-Sorry. She accuses
the other person for making her father look like a killer.
-And the other person is John Ottawa?
- Yes, congratulations, you have it.
-These are clues, right? -Corroborative evidence.
-I was right. It's a double murder.
Douglas Newashish was wrongly accused
of Petiquay's murder. The culprit is John Ottawa.
He killed Douglas to put the blame on him (put the hat on him).
- What hat? -I will explain to you.
-Good. We can send this to the Canadian authorities.
They will take care of it. -It's not a "cold case". Arthur.
-According to Canadians, John Ottawa has been in France for 3 days.
-Abigail had unmasked him, so he tried to drug her.
That's why the Great Spirit, the crow, the son of the wind...
Sorry, Max, but
big delirium. -And what are you waiting for?
-Your authorization. -Speak to him.
- If he doesn't answer, he's gone out.
-Try anyway.
-That's the cellar.
This one? I hope so.
It's the right one. -Ah thank you.
Astrid, stay here.
-Police !
Raph.
-Oh shit.
Agreed, Mr. Prosecutor.
Have we identified him? - John Ottawa.
His fingerprints match the passport.
-Skull struck with a blunt object.
If we compare his wound with the brain teaser, it matches.
-It reverses things. Abigail held the murder weapon.
She resented him.
- The victim was unconscious when he was hit.
I mean he was already in this position.
-Peyote.
- Abigail made him drink peyote before killing him?
- But she took some too.
She was not lucid. -Easier to kill.
Or she drank it after she killed him. - We will increase her security.
I want to question her.
-This debris, it looks like there was a fight.
That doesn't match what you're saying, Fournier.
-Furniture has been pushed out.
Voluntarily moved.
They wanted to make room.
To dance.
To ask the spirits for help.
Like Max.
-You are absolutely right, Astrid.
It's white sage that was burned here.
People performed a ritual here.
-Of what genre ?
-Which means ?
-It's in my Cheyenne language. Let me explain.
This ceremony is called the Crossfire.
-What does it mean ? -I don't really understand.
It's a reconciliation ceremony.
-It failed.
- Oh, there you go.
Adriel Quittish.
-Who ?
-The name given by Abigail. I know who it is.
-So ? -I struggled, but
it is an assumed name. I worked it out, Canadian...
Adriel Quittish is the indian name of
Jean-Marc Lapointe, a kid sent
to a boarding school, who died of an overdose in 96 in Quebec.
- We'll see if it helps with the investigation.
-Max translated the emails.
It's consistent with what he saw,
Abigail and Ottawa had made peace.
The last email is obscure,
John bought a ticket to France right after.
- What does the email say? -Abigail says
in Ottawa that she tracked down Adriel Quittish.
You know ?
-Obviously Nico, you're too late.
-Who is Quittish?
-Are you sure this is the place? -Yeah.
Abigail and John Ottawa had an appointment here.
The abandoned cemetery of PrГ©monville.
-Here, look.
-Adriel Quittish.
-Adriel Quittish
died and buried in Canada. Why are we at his grave?
-Abigail and John understood
that it was a fake grave seeing
the name of a teenager who died in 96.
- They thought they'd find Douglas's body there.
Hey hey hey.
Give it to us.
Open it.
-Wow.
- We have to find out where this money comes from.
-We asked the Banque de France.
These notes are over 20 years old, they're Duisenbergs.
-What? -Des Duisenberg, director
of the ECB until 1 November 2003.
-This note dates from the death of Robert Petiquay.
This murder would have been ordered. -What do you mean ?
-And if Eufrat who was to build this dam had paid a member
of the Atikamekw delegation to kill the chief who opposed it?
- But why kill Douglas Newashish?
-He would have opposed the killer, because he would have discovered everything.
-Why was this money in a grave?
-Thank you.
Abigail Newashish woke up.
- Go talk to her.
-You think I killed John?
-You are our main suspect.
-I don't remember anything. We took the peyote -then nothing.
-We ?
You and John Ottawa? -Yes.
-Listen Abigail... -No, my name is Jeshka.
It's the first name my father gave me, an Atikamekw first name.
-With a W.
-I wanted to be accepted by my people. John agreed.
The ceremony was to welcome me back into the tribe.
-The ceremony of reconciliation.
- My father is innocent.
A member of the tribe was bought by Eufrat.
He killed Robert,
he accused my father. Together with John, we were going to find out who it was.
- You didn't go to the police?
-They never believe the members of the 1st nations.
John and I wanted proof.
We were going to find it. -In Adriel Quittish's grave.
- My aunt...
One day she said to me: "Find Adriel and you will know the truth".
When I saw the grave, I understood that the truth was there.
-Wait,
your aunt...
She no longer has all her faculties.
- No, but in her broken mind,
there is the truth.
- Macha.
This woman has a few questions for you.
-Why did you mention Adriel Quittish to your niece?
-Leave me alone. -It would be good for you
to tell what happened 20 years ago, don't you think?
Tell me.
- What do you want with my mother? She is sick.
-She knows things about Douglas Newashish and Petiquay.
-And on the murderer of John Ottawa.
-John Ottawa? -Yes. He is dead.
-Adriel...
Adriel, he hid the truth.
He hid it to save us.
In his grave.
-Dad.
We can't lie any longer.
-Howard. - We can't lie anymore.
I killed John Ottawa.
He knew I had killed Robert and Douglas.
- He killed all three. 1, 2, 3.
- Take care of my son, dad.
*I was 10 years old when I was sent to boarding school with Adriel.
*Adriel was like a big brother to me.
*Adriel made me avoid the worst things.
*All the things that had destroyed him. *-You killed Robert Petiquay
*20 years ago because of this? *-He was the leader and the accomplice.
-Or you killed him for Eufrat's money.
-I never touched the money. -Why did you take it?
-I was lost.
I was offered money to kill the man I hated.
Things went off the rails.
*-Douglas Newashish found out and you killed him.
*-Yes.
*-The past has resurfaced.
So you killed John, because he was going
unmask you.
20 years later, with Abigail.
-It was an accident.
We fought, I killed him in self-defense.
-Mm mm.
Mm mm.
-He's lying. -Yes.
Howard Newashish couldn't kill John Ottawa in a struggle.
Since John Ottawa was unconscious when he was hit.
-And in your opinion, Astrid, why is he lying?
-Because he didn't commit this murder, RaphaГ«lle.
-That's why.
-Dad.
-Now that's enough. Tell the truth. -I told you, I killed
Robert and Douglas
and John too. -Howard.
- Dad, it's up to me.
-I can't let you assume a crime that I committed.
It's me, I killed John Ottawa.
He and Abigail were going to find out the truth.
I couldn't.
I couldn't let my son get dragged back in.
You understand ?
- Miss Nielsen.
-Yes.
Mr. Newashish and his son were apprehended.
-Douglas, Robert and John will sleep in peace thanks to you.
Like the crow, you have seen the truth beyond the lies.
-Why do people kill themselves?
It would have been enough for them to talk to each other to understand each other.
Monsieur LavallГ©e, said Moscovici, strong as a bear,
I have to ask you a question. -Yes.
-Why did you
tell me about the crow?
- This is your totem animal.
You have the gift of seeing. It is your identity.
As mine is to be
atikamekw above all. You must be proud of it.
- Mrs. Langlais.
Please excuse me if I may have seemed inappropriate to you.
Some social conventions
are lacking to me. Know that I have autism.
-What does that change ?
-It's part of my identity. -Do you think they are going to spare you
because you are autistic, once you are outside? No.
If you can't cope with this training,
you can give up.
-Mm mm.
I am qualified.
-Good.
Good evening Miss Nielsen.
-Bye Madam.
Goodbye.
- It's true, you're Astrid Nielsen?
-Yes. -You helped solve the Lamark case
What are you doing at the police academy?
- I want to pass the judicial diploma for police officers.
-I love how cool you are. -You really blew off the teacher.
- Could you explain the lesson to me?
-Yes.
Not now.
Yes.
-The most popular girl
in High School.
-It's not a high school.
It's the police academy.
-It's a way of speaking. Was this day good?
-I don't know.
I hope I don't have to argue in front of the coffee machine.
I don't know how to do it. - I can give you some advice.
Good.
What is it, Astrid?
-It's about the instructor's attitude.
-What ?
-I told her I was autistic.
She told me that if I couldn't cope, I could quit.
I am qualified.
-What's her name ? - Mrs. Anne Langlais.
- Mrs. Langlais.
Very well.
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