Elevator out of service
Aaron!
Aaron, don't tell me you're not ready.
Aaron?
Aaron, is everything okay?
Mr. Cohen?
Yes, hello,
I'm at 168 Petit street.
I don't know, but it looks serious.
Please come quickly.
- Hello. - You have to use the back stairs, Commander.
Yeah, thank you.
Wow, it's way too early for a crime scene.
It is 7:34 am.
According to statistics, most crime occur at night.
That is why the police have to work early in the morning.
Right, right.
Yes.
Hello.
Aaron Feldman, 41 years old,
entrepreneur at a high-tech company.
And a big fan of Kabbalah, according to his library.
Kabbalah is a Jewish mysticism.
So, Arthur is looking for more information about him.
No one saw or heard anything,
although apparently, he fought with his attacker as you can see.
Hence the blood under the door.
Cause of death?
No Fournier.
Right.
Any witnesses?
Samuel Gompel.
He called the police.
- Captain? We need you downstairs. - Raph?
Go easy on him. He's in shock.
Of course.
Mr. Gompel?
Commander Coste.
Can I talk to you for a few minutes?
Yes.
I just came to see him.
He hadn't been well since Eve died.
Eve?
His wife.
Died a year ago.
Under what circumstances?
It was an accident on a boat trip.
Eve fell into the water
and never came up.
Hydrocution.
That's terrible.
Did he have any enemies?
No.
Aaron embodied goodness.
He sought to be a deeply good man.
He even devoted himself to studying the Torah.
It's the end of the world, this neighborhood!
Hello, Dr. Fournier. He has something in his hand.
Yes, hello Astrid. Well, I'm going to examine him anyway
to determine the cause of death.
Concussion due to a fall resulting in
an injury to the right temporal lobe.
There is something in his hand. I am not allowed to open it.
- Could you please open it up now Dr. Fournier? - Yes, ok, I got it,
he's got something in his hand.
- Yes, the right hand here. - Yes, OK!
Please, thank you.
What are these?
These are Hebrew letters.
Do you speak Hebrew?
That's a "mem".
And a "tav".
Meaning?
"Meth." It means death.
What are you doing, Astrid?
The leather strap is lighter in some places.
Oh, yeah, you're right.
Look, see where the beads are?
The strap was protected from the sun, that's why it's lighter here.
Exactly.
- There were three beads. - Yeah, that's right.
I've got it!
There!
There. Well done.
It's an "aleph".
An "aleph", yes.
Isn't an "aleph" good?
Those three letters there,
they mean truth.
And with those two words,
you control the Golem.
You give it life
with truth and you kill it by removing "aleph".
To write death.
The what?
The Golem.
What's... What is a Golem?
In Kabbalah,
it's a clay giant charged with killing
those who wish harm to the Jewish people.
Well.
So, a clay giant killed Aaron Feldman, right?
Right? That's right.
Anyway, clay, there's plenty of that around his head wound.
Wow, forensics has not been idle!
They already sent their reports.
The clay we found on the ground is the same
as the one found on the victim's wound.
It's raw clay.
You can't kill with raw clay.
Raw clay is soft.
Unless the clay is in the Golem's fist.
- You believe in the clay giant? - No,
but the Golem has something to do with the crime.
And this is not a clay giant, but a corporation.
Aaron Feldman was a partner in a cutting-edge high-tech firm.
A French flagship in artificial intelligence.
Isn't it funny to be hyper-religious
and hyper-high-tech like that? - It's not contradictory.
Israel is the 3rd country in the world in terms of AI.
- Who's this playboy? - Joachim Kaplan.
Aaron was the investor and Joachim, the programming genius.
Well,
I'm sure they have a lot to tell us there.
Nico, come with me?
Arthur, you keep on digging?
- And we'll pick up Astrid on the way. - OK.
Hello.
Wait! Please! Please.
- How can I help you? - Police.
Hello.
We'd like to speak to Mr. Kaplan, please.
- Do you have an appointment? - No, but it's important.
Can you identify yourself?
I have to do some checking.
But we just told you we're police. Police there, see?
Commander Coste.
This woman has instructions.
You cannot override them.
- Come on, Astrid, there's been a murder! - Raph!
Commandant Coste. This woman has instructions.
You cannot override them.
You know, Astrid, sometimes you have to override instructions.
See? It works.
Please excuse Commander Coste.
Sometimes she has trouble with rules.
It's a sign of refusal of authority.
There are seven in total.
Would you like to know them?
Yes.
I'm listening.
Marina trade wind
It smells like the ocean in here.
Marina trade wind.
It's the perfume Mathias uses in his bathroom. It stinks!
- Found anything interesting? - Not a thing.
Aaron Feldman is a real angel.
He immersed himself in religion when his wife died a year ago.
All that's missing is Joachim Kaplan.
According to his employees, he's often on the move.
We still have to interview the girl on the screen at the reception.
You go see if you can find Joachim Kaplan.
OK.
Miss?
Where can I find the girl from the front desk,
the one on the screen? I'd like to interview her.
Did I say something funny?
No, no. Something...
very flattering. Follow me?
Here we are.
Could you give me the exact address, please?
- Of course. - Yeah, no.
OK but I'd like to talk to her in person.
She's right in front of you.
A-M-I-A dot C-O-M.
You'll find a lot of new puzzles there.
- Thank you. - She looks so real, it's crazy!
That's because her corporeal envelope was based on real life.
It was Aaron's girlfriend who served as our model.
- Eve Feldman? - Herself.
But we preferred to make her a blonde.
It's an extremely elaborate program that we develop here,
and Joachim is the craftsman.
She can answer any question, she can place orders,
she can make appointments.
She can even hold a conversation!
- It's a revolutionary program. - And you,
what is your favorite puzzle?
My favorite is... it's... it's... it's...
Yeah, no, so, we've got a bit of progress to make.
Yes.
She still glitches a little. Regularly.
A big glitch.
Oh, their thing is crazy!
It's true that when I listen to it, the voice is synthetic
but I was completely fooled.
Ah.
Weren't you?
Because you understood?
- But how? The tone of her voice? - No.
There is nothing special about it.
It is her gestures.
The ones of her face seem to be in real-time
but the ones of her body obey only 3 loops.
Identical.
1, 2, 3.
What if this AI
is linked to Aaron's death?
When he created life, the guy thought he was God.
He'd become very religious,
but what if someone even more religious than him
had disapproved of his actions?
I think it is a shame that this woman does not exist.
I found her very precise in her answers.
That is very nice and very reassuring.
These programs are created
to be precise and reassuring.
But without empathy.
Many people say
that people on the spectrum do not have empathy.
On the spectrum?
People with autism.
People on the spectrum.
Many people think that people with autism
do not have empathy.
Well, people who say that are jerks.
But do you think that this is why
I enjoyed my interactions with Eve?
Astrid.
You have empathy.
I know what I'm talking about.
Yes Nico, did you find Joachim?
No, according to the janitor, he didn't come home last night.
And she advised me to ask his brother, Julien Kaplan.
Julien Kaplan. Where can we find him?
In a synagogue on Vauquelin street.
Apparently, he goes there to study.
Good morning. Julien Kaplan?
My presentation is not ready, sorry.
We didn't come for that.
We're looking for your brother.
Do you know where he is?
At this hour, he's probably at Golem Deep Learning, probably.
You think some Kabbalists might be angry at
Aaron Feldman and your brother for what they're doing?
Giving life to AIs.
Kabbalah is an individual spiritual path, Commander.
It is a mean like any other to access God,
but certainly not a tool to judge the actions of others.
It says truth there.
No.
Well, yes, if you want.
You see letters but they are actually numbers.
This is the theme of my talk: the gematria.
Each letter corresponds to a numerical value.
The letters of the sacred texts are transformed into numbers
and offer a whole new understanding of the world.
Look.
If you write the word father in Hebrew,
its letters make a 3.
The word mother
has a value of
41.
- OK? - Yes.
As for the word
child...
44.
3 + 41 = 44.
That's it.
- Do you understand? - Yes.
The gematria.
The Kabbalah.
It's the magical revelation of texts.
But you still haven't told me why you're asking me all these questions, Commander.
You're worrying me.
Aaron Feldman was killed last night.
And we think his death might be related to
his activities at Golem Deep Learning.
You like that, Astrid.
Yes. The gematria.
He died.
Yesterday.
Aren't you with Astrid?
We were with Julien Kaplan who was talking about gematria.
Yeah! It's the process that consists of matching
the letters of the sacred texts with numbers.
Yes, yes, that's it.
And you know Astrid.
She was over the moon.
I couldn't stop her.
Well,
- any news on Joachim Kaplan? - No,
nothing yet but his phone was ringing near Feldman's house
at the alleged time of the murder.
Here, take a look at these pictures.
The bracelet.
It's the same as the one we found.
Do you think he killed Aaron?
Why?
Could be a big money thing.
Their company must be worth a lot of money.
Well, we have some news!
Aaron Feldman: he used a private investigator.
Yeah?
- To investigate who? - Joachim.
Yes?
Wait! Calm down, I don't understand anything.
OK,
don't panic, we'll be right there.
Joachim Kaplan is at Golem Deep Learning.
The guy's in the middle of a frenzy.
Hello. How can I help you? Wait! Wait! Wait!
Good thing you left me your number. Come.
- He locked himself up inside his office. - Excuse me! Sorry! Make way!
Joachim.
Joachim. Captain Perran from the criminal police. Joachim.
OK, I'm going to hold your arm.
Easy, easy. Let's go sit together.
Easy, breathe.
Good, sit down. Easy, it's over. It's over. Calm down. Calm down.
- No, the dybbuk! The dybbuk! - Easy!
- A what? - A dybbuk, it's a ghost.
Easy. Easy. Calm down. Calm down.
Our psychiatrist confirmed the assessment.
He had a psychotic break.
- OK, where is his doctor? - Apparently, he's not faking.
I can't find him. I need his-
- approval to interrogate him. I can't believe it! - Commander Coste.
Sir, I'm sorry. Family is not allowed to see him at the moment.
Commander Coste.
Look, he's having a break. I don't
want his family to see him, that's all.
Commander Coste, this is rabbi Meir-Shena. Joachim's doctor.
- You're his doctor? - Yes.
- But you're also a rabbi? Is that it? - Yes.
Alright.
Perfect. When can we interrogate him then?
Ah, I can't answer this question, Commander.
Joachim is suspected of murder, we really need to interrogate him.
I understand.
To you, he's a suspect.
But to me, he's a patient who needs time to get his bearings.
What do you know about bipolarity, Commander?
- Joachim is bipolar? - Yes.
Since the end of his adolescence.
And like every diagnosis of this kind,
there is a part of mystery you need to accept.
We don't know the cause of his disorder and we don't know how to cure it.
- Does he often have breaks like this? - No.
We'd found the right treatment to regulate him.
And do you have any idea what could have deregulated him?
A break never happens on its own, you know.
There is always a trigger.
And this trigger is specific to each person.
Sometimes it's a noise,
or a sentence that can rekindle an old psychological wound.
The connections happen in the subconscious.
And current knowledge of the disorder thickens
the mystery more than it offers answers.
- Doctor? - Yes, thank you.
OK but that's the rabbi talking. What does the doctor think?
I need additional examination to say more.
Alright.
Let us know when you have the results.
And especially when we can interrogate him.
I certainly will, Commander.
Thank you doc-, rab - Thank you doctor rabbi, sir.
Thank you, have a good day.
Hello Miss Nielsen.
Hello Mr. Tanaka.
I have found what you asked.
Thank you.
Going to that kind of shop would have cost me at least 3 beans.
I cannot afford it today. I will probably need them.
You speak Hebrew?
Not at all.
But I have found a fascinating new subject. It is gematria.
- It consists of- - Switching Hebraic letters with numbers.
It is absolutely fascinating.
You are interested in puzzles as well?
No, I'm interested in numbers.
I study mathematics.
That is why I'm in Paris at my uncle's.
It is Commander Coste. There is a debriefing at the station.
I must go.
Goodbye, Mr. Tanaka.
You can call me Tetsuo.
Alright.
Goodbye, Tetsuo Tanaka.
Astrid, you're on speaker.
OK. Good, thank you.
That was the PI who was hired by Aaron Feldman.
He indeed asked him to investigate Joachim Kaplan
because he suspected he had an affair with his girlfriend.
- Did he find anything? - No.
Eve's death put an end to his mission.
OK, Arthur, take over the PI's investigation.
We need to know if Joachim was having an affair with Eve.
Anything else?
Yes. Joachim was totally obsessed with this Golem thing.
He's the one who named the company. And he has a lot of articles about it.
Golem magazine,
Golem exhibition at Museum of Jewish Art and History.
And he used the Golem to punish Aaron Feldman?
Punish him of what?
If Aaron found out he was having an affair with Eve.
They could have fought.
And it turned nasty?
No, I think the crime was premeditated.
It was staged.
What the hell is this ringtone? It's very annoying.
It's Joachim's cell, it's out of battery. It's driving me crazy.
And on his keyring, we found a key but we don't know what it opens.
OK.
Find out what it opens.
And check everything we have on Eve Marsiac.
Yes, Aaron's partner.
They weren't married, she kept her maiden name.
So it is not Eve Feldman. It is Eve Marsiac. Yes.
What are you saying, Astrid?
She hung up.
Everything accuses Joachim:
he fought with his associate, he's a fan of the Golem
and we found a photo of him with the bracelet we found at the crime scene, so…
The same bracelet.
You don't know for sure if it's that one.
OK, the same bracelet if you want.
No, but Raph, the distinction is important because this bracelet
was sold by the million.
I should have gotten what you got.
We suspect he was Eve's lover.
You don't know that for sure either.
So you have no motive and no murder weapon.
So, you have nothing.
OK, so you decided to be a pain in my ass today?
No, Commander, come on.
Let's say you're right. Let's say he killed Feldman.
Without any concrete proof, we're not going anywhere.
Besides, since the guy's bipolar, I can already hear his lawyers seize
the fight on mental disorders.
You're not eating?
I'm not hungry.
So you don't mind if I…
Cause that wasn't great.
Good.
Oh yeah, I should have listened to you.
Unknown number
So? What do you have for us today?
Those 3 were Jules and Jim.
Aaron, Joachim and Eve, they were always together.
Holidays, sailing lessons, the good life. They were inseparable.
Anyway, if Aaron Feldman found out his best friend was banging his wife
behind his back, he could be upset for sure.
- Hey! The key, I know what address it corresponds to. - Good.
OK, I don't need an insurance policy, or additional healthcare, or new windows.
I can assure you that Joachim killed Aaron.
If you want irrefutable proof of his culpability,
- go to 6, Vacquerie street. - That's the address I found.
And you are?
- She hung up. - Let's go?
Raph, look.
Do you think you can break someone's skull with frozen clay?
I think we found the murder weapon.
- Ah, Commander! - Hello.
I was about to call you.
I just got Joachim Kaplan's test results back.
And?
Look, they're rather unexpected.
We found 70 nanograms of amphetamine in his blood.
He was taking drugs?
No, never.
He was always against this kind of substance.
No, when he's not feeling alright, he calls his brother Julien.
He's his rock.
His crutch, if you will.
Well, I don't know, during a break, he could have given in, no?
No, not him.
I've known him for a long time. I've been tracking him for a long time, you know.
And I can tell you that I've never seen a patient deal with this better than him.
- OK, so we can interrogate him then, good- - No!
No, not now.
Listen, at the moment, he can't tell the difference between reality and delusion.
I understand.
But this is important.
OK, you can see him for 2 minutes only, OK?
And don't rush him.
Joachim?
I'm Commander Coste.
I brought you here. Do you remember?
We found your workshop.
We found your clay golems.
Was it one of your golems that hit Aaron Feldman?
No.
It was me.
He wanted to accuse me of Eve's death.
Because he figured out that Eve and you were lovers, right?
Friends.
We were friends.
Aaron is the one who killed Eve.
Eve drowned.
No.
Aaron killed her.
He wanted to say it was me.
But it wasn't, so I killed him.
Aaron wanted to accuse you?
Eve told me.
Joachim.
Eve is dead.
Her ghost.
Her ghost told me.
Eve calls me every night before I go to sleep.
Her ghost?
Her ghost calls you every night?
The dybbuk.
Eve told me to kill Aaron.
Raph,
I don't want to put any pressure on you but the Commissioner wants new leads, fast.
I have leads but they're not admissible.
- You talked with Kaplan? - Yeah.
He confessed to the murder.
That's awesome.
What I don't get is
why he didn't tell me he had been Eve's lover.
He confessed to the murder, he could have told me about the relationship.
Shame?
He betrayed his best friend, might be difficult to accept.
The famous coherence even in madness.
Or he was drugged.
Yes, Astrid?
I came to tell you I did not find any discordance
in the file about the boat accident in which Eve Marsiac died.
What did you say?
I said:
I came to tell you I did not find any discordance
in the file about the boat accident in which Eve Marsiac died.
Before that. What did you say before?
He was drugged?
Yes, I said that before. I said:
Or he was drugged.
It is written there.
In the file about Joachim Kaplan.
His toxicological blood work
showed a very high level of amphetamines
and an almost nonexistent level of carbamazepine.
As if he had stopped taking his medication for his bipolarity.
But he was under the influence, he forgot to take his medication.
Nothing's weird about that, right?
Yet,
the number of carbamazepine pills left
matched the number of pills he should have had left.
Based on his last prescription. There.
- So he was indeed taking his medication. - Yes.
Someone tampered with his pills, is that it?
Ask Julien Frédéric to analyze the pills content.
Yeah, I'm on it.
Goodbye.
At this hour...
I'll call you tomorrow morning for the results.
Agreed.
Yes?
I saw
Testuo Tanaka.
Yeah, you did your groceries.
Wait, it's not Wednesday.
I saw Testuo Tanaka
at a park.
- No kidding! - No kidding.
Come have dinner tonight, you'll tell me everything.
It is not Monday. It is on Mondays that I dine with you.
And, that is it,
I told you everything.
Stop by the house,
we'll talk about it.
I have to go to the social aptitude group.
I cannot be late, one must not be late.
Stop by after?
After, I have to go back to the Criminal Documentation.
Something eludes me, I do not like it when something eludes me.
Something eludes you about Eve Marsiac?
No, not about that.
Did you know that
her body has never been found?
Goodbye.
I cannot be late, one must not be late.
I really appreciated my exchanges with Eve.
Even though I know she is an algorithm,
it did not bother me.
And?
What is your problem?
I-
I am afraid I am not sensitive.
I sense that this problem is tricky for everyone.
There are multiple ways to be sensitive.
Feeling things differently doesn't mean not feeling at all.
You can walk past a flower and not look at it,
and still like the poem that depicts it, that describes it.
Ah.
I do not like poetry.
I do not understand why it is moving.
Me too.
Poetry has no effect on me.
Mother Nature though…
It's powerful, captivating.
It's in those moments that
I feel the strongest.
- And it's the countryside. - Yeah.
Last time, in the countryside,
I saw a sundown,
and I cried.
I don't know why.
Sundowns have no effect on me.
The sunrays are red because
they go through the atmosphere at an angle, that is all.
It's true.
The sunrays are blue on Mars.
A blue sundown on a red planet,
that's poetic.
During prehistoric times, there wasn't any poetry.
First traces date back to ancient civilization.
But we're not sure. Maybe at the time,
there was a verbal poetic tradition
that's disappeared nowadays.
Thank you all for this session.
As usual,
I invite you to eat a little something
and help me put the chairs away too, perhaps. Thanks.
Astrid, I…
I wish to know
what's bothering you.
I experience feelings.
Like anxiety at an unexpected event.
Or a great joy after solving a mechanical puzzle.
But,
to be moved while watching a movie
or reading poetry,
or watching a sundown,
never.
Like an Artificial intelligence.
Like an Artificial-
As far as intelligence goes,
yours is rare, the wheels turn greatly.
Artificial, come on.
No, no. You're not.
Do you understand?
I saw Tetsuo Tanaka.
- Ah. - At a park.
No kidding.
As I was telling you, the mood stabilizers pills found
in Kaplan's pill box contained no traces of carbamazepine.
But they're full of amphetamines.
So,
he was indeed drugged.
By switching the content of his pills. Poor guy.
He drugged himself thinking he was taking his medication.
It is not to kill him that he was drugged.
Exactly. He wasn't in any real danger.
Just enough to lose it.
- Exactly Mr. Frederic. Hello. - Hello.
Commander Coste,
do you remember the scent diffusing at Golem DeepLearning?
- Marina trade wind. - Yes.
Do you remember Joachim Kaplan's ringtone?
- Yeah, yeah, I remember well. Seagulls. - Yes.
OK, what's your point here?
Here.
Joachim Kaplan was manipulated
to have a sensory recall of Eve Marsiac's accident.
The amphetamines mentally weakened him.
Someone programmed him?
- Like an algorithm? - Yes.
Someone who perfectly knew his weaknesses
would know which buttons to push.
It could work, but for that, it would need a trigger.
A trigger?
Arthur.
What was the last e-mail Joachim received before Aaron's death?
A newsletter about an exhibition on Golem at the Museum of Jewish Art and History.
Golem in literature…
Golem, the shadowy vigilante or how the Giant of Clay killed Aaron.
Aaron.
There is our trigger.
Joachim did it
but someone was pulling the strings.
But who?
A dybbuk.
A ghost.
Yeah.
Golem-ed?
Joachim Kaplan was programmed to kill Aaron.
- Programmed by who? - Eve Marsiac.
Look, Commander Coste, let's be serious for a moment.
Eve Marsiac is dead.
- Her body was never recovered, Commissioner. - There.
There.
Joachim received a phone call every night at 10:32 pm.
And he told me Eve had called him every night. Look.
10:32 pm? It's Aaron Fellman's time of death?
Absolutely.
And see those numbers, here?
Those are the calls by IP.
Exactly the same encryption as the anonymous call
Commander Coste received yesterday.
And this anonymous caller had a woman's voice.
Eve's voice.
- You know her voice? - Yeah.
- We heard it at Golem's. - DeepLearning.
Eve Marsiac was used as a model to give birth to the AI they created.
And I can assure you, the voice we heard had nothing robotic.
She's not dead, I'm telling you. She's behind all of this.
In any case, if that's her, she's talented in IT
because we can't trace her calls.
- So we have nothing. - Yeah,
but we know someone who could decrypt it.
Yes.
But for that, we would need a signed authorization from you.
You have the best wi-fi in the whole station
so we always come here for these things.
Sorry, what?
- You already did that? - Of course.
It is not the first time.
You have the best wi-fi in the whole station.
Jeepers! It-it's not working.
How...
William, focus.
There! I know.
- William, focus. - Yes, I'm trying.
If I go through there... Then, both.
There!
What's this?
It is the great 51.
- The what? - The great 51.
It is a mechanical puzzle.
There are 3 disks interlocked. Page 161.
There.
- No touching. - Oh, no.
Thank you Commander Coste. Thank you William.
No touching.
There, there are 3, here, there are 5.
We need to place each disk so that each radius' sum is equal.
Except those are not numbers here. Those are Hebraic letters.
What could this mean? That we need to reconstitute words?
Those are numbers.
We need to use the gematria
to find each letter's numerical equivalent.
There.
Yes.
I will try the standard gematria.
So...
9 + 5 makes 14.
14 + 12 is 26.
14...
It does not work.
The mystical gematria.
It'll be alright, Astrid.
I do not know if it will be alright with the mystical gematria.
I am trying.
So 6, 20, 60.
ERROR
It does not work.
Radius of 43…
There!
- I did it. - Yes!
Yes.
It is a call interface.
Go on!
You want me to go?
- No, let's call. - Ah.
- Are you sure? - Yes.
Yes, then I am calling.
- Hello. - It is Eve Marsiac.
Eve Marsiac?
Yes, it's me.
It's Commander Coste.
You called me to give me Joachim Kaplan's work address yesterday, right?
That was me, Commander Coste.
Joachim confessed.
You could've just filed a complaint
but you wanted Joachim to pay as much as Aaron.
Why?
He covered for him. He's as guilty.
Ordering a murder is as bad as killing.
You blew both of your lives up, doesn't it bother you?
What you say is not logical.
Killing is worse than manipulating.
That's not what the law says.
Killing is worse than manipulating.
Raphaëlle, may I?
- Fire away. - Thank you.
Hello Eve, I am William-
- William Thomas. - Yes. William Thomas.
I'm helping Commander Coste.
I'd like your opinion on a precise matter.
Picture this,
you're driving a trolley,
the brakes aren't working.
Ahead are 2 tracks.
On the right track, there are 5 workers.
On the left track, there is a student going home.
Which track do you choose?
The left one.
Better to kill 1 person than 5.
Wow!
I knew it, I knew it.
William, you cut off everything!
- I knew it, I knew it. - What? What did you know?
Commander,
you'd run over the workers or the student?
No way.
Your question is horrible, I can't choose.
If I had to choose,
- I'd at least try to make my trolley derail. - Exactly.
You are faced with a cruel dilemma.
You're faced with a dilemma because you're human.
Yes, I'm human, yes.
Not her.
It's a work of art,
but that's not Eve.
That Golem DeepLearning's AI.
Shit.
If the AI can answer when we call out of the blue,
that means it works autonomously.
Like at Golem Deep Learning's front desk.
But it was improved as hell.
Apart from Joachim Kaplan, who could have done it?
All the developers we met aren't experienced enough.
No, no. Besides, those people didn't know he had a treatment.
He was taking it at home.
So it's someone who knows him enough to know that he was sick,
and has access to his house and office.
Julien Kaplan!
What if we had the wrong Kaplan all along?
What if he was Eve's lover?
His brother?
Does he know coding?
OK, check everything about his past, we'll call him in.
- Coste, debrief me when I come back from the Court. - Arthur.
Why did you hide the fact that you're a programmer in your brother's start-up?
I was just his assistant.
An assistant who solved the AI's bugs
to make it into an even more realistic Eve.
You're overestimating me, Commander.
Yet, when you take courses on AI at Boston's MIT,
you can definitely do it.
"J. Kaplan."
Why always hide behind your brother, Julien?
He chose to make money, as he used to say.
I chose studying.
To each their own.
Did you learn how to dose amphetamines thanks to online courses as well?
My brother was taking any substance he liked.
The Torah teaches us that all men have their free will.
Well, with what you had him take,
he didn't have much free will.
Why would I do that?
Because you loved Eve.
And you found out that your brother covered up the murder.
Really Commander, your imagination knows no bounds.
What are you relying on to suggest such theories?
So manipulative!
He knows we have nothing against him.
If he doesn't confess, we can't do anything! Shit!
Wait, Raph! What if we beat him at his own game?
He created this AI in Eve's image.
What if we used it against him?
He's always talking to her. He created this AI to make her live on.
He talks with it as if it were her.
He even calls it every day.
You mean, if we can control Eve,
- we can interrogate him without him knowing? - Yeah, I think so.
Wait Nico, that's above us.
It means we need to completely take over the AI. That's not possible!
I know who could do it.
William?
The only person I know who is better at this than him.
There, it's programmed for me.
You really can… make her say what I tell you?
Absolutely, Commander. Everything you say.
Wow, that's crazy!
She's wonderful, isn't she?
Well I'm ready. You good?
- Yes. - Let's call her.
Hello?
Julien?
I'm so glad to talk to you.
How did your day go?
Aaron is dead and Joachim is going to prison.
So yes, my day went well.
Commander, is that you?
I don't know how you did it.
But did you really think you could trick me with such a bad ploy?
I created Eve.
Well done. She's almost perfect.
Such energy to get your revenge!
You don't understand.
I just…
I just used the AI to make Eve live on.
It already had her face. I gave it her memories,
her personality.
Have you ever lost someone you loved, Commander?
Yes. Someone very close to me.
What would you give to
get more time with them?
Anything.
But with a sham, a sentimental inflatable doll, no thanks!
I won't let you talk about Eve this way, it's not a sham.
I entered all my conversations with her in the machine.
That's how I recognized you earlier.
She uses the same words she did when she was alive.
She speaks exactly like Eve.
She smiles like her.
She thinks like her.
Except she doesn't think. She just implements your program.
It's not working. Let's change tactics.
Again, Bérézine. I'm dead, Julien.
Trust me, Bérézine.
I'm dead, Julien.
Aaron killed me and Joachim lied to you.
Stop.
That's why we punished them together, both of them, you and me.
- But you made me a criminal. - Stop talking for her, I know it's you.
You made me survive death to make me transgress one of the
main divine commandments.
You shall not kill.
- Joachim killed her. - What will my soul become, Julien?
Joachim killed her!
We only pushed him to do it. Killing is worse than manipulating.
Killing is worse than manipulating.
Good.
I was tricked.
Commander Coste's interrogation is worthless.
Oh, no.
It just convinced the judge to indict you for instigation.
And contrary to what you think, for the law,
it's as bad as killing.
Not for God.
I punished a murderer who deserved his punishment.
But I don't have blood on my hands.
I was only a channel for divine will.
So, let me get this straight.
God wanted you to corrupt your brother.
That same brother you've been protecting for so long, is that right?
He betrayed me.
He came to tell me his secret.
He told me that Eve and Aaron had fought on the boat.
She pushed him, he pushed her back and she…
She fell into the water.
Aaron watched her drown. He killed her.
He confessed he covered up the murder of the love of my life.
How would you have felt?
It's not about me.
But I think I would have extended a hand.
Shut up.
You still have a choice, Julien.
If you confess, justice will be more merciful to him.
What do you think?
You know prison is very hard on people with mental disorders.
I've done so much for him.
You still can.
By confessing.
If only I knew you loved her.
It is as God wanted.
He wanted me to suffer and the betrayal to come from you.
I forgive you.
Your brother confessed, Joachim.
He was manipulating you.
It'll have weight in your trial.
Come on.
Careful, you need to stop.
- Oh, yes! - Yes.
Thank you.
What was between Julien Kaplan and Eve Marsiac.
What is between you and Bérézine28.
Between Commander Coste and DA Forest.
Yes. And?
Maybe I cannot feel it.
No, please, don't say that.
But it does not matter.
I do not need it to be who I am.
No, definitely not!
I need to go, William. I cannot be late, one cannot be late.
I am going to see Tetsuo Tanaka
in a park
for the third time.
- Oh yes? - Yes.
- But really, for the third time? - Yes. 1, 2, 3.
I do not like sunsets.
I do not understand why people say it is poetic.
I agree.
It is only an atmospheric manifestation of the light wavelength.
It is longer, so it is orange.
Absolutely.
There is nothing poetic about that.
Poetry is elsewhere.
Ah.
In the numbers. Look, for example.
1 + square root of 5 divided by 2.
That's what we call the golden ratio. It's an incredible number.
I'm writing my thesis about it.
It's a number full of mystery. Since it was discovered,
they keep finding it new properties.
It's an irrational number. That means that its decimals are infinite.
Every series of numbers you can think of can be found
in the series of decimals of the golden ratio. And it's infinite.
It never stops. Ever.
What is it, Astrid?
Did I say something wrong?
I do not know.
Goodbye.
I felt a strange feeling in my stomach.
Like a tingling sensation.
I thought I was sick given how strong it was.
Strong tingling in the stomach.
But I think it is because I found it beautiful.
You know, Astrid?
Maybe you should consider
that there's a body of consistent evidence showing that you're falling in love.
- You think? - Looks like it, yes.
Like you, with DA Forest.
Yes, exactly.
It is beautiful.
- It's wonderful, Astrid. - Yes, it is beautiful.
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