Commissioner Alain Korg, RIB.
Commissioner, I am listening.
The building has been evacuated but we don't know much about it yet.
The video system was destroyed in the shelving area.
It seems that they have taken refuge in this area.
They've taken some employees hostage but we don't know how many.
Damn it! But what do they want, it's not a bank, there's nothing to steal in there.
We don't know, we haven't received any claims for the moment,
we're trying to establish the link.
Fuck, Crime is there, too?
Yeah, they came here on their own.
They work with the Doc a lot. They offered to help.
Right. Coste's friend, Nielsen.
Is she one of the hostages?
We can't know that at the moment.
In any case, she's not among the employees who were evacuated.
But maybe she was not in the building.
And Coste?
- Where is Coste? - I left her a message, she'll be here soon.
All right. Okay, I need a coffee, get me a coffee.
- Sir? - Yeah?
We're going to try and make contact with the hostage-taker.
If you want to supervise the negotiator.
No, I'm not supervising anything. I'll take the lead.
I'll call them directly. We'll see who we're dealing with.
Make the call.
Hello?
Ok, listen, the Documentation is surrounded so
it would be better for you and us if we could talk. Figure it out.
I couldn't agree more, Mathias.
Raph?! Cut off the speaker.
Cut it off!
Raph! What the hell are you doing in there?!
Do you realize how serious the situation is?
You are at the heart of an investigation of the BIA which aim is to know who
took the initiative to let an armed woman
inside the Criminal Documentation.
Some great parity in the French police force!
Coste!
I'm the one who let her in.
Rest assured,
I indeed have an inkling about how serious the situation is.
Give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.
The courage to change the things I can.
And the wisdom to know the difference.
What happened next?
I don't know, I wasn't there.
Mr. Wurlitzer? The judge, on the line for you.
I'll go with you.
Excuse me.
Coste.
Let's cut the bullshit. Play along, okay?
Of all the cops who work for the BIA, you couldn't have hoped for better.
Wurlitzer is a straight shooter. But he doesn't like to be fucked with.
- But that's nonsense, Commissioner! - No, it's far from being nonsense.
I opposed your custody, believe me.
But with your background, it was a real mess.
- What about my background? - You know very well what I mean.
Except that you went way too far.
Hostage-taking in a police department,
the intervention of the RIB, journalists on a loop on the news channels.
What do you think: that
we'll get away with saying that it's an unfortunate coincidence?
I know that it could cost me my job and even more.
Well, all the more reason to keep a low profile.
All right? And you cooperate.
I don't want to lose a good cop like you.
That's a long way to go for a compliment, but I'll take it.
Excuse me. Let's get back to it.
Let's go back to when you first came into this case.
Well, I was very late, as usual.
No, but I was late, for real.
Mathilde, a coffee, please. Good morning Ma'am.
Excuse me. Good morning.
Come on, Astrid, what's going on? Weren't we supposed to meet at the Doc?
Yes, we did. But you were late. You are always late. One should not be late.
Yes, yes.
And in the meantime, Mrs. Martenot, Marissa Martenot,
Commander Coste there,
Mrs. Martenot brought to my attention a very interesting case.
A case of what?
- A case of miscarriage of justice. - A case of miscarriage of justice.
Can you make it a double, please?
I was wrongly accused of having murdered someone.
And what was your relationship to the victim?
He was my sponsor.
I was in the program at the time.
Alcoholics Anonymous?
They found evidence I was at the murder scene.
And were you at the murder scene?
Yeah, but I swear he was already dead when I got there.
Only, when the cops found me the next day, I had his blood on me and
I was very drunk.
Wait, wait. The next day?
Well, when you found the body, why didn't you call the cops?
It's because I found him dead that I was drinking that night. I lost it.
Then I didn't dare call the cops, I was sure they wouldn't believe me.
Your word doesn't mean much when you're an alcoholic.
And what was your motive?
My daughter Béatrice was 16 at the time
and social services threatened to take
her away from me if I didn't go to treatment.
Except I was in such a state when they found me...
OK.
I guess the cops thought that your sponsor wanted to turn you in
and to shut him up, you killed him.
A sponsor can't do that.
A long time ago, I've... I often used to go to AA meetings with someone close to me
and I know how it goes.
A sponsor can't turn in their sponsee.
It's against the rules of the association.
Well, obviously the cops who arrested me didn't know about it.
Neither did the DA who charged me, let alone the jury who convicted me.
Something is wrong.
Something is wrong but I cannot figure out what it is.
The file is too incomplete, the picture is blurry.
And because the picture is blurry, I cannot see what is wrong.
I have to cross-check with the other reports at the Criminal Documentation.
But my colleague, the little man, will never let us in with a civilian.
But I will need Mrs. Martenot to make these cross-checks.
We'll have to find a solution.
It is-It is there.
- Are you sure about this, Astrid? - Yes.
How did you find out about this passage, Astrid?
A friend who worked in maintenance shared this information with me.
Oh!
Sorry. I didn't mean to scare you.
I've been working here,
for 3 years.
William. This is me.
I have no rational reason to be afraid.
I know who you are.
You are William Thomas.
You are in charge of maintenance.
- Yes. Right. - Yes.
And I thank you.
Thank you. For what?
You are always very careful to put everything back where it belongs
on my desk. Thank you.
You're welcome.
Astrid Nielsen.
Nice to meet you.
Shall I walk you to your office?
- This way? - It seems to be shorter.
It is that way.
It's that way.
If we run into anyone and they ask you questions, you're an intern, alright?
Report of the hearing in the Duchemin case.
The public prosecutor would like a copy. Within the hour.
Why does it always have to be within the hour?
- I've received a WEA. - A what?
A Wireless Emergency Alert.
Ah. Your hobby.
Yeah.
Reading alerts in real-time is my thing.
Deep down,
I always told myself I was cut out for it.
I'm also part of the big Poulaga house.
The big house what?
“Woman on day parole since yesterday did not go to work,
did not return in time to her cell, considered an escapee from prison”.
Well, what do you know!
Well, so what?
This woman, I'm sure I saw her less than 2 hours ago in front of the Doc
with Miss Nielsen.
It was 2 hours ago, she's already far away.
Are you sure?
I'll go and ask Astrid. I want to know for sure.
Gilles!
Even my daughter thinks I'm guilty.
She's totally cut me off.
I only have her. If I want to fight today, it's for her. Do you know what I mean?
We can take the armbands off, we're safe here.
To put the pieces of your case together,
I first have to develop a search strategy.
Then I locate the document by using keywords.
This is a very important step that requires a lot of concentration.
Thank you for explaining to Marissa, Astrid. Thank you.
I say that mostly because it is a very important step
that requires a lot of concentration.
- We'll be quiet. - Yes. Thank you.
How are you?
You said, "we'll be quiet".
Do you want a glass of water?
- I'd love one. - Come on, then.
- A lot of concentration. - We'll leave you to it.
Yes.
Thank you.
Miss Nielsen?
I was wondering
who you were with this morning in front of the Criminal Documentation.
You are wearing the same shirt as yesterday.
Yes, a problem with the washer.
Shit! What the hell is he doing here? No way!
Shit, shit.
Shit, shit! Shit! Gilles! Listen to me! Gilles!
Shit! Calm down, Gilles!
Hey, hey, hey!
There's no need to panic, OK? I'll explain everything.
You won't explain anything!
You're hiding a fugitive.
- A fugitive? - Absolutely! A prison escapee.
Give me your gun, Commander Coste.
Marissa, no.
Commander?
Gilles? You need to call your wife back urgently.
Can I talk to you alone for a minute?
Mathias, can you get these things off me? This is ridiculous now.
I don't know if first names are appropriate, Commander Coste.
I see.
As long as our relationship brings you closer to
my father, everything is fine.
But if it puts your career at risk, you're gone.
I think I've always been very clear about the nature of this relationship.
You're a bastard.
What I'm trying to figure out is,
what was going on in your head?
Aiding a fugitive.
You won't be on traffic duty. You're facing discharge!
Can you imagine the situation you put me in?
- Sir. - Mr. Wurlitzer.
We have just discussed this
and at this point, you are about to become one of the protagonists of this story.
I think it would be easier for this investigation
if you let us talk to the defendant alone.
Wait, what's this about?
I'm still in charge of this case.
No, you were in charge of Mrs. Martenot's escape.
But this investigation is a BIA investigation.
An independent investigation in which you are involved:
you were in charge at the time of the events.
I'm going to leave too, Sir.
I think that's the best position to take.
Yes, of course.
Yes.
Good.
Why don't we start over?
Marissa Martenot took us to a place with no windows.
That's why we ended up in the Doc's shelvings.
Move. Take their phones.
The phone! Sir, your phone.
- That's his, actually. - And you, your phone!
- I don't have it, I left it upstairs! - OK, let's go.
Go.
Goodbye.
If I understand correctly, now I am obliged to believe you?
From now on, you're the only witness.
No.
There is also Astrid Nielsen.
Yes. And I will hear from her in due time.
Please continue.
They want to negotiate.
That's a good sign.
- You should pick up. - Yes!
We'll explain everything, it's all gonna be alright, ok?
Yes!
I don't know.
I didn't plan for things to go this way.
You need to pick up!
Commander Coste, you need to pick up!
Ok, listen. The Documentation is surrounded so for all
our sakes we should discuss, find a solution.
I agree, Mathias.
Raph?!
What the hell are you doing here?
I was at the Doc when the hostage situation began.
Raph, tell me you have nothing to do with this.
It's more complicated than that.
Listen carefully, the hostage taker doesn't want money.
She just wants us to study her case.
She?
You mean it's one woman and you did nothing to try and turn things around?
I'm telling you she doesn't want money.
She wants us to study her case.
And it can all go down smoothly.
Raph, tell me you being at the Doc is a coincidence.
I think she deserves to be heard.
If she spent 5 years in prison wrongfully,
we owe her at least that, don't we? - She took a police department hostage!
- It deserves an appropriate response. - I know but..
It wasn't planned. It went sideways.
Look, one woman with a gun, we can handle that very easily.
What? What are you saying?
One woman with a gun can do as much damage as one man with a gun.
How can you say that?
Tell me, knowing you, I'm sure you don't want to announce any
death tonight on the news.
So, you're gonna give me some time, ok?
I'll give you 2 hours to find a peaceful solution.
After that, we need to start the assault.
Raph?
Find me a way to get in there.
You cannot come in.
I have a gun.
I'm pointing it at you, I don't think it's up to you to decide whether I go in or not.
When I work in this room, I work alone.
To be able to think, I need to be alone.
Otherwise, I cannot think.
Don't try anything in there.
Trust her.
And why would I trust her?
Because she's the only one who can prove you're innocent.
Because you already have taken our phones.
And apart from this door, this room has no other exit.
You can check.
Apart from working on your case, I can do nothing else.
Go ahead.
Thank you Mrs. Martenot.
I'm sure they're going to order the assault.
Commander Coste has 1 hour left.
I think we found a way in.
It's not without risk but it's a good approach.
What's the probability of it going without any problems?
Hard to say, we don't have a clear view of what's going on in there.
But according to our thermal imaging, I'd say 75%.
How long to prepare the assault?
10 minutes.
Can I ask you a question?
That energy,
why didn't you use it to defend yourself?
Marissa,
if you want me to help you, you need to talk to me.
You need to trust me.
Who was it?
The person you knew who went to meetings, who was it?
My big brother.
He'd made bad life choices,
hung out with the wrong people.
I thought I could help him, and then…
Béatrice had a brother too.
A little brother.
You lost a child?
That's when I started drinking.
He was 6.
He was my little sunshine.
And 2 years later,
when I was put in detention for the murder of my sponsor,
it was the final blow.
I let myself go.
My life was screwed anyway, so why fight?
For Béatrice.
How old is she now?
21.
I've just learned she's pregnant.
I found it.
You can come in.
- No, careful! - What?
You can't both stay in there while I stay outside.
No.
Your shoes. You need to take off your shoes. There.
The day he was murdered, your sponsor David Ixcet
was hosting an AA meeting.
I managed to identify everyone who was there.
It was very hard.
The anonymity the organization guarantees did not make it easy. There.
Some participants have not been identified by the investigators.
The only one who knows their true identity is the man who was killed.
Your AA sponsor David Ixcet.
And of course,
Marissa was the perfect suspect.
Yes.
I wasn't at that meeting.
It was something that incriminated me.
Yet it is proof of your innocence.
Start the assault.
What… Sir! Coste still has 15 minutes left to find a solution without violence.
So we have the element of surprise.
The elements Astrid found are strong.
Now we need to continue the investigation in the field.
The best way to prove your innocence is to find the real culprit.
I just pointed a gun at state officials though.
The State is always considerate with victims of miscarriage of justice.
And I'll testify in your favor.
In the meantime,
give me your gun.
Marissa.
Trust me.
There we go.
No visual on the suspect.
No touching. No touching.
We'll have to take a break, Commander Coste.
We'll get back to it later.
Shit.
Shit, shit, shit!
You work with Commander Coste
on criminal police investigations- Yes.
But you belong to the Criminal Documentation first and foremost.
- Is that right? - Absolutely.
I take care of the documentary resources at the Criminal Documentation.
Who knew about this secret way
into the Criminal Documentation?
Apparently the squads of the Research and Intervention Brigade
knew about it.
What is the nature of your collaboration with Commander Coste, exactly?
I look at things differently.
Exactly.
The most important moment
is when I lay out the different elements of the case.
In a criminal investigation,
each step is precisely detailed in the reports.
Each testimony is recorded.
Each element leaves a trail. There is always a trail.
Only, my thinking process is essentially visual.
I need to see the investigation.
I need to see the elements in order for them to fit together.
Then,
I watch.
I think.
I look for a body of consistent evidence with the other cases, I know the cases.
And I wait.
Sometimes, an element stands out.
There.
Presence of silica, sodium carbonate on the crime scene.
What does that tell you?
The AA meetings that David Ixcet, the victim, was hosting,
were taking place in an abandoned factory.
An old factory that made iron.
Hence the silica and carbonate.
Absolutely.
It is an element that incriminated Mrs. Martenot.
Silica and sodium carbonate were collected on the soles of Mrs. Martenot's shoes.
Silica and sodium carbonate were collected at the crime scene.
She was a suspect.
The investigators deduced that Mrs. Martenot left them there.
But it is just a question of point of view.
Do you know the 9 dots problem, Mr. Wurlitzer?
Of course. It's a mind game.
To solve it, you need to go outside the box.
Exactly. You need to go outside the box.
You need to change your point of view.
Marissa Martenot had silica and carbonate sodium on the soles of her shoes,
but maybe not because she left them at the crime scene.
Maybe because she picked them up there.
What makes you think that?
The fact that Mrs. Martenot did not go to the AA meeting that day.
But why accuse her, and not someone else?
Marissa Martenot is the last person David Ixcet called before he died.
The investigators assumed
her sponsor had called her to know the reasons for her absence.
He figured out she was drunk.
And fearing being denounced and losing custody of her daughter,
Mrs. Martenot went over there to shut him up definitively.
It is an evocative expression meaning kill him.
Yes. That could work.
Yes.
Yet,
that is not what the silica and sodium carbonate say.
Could you tell me where the bathroom is please?
Sure. Over there, on the left.
I'm sorry Commander, I have orders. I'll have to take you into holding.
Don't worry. I know it's not your fault.
What the hell? Damn, Arthur!
There's water damage and the cells are unusable.
So we have to put you here.
It's not very comfortable and there's no water source
but it's flooded!
Thank you, Arthur.
Be careful that the Commissioner doesn't see you though!
- Not a chance. It was his idea. - Huh?
Astrid.
Astrid, it's me.
- Raphaëlle? - Yes.
- Raphaëlle? - Yes. You okay?
Yes, I am okay.
I do not have my shoelaces.
I do not have my watch. I do not have my backpack.
- I know, Astrid. I'm sorry. - Me too, I am sorry.
But Mr. Wurlitzer, from the BIA
is a very rigorous and precise man.
It will be okay, do not worry for me, Raphaëlle.
Astrid, listen to me, we don't have much time.
I need to know what you think of Marissa.
Meaning?
What you think of her file.
Ah.
I think Marissa Martenot
is innocent of the crime she's accused of.
I agree with you. But why did she run away, then?
The only explanation
is that she wasn't there to prove her innocence.
She's looking for something else.
Maybe she is looking for the real murderer's identity.
Something's been bothering me since the beginning.
Why didn't she stand up more?
That's what distorted the investigation.
Did she tell you anything else?
Yes.
Yes, she told me she had lost a child 2 years before.
You're thinking about something?
Mr. Wurlitzer.
My rights have not been respected. I know my rights.
I offered you a lawyer's assistance.
You're the one who declined.
Yes.
It is not about that.
I wish to make a call.
I have the right to a phone call.
- Of course. - Yes.
Of course.
I really am sorry. Matter of procedure. I have to type the number.
Can you write it?
I know the procedure.
There.
William Thomas.
06, 32, 67…
What is it?
Astrid?
I do not have my watch.
What time is it, please?
- 7:45 pm. - Ah.
He is in the middle of a meeting at the social aptitude group.
He will not pick up.
I have to find another number.
I know.
01, 08, 42, 43, 50.
I am square, he is circle.
I do not have any color.
I am square, he is circle. I need to follow the arrows.
Tanaka's shop, good evening.
Hello, Tetsuo Tanaka.
I am in a delicate situation.
Could you help me, please?
Anything you need, Astrid.
Ah.
There.
Could you go right away to the social aptitude group meeting
situated 11 Fossés Street, in Paris' 18th arrondissement
and ask William Thomas, putting everything else aside, to send
from the Criminal Documentation to Captain Perran,
the file classified GRM-753 which he will find
at the Criminal Documentation, 3rd basement,
in between the shelves C28 and C96.
The front door is locked but William will know what to do.
Alright.
Goodbye. One must say goodbye.
Yeah.
Wait, you're sure he got all the information?
Yes, absolutely.
It is Tetsuo Tanaka.
- Hello. - Hello.
You are William Thomas?
Yes, it's me.
I am Tetsuo Tanaka.
I have a message from Astrid Nielsen.
She needs your help.
Of course,
whatever she needs.
I've been waiting for this moment for a long time.
Oh, it can't be true. We've been digitizing for months.
Page by page, and all this work is about to disappear in a blink.
That's not possible!
Fortunately, the paper copies are still here.
Does one not say that the stone lasts 10000 years,
he paper, 1000 years, and the IT media, 10 years.
How can a youngster like you be so retrograde?
It's the future, Astrid.
I will always prefer the physical media.
I like opening files, I know files.
That being said,
after having talked with someone from the department,
I think this person could help us.
- Someone from the department? - Yes.
But I already called IT 3 times.
- William? - Yes?
I would need your help,
putting everything else aside.
- Of course, I'm coming down. - Yes, careful.
It's the janitor, Astrid.
Yes, it is William Thomas, he is a janitor.
Nice to meet you.
William Thomas, if you will.
- There. - Sorry, excuse me.
Go on.
- There. - There.
That was it.
You're good, kid.
Thank you.
I'll go back to my neon lights.
- Sorry, excuse me. - You are welcome.
Kid,
is he your son?
A few days later, Mr. Gaillard introduced me to my current employer.
So, I don't know if I'll ever be able to pay Astrid back,
but today, I'm happy to return the favor.
You know,
Astrid is important to me, too.
Yes.
Come on, it's this way.
All clear.
Pictures?
Fascinating place, right?
It's just that for the first time,
I have the impression of getting a glimpse of what's going on in her head.
- I almost feel indecent. - Of course.
I hope one day, she'll be the one showing me the place.
Of course.
Last one.
Come on.
From William and Tetsuo Tanaka
Ms. Nielsen, you asked to see a doctor?
Yes, it is one of my rights during custody.
According to the article 63-1 from the Criminal Procedure Code.
Exactly.
I got your message.
The doctor has arrived.
Thank you.
- I gave your boyfriend hell. - My boyfriend?
Your ex?
Not even, apparently, we never were together.
The more you know.
What an asshole.
I can't eat that.
Here.
My favorites?
- Of course. - Thanks Nico.
- So you gave the DA hell? - Yeah.
And I got the right authorizations.
I went to the jail last night to interrogate Marissa's bunkmate.
- And? - And her name's Violetta Flores.
- No kidding? - No kidding.
The girl we arrested the first time we had ever worked with Astrid.
She told her about the outstanding capacities
of a so-called Astrid Nielsen at the Criminal Documentation.
So she didn't come to see her randomly,
she chose her. - Yeah.
And the investigation?
At a standstill.
Mathias just did a press conference.
He tried to make the journalist turn tables.
He wasn't putting on airs and graces.
Perfect.
It's time to get him.
- Yes? - Yes, Sir.
- Carl Bachert speaking. - Commissioner.
Yes, Commander Coste and the swore in agent Nielsen
would like to speak with you.
They already had their chance, didn't they?
I have to be at the Ministry in 15 minutes
to give some explanations, I can come by afterwards.
Allow me to insist, Sir. I think it's important.
They want to confess.
What's this nonsense about a confession?
It's the denouement, Sir.
I was talking to the Commissioner, Commander Coste.
Unless I'm wrong, you're still a suspect for complicity
to a hostage taking? - Sir,
the ball is in your court.
Either you keep on going your way and pose
as an incompetent in front of journalists,
either you give the crime unit free rein
and we deliver you Marissa Martenot on a sliver platter.
Okay, I get it.
- So, you're with them now? - I'm with the common sense.
And with my team, yeah.
Can I know who all these people are?
Those are the puzzle pieces
that helped us shine some light onto this case.
We were only missing one piece.
To understand why Marissa had done this.
That, we already knew: to prove her innocence.
Wrong.
If it was that,
why would she have run away once we were getting close?
No.
Marissa came to the Doc for another matter entirely.
She came because of her son.
When I first started studying the Martenot case,
I saw a classification for a car accident.
I moved it aside because it was not pertinent to my research strategy,
but when Commander Coste told me that Ms. Martenot's son had died,
I understood it was the key.
7 years ago,
Marissa Martenot's son was hit by a car.
A hit and run.
Never found the driver.
The kid, left for dead,
died before getting to a hospital.
That's why she was here.
To know who was driving that night.
What does that have to do with the murder she's accused of?
Everything, absolutely everything.
Because of the silica and sodium carbonate
left on the crime scene by the culprit
and transferred on Mrs. Martenot's shoe soles.
Our teams verified all the samples that were done at the time.
All of them are correct.
It confirms Miss Nielsen's theory.
Thank you, Mr. Frédéric.
The real culprit of the murder, which Mrs. Martenot was accused of,
was present at the AA meeting on the afternoon of the crime.
I managed to identify every participants
present at the reunion, unlike the investigators at that time.
Thus, we had a list.
And if we managed to make the link
between one of the names on that list, and the accident,
we had more than a lead.
We had a body of consistent evidence.
A body of consistent evidence.
The vehicle which ran the child down had violently hit a low wall.
Perhaps the driver had been injured.
I therefore thought that I could ask Paul's help.
Wait. Who's Paul?
Paul Thomas. There.
Paul Thomas.
- I'm a doctor. - You asked to see a doctor?
Consulting a few colleagues, I found a record in traumatology
opened by an emergency service
the day after the accident.
A record under the name of a certain André Moug.
- Who's on the list. - Yes.
André Moug consulted an emergency service for a head trauma
the day after the accident that killed Marissa's son.
2 years later, he participated to an AA meeting
held by Marissa's sponsor.
He related the accident to ease his own conscience.
And the sponsor understood that he was the driver
that ran Marissa's son down?
- There. - There.
The call to Marissa on the day of the murder
was to tell her that.
He understood, I don't know how, that he'd been unmasked.
And when Marissa arrived,
he had killed the sponsor.
If I may,
it's at that moment, I believe
that we step into play.
- Listen, why not- - Friends!
Friends!
Astrid needs our help.
We split all the names on that list between us
to learn as much as possible about him.
Every one of us put themselves in danger.
A true challenge.
What can I say.
Helping Astrid gave them wings.
Thank you.
I went to see Géraldine Crimot.
I met with Fabrice Denis.
Kévin Anvitch.
That is Tetsuo Tanaka.
And I had to meet André Moug.
But I didn't see him.
He's a commercial CEO
and spends most of his time on the road.
He arrives today at 11 am.
Marissa will try to intercept him, so we need to be there before her.
Which leaves us less than an hour.
Ah.
And you uncovered all this while being in custody.
Absolutely.
It's the difference between you and us, Sir.
Some aren't team players.
And us,
we're the other way around.
His tie is crooked.
Additionally!
Have a good day.
And you?
- What part did you play into this? - Me?
None.
I just came as a friend.
Hope that's not an issue.
Move forward!
Calm down.
Forward, I say!
Please, calm down!
Jump, son of a bitch! You jump!
Shit!
Raph, your vest!
Jump, I'm telling you.
- Jump, son of a bitch! - I didn't do anything.
Jump, I'm telling you!
You're wrong, I swear. You're wrong.
Jump!
Please.
Marissa!
Drop your weapon!
Drop the weapon, don't make it worse.
You don't know!
You know nothing!
It won't bring your son back, Marissa.
It was an accident.
I didn't mean to.
I swear!
I promise, he'll be punished for what he did.
Drop the weapon!
- It's too late! - No.
No, you didn't commit any crime, Marissa.
I've been waiting for this for 7 years. You can't take that away from me.
Look.
Raph, what are you doing?
Raph!
Drop your gun, Nico.
Drop your gun.
You can still change what can be changed.
And think about Béatrice, your daughter.
She needs you.
Come on.
There.
Raph, move!
On the ground! On the ground!
I didn't mean to.
Don't move! Don't move!
I didn't mean to.
Raph?
Are you okay?
Are you okay, my Raph?
Since when do you call me “my Raph”?
Who cares? I freaked out!
Are you okay?
Ok, you can take her. I'm staying with you.
So, if I'm getting this right,
you took full responsibility for a crime you didn't commit.
All that to quench your revenge?
That's what kept me alive all those years.
And I couldn't shoot him.
This doesn't make any sense.
On the contrary.
It has a meaning.
It's the voice of reason.
Come on, take her away.
I'm glad to know you're not in a life-threatening condition.
No more than I, Sir.
Though you made quite a mess.
You'll be held accountable.
You're lucky it ends well, but your responsibility will be engaged.
We're not done.
Yes, Commander.
You'll have to learn to respect rules.
Come in.
Astrid.
Raphaëlle.
I did not know that the convention is to bring flowers in such circumstances.
I can go downstairs to buy some, if you wish.
No.
No, no.
Flowers suck, you can't eat them.
If you go downstairs,
you could get me a bottle of wine and a box of chocolates?
No, but I'm not kidding!
I'm kidding.
Well,
I was kidding when I said I wasn't kidding.
I know.
- You understood? - Yes.
You're making progress.
You know, I owe you a lot, Astrid.
Without you, I don't know. I don't-
One should not cut people off when they talk, but I cannot let you go on.
I bear the sole responsibility.
And without you, I- - Ok, ok.
We're not going to count points, that's ridiculous.
Let's just say
that a compass is nothing without its thimble.
No.
A thimble
is nothing without its compass.
It is funny. It is very funny
because, except us,
no one else can understand.
Maybe that's what friendship is, Astrid.
Let's have a drink to celebrate your return, Commander.
It's a little too early for champagne, no?
Thank you.
I'm really glad to see you, Commander.
Ah, that's a talking coffee. Thank you, Arthur.
Great.
Are you okay?
I am.
And you?
- Yeah. Happy to see you. - Me too.
Be right back.
Happy to see you, Coste.
Me too.
Come on in.
Have a seat.
No, I'll be okay. Thanks.
Very well.
An investigation just opened, asking for the revision
of Marissa Martenot's trial.
But the decision has already been cancelled.
The hold-up will give her cause for concern,
but given the circumstances, the prosecution was lenient.
She'll sleep in her own bed tonight.
Well, I won't have screwed my career up for nothing.
About that, I got Wurlitzer.
He gave his conclusions to the prosecution and the direction of National Police.
And his investigation totally cleared your name.
Welcome back, Coste.
Thank you.
And what about Captain Perran?
Normally, it's out of his hands.
The disciplinary procedure triggered
by Captain Perran's outburst
was filed directly at management to short-circuit the BIA.
But Wurlitzer insisted on getting the file back
by threatening to exercise a procedural error.
I don't know what you all did to him,
but you won him over.
It's Astrid, especially. He was impressed.
Unfortunately, I don't just have good news, Commander.
And it's about Miss Nielsen.
The prosecution looked into her special status
and found some discrepancies.
Like?
Like impinging on prerogatives reserved only for police officers,
like interrogating a suspect for example.
Will there be a trial?
No. Nothing of that sort.
They're willing to wipe the slate clean for Astrid,
but on one condition.
Astrid can't be a part of the investigations of the criminal police anymore.
Sure.
- Son of a bitch. - I'm sorry, Coste.
This is where I feel best. At the Criminal Documentation.
There, I do my research.
- Translated & synced by Team Astraelle -