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NICO: Hello.

Hello, Astrid? Raphaëlle isn't with you?

- Cmdr Coste has been infected with

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2.

She did not respect social distancing measures.

- Social distancing isn't her thing, you know? Right?

Aren't you coming? - Mm-mmm.

- This is the first I've been to a crime scene without Cmdr Coste.

- Let me reassure you right away, it's not a crime scene. Not yet.

- I don't understand. - I'll explain: we're in front

Twist of Fate

of a couple's house- - Yes, Mr & Mrs Davre's.

Karen Davre is a hospital ER doctor, and Joachim Davre is

a former Olympic pistol-shooting champion.

He currently heads a major shooting club.

- The head of Karen Davre's department reported her missing.

He can't imagine her abandoning her post during this pandemic.

- Oh. - And according to Karen's colleagues,

her relationship with her husband has been very strained of late.

One told me she was afraid of him.

Obviously, we're imagining the worst. - 'The worst'?

- That her husband killed her. - Oh.

- Shall we?

ASTRID: All right.

- Hello, Mr Davre. - Come in.

- Thank you.

- Thank you for coming so quickly.

I'm so worried about Karen. Door closes

I knew she needed rest, but it's strange, not informing her department.

- How do you know? - She sent me a text.

- Can you show me? - Of course.

NICO: Thanks.

NICO: 'It's too hard, I need a few days off. Don't worry,

I'll call you this weekend. Love you.'

That was Thursday, right? - Yes. She hasn't called,

not that weekend or since.

I tried calling her, but it goes straight to voicemail.

DAVRE: I hope she hasn't cracked under the pressure.

Their pace at the hospital is crazy, it's inhuman.

- Do you still shoot? DAVRE: Occasionally.

Ironically, my duties at my shooting club leave me with very little free time.

- Mm-mmm.

- What is it, Astrid?

- There, in the channel of the French window.

Insistently Mm-mmm!

- It looks like blood. I'm calling Forensics.

RAPH: Contact or no contact, I don't care, I'll be back tomorrow.

- Listen, don't mess around.

Did you hear they opened a temporary morgue in a Rungis warehouse?

NICO: Funeral homes are completely overwhelmed.

- Where are we on the Davre case?

- Forensics analyzed the drop of blood from the channel of the French window,

it is indeed Karen Davre's blood.

- Her husband says she loves tending her flowers,

she may have hurt herself pruning the roses,

then went inside to take care of it.

- This hypothesis cannot be ruled out.

And yet yesterday during the search,

a scarf with a large bloodstain was found near Mr & Mrs Davre's home.

- And that could be Karen Davre's blood too?

- Exactly.

- And what about Joachim Davre's clothes?

- They found gunpowder residue on a yellow

t-shirt in the laundry basket.

- I have to say, it's starting to be a lot.

A husband who lies constantly,

the wife's colleagues describe him as borderline,

a bloodstain in the house, a bloodstained scarf,

and now: gunpowder residue.

If this were a movie we'd already know the ending.

- Commander,

the evidence is pointing in the same direction,

but Karen Davre's body has not yet been found.

- Yeah...

but I'm convinced he killed his wife.

Chanting 'Justice for Karen'

...Remember, it was in April 2020,

At the Palace of Justice

Our lives are being dismissed

three weeks after the start of the first lockdown.

Karen Davre, an ER doctor, was one of the heroes we applauded

from our windows, every day at 8 pm. This morning many of them

crowded in front of the courthouse as soon as it opened,

Don't forget where you are from

some close to the victim, as you can see,

Not one more. We don't want to count our...

many came to support the cause of violence against women,

for though Karen Davre's body has never been found,

her husband Joachim Davre, the main suspect in the case,

is now on the stand, on trial for the murder of his wife,

and risks life imprisonment.

- If I could've taken your place, I would have, but

you're the only one from the squad who followed the entire investigation,

Raph had a possible exposure, the Commissioner was sick,

and I was there every other day.

Don't worry, the folder is all square. - Mm-mmm. The folder is not square,

Capt Perran, it is rectangular. And not completely accurate.

- Yes, I know Exhibits CM2020-406 and CM2020-421

can't strictly be compared, but- - Absolutely.

NICO: Frankly, we have a whole lot of evidence accusing the husband.

You said it yourself:

'All the evidence points to Joachim Davre killing his wife.'

He did a great job hiding the body,

but he killed her, huh?

He needs to go to prison.

You present the facts and answer the questions, that's all. All right?

- Present the facts, answer the questions. All right.

- See you soon.

Whispering

Mobile vibrates

Alarmed ((Ah ah ah ah ah...))

- You're next, Lt Nielsen!

MP: All right; Lt Nielsen, raise your right hand and say 'I swear.'

- I swear.

- You have the floor to present your investigation report.

Exhibit

Blood Analysis

- April 7, 2020. At the request of Cmdr Coste, I visited

the home of Mr & Mrs Joachim Davre.

The worrying disappearance, of his wife,

Karen Davre...

had...

had been reported...

the day before. - Is something wrong, Lt Nielsen?

- Yes.

Something's wrong.

The body of evidence no longer agrees.

- Could you be more specific?

- An element of the investigation

has just been called into question.

An important element.

- But what? - Madam President, this is about

an element that could call into question

the potential guilt of Joachim Davre.

General murmuring

- Silence, please!

FOX: Are you saying Mr Davre is innocent

in front of the victim's grieving sister?

How dare you!

- Counselor Fox, please. Sit down.

MP: Continue, Lt Nielsen.

- Counselor Fox, I did not say that Mr Davre is innocent.

I said...

that one element of the investigation, an important element,

calls into question the potential guilt of Mr Davre.

That does not mean

that this element constitutes proof of his innocence.

Upset general murmuring

MP: Come back! Lt Nielsen!

Knocking

RAPH: (Oh! Fuck...)

Come in.

NORAH: Hello!

'Discreetly at my place'— is that a work meeting or a gossip session?

- I'm going to show you something.

Look.

NORAH: What are these photos?

Where did this device come from?

- It's the camera of the guy who was following Astrid.

- Why follow Astrid? There are only photos of Tetsuo.

- That's exactly what I was wondering.

- And where's the guy?

- I think he ran off.

I thought I'd caught him, but then I fell flat on my face.

I was just able to rip that away from him.

Norah, this is going to seem strange to you, but

I'd like you to find out more about Tetsuo.

If the guy took all these photos, there must be a reason.

- Okay.

- Okay. - I'll take care of it.

I'm guessing I'm not discussing it with Astrid?

- Exactly.

The trial is bothering her enough already.

Rapid nervous tapping

Astrid? Nicolas told me, I came as fast as I could.

What happened?

- The analysis.

The results for the blood sample taken from the scarf.

I received the additional analysis just before my court appearance.

The first had read 'SARS-CoV-2 negative,'

This one reads 'SARS-CoV-2 positive.'

Covid has an incubation period of 3 to 5 days,

which means that the blood collected from the headscarf

is older than the one collected from the channel.

- The bloodstained scarf was placed there later?

- Yes.

- Is Joachim Davre the victim of a staged crime scene?

- It's possible. - ((Oh fuck, I don't believe it.))

- And if Mr Davre was set up with a fake crime scene,

it could mean he is innocent.

The file wasn't completely accurate; a file must be completely accurate.

Your cane. Raphaëlle, you've forgotten your cane.

- No, the physiotherapist told me I don't need it anymore.

- It's in cases like this that a Commissioner is useful, huh?

- Mm-hmm. When's the new one arriving?

- In a few days.

- You said that 22 days ago, Lt Mansour.

What is the range of days that can be considered 'a few days'?

- I don't know, Astrid. - Oh.

- Well, we have two solutions:

remain silent about this new element-

- Mm-mmm. .

and let this trial continue—

Mm-mmm. .

—undoubtedly leading to Joachim Davre being implicated-

- Mm-mmm. .

. - Yes, Astrid?

- Failing to inform the court of this new element

would be a major ethical breach of the highest order.

- Or, go see the tribunal president,

which amounts to handing the defense

an element that could exonerate Joachim Davre.

- There it is. .

- We have no choice, we need to

inform the tribunal president so that she can adjourn the trial.

In the meantime, we reopen the investigation and prove his guilt.

- If he's truly guilty. RAPH: If he's truly guilty.

- I'm sorry Capt Perran, but I can't postpone this trial.

- But Mdm President, you must admit this warrants further investigation.

Indeed, but it was obtained outside the investigation deadlines,

it's inadmissible.

However, as required by the Code of Criminal Procedure,

I must notify the parties of this new element.

- Yes. Article 114 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

MP: Exactly. - Yes.

- But Mdm President, disclosing this element

will give the defense the benefit of the doubt.

- Absolutely. Come on, we'll resume the hearing with you, Lt Nielsen.

Anxiously - (Ah ah ah ah.)

- It's going to be okay, Astrid. Coming? Bell rings

- In pro-active policing,

the points I have just presented may have led you to consider Mr Joachim Davre

as being the prime suspect in the murder of his wife Karen Davre.

RAVEN: Tell me, Lt Nielsen, you just used the past tense,

you said 'may have led.'

- I was just about to get to that, Mr Raven.

Lt Nielsen and Capt Perran brought me a document earlier

that I consider inadmissible.

It was an analysis concerning document CM 2020-421,

which the bailiff will distribute to you.

- Thank you for this document and your impressive judgement, it's obviously inadmissible.

- Absolutely, it was obtained outside the investigation deadlines.

It cannot be considered proof at all.

- Lt Nielsen. - Yes.

- If I understand correctly, what this document expresses

is that these additional analyses could suggest that the scarf

was placed near the crime scene after the fact?

- That is not what this document expresses, it is what it implies.

- If you don't mind, Lt Nielsen, I have an important question to ask you.

Have you ever heard of the 'tunnel effect'?

- Yes. - Very good, and

can you explain what this is?

- The tunnel effect occurs when a criminal investigation

focuses too exclusively on a lead, a hypothesis, or a suspect,

to the detriment of other possible perspectives.

- That's it exactly, yes. A focus that can lead

to the disregarding of clues, evidence,

or alternative leads. Furthermore, did the Crime Squad's investigation

ever consider any hypothesis other than

my client being guilty?

- A body of converging evidence quickly pointed

to Mr Davre as being the prime suspect. RAVEN: Yes, a body of evidence.

Let's talk about this body of evidence.

Traces of gunpowder on a t-shirt of a man

who heads a major shooting club.

Do you find that convincing, Lt Nielsen?

- Counselor Raven, a body of converging evidence

essentially comprises several indicators.

Traces of gunpowder on his t-shirt is just one of the elements

which pointed towards Mr Davre.

- You're not answering my question, Lt Nielsen.

The gunpowder on his t-shirt: does it constitute proof?

- Traces of gunpowder on his t-shirt do not constitute proof.

They constitute an indicator.

Moreover, Mr Joachim Davre stated that he only shoots very occasionally.

And at the time of the events, Mr Davre was,

like all French citizens, confined since March 17, 2020.

- Yes, March 17th. - Yes.

- Yes. But who's to say my client didn't shoot on March 16th,

when it was still allowed? And he told us he forgot his t-shirt

in his sports bag, only putting it in the laundry around April 5th or 6th.

Need I remind you

of the state of shock into which the pandemic,

and announcement of the lockdown, plunged us?

Furthermore, the investigation report highlights

my client's apparent lack of concern

for his wife during the interrogations, even though we were all wearing masks.

How, Lt Nielsen, can you possibly perceive the slightest emotion

on the face of someone wearing a mask?

RAVEN: During Covid, the whole society

was adrift. Moreover, Lt Nielsen,

at that time, you weren't a police officer?

- Mm-mmm.

I was a Document Resource Manager in Criminal Documentation.

- Let us note that during Covid, that uncertain period,

the police sent their documentalists to crime scenes.

- I was already collaborating with Cmdr Coste before lockdown,

with the official agreement of Cmsr Bachert.

- But you were collaborating as an observer.

And yet, it is you who are here today,

and it is you delivering the criminal investigation report to us.

Because, at the time, no officer from the Judicial Police Crime Squad

followed the entire case—

- Counselor Raven-

- Yes Madam President, I'm almost finished—

—not to mention that during the Crime Squad's investigation,

Karen Davre's body was not found

and, without a body,

all possibilities remain open.

Like, that of a voluntary disappearance by Mrs Davre,

and making my client take the blame.

I'm finished, Madam President.

- What I'm sure of is that Raven has completely turned the jurors' heads.

- Well, we need to reopen the investigation, hmm?

- The judge refused on the day of the trial, we can't reopen it.

- We need to reopen it just between us, I mean.

Off the record. We'll go over all the elements together;

on the sly. NORAH: I'm in.

- Ah!

- If it puts a piece of trash in jail. - Very good. And you, Nico?

- The Commissioner wouldn't have gone for it.

- Yes, but we would've done it anyway. We'd get yelled at, but...

We would've done what seemed right.

Well, anyway, with no commissioner I'm the one who decides.

- Okay.

- So let's go over all the elements again, Nico.

When the hearing resumes tomorrow, you'll go back.

If you hear anything that might lead us to something, call me, all right?

That how we'll do it? That's how we'll do it.

Knocking

Coming!

Oh, Norah, come on in. So, what did you find?

NORAH: Tanaka. - Yeah?

NORAH: Not his real name. - What do you mean, 'not his real name'?

- It's not his real name. His papers are fake.

His name is Tetsuo Hoshida,

he's from one of the richest families in Japan.

- Wait, I don't understand. Why would he change his identity?

- I don't know about that.

All I can say is his family reported him missing seven years ago.

- Oh fuck, shit.

. Hm-hmm!

TETSUO: Good game, Astrid.

- Thank you.

I won. - Yes, you won.

ASTRID: Yes.

- Otherwise, I was wondering...

Is Tetsuo's family nice?

- I only know his uncle, Apu Tanaka.

- Oh yes? And his parents?

Not even via video call? - Mm-mmm.

- Okay. But they were invited to the wedding, weren't they?

- They were not on Tetsuo's guest list. - Oh.

Um... Didn't that intrigue you? - Mm-mmm.

Raphaëlle- - Hmm?

- Why should that have intrigued me?

- I don't know. But I would've been curious.

Mobile vibrates

. . .

Yes, Nico?

- Well Raph, listen, this doesn't look good for the plaintiff.

Joachim Davre is described as a perfect, upright guy.

who fought against sexism in his shooting club.

There was Karen's colleague, who acknowledged that Karen's mood change

was perhaps due more to the Covid crisis than to her relationship with her husband.

And then Raven, Davre's lawyer,

went to great lengths to influence the jury.

He spoke of ICUs being completely overwhelmed,

patients dying en masse. He even recalled

the Rungis Temporary Morgue. Remember that?

- Yeah, I remember.

- The Rungis Temporary Morgue! Hm-hmm!

- Astrid?

Wait Nico, I'll call you back.

Astrid? Astrid?

Astrid? - Yes?

- Ah! Are you all right?

- In May 2020, a case was opened following the discovery

of five unidentified bodies at the Rungis Temporary Morgue.

The case was closed without further action.

You're in your socks.

- It so happens. And you as well.

- The shoes remained in the Paper Room.

- Astrid, it's crazy, everything matches!

The date the body arrived in Rungis,

physical description, age, everything.

There it is. We finally know where Joachim Davre hid his wife's body.

- According to the file, the body came from

the hospital where Karen Davre worked.

- How do we know that?

- Your desk is very tidy. Hm-hmm.

- Thank you. - It's thanks to the number

on the body bag. NORAH: Hold on, let me recap:

Davre kills his wife,

hides her in a body bag, and drops it off at the morgue.

This is during Covid, everyone's covered from head to toe,

he can easily move around a hospital without being recognized.

And from there, overnight, she's transferred to Rungis.

You have to admit, the guy's a genius.

- I'm not sure that 'genius' is the appropriate term, Lt Mansour.

- No, he wasn't a genius to kill his wife, but he was clever.

- Well, I hope the administrator of the Rungis morgue may be able to tell us more.

And where's Raph?

- I don't know. She simply said she had something important to do,

and that we're more qualified than she to

interview the administrator of the Rungis Temporary Morgue.

- Okay. Well, shall we go?

- ((Ah ah ah!))

- Hello, Raphaëlle!

Everything all right?

- Mr Hoshida.

We need to talk, Tetsuo.

- So, you know. - Yeah, I know, yes.

I know that you're the heir to a prominent Japanese family,

but not why you changed your identity.

- I'll explain everything to you, Rapha- - No no no no.

I'm not the one you need to explain it to, don't you think?

ADMIN: It might be our daily life, but

I won't hide from you that this episode

was a real trauma for the entire corporation.

A cold storage warehouse in Rungis, can you imagine?

Families were being welcomed where, just a few weeks earlier,

there had been stalls selling meat and bananas.

- All right. Can you tell us anything about the unidentified body

registered ID-R2020-0413-73 found in your premises?

- Uh, yes, um... - There.

- 'Female subject, unidentified.' - We know that already.

- 'Cremated on April 16, 2020.'

- Yes, it's written there.

- That's all.

NICO: What do you mean 'that's all'?

The Forensics team didn't come to take photos?

- They were supposed to, but no one ever came.

On our side of the street, instructions were extremely strict:

Cremation within three days of a body being deposited.

- Mr Rungis Temporary Morgue Administrator,

did you keep any identifying documents?

- Of course, we did our job. - Hm-hmm.

- A bone sample was taken, as the protocol required,

and we passed it on to Forensic Identification.

Uh, I suppose your colleagues did what was necessary in their turn?

Coughs uncomfortably - Thank you, sir.

- You're welcome.

- So? - Forensic Identification is about to send

the DNA comparison between

Karen Davre and the unidentified body found in Rungis. Notification

- I have it.

Fuck, a match!

- Yes, but only 50%. What does that mean? Partial match

- It means that these two people share family DNA.

RAPH: Hello, you've reached Cmdr Coste's voicemail.

Please leave me a message after the "beep."

- Raph, call me back, it's urgent.

We can't wait. Can you come with me, Astrid?

- Yes.

- Get your things. - Yes.

- So if we refer to your testimony in the police report,

you claim not to have heard any shots.

- You can't interrupt a hearing. - (Don't worry, I know what I'm doing.)

- ...and when I hear- - Madam President!

- Capt Perran, what are you doing?

- I'm interrupting the hearing, Mdm President. - For what reason?

- Because this woman is not Karen Davre's sister!

This woman, Madam President, is Karen Davre!

- No, that's wrong. - That's wrong! That's wrong!

MP: Silence!

- Wait— you just walked into the court like that,

interrupting the presiding judge and lawyers?

- Yeah. - Yes, he interrupted the hearing.

- Yeah, well, I thought that's what needed to be done, so...

- In any case, I wouldn't have done it any other way.

So, if I understand correctly,

we were searching for Karen Davre's body

while Karen Davre was at the trial, right? - Mm-hmm.

- Right before our eyes.

And how did you figure it out?

- The DNA, - Yeah, the DNA

from the body found in Rungis matched that of Karen Davre,

but only at 50%.

Fifty percent is the genetic heritage you share

with your father or mother.

Or a brother or sister.

- Yeah. True, they look alike;

the eyes, the mouth.

- Mm-mmm. In this photo, Karen Davre has an increased auriculocephalic angle.

- Uh- what? - It means she has protruding ears.

- Oh yeah, that's right, okay.

RAPH: So she had work done? - Yeah, yeah,

Karen Davre underwent several operations to look like her sister,

between May 12, 2020, end of the first lockdown, and October 30

the beginning of the second. She had profiloplasty, otoplasty...

- What are they? - Profiloplasty is a non-surgical

aesthetic medical technique, aimed at harmonizing a patient's profile

by reshaping your face or part of it with hyaluronic acid injections—

—you should know what we're talking about Cmdr Coste.

- No idea what you mean, Astrid.

- Otoplasty, on the other hand, is a technique used to pin back the ears.

- All right. - After that, she moved

so as not to be recognized.

- Mmm. So it was easy to take over her sister's job

since she was also a translator—

—English medical texts to French, at home.

- Divorced for six years, with no children.

- Was she living alone? - No, with her mother,

who's since passed away, but at the time

was suffering from advanced stage Alzheimer's.

But when you have the perfect hideout...

- But why take her sister's place? That's what I don't get.

Leaving a job she loved, friends, a husband.

It's strange to want to live in seclusion like that, isn't it?

- There must be a good reason

for enduring that kind of sacrifice. - Mmm.

COP: Cmdr Coste? - Mm-hmm?

- Karen Davre has arrived. - Mmm. Thanks.

Well, you'll tell me about it, Captain?

- Fine, Commander.

- You called him 'captain,' hm-hmm. - Mm-hmm. Hmm.

- Ms Davre, I need to understand.

Did you leave off your sister's body at the Rungis morgue?

Why? To hide her body because you killed her?

- I didn't kill my sister.

I would never have done such a thing, we adored each other.

My sister was already dead when I got to her house.

- 'Already dead'?

- I'd decided to stop by her place after work, after leaving the hospital.

I knew she had caught Covid and now... she wasn't responding.

I was worried.

When I got there, I knew immediately when I saw her.

She must've been dead from respiratory distress for at least 24 hours.

I arrived too late.

My mother probably didn't even understand what had happened.

- I don't understand why you didn't notify funeral services or the police.

- I was lost!

All that mattered to me then was taking care of my mother.

So, I rushed home, and got a few things.

- And you didn't tell your husband?

- When I got there he was already very drunk.

He saw me packing my bag and thought I was leaving him.

KAREN: I'd been afraid of him for some time now,

I didn't want to talk to him.

And then...

Sighs tensely

NICO: He shot at you?

- Yeah.

Fortunately, no vital organs were affected.

I blacked out.

When I woke up,

night was falling.

I was lying in the woods. I was in pain.

Moans, gasps

Joachim must have left me there, thinking I was dead.

And then I turned my head.

I saw him next to his car. He was taking out some tools.

I realized he was going to bury me.

I got up and rushed straight ahead.

Gasping

When he saw I was no longer there, I heard gunshots.

Shot

- And then?

- And then I went to my sister's house, and I took care of myself.

- And you stole her identity,

and a few days later made her body disappear.

You placed a scarf with your blood on it near the house.

so your husband would be accused of murder.

- But he killed me!

- Why didn't you call the police, Karen?

- Because he would've killed me for good, like the other one.

I was terrified at the idea, and then he threatened

to go after my mother, and my sister- - Hold on,

what 'other one'?

- Before firing he yelled, 'No one leaves me,

you're gonna end up like that bitch Coco!'

- I don't know what to think anymore.

And her story is amazing.

- Sweetie- Uh, 'Nico'-

what does your gut tell you? - She's sincere. I want to believe her.

- Hmmp.

- Okay, so that means Joachim Davre killed a woman

before meeting Karen Davre. We have to find her.

- Except we only have the diminutive of the woman's first name: Coco.

I've gone through all the transcripts of the interviews with Joachim's relatives,

I found no trace of a woman whose first name fits with 'Coco.'

- The same goes for his socials.

- What does that mean, we're stuck? ASTRID: Mm-mmm.

We're not stuck. Hm-hmm. - Oh,

you have something in mind, Astrid?

- We searched for clues along the wrong axis, that's why we were stuck.

- What's a 'wrong axis'? - We looked for a woman

in Joachim Davre's circle whose first name could

correspond to the diminutive 'Coco'- - Mm-hmm.

- ...and that he allegedly killed her, according to Karen Davre's testimony.

So if Karen Davre's testimony is valid,

that means this woman must have been declared either deceased or missing.

- Ah, so we could start with deceased

or missing persons whose first name might match,

then target Davre's circle of acquaintances.

We've actually been looking in the opposite direction.

- Absolutely. You, you move around a lot.

- Yeah, sorry.

- To narrow the search, I assumed that this woman

died or disappeared in Ile-de-France.

Great. - Hm-hmm.

By cross-referencing Criminal Documentation files

and Missing Persons files for the last 15 years,

I found three Corinnes and two Colettes.

Two of these deaths were unambiguously attributed to perpetrators.

Another death was ultimately ruled accidental.

- Those ones, hup. Whistles

- Absolutely. Whistles

I excluded those three persons.

As for the other two persons,

these are 'worrying disappearances':

Corinne Ginet and Colette Blangevin.

I found two Cocos.

- So, the first Coco...

Colette Blangevin, born in 1950.

That doesn't seem to fit.

- Here's something that fits better.

Corinne Ginet, Canadian, 25, living in France starting in 2015,

and dropped of the radar after five months.

I think we've found our Coco.

- Hm-hmm!

- I found Corinne Ginet's BFF on Facebook.

- Well? - I contacted her.

- BFF? I'm not familiar with that acronym.

- "Best Friend Forever."

That means she's her best friend, kind of like you and I, you're my BFF.

- I'm your BFF. Hm-hmm!

You too are my "Best Friend Forever."

- Corinne Ginet told her at dinner that she was madly in love,

but she doesn't know any more about the guy's identity.

However, the only info she has

is that he lives in the countryside near Paris.

- It fits, but it won't be enough to justify police custody.

- I knew I had seen something, but without knowing what.

She has it. Hm-hmm!

Search

Sir?

- Yes?

- Social distancing.

There.

Under the shelf. There, yes.

Hm-hmm!

- So, what's this all about now?

- An earring was found in your basement during our search in 2020,

and which belongs to Corinne Ginet.

NICO: We suspect you of having killed Corinne Ginet, Mr Davre.

- I think this whole thing is starting to look suspiciously like police harassment.

Is this supposed to prove something?

A manufactured product issued in tens of thousands of copies.

- You know, when a foreigner disappears in the country,

protocol dictates that the judicial police record their DNA,

to be able to compare it to unidentified bodies that could be found.

- And Corinne Ginet's DNA matches this earring.

RAPH: Do you still deny knowing her, Mr Davre?

RAVEN: I recommend silence.

Otherwise, Commander, do you have the body of Corinne Ginet?

Or are you pulling the fake death trick on me again?

- According to Karen Davre, her husband

left her in the industrial park while he went for his tools.

- Think he could've hidden Corinne's body there too?

- It's a hypothesis.

But where?

- There's a cemetery there.

- That's seriously super twisted, though.

- Shall we go with a team?

RAPH: Okay.

NORAH: They managed to do it, the team at the cemetery?

Was this earring on a corpse?

RAPH: Exactly, a corpse in the Davre family vault.

- And that's where Joachim Davre disposed of Corinne Ginet's body.

- And it's also where he planned to dispose of his wife's body.

Courtrooms

- ...of course, we're not here to try the Corinne Ginet case.

This murder will be the subject of a new investigation,

in which Mr Davre has been formally charged.

However, I would like to bring up this case again,

because it allows us to understand what Joachim Davre is capable of.

So yes, I say it loud and clear:

This man clearly tried to kill his wife.

I'm done, Madam President.

- Counselor Raven, you have the floor.

- Karen Davre accuses her husband of attempted homicide, but—

—how can we give any credence to a woman who lied,

who lied to the police,

who lied to justice, and who even went so far as to impersonate her sister,

without declaring her death?

I ask you.

- After five days of debate full of twists and turns, it's official:

Joachim Davre was found guilty of the attempted murder of his wife Karen.

I'll remind you that attempted homicide

is punished to the same extent as homicide itself.

And Joachim Davre is now implicated in the murder of Corinne Ginet,

and is the subject of another investigation.

- Of course, he wasn't tried for his wife's murder, he was tried for

attempted voluntary manslaughter. He got 20 years, 13 mandatory.

- Yes, as if he had killed her. - Yes,

"voluntas pro facto": intentionality applies to the act.

- He'll also be tried for Corinne Ginet's murder.

- And Karen Davre?

- She'll be tried too, for identity theft and concealing a corpse.

But in my opinion she'll benefit from mitigating circumstances.

- Yes.

- Well, I wanted to congratulate you two,

You did a really great job. - Thanks.

- Without you, Joachim Davre would've been released,

and we wouldn't have justice for Corinne Ginet.

- I have to leave. I don't want to be late,

Tetsuo should arrive at my place in 57 minutes.

RAPH: Astrid?

If you need me, I'm here.

- Why would I need you?

- Nothing. ASTRID: Ah.

- Goodbye. NICO: Goodbye.

Knock

- Good evening, Tetsuo. - Good evening, Astrid.

- I've prepared your bed on the sofa, as planned.

- Astrid,

I have something important to tell you.

- Oh. All right.

- There's something I've needed to tell you for a long time.

My name is not Tetsuo Tanaka.

My real name is Tetsuo Hoshida.

My father was the head of an industrial empire in Japan.

In my capacity as eldest son,

I was supposed to take over from him as head of his company.

But, I never recognized myself in that role.

Especially since my father ran his company without any humanity,

crushing its employees under pressure.

To reject this legacy,

would have been perceived as a huge dishonor.

And talking to my father was...

So, seven years ago,

I preferred to disappear.

To evaporate.

I am a "jouhatsu".* * Purposely vanished

A company helped me disappear.

They put me in touch with Apu Tanaka in France.

Apu took me under his wing.

He became like an uncle to me.

And I ended up taking his name.

And that's when... I met you.

I wanted to tell you, Astrid.

I've wanted to do it so many times.

And then...

I'm sorry I lied to you, Astrid.

I hope you don't hold it against me.

- Mr Hoshida, I can't blame you, since I don't know you.

- Astrid, I am the one you met.

I am Tetsuo Tanaka. - Mm-mmm,

you just said, Tetsuo Tanaka does not exist.

You are Tetsuo Hoshida, and I do not know Tetsuo Hoshida.

I think it would be appropriate for you to leave my apartment, Mr Hoshida.

Now.

Now.

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