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Among the finalists for the Innocence Project,

we have Jason Lavoie-Roberge,

Monique Fortin and Anderson Jean-Louis.

He was convicted in 2011 of killing his girlfriend,

Vickie Tremblay, a girl from Saint-Michel.

She was a dancer and probably an escort for a street gang.

One evening, she got into Anderson's car,

and her body was found the next day on a vacant lot.

I sent an intern

to do the preliminary meeting.

-Do I have a chance? -You're among the finalists.

If I never get out of here,

I'll be doing time

for the guy who killed her.

Mr. Coupal is planning to take on a case

that runs deeply counter to the Innocence Project's mission.

Why do you feel so strongly about this cause?

My instinct.

My son killed Vickie Tremblay,

no matter what he said

and what he's telling you now.

If this video doesn't convince you

that Anderson's case is worth taking on,

I don't know what you need.

Have you ever beaten women?

Have you or have you not

committed acts of violence against women?

Yes.

Miss Launiere,

meet the real Anderson Jean-Louis.

If you still want the case, it's yours.

MINI-MART

By card.

How could a man

buy chips and a soda in a store

in downtown Montreal-Nord at 11:06 p.m.

then pick up a girl

between 11:00 p.m. and 11:15 p.m. at her home

in Saint-Michel?

Would you like the fastest route

to 7146, 8th avenue?

Yes.

The shortest route is estimated to take...

22 minutes, 33 seconds.

TIMER

ARRIVAL TIME 9:36 P.M.

The destination is less than 50m away.

Fuck.

You have arrived. The destination is on your right.

Papers, please.

You were doing 94 in a 30.

I'm sorry, Officer,

it's for a school project.

Step out of the car.

Section 696.1 of the Criminal Code

provides a last resort for victims of miscarriages of justice.

To be admissible, a case must contain

major new evidence.

In Quebec, criminal lawyers

and law students assist,

on a pro bono basis, prisoners in this difficult process.

Their work isn't well-known and, most of the time, unsuccessful.

But for some who have been abandoned by the system,

they represent a last hope for justice.

They are the Innocence Project.

INNOCENCE PROJECT

CLASH OF VALUES AT THE INNOCENCE PROJECT

Was that your big plan?

Airing out the Project's dirty laundry on Instagram?

It goes against my values, Stella.

Let's say Anderson Jean-Louis didn't kill Vickie Tremblay.

He still exploited her sexually,

her and other girls.

Is that a good reason for him to be convicted

of a crime he didn't commit?

No, but maybe it's reason enough

to leave him where he is.

A donor is even putting pressure on the dean.

What are you trying to start?

A revolt against Coupal?

It's nothing personal. I just want to work on a case

that doesn't require ethics

becoming of a contortionist at Cirque du Soleil.

Good job, we look like clowns now.

Sir!

The evidence from Anderson's former teacher.

-The store video? -Exactly.

It won't be enough

for the review board

to reopen the case.

-Why? -Because...

A very reckless person

driving very fast

and running red lights

could get from point A to point B in less than 12 minutes.

No, I checked.

All the traffic apps say it takes 22 to 25 minutes.

I know, but in practice, it's different.

The GRCC will check it,

and they'll object that it wasn't totally impossible

for Anderson to be in Montreal-Nord at 11:06 p.m.

and at Vickie's at 11:15 p.m.

If that's the case,

we need to make sure to... stay one step ahead

and find something else helpful, OK?

I agree.

-Stella! -Yes?

How fast did you go?

You don't want to know.

-Good job! -Yes!

You're done, buddy.

You should've waited

to use your shitty little shiv.

KILLED IN THE OPEN

In addition to B�n�dicte on social media,

I was awakened by a call from a donor this morning.

He wasn't too happy

to know that the Project wants to study the Anderson case.

So what? Does he want his money back?

If Anderson had just sold dope

or stolen cars before being accused of murder,

we wouldn't be here now, but... a pimp?

Maybe the students are right.

We're in deep shit!

You're the one who wanted us to look at Anderson's case.

Yes, but not if the price to pay is the Project's reputation,

let alone its viability.

Can you help our students

look at this case differently?

Gabrielle, why am I here?

Why did I say yes when you came to see me in my office?

Why?

Because you didn't want to retire just yet.

True, I don't care about playing golf.

What else?

You wanted

to pass on your knowledge to our students.

To make them understand that they don't know everything,

even if they're convinced otherwise.

Bunch of idiots.

What else?

You said your wife would be proud of you.

Proud to see...

that you still do things out of conviction.

Yeah, Genevieve.

That's the thing.

I still have convictions.

And just because I'm old doesn't mean I've lost my killer instinct.

Trust me, Boss, it'll be fine.

OK? Just watch me, as they say.

Armand! Armand!

OK.

Although some of you

want to make it look scandalous,

after discussion with the dean

and careful consideration,

the Innocence Project has decided to select

Anderson Jean-Louis as this year's candidate.

Miss Lebon, I know you don't agree.

Give me a chance to explain

why this year's competition didn't measure up.

Monique Fortin.

Samir, who is she?

She's retired,

convicted of killing her next-door neighbor.

Her daughter submitted her case to the Project.

The evidence is totally circumstantial.

But that was 15 years ago.

Everyone in this case now has Alzheimer's

and osteoporosis.

Unless one of you

fancies a remake of The Golden Girls on acid,

I don't want to spring it on you.

You don't know who the Golden Girls are, do you?

Of course not. That's OK.

What about Jason Lavoie-Roberge?

His case could be interesting.

Thank you, Samir, I almost forgot about him!

Jason Lavoie-Roberge

helped his partner, Marc Villiers,

to kidnap, rape and kill

four young adults recruited over the Internet

between 2002 and 2006.

But Jason Lavoie-Roberge was young

when he fell under Villiers' spell.

-He was a minor. -Absolutely. A minor.

So vulnerable, suggestible, the whole package.

He was 17 when they met.

But he stayed with him until he was arrested,

at the age of 23.

We could redo the psychiatric exam and plead that he was

under the psychological control of his tormentor.

Are you crazy? Where's the miscarriage of justice?

Jason Lavoie-Roberge

is a confessed murderer.

His confession shouldn't have been admissible.

The investigators questioned him for six hours.

This goes against

any citizen's right to silence.

Marc Villiers and Jason Lavoie-Roberge filmed their murders.

Have you seen the videos that were shown at the trial?

-Well, did you? -No!

Well, I did.

OK!

But it's been 20 years.

Today, with the right approach,

we could demonstrate that Jason Lavoie-Roberge

is a victim.

Anyone not living under a rock

knows that the paradigm has shifted.

A victim? Hold on a minute!

Your victim caught

four young men for his partner,

helped him torture and kill them

and dismembered them to dispose of the bodies.

What does the paradigm have to do with it?

We believe that Jason Lavoie-Roberge's case

could be important from the point of view

of the Innocence Project's position

on the current thinking

on the rights of victims of sexual assault

and psychological harassment.

Mr. Lavoie-Roberge was sentenced

when he himself was a victim of harassment and abuse.

That's my problem with your position, B�n�dicte.

As with many of today's speeches

on sexual assault,

you say you defend the victims.

But what you're really defending is the privilege

of certain people to hide in that role.

So we end up with supposedly brilliant students

who say, without shame,

that they'd rather defend a serial killer

who plays the victim than a guy who's probably innocent

but whom they just don't like.

I need to get some air.

I need to think.

Next class, I only want to see students

who want to work on Anderson Jean-Louis' case.

The rest of you can get the hell out.

You'll fail your internship at the Innocence Project.

And if it were up to me,

I'd kick you out of this college!

Fuck!

401-622, 10.

You work for the defense now?

No.

But...

Anderson Jean-Louis...

who cares about him now?

Students...

They're studying old cases.

I wasn't your boss anymore

when it happened.

No.

But if I remember correctly...

your partner testified at the trial.

-That's right. Maxime Amiot. -Max.

He's still my partner, actually.

Max... he did a good job when he testified at the trial.

Not bad, yeah.

You know these cases are always stressful.

Yes.

Tell your Coupal that if he wants to give a seminar

on the Cro-Magnon man, the Anthropology Department

is next door, OK?

He's not my Coupal. OK?

I admit it wasn't his best move.

What's his problem, seriously?

I'm going to lodge a complaint.

B�n�, wait. Seriously.

Do you know what happens

to people who don't set limits?

Yes. Their place in line is taken.

They don't get any respect.

How did you approach Vickie Tremblay back then?

A local policeman told us

that a girl had suffered a gang-related assault.

She was hospitalized. We went to see her.

Did she want to press charges?

No, she didn't.

She was pretty out of it, poor thing.

And she was pretty banged up.

She didn't collaborate?

No.

We went to meet her two or three more times afterward

to convince her to become an informant.

Max thought we could use her to...

get closer to Anderson and his friend, X-Ray Mathieu.

The head of the Ga�ons, at the time.

It was a long shot.

Poor Vickie!

Do you think that's why she was killed?

Well...

it's pretty obvious.

Max and I put pressure on her

to convince Anderson to work for the police,

then she was found dead

on a vacant lot two weeks later.

So...

the Crown successfully showed that the informant status

of Vickie Tremblay was the motive for the murder.

But that's never been confirmed?

Max said as much in his testimony at the trial.

Vickie Tremblay didn't have time to get back to us with her decision.

She died before she could.

Anything else?

Maybe...

MEET ME AT THE GARAGE.

Cam.

What do you have for me?

My source in the police told me that...

when Vickie Tremblay refused to press charges

for her assault in October 2010,

it wasn't because she was afraid of reprisals.

Why then?

Vickie swore Anderson beat her

so the gang wouldn't send someone else

to do it for him.

It was to protect her, if you will.

Love is beautiful!

-How are you? -Good, you?

Some say you should ask

for a transfer to the protection unit.

Are you crazy?

I don't want to be

with snitches and old pedophiles.

And I'd miss you too much.

People were talking in the B Wing this morning.

They say the Latinos killed your friend, Greg,

because they no longer want to deal with the Papa Ga�ons.

If Vickie had decided to... become a police informant

and had told Anderson about it,

I'm sure he wouldn't have liked that, eh?

To the point of killing her?

That was the motive presented at the trial.

Yes, but a motive is just one relevant element.

It's never necessary in an accusation.

It's still nice to have one, you know.

It's a good piece of the puzzle.

What gives you some leeway is that...

The police never received confirmation

that Vickie had accepted their offer.

My source confirmed it.

OK. So you're telling me they assumed all this

but still confirmed that it was the motive?

Yes.

FOR SALE

Stella!

This is Marlene.

-She's going to sell the house. -I see.

-Hello. -Hi.

I gave her your phone number,

so she can call you about the showings.

-I have one tomorrow at 4 p.m. -Great.

That means you can't be here.

Can you give me a ride to school?

Why?

They towed Dad's car.

What? When?

Listen to your voicemails sometimes.

I'll be ready in three minutes.

She couldn't have texted me?

Armand!

-Armand! -Yes? Ah!

You're not answering your texts!

What is it?

Who else

came crying to you?

Listen, I understand

that the clash of generations is difficult for you.

But you promised to take care of the interns.

Absolutely, but I didn't come here to change diapers.

Do you have a phone number

for Anderson's former teacher?

What was his name? Bruno Godin?

I want to meet him.

I want to clear up his alibi at the Montreal-Nord store.

I'll send it to you, but I'm warning you:

I don't want to hear any more about conflict in your classes.

OK? Let's settle this once and for all.

Yes, ma'am.

-Copy that, ma'am. -You're such...

I'm sure they didn't

pull you over

after entering your license plate in the system.

No, it's because I was speeding.

Then they saw

Dad hadn't renewed his registration.

A future lawyer who can't even obey the traffic rules!

Coming from Brigitte Coulombe

who has 100 speeding tickets under her belt?

I wanted to check a guy's alibi

for the Innocence Project.

Right, blame it on work!

Who is this guy?

A Papa Ga�on who was sentenced in April 2011

for the murder of an escort.

Anderson Jean-Louis, know him?

No. The escorts I hear about

aren't in the same category.

They don't get killed.

They break up the marriages of very rich men.

It's much more glamorous!

Do you think I have nothing better to do?

Being your father's proxy

to solve his car problems?

No, but you like being his proxy when it's time to sell his house.

-Oh, Stella... -What?

I'm not happy about selling this house.

But we have to mourn.

You could make an effort and try to visit him more often, Mom.

We're divorced, Stella.

Hello? Yes. Who?

No, no, no. Tell her to wait for me.

I'll come as fast as I can. OK.

Can you take a cab? I'm sorry.

Do you know how predictable you are?

It's a big emergency.

It always is.

It's Bernard Brown's wife.

The head of the SPM?

She's just arrived at the office.

My assistant said she wants to see me.

-What does she want? -I don't know.

But I guess she'll tell me, huh?

Don't tell anyone I told you.

Bye!

I don't why I still had these messages

in my phone.

We're not even together anymore!

I know, it's been four fucking years!

-What are you going to do? -I don't know, I...

I'm going to beg her to give us a chance.

I'll even go to therapy if I have to, but...

-What? -Well, listen...

If she decides to stir shit up,

she'll go all out.

What do you mean?

She knows who you are. It could hurt me.

You were my mistress. I'm the head of the SPM.

You're the mother of a pimp.

What do you want me to say?

He's a murderer connected to street gangs.

And the Innocence Project

is getting involved.

Have you heard of them?

Yes.

It took me back in time, I...

I don't know what I would've done.

Bernard, if you hadn't been there back then...

Come on, you would've been strong even without me.

Look...

None of this was ever your fault.

I hope you know that.

Do you think he'll come back?

He can't flunk us, can he?

I don't know how he could justify it

with the dean.

I wanted to apologize for this week's class.

I got carried away.

I gave you the impression that your convictions

don't matter to me.

They do.

I, too, am disgusted with many things

in the justice system.

How prosecutions of sex offenders

too often turn into a trial of the victim

is a good example of that.

If you think I disagree with you on that,

check how many...

old millionaire rapists or ass grabbers

I've defended throughout my career.

Huh? None. Fuck all.

I'm not asking you to defend Anderson Jean-Louis, the individual.

I'm asking you to defend, through him,

the right of all citizens,

particularly those from visible minorities,

to be treated fairly

by the police and the judiciary system.

Here, we have a guy languishing in prison.

He's no choirboy, as everyone knows.

But he says he's innocent

even though he knows it'd give him all sorts of advantages

to plead guilty.

He'd be eligible for parole sooner.

But no, he's sticking to his version.

Could he be telling the truth?

If so, how can we help him?

That's all I'm asking.

Forensics just arrived.

OK.

-Where's the witness. -Over there.

You said the victim

is a woman in her twenties?

Yes. It's not a pretty sight.

I'm also asking...

to work for her.

Vickie Tremblay.

Because in a murder case,

if the convict has been the victim of a miscarriage of justice,

that means that for the victim, too...

justice has not been done.

OK...

This is Bruno Godin.

Have a seat.

Hello.

Thank you for choosing Anderson's case.

You've made the right choice.

I'm a history teacher.

Anderson was my student

at Polyvalente Saint-Michel.

He was a brilliant young man of integrity.

Yes, Anderson wasn't hanging out with the right crowd.

And he hasn't always made the best choices in life.

But... that doesn't make him a murderer.

I know that in my heart.

So I'm here to answer your questions.

-Yes. Stella. -Yes?

At his trial,

Anderson's lawyer, Mr.... Tardif,

first wanted Shanda Mathieu to testify.

She was Anderson's girlfriend at the time.

it was to say that Anderson was with her that evening

on November 10th, all night, until the morning of the 11th.

This made it impossible to think

that Anderson was Vickie's killer.

That's right.

OK, but Shanda Mathieu never testified.

Tardif didn't put her on the stand.

I'm Samir.

Is it because it would've been false testimony?

Yes. Anderson wasn't with Shanda.

He was in Montreal-Nord that night,

as the video I gave to the Project proves.

I'm going to play the devil's advocate, Mr. Godin.

The video proves that Anderson was in Montreal-Nord at 11:06 p.m.

We can all agree that,

unless he was driving like a maniac, which is not impossible,

Anderson Jean-Louis couldn't have been at Vickie's

in Saint-Michel at 11:15 p.m., but...

But what says he didn't kill her

after someone else picked her up?

Alexis.

Just because he wasn't with her at 11:15 p.m. or midnight

doesn't mean he wasn't with her at 3 or 4 a.m., the time of death.

I'm B�n�dicte.

Well, when you put it like that...

Did Anderson have an alibi for the rest of the night?

Anything?

No one wanted to testify for him at the trial.

And knowing the people he hangs out with,

he may have been threatened with reprisals

if he gave his real alibi to the court.

What do you think that would've been?

He never wanted to tell me. I don't know.

Ask him.

Mr. Godin, why do you think

his mother, Nadine Antonin,

has never publicly defended her son?

I wouldn't want to talk for her,

-but... -But?

I suppose that,

at some point, to preserve her mental health,

she had to decide to let go.

Her mental health? OK...

Anderson probably gave her a hard time,

with his loyalty to the Papa Ga�ons

-and all the nasty tricks they... -No. No, no, no.

Putting salt in someone's coffee is a nasty trick, Mr. Godin.

Recruiting underage girls as prostitutes,

I don't know why, but...

I'd say it's more like a... crime.

Yes. I'm sorry.

At the time of the crime, in 2010,

Nadine Antonin was a social worker

at the CLSC in Saint-Michel, right?

Yes.

And did the fact that

her son was convicted in a murder case

interfere with her work in the community?

On the contrary, she was appointed director of the CLSC in... 2012.

Sweetheart...

Listen to me. If...

That was a long time ago.

That woman didn't mean anything to me.

What? Your lawyer?

Come on! Can't we just talk?

I'll call you back, OK, sweetheart?

I have to go.

-Domestic problem? -Don't worry about it.

-Where are the pictures? -I'm working on it.

You're working on it? Come on!

What didn't you understand on the phone?

It's urgent. The Jean-Louis case

is going to resurface with the Innocence Project.

Everyone's going to look at it.

Don't worry, I want these pictures as much as you do.

It doesn't seem like it.

I'm taking a risk coming here.

-What about me? -Hurry up then!

I have a plan.

I'm going to...

Forget your plan. The less I know, the better.

The next time I see you, I want those pictures.

Is that clear?

Plans... fuck!

-Mr. B�langer! -Hello.

-Welcome! -Thank you.

What did you think of the meeting with Godin?

It's hard to tell.

Did you learn anything new?

I want you to go back to the jail

to see Anderson.

Why?

Make him spill the beans.

Did Vickie ask him

to become a police informant?

Isn't it what was used

as the mobile for Vickie's murder?

Yes, but the police never made it official.

Let's see if we can use it to our advantage.

It's still their word against Anderson's.

Let me know what you find out.

And...

my source gave me more info.

Read it before you talk to him.

OK?

The fireplace works.

The house was always well maintained.

Unfortunately, the owner is ill.

Oh, excuse me.

Can I look around?

Yes, of course.

Marlene Vecchio.

Hi, how are you?

Have you made a decision?

Fuck!

Is everything OK, Mr. B�langer?

Do you have any questions?

It's a nice office.

Could I take over the ownership

fairly quickly?

Yes, we can make that happen.

All right.

That's my client's daughter.

You have a very nice house.

Thanks.

Isn't it too big for just one person?

No.

Have a nice day.

I'm very interested.

I'd like to schedule a second visit.

I'd love to set that up.

Code 22, Door 3. Code 22, Door 3.

Hello.

After you tortured me last time,

you've come to tell me that the Innocence Project

is dropping my case, haven't you?

No. Everything's fine.

We can start the real work now.

We received new info

that Coupal wants you to confirm.

From whom?

I can't tell you that.

OK, shoot.

Do you mind?

OK!

Our source was in contact with Vickie

in October of 2010, after she was attacked.

Hey!

Vickie told them you assaulted her

to protect her, not to punish her.

Is that true?

Well, that depends.

Yo, X-Ray, what's up?

Yo, my brother.

Ray.

We need to talk about your girl.

Miss Vickie!

Is slapping a girl considered assault?

She ended up in the hospital.

That wasn't me.

Baby!

Did you and Charlotte fight again?

Want me to make you feel better?

X-Ray knows you dance on the sly.

Oh, shit! How?

Did you go where I told you not to?

What the fuck are you doing, Vickie?

It's not my fault!

X-Ray wants me to teach you a lesson!

What do you mean?

He wants me to beat you up.

What don't you understand?

OK, relax.

We'll give him his cut and hope it buys peace.

I'll talk to him.

I got you, all right, babe?

Here.

Is a thousand bucks enough?

Damn, Vickie!

You earned all this just by dancing?

Take it all, I don't care!

Vickie, fuck!

Keep it down, it's my grandma's home.

What did you do?

I work some clients on the side.

It's real easy with the Internet now.

On the side? You go to their houses?

Sometimes, or at a hotel.

They're really nice hotels, too!

So you didn't send her to the hospital

on October 21, 2010,

with two cracked ribs and bruising to the face?

No, it wasn't me.

I brought the money to X-Ray.

And more than was needed, too. $2,000.

It wasn't enough for him?

That's way more than she usually brings in.

She's sorry. She won't do it again.

Bro, I swear, man...

Jackpot!

So she thinks she can buy me out, huh?

They picked up Vickie the next day.

I never knew who did. She never told me.

When's the last time you saw her?

The day before.

-Of her murder? -Yeah.

Everything was chill, we fucked,

I said all this when I testified at my trial.

That's why they found my sperm during the autopsy

and her DNA in my car.

Not because I raped her before killing her.

When the police questioned you,

you told them that the last time you saw her was...

-two weeks prior? -Yes.

And it was when the Crown brought

DNA evidence against you that you decided to tell the truth?

That's because...

Shanda...

-Nice! -Mellow pink!

I didn't want my girlfriend to know

I slept with Vickie sometimes.

I kept telling her

she was imagining things, so...

Yo, babe, I'm sorry.

Babe!

Take the cash and get the hell out!

Stop it, OK?

Fuck you!

Our source also told us that it was after she was beaten,

and after she left the hospital

that the police approached her to become an informant.

That's bullshit!

I understand,

but that's what they presented as the motive.

Vickie would never have done that. Do you know why?

Her mom died of an overdose in a back alley

because of cops.

So don't try this shit with me.

Yet they also said that it's after Vickie asked you

to become an informant that you killed her.

OK, this is crazy!

OK, look.

Let's say Vickie didn't tell you

but she became a police informant.

Could a Ga�on have known?

And killed her for it?

It's possible.

But not really.

Why not?

Because X-Ray would never entrust a job like that to a foot soldier.

That means a guy not high up

in the Papa Ga�ons hierarchy, right?

Yeah. The only people he could've given the job to

would have been Greg or Manny.

Why are you so convinced they didn't do it?

Because Greg and Manny were with me and X-Ray

the night of the murder, that's why.

OK!

So that's the alibi you never wanted to reveal!

Because you knew that neither X-Ray, Manny

nor Greg would come to court to corroborate it.

Exactly.

You're good, Smurfette.

And I imagine

you weren't knitting that night.

-Fuck, no! -What were you doing?

I can't tell you that...

not to you

or anyone else.

NEED HELP?

HELP CENTER FOR CRIME VICTIMS

I no longer want Stella Launiere

to go see Anderson Jean-Louis by herself.

-What's the problem? -Seriously?

Armand... "It's to protect you", "Smurfette", "You're cute."

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