"Sorry." "Good evening." "9.38 euros, please." "Thanks." "And 10." "Thanks." " Could I have a bag?" " Of course." " Thank you, bye." " Bye." " Good evening, Sir." " Good evening." "QUEEN OF CLUBS" " Drive, please." "Quickly." " Are you hurt?" "No, just drive, please." " If you're okay, get out." " Please, drive." " Get off the car." " Start the car!" " Put this away." " Hurry up, drive!" " Do you have a pen?" " In the glove compartment." "I'll write my children's cell phone number:" "Sarah and Emmanuel." "This is my lawyer's phone number:" "Mr. Levi." "Call him, please." "Tell them I've been found." "My name's Camille." "Camille Duroy." "Stop there." "Hurry, go!" "Hurry up!" "Camille!" "Mom doesn't like it when I have good grades." "Bad grades either." "I must be average." "Between 10 and 13 is perfect." "The day of the group photo, we are always absent." "I've prepared dinner." "For dessert, mom will bring - if she can - vanilla yogurts, my favorite." "It is nine and mom still hasn't come back." "She told me it could happen one day and that we'd have to do exactly as if she were here until she came back and to start sending the letters." "She moved." " She's alive." " They didn't even check." "Shit." " What's the address here?" " 21, rue de Crimee." "Maybe she spent the entire night here." " Help is on its way." " What the hell, Jeannette?" " Why are you touching her?" " She's alive!" "We need an ambulance quickly on 21, rue de Crimee." "Hang on, you'll be okay." "Broken nose, broken ribs, maybe broken pelvis, probable head injury." "X-rays will tell us more." "She has no deep wounds and no external hemorrhage." "Okay, thanks." "Where does all the blood come from, then?" "Apparently, it's not the victim's blood." "We'll know that quickly." "I understand we couldn't wait, but I would have wanted pictures of the scene." "I allowed myself." "Better than nothing." "The position of the body is weird" " Did you move it?" " No." "If this isn't her blood..." "Maybe she grabbed the attacker and they fell together." "Yes." "What makes you so sure she wasn't the attacker?" "I'm not sure, but considering all this blood, the one who lost it couldn't leave on his own." "Somebody must have cleaned up." "So we can reasonably assume it was his accomplice and the girl on the pavement was the victim." " She got lucky." " For sure." "Her fall was cushioned by the other guy's body." "Not only that." "They didn't check whether she was alive or not." "They'd have finished her off otherwise." "Okay, thanks a lot." "Nothing on the fingerprints." "The blood found under her is from the same blood group as hers:" "A+." "We'll get the DNA profiling in a day." "What about the hospital?" "The neurologist said it was stage 3: he's not very optimistic about when she'll wake up or if she'll remember anything." "She fell seven meters." "It's a miracle she's alive." " Are there any witnesses?" " No." "No one." "She had 330 euros in 20 and 10-euro bills in her jeans pocket, nothing else." "Weird to have so much money in a jeans pocket, for a girl." "They were loose, but in order:" "the 20-bills together and the 10-bills together." "Maybe she stole them." "Maybe from an ATM." "And the victim chased after her." "No." "ATMs don't give used bills." "Something else?" " No." " There is." "It rained in Paris yesterday." "It was never more than 15°C." "The victim wore jeans, a sweat-shirt, sneakers, and underwear." "Her bag with her keys and her papers might have been stolen, but why would someone steal a jacket, a vest, or a raincoat?" "That means she probably went out the way we found her." "With all that money?" "Yes, she might have quickly left her home or her workplace." "We can surmise she works and lives not far from where we found her." "Tomorrow, get me all the complaints filed in the neighborhood, look for any potential video, and release the victim's picture." " Okay?" " Yes." " Are we done?" " Yes." "Okay, let's do it." "What the hell are you doing?" " Belier, it's Martin." " Yes?" "I think I might have found something." " Shall I send it to you?" " Okay." " Something new?" " I was about to call you." "I have the first results on the blood." "The mitochondrial DNA is the same as the victim's." "So it was her own blood?" "No, it's not her blood." "It means the person who fell before her was a close relative." "It's a family matter." "Michel, you are so loyal." "The leader of my angelic militia." "You protected me from the malice and the tricks of the devil." "The defender of the faith whose name you bear protected Israel." "You lived just among the just." "You will not have died in vain." "You will not have died in vain." "I'll find Sarah and Emmanuel." "I'll save them in your name." "Farewell." "A new knife with a poorly glued label; what do you think?" "It's just been bought?" "The first think I do when I buy a knife is to remove the label." " What if it was stolen?" " I'd still remove the label." "We are in agreement, then." "She enters the shop with the idea of robbing it." "She takes a knife in the shop, threatens the cashier, then leaves with the money, ten-euro bills..." "But no complaint was filed." "Exactly." "If the cashier and the owner chased her and threw her off the bridge, the survivor doesn't want to be accused of murder." "And they're from the same family?" "Right." "Let's find a shop where they sell Opinel knives with orange labels:" "junk shops, hardware stores, general stores..." "But why did she have clothes and nothing else?" "One thing at a time." " Get to work." " May I?" "Jeannette." "Are you okay?" "Yes, I'm okay." "I must get used to being back." " I missed you." " I missed you too." ""Shall we play ball?" Tom offered." ""No," Zizique said." ""I suck at playing ball." "You know that."" ""What if you tried playing an easy tune you know well?"" "Elisa said suddenly." ""Maybe it'd work and you'd forget."" "I looked if there was something on the news." "I listened to the radio, but there was nothing." "Only an unknown woman who fell from a bridge." "I don't think it was mom." "I don't know why she'd have fallen from a bridge." "I'll send the first letter tomorrow." "It's already sealed and stamped, with the address." "I just have to post it." " What are you doing here?" " I forgot something." "Ludo, did you empty the trashcan?" "Yes, why?" "Yes?" "Where?" "When?" "Is it serious?" "I don't know." "They won't tell me even though she's my daughter." "I'm pissed." "I'm waiting for the doctor." "Okay." "Wait, don't hang up." " So?" " They're operating her." " What does she have?" " Multiple fractures." "Wait." "Yes, Marion." "I'll call you back when I know more." " Fractures of what?" " Femur and fibula." "Leg fractures are not that serious, are they?" "I don't know." "What happened?" "Some asshole ran a red light and hit her." "Shit." "I was against that moped." "Me too." "But she's 24, what can you do?" "Where is her daughter?" "Shit." "Yes, shit." "I'll call the nursery." "Jeannette, it's me." "Isa got into an accident." "I'm at the hospital." "It's your turn." " Yes?" " Sarah?" "Mom, is that you?" "No, it's not." "Your mom isn't there?" "You know her?" "I don't know her but she gave me your phone number." "Your name's Sarah?" " Where is she?" " I don't know." "She asked me to call you to check whether your brother and you were okay." "Hello?" "I'm sorry, but I have to go to school." "If you want, call back at 12." "It'll be no use before that." "I always turn my phone off." "Goodbye." "Let's go, Manu." "Hurry up, Manu." "The number you have dialed does not exist." "Fuck." "Hey." "How is she?" " Did you meet the doctor?" " She's okay." "She can breathe well and has no fever." "She asked for her daughter." "I said she was with you." " Things are going well?" " Great." "She's amazing." "What did you tell her?" "That her mother was at the hospital but that she was okay, and that she'd stay with me in the meantime." "Then we played doctor." "Kids would accept anything." " Go take some rest." "It's my turn." " Okay." "She'll sleep for a while." "They gave her morphine." "If anything happens, call me." "This color suits you well." "Go." "So?" "They'll operate in three weeks after the embolism subsides." "She'll be in recovery for six months." "What happened exactly?" "An asshole ran a red light." "How are things going?" "Out of the eight stores, only two have orange labels." "None of them admitted being victim of theft and none recognized the woman on the picture." "So we're stuck." "I saw a closed junk shop around Colonel Fabien." "We should take a look today." "We can visit Belier at the hospital and the victim too." "Okay, let's do that." "Sorry." "The fingerprints on the knife are theirs." "She's between 28 and 32." "She's 1m67 and 49 kilos." "Her general status is not so bad." "She didn't take any drugs." "She has three untreated cavities." "She gave birth by C-section." "It's an old operation." "I don't know what kind of doctor could butcher someone like this." "The asshole who did this should have his license revoked." "How do you know a doctor did it?" "You're right." "I don't know." "Next." "She has the hands of a manual worker, with old calluses." "Maybe she worked in a factory or a farm." "A long time ago." "Not anymore." "Traces of black ink were found on her thumbs." "I've seen it before." "When you change the roll of a calculator, you can stain your two thumbs like that." "Like a cashier." " Maybe." " No jewelry." "No ring mark on her ring finger, no IUD, no recent intercourse." "Her hormone levels show she wasn't on the pill." "Her nuclear DNA is different from the blood found under her." "So it wasn't her blood." "As I told you, it's the one of a close relative:" "brother, father, uncle, or even first cousin." "We thought she tried to rob a shop." "It seems she's the cashier." "It makes a big difference." "You think she'll wake up someday?" "If her heart is strong enough, why not?" "When?" "Tomorrow." "In one year." "I'm not a neurologist." "I'll go to Colonel Fabien's junk store." "I'll go see Isa." "See you at the office." " Give her a hug for me." " Okay." "Anyone here?" "Anyone here?" "I posted the first letter." "There's a name in it and an address in Canada." "What will I do if mom doesn't come back?" "The woman didn't call me back at noon." "I'll post the second letter before going to school tomorrow." "There are four of them left." "Martin didn't wake up?" "He went to see his daughter at the hospital." "She had an accident." "Shit, is it serious?" "Thanks." "Broken leg: femur and fibula." "There was a complication and they couldn't operate." "She must have gotten fat embolism." "I think so." "He told me she was better." "I'll call him." "The heart and the kidneys of your junkie are saturated with calcium." "His heart already stopped some time ago." "Look." "Can you see that scar?" "The calcium ions released by the cardiac cells triggered violent cramping, like a tetanized muscle." "The pump got jammed and the blood stopped flowing." "Game over." "Why did calcium invade the heart?" " Is it poisoning?" " Yes." "But natural poisoning." "Adrenaline arrived on the cardiac myocytes, which released too much of their cells' calcium." "So he was killed by adrenaline?" "Yes, too much adrenaline." "The neurotransmitter's message was too long." "The heart, weakened by an attack, couldn't handle it." "In a nutshell, your guy died of fright." "The fingerprints of the bridge victim were found on the crate and all around the shop." "She was an employee." "Pay-stubs under the name of Camille Duroy were found, and also a raincoat that belonged to her." "Could you stop playing with that door handle?" "Calm down, Jeannette." "That noise is so annoying." "I can't focus." "Keep talking." "However, no handbag was found." "Maybe the attacker took it with her cell phone, keys, ID, credit card..." "There was no address or social security number?" "Calling social security is a pain." "And the address is fake." "There's no such number in that street." "We also found Canadian coins next to a hairpin and a tissue pocket pack." "I faxed the victim's fingerprints and photo to the Canadian police." "I'm still waiting for their answer." "We told the kid her mother had an accident." "I'm not sure she got it." "You mean you and Myriam?" "Good thing she's there." "Stop that, Marion." "Myriam is like a mother to Isa." "I'm just kidding." "I don't know what you're doing about Pauline, but if you want, I'm here." "I can take care of her." "We get along well and she loves your son." "That's kind of you." "Thanks." "Can I visit Isa tomorrow?" " She'd be delighted." " Great." "What are you doing?" "I'm home." "Rodolphe just fell asleep." "I have to go." "I have an article to finish for tomorrow." "Okay." "Work well." " Good night." " Bye." "I took the subway and I went to the street of the shop where mom works." "I saw it was closed." "On the iron curtains, there was some plastic tape, which said:" ""Sealed evidence." "Do not open."" "I think I must face the truth:" "mom's dead." "I can't think of any other explanation." "If she were only sick or wounded, she'd have found a way to warn us." "What will become of us?" "I posted the second letter." " No, she's stable, but..." " But what?" "We should've told you sooner, but there was some misunderstanding." "It seems somebody partially shaved her head." "Who?" "We don't know." "Somebody came in the hospital and shaved her head?" "Yes." "When were you planning to tell me?" "Calm down." "It's not about being calm." "It means one can come in your hospital freely." "That's insane." "I'll send someone to watch her." "From now on, you'll be responsible for what happens to her." "Who'd take such a risk?" " And why?" " I don't know." "From now on, we have to move our asses." "I don't have my daughter this weekend." "I'll work." "Me too." "With some luck, the Canadians will answer." "The young woman found unconscious still hasn't been identified." "I'm sure she's the one I told you about." "Should I tell the cops?" "You told her what you knew." "You gave them the phone numbers." "What more can you do?" "The less we see of the cops, the better." "Ludo?" "I had to move out because my roommate has a boyfriend now." "Could I leave my car in your yard for a few days?" "I don't want to leave it outside, with all my stuff in it." "No problem." "I'll deal with the co-owners' association." "Where do you live then?" "Hello." " I'm going home." " Bye." "I took a room in a small hotel." "If you hear about a cheap studio nearby, tell me." "Okay." "Go, it's your turn." "What happened?" "What letter?" "That's nothing." "She has no evidence." "Then it'd be her word against ours." "I'm fixing it." "It's fine." "I have to go." "I'll call you back." "What a bitch!" "The Canadian police answered our information request." "They identified the bridge's victim." "Her name's Camille Veneur." "She's wanted for kidnapping." "What children?" "She's accused of abducting her own daughter and the son of her partner." "She isn't his real mother." "She's of French origin." "Our finding her will allow Canada to ask for her extradition and the children's repatriation." "How old are they?" "They're 12 and 8." "Sarah and Emmanuel." "I see." "Where's Jeannette?" "She told me she'd go to Jussieu University." " Why?" " I have no idea." "Did the two of you fight?" "Not really." "You look as if you're upset she's back." "No, she's upset at me." "As soon as I say or do something, she jumps down my throat." "I can see it's not constructive." "And it's tense." "You know what she went through." "She hasn't worked in six months." "Give her time." "She's annoying!" "We have two missing kids." "Did you ask about the father?" "Not yet." "You should do it." "CANADIAN RESIDENT" "SINCE 1999." "ONE BROTHER, MICHEL VENEUR." "JUNKIE." "There has been no trace of her in France since 1997 at her university or in her hometown." "We lost track of her in Canada until she came back illegally under the name of Camille Duroy." "Hello, Flora." "One croque-monsieur." " Okay." " Thanks." " And one cup of coffee." " Okay." " Did you read my notes?" " Yes." " Are you sick?" " No, why?" "What are your pills?" "Nothing." "It's a light anxiolytic." "It helps." " Don't get used to that." " Don't worry." "What do you think?" "Good progress." "Not as long we don't know what Camille Veneur-Duroy did in Canada." "I went to Jussieu university." "I looked into her student file." "She was preparing a thesis on the new religious groups and ideologies." "I see?" "And?" "Some students sometimes do field study." "They even immerse themselves in cults to study them." "So she did that in Canada?" "Lately, there have been many cases of violent family breakdowns, of kidnappings due to one of the parents' sectarian activities." "Some parents have to break the law to take their children away." "They told you something about it?" "No." "You're building this on nothing." "You have nothing." "Maybe she went to Canada to see her brother." "Maybe." "I don't know." "There's something else." "About the guy who took the risk of shaving her head at the hospital..." "We were too quick to assume he was a lunatic." "Shaving a woman's head doesn't date back to the Liberation." "The Bible talks about shaving the heads of the girls of Zion because they misbehaved." "It's also a sign of mourning." "No, it's a matter of religion." "Let's say Camille Veneur did her sociology thesis in a cult." "She comes back 8 to 10 years later with two kids." " Yes." " Why not?" "She gets set up, she's kept against her will, she gets brainwashed." "One day, she wakes up and escapes with her daughter and another kid to shield them from their father?" "Is that possible?" "Absolutely." "Remember what Belier said?" "Calloused hands." "Maybe she worked in a farm." "The botched C-section." "It could fit a cult living in autarky in the countryside." "The son of a friend works at the Canadian embassy." "I could call her." " Shall we do that?" " Yes." "Then I have to go." "I'm leaving for the weekend." "Thank you for your time." "Remember the blood we found under her, a relative's?" "What if it were her brother's?" " Mom?" " Yes, I need to see you." " Are you sick?" " No." " What is it?" " It's very important." "I have to see you now." "Thank you for coming." "I need to introduce you to someone." "Hello, Miss." "Sorry for introducing myself and disturbing you on a Saturday." "I'm Jean-Rene Laplaine." "I'm a Canadian lawyer." "Why would a Canadian lawyer need me?" "It's very simple." "According to my sources, you were among the last to see a woman, Camille Veneur." "She is wanted in Canada for child abuse and kidnapping." "You were in contact with her." "She got in your car." " Is that true?" " How do you know that?" "The police told me." "The French police work closely with us." "A witness saw her get in your car." "In your mother's car, to be more precise." " Is that accurate?" " Yes." " You were in contact with her?" " Yes." "This is a document from the court." "It proves she was sentenced for kidnapping and child abduction." "In Canada, she was already sentenced in absentia." "She's not the kids' mother?" "Absolutely not." "She's extremely dangerous." "Help us find her." "And to find the kids too." "Sarah and Emmanuel." "How did she bring them to France?" "She must have pretended to be their mother." "She must have drugged them or scared them." "Could you help us and help the parents find their children?" "It's been an ordeal for years." "I'd like to, but I don't know how." "You could tell me what happened, for instance." "She threatened me with a knife." "She told me people were after her." "She told you about the children?" " Yes." " What did she say exactly?" "That they were her children." "That they were in danger and that she had to protect them." "That's all?" "Yes, that's all." "She didn't tell you of a place where you could drop them or of someone to contact?" "Try to remember." "It's really important." "Try to remember." "Apply yourself." " Think about those poor kids." " I know, it's awful." "But I really don't know." "If I remembered something, could I contact you somewhere?" "Yes, of course." "Here." "This is my card." "Sarah and Emmanuel's family will be very grateful." "Thank you for your time." " Sorry I couldn't help you." " Thanks." "See you soon, I hope." "This man was very charming." "You don't think it's weird he found us like this?" " He's a lawyer." " It has nothing to do with this." "For an abduction case, the police should come, not a lawyer." "I'm sure he's not a lawyer." "How can you say that?" "He had all the proper documents." "That doesn't mean anything." "You can do anything with Photoshop and a good scanner." "Could you tell between real and fake documents?" "I was a teacher for 30 years." "I can read people." " I'd have noticed if he had lied." " Like my father-in-law?" "Not this again, Armony." "I must say I'm intrigued." "I don't see French police officers every day." "I'm here off the record." "Thank you for interrupting your weekend for me." "What can I do for you?" "We found a young woman who's in a coma." "She's wanted in Canada by your police." "An extradition request is underway." " For what reason?" " Kidnapping and child abduction." "I see." "I received a memorandum about it." " Camille Veneur, is that it?" " Yes." "Can you tell me more?" "She's a woman who left her family taking with her the daughter she had with the man she married in Toronto." "She also took her husband's son." " Do you have the husband's name?" " Montereau." "Jean-Rene Montereau." "A young businessman of the Toronto region." "He owns a company, 'The Factory'." " It is a very big" " Do you know about it?" "Everybody knows about it there." "It's a big company specializing in building wood houses." "You're saying you found his wife and that she's in a coma?" " Yes." " What about her children?" "We're looking for them." "We're thinking Camille Veneur was the victim of a murder attempt." "We have one dead body and a missing person." "You're not suspecting Montereau, the owner of one of Canada's biggest companies, of being involved in a murder attempt?" "We can't dismiss this hypothesis." "Do you know whether he's ever been involved with a cult?" "No." "I don't know." "How is that related?" "The more the investigation progresses, the more we feel Camille Veneur belonged to a cult." "The French tend to see cults all over the place." "Could you look into it?" "Can you give me your phone number?" "Thanks." "Hello, the is Liliane Lescudet's answering machine." "Thanks a lot." "You're welcome." "Bye." " Hello, Armony." " Hello." "Hello, you want to relax?" "Massage?" "I'm not interested." "Thanks." "I miss mom." "I remember when she came to get us at the farm." "We had to leave quickly without being noticed by the guards." "We ran to the car." "We drove and drove." "Then we boarded a ship." "The trip lasted for almost three weeks." "Then we arrived in France." "The only person I was sad to leave was Michel," "Mom's brother." "I only have two letters left to post." "It's always a different address." "This time, it's a newspaper, still in Canada." "But in Ottawa, not in Toronto." "Yes, thanks." "I was on the phone with the juvenile division." "Someone filed a complaint:" "a driver said she was attacked Monday night by a woman armed with a knife, near Pont de Crimee." "That woman mentioned two children in danger;" "she even gave her their phone number." "Where are the numbers?" "I don't have them." "You said she gave us the numbers." "Yes, but things are complicated:" "apparently, they got lost." "What a bunch of assholes." " And the witness' contact details?" " Only the name:" "Armony Lescudet." "We'll find her through her car registration document." "Social security will allow us to contact her employer." " What's her job?" " Dancer." "Kathia, your turn." "I'll hang up, I have to work." "Bye." "Hello, this Liliane Lescudet's answering machine." "You may leave a message and I'll call you back." "Mom, it's me." "I'll try to call you later." "Bye, see you later." " How are you?" " Good and you?" "Fine." " How is Isa?" " Better." "Look, I bought this for her." " It's pretty, right?" " It's great." "It's more glamorous than the hospital's paper gowns." "It'll make her feel good." "I also bought beauty products." "You're great." " I'm a great girl." " I know." " Where's the kid?" " At my mother's." "I thought your were done asking her favors?" "I didn't have any other choice." "I couldn't ask you." "With what happened to Isa and your job, it's complicated." "Do you want to have a drink?" "I don't have time, visitation time is almost over." " I can wait for you." " No." "I don't think it's a great idea." " What's wrong?" " Nothing." "When I see you with Myriam, it'll never work out between the two of us." "She's the love of your life." "You married her." "She raised Isa." "You and I will never look like Myriam and you." "And she's ugly as a blonde." "You're jealous of her?" "It's ridiculous." "Maybe." " Maybe what?" " Maybe both." "I see." "Wait." "She came to see Isa, not me." "You want me to keep her from seeing Isa?" "Go fuck yourself." "You're so stupid." "You want me to ask you to marry me?" "I don't know why, but I feel bad vibes." "Too late." " Yes?" " You tried to call me?" "How's your daughter?" "She's groggy, but she's not in pain." " Myriam took the kid to see her." " That's good news." "Our contact at the embassy told me that Camille Veneur's husband is a big Canadian industrialist called Montereau." "I looked on the Internet, but I found nothing about a cult." "And what about Armony Lescudet's car registration document?" "Olivier found an address in Corbeil." "Someone called Liliane Lescudet." " I'll go there tomorrow." " Good." "See you later." "Hello, this is Liliane Lescudet's answering machine." "I'm not here but leave a message and I'll call you back." "Mom, it's me." "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have left the way I did." "If you're home, pick up." "Mom." "Anyway, I wanted to tell you." "The guy you introduced me to looks very suspicious to me." "If he comes back to see you, call the cops, but don't talk to him anymore." "That's all." "Call me back." "Bye." "Good night." "Yes, Jeannette?" "Liliane Lescudet slipped and shattered her temple on the bathtub." "She died on the spot." "Her clothes are carefully folded, the bathtub is half-full, the apartment is perfectly clean, no traces of violence on the body." "Apart from her head wound, no ante-mortem bruises, no anal, oral, or vaginal penetration." " What is that?" " What?" "No, wait." "What did you find?" "Postcards." "By someone called Armony." "Posted from Paris." "No text." "Only her signature." "Weird, right?" "Hotel Belfort." "Could you connect me to room 17, please?" "Miss Lescudet." "Miss Lescudet is in room 26, not 17." "There are no phones in the rooms." "Plus, she's out right now." " Do you want to leave a message?" " No, I'll call back." "Thanks." " You're welcome." "Bye." " Bye." " You think it's not an accident?" " No." "I think Liliane Lescudet was murdered." "Did you search her place?" "Not really." "With the experts, it was tricky." "She had a bank account with 45,000 euros on it." "It's enough to kill." " You think her daughter did it?" " A daughter wouldn't do that." "Even if they don't get along." "What's on your mind then?" "I think our main suspect is the man she mentioned in the message." "He might have come back." "She might have been a threat to him." "If he's responsible for the shop owner's death and Veneur's fall, one more body won't matter to him." "He kills to leave no witnesses behind." "I was thinking about your cult thing." "I might be wrong." "Remember what Belier said about Camille Veneur's C-Section?" "That she was butchered." "Rejection of medical institutions, auto-medication, autarky, shaved hair, the biblical names of the two kids, Sarah and Emmanuel." "This reeks of sectarian practices." "Yes?" "Hello." "Very well." "When?" "It was the embassy's counsellor." "He has new info." "He'd like to see us outside." " I offered "Augustin"." " Yes." "The Factory is owned by Jean-Rene Montereau, the man who pressed charges against Camille Veneur." "He inherited the company from his father when he was 21 and no one had anything to say against it." "The Factory is no ordinary company." "Its social service only hires social outcasts." "They are completely taken care of:" "they're housed and fed." "It sounds like a cult to me." "The father of Jean-Rene Montereau, Isaac Montereau, the founder of the Factory, created a religious community which was controversial in the 60s." "It dissolved itself to avoid getting noticed by the law" "Ever heard of Flirty Fishing?" "Young women and young men who sell their bodies for their faith." "It's a technique to attract new members." "Sexual encounters are common within cults." "Yes, but not with children." "I found track of a complaint filed three years ago by a couple of former Factory employees." "Their children were taken away from them when they were very young to be put in the farm, a school reserved for the company's elite." "They found out that in that so-called school, the students were initiated to sexual practices by older children, who themselves slept with adults." " What about the investigation?" " It led nowhere." "The plaintiffs withdrew their complaint and the case was closed." "Camille Veneur must have found out the same thing." "That's why she kidnapped them." "Do you think some high-ranking civil servants could be corrupted?" "I wonder." "Everything's in here." " Okay." " Thanks." "Hello, may I have my key, please?" "Thanks." "By the way, someone called and asked for you." "It's weird." "Nobody knows I'm here." " It must be a mistake." " No." "He said your name." " It was a man?" " Yes." " Did he leave a message?" " No." "He just said he'd call back." "Okay, thanks." "I disturbed you for nothing." "I'm sorry." " Better this than the opposite." " Yes." "Thanks." "I'll go back downstairs then." "You shouldn't stay alone." "You're too pretty for this." "If you need something, don't hesitate." "That's why I'm here." "Okay." "Thanks." "As every organized group, cults try to grow and proselytize." "The concept of "elite" is always important." "The non-believers are an inferior population to be led by the elite, the believers." "That's why systems are created to seize power by recruiting in key positions." "I'm sure that's Montereau, the boss, the guru." " This looks familiar." "Not to you?" " No." "Look at that woman, however." "She looks like Camille." "And he looks like her brother." "What happened between the time Camille left and the time when they took this picture?" "Of course he'd end up there:" "deserter, junkie, social reject, rebelling against the institutions." "His profile perfectly fits." "Montereau must've hired him, had him become a Canadian, and turned him into a member." "You think Camille fell in love with Montereau, who saved her brother?" "Yes, and she stayed." "She even got into it for a while." "I get why she'd leave with her daughter, but why kidnap another kid?" "It's serious, isn't it?" "If Montereau sold the kids for sex, it's understandable." "She couldn't stand only saving her daughter." "She needed to save another kid." "What about her brother, if he's the one who fell off the bridge?" "He left with her?" "Or did he trail her for the guru?" "What happened on that bridge?" "Did he push her?" "Or did he try to protect her?" "Only Camille can tell us that." "Look, this is very interesting." "See how they are placed?" "They copied a painting," "Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper." "Montereau is the one in the middle." "He thinks he's the Christ." "I'll remove your gag so that you can talk." "If you try to scream, I'll have to cut your throat." "I'd rather avoid it, but I won't hesitate." "Tell me what I can do to find my children." "Can I take some?" "If you want, but it's disgusting and cold." "I don't care." "I'm so scared, dad." " Of what?" " Of surgery." "It's good, it means you'll be out soon." "How will I do with my daughter and the crutches?" "What if you asked her father to take the job?" "No way, he's completely immature." "I wouldn't let him have Pauline for the world." "Then come home." "You're never home." " We'll do as we used to." " What do you mean?" "As when we lived together." "We weren't alone." "There was mom." "Then Myriam, fortunately." "When I was pregnant, there was Marion, not you." "Then I'll hire a home helper." "What can I tell you?" "I don't get why Marion and you are separated." "It's complicated." "Please." "You still made a kid together." "It's hard for my brother to live without his father." "Not more than for your daughter." "I can see you're better." "I have to go." " Don't be upset." " I'm not." "Bye." "Bye." "You think I'll hurt you?" "It's not my intent." "I just want to get Sarah and Emmanuel back." "I don't know where they are." "Why don't you ask the woman who abducted them?" "She's in the hospital, in a coma." "I don't have time to wait." "I know she told you something." "I could see it in your eyes." "I can feel it right away when I'm lied to." "I'm never wrong." "She told me she was scared, that someone was after her and that she was scared for her kids." "Her kids?" "Emmanuel isn't even her son." " She told you something else." " No." "I don't like what you're making me do, but I don't have a choice, the children are in danger." "What?" " What?" " A number." "A phone number." "The phone number of a lawyer." " What's his name?" " Levi." "Did you call him?" "The number didn't exist." " Did you call the children?" " They didn't answer." "What was written on the cards?" "The cards?" "The postcards at Armony Lescudet's mother's." "The Moulin Rouge, the Grands Boulevards, rue de Montmartre." "Neon lights with nude show girls." "Isn't it weird to send that to your mother?" "Yes." "Camille Duroy-Veneur and Armony Lescudet met near Rue Montmartre, right?" "Yes." "Not far from the Grands Boulevards." "And Armony said she was a dancer." "I see what you're getting at." "I'll go visit Paris' nightlife, okay?" " Keep me posted." " Sure." "There are no more outgoing calls." "Why did you erase them?" "I didn't erase anything." "I can't call because I didn't pay my bill." "I called them from a phone booth." "To pay your bill, compose 3332." "If you do not rectify your situation" " I'm here to see the owner." " He's not here." "She probably didn't pay her bill." " Does she work somewhere else?" " Not currently." "She also worked in a club in Pigalle, but she got in trouble with the owner, so she left." "No girl would know where she is?" "No, Armony doesn't confide in others." "Fuck!" "Why didn't she at least give me the name of her hotel?" " May I use the Internet?" " No." "You want the list of the local hotels?" " For instance, yes." " Take this." "It'll be pleasant." "I'll help you." "I wouldn't mind." "I can't help you." "I'll help you remember, okay?" "What is it?" "Clozapine." "It's a great psychoactive medication." "Swallow it." "Swallow it." "Good." "Okay, thanks." "All the receptionists had to check a list before telling me." "Except one." "He answered right away he didn't know any Armony Lescudet." "It was the Hotel de Belfort." " He lied?" " I don't know." "Either he had the list with him or he has an amazing memory." "I'll still go check." "I'll go with you." "I know her." "She trusts me." "The children." "Remember?" "Come on." "You're an asshole." "I know you remember that fucking phone number." "You're going to talk." "On the phone, you said you didn't know any Armony Lescudet." "Do you hold to your statement?" "I don't know what you want with her, but if it's not too serious, you could wait until tomorrow." " She must be sleeping." " What's her room number?" "26." "It's here." "Armony?" "It's Ludo." "Open the door." "Armony?" "Wait here." "Fuck." "She left without paying." "Shit!" "Shit, I'd never have thought." "She looked nice." "She even thanked me for coming to check on her room." "What do you mean?" "She thought she heard some noise." "I don't like this." "I'm surprised she'd let you come up." "You sure you didn't take advantage of it?" "What are you accusing me of?" "I didn't do anything." "If you see her again, call me immediately." "Let's go." "Hurry!" "If you want to become a police officer, there's an exam to take." "You trust him?" " Surprising for a cop." " What's bothering you?" "I don't trust guys, that's all." "I think he's telling the truth." "Really?" "Why did he lie in the beginning, then?" "Because he doesn't like cops." "Would you have told me the truth if I had called you?" "What do we do now?" "I don't know." "Here's my card." "Call me if you have news." "You're a fucking witch." "Sir?" "Shut the fuck up!" "What is it?" "Are you okay?" "I'm okay." "Thanks." "I'm okay." "Shit." "Anyone here?" "Are you here?" "Are you here?" "Shit." "Jeannette, it's me." "I screwed up." "Montereau abducted Armony and killed someone again." "Ludo!" "Yes?" "Hello." "I'm sorry for waking you up." " I'm so happy to hear your voice." " Who are you?" "I'm a very close friend of your mother's." "Do I know you?" "You probably don't remember me, but you know me, and I know you too." "I'm here to help your brother and you." "Where is mom?" "I have bad news." "Your mom got into an accident." "She's in the hospital." "In a coma." "It's okay, don't worry." "She'll get better and everything will be okay." "How do you know she's in the hospital?" "Your mom has been calling me for a long time, once a week, to tell me she was okay." "She didn't call yesterday and I got worried." "I looked for her." "That's how I found her." "In case of emergency," "I was supposed to call this number she gave me." " You understand?" " I'm not stupid, but..." "She didn't tell me about it." "I have to think about it." "No, wait." "Sa" "I'M WAITING." "CALL ME BACK AT THIS NUMBER AT ANY TIME." "Who is that man?" "How does he know us?" "I'm starting to be scared again." "If he has our number, he might find out quickly where we are." "But I like his voice a lot." "I feel like I know it." "Who called?" "A friend of mom's." "Don't worry." "Go back to sleep." "Mom doesn't have friends here." "If she had, I think she'd have told us." "Armony," "I'm like you, I don't like cops." "But you don't have a choice this time." "Talk to Lieutenant Martin." "I don't want to do that." "The guy who kidnapped me has the police and the law with him." "If I talk to your Lieutenant, the kids are screwed." "He'll be forced to hand them to the Canadians." " What are you going to do?" " I don't know." "I don't know." " Sarah?" " Yes." "Hello, it's Armony." "I called you last week." "I was supposed to call back, but I couldn't, and then I still couldn't." "Why couldn't you?" "Because I got locked up." "By whom?" "Did a man call you last night?" "Yes." "What did he tell you?" "He sounded very nice." "He told me he was a friend of mom's." "He's not nice at all and he's not your mom's friend." "I was forced to give him your phone number." "Forced?" "I'll explain later." "I didn't have a choice." "Listen, he's very dangerous." "I'm sure he's responsible for what happened to your mom." "I don't know what to do anymore." "What did he tell you?" "That he was a friend of mom's, that she was at the hospital," "and that he'd take care of us." "You didn't give him your address?" " No." " Very good." "Where do you live?" "Listen," "I just want to help you and your brother." "Trust me." "If you'd rather, we could meet somewhere in the street." "Saint-Lazare station." "After school." "Very well." "I'll tell you how I look like, okay?" "We have Armony Lescudet's fingerprints." "We have also another set of unknown fingerprints." "I should have searched the hotel from the first." "What a fool!" "Otherwise, clozapine is a molecule used to treat schizophrenia." "It stimulates short-term memory and diminishes anxiety." "But there are terrible side effects." "You need to be constantly monitored:" "electrocardiography, blood test..." "Do drugstores sell clo...?" " Clozapine." " Right." "It's a prescription drug in France." "It is restricted medication." "These pills, however, were made in Canada." " Sarah?" " Yes?" "You didn't call me back." "It's okay." "I have good news for you." "Your mom woke up." "She's asking for you." "Did someone call you?" "Yes." "What did she tell you?" "She told me not to give you our address." "I knew it." "She's crazy." "What else did she tell you?" "I understand you'd be wary." "My mother told me you'd be hard to convince." "Does Manu still sleep with his woodchuck?" "What was it called again?" "Leslie, right?" "You still enjoy writing stories?" "I have an appointment with Armony after school in Saint-Lazare station." "Okay." "There was a clozapine carton in room 29." "It's an antipsychotic that stimulates short-term memory." " You think he used it on Armony?" " Maybe on himself." "Maybe he's schizophrenic." "He abducted her for a reason." "He had something to make her confess." "He went to see the mother and killed her." "He found the girl, abducted her, and kept her prisoner." "It must be connected to Camille Veneur and her children." "He's looking for something." "The kids, probably." "He thinks Armony knows where they are." "You think she's still alive?" "If she told him what he wanted, she's dead." "What about the kids?" "He's looking for them or they're on their way to Canada." "In which case..." "What do we do if we find them?" " I won't hand them over." " We must make sure they're safe." "We'll charge Montereau for abduction and murder." "It could prevent his getting the kids back." "So what?" "They'll leave and be entrusted to a tutor in the Factory." " What will it change?" " Wait." "First, we'll catch Montereau." "Then, we'll see." "He won't go down easily." "He's a killer." "Maybe he's a psycho and a megalomaniac, but above all, he's extremely smart." "He must have a way out." " Could you come?" " Now?" " Now and alone." " Okay, see you soon." "Armony's boss." "She wants us to meet." "Something must've happened." "I don't care." "You've had more than enough time." "I don't get why those documents haven't arrived yet." "My French lawyer needs them today." "Find a way." "You know what I know about you." "Hello!" "Interested in a little show?" "Come here, honey." "He's from the police." " You called him?" " Yes, I did." "What do you think?" "What do you want?" "First, to protect you." "You know Camille Veneur's children are in danger." "Only you can help me find them." "Only you." "What will you do with the kids?" "You'll send them to Canada with their crazy father?" "Not at all." "Once I catch him, he'll stay in France, in jail." "Yes?" "Sarah?" "Where are you?" "You're sure mom will come out of her coma?" "You're not saying this to get our trust?" "Why are you saying that?" "Why would I lie to you?" "I'm sure she'll come out of it." "She's lying." "She wants to harm you." " Dad?" " Yes, it's me." " Don't go with him!" " You've recognize me, honey." "He's with her." "I've come to get you." "I'll take you far away from here." " Come with me." " Martin, he's here somewhere." "He has the girl." "Hurry!" "Where?" "We've spotted a man with two children." "He's bald, is wearing glasses and a khaki jacket." "He's going up Rue du Rocher on the right." "It could be him." "Understood." "We're on it." "Go." " Let go off the kids!" " Don't move!" " Against the wall!" " Calm down." " Are you Jean-Rene Montereau?" " Yes." "What do you want?" "I'm arresting you for theft and abduction." "This is a mix-up." "I'm a peaceful man." "Fuck!" "It's not him." " What?" " It's not him." "Turn around." "It's not him?" "No, it's not." "I'm telling you it's not him." "It wasn't that type of guy." "He had brown hair, blue eyes..." "He wasn't bald and didn't wear glasses." "He wore great clothes." "It's not him." "There are no fingerprints at the hotel matching your suspect's." "Shit." "If he was prudent with his fingerprints, there'll be no hair either." " You're sure it's him?" " I don't know anymore." "The main witness spent hours with him." "I know, but he had nothing to do with the Montereau we arrested." "I could have caught him red-handed at the hotel." "I didn't." "I suck." " I'm going to quit." " Quit what?" "This job." "I'm not up to the task anymore." "I'm tired." "Look." "We'll try to transform him to turn him into what you said." "The glasses." "The hair." "The goatee." "The eyes..." "Blue." "Where are my children?" "They're safe." "Where is your accomplice?" "What accomplice?" "I don't have an accomplice." "How did you find your kids, then?" "I already told you." "By chance." "A friend told me he saw my wife in Rue de Rome." "I took the first plane to Paris." "Then you waited in Rue de Rome until your daughter came by?" "You think I'm stupid?" "I searched the neighborhood for weeks." "So it's while searching the neighborhood that you met your ex-wife and pushed her off the bridge?" "Tell us about Flirty Fishing." "Flirty Fishing..." "I've heard this before." "It's a shameful lie." "The shameful invention of our enemies." "They want to harm the community my father created." "And your employees' children to whom you teach prostitution in your so-called school, that's a legend?" "You don't know what you're talking about." "In my country, people know what I do for the poor, for the social outcasts." "The Factory is not your usual capitalist company." "It has a social mission." "You understand?" "Where you also sexually abused as a child?" "I won't talk anymore." "I demand to see my lawyer." "You called him." "He'll come to get you, don't worry." " You're sure?" " Yes, it's him." "We don't have a case in court." "No." "Shit." "I'm telling you it's him." "I can testify." "It'll work out with her testimony." "What will you tell the judge?" "That's our guy if you add a wig and lenses?" "Wait, he killed my mother and you're telling me he'll get his children back?" "No, it's not over." "Trust us." "Thanks to you, we know it's him." " Go fuck yourselves." " Armony." " Armony!" " Shut up!" "We'll find a way." " There's nothing we can do?" " There are no fingerprints." "Nothing incriminates him." "What can we do?" "We'll have to let him go at the end of the custody." "I just want to take my children home and be at peace again." "You could tell me where they are." "Come, Mr. Montereau." "I'll deal with this." "We're releasing this guy?" "What is he going to do?" "He'll keep on killing people just like that?" "The Canadian law was with him." "He just had to wait to get his kids back." "He took crazy risks." "Why?" "It took too long." "He cannot stand to wait." " He killed people." " He does his own justice." "He hates being resisted." "Until today, he's always gotten what he wanted." "That's why this isn't over." "TWO DAYS LATER" "Montereau took three tickets for Canada." "He'll leave tonight at midnight." "It's now or never." "Take this." " It's disgusting." " But it's very good for health." "You have to drink it too, Sarah." " What is it?" " A plant drink." "You'll wake up full of energy to take the plane." "Finish it." "Good." "Now lie down and sleep." " What about mom?" " She'll join us later." "When she's better." "Okay?" "Sleep now." "He'll fly to Canada with the children at midnight." " We'll call if something happens." " Okay." "Hey!" "Baby, it's daddy." " Dad!" " Yes, it's daddy." " How are you?" " Good and you?" "I'm glad you called me." "Martin, I'm fed up with this." " Of what?" " You give it to me?" "Pass the ball." "Listen," "I know you're okay with meeting once every ten days, sleeping together, hugging your sleeping son." "I thought I'd be too, but I'm not." "See that stroller over there?" "Please, not now." "It's Rodolphe's." "There's everything you need in the bag." "I know it's early for shared custody, but some weekends are the minimum." "He needs your father and I'm tired of doing it alone." "Be nice with your dad." "Dad!" "I know this cannot go on." "It'll change, I'll change." "But I can't take care of him today." "Look, he's there." " Where?" " Over there." "Look." "Crap, you're right." " Give me time to get ready." " You're pissing me off." "Sorry." "Wait, I have to answer." " Take him." " Unbelievable." "Montereau got out of the hotel." "In Armony's version." "Shit!" "He took a motorcycle taxi." "We won't be able to tail him." "I know where he's going." "I know." " Wait!" " Why?" "We're not headed the same way." "Do me a favor." "Resist." "JEAN-RENE MONTEREAU WAS ARRESTED FOR MURDER AND MURDER ATTEMPT." "CAMILLE WAS GRANTED CUSTODY OF MANU" "AND LIVES WITH THE TWO KIDS IN THE PARIS REGION." "ARMONY IS STILL A DANCER AND IS DATING OLIVIER." "SUBTITLES:" "RED BEE MEDIA FRANCE"