" You're an idiot!" " Scaredy-cat." "I thought someone was in it..." " This house is scary." " It's so cool." "Mr Lacombe is lucky." " Did you find anything?" " No." "Come on." "Let's go." "50 years later ..." " Hello, Ma'am." " Hello." " Mr and Mrs Pelletier." " Nice to meet you." "Hello, Sir." "Hello, Mr Gravier." "Please." "He does not look happy." "He's upset I found new cousins." "And that the victim's half-sister's children have the same rights." "He thought his uncle's will would be in his favour." "OK..." "Could we start, Ma'am?" "Hold on." "This isn't normal." "There should be a drawer here." "May I?" " Here." " Thank you." "ORIGINS" "There is someone." "I can't explain it." "With no proof, I cannot..." "It's your job." "That's why I'm here." "They want to scare me." "I'm not mad." "I would never think that, Mrs Guennegan." " You hear it at night?" " Yes." "Excuse me." "Yes, Ms Laurent?" "A mummy?" "I'll be right there." "Are you sure you didn't touch anything?" "Strange!" "Given the set-up of this place, I'd have sworn..." "Is the mummy really that bad?" " Why were you here?" " Inventory for an inheritance." "Strange inheritance." "Given its size, the child was about 6 years old." "The mummification process will make it hard to date." "It was a girl." "No apparent wounds." "Did you see that?" "She was trying to escape." "There was wood under her fingernails." "This means that our little cutie died in this wardrobe." "I wasn't expecting this type of case..." "Are you sure?" "Medical examiner's report:" "died from suffocation." "Body's age: between 5 and 100 years." "Why not Ancient Egypt, too?" "It could be too late to investigate." "We don't know who she is." " Anything on the trader?" " Yes." "Patrick Gravier was born on October 12 1949." "Mother died in '61, his father..." "We don't need his entire ancestry!" "An ordinary man, no criminal records, died last month of leukaemia." "He's out of the picture." " What's the plan of attack?" " Start with our only lead." "The wardrobe." "It was made in the 19th century." "I'll try to find all of its owners." "The killer is probably one of them." "A wardrobe's genealogy." "No small task?" "And you?" " Anything faster?" " Possibly." "The trader bought the wardrobe recently." "Have you ever seen this wardrobe?" "Yes, yes." "I sold it back to the trader." " Sold it back?" " Yes." "Elodie, my employee, bought it from someone around here." "She's in charge of decorating." "I thought it was ugly, so I sold it back to the trader." "May I speak with your employee?" "Yes, I'll get her." "That's my boss and his mother." "Pretty, right?" "Hi." "Elodie Bataille." "Nice to meet you." "Captain Arthur du Plessis." "What would you like to know?" "Where and from whom did you buy it?" "Where?" "At a garage sale." "I bought it from a woman whose name was..." "Mrs Guenneguan." "That's it!" "Guenneguan?" "A brunette, 50 years old, shoulder-length hair?" "Yes." "She's by the road to Châtellerault." "There's the junction..." "Could you take me?" "Are you new to the area?" "Follow me." "How many people has this wardrobe killed?" "Monnier Inheritance" "Here we are." "Thanks for bringing me." "It's a pleasure." "Police investigations are cool." "I mean on TV." "Is it usual for a cop to track a wardrobe, or..." "Forget it." "If you ever want to visit the area, don't hesitate to call me." "Later." "U-turn." "Sorry." "Here for my complaint?" "Will it go through?" "That's not why I'm here, Mrs Guennegan." " Is this the wardrobe you sold?" " Yes." "Where did you get it?" "I found it here when I bought the house." "Why?" "Why did you sell it?" "It gave me the creeps." "I put it in my room and I couldn't ever sleep." "It's as if..." "Silly to be scared of furniture!" "So I got rid of it." "Where did you live before?" "In Amboise." "I asked for a transfer, after my daughter and son-in-law died." "Why are you asking all these questions?" "What is it?" "A young girl, about 6 years old." "Her body was found in a secret drawer of the wardrobe you sold." "She suffocated." "That's terrible!" "She was the same age as my granddaughter." "Now I know why it gave me the creeps." "It's strange how sometimes you can sense things." "You didn't know?" "Of course not." "What are you implying?" "She's either crazy or incredibly clever." "Not mutually exclusive." "She did live in Amboise." "She ran a nursery school." "Headmistress?" "Did you check her file?" "Spotless." "She started as a teacher in '85." "Great reports." "Her career in education is flawless." "Is the girl her granddaughter?" "Marianne, yes. 6 years old." "Her father and mother, Mrs Guennegan's daughter, died in a caving accident." "And her husband?" "Mrs Guennegan has been a widow..." "since 1990." "Motorcycle crash." "They fall like flies around her." "She seems to be hiding something." "Can we find out if the wardrobe was really in the house when she bought it?" "No." "I saw a copy of the bill of sale." "She bought the house furnished, but I don't have a list of the furniture." "I have something for you." "Surprise, surprise!" "It's the wardrobe's blueprints." "Made to order for the Monnier family in 1870, during the Franco-Prussian war ." "They wanted something to be able to hide their valuables." "It stayed in the family and was handed down generation after generation." "1870." "The mummy can't be from that time?" "No." "The dating says between 5 and 100 years." "But I found something else." "It's a newspaper article about a tragic event from 1965." "What's incredible is that this woman was the last to inherit the wardrobe." "Therese Monnier." "In 1955, she married Louis Lacombe, principal of Poitiers School." "Their 2 daughters." ""The Lacombe family, father, Louis, mother, Therese," ""and their two daughters, disappeared on Christmas Eve 1965."" "They were never found." "At the time, Isabelle was a baby, but... the oldest, Sophie, was 6." "6 years old?" "Sophie Lacombe could be our mummy?" "I'll check the missing persons' files." "Strange resemblance." "I've seen that girl somewhere." "She wasn't a mummy, unless mummies play tea parties." "I don't know the Lacombes!" "You're looking at me as if..." "When they disappeared, I wasn't even 2 years old." "You're right, it's absurd." "You couldn't possibly know them." "But don't you think it's incredible?" "You buy a house in which lived a little girl who looks just like Marianne, and she died in an wardrobe that you got rid of." "When you put it like that, you're right, it's strange." "You see!" "The police don't like strange things." "Everything must be rational." "I'm sorry I got upset." "They look so much alike, it's unbelievable." "How could it be?" " Are your parents still alive?" " No." "They died years ago of old age." "Do you know the rest of your family?" "I think I have some distant cousins." "Could I be related to Lacombes?" "It's possible." "In any case, thanks for helping us." "The police are always rational!" "Thank goodness." "I had to get you to relax." "Mrs Guennegan said her parents were old." "She's an only child." "What do you conclude?" "They probably had trouble getting pregnant." "Well, I think she was adopted." "And?" "Tell me what you're thinking, Margot." "Catherine Guennegan could be the Lacombe's second daughter." "The baby!" "The mummy's little sister." "The baby disappears Christmas '65 and gets adopted?" "Crazy, huh?" "How could we know for sure?" "The DA." "He has access to the files." "Stavros will see with him." "I was positive my theory would annoy you." "Principle of Occam's razor." "Simple hypotheses are more likely." "I've known things to be simpler: what's your idea?" "If Mrs Guennegan is Sophie Lacombe's sister, it would explain the resemblance between Marianne and Sophie." "Makes sense." "But I'm not sure that this girl is our mummy." "Let me explain." "I just received the files on the disappearance of the Lacombes." "The Lacombe family took their car, to celebrate" "Christmas with friends, 30km from their home." "The files explain that they disappeared on the way home." " They were with their daughters?" " Yes!" "The friends' testimony is clear, it was the four of them." "So how did Sophie get locked in the wardrobe if she had disappeared with her parents?" "Were the friends ever suspects?" "Absolutely." "The husband was a solicitor, Mr Rousseau." "Vindicated along with his wife." "Rousseau?" "Like Françoise Rousseau, the trader's solicitor?" "She took over her father's firm." "Another coincidence." "Are the investigators still alive?" "Yvon Lenouet, 85 years old." "He's waiting for your call." "How old was Mrs Rousseau, the solicitor, in 1965 ?" "I was 13 years old." "I loved the little Lacombes, especially Sophie." "A funny little girl, turbulent, daredevil, a bit of a tomboy." "I'd secretly take her to the candy store, on my bike." "I should've told you, I recognized the mummy right away." "I made her that outfit." "Sophie wanted to wear a tuxedo on Christmas Eve." "When we found her this morning, it was like a nightmare." "They searched for the Lacombes for months, even the national police were on it." "Meanwhile the girl was there, right under our nose." "You determined their disappearance thanks to several elements." "Forget the paperwork, I remember everything." "No phone calls from their house after the 24th, a few dirty dishes left in the sink, and no Christmas gifts." "If the Lacombes didn't go back home..." "How did Sophie end up in the wardrobe?" "Contrary to what my parents said," "Sophie didn't come that night." "Louis Lacombe had punished her." "Therese Lacombe told my mother she threw a tantrum." "She went to hide in the attic, she refused to wear the dress her father had given her." "She wanted to wear her tuxedo." "How could Therese Lacombe do that?" "Go out on Christmas Eve, leaving her daughter in a wardrobe?" "She worshipped her husband." "She loved him too much." "That Christmas, she gave him a gold watch." "A limited series Belsonn." "I remember because my dad was envious." "Mrs Guennegan was adopted." "We got this from the DA." ""Found on the night of December 24, 1965 in Amboise..." ""The child was given the name Catherine."" "You were right." "Yes." "It was a tough case, but you did a great job." "Congratulations to you both." "Wait!" "I know what you're thinking." "We know the circumstances of the girl's death." "We know who's responsible:" "her father." "But since Louis Lacombe disappeared and was declared dead, the case is closed." "We don't know what happened to them." "Reopen the investigation... no way!" "And Catherine Guennegan!" "What about her?" "We need to tell her the truth." ""The girl in the wardrobe was your sister." ""Your father put her in there." ""But he was punished because he disappeared," ""we just don't know how." ""And by the way, you're adopted."" "No, Georges..." "We can't." "You'll find the words." "Is there something I should know?" "Goodbye, Chief." "Goodnight, Chief." "No." "Nothing." "Here are the adoption papers." "Your parents found you on December 24, 1965, on the steps of their home." "You were wrapped in a sweater." "And they adopted you." "My parents would've told me." "I was their daughter, not the Lacombes'." "There must be a mistake." "After being found in Amboise, you were in a children's home for a short while." "And then adopted in 1966." "And this house?" "It is the Lacombes', right?" "I bought the house in which I was born." "It's unbelievable!" "I think I remember something." "When I first saw the house, I had a strange feeling..." "I didn't just love it." "And that wardrobe..." "I couldn't sleep." "Who took me to Amboise?" "My parents' killer?" "I don't know." "Unfortunately, for the police, the case is closed." "So that's it?" "You come to my home, tell me my whole life is a lie, and that's it!" "Did you forget them on purpose?" "Thank you." " Is that your daughter?" " Yes." "Divorced?" "Police!" "Hands up!" "You..." "Well..." "Yes?" "On my way." "A neighbour saw him break the door open." "She called the police." "He won't talk to me." "Says he'll only speak to a real cop." "Let's make him happy." "Question your client." " Why are you here?" " Nothing, I wanted..." "Wrong answer." "Try again." "I think he's slow." "Why did you force the door?" "That's right, Didier." "Why did you force the door?" "I'm allowed!" "This place is mine, I inherited it." "Then why not get the keys from the solicitor?" "Why are you here?" "To get another child's body?" "No!" "I have nothing to do with the mummy." "I just came to get a watch." "I swear." "A gold watch." "My uncle Patrick hid it somewhere." "He must've moved it." "Is the watch expensive?" "You don't want to share it!" "That's why you came." "Tell me, du Plessis, regarding Garnier's training, don't be overzealous." "I don't want her to end up like you." "How so?" "Annoying and perfectionist." "The trader stuck it under a desk drawer." "Good job, Garnier." "You were saying?" "Perfectionist?" "Beautiful." "Old too..." "Must be worth a fortune." "Why hide it instead of wearing it?" "Hi!" "I came to look at the Lacombe files." "I thought I was clear, Margot." "I know, the case is closed." "But I'm curious." "I need to learn." "The police failed." "It's a case study, right?" " It's on my desk, go ahead." " Thanks." " May I?" " Yes." "Limited series Belsonn?" " Where's it from?" " The trader." "Why?" "Just a strange coincidence." "Mrs Lacombe gave her husband a Belsonn the night they disappeared." "Do you think this is the one?" "I don't know." "Who cares?" "The case is closed." "On your desk?" "I don't know what she's up to." "Keep an eye on her, Arthur." ""Amboise."" ""Amboise."" "Christmas gifts Lacombe family 1965" "The list of Christmas gifts for the Lacombes in 1965." "I'm glad you're not giving up." "I never got over this failure." "What can I do to help?" "I need your professional opinion." "Among the gifts, there was a gold Belsonn, number 354 N, which Mrs Lacombe bought in Poitiers on December 18, 1965." "We found this receipt at the Lacombes'." " So?" " I found the watch." "I found it at the trader's, Patrick Gravier." "He is dead." "I think he stole the watch the night they disappeared." "Patrick Gravier." "He never came up in the investigation." "What does he have to do with this?" "I don't know." "Our investigation revealed the second daughter, the baby, was found in Amboise on Christmas Eve 1965." "Mr Gravier's grandparents lived in Amboise at the time." "He was responsible for their disappearance and abandoned their baby in Amboise?" "In 1965, this guy must've been..." "He was 16 years old." "That's him, at 16." "This is where I need you." "Does it seem possible someone his age could kidnap 2 adults without raising any suspicions?" "He probably had an accomplice." "I searched for what you asked for." "In 1965, Patrick Gravier was in the school where Louis Lacombe was the principal." "No way!" "Another connection between them." "Did you find the list of students from the school?" "If there's an accomplice, we might find him in it." "All the trader's classmates, from 6th grade to 10th grade." "Are you sure you're doing this for Catherine Genneghan?" "Don't worry." "I'm particularly moved by this case and maybe too involved, but I'm fine though." "I might be able to answer her questions." " Keep a cool head." " Yes." "Good." "Right..." "Louis Lacombe." " Patrick Gravier." " Yes." "And his classmate from 6th grade to 10th grade:" "Thierry Joubert." "Thierry Joubert." "A wine-grower." "This kind of stuff makes me sick." "Mrs Guennegan's certificate:" ""Female baby, about 20 months old," ""found 14, rue Dunois in Amboise, wrapped in a blanket," ""and a red and white Fairisle sweater, size 14." "A red and white Fairisle sweater?" "Anyone home?" "Mr Joubert?" "Mr Joubert?" " Is Mr Joubert here?" " I don't know." "Must be in the cellar." " Wait!" "Don't you want..." " Stay here." "What are you doing here?" "Well, I wanted to..." "Blood." "They found one boot." "He was dragged out of the cellar." "There are tire marks, but it's not a rare model." "No neighbours nearby." "Thierry Joubert disappears without a trace." "You shouldn't have come alone." "It's not safe." "It's not for the investigation." "You're not my boss." "What's on your mind?" "I'm not blind." "I'm not saying this as your superior." "But as a curious cop." "Someone wants to talk to you." " Hello." " Hello." "Sorry about earlier." "It's OK, you were doing your job." "I don't get it." "Thierry is nice, why go after him?" "Apparently, Thierry Joubert and Patrick Gravier were accomplices in the Lacombes' disappearance." " Do you have proof?" " Corroborating evidence." "Patrick Gravier owned this watch, which was a Christmas gift to Louis Lacombe." "And the Lacombe baby, Mrs Guennegan, was wrapped in Joubert's sweater." "Why would he have done that?" "They were classmates, Mr Lacombe was the principal." "Lacombe punished them more than the other students." "Thierry Joubert:" "detention, detention, suspended..." "Detention for a weekend." "Lacombe was no joke." "Conceivable." "1965, Thierry and Patrick go after the Lacombes." "Now someone avenges them." "But why now, 50 years after the events?" "I'm afraid we've opened a Pandora's box." "Someone has a reason to be after Joubert." "You're thinking of Mrs Guennegan, but that's absurd." "She has her granddaughter." "Imagine someone kills your parents and abandons you, steals your life." "Catherine Guennegan has a motive." "A very solid motive." "She has every reason to lose it." "Captain!" "The house is clear, no trace of Thierry Joubert." " And her car?" " Nothing." "The tires don't match." "See?" "They found nothing?" " I have a secret." " You have a secret?" "Tell me." "Will you show me?" "Mettray." "Mettray penal colony in Touraine." "The colony was created in 1839." "Stray kids and delinquents, who were often orphans, were sent to prison until centres such as this cared for and educated them." "Mettray was a model." "Until its founder died." "After that, until 1937, when it closed, the centre was a real prison." "The children were malnourished, abused, non-educated." "They worked for the area's farmers." "Not to mention the violence." "Poor kids." "Why was this photo at her house?" "It's from 1931." "The ID is someone we know." ""Lacombe, Louis." "Shoplifting."" " He was in Mettray?" " Yes." "Entered in 1931." "Got out in 1936, before the appeal." "He became a soldier, resistant fighter..." "Principal and strict father." "How will it helps us find Joubert?" "There is someone who knew Lacombe, went to Mettray with him and became his friend." "He's an old man today, but he remembers everything." "Lenouet, Yvon?" "The old cop?" "So?" "Did you or your friend kill the Lacombes?" "I don't want to listen." "Good grief!" "How did I not see this back then?" "You and Patrick Gravier were always up to no good." "Why go after the Lacombes?" "Because your principal punished you too much?" "Little jerk!" "You have no idea what real punishment is." "Here's your principal!" "Take a good look." "That's Louis Lacombe." "About the same age as when you killed him, and he didn't kill anyone." "He just stole a few potatoes!" "Potatoes!" "Scared, huh?" "You haven't piss yourself yet, so you don't know" "I did every day in Mettray." "I was only 8." "My father had me locked up, I was boisterous." ""A hyperactive kid," that's what they say now!" "Without him to protect me, I would be dead." "Louis was more than a brother to me!" "Stay here." "Thank you." "You don't want to press charges against Yvon Lenouet?" "Hasn't he suffered enough?" "Since the Lacombe case has lapsed, you are free to go without answering my questions." "But someone does want answers." "I swear I didn't kill the Lacombes." "I want just one thing, to turn the clock back." "Patrick and I were... energetic." "The more Lacombe punished us, the more we caused trouble." "Patrick said that our principal was suspect, that the "resistance fighter" was probably hiding something." "What happened on Christmas Eve 1965?" "I was invited to spend the vacation at Patrick's grandma's house, in Amboise." "Instead of taking the train, we waited for nightfall and searched the Lacombes' house." "We searched the entire house." "At one point, I heard a noise in the attic." "So I went to see." "And Patrick jumped out from behind a wardrobe, to scare me." " You're an idiot!" " Scaredy-cat." "I thought someone was in it." "He got me." "So I told him I had had enough, that we should leave." "So we ran out and took a shortcut." "Mind the holes." "There are quarries underneath." "Is the train station far?" "Not really." "Half an hour this way." "Hurry up." "Do you see what I see?" "Old Lacombe." "Mrs Lacombe was vomiting in the ditch." "I don't know what came over us." "We got in the car and started it." "We thought we'd teach Lacombe a lesson." "So we drove off, laughing." "I fell asleep." "When I woke up, it was raining hard." "We were near Amboise." "Patrick was wearing the gold watch he'd found in the car." "And suddenly, we heard..." "Mommy!" "There was a baby, in the backseat." "Under a blanket." "We hadn't even see her." "We panicked." "I wanted to turn around and take her home." "But Patrick said we'd be charged with kidnapping." "He thought we'd go to prison." "You left her." "We left her on someone's doorstep." "When we got back, December 29th I think, we wanted to go to the Lacombes to leave a note, but the cops were everywhere!" "You found out they had disappeared." "After that, I..." "I pretended to forgot..." "I got married." "My wife and our child died." "I think that's why... some sort of punishment." "Mrs Guennegan brought the wardrobe to the store last month," "with her granddaughter." "That wardrobe... the little girl..." " This house is scary." " It's cool!" "Come on, let's go." "But Sophie wasn't in the car that night, with her parents." "She was in the wardrobe, right?" "While we were being idiots?" "The noise I heard... it was her?" "It was her... trying to escape." "She suffocated." "What happened to my parents?" "The kids left the Lacombes here, near the cross." "Their house is here." "To get home, they probably took a shortcut." "Any houses on the way?" "There are plenty of unexplored tunnels in this area." "Tunnels?" "There are tons in Poitou, dug a long time ago, some go on for kilometres." "Here." "I'll show you out." "Therese and Louis Lacombe's bodies were in a tunnel." "Forensics say they died from a fall." "What a strange case." "Sophie in a wardrobe, the parents underground," "Marianne finds a photo of her great-grandpa, as if it'd been waiting for her for 50 years..." "Don't these coincidences give you the creeps?" "I told you so!" "Cops don't like strange things." "Would you like another, to finish you off?" "The tunnels where the Lacombes fell, were used by smugglers who would take salt from Poitou, where salt taxes were low, to Touraine where it was high." "And Catherine's name, Gennegan, in Breton saulnier, means "one who harvests salt."" "Vade retro, pretty witch!" "Good evening, Captain." "I wanted to make sure you're OK." "Great, thanks." " Worried about me?" " A bit." "You're kind, but you shouldn't." "I'm like Catherine Guennegan, an abandoned child." "It's not a tragedy though." "My adopted parents told me early on and loved me, so I had a happy childhood." "I didn't want to find my other parents." "Mine were perfect." "And since I thought they were immortal..." "But they both died." "She died first, he followed soon after." "They loved each other too much to be apart long." "It was only then that" "I decided to find out who I was and where I came from." "I was found in a library when I was 3." "Isn't that a strange place to leave a child?" "The archives of the library, don't they have a list of the frequent borrowers?" "That's exactly what I thought." "But I didn't have access... so I entered the archives illegally." "And got caught!" " And had to deal with Stavros." " You understand everything." "I'm touched by your concern," "If you don't mind my saying, haven't you better things to do?" "You've been wearing odd socks for several days." "So..." "Have a good night, Captain." "Witch!" "Subtitles:" "Eclair Group"