"ORIGINS" "20 years later..." "BLACK DRAGON" " Who is she?" " Nothing on her." "It looks like she was strangled." "She was homeless." "Homelessness kills!" "What kind of bastard would kill a defenseless woman?" " Did she find her?" " Kim Darcourt, retired doctor." " She was jogging." " What did she see?" "No one." "Did you touch anything?" " I checked her vitals." " OK." "Sorry I can't be more helpful." "No worries." "Thank you, Mrs. Darcourt." "Chief?" "Married." "But we don't know who to call." "Not a wedding ring." "Margot might help us identify her." "Look at the motifs, it's a family's coat of arms." "Nobles." "Do many nobles have coat of arms?" "Around ten thousand!" "A dexter arm holding a sword." "That's pretty common." "But not the two towers." "I thought you didn't care about nobility." "It's from my adolescence." "A need to know about my family history." "The rise and fall of the Du Plessis!" "The search will be tedious but this is our only clue to find her name." "And this too." "We found it in her bag." "You might be able to find something." "A treasure box." "A lock of hair." "Someone she must've loved." "Standard model, made in the 20th century." "A small jewelry box?" "And this." "A concert flyer." "The Wild Ducks!" "Never heard of them." " An amateur band?" " Rock?" "Yes, I think so." "Given the name, and year." "In '68, she was probably 18-20 years old." "I'm sure she listened to rock." "Do you know how many people die anonymously?" "More than 100, then again, very few associations keep track." "I'll find her name." "I promise you." "None of the shelters know her." "I sent her photo to every police station." " Forensics?" " Died around 10pm, yesterday." " Confirmed she was strangled?" " Yes." "No signs of a struggle, she didn't try to escape." "How was she strangled?" "With her scarf." "Garnier!" "Where the hell were you?" "At the train station!" "I have more info!" "The inspector saw her in a train coming from Paris." "With a ticket?" "She was determined." "Train tickets are expensive." "What would make her want to come to Angoulême on Easter Sunday?" "Excuse me." "All gone." "You might have seen her family." "The Seilhan de Beaurepaire." "It's their coat of arms." "Did you check the genealogy?" "Who matches the victim?" "I'm not that quick, Captain!" "Captain Du Plessis?" "Thanks for having us, Mr. de Beaurepaire." "My grandson, Jules." " My name..." " This is..." "Margot..." "Lazip." "Margot Lazip, civil assistant." "Let's go to my office." "Will you wait here, Ms. Lazip?" "I've never seen her either." "We're sorry we can't be more helpful, Captain." "Why are you asking us?" "Recognize the coat of arms?" "It was on our victim's finger." "Sorry, Grandfather." "It was too big." "It must've fallen off." " Why didn't you tell me?" " I should've." "No!" "It's my fault." "I should've resized it to your finger." "It was my father's." "He had the hands of a lumberjack!" "Not of an intellectual." "You deserve it." "This is evidence." "We will return it to you once we find the killer." "It was a pleasure." "Captain." "Ms. Lazip?" "Where did you get that from?" "They might have read one of your books." "I perfectly understood that." "But why Lazip?" "Rhetorical question." "Family tree, what do you have?" "Margot!" "It's complete." "None of the women in the family are the victim's age." "Something's strange." "Our victim didn't come here as a tourist." "She must be from the area." "I might have an idea." "There's got to be a reason she kept the flyer." "Either the concert was here, or she knew a musician." "Lots of maybes." "I've never heard of them." "I didn't think you would have." "I doubt you were dating rock stars in '68." "That came later." "We have a newcomer, an elderly lady." "A record shop owner in La Rochelle." "She donated her collection of posters to the convent." "She might be able to help." "Forensics just finished analyzing the food intake." "In the evening, she had a salmon sandwich and custard pie." "Probably from a bakery." "I might be able to go around the bakeries and..." "Great idea!" "Take 3 officers with you, split the tasks." "While you're out, distribute this photo." "He took me for a fool." "I just got a fax from Major Duvalier." "His sketch artist recognized her." "He sketched her in '90." "Her name?" "Complaint against unknown." "Breaking and entering." "It was made by the head of a condo association, Mr. Tissot." "He dropped the complaint later." "Figure it out." "I didn't help with the sketch, it's our neighbor." "He passed away." "He caught her breaking down the door." "Why did you drop the complaint?" "The association pressured me because she shoved the old man on the 1st floor." "But she just wanted a place to sleep." " When was this?" " Easter Monday 1990." "Easter?" "You never saw her?" "She never came back?" "No." "I don't think so." "Why are you looking for her?" "Has she done something?" "Sorry to show you this photo but we need to identify her." "No." "No, I never saw her." "My wife, when was young." "Well, my ex-wife." "Excuse me." "Yes, Garnier?" "I'm on it." "Excuse me." " Yes?" " Astrid found a concert flyer." "Yes... it's incredible." "At the Catinat bar, near Angoulême." "It proves she was in the area in '68." "And '90." "Go check out the Catinat." "And you?" "Our homeless lady was in a bakery yesterday." "Yes." "So?" "Did a baker strangle her?" "Guess who paid for her sandwich?" "It's about the homeless lady, right?" "I meant to call you." "My grandfather is napping." "I'm sure he doesn't wake up quite that easily..." " Did you talk to her or not?" " Yes." "But I swear I didn't kill her." "I met her yesterday morning, near the station..." "Here." "Hey!" "Are you crazy?" "I'm sorry, but..." "Did I hurt you?" "No, no." "It's just incredible." "I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else." "How can I help?" "If you bought me a sandwich, I wouldn't say no." "OK." " Here you go." " Thanks." "Come." " What's your name?" " Jules." " Just Jules?" " Seilhan de Beaurepaire." "What a beautiful name!" " Family ring?" " From my great-grandfather." "You're a good kid, Jules." " Do you have a girlfriend?" " Yes." " Is she as nice as you?" " Yes." "Then I'm sure you're happy." "OK." "I have to go now." " Goodbye, kid!" " Goodbye, ma'am." "Take care of yourself, OK?" "I tried finding her, but I couldn't." "And then?" "I had dinner here with my grandfather." "Then I met my girlfriend at the movies at 10pm." "You can check." "I will check." "Why didn't you tell the police about the theft?" "She's old and homeless, I didn't want to..." "My grandfather would've been very upset." "Why do you live here?" "My parents." " Too laidback?" " Yes." "You want the authority?" "Yes, authority and... the attention, too." "I get good grades because he's on my back." "But you lied about the ring." "Why?" "He says we should be courageous in our actions and mistakes." "I'll tell him the truth." "I want to tell him myself." "The lady knows my name, I don't know hers." "We don't know it." "She came yesterday morning, it was Easter." "She'd come every year." "Really?" "Since when?" "I bought it in '85, I'd see her every year." "She'd come in, order a coffee, three sugars, and would sit there, always the same table." "Like she was waiting for someone." "She'd stay a few hours, then leave." "My wife said that maybe she had a broken heart, or she was waiting for a former lover." " No one ever came?" " One guy, once." "A big guy!" "But he was no lover." "She was sitting there... and he came in around, I don't know, 1-2pm." "I could tell she was nervous." "He went straight to her table." "I could hear what he was saying." "But she was getting more and more nervous." "I went to wipe a table to see what was going on." "By the time I came around, the telephone rang." "My wife was in labor." "Oh wow!" "While I was on the phone, he pushed her and made her leave with him." " I'm sure you remember the date!" " 1990, April 14." "Do you remember anything else?" "I do!" "A guy told me he saw her in Raphaël Woods, by the old quarry." "But that was in the late '80s, so..." "Yes, Arthur." "I found something." "Well, I should say someone." "It's strange seeing chrysanthemums here..." "Chrysanthemums, a grave..." "So you started searching." "Well, yes!" "You should've called me." "Would you have come?" "Probably not for chrysanthemums." "What brought you here?" "She used to come here." "I thought maybe yesterday she came too and left a clue." "Captain!" "Yes?" "7.65 shot in the head." "A piece of newspaper." "Let me see." "April 14, 1990." "April 14, 1990?" "And an ID card." "Sylvain Poupart." "Card issued in 1965?" "Is the body that old?" " Height, and eye color?" " Height: 1m95, blue eyes." "Tall, blue eyes, and a tattoo." "It's the man who threatened her on April 14, 1990." "She laid chrysanthemums on her squat, exactly over the body." "She knew he was here." "Do you think she killed him?" "I doubt that this guy was killed by the old lady." "Sylvain Poupart was no choirboy." "Look." "Poupart spent 20 years in prison." "Released April 12, 1990." "2 days before getting killed?" " What was he in for?" " Murder, a barbaric one." "1968, Jean Fréville aka Mr. Jean." "Tied to a chair," "Poupart beat him to death." "See the hole?" "The investigation concluded that something was stolen." "Mr. Jean was hiding something." "But we don't know what?" "Well, no, no!" "I know this bar." "It took place at the Catinat." "On Easter Sunday?" "How'd you guess?" "Easter 1968." "What's with the googly eyes?" "Any accomplices?" "Yes, but no names." "Three of them." "Poupart and a guy came in, but someone else opened the door." "That was probably our homeless lady." "Why do you think that?" "He got out on April 12, '90 and went after her 2 days later." "What if she was the accomplice?" "She visited every Easter Sunday." "Like a pilgrimage." "What did they know about Jean Fréville?" "Jean Fréville, born in Angoulême, no kids, never married." "Bought the Catinat in 1960." "That's all." "Nothing else?" "They didn't have you back then!" "Anyway, Mr. Jean Fréville, Sylvain Poupart, and our homeless lady. 3 dead, probably the same motive." "Whatever Mr. Jean was hiding." "There we go!" "It should be there." "There's still a trace." "The seller never told me how it happened." "To think there was a murder here..." "gives me goose bumps." "Where are the photos from?" "They were here when I bought it." "I left it for decoration." "I have others in a box, in the basement." "That would be great, thanks!" "All from Saigon." "Catinat was a famous street during Indochina." "It's possible Mr. Jean lived there." "It'd explain why they found nothing on him." "Indochina allowed a lot of dealing." "What Mr. Jean hid here was probably not legal." " I'll set it here." " Thanks." " Vietnamese?" " Yes." "You are right, he lived in Indochina." "Lò Dúc, what does that mean?" "It's pretty easy to translate" "Vietnamese." "Well, when you know the vocabulary." "Lò, is "oven" and Dúc is "to hit"." "Which gives us...?" " Foundry?" " You win!" "How funny." "Look." "It was taken here." "In front of the bar." ""1968."" "The young lady with Jean, I've seen her." "I lied." "She's not my wife." "It's my sister, Suzanne." "Why did you lie?" "It's all my fault!" "Now she's dead." "You don't understand?" "The homeless lady... it's her!" "My sister." "I was in charge of her." "Our parents had died," "I was 21, Suzanne, was only 16." "She was agitated, couldn't stay in one place, very resourceful." "I was studying in Grenoble." "Was she with you?" "She refused to leave Angoulême, the apartment we'd shared with our parents." "Then one night, she called me in Grenoble." "She was petrified." "She was crying." "She said, "They killed him!" ""I didn't want that." She was crying so hard!" " When was this?" " Easter 1968." "You were right, she's involved in the bar murder." "She was bait, right?" "The chick bats her eyes at the big sucker!" "Did she say who she was with?" "Who were they?" "I didn't even ask her." "I knew she wanted to turn herself in." "I was studying for the IRS exams." "You were scared." "I could picture the headlines." "I sent her... a money order, told her to run away." "I paid for my reputation." "What an idiot!" "And then?" "I had news from London then from Goa." "She had followed a hippie." "I had my boring little life as a tax auditor." "My wife, my kids, my divorce..." "From time to time," "I'd imagine Suzanne somewhere in the world, and smile." "Then Easter 90," "I was on my way home and I heard a voice." "Happy Easter, brother!" "I turned around... and saw my sister." "Suzon?" "It was painful to see how she looked." "I hugged her, took her inside." "Made her some food." "It feels good to take a shower!" "Not much has changed here." "Do you still have this one?" "Mom made it." "Why, Suze?" "How long have you been living like this?" "10 years." "Why didn't you tell me?" "I would've..." "You had your life." "What would you have told your wife and kids?" ""Look, this is my sister."" "It's not your fault, Jacques, I was the one who messed up." "And since then..." "You see, I..." "What happened in '68?" "She wouldn't talk." "I'll take care of you." "Tomorrow, I'll make Mom's lemon pie." "Remember?" "The next morning, she was gone." "I never saw her again." "Except for the photo you showed me." "I was her big brother," "I should've..." "I let her down, in 1968, when I made her run." "What happened to my sister, Captain?" "I'm sorry, Mr. Tissot, where were you Sunday night?" "I was at home." "Am I a suspect?" "Why?" "Why would I kill Suzanne?" "He's right!" "Why would he kill his sister?" "In '68, she disappears, and in '90 suddenly reappears." "The day after Poupart dies." "Is he lying?" "There were 3 accomplices in Jean's murder." "Suzanne, Poupart, and another man." "But this guy wouldn't hurt a fly." "If he's the other man, he deserves an Oscar." "But we're not in Hollywood." "Du Plessis will do a search." "What's this?" "It's Suzanne's." "I put her stuff there, in '68." "I don't even know why I kept it all." "Let me see." " What's in it?" " Nothing." "Suzanne took her jewelry." "When I put it away, the box was open with the key." "Try this." "March 15, 1990." ""Jimmy, they are safe." ""If you find them, then you forced the lock," ""and that's not nice!" ""Use them well." "Or you got the key." ""Which means I'm probably dead." ""Don't be too sad." "We lost touch years ago." ""Don't be mad." "I love you, brother." "Suzon."" "She left them with her brother, after Poupart's death." "And the box was locked." "Jacques Tissot didn't know." "He has nothing to do with it." "There must've been a ton of ingots." "Not the standard size or weight." "It looks like recast gold." "I'd like to know where Mr. Jean got them?" "Margot is searching." "Have you found out more about the foundry?" "Near Hue." "Jean Fréville bought it in '46, he made colonial medals for the French government." "He was respectable." " I doubt it." " Really?" "Come here." "Look." "Do you see the logo?" "It's the same as the one on the foundry." "Mr. Jean is the one who made these bars." "Where did he find the gold?" "You need an awful lot." "Statues, jewelry, art..." "Many people used their status to steal artifacts from the occupied countries." "And the foundry was in Hue, an old imperial capital." "The area was full of treasures." "Not so respectable, Mr. Jean." "Official founder for the French and a thief." "Someone robbed the thief." "How did Poupart know the ingots were hidden in the cafe?" "Take Mr. Jean, I'll take Poupart." "We each get one." "Do you ever regret it?" "Every morning, I wonder if it's really what I want, then renew my vows." "The day that doesn't happen, I'll leave running in high heels!" "I hope it won't, I need you too much." " You're enjoying it." " What?" "Playing a cop!" "In my job, we investigate too." "It isn't so different." "I guess you're right." "I love it." "There's more mystery than with genealogy and history." "It stirs you up." "To stir and be stirred, that's very you." "For Mr. Jean, where do I start?" "Go through his acquaintances, like the cops." "Here." ""My friend Mai Binh." ""1950."" "Mai is the surname Binh is the first name." "It means "apricot flower"." "While you have fun with your flowers," "I'm going to ride a dragon." "Poupart's tattoo is a kioh long, a dragon, in adult form." "It's a sacred animal in Vietnam, a sign of power." "During the Indochina war, French mercenaries chose it to intimidate the enemy." "The tattoos were on their necks." "They were the Black Dragons." "Very interesting." "If Poupart was one of them, then he was in Indochina with Jean Fréville." "And Fréville's foundry was in Hue." "That's where they operated." "That's where Poupart found out Fréville had made the bars." "Fréville came back to France in '68." "Poupart caught up with him." "We know what led to Mr. Jean's murder in '68." "But for Poupart and Suzanne, we have no clues." "The woman I questioned was born in Hue." "Kim Darcourt, who found Suzanne's body, was born in Hue." "What do you have on her?" "Retired doctor." "Born in 1949." "Adopted in France in '56 by a local doctor." "This is her resumé." "Where was Poupart in jail?" "Poitiers." "Why?" "She was a doctor at the jail from '88 to '91." " Call her in." " OK." " Astrid?" " Info on Mai Binh." "Really?" "What?" "He was an accountant at the Fréville foundry until '51." "And then?" "He joined the Viet Minh." "And this is where it's interesting." "He died in Hue, before the end of the war, tortured by French mercenaries." " The Black Dragons!" " Exactly." "How did you find out?" "The sisters in Cholon, near Saigon." "They took in Mai Binh's wife and their daughter." "You still there?" "What was the girl's name?" "You'll never guess." "Mai Binh, Kim's father, was a Viet Minh." "And Poupart was a Black Dragon, tortured in France's name." "He got away with torture." "It's how he found out." "I wonder... how she knew Poupart killed her father." "Exactly." "I chose medicine." "Mom wanted me to be like my adopted dad," "Professor Darcourt." "He was an amazing doctor." "Always looking out for people." "I was a troubled teenager, obsessed by my father's murder." "My mother would say "You'll forget." And it's true." "While I was studying medicine, I did forget." "Then I was sent to work at Poitiers prison." "That's where I met Poupart." "Could you take your coat off?" "I didn't recognize him initially." "When I examined him, he removed his shirt, and I saw the tattoo." "All of the images came flooding back." "When he tortured my father, and ended up killing him." "He was screaming, yelling." "He was disfigured, covered in blood." "During the consultation, he turned to look at me." "I was hoping it wasn't him." "I was only 5 when they came to our house." "I thought I could be wrong." "But the images were etched on your mind." "That's when you decided to get rid of him?" "No." "I followed him when he got out of prison." "I had my father's gun." "But I didn't know if I'd have the courage." "He went to a small hotel then to the Catinat." "Easter Sunday '90." "He came out of the cafe with her." "He was rough with her." "I followed them to the old quarry." "And we came to a cave, where the lady had set up camp." "He kept beating her, shoving her." "She bent over and dug something up." "I knew he wanted to kill her." "This is for my father!" "And then I shot him." "He wanted them?" "Keep them." "The chrysanthemums..." "Why?" "Any remorse?" "In Asia, those flowers symbolize joy." "Where were you Sunday night, around 10pm?" "Is that when she died?" "Yes." "I was in a restaurant with my mother." "I didn't kill her, Captain." "I went to change the flowers, as I do every year, and I saw her." "She was dead." "She finds Suzanne's body where she killed Poupart?" "That's not possible." "It's so incredible, it must be true." "You can't make it up." "It's as if my past were playing tricks." "That woman... dead just where I'd saved her from Poupart 20 years ago." "So you moved the body before calling the police?" "I didn't want Poupart to be found." "It's been 10 years." "The crime has lapsed." "Her alibi is checking out." "She was in the restaurant." "OK." "This brings us to the theory of the other man." "In '68, they had a hard time." "We will too!" "Finding the other accomplice 45 years later won't be easy." "They didn't know Suzanne, we do." "She wasn't a criminal." "She never got over what happened in '68." "Plagued by guilt, I agree." "Not a big criminal, also." "Where's that lead us?" "To the right question:" "why would a nice kid get caught up in this?" "For love." "She must've loved him." "We think Suzanne met a man at this concert," "February 8, 1968." "I was in Grenoble." "In love..." "She wouldn't have told me, anyway." "I didn't listen at the time." "But this guy..." "One day I called very early, and a man picked up." "When was this?" "'68, for sure, but the date..." "Suzanne told me it was the phone repair guy." "I knew she was lying." "She never mentioned his name?" "He lived here with her?" "Possibly." "We'll find his name." "In '68, there was a population census." "Andre François, a legionnaire?" "I assume it's not his real name." "No, but you know my arm is very, very long, and I archive for you-know-who." "This legionnaire fought in Indochina, like Poupart." "Him?" "She left a note in the mailbox, asking me to go to the old quarry." "That's where I kissed her for the first time." "She threatened to tell the truth about my past to my grandson." "When I got there, I saw a woman and... it wasn't Suzanne anymore." "André!" "She looked so old." "André!" "What do you want, Suzanne?" "Money?" "Sorry, I have nothing else to offer." "Why did you leave me?" "I looked for you for a long time." "When a legionnaire takes his old name..." "I would've followed you to the moon, you know." "I haven't been André for a long time." "Josselin Seilhan de Beaurepaire." "I met your grandson, I thought it was you!" "Did you have a lot of kids?" "How long have you been married?" "Do you think of me?" "Stop it!" "Hold me in your arms, André, one last time." "One last time." "So I held her in my arms." "Tightly." "And then, I don't know why..." "I pulled her scarf, very tightly." "I've been dead for a long time." "It's true, I already killed her in '68." "When she was just a kid." "You are a killer, a thief!" "You have the right to hate me." "It'll take some time." "It mustn't have been easy to tell Jules?" "Your job is to unite families, not to separate them." "Sorry you had to do this." "You're sweet." "Would you like a drink, Ms. Lazip?" "Subtitles" " Eclair Group"