"In the Iast episode" " Avery bad cycle has begun" " hold me tight Armand" " They can't stand themselves without TV" "Look at them!" "They're all watching out for the next scandal" " Look at them closely; they're shaking" "They're all shitting their pants for fear of being the next one" " Gastonne loves me because she thinks I'm a man" " What about the TV, do you know anything about that?" " I made a call to competent authorities this morning to have them send us their top experts" " Paquette is the only one who can help us to understand what's going on" " He reads the rats' thoughts?" " Better than that, he turns them into images" " If he knew I slept with practically everything in a uniform in Great Bear" " well thank you Mr Mayor You have no idea what's going on with the television or who savagely killed our beloved blanche" " She's quite determined, your ex" " You seem to know what you're talking about" " I have known a Iot of women Biron, before finding my own" " See you again soon, Mr Lapointe" " So, the next one would be: "Got cells"" " Yeah, well, they've been in order since the beginning" " Got cells, got cells, got cells, got cells, got cells" " Come on, come on!" " My glove" "That's Armand" "Stop it Sweetheart" "Mommy's doing this for your own good" "What's wrong?" "Oh no" "Biron, samuel said: "Got cells"" "Georges, have you seen it?" "What should we do?" " I don't know" "He hasn't said anything yet;" "maybe he won't say anything at all" "About us anyway" " I doubt that" "I'II call you back, OK?" " OK" "Mommy will be back" "Madame Von Trieck;" "promise me that you will never tell Stephanie" " Armand, what hurts people the most isn't what we tell them but what we don't" " No" "If I told Stephanie I'm still mixed up with my old gang and that I do worse things than before, she wouldn't understand that I'm doing it for her" " I know" " No, you don't" " Yes" "Her name is Dove" "She's beautiful and wild and she's after you because you betrayed her" "That's why you're hiding in Great Bear" " But how" " You told Stephanie that you were hiding from your old gang" " It's true I didn't want anything to do with the business anymore and Dove had put a hit on my head" " Yes, beautiful Dove is mad at you, but it's not a business matter:" "it's her heart you betrayed" "like you're betraying Stephanie by not telling her" " No I Iove her" " Yes, and you will tell her" " No!" "Never!" " Oh yes, I can see it" "She will learn everything from your own mouth" "Never trust anyone, Sarah" "No one" "GREAT BEAR" "Ah!" "Lapointe" "Biron, she kissed me, right here!" " Good for you In the mean time," "HeIène Marcoux's brother said the fourth sentence" "And Armand LafIamme appeared on TV" " Oh yeah?" "What did the little brat say?" "This is where you were coming from the other day" " You must be very careful;" "someone could spot you in the area" "always come on a bicycle" " Hey, don't give me orders, Buddy" " Hey, calm down!" "I wouldn't have expected that from you" "I only told them who to call to find the material and the ingredients" "From there, it's just a recipe" "hello?" "Yes, Armand is here" "What?" "OK, fine we'II wait here" " What's wrong?" " Nothing we wait here" " What's going on?" " I told you, nothing" "Hey, what do you do with that?" " You are the worst liar I've ever heard" " Don't you get it?" "The days when you pretended to be a good boy and fucked my sister are over I'm the boss now" " What's gotten into you?" "You're acting just like your father and you always said he was a dumb-ass" " You never stop, do you?" "My father said to wait here" "I don't know what's going on but if something's happened to Stephanie" "You believe Pierre's story now?" " Biron, I said, "let's suppose"" "Listen to this" "The night she died," "BIanche leaves with me for the woods, OK?" "meanwhile, Pierre goes into the house to look in the book" "In the woods, someone knocks me out, kills the old lady and tries to bury her but probably gets caught, probably by Sarah and her friends, who, according to Pierre, brought the body home" "So, chances are Sarah saw the killer" " well, probably probably according to Pierre there's a chance" "Come on, that story will never fly" " No, no, Biron" "It would explain the footprints in the kitchen, the haIf-done burial and the return of the body to the house" " Let's suppose, Iike you say" "But it's probably after ten o'cIock right now" "little Sarah, who doesn't speak, is probably asleep" "And according to me, chances are Stephanie won't welcome you with much hospitality" " Ah!" "Biron, you're absolutely right" " Right" " So" "Oh no!" "That girl intimidates me" " Biron, all girls intimidate you" " Hi" " Hi" "This might seem strange but it's a Iong story but" "I'd Iike to talk to Sarah" " Sarah's in bed" "Come back some other time if you want to play with her, OK?" " It's really important" "I I have some questions for her" "Biron, she hasn't said a word" "Yes, I know but" "That idiot Lapointe sent you, is that it?" "Can't he mind his own business?" " No, that wasn't him" "I mean I'm quite capable of myself" "I just want to know if she saw whoever hurt blanche" " She saw someone take off on a four-wheeIer" "That's all" " On a four-wheeIer" " The little brat is here!" "Come on Biron!" "Armand" "Stef!" "Are you OK?" "I thought something had happened to you" " You were right" "Just tell me you're not associated with my father" "Oh no Oh no" " What is it?" " I saw him He can't be very far" " Who?" " Got him!" "Come here!" "That's the little boy who gave me blanche's paper" " Luc, what are you doing here this late?" " You like staying up late, don't you?" "Look You gave me that paper eh?" "Where did you get it?" "And how did you know it was mine?" " Luc, Luc, Luc You and Sarah and the others, when's the Iast time you saw Mrs Von Trieck?" " I don't remember" " Listen Luc, huh?" "It's very important that you tell us when you saw" "Mrs Von Trieck for the Iast time" " The last time?" " Yes" " Yes" " It's when she gave us pops the other day" "Stay here" "You little bastard, get over here" "Get over here!" " Your son stays out late" " He's not my father" " Stay here" " What's your problem?" "You fancy little boys?" "Is that it?" " Come on Rick, relax" " You're right Luc: run" "You're better off outside than with him" " I have to bring him back to his mother if I want to have any fun tonight" "Come on, get over here Hurry up!" "But we'II see each other again, you and I" "What will become of this child?" " He doesn't look like the kind of kid who would be dragging corpses in the middle of the night" "His problems are elsewhere" " Some days, Biron, humanity discourages me, you have no idea" "Don't listen to blanche Don't listen to blanche" "It's dangerous" " But somebody's got to do it" " No, not you" " Somebody's got to do it" " No" " Somebody's got to do it" "Somebody's got to do it" "Somebody's got to do it" "Somebody's got to" "Somebody's got to do it" " Diane, Diane" " Thomas, Thomas" "Thomas" "It'II be OK" "It was just a mild one" " Yeah" "You called me Diane" "Thomas" "I can't take it anymore" "I'm worried about Sarah" "She's weird" "Sometimes I think she's talking to me in my head" "She needs her father" "Everybody keeps calling to find out when blanche's funeral will be" "I don't know what to tell them" "You act like nothing happened" "You spend your whole days organizing boxing matches, I" "I'm really sorry Stephanie" "You really loved Armand, eh?" "I just want him to come back" " well, Gastonne said if there's no news soon, they'II organize a search party" " Just want him back" "Did SamueI say anything, since last night?" " He mumbles all the time" "Sometimes you can make out words, sometimes not" " He's like that since, uh" " Since the accident" "About ten years ago, a bunch of Iumberjacks left in a helicopter to work in the North" "Coming back, the chopper crashed" "They all died except Sam" "Some hunters found him, Iike that, two weeks later" " He wasn't hurt?" " No" " Got cells got cells" "cells cells" "You're tuned in to Great Bear Radio with Simone Letendre" "At the bear's growl, it will be exactly 9 o'cIock" "Rise and shine my little bear cubs!" "How are you this morning?" "The awakening wasn't too hard?" "No, TV still isn't back but we were treated to a new episode starring one of our citizens, last night" "Poor Armand, poor Stephanie" "Ah, but it's not easy finding love" "Each time we open the door to our heart to let love in, we never know what else can get in at the same time, huh?" "Fear, pain, malice" "But maybe also tenderness, joy, happiness" "Who knows?" "We never know" " Happy Birthday darling!" " What could this be?" "But, Marie, I don't drink" "One glass of wine and I'm drunk" " This is for the day I leave you" "You won't be able to do without this" " I Iove your sense of humour" " Yeah, it's yours rubbing off" " Keep it" "But I never want you to use it because I'II never leave you" " I promise" "Where is my real gift?" " Come here" "Marie!" "OK, the paper in Doctor Mondoux's hand:" "did you find out what it is?" " Yeah" " And?" "What were you doing at the Von Trieck's last night?" " We wanted to talk to Sarah" " What did she say?" " well Nothing" " What was the Doctor's paper?" " Give me a break OK?" "We had an agreement" "Since the beginning I've given you all I've had and I don't get anything back in return" " Yes I know" " You're hiding things from me" "You went to see Pierre too" "Did he give you the idea to talk to Sarah?" "What did he say to you?" " Go ask him, you'II find out" "He doesn't want to speak to me and everyone at the station thinks he's a freak" " You don't say?" " Hey there, bottle Neck" "Quit it, all right?" "Spit it out or else" " Swear that you won't use it against Pierre" " Biron, you can't sell out your sources to the police like that" " You can't treat my friends this way either" " Hey That's him" " Pierre was at blanche's house the night she died" "He said he saw the kids bring her body back" " Come on The kids didn't kill blanche" " No, I don't think so either but Stephanie said Sarah saw someone take off on a four-wheeIer" " Aren't you" "That famous journalist ?" " Yeah, aren't you ?" "Bernard" " Yeah, yeah, Louis-Bernard Lapointe" " That's it!" "That's it!" " well hi" " Hi" " Hi" "So what about SamueI's sentence? "Got cells"?" " Lapointe thinks it has to do with the accident ten years ago, but" " The Iumberjacks?" " Yeah, the Iumberjacks" " Don't you have, Iike a talent, a magic trick or something?" "Or a malformation or a scar" " Come on" " What?" "Scars are cool" " No, no I won't be a clown in your freak show, all right?" " If you change your mind" " No, I won't change my mind, forget it OK?" " Let's go" "We'II stop bothering Mr Big Star" " So, now that the stool pigeon has talked, could we find out what was on Doctor Mondoux's paper?" " A small piece of a scientific magazine" " Like any of the hundreds in his office Great!" " Like any of the hundreds, yes" "But why that one?" "I did some research;" "it's from "Neuroscience En Avant"" "And guess who's on the cover?" "Edouard Paquette" "The scientist who's in Great Bear to fix the TV signal" "I ordered the magazine from the national Library" " Which will probably get here in two to three days" "So, in the mean time" "Biron?" "In the mean time, tell me the story of the Iumberjacks" " There were twelve guys" " We call them the Iumberjacks but they didn't really have any skills" "Kind of the losers of the area" "And when you're considered a loser in Great Bear" " Cream of the crop for sure" " The municipality hired them to work on a piece of land where they would have put up a radar station" " A radar station?" "But, that's not municipal department" " I just called the mayor's office" "The documents about that contract have disappeared from the files" " We have to talk to the mayor, to your father" " He won't say anything" "If the documents aren't there, he decided it" "If they still exist though," "I know where they are" "In the safe in his office" " Let me guess; the problem is that he's the only one who knows the combination" " No, the problem is that he's the only one who has the key" "And he always keeps it on him" " I have good news and bad news" " The bad news?" " There's no doubt" "The waves producing the images on TV are of identical nature to the ones I was obtaining with my device, ten years ago" " incredible The good news?" " I've identified what could be the emitting source or at Ieast a relay" "Those dishes down there" " We're getting closer" " Who could be doing that?" "AII of my ex-coIIaborators have been contacted, it's beyond me" " exactly Whoever is doings this is beyond you Paquette" "I find this most exciting" "The more reason for me to worry" "I don't want to interview Edouard Paquette" "I just want to talk to him for two minutes" "What's the difference?" "Listen, can you just tell me where I can find him?" " Even Gastonne can't talk to him" "OK, after "Got cells"?" ""Be there where the thief dances"" "What does that mean?" "Every time we get a lead, it goes absolutely nowhere" "We have a new sentence which gives us a new lead and it's a complete mess" " No, no Biron" "Those leads don't stop, they slow down" "And they all point in the same direction" " Oh yeah?" "Which one?" " I don't know yet" "But I trust blanche's clues" " So, go join Pierre Lamy's gang" " The hairdresser?" "actually, I'm certain we'd find very interesting things in that book he took from blanche's house" " blanche's big book is full of old wives' tales spread over thirteen generations" " Biron, to solve a problem, you have to go back to its origins" "You have to cut it at the root" "Fine OK" "Not only are the leads we have absolutely ludicrous, they're cold as ice" "The only concrete facts we have are the article about Edouard Paquette found in Doctor Mondoux's hand and the missing file on the Iumberjacks" " Edouard Paquette, don't you find that strange?" "A neurologist to fix a TV signal problem?" " That accident always seemed very strange to me" "And now, the TV freaks out" "Hey, if there's a link between the two stories, we have a hell of a scoop" "We have to open BeIiveau's safe" " No, that's illegal" " I don't give a damn" "At least, it isn't "esoteric blah blah"; it's concrete stuff" " Picking the Chief of police's pocket never did anybody any good" "I have an idea" "BeIiveau might be the chief" "hello?" "This is EmiIe Biron, yes" "You wanted Louis-Bernard Lapointe for your gala?" "You shall have him" " Out of the question!" " Under one condition" " No, no, no!" " Did you hear what Armand said on TV?" "He's in deep shit" " Christian, the merchandise isn't for you" " To be a good salesman, you have to know your product" " We only have one buyer and they're very satisfied;" "it's not necessary" " only one buyer, for now" "But I have some expansion projects" " Georges, your son is completely stoned" " Never mind Christian" "What were you doing with Lapointe?" " What, Lapointe?" " Yes, Lapointe" " Yes" " You spend a Iot of time with him" " I'm not denying it either" "He's a charming man, we have a Iot in common" "Anyway, it's none of your business anymore Georges" " A Iot in common!" "We have a son; we have a family in common" "What do you want; you want us to get married?" "Then we'II get married" " No, you don't understand" " Mr Ferron!" "We're ready" " Where are you?" "Who are you talking to?" "There's an emergency here, Christian isn't in any shape" "montreal will be phoning in two seconds" " I'II call you later, OK?" "Love you" "Christian Ferron" "hello" " Christian, you'II have to admit that our second date can't be any worse than the first" " Did you know that your voice is really sexy?" " I won't say I've never been told before" "I have a feeling we'II get along, you and I, Christian" "Our deal will go a Iot smoother this time, right?" " The first time, we didn't know each other" "I've told you my name, what's yours?" " call me Bird" " It's Dove, isn't it?" " What?" " I guessed it, didn't I?" "Your voice is so soft, it suits you, Dove" " You don't scare me with your big guns" "You don't want to tell me your real name?" "I'II call you Dove" " OK" " Dove?" "help, somebody!" "HeIène, HeIène!" "I just want him to come back blanche" "Make him come back, I beg of you!" "Hush, you can't make any noise" "people will hear you, stop it" "I don't know what I was expecting by coming here so late tonight, if only to see you again for a moment" "Hope to see you soon" "Sarah is asleep" "Don't worry, things will work out" " I just wonder where Great Bear is going without blanche" " To hell most likely" "But you know, she isn't really gone yet" " You feel her too?" "But it's like she's mute," "like Sarah" " Do you know why the Natives never settled near Great Bear?" " No" " When I was young, one of my really old great-aunts came to visit from holland" "My grandfather showed her around the mine and the town" "In those days it was still the "Von Trieck Mine"" "He was proud" "Then my great-aunt, who had pretty much the same powers as blanche, asks my grandfather what "refracting stones" are" "So my grandfather explains;" "refracting stones are rocks used to build chimneys, stones that you can heat up as much as you want they will never crack" "When she hears that, my great-aunt is overtaken by vertigo and starts shouting: "Stop!" "Stop!"" "You should have seen it;" "the guys in the mine were freaking out" "So my grandfather takes her by the shoulders and asks her:" ""What's the matter?"" "She manages to catch her breath, and all cross-eyed, starts saying: "You shouldn't move this rock, it is rock that never burns;" "God put it there to block the gates of hell" "If you keep digging, demons from the abyss will come to the surface and torment you "" "Then my grandfather grabs her, shoves her in the truck and says: "Crazy old woman, go back where you came from, you prophet of doom!"" "well, you know what?" "The Natives had the same legend" "Pretty much word for word" "That's why they never settled near Great Bear" " So what?" "You think that" " I think I don't like prophets of doom!" " Come on, BIanche wasn't a prophet of doom!" " How would you know, Ferron?" "No, but really" "How would you know?" " Rum and Coke, just the way you Iike it" "I'm glad you came by" "I have things to be forgiven for" " Oh yeah?" "What's that?" " You can go" "I'm not keeping you" " You know very well what I want" " You know very well that I won't give it to you" "You'II have to wait until the deal is done to get your share," "like the rest of us" " I need money to leave town" "And if Dove knows I'm involved, it's not good for you either" " I know, but if Dove finds you, she'II kill you" "So I bet you'II make sure she doesn't know you're here" "See how much I trust you?" " I'm not alone in this" "What about Christian?" "Do you really trust him?" " He's my son" "I'm giving him a chance to earn my trust" "Lay low for a few days and everything will be fine" " You like it?" " Huh?" "What?" " You like it, eh?" " Yes, yes, yes, EmiIe, EmiIe!" "EmiIe, EmiIe!" " Yeah, yeah, yeah" " Let's go" " Where?" " I don't know" "AII she said was: "I have to talk to you"" "then she hung up Come on, hurry up!" " No, I'm much better now" "I should be going" "You got what you wanted?" "Yeah" "It's been clear, lately, that I will never have anything else" "Even this, I didn't think anyway" " emile" "What Lapointe said about me" "That I'm an opportunist and unhappy" " Ah, forget about that" " No, no, there's truth in that, I know" "But I'd Iike you to give me a second chance, because" "I don't want to stay unhappy" "Think about it, OK?" "Yeah, OK" "I'II think about it" "She's here" " would you stop saying "She"?" " He, she it doesn't matter" " Forgive me girls" "I haven't slept in two days" "I'm translating the book" " And what does it say?" " A Iot of things but" "This isn't blanche's book" " What do you mean, it isn't blanche's book?" "BIanche gave it to you" " She didn't give it to me" "I took it" " So, what does that change?" " You stole it" "That changes everything" "He's not the heiress to the powers" " explain yourself" " Every one of these books was written over thirteen generations" " Yes, one chapter per generation, and?" " The thirteenth chapter of this book has already been written" " Then blanche wrote the thirteenth" " blanche didn't write in this book" "And she didn't write the thirteenth chapter of any book" " What do you mean?" " Get it out of here!" "Get it out!" " Take the book outside!" "Pierre, Pierre, it's all right" "It's OK, it's all right" "We have to get him to the hospital" "Go look in the back, there must be a wheelbarrow" "We'II roll him to the car" "The" "The book is gone" "Are you sure?"