Fanny, are you there?
Oh no.
Fanny, do you hear me? Squeeze my hand.
No.
Murder
veterinary clinic.
I'm coming.
I know, I'm late. -You took your time.
Fanny Marini, 28. Single, no children.
Vet exotic animals. Found by her assistant.
Hi, do. Kisses?
So... She's dead?
Everything points to heart failure. It seems a natural death.
Except this was with the printer.
Alvaro? Working. printed at 8:13 p.m., time of death.
Why print instead of write? -Smart.
She had everything to hand for that. Excuse me.
No traces of violence.
The only weird thing is this. A red spot on her palm.
Allergy? -Nothing confirms that.
What is that? No, a marten. I'm allergic to that.
Allergic to martens. -Martens, ferrets, weasels...
guinea pigs...
And also for hamsters.
Empty.
The poison is in glands in his skin.
Is that necessary?
Letting go. -I sedated him. I explain.
She printed from the PC because of the voice control. She was paralyzed.
-She couldn't write.
And look, that lock is because he's dangerous.
It's a frog breeding loft, but she is alone, sir is gone.
Because she was still drying her hands, I think I know where sir is.
The soap is poisoned.
A Phyllobates terribilis.
One touch and you're there. Paralysis and cardiac arrest.
You saved his life.
And?
Enough ketamine for a horse. He is currently in a coma.
What?
I'm fine.
Don't force anything, I'm here. Leave everything to me.
Gilles, can I join you again?
That could have been different. -Like I had so much choice.
Daphné just sent her address. I'm going to take a look.
Can you get him home in one piece?
I saved him. I'm not going to kill him.
Commander?
The commander can't answer for a moment, but tell me.
A friend reported her missing last night.
The emergency room said she had to wait 24 hours.
Camille Duez, beautician in Roubaix.
The commander gets it. -I'll send the address.
Where are you taking me? -The beautician.
How about a manicure?
Come on, boy.
Stand still. -Don't touch me.
I don't want to be ashamed of you. Come.
Just like a zombie movie.
Hold and stay here.
Hi, we're from the police.
Well, him then. I don't at all. It's about Mrs Marini.
Has Fanny been found?
Is she okay? -No not really.
Can we come in?
You reported her missing?
My son had a karate match last night.
Fanny had promised she would come. When she didn't come, I was worried.
She would never disappoint him. She adored my son Maël.
How long have you known each other? -Two years. From the yoga class.
We both didn't care.
We clicked. And we became close friends.
I don't know how to do without her. I can not reach it.
Is your colleague okay? -Sure, I'm watching him.
Mrs?
Mrs... -Duez.
I have a question.
What is this color called?
Good. More important question.
Were there people with whom Fanny weren't the best of friends?
No, she was sweet. She had no enemies.
Maybe family, a guy?
No nobody.
She had little time because of the animals.
Her practice is well known in the region.
There's my son.
Are you okay, honey? -I just got a message.
Did daddy explain it to you? -Did that gentleman the other day do it?
Which gentleman? -She had a fight with him recently.
At the clinic. I am with her on Wednesdays.
Maël, could you describe that gentleman?
According to that child, he looked like this or this.
In any case, it's a man. -He says yes to everything I propose.
Can I agree?
Daphné has already made hundreds, but if you think you can do better?
Are you OK?
Are those the Avengers?
You probably know them all. Even suckers like Hawkeye.
Hawkeye's no sucker. -If you say so...
Say, that guy who spoke to Fanny. What kind of hair did he have?
Rather dark, like Tony Stark?
Or rather blond, like Captain America?
Dark, but less steep like that of Captain America.
Rather like Iron Man in the movies. -Brown and confused.
Is your car okay? Can I see?
I have Bonnemain's report.
There was enough poison in the soap to make someone of 80 kilos to kill in five minutes.
So Morgane saved your life? -Not really.
Maybe I didn't want to pick up any soap at all.
Of course. The parents come from the victim.
Is that going to work? -Yes of course.
I have to tell them that their only child of 28 is dead.
You know what? I help you.
So. come.
Did he have a beard like Thor?
Or did he not have a beard, like Superman?
Superman is not an Avenger. -That's true.
Then no beard like Loki.
In between. -Stubble beard.
I'm very sorry about your daughter.
I don't understand why you like us at all come late. We never saw her again.
Thierry... -It's true, isn't it?
We haven't heard from her for eight years.
You know, her death doesn't change anything for us.
Why did she cut off contact?
That happened during her studies.
We weren't good enough for her.
Morgane, you really have to knock. -I knew it.
She just kept going. -Morgane, give me a second.
Do you know this man?
That's Loic Ballant. -Are you sure?
Yes. She dated him when she was 16. He was five years older.
He was already involved in everything by then.
We did everything we could to prevent she saw him, but it didn't help.
What was he involved in?
Armed robbery of a gas pump. It was in all the papers.
You understand how the neighbors reacted. -I take it he got jail time?
He got fifteen years.
But with a reduced sentence he was released a month ago.
A month ago?
Loïc Ballant, four drug trafficking convictions...
two for assault, one for armed robbery.
And all before you turn 25.
Not bad. -Do you want the rights to my biography?
No, not necessary.
Tell me about Fanny.
She was murdered yesterday. -What's it to me?
You're not really scared. you searched her the day before yesterday. Why?
Out of courtesy. -It wasn't that polite.
She hated that I forgot her birthday.
I'll tell you what I think.
After twelve years in jail, you wanted to continue with her.
Only she wasn't that rebellious anymore girl. She didn't need an ex-con.
She rejected you and you couldn't have that.
You think like her parents that she was an angel. I know what she was really like.
Loic, what was she really like?
Nothing but good about the dead. I'm not going to do your job.
Where were you yesterday between 6 and 8 p.m.?
I was home alone.
Not a good alibi.
I have another ankle bracelet.
Gone too long and I have 25 cops and 3 helis on my roof.
Is that what as an alibi?
Ballant can go outside between 1 pm and 3 pm...
and from nine to six for his job. He's a bouncer.
And yesterday? -He was home all night.
He didn't poison her. -Unfortunately.
Sucks. He was a perfect suspect. -What about the search on her?
Nothing. Just bachelorette apartment.
Check her PC, her bills and phone calls. With Daphne and Morgane.
Morgana? He suddenly had to leave.
Bye, Mom.
Bye, honey. -I need to talk to you.
And? Is your new job going well? -Yes.
Do they pay you for that secretarial training?
Mom, I'm a consultant. I already told you that.
Oh yes, consultant.
Cookies? -No thanks.
Well, if you only feel useful, that's what it's about.
What do you mean? -Nothing. But...
You in the police, admit it that it doesn't really speak for itself.
They wanted me.
In return, they investigate Romain.
Are you still working on that?
Look, this has been found.
I've had it all. Leave us alone.
Agnès, we're leaving. And then you'll never see Morgane again.
Do you hear me?
That was just before he disappeared. What happened?
What happened? I do not know? You never called me back.
I hadn't heard anything for months. Romain did everything to alienate us.
Stop it, that has nothing to do with him.
Honey, when I heard you were pregnant...
I wanted to see you. I had to are there for you and your child, right?
Is that why you had a fight? Because you wanted to see me?
It's not fun, but the simplest explanation is often the best.
Romain left you.
Men are very good at that, believe me.
Thea, can you help?
I was thinking, Eliott. That Albert of yours knows quite a lot.
What does he know about Fanny Marini? -Albert, who is Fanny Marini?
Doctor Fanny Marini, veterinary clinic in Lille. Do you want an appointment?
No, thank you, Albert. Are you pooped? -I do not understand your question.
Wait. You don't understand him. Albert, do you have any information?
Peak hours: 4 p.m. Average review rating: 2.7/5.
Not really a high mark for such a dedicated someone. Isn't that crazy?
Then who is that? -My new corpse.
Those reviews are really bad. -Look.
If you sort by date you will see that which is only half a year ago.
She scored very well for that. -Well spotted.
No.
Maybe she has something on her mind? -In fact: A photo. Look.
Send that slut?
She was made cold the day before yesterday. I want to know if you're the culprit.
You are insane. -Wait.
One of the reviews is from one Dark Lord of Cthulhu who is furious with her.
'A disgrace to her profession. Better to work in the slaughterhouse.'
And look at the picture with that avatar.
Isn't that by chance the shop window of your business?
Tell, Dark Lord of Cthulhu...
what did she do to you?
She killed my tarantula.
Clémentine, a blue tarantula. -What a sweetheart. What happened?
I went to Marini because she had mold.
But what a nonsense. Clementine did not survive the investigation.
Tarantulas are vulnerable. If you handles them wrong, they fail.
I went to get her and then she had her burned due to contamination.
I couldn't even bury her. -So pack her back?
Only on the internet, nothing more. -No more?
I followed her once to scare her.
Yes, Celine? -Let's hear how it goes.
Daphné has her bank account sniffed out and there's something weird.
She often had sushi delivered to a different flat than her tax address.
I'll take a discreet look. -With Morgane?
Did I say discreet?
And it's just as nice and quiet.
Julie Lescaut. Come here.
It's me. -What are you doing here?
To post. She had another address, look.
That's Clémentine, a tarantula that Fanny killed.
Her owner was disappointed and followed her to puncture her tires.
He saw her go into that flat.
Shall we post together? -What?
Look, I got beer. -That's not smart, Morgane.
314b. The concierge knows about it.
Go ahead.
Thank you. Morgan, wait. Secure first.
Come on, Morgan.
What? -She had a stock of animals here.
Hey, I know you.
Hi, Clementine. How happy Mr. Cthulhu will be.
Our dedicated vet dealt in animals.
They are codes.
Animal, price, delivery date, customer.
Or: Animal, rate, delivery date, accomplice.
Lots of accomplices then. I think she worked alone.
She stole for more than 30,000 euros to its customers' animals.
She said they were dead and sold them.
Those bad reviews started a half years back. Maybe she was then too.
Because she needed a lot of money.
I think I get it. Those are not customers. There she agreed:
LGP: Lille Grand Palais. WHV: Wasquehal Hotel de Ville.
Metro stations. -But what was that money for?
To buy a house. That is such a brokerage board. Nordic Immo.
There was also a pen like that in her lab.
With brokerage Nordic Immo. -Commander Karadec, detective.
It is a potential customer Fanny Marini. Fanny with twice N.
I see if I have a viewfinder under that name. moment.
One steak, red, for madam and something dark with grain for sir.
With mineral water including straw.
The broker checks if she is in his file.
Stop. Oh dear. -moment. Excuse.
It'll be fine. -Not at all.
Hey? -I'm listening.
I have her file. -What was she looking for?
That rare beautiful house with garden. -Did you like that?
Yes, she had just signed. An old farmhouse in Bondues.
Half an hour trains from the center. Under six tons. Ready to move in.
That garden did it for him. There were not the only ones, but she paid cash.
'They'? -She and her partner.
According to Camille Duez, she didn't have a guy. -Was it a couple? Did she have a husband?
I haven't met him, but yes. -Thank you. Good day.
You're welcome.
Is that necessary now?
"That garden did it." That's what he said, right?
Camellias. -Which camellias? What now?
Fanny's man is a woman.
You weren't quite honest with us.
I didn't immediately realize what was happening to me.
It didn't go well with Paul, but I had never felt anything for a woman.
In the beginning I thought that it just clicked really well.
And one night...
I believe that...
It surprised us both.
And you decided to leave your husband for Fanny?
Not right away, because of Mael. It clicked good between him and Fanny...
but I didn't want to divorce right away.
And then Fanny got an inheritance. An aunt had left her everything.
She said we could have a nice house buy from a good school for Maël.
That was the sign for me.
What? -There was no inheritance.
Well...
Fanny lied. She started in animals act to buy that house.
Why would she make that up?
She wanted to live with you, if necessary by embellishing everything.
Did your husband know about your relationship with Fanny?
Yes, he had searched my messages.
Hello, Mr. Duez.
I want to go over a few things with you.
You knew your wife was in a relationship with Fanny? Camille wanted to leave you.
She hadn't. -Well, that could have been.
I didn't realize right away that I could lose her.
At first she was just the yoga friend but she became more and more present.
Mr. Duez, have you searched her phone?
Yes, but I didn't do anything.
I must ask you to come with me. -My son is coming soon, with all his friends.
Please.
Will you take Mael home? -Okay, boss.
Hi. Mael. So you're the new Teddy Riner?
I do karate, not judo. -That's true.
But I did get my band.
Where is Daddy?
He had to go, but I had to say that he is proud of you.
Do you want to see him? -What?
My band. -Of course.
Cool. -The blue one.
The blue one. A great blue belt.
Where was: You Tuesday night between six and eight o'clock?
Tuesday?
Along the Deule. Then I was running.
Witnesses? -I can't remember.
We found some things with you.
Do you recognize this amphibian guide? -Fanny gave it to my son.
That's the same frog that made Fanny suffered a cardiac arrest in her practice.
Pretty coincidental, right? we go everything gaan combing for DNA.
If you confess now, that matters to your trial.
Well, it was worth trying.
I wanted to save my marriage.
I was going to lose everything. My wife, my son.
And then I thought to myself...
That it would be better if she was gone?
Yes.
That was the officer. Paul Duez becomes presented tomorrow. Good job.
You should especially congratulate Gilles. -We've all done it.
Not too fast. Though my contribution was of course decisive.
But every link in the chain is equally important.
I'm going, folks. Good evening. -See you tomorrow, Celine.
I am going as well. -Aren't we going to celebrate then?
Will you give a round? -Yes that is good.
That moment that made the difference. It was like a western.
Are you coming along? -No, not this switch for a while.
No, this report must be finished.
But have fun. Drink one on me.
I think I know what's bothering you.
Do you also think that Paul Duez confessed very quickly?
No, I'm not sleeping because I'm wondering...
why Fanny had a picture of Maël before their acquaintance.
What?
Camille says they knew each other for two years.
But in this photo, Maël is wearing the yellow belt.
But when we arrested his father at the dojo, he had the blue belt.
In karate, the order is yellow, orange, green, blue, brown, black.
And those children achieve at most one new band per year.
And from yellow to orange, green, blue that's four years.
Why did she have this picture? She didn't know them then.
Has Fanny de Duez been spying for two years before she met Camille at yoga?
Exactly. That is the question.
All right, I'm leaving. -Where are you going?
I do have a life. -Yes but...
Come on, poopie.
Come on.
I'm hungry. -First your sister.
Then we get a burger. Come on, girl.
Is that your corpse? That vet?
Also dead because her mother didn't feed her?
Thea, come on. First you whine for years if you can go to bed later...
and now you're whining because we don't eat until eight thirty?
Eliott?
That's Loic Ballant.
Armed robbery of a gas pump. It was in all the papers.
A young woman was involved.
This is not the Drive. -Yes, why are we stopping?
I'll be right back.
What's that supposed to do?
Why didn't you say that Fanny too was in that armed robbery?
I do not know you. Get out.
She was underage. She had at most got three years. And you seven.
Why didn't you rat on her? -You don't know what you're talking about. Away.
Were you so in love with her? -Of course. Gone or your teeth will die.
She was pregnant.
I need to build a portfolio, so i'm doing a friend's flat now.
Indus style with warm organic materials. Leather, skins...
I love Indus leather.
Indus leather. -That's a little cowboy.
Cowboy? Let's stop to talk and go to your house.
And then eat? -Exactly.
Finally, I rattle. -What are you doing here?
We're right next to it. -How so?
Who are you? -His wife.
Didn't he tell you that? We search him for three days. Terrified.
No, kid.
Tell me, where do you know each other from?
A dating site.
Just stop it. He got so much anesthetic in his ass yesterday.
It gets nothing done. -Alvaro...
But we were right next to it.
Fanny wasn't about Camille, it was about Maël.
I looked up Ballant. They did that robbery together 12 years ago.
He covered her. And then some, he folds his hands like this.
Right thumb over left thumb. So.
That rarely happens. Seventy percent do it the other way around.
Damn. -Sharp.
Who eats this now? -Indians.
Just try. Fold your hands. Go.
Left thumb over right thumb.
And Loïc does it exactly the other way around. He does it like that.
Just like Mael. And that's genetic.
So you say that Mael...
The biological child belongs to Fanny and Loïc.
Can we order extra? we die of hunger. A little bit of everything?
Sir? Can we do the same again? Plus a beer, please.
Fanny was pregnant when Loïc became arrested. She was still a minor.
Her parents forced her to give up the child.
She had no choice.
Later she went looking for her son.
And she found him.
That's how she came into your life.
But Fanny hadn't foreseen...
that you got feelings for her.
But she couldn't go back.
Then she couldn't have her son anymore see. So she played the game.
Until you found out the truth.
I have no idea what you're talking about. -Your husband confessed.
He gets twenty to thirty years.
A high price for a murder which he did not commit.
Can you live with that?
The perfect man doesn't exist, but this one loves you.
You know what he did when we showed him this?
He confessed. Straight away. To protect you.
When Fanny and Loïc were arguing in practice...
I was there.
I came to pick up Mael.
He screamed that she had betrayed him. That he'd wasted his life for her.
I was just about to intervene when he said...
He said: How could you give them to our child?
Then I understood it all.
Why she wanted to live together so badly.
As she talked about me as a mother, like that was the most beautiful thing there is.
Did you feel betrayed, manipulated by her?
I always wondered if his biological mother would be a better mother.
If he would love her more than me.
Like she always had something more than me. Something...
Something I would never have.
I kept thinking it was an idiot was to torture myself like that.
And then I found out it was true.
Do you know what my son said? He always said that he wanted to be a veterinarian.
Just like them.
She was going to take him away from me.
Sorry.
Maybe we should have let it go.
Let an innocent rot in prison?
Welcome to this profession.
One thing I don't understand, Morgane.
How did you get Loïc Ballant this far that he told you?
We struck a chord.
Yes, a deal.
What kind of deal? -I'm not going to tell you all my tricks.
I heard you like superheroes. So I brought this for you.
Please.
It is the story of the Black Phoenix and the X-Men.
I read it when I was your age if you and i loved it.
Sorry I scared you last time.
When I argued with Fanny.
Did you like her, Fanny?
Me too.
Mael, are you coming?
Thanks for that cartoon.
See you.
The description is correct and so are the dates. -Dec 2005.
Within.
Well? I'm making progress huh? -Very well.
We have to talk.
Are you firing me already? -Morgana...
Sit down.
In December 2005 in Dunkirk found a dead young man.
In her twenties, brown hair, six feet.
It had a medical cause. Aneurysm rupture.
So?
He was not identified at the time...
but the physical description is exactly right.
I do not understand.
We think it could be Romain.
No.
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