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HEAVY FOOTSTEPS PANICKED MAN, SPEAKING FARSI

. . .

SOBBING

17*: Hello, Police Emergency Services SHARIAR: Ma'am! Police! * FRENCH 911 FOR POLICE

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hINCOMING CALL

17: I need your address!

SHOUTS IN FARSI

Sir, do you speak French?

. . .

17: Sir- POUNDING DOOR

Hello? Sir?

Hello? Sir, what kind of support do you want?

SOBBING

MUTTERING

SOBBING, SPEAKING FARSI

. . .

I must not be late, I must not be late, I must not be late.

- Wait, I don't understand, late for what?

- For the social skills workshop. - There's no workshop today, is there?

- Yes, William agreed to organize the meeting

with Niels Langlais and his uncle, at the workshop today at 3 pm.

I didn't want this to happen at home.

- Oh yes, Niels-- Anne Langlais' son. Did you choose to finally meet him?

- I did not choose. I promised Anne Langlais.

- You're OK, not too anxious? - I don't know. I promised.

- We can promise and still be anxious.

- I don't understand why she wants me to meet him.

- He's your little brother. - Niels is my half-brother,

we have no memories in common.

We only share a biological bond. I don't understand

why Anne Langlais wants us to meet. SIREN

. . .

POLICE RADIO

NICOLAS: Hi. - Hi.

- Same top as yesterday.

- Hello, Captain Perran. - Hello, Astrid.

- No, I didn't stay out all night, if you want to know. I just moved.

- Fifteen days ago. - Thank you, Astrid.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Thanks, Astrid.\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h - You're welcome. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hIs this how we're \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hspending the day,

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- ...or?\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- The victim's name is \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hShariar Mousavi, in his fifties.

Of Iranian origin. Last night he called the police for help.

RECORDING OF 17 CALL - Too loud.

- Sorry.

. . .

- He sounds terrified. Do we know what he's saying?

- He's saying they want to kill him. - He identified the attacker?

- That's where it gets complicated.

According to the translator, he spoke of an 'ifrit.'

- 'Ifrit'? What's an 'ifrit'? - A djinn.

- A djinn? A genie? The thing that comes out of the lamp and grants wishes?

LAUGHS Is this a joke?

- An evil version, yeah.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hCOUGHS

In Persian culture, an ifrit is considered a being of fire.

- A being of fire. All right.

- A being of fire.

FOURNIER: Hello, Captain; hello, Commander.

- It's strange, ridiculous; it seems like the...

- Yes, that the fire left the victim's body.

- Hello, Dr Fournier. - Hello, Astrid.

It looks like a case of spontaneous combustion.

- No, there's no such thing as spontaneous combustion, Fournier.

I know that.

Do you have another explanation? - Yes.

- Of course...

- 'Wick effect.'

- Yes, 'wick effect' is a phenomenon by which body fat is soaked up by clothes.

Slowly but surely.

ASTRID: There you go.

I have handled several criminal files on this type of case.

- It especially affects alcoholic homeless people who,

unconscious, drop their cigarette butts and don't wake up.

Yes, Captain, that's a problem-- we're going to have problems.

"Primo," the victim lived in an apartment

that was not really unsanitary.

Second-o, he was Muslim, so he didn't drink.

- Is there a 'three-o'? - A third. And it's not me:

no trace has been found of anything that lit the 'fuse.'

The fire must've started somewhere. Well,

there's no cigarette butt, no lighter, no faulty connection

causing a short circuit, nothing. Nothing.

Your wick effect, Astrid, I don't know.

- This letter. It is folded as if it was in this envelope.

But there's nothing written on it.

- Don't tell me you don't know the principle of invisible ink, Astrid?

Excuse me. - ANNOYED Yes-!

- It's as old as the world.

Pliny the Elder described the process in the first century BC.

It's very simple. We write a message in lemon,

invisible at room temperature.

To see the message,

all you need to do...

is approach it with...

a source of heat.

- There is nothing.

- Nothing at all.

- Yeah, then it may be a blank piece of paper.

RAPHELLE CLEARS THROAT

But-- it works.

NORAH: Victim's library is interesting.

Rumi, Hafez, Ghazali... - Naturally. Iran: poetry. CHUCKLES

- So? Are you playing 'Pyramid'? - In one brick: Spirituality.

- 'Spirituality'... Sufism! - You have any stuff otherwise?

I found out about Shariar Moussavy.

He was a shepherd in the mountains of southern Iran.

But he left the country and applied for asylum in France.

- Because he was a Sufi, I imagine. Sufism is a very spiritual branch of Islam.

The authorities persecute them because their practices aren't really consistent.

- And what can you tell me about Mousavi?

- Listen, he's...Mr Perfect.

The neighbors speak of a discreet man,

always ready to help. - What did he do for a living?

- He worked at Emmaus.* The only thing he * SOCIAL SERVICES CHARITY GROUP

did for himself was go to the swimming pool 3 times a week.

A veritable passion.

People there remember the day he learned to swim.

- At age 50, can you imagine?

A mountain shepherd in his underwear at the municipal pool.

- Everyone we interviewed said the same thing: why someone want to kill him?

- He has a daughter. She's traveling and hasn't been questioned.

She may not even know her father is dead. - Do we know where to find her?

- Yes. apparently she is very active

in the Sufi community in the Paris region.

- She's going to fall down. - (Shh!)

- (She's going to fall down.) - (No, Astrid, she's not going to fall.)

- (Yes.)

(Spinning like that will disrupt her inner ear

and cause positional vertigo.)

(She's going to fall down.)

- Hello, um... Police. We would like to speak to Donya Mousavi.

RAPHAELLE: Thank you.

- ((Donya,

the police want to see you.))

- Donya Mousavi? - Yes.

- W- Well done!\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h

DONYA: Thanks. You wanted to talk to me?

- Yes, uh... Are you Iranian?

- Yes. - Yes--

I see you're very active in the Turkish community.

There's no Iranian Sufi community in Paris? - Of course, yes,

but there are no whirling dervishes in Iran.

This has become a very important element of my practice.

- (I see.) And you came here with your father, right?

DONYA: Yes. When I left Iran with my father,

we were stuck in Turkey for several months.

Sufis took us in.

We had little money and we were at the mercy of smugglers.

Why are you asking?

- How long has it been since you spoke to your father?

- Um... a week, why? Is he all right? ASTRID: Uh-uhh,

he is not alright.

ASTRID: He is dead.

RAPHAELLE: I'm sorry.

We believe he was... he was killed.

GASPING

Yes...

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h. . .

MEDICAL EXAMINER

Right, Fournier,

according to his daughter he had no enemies.

I hope you have something new for us, because we have nothing.

We'll end up believing your spontaneous combustion idea.

- Combustion, certainly. But spontaneous, no.

He was drugged.

High dose of tropane alkaloids--

scopolamine and hyoscyamine.

- Thank you. These are the chemical components of belladonna.

- Oh, well that would be helpful to us, but belladonna is rare around here.

I'm leaning more to Datura stramonium.

It’s everywhere, and it's a guaranteed hallucinogen.

- That's why he didn't move an inch while he was burning?

- Absolutely. If you still doubt it, Commander, we're facing a murder,

and a rather sophisticated one.

The person who made the Datura knew how to dose.

ASTRID: Hmm. MOBILE VIBRATES

MOBILE VIBRATES

- Yeah?

RAPHAELLE: OK. Thanks, Nico. Right!

Apparently there's a person who shows up regularly in Shariar’s calendar:

a shrink. Shall we pay her a little visit, Astrid?

- Mm-mmm, it's 2:31 pm.

- Yes...?

- I'm not going to be late, I mustn't be late.

- Oh, that's right, your date! Sorry. You'll tell me about it?

- Yes. This evening. - This evening?

- Raphaelle... - Yes?

- It is Monday.

- Monday! Of course! We're having dinner.

Uh, yes, well, tonight-

- That's all, goodbye. - Ah huh. See you this evening, Astrid.

FOURNIER: Oh, well. RAPHAELLE SIGHS

- Already Monday. The week goes by quickly.

- Right, I'm off.

- Well, have a good rest of the day then.

KNOCKS DR NAJAFI: Come in.

Welcome!

- No, there is a mistake. I've not come to consult.

- Because you don't need it?

- I'm with the Crime Squad. - Interesting.

And how can I help you?

Your nameplate indicates that you are an ethnopsychologist.

- That's right.

- Do you know what an ifrit is?

- In Iranian popular belief, an ifrit is an evil genie--

a very evil genie.

In the Koran, he sought to burn the prophet Mohammed.

In the Arabian Nights, he is bloodthirsty with two young lovers.

- If a man believes he is being chased by an ifrit, what do you think it means?

- He feels guilty about something, undoubtedly.

The ifrit is a genie reputedly born in the blood of murder.

But in psychoanalysis, the guilt is symbolic.

It can be linked to an impulse.

We are all subject to our impulses, isn't that so Commander?

- Your daughter? - Why are you avoiding my questions?

- Because it's me who asks them.

- She's a friend.

- You have a patient named Shariar Mousavi?

- My patients appreciate my discretion.

Mr Mousavi was murdered.

Did he seem anxious lately?

- We rarely see a psychologist when everything is going well.

- If you have any information to give us to help our investigation-

- I am bound by secrecy, but

rest assured that I will not hide anything that could be useful to your investigation.

- Thank you, Ms Najafi.

Goodbye.

SMALL COUGH

CHARLES: What are you working on at the moment?

- Spontaneous combustion.

- Pardon ?

- Spontaneous combustion. A man was burned to death.

- Miss Nillsen, I don't know if it's

appropriate to talk about this in front of a child.

- Oh? - It could scare him.

- That would have no rational reason.

This kind of phenomenon never happens without reasons.

There is something discordant, it seems to indicate it is a murder.

NIELS: Are you going to put the guilty person in prison?

ASTRID: You must first identify them.

What's more strange, there was a letter next to the charred corpse.

Only... nothing was written on it.

WILLIAM: Excuse me... uh,

Astrid, we have ice cream in the freezer, if you need...

- Yes?\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h

- Oh, that's a very good idea, yes yes.

This could help start a dialogue between you.

ASTRID: An ice cream.

For us to dialogue.

Raphaëlle eats ice cream to think.

Niels. Maybe you like talking about ice cream?

- No, but he likes to eat it. It's a starting point!

- A pistachio ice cream. Two scoops in a cup,

on a cone it can fall.

- Is mom going to get out of prison soon?

- Anne Langlais committed murder.

She has a sentence of up to 30 years in prison. Thirty years is not soon.

WILLIAM: And here you go!

Here. - Thank you, sir.

- You're welcome.

Excuse me, there was more pistachio ice cream.

- In a cone, it can fall. - Oh. Yes, it's true, it can fall.

- Thank you, William.

- She does this often.

You'll see, we get used to it.

NICOLAS: The psychologist said it:

dreaming of an ifrit doesn't mean you killed someone.

We all have impulses.

Right?

- Listen, Nico, if you have something to tell me, tell me.

Let's not beat around the bush. - No, but-

- Yes, I went out with a guy. Yes, a very pretty boy, I grant you.

- Yeah- - Don't lecture me,

I saw you kiss Emma, OK?

- Are you kidding?

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hThat has nothing \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto do with it.

- Nothing to do with it?

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- No, nothing.

- Yes it does, it has everything to do with it.

ASTRID: The letter. The letter.

{\an1 }\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- You want to \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hexplain why-

RAPHAELLE: Everything to do with it!

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- (Shh!)

- The letter. - Huh?

- I need the letter found near the corpse, please. The letter.

- I'll get it for you? - Yes.

- Captain Perran was right. Only, he made a mistake,

he mustn't make a mistake.

You should not put bananas in the fridge, it will damage them.

RAPHAELLE: Enough, my mother told me that, yes.

- What's going on?

- It is indeed the principle of invisible ink we must apply,

only, it must be applied in reverse.

Normally, heat makes the message appear.

But here, heat makes the message disappear.

I think what makes it appear is cold.

- Okay...

RAPHAELLE: "Wow"!

- "You will pay for the blood you have shed." It's in Farsi.

CARL: Was this revenge? - It looks like it.

The ifrit born in the blood of murder, and now

this letter about blood that the victim has shed.

Mr. Perfect seems to have a permanent stain in his past that

someone wants to remind him of.

- We received Shariar Mousavi's record in Iran.

There's nothing to declare, he's as white as snow.

- Well, he deceived his people.

Like hiding Mr Hyde behind Dr Jekyll.

- I suggest that we regroup tomorrow, I have someone who can give us more.

♪ CELLO SUITE No.1 IN G BY BACH ♪

- So, Astrid--

how did the meeting with Niels go?

- Well I think...

it was during this meeting...

that I understood the mystery of the letter.

I also found a criminal file

concerning the sinking of an inflatable boat

carrying migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.

- You need a place where you can sit. There!

I don't understand, what is this file?

- An investigation was opened to determine whether the crew who rescued them

was complicit with the smugglers.

Shariar Mousavi and his daughter Donya were among the passengers.

OVEN TIMER

- Oh! I'll be back.

GASPS\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h

Yeah... Keep going, Astrid.

Be careful, it's hot.

Hup!

Ta-da!

So, show me this.

OK...

Oh!

Listen to this:

The captain testified that one of the passengers had not been able to escape,

and who was obviously already dead when they arrived. Interesting.

Aren't you hungry?

- You brought the dish... with panties.

- Yes. They're clean. - All right.

SIGHS,\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h CLEARS\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h THROAT\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h

There is no cutlery, nor plates.

- I didn't find the box with the dishes. I'm sorry, Astrid.

I promise you, next time we’ll be back to usual,

but it's a bit complicated. - A- all right.

- What if we contacted OFPRA?

- The French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons

the organization supporting migrants in their asylum application.

- Exactly. We might just be able to find passengers

from the boat with Shariar and his daughter, right?

- Yes it's a good idea, Raphaelle. - Thanks.

- You absolutely don't know how to tidy up, but you have good ideas.

OFPRA AGENT: When migrants arrive, they have to pass through us.

We look for an appropriate translator,

fill out forms, and we take their statements.

- A boat with Iranian refugees, rescued 4 years ago, do you remember that?

- June 17, 2018.

- Do you know how many boats cross the Mediterranean each year?

- We would need access to your archives.

- Let's say that our file mainly consists of information related to

asylum seekers and their administrative situation.

- Wait, don't you record the information when they arrive?

- Yes, we have something, yes, we make audio recordings of the testimonies,

which we keep as documentary value.

But they aren't transcribed.

It's like a needle in a haystack. ASTRID AMUSED

If you want I can send you the link to connect to our server.

- Yes. Raphaelle, I can take care of it.

I'll let you know if I find the needle in the haystack.

- Obviously. Thank you. - I'll leave you then, good day.

- Don't forget the link. OFPRA AGENT: All right.

- 'All right.'

- Commander? Hold on!

Forensics recovered fibers from the victim's body.

The shirt was coated with potassium permanganate.

- And does it burn? - That's what's great: on its own, no.

But mixed with glycerol,

it creates a chemical reaction which ignites slowly.

- Yeah, his t- shirt was full of glycerol. That's super elaborate.

So: they drug him so that he's unconscious,

then they soak his t-shirt with- - Potassium permanganate.

- ...and his shirt with another substance, both together catch fire, is that right?

- Almost.

It wasn't his shirt.

We found glycerol on Mousavi, but not a trace of permanganate.

However, when we searched the apartment, we found this.

- Wait, you're telling me someone deliberately stained his shirt with coffee

so that he put another one full of permanganate?

OK; and you told me it has a delayed effect.

When'd he change his shirt?

- About 1 hour before catching fire. RAPHAELLE: Where was he?

- In a VTC.* * TOURIST CAR SERVICE

- Why're you smiling like that? It's good news he was in a VTC?

- Yes, it's good news, because I have the race information:

the driver is a woman and she's Iranian.

NICOLAS: It's good news.

TESTIMONY

WITNESS SPEAKING

TRANSLATOR: At the border, we waited until nightfall. We sank.

Border guards... shot at us.

We didn't see them coming,

like the birds that attacked Sinbad.

- Good morning! JASMINE: Hello, settle in, welcome.

You can have snacks or bottles of water in the armrest.

- Oh! I'd die for a coffee.

- At your service!

- Thanks. Ah...

Mmm! It's good coffee, what's in it?

- Cardamom. - Oh yeah?

- A recipe from home.

- Where's your home? - Tabriz, Iran.

- Uh huh.

Sweet. Your car is perfect.

Do you clean it often?

- I want to take care of my customers.

- Mine isn't like this. It's a mess!

It looks like you cleaned it yesterday.

- Excuse me. RAPHAELLE: Hmm?

- That reminds me of the political police back home:

asking questions like that, that seem like nothing

- I'm just curious.

- Should I drop you off at Rue Servan? - At 54, please.

- According to Forensics, the Datura was in his cup of tea.

- Someone came to his house. - Likely, but there was no break-in.

NICOLAS: Maybe it was someone who had the keys.

- Wait.

"Bingo." Look at that.

- Hmm... maybe modeling clay. They had the key copied.

Yeah, that's how the murderer got his keys.

NICOLAS: Where are you going?

- I'm going to check something.

- Norah? I was wondering,

How did you manage to order me the same VTC as Shariar?

- A hacker never reveals her secrets. - Where are you going ?

- I'll know when I find it!

- Hmm.\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h

- You did the right thing asking her to stay with us.

She's, well, she's lively, she's cultured, she's...

- 'Hot'?

- What? Yes, no... - Anyway...

What did you find on the VTC driver? - Jasmine Farahani,

she's 38, came to France 8 years ago.

I'll keep digging. What did you find about her car?

- She serves coffee to her customers;

she recently cleaned her seats; she comes from Tabriz.

- Tabriz? RAPHAELLE: Mm-hmm.

- Tabriz...

NICOLAS: Pretty far from where Shariar lived.

RAPHAELLE: It's a long way.

- There's no proof they met in France other than in the taxi.

The Commissioner will tell us it's chance.

- Or destiny.

MIGRANT ON RECORDING

TRANSLATOR: There were 2 sharks. One of them grabbed my son.

I held onto him so hard.

I would have given my arm to the sharks so that it would let go.

DONYA: Without my father,

RECORDING

I would never have had the courage to go through all this suffering.

Luckily my faith is higher than mountains.

I loved him so much.

I loved him so...

I loved him so much.

- Astrid? - Yes.

- Nicolas has the list of people who had access to the permanganate.

- Of potassium. - Exactly.

Regardless, there are no Iranian names in the lot.

We'll check each name. We'll see

if we find a link with Shariar Mousavi.

And you? Did you find anything in the archives?

- Yes. I identified the dead passenger on the inflatable boat.

- That's great!

- Shariar Mousavi.

- That's not possible, because... - Yes.

The man who died yesterday can not be Shariar Mousavi,

because Shariar Mousavi died on an inflatable boat in 2018.

- The victim is not Shariar Mousavi? - That's right.

- Identity theft is facilitated in exile situations,

the civil status of refugees and those who left their country for political reasons

are sometimes difficult to trace.

There are several criminal files on similar cases, I know the files.

- There's at least one person who knew he wasn't him.

- You think the real Shariar's daughter killed the fake one

because she found out he stole her father's identity?

All she had to do was report him.

- Perhaps she was under his influence, and she was trying to get away.

That would explain why she joined a Turkish community and not an Iranian one.

- In order to hide. CARL: The letter...

"You will pay for the blood you have shed."

She wanted to avenge her father?

- Ms Mousavi, your father died 4 years ago.

Why did you lie? RAPHAELLE: We know everything.

Who took your father's place?

Who died the day before yesterday?

- It's true.

It's true! He wasn't my father.

But he acted like a father to me.

For 4 years, he supported me. He protected me.

- It's no longer worth lying now.

He asked you to keep his true identity a secret?

- No.

It was my father who asked me. Before he died.

- Uh, I don't understand.

Why would your father ask you to cover up for the man who murdered him?

- My father was not murdered. The reality is more banal.

He died of exhaustion...

on the boat that brought us to Europe.

But he believed in redemption. And on the road to exile,

Bahram led an exemplary path of redemption.

- Who?

- 'Bahram Kazemi.' - All right.

So the man who died the day before yesterday was called Bahram Kazemi.

- We met on the road to exile.

By walking together,

he and my father had become very close friends.

The border had been abolished between the executioner and his victim.

- The executioner and his victim?

- Bahram Kazemi was a Revolutionary Guard.

- We go from the perfect man to a bloodthirsty monster.

- Bahram Kazemi, Revolutionary Guard.

Disappeared 5 years ago, allegedly murdered by the opposition.

In reality, he had deserted.

He was in a tricky position...

If his identity was discovered, he would lose his right to asylum.

- In Iran, he risked being lynched by the people,

or executed by the regime for treason.

- In the meantime, there's one who didn't tell us the whole truth,

and who knew who he was.

- Are you sure of what you're doing?

- I'm wary of this woman.

Astrid will be more effective than me on this one.

- OK.

- Ms Najafi- - Yes, I knew the real identity

of Shariar Mousavi.

- Oh. All right.

- Why didn't you tell Cmdr Coste?

- The ethics of my profession are particularly important to me.

What my patients tell me is precious to me.

Otherwise the whole process is called into question.

- Mm-mmm. You are an ethnopsychologist,

which means you are not a doctor.

Therefore, you are not subject to medical confidentiality

according to article 226-13 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

- Do you believe that men can change,

miss? Deep down?

- I do not understand the question.

- In my office I've seen profound changes made to people, thanks to words.

Bahram Kazemi had changed. The monster inside him was dead.

The vestige of his monstrosity was the guilt he carried.

It prevented him from truly living.

It's ironic that Bahram chose the pseudonym 'Shariar,'

the bloodthirsty king from Scheherazade.

If anyone has never felt remorse, it was him.

- Mr Kazemi didn't choose. He simply assumed the identity

of Dounya Mousavi's father, Shariar Mousavi.

Did Mr Kazemi tell you about

anyone who discovered his identity?

- Mr Kazemi was pursued more by his own ghosts, miss.

- You answer questions that I don't ask you,

but you don't answer the questions I do ask you.

- I mean that the ghosts,

the djinns, and the ifrits,

are only the embodiment of the weight of his guilt.

And Bahram had guilt in spades.

- "Catharsis and Purification of Trauma.'

When I don't understand something, I just ride it out for the best.

- No, it's the title of the speech

that Marjane Najafi gave when Bahram Kazami died.

Everyone in the community talked about it with enthusiasm.

She wouldn't hurt a hair on his head,

there are hundreds of witnesses.

On the other had, I found something on your VTC driver.

- Jasmine Farahani. - That's her.

- Astrid.

She was a lawyer in Iran? - Her final case was defending

an opponent of the regime, who was sentenced to death.

She opposed the sentence and denounced the trial as a sham.

- Wait, she was sentenced to 50 lashes? It's the Middle Ages!

- Guess who held the whip?

- Bahram Kazemi. - Exactly.

- Imagine what she must have felt when she recognized her tormentor.

- Mm-mmm.

- Well, we summon her immediately.

- Something that will interest you. Come see!

I got the CCTV from the swimming pool that the victim frequented.

Hup...

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hSPEED : :

NORAH: There. We clearly see Kazemi arriving.

NORAH: A woman seems to be following him.

NORAH: I'll skip forward a little...

NORAH: The woman comes out soon.

She only stayed 10 minutes.

Time to make a duplicate of Shariar's key.

His locker was broken into.

- I'll summon Jasmine Farahani. - RAPHAELLE: Yeah.

- Mm-mmm, Capt. Perran. It's not Jasmine Farahani.

- No, not at all. Her name is Mashid Hatani.

She was identified by her transit card. She's coming in.

- Ms Hatani, what were you doing at the Duras pool ten days ago?

- I was going to swim, but I forgot my cap.

- 'Shariar Mousavi.' Do you recognize him? - Not at all.

- And Bahram Kazemi? MASHID: 'Bahram Kazemi'?

- Yes.

- He killed my father 8 years ago.

My mother and I had to flee and leave everything we had.

Why these questions?

- Do you know where he is?

- In Iran, I suppose, where he lives protected by the regime.

- Mm-mmm. No. He's here, in Paris.

- I fled Iran to never see him again.

- He got into your taxi.

- I doubt that. - The day before yesterday.

You didn't recognize him? - I don't know Bahram Kazemi's face.

Only my back saw him.

- He died the day before yesterday-- murdered.

- That's all he deserved.

- Why go swimming so far from home?

- I don't know. Was he murdered at the Duras pool?

- Answer me. Where were you on September 25 late in the afternoon?

- In my taxi, where did you want me to be?

- We'll check. - Be my guest.

RAPHAELLE: Jasmine has a motive

and no solid alibi. For me, she's guilty.

- Honestly, Mashid also has a fragile alibi,

unless we prove different, she's also a possibility.

- I know who had access to the permanganate.

- Jasmine. - Mashid.

- A Chloe Denecker. - Her link with Bahram Kazemi?

- He tortured and killed her fiancé 5 years ago. His name was Kamal Nawawi.

- Two days ago we had no suspects, now we have three. Let's go.

COPIER MECHANISM

NIELS: Astrid?

SIMON: Someone for you, Ms Nielsen.

- Oh!

- I'm really sorry, Ms Nielsen, but I'm taking my wife

to the hospital for tests, and I can't take Niels with us.

- Are you going to a department where children are not admitted?

- That's it. Can I entrust him to you?

A few hours? - Absolutely not.

Criminal Documentation is a police service, Niels is not authorized to stay here.

- With temporary authorization it's possible. I'll do that, Ms Nielsen.

- To be honest, I would've preferred to entrust him to someone else,

but it's not a bother-- it's Niels.

He's not easy, and...

he only wants to be with you.

- Don't thank me,

colleagues help each other out from time to time.

- Indeed, I- I won’t thank you.

- You'll come? Come on, man. I'll make you a special card.

Only senior police officers are entitled to it.

- So.

I work in this room.

You-- you stay here. - No: It says here I have to stay with you.

- 'He must always be in the presence of Astrid Nielsen.'

It is written.

In the room, you will have to take off your shoes.

Mm-mmm.

The cart, then me, then you.

LAUGHS QUIETLY

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- I like you.

- Oh.

- Grown-up people always lie.

You're the only grown-up who tells the truth all the time.

- I say how things are.

- I like people to say how things are.

- Your chatter is distracting me. I'm going to ask you to be quiet.

- That's not very nice. - I don't know,

I say how things are.

NIELS: What are you working on?

RAPHAELLE: No kidding?

He dropped off the little one with you? ASTRID: Yes.

- At Criminal Documentation? - Yes.

- And you accepted?

- He has written authorization.

In which it is specified that he must always be in my presence.

Only, I was so focused

that when I went to get my phone to call you, I forgot him.

He's in the paper room. Alone. - It doesn't matter,

I'll be there.

Did you find anything? - Nothing at the moment.

I have asked Capt. Perran for a copy of the current investigation file,

in order to compare the elements concerning the 3 suspects.

I thought this might help us

to identify which of the 3 is the culprit.

- Did you see ? It's prettier like this.

I did it like you with your clients. I sorted the papers by color.

- Astrid? What's going on ? - It's Niels.

- What about Niels? - He touched the files.

The files were in a line. He made a circle.

You must not touch the files.

- Are you... mad ?

Should I put everything back like before? - Do not touch.

Niels was thinking outside of the box.

- It doesn't matter,

Astrid, he's little, he didn't mean any harm.

- On the contrary, Raphaelle,

Niels went outside of the box, he had to go outside of the box.

The 3 suspects are the 3 culprits.

They killed him together.

- All 3 suspects are the perfect suspects because they are all guilty.

- Like 'Murder On The Orient Express'?

- But how are all three guilty? ASTRID: All three are guilty.

Jasmine Farahani, Mashid Hatani, and Chloé Denecker

joined together to kill Bahram Kazemi.

They carefully studied his daily life.

Chloe Denecker procured some potassium permanganate.

She soaked a shirt with it, which she gave

to Jasmine Farahani, the VTC driver.

RAPHAELLE: After following him to the pool to break into his locker,

Mashid made a duplicate of Bahram's keys to get into his house

and put drugs in his tea. ASTRID: Mashid has training

as a pharmacy technician.

Therefore she has the knowledge and skills to synthesize Datura stramonium.

RAPHAELLE: She procured glycerol and soaked the victim's t-shirts with it.

A flawless plan. ASTRID: The day he died,

Bahram Kazemi put on a t-shirt, then a shirt. Later in the day,

he went to the Turkish cultural center.

To get home, he called a VTC.

He was unaware that he was getting into the car of one of his victims,

Jasmine Farahani.

- Can I offer you some coffee? - Yes, please.

- She offers him a coffee-- as she offered to me, as she offers to all her customers--

and she makes sure that he stains his shirt.

TIRES SCREECH

- Um-- I'm sorry! - She offers him

a miraculous solution-- she offers him a shirt.

- Let me give you this.

- Thanks!

RAPHAELLE: But this shirt was soaked with, um, with-

- Potassium permanganate. - Presto, he puts it over the t-shirt

prepared by Chloe. - The murder weapon was ready.

RAPHAELLE: The countdown started.

The shirt in contact with the t- shirt causes a chemical reaction,

but an hour later. - During which time Bahram Kazemi

had time to make some tea, like every time he comes home.

RAPHAELLE: Uh, tea in which he didn't know there were drugs.

ASTRID: That's it. Thank you, Raphaëlle.

ASTRID: So, he drank the poisoned tea.

BAHRAM IN DISTRESS

ASTRID: The poison began to take effect. The chemical reaction has taken place.

SHOUTING IN FARSI

ASTRID: He lost consciousness.

ASTRID: And he burned up, slowly.

RAPHAELLE: It's not just the revenge of these 3 women,

it's revenge for all the victims.

- And how do you plan to prove all that exactly?

- Exactly, we can't really prove it.

- However, it is a rational explanation.

Come on, why make it so complicated?

Poisoning his tea was enough,

they just needed for him to go home.

- It was symbolic.

He had to be killed by all 3 of them. Each of them had to be a cog.

- These are just hypotheticals.

There isn't even proof that the 3 suspects know each other.

ASTRID: You have to find the link. RAPHAELLE: Hmm?

- We find the link, we find the key, we blow it open.

- Exactly.

Jasmine Farahani and Mashid Hatani did not enter France

on the same date. Nothing suggests they knew each other in Iran.

They lived in provinces very remote from each other.

And then you have Chloe Denecker,

she has never been in contact with the other two.

- Astrid... What if the key was 'someone'?

Someone who knew the victim's habits,

someone who knew he wore t-shirts under his shirts,

someone who knew he took a VTC to the Turkish center on Sundays?

- Shariar Mousavi's daughter, Donya Mousavi.

- No no, that doesn't work for me.

for a crime of this kind, it- it’s too elaborate, too symbolic.

Or maybe... it was someone he confided everything to.

- Yes. Marjane volunteered for a social center managed by OFPRA:

two days a week she provided psychological support for migrants.

- Our suspects went through this center?

- The 2 Iranian women, yes, but not on the same date.

That is why I had not identified this element

as a possible link between the two women.

Chloé Denecker led activities at this center.

She was therefore able to meet Marjane Najafi there. QUIET LAUGH

- It's the key. Yes, Astrid. - The link.

- The key is Marjane. - Mm-hmm.

- She didn't commit the murder, but she pushed them to do it.

A psychologist who encourages murder...

She'd need to have a good reason, right? - We'll find her.

- We found the link. LAUGHS QUIETLY

RAPHAELLE: Who's she?

- A young woman who recounted the atrocities

she experienced that forced her into exile

Marjane wrote the preface to her book. You know her ?

- I've already seen her photo. And not just anywhere.

- I pushed these women to kill their executioner? LAUGHS

Interesting theory, Commander, but

a psychologist only pushes to kill in symbolic ways.

- Symbolic, exactly, let's talk about that.

A man killed by fire...

like a purification of trauma? Right?

- Do you follow my lectures? - Mm-hmm.

When do you have time to write these lectures?

Your office almost never closes,

you volunteer a lot of your time to help migrants.

All this explains your burnout. - What burnout are you talking about?

- Oh, well the one which forced you to stop working for 6 months,

three years ago.

Unless...

Whether that break is linked to trauma?

The suicide of a patient? Hmm?

You wanted to save her, but her trauma was too deep.

RAPHAELLE: Her tormentor had destroyed her too much.

So, when you had him in front of you, you couldn't resist.

He had to pay.

- Those women suffered so much because of that scumbag.

- A scumbag who had chosen the path to redemption.

Isn’t that what you're looking for as a psychologist?

- I told him he had a choice,

to reach the end of his path he had to face his victims!

- Yeah. He refused? HANDCUFFS CLICK

- You don't know what it was like-- my god!

They didn't leave their suffering in Iran, they carry it with them!

- You pushed them into committing this murder.

- I have peace of mind, I'm the only one responsible!

- She's right.

If she hadn't intervened, hadn't felt all-powerful,

Bahram Kazemi wouldn't be dead. - Marjane Najafi did not kill him.

- Yeah, but it's because of her.

- Yes. And she will be condemned for it.

But it's Jasmine Farahani, Mashid Hatani, and Chloé Denecker

who killed him, together.

The crime was particularly elaborate,

which means it was premeditated.

These 3 women acted with full awareness

and the will to commit this crime.

And for that they will be condemned.

- Good work, Coste

It wasn't easy to establish guilt in this case.

- Thanks, Commissioner.

- You should have stayed out of it, Commander.

SOBBING (I'm sorry.) I'm really sorry!

- Come on, come on...

- Honestly, you made the right choice.

- I don't know.

- Raph', you're the best cop I know.

You're human, fair, committed.

Despite that, you still manage to maintain the right distance.

Raph'... It's not up to us to judge, it's up to justice.

Right? - Mm-hmm.

KNOCKING

- I am not expecting anyone.

There is no one.

KNOCKING

. . .

- I want to stay with you.