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ALARM CLOCK BEEPING

CLICKS OFF

HELENE: Philippe?

Philippe?

? SCREAMS

INDISTINCT VOICES

INDISTINCT VOICES

INDISTINCT VOICES

HELENE: Michel, what's happened? MICHEL: No Helene! Wait! Don't!

You don't want to see- Helene! - Let go of me!

MICHEL: Helene!

- Philippe! NO!

NO! SOBBING

DOORBELL

DOORBELL

CHARLES: I'm sorry. Niels, you coming?

IMMORTAL

I was distracted just for a second; when I turned around, he was gone.

It would be nice if you did not get distracted and Niels comes

to my house unexpectedly. I do not comprehend events that are unexpected.

NIELS: What does 'unexpected' mean? - It means it's a mistake, Niels.

- By no means.

It means an event that happens by surprise.

CHARLES: It's not done, even with your sister Ms Nielsen.

CHARLES: So what do you say to her?

- I will no longer come to your house unexpectedly, I promise.

- You have to put on shoes.

MOBILE VIBRATES

Goodbye. - Yes, uh, anyway...

this is funny in a way.

- I like things that are funny in a way. - Oh yeah?

In the meantime, your shoes. Let's go.

MOBILE VIBRATES

Raphaelle. - Astrid, we have an emergency.

RAPHAELLE: House after house-- it's stupid, they all look the same!

ASTRID: Absolutely not, they are not all alike. They are similar.

- It's just a way of speaking, Astrid. - Oh.

Well, saying 'they look alike' is a way of speaking, but not the right way.

- Fine, fine.

Is something wrong? - No--

I don't know how to handle the Niels-and-me situation.

- He still keeps coming to see you? - Yes.

And being unexpected is extremely disconcerting all the more.

I am not able to cope with events that happen unexpectedly.

- But Astrid, he's a child. - Correct.

Children are a category of people I struggle with.

They are unpredictable, and do not respect any social conventions.

- Well good.

Right, what do we have?

NICOLAS: Commander.

Hello, Astrid. - Hello, Capt. Perran.

- Well, several residents of the neighborhood identified the victim.

This is Philippe Marchand.

We looked him up, nothing to speak of, nothing more than an ordinary citizen.

FOURNIER: There's not much one can say.

Hello Astrid, Coste, Captain.

Well, I can't do more until he's at my place.

Hello, Dr Fournier.

OFF BALANCE - Hello, Astrid.

Briefly-- he was stabbed, as you can see.

- Do we have the weapon?

- No, the team is combing the whole subdivision.

- It rained.

RAPHAELLE: And?

- Yes, it rained yesterday in the early evening.

FOURNIER: In view of the coagulation and rigidity,

I'd say he died between 2 and 3 am, after it rained.

- Correct. CURT LAUGH That's it.

It rained.

- The rain,

it made marks in the sand.

Yes, like little waves. Except there.

RAPHAELLE: Looks like we're on to something here.

And they tried to smooth it out with their hands, yeah?

- They didn't go out of their way to hide the murder weapon.

RAPHAELLE: That's for sure!

OFFICER: Commander, we found this in the trash at

the supermarket 800m from here.

- That fits.

- Yes, well we have something interesting here,

if not the weapon.

CLEARS THROAT

- Hmm! A USB key.

- I don't understand, it's unthinkable!

He's the ideal husband, an example to everyone in the neighborhood.

He's always working, but

when he was here he was so present.

- What was his work?

- He was in sales for Technomédic, a medical equipment seller.

He just got a promotion.

He has a very important sector, throughout the northern region.

Do you think your husband was hiding anything?

HELENE: I don't know. - Maybe he was in trouble and didn't say-

SACHA: This is nonsense!

He was stabbed! Obviously he was in trouble!

- Sacha...

DOOR SLAMS

I'm sorry. - No!

- It's complicated lately with Sacha. And now this shock...

- Are you Sacha's mother?

- No, but I treat him like I am. His mother abandoned him at birth.

He was 12 when I married Philippe.

RAPHAELLE: Ms Marchand, do you know why

your husband left the house in the middle of the night?

- No.

I didn't hear him. SNIFFLES

SOBS

NICOLAS: No, that means- - It doesn't mean anything at all!

- No, no- - I remember!

- OK, what do we have on that USB key? NORAH: Nothing, it's empty.

However, we found the victim's fingerprints on it.

It was Philippe Marchand who buried it.

I've tried everything.

I looked in read-only memory, I tried all kinds of encryption,

I have nothing else to try.

There's nothing on this key apart from the partition.

- This isn't the only mystery about our victim.

- Is that right? NICOLAS: I contacted Technomédic,

the medical equipment business where the victim was supposed to work.

- Mm-hmm. - There's no Philippe Marchand on staff.

So if his wife isn't lying, it means he was lying all along.

- What, the guy was a big liar, like Jean-Claude Romand?* * NOTORIOUS IMPOSTER/SPREE KILLER

- Philippe Marchand was finished with his wife and son.

NICOLAS LAUGHS

- Well, in any case it gives his wife quite a motive,

if she found out she'd been fooled by him all this time.

So he's been out of work for a while, what does he do then?

Was he super in debt? Maybe start looking there.

- Dr Fournier asks we join him at the Medical Examiner's office.

There must be a problem. - Oh. Well, let's go to Fournier.

MEDICAL EXAMINER

FOURNIER: Well then, we've finished the analysis of the knife,

it is indeed the murder weapon.

It's the Scandinavian kind you find in a lot of kitchens,

that's basically what I have.

Then we took the fingerprints and DNA present on the knife.

- So? - Well, it's the victim's prints and DNA.

- Not him, did anyone else touch the knife?

Or, well, the killer pulls the knife out of his hands and had gloves on.

FOURNIER: No, that doesn't work.

It's the victim's genetic material and only his blood.

Everything seems to indicate the victim handled the knife himself.

Basically, a suicide.

- A suicide?

He stabbed himself, Fournier? Are you kidding me?

- What is even stranger, according to the medical report,

one of the first stab wounds hit the heart.

There. - Yeah? Impossible.

So that means the guy stabbed himself about 6 times,

and then walked 800m on his little paws to throw the knife in the trash can. Sure.

- Not paws. Legs. That is what the analysis says.

- Well the analysis is nonsense!

- Analyses highlight facts that don't work,

this is our interpretation of the attack.

- Thank you, Astrid. - It was nothing.

MOBILE VIBRATES

- Hello Norah, tell me something rational, I'm begging you.

- I don't know if you can call it rational,

I'm the money girl. You were right, there's a problem on her account.

- Oh, they're broke? - Not really. I'd say

the wife is a little in the red.

I noticed all the payments came from another account in his name.

- So? - So he was rich,

there are millions in his account. - Millions?

How many millions are we talking about? - It's in the dozens.

Payments were from an Isaac Laquedem.

I looked him up, he's an entrepreneur,

he heads a biomedical company called Itax.

- Good, send me an address. - OK.

- Thanks.

What are you hiding from me?

ASTRID: Raphaelle? - Hmm?

- He's dead. He can't answer you.

HELICOPTER NOISE

RECORDING: Welcome to Itax, researching on topics associated...

RECEPTION

- Hello. I hope nothing's wrong.

MORETTI: Commander, hello.

Dino Moretti. Welcome to Itax,

I don't have much time, I'm sorry.

So if that bothers you, why not get to the point?

- All right. I would like to see Isaac Laquedem.

- That would be difficult. - Excuse me?

- Do you know Isaac Laquedem? - No, not personally.

- That's okay, no one knows Issac Laquedem, he values his anonymity.

Itax is a company at the cutting edge of biomedical research.

Isaac Laquedem has opened incredible doors in the research field.

Here, we write the future.

- Well, we think he's connected to a murder, so

if you can take me to his office, please.

- He has no office here. He runs the business remotely,

the only one here who can meet him is me. SNIFFS SMUGLY

- Now you listen to me.

A man was murdered, we think your boss has something to do with his death.

So, it would be in your interest to grant me an interview very quickly,

otherwise I'm going to give him trouble like he's never had.

- Ha.

- Hmm? What's the matter? Do you know this man?

- Y- yes!

This man is my boss, Isaac Laquedem...

- Are you sure?\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h

- 100 percent, yes.

We compared your husband's schedule

to that of Isaac Laquedem. They're the same person.

- But something like that isn't possible!

You're telling me he had another family, children-

- No, nothing like that.

He only created a very clear boundary

between his private and professional lives.

- I sometimes had the impression he was hiding something from me,

he was very secretive.

I would- I even thought

I would rather close my eyes, I was afraid of losing him.

I don't believe what you're telling me.

- No one knew he was the head of the company,

not even his wife and son.

We're checking, I'm suspicious.

Even his company didn't know where he lived.

He had made extremely complex financial arrangements,

so his real identity doesn't appear on official documents.

CARL: But how could he do it, his company raises considerable funds.

- Moretti represents him on the board of directors,

and he only spoke to investors on the phone.

- We must find out why he maintained such a cult of secrecy.

Wanting to protect his family I understand, but at this level...

It would call for crazy energy. He obviously had things to hide.

What kind of guy does that?

- The anonymity he had cultivated around him was legendary.

He was kind of a biology genius who decided to leave

the traditional research environment to open new avenues.

- And down the line created a start-up specializing in advanced biology.

He advocated transhumanism.* For him * AUGMENTING HUMANS WITH TECHNOLOGY

science had the answer to everything:

illness, old age, and even death.

And his pseudonym, Isaac Laquedem. RAPHAELLE: Mmm?

- It wasn't chosen by chance. RAPHAELLE: Oh no?

- Yeah, you're right, I didn't think! - What?

- 'Laquedem' is the name of 'The Wandering Jew' by Alexandre Dumas.

He's an immortal. Well played, Norah.

CARL: Okay; all right;

now we have to differentiate reality from myth.

- You have to dig into the wife's side.

They were married 8 years, I can tell you she'll inherit a lot of money--

several million euros. I know people who'd kill for less.

- A search is underway for more at the victim's home.

- We also have to dig into the taxes of a business that generates a lot of money.

That makes for many suspects.

- We have a suspect!

- Hello, come in? FOURNIER: Hello.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hRAPHAELLE: \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hYes? The culprit? :

- A suspect.

- Yes.

H- hello. NICOLAS: Hello.

- A lead-- dioxyribonucleic acid levels.

- The DNA of Philippe Marchand, or someone else's this time.

- Both, Captain.

SHE LAUGHS SOFTLY

- The DNA on the knife is not that of Philippe Marchand.

Try his twin.

- Philippe Marchand has a twin?

- That's what I just said.

- This would be Laquedem, then?

FOURNIER: It's a little more complicated than that.

Since 2014 we've been able to differentiate the DNA of monozygotic twins.

On the sound advice of Ms Nielsen, we pushed the level of analysis.

And I found a case in the criminal documentation dating from 2017 in which

this technique was used to differentiate between twins in a rape case.

It seems to me that this is a rational explanation

to the paradox raised by the results of the analysis.

- The problem wasn't the results of the analysis,

but our interpretation of it.

- Mm-hmm, yes.

- So if I may summarize: it's the same DNA-- but not quite?

And so we have a Marchand twin wandering around who's a murderer.

- Uh-uh. There's a problem.

According to his vital data, Philippe Marchand...

has no twin.

He has no brother at all.

- The administration says he's an only son. ASTRID: It is a problem.

- Man, it's a problem.

ASTRID: Our research must continue. That's it.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Isaac Laquedem and \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hPhilippe Marchand are \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthe same person,

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hnevertheless, there remains \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\ha ghost twin to find.

- Anything? - Philippe Marchand's parents are dead.

I'm hoping to find something. - But there's no trace of a twin,

so he's been missing for years. That means you have to dig into the mother.

- I'm studying what was found in the search of the victim's house.

We found a prepaid phone hidden in Philippe Marchand's room.

On it, a texter arranged to meet him at 3 am at a playground.

There are few exchanges, but this morning they told him, 'I discovered the truth.'

- Huh?

- He doesn't ask who it is. No further messages.

Someone was blackmailing him or something. - Even more strange,

by pushing the analysis, Forensics found the twin's DNA

everywhere in the Marchand's room.

- Hunh. MUTTERS

- Goodbye.

- Goodbye, Astrid- hand me that, Norah?

NORAH: Goodbye.\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h :

- But- where are you going, Astrid?

She left.

DOORBELL

DOORBELL

Hello. - Hello.

Um, my mother's not here. She's with a girlfriend.

- That's okay. You're an adult. You'll be able to answer a question.

- Uh, I'm sorry I reacted badly last time.

- I can imagine what you're going through.

- You want something to drink or something?

- Did you know your father had a brother?

- A brother? LAUGHS

No. Really?

- A twin brother. - A twin brother?

What-- what is this?

I'd know if my father had a brother.

- Did he seem happy in this house?

Do you live here? - I'm often at my girlfirend's,

but yes, most of the time I live here.

- Mm-hmm.\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h :

- Last week Helene went to her mother's for several days.

I was at Camille's.

My father was here. - Fine.

We'll check the schedule then.

My father was all about honesty. Now this twins story!

I trusted him. But actually I didn't know him.

MED SEC'Y: Here we are-- the clinic archives.

But I have to warn you, files prior to 1970 have not been digitized at all.

- Philippe Marchand was born July 4, 1965.

- So therefore it's here, but I don't know where.

- Therefore it should be between 1964 and 1966...

- That's it, I agree with you- - ...between June and August.

- Yes, but the problem is that I never come down here,

I don't know at all where to start looking.

- Between 3 and 5. Dermatology, dermatology, dermatology...

Surprise!

I know, we have to go back this way. This is it.

It's close.

Mm-mmm.

MEDICAL FILE MARCHAND, PHILIPPE

Mm-hmm.

I found it.

Could you make me a copy of the file, please. - Yes, of course.

- In its entirety. - Yes, very well.

- Thank you.

- Hi. - Mm-hmm.

- How're you doing? - All right. And you?

- Yeah, yeah.

Um, tell me, I'll tell you--

What's going on, something with Nora? It doesn't bother me at all,

on the contrary, I'm actually happy for you-

- No no no, we get along,\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h that's all, there's nothing.\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h :

- No. OK, it's- please. - No, but it's- well...

- So, anything new?

- To understand what's going on with Itax,

our victim's transhumanism delusions

don't stop with the social networks.

- Had he moved on to practical work?

- Well, so he regularly tries to push his

ethics committee for authorization to carry out tests on animals.

- Those kinds of genetic tests are like 'mad scientist.'

And then there's his 'little paws'-

Well, seriously, we don't know anything about it, we should get access to the research file.

There's 8 years of science stuff to understand.

- Don't worry about Philippe Marchand's emails, we'll get answers.

These all seem to be unencrypted.

- Philippe Marchand was an only son.

There is no trace of a twin of Philippe Marchand in the maternity archives,

and I requested a copy of the entire file.

Careful. - Thank you.

It specifies that Philippe Marchand was born with a rare genetic disorder.

- 'Muller's Ataxia.' - Yes.

- (What's 'Muller's Ataxia'?) - A rare genetic disease.

- 'Muller's Ataxia: an incurable genetic disorder of the peripheral nervous system.'

-'There are many symptoms generally affecting motor skills,

before affecting vital organs, and causing either heart disease or asphyxiation.'

- Okay. And what were his odds?

- If he had Muller's Ataxia, Marchand had little chance of living past 30.

- And yet he died at 55.

According to those close to him, he was in great shape.

- What is that about?

- These? Philippe Marchand's scrambled messages.

I haven't yet managed to decode them.

- Mm-mmm. 'Scrambled' is not the right term.

I believe the term is 'encrypted.' - You know about cryptology?

- Cryptology and puzzles-- the're related.

I have studied a number of encryption configurations.

I get my hands dirty with code, I'm pretty knowledgeable too.

Except I can't crack this one, there's nothing to do.

- All the elements... - Hmm?

- Have you tried the substitution method?

Asymmetric encryption too, but that doesn't work either.

It must be a divisional cipher.

- I agree, except to decipher such a coded message

you need the key that was used.

- The key! You need a key.

Well done, Lt Mansour.

- (Nico.)

- Where is the key?

The key found in the sandbox at the playground, at the crime scene,

the USB stick.

DRAWERS SLIDING DICORDANTLY

Gently with the drawers.

- Here it is, but there's nothing in it I remember.

- You only looked inside it.

You have to look at it.

Mmm...

There.

- You're too good, Astrid! The serial number!

Thirteen alphanumeric characters, perfect for encryption! Very good!

- You speak very loudly.

- (Does she really?)

It was divisional. She speaks very loudly.

ASTRID: She types hard.

- He changed the encryption key all the time, that's why the victim had it on him.

- For this reason Lt Mansour can only decipher messages

sent by Philippe Marchand over the last 10 days.

They all had one recipient: Dino Moretti, the General Manager of Itax.

- What were they discussing that required coding?

- 'Encryption.' NICOLAS: Encryption, that's right.

Marchand sets the framework for research, so he doesn't hesitate to go outside the lines.

Most visibly, he was working on a secret project called Antigone.

- The messages I have don't go back far enough for us to know exactly what it is.

But it seems to be a project to do with genetics.

- This would be the subject of the texts? - Possibly.

- They know 'the truth.' About Project Antigone? NICOLAS: Yeah.

CARL: We have something concrete? - Not so much,

we have an email that mentions a Parisian clinic,

in relation to 'the Clavois Clinic Project.'

We have no name of a doctor or any particular services.

- OK. Captain, go look into that place.

Coste, I'll call the prosecutor, we'll scrutinize Itax.

Police! Stop everything and hand over those documents, thank you.

Where is Moretti? I see, thank you.

Police! - What is this?

- You have to explain to me these email exchanges with Philippe Marchand.

What is Project Antigone? Huh?

MOBILE RINGS

MOBILE RINGS

- Yeah Nico? - Yeah, Raph'?

I found it, easily. - That's great!

You ready to go, sir?

- Well, it's not great, not really.

- Should I worry?

- Antigone isn't a project.

MONITOR BEEPING

It's a first name.

BABYTALK

The clinic isn't aware of anything not in order.

- Is the child Philippe Marchand's daughter? - No, it's more complicated.

- Explain it so I can understand.

- Itax assisted Antigone's parents in conceiving their daughter.

- OK, so far so good, I understand.

- But before implanting the embryo

they intervened in the DNA, to modify the genome.

What do you know about genes?

- Antigone is a genetically-modified child?

- You got it.

- Both the baby's parents

are carriers of a rare congenital disease, and

they didn't pass it on to Antigone,

thanks to us.

- Well done, I congratulate you.

The complications weren't talked about.

No, because your manipulations didn't only make good genes.

- No, it's true, there were complications during pregnancy,

leading to certain...

malformations. - Mmm?

We're shutting you down.

We're talking about a baby who probably won't survive

because of your stupid experiments!

- Without our 'stupid experiments'

there'd be no baby at all.

- You're kidding me. - Listen... you only see

what's missing from Antigone.

But you have no idea of the leaps forward that have been made,

thanks to us!

Itax's discoveries may make it possible to eradicate

genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis and myopathy.

(Yeah.) - (Yeah.)

MORETTI: I'm sorry for this poor little girl,

but...

you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

- When eggs are human babies,

it stops me from wanting to eat omelettes.

This sorcerer's apprentice makes me want to throw up.

- Why do you want to vomit? RAPHAELLE: No, it's an image.

- Oh. RAPHAELLE: No, it's an image.

- Oh. - Because I have to release him.

- Because I have to release him.

- For Mr Moretti, justifying science is based solely on logic.

- Are you defending him? ASTRID: Mm-mmm. I'm just

explaining the facts to you. What if sacrificing a life

could save thousands of others?

It may seem like a logical choice.

- Life isn't math, Astrid.

- I don't understand this expression.

- We have to interview Antigone's parents.

BABY TALK

MOM: At first, we were told

Itax had authorization from an ethics committee

for embryonic manipulations on Antigone.

DAD: We should've been more vigilant,

but we had such hope.

BABY TALK but we had such hope.

It was our last chance of having a child, you understand.

- When things start to go wrong,

you found you were trapped. MOM: Yes.

When complications started,

we couldn't report something we were accomplices to.

RAPHAELLE: Sorry to ask you this, but

where were you last night?

DAD: Here. We didn't move.

- There are cameras everywhere here, it'll be easy to check.

- I'll tell you something else:

if I could I would've killed all these Itax bastards.

I just wanted to tell you.

- I'll act as if I didn't hear you.

BABY TALK

. . .

. . .

. . .

. . .

. . .

RAPHAELLE: Astrid? You coming?

I'm sorry, Astrid, but-- life isn't math.

- Yes. I understand.

Antigone is not numbers. Antigone is a baby.

She isn't odd or even.

MOBILE VIBRATES

. . .

It's William.

Yes? WILLIAM: Astrid, hello.

Can you come to the workshop please?

- No.

I don't plan to go to the social workshop today.

- Yes, I know.

But I think it would be good for you to come see us.

- Oh.

- Now.

- All right.

- I'll be waiting. - Goodbye.

I have to go to the social skills workshop. Now.

- Shall I drop you? - Mm-mmm.

I'm going to take the 73 bus.

Goodbye.

- I continued researching Philippe Marchand's genetic disorder,

Muller's Ataxia.

I got a copy of his medical records, and Nico was right.

Marchand was stricken at 25, doctors had given up hope.

And then suddenly-- nothing.

- What do you mean, 'nothing'?

Nothing?

- The only thing I have is a trip to China by Marchand and his parents.

Then he disappears from tracking for 2 years,

and when he returns there's no more trace of his illness.

- Are they really going to modify a young person like they did with Antigone?

- Antigone was a fetus when they did that.

I can't imagine this working on an adult, let alone 20 years old.

- I found something strange in the Marchand family's financial transactions.

The son, Sacha, signed a sales agreement last week

on a €450,000 apartment.

- Even though he doesn't have any money,

and he's not supposed to know about his father's fortune.

Well, it's too late for an interview.

- He's always under surveillance. - Let's talk in the morning.

- Yeah, first thing. - Mm-hmm.

WILLIAM: Oh! There you are.

I didn't really know how to tell you on the phone, but

we have a visitor who is-- let's say 'unannounced.'

ALICE: ...and the closest star to the sun is Proxima Centauri in the Centaurus galaxy.

NIELS: How close is it?

- About 4.3 light years, approximately.

In the models I've seen.

- What is a 'light year'?

- The distance light travels in a year.

It doesn't look like it, but light moves super fast.

- Astrid, did you know Alice is a gourmet?

- Yes. NIELS: She knows great stuff!

- Niels, why are you here? - Well, I kept my promise,

you told me to come to your house unexpectedly. This isn't your place.

- That's right,

however, you are here without warning.

I'm pleased you are here,

but your presence is contrary to social customs.

And the law.

- Anyway, Astrid's the big boss, huh?

- I am not able to understand events that occur unexpectedly.

ASTRID: Niels?

Get your bag.

- See you soon, Niels.

SEVERAL MURMUR

- See you soon!

- Go ahead. - 'Later!

- Goodbye. - Goodbye.

DOORBELL

That's wrong.

RAPHAELLE: Hi. ASTRID: I just wanted to say

I'm not able to interact with people of our age,

they are too unpredictable. A lot.

So I thought maybe you could make accommodations.

- Hey big guy. I'll take you home, okay?

- I don't belong there.

- It's my uncle's.

- Niels? You're with me, huh? Come on.

That's good.

- The paper.

NIELS: Do you know my sister well?

- Your sister? Oh, okay... She's my best friend-- eh?

- Why doesn't she love me? - Niels,

Niels, listen:

it's not that she doesn't love you, your sister loves you very much.

But-- she needs time, right?

And she's a little different-- you understand?

- Yes, I know sh'es different, and much better than you grown-ups.

- That's what I'm saying! Yeah.

- But she's also more fragile.

She needs time to accept new things,

and you're new in her life.

- Like dad.

KNOCKING DOOR LATCH

CHARLES: Oh Niels, where have you been? We had a terrible fight.

You shouldn't scare us like that. Come on.

Go join your aunt.

Thanks for bringing him back. - No big deal.

- But what more can we do?

- His mother is in prison, and being separated from his sister is hard for him.

- Yes, I know all that, and I realize that living with a group of retirees

is not very fulfilling for a 7 year old child, but

we do what we can,

but if won't stay, he'll be sent elsewhere.

- Of course...

well I don’t know, are there things he likes,

moments, or manages to think differently?

- Well, only when he's going to see Ms Nielsen.

- Right, if you need anything, you can call me.

- Goodbye. - Goodbye, sir.

MOBILE VIBRATES

Yes, Nico? - Raph'?

The team I sent to Sacha's called.

He's not home, he's disappeared.

- Mmmm! Shit.

('Dr Fournier.') PHONE BLEEPS

RINGING

('Yes. Good evening...') RINGING

FOURNIER: Astrid?

- Dr Fournier, good evening.

I think I can explain a central question of the investigation, only

I will need your help.

- Oh, uh, it's 10 pm here.

Mrs Fournier won't appreciate that I left for the lab at this hour.

- 10:02 pm, ha. - Oh, well yes, yes.

Can't we talk first thing in the morning? - Mm-mmm.

Absolutely not.

I think it is an element of prime importance,

we need to do anything to deal with it.

- You really make my day.

- Thank you.

- OK, go ahead, I'm listening.

Stay, Pipette. - 'Pipette'?

- No, I wasn't talking to you, uh- Come on, come on Astrid.

- Good morning! - Good morning.

- Good morning, Commander. NICOLAS: Hi.

- I managed to trace the victim's trip to China at age 20.

- Good stuff? - Look.

He didn't go by himself. On the same date

there was a visa application by a Henriette Lacks.

- Are you sure they traveled together?

100%. At the same time Marchand made a transfer of €250,000 to her,

using the Isaac Laquedem name. - Good! Well, she'll be able to tell us

how he came back miraculously healed.

- She lives in the US, I'm waiting for her to call me back so we can video chat.

- Well, wait: Philippe Marchand went to China for treatment 20 years ago,

and 20 years ago was when Sacha was born, we know this.

Therefore Henriette could be Sacha's biological mother.

- In the meantime, Sacha remains nowhere to be found.

RAPHAELLE: Shit. - I kept digging on my own.

Last month he contacted a lab that does paternity tests.

- He had doubts about his father?

- He must not have, because he sent DNA samples

How's that for a motive? - Depends on if he's his son or not.

- We don't know that, the lab said the DNA results were 'null.'

Sacha must have made a sampling error.

Apparently the two samples belong to the same person,

they have the same genetic fingerprint.

ASTRID: Mm-hmm, no.

The genetic fingerprints don't belong to the same person.

Good morning. - Good morning?

- The genetic fingerprints are identical

because Sacha is not Philippe Marchand's son.

They are twins.

- What is this garbage?

- He's not garbage. He's a twin.

Philippe Marchand's twin left his genetic fingerprint at the crime scene.

It's Sacha.

- It doesn't fit, they're not the same age.

- They're not genetic twins, they're biological.

FOURNIER: To put it more clearly, Sacha is neither the twin or son

of Philippe Marchand. He's a clone. ASTRID: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

- Is this possible?

FOURNIER: Well it's not impossible.

A clone isn't a 'double.' The fact is, during cloning

only part of the genome is copied.

Um, a cloned cow isn't identical, it can be quite the opposite of the original.

So, physically it could be possible. - And scientifically?

- Well, in terms of date the birth, Sacha's was more than 5 years after Dolly the sheep.

Technically there could've been human cloning at that time.

Morally, it's a different story. Historically nothing is recorded,

but it's a credible hypothesis.

- It can't be. - On the contrary, it's logical.

It's existence is much more logical than acting like it doesn't exist.

- But how was it done? - It's in the files, Capt Perran, in the files.

What I noticed in the file on the search of Philippe Marchand's house

was not the DNA which was taken in the house,

but the DNA that wasn't found.

- I'm going to say Marchand's DNA, his wife's,

and the twin, but not Sacha's.

- Exactly.

The only explanation is that he is the twin.

I called Dr Fournier to confirm my hypothesis.

- A clone.

- He has a dog.

- Yes, we confirmed by testing several samples from Sacha.

- Do you know what this means? RAPHAELLE: Yes.

How can Sacha be convicted in a crime committed like 20 years ago?

- Pipette can't be left on his own. NICOLAS: But it's not just any crime.

The bioethics law defines human cloning as a crime against humanity.

Morally, Sacha's very existence is an insurmountable problem.

- Sacha wasn't procreated, he was duplicated,

from a cell, by someone's hand. It's surreal.

- You have to find him.

It's a full emergency, put everyone on it.

ASTRID: But that- but that-

CARL: You'll help with the prosecutor, right?

NICOLAS: Yeah.

- Commander? We're online with Henriette Lacks in 5 minutes.

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

We should treat her as a surrogate mother. - Yes to that.

HENRIETTE: I just carried a baby for someone else.

- Yes, we know. - It's not legal in France, but

you're not gonna put me in prison for it too, right?

- You knew the child you were carrying was... special?

- Philippe Marchand was active in the transhumanist community.

He had met a Chinese shipper who was working on

a cloning project, something that could save his life.

- You mean that this baby was only meant to save Philippe?

- Initially, yes.

The goal was to collect stem cells from several vital organs,

to inject them into his body. - But what happened?

- Philippe, um...

became enamored of the baby.

He gave it a name.

- Sacha.

- He wanted to keep him close by. That was no problem.

- What was the problem?

Did someone else know about the China trip and this... 'project'?

- No, I don't know...

Yes! Yes- yes, it was a guy he discovered was there,

uh, a close friend of Philippe Marchand.

He was very interested in the background.

Um, Italian... always well dressed.

- Going somewhere, Mr Moretti?

- The board wants to avoid a scandal after the Philippe's death.

I'm the fall guy- but hey, it’s part of the job.

- I have one last, little question. - Mm-hmm?

- Can you tell me a little more about Sacha?

Sacha is Philippe's son, he will inherit a part of his fortune.

What can I tell you that you don't already know?

- Not Chinese fashions.

- You know, don't you?

HE SIGHS

What do you want, I'm not Philippe, at the end of the world,

making the impossible possible. SHE SCOFFS

- At first he just wanted to use a baby like it was a medicine?

- No. When the child came, Philippe became attached to him.

He came to see a son who was rather... special,

as just a son. Hmm...

And, in order to protect him, he compartmentalized his

private and public lives. Was that your last question? Thank you.

- Sacha is on the run.

- You think Sacha killed Philippe?

- I find it difficult to tell what the truth is.

- Cloning technology was in its early stages.

Everything went very well at the time of his conception, at the start.

But a year ago Sacha had a kidney problem.

After consultations, in truth it was very serious.

- Cancer?

- Generalized to all the organs. One went after the other.

Like Dolly the sheep.

Sacha is an... imperfect being.

- Tell me that again the next time we have a case like this.

Oh, Mr Moretti:

I'm forwarding this file to the competency agency.

There's no statute of limitations

for what you did to Sacha, it's too serious.

You will go to prison for what you did to him, Antigone, and her family.

And you will never get near a research laboratory again.

Good day, Mr Moretti.

NICOLAS: Sacha is sick?

How could we have missed it?

We checked the hospitals carefully, right? - Mm-hmm.

- What if he doesn't want treatment?

- Wait, I think I have something.

- I saw that his girlfriend was a nurse in a palliative care unit

Oh, well yes-- right there.

CAMILLE: I already told your colleagues,

I don't know where Sacha is.

- Camille...

we know.

We know Sacha is sick.

Is that how you met?

- He showed up at the department where I work a little less than a year ago.

He had cancer, but refused treatment. Have you seen that before?

Someone his age, who's going to die, who isn't afraid?

- You fell in love with him.

- Of course I fell in love with him.

It was... so deep.

- But time was against you. - Mmm. He loved me too.

He was like a shooting star! DESPERATE LAUGH

He said we didn't have much time to enjoy it.

So we gave our all since the first day.

- Where is he?

The only thing that he asked me, is to try to not nag him too much,

and help him enjoy life as long as possible.

I did what I could for as long as I could.

- Camille?

Where is Sacha?

- Astrid! - Oh, Ms Nielsen!

- Hello, sir.

Hello, Niels.

I am aware of having repeatedly approved events occurring unexpectedly.

And I am aware my presence here is an example of that. However--

I have brought... something important.

For you, and also me.

CHARLES: A pencil?

- Is it my pencil? :

- Is it my pencil? - Mm-mmm.

It's not your pencil, Niels.

It's dad's pencil.

Your dad.

Our dad.

- I'd like a little moment, if you would.

I'm going to tell my wife that you're here, she'll be delighted

NIELS: Come on, let's sit.

You don't talk about it.* * HIM

It's a pencil, on paper- - Not about the pencil. About dad.

- Dad...

His name was Augustin.

You look like him.

SACHA: Is Camille in trouble?

- Not if you tell me the truth.

I caught this shit from my father- my brother, Philippe.

You know all about that.

That's when he told me the truth-- about his job, being my brother, all that.

I told myself he wanted to use Itax to help heal me.

I didn't want that.

I don't care about gaining a year if it's in a hospital bed.

I discovered the truth about who I am.

- Sacha...

What happened?

I told Camille.

At first she didn't believe me.

Then she started the paternity tests.

She took the samples.

The evening the results arrived, it was like a knockout punch.

- It was Camille at your father's house? - He's not my father.

He's... my brother.

My double. He's not- - Sacha!

Was it Camille who killed him? - Of course not, no.

But she wanted to.

She was sending anonymous messages, by phone or by mail.

They were to meet in the park, all of a sudden.

- But you heard Philippe go out that night, and you followed him.

- I arrived, they were together.

She was yelling at him. She had a knife, and turned it on him.

At one point he tried snatching it from her hands, he wanted to hurt her.

I couldn't let him.

It was then that...

I took the knife, I...

RAPHAELLE: SIGHS (Fuck, Sacha.)

If it's a stabbing, it's not self-defense.

- But I went crazy.

He used me to heal and now I'm the one dying!

I regretted it later.

He was still my father.

In the end it was too late.

- If you know the truth, why not tell it?

HE SCOFFS

Thank you very much.

I wanted us to go through it all.

- I don't know how I could have missed his illness.

RAPHAELLE: It was Camille who knew how he was born.

You couldn't have known.

- What will happen to him now?

- In his condition, he won't be prevented from leaving.

HELENE MURMURS

KISSING

MOBILE VIBRATES

Astrid? On my way.

- Thank you.

Thank you for taking a little time to see me.

Because I'm very worried about Niels.

This wall of silence and he looks really unhappy

when he's at home. Something has to be done.

- Niels doesn't speak there.

This means he is unhappy.

CHARLES: No, I don't think so.

- I like to talk to Niels. Hmm. And I like the silences.

I- I don't understand your concern.

Does this mean... that Niels...

would be less unhappy spending time here?

- Ah, yes, I think so. Yes, of course, yes, yes.

We can do a test.

- Niels? Want to show us your drawing? - Yes.

- It's pretty. It's a cat.

- Yes.