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-We are to take a walk.

-The murderer took advantage Zoe's hazing sessions

to attack the students. -Our only lead is Ariane.

- She has an alibi.

-But everything brings us back to Lilith.

Either Ariane did the trick, or it's a potential target.

You're going to stick him in the ass. -And you ?

-We have a pallet at the first crime scene.

A brush in Zoé's hand on the 2nd.

This motherfucker tryna tell us something. But what ?

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THANKS.

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-Not in service.

-Please.

- Were you close to Zoe?

- We were.

A bit too much, even.

-That's to say ?

- You understood very well.

She admired me, she seduced me and I couldn't resist.

I had not drunk a drop of alcohol since five years.

-Be careful with mixtures. You haven't stopped the pills.

-I limit myself to migraine medication.

With Zoe, it was bullshit.

She wanted me for the wrong reasons,

so I stopped everything.

-How did she take it?

-Like a 20-year-old kid.

What a bitch!

I thought I had the right a bit of beauty.

Excuse me.

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The phone is ringing.

-Oh ! Whore...

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Shit.

Oh...

Oh.

Ariadne!

Ariadne!

OK...

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Oh.

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-Mess ! Becker.

Hum.

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She coughs.

-Oh.

Hum.

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Oh !

-A vehicle hit him.

He has broken ribs. According to the state of decomposition,

death dates back three weeks. -Just before Katia's death.

The dog is training. Not easy to paint with blood.

But Ariane has an alibi:

she was teaching.

She could have differed the time of Katia's death?

-Yes, by calculating the size incisions, but it requires

knowledge of anatomy.

-Anatomy is one of the sciences of drawing.

All these paintings...

They don't have the same color.

We have never seen this nuance.

Like purple.

No ?

Whoa, Camilla.

Hey.

What's the matter ? -Pardon.

Why did she let me live?

-Because she plays with you. Don't don't let it get into your head.

-Commissioner.

There's something stuck in his mouth.

A tube of paint.

I'll see if it's the paint that we found on the pallet

and on the brush.

-Do your best.

Come,

I want to talk to you.

I will tell you a story. Stop me if I'm wrong. Mounted.

Go up!

In August 2000, there was desecrations in the corner:

disappearing bodies without traces of vandalism.

The police questioned all cemetery caretakers,

including Laurent Becker. They would have had to question his son.

I'm listening to you.

- I was a kid at the time.

I knew Ariane always.

She was so different.

I would have done anything.

But for her, there was only his art. His madness.

I just helped her to dig up the bodies.

-It was before that she enters Malpas?

-She was always crazy.

But it got worse afterwards.

She messed me up with that crap.

- You have to find her. and quick. I'm counting on you.

While Becker searches for Ariane,

we're going to hit all the stores

who sell paint. -Door-to-door?

-Yes.

-I'm taking a break.

-If you want.

A phone beeps.

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-Good morning. Lt Delaunay. I have some questions.

-You are not here to talk about painting.

-Whether. I'm looking for info on a German paint brand:

Schiele.

-Show.

-The manufacturer has put

the key under the door in 2000.

-Never heard of it.

- You are the 3rd one who told me that.

-Wait.

Uncle !

It is relative

what's going on at the academy?

-What's the matter ?

Good morning.

-Schiele, a brand of paint, you know ?

- 15-20 years ago

I haven't seen any like that. - Did you sell it here?

-Yes... Well, little.

This is a niche article.

But there was a guy in the region that swore by it.

-Is it that do you remember his name?

-He was a great teacher from the Academy of Malpas.

Uh...

busnel. Yes, that's it, Busnel.

-OK. Thank you so much. -You are welcome.

-Good day ! -Similarly.

-Edouard Busnell...

He was Ariane's mentor, her teacher when she was here.

Without it, no anima obscura.

-It was not Ariane who created

movement ? -Whether.

But it was he who created Ariane.

The talent is her, of course.

But the radicalism

the requirement... All that, it's him.

Without him there would never have been

"The Passage", the work of the century.

This guy didn't live than for painting.

They say he got himself buried with his gouache and brushes...

-He is dead ?!

- Yes, twenty years ago. Ariane was still his pupil.

He had lung cancer. In six months, it was over.

He was 50 years old.

You think that it was Ariane who did this?

- Sorry, I can't say anything.

-And you, how are you?

- Uh... It's fine.

I can't stop thinking about Zoe.

I'll go.

-Hold on.

-I'm going to break. It stinks of death here.

- Bunch of idiots!

- Let's sum up.

Ariane has a morbid fascination for corpses.

Busnel takes her under his wing and he dies tragically.

-Twenty years later, his equipment paint decorates dead bodies.

-And if he had really buried with?

- We'll go check it out. - A request for exhumation,

it will take a thousand years.

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- The door was forced open.

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-What are you doing ?

-I open what has been opened. -Oh fuck...

He's coughing.

-Briefcase

of Schiele painting. It lacks the brushes, the palette.

-Hold on...

There is something there.

"For you my love. Beyond cold and death,

"there are these things that stand the test of time."

-Ariane Maubert? -It looks like.

The teacher and the student have been lovers.

All these murders would it be a tribute?

-Ariane's masterpiece, it's called "The Passage".

And Busnel is dead of lung cancer.

- I was a nurse's aide at the time. But I remember him well.

-Twenty years later?!

You remember of all your patients?

-The day before his death, when we were going to sedate him,

he disappeared. - He escaped from the hospital?

- He was taken out.

He was too weak to do this alone.

-How did you find him?

-The next morning, a woman called to tell us

Where was he.

Finally, his body.

They found him naked, lying down, in the mountains,

facing the view. - The devil's mouth.

-Where she takes her students.

-And where she tasted death of a man she painted.

-If she is hiding somewhere, it must be there.

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Niémans, over there, the lights.

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Mermaid.

-You know why the killers in series tirelessly kill?

Because they reproduce tirelessly their first murder,

even twenty years later.

Katia, Zoe, Alban...

All three linked to Edouard Busnel.

- I didn't kill Edward.

-Leaving him from the hospital,

you condemned him.

He died because of you.

-He was the one who wanted I take it out and comb it.

He wanted

that I make this moment beautiful.

"Transmute

"the personal tragedy in universal truth."

That's what he kept saying.

-Because of you, three kids died.

-I tried to run away from her.

-Flee ? Who is that ?

-The one who painted Edouard.

All my nightmares and all the rest.

After his death, I was in so much pain

so I let her scream, blacken the sheet.

And the worst... - It's because we loved you for that.

- Obsessed with death without having the courage to go there.

Life is funny sometimes.

-Hmm. -I was a shadow of myself.

So I stopped everything to get rid of her.

I came back here, and finished.

-Except the one you call Lilith has returned.

-At first it was only absences. I was waking up

and I found monstrous cool canvases.

-The ones in your cellar? -Yes...

And then there was this dog.

I don't even remember how...

And then there was everything else. I don't remember the dead.

I just remember of all this blood

and screams.

The smell of human blood don't take your eyes off me.

-I'm not sure that shrinks consider it irresponsible.

She had motives:

between Katia who threatened her and Zoe who was ruining his life.

What's the matter ?

-It has to stop. - Do you want to quit?

I saw on your cell phone. Why don't we talk anymore?

-To talk about what,

Niemans?

Of all the horrors that we see all the time,

who infect us?

Ariane didn't kill me

because she saw that the smell of blood never left me.

-You're saying nonsense.

-I don't know how you do it.

-I do how I can.

- I can't anymore.

I'm sorry, I'm stopping.

Diffused voice.

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He hits.

-Yes ?

-Have you already packed?

- Yes, I leave early tomorrow morning.

- Aren't you hungry?

- Are you inviting me to dinner?

-Yes.

We don't have to talk.

- You invite me to dinner.

-Yes.

-Please. -THANKS.

-THANKS. -Good tasting.

-What will you do after ?

-I dunno.

Something a little quieter.

-What does "quiet" mean?

A desk job?

-Yes. spend my day behind a computer.

The dream !

-I can see you in traffic. The beautiful uniform, the kepi...

You will be very sexy. -Especially not !

I would be able to fart the mouth at the 1st driver come.

-It's true.

If you are sure of your choice, that's what counts.

Are you really sure?

How will I do to replace you?

-I dunno.

find someone who you bear it, it's going to be complicated.

-And it's not going to work out in getting older.

You know I thought about the question that you asked me.

How do I hold on?

Actually, I... A phone vibrates.

Pardon. -Go for it.

-Excuse me.

Yes ?

What ?

Where is she?

We take off. Ariadne did a suicide attempt.

-She sharpened

the edge of a meal tray and cut his wrists with it.

-There was no one to watch her?

-Commissioner.

I found something. You can come ?

By examining

Zoe's body under the varnish, I found this:

a strand of hair.

Except it's a blond hair.

-A hair from Ariane Maubert?

- No, it's a hair peroxide blonde,

like those of the 3rd victim, Alban.

-It would be Alban who would have killed Zoe?

-I can't say for certain.

But under the pulp

of his fingers, we find a double coat of varnish.

It could mean that he painted Zoe's body

before being executed and varnished.

-Before being his victim, Alban was Ariane's accomplice.

-Potentially.

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- Why would Ariane have eliminated him?

-We're not going to find out here how much he helped her.

-Maybe because it's not here that you have to look at.

Honk.

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The little workshop of the perfect serial killer.

-What is that ?

-Surely a substance

to put their victims to sleep.

-So it was Alban who was prowling around Ariane's house

and who would have assaulted you afterwards.

-And it's Alban who took care of Katia

while Ariane was teaching. -We are dealing with a duo

who protected each other.

-That's why it's missing the heads on the canvases of the murders.

-How so ? - It was Alban who painted them.

During the Renaissance, da Vinci, Michelangelo composed the canvas,

but dozens of apprentices painted with them.

The masters just painted the difficult parts:

hands and head. -In our case,

why the "master" didn't paint all the heads?

-There is only one person who can answer us.

-The prognosis is stable. He was given a sedative.

-THANKS.

-Doctor.

Could you analyze that?

We think of a sleeping pill.

-Ariane Maubert is out of the woods, unconscious.

-All right. THANKS. -THANKS.

Shall we have a little coffee? -Hmm.

-I will raise my men in front of Ariane Maubert's bedroom.

-Hold.

-THANKS.

Did you have a train to catch? -I have an investigation to complete,

First of all.

Diffuse talk.

-Niemans?

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What is happening ?

-The color of the walls,

that of blouses, does it remind you of anything?

-I dunno.

-The tables.

-It is the same color as the background canvases burned at Ariane's.

-Yes exactly.

-Here are the files

patients who died this semester.

-THANKS.

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That one.

He looks like

to the blackboard.

-Yes.

-Who is it ?

-Guy Fossard, Charcot disease. He left alone, no relatives.

-The ideal model if you want paint it quietly.

-They started to draw dying in hostos.

-I have the test results of the product you brought to me.

It's a cocktail benzodiazepines,

including granisetron.

- We had a granisetron stolen. - Who has access to your stocks?

- What does this medicine do? - At high doses,

it can cause nausea, headache,

even amnesia.

-Ariane told us that she does not didn't remember the dead.

Perhaps, she was drugged.

-Why we would have wanted What is she forgetting?

-Maybe she won't forget,

but let her believe that she painted or that she killed.

-Apart from the families, who has access to patients?

-Young people from the Noé association.

They come to keep them company.

- Can I have the list?

THANKS.

Niemans.

-Whore ! Mathias.

- This is Ariane's room. -Where is he, Becker?

-Whore !

Whore...

Becker.

Becker.

Whore !

-Please, we have an injury! Fast !

Please !

-Fast !

How are you ?

- Stand back, miss. I will take over.

Sir, look at me. So. Go get a stretcher.

Sir, look at me. Breathe gently.

So. It will be alright.

Breathe slowly, calmly. Stay with me.

We hurry up a bit!

-Good.

Doctors can't yet to comment on Becker's condition,

but they are confident.

Listen...

I have thought about all of this.

You have to come to understand what Mathias wants.

Eh ?

If we summarize,

what do we know?

-We know that Ariane didn't kill anyone.

-That Mathias and Alban are behind it all.

That Mathias painted patients. -Maybe he has...

that he understood that Ariane had painted Busnel on "Le Passage".

-And that he murdered his models.

Why did you drug Ariane? to make him believe

that it was she who had killed? -I don't know, Niémans!

Mermaid.

-Camille...

You wanted to know how I did to hold on,

to survive all this shit.

It's because you were with me.

I need you, quite simply.

- But that's it.

Mathias needs her.

She no longer paints.

So he wanted to help her. let her start painting again.

The canvases are not finished

because Ariadne didn't play his game.

-That's why that he made offerings to her.

To push her to resume painting.

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-Oh... -(Hush. Don't move.)

It has to flow slowly.

Hey ! Hey ! Hey !

(We will do something beautiful together.)

Do you know you're a genius?

-Initially, the canvases. Afterwards, the dog. Then the students.

- He played the apprentice for her.

-The drug was supposed to stimulate her.

-And put it back in the conditions creation of the "Passage".

-The work of the century.

They are at the town hall.

Mermaid.

-That day,

you really have caught something. On us,

our fragility...

Person hadn't caught that before you.

Even after you.

No one has been able to find

this piece of soul.

Yes.

This piece of soul in suspension.

Person.

what did you miss to keep exploring?

It was what ? Bravery ?

A bit of madness ?

Three times I tried to help you.

Three times I have killed for you. I even slaughtered my friend!

You give nothing.

So, tonight, I paint you.

Tonight, I kill the master.

Mermaid.

Head up.

Head up !

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Need more carmine.

It lacks carmine.

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Mathias shouts.

Mermaid.

-Ariane!

Drop it off.

-Drop it, Ariane.

Drop that!

Drop that.

Mathias catches his breath.

Hop, here it is.

So. Give me your hands.

I leave you with her.

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OK.

Thank you. Bye.

Well... Ariane will be fine.

Becker too, a priori.

And it's all thanks to you.

I'm not about to attend

at a painting exhibition in the coming years.

What ?

I will miss you, Camilla.

you really want to leave to traffic?

-I dunno.

You're going to struggle without me.

-Maybe yes.

-And if I put myself to be afraid of the dark,

who will stop the monsters? -I dunno.

Come on.

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