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- Hello, Astrid. Isn't Raphaëlle here?

- Cdt Coste has been contaminated

by coronavirus type 2.

She did not respect social distances.

- It's not her thing, distancing.

Aren't you coming?

- This is my first crime scene without Cdt Coste.

- It's not a crime scene. Not yet.

- I just don't get it. - This is a couple's house.

- Yes. Karen Davre is an ER doctor

and Joachim Davre is an Olympic shooting champion.

He presides over a shooting center.

- Karen Davre's department manager reported her missing.

According to him, abandoning his post

is currently unimaginable.

And according to Karen's colleagues,

the relationship between Karen and her husband was very strained.

She said she was afraid of him.

So we imagine the worst. - The worst?

- That her husband killed her. - Ah.

- Shall we go?

- I'm in.

- Hello, Mr. Davre. - Come in, please.

Thank you for your promptness.

I'm so worried about Karen about Karen

She wanted to rest, but she didn't want not to notify her department...

- How did you know? - She texted me.

- Can I see it? - Of course you can.

- "It's too hard, need to cut out a few days. Don't worry.

"I'll call you this weekend. Kisses."

Was it Thursday? - Yes. But she didn't call me.

Not this weekend or after.

And his phone is on voicemail.

I'm afraid she's cracked under the pressure. The pace out there,

it's not human.

- Are you shooting again? - Occasionally.

I don't have much free time at my shooting club.

- Hum hum.

- What is it, Astrid?

- There, in the groove of the French window.

Hum hum.

- Looks like blood. I'll call the STP.

*- Contact case or not, I don't care.

*I'll be back tomorrow. - Don't screw up.

You know they've opened a temporary morgue at Rungis?

*The undertakers are saturated. - Where are we on the Davre case?

- The laboratory analyzed the drop of blood and it is indeed

*karen Davre's blood.

*- Her husband says she would have hurt herself

*pruning the rosebushes.

*She would have come home for treatment

- This hypothesis cannot be ruled out.

*However, yesterday, during the hunt,

a blood-stained scarf was found

near the Davre home.

- And would the blood also be karen Davre's?

*- Exactly.

- What about the husband's clothes?

*- They found gunshot residue on a yellow T-shirt.

*- That's a lot.

A husband who lies all the time,

*his wife's colleagues who describe him as borderline,

a bloodstain in the house, a bloody scarf,

and gunpowder residue.

*If it were a movie,

*we'd already know the ending.

*- Clues agree,

however, Karen Davre's body has not yet been found.

- Yes.

*But as far as I'm concerned, he killed his wife.

- JUSTICE FOR KAREN!

JUSTICE FOR KAREN! *- Remember, it was 2020,

*three weeks after the start of the first confinement,

*Karen Davre, emergency physician, was one of the heroines

*we applauded at 8pm. This morning, many of them

*in front of the courthouse. If we were able to bump into relatives

*of the victim, many came to defend

*the cause of violence against women the cause of violence against women

*For while Karen Davre's body remains unaccounted for,

*her husband Joachim Davre, the main culprit,

*is now in the dock

*and faces life imprisonment life imprisonment.

- If I could have taken your place, i would have,

but only you followed the investigation completely.

Raph was the contact and I i was there every other day.

Don't worry, the case is square. - The file is rectangular

and it's not rigorous.

- Exhibits CM2020-406 and CM2020-421 cannot be

be strictly compared, but... - Absolutely.

- You said it yourself:

"All the clues

"accuse Joachim Davre."

He hid her body very well, but he killed her.

He must go to prison.

You state the facts

and answer the questions. Do you agree?

- State the facts, answer questions. I agree.

- We'll be right back.

- Your turn, Lt Nielsen.

- Good.

Lt Nielsen, raise your right hand and say "I swear".

- I swear.

- You may present your investigation report.

- April 7, 2020,

at the request of Cdt Coste, i went to

at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Davre of Mr. and Mrs. Davre

The worrying disappearance of his wife,

Karen Davre,

had been reported

the day before. - Something's not right,

Lt Nielsen? - Yes.

Something's wrong.

The cluster of clues

no longer matches. - Could you be more...

explicit? - An element of the survey

has just been called into question.

An important element.

- But what else? - Madam Chairwoman, this is about

an element likely to to call into question

joachim Davre's potential of Joachim Davre.

- Quiet, please.

- You're saying he's innocent in front of the victim's sister?

How dare you? - Mr. Fox, please.

Please continue, Lt Nielsen.

- Mr. Fox, I didn't say Mr. Davre is innocent that Mr. Davre is innocent

I said that an element of the investigation, an important element,

calls into question

mr. Davre's potential of Mr. Davre.

This does not mean, however

that this element constitutes proof of his innocence.

- Please come back.

Lieutenant Nielsen!

- (Oh, fuck...)

Enter.

- Hi.

"Discreetly at home", is this a work date or gossip?

- I wanted to show you something.

Take a look.

- What are these pictures?

Where did the camera come from?

- It's from the guy who was following Astrid.

- There are only pictures of Tetsuo. - Yes.

- And where's the guy?

- He's gone.

Running after him, i broke my face.

I was just able to rip this off.

Norah, this is going to sound weird,

but I'd like you to find out more about Tetsuo.

If the guy took all these photos,

there's a reason. - OK.

I guess I don't

to Astrid?

- Exactly.

The trial's disturbing her enough.

Nicolas warned me, so I got here as quickly as I could.

What happened?

- Analysis.

This result concerns the blood taken from the scarf.

I received the complement just before my intervention in court.

Here you can read "SARS-CoV-2 negative".

Here you can read "SARS-CoV-2 positive".

Covid has an incubation period of 3 to 5 days,

which means that the blood collected from the scarf

is later than that collected in the groove.

- The bloody scarf deposited a posteriori?

- Yes.

- Is Joachim Davre the victim staged?

- It's possible. - (Damn, it's not true...)

- And if Mr. Davre was the victim staged,

this could mean he's innocent.

The case wasn't perfectly rigorous.

A file must be rigorous.

Your cane. Raphaëlle, you forgot your cane.

- The physio told me i didn't need it anymore.

- It's in cases like this

that a commissioner is useful. - When's the new guy arriving?

- In a few days.

- You already said that 22 days ago, Lt Mansour.

How many days can correspond to "a few days"?

- I don't know.

- Ah. - We have two solutions.

Ignore this new element

and let the trial continue. - Hum hum.

- Davre will be implicated.

- Hum hum. - Yes, Astrid?

- Not informing the court would be a major ethical error.

- Or else,

go see the president.

This amounts to putting in the hands of the defense

an element likely to exonerate Joachim Davre.

- This is it.

- We have no choice.

We have to inform the president so she can adjourn the trial.

We resume the investigation, prove his guilt.

- If he's really guilty.

- I can't postpone this trial.

- But this element

deserves further investigation. - Obtained outside the investigation timeframe,

it is inadmissible.

However, I must advise

the parties of this new element.

- Article 114 of of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

- The disclosure of this element

will work in the defense's favor.

- All in favor. We'll resume the hearing with you, Lt Nielsen.

- It's okay, Astrid. Are you coming?

- Police dynamic,

these elements could point to Mr. Davre

as the prime suspect in his wife's murder.

- Lt Nielsen, you've just used the past tense.

You said "could".

- I was getting to that, Me Raven.

Lt Nielsen and Capt Perran

have brought me a coin

which I consider inadmissible.

These are analyses concerning document CM 2020-421

that the bailiff

will distribute to you.

- Madam President, you have ruled this document inadmissible, of course?

- Yes. It was obtained outside the time limits of the investigation.

Therefore, it cannot be used as evidence proof.

- Lt Nielsen...

- Yes. - If I understand correctly,

these additional analyses could induce

that the scarf was placed near crime scene a posteriori?

- It's not what this document expresses, it's what it induces.

- Lt Nielsen, I have an important question for you.

Are you familiar with the tunnel effect?

- Yes. - Very good.

Can you explain what this is?

- It occurs when an investigation focuses too much on one lead,

suspect, to the detriment other possible perspectives.

- That's exactly it, yes. A focus that can lead

to overlook clues, evidence,

alternative leads. Crime Squad investigation

considered other than guilt

of my client?

- A cluster of concordant clues quickly appointed Mr. Davre

as the prime suspect.

- Let's talk about this cluster of clues.

Traces of gunpowder on a man's shirt

who presides over an important shooting club,

you find this convincing, Lt Nielsen?

- Me Raven, a body of corroborating evidence

is, in essence, several clues.

Traces of powder are just one of the elements

pointing at Mr. Davre.

- You're not answering my question.

The powder on the shirt

constitute proof?

- Traces of powder does not constitute proof.

They are a clue.

On the other hand,

Mr. Davre stated that he only shoots very occasionally.

At the time of the events, Mr Davre was,

like all French citizens, confined since March 17, 2020.

- March 17, yes.

But who's to say that my client didn't shoot on March 16th,

when it was allowed? And he could have forgotten his shirt

in his bag, putting it in the dirty around April 5 or 6.

Do I need to remind you

the stupefaction into which which the pandemic had plunged us

and the announcement of containment?

Moreover, the investigation report highlights

the absence of any obvious concern

my client's concern for his wife

while we were all wearing the mask.

How do you expect to perceive the slightest emotion

on the face of a masked person?

During the Covid, the whole company

was going down the drain. Besides, Lt Nielsen,

at that time, weren't you an OPJ?

- Hum hum.

I was a manager in criminal documentation.

- Let's note that during the Covid, this uncertain period,

the police sent their documentalists

to crime scenes.

- I was already collaborating with Cdt Coste,

with the commissioner's agreement.

- But you were collaborating

as an observer. Yet you're the one who's here

with the report criminal investigation report.

Because, at the time, no police officer police officer from the criminal brigade

followed the entire case.

- Master Raven...

- Madame President, i'm almost finished.

Not to mention, during investigations,

the body of Karen Davre

not found and, without a body,

all hypotheses remain open,

like that of a disappearance

mrs. Davre's voluntary disappearance my client to take the blame.

I've finished, Madame President.

- Me Raven is working

to turn the jury completely upside down.

- The investigation must be reopened.

- The judge refused the adjournment, we can't reopen the investigation.

- We'll reopen it between us, i mean.

Off. We take all the elements together

- I'm in. - Ah!

- If it puts a scumbag in jail... - All right, then. What about you, Nico?

- The commissioner would have refused. - We would have done it anyway

getting yelled at.

Anyway, without a commissioner,

i'm the one who decides.

- OK. - We'll take it from here

Nico, you're going back to court tomorrow.

If anything catches your your interest, you call me.

Let's do it this way.

Coming up.

Ah, Norah. Come on in. So, what did you find out?

- Tanaka. - Yeah?

- That's not his real name. - What do you mean?

- That's not his real name.

His papers are fake.

His name is Tetsuo Hoshida. His family is very wealthy in Japan.

- I don't get it. Why would he change his name?

- I don't know about that.

But her family reported her 7 years ago.

- Holy shit.

- Well done, Astrid.

- Thank you, Astrid.

I'm the winner.

- Yes, you've won.

- Otherwise, I was wondering...

She's nice, tetsuo's family?

- I only know his uncle, Apu Tanaka.

- You do?

What about her parents? Not even on video?

- Hum hum.

- Okay. But they were invited to the wedding, right?

- They weren't on Tetsuo's guest list.

- Ah?

Didn't that intrigue you? - Hum hum.

Raphaëlle, why should that intrigue me?

- I don't know why. I would have been curious.

Yes, Nico?

*- It's not looking good for the plaintiff

Davre is described as a perfect guy,

*who fought against sexism.

And the colleague acknowledged that Karen's change of mood

may have had more to do with the Covid than to her marital relationship.

*And Davre's lawyer made a big deal of it

to guide the jury.

He talked about ICU services completely saturated,

*patients who were dying in droves. He even recalled

the temporary morgue at Rungis. - Yes, I remember that.

- The temporary morgue at Rungis! - Astrid?

I'll call you back.

Astrid?

- How are things?

- In May 2020, a procedure had been opened

following the discovery of five unidentified bodies in Rungis.

The case had been closed. You're wearing socks.

- So are you.

- Did the shoes stay in the paper room?

- It's crazy, everything sticks!

The date of arrival of the body at Rungis,

physical description, age, everything.

We finally know where Joachim Davre stashed his wife's body.

- The body came from the hospital where Karen Davre worked.

- How do we know this?

- Your desk is tidy.

- Thank you for your help. - Thanks to the number

of the body bag.

- Summing up. Davre kills his wife,

hides her in a body bag and deposits her

at the morgue. Everyone is covered from head to toe,

he can circulate incognito in a hospital.

Transfer it to Rungis, that's genius.

- I'm not sure "genius" is the right word.

- He's not a genius for killing his wife, but he's smart.

- The administrator of the morgue of the Rungis morgue

tell us more. Where is she, Raph?

- She said she had to do something important

and that we were more qualified than her

the administrator.

- OK. Shall we?

...

- Hello, Raphaëlle.

How are things?

- Mr Hoshida.

We need to talk, Tetsuo.

- So, you know. - Yes, I know.

I know you're the heir son of a great Japanese family,

you changed your identity

- I'll explain everything.

- No, you don't have to explain it to me to explain, don't you think?

*- This may be our everyday life, this episode was

quite a trauma for the whole corporation.

A refrigerated warehouse at Rungis, can you imagine?

We received the families

where there was earlier meat and bananas.

- Right, then. What can you teach us

about the unidentified body registration ID-R2020-0413-73

found on your premises?

- Yes. Um... - Here.

- "Female subject

"unidentified." - We know that.

- "Cremated April 16, 2020."

- Yes, it's written.

- That's all. - What's all? Judicial Identity

didn't come to take pictures?

- Nobody ever came.

Our instructions were ultra-strict.

Incineration within three days after deposit of body.

- Mr. Administrator

of the Rungis morgue,

have you kept any elements of identification?

- Yes, we've done our job.

We took a bone sample as required by procedure

and sent it to the IJ.

I assume your colleagues did the right thing

in turn?

- Thank you, sir.

- You're very welcome.

- What's up? - Forensic Identification must send

comparison between DNA sequencing

of Karen Davre and that of the unidentified body

found at Rungis.

Notification. - I have.

Ca matche.

- But at 50%.

- This means that that these two people

share a kinship DNA.

*- Leave me a message after the beep

- Raph, call me back soon.

We can't wait. Can you come, Astrid?

- Yes.

- In the police report, you state that you did not hear

no detonation.

- We're not interrupting a hearing. - Don't worry about that.

Madame President! - Cne Perran, what are you doing?

- I'm interrupting the hearing. - For what reason?

- This woman is not the sister of Karen Davre.

This woman, Madame President,

is Karen Davre. - No, it isn't. No, it isn't!

- Silence!

- You entered the courtroom and interrupted the president?

- Yes, he did. - Yes, he interrupted the hearing.

- I think that's what was the right thing to do.

- I wouldn't have done it any other way.

So, if I understand correctly,

we were looking for for Karen Davre's corpse,

while she was on trial.

Before our very eyes.

How did you figure that out?

- DNA.

- The DNA from the body at Rungis matched Karen Davre's,

but 50%. That's what you share

with your father or mother, or a brother,

or a sister.

- It's true they do look alike.

The eyes, the mouth.

- In this photo, Karen Davre has an auriculo-cephalic angle

increased.

- What's up? - Her ears are sticking out.

- Oh yeah, right.

Did she have surgery?

- Yes. Karen Davre has undergone several operations

to look like her sister,

between the end of the first confinement

and the start of the second. She did

a profiloplasty, otoplasty...

- What's a profiloplasty?

- Profiloplasty is a technique

of non-surgical medicine aimed at to harmonize a patient's profile

by injections of hyaluronic acid.

You should know what we're talking about, Cdt Coste.

- Not at all, Astrid.

- Otoplasty, on the other hand, aims to reattach the ears.

- Okay. - After that, she moved

so as not to be recognized. - It was easy

to take over her sister's job being a translator herself

of medical books medical literature.

- And divorced and childless.

- Did she live alone?

- No, with their mother, who has since passed away,

but was suffering from Alzheimer's.

- But why would she take her sister's place?

She quit her job, friends, husband...

It's weird to want recluse like that, isn't it?

- There must be a reason for this sacrifice.

- Cdt Coste, Karen Davre

has arrived.

- All right, then. Tell me about it, Captain.

- Yes, sir.

- You called him "captain".

- Madame Davre, i need to understand.

Was it you who dropped off your sister's body at Rungis?

To hide her body because you had killed her?

- I would never have killed my sister. We adored each other.

My sister was already dead when I arrived at her house.

- Already dead?

- I decided to drop in on her on my way out of the hospital.

I knew she'd caught covid and she didn't answer.

I was worried.

I understood immediately when I saw her

She must have been dead for at least 24 hours.

I was too late.

My mother probably didn't even understand what had happened.

- Why didn't you warn

the funeral services or the police?

- I was lost.

All I cared about was taking care of my mother.

So I went home in a gale

and grabbed a few things.

- And your husband?

- When I arrived, he was already very drunk.

He saw me packing my bag, he thought I was leaving him.

He'd been scaring me for some time.

I didn't want to argue with him.

And then...

- Did he shoot you?

- Yes.

Fortunately, no vital organs were no vital organs were affected.

I fainted.

When I woke up,

night was falling.

I was lying in the woods. I was in pain.

Joachim must have dropped me there, thinking I was dead

And then I turned my head.

I saw him standing by his car. He was taking out some tools.

I realized he was going to bury me

I stood up and went straight ahead.

I heard him shoot.

- What happened next?

- Then I went to my sister's and took care of myself.

- And you impersonated her and made her body disappear

a few days later. The scarf with your blood,

was so that your husband to be accused of killing you.

- But he killed me!

- Why didn't you tell the police, Karen?

- Because he would have killed me for good, like the other one.

And he was threatening to go after my mother and my sister.

- What do you mean, "like the other one"?

- "Me, I don't get left", he shouted.

"You're going to end up like that bitch Coco!"

- I don't know what to think.

His story is crazy.

- Sweetie...

Er...

Nico.

What does your gut tell you? - She's sincere. I believe her.

- Okay. That means J. Davre killed a woman before meeting

Karen Davre. We've got to find her.

- We only have the diminutive Coco.

I've gone through the interrogations

of those close to J. Davre. No first name that could be Coco.

- Ditto for her networks.

- Does this mean we're stuck? - Hum hum.

We're not stuck. - Ah,

you've got something on your mind, Astrid.

- We've indexed our searches

on the wrong axis that got us stuck.

- A wrong axis? - We searched

a woman close to J. Davre

whose first name would correspond the diminutive Coco

and whom he killed according to Karen Davre.

If her testimony is valid,

this woman must have been declared as deceased or missing.

- So, we're going to look for the missing

whose first names match, then target Davre's entourage.

We're looking the other way. - Absolutely. You move around a lot.

- Perdon.

- To reduce searches,

i assumed that this woman would be dead or missing in Ile-de-France.

- So what?

- Cross-referencing criminal records

and disappearances over the last fifteen years,

i found three Corinne and two Colette.

Two deaths are imputed

to guilty parties.

For another,

the death was accidental. - These ones, hop!

- Absolutely. I've excluded these three people.

For the other two,

these are worrying disappearances.

Corinne Ginet and Colette Blangevin.

I found two Cocos.

- So, the first Coco...

Colette Blangevin, born 1950.

Doesn't look like a match.

- Now I've got something that fits better.

Corinne Ginet, Canadian, age 25, in France since 2015

and disappeared after 5 months. I think we've got our Coco.

- I found and contacted Corinne Ginet's of Corinne Ginet on Facebook.

- BFF?

I don't know this acronym. - Best friend forever.

It's her best friend. Kind of like like us. You're my BFF.

- I'm your BFF.

You're my you're my best friend forever.

- C. Ginet had told her she was in love,

but without giving her name.

All she knows is that he lived in the countryside near Paris.

- It won't be enough to justify police custody.

- I knew I'd seen something, but I didn't know what.

She's got it.

...

Monsieur ?

- Yes ?

- Social distancing.

There.

Under the shelf.

There, yes.

- What's this all about again?

- An earring found in your basement

during our search in 2020,

belonging to Corinne Ginet.

- We suspect you

killed her, Mr. Davre.

- This is starting to look like like police harassment.

Is that supposed to prove something?

It's a manufactured product in thousands of copies.

- When a stranger disappears, the police record his DNA

to compare it with unidentified bodies.

- And Corinne Ginet's DNA matches this earring.

Do you deny knowing her, Mr. Davre?

Otherwise, Commander,

you have this woman's body,

or is she another fake dead?

- According to Karen Davre,

her husband planned to bury her in the business park.

- He would have hidden corinne's body?

- It's possible.

But where?

- There's a cemetery.

- That's really twisted.

- Are we going with a team?

- OK.

- They did it, the team at the cemetery!

This earring was on a corpse?

- Yes, a corpse in the Davre family vault.

- Corinne Ginet's hidden by J. Davre.

- And it's also here

that he planned to dispose his wife's body.

- We're not here for the Corinne Ginet case.

This murder will be of a new investigation

in which

Mr Davre is under investigation.

However, i was recalling this case

because it helps us understand what Joachim Davre is capable of.

So yes, i say it loud and clear,

this man tried to kill his wife. I've finished, Madame President.

- Mr. Raven, you have the floor.

- Karen Davre accuses her husband of attempted homicide.

But how can you give any credit to a woman

who lied, who lied to the police,

justice, and who went so far to the point of impersonating

of his sister

without declaring her dead?

*- After five days of debate,

*Joachim Davre was found guilty of attempted homicide

*on his wife, punishable as homicide,

*and he is now implicated in the murder of Corinne Ginet,

*subject of another instruction.

- He was tried for attempted homicide.

He got 20 years, 13 of which are non-compulsory.

- As if he'd killed her. - Yes.

Voluntas pro facto. Intentionality applies to the act.

- Ginet's murder follows. - And Karen Davre?

- She will be tried for impersonation and concealment of a corpse.

I'm sure she'll benefit from extenuating circumstances extenuating circumstances

- Well, I wanted to congratulate you.

You did a great job.

Without you, Joachim Davre would have been released

and we wouldn't have justice to C. Ginet.

- I have to leave, i don't want to be late.

Tetsuo will be at my place in 57 minutes.

- Astrid?

If you need me, i'm here.

- What do I need need you for?

- I don't need you for anything.

- Goodbye.

- Good evening, Tetsuo. - Good evening, Astrid.

- I've made up your bed on the couch, as planned.

- Astrid,

i have something important to tell you.

- Ah. All right, then.

- Something I've been meaning to tell you a long time ago.

My name is not Tetsuo Tanaka.

My real name is Tetsuo Hoshida.

My father was the head of an industrial empire in Japan.

As my eldest son,

i was to take over at the head of his company.

But I never recognized myself in this role,

especially since my father ran his company without humanity,

crushing his employees under pressure.

Refuse this legacy,

would have been perceived as an immense dishonor.

And talking to my father was...

So, 7 years ago,

i preferred to disappear,

evaporate.

I'm a johatsu.

A company helped me disappear.

She put me in touch with Apu Tanaka in France.

Apu took me under his wing.

He became like an uncle to me,

and I ended up taking his name.

And at that moment, i met you.

I wanted to tell you, Astrid.

I've wanted to do it so many times.

And then...

I'm sorry for lying to you, Astrid for lying to you, Astrid

I hope you don't mind.

- Mr. Hoshida, i can't blame you,

since I don't know you.

- Astrid, i'm the one you met.

I'm Tetsuo Tanaka.

- Hum hum. Tetsuo Tanaka doesn't exist.

You are Tetsuo Hoshida, whom I don't know.

I think you should leave my apartment, Mr. Hoshida.

Now.

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