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- Sir! I've got a flat tire. Please help me

My car's here.

- I'm not leaving my post.

- A tow truck, it's going to cost me a fortune.

I've got a spare. But alone... It'll go fast.

- I can't leave my post. - Between the two of us, we'll only be 5 minutes.

- Where's your car? - It's just over there.

...

Thanks for your time. Did it take too long? - No.

34 minutes anyway!

Alarm. Fuck!

...

Hey, who's there?

You don't belong here.

Oh !

Damn!

- Hello, Miss Nielsen. - How do you know my name?

- I read it on the flow chart. - This place is

a judicial storage area reserved for a few people.

So what are you doing here?

- I'm authorized. You don't have to worry. Just tell me...

Is this the file of the Landru investigation?

- No touching.

It's written.

"H.-D. Landru" case.

Your identity?

- Véronique Beauvois. Perdon. - Ah! "Véronique Beauvois. Perdon".

- I run the national pole

for judicial affairs. Since the death of your director...

- He's been killed.

- Your department has been to the interdepartmental office.

I've been the director for 5 years of criminal documentation.

And other departments. - I know, I know.

- I'm not interested in criminal documentation.

- In five years, you couldn't? - Eh no! But I'm passionate

by your expertise. I've set up my office

in the premises for a few weeks.

I would like to know how your service works.

Phone. - My phone is ringing

Please don't touch anything. I'll get it.

Yes? Hello, Raphaëlle. I'm at in the criminal documentation department

with a lady. Madame Beauvois. She's following me. I'll explain later.

- And if not, I was wondering... Tetsuo, have you seen him again?

- Yes, I saw Mr. Oshida again. I don't call him by his first name.

We've just met. - You bet!

Are you pretending... you don't know him?

- That's not what I said. Tetsuo Oshida is the son

of a large Japanese family. He knows Apu Tanaka, the grocer

where I do my shopping. They have no family ties.

- Are you going to see him again? - Yes. Mr. Oshida appreciates

bach's music. We're going to listen to it together.

- At your place? - It would be socially unseemly

to invite to my home a virtual stranger. We must meet again

in the park on the bench where we first met.

- This is romantic. - Your shoelace is untied.

- Ah yes!

- Would you to tie your shoelace?

- I can do it.

Finally...

I don't mind.

- There! It's done

Dad taught me how to tie my shoes. - Thank you, Astrid. Shall we?

- Yes.

Raphaëlle.

- Do we have an ID on the victim? - Yes. He had his wallet.

Julien Zimmer. age 40. Head of marketing

at France's leading toy manufacturer. You are aware

the commissioner's protocol? - Which protocol?

I hate him. - Commandant Coste.

Wearing a jumpsuit allows you to crime scene.

This garment is adapted to the situation. And legal.

My backpack is protected too. - Looks good on you.

- I'm sure it does... Thanks, Nico. All right, then!

Holy shit!

Hello, Fournier. - Hello.

- Good morning, Dr. Fournier.

- Hello, Astrid.

The head is here.

- What was he decapitated with?

- The soft tissue is well sectioned.

There is no tear at the cut.

- Yes, there is. - No broken bones in the neck.

The victim was decapitated using a guillotine.

- A guillotine? - Yes. Or a Monte-à-Regret.

A "national razor."

A "great widow". - Doctor.

There is no mention of a widow or a razor.

The guillotine allows decapitation.

- This man has been guillotined

in this building? - Yes. There are three types

of bloodstains. Projected projected, passive and transferred.

A passive spot.

Blood has drained away from the victim's body

after decapitation. A projected spot.

There, the neck was

severed. Then the heart pumped to death. Hence the blood.

- Charming...

- This word is inappropriate.

This is so

that France proceeded

the death penalty until 1981.

- OK. So 2025,

this person was beheaded

by a guillotine.

The new commissioner is going to love it. - He's going to love it...

Thank you, Fournier. - Bye-bye.

- Is it three meters high?

And how much does it weigh?

- A guillotine can weigh from 250 to 300kg.

- A guillotine 3m high and weighing 300kg was moved into the building

to guillotine the victim,

then it would have been brought out

discreetly? And in 30 minutes? - In less than 34 minutes

- Sounds impossible.

- Yes, Captain.

- Astrid thinks

that the victim... - ... was guillotined on the spot.

Investigate with method

without following your of your teammate.

- Astrid establishes the facts. And our method here,

it's all about teamwork.

- The... ? - Teamwork

- Please find where the victim was guillotined.

- We've done it. The victim was guillotined on the spot.

- Good! Lieutenant Nielsen. - No shouting.

- This doesn't add up!

- Don't shout. - She asks you not to shout.

- Coste! I'm waiting

your minutes!

- Doesn't he want to give me detention?

- That's for sure. The victim was guillotined on the spot.

- You didn't make a mistake. He's the one who knows nothing.

- I looked the surveillance cameras.

I didn't see any vehicles

that could carry a guillotine.

- And the immat' of the broken-down woman? - Unreadable. We know nothing about her.

- The victim? - Zimmer is unknown to the police.

He was a model employee in a marketing department

He called the office and his mother. - Mr. Clean.

- Let's investigate the victim.

Look for guillotines. We'll go see Fournier.

- The commissioner wants your your minutes. It is now 10:52.

- He'll wait.

- I'm going with Astrid.

- I'm in. OK. That's it, then. I'll type up the minutes.

- You have 1h07 left.

- Thank you for your time.

- Hello, Fournier. - Hello again. Have a look.

I've got this for you.

- What's this? - Metal residue.

- Hardened steel residue high-carbon steel.

- From the guillotine?

- From the blade. This metal alloy dates from the 19th century.

- OK.

- Right there. At the neck.

There's a 1cm tear

invisible on the crime scene.

- This certainly means that the blade has a defect.

- The blade has a defect. - Yes. I'll note it in the report.

- Thank you, Fournier.

...

- Miss Nielsen!

- Madame Beauvois.

- Don't mind me.

- Impossible, because you're here. - Go on with your work.

I don't want to disturb you. - You are disturbing me.

- How do you find your way around?

It's so vast.

How many levels are there? - Five levels.

- Each floor being 1,750 square meters, that's...

- 8,750 square meters. - 8,750 square meters of archives.

Fascinating.

I must leave you now. And with regret.

I hope we can talk again.

Good-bye, Miss Nielsen.

- I've spotted two guillotines.

At the Musée de la Préfecture de Police and at the Mucem in Marseille.

They didn't move from there. - OK. According to Fournier,

we're looking for a 19th century guillotine with a defective blade.

- 19th and... ?

- OK. It works.

...

- Commissioner.

- I didn't make a mistake.

May I? - Yes, go ahead.

What are you doing? This isn't a puzzle workshop.

- The puzzle workshop takes place 1st Thursday of the month at 7pm.

To participate,

you need to register. I'll give you the coordinates

- It's going to be okay.

- Here is a drawing of a Berger model guillotine

with which Zimmer was decapitated in less than 34 minutes in the building.

- The victim was not guillotined in situ.

- Si. This model has modular design.

It's transportable.

I made a model.

There are 15 pieces. The winder. The sheep. The blade.

Spacer. Basket.

- We're okay! We get it. - I'm not done yet. There's fifteen of them.

- 15 pieces. I get it. - No. 15 guillotine carriers.

If each piece is carried by a different individual

the guillotine can be mounted, proceed with the execution

and dismantle the guillotine in less than 34 minutes in the building.

So in situ. Don't make a mistake.

- 15 crazies walking around Paris with a piece of guillotine?

- I didn't say fifteen lunatics but fifteen guillotine carriers.

- So we have to find fifteen culprits.

- It's not just unbalanced people.

Use the guillotine, it makes sense to them.

- A staged event?

- Yes. - Julien Zimmer didn't commit

any identified crime. He is not in any criminal file.

- Is this a crime that under the radar?

- Was the victim guillotined in a disused building?

- Not quite. There was a security guard.

- This building has been chosen.

There's a connection between him and the crime they think

that he's guilty. It was risky. Your killers are organized.

There's a head.

A leader at last. And he led them into his morbid project.

- So we have to find the head. - And cut it off.

the guillotine

- Where? - Does it speak to you Raymond Lenoir?

- Yes. I saw him go by. He was the the executor of the works

from 1967 to 1981. Is that it? - Yes, that's it.

The last active executioner in France. 210 executions.

- A civil servant serial killer.

- We're executioners from father to son.

Georges is Raymond's son.

He manages his father's museum. Instruments of torture. And...

- Dad's guillotine? - A Berger model

with a defect. - I'll call Raph'.

- My insurance covers death.

- Deaths? Insurance? What are you talking about?

- Insurance that covers

my professional activities. - Mr. Lenoir is a neurosurgeon.

- It's a precision profession.

Mistakes can happen. And the Americanization of society...

- You're not here for the death of one of your patients, Mr Lenoir.

- Why then? - We suspect you

that you used your guillotine to kill Julien Zimmer.

- Perdon? - Just like your father did.

- My father wanted me to take over from him.

At the age of 16, I assisted him my first and last execution.

To see a stream of blood a body being guillotined,

a head rolling...

The eyes. I'll never forget the condemned man's eyes

They blinked again as the head the head was detached from the body.

- We get it. - It's a terrible thing to witness.

I don't cut off heads,

i fix them.

- Looking for the guillotine

your father's guillotine you display in your museum.

- The one I couldn't stand knowing was in my house,

that I sold at auction two months ago?

- Ah...

- Why didn't we get about this sale?

- It's reserved for connoisseurs. They don't advertise.

Associations have already succeeded this kind of sale.

- Is that legal? - Yes, perfectly legal.

- This one's expensive. - She executed

famous people during the Revolution.

- And Lenoir's?

- There. She executed France's french death row inmate

- Charming... - Not the right word.

- Arthur Duplessis sold it on February 26, 2025.

- Auctioneer. - Duplessis.

- The auctioneer is submissive

to a duty of confidentiality.

- This duty is governed by article R321-38 of the French Commercial Code.

- That's right. You're well informed. - There was an auction

that you organized during which you bid

on a guillotine. - Yes. I hated that sale

My area of expertise, is 19th century painting.

But it works. The guillotine went for over 250,000 euros.

- Could we have the name of the buyer?

- There will be a rogatory commission.

- So... - So...

We're going to save time.

So! This guillotine has been sold...

So...

To Mr. Xiao Wenzhing, a Hong Kong national.

You'll have trouble reaching him. I had to deal with an intermediary.

- People become available when the police call them.

How is that not possible?

- Paris and Beijing are

on bad terms.

- The Quai d'Orsay knows that the suspect has committed violence

and that he buys instruments of torture?

We've got a guy who cuts off heads.

- Do you think I've been sitting with my arms folded?

My contact at Foreign Affairs will take action.

Wenzhing is an entrepreneur who has a role in the French economy.

- So Zimmer's life takes a back seat. - What about Cyril Dupuis?

The body has been found

of a certain Cyril Dupuis. He was guillotined.

Indonesian peanut chicken. - I love it.

I admire the way Astrid erased Tetsuo from her memory.

- Is that possible? - Yes, it's possible.

- It's horrible for Tetsuo.

- Yeah...

If you think about it for 5 minutes, I wouldn't mind forget you...

to meet you again. It's romantic

- I'd be afraid you wouldn't like me.

- Why would you say that? - No, don't!

I need the peanuts.

- I peel some more.

- Here...

- I'm out of peanuts.

(I want you.)

- No. You're pissing me off! - Yes, I am.

- Bach's music is...

- Er...

You were about to interrupt.

This is inappropriate. Now you may speak.

- Bach's music is like mathematical reasoning.

An initial hypothesis. The theme.

Rigorous development. A conclusion.

- They are also constructed like mechanical puzzles.

Another one.

- Raph'. I investigated

at the scene of the execution.

- There is a link between the place of execution executions and the crimes

for which they are punished.

Excuse me, Nico. You were saying? Did you find anything?

- No. The warehouse where Zimmer was killed has been abandoned for 3 years.

It used to be the property of a closed aeronautics company.

- And the banks where Cyril Dupuis was found?

- Nothing.

- Coste !

Did you ask Delphine Simon?

- Yes. What's the problem? - It's about squeezing the hierarchy.

Investigation,

it needs rules. - The murderer will continue.

And I'm having trouble to interrogate our suspect,

Xiao Wenzhing. So the rules...

Are you afraid

of upsetting your bosses?

Is this the real problem? - Are you done? Are you finished?

- Yes.

- Look at the text message i sent you

an hour ago. - An hour ago?

Oh... Is he in the audition room? - Yes.

He's not happy

Neither is the Quai d'Orsay. I hope it was it was worth putting

my career. - Thank you.

- Don't forget your overdue resumes.

- Yes. OK. He's very efficient. But he annoys me with my parking tickets.

- Give them back in time...

- We're giving them back

on time, us. - It doesn't hinder an investigation

my late P.-V. - Nora and I see Wenzhing.

Finish your P.-V.

- Huh? No ? Are you serious?

Nora...

- (Cheer up!)

- You're taking a risk by stopping me.

- Are you going to pillory us acquired in 2010 in London?

Or tear us apart

with your easel acquired in 2012 in New York?

- It's not a crime

to own these instruments. - As long as you don't use them.

Xiao Wenzhing laughs. - I'm a collector

My collection is famous.

- You have acquired

a Berger model guillotine.

Where is it? - Let's talk about this guillotine

I won't buy from France anymore.

Your administration is killing me. - I don't understand it.

- I'm still in France waiting for authorization

to take her out of the country.

The auctioneer who sold it to me help me with the process

and he's kindly renting me his warehouse in the meantime.

- Arthur Duplessis?

- Yes. He's a connoisseur of the of the guillotine.

He told me how to use it.

- Why would Duplessis guillotine people?

His taste for the morbid? - Astrid investigated him.

Duplessis is his mother's name.

His father is Brubaker.

- His name appears

in a criminal file. Michel Brubaker directed

a penitentiary from 1971 to 1982. He was murdered

by Claude Bongeais, an inmate who was serving a life sentence.

- Abolition's detractors were talking about the case were talking about the case.

Claude Bongeais should have

beheaded in 1981.

The death penalty had already been abolished.

Bongeais beheaded, Brubaker would not have been killed.

- And what became of Bongeais? - He died in prison in 1996.

- Why would Duplessis take revenge on Zimmer or Dupuis?

What does this have to do with his prison governor father?

- Duplessis may want

to rehabilitate the death penalty not revenge?

- In that case, how many heads cut off how many heads?

- Duplessis has been called. But no trace of the guillotine.

- Ah... - Thanks, guys

- Well, well, well! You've made a fool of us.

- What are you talking about?

*- You hid the fact that you were guarding mr. Wenzhing's guillotine

- I forgot. I often do this for my customers. Please check.

- But you don't have the guillotine.

- There's been a theft. It happens.

*- We visited your apartment.

*We found a guillotine scope

Berger model. Just like the one we're looking for.

The one that killed two people.

- They're criminals.

*- Why? *- They killed

someone. - Who?

*Who works with you?

Who are the other guillotine guillotine bearers?

You have manipulated

people into moving a piece of the guillotine.

- No !

- You've put them under your power. And as a boss, you're risking a lot!

*- That's not true! *- You were hiding the guillotine from us

- For her. - For who?

- The widow.

*It was for her sake they were both killed.

- So their leader is a woman.

- The Widow. Duplessis says

that it's a discussion group

that brings together relatives of murder victims.

- They were talking. Encouraged by the Widow,

they thought the culprits were getting away with it.

- They punished them themselves.

- This is the Committee for Justice. - What now?

Find the list of this group and we'll stop them.

- It's not easy. They come anonymously

in this group. Duplessis doesn't have the names.

- We have no way

identify them? - Yes

There is a way. The files. - What about them?

- The people on the Justice Committee for Justice met

in a discussion group.

They talked on a subject that brings them together.

These are the criminal cases they've been through.

We have to find the files. - If we go back

their stories,

we'll identify them.

- One member,

his sister was raped and killed while running in the forest.

- Do you have more details? - It was during the Christmas vacations.

- I found the file. - Yes.

"Judith Vivant. age 32. Killed in Rambouillet forest

"December 27, 2020. A man was suspected and tried.

"He was released for lack of evidence."

- A mother said her son had been stabbed eleven times.

- "Moussa Kanté. Stabbed eleven times in a parking lot.

"Since the killer was irresponsible he was not tried."

*- He thought a medical error had killed his wife.

*He was from a certain background. It took place in a luxury hospital

*in Saint-Cloud. - "Marie Viage,

"wife of Michel Bressy, who died in a clinic in Saint-Cloud."

- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,

6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. One missing.

- The Widow's.

- Exactly.

- What else did you find out about her? - She was discreet

She was called the Widow because her fiancé had died.

When she brought us together to create this committee,

she transformed herself.

She told us that we were an army of good.

I would have killed far and wide for her.

- You killed twice for her. - Almost three.

- Is there a 3rd person?

Who is this person? - I don't... I don't know who that is.

The Widow would come to our house to give us the name

of the next culprit to be guillotined.

She was supposed to come this morning.

- We didn't catch any.

None are at home.

- So they're on their way

to kill someone. - There's a trail

right in front of us.

- Let's try your method.

- The jackal method?

- Gathering clues. Hypothesis.

- Analysis. Coordination. And... - Hearings. Legalization.

What do we know about her?

- She's in her 40s. - She's avenging the death of her fiancé.

- Killed by 3 people. - Free.

- She miscarried.

- Perdon?

- Duplessis told me this at the interrogation.

- I know the file.

- Here's the criminal documentation. - This is Astrid's refuge.

Don't touch!

Don't touch.

- Does it fit?

- No problem at all.

- I found the file. Fanny Norban.

- Would that be the Widow? - Yes.

- Why is this? - 20 years ago, she assaulted

a police commissioner, accusing him of improper investigation

into the death of her fiancé. She said

that those who had killed him were responsible for her miscarriage.

- The miscarriage.

- Who is her fiancé? - Gilles Jacquemin.

- What happened?

- He's dead

following an alcoholic coma at the end of a student party.

- He was a student at the Grande Ecole international School of Paris.

It's a school

engineering school.

Look at the address.

- This is the of the disused building.

- The party's over

near the banks of the Marne, where the 2nd victim was found.

- Delphine Simon was right. The location is important.

- Thank you, Astrid.

- I'll call you back.

at this great school

I found this in the archives of the school's website.

Gilles Jacquemin with Julien Zimmer,

Cyril Dupuis and Auguste Grandin.

- Is Grandin the next victim? - He's nowhere to be found.

His phone isn't ringing anywhere. - He's at the execution site

- Where is it? - There's a link

between places

and the original case. I know this place.

The 1st victim was found in this school's the former premises of this school

The 2nd victim, on the banks of the Marne

near the barge where the student party took place.

- The ordeal of the Widow's fiancé. - Yes.

The 3rd execution will be there where we found

the body of Gilles Jacquemin. - Where?

- In the Bois de Vincennes.

In a well-defined triangle. - Perfect! Coste!

Perran!

...

- Auguste Grandin.

The committee found you guilty of the murder of Gilles Jacquemin

And you will be executed. - Stop!

Police! - Lie down!

- Don't move!

- Stop! - Come on!

Stand up!

- Monsieur Grandin. It's the police. It's all right

- Take it all away!

- Coste. Why didn't you shoot?

- I don't know. My gun jammed. My gun jammed.

- Right on! That's what I'll say in my report.

But if I were you, i'd consult on that hand.

- You are charged with two murders and attempted murder

You are the instigator of these beheadings.

- It's all about justice.

- You don't take the law ourselves. That would be chaos.

- The investigation into Gilles' death

was botched. They concluded that he was responsible for his drunkenness.

But they made him drink. - Who did?

Julien Zimmer ? Cyril Dupuis ? Auguste Grandin ?

- Yes. The cops didn't listen to me.

They said Gilles shouldn't have drink so much. But it's them.

- How can you be so sure? - Gilles hated drinking.

But they forced him.

Gilles had become their scapegoat

because he didn't belong to the same world arrogant Parisians.

He thought this school, was his chance.

He didn't want to be a farmer like his father.

He wanted time to be together with our baby...

They came from good society. Grandin's father was a lawyer.

I'm sure he protected his son and his friends.

Grandin was the worst.

Gilles was afraid of him.

That night, I'm sure he was the one who forced Gilles to drink.

- Monsieur Grandin made your husband your husband his scapegoat.

But, sorry, that night, he wasn't at the party.

- No, he wasn't!

- He was in hospital

for appendicitis. - l killed Gilles!

- We checked.

- Gilles...

i miss him so much.

- I congratulate you all on this survey

and for your composure. Lieutenant Nielsen. I owe you

an apology.

Your way of thinking is different. It's an added value for us.

- I'm qualified. - Yes.

You're qualified.

Coste. Your way of doing things is different

from mine. I think I'm i'm beginning to like it.

So, let's resume our relationship on a new footing.

- Nice to meet you.

What will our collaboration yield?

- I've never found poetic sunsets.

You know, Astrid, i once had a girlfriend.

I wasn't honest with her.

I didn't tell her everything about myself, especially about my past.

I wanted to preserve her.

But I should have told her everything, who I really was.

I wish I hadn't.

- I had a boyfriend too.

He hadn't told me all about his past.

But then I realized that if he hadn't told me,

it was because I'd never asked him the questions the questions.

I wish I hadn't.

- In Japan,

they say that the past cannot be changed.

...

- Could you... tell me about your past?

Tetsuo.

- Yes, Astrid.

...

- Yes, Commissioner.

An aberration. 8,750 square meters in the age of dematerialization.

Worth a look.

I'll call in an audit. Good evening, Mr. Reeve.

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