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Yeah, stay here, we'll need to take your statement.

The transfer form's legit.

Look at the signature of the authorising doctor.

Jules Maigret. Funny.

Boss, Raison was the one robber we actually managed to arrest

and the gang just spirited him away.

I thought you asked Cavre to stay here and watch Raison.

I did.

CCTV give us anything?

Okay. So here are our bank robbers,

leaving the ward with their wounded friend,

uniform just standing around.

And Cavre nowhere.

They go into the elevator.

And out into the ambulance bay.

Ambulance waiting, doors open.

They load on their friend,

second the door's closed, they're off.

They're all masked, this is useless.

Keep your hair on, Janvier.

There.

Driver didn't bother to wear a mask.

I know that face, he's one of Traude's guys,

the helicopter pilot.

Very good, kid. He is Rene Lussac.

Well done, Torrence. Can you rewind?

Yep. They have a look-out.

It's Monique, Raison's pretty fiancée.

But where's her baby gone?

Traude sent her to scout the place

and "pretty" Monique took you bozos for a ride.

What's she doing now?

Reporting mission accomplished.

-Can we get closer? -Yeah.

That camera. Move over, Uncle.

Come on, come on.

Here we go.

Three, two, two, nine, eight...

eight, one, nine.

I got everything except the first digit.

That makes ten possibilities, should be easy to trace.

She'll have called Traude.

Get his number, trace all the numbers he calls

and drop a net over the whole gang.

Call me when you have something.

Maigret.

I hear you just lost your only lead.

-Yes. -Can I ask why on earth

you didn't leave one of your team here?

I made a mistake.

I also hear the robbers put your name on the transfer form.

They seem to find this almost as amusing as you do.

Well, I don't find it amusing.

But it interferes with you investigating

the death of your burglar, doesn't it?

I've spoken to the Director and he agreed that Inspector Cavre

will now share the lead in this investigation.

Do you have any objection?

No.

Goodnight.

Hey, are we good?

-Yeah, man. -Let's go.

Sorry I'm late.

Are you shopping?

Just looking.

Bad day?

The score is now bank robbers five, Maigret nil.

I'm now sharing the investigation

with Inspector Cavre.

Do you mind?

I made us a brandade.

-Hmm. -I hope it's not dried out.

That looks perfect.

When are you coming home?

Bad dream?

The same.

-My father wakes me. -Mmm.

The church, Sophie.

She asks the same question.

"When are you coming home?"

You haven't been home since your father died, have you?

No.

Well, maybe you should.

Make your peace.

You think there's peace to make?

I don't know.

But we're trying to have a baby.

You might become a dad, so...

why shouldn't you dream about your father and...

about home...

Saint-Fiacre?

We believe we've identified all five members of Traude's gang,

plus Monique Delacroix, who's working with them.

Very good.

What about Fernand's wife, Rosalie?

I thought she was working with them.

We think so, but her phones have gone quiet

since we visited her, probably because we visited her.

So what's your next move?

The plan is to mine GPS and cell phone data,

track the gang in real time.

Put surveillance on them 24/7, cars, phone, home.

And then when we're ready to swoop, we'll pull 'em all in.

Surveillance on six people round the clock,

that'll be heavy on manpower.

Yeah, but we'll catch them, all of them.

Then I'll ask for more resources.

Come with me, help me make my case.

Why are you letting him take over?

We're working this together.

Well, you don't seem to be working it at all.

I joined La Crim to work with you not that idiot.

Er, that's enough, you two.

Yeah, well, they're not wrong, are they?

As long as we catch them,

what does it matter whose methods we use?

Anything new on the Cuendet case?

I was told to leave him alone.

We never do what we're told.

So the limestone that caved Cuendet's face in

is from a quarry that supplies half of Paris.

That's not much use.

You should read more carefully - it's Liais,

the finest Lutetian limestone, from the Saint Maximin quarry,

which suggests its owner is not poor.

He isn't.

You know who did it.

Try to get a look inside his house.

He's either missing an expensive lamp

or he's got one covered in Cuendet's blood and brains.

What about the bank robberies?

That's what Inspector Cavre asked me,

-very early this morning. -What did you tell him?

That I only talk to Chief Inspectors.

What are you working on?

The one bank robber you did catch,

completely by accident, I hear, then lost,

-leading to your demotion. -Yes, Moers.

There's something odd on his boots.

What?

Mud from the Seine.

What's a bank robber doing wading in the Seine?

The Seine.

-Thank you. -Have a good day.

Just get in, Maigret.

Why are you sniffing around Azhar Rafik?

Why are you asking?

It's a national security matter.

A Syrian businessman is a national security matter?

Pull the other one.

I'm asking politely,

why is your poodle Foulon asking questions about Rafik?

-My poodle? -He's working for you, isn't he?

Poodle. Mmm? Foulon is more of a terrier.

For God's sake, Maigret, don't be so damn touchy.

Look, we have an interest in Rafik.

What? Oil? Weapons?

Will you get off your high horse for one second?

Rafik is our eyes and ears in Damascus,

in fact across the whole of the Levant,

a region where France has many interests.

I'm just a cop, this is way over my head.

My wife is waiting for me at home. Will you stop the van?

-Will you leave Rafik alone? -No. Stop the van.

You don't give me orders.

Bloody fool!

Marriage licence!

A marriage licence?

Oh, I love you, Adam!

I apologise for turning up at your home like this.

-It must be important. -It is.

Colonel Danet said you refused a direct order

to lay off a person of interest to the DGSE.

I don't work for the DGSE, neither do you.

We work with them. We rely on them.

I told you to leave that damn burglar alone.

It's not your case. Drop it!

-I can't. -Do you want to lose your job?

I want to do my job.

A French citizen was murdered.

I know how, where, when, and I'm close to knowing by whom.

How can you, a Prosecutor, tell me to drop it?

May I introduce my wife.

Louise, this is Prosecutor Kernavel.

Madame Maigret.

Louise, please.

It's nice to meet you at last.

Maigret speaks highly of you.

Can we offer you a drink?

That's very kind of you, but no, thank you.

About your burglar, Maigret, maybe you're right.

I'm sorry for the intrusion.

Goodnight.

Pont-Levis Security.

-What are we doing here? -Damaging your careers.

So if you don't want to get involved, walk away.

Is it about your burglar?

Then what do you need?

Pont-Levis handle security for Azhar Rafik.

I believe that on the night of July 30th,

my burglar got past that security

and into Rafik's house, I want to know how.

We need to look at their CCTV back-up.

And they'll check with Rafik before they let us see it.

We tell them we have information about a kidnap threat

against Rafik and we want to see if their security's been breached.

If they're still not happy,

we ask them if they want Rafik to see this.

Pont-Levis security guards.

Asleep on the job.

Hello, Maigret?

Maigret? Hello?

Maigret, are you there?

Madame Prosecutor.

I need to talk to you.

Cavre now has the gang under surveillance.

He wants to arrest.

You can arrest them,

but you'll release them two hours later

because you have nothing to hold them on.

-What would you do? -Catch them in the act.

You mean, wait for another robbery?

How do you even know there's gonna be one?

Because they're still here, still talking to one another.

That suggests there'll be another target

and that will be the big one.

Maigret... I'm under pressure.

I need a result.

Arresting the gang would be a result.

It would make a splash, even if, a year later,

it didn't get a conviction.

Do you understand me?

Yes.

-I mean, can you give me a day? -To do what?

To find out what they'll hit next.

How?

The jeweller's. That's the key.

I'm convinced it was just a diversion.

Alright. One day.

Thank you.

What have we got?

Rafik's house is a fortress.

Every door has magnetic and manual locks,

laser sensors cover every inch of the exterior,

every element has triple redundancies.

Basically impenetrable.

How long until we find out how Cuendet got in?

Already know. He hacked into Pont-Levis.

The system does a routine check for upgrades

at 11:55pm every day.

July 30th, an upgrade is installed.

But it's not an upgrade,

it's a software patch, just for Rafik's house.

It over-rode all the codes and set the electronic keypads to 00.

And copied a two-minute loop onto all the security cameras

starting at precisely 01:05am on July 31st.

Watch.

Exterior of Rafik's house.

See that?

In 12 seconds, you'll see the headlights of the same two cars.

The cameras haven't worked since July 31st and no one noticed?

No. The patch and the loop were on a 30 minute clock themselves,

then they reversed the execute commands,

returned the system to normal operation.

There. Same two cars.

-So that's how he got in. -It might be how he got in,

but it doesn't prove he got in.

It doesn't show what he did when he got in.

It just shows, well, nothing.

Well... good job.

Report to Lucas, she needs your help

for surveillance on the bank robbers.

I'm gonna have one more look at the jeweller's in Rue Charlot.

You said there were two city offices

and one of them was something to do with water?

Er, yeah, some kind of archive,

but no-one actually works there.

-Did they have security? -On the building, yeah. Why?

Don't you have your own computer?

Brilliant. The Seine. Why?

You said the robber had river mud on his boots.

-Which part of the river? -Mud and faecal matter,

-and cocaine and... -Moers, which part of the river?

Have a look.

Er... I see nothing. Squiggles.

They're plant spores, from ferns only found in the Himalayas.

It's a clue.

Jardin des Plantes.

Correct.

The gardens are right on the Seine.

The bank robbers aren't going to bust in the front door,

they're going to come in through the sewers.

Somewhere...

here.

-Lucas? -Mm-hmm?

Get the names and addresses of every bank

on a sewer line or tunnel within one kilometre

of the Jardin des Plantes.

Boss, you've got to tell me what this is about.

It's about water.

The raid on the jeweller's was just a diversion

so the gang could get into the water archives.

The archives aren't staffed but they have armed security 24/7.

I checked the CCTV from the day of the robbery.

The minute the car hits the jeweller's,

both guards run out into the street.

Three seconds later, a man in a baseball cap

enters the building and goes upstairs.

95 seconds later he comes out,

rolled-up plans under his arms.

Remember what I said about...

About Fernand and city infrastructure.

Exactly. So identify all the targets and recall the team.

Inspector Cavre's got everyone watching the gang, we can't just pull them off.

The surveillance is a waste of time.

-But you agreed to it. -Did I?

Well, anyway, get them all back.

If Cavre objects, then tell him to call me.

What if Kernavel objects?

Then tell her to call me.

I've gotta go.

Evelyne?

Come in.

-Justine. -I got in touch.

-We've become friends. -Where is my hat?

The hat she made me.

-I will return it, I promise. -You see?

You can't trust any of them.

Evelyne, you said you received something from Honoré?

If you show it to him he'll take it

and it still won't bring Honoré back.

It came in the post this morning.

The Monaco Pendant.

Justine's right.

If you do give this to me as police I will have to take it.

You see?

Will it tell you who killed him?

I know who killed him, I did.

I said I liked the stupid necklace.

Why didn't I just keep my mouth shut?

If it wasn't this, it would've been something else.

It was in his nature.

Don't blame yourself.

You made him happy.

Go...

take it.

Use it.

Nearest post office is Rue Beccaria.

This was franked in Rue Beccaria.

You think he posted it here?

He didn't want to get stopped with what he'd stolen.

He got in, got the item, got out.

Posted it here in an envelope

already addressed to his girlfriend.

But then they caught him, and what?

Beat him to death in the street?

-Good afternoon. -Get out of the way.

What the hell do you think you're doing?

Give me that phone or I'll kick your teeth in.

Really?

Sorry. I thought you were a pap.

Just leave it, darling.

Nice car.

What's the trunk space like?

Does it have room for a body?

No. They didn't beat him to death in the street.

They dragged him back inside and beat him to death in there.

Maigret?

Do you have any news for me?

Not yet, you gave me a day.

Inspector Cavre.

We waited too long, they're already on the move.

A van picked up Traude, what, ten minutes ago.

We're tracking their phones but we should really pull 'em in,

we just don't have enough manpower to follow them all.

He says the whole gang's moving.

Are they going to the same place or a different place?

Cavre, where are they going?

They all seem to be leaving Paris.

One's in a taxi heading to Orly.

-They're leaving Paris. -No, they're not.

-Maigret, they are! -I bet you they're not.

Oh, for God's sake. Inspector, arrest them all.

Yes, ma'am.

All units, this is Alpha. Pull them in.

Pull them in.

Yeah, I'll tell her.

See you back here.

That was Cavre. The gang all dumped their phones

at exactly the same time, then disappeared.

If you hadn't taken your team off surveillance,

then we wouldn't have lost them, not every single one of them.

Possibly.

You had a theory about the robbers.

-Is it still just a theory? -No.

5th Arrondissement, Jardin des Plantes,

the major private banks and vaults.

They will rob one of these banks,

and they will come at it from below,

using the sewers and drainage tunnels.

Okay. What's your evidence?

-Plant spores and faeces. -Plant spores and faeces?

That and the fact that when the gang robbed the jeweller's,

they also raided the archives of the Paris Water Authority

where all the old sewer maps are kept.

So when will they hit one of these banks?

-Don't know. -You don't know?

-So it could be never. -Not never.

-But you don't know. -No.

Disappointing.

I have a meeting with the Director and he will be...

disappointed.

Any point in us staying, boss?

Yes, if you want to catch them.

So, you really think they're gonna do something?

I do. Lucas, you should order in.

Menus.

What are you having, Janvier?

Fake meat and fresh air salad?

Better than a dead cow, planet killer.

Lebanese for me.

Always Lebanese.

-I thought you were Moroccan. -I am.

What kind of name's Lapointe then?

It's French.

Tell me something.

Why would a thief only break into houses to steal things

when the owners are there?

Perhaps he wants to see if the things are in the right hands.

The right hands?

Perhaps the burglar thinks that too few have too much.

Boss.

Boss!

The security company

for the Banque Privée de Zurich just called.

Their motion sensors have detected vibrations

under the bank's vault.

They say it could be a false alarm.

No. It's them.

Alarms have started. Five minutes.

Get the drills out, okay?

-Let's push those locks through. -Yeah.

Let's go! Clock's ticking.

C'mon. Just cash and bonds. Fast as you can.

C'mon, clock's ticking. Martin, round there.

Alright, let's go.

Down.

Okay, next one.

Let's go.

What's the hold-up, Martin?

-Hello. -Put down your guns.

You really want to turn a ten year sentence into thirty?

End of the road, guys.

Got a woman here.

Hello, Rosalie.

Monique!

How's the baby?

Alright, watch your head.

Well, you did it.

Congratulations.

I got lucky.

I called it one way, you called it the other.

Don't patronise me.

Are you okay, boss?

I just wonder why Rosalie wasn't here.

And you know who else wasn't here?

Rene Lussac, the helicopter pilot.

Correct.

And they took Jacques Raison,

a man with an arm in a sling, but not Lussac?

They came in through the sewers,

why would they need a helicopter pilot?

Exactly. Why?

Torrence, I want you to watch Rosalie's.

For how long?

As long as it takes. Got it.

Lucas, keep in touch with La Tour.

I want updates on Fernand twice a day.

Four times a day.

Goodnight.

Chief Inspector.

My congratulations. A job well done.

Thank you, Madame Prosecutor.

You could have made it easier, you know,

if you'd shared some of your reasoning.

We are on the same side.

I don't really care about sides.

They stop people seeing what's in front of them.

Well, thank you for that piece of wisdom.

-You're welcome. -Is there anything else?

Yes. This is the Honoré Cuendet dossier.

It was compiled by Inspector Foulon and myself.

It shows how Cuendet died, and where, and why,

and who killed him.

Show him in.

Emil Danet is here.

I wonder why.

Perhaps you should care about sides.

Maigret.

Mathilde, how are you?

I'm well, thanks, Emil. Please.

Oh. I need to confirm that our young friend here

will stop harassing Azhar Rafik, who, as I told him,

is an important intelligence source.

Maigret doesn't work for me so I can't.

No, but you do speak to the Director

and you do decide whether the case proceeds or not.

Yes, I do decide. And here...

is more than sufficient evidence for the arrest of Azhar Rafik.

Well, that would be a serious mistake.

The interests of the state...

Does Rafik have diplomatic status?

No. He's an intelligence source.

I don't want to embarrass the intelligence services,

nor Monsieur Rafik, so I won't arrest him.

But I will suggest a compromise.

Maigret will prepare a reconstruction.

He will present his evidence at the scene of the alleged crime.

Rafik and his lawyer can challenge the evidence.

Then I'll decide on the next step.

No, I can't agree to that.

Oh, I'm sorry, Emil, is that your call to make?

Are you Rafik's lawyer now?

It's this or I arrest him.

Sides, Maigret?

Over to you.

Thank you.

What's a reconstruction?

It's a re-enactment.

The law allows the police to show how a crime took place,

at the scene of the crime, in the presence of the accused.

The victim's family can attend as well.

That's you.

What do you advise?

It has to be your decision.

It was a brutal crime so the reconstruction

will be brutal too.

Do you want to upset us even more?

I want to upset them.

So they know what they've done.

So they find the knowledge hard to bear.

Big day.

For both of us.

Will you call me as soon as you know the result of the test?

This reconstruction is for the police to describe

the events they allege took place in this house,

which led to the death of Honoré Cuendet.

Normally a reconstruction takes place after the suspect

has been arrested, interviewed and charged.

Out of respect for Monsieur Rafik

and Mademoiselle Buondonno,

we are giving them an early chance

to challenge the evidence.

Madame Tielemans, can we start?

As long as it's clear that my clients are here voluntarily

and can end this whenever they choose.

Yes. Chief Inspector Maigret.

The dossier contains copies

of all written and photographic evidence.

July 30th, 11:55pm.

Pont-Levis Security is hacked.

A software patch is installed,

disarming every lock in the house.

At 1:05am on July 31st, a two-minute loop is copied

onto every security camera, effectively blinding them.

That allowed Honoré Cuendet to get access to the house.

What about the security guards?

In your dossiers you'll see photos of the guards

in their van asleep.

Cuendet knew this because he'd watched this house

for six weeks, watched it from the Hotel Le Bouglion.

Once inside the house, Cuendet made his way upstairs

and into the master bedroom.

Where he took what he came for, the Monaco pendant,

which was on Ms Buondonno's bedside table.

As if she would leave something so valuable beside her bed.

According to the interview with Ms Buondonno

in the magazine Luxe Plus Luxe that's exactly what she does.

Cuendet took the pendant and left the room.

He went back down the stairs. He left the house.

Oh, so he was alive when he left?

And if the cameras were blind,

how are you so sure that he was even in the house?

You don't know. You have nothing.

Not quite nothing. Evelyne.

I received this in the mail two days ago.

With a note from Honoré saying it would look better on me.

I don't want it. You have it.

That's the pendant he took from your bedside.

He had the envelope with him.

He posted it in the mailbox outside the side door,

seconds before you caught him.

You caught him but you couldn't find the pendant.

You dragged him inside.

Is this really necessary?

A reconstruction must also show how the death happened.

Cuendet was hit from behind,

by a square object made of limestone.

He was stunned, not killed.

He was turned over and hit again.

He was hit in the face five times.

Then he was hit another five times,

this time by a left-handed person.

Those were the blows that killed him.

What hand are you holding your pen in?

Then Honoré Cuendet was stuffed in the trunk of a car

and dumped on the banks of the Seine,

where his body was found the next morning.

That is our reconstruction of the death of the man you loved.

Madame Tielemans? Monsieur Rafik?

This is all a fantasy.

You can't prove he was in the house,

you can't prove a thing.

But I can try.

Inspector Foulon, please arrest Monsieur Rafik

and Mademoiselle Buondonno.

-Alright, on your feet. -Get off!

Time to go.

Justine, Evelyne, shall we go?

Yeah.

My home is your home.

Can I go now?

I'll see you again.

La Crim, Lucas.

Thanks. Er, hold on. Boss.

My contact at La Tour prison.

Gustave Fernand's just checked into the infirmary

complaining of severe abdominal pain.

They've called a medevac helicopter.

La Crim.

Oh, hello, Uncle.

Torrence. He says Rosalie just left the house,

carrying a small suitcase.

Get onto the Prefecture. They have to track that helicopter.

-But it'll just be going to... -It isn't going to any hospital.

Tell Torrence to follow Rosalie.

She must not see him.

You worked it out?

This is the deal Fernand made.

He gave Traude the plans for the robberies,

in return Traude is going to spring him from prison.

Guess who's flying the helicopter?

Helicopter pilot Rene Lussac.

Hello, Rosalie.

So Nicolas Traude kept his promise.

No, get off me!

Get off me!

Get off me.

Get off me!

Go.

Armed police!

-Police! Don't move! -Police!

Stop right there. Do not move!

Do not move!

On your knees.

I'm sorry, Rosalie.

At least you'll be together, even if it is in prison.

That's enough.

Oof! She got you boss. She must like you.

Do you want to add assaulting an officer to everything else?

-Take them in. -Come on, love.

Darling, I'm sorry, I just...

I think I'm gonna start moving the stuff out of the spare room.

You've done the test?

I've done the test.

I'll be home as soon as I can.

I'm afraid I've, um...

been in a bit of a fight.

Oh... What?

Come home.

Um, home soon.

So, two victories.

The bank robbers and the killers of your burglar.

Three victories. You. Us.

All three of us.

Um, there you are. Good as new.

Ignore it.

Oh, it's Foulon.

Aristide?

Thank you for letting me know.

One less victory. Honoré Cuendet's killers got away.

I'm sorry, I have to go out.

I won't be long.

Well?

I didn't come all this way just to be stared at.

Where are Rafik and Buondonno?

Probably halfway to Damascus.

-Was it you? -No.

More likely a balls-up at your end,

or the Syrians sneaked him out.

Rafik was of value to them too.

I told you to leave it alone, Maigret.

Now you've lost your case, I've lost my source.

Nobody wins.

Especially not Justine Cuendet.

Maybe she should have brought up her son to be a better citizen.

I bet this'll ease her pain.

She's the mother of a thief after all.

She can share it with that pretty little hat maker.

Do you know what they'll want to do with this?

Yes, cash it in,

live it large for the rest of their lives.

Everyone's a saint till they get the smell of money.

I should make you swallow this.

No, please!

They already said they don't want it,

or your dirty money.

Okay?

Not perfect, but better.

Where were we?

We were celebrating.

Just a sip.

Here.

To us, Maigret.