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Hello Ben, it's Dad.

I can't reach you.

Please call me back.

How did you sleep?

The new boss, he showed up this morning.

Did he go to business school?

He looks like a marketing director at a seminar.

Try to give him a chance before you murder him.

I imagine he'll do the same for you.

But I sure hope he does.

I wish he would respect me.

Why do you want a fight at all costs?

Why do you want harmony at all costs?

The famous captain Cain.

Late to be true to your reputation,

I presume.

You will laugh.

I couldn't find my chair.

Where were you looking for it?

In your bed?

Sorry.

The reality goes far beyond what I have read

in your file Cain.

Because I have a file?

We all have a file.

Don't ever try to read yours.

We found the victim's papers in his car.

Vincent Malherbe, 42, born in Martigues.

Known to our services?

No.

He is an executive in a company of micro-computing in Luminy.

He had to jog before going to work.

And they say that sport concerve.

I'm not sure I'll appreciate your humor.

Tell me, I hear that you and Moretti were very close.

I hope you won't have the same inclinations.

Because there's only one boss here.

Let me guess.

It's you.

Here you go.

I function differently than Moretti.

I want hour-by-hour memos,

daily reports, in short, work by the book.

I hope we understand each other.

Captain.

Commander.

For me, this is a good start.

It's especially for you that it will be tricky.

Which side will you choose?

I have no desire to intervene

in your war of little roosters.

I hear your new boss is quite good looking.

I am much more attractive than he is.

Then you're crazy about me, aren't you?

You're right to remind me, I had forgotten.

Naughty.

What about the dead guy?

He was killed instantly.

Shot through the heart.

Look at these bruises.

He has some on his back too.

Was he beaten?

Definitely.

But not at the time of the murder.

2-3 days before.

Torture, beatings?

Yes. What else?

Yes.

What else?

Madame Malherbe?

Fred Cain. I'm in charge.

Lieutenant Delambre.

I can't get it through my head.

I keep calling him on his cell phone.

I want him to answer.

Who are you?

Neima Shaim.

They call me Betty,

I am Nathalie's best friend.

Did you know the victim?

Yes, of course, for a long time.

I was there when they first met.

Did your husband have any problems?

Any enemies?

What enemies?

We're very quiet people.

I am a kindergarten director, my husband is a simple executive.

We were happy,

He could have problems at work with his colleagues, his boss.

In short, no flaws?

No dark side?

Vincent was a player.

He frequented gambling circles.

Recently, he had lost a large sum of money,

and he had not paid it back.

You see, Mr. Malherbe was not as banal

as you seem to want to say.

If not, did you make love often?

The captain wants to know if you had recently seen your husband's body.

I don't understand.

His body was covered with bruises. He had been hit several times.

He could have been the victim of a punishment from his creditors.

Two days ago, he had not these marks.

This is the last time we had sex.

It will be necessary to go to recognize the body.

I leave with you.

Have the courage.

How is it going?

I'm fine.

I don't see any buyers.

Your parents must be turning over in their graves.

So, you need my guidance.

Well, the first time.

If I say underground casino, gambling hall,

what do you say?

If the guys you're looking for play big

it's at the alpines, above.

Shall I go there from you?

It's been a long time since I've been there.

The guy who runs it is called Louis Kovacs.

He arrived in Marseille 4-5 years ago.

I already told you this story, isn't it ?

I had forgotten.

You are taking risks by coming to see me.

I'm not so easy to get along with anymore.

Did you have something else to ask me?

You don't have to be mad at me,

but I'm not holding you back.

If you had to define Captain Cain in a few words, you would say?

Efficient,

lonely,

unpredictable.

I would say individualistic, unstable and out of touch.

He often takes people the wrong way,

but he is a very good cop.

You have been working together for quite some time

and I know that it is not always easy.

Does he often go it alone?

It's never without reason.

It must not be easy to work with him.

It's never easy to find your place in the police force,

especially when you are a young woman.

I don't care if I have a man or a woman

under my command.

One day or another you will replace him. You know it and he knows it.

Don't lose sight of that.

Are you done?

Have you chosen your side?

Did you just make your report?

Leave me alone, Cain. Friendly advice.

Still, we're friends.

Nice.

Here's a second piece of advice: Go easy on Leroux.

It only took you five minutes to piss you off.

He had read my file: so he had a little prejudice.

If not, what did he talk to you about?

I'll start:

"You're a girl like I like, disciplined

and with esprit de corps."

Is that it?

You've got it all wrong.

The trouble with you is that it would have stuck,

even with a less bossy guy.

Moretti is not coming back.

You have to accept that.

Advice from friends?

That's it.

It's weird this change of atmosphere.

Yes, I went to the morgue

and it was much the same atmosphere.

Delambre.

Tell me, I just read your reports.

Vincent Malherbe was a regular in the underground gambling rings?

I suppose you've planned some raids for tonight.

I even have an address and a name.

My informant told me that it could only be there.

How reliable is your informant?

He has never let me down.

Put the package.

You close the box and you take the boss.

Nice move, captain.

He's crazy about me.

I'm confused.

Please, leave her alone, she's sleeping.

Yes, but we have some questions to ask her.

We're running out of time.

Why? If you find her killer-- in the next 24 hours, Vincent will be resurrected.

Is that it?

You're full of it.

You're gonna need a little help.

I'm sure I won't.

If Leroux sees you helping me,

your promotion is over.

I'd hate it.

Come on.

You were born under the regime of community of property?

And you don't just have your husband's gambling debts.

You also have the credits to pay off.

How do you plan to do that?

I have no idea.

You risk being evicted from this sublime place.

Your husband was rather inconsistent.

Have you ever lost someone close to you captain?

If so, you know that the material aspect is secondary.

How long did you know that your house was mortgaged?

A few weeks.

How did you react?

What do you think?

Me, I think that it is from that moment

that you became aware that your husband was an idiot.

My husband was a gambler.

It allowed him to escape from the routine.

He's unpredictable and that's what I liked about him.

But contrary to what you say,

I have a hunch that this episode has broken the spell, and forever.

And that Prince Charming has turned into a toad.

Conclusion? Go ahead.

Well, no.

This is the part of the investigation that I prefer,

the one where everything is possible.

The one where you don't finish your sentences,

you leave them hanging,

you let your imagination wander.

I love it.

Carpet.

Police, we don't move anymore, we stay calm!

We almost waited.

What happened?

I was on a very big job.

Mr. Kovacs.

Did you hear about me?

Yes, they even recommended you very warmly.

Vincent Malherbe, do you know him?

Yes, he's a regular.

He was.

It was: he died this morning.

He owed you some money, I think.

Take it easy.

What exactly are you talking about?

A guy who got shot in the heart

and then got a beating just.

How much did he owe you?

A few thousand euros,

I don't know exactly.

Yeah, that's right.

From a certain amount, we don't know exactly.

10,000 more, 10,000 less? How much exactly?

Ninety thousand.

Yeah, I'd kill for a lot less than that.

SRPJ.

Take a good look at the place because

you may never see it again.

You don't have a gun license, I bet.

Yes, I do.

The gun registered at the prefecture.

I even know a commissioner who can testify to my good character.

Yes ? What's his name?

Moretti. Do you know him?

Never heard of him.

Okay.

Don't tell me that Moretti is your CI.

You went to see him at without telling me?

Do I have to answer to you?

This is disgusting.

We're talking about Moretti here,

you know very well what he means to me.

Really complain to Leroux. You're already in his papers.

You're a pain in the ass.

And the big guy, do we put him in custody?

No, we leave him alone.

More or less.

He has just entered a house with an envelope,

probably with money.

It's probably his house. Do you write down the address?

Now he's going to do a bit of swelling.

You can do it too,? It wouldn't hurt you,

it's starting to loosen up, all that.

I think I'll take your advice Lucie.

I'll sign up.

Captain, you're welcome.

Is this room yours?

What do you teach?

English boxing? Thai boxing? Krav Maga?

Kickboxing.

With my bad legs,

I'll have a hard time participating.

Anyway, I only teach to women.

Really? Why is that?

They are the most vulnerable.

Madame Malherbe.

Do you believe in chance?

I do not.

Nathalie needs to clear her head. Can you understand?

I'll make myself very small. I promise.

Girls, let's make a big circle.

We'll hold hands.

We're going to try to give some energy to Natalie.

I think she needs it.

Does one of you have something to say?

Yes.

Yes Cécile, go ahead.

A few days ago, on the street, there were two guys who followed me.

It was late, 2am, I had just come back from a party.

They insulted me:

"Bitch. You're good, we're going to make your party."

At first, I panicked.

Everyone knows I've already been assaulted.

They caught up with me.

One of them started touching me.

I said to myself:

"No, not this time."

So I took your advice and I also remembered

what you had told Nathalie,

when you told how you had beaten up that guy in a parking lot.

I dealt with it.

The first one, he spit out his teeth,

and the second one, he took off running.

Attention, there is a police officer listening to us.

I'm from the criminal brigade.

Wasn't there a death?

Then I haven't heard anything.

In any case, bravo Cécile.

Let's start again.

Did it feel good?

Yes, it was great.

You have to feel

when you arrive at the kindergarten.

How much is that worth?

It was my husband's idea. I'll return it.

Milo.

You know of course?

By sight. Why?

You do? No more?

Because he makes a very credible suspect.

He works for Kovacs, your husband's main creditor.

Yes. You bear the marks of a beating. Who did them to you?

If not you Milo, the violence done to women,

what do you think?

I have never hit a woman in my life.

Good for you.

Mom has taught you well

Do you have someone in your life Milo?

Something tells me that you're into married woman.

Nathalie, wouldn't that be your type?

Enough free chicks for that I don't want to get bored.

I'd like to go home.

Are you leaving us already?

Is it good, is it over?

No stress.

See you soon?

Our conversation has bored you perhaps.

Or maybe you consider my words too violent.

However, I don't have the impression

that violence scares you.

It's funny, I don't manage to hate you.

Maybe you feel sorry for me.

No, I'm not the pity type.

And all these women,

what do you feel for them?

Compassion.

I have saved more than one from suicide

and more than once, I have brought back together couples on the verge of implosion.

A true marriage counselor.

Everyone has a vocation.

You take statements from the victims.

I help them to rebuild their lives.

I do everything you don't do.

Hi, you've reached Ben, leave me a message. Thank you.

Don't move.

Captain Delambre, SRPJ.

Something's come up.

Am I disturbing you?

No.

The gentleman was arrested at the exit of his home

in possession of several envelopes containing money.

Commissioner asked me to question him immediately.

The law allows me to have a lawyer from the first minutes of custody.

Why isn't he here?

You have to read the whole text.

The public prosecutor

can postpone the intervention of the lawyer for 12 hours.

And guess what?

That's what happened.

We did the math, we found more than 200,000 € at your place.

Maybe he has another stash.

You have another place to hide, Milo?

Look, it's your job.

You don't have legs, but you have maybe a nose.

We found these at your place, too.

They don't match those in your studio.

You know what?

I think I'm gonna shut my mouth for 12 hours while I wait for the slime.

Keeping me for money I put away is the tax man's business.

Your tax inspector, is Kovacs?

You know Kovacs?

All we want to know is,

if you're asking for any special services,

like shooting deadbeats.

Unless you've been asked to kill Malherbe by someone else.

His wife, for example.

Because, I'll tell you the truth, this story of a debt to pay,

I don't believe it.

What I do believe,

is that you know Nathalie Malherbe very well.

And even that you are very closely linked.

What is it?

It's stupid, we don't have enough credit.

Not very efficient equipment, which always breaks down.

Bastard

But, what are you playing at?

What do you have?

Three neurons.

Sleep, eat and fuck.

Out of that, you don't have to ask anything. Right?

But, are you guilty?

The real culprit,

The instigator of the murder. No way.

She manipulated you.

You, you're practically innocent.

Then why am I here?

Is she connected to the story?

Whether you like it or not.

Besides, I've got a boss here,, who wants a return.

What is this?

What's with the sabotage of the interview?

Are you out of your mind?

You're questioning a suspect behind my back.

That's my call.

Hitting a suspect, implicating,

but it's totally suicidal Cain, you screw up,

but everything you have in your hands.

And do you know why?

No, but you're going to tell me.

Because you are rotting in this chair

and it is undermining you.

You are a brilliant psychologist.

I understood, I understood why you were attacking

on this poor Nathalie Malherbe.

Has your wife left you?

So now, in every married woman,

you see a kind of traitor potential ?

That must be it, yes.

You are pathetic.

I'm taking you off the case and putting you on report.

Delambre's replacing you.

That'll give me a break. I'm tired of going down to talk to you.

Come on, Olé!

That was a great speech.

I suppose he congratulated you.

No, irony is my department.

You can't compete.

On the other hand, it's good.

You're replacing me.

After all, that's what you wanted.

You're out of line. Don't you think?

You've done everything to get out of the way.

But why don't you go my way?

It's obvious.

Nathalie had two good reasons to get rid of her husband.

He's violent and he's putting her out of business.

I told you, I saw bruises on her body.

But her husband had them too.

She could have very well asked Milo

to do to her what she had to herself.

But believe me, it's all about her.

For all we know, she did it to him...

Look,

I'm willing to admit that you're often right,

but you can't deny that Nathalie Malherbe

looks genuinely touched by her husband's death.

You're not going to ignore this debt trail either?

That's it, it's done, you think like Leroux.

What should I do?

That I tell him:

"You're a big loser, Cain, he's the only one with the truth."

There you go

Yeah, that's it. Grow up a little, shit.

I need you to research Milo

and Nathalie Malherbe.

They're from the same generation, from the same city.

Maybe they even went to the same school.

Search in the archives.

OK.

I don't know what to do anymore.

From the beginning, he's been in open warfare with Leroux.

Have you tried to put out the fire?

It's impossible, you know him well.

Accusations of playing the game of advancement,

kissing the new boss' ass.

He likes to be right against everyone else.

I'm sure he did it on purpose.

There's no way he didn't sabotage the interview on purpose.

Then it's that he doesn't want to have Leroux in his wheels anymore.

He wants to go to the end of his trail.

Use him as a smoke screen.

Go in the desired direction by Leroux

and divert his attention.

You, how are you?

Another time Lucie.

Madame Malherbe.

Forgive my intrusion, but I was coming...

I was coming to apologize.

I was a bit brusque with you.

I'm disturbing you.

I was expecting Betty and a friend or two from the club.

There are jobs that distort.

When you're a cop, you see evil everywhere.

It has often played nasty tricks on me.

Even in my personal life.

Are you married?

Not really.

I am trying to understand who Vincent was.

Before him,

you have already lived in couple?

I had a few stories more or less serious.

I have always had a very complicated relationship with men

Vincent is the first one to have understood what I expected from them.

What do you expect from them?

I like a man to be responsive.

To the point of being violent?

Not the way you mean it.

Enlighten me.

There is acceptable violence,

playful violence.

Playful violence?

There are definitely subtleties that escape me.

Do you want clear answers?

You want to put me in a box?

Potential suspect?

But you are.

These marks of beating that you carry,

it is your husband who made them to you?

Yes.

But at my request.

And the blows that he had on his body it is me who did them to him.

The pleasure was not enough anymore, we tried the pain.

And I don't care

whether you understand or not.

Cain, I'm listening.

Captain, I did the research on Milo and Nathalie.

No connection, no nothing.

On the other hand, I made finds on Milo and Betty.

It goes back to several years.

I tried everything on your computer.

Delambre, you're going all out to find the gun.

We don't have a confession, we don't have the gun, we got nothing.

We're in trouble, Delambre.

All right, Commissioner.

Did you get anything out of Kovacs?

No, he's a real wall.

And Leroux is doing one of those pressures to Lucie.

He's decided to refer him to the games brigade.

And Milo?

He doesn't care about us.

How's that?

Very good work.

These old cases

are often prologues to other cases.

You're kind of my deputy now.

I don't know if it's really a promo, but...

See,

if I were still Lucie's boss,

I'd go and slip her

ear to go find Milo's stash with his family:

his mother, his sister if he has any.

Because when she showed him the bunch of keys,

something went wrong.

What are you doing, Borel? Is my coffee coming on foot?

The machine's broken down.

Are you working overtime, Cain?

What's the point?

There was nothing good on TV tonight.

Don't let me see you again when I come back.

Commissioner, come and see, I found something:

Milo is still domiciled at his mother's.

Yeah, and?

And he was arrested this morning at his home, at another address.

His mother has been dead for four years. Isn't that odd?

That's right, Delambre.

Make a raid in the morning.

Find me the gun and a safe.

Energy in the morning like this? Feel like letting off some steam?

Don't worry, I'm only here as a cop.

I was wondering if you would teach me.

I don't do Handisport.

You need an adapted chair and special equipment.

I'm a little tired of being seen

as just a guy in a wheelchair.

I understand.

Well, shall we work on your reflexes?

ready?

A real tigress.

Pretty sexy sport.

What do you do anyway?

Fighting men.

By the way, do you have a lover?

Why? Are you interested in me?

And me, am I your type?

By the way,

what is your type?

The kind of guy you find on internet and that you throw away immediately.

If you think you're going to throw me off,, you're out.

Milo,

this is more your range.

You are far from the con Captain, far from it.

You must be starving?

OKAY.

Don't forget I'm armed.

You didn't tell us you were living again at your mother's house.

Leave my mom out of this.

Anyway, thank you for allowing me

to rediscover some feelings that I had forgotten.

I didn't even think about my wheels anymore, if you ask me.

What about you?

What were you like before?

I mean:

before you were called Betty.

Before you knew how to fight.

Vulnerable.

I was looking through old newspaper articles

and found your name and Milo's.

But that must bring back

painful memories, right?

You're still a cop.

That doesn't stop me from having tenderness for you.

The tenderness of lovers.

Does it even exist?

You were 16 years old. Wasn't you?

You knew your attacker.

He lived on the same estate as you.

He set you up.

Do you enjoy torturing people?

You're getting off on this.

When I was looking through the old newspapers,

I was struck by what I read.

It was Milo, the rapist's own brother, who reported him to the police.

It must still be an ordeal

to see Milo every day in that room.

Milo is a high school friend.

We used to flirt a little, he's a... Nothing serious.

On the other hand, it must have annoyed his brother.

He must have been jealous.

He wanted to show her that all girls were whores.

And what exactly did Milo do?

When he found out,

he turned him in to the cops.

And you became his girlfriend afterwards.

What do you think?

You think you can't do without evil?

I changed cities for a few years.

And my name.

Only women of character like you,

manage to exist

without a guy by their side.

For example, Nathalie,

I don't give her six months

before she finds someone.

But what do you know about Nathalie?

You judge her without knowing her.

I know human nature well, Betty.

How pretentious.

You love her very much. Don't you?

It's good to defend your friends.

Thanks for the lesson.

Hello, Lieutenant,

Yeah.

I'll be sure to tell him.

OKAY.

Your lawyer's going to have his hands full.

We found a gun at your mother's house.

You broke into my mom's house?

Open your mouth! Open up!

Cain, Milo wants to talk to you.

So, deal with it, but I want him to turn himself in

and release Borel.

Why would Milo only want to talk to me?

Why? From the beginning, you believed he was innocent.

You even told him so.

In the end, it's all a bit of your fault.

You have a rather limited sense of responsibility.

Yeah, right.

Tell him he better surrender and fast.

I don't want any outside intervention.

You understand me?

That's very clear.

You don't want publicity.

You think about the consequences, your career.

It would make a mess.

It's good that you came.

You seem like the least stupid of the bunch.

My boss doesn't think so.

Why don't you let him go?

We're good here together.

That we're good.

Besides, this is my vest.

I'm sorry, Captain.

Well, I'm sure we'll crack up.

Don't be so dramatic.

I didn't kill Malherbe.

I've been telling your boss and the other bitch for hours.

The gun you found at my mother's house,

I don't even know where it came from.

I'll keep your boyfriend

until I'm cleared.

Someone is trying to frame me

and it's out of the question.

And you expect to get satisfaction by holding a cop hostage?

For a hostage situation, what do I get? A year or two?

If you push me to the limit, lost for lost.

Shoot a cop, that'll make me a kingpin once I'm in jail.

What do you think?

That I'm going to take out a guilty with a snap of my fingers?

I heard your colleagues talking to each other last night.

I hear you have a lead that no one believes in?

Tell me everything you know first.

I'll tell you what I saw.

I was watching Malherbe that morning.

I had to teach him a good lesson,

him while he was jogging, nothing else.

But someone was following him too.

I heard a gunshot, I took off.

That's it, end of story.

Okay, I believe you.

And tell me.

Betty, who is she to you today?

She's a friend.

A real one, one of the few people I can trust.

Are you sure about that?

Well, then?

He doesn't want to hear it.

He says he didn't do anything

and that he'll hold Borel

until we bring the evidence of his innocence.

we're going into the wall.

Damn it! What the hell! Shit!

I have to call the prefect.

All this because of that idiot Borel.

Give me 3 hours, the time I have to arrest the real culprit.

If there is a leak and someone learns about the hostage situation.

No one will talk!

We all care about Borel.

Still determined to play it safe?

So you switched sides?

Come on, guys.

I need your help.

Excuse me, sir.

Can I have the body transferred?

Yes, of course you can.

Everything is taken care of on our end.

Hang in there.

Well done.

So.

Nath, fuck.

Answer the phone.

Answer the phone.

I'm giving you your property back.

My colleague, you borrowed it.

But please, don't answer.

Why not?

Do you really want us to arrest the culprit?

Of course I do.

Then I'm going to need your help.

But first, I'm going to tell you a story,

a love story.

And as the song says,

love stories end badly.

What are you playing at?

You need this one too?

Calm down Betty. You know very well that I don't like wings.

What's the message?

I got the blues.

I came in, we talked.

Natalie just needed a little tenderness.

A cop in a wheelchair?

That misses with your collection?

You know her taste for experience?

It is not you that I will learn it.

You are lucky: I am not exclusive.

Decidedly, you like twisted guys.

Is that how you perceived Vincent?

Vincent, he was a sick man. All he did was mess you up.

How can you say that?

But how can you treat me like that?

Because for Nathalie, you are only a hobby, a parenthesis.

You had never made the weight, Betty.

Even when you were together

and she met Vincent.

You had never been more than a treat.

Say something to her.

How long have you been back in the relationship?

A few months ago.

I never resisted her beauty.

Yes.

It's just an aesthetic impulse.

And the husband, he knew?

It turned him on.

Do you understand now?

One more ethic and sting in their relationship.

Shut him up.

Whatever you do, whatever your feelings for her,

you've already lost him.

But, you're what?

Good thing we both practiced.

Betty, it is wrong the outburst always.

There is me, there will be others, many others.

Stop Betty

Sorry.

The men will have really taken everything from you.

That's why you killed Vincent.

And that's why you got your buddy Milo wet.

Milo, he's the one who dragged me into that basement.

A cave you still haven't come out of.

Shut up!

Milo thought he was in a porno.

I fucking cried. I begged him.

Now it's your turn to beg me, asshole.

Like Vincent.

You could have stepped in a little earlier.

I almost caught a cold.

I owe you an apology Cain.

I don't like your way at all.

You are far too individualistic for my taste.

But the fact is, you're a good cop.

Shall we reset the clock?

No problem.

But you seem surprised.

I didn't know you were such a good loser.

What did you say?

That was between us.

Men and their modesty.

At the time, I had seen you.

We lost sight of each other for a while, but eventually we found each other again.

Until the next time.

Yes, we are a perfectly balanced couple.

You respect the hierarchy too much and I don't respect it at all.

Do you like playing the solitaire?

But thanks to me, you've had free rein.

You were able to conduct your investigation on the sly.

In short, I owe you

a dinner for two in a good restaurant?

Is it a gift to have you alone?

I don't know.

You didn't forget the basil, did you?

Shoot, I forgot.

You want me to go back?

Yeah, please.

But no, it's okay.

I've got some arugula, that'll do the trick. Just sit tight, I'll be right there.

You want to talk about work before or after dinner?

You say work talk.

You mean talk about Leroux?

Among other things.

You did him a favor, but you humiliated him.

He won't forgive you for that.

I got my buddy working at the department.

Every time he's assigned Leroux picks up a guy

usually one of the brightest

and tears him down.

He's a real scorpion.

It's quite possible that he's setting a trap for you and getting you fired.

At least, that's what he did

the previous two times.

Shall I serve you?

What about Ben?

Sore subject.

Right now, I'm more interested in drinking to our friendship.

To the saints in heaven.

And to the bastards on earth.