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Hello Paul.

Paul!

Can you say hello to the camera?

That's good.

You know, I saw your daughter, Paul.

You remember Sonia?

Sonia, your daughter.

Your daughter and Alice's daughter.

Sonia, she looks like Alice, you know.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!

She is in love with a cop,.

She is in love, like you with Alice.

No!

Mr. Cain, Thierry Balducci.

If you like Sonia, I advise you to come to my store.

A small surprise awaits you.

I should have taken care of this guy much earlier.

We have nothing on him, just a profile.

And that turns out to be accurate.

If this guy lives in happiness of others,

weddings, christenings, engagements, what he likes most of all,

is to see people suffer.

That doesn't make him a murderer.

Captain, we got something.

This is his darkroom.

Balducci, still using it for his personal prints.

Sorry Captain, Sonia can't answer your questions,

she's busy.

Your friend will join us soon.

I would be dead already, right?

Do you really like this policeman?

I don't see how this is any of your business.

If you died,

do you think he would suffer as much as your father?

That would be a good test, wouldn't it?

Does he love you enough to mourn you for the rest of his life?

I don't think so.

So that's what this is all about? This video?

You're going to kill me like you killed my mother?

Sonia, if I wanted to kill you, it would already be done.

You shouldn't stir up all those dark thoughts,

you're pregnant, it's not reasonable.

Leave me alone with this.

You know, your mother was a wonderful woman.

What a shame you were deprived of her.

I'd like us to spend some time together,

explain what happened.

I'm sure you'd understand me.

Go ahead, I want to know.

The time doesn't seem right, the place doesn't seem right either.

I am hired on a boat, as a photographer.

Come on.

When we are abroad, I won't risk anything,

I could tell you everything.

Police! Open up!

You'll already be in jail, if you have things to tell me,

it's here and now.

open up! Police!

On the boat,

when we're away.

I swear, trust me,

it's not what you think at all.

Hands where I can see them! On your knees!

But who are you, Mr. Balducci?

I've been asking myself the same question about you.

It's going to be exciting getting to know you.

How are you?

They are really a beautiful couple.

When Sonia's mother was killed, the police botched the case.

And what did they see, your colleagues?

A broken window,

a woman hit in the head with her bedside lamp,

stolen jewelry and without thinking,

they concluded that it was a robbery that had gone wrong.

Finally you, you were close to Sonia's parents.

You knew Thierry Balducci well, you never suspected him?

I never even asked myself the question,

he had the best alibis.

Your father had spent the night with him,

in his darkroom to develop photos.

Why would I have questioned his word?

And then given your father's condition, it seems difficult

that he would go back on his testimony.

I feel bad about this.

But you shouldn't,

you were only 6 years old.

But I'm the only one who saw the murderer,

30 years I've been repressing these images in a corner of my head,

I'm looking for his face.

What exactly do you remember?

This is important, Sonia.

Mom's screams that woke me up.

And...

Another figure,

a man

and blood.

All that blood.

Stop, don't torture your mind.

Mom's blood on his clothes, on his face.

He looked at me.

I don't know if it was blood

or if it was tears.

I don't remember anything else.

I think he was crying.

Didn't you want a lawyer present?

I don't see the need.

What am I accused of?

To begin with, with these photos,

which testify that you spied on a police captain.

I am a photographer, I practice my art.

Sonia is my friend.

Is that so?

And this video, there, that you sent her?

Do you enjoy making your friends suffer, Mr. Balducci?

I was clumsy, I admit it.

Sonia doesn't have time to see her father,

I thought I would please her.

Captain Cain is not coming?

You've paid many visits to Mr. Paul Darlan,

Sonia's father, who is interned in a psychiatric hospital

since the murder of his wife, Alice.

What was the purpose of this visit?

I have known him for 40 years.

And Mr. Ben Atlif,

Mr. Delapierre, Ms. Sousset, Ms. Bommer, Mr. Jeury,

are they your friends too?

No, it's a series,

a personal work that I have undertaken.

I told you, I am an artist.

Like Mr. Paul Darlan,

all these people are mourning a spouse,

a spouse who has been murdered.

Murdered by you, Mr. Balducci?

Are you there, Cain?

I know you are watching me.

You're the one who should be questioning me.

The captain has been called to on another matter.

In that case, I have nothing to add.

His arguments hold up,

we can't keep him long and he knows it.

Ask Borel to gather the files of the other six murders,

I want to know where Balducci was when they were committed.

If we're dealing with a serial killer, we need to be able to make connections.

He didn't kill Sonia, he had the opportunity,

he didn't even try.

Because he wanted to know you first.

Maybe he wants to have fun with you?

Test the strength of your love before you strike.

Are you two okay?

I feel like a fly under a microscope.

He's looking for love, with me, he'll be disappointed.

We agree on that, right?

I do not question your artistic talents,

Mr. Balducci, but the choice of your models.

I find you photogenic.

Here, this one for example, I am very proud of it.

It drips with feeling,

of the vulgar work of paparazzi.

But if you continue to search among your pictures, you will find

the photo of a beautiful crime scene.

I don't do much still life.

Don't tell me

that you never photograph your victims, that would be disappointing.

I only photograph love.

Love, really?

Why don't you just weddings?

They only show the apparent happiness.

No, true love,, is tragic.

Romeo and Juliet?

No, but not only.

Take Yseult, who laments a whole life

after the death of Tristan.

Abélard who writes to the end

of the inflamed letters to Héloïse.

Orpheus who gets lost in the underworld to find Eurydice.

So Paul Darlan,

in his psychiatric hospital

and all these other people, for you,

are mythical figures?

I am an aesthete, I immortalize their eternal passion.

But you are right,

the love we see here is an ephemeral stage.

The original fever can uninterest,

the great love comes later, much later,

in the separation, in the drama.

A romantic killer,

that was missing from my panel.

Just for your information,

it's just that I know Sonia.

So as far as true love is concerned, you are wrong.

She told me that you are expecting a child.

Congratulations!

Eternal love, everyone is entitled to it, Mr. Cain.

Sonia's father has suffered from it for 30 years,

so why not you?

If I wanted to kill you, it would already be done.

I would like to take some time together,

I could tell you everything.

No, did I scare you?

I'm sorry.

How are you?

It's okay, you're here now.

Come on!

I am here.

Am I giving you insomnia,?

The investigation is progressing, I'm getting to know you.

Great.

I am ready for a session of psychoanalysis.

Paul and Alice, they were your first victims?

When you found Sonia, you told yourself that you could close the loop.

And rid me of the original trauma.

Didn't you find anything else?

Times change, Mr. Balducci,

people divorce, they remarry.

The absolute couples you track down are becoming extinct.

The white whales.

Cain is too cynical to love, Sonia is too independent.

You've got the wrong target with these two,

they don't belong together, you know that.

That's what kept you from going through with it, by the way.

That's well reasoned.

But you overlook two important points.

The first is the influence of a child.

It will bring them closer together,

they will end up loving each other, I'll bet.

And the second?

It's that this discussion is purely theoretical,

since I am innocent.

They are freeing Balducci.

I've done what I can, Fred, order of the prosecutor,

he deems the case inadmissible.

You're not going to get away with this, I'm not letting you go.

So come with me if you want.

I am hired as a photographer on a boat.

The cruise, the lovers' paradise,

it would be good for you and Sonia.

When you come back, I'll be there, with proof.

When I return, you will be happy as a couple,

with a child on your hands, you will have forgotten me.

Then, when you least expect it,

I will be there.

Fred, don't mess around!

Fred!

No!

Fred.

Back to work.

They released Balducci without getting anything from him.

Even Fred couldn't do anything.

It's clear now,

you taught me yourself,

I can only count on myself.

I can arrange for you to be protected.

You've done this all your life, Vincent and I'm grateful.

You've been better than a father.

Where are you going to go?

I don't want anyone to know.

I'm going to get away and recharge my batteries, maybe even write down my memories,

I hear it's good therapy.

Wait, Sonia. Hold on, Sonia.

I need to exorcise this story, trust me.

The boat goes to Corsica,

then leaves France for Sardinia.

From there Balducci can escape us and disappear anywhere.

Tell you that as long as he is abroad,

he won't go after Sonia.

Yes, and that will give us time to resume the investigation.

When the day comes, when we have enough evidence,

we can always ask for his extradition.

His threat was very clear,

he won't wait years, I don't believe it.

I'm sure he planned everything, starting with his arrest,

he will come back to kill Sonia.

Excuse me, we brought an envelope for Captain Cain.

Thank you, sir.

Excuse me.

Yes, Borel, I'm listening.

A ticket to Sardinia.

Handicapped cabin.

What's this? He's laughing at you.

But that's not true, Borel!

Sonia boarded the ferry with Balducci.

Sonia doesn't fucking answer.

The prosecutor won't let us hold Balducci at the dock.

But she can be taken down.

He sees no legal reason

to impede her freedom of movement.

If you go, I'm going with you.

No, this is between Balducci and me, now.

You, you take over the investigation.

I want enough evidence to put the cuffs on him.

No guns on board.

Fred, don't play into his hands.

Balducci wants to test your relationship

and if he sees love between you, his neurosis will be satisfied,

he will take action.

Perfect, so we don't risk anything.

Hello, sir, can I help you?

It's over there, at the end of the hall.

Thank you, sir.

Why didn't you tell me about this ticket?

Balducci promised to tell me the truth about my mother.

Seriously, Sonia, we are trapped in this boat.

I'm out of my element, I don't have a gun.

Anything can happen.

It's not with his camera that he will scare us.

Can you play the couple who can't stand each other?

We'll ruin his day, you'll love it.

Come a little closer. A little bit, here we go.

Great!

Good job, guys!

You are really all that that I love in life.

Please remember to come and take your pictures back.

Thank you.

Fred ! Sonia !

What a pleasure to see you here!

We're not going to kiss, anyway!

Give me only one reason not to throw you overboard Balducci.

Thierry. I prefer you to call me Thierry.

I have specific questions,

and you promised me answers.

Sonia, will you let me handle the situation?

You didn't come here to help me.

You're just a cop stalking his prey.

I'm not sure I like

what I find out about you.

What's going on between you?

Good. Did you have something to tell us?

Were you really with my father

the night my mother was killed?

Sonia!

Yes.

Yes, I was with your father.

How did you go about killing my mother?

Already as a child, when I made you magic tricks,

you wanted to know how it works.

And I would answer you: "The solution is under your eyes".

But be careful, think carefully,

are you sure you want to know it?

I'm interested.

I know all the little tricks of the magicians,

the volatile alibi is certainly my favorite.

And you shut up.

I don't like to see you like this.

You'll see, by the end of the trip, you'll know my secrets.

In the meantime,

enjoy this journey in love.

Forget about me!

Thank you Cupid.

I am a little afraid to receive an arrow in the back.

I only want your happiness.

Come on!

Like that, you do not like

what you discover in me?

Finally, it's fun not liking you.

I don't have a network.

You know Thierry Balducci well?

The photo.

He makes the beautiful photo.

And you remember the nights spent together developing photos

in the darkroom?

Red! The darkroom, it is red.

The darkroom is red.

Yes, it's very funny.

The darkroom is red.

The darkroom is red. Yes, it's fun.

Did he leave you alone sometimes

or did he stay with you all the time?

One, two, three, four, five.

He didn't want me to touch the products,

so he always stayed with me.

And...

Two, three, four, five.

Your last night spent in the red room,

he went away, right?

The well! The well!

Yeah, so what?

Yeah, I can't move.

I need help getting out.

I can't move. I don't want to stay in the well.

I don't want to stay in the well.

You have to help me out!

Lieutenant, wait!

Normally, this should remain confidential,

but when Mr. Darlan was interned here, he was still talking about the drama

that happened to him.

Here are the notes of my predecessor. Perhaps they will be useful to you.

Yes.

Thank you.

So, you are friends of the ship's photographer?

I am happy to have you at my table.

How are you?

How's the crossing going?

When it doesn't really work in a couple,

it's hard to travel together.

I'm sorry.

He's kidding.

They are getting married, they are expecting a child.

Are you pregnant?

We tried to pass it on, but we were too late.

Do you think I'm fooled by your trick?

It takes a lot of love and complicity

to play indifference like that.

It's an obsession with you.

Excuse me! An urgent matter.

I believe that you have not properly measured the situation.

You have created an unhealthy climate, but you will be unable

to take it out on us here.

You are wrong to underestimate me.

For the last time, I ask you,

be sincere, show me that you love her.

And if not?

I would be you, I wouldn't eat that.

I don't feel well.

Denis?

Denis!

What's wrong with you? Denis!

A doctor, quick!

Help me!

I don't understand.

I have three cases of food poisoning at the same time:

this man, at our table, another at the self

and a member of the crew.

You have an important position in the French police force?

Captain of the judicial police.

What are you here for?

Do you think there might be a link between your presence and...?

No.

No, you're right, it's just food poisoning.

It just had to happen to me.

Come on, grazie!

Why did you lie to us? Mr. Grandet?

I stand corrected.

Why did you lie to Sonia all these years?

Paul Darlan always knew

that he was not Sonia's father.

When did you learn this?

Late.

Too late to assume my responsibilities.

Alice was already pregnant when she married Paul.

She did not want Sonia to know the truth.

I respected her wishes.

For over 30 years?

Yes.

I have here the psychiatric file of Paul Darlan.

Before his condition worsened,

he repeatedly mentioned his embarrassment towards you,

the family friend.

He was raising Sonia, but according to him, you did not know that she was

your daughter.

But he was wrong.

It's true, we never talked about it together, hence the embarrassment,

but Alice warned me as soon as she knew that she was pregnant.

Yes, let's admit it.

But a few days before the murder of Alice,

Paul Darlan revealed the secret to Thierry Balducci,

which leads me to formulate a hypothesis.

If you did not know anything

and it is Thierry Balducci who tells you

that you are Sonia's father,

perhaps you had a violent reaction.

Do you sincerely believe that I could have killed Alice,

my dearest friend,

the mother of my daughter?

No.

I have always known this and accepted it without question.

I don't get it.

You had Balducci.

The guy is a total nut job.

The way he's stalking Sonia, isn't enough for you?

Yeah, it could be enough for me.

Besides, I can't hide the fact that knowing she's with that lunatic

right now doesn't make me feel any better.

What?

What? You didn't know? You didn't know?

She boarded a ferry with him.

And you're standing there with your arms crossed

while she's in the hands of this maniac?

Cain is with them.

A cripple?

That's some protection.

Now, if you're the one who killed Sonia's mother,

he may not be as dangerous as.

You are unbelievable!

The boat stops tomorrow morning in Corsica.

I'm taking the plane in an hour. Come with me!

If you have nothing to blame yourself, we can confuse

Balducci together.

Is this going to go on much longer?

No.

I just don't want anything to happen to the other passengers.

Come on!

Fuck!

All right!

You will cherish this photo for the rest of your life.

You can kill me now, since we know how

this is going to end.

No, it won't.

You have to get married first.

Your little voyeuristic games, it's already borderline,

but what's your new delusion?

I've been over this with the captain.

When we leave our port of call,

and pass into international waters,

he will be very happy to grant you a small ceremony.

He has the authority.

Order the petit fours, it will be without us.

No, no.

No!

You can't refuse me anything.

A wedding on a boat,

it's so romantic.

I think we are approaching the port.

I suggest you return to your cabin during the stopover.

It's time for breakfast.

Let's hope no one gets intoxicated this time.

Now!

Nice try, but useless.

Unless Sonia has time to come down.

She won't come down.

She loves you too much for that.

Shall we take bets?

Sonia told me about you.

She has built up the shell of an independent woman.

But your reaction to her pregnancy has hurt her deeply.

Sonia does not need me to be happy.

She just needs you to leave her alone.

Do you really believe what you are saying?

Deep down, it resonates.

A woman like Sonia for a guy in a wheelchair.

Hopeless, right?

The truth is that you convince yourself that you are not loved

to avoid having to love.

We're talking about you, Mr. Balducci.

I don't see any women on the horizon,

not even a guy for that matter.

You have lacked, at this point, of love,

to be so passionate for others.

It's the moment of truth, Fred.

You're a player like me.

If Sonia goes down, I'll admit defeat

and tell you all about her mother's death. But if she stays...

If she stays,

it will be the greatest proof of love she can offer us,

and you will marry her.

Hello, I am looking for Frederic Cain.

Mister magician,

bet won.

For the murder of Alice, how did you do it?

You have not yet understood?

I am still witnessing the first failure of the great policeman.

I was fine with Paul that night, in my lab,

and I just didn't kill Alice,

but I bless every day the one who did.

It allowed me to admire Paul's suffering.

I'm sorry, I couldn't.

If I had gone down, he would have killed you.

We can still give up if you want.

It is always a pleasure

and a great honor for me to exercise my prerogatives

of commander on this boat dedicated to weddings, especially

when the bride and groom are as beautiful as Frederic and Sonia,

and they have chosen my Kommandatur to make their union official.

This will not escape anyone...

Do you agree to take for your husband Mr. Frédéric Caïn

here present ?

Yes.

Mr. Frederic Cain, do you agree to take for your wife

Mrs. Sonia Darlan here present ?

Yes.

In the name of the powers conferred upon me, I declare you

united in marriage.

Thierry, I have to talk to you. It's important.

What's going on here?

Nothing's going on here. Nothing at all.

Everything is fine now.

Your presence on board,

I didn't expect so much.

I think I should congratulate you?

The bride is very pretty.

No, Balducci is dangerous.

He's a sick man.

I know what I'm doing.

Or tell me you came to to stop him.

Basically, that's just how you see me,

as the fellow cop who came to lend a hand?

That's kind of the basics, right?

I knew this was supposed to happen, but I didn't want to believe it.

You didn't even kiss me.

You saw her and suddenly I don't exist?

What did you two?

This marriage was a sham.

Don't touch me.

Don't come near me.

He doesn't love me.

He's always loved you.

He doesn't love anyone.

He's just pretending.

You'd be a woman,

you'd be called a tease,

but since you're a guy, it's okay.

I never tricked you with that kid. You could have walked away.

But when I said yes, I meant it.

He doesn't care how you feel.

What do you all with my feelings?

You're throwing up this love that I don't give a shit about.

This is not me.

This is not me.

What's his connection with the cop?

I don't know.

We have other business.

They found out I was Sonia's father.

You're feeling the heat, Vincent.

I know you killed Alice and I thank you for it.

For all these years, you have been a myth to me.

Are you serious or are you really crazy?

By killing her, you offered me my revelation,

the awareness of the work I had to accomplish:

photographing misfortune in the closest of its substance.

Thanks to you.

Is this what you plan to tell the cops?

They've already started to grill me,

and I warn you, you're just as badly off as I am.

You showed me the way.

You killed the mother.

I can kill the daughter.

No.

I love Sonia.

Don't hurt her, please.

Unless that cop, Lucie Delambre...

I don't know which one will hurt Cain more.

Maybe both in the end.

Don't touch Sonia.

Look at you, you're pathetic.

You don't even deserve a picture.

Do you think it's better to delete the cop?

No.

They both love her.

You're going to help me.

No way.

You love Sonia more than anything in the world,.

You can still save her.

Come on, let's stop crying.

He's not worth it.

Balducci and Grandet know how your mother is dead,

they have to let go of everything.

Why Vincent?

Look, I'm not promising you a fun time,

but we'll face this together.

Then, don't even count on Cain anymore.

Take off your ridiculous dress and dry your tears.

My poor Sonia, what's happening to you?

She does not need your compassion.

It's good that you have made come Vincent Grandet,

it will clarify many things.

I made you a promise, I have only one word.

I'll wait for you outside.

What promise are you talking about?

I'll tell him the truth.

I don't want to!

In fact, I don't want to know.

I got nothing!

Still nothing to pin on him.

This is all your fault.

If you hadn't come to meddle in my life.

I didn't ask you anything.

My father used to say: "Your feelings, you don't show them".

And then you came along,

and everything I wanted to hide, you spread them out for me.

You're not really a pain in the ass.

You're just a piece of junk trying to exist.

"Look at me, look at me!

If you don't want to see me,

I'll run over your feet.

If you put me in the way,

I'll do a pirouette.

Because I need to be noticed.

It's not my fault.

If I don't make big gestures with my arms,

If I don't raise my voice,

I'm not seen.

I live in the background.

I only see asses.

And that's not talking, an ass.

And all this,

all this, is because

I need to be loved.

And when I was finally told that I was loved,

I don't believe it. "

Do you understand?

I hate you to death.

Where is Grandet?

He's on his way.

Did you tell him?

Did I tell him what?

That's for Grandet to do.

Vincent Grandet,

is your father.

Your real father.

Balducci sent you.

He always knew you were Alice's killer.

And you knew he was so deranged?

No.

You think he's capable of killing Sonia?

Oh, yeah.

He's never killed anyone.

But yes, he's too obsessed with it.

He'll do it eventually.

Unless I obey him.

Ah yes!

He offered you a deal.

Obviously, change of plan.

Why didn't I think of that?

It is the only way to save Sonia and Lucie.

When I told him that you were his daughter,

he went crazy.

He wanted to claim his paternity,

which your mother would always refuse.

So he went to her to explain himself,

but he was in such a state of fury.

I can't believe it.

He didn't.

He acted out of anger.

He didn't mean to kill her.

Not to mention how he must have felt when you caught him

and he looked you in the eye.

Did you ever think of turning him in?

That left only him to deal with you.

You could have said that earlier.

Why tonight?

Why now?

You've got another idea in the back of your mind.

Where is Grandet?

Where is he?

He'll be here.

Basically, Balducci is right.

How can you imagine that a guy like me could become a disconsolate widower?

When by eliminating me, he will have

two golden widows to photograph.

I can't do it.

I just can't.

But you can.

You've already done it.

With Alice.

That was...

It wasn't the same.

It was an accident.

Well, crash me!

Do you have a gun?

Perfect.

Femoral artery right here,

I'll be dead in minutes.

And precious advantage, I won't feel a thing.

Do me a favor, afterwards, you throw me overboard.

I don't want our friend Balducci to immortalize my funeral.

I am not a murderer.

I can't do it.

But you'll do it anyway.

Otherwise he will kill Sonia and our child with

maybe even Lucy.

I don't want to live to see that.

Then do it.

Do it!

What are you doing?

You're scared, huh?

Are you?

You killed Cain.

Grandet is in jail

and you're here.

And you're here now.

Lucie, I can't do it.

I don't have the courage.

We said we would do it.

Together.

Do what?

You got what you wanted.

It's time to end it.

Kill us.

No, come on, you're young, it would be a shame.

Come on, have some guts at least once in your life.

Take that gun.

And finish what you started.

You miss Cain.

You'll see in time,

you'll appreciate the sweetness of grief,

it would be so stupid to die.

It would be very stupid indeed!

What the...

Death is all black, it's cold.

I don't advise anyone.

But how?

No,

don't ask a magician to reveal his tricks to you.

The solution, however, is right in front of you.

Shall I give you a hint?

I did what you did.

I chose a partner.

The same one, in fact, Vincent Grandet.

He didn't want to kill me.

I couldn't make him do it.

He killed you.

I know he did,

I ordered him to do it.

You should never delegate.

It never happens the way you want it to.

With you, at least, I would be dead.

But you are dead!

On the boat maybe,

but here, it remains to be proved.

Look at them, they are crying for you.

Huh?

They are beautiful.

You can't ruin that.

You are dead!

Attempted murder of a police officer.

Balducci, you're under arrest.

Double tap.

I have your confession.

I ordered him to do it.

You can't deny it.

Why do you always have to make such a big deal out of everything?

I'm like that, you can't do it again.

This is for the newspaper.

Here, take the radio.

What's up?

Cain!

No!

Balducci!

Lucie.