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THE BLANCS-MANTEAUX ENIGMA

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Part One

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- You jostled me!
- Not at all, it was you.

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Anywhere else,
I'd demand satisfaction!

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We didn't come here to quarrel.

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Descare! Vile rascal!
So it was you.

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Having a guilty affair
with my wife.

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Your wife?
Everyone's having an affair

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with your wife, Lardin!

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My wife, who is also
your cousin, Descare!

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Your own cousin!
Miserable wretch!

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Enough, gentlemen!

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Commissaire,
being a policeman doesn't mean

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you can abuse your power here.

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And doctor, save that instrument
for your unfortunate patients.

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Unfortunate is the word.

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Mr Naval Surgeon!

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what do you know
of fortune or ill-fortune?

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- Much more than you.
- Stop!

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Misfortune! Our hapless commissaire
isn't the only unfortunate.

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For I know, Scemacgus,

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you too have sampled
the Lardin woman.

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She's a fine piece.

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Gentlemen! I bid you
leave this instant, all 3 of you.

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I run a good house
where moderation is the rule.

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We have business to settle.

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I do not fear you, sir.

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Go!

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You too, Dr Descare,
you may leave.

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Make merry! Return to the party!

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Saint-Louis!

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Saint-Louis!

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Midnight.

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Has the fellow disregarded orders?

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A cabriolet driven by a dark man.

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In this darkness?

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He's usually punctual.

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He'll find his way.
Get in, sir.

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You're as miserable as sin, sir.

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To what do I owe the pleasure?

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Some enjoy themselves tonight,
not others.

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Police reasons, madame.

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You're open about it.

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Gone midnight, party's over.
It's no time for masks.

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I know you have
a faro table downstairs.

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Whether the dice are loaded
or the games fair...

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We also know of your girls
and their trade.

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As long as it doesn't
get too spicy.

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You know that you hold me
in the palm of your hand.

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It could weigh greater,
if so you choose.

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The game is fair

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and my girls are clean.

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What do you want from me?

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You to tell me
what I'll find out later

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to your detriment.

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You want me to be a snitch.

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An altercation
that was easily sorted out.

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Three fellows the worse for drink.

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Motive of altercation?

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The old story: three lads
sniffing after the same fish.

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Three masks arguing over a woman.

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It came to blows.

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I had to ask them to leave.

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Who were they?

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How do I know?
It wasn't midnight.

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- New lodgers?
- A new one who's staying

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but refuses to consume.

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She's a choice morsel,

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and it suits us both.

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She calls herself La Satin

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and already has a good clientele.

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She lives God knows where.

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You go to the Comédie Italienne?

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Come on!

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The axe.

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Don't you recognise me, sir?

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- With difficulty, madame.
- Mademoiselle, please.

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I suppose this is your work, mademoiselle.

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Indeed it is.

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Come.

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Come now!
Though you don't recognise me,

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it doesn't mean you don't know me.

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Come.

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Come along, sir!

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From experience, I doubt
that you are repulsed.

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Come on!

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Come along, sir.

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I know far worse surrenders.

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Not now.

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We'll have time enough later.

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Is it really you?

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Yes, it's me.

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Marie de Langremont,
formerly La Bichelière,

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presently officiating
with the moniker La Satin.

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How come you're here?

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How? Thanks to the strength
of the Almighty,

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the credulity of women

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and the benevolence
of certain men.

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I spotted you in the street.

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I couldn't resist.

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Regrets, Nicolas?

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Mr Le Floch is summoned
to Mr de Sartine urgently.

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'Twas not lightly that I plucked
one of my creatures

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from the throes of desire.

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Don't forget, young Adonis...

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You have your ears,
and I have mine.

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And the king has a police force
the envy of the civilised world.

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You summoned me to boast about
our police force?

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What do you know
of Commissaire Lardin?

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What can I say?

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At your instigation,
he was my mentor, when I arrived.

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I remember
an excellent policeman,

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particularly expert
at policing gambling.

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A good father,
comfortably off.

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How so?

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From what I learned

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staying at the Lardin home,

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the fortune comes from his wife.

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Louise Lardin, née Descare.

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A beautiful woman,
I've heard.

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- What do you know of Louise Lardin?
- Nothing improper.

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Slow down.

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No need to get on your high horse.

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You are a gentleman
and insensitive to matters of sex

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and money.
One final question.

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On your word,

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do you consider Lardin
an honest man?

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Yes. As honest as one can be
in gambling terms.

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Would you answer for him
as yourself?

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Commissaire Lardin
was killed last night.

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It is not my place
to evoke an affair

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which directly interests the king.

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It's pointless.

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I cannot and must not say more.

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Only that we were to meet at dawn

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on a vital matter
and he did not come.

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Your mission is simple:
establish beyond all doubt

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why and how your colleague died.

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You may go, Commissaire.

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I'm not stopping you.

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My God! Nicolas.

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You, here.

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Sorry I haven't a chair to offer you.

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No matter, madame.

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You've changed, Nicolas.

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You're more mature,
more of a man.

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stronger, more bitter.

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Tenderness has little room
in a policeman's lot.

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Remember the feasts
and the suppers we held here?

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The music...
There was a harpsichord there.

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We'd play pieces by Rameau, by Lully.

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Candles, music, laughter,

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wine a-plenty.

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We gradually sold it all.
We laid off the cook,

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reduced the servants to
that beanpole who let you in.

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How can this be?

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Commissaire Lardin
started gambling.

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The corrupting effect

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of the perversity
he was meant to suppress?

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Anyway, it was the ruin
of the house of Lardin.

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You, at least, Nicolas...

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I remember when you arrived
in this house.

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I remember how many hopes
I placed in you.

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Not all were disappointed.

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You were young, full of ardour

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that just wanted to pour out.

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I am here on duty, madame.

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My God, you haven't changed!

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The same spirited
yet stubborn stallion.

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What do you want to know?
Where Commissaire Lardin is?

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Yes.

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I haven't the slightest idea.

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My husband no longer informs me
of what he does.

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Bitterness doesn't suit you.

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Bitterness?

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Let's stop the barbs, Nicolas.

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We're old enough
for the truth not to scare us.

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Last night, Lardin had
a rendezvous at Paulet's,

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at the Dauphin Couronné,
where he's a regular visitor.

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I don't know why.

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He must have feared something
because he took his bludgeon.

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To tell the truth, the commissaire
had got it into his head

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that I had been gravely unfaithful.

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I don't deny that a neglected wife

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may seek other arms
than those of her husband.

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I won't see you out.

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Marie?

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My God, you're a big girl now.

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She mustn't hear us.

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Do you hate her?

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As one can only hate a stepmother.

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My father came to see me
every morning.

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Not today.
I think it's a bad omen.

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You believe in omens?
I don't.

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Don't fear, I am here.

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He gave me this for you

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- should he ever disappear.
- Why me?

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He knew you loved me.
"Like a little sister," he'd say.

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So Lardin has disappeared.

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"Do not from three come a pair?

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"Even their covers can be
Seen by all."

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It means nothing.

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I don't see her
as the neglected wife.

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The sudden fall of the Lardins
intrigues me.

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He's brutal and unscrupulous,

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but he's cunning and clever,
and keeps a cool head.

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Gambling:
one of the seven scourges.

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And Mr de Sartine, sly and terse.

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I like neither skewed truth
nor missions on tiptoes.

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Monarchy has reasons
that reason cannot know.

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A report from Temple police station:

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"Arrested at dawn this morning,
the lady Emilie,

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"soup seller and darner,

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"ex-loose woman fallen on
hard times, was surprised

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"when bringing back from
the Montfaucon abattoir

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"rotten meat taken from some carcass.

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"She states that on the way
she came across

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"human remains in a sorry state."

219
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What did you see?

220
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I saw two men,
with a lantern,

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emptying something bloody
from a barrel,

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along with clothes.

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I saw them strike a light
and something burning.

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- Would you recognise them?
- No.

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The mist was too thick.
This way.

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Was that it?

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This ravaged corpse
is that of a stocky man.

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The jaw has been broken.

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Fragments of flesh.

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This gnarled stick
with a brass knob...

231
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This is Commissaire Lardin's
bludgeon,

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his favourite weapon.

233
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The doublet too.

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I've seen him put on
this thick leather.

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He said he wore it to guard against
knives and daggers.

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Have the remains taken away.

237
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You want to keep old Emilie?

238
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No. Release her.

239
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I thought you held Lardin in esteem.

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Scemacgus?
What are you doing here?

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Like Diogenes,
looking for a man.

242
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My coachman, Saint-Louis,
should have met me

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at midnight after the party in town.

244
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He didn't appear.
This morning neither.

245
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You fear the worst?

246
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Indeed, I have every reason to.

247
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You can see that the head
was eaten by animals.

248
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The jaw has been ground
by powerful teeth: dog or wolf.

249
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These strips were gnawed
by sharp little teeth: rats.

250
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In the sockets you can see
traces of a crow's beak.

251
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We can assume death
was only hours ago.

252
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Isn't it strange,
in so little time...

253
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Animals have done so much?

254
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No. What's strange is,
their rapaciousness

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was not more pronounced.

256
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However, as vermin do not eat hair,

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I can say the victim
was either bald or scalped

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like an Iroquois.
But I can't explain

259
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this black mark atop the skull.

260
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,400
Perhaps we could ask Scemacgus.

261
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,480
I saw him an instant ago.

262
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,400
Yes. Looking for his coachman.

263
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:08,520
We're in the presence of a bald man,

264
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:12,760
in the prime of life,
a stocky, well-built individual.

265
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:13,880
Lardin.

266
00:25:14,120 --> 00:25:17,880
The body had been cut up
before being left

267
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:20,440
or you'd have blood on the ground.

268
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:27,400
The victim was killed elsewhere

269
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:32,240
with a sharp, cutting instrument
then abandoned

270
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,560
as the first carnival mists
were falling.

271
00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:39,680
First carnival mists?
So it was around midnight.

272
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:44,400
I don't know how to thank you.

273
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:48,160
You did it by listening
and shaking my hand.

274
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:50,080
Goodbye, gentlemen.

275
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:03,320
I won't forget that in a hurry.
Sanson amazed me.

276
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,360
He sorted it out
in the blink of an eye.

277
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,560
Bald man, prime of life,
the bludgeon, the doublet.

278
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:13,840
It all fits, doesn't it?
It must be Lardin.

279
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,280
It all fits a body of presumption

280
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,160
leading us to that theory.

281
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,320
You're becoming cautious.

282
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:24,840
Where did you get that?

283
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,400
From showing more interest
than you in the doublet.

284
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,440
A trick token
you buy from the madam

285
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:33,880
and give the girls
when the bottle's drunk.

286
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,320
A token bearing
a Dauphin Couronné.

287
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,600
As for the note,
it's written in Paulet's hand.

288
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:42,640
I've a call to make

289
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,400
to enlighten myself
on a gift of fate.

290
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:49,320
You deceived me!

291
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:51,960
The opposite would have hurt less.

292
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,680
I can close your house in an instant.

293
00:26:57,840 --> 00:26:59,640
You are right to be scared.

294
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:01,720
What are you so scared of?

295
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,040
Commissaire Lardin.

296
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,000
Commissaire Lardin?

297
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,960
He said he was in charge
of the gambling police.

298
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:11,240
In charge?

299
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:15,520
He said he'd been appointed
by your chief, Mr de Sartine.

300
00:27:16,120 --> 00:27:18,360
You have no more reason
to fear him.

301
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:22,040
Commissaire Lardin is dead.
We have found his remains.

302
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:29,320
Was Lardin one of the three masks
in the argument?

303
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:30,880
Against whom?

304
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,120
- Dr Descare, mainly.
- For what reason?

305
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,040
His wife's loose living.

306
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,040
Right. And?

307
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:41,360
The third mask?

308
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,400
Your great friend, Scemacgus.

309
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,400
He was never without that bludgeon.

310
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,320
Or that doublet.

311
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:54,560
So he's dead.

312
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:56,960
Everything points to that.

313
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:02,200
Your despair would seem
to be limitless, madame.

314
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,280
I can control my emotions, sir.

315
00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:10,040
Apart from moaning,
what do you want from me?

316
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,240
I'd like your opinion.

317
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,880
Who do you think
might have intended

318
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:18,360
or wanted or needed
to kill your husband?

319
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:20,840
I've no idea.

320
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,480
Your cousin,
Dr Descare, perhaps?

321
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:24,840
Descare?

322
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,640
God, no. The poor thing yelps
more than he bites.

323
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,320
An arrogant hornet
with deep-rooted venom,

324
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,840
but only his lancet,
which he's handier with,

325
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:36,280
could be a sting.

326
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,800
Last night he had a huge row
with your husband.

327
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,640
Could you think of
another likely suitor?

328
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:48,040
You've gone too far.
I am not an easy woman.

329
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:51,680
I am a widow, and as such,
you should respect...

330
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,440
I'd like to see
your stepdaughter Marie.

331
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:55,960
She's at vespers.

332
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,880
I want my husband to have
a Christian burial.

333
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,000
I'd like his remains released
as soon as possible.

334
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,600
You'll have to wait
until the case is finally closed.

335
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:11,720
Madame.

336
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:33,600
The pike has taken the bait.
Now it's time to strike.

337
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:37,560
And he's too interested
in our young girl.

338
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,360
We should see to her promptly.

339
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:45,640
No!

340
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:00,360
Come on!

341
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,880
It's a shame you can't enjoy
the cruel beauty

342
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:05,480
of dissolution.

343
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,200
But I imagine the stench is enough.

344
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:55,080
You've got a nerve,
showing up here like this!

345
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,520
Strutting around like a boy surgeon.

346
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:00,040
I'll have you banned!

347
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:01,880
A man who rejects bloodletting

348
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:04,720
- with no qualifications!
- My qualifications

349
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,160
are worth yours.
As for bloodletting,

350
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,720
you are the dry fruit
of old doctrines.

351
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,120
You insult Hippocrates and Galen!

352
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:14,240
The sage's teachings bring life.

353
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,360
But yours brings death.

354
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:18,840
You blaspheme the Holy Scriptures!

355
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,400
That's enough!

356
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,160
You can debate another time.

357
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:26,960
Doctor Descare,

358
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,080
Mr de Sartine,
chief of police,

359
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,760
has bid me investigate
Mr Lardin's disappearance.

360
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:35,320
Well, sir?

361
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:37,880
You were among the last to see him.

362
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,920
I did dine with the Lardins
ten days ago.

363
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:47,800
Have you seen him since?

364
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,040
Have you seen him since?

365
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,000
Not in the least.
What is this inquisition?

366
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:04,520
Doctor, I have heard you.
Your claims will be checked

367
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,400
and a magistrate will question you

368
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:09,400
on Lardin's disappearance.

369
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:11,840
Sir, I am your servant.

370
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,200
"I was disgraced by my neighbours

371
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,040
"and hated by my acquaintances."

372
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:34,440
Christ with his credenza.
Did you know Descare was a Jansenist?

373
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:38,880
No. It'd have to be recent
and all-encompassing.

374
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:43,360
Interest, lies and slander
often go with devoutness.

375
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:45,840
I know that, my friend.

376
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:50,400
What were you doing there?

377
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,240
You suddenly sound very official.

378
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,640
- Looking for my coachman.
- At Descare's?

379
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:03,560
Yes. Recently, claiming Saint-Louis
had stolen cherries,

380
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,800
Descare shot at him
and broke his leg.

381
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:11,400
But for my surgeon's skill,
the wretch would have been crippled.

382
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:15,160
But Saint-Louis
didn't steal cherries.

383
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:19,160
He just happened to be black
and be there.

384
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:23,000
Descare hates Negroes.
He thinks they're beings

385
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,640
that dirty our Lord's earth.

386
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:27,360
You were at Paulet's.

387
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:29,320
- Yes.
- Descare had a row

388
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:31,800
with Lardin.
As did you, Scemacgus.

389
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,000
Did you know Lardin was dead?

390
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,520
- Not until earlier.
- It scarcely moved you.

391
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,880
You talked of disappearance
not death.

392
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,600
So Lardin is dead?

393
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,520
Do I infer
that I am a suspect too?

394
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,960
Unless you can provide
an alibi for the time

395
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:56,160
between leaving the Dauphin
and the body being found.

396
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:58,280
I have nothing to justify.

397
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:03,080
My affection for you is like that
for a younger brother,

398
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:07,360
but I fear you'll have to
make do with my word.

399
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,520
Which, to a policeman, counts
as much as a nun's fart.

400
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:12,880
Commissaire.

401
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,160
Good evening, Nicolas.

402
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:26,440
The throes
of a terrible attack of gout.

403
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,920
But you, my friend,
seem broody.

404
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:38,000
Perhaps the sudden presence
of some lady?

405
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,680
Did you know about
Lardin's disappearance?

406
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,640
By Jove! You don't bother
with preliminaries.

407
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:02,680
News of his death
is all over Paris.

408
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,880
I'm not sure the man
is particularly missed.

409
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,080
But I hear your sorrow.

410
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:10,640
It is never pleasant

411
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:14,320
to lose a companion
from one's beginnings.

412
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:15,920
And did you know

413
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:20,000
Mr de Sartine had charged him
with overseeing gambling?

414
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:23,640
I was aware.
And I sense your astonishment.

415
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:27,720
Sir,

416
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:32,920
answer without pretence
and with brutal sincerity.

417
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:39,640
Can you answer for Scemacgus
as for yourself?

418
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:41,480
Scemacgus...

419
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,040
He's a strong character.

420
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,920
His vigour leaves him exposed
to women.

421
00:36:49,240 --> 00:36:52,760
He can scarcely resist
and puts all his light into it,

422
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:54,640
sometimes without judgment.

423
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:59,600
It is said he had an affair
with Lardin's wife.

424
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:04,640
By Jove! No need to ask
where you got that.

425
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,200
You could suggest standing down
from this case.

426
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,360
It is not in me to stumble
before a hurdle.

427
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:24,760
Another strong character.

428
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:28,320
You should get some rest.

429
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:30,760
Heard the expression 'sleep on it'?

430
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:37,960
Commissaire.
Talking of starting out,

431
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:42,080
did you know that, before getting
her clutches into Lardin

432
00:37:42,240 --> 00:37:45,400
and acquiring
an almost spotless virtue,

433
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:50,440
Mme Lardin had taken her first steps
in courtesanship

434
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:54,480
at Madame Paulet's,
in the Dauphin Couronné pub?

435
00:38:09,240 --> 00:38:13,560
An odd conversation
was overheard in a tavern

436
00:38:13,720 --> 00:38:17,080
between 2 rascals
with gold to spend.

437
00:38:17,240 --> 00:38:18,800
Were they known faces?

438
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:22,120
No. The worst kind of scum.

439
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,960
Former ruffians or outlaws.

440
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:27,960
Their master paid them well

441
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:30,440
to cut up a good piece of meat

442
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:32,440
and take it to Montfaucon.

443
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,120
Montfaucon?

444
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:38,760
One claimed to be
a former navy gunner.

445
00:38:39,240 --> 00:38:43,760
He wears a wooden leg
of which he is very proud.

446
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:51,520
I must find them, Tirepot.

447
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:16,280
Lardin's death doesn't concern you.
Let him rest.

448
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:20,160
No one has anything to gain
in stirring up his death.

449
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:50,640
My God! Commissaire...

450
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:53,320
Is Mr de Sartine visible?

451
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:55,280
He's in a hearing.

452
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:01,680
You know the situation:
Pondicherry is in enemy hands.

453
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:03,600
So I am aware.

454
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,360
If they obtain these letters,
it's a disaster.

455
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:09,560
- How is it going?
- I put someone on the case.

456
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,200
He's acting at once
as both dog and hare.

457
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:18,040
He knows nothing of the affair.

458
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:21,120
How dare you show up unannounced!

459
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:23,440
Are you drunk?
Have you gone mad?

460
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:25,280
No. Just doing my duty.

461
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:28,480
What happened to you?

462
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,240
I was attacked in here.

463
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:34,680
Bloodhound turned game.

464
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:38,560
Their impudence is limitless,
in proportion with the case.

465
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:42,120
What did you overhear?

466
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:44,640
Nothing worth reporting.

467
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:48,160
I didn't know the Lardin case
had several sides.

468
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:52,200
It is ever thus when reasons of state
mix with men's things.

469
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:54,040
I can add nothing.

470
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:56,760
So Lardin is dead?

471
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:58,520
Everything points that way.

472
00:40:59,240 --> 00:41:02,880
Murdered for motives
that seemed straightforward.

473
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,400
Mme Lardin was at the centre
of a dangerous triangle.

474
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:10,280
Many triangles are.
A simple woman's affair

475
00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:13,840
that just happened
at the wrong time.

476
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:19,120
And the other two points
of the triangle?

477
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:24,160
Mme Lardin's own cousin:
Doctor Descare.

478
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,720
Doctor Descare
and Scemacgus,

479
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:32,760
naval surgeon
and adept at dismembering bodies.

480
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:37,400
Inspector Bourdeau has an urgent
message for Commissaire Le Floch.

481
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:39,040
Show him in.

482
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:44,880
Excuse me, sir. I interrupt
for a serious development.

483
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:48,560
I wanted to report that
Dr Descare has been murdered.

484
00:41:48,720 --> 00:41:52,320
Everything points to Scemacgus
as the murderer.

485
00:41:54,720 --> 00:41:56,480
Commissaire?

486
00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:00,560
There's only one point left
on your triangle.

487
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:13,720
I'd like to know

488
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,720
the precise reason
for your being here.

489
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:19,840
A note sent to me by the victim,

490
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:23,880
inviting me to visit forthwith.

491
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:26,840
I thought you were on bad terms.

492
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:29,080
And so did I.

493
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:37,880
Sir, I would be glad
if you'd produce this note.

494
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:42,600
Would you believe me

495
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,720
if I said I lost it on the way here?

496
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:51,240
Take away the body

497
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:54,000
that it be duly opened.

498
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:57,960
A routine search
and then seal the place.

499
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:03,560
Mr Scemacgus...

500
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:08,520
come with me to Châtelet,
where you'll be kept in secret

501
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:11,560
until this case is concluded.

502
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:21,800
Your instructions were carried out.

503
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:26,000
"Do not from three come a pair?
Even the covers can be Seen by all."

504
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:31,960
Lardin was secretive
and loved ciphers.

505
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:36,880
How's your friend Scemacgus?

506
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,120
Like a man resigned to imprisonment

507
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:42,680
who keeps his silence.

508
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:44,960
I went digging around last night.

509
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:48,200
I know your feelings for Scemacgus.

510
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:51,520
However, among
the Lardin woman's suitors,

511
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:55,920
the least ardent was not
our fiery naval surgeon.

512
00:43:56,760 --> 00:44:00,800
Their discreet affair
made a great din.

513
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:08,680
A husband.

514
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:12,640
Two lovers.

515
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:18,160
Descare eliminates Lardin.

516
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:23,280
Scemacgus eliminates Descare.

517
00:44:24,240 --> 00:44:26,080
Or Scemacgus eliminates both

518
00:44:26,240 --> 00:44:29,160
on the pretext of the scene
in the Dauphin Couronné.

519
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:35,920
Were it not for your friendship
with Mr Scemacgus,

520
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:39,200
could you see any objection
to this configuration?

521
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:45,240
Alas, no.

522
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,800
I have a new mission
for you, Bourdeau.

523
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:55,640
An important mission,
as it concerns my life.

524
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:50,280
You're obviously intending
setting up shop here.

525
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:56,160
Does Lardin's still-warm place
hold some attraction for you?

526
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,000
Unless this is about me.

527
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:02,440
No, I already know
everything about you.

528
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:06,600
As for the rest, I wouldn't
swap places with you.

529
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:09,760
Your cousin Descare is dead.
Your lover, they say.

530
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:14,640
If he was, I am scarcely
aroused by the memory.

531
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:17,960
What else do they say, sir?

532
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:22,480
That you had adulterous relations
with a certain Scemacgus.

533
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:25,400
Relations your cousin was aware of,

534
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:29,080
since he revealed this
to your husband at Paulet's.

535
00:46:29,240 --> 00:46:32,080
As a former employee,
you'll remember the place.

536
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:35,440
You exceed your rights
and I know mine.

537
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:39,400
Get out!

538
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:43,040
You are hiding part of the truth

539
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,800
or the whole truth,
I know it.

540
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:50,600
I also know you are involved
in your husband's disappearance.

541
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:52,800
I could make you confess.

542
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:55,160
The question loosens tongues.

543
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:57,080
You are a fool.

544
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:01,040
I know your methods.
My husband's methods.

545
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:05,440
You could, but you'd need
a warrant from your superior,

546
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:07,320
the chief of police.

547
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:10,680
I doubt Mr de Sartine
would consent. Get out!

548
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:26,520
Gently, sir.

549
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:30,920
I followed the ruffian.
He took a long route to get here.

550
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:34,520
Did he spot me? I lost him
by the Lardin house.

551
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:37,440
I'd only just arrived
when you emerged.

552
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:41,440
Your man might have entered
by a hidden access.

553
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:44,200
To be sure, we'd have to enter too,

554
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:47,320
and I fear that's impossible
for the moment.

555
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:49,080
De Sartine
is not playing fair

556
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:53,120
and I fear I'd make things
even more muddled.

557
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:01,000
The animal leaves here.

558
00:48:01,720 --> 00:48:04,760
- It has flair and instinct.
- No doubt.

559
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:09,560
The beating to convince him
of Lardin's death wasn't enough.

560
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,280
We're alone, madame.
What do you fear?

561
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:17,880
The shadow of your husband,
returned from hell?

562
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:22,080
We must eliminate the commissaire
before he compromises everything.

563
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:25,960
Have you found the letters?

564
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:27,280
No.

565
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:32,280
Shame Lardin was so tough.

566
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:34,680
He could have told us.

567
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:41,000
Descare can't have known.
For a coward, he said nothing.

568
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,160
They gave Lardin his power,

569
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,360
but he wouldn't use them
except for blackmail.

570
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:50,480
Maybe he retained
a vestige of loyalty.

571
00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:54,200
Go back there.
We need those letters, Mauval.

572
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:56,760
We don't have Lardin's scruples.

573
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:03,160
Plotting against France
doesn't repulse us.

574
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:06,880
Clients for those letters
jostle at our borders.

575
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:13,320
I want the house
and its surroundings watching.

576
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:16,160
It'll be done.
And more if needed.

577
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:26,040
No need.
My troops are like me.

578
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:28,720
They live on fresh air.

579
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:34,320
Tell me where you're from one day.

580
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:38,000
I doubt that the matter
is of any importance.

581
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:55,160
The lancet near the heart
can't have been the cause of death.

582
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:57,520
The wretch was already dead,

583
00:49:57,680 --> 00:50:00,640
neck broken
by extremely powerful hands.

584
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:03,640
These traces only appear
well after death.

585
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:07,160
Not one bone, not one member
was spared.

586
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:10,000
Doctor Descare
was cleverly ill-treated

587
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:13,000
before his torturers
cut short his suffering.

588
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:14,320
To make him talk?

589
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:15,640
It could be that.

590
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:20,440
Or to inflict
great suffering on the patient

591
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:23,400
to give him a foretaste of hell.

592
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:27,480
You think Scemacgus
capable of that?

593
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:28,720
He has the strength

594
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:32,760
and the knowledge of
how to cause violent pain.

595
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:38,640
He may have used the lancet
to allay suspicion.

596
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:42,000
An informer claims
Dr Descare's house was searched.

597
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:45,480
The seals were broken.
Everything is in disorder.

598
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:15,000
It looks like someone
was looking for something.

599
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:17,600
But who, what, and why?

600
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:52,400
You see, Bourdeau,

601
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:55,400
one of the fellows
left his signature.

602
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:17,640
There couldn't be a more cautious
nor finer chaperone.

603
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:19,400
Your servant, sir.

604
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:38,920
Sir!

605
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:45,160
Sir, wake up. Sir!

606
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:48,560
To be continued...

607
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:17,000
Subtitles - Henry Moon
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