All language subtitles for Maigret S03E11 Seven Little Crosses_Track03-eng

(feet crunching)

(feet banging)

(tense music)

{door slams)

{traffic humming)

(feet tapping)

(feet pounding)

(dramatic French music)

(match sizzling)

{shaver buzzing)

{switchboard clicking)

- Hello, d'lvry.

Thank you

Two drunks in the Boulevard Massena.

- And a Merry Christmas to 'em.

Do you want some more coffee?

- Mmm, thanks.

There'll be some suicides, you know?

There always are on Christmas Eve.

- Yeah.

Well it's one of those times

when everyone's supposed to be happy.

If you're alone, you start thinking

- What about”?

- Christmas Eve when you were a kid,

how much better it all was.

You know (huffs), we used to
go to midnight mass by sledge.

Winters were much colder then.

- The winters were no colder
then than they are now

I've seen the figures.

- Yeah, well, all the
same we went by sledge

I remember the black puddings

we used to eat when we got back.

{switchboard buzzing)

- Hello, Chaillot.

A car's gone out, hmm

Oh, what was it?

Veron, thank you

- Suicide?

- [Lecoeur] Attempted

- Oh, Leceeur, aren't you
gonna put it in your book?

- Not yet, she may die, it's
a different column then.

{Daniel laughs)

- I don't know why you bother

- There's a lot to be learned
from keeping accurate records

- Morning, Sergeant Lucas.

- [Lucas] Morning.

- [Daniel] Can we help you?
(door banging)

- No, no, I've been sitting
around the office all night

I thought I'd come down
and see some action

- Oh it's very quiet down here.

- Coffee?

- No, thanks, I'm full of it.

- Well have a drink then?

- Ah, that's an idea

{switchboard clicking)

- Hello Clichy,

well, all right, what's the call?

Thank you.
{cork squeaking)

Stolen car
{liquid trickling)

General call, grey Citron, 1560 X82,

stolen from Rue Emile Zola,

believed to be proceeding
towards Boulevard Ney

(clicks)

That's the 15th tonight.

It'll drop off when the Metro opens

- I'll be on the first train.

- [Daniel] You been
working on a routine job

or something special?

- The Sunday Man, as the papers call him

- What kind of maniac
does it take to go around

doing in old ladies just for a few francs?

- The Sunday Man's a
misnomer as a matter of fact,

he's only killed twice on Sundays,

the other two murders
have been on weekdays,

if it is in fact the same man.

Different weapons, you knows?

Very unusual

- Well you'll need a
new column, won't you?

- Victim's always the same type,

a lonely old woman.

You can't persuade me
that four new murderers

have appeared in four weeks

- Nearly five weeks

(glass smashing)

{melancholy music)

(feet tapping)

{switchboard clicking)

- Present for Uncle Jules?

- Hello, Javel.

Thank you

Well that's the first tonight.

- [Daniel] First what?

- False alarm, glass broken
on an emergency call post,

nobody there when the car arrives.

- What do you list that under?

- Various.

{switchboard clicks)

Hello Javel, what nov?

Oh, no, not another one

Where is it this time?

What are you complaining about,

he's moving out of your district.

First he's in the Rue Lablanc,

the second on Pont Mirabeau.

- Glass broken both times?

- And not a word spoken.

- Some joker

- A joker in a hurry by the look of him

(dramatic music)

{water splashing)

{box splashing)

Avenue de Versailles,

it looks as though he's heading for the

Bois de Boulogne

- Well they'll lose him there.

{switchboard clicking)

- Hello, Passy

Ch, he's turned up in
your district now, has he?

- [Lucas] Whereabouts?

- Rue de la Fontaine.

- He's doubling back

- Toye and Javel both know him

I'll warn Chaillot.

Hello, Chaillot, there's
a madman coming your vay

breaking the glass on
the emergency call posts,

see if you can catch him

{traffic humming)

He's still in Passy heading his way

- It's like paper chase

- Well you'd think they'd get him

There can't be many people about

this time on Christmas morning.

{machine buzzing)

- Hello Chaillot.

- Bet you 10 francs it's him

(indistinct)

- Longchamps

- He's going up in the world

- Hello, Tian, Concorde, Elisaye,

watch out for a joker breaking the glass

on the emergency call posts

(glass smashing)

(dramatic music)

- Surely to heaven there
is some police at Etoile

- There are also 12
separate ways of leaving it

- [Godin] Merry Christmas to you all

- Hello, hello, hello

- A ghastly morning, you're welcome to it.

{Lucas laughs)

Ah, Lucas

- Where did you get that hat?

- I knitted it.

Daniel, did you enjoy your Christmas Eve?

- No, but Christmas day is
going to make up for it

- Yes, dinner with Uncle Jules?

- Yeah.

- Tell the patron we're
with him in spirit

- I could do with a grog

- Well there's some strong
black coffee over there.

- Coffee, you don't say

- Aren't you being relieved, Lecoeur?

- I'm taking over Malmbury's
spell, he's got a family

- What again”

- He likes it here.

Bye.
- Bye.

{machine clicking)

Hello, Javel

- [Lucas] He can't be going back there.

- Yeah.

Name, what?

Melfayee, yes

Yes, I see.

No, I expect somebody will be coming down

Yes, report any developments

(cord clanking)

Your man.

- Huh, what the Sunday Man?

- Looks like him.

An old woman called Melfayee,

murdered at 12 Rue Michel.

- How?

- Strangled

- Give me outside line, will you?

Did she live alone?

- Yes, she's a short term money lender,

and an old harpy

- They knew her?

- Hmm?

- [Lucas] They knevr her?

- Oh, yes, she was known

(phone ringing)

- Maigret.

Yes, Lucas

Yes.
- What's that, the office?

- All right, get down there,
take Lapointe with you

Ring me back, I'll be here.

What?

Ha, same to you.

(phone bangs)

Lucas wishes you a happy Christmas.

- You will be here.

- Well I said so, you heard me

- Yes, I heard you, but
I also know you too well,

I've put up with it for years.

Cooking meals that are never eaten,

having my summer holidays cancelled

Don't you ever wonder how I feel?

Look what happened last Christmas.

- Ah, now, that wasn't my fault.

- You dare go out today
after you've promised

Look, this is Christmas

- Yes, dear, it's Christmas

- For me?

- (laughs) Who else?

{lips smacking)

- I'm sorry

For you.

- Oh, I wonder what that can be.

(Madame Maigret laughs)

{melancholy music)

{Lucas sighing)

(drawers scraping)

{door clanking)

- They can take her away
if the ambulance is here

- Right, I've found a witness for you

- Who saw the crime?

- Would you come here please

Just tell the Sargeant what you saw.

- Jean Bouchet
- Hello.

Well, what did you see”

- I work as a doorman
at the Cleopatra Club

in the Boulevard Raspail.

- Yes, but what did you see?

- You will want to know

how I came to be up and
about so early, huh?

I know the police

I live down there on the ground floor

I come home from work,

and I was giving my canary some seed

when I saw movement just
below this window, there.

Someone was climbing across the roof,

- The window was open”?

- Yeah, I saw him climb
up and enter this room

- Who was it?

- The little boy who lives over there.

- A child?

- About 12 years old.

{Godin gasps)

- Want me to take over?

- No, it's all right, thanks

{switchboard clicking)

Hello, Montanas

Thank you

A fight in the Rue des Abbesses

- Ch well, your joker's
gone to bed anyway

{liquid trickling)

Want some grog?

- No thanks.

- Hey, Lecoeur, you're slipping

- [Lecoeur] What?

- You haven't put it
down in your little book

- Oh, no, thanks

- Has Lapointe come through yet”

- Not yet, have they taken
the body to the morgue?

- [Lucas] Yes

{switchboard clicking)

- Hello Chaillot.

You'd better send it down here,

ves, Central Control

Yeah, bye.

They found a blue and white handkerchief

by the last of the emergency call posts,

they're sending it down here.

- Why here”?

- Well, I don't know, I thought
it was the best thing to do

it's all covered in blood.

He probably wrapped it around his knuckles

to break the glass

- Huh, what glass, who?

{switchboard clicking)

- Hello.

Oh, Lapointe for you

- Lapointe?

- Lucas, I checked,

it seems that doorman
was telling the truth

The boy does live in
the house which backs on

to the murdered woman's.

His name is Francois Lecoeur,

he lives with his father, Olivier Lecoeur,

neither of them are there now.

- [Lucas] Right, well let's
have the medical report

as soon as possible

No, I'll stay here.

We'll put out a general call.

(phone banging)

Name was Lecoeur.

- Yes,

all these years,

listening to calls from all over Paris

I might have known that sooner
or later I'd get involved

- Huh,

how are you involved?

- Olivier Lecoeur's my brother

(dramatic musical blast)

{traffic humming)

(dramatic music)

- Well question him

No, stay where you are
for the moment, Lucas

Well you won't find him by
roaming about the place

Me, I think I'll stay
where I am for the moment.

(clanking)

- You don't think, you know

- Madame's just wishing
you a merry Christmas

No, she isn't.

Hold on.

- You tell him that you've
got to be here for lunch

it's all settled.

Whatever it is, Lucas will have to

look after it himself for once.

- Madame would be grateful
for nothing to happen

before this afternoon.

- Right, patron

(phone clicking)

I think you'd better take over

Keep this line free, will you”?

- Lecoeur.

- Come and sit down.

Drink?

- Yes, please

{liquid trickling)

Thanks.

- Well, let's hear it

- The murdered woman, Melfayee,

it's Olivier's mother-in-law.

- [Lucas] Where's his wife?

- She died five years ago

- [Lucas] Yeah?

- The old woman blamed Olivier.

There was an operation
that might have saved her,

Olivier couldn't afford it.

- [Lucas] He was poor?

- Very, never kept a job for very long.

- [Lucas] Drink?

- No, no, temper

Always feels people are getting at him,

sooner or later there's a row.

- [Lucas] Does he quarrel with you?

- No, I understand him, I think

I try to help him because of the boy.

- Do they live alone, just he and the boy?

- Yes, in the Rue Vasco de Gama.

Olivier looks after him
himself, always has done

(phone ringing)

(phone clanking)

- Lucas.

Hey, Lapointe?

- I've just been talking to

the concierge at Lecoeur's house

She says Olivier Lecoeur came home

at about eight o'clock this morning.

He went upstairs, then came
down again very agitated,

asked her if she'd seen the boy go out

She said she hadn't and he left.

- Right, no, no. I'll stay here

- Right, hold on
{phone clanking)

There's a call from the morgue,

they've been trying to
get you at the office

- Lucas.

She did.

How long?

I see, right, thanks

Yes, thanks very much

(phone clanking)

Melfayee died between 6:00 and 8:00.

Is your brother a night worker?

- He was working as a
typographer until five weeks ago

- And now?

- He lost that job too, he's out of work

- I think you better go home.

- No, I'd rather stay

- All right.

Put out a general call for
Olivier Francois Lecoeur.

What's your brother's height?

- One metre 95.

Brown hair, thin face, slightly stooping.

(dramatic music)

(feet crunching)

(feet padding)

He's a small boy, that's all,

just a small boy

{door clicks)

- Chaillot Station sent me down with this.

- You found it?

- Yes, when they sent me
to check the alarm post

in the Avenue Vienna.

- Goad work, goed for you

You saw no one?

- No one.

- Right, thanks.

- Can I see that?

Francois has some like this.

- Francois,

I wonder if he cut his
hand breaking the glass

on the first post and wound this round it.

Where was the first breakage?

- Rue Leblanc.

- It's right near his home

- Then Pont Mirabeau, Quai Louis Bleriot,

Avenue de Versailles, Jean de Passy,

through to Longchamp, and then the last.

- Seven.

-Um, yes.

- Why zig-zag like that?

- Well if he was trying to
throw people off the scent

- He wouldn't sound the alarm all the way

It looks as though he
wanted to be followed.

Why?

- Well if he wanted to distract

the attention of the police from

someone else.

- Hmm, was he fond of his father?

- Oh, yes

Clivier brought him up,
they were always together

That can't be true, Olivier
would never kill anybody

(phone ringing)

Central Control?

Lapointe for you

- Yes, Lapointe

There are?

I see, right

All right, well when
you've finished with her

go down to the Javel
station and standby there

No, no, I'll be here.

(phone clanking)

It seems your brother's
done his Christmas shopping

There's a chicken, a cake,
and a radio set in his flat

- A new radio set?

- Not even unpacked

Where would he get the money?

And where's he now?

- No idea.

I've been trying to
think where he might go

There's no particular reason
for him to go anywhere

We used to live near
Orleans when we were kids,

but there's nobody there now

Olivier has nobody, except Francois

(dramatic music)

{switchboard clicking)

- Hello, Bercy”?

Drunk in the middle of the road.

Yes, and to you

(cable clicks)

Want a light?

- You kidding”?

I darn't smoke it, it's a
present for my girlfriend

{switchboard clicking)

- Hello, Austerlitz.

For you.

- Austerlitz.

Lucas?

You have, how long ago?

Yes, straightaway

{phone clanks)

Your brother's been picked up

at the Gare d'Austerlitz
in the waiting room,

he'll be here in 10 minutes.

(tense music)

(knocking)

-Comein.

- You wanted to see me?

- [Lapointe] Are you the concierge?

- That's right,

of course I always knew
something like this would happen

I mean, her living alone here.

People calling on her all
hours of the day and night

- Yes, well I just wanted

- She'd charge 50%, you know

- Yes, well I just wanted you
to answer a few questions,

if you don't mind.

Do you know G. Bell Aimee?

- He's a waiter in the
cafe round the corner,

bets a lot.

- Hmm-mm.

And Emile Janet?

- He sells peanuts, didn't
know he owed her money

I haven't seen him come up here

- You see most people who come up”?

- Well, of course, it's my job

- Do you knows Olivier Lecoeur?

- He lives over there.

- Did you see him come up here last night”?

- As a matter of fact I did,

about 10 o'clock.

Do you know,

he must have been the last
person to see her alive

- Andre, where is Francois?

- We don't know yet.

- This is Sergeant Lucas

- All right, thank you.

Now you knows that Melfayee,
your mother-in-law,

has been murdered?

- They told me, ves, but I

- But you know nothing
about it, all right

What were you doing at
the Gare d'Austerlitz?

- Francois left a message,

I found it this moming when I got home

- "Uncle Gideon arriving
at the Gare d'Austerlitz

this morning, come at once, Francois."

Who's Uncle Gideon?

- Nobody
- What?

- We had an Uncle Gideon
once, our mother's brother,

he went to America.

It got to be a kind of family joke

that we'd all be rich
when Uncle Gideon died.

- And did he die?

- Six years ago as a
dishwasher in Cleveland.

- But why should Francois write this note”

- [Lecoeur] You've told
him all these stories

about Uncle Gideon and the Red Indians.

- I wonder if it was to get you away

- Again, why?

- You visited your
mother-in-law last night

- Yes.

- What time did you leave home?

- Eight o'clock as usual

- Why as usual, you're
not working, are you?

- No, but I go out every night
to see if there's an odd job

I can do down in the market, for instance

- Where was the boy when you went home?

- In bed, I tucked him
up and said goodbye,

he was excited because of Christmas.

- Yas he expecting a
radio set for Christmas?

- He wanted one, it's dull
for him in the afternoons

when he gets home, I'm still asleep,

and I don't like him
playing in the streets

- But he must have known
if you were out of work

that you couldn't afford such a thing

- He didn't know I was out of work.

- Surely he did?

- No, I never told him,

why worry a child, there's time enough

- So you left home exactly as though

you were going to work?

- Exactly
- And then?

- I went down and sat by the quayside,

I wanted Francois to be asleep
before I went to Melfayee,

you can see into her room from his window

- Why were you going there”?

- [Olivier] For money

- I could have let you have some

- I couldn't come to you
again, I've had too much

- What happened when you got there”?

- She opened the door and said,

"Oh, it's you, you good for nothing",

but she let me in after a bit of argument,

she let me have 75 francs.

- What terms?

- 50% interest repayable in a fortnight.

- 50%. well that's some mother-in-law

When you left her, where'd you go?

- By Metro to the Palais Royale

where I went into a big shop.

- Name?

- I can't remember.

- What time?

- About 11:00, there
was an electric train,

I stood there watching it

- Did you buy anything”?

- No, it was too expensive,
I' went to the Rue Momage

and bought the chicken
and the other things

- At a shop?

- Of course.

- Well all at the same shop?
- [Olivier] No

- Well what were the names of the shops.

- Olivier, try and remember.

- Why, what does it matter?

- It matters a great deal.

Look, you've been out
of work for five weeks

during which time there
have been five murders,

for the last one you had
motive and opportunity

- Do you mean you think
I'm the Sunday Man?

Andre, you don't

- No, I don't, but you must see

- I see nothing, nothing

Iwill not be accused.

- Yes, you will, unless you can tell us

where you were last night, now sit down

(chair scraping)

- I don't remember the names of the shops,

I might find them again.

- All right, what did you do
when you finished shopping?

- Walk along the Grumble
Var, midnight struck,

everybody kissed each other

- [Lucas] Where were you going?

- To an all night cinema on
the Boulevard des Italiens

- [Lucas] What was the film~?

- "The Burning Heart", and
a documentary about Eskimos

- [Lucas] You saw them both?

- Twice, it's cheaper than a
cafe, and they let you sleep

- This will all be
checked, you know, Olivier

- I may still have the ticket

Yes, here it is, and
here's the Metro ticket.

- That'll be timestamped

- Well, issued for the first train

at the Opera station this moming

(laughs)

Well you've done your best
to destroy your own alibi,

but you haven't succeeded

- I haven't had anything
to eat, I'm hungry

- So am I, send out for some
beer and sandwiches, will you”?

- How many sandwiches?

- Three or four.

- How many bottles of beer?

- Half a dozen, seeing it's Christmas

- You want some beer, Godin?

- No, I'll stick to grog.

- I'l get five

Ham sandwiches?

- [Lucas] Anything they've got

- No garlic for me.

Francois doesn't like
garlic, so I keep off it

But where is he?

What are you doing to find him?

- We're doing all we can

{switchboard clicking)

- Hello, Bernel

Body in the river,

a woman, yes.

(Lucas sighs)

Yeah, all right.

{door clicks)

- They're sending out.

(tense music)

(feet stamping)

(feet crunching)

{sandwich crunching)

- When did you last eat”?

- Last night before I went out.

-Youdidn'tgotoa
cafe during the night?

- No, I have a lunchbox, bread and cheese,

just like I had when I was working.

- Where is it now?

- had it.
- When?

- Last night, if I didn't take it,

Francois would remind me.

Did I have it in the Metro?

No, the last time I remember having it

was in Melfayee's room

- Call Javel, tell them to find Lapointe

Whereabouts in the room did you leave it?

- The window ledge, yes, the room stank

so I stayed by the window.

- [Lucas] The window was open?

- Yes, she always kept her
window open, even to sleep,

you would have thought she was English.

- Lapointe

(phone clicks)

- Hello, Lapointe,

vias there any sign of a
lunchbox in Melfayee's room?

- No, no lunchbox, nothing like that.

No, I searched the room thoroughly

Yes, the boy's room looks down on it

from the house opposite

- Right, thank you.

No, no, I'll stay here.

(phone clicks)

No box.

- [Olivier] Where can it be?

- Bottom of the river I expect.

- Did Francois take it?

- Probably

I wonder if he stayed awake last night,

children do on Christmas Eve.

If he walked to the
window, he'd have seen you

talking to Melfayee

- He could have done.

- Did he know who she was?

- No.

- But he knew she was a money lender?

- Everybody knew that

- Perhaps he guessed why you'd gone there.

- No, he didn't know
that I was out of work.

- You can't tell how much children know.

- Yes, that's true.

He told me himself he knew
there was no Father Christmas

two years before he let on to you.

- He knew I enjoyed filling his shoes

- Anyway, he must have seen you.

After that I suppose he went back to bed

Was he a sound sleeper?

- [Olivier] Not always

- Let's suppose that he got
up early again next morning

Now he could have seen two things,

Melfayee laying dead and your
lunchbox on the windowsill.

- Howv could he think I'd do such a thing

- Well whatever he thought

he could see evidence against you,

and obviously he set himself to remove it

He was seen climbing into the room

The box is gone, who
else could have taken it?

- And now he's wandering around Paris

believing his father to be a murderer.

{fingers click)

- Wait a minute.

Let's suppose that when
he walked to the window

he saw the crime committed.

He's wandering around Paris
following the murderer

(tense music)

(feet crunching)

- But we sit, we sit and nothing is done

- Clivier, every police officer
in Paris is looking for him

- For whom?

A man they've never seen and a small boy

- We're doing all we can

- I'l go and look for him

- Where?

- Anywhere, I don't care,

just to be doing
something, not stuck here

Don't you understand,
the man's a murderer.

- Olivier, calm down, calm down

Now come here and lay
down, it's his asthma.

Come on.

- Move my things if they're in the way

- All right, thanks.

{Olivier gasping)

Now you lie there for a
while, try and get some sleep

We'll find Francois.

He's always suffered from asthma

As a kid he was in bed half the time.

- Is it nerves?

- Mainly, yes, well
he's very highly strung,

you can see.

It's a lucky thing for
him he's go an alibi

- Why especially?

- Because the Sunday Man

must be somebody very much like him.

- In what way”?

- Well night worker I should think

The murders were all in the small hours.

And someone nervous and hot tempered

to whom something shattering has happened

in the last five weeks.

- What, like losing his job?

- Yes.

Of course there is just one thing,

if you don't mind my mentioning it

In all previous cases
of murders by maniacs,

the weapon's always been the same

In fact, the weapon is part of the mania

But in this case the weapon's
been different every time

A spanner, an axe, a hammer,
a knife, strangulation

Now doesn't that lock at though somebody's

trying to throw us off the scent?

Make us think the murders
are by different people?

Well it's only an idea

Would imply that the murderer
has studied the subject

- Like you?

- Hmm.

{Lucas laughs)

- It's all right, you're not a suspect.

You notice something
strange about the route

this man took from Javel?

- There's zig-zags all over the place

- Yes, but it avoids every police station

and every patrol in
four separate districts

- He knew the lay of the land?

- As far as the police
were concerned, yes

Which means he could be
a professional criminal

- Yes, but you think a professional

would murder for small sums like this man?

- Get me the patron, will you

(phone clicks)

- Well there's only one
other kind of person

who knows the movements
of a policeman, Lucas,

and that's a policeman

Ask Lecoeur how his
records tally vith that

- There have been cases
of firemen starting fires

- But no dismissed police
officer committing murder?

There's always a first time I suppose

Get me police records

- There won't be anybody there today

- Oh blast, it's Christmas!
(hand slapping)

Well, Christmas or not, get
the director at his home

- Sir, I'l get it, I know the number,

it's 089875.

{switchboard clicking)

- Hello, Macron.

Car smash, yes

- Mr. Guillaume please,
for Sergeant Lucas

They're fetching him

- Thanks.

- [Child] Father Christmas
gave me a necklace

and some sweeties, and a
nev dress for my dolly

What did he give you?

- A pain in the neck

- What was that?

- Ch, Monsieur, I'm sorry, my
apologies for disturbing you,

but it's very urgent

Do you know of any
police officer dismissed

in the last five weeks?

Any rank.

- No, I can't say that I do

There hasn't been a dismissal
from the Metropolitan Force

for the past, oh, six months

Oh, there was Sergeant Loubet
for persistent drunkenness

He was in several
districts, 12th, 18th, 22nd

We tried shifting him
around, but it was no good

- Thank you, Monsieur.

Yes, thanks, and to you.

(phone clicking)

Loubet, Serjeant Loubet.

- Gaston Loubet?

Yes, I know him.

Thick, dark set chap,

used to fly into a fearful temper

if he thought anyone
was getting at him, yes

- What did he do when he left?

- He got a job in a textile warehouse

off the Grande Boulevard.

I met him recently, had a
frightful chip on his shoulder

- Did he tell you the
name of the warehouse?

- Now, wait a minute

It began witha TT...

- There's a Gaston Loubet listed

at 24 Rue Van St. Geterix.

- Get me Lepointe, he's still at Javel

- Tisaron that was the
name of the firm, Tisaron

Hello, Javel,

Lapointe

- Won't be anybody there foday.

- Except the watchman, try him

- [Godin] Lapointe

- Ah, Lapointe
- Yeah.

I see,

Gaston Loubet,

24 Rue Van St. Geterix.

Right, I'l get down there right away.

(phone banging)

- Good.

(phone clanking)

- Yes, yes, I've got that, thank you

Caretaker doesn't know him,

he's given me the number
of the personnel manager

{switchboard clicking)

- Hello, Marco

Only a smash and grab

Yes.

- Monsieur Triboulet?

This is Police Headquarters here

- Who?

The Police?

Why the devil should
the police telephone me

in the middle of my lunch?

What?

Loubet?

Good lord, he's the last
man I want to talk about

on Christmas day.

Beside he isn't with us anymore

No, we sacked him for
being drunk on the job

What?

I don't knows, weeks ago,
yes, some time in November

Yes, four or five weeks ago

No, I den't know what
he's been doing since,

and I don't care.

(phone slamming)

Loubet!

{door bell ringing)

- There you are at last, are you, Loubet?

(door clicking)

And about time too.

(door clicking)

- Madame Loubet?

- [Md. Loubet] Yes

- Police, may I speak to your husband”?

- He's not here, what do you want?

(door clicking)

- Bo you know where he is?

- At work.

- On Christmas day?

- Well you're at work, aren't you?

- He's not a policeman now

Do you mind if I use your phone?

- In there.

{phone clicking)
{phone dial whirring)

- Good work, Lapointe,

now bring her and the
photograph down here

Oh, and there's one vital
question I want you ta ask her

- Yes, right.

(phone clicking)

Is your husband carrying a gun, madame?

(papers rustling)

- Yes.

(tense music)

(feet tapping)

{suspenseful music)

- There is no need to follow me,

you may come with me

- Height, one metre 80, horse
voice, ruddy complexion,

correct?

- That's what I said.

- Good, get these details
out to all stations,

and a copy of the photograph.

- The photostat will be closed

- Oh, all right, just the details

But hurry.

- I really don't see
why you make such a fuss

because my husband is late coming home.

- Not because he hasn't come home, Madame,

but because he was out all night.

- But he works at night, I told you that

- [Lucas] Madame Loubet,
your husband lost his job

five weeks ago

- Well, how do you knows
he hasn't got another one?

- I don't, but I want to know where he is,

and why he's got a gun.

- He won't harm anyone with that

- [Lucas] Why not?

- It isn't loaded.

- How do you know?

- Because I didn't trust
him when he'd been drinking,

so I made him give me the bullets

- That's a relief.

- Not much of a one.

All right, Madame, you may go.

Lapointe

{door clicks)

- Supposing her husband comes back”

- We'll see him before she does.

I hope

- Of course if he does go home,

it'll mean he's shaken off Francois.

- Or that he'd killed him.

- But the gun isn't loaded

- If he gets him up here
into a quiet spot somewhere

he won't need the gun.

- Yeah, but how do you knows
they're going that way?

- Well he darn't go back into the centre

there are too many police,

remember he knows this.

He darn't cross a bridge
to get to the south,

not while we're looking for the boy.

He must know we're looking for the boy.

Now what will he do?

(tense music)

(feet tapping)

{door bangs)

I want police posted at every intersection

on the Boulevard Sainte-Tulle.

Yes, from Place Vendome To La Villette

What?

Well you must recall some
of your men, that's all

Now get moving.

- Where's my son?

What you doing?

Why don't you let me go look for him?

- Olivier, we're doing everything we can

- At the moment we must work from here.

- He's quite right

Now come on, come and lay down

(bottles clanking)

- Ah, now we're out of beer

Get some more beer, will you?

- Right.

- You do nothing but
drink. I shall report you

- You go right ahead

Drink!

Loubet drinks, doesn't he?

- Never stops according to the neighbours

- He's an alcoholic.

- He'll be needing a drink.

Come on, all of you, get to
work on these directories.

We're gonna call every
bar north of the river.

- There must be 10,000?

- 9.040
- Geez

- [Lecoeur] What about the beer?

- Forget the beer.

Come on, you're working
for the government,

start from Boulevard Ney, work inwards

(chair clanking)

(feet stomping)

{glass clanking)

(tense music)

(glass banging)

(door clicking)

- A small boy in the company
of a man aged about 50

You have, all right, thank you

- Hello, Je dis oui?

this is Police Headquarters here,

we're looking for a man aged about 50

accompanied by a small boy

Will you take a look in your bar?

- Hello, is that the Bound Isabess?

We're looking for a small boy

accompanied by a man aged around 50

Anytime this morning, we're the police.

- Come on, come on

Is that the Zanzibar?

Police here, have you seen a small boy

in the company of a man
aged about 50 this morning”?

What's that, speak up?

You have, how long”?

Right, thank you.

(phone slams)

Zanzibar, Rue Saint-Honore.

They were there 10 minutes ago,

the man had three Calvados,

the boy an orangeade,
they left hand in hand

Lapointe, take the photograph,
get up there quickly

get an identification, hurry

Call Wagram and Mormant, tell
them to watch out for them.

La Villette can send somebody to help

- There must be an awful lot of boys

out this morning with their fathers

- Lecoeur, the mathematic
logic as to it being them

are enormous, but I'm no
mathematician, thank heaven

- Now look out for a small boy

in the company with a man aged about 50,

believed to be Gaston Loubet.

- Ch, I'm no good at
standing still, come onl

- Can I take over now?
- Yeah.

(feet crunching)

{police siren ringing)

{train hooter blasting)
(train thundering)

(glass smashing)

(feet thundering)

- The box here by the canal, right

The box has just been broken, come on

{traffic humming)

There they are.

Come on!

(tense music)

(feet tapping)

(feet thundering)

Loubet!

{gun banging)

- You hurt?

No, you're all right.

Stop crying, Francois,
you'll be all right now

- You needn't be afraid.

- He's not afraid, he was
trying to get the reward for me

Now he thinks you'll get it

- Don't worry about that,

take him back to the car.

(lighthearted music)

- Good work, Lucas

Come round here and tell me all about it.

(phone clicking)

- Well?

Case wrapped up”?

- Yes, it's finished.

The man died, the boy lived

Well anymore food left?

- Food?

You can't still be hungry.

- No, but Lucas will want
something for his trouble

Daniell

Where's that cigar you gave me”?

{switchboard clicking)

Hello, Didier

Thank you

Somebody broke the glass
of an emergency call post

to report a shooting on
the Canal Saint-Martin.

- What you gonna list that under?

- Information already
received and acted upon

(Godin laughs)

{switchboard clicking)