All language subtitles for The.Crimson.Rivers.2000.FRENCH.

No one from downtown
and no one from the college.

You got that?

Check back with me in two hours.

"We check back at the house,
or straight here?"

Straight here. You got it? Good .

"See you later, guys."

"Ok, later."

Something you need?

Have you got a light?

Who let you through?

Your cops.

Commissaire Pierre Niemans.

You alone?

l told them l needed help
on a homicide. l meant a squad !

l am the squad.

"Captain,"

"l didn"t drive four hundred miles
to play ""who"s the better cop""."

What happened here?

" All right, come on."

"Two days ago,
the Guernon University dean calls"

"to say that an employee,
Remy Caillois, is missing ."

"He"s thirty-two, single,"

"a faculty advisor,
and he also worked as librarian . . ."

which is a key job at the college.

The dean says that
Remy was a very reliable worker

and he was never late.

And that means not even once.

"Three p.m . yesterday,"

this girl goes climbing
and she found Caillois" body.

Why go to Paris for help?

Well our deparment"s not used to
this kind of case.

What kind of case?

"Well the victim"s body
was hanging up there,"

about a hundred fifty feet up.

So you"re not from homicide. . .

you"ve been on loan to homicide?

"Right, yeah ."

So how come
we"ve never seen you here?

You"ve been lucky.

Seems strange.
This university around here.

lt"s not just any university.

"Their own power station,
their own water supply too."

Even got a hospital here.

"Twelve hundred students,"

and about a hundred faculty
and researchers.

One of Europe"s
oldest universities.

"ln case of a snowstorm,
the college could go on,"

"self-sufficient, for weeks."

The university dean is now sort of
like the mayor of the valley.

"You name it, he manages it."

They"re creating
the world"s future. . . Bill Gotz.

The what?

The future. . .

the future Bill Goetz.

Bill. . . Bill Gaste.

Bill Gates.

lt"s a university hospital?

Yeah.

"Only hospital around here,
open to the local villagers."

They treat them for free.

They often work with us.

Even got a maternity ward .

"Doctor,
this is Commissaire Niemans."

He"s here to give us a hand .

"Commissaire Niemans,"

"l took your criminology course
in eighty-seven, in Nice."

Have you begun the autopsy?

"Just superficially,
the ropes are still on."

Could we have a look?

l figured you"d want to see him

as the killer wanted us
to find him.

Never seen anything like it.

Whoever did
this is a real nut case.

l"d swear the fetal position
was part of his plans.

What kind of position?

Fetal.

The position of the fetus prior
to birth .

Dead forty-eight hours.
Give or take.

"Preliminary observations,
numerous lacerations,"

"to the arms. . elbows,
the shoulders and thighs."

Made with a carpet knife
or similar object.

Would you cut the rope please?

There are four broken ribs.

Both arms are broken
at the shoulders and the elbows.

"Multiple fractures
of the tibia, hips,"

it goes on forever.

l"ll give you
the details in the report.

"The hands were amputated
before death,"

"probably with an axe,"

and the wound
immediately cauterized

to keep him from dying
from the hemorrhages.

Every precaution was taken
by the killer

to prevent the victim
from dying too soon .

l wouldn"t do that if l were you.

"The ocular orbits were removed,
almost with surgical precision ."

The victim was alive throughout.

What kind of crap is this?

The cavities were filled
with rain water.

We"re having it analyzed
at the lab now.

There"s a good ophthalmologist
in Guernon.

You might want to ask him
what he thinks.

How long was it before he died?

"l"ll have to open to get it
exaxct "bout five hours, l guess."

"lf you look at the size
and the precision of the wounds,"

you know the killer was careful

to keep his victim
conscious throughout.

Every cut was placed so
as to augment the pain .

Could be the hand of a pro.

" Any way you look at it,"

it was definitely somebody
who knew his work well.

"Check the releases from prisons
and psychiatric hospitals, cults."

"Canvass the hiking trails,
the hostels, the ski slopes,"

l want everybody stopped
and lD"ed on every road

to and from the village
within a hundred mile radius.

l want to know every local crime

"bearing a resemblance
to this monstrosity,"

going back say twenty years.

l want ten men
looking for witnesses

"and anybody
who might"ve known Caillois,"

or had any knowledge
of his routine.

"Check the weather bureau,"

find out where it"s been raining
the last two days.

Find me anything and everything .

"Witnesses, people who think
they heard something ."

Get me something concrete
to go on. Ok get to work.

"We"re on it, Captain ."

Who"s there?

Who is it?

Who"s there?

Why do"nt you answer me?

Doctor!

Who are you?

"The dog. Get, get him out."

lt"s all right.

Go on home. lt"s Ok.

l"ll see you Tuesday.

Can l help you?

Commissaire Niemans.

"Sorry, l"m scared of dogs."

" A man has one thing to fear
from a dog, that"s his master."

What can l do for you?

l"m here about Remy Caillois.

"Yes, l"ve heard."

A terrible thing .

Were you acquainted?

Well l knew his father very well.

We went to medical
school together.

You used to teach at Guernon?

Twenty years.

But l left a long time ago.

Back in 1 982.

Why?

Couldn"t abide
prevailing attitudes.

"Like with the dean, huh?"

"Y"know, l"m not getting the drift
of your questions."

What"s the point of
coming to see me?

Could you take a look at these?

l"d like to ask you
for a little advice.

"My god, he was tortured ."

For about five hours.

This is horrible. . .

No one told me.

His hands have been amputated.

His eyes cut out.

That"s why l"m here.

l"m trying to find some reason
for this mutilation .

What would l know about that?

What kind of work do you do here?

lt has to do with genetics. . .

and certain maladies
affecting the eyes.

"Hereditary conditions, passed from
generation to generation,"

"very common in isolated areas,"

"especially here,
with the university."

Why the university?

The faculty has been intermarrying
here for generations.

"The blood is weakened, used up."

Genetic conditions are
more and more common.

The downside of elitism .

But l was told a lot of
the professors" kids were gifted .

"Yeah, they are."

l don"t understand .

"Back two generations,"

a reversal began to take effect.

These maladies showed up in
a lot of the local children.

Like the boy you just saw outside.

And . . .

in your opinion . . .

is there a connection between
the mutilation and the maladies?

A man is always distinguished
by the hands and eyes.

No mistake is possible.

"ln those two areas, no two of us
are the same, like DNA."

They"re nature"s way
of labeling us.

Your killer is affording you
certain hints about his purpose.

" And he starts cuttin" him,
cuttin" him up."

"Guy starts cuttin" the dog,
no shit! "

"Yo, hey he grabs hold of the bag
and the knife y"know?"

" And under the car. . .
forget it man, y"know what?"

City"s full of maniacs.

Yo. Hey Robocop.

"You forgot to buy a ticket,
now follow me."

"Something not right,"

"l"d rather have fresh air.
l mean, just check it out."

"You can breathe here,
check it out,"

"l"m human here,
check it out! "

Look at them fuckin" cows!
l love cows.

"Hey, you know my cousins in Paris?"

My cousins.They"re going no place.
We"re talking fucked up man.

"Fourteen years old, they fuckeds. .
No man. . ."

Here comes the Smokey Bears!

"What"s doing, kids?
Ya feeling all right?"

"Oh no no no.
Take it easy, take it easy."

"Kiddin" around . Cool, cool."

"So, ya ready?"

You guys watch yourselves.

"Ok, happy squirrel hunting, guys."

"Here, have a hit."

What"re you doing?

"l"m smoking, ok?"

But you never smoked before.

Maybe l took it up.

May l remind you
we"re on duty here?

"Well he"s smokin", isn"t he?"

"Yeah, but he"s a lieutenant,
you"re just a fool."

Hey who you calling a fool?

Oh hey. . . this a lover"s quarrel?

D"you come get me
just to bust my ass or what?

There was a breaking and entering
last night at the cemetery.

"ln a cemetery, it"s desecration."

"Right, but over
at the elementary school"

there was another desecration .

"Then it"s breaking and entering,
dumbshit."

"Business is good,
two in the same night, huh?"

All right. . .

"Start at the cemetery,
l"m feeling optimistic today."

Let me have the joint.

"What is it with you, today?"

Nothing.

Why"re you bustin" my chops?

"l"m not busting your chops,
you"re smoking ! "

Like it doesn"t get up my ass
when you start pounding brewskies.

"C"mon, hey. . . !
Cut the crap! That"s enough."

lt"s like a couple of
chickens squawking !

Hello.

You"re here about the desecration.

Right.

"Come on, it"s over there."

lt"s all right.

lt"s the vault over here.

Girl"s got the only vault
in the cemetery.

"When l came by here. . .
This morning,"

l found it like that.

Those skinheads must"ve done it.

They"re always
hangin" around here.

There are skinheads here?

"Just a bunch of kids,
not skinheads."

Skinhead kids?

No. . . Just kid kids.

Does this happen
around here often?

"No, never. This is the first time."

1 97 2 to 1 982.

Seventy-two to eighty-two.

"Girl didn"t stick around for long,
did she?"

Oh no.

Back off!
Just stop it right there.

lf you want to go in
you need the parents" permission.

l know the law.

" All right, calm down,
no problem, man, fine."

Would you please tell me
where l can find her parents?

"Oh, the mother went crazy
after that. . ."

she said her daughter was murdered
by the devil.

The devil?

"The devil, right."

Ok.

So where do your skinheads
hang out?

They got a warehouse in town.

Well let"s go over and say hello.

No. . . we have the principal
waiting for us at the school.

What do they
have that"s worth stealing?

"There was
nothing stolen lnspector,"

that"s the strange thing about it.

"l"ve never met you,
are you new to the area?"

"Guess it"s obvious, huh?"

What did you do
to get yourself sent here?

"Well, ma"am. . ."

Cops and teachers are
public servants.

"Can"t pick your school, y"know."

Tell me about it.

l asked for a transfer
fourteen years ago.

Of course now
it"s too late anyway.

You know what they had the gall
to tell me at the Board?

You"re going to be stuck here
your whole life.

Over here. This is where they
broke in. lt"s our record office.

"You"ll see, they took lots of
precautions, a neat job."

So. . . and you"re sure
nothing was taken?

Absolutely sure.
l checked everything myself.

That"s what seems so odd.
Why would anybody do that?

Got me.

All right.

Just stop by the precinct
and make a formal complaint.

And you"re going to
let it go at that?

What else am l gonna do?
l mean nobody took anything. . .

"So, look, you have a good day,
so long ."

"So long, lnspector."

"No, it"s not lnspector any more,"

it"s Lieutenant.

"Hey, look, l"m sorry. . ."

for how long have you
been working here?

Not quite as long as you think.

" And if l throw out a name, you
think you might remember someone?"

Doesn"t hurt to try.

Judith Herault.

Was she one of my students?

She died in eithty-two.

Should l check the files?

"Yes, if you wouldn"t mind ."

Want to tell me what this has
to do with the break-in?

l hope you"ll tell me.

"Eighty-two, Judith Herault."

l wonder. . . l wonder if it was
that girl in that accident.

Accident?

"Well yeah, she was run over by
a truck on the highway. Horrible."

You remember anything else?

Yes l remember that
her mother was there

and that after that
she lost her mind .

Any idea about
how l could find her mother?

What is it?

Someone tore out
exactly those pages. . .

Eighty-one and eighty-two.

How "bout that.

"Do you. . .
Do you have any pictures here,"

class photographs or something?

"Yes, they"re right over here."

"Hey the photographs are gone, too!"

Be right there.

Ok.

Who"s there?

Hi.

Anybody here from highway patrol?

"No, they"re all out
on a lunch break."

"Man, shit."

What"re you looking for?

l"m looking for some information.
l"m on the job.

Yeah. What do you want to know?

"lt"s about an accident
along this section of highway,"

twenty years ago.

You"ve come tot he right place. . .

they call me the gravedigger.

"ln twenty-seven year,
l"ve had two hundred forty-eight"

What the fuck am l saying . . .

two hundred forty-nine
fatal accidents. . .

" And that"s just our section
of the highway, twenty miles"

and nobody knows it.

"The firemen and the EMT"s
get all the press,"

but we"re the first ones
on the scene of the accident!

"Here, it"s all here
on the computer,"

what do you want to know?

You know how to use that?

Well of course l do.

All right. l want
the parents of a little girl

who was killed in eighty-two.

Judith Herault.

"That rings a bell, yeah. . ."

Judith Herault.

"HERAULT, Herault."

Ok here it comes. There.

Judith Herault.

" At mile forty-eight,
September eighty-two."

That was the little girl?

"Well yeah, Judith, yeah ."

Oh hang on.

"Eighty-two, eighty-two,
it rings a bell,"

l just know it rings a bell.

"l got it,"

the girl who was. . .
the one was run over by a semi. . .

Shit. What is this mess.

Here! Here it is.

"Ok, here"s the accident history,"

with the police reports
and the photographs and. . .

"Hey but l"m warning you,
those pictures are. . ."

Don"t worry about it.

l told you. . .

My god . What happened to her?

Thirty-eight tons bearing down
at sixty miles an hour.

But how did you ever identify her?

We got the call

"and when we showed up,
somebody saw her mother there."

"By the side
of the road, holding . . ."

What?

Holding a finger in her hand .

A what?

" A finger, yeah ."

lt was the only part of the kid
that was still in one piece.

And so she said that. . .

She just turned her back
and the girl ran out in the road .

Nobody knows what exactly.

"Well you have a number, a number
for the parents, the mother?"

This stuff"s pretty old .
Twenty years. Good luck.

"Hang on, the insurance company
sent us another address"

"a few months later,"

so we could forward the mail
in case there was any follow-up.

That help you?

What the hell?

The molecular biology lecture
has been rescheduled

to three p.m . Three p.m .

Excuse me.

The dean"s office?

Right up there. On your left.

Thanks.

Yes?

l"m here to see the dean.

l"m the dean"s assistant.
What can l do for you?

Tell me where l can find the dean.

Could l ask who you are?

Commissaire Niemans.

Commissaire Niemans to see you.

"Come in, have a seat.
l"ll just be a minute."

"Sorry to keep you waiting,"

but l am a slave
to this university.

Time"s always short.

How can l be of service?

lt"s regarding
the death of Remy Caillois.

Dahmane already took my statement.

Yeah but l need
more specific information on Remy.

Aren"t you working with Dahmane?

We"re working in parallel.

l"m on special assignment here.

lt"s you .

l don"t know
how this could have happened.

Remy was really. . . quiet kid . . .

"sweet, diligent worker."

l was very close to his parents.

His father used to be the
librarian before he died.

And the son was raised right here?

"Yes Commissaire, l was too."

Many of our students grew up here.

Sit down.

" And some of them have joined
the faculty, like their parents."

lt"s a tradition
at the university.

lt wasn"t just Remy.

The computer says Remy was clean
as a whistle.

"But of course you would know
if something escaped us,"

some little detail.

Like what?

"Enemies or fights, drug use,
religious convictions."

"l guess l should be more explicit,
Commissaire."

"This university is built
on a principle of community,"

a temple of knowledge.

"Students and faculty live
together, study as a group."

Any one of us is accused
we"re all accused.

lncluding me.

l"m gonna take a look at
where Remy lived now.

l"m afraid that"s not possible.

The local police sealed it.

Yeah
but l"m still gonna have to look.

Hubert come in here for a minute.

"l"m sorry,
but you"ll have to go without me."

l"m sure you"ll find my son
a very satisfactory guide.

l warned you Commissaire.

We do have our traditions.

We were named
best university of France

for the third consecutive year.

"Two years ago, we even raised
the national grade point average."

"We figured out the average l.Q.
of the students here, just to see."

Geuss how much it worked out to?

Twenty-four.

Excuse me?

"Caillois, number twenty-four,
this is it."

Did you bring the key?

No.

You authorized to go in there?

What was his job at the library?

"He was the book resource manager,
and he placed the students."

He placed the students?

Yes. lt"s a college tradition .

Everyone"s always seated the same.

lt fosters good habits
and cuts down on confusion .

We are the masters
and we are the slaves.

We are nowhere
and we"re everywhere.

The masters of the Crimson rivers.

That was his doctoral thesis.

Remy was working on it
for several years.

l"m looking for Fanny Ferreira.

Up there.

"Sorry, l got to go."

"Ok, bye. See you tomorrow."

Fanny Ferreira?

You were the one who discovered
the body of Remy Caillois?

Who are you?

Commissaire Niemans. l was sent
from Paris to investigate.

A cop exchange program?

Something like that.

l"ve talked to the local police.

They all play tin soldier.
l think they"re fun.

So do l.

But you"re the better cop
of course?

l"ve been trying to get better
for twenty years.

Well maybe you can help me.

"Yeah, don"t count on it."

l didn"t get much of a look.

l was there and back twice
before l saw the body.

Did you read my statement?

Yes yes.

ln your. . .

"in your opinion to
get that body up there,"

you have to be pretty strong?

"ln my opinion, not really."

" A little training
and that equipment,"

you could move whatever you want.

What was he like? You knew him.

Pretentious bastard .
Like just about everyone here.

"Yes, everyone here is a bit. . ."

Queer?

Yeah.

"lt"s all about high performance,"

the whole system is pretty arcane.

You"ll see in a day or two.

ln the report it says
you"re a glaciologist.

"The study of ice, right?"

And its role in avalanches.

l protect the campus
from the natural disaster

that would normally destroy it.

You protect everyone here?

l have a job to do.

Same as Remy Caillois.

What?

"Well yeah your entire life is
this campus, just like him . . ."

Remy Caillois.

"Yeah, and so?"

You"re part of the inner circle.

The circle?

An elite group
comprised of students and faculty.

"Look, Commissaire, l"m not crazy
about men in uniform ."

"lf you want to reach me,
Dahmane"s guys have my number. . ."

Yeah. . .

"Commissaire, this is the coroner."

l got the results back on the
water in the victim"s eyes.

lt"s. . . rainwater. A cid rain.

Could yougive me that again?

Hey that"s nothing . The thing is

"there hasn"t been any acid rain
since back in the seventies,"

and it hasn"t rained anywhere
around here in forty-eight hours.

So l just don"t get it.

lt"s like. . . like the body
taken a trip back in time.

Really cold.

Oh hello.

Hello sister.

l"m with the. . . with the police.

And l"m going to have to ask you
if there"s someone here

"by the name of Herault,
Mrs. Herault?"

Won"t you tell me why?

Well actually no l"m not going to
be able to tell you . l"m sorry.

Sister Andree"s been with us
eighteen years.

Well this is an old case
we"re working on.

"Sister, would you mind
letting me speak to her?"

Come inside. l"ll go see.

Wait for me here.

Take the hat off. . .
look. . . take the hat off.

Hey. . . where do you think you are?

Officer. . .

Be right back.

Sister Andree told me
it was all right.

Thanks.

But do"nt be surprised if she. . .

What?

You"ll be able to hear.
But only from afar.

"You"ll be able to speak,
but you won"t be able to see her."

What do you mean?

Because of thedarkness.

"What"s that, thedarkness?"

Sister Andree
took a vow of darkness.

No one"s seen her
for the last fifteen years.

Sister?

Sister Andree?

Sister?

l"m. . . l"m a police
detective in Sarzac.

You know that town?

lt"s right nearby.

"lt"s where your daughter
is buried, right?"

"Sister, you are. . .
You are little Judith"s mother?"

"Look, l"ve come because last night"

someone attempted to
break into your child"s tomb.

They"re here again.

Who is?

They"re here again.

To finish off my Judith.

"What are you talking about,
Sister?"

The demons. . .
They"ve come to see to it

that Judith won"t cause them
any more problems.

You"re saying it was the demons
who killed your daughter?

Well could. . . Could you. . .
Could you tell me more about it?

For eighteen years
l"ve tried to forget about it.

lt was last night.

Those demons also stole
your daughter"s photographs

out of the school office.

l thought
perhaps you might undrestand why.

They have to erase
every trace of her.

And why is that?

To bury the truth again .

l see.

What truth is that?

"They"re threatened,
you see, by her face."

"Yeah but Sister,
look l"m sorry but. . ."

maybe you could begin by. . .

"by how exactly your daughter
was killed, you remember?"

My little Judith fell ill. . .

l went back to the hospital
where she was born.

"When we got there,
the demons attacked us."

l almost got free.

l thought we could disappear. .

Go someplace
where no one would find us.

But there"s nowhere to run .

They found us.

No one can escape them.

But. . .

Where did you live
when you had your daughter?

The whole nightmare began
in Geurnon.

ln Geurnon.

"Did you think about reporting it,"

you know
just take it to the police.

Back then
someone could"ve helped .

The police can"t stop it.

There is no power
to protect us from demons.

Nothing more can be done
for my child.

"You still have the time,"

you should save your own soul.

Now please go.

l can"t go on remembering.

Right. l"m sorry.

Glaciers are formed
by the accumulation of snowfalls

from year to year.

Snow is compacted into ice.

Each season can be studied
by analyzing the layers.

"The one, for example,
is over six hundred feet thick."

lt"s an enormous supply of water
and electric power.

You can find water here
that"s several centuries old.

What purpose does it serve
to study glaciers?

The university electrical plant
is a research lab.

"Besides, this one"s sliding
toward the valley."

The potential dnager is monitored.

Right here.

How far down do we have to go?

" About ninety feet, at least. . ."

Why"d you decide l was the one?

Some of the best guides
are your own officers.

l was told that
you were the best there is.

" And besides, you were there. . ."

" A murder case,
you pick a civilian to guide you?"

"l think you"re cute, all right?"

Put that on
and don"t trip over the rope.

"Welcome to the time machine,
Commissaire."

l"ll see
if the water the lab analyzed

is consistent with this ice.

The depth is about right.

l do"nt get it.

lf he led us here
he must"ve had a reason.

There should be
some kind of trace.

A clue.

"Niemans,
that"s dangerous down there."

"Niemans, we can"t stay here! "

Waterpockets could burst
at any moment.

What is that down there?

Natural canals.

"Hey, what"re you doing?"

Where are you going?

What is this?

" An interglacial conduit,"

a hole caused by the water

powering
the university electrical plant.

"We can"t stay here, Niemans,
it"s dangerous."

Niemans.

What"s going on?

lt"s the mobile police.

"What"ll it be, gentlemen?"

"Nope, nothing today."

My boss wants to
visit your tenants.

Through to the back.

Where you going?

l"m going with you.

No wait here. Just take a minute.

Ok gimme a bordeaux.

Fight now. Ready.

Go.

"Excuse me, hello."

"Sorry to interrupt but l need to
talk to your executive officer,"

"the building manager, to the one
who organize your chapter."

What about?

"Police. We"ve never met,"

l"m the new guy in town.
Lieutenant Max Kerkerian .

"l"m here to ask a few questions,
if you don"t mind."

"Right, save it."

We know who you are.

We don"t pow-wow with the law.
Get out.

" All right,
l"ll talk to this chump."

What exactly could we do for you?

Well to begin with l want to know

"where everyone here
was last night, please."

"Yeah why, something happen?"

Well this group of kids went out
painting swastikas on a vault

"at the cemetery, so. . ."

What"s that got to do with us?

"Skinheads, swastikas,
swastikas, skinheads. . ."

l see what you mean.

Except l don"t see
any of those swastikas here.

Swas what?

Swastikas.

Diaper breath .

So you boys aren"t skinheads.

What"s your problem buddy?

" And nobody was at the school,
l suppse."

What"s he talking about.
The school?

"One second. Didn"t you hear me
before? You must be deaf, right?"

We don"t talk to cops.

You"ve never been there.

Yeah where"d you go to school?
Where?

"""Police Academy Fourteen?""
Don"t mess with us."

"Stay calm, sir."

"Don"t touch me chump,
don"t touch me."

"Man"s with the police,
he"s got a job to do."

"l"m doing my job here,
please don"t talk to me like that."

That your job?
To bust our chops here?

That"s my job.

l go bustin" the chops of scum
like you !

Oh yeah?
What kind of scum do you mean?

What do you mean by that. . .

Fascist wackos.

You figure that one out yourself?

"Hey come on, chill."

What the fuck"s he doing here?

He"s got no business here.

This is a social club
and it"s private

so if you"re done
asking your questions.

l"ll ask you to kindly
get the fuck out.

Yeah beat it.

Thanks for cooperating.

Yeah you"re messing with us huh?

You"re messing
because you"re a cop.

"Without the badge and the gun,
what are you ."

Fucking prickface.

Ok.

Hey you with the hair!

My gun.

"My badge, ok?"

What did he say?

l"m not a cop now.
What did he say?

"No cops any more, ok let"s go."

Don"t touch me. l"m a civilian .

What did he say before?

What"d you say again?

l called him a prick ok?

Fucking prick!

"Kill the bastard !
Come on, fuck him up! "

"Come on, get him ! "

"What"s the matter, huh?"

What is it? Max Kerkerian wins.

You warmed up there?

Ready for me or what?

"Ok, come on asshole."

"Come on show me, c"mon. . ."

"You got the message, cop?"

Come over here.

Fuck off out of here
and take your gun !

Con"t move fuckhead !

What did you do?

You poing a gun at my head?
Don"t. . .

Game over.

Stop it!

lt wasn"t us.

No stop it! C"mon no!

lt wasn"t us at the cemetery.
Quit it!

This guy drives up in a Lada
it was white.

So how come you didn"t
just say so?

How come you didn"t ask?

You pull off a smartass trick
like that again

"check for bullets first, asshole."

Game over. Congratulations.

Your bordeaux is great.

lt"s dry but it"s fruity.
Really superb.

What happened?

They didn"t do it.

We never had problems with them .

"Well, now you do! "

What"re you doing?

Sonovabitch !

Come here. Come back here.
Come here l got something for you .

You bastard !

Settle down settle down all right.

You bastard.

Settle down.

What happened?

"Keys to the car, quick! "

Ok.

"l want every white Lada
in one hour,"

every white Lada
within a hundred miles. One hour.

Call me on the radio.

"Every white Lada, one hour."

White Ladas.

How do you spell Lada?

How you spell it?

Yeah come on
l got to write it down.

Lada . . .

LADA

Here.

Thanks.

Y"all right?

"Yeah, fine."

Sorry you"re involved
in this whole case. l feel. . .

"So is it a serial killer,
you think?"

"No, serial killers kill. . ."

"to prove they exist,"

whereas what we have here
is a tracker!

A tracker?

A kill who sort of leads you.
Leads you along .

For what reason?

What reason?

Either he"s trying to
show me something. . .

Or what?

Or he"s teasing us.

Commissaire!

Yes?

We got an l. D. on the body.

Excuse me.

"Lieutenant, you there? Come in ."

Yeah. . .

What is it? You got it?

"Yeah we have
every Lada registered in,"

all the white Ladas in the area.

What do we do now?

You there?

" All right. Would there be
one registered in Guernon,"

that"s with a G.

Guernon .

One second.

"Guernon, yeah
we got a white Lada there."

Come in?

"l"m listening, l"m listening go."

lt"s registered
to Philippe Sertys.

"Ok nice work, call you back."

Ok.

No you sonovabitch
you cn"t do that.

Motherfucker! Dammit!

Piece of shit!

The name is Philippe Sertys.
Graduate of the university.

"Single twenty-nine,"

got this PHD at twenty-five.

Worked at the university
maternity ward.

He lived on campus?

"No, in town."

You have his address?

Could you tell me
what you"re trying to find?

l"m trying to find the truth.

Thanks.

Don"t you bimbos ever work?
l swear to god .

Stand up.

Nice and slow.

"Ok, l"m with the police,
the police."

Don"t move.

l"m with the police l said !

Slowly.

"Okay. Ok, gimme back that gun."

Don"t move.

"See, you"re under arrest."

Enough !

Did the police academy teach you
to pick locks?

"Oh that"s enough, let"s go."

Commissaire Niemans.

Pierre Niemans?

Right.

"Ok l apologize, but what am l
suppopsed to do, guess?"

What were you doing there?

Looking for a suspect.

The suspect have a name?

Philippe Sertys.

Why?

Pierre Niemans.

Superman style.

So what are you after?

Don"t touch anything .

All right. ls breathing allowed?

Buy"s got a thing for dogs. . .
Judith.

The guy"s got
a major canine fixation.

Let"s go already.

ln here.

Supercop"s scared of
a little pooch.

Sonovabitch.

"Come on .
lt"s all right, don"t worry."

"lt"s ok, don"tworry."

Watch it. . .

"Hey look out, wait a second ."

One of them"s trying to bite you.

lt"s all right.

There you go.

You always talk so much?

l"m kidding around.

Oh god no. . those assholes.

Oh jeez.

Hang on a second .

You know what this guy does?

The photographs.

We"re in the lab of some jerk
who does experiments with dogs.

They try to make killer dogs
through genetic manipulation .

Look at the equipment they got.

Look at that.

"lt"s disgusting, too, no joke! "

l"ve never seen.

"Hey, Niemans."

Where are you going?

Where you going?

Goin" to visit your suspect.

You mean you know where he"s at?

So? Where we going?

Why do you want Sertys?

For desecration of a tomb.
And you?

Where?

"Sarzac,
about a hundred miles east."

And what about you?
Why you want him?

Sarzac.

Yeah.

No cigarette lighter?

So did l say something stupid

or you never bother
answering questions?

Go left here.

Going left. l"m on it sir.

"Oh gonna be a lot of laughs, man."

Excuse me sir.

He"s with me.

The same method of strangulation.

"The same doer, l just know it."

Except this time
the victim wasn"t tortured.

What about his hands?
That"s torture.

His hands were cut off
after he died.

l just don"t get it.

Why l do"nt understand is
why he still has his eyes.

Have you started the autopsy?

"No, not yet.
There are no apparent wounds"

"We ought to find a clue, a trace."

Of what?

"l don"t know, something."

l"m sure it"s there.
Just have to find it.

Just a second.

Could you hand me
that clamp there?

You won"t believe this.

They"re made of glass.

"They"re prosthetic eyes
like an ophthalmologist uses,"

or a medical school.

Captain. Get as many men
as you can find

and meet me at Cherneze"s place.

Hold it. Would you explain to me
what 6the hell is going on?

l was going to ask you that.

Niemans!

"Niemans, could you telll me
where you"re going please?"

"Just leave that to me. You go to
the precinct, wait for me there."

"Wait a second,
you lost your mind or what?"

"He"s my witness
as much as yours, ok?"

l busted ass to get this far

and l"m not going back
with my dick in my hand !

Hey this case is not for children .

l have no time to teach you
the facts of life.

"Hey but, but. . . fuck man,"

just because you"re a legendary
cop doesn"t make you a god .

"l might teach you
a thing or two, ok?"

l work alone.

"Yeah well so do l, ok?"

So where are we going?

Did you ever shoot anybody?

Shoot what?

"No, no l never needed to."

Don"t start now. l need him alive.

Need who?

"Who, goddammit?"

What the fuck is all this?

What are we after?

You going to tell me
what we"re after?

Hey just tell me
and maybe l can help you here.

Watch out!

Take the back stairway.

Stay there!

What?

Go. . .

Hey you ! What"s goin" on.

l"ll get back up to
the start of the crimson rivers.

"Hey, Niemans, what the fuck
would it cost you"

to tell me what"s happening?

Niemans.

l have no idea.

Why didn"t you say so?

Well?

Well l was just
comparing these prints to the. . .

l ran the print
through the all-agency computer.

We"ve come up with .

Shit.

Could somebody scan this print?

Sure no sweat.

What"s that?

A little girl
who died twenty years ago.

She"s the one hoe brought me here.

What?

"Well if she died twenty years ago,
we got a problem here."

Because whoever was
just shooting at you

there are his prints.

The ones on the ground
and the ones in this file

are almost a perfect match.

The only difference is the age.

"We have to talk, man."

Now we have to talk? Ok.

"Last night,
Sertys went into a cemetery,"

"broke into the vault of
a little girl who died in 1 982,"

Judith Herault.

"He couldn"t get into the casket,"

"but he did paint swastikas
all over,"

to misdirect the investigation.

"The same night, someone broke into
the elementary school"

and stole the class files
for two years

eighty-one and eighty-two.

Not by chance.

lt turns out
those were the only two years

that this kid was enrolled .

" Apparently,
she"s one of these children."

And her death?
What were the circumstances?

An accident.

" As far as anybody knows,
she got run over by a truck."

"But when l saw her mother,"

l came away
with a whole new point of view.

The mother. . .

The mother says that
demons were after her daughter.

Demons?

"Right. Now, ok,
she"s completely lost it."

She"s been cloistered
in a convent ever since.

"But l don"t know. . .
when l, when she was talking. . ."

l could feel
she was sort of like. . .

Was this an interview
or just a cup of tea?

"Until about an hour ago, l was
working on a case that was peanuts"

"What? Am l supposed to deck a nun,
slap her silly?"

Just force her
to give up the truth?

Your turn.

Tell me what is all this bullshit?

A game of some kind . . .

which every corpse contains a clue
leading to the next one.

"Ok. Just suppose that Sertys,
Caillois and Cherneze"

were into something a long time
ago? Twenty years or more.

"Then two days ago, they find out."

"Caillois" been murdered,
he"s dead."

"So the past is back,
they"re panicky, afraid ."

So they. . . they go to the cemetery
and the school. . .

because they have to be certain . . .

because they want to make sure. . .

of what?

To make sure there"s a body.

Why?

Because
the girl"s getting revenge.

"Her mother, at the time, could"ve
made them believe she was dead."

The fingerprints?

"The fingerprints, l don"t know."

"So maybe they cut a finger off,
if could be done."

Yeah but the man who took
those shots had all his fingers.

How come he let you live?

"Because he wants a friend,
someone to understand his reasons."

What"s the link
between the victims?

The Caillois" worked in the
library at the university.

The Sertys worked in maternity.

"Cherneze used to be
a friend of dean,"

it all goes back
to the university.

Which is where l"m going.

Where am l going?

"To Judith"s grave,
make sure someone"s buried there."

l just knew you would say that.

l always get the shit work.

Goddnight.

Call me when you get something.

What"re you doing here?

Your. . . your fellow cops
kept me hanging around .

Oh sorry. We"re all a bit on edge.

Drive you back?

lf you don"t mind.

l heard Cherneze was murdered?

Did you know him?

He was a legend at the university.

You don"t seem to
have a lot of esteem

for all these geniuses
surrounding you.

l don"t have much respect
for intellectuals.

"Your own parents are professors,
aren"t they?"

l don"t have much respect
for my parents.

Make a left here.

You live alone?

Haven"t you got a better line
than that?

Thanks.

No problem .

lt"s pretty cozy here.

"Not bad, l guess. You"re all
alone. Nobody can bother you ."

"No TV, no radios
and no cell phones."

ls this a grenade?

Thanks.

l use them to provoke avalanches.

You"re all so brusk around here.

Well all live surrounded by stone
up here.

"lt builds character, l guess."

Cops are the same way.

You"ve been a cop a long time?

Too long.

You should get yourself a Bic.

l know.

"l"m trying to quit,"

besides it was a gift.

" A gift from yor wife, right?"

No l never got married . Have you?

"Never, l. . .
l was engaged to the dean"s son ."

A bit hard to imagine.

"Hey, it should have worked ."

"When you"re made
to spend your whole life,"

"face to face with someone,"

you can get. . . let"s say attached .

But how is it
you"re so full of hate?

l don"t know.
You think l"m a murderer?

You"re a good suspect.

"You found the first body,"

you happen to be
an expert climber.

"You"re a good bet, l think."

Except for one thing.

What?

"l have trouble
seeing you strangling someone,"

then watching him die
for ten minutes.

Thanks for the tea .

l better be going.

"Remy Caillois" thesis,
could you explain it to me?"

"lt"s about the myth of Olympus,"

athletes who exercised the mental
and the physical together.

" And he also often refers to
the Berlin Olympic games, in 1 936."

The Nazis used athletes as a tool
for their progaganda.

And the Crimson rivers?

That"s human perfection y"see?
The blood.

Blood. And veins.

"Commissaire,
you want my point of view?"

You ask me this thesis
is all a bunch of Nazi lies.

lt"s a manual for right wing
subversive wackos.

And Caillois explains

"how the human race
could be perfected now, today."

By marrying children of athletes

with children of intellectuals.

By careful selection and breeding .

lt"s called . . .

"Eugenics, right?"

"Eugenics, yeah ."

Just like the Nazis tried
in villages during the war.

"Superior strength,
and great minds,"

like this college.

"What"re you doing, Niemans."

"You have no right to come here,
you"re off the case! "

"What was his role, dean?
Remy Caillois."

What role?

"Caillois, Sertys, Cherneze."

lt all comes back here.

What exactly is the trouble?

"You suspect us, is that it?"

The victim could be the one
to blame.

"Watch what you say, Niemans."

l"ve been told you"re in trouble
with internal affairs.

lf your commanding officers. . .

lf it was up to me you"d have been
the first one on the list.

The only reason
l don"t do the job myself. . .

is that l"d love to prove
you"re behind all this!

Am l wrong?

Niemans. . . let him go.

What"s the matter with you?

"YOu"ll be hearing from me,
Niemans."

You"ll be hearing from me.

What is it? l can"t take my eye
off you one minute or what?

What did you find at the cemetery?

This. l don"t know
if it means anything.

Can"t be her.

You know who she is?

She helped me with the case.

Helped you with the case?

She helped me figure out
the meaning of the Crimson rivers.

This college has been completely
insulated for generations

so the gene pool is shrinking .

The professors" children
all have birth defects.

So they went look for new blood.

Went looking for blood?

They swapped children
at the maternity

"ward the professor"s children
for healthy, local children."

So Fanny and Judith were switched
at birth by Sertys?

Right. So were lots of others.

Yeah but why?

To create a superior race.

They"re Nazis.

The whole campus is full of Nazis?

lt"s not a college.

lt"s a farm .

"Hey, what the hell. . ."

Watch it. Who is that? Fuck!

"Cover us in back, Max! "

"Go! Go ahead, shoot! Shoot!"

"C"mon, hit it! "

lt"s bullet proof.

Keep hitting the same spot.

"Come on, shoot! Shoot! "

"Let"s go, hit him ! "

Look out!

Niemans!

You all right?

Yeah. . .

Shit!

Who"s that sonovabitch?

The dean"s son.

Didn"t like your face?

Didnt" want me to unearth. . .

wht they did to Fanny.

"What could he have done to Fanny,
must be about my age."

He was ten years old .

They were switched .
Fanny and Judith.

Then he was placed with Fanny
in the library.

They were supposed to marry. . .

lt was part of the plan.

"But if they were all switched,"

why is she picking them off
one at a time?

Because
she won"t play by the rules.

And you think
she might not be your perp. . .?

My jacket.

Wait a second . . .

"Niemans style, man."

"Oh, what"s up with your woman?"

"This is straight out of
""Cliffhanger""."

Niemans.

Oh fuck.

Niemans.

Still got doubts?

And she brought me back here.

l could"ve spotted all this.

"You could"ve wound up
in the morgue, too."

"No, no.
She never meant to kill me."

"lf she"d wanted to, she could"ve."

Man are you insane?

Niemans.

"Yeah you, you she let you live,"

there are three men
who weren"t so lucky.

You"re gonna have to wake up here.

Because your girlfriend carves
people up on weekends.

" And all the clues, the scenery?"

"Man, what"re you talking about
here? This is real simple."

"The girl"s messed up in the head,
her wiring"s bad !"

No. . . She"s giving us a message.

What message? There is no message.

She wants us to take her in .

Well that"s fine.

Our job is to take her in .

"The only thing is,
we have to find her."

Our job is to take her in .

What happened?

She brought the grenades.

The grenades?

ls it such a big problem to
give me a hint what"s going on?

Come on right.

You evacuate the university?

Evacuate fifteen hundred people
with no explanation?

"This is no time for explanations,
all right? We have to evacuate."

l"ve put up with this long enough
Niemans.

Ok. Who"s up there?

l"ll have to go alone.

No way! We all go or no one goes!

l have to go alone!

Don"t make a move!

"Ok ok, keep it calm guys."

You"ve lost your mind !
Put it away.

Can l see that?

Trust me on this.

Put the guns down.

Well we have to go all the way.

Let me take it.

Down there.

Fanny!

"Fanny, turn around ! "

Get out.

This is where it ends. lt"s over.

l know who you are.

"No, you don"t know anything ! "

"Stop! l know about it all, Fanny! "

"The switches at maternity,
the children that were murdered ."

You see?

lt"s too late! lt"s over.

You can"t stay here.

Then why"d you bring me h ere?

"Look, my back is to the wall,
FAnny."

So"s mine.

"The college is closing, trust me."

Those to blame
have all been punished.

"Everyone left is innocent, Fanny."

They are all to blame.

Nobody is innocent.

Judith. . .

"Sonovabitch, twins. . ."

They switched twins.

Only one.

That"s why her face was
a threat to their secret.

Keep her covered . Don"t blink.

Who was run over
by that truck that day?

What about the fingerprints?
How"d you do that?

Mom knew just what to do.

The little girl was already dead.

Mom had it all figured out.

Right. Though she couldn"t know
you"d go nutso.

"What did you think,
you"d just walk away?"

"No, l"m not thinking about that."

Right. lf you take one more step
you"re not going anywhere. Stop!

Stop. Hold it!

Let her go!

lt"ll set of the avalanche.

Fanny come on. . .

The ones who hurt you
aren"t here anymore.

lt"s over now. . .

"if you do that, they"ve won ."

Listen to me!

"Fanny, you"re not a monster
like she is."

Only you can stop this. Not her.

You have to stop
before it"s too late.

Do what"s right.

l have no choice!

"Yes, you do. Stop."

Do it. Kill him.

Kill him .

"For our lives, our parents" lives."

For the ones who raised us.

Fanny. . .

Go ahead . Kill him .

But he wans"t
the one who did this.

Do it.

Please.

Do it for me!
For the life l never had . . .

always living in your shadow.

They made you
and they threw me away.

Do it.

Do it. Kill him Fanny.

Kill him .

You wanted him to know.

You can"t do this to me.

lt"s you and me Fanny. You and me.

Just you and me.

"Go ahead, go ahead ."

Go ahead .

"Fanny, please. Don"t."

You"re not the same woman.

"But we are, don"t you see?"

Do it.

"l wanted you to see,
because no one should forget."

"l know that. l know, yes."

Max!

Quick!

Watch out.

The dozer is moving.

Look out.

Ready to lift and lift!

"No, c"mon. . ."

Cool out.

"Enough ok. Thanks, doggy."

"lt"s ok. Thanks, enough ."

Give me a break!

There"s something
l got to ask you.

What this the problem
you got with dogs.