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AN ALIZES FILMS PRODUCTION FOR M6

PRESENTS

BASED ON THE STORY AND CHARACTERS CREATED BY JOEL HOUSSIN

DIRECTED BY DIDIER DELAITRE

PRODUCED BY DENIS KARVIL & PIERRE ROITFELD

THE AWAKENING

- Helene, it's Yann. - Yes, Yann?

- I just ran someone over. - Where is she?

You know what will happen if you take her back.

The WHO people will do experiments on her.

And you'll be a laughing stock, incapable of declaring death.

So please, for you and for us, she is dead.

I'm looking for Maria Chakina.

- Who are you? - Her father.

- Did she have this on her? - She only had a birthmark.

What did it look like?

- It can still be stopped. - What's wrong?

- He found me. - Who?

- What are you doing here? - She will kill you all.

It took all the night guards to stop him.

And two massive doses of tranquillisers to calm him down.

How was your romantic evening...

What have you done?

Tommy, you infected me!

- You'll have to leave him for a bit. - Why?

The WHO experts are coming.

- You already know the good news! - What good news?

My daughter's back. Sophie, this is Dr Voline.

Dr Voline, this is Sophie.

You didn't come to steal my daughter, did you?

I've been taken hostage by a maniac cop.

- Maria Chakina, it rings a bell? - No...

Yann!

He wants to destroy me! He knows the house!

Yann! You need to lock up!

EPISODE 4 WITH M6'S COLLABORATION

Who's that guy?

The Terminator?

- You haven't seen anything? - I haven't.

We just heard a boom and he was gone by the time we arrived.

Where did he go?

No idea where he was going and what way.

What's that supposed to mean?

That's where he was arrested?

He wasn't arrested.

We found him on the floor, unconscious.

- Where is he now? - On his way to Cochin.

Anaemic and dehydrated.

How can a guy that weak...

untie himself, pull the door off to get here?

You haven't seen everything yet.

Central, we're on our way to Cochin.

The patient Boris Chakine is in a coma, category 3.

I repeat, a coma of category 3.

Jesus!

What a madman!

He was about to come in the lab yesterday when I saw him.

How did he kill them?

He broke their neck.

All of them.

He broke the measuring tubes, the cultures...

There's nothing left.

I've never seen anything like this.

What would I say to the WHO experts?

The truth, it would be easier.

WHO, sworn official pains in the neck.

Svetlana Yonkova and Professor Ikchane.

A patient escaped from the psychiatric ward last night.

Did you keep screenshots of the bacteria?

No... Maybe? Martin, do we have anything?

Everything's in there.

Well, if you could leave the premises.

We have work to do.

No, you stay.

I have questions for you.

What do you think...

- what he was looking for? - Nothing.

You said he tried to get in the lab yesterday.

- Yes. - So he was looking for something.

He was lost... He was looking for Dr Morel's office.

A maniac that broke everything on his way.

He didn't break anything else

and the lab wasn't on his way out.

He went there on purpose.

I don't care about what crazy people think.

- Where is he now? - On his way to Cochin.

We don't have the facilities for that kind of patients.

I need to do my rounds.

Of course. Go ahead, doc.

He introduced himself as the father of the amnesiac girl.

Yes.

You told him she had been cremated.

That's the usual procedure. If I knew it would cause such a mess...

Don't worry. My bosses got a bit upset.

But we have everything we need.

The body bag, the sheets she used.

It's more than enough.

The team of my colleague can gather any particles of dust

that were in contact with her. They don't let anything slip.

If there's anything, they'll always find it.

Svetlana hunts viruses.

- It's her role. - What's yours?

What's around the virus or the bacteria.

How it happened and why.

- Why? - Yes, why.

When I was a young intern in a cardiology ward,

I would come in the room of a patient that had a heart attack

and my first question always was: why did you have your heart attack?

I always emphasised on the "your" so he wouldn't confuse it

with any other.

What did they answer?

Most of the time, they asked to see a real doctor.

Will we be able to get the data from the hard drive?

If it's not too damaged.

See what the Chinese can extract.

It reminds me of my time in Zaire, in the villages around Yambuku.

When I was hunting Ebola's offspring.

The mutations of that dirty bug.

I felt that the enemy was close, but was being hidden.

You know why I was wasting my time?

No.

Because in Africa, we don't deal with white people.

Neither in wars, nor epidemics.

Smells the same here.

Concealment has a particular smell.

The hunt for a virus is a race against time.

Any waste can cause thousands of deaths.

It's a bacteria and nobody has been infected.

It's an unknown bug whose only victim was cremated by you.

Like the villagers in Zaire.

- Hello, Yann. - Hello.

- Your eyes look better. - Yes.

- You bought it for me? - I did.

- The other one was ruined, wasn't it? - Yes.

This one doesn't make you sad. It's better.

Yeah, it's better.

Did you erase any footprints there?

What footprints?

There were footprints.

You're not scared anymore?

I'm never scared when you're around.

You were terrified last night.

- Why? - You were talking about...

Do you remember yesterday?

- We were with your son. - And then?

- Then we came home. - The stud farm, the bloody dress.

And Lieutenant Gire.

He came to see me at the hospital.

I see. You lost the last 24 hours.

Either it's your brain lesion,

or you met another memory hoover like you,

or I fell asleep at the wheel and haven't woken up,

I didn't run you over and you don't exist.

I don't understand a word you're saying.

I'll make you some tea.

Okay, I'm wide awake.

Dr Voline!

Hello, lieutenant. Happy to see you back on your feet.

I wanted to apologise,

because I drank too much.

I thought I could handle it but I never drink.

It's treacherous.

I spent the night in the drunk tank, I can't remember a thing.

My colleagues said I shot my door with a hunting rifle.

It's crazy, I hate violence.

They know me, I'm not capable of hurting a fly.

All settled then.

I wanted to thank you for not pressing charges.

- It would have been embarrassing. - You're welcome.

If I can do anything else.

I'm coming for my daughter.

Of course!

- Julie! - Sophie!

- Her name is Sophie. - Yes, sorry.

- Hello, lieutenant. - She's not my daughter.

That's the amnesiac girl from the hospital.

What's going on, doc?

- I want an hourly report. - Yes, sir.

- Are we quarantined? - The wards are not closed yet.

- I want your report. - Yes, in an hour.

He gave you an earbashing.

He's not happy.

With two heads of departments missing, I'm overwhelmed.

It doesn't prove anything.

- What? - This.

I don't believe in MRIs,

scans, x-rays, all this medical imaging.

I believe in symptoms.

I read your report about the imaging.

You conceal behind many diagnoses,

but you don't talk about the bacteria.

I just highlighted possible causes of a T2 hyperintensity.

What do you personally think?

You mean about the bacteria?

That's what we're here for.

I would classify it in the burgdorferi species.

Lyme disease.

- Yes. - Yes.

It could explain the heart failure, but not this.

- Could be another illness. - Maybe.

A mutation of Lyme disease

that would resist all the known antibiotics.

It would be a real problem, wouldn't it?

I'm not sure of this conclusion.

It's only the spiral form of the bacteria...

Are you studying...

- Sumerian writings? - Sorry?

The symbol was found numerous times on Uruk tablets.

Uruk was the oldest city of the world.

About 4,000 years before Christ.

In Mesopotamia.

Excavations revealed clay tablets

where the first known writing system was carved.

What letter is this?

Sumerian literature doesn't follow an alphabet.

It's more like a series of keywords.

Your drawing has been deciphered

as a representation of the tree of life.

The snake twining around the tree,

like the caduceus you have on the windscreen of your car.

I thought you knew since you drew a snake in the middle.

That triangle that cuts the tree...

changes its meaning.

It's the beginning and the end of all things.

Sorry, but I don't understand.

The apocalypse...

Dr Morel.

The end of life as we...

...know it.

You probably drew that symbol while daydreaming.

But you must have seen it somewhere before.

Did she have that symbol on her?

On the madman's ring.

- What madman? - The one that destroyed the lab.

He had...

that symbol...

on his ring.

Sophie?

Where are you? Dad is here.

Sophie?

Where are you?

He's completely losing it.

You have to do something.

You told me not to steal any more.

You messed up his mind.

- He'll accuse me of kidnapping. - Should I take his pain away?

- No, put things back as they were. - Before what?

Before you impersonated his daughter.

I know my daughter loves playing hide and seek, but where is she?

Lieutenant, your daughter has been missing for six years.

- I've never seen her. - Really?

- Never. - You didn't come to mine yesterday?

It wasn't your daughter.

You were with her.

- How did you do it? - Do what?

Resuscitate her. I signed her death certificate.

Unbelievable.

The living dead are supposed to be cold.

They don't exist.

What is she then?

I have no idea, to be honest.

She's maybe able to fake death like your fish.

A fish, okay, but people?

People can't do that.

You didn't notice any other symptoms, because...

a corpse starts to smell quickly.

She's a woman, not a zombie.

- Was she with you at the stud farm? - Yes.

I knew it.

I ruled out that theory, because she was dead.

- What can I say now? - Nothing, like me.

- Not even to the hospital? - No, nothing.

Where are you going?

To find Sophie.

I know I can find her.

Who is she talking about?

- About your daughter. - But I don't have kids.

- Shame. I'd have loved to. - Wait a second!

Wait! Wait!

How can you look for someone you've never seen?

- She was my life. - No, she was HIS life.

Now he can't even remember her.

She exists.

She's been missing for 6 years. No way we can find her.

Would you give up if it was your son?

I know where her best friend works.

Here you are, dirty bugger.

- You just sent this to the office? - Yep.

They are connected to all the databases of the world.

To all the databases of the world?

He seems to believe it...

Did you note an evolution in the blood of the rat you sent us?

I took samples every 30 minutes.

It multiplied and then, stabilised.

Yep.

You didn't observe any degeneration?

- Nope. - In the cultures?

Any trace of the bacteria disappeared in one night.

- The cultures were blank. - That's what I read.

- I had no more blood samples. - Thank you, Mr...

Peretti, Martin Peretti.

Goodbye, Mr Peretti.

Wait, Mr Peretti.

Did you cut yourself?

- What? - Your finger.

You cut yourself.

- With a knife. - He's negative.

Did you cut yourself before or after the blood test?

I can't remember.

It's okay.

You don't mind if we take a new blood sample?

- Of course not. - Can you handle, doc?

Bring the sample here, we'll analyse it.

Look at this.

Half an hour after the rat was infected.

It's faster than a septicaemia.

I noticed.

They all have exactly the same size and shape.

These are not the normal characteristics of a bacteria...

No... And I don't like it.

Cancel all the admissions in all the wards.

Anyone leaving must be checked.

- Are we in quarantine? - No.

No, for now, I'm just trying to limit the damage.

You can go.

Who do they think they are? We might as well be serial killers.

- If I didn't stop myself... - Wait, I need to make a call.

- Call from the nurses' station. - I'll catch up with you.

Thank God I hid you, Tommy.

We need to be more careful.

We're in deep shit, Tommy.

You infected me but I don't feel any smarter.

It's absurd.

Students, teachers changed. Those who stayed can't remember.

It's her best friend. They're inseparable.

Used to be. They were 14, now she's 20.

- Gire probably interviewed her. - Yes, he did.

But she can't lie to me.

- Hi! - Hi!

An orange juice and a glass of milk.

- Hi Carla. - Do we know each other?

Are you okay?

- What's wrong? - Don't leave me alone.

I'm here. What did you see?

He's handsome, so handsome, Thierry.

He comes on his moto to school, all the girls are in love with him.

What's the connection with the cop's daughter?

It was easy with Sophie, because...

she wasn't allowed anything.

Not to go out, no boyfriends.

Thierry meant freedom for her.

She ran away with him?

At first.

It's her.

She brought girls to Thierry.

Sophie disappeared from her memory.

But there are other girls. And men as well.

They put something in the girls' drink.

They lose control.

Like the rape drug?

He still hangs out at the Marquis?

Listen...

I don't want any trouble. I don't see him anymore, he's a prick.

When Sophie's dad learns what you've done, you need to be far away.

He's the one who sent you?

He's so close you should leave.

Go and pack.

Don't stay with friends, we know all of them.

Take a train where nobody knows you. Go!

Why did you scare her?

What do you think will happen when you give him back his memory?

I just saved her life.

- Who's the Marquis? - Not who, but where.

- A nightclub. - What's wrong now?

It's the little girl, I'm scared.

- You wanted to find her. - I know.

I feel like I let a kid watch porn, I'm disgusted.

What's wrong with your hand?

I don't know, it itches.

What should we do, Lieutenant?

I'm not Lieutenant Gire, I'm me.

Who are you?

A singer, a serial killer, a super cop?

Between all these thefts, who are you?

The hospital's closed! Can you imagine?

The board is meeting tomorrow.

It's not closed, just the admissions.

Really? What do you call a shop where no customers can come in?

A closed shop!

How is it going with the WHO?

They are getting the first results, no trace of the unknown germ.

Good news.

Hopefully they'll be gone by the weekend.

Excuse me.

- We have a problem. - A new one?

- It's Martin. - What about him?

He didn't come to do his blood test.

Apparently, he left the hospital.

Are you the director of this bedlam?

- I don't understand. - You don't?

Your lab assistant left, infected by the bacteria.

We're not sure.

It's true. We're not sure.

He probably went to the movies before doing his blood test.

Give me the file of this terrorist.

Charlie... Crisis category 4.

What's a crisis category 4?

Removal of the infected subject.

What do you mean "removal"?

I'm sure he can explain.

Mr Peretti is a serious man.

Taking the risk to kill thousands of people doesn't show seriousness.

That's what I call a terrorist.

I'm placing the hospital under quarantine.

Nobody comes in or out without my approval.

- Svetlana. - What?

Have a look.

Mycelium Jordanum? What is this thing?

Dr Morel, did you admit a mummy recently?

I can't spend the night out, I have to work.

- I can go on my own. - No way.

Go in, I'll come in a minute.

What are you doing here, Martin?

I'm in trouble. I have nowhere to go.

They'll go to my place, to my sister's.

Calm down, I don't understand a word you're saying.

- Who are "they"? - The WHO experts.

Tommy and I are infected.

You caught it? Does it mean she's contagious?

Not really. I infected Tommy to run some tests.

But he bit me, weird since he's really sweet.

Jesus, you ran away from the hospital with your rat!

Like you did with the girl.

How do you know?

I saw you leave the morgue.

I analysed the blood on the dress.

Yeah, it's rabbit's blood.

He's so cute! Tommy!

- She knows his name? - She knows a lot.

- Can I free him? - No way!

Ever heard of secondary infection? We now know it's transmissible.

Come on, I'm not sick.

I'm a doctor, you've been infected by an unknown bacteria

that can cause heart problems and brain inflammations.

It's best to let the WHO experts find a way to fight it.

I studied it, it can resist anything

as long as it's attached to a living creature.

It made Tommy much smarter.

- Didn't work on you apparently. - Listen...

I saved Tommy.

A madman destroyed my lab and killed all my animals.

Nobody's safe there, even you didn't leave your friend there.

What madman?

It's the man who claimed to be her father.

Boris Chakine.

- Mummies' mould. - Jordanum's mould.

Last time it was found

was in a mummy buried in the City of the Dead.

The secret necropolis of Pharaohs.

No, Ikchane.

No mummy came here to get its bandage changed.

We found traces of Mycelium Jordanum right here,

on the sheets of the amnesiac girl,

but not in her body bag.

When I saw him in her room,

the madman had both hands laid on her bed.

It confirms what we thought.

We also found traces in footprints.

Boris Chakine is the carrier of the mummies' mould.

He looked old, but not that much.

I wouldn't try to be funny if I were you.

You left a sick man wander around your hospital

and enter in a sealed room.

- Is it toxic? - The fungus, not much.

It can cause mycosis and unbearable itching.

Maybe more serious lesions if it penetrates the tissues deeper.

But the moss of Jordanum...

even dried, is the most dangerous poison of Ancient Egypt.

Turned into a powder and mixed with a drink,

it will turn your organs into papyrus in less than two hours.

Is that fungus still active in your samples?

We don't know, we're still studying it.

We know very little about the characteristics of the Jordanum.

The embalmers used to pass down

their techniques and secrets only to their sons.

We know all the steps of mummification.

Extraction of the brain, evisceration, dehydration,

desiccation and bandaging.

Interested?

We need guinea pigs.

What's the link with our mycelium?

To dehydrate tissues,

after extracting the soft parts,

the traditional embalmers used natron,

carbonate and bicarbonate of soda.

But the ones from the City of the Dead

used to put pieces of Jordanum in bags

that they'd put directly into the body of the cursed Pharaoh

without any evisceration.

The autopsy of these mummies revealed that all the organs

remained in place, including the brain,

but they were completely dried.

Which makes us think that the Jordanum

has exceptional hygroscopic properties,

capable of absorbing very quickly the humidity of tissues including...

in living organisms.

The poor souls poisoned by Jordanum

die in great pain.

- What does it look like? - What?

What kind of plant is it?

It was a desert plant that disappeared 4,000 years ago.

Some describe it as a plant that could drink oceans.

Others, as the devil's plant,

whose destiny is to destroy and dry all of God's creatures.

It doesn't make any sense.

What would a 4,000-year-old plant do in a hospital?

That's what I'm supposed to discover.

What does it look like?

An herb? A flower?

Planning on opening a garden centre?

Actually, you two should think about a change of career.

Some texts describe it as a sort of lichen,

a red lichen.

Tommy thinks his cage is too small.

And he can't remember why he killed Diana.

- He killed someone? - Diana, my prettiest rat.

I wanted them to make babies.

It's strange but all of a sudden,

he hated rats.

He can't remember why he bit you, but he won't do it again.

Don't say you can read their minds as well.

I don't know.

If they're all like Tommy, I can understand them.

No, they're not all like Tommy.

I'm losing it.

Why did you come to hide here?

We're alike.

I protect my rat, you protect your friend.

First, I don't know her and second,

you can't compare a rat to a human being.

What's wrong with your hands?

It just itches.

I get eczema sometimes.

On the tip of your fingers, I doubt it.

You're an expert now?

I don't just do urine tests.

That's not what I meant.

We have a centre of dermato-venereology.

I've seen more skin problems

than any dermatologist in all his career.

- Strange. - That would have been a surprise.

Do you own a microscope?

No, I don't.

Shame, I'd have loved to take a closer look.

- Is it a mycose? - I don't know.

It looks like...

What??

Like your fingers are drying out.

I have to go look for my daughter now.

Your daughter?

She has a daughter?

I thought she was a virgin.

A piece of cake to explain this one out.

We analysed the fungus as soon as we received your report.

The first results are not great.

It can resist the usual fungicide.

We can try harder treatments.

But I don't think that's what's killing him.

- No? - No.

It might explain the dehydration,

but not the decreasing of his vital functions.

Do you have another explanation?

A medical one?

I'd accept anything.

- He's growing old quickly. - Progeria.

Faster, he won't survive the night.

Tomorrow, we will have a corpse a few thousand years old.

Medicine can surprise us, but I'd pass on this one.

If you came to talk to him, you're wasting your time.

He's in a coma and won't get out of it, I'm afraid.

You seem to be very careful for an old dying man.

He's been sent to us and will remain where he is until he dies.

Put this on.

Don't touch him.

Last door on the right.

Ikchane...

- The one who sees. - You know my name?

You speak Hindi as well?

I need to see the sun.

- It's night-time. Wait for tomorrow. - Tomorrow...

Why did you vandalise the lab at the hospital?

There were rats.

I don't like rats.

I make them explode.

You didn't just kill rats!

You destroyed everything. You emptied blood bags.

- I could feel her presence. - Whose?

- My daughter. - Mr Chakine...

Your daughter died after suffering multiple heart attacks.

- She was cremated. - She's alive.

I tried to empty her one more time.

But... I failed.

- Empty her? - I was too far.

Lack of energy.

She has a grip on something, or someone.

She's learning.

Soon, nobody will be able to stop her.

She's not really your daughter, is she?

She is what you want her to be.

I don't understand.

Forget everything you've learned.

You don't need your knowledge anymore.

Leave that useless science behind. You know the truth.

You're a guardian.

- I hope they sent you in time. - Nobody sent me.

Where are your parents?

I was found in a street in New Delhi.

And then?

The woman that found me and nursed me,

- died a few months after. - Go on.

What use would you have to know all this?

To me, nothing.

It will be useful to you.

A Catholic mission picked me up.

They raised me for almost a year.

Until the fire...

In the middle of the night, a fire started.

Everybody was asleep.

The nuns and the kids were surprised by the fire

and the smoke.

And you got out alive?

My bed was against a wall

that collapsed and I was kicked outside.

It saved my life.

Have you ever searched for your origins?

Vaguely.

Vaguely isn't part of your vocabulary.

You did search but you couldn't find anything.

There is nothing to find.

You are a guardian, Dr Ikchane.

Are you crazy?

You came here for answers. We're running out of time.

She is a female and he is a male.

He's a snake,

a liar, a seducer, a manipulator.

You must...

prevent them from meeting, if it's not too late.

Your time is now.

We could try to talk to him somewhere else.

He's wearing glasses.

He looks busy, let's come back.

Are you looking for someone?

- Hi, Bugsy. - Hi.

- We're here to talk to Thierry. - Have an appointment?

You need one to talk to that jerk?

That's not what she meant.

You think you're Wonder Woman?

Why don't you go see Mum at the hospital?

You know my mother?

She's sick, she can't recognise us.

You're doing my head in, who are you?

Leslie.

- You don't remember? - Leslie?

How old were you when they separated us? 4? 5?

It's impossible, Mum said you were dead.

That's why you never looked for me.

Why didn't you contact us?

I was one when I was taken to the orphanage.

When I got out, you all disappeared

and my letters were sent back to me.

It's true, we moved a lot. Every time Mum changed boyfriends.

All the time.

I'm so happy to see you, Leslie.

- You know Thierry? - I'm looking for a friend.

What's her name?

Sophie. Sophie Gire.

Sophie Gire?

Don't know her. Why are you looking for her?

She was my best friend at the orphanage.

Let's have a drink, Thierry doesn't really like questions.

- Are you afraid of him? - I'm scared of no one.

He pays not to be disturbed.

Have a drink, I'll see what I can do.

Gire's daughter, his half sister...

the family's getting bigger.

He needs to take his glasses off.

She ignores it but she's looking for her double.

She's looking for her double.

She's attracted to him like flowers to the sun.

She's looking and he's waiting for her.

You must not let them meet.

Otherwise, everything on this Earth

between the beginning and the end will be destroyed.

You're asking me to prevent a dead woman to meet a stranger?

You must destroy her.

To prevent a fruit to be born from this encounter.

You don't have the power, she's already too strong.

She'll know what you want and she'll kill you.

You must gather all four rings of scourges.

They will give you the power.

Take my ring.

Find the other three.

And unite them into one.

Destroy my daughter, Dr Ikchane.

Whatever it costs you.

Believe me...

The price will be high.

Thierry, let me introduce you to someone.

It's Leslie, my half sister.

Nice ass, princess.

- Thierry, it's my sister. - Shut up.

You lot, out. Come sit next to me.

Here you go, princess.

Have a drink with me.

- She only drinks milk. - Who's that?

He's with me.

Slow down.

- It's a special cocktail. - How special?

It's a secret.

Why are you looking for Sophie?

- She's my friend. - She was a bitch.

Cried non stop. I dumped her.

Dumped her where?

It's an expression, I broke up with her.

- Where did you find her? - Orphanage.

Let me have some of your secret drink, I want to have fun.

I like you.

You got class.

Careful, she's not used to it.

It's good.

- May I have more? - Super classy!

Last time a guy drank three of these, he dropped dead.

Give me one more.

So?

Do I look stone dead?

Your glasses look nice. Can I borrow them?

You think I don't know who you are.

NEXT TIME

You want me to believe he was alive yesterday?

It's a birthmark.

- Stay away from me. - What are you afraid of?

It's the curse of the mummy.

Destroy my daughter, Dr Ikchane.