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FOREST OF THE MISSING

The fact that the judge isn't amnesiac changes everything.

Maybe she's played us all along.

She's too young for the first murder.

But that doesn't clear her.

She's still a suspect for the others.

Yes, Zelda. Go ahead.

We've found Katz's medical record.

- And? Her doctor was Eva Stein.

Hello?

Okay.

That's all.

So, Eva Stein treated Judge Hartmann and Hanne Katz.

You're not going to tell me it's a coincidence.

We haven't talked about Hanne Katz. How are you since you shot her?

Tell me... How long have you and Birgit been together?

It doesn't affect my work, if that's your angle.

Birgit chose me because I have the best clearance rate.

Not because I share her bed.

You wanted to know how I feel about killing Hanne Katz.

Obligation in the field, protect at-risk citizens.

It was the job of a soldier doing his duty. That's all.

Z... EX5... 022...

Just a moment...

What are you doing?

Dr Stein isn't here.

- When did she leave? - Half an hour ago.

What's going on?

Ms Hartmann, we have some questions.

What questions?

What questions?

She ended up in hospital after helping you.

You knew about her condition but didn't give a damn.

All that matters is your fucking case.

We want to ask about her condition.

I don't know about Germany,

but here a fancy suit and dumb mug don't give rights of arrest.

- Come on. - Wait, Marc.

- I'll agree. I want to know. - Know what?

- They're lost too. - Less now.

Eva Stein treated Hanne Katz.

- Yeah? Why do we care? - No, wait.

If you're not back in two hours, I'm calling Fatima.

And believe me, you don't want to meet her.

Who's Fatima”?

Shall we go?

LKA, CRIMINAL POLICE KARLSRUHE, GERMANY Karlsruhe - Allemagne

Help us to understand better, Ms Hartmann.

- I know no more than you. - Really?

Well, one might wonder.

You voluntarily go to the mass grave site.

You know Bertrand Montal, a victim,

Hanne Katz, a perpetrator.

And we've just found out that Hanne Katz and Jeanne Montal both knew Dr Stein.

Jeanne? Jeanne knows Eva Stein?

Yes.

And like Eva Stein, Jeanne Montal disappeared this morning.

However you look at it, you're at the centre of this case.

And you no longer have the amnesia excuse.

Excuse? But I've helped you from the start.

You've been eager to help.

It could be a diversion to clear your name.

Or to know what was happening In real time.

Since the start we've been one step behind.

What are you doing here?

You want to place me in custody?

On what grounds? What proof do you have?

- Ms Hartmann... - No, “Judge”.

On what basis are you questioning me?

Do you have authority from your chancellery?

Have you alerted mine?

Where is my lawyer?

She's mixed up in it somehow. We must question her more seriously.

You can't arrest a French judge on coincidences.

It’s more than coincidences.

What do you suggest?

- We release her. - What?.

But...

Are you joking?

We lack proof to incriminate a judge.

The chancellery would destroy us.

If you want to lock her up, find proof, Franz, not hunches.

- He's not wrong. - Don't you start.

She's just out of hospital, just off her drugs

and her daughter was kidnapped.

Any lawyer would flatly deny us.

There's no time for this nonsense. The priority is Eva Stein.

- The TV! - What?

Eva Stein, all channels.

I don't seek to deny responsibility or to minimise our actions.

The newspapers might describe us as lawless Killers,

but Hanne Katz and I are victims.

The real killers are rotting in the hole the media call a mass grave.

This Is only the start

Soon there will be millions of us.

I'll cancel my appointments.

Why?

You don't want to go back to hospital, so I won't leave you alone.

I'm much better. Don’t worry.

I'm so sorry, Camille.

I've criticised you when all you wanted was my support.

I know what you've put up with.

And thank you, because without you I'd have burst.

I understand your criticisms.

I don't know what I've got myself into.

And what's that?

Erik Maes is right.

I am at the centre. If not, why would Eva have drugged me?

I don't know, but I know you're not involved.

You can't lie.

You blush when you tell a lie.

And your bottom lip quivers.

So to think you're involved in these murders...

I was so scared.

- The hospital said you'd disappeared. - Don't worry, darling.

I'm here.

I'm not going anywhere, I promise. I'm staying with you.

Cross-reference Stein's patients with victims from the last 15 years.

Start with ones where she acted as a court expert.

Elias, get everything from her office and home.

And contact Superintendent Mercier in the Strasbourg police.

I can"t track Eva Stein's phone. It's off.

But I got the IP address of her link.

- What about a physical address? - Searching, but a VPN might block it.

Okay.

Near Strasbourg.

- Can we trust it? - I think so.

If she had a VPN, she could be anywhere, not 20 km away.

Send it to Mercier. Say to send the RAID unit.

- No risks. - Okay.

It's odd. It's not like her to be careless.

Ten years of perfect crimes, and we locate her in no time.

Yeah. Maybe she's playing us.

Only one way to find out.

Do you believe the suspect is dangerous?

Given the crimes, very dangerous.

We've taken all precautions to ensure public safety.

Currently, on both sides of the border,

all our forces are mobilised to find her.

- Is she armed? - We don't know that.

Eva Stein's manifesto mentioned a female militia taking revenge on men.

- Is it a local terrorist cell? - Why isn't counter-terrorism leading?

We're not naming it terrorism or a militia.

Stein's statements can't be taken as fact.

We're checking them to...

I reject the term “terrorist”.

- I'm a resistance fighter. - Don't move!

- Stand back! - I'm unarmed.

Raise your hands!

Your hands.

- What motivated you... - Ms Stein...

- I've come to answer for my actions. - Come on.

My trial will be that of the system.

How will you continue your fight?

- Excuse me! - YOU say...

Stop them there.

What just happened is incredible. Eva Stein has been arrested...

Ignace Goscia, May 2017.

Alexandre Tomaso, July 2020.

Moncef Amanpoor, September 2021.

Bertrand Montal, November 2021.

And Sebastian Shiltz, March 2022.

That makes ten.

There was one who wasn't ours. We found him in Bertrand Montal's truck.

That makes 11.

They all deserved to die?

Their wives deserved peace.

They were all recidivists

who benefited from the patriarchal indulgence of the legal system.

You hate men.

All this suffering, which I understand,

doesn't Justify you dispensing justice.

Really?

85% of deaths at the hands of partners are women.

220,000 people, including 185,000 women,

are rape or attempted rape victims.

Every year.

Just in France.

The number of women beaten by partners is at a record high.

So, the question isn't whether I hate men,

but why men hate women so much.

Don't conflate things. Many men are ready to follow you in this.

Why did you turn yourself in, Ms Stein?

So that our cause isn't devalued.

I know the media.

I saw what they did to Hanna.

She was nothing like the monster In the press.

She was sensitive, funny,

and had extraordinary mental strength.

Hanne and I aren't Valkyries or some pathetic myth invented by the press.

We are real women abandoned by the legal system.

Our action was legitimate defence.

A bullet in the head with hands tied...

It doesn't really look like legitimate defence.

I'm not trying to persuade you.

It's the other women,

who live with fear in their hearts.

Persuade them to do what? To continue escalating the violence?

How do you choose your victims?

As well as my job as a neurologist, I have acted as a court expert.

I cared for the women in the hospital,

but also had access to the legal files, and I gave evidence.

So, what about you?

Which one was yours?

Raped at the age of 20.

By a friend at university.

I went to the police station and three officers, men,

persuaded me not to press charges.

I might ruin the life of my rapist.

What the cops said that night didn't just break me, it destroyed me.

I never slept without tranquillisers.

Until the night when Hanne and I

put a bullet in Jerome Dewaele’s head.

Number two.

Since then I sleep like a baby.

How many are in your group?

Two.

Hanne and me.

You're joking.

How many, Ms Stein?

All the women who refuse to live as victims.

She won't say any more.

She only identified 11 of the 12 bodies.

The missing one is the first victim, the one we're still stuck on.

Maybe she doesn't know about him.

But there were more than two of them.

She's charismatic. Who knows?

The trial will make a big noise.

Exactly her aim.

BLACK FOREST, GERMANY 15 NOVEMBER 2021

No, we don't kill innocent people.

She saw our faces.

She's innocent.

We have no choice. She'll report us to the cops.

Not if she can't remember.

Commander Erik Maes. Leave me a message.

Commander Maes, it's Camille Hartmann.

I remember what happened on 14 November. Call me.

Jeanne...

Sorry.

No to violence against women!

No to violence against women!

Femicide: every victim is one too many Feminicide: chaque victime est une victime de trop

Loving means no rape Aimer n'est pas violer

All against violence against women Tous contre les violences faites aux femmes

No to violence!

You hear that?

You have a fan club.

Are you pleased?

A nice little time bomb, isn't it?

Ms Stein, I joined the police just over 30 years ago with dreams of justice.

I am convinced that consciences should be rattled and mind-sets changed.

But I'm sorry, the end doesn't justify the means.

Everything okay?

Yes.

I was about to question Ms Stein about our friend, Judge Camille Hartmann.

Ms Hartmann isn't involved.

She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

You manipulated me from the start.

No. None of this was planned.

If only you hadn't followed Bertrand.

- I was trying to help. - I know, Camille.

I still consider you a friend.

This is being a friend?

Jeanne, there's still time to stop.

I know I have no future. No more than Eva or Léa.

Premeditated murder by an organised group means a life sentence.

Have you thought about Thomas?

I've made arrangements. He'll be supported through school.

- Hello? - Ms Hartmann?

No, I'm her daughter.

My mother went out with Jeanne and another woman.

Jeanne Montal?

Yes.

We're coming. Call your stepfather and don't let anyone in.

Come in.

We think Jeanne Montal is involved in the Valkyrie murders.

Oh, shit...

Your partner is clear.

We just want to know why and where they took her.

Did you see it?

She got into a white car.

Did you see the make or model?

I don't know anything about cars.

- Did you see which way they went? - To the left.

The motorway.

Was your mother walking freely

or did she look threatened at all?

They were too far away.

Don't worry, Marc. Camille isn't in danger.

The Valkyries could have attacked long ago, and they didn't.

Have you noticed anything odd recently?

A conversation, anything she said about Jeanne Montal?

Not really.

Iris? Even a small detail might be important.

NO.

Did she have time to put on a coat?

No idea.

Her robe.

- What robe? - Her judge's robe.

It was here before.

- You're sure”? - Certain.

Hello. - Yves, Erik.

- We need urgent intervention. Okay.

LAW COURTS

Don't mess up. I don't want it going wrong.

- Hello, Ms Hartmann. - They're with me.

Yes. Just a piece of ID, please,

and your things in the box.

We're very short of time.

I'm sorry, it's the rules.

Stay calm and everything will be fine.

Come on.

Two armed females at main entrance.

Request reinforcements.

Quickly.

Move!

Out of the way! Faster!

Don't move!

Hello, Judge.

Who are you? Camille, what's going on?

I'm sorry.

I'm Alice Blanchard, killed by her partner after you released him.

Or Salima Naouri, jailed for killing her husband who raped her kids.

Remember them?

I only applied the law. Tell her, Camille.

Is that your defence? “It's not me, it's the law”?

Was it the law when you wouldn't listen to Sandra Léoni's kids?

- Their mother primed them. - It was the truth!

For 15 years, you've systematically favoured men,

downgraded rape,

and suspended men's sentences even if guilty.

I reject this.

How often can a man hit his wife before you believe he wants to kill her?

How often must a woman press charges before she's protected?

How often?

Things are extremely tense outside the law courts in Strasbourg,

LE PALAIS DE JUSTICE DE STRASBOURG PRIS D'ASSAUT

'll be right back.

Judge Hartmann was helping.

Why's she being held hostage now?

Long story.

What have we got?

Demonstrators and two women with handguns.

They took Judges Grimbert and Hartmann hostage in his office, first floor.

- Accomplices? - No. They forced the security gate.

- Anyone injured? - Negative.

Shots were heard 15 minutes ago.

They won't talk by phone.

- Do you know what they want? - They've acted in secret so far.

The problem is now they'll want the maximum impact.

So they may kill the judges?

I doubt they'd want to harm Judge Hartmann. The other, maybe.

I'm one element in the system. You can't hold me responsible.

We agree on that. It's the fucking system that's against women.

That's why we came. Move. Hands on head.

Go. Show yourself.

Show yourself.

There! That's right.

Show yourself.

Son of a bitch!

Over here!

- For all domestic violence victims! - No, don't do it.

You can't kill him in cold blood. That's not the image you want.

Yes, It IS. We're women who fight.

Women who refuse to be victims as they have been for centuries.

- This isn't how to rally public opinion. - Public opinion?

Women. We're not waiting for men to grant us equality.

We're telling women to lift their heads and hit back.

It's one thing to kill a man who abuses you.

It's another to kill a judge to spread your message.

Legitimate defence isn't revenge.

Jeanne, you'll discredit your fight.

No one will identify with you.

You'll be terrorists, not fighters.

- Better terrorist than victim. - Look at those women.

Are they rallying for terrorists? They're your power.

You'll lose everything.

You'll betray all past and future victims.

What the hell is this?

It’s started.

The RAID unit will go in. We can't wait for a judge to die.

Info position.

- P1. Stage clear. - Roger.

Come with us.

What's she doing?

- She's swapped sides. - She's staying to avert a bloodbath.

Proceed.

- Join us. - Roger.

No more femicide

No more femicide!

No more femicide! No more femicide!

No more femicide! No more femicide!

No more femicide!

Quietly! Quieten down!

Yes, but with respect, Mr Prefect,

the RAID unit's job isn't keeping order.

Yes, they're inside making it secure.

But I think the suspects escaped in the crowd.

All right. Understood.

We've warned our police in case they head to Germany.

Zelda, it's a mess here.

We were so focused on the inside.

They didn't organise this on their own.

They must have had external support.

There was a social media call-out

to meet at the law courts in Strasbourg.

They put up a good smokescreen.

KARLSRUHE GERMANY

To all who are with us or would like to join us,

come urgently to the law courts in Strasbourg.

They need you.

To all who are with us or would like to join us,

come urgently to the law courts in Strasbourg.

They need you.

There may be a slight Nordic accent.

I didn't notice It.

Anything else?

We're checking if the video filter can be lifted to hear the original.

Apart from that, neutral background, wig, consumer camera.

And VPN. Nothing left to chance.

Where are the videos of the courts?

Hold on.

We got all of the TV videos.

Knock yourself out.

- Looking for something in particular? - I just want to check something.

Look at NRK. They took all angles.

Okay. Thanks.

STRASBOURG LAW COURTS STORMED

- Yes. - Franz?

- Yeah. It's Isa.

Yes.

We got it. We identified victim number one.

I'm listening.

Martin Schuster. He disappeared in April 1994,

Martin Schuster.

That rings a bell.

Not surprising. He was one of ours.

Thanks.

Birgit!

Open! Police!

Contact!

Show your hands!

- She's already gone. - It's okay, guys.

He's ours. Stand down.

Nothing to report, Captain. Let's go, guys.

Come on.

She conned us all, Erik.

She was outside the courts.

She almost waved to me.

How did you make the connection?

The first victim was identified as Birgit's college classmate.

She'd accused him of assaulting her at a party.

She could never prove it.

She took her time,

but she got him.

It was him. Martin Schuster.

After the murder,

she saw the anger of other women.

And Birgit created the Valkyries with them.

That's why they were always one step ahead.

And that's why she appointed me to lead the investigation.

I'm really sorry this happened to a guy like you, Erik.

Je suis desolee, je t'aime Birgit

THREE MONTHS LATER

KARLSRUHE GERMANY

- The victim is Celia Wenders? - Yes.

Can you describe the client?

ONE YEAR LATER PARIS, FRANCE

- Is she here? - Up there.

- Check the exits. - Okay.

- The bill, please. - Yes.

In France, domestic violence kills one woman every three days.

In France, 14% of women have been victims of sexual violence.

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