Baron noir (2016–…): Season 2, Episode 3 - Haram - full transcript
Amélie faces her first political roadblock as she struggles to rally the legislative majority she needs to pass her key Health Act. At the same time, Cyril Balsan, a young member of parliament representing the suburbs, starts to fight against a proposed electoral communitarianism that he believes will benefit Islamists. While helping Amélie, Philippe realizes that his former assistant's struggle could give him the opportunity to get rid of a political enemy of his own. But a few socialist barons, furious at Cyril's accusations, decide to respond by jeopardizing the Health Act vote. Philippe ends up in an inextricable situation.
Durand, Pierre.
Was it number 9?
Yes.
Here. We're done
Thank you.
A 3-point increase
in the district's turnout at noon.
Only 1.5 elsewhere. It's a good sign.
I don't think so.
They rally around those with several
mandates who pose as dissidents.
In Pas-de-Calais alone,
two of those are leading.
How do you know? It's only 4.
I got people going through the bins.
The polling stations' bins.
From the papers they threw away,
you can guess what's in the box.
This isn't good.
Is it reliable?
In 20 years combining offices,
the dissidents have had time to plan.
They've stirred every drop
of their network.
They can fuck up your absolute
majority at the Assembly
My response?
First option.
Reintegrate dissidents
who kept their seats to the PS.
You get a chance to get
the 289 deputies,
So you get the absolute majority.
It hurts, but you have it.
Your laws are voted,
And you sleep at night.
It rewards discipline.
What would I look like?
Hostage to opponent
and those combining offices.
No way.
Without the majority,
you'll govern only with article 49.3.
It's not great either.
Forcing every single law...
I don't have a choice.
Or...
You do Dorendisme.
Is that a thing?
Sporadically, it does.
First point of your program:
A ban on combined offices.
Without:waiting for the law to pass,
you apply it to your party.
Even if it costs the majority.
Politics is like jazz.
play a wrong note? Insist on it.
It'll become a cult improvisation
everyone will try to imitate.
What you did with combined offices
isn't a fault, it's absolute courage.
Total coherence between
the program and the actions
And then?
Tonight, you announce you give up
on the 49.3 even without a majority.
What?
There!
This is the face they'll make.
Stagger them.
Leave from the top.
I won't do without the only article
that lets me govern with no majority.
You should, it's in your program
so apply it to yourself first.
While waiting for a law,
like combined offices.
Two points-are a line.
Do what you said,
not only when it's good for you.
Anything could happen, don't falter,
stay solid. The President.
It creates a whole new situation,
give the Assembly a power
they haven't had since 1958
This boldness makes you all the mere
President, more Jupiterian.
If there's a strike and the laws are
blocked, it's the Assembly's fault.
You gave them power
and they messed it up.
On one side, Princess Lela,
on the other side,
the Assembly's ugly Gremlins.
We go for a democratic shock.
Good slogan.
Better than fiscal shock.
13 account incidents in six months.
I wanted to talk about that.
Fine.
What do you offer?
A moratory about overdraft charges.
I took a look at PR Consultancy's
accounts for the past six months.
Charging services to four clients.
Mr. Balsan,
Mr. Carreteau and Saint-Pol-sur-Mer's
and Arras' town halls.
14,900 euros in total.
It's great, Mr. Rickwaert.
Amazing for a first year.
It's great. In theory,
I should offer our new insurance.
ProtectLib Business+.
The "Ambition" plan
seems adapted to your situation.
It'd bring you security and coverage,
for 213 Euros a month.
Besides the 804 euros
of' my repayment schedule?
Yes, that's why I said in theory.
In practice, it's not possible.
We've reached your debt limit.
Why mention it?
Because it'd be possible
If you did explore
all the parameters of your situation.
Don't touch my daughter's
saving scheme. I told you.
Your hotel. 2.270 euros a month.
It's huge. It's a burden.
Why don't you rent a studio flat?
The owners ask for
the three last years of
my company's revenue. What do I do?
You don't want to sell your house
in Dunkirk, but you could live in it.
Most of your work for PR Consultancy
is related to the region.
What's holding you in Paris?
The President of the Republic.
I don't have a contract about that.
And this autobiography thing.
How's it coming along?
Slowly. I'm demanding.
But we're beyond
the manuscript's due date.
Go for the overdraft charges then.
And your hotel?
Three months after their election.
the new deputies are debating
the health care act.
But without article 49.3
and the absolute majority,
will the President be able
to pass the law?
High hypothesis, 274.
Low hypothesis, if nothing changes
about the civil societies, 265.
Given the law's scope
and importance for the parties,
abstention will be low.
In the best case scenario,
we need 15 more votes.
How can we lack 6 civil societies
over the 17 we've gotten elected?
Archambeau
Again.
He'll abstain.
He told me again this morning
that the researcher in him
couldn't back such a methodology bias
In the studies on hormone disruptors.
We used the best-recognised study.
He's fighting over the definition
of hormone disruptor.
Ours isn't broad enough.
What an asshole.
Saturday, the EHPAD visit at 2 pm.
A street dinner tonight,
be there for pre-dinner.
What did Brody's assistant say?
That there's too many...
Hold on a second.
Why did you took me off the list?
I should have had
five minutes to speak.
I have not promised
not to Be the 49.3.
As president of the group I have
to pamper the disturbers.
So I'm giving them speaking time.
Consider me one.
What are you going to do?
Vote against the law? Right.
Come back down to Earth.
You're not seasoned enough yet.
What?
I'm working from a maid's room.
If there was an office in the toilet,
it'd be yours.
What do you have against me?
I'm doing prevention work,
In case you want to show up
In work overalls one day.
As for the centrists, let's exploit
the liberty they left their voters.
13 in favour, 11 abstain, 8 against.
But the euthanasia act...
End-of-life.
It's still divisive.
Look, Vidal, everything's locked.
They're all voting against, as one.
I know Fred Targneux well.
He got Nord's 3rd district.
A Cossack. I could call him.
We could get his vote.
We need more communist amendments,
to improve the reimbursement
of dentistry and glasses.
Yes?
I have the simulations.
Ten days Te get a majority. Olivier,
a vote rundown every two hours
Don't call him.
Go to him and plan{ your teeth
In his calves.
Alright. You can count on me.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Alright, page 7
-What is the good news?
-About that...
Don't be a pain from the start.
Have you seen Malandrin?
For him, the European elections
are settled.
He will stick to his list.
He's the first federal secretary.
Make him keep a spot for Dunkirk.
They have three spots in Lille,
one in Arras. What's his problem?
They may suspect something.
You can have a reserved spot.
No need to give a name for now.
It's what I told him
When will you see him?
On Thursday.
I'm visiting Dunkirk's shipyard
on Friday He'll be there.
Thanks, Pascal See you there.
How are you doing?
They're all pissing me off.
Put your balls on the table
If you want to be respected.
I yell all the time.
No, you whine.
Like a convict without protection.
You need a pimp.
A protector, a daddy, an uncle.
Someone respected, someone big.
For me, it's you.
That's the problem.
I understand. It's good
that you say things upfront.
Want a new pimp? Aim higher.
The highest. Amélie.
If I could get a word in
at the Assembly...
They'll hear you if you call everyone
to talk about the health care act.
Your message.
A battle against lobbies.
I'm all for it
Those studies on hormone disruptors?
That was my intervention: cancer,
depression, drop in fertility and IQ
Perfect. Those against it are dicks.
Those in favour are heroes,
protecting children's health.
Sorry, a problem in a district.
Something in a school
Call Ferroni at Le Monde
on my behalf.
We know each other well.
He'll be happy to quote you.
I understand your emotion
Excuse me.
Hello.
Hello.
Gentlemen.
Hi, Cyril. A schoolteacher
was attacked.
Hello.
Hello.
Nadia Marzaoui. A bad punch.
She's hospitalised,
released tomorrow.
I've been the mayor for 10 years,
I know her. A former PS member.
A secular Arab, but an activist,
almost a radical secularist.
-She's a stickler for it
-It doesn't go well around here.
What happened here?
Haram Candy.
Haram candy?
They were celebrating a birthday,
she handed out non-halal sweets.
She got attacked for sweets?
I know, it's bad.
I'll go see her. It's important
to show our support to the media.
I'm coming with you.
No, I know her.
They're already
making a fuss on social media.
If the press embarks on it,
we'll get 10 days of reports,
"Molenbeek-sur-Marne" style.
It's hard for the the people.
Maybe. But this is very bad, right?
Do we agree? We are talking
about communitarianism in school.
Of course.
Do we agree?
Of course. The people
love their city.
They're sick of being insulted.
I'm dealing with this.
Can you pull over?
I'll be right back.
Salomé?
Good to see you.
Are you?
Good, and you, honey?
I'm fine...
You're not in London?
Something's wrong ?
What's wrong?
Tell me what's wrong.
Don't tell my father you saw me.
It's a big thing to ask.
I do and it's important.
The bad news is we're not
in our comfort zone at all.
Let us continue
with the health care act.
How are you?
We got three Verts
and two civil societies.
Philippe?
The President.
What about Stahl?
Véronique went to see him,
she didn't leave his office before
she got an email with his rallying.
Perfect.
His position remains marginal
among the communists.
They're holding on.
We must carry on.
We need other Tardieux.
As for budget, we're fine.
We'll take stock on Saturday.
Email me the votes.
It may give me ideas.
Have a nice day.
What I like about her is that
she never gives up. Got coffee?
Of course.
It's nice here.
It's in the centre.
What was the session about?
A review about article 3
3422 amendments.
Shall we ride together tomorrow?
I thought I'd take the 6:46 metro.
Let's take my car,
I'll show you what I have for
your urban transportation speech.
I've been working.
The last straw would be the judges
charging me for bogus contracts.
It'd be simpler if I slept here.
The sofa will be great.
It's the thing about prison.
Once out, everything's a palace.
Sit down.
Take care of the visit,
I'm taking care of Malandrin.
The number 4 one, back there,
will be worked on in May-June.
Or earlier, in February,
we're hoping.
I'm leaving you with my assistant.
I'll be back in a minute.
Can I talk to you for a minute?
What's wrong?
Is it true what Carreteau says?
As long as you're federal secretary
I'll never be on
the European elections list?
Not exactly.
I said "As long as I live."
And I added: "As long as my children
and grandchildren are alive."
Isn't it a bit aggressive?
I don't even want to be on the list.
Call me stupid. Carreteau asked for
one spot to be reserved in Dunkirk.
I can have people on the list.
But not you.
The President asked for it.
So what are you doing here?
A delicate affair.
I'm not supposed to explain.
The President wants it reserved,
you reserve it.
No, that is not all.
The spot is for Véronique Bosso.
Isn't the Élysée good enough?
She misses the field.
Amélie gave her six months to think,
she wants to make her change.
She promised to land her
on the Europeans list
If Véro keeps her decision.
It's delicate.
I don't agree.
Why can't she stay
between two stools?
I need to know where she stands.
I'm restoring the region's office.
With young guys. And you know them,
they don't like the Paris people.
They want transparency,
so I need to be clear with them.
I need to talk to Véro.
What are you doing ?
I'm calling her.
I like her.
And I can give good advice.
It's better to clarify things now.
I'm telling you it's delicate...
Stop it. Turn it off.
It's done.
You really are a piece of shit.
Ten years ago, I'd have punched you.
Now, I'll say this:
As long as I'll be alive,
and my children
And grandchildren are alive,
you won't be on this list.
Not as an ex-convict
nor as a future convict.
Do you have the union?
You don't, so you shut the fuck up.
It's me. I am Nord.
Hi, Mrs Berry. How are you?
Hi, Linda. Have a nice day.
Any news from the teacher?
It's all very blurry.
Good morning, everyone.
What do you mean, blurry?
The sweets were on one cake.
Some children say the cake
was on the table,
others say Marzaoui gave out slices.
Wait. Do we care about that?
The school council had told
the teachers to be careful.
It's normal
A schoolteacher was punched
In front of 50 children.
I'm going to see her.
Do that.
Do you know how much you got there?
How much?
82%.
Exactly, 82%.
What are you saying, Hassan?
That the guy who punched her
is a cornerstone of the place?
It's not what you're saying.
Why are you talking about business?
I'm talking about citizens.
People who get involved
in isolated areas.
Give subsidies and voting
instructions. I see. Business.
I'll talk to the teacher.
Go to the town hall.
From now on, you don't work here
The mayor will pay you directly,
since you work for him.
Have a nice day
Hello, sir.
Hello.
Who are you?
Cyril Balsan, deputy.
I want to express my support.
I'm her husband.
We don't want to see you here.
I know the city's pressuring...
You know nothing.
No politicians.
Especially socialists like Coulanges.
Well, okay.
I understand.
This is Salomé Rickwaert's voice-mail,
please leave a message. Bye!
We send the footage, broadcast at 2,
then they link us up. I
Cyril Balsan, district deputy.
Hello.
Did you interview Mrs Mazaoui?
You may not like it.
I've been here less than two months.
I don't owe anything.
I'd be happy to respond
and publicly express my support
And if I ask about Coulanges?
Do your job.
Well done, kid.
You put your balls on the table.
Your halal candy thing is quoted
everywhere. We'll talk about that.
I had to go to Dunkirk.
I'm back tomorrow.
Invite me for lunch?
Thank you.
Mrs President.
Mr Langlet.
I just received info that confirms
my theory on the Turkish video
and the Jihadists.
I didn't know you had a theory.
Two things seemed strange to me.
Why did Fares
give away 14 names?
Why not five or then
which would have been enough?
Secondly, how could
a mere underling have such a list?
Both questions have the same answer:
It is the Turk's government's list.
Lies?
Quite the opposite,
the list is rather old.
Several of them are in Syria.
How many are considered
potentially dangerous?
Eight.
All in France
Your theory?
The key is your election.
The Turks are too isolated.
They're stuck with major cases.
That pipeline costs them $120,000
a day while the diggers are idle.
With the Sevilla summit,
they want France's friendship
And are giving you
a reconciliation gift.
Fares just recited
the list he was asked to.
The one the Turkish services
have made over the years.
Let's stay they support me against
terrorism, in exchange for my support
about the pipeline.
Why not just tell me?
They are telling you.
Because I just explained it to you.
It's a lot of deductions.
Intelligence is no direct admission.
Admitting they help us now would be
admitting they haven't for years.
What about those eight men?
Here
Rachid Ben Zarka, born in Dijon
on July 6, 1990.
Paul Botillon, born in Courcouronnes
on September 26, 1992.
Mahed Abdelaoui, born in Lyon
on March 12, 1993.
Samir Laouedj, born in Pantin...
Now you talk to her live.
Of course.
The town hall went hard on her.
She fired him
from all tutoring classes.
After she talked,
she was threatened
in the town hall's toilet.
She recorded everything.
Did you take a look
at the polling stations?
In Les Bernardins,
where the attacker is from,
they always vote for Coulanges
or Quénon.
While in the Fontaines,
same sociology
but a 2.5 times lower turnout.
Les Bernardins...
You should see that.
There's now a mixed-hairdresser.
Mixed?
Yes, non-veiled women can come
but veiled women
have their own room at the back.
What are you having?
Half a pint.
Two half-pints. How are you?
Good. You?
Hairdressers have always been a thing
It's private, they're free
I agree,
but the city's venue
was given for a symbolic euro.
A symbolic euro!
Alright.
Coulanges, Les Bernardins,
hairdressers... alright.
Gather many small pieces of shit,
what do you get in the end?
Many small pieces of shit.
Besides being sure
not to be re-elected,
you'll get nothing.
I'll have unmasked a list
playing with communitarianism.
He does business with thugs
and Islamists.
There are Coulanges everywhere.
In Nord, I know some. In all parties.
Tomorrow, in Libé,
I'll take it up a notch.
Lay principles, offer solutions.
Put some towns under supervision.
Too general.
Be specific, like for Coulanges.
But how?
Say you'll give a list.
A national list of examples.
I only know my area.
Everyone in the ghettos know.
But there's a code of silence.
They put huge pressure on everyone.
Break it to protect the others.
The people who live there
and just want to live in peace.
Do you understand?
But if there's is nothing illegal ...
Because no one says anything,
except a few fascists.
Everybody knows what goes on.
Everybody says it shouldn't,
But no one knows exactly
what we're dealing with.
You must give examples and names.
There are associations doing the job.
They need political support.
From you.
Don't appoint people and give money
when you got the Muslim Brotherhood.
Not a Socialist. You're not a judge
or a cop, but you're a deputy
You can force the party
to take sides.
But do it with a crossbar.
hence the list of names.
Ask for an investigation,
if what you're denouncing is proven,
there will be exclusions.
That is interesting.
Do it in your district. Promise
a list, you'll get a lot of people.
Talk to Julia Hernandez.
She knows everything about that.
She's working with angry Arabs who do
Republican dinners throughout France.
She has a lot of information.
Alright
Who are you thinking about for Nord?
A fish always rots
from its head down.
The office's boss? Really?
How are you?
Great, what about you?
Very good
See you soon. Have a great day, guys
Only four votes ahead?
One would be enough for the law.
A four-vote majority
isn't right. We need thirty.
Thirty?
Of course. Crush it.
This is distressing for everyone.
This sitcom about whether you get
a majority for each law is worrisome.
Do you realise
what people went through?
Logier's resignment, your election,
your relative majority...
Those spoiled civil societies
who piss in your boots...
No one knows where we're going.
We need trust and stability.
Thirty votes. We'll never get them.
For people to believe in your
democratic shock, prove it works
With a thirty-voice lead, you make
a show of force and we're relieved.
The country is being lead,
there's a pilot in the plane.
But it takes a change it the way
you convince the deputies
Buying groups, generalised dousing,
high-pressure, multidirectional
spraying. Everywhere.
I won't buy any deputy.
I'm not talking money.
Roundabouts, police stations,
cultural centres... Nothing illegal.
What about my moral line?
Like everyone else,
you must step in the mud sometimes.
But you choose where and how.
You're in charge.
Chistera is seeing Toreni tonight.
He may get some more centrists votes.
We'll never reach thirty.
But we avoid an increase
of the sales of Prozac.
Hello. Cyril Balsan.
Julie Hernandez.
I know. How are you?
Did you find the place easily?
Thank you.
How are you?
Good, you?
This is Fanny. Julia Hernandez,
a colleague of yours.
From Sevran, right?
Yes. Polyvalent High School.
I'm from nearby
Julie's helping me with the list.
Great.
Cyril. Can I talk to you?
Of course.
What?
She's a friend of Philippe's?
Yes, so?
The list is her idea.
No, it's mine.
Are you sure?
Seriously, Fanny
Mr. Prime Minister?
Mr. Stéphane Thorigny is here.
So, this health care act?
We're coming together, aren't we?
The recorder was
sensitive to your remarks
in favour of the further preservation
of the French pharmaceutical
Industry's competitiveness.
Thank you, but it was not
the heart of my argumentation.
I wrote down this little sentence
yesterday, before going to bed
The right to life
is man's first right.
and no one can take
someone else's life in a democracy.
Robert Badinter.
About the death penalty.
Euthanasia
The debate concerns all parties.
Mine doesn't have a debate.
Last week, you told the president
your people were divided.
Meanwhile, the traditionalist
Catholic networks have worked hard.
We're accused of funding the reform
with the savings on health care that
end-of-life could bring. It's stupid.
I read a flyer that said
we kill old people.
I agree that you don't.
Express it by abstaining.
Last Sunday, I did my homework.
I went to the market.
I knew it'd take four hours
to buy three radishes,
but when you claim to do politics
in a different way,
you can avoid shaking a few hands
between two pieces of cured sausage.
Anyway, I've been serious,
and as I always tell my children,
when you're serious,
something happens. And it did.
I talked to Madeleine.
She lost her husband
a few months ago.
A painful death
after years of suffering.
She wrote me several times back then
to ask me to find ways
To put an end to his misery.
Do you know what she did last Sunday?
While she held my hand,
she asked me not to vote for the law.
You can't decide someone's life
or death when you're in the tumult.
It's a woman of faith's
respectable opinion.
Madeleine is a Freemason
a school teacher
and a long-time member of the PS
She's never gone to mass.
It's an honour for us to have you
here in the Élysée gardens.
France was moved by Argentina's
wishes and gestures
after the attacks.
More than that, I think
our countries have a common soul.
Forgive me, I'll have to end
this delicious discussion.
Matignon just called. Thorigny
drops us. We're six months late.
Big options?
Not out loud.
I know
Maybe drop the end-of-life?
Lose a few points on the left,
but they'll go to the centrists
ensuring a majority
It was a flagship commitment
of my campaign. I won't step back.
Do you have the vote rundown?
How's the buying group coming?
I thought you didn't want it.
Talk to your predecessor about it.
Martin Borde?
See anyone else?
He knows the need of every department
councillor from here to Guadeloupe.
Alright, Madam.
This is the mayor's friend.
Isham Benlaoussan.
It rings a bell
He was condemned for homophobia.
-When?
-This year, at a Peace Forum.
Entirely run
by the Muslim Brotherhood.
He says it all on his blog.
He lures you with Gaza talk,
then makes you pay for a pilgrimage.
The city owns the venue?
Some people from the urban area
even came to do the cleaning.
We're taking it.
In France, you like to talk
about emancipation.
Freeing yourself from your own fate,
never resigning yourself.
It will give you an occasion
to announce it officially!
Prefect nominations
are rare but also highly regarded.
I can't settle for abstention, sir.
From Bercy, it's very fast.
In six months, you inaugurate
your brand new police station.
I will tell the Prime Minister
about it, I'm sure he will listen.
Hired eleven members
of the extended family.
5 in the city, 3 in the metro area,
the rest in grant-aided associations.
Industrial cronyism.
How many do we have?
We're five votes ahead.
Carry on, we need more.
Alright
Who supported your candidacy when
they were about to give up on you?
I did! I'm glad you remember.
You have half an hour to think.
What a nitwit
We crossed the list of communities
that have "toxic" loans with the one
of the recalcitrant deputies.
Seventeen potential candidates,
four centrists.
Wake them up, make the offer.
Thirteen
No, I only have twelve.
You forgot Malandrin.
It's indirect.
Didn't disown a colleague who tweeted
something after the Bataclan.
How weird?
"Daesh attacking not the Republic
but a country who killed thousands."
The mayor didn't fire him?
No, the tweet was deleted.
We don't care, we know it exists.
He must explain. It's serious.
I don't know.
I do. We're taking him.
It can't work like that.
What do you mean?
Sorry, I'm not our assistant.
Very classy.
Who's the deputy? Who has got
a press conference to do tomorrow?
It's me.
Who's sleeping at Carreteau's?
Who's charged by the justice?
Who gets in trouble just to get
the right to sleep at night?
Without being woken up
by a fucking electronic tag sound.
Is that you? Fuck no, it's me.
Your problem is the size
of your desk.
Forget it, do what you like.
I'll tell you the truth.
I made a deal with Carreteau to be
on the elections.
This Malandrin
son of a bitch vetoed it.
I need to weaken him,
but don't worry, I'll find a way.
I accept to put him on the list.
You need strength or it crumbles.
Don't worry.
If we work on it, we'll have found it
before the Board.
I have to go, big boy.
You have a strong speech to write
within six hours.
Nine votes ahead.
That was unhoped for.
Yvetot?
Resolute
We could call on Christ
The Pope will do.
In the autumn, there usually is
a visit to Rome and the Vatican,
and Laurent Yvetot will be there.
His vote for a meeting with the Pope.
His ways aren't mysterious.
Ten votes ahead. Thank you, everyone.
Thank you and congratulations.
I don't accept the rupture.
Those who don't consent
to the rupture
from the establishment,
from capitalist society,
those people cannot be
members of the Socialist Party.
Sorry for disturbing you this early.
What's going on?
We lost three of the eight jihadists
It happened in a few hours.
The first one never came out
of his daughter's school,
the second one
disappeared in Chatelet-Les Halles
and the third one is Nisa.
The surveillance had been lightened
because of a level-5 alert
on the Toulouse cell.
How is that possible?
It's all I know.
I'm going to the crisis unit,
Boulevard Mortier.
Call me, I want to talk to them.
Recalled the darkest hours
of our history..." Come-on, guys.
What do you call
giving a list of names?
It's Doriot, that little shit.
And we are the collaborators!
Does he know my father
escaped his camp three times?
The little idiot.
No Godwin point.
Tell me, how do you know you are
on the list before the conference?
He's got all the media at home?
He gives names off the record.
If you listen to him,
Just have good scores in the ghettos
and have good relationships
with the Muslims
and you're in his crosshair.
This isn't very clear at all.
In Paris, between Concorde
and Palais Royal,
you don't have such problems.
Do you know what it's like, 12,000
Muslims in a 15,000-people estate?
Tell us if you want the party
out of the ghettos.
What's the goal? Losing them
after having lost the working class?
No one says that.
Balsan does.
If you can't shut him up,
the President will.
Leave her alone, the health care act
has her busy enough.
If she wants things to run smoothly,
she better listen to us.
The list and the law
are the same issue
As far as we're concerned anyway.
Absolutely
You're not voting for the law
if the kid's on the list?
What will you look like?
We're not stupid. We'll vote
in favour of your law.
But the deputies who should have,
turns out they don't.
We can't combine offices any more,
but we still got the regions and all.
We can allocate roundabouts too.
You're blackmailing the President.
Balsan is Rickwaert,
whom we know the President still
loves. Who's blackmailing who?
So you have it all in mind
before calling the President,
Rickwaert came to see me and tried
to get a spot on the European list.
Let me tell you this, just for you
to take the right decision
I think all this bullshit
has nothing to do with cronyism
and communitarianism.
Do you know what I mean?
Mr. Rickwaert?
The President is waiting downstairs.
Too many deputies
feel threatened by Cyril.
Malandrin has a knife
under our throats. With this list,
their allies will dump
the health care act.
Allies?
The Socialist deputies.
We're trying to know who exactly
but it's too short.
The vote is tomorrow,
we won't make it.
We started a buying group
to get as many people
but we're not the only ones
who know how to use it.
I'll make Ciryl stop.
Does it clash with your plans?
What?
European deputy.
All that fuss for that.
She's underused with you.
She?
Véro.
She can't find her place in Paris.
The protocol, the Ancien Regime stuff
isn't for her. She's an activist,
take Dunkirk's chimneys
and meetings from her
She's dead inside.
I see her every day,
that's how I learn it?
I told her not to tell you.
And to wait to be sure of her choice,
so as not to destabilise you.
Hence the frozen spot on the list.
Malandrin told Daniel...
He's a son of a bitch!
For him, Véro in her land
is the worst case scenario.
I have to stop Cyril.
This is Véronique Bosso's voice-mail
Please leave a message.
It's me. We have to see each other.
I'm meeting Cyril,
then I'll come to see you.
Call me back when you get this.
It's me again, we need to talk
before someone else chats you up
We must step back.
What?
Malandrin is leading a cartel of
deputies with crooks.
They're dumping the health care act.
Communitarianism and blackmail,
it makes things worse.
Can't be proven.
They bought other members,
we won't have time to prove it.
The vote is tomorrow.
What do I tell the journalists?
"Go home?"
I'm toast for a thousand years
if I do that.
They want you to put another coin
In the halal sweets dispenser.
You can do it, no problem.
The stake is Coulanges. Go ahead,
destroy him, but don't go further.
What about Malandrin? You're giving
up the European elections?
It's not a problem right now.
I'm ranking things.
We want the country to change
and Amélie to succeed.
What if we're not socialists?
Socialism isn't only that.
It's the republic until the end.
Does it still exist when you give up
ghettos to the religious?
Alright, but we're stuck.
Sorry.
You know I respect and love you.
And because of that, I'll go
to my office to smash these assholes.
I swear I understand, but
it'd be expensive.
How much are the people,
kids and families here worth?
Look.
This is what you'll do: go there
and say the party heard your call.
Kalenberg said he'll organise
an exceptional seminary
to clarify's the party's stance
on secularism. I can call Amélie now.
I know how it'll end.Meanwhile
they all keep doing their deal.
The situation for these-guys can be
summed up impunity.
Hear that?
How does it sound in the ghettos?
Where's the honour of France
when instead of the colours
of overalls you see the
colour of the skin?
What did you say, when you went
to the Assembly in blue
to defend the vocational children?
Today, it's the same debate,
the same issue.
I'm not saying anything more.
I'm just defending them.
The people in the ghetto are Muslims?
Maybe, why do we care?
You don't define someone
by their religion.
A socialist must speak to citizens,
to workers.
Stop with religion, it messes
things up and ends up in war.
I like that you quoted me.
Of course we agree at 1000%
but I can't, with Amélie.
Why? She's not Léon Blum.
If I'm not very close to her,
I don't know where we're going.
She tried Toreoni. Don't forget that.
She went far with him.
I saw the messages.
There were dozens. We've come
a long way, let's be smart
It's like the Tour de France,
let them take the lead.
What we're after isn't one stage.
then what is it?
The union of the left behind Amélie.
I've been on it for eight months
It's coming along, we're very close.
You are?
Yes
She listens, she knows I matter,
I can tell she trusts me.
I can convince her to unite the left.
Have you talked about it?
I'm waiting for the time.
She can't avoid an Assembly crisis
without going-back on the 49.3.
She'll dissolve,
and it'll be time
to clarify her politics.
You've advised her
not to use the 49.3?
It's too early for a crisis.
She can't dissolve again yet.
And she can't ally with Vidal
in a weak position anyway,
just after failing an important law.
I need time Cyril. It's too early.
Amélie and Vidal?
You won't make it.
Why not?
You still love her.
Me? Not at all.
It's the worse thing.
You don't even realise.
You're not thinking straight,
Philippe.
She's the one holding you
and you can't fight politically.
Which is what we usually do together.
Someone has to carry on.
I'll be right there.
Hello?
I lost him.
You lost him?
What do you mean?
How could you lose him?
Hello, everyone.
Thank you for coming.
A statement to make?
In a minute.
Well, Hassan, spying for Moscow?
Thank you everyone for coming.
Thank you for accepting
my invitation.
My message is simple.
If you don't consent
to breaking up with communitarianism,
this cronyism that attacks
secularism at its heart,
in that case,
I am telling you,
you cannot be a member
of the Socialist Party.
Was it number 9?
Yes.
Here. We're done
Thank you.
A 3-point increase
in the district's turnout at noon.
Only 1.5 elsewhere. It's a good sign.
I don't think so.
They rally around those with several
mandates who pose as dissidents.
In Pas-de-Calais alone,
two of those are leading.
How do you know? It's only 4.
I got people going through the bins.
The polling stations' bins.
From the papers they threw away,
you can guess what's in the box.
This isn't good.
Is it reliable?
In 20 years combining offices,
the dissidents have had time to plan.
They've stirred every drop
of their network.
They can fuck up your absolute
majority at the Assembly
My response?
First option.
Reintegrate dissidents
who kept their seats to the PS.
You get a chance to get
the 289 deputies,
So you get the absolute majority.
It hurts, but you have it.
Your laws are voted,
And you sleep at night.
It rewards discipline.
What would I look like?
Hostage to opponent
and those combining offices.
No way.
Without the majority,
you'll govern only with article 49.3.
It's not great either.
Forcing every single law...
I don't have a choice.
Or...
You do Dorendisme.
Is that a thing?
Sporadically, it does.
First point of your program:
A ban on combined offices.
Without:waiting for the law to pass,
you apply it to your party.
Even if it costs the majority.
Politics is like jazz.
play a wrong note? Insist on it.
It'll become a cult improvisation
everyone will try to imitate.
What you did with combined offices
isn't a fault, it's absolute courage.
Total coherence between
the program and the actions
And then?
Tonight, you announce you give up
on the 49.3 even without a majority.
What?
There!
This is the face they'll make.
Stagger them.
Leave from the top.
I won't do without the only article
that lets me govern with no majority.
You should, it's in your program
so apply it to yourself first.
While waiting for a law,
like combined offices.
Two points-are a line.
Do what you said,
not only when it's good for you.
Anything could happen, don't falter,
stay solid. The President.
It creates a whole new situation,
give the Assembly a power
they haven't had since 1958
This boldness makes you all the mere
President, more Jupiterian.
If there's a strike and the laws are
blocked, it's the Assembly's fault.
You gave them power
and they messed it up.
On one side, Princess Lela,
on the other side,
the Assembly's ugly Gremlins.
We go for a democratic shock.
Good slogan.
Better than fiscal shock.
13 account incidents in six months.
I wanted to talk about that.
Fine.
What do you offer?
A moratory about overdraft charges.
I took a look at PR Consultancy's
accounts for the past six months.
Charging services to four clients.
Mr. Balsan,
Mr. Carreteau and Saint-Pol-sur-Mer's
and Arras' town halls.
14,900 euros in total.
It's great, Mr. Rickwaert.
Amazing for a first year.
It's great. In theory,
I should offer our new insurance.
ProtectLib Business+.
The "Ambition" plan
seems adapted to your situation.
It'd bring you security and coverage,
for 213 Euros a month.
Besides the 804 euros
of' my repayment schedule?
Yes, that's why I said in theory.
In practice, it's not possible.
We've reached your debt limit.
Why mention it?
Because it'd be possible
If you did explore
all the parameters of your situation.
Don't touch my daughter's
saving scheme. I told you.
Your hotel. 2.270 euros a month.
It's huge. It's a burden.
Why don't you rent a studio flat?
The owners ask for
the three last years of
my company's revenue. What do I do?
You don't want to sell your house
in Dunkirk, but you could live in it.
Most of your work for PR Consultancy
is related to the region.
What's holding you in Paris?
The President of the Republic.
I don't have a contract about that.
And this autobiography thing.
How's it coming along?
Slowly. I'm demanding.
But we're beyond
the manuscript's due date.
Go for the overdraft charges then.
And your hotel?
Three months after their election.
the new deputies are debating
the health care act.
But without article 49.3
and the absolute majority,
will the President be able
to pass the law?
High hypothesis, 274.
Low hypothesis, if nothing changes
about the civil societies, 265.
Given the law's scope
and importance for the parties,
abstention will be low.
In the best case scenario,
we need 15 more votes.
How can we lack 6 civil societies
over the 17 we've gotten elected?
Archambeau
Again.
He'll abstain.
He told me again this morning
that the researcher in him
couldn't back such a methodology bias
In the studies on hormone disruptors.
We used the best-recognised study.
He's fighting over the definition
of hormone disruptor.
Ours isn't broad enough.
What an asshole.
Saturday, the EHPAD visit at 2 pm.
A street dinner tonight,
be there for pre-dinner.
What did Brody's assistant say?
That there's too many...
Hold on a second.
Why did you took me off the list?
I should have had
five minutes to speak.
I have not promised
not to Be the 49.3.
As president of the group I have
to pamper the disturbers.
So I'm giving them speaking time.
Consider me one.
What are you going to do?
Vote against the law? Right.
Come back down to Earth.
You're not seasoned enough yet.
What?
I'm working from a maid's room.
If there was an office in the toilet,
it'd be yours.
What do you have against me?
I'm doing prevention work,
In case you want to show up
In work overalls one day.
As for the centrists, let's exploit
the liberty they left their voters.
13 in favour, 11 abstain, 8 against.
But the euthanasia act...
End-of-life.
It's still divisive.
Look, Vidal, everything's locked.
They're all voting against, as one.
I know Fred Targneux well.
He got Nord's 3rd district.
A Cossack. I could call him.
We could get his vote.
We need more communist amendments,
to improve the reimbursement
of dentistry and glasses.
Yes?
I have the simulations.
Ten days Te get a majority. Olivier,
a vote rundown every two hours
Don't call him.
Go to him and plan{ your teeth
In his calves.
Alright. You can count on me.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Alright, page 7
-What is the good news?
-About that...
Don't be a pain from the start.
Have you seen Malandrin?
For him, the European elections
are settled.
He will stick to his list.
He's the first federal secretary.
Make him keep a spot for Dunkirk.
They have three spots in Lille,
one in Arras. What's his problem?
They may suspect something.
You can have a reserved spot.
No need to give a name for now.
It's what I told him
When will you see him?
On Thursday.
I'm visiting Dunkirk's shipyard
on Friday He'll be there.
Thanks, Pascal See you there.
How are you doing?
They're all pissing me off.
Put your balls on the table
If you want to be respected.
I yell all the time.
No, you whine.
Like a convict without protection.
You need a pimp.
A protector, a daddy, an uncle.
Someone respected, someone big.
For me, it's you.
That's the problem.
I understand. It's good
that you say things upfront.
Want a new pimp? Aim higher.
The highest. Amélie.
If I could get a word in
at the Assembly...
They'll hear you if you call everyone
to talk about the health care act.
Your message.
A battle against lobbies.
I'm all for it
Those studies on hormone disruptors?
That was my intervention: cancer,
depression, drop in fertility and IQ
Perfect. Those against it are dicks.
Those in favour are heroes,
protecting children's health.
Sorry, a problem in a district.
Something in a school
Call Ferroni at Le Monde
on my behalf.
We know each other well.
He'll be happy to quote you.
I understand your emotion
Excuse me.
Hello.
Hello.
Gentlemen.
Hi, Cyril. A schoolteacher
was attacked.
Hello.
Hello.
Nadia Marzaoui. A bad punch.
She's hospitalised,
released tomorrow.
I've been the mayor for 10 years,
I know her. A former PS member.
A secular Arab, but an activist,
almost a radical secularist.
-She's a stickler for it
-It doesn't go well around here.
What happened here?
Haram Candy.
Haram candy?
They were celebrating a birthday,
she handed out non-halal sweets.
She got attacked for sweets?
I know, it's bad.
I'll go see her. It's important
to show our support to the media.
I'm coming with you.
No, I know her.
They're already
making a fuss on social media.
If the press embarks on it,
we'll get 10 days of reports,
"Molenbeek-sur-Marne" style.
It's hard for the the people.
Maybe. But this is very bad, right?
Do we agree? We are talking
about communitarianism in school.
Of course.
Do we agree?
Of course. The people
love their city.
They're sick of being insulted.
I'm dealing with this.
Can you pull over?
I'll be right back.
Salomé?
Good to see you.
Are you?
Good, and you, honey?
I'm fine...
You're not in London?
Something's wrong ?
What's wrong?
Tell me what's wrong.
Don't tell my father you saw me.
It's a big thing to ask.
I do and it's important.
The bad news is we're not
in our comfort zone at all.
Let us continue
with the health care act.
How are you?
We got three Verts
and two civil societies.
Philippe?
The President.
What about Stahl?
Véronique went to see him,
she didn't leave his office before
she got an email with his rallying.
Perfect.
His position remains marginal
among the communists.
They're holding on.
We must carry on.
We need other Tardieux.
As for budget, we're fine.
We'll take stock on Saturday.
Email me the votes.
It may give me ideas.
Have a nice day.
What I like about her is that
she never gives up. Got coffee?
Of course.
It's nice here.
It's in the centre.
What was the session about?
A review about article 3
3422 amendments.
Shall we ride together tomorrow?
I thought I'd take the 6:46 metro.
Let's take my car,
I'll show you what I have for
your urban transportation speech.
I've been working.
The last straw would be the judges
charging me for bogus contracts.
It'd be simpler if I slept here.
The sofa will be great.
It's the thing about prison.
Once out, everything's a palace.
Sit down.
Take care of the visit,
I'm taking care of Malandrin.
The number 4 one, back there,
will be worked on in May-June.
Or earlier, in February,
we're hoping.
I'm leaving you with my assistant.
I'll be back in a minute.
Can I talk to you for a minute?
What's wrong?
Is it true what Carreteau says?
As long as you're federal secretary
I'll never be on
the European elections list?
Not exactly.
I said "As long as I live."
And I added: "As long as my children
and grandchildren are alive."
Isn't it a bit aggressive?
I don't even want to be on the list.
Call me stupid. Carreteau asked for
one spot to be reserved in Dunkirk.
I can have people on the list.
But not you.
The President asked for it.
So what are you doing here?
A delicate affair.
I'm not supposed to explain.
The President wants it reserved,
you reserve it.
No, that is not all.
The spot is for Véronique Bosso.
Isn't the Élysée good enough?
She misses the field.
Amélie gave her six months to think,
she wants to make her change.
She promised to land her
on the Europeans list
If Véro keeps her decision.
It's delicate.
I don't agree.
Why can't she stay
between two stools?
I need to know where she stands.
I'm restoring the region's office.
With young guys. And you know them,
they don't like the Paris people.
They want transparency,
so I need to be clear with them.
I need to talk to Véro.
What are you doing ?
I'm calling her.
I like her.
And I can give good advice.
It's better to clarify things now.
I'm telling you it's delicate...
Stop it. Turn it off.
It's done.
You really are a piece of shit.
Ten years ago, I'd have punched you.
Now, I'll say this:
As long as I'll be alive,
and my children
And grandchildren are alive,
you won't be on this list.
Not as an ex-convict
nor as a future convict.
Do you have the union?
You don't, so you shut the fuck up.
It's me. I am Nord.
Hi, Mrs Berry. How are you?
Hi, Linda. Have a nice day.
Any news from the teacher?
It's all very blurry.
Good morning, everyone.
What do you mean, blurry?
The sweets were on one cake.
Some children say the cake
was on the table,
others say Marzaoui gave out slices.
Wait. Do we care about that?
The school council had told
the teachers to be careful.
It's normal
A schoolteacher was punched
In front of 50 children.
I'm going to see her.
Do that.
Do you know how much you got there?
How much?
82%.
Exactly, 82%.
What are you saying, Hassan?
That the guy who punched her
is a cornerstone of the place?
It's not what you're saying.
Why are you talking about business?
I'm talking about citizens.
People who get involved
in isolated areas.
Give subsidies and voting
instructions. I see. Business.
I'll talk to the teacher.
Go to the town hall.
From now on, you don't work here
The mayor will pay you directly,
since you work for him.
Have a nice day
Hello, sir.
Hello.
Who are you?
Cyril Balsan, deputy.
I want to express my support.
I'm her husband.
We don't want to see you here.
I know the city's pressuring...
You know nothing.
No politicians.
Especially socialists like Coulanges.
Well, okay.
I understand.
This is Salomé Rickwaert's voice-mail,
please leave a message. Bye!
We send the footage, broadcast at 2,
then they link us up. I
Cyril Balsan, district deputy.
Hello.
Did you interview Mrs Mazaoui?
You may not like it.
I've been here less than two months.
I don't owe anything.
I'd be happy to respond
and publicly express my support
And if I ask about Coulanges?
Do your job.
Well done, kid.
You put your balls on the table.
Your halal candy thing is quoted
everywhere. We'll talk about that.
I had to go to Dunkirk.
I'm back tomorrow.
Invite me for lunch?
Thank you.
Mrs President.
Mr Langlet.
I just received info that confirms
my theory on the Turkish video
and the Jihadists.
I didn't know you had a theory.
Two things seemed strange to me.
Why did Fares
give away 14 names?
Why not five or then
which would have been enough?
Secondly, how could
a mere underling have such a list?
Both questions have the same answer:
It is the Turk's government's list.
Lies?
Quite the opposite,
the list is rather old.
Several of them are in Syria.
How many are considered
potentially dangerous?
Eight.
All in France
Your theory?
The key is your election.
The Turks are too isolated.
They're stuck with major cases.
That pipeline costs them $120,000
a day while the diggers are idle.
With the Sevilla summit,
they want France's friendship
And are giving you
a reconciliation gift.
Fares just recited
the list he was asked to.
The one the Turkish services
have made over the years.
Let's stay they support me against
terrorism, in exchange for my support
about the pipeline.
Why not just tell me?
They are telling you.
Because I just explained it to you.
It's a lot of deductions.
Intelligence is no direct admission.
Admitting they help us now would be
admitting they haven't for years.
What about those eight men?
Here
Rachid Ben Zarka, born in Dijon
on July 6, 1990.
Paul Botillon, born in Courcouronnes
on September 26, 1992.
Mahed Abdelaoui, born in Lyon
on March 12, 1993.
Samir Laouedj, born in Pantin...
Now you talk to her live.
Of course.
The town hall went hard on her.
She fired him
from all tutoring classes.
After she talked,
she was threatened
in the town hall's toilet.
She recorded everything.
Did you take a look
at the polling stations?
In Les Bernardins,
where the attacker is from,
they always vote for Coulanges
or Quénon.
While in the Fontaines,
same sociology
but a 2.5 times lower turnout.
Les Bernardins...
You should see that.
There's now a mixed-hairdresser.
Mixed?
Yes, non-veiled women can come
but veiled women
have their own room at the back.
What are you having?
Half a pint.
Two half-pints. How are you?
Good. You?
Hairdressers have always been a thing
It's private, they're free
I agree,
but the city's venue
was given for a symbolic euro.
A symbolic euro!
Alright.
Coulanges, Les Bernardins,
hairdressers... alright.
Gather many small pieces of shit,
what do you get in the end?
Many small pieces of shit.
Besides being sure
not to be re-elected,
you'll get nothing.
I'll have unmasked a list
playing with communitarianism.
He does business with thugs
and Islamists.
There are Coulanges everywhere.
In Nord, I know some. In all parties.
Tomorrow, in Libé,
I'll take it up a notch.
Lay principles, offer solutions.
Put some towns under supervision.
Too general.
Be specific, like for Coulanges.
But how?
Say you'll give a list.
A national list of examples.
I only know my area.
Everyone in the ghettos know.
But there's a code of silence.
They put huge pressure on everyone.
Break it to protect the others.
The people who live there
and just want to live in peace.
Do you understand?
But if there's is nothing illegal ...
Because no one says anything,
except a few fascists.
Everybody knows what goes on.
Everybody says it shouldn't,
But no one knows exactly
what we're dealing with.
You must give examples and names.
There are associations doing the job.
They need political support.
From you.
Don't appoint people and give money
when you got the Muslim Brotherhood.
Not a Socialist. You're not a judge
or a cop, but you're a deputy
You can force the party
to take sides.
But do it with a crossbar.
hence the list of names.
Ask for an investigation,
if what you're denouncing is proven,
there will be exclusions.
That is interesting.
Do it in your district. Promise
a list, you'll get a lot of people.
Talk to Julia Hernandez.
She knows everything about that.
She's working with angry Arabs who do
Republican dinners throughout France.
She has a lot of information.
Alright
Who are you thinking about for Nord?
A fish always rots
from its head down.
The office's boss? Really?
How are you?
Great, what about you?
Very good
See you soon. Have a great day, guys
Only four votes ahead?
One would be enough for the law.
A four-vote majority
isn't right. We need thirty.
Thirty?
Of course. Crush it.
This is distressing for everyone.
This sitcom about whether you get
a majority for each law is worrisome.
Do you realise
what people went through?
Logier's resignment, your election,
your relative majority...
Those spoiled civil societies
who piss in your boots...
No one knows where we're going.
We need trust and stability.
Thirty votes. We'll never get them.
For people to believe in your
democratic shock, prove it works
With a thirty-voice lead, you make
a show of force and we're relieved.
The country is being lead,
there's a pilot in the plane.
But it takes a change it the way
you convince the deputies
Buying groups, generalised dousing,
high-pressure, multidirectional
spraying. Everywhere.
I won't buy any deputy.
I'm not talking money.
Roundabouts, police stations,
cultural centres... Nothing illegal.
What about my moral line?
Like everyone else,
you must step in the mud sometimes.
But you choose where and how.
You're in charge.
Chistera is seeing Toreni tonight.
He may get some more centrists votes.
We'll never reach thirty.
But we avoid an increase
of the sales of Prozac.
Hello. Cyril Balsan.
Julie Hernandez.
I know. How are you?
Did you find the place easily?
Thank you.
How are you?
Good, you?
This is Fanny. Julia Hernandez,
a colleague of yours.
From Sevran, right?
Yes. Polyvalent High School.
I'm from nearby
Julie's helping me with the list.
Great.
Cyril. Can I talk to you?
Of course.
What?
She's a friend of Philippe's?
Yes, so?
The list is her idea.
No, it's mine.
Are you sure?
Seriously, Fanny
Mr. Prime Minister?
Mr. Stéphane Thorigny is here.
So, this health care act?
We're coming together, aren't we?
The recorder was
sensitive to your remarks
in favour of the further preservation
of the French pharmaceutical
Industry's competitiveness.
Thank you, but it was not
the heart of my argumentation.
I wrote down this little sentence
yesterday, before going to bed
The right to life
is man's first right.
and no one can take
someone else's life in a democracy.
Robert Badinter.
About the death penalty.
Euthanasia
The debate concerns all parties.
Mine doesn't have a debate.
Last week, you told the president
your people were divided.
Meanwhile, the traditionalist
Catholic networks have worked hard.
We're accused of funding the reform
with the savings on health care that
end-of-life could bring. It's stupid.
I read a flyer that said
we kill old people.
I agree that you don't.
Express it by abstaining.
Last Sunday, I did my homework.
I went to the market.
I knew it'd take four hours
to buy three radishes,
but when you claim to do politics
in a different way,
you can avoid shaking a few hands
between two pieces of cured sausage.
Anyway, I've been serious,
and as I always tell my children,
when you're serious,
something happens. And it did.
I talked to Madeleine.
She lost her husband
a few months ago.
A painful death
after years of suffering.
She wrote me several times back then
to ask me to find ways
To put an end to his misery.
Do you know what she did last Sunday?
While she held my hand,
she asked me not to vote for the law.
You can't decide someone's life
or death when you're in the tumult.
It's a woman of faith's
respectable opinion.
Madeleine is a Freemason
a school teacher
and a long-time member of the PS
She's never gone to mass.
It's an honour for us to have you
here in the Élysée gardens.
France was moved by Argentina's
wishes and gestures
after the attacks.
More than that, I think
our countries have a common soul.
Forgive me, I'll have to end
this delicious discussion.
Matignon just called. Thorigny
drops us. We're six months late.
Big options?
Not out loud.
I know
Maybe drop the end-of-life?
Lose a few points on the left,
but they'll go to the centrists
ensuring a majority
It was a flagship commitment
of my campaign. I won't step back.
Do you have the vote rundown?
How's the buying group coming?
I thought you didn't want it.
Talk to your predecessor about it.
Martin Borde?
See anyone else?
He knows the need of every department
councillor from here to Guadeloupe.
Alright, Madam.
This is the mayor's friend.
Isham Benlaoussan.
It rings a bell
He was condemned for homophobia.
-When?
-This year, at a Peace Forum.
Entirely run
by the Muslim Brotherhood.
He says it all on his blog.
He lures you with Gaza talk,
then makes you pay for a pilgrimage.
The city owns the venue?
Some people from the urban area
even came to do the cleaning.
We're taking it.
In France, you like to talk
about emancipation.
Freeing yourself from your own fate,
never resigning yourself.
It will give you an occasion
to announce it officially!
Prefect nominations
are rare but also highly regarded.
I can't settle for abstention, sir.
From Bercy, it's very fast.
In six months, you inaugurate
your brand new police station.
I will tell the Prime Minister
about it, I'm sure he will listen.
Hired eleven members
of the extended family.
5 in the city, 3 in the metro area,
the rest in grant-aided associations.
Industrial cronyism.
How many do we have?
We're five votes ahead.
Carry on, we need more.
Alright
Who supported your candidacy when
they were about to give up on you?
I did! I'm glad you remember.
You have half an hour to think.
What a nitwit
We crossed the list of communities
that have "toxic" loans with the one
of the recalcitrant deputies.
Seventeen potential candidates,
four centrists.
Wake them up, make the offer.
Thirteen
No, I only have twelve.
You forgot Malandrin.
It's indirect.
Didn't disown a colleague who tweeted
something after the Bataclan.
How weird?
"Daesh attacking not the Republic
but a country who killed thousands."
The mayor didn't fire him?
No, the tweet was deleted.
We don't care, we know it exists.
He must explain. It's serious.
I don't know.
I do. We're taking him.
It can't work like that.
What do you mean?
Sorry, I'm not our assistant.
Very classy.
Who's the deputy? Who has got
a press conference to do tomorrow?
It's me.
Who's sleeping at Carreteau's?
Who's charged by the justice?
Who gets in trouble just to get
the right to sleep at night?
Without being woken up
by a fucking electronic tag sound.
Is that you? Fuck no, it's me.
Your problem is the size
of your desk.
Forget it, do what you like.
I'll tell you the truth.
I made a deal with Carreteau to be
on the elections.
This Malandrin
son of a bitch vetoed it.
I need to weaken him,
but don't worry, I'll find a way.
I accept to put him on the list.
You need strength or it crumbles.
Don't worry.
If we work on it, we'll have found it
before the Board.
I have to go, big boy.
You have a strong speech to write
within six hours.
Nine votes ahead.
That was unhoped for.
Yvetot?
Resolute
We could call on Christ
The Pope will do.
In the autumn, there usually is
a visit to Rome and the Vatican,
and Laurent Yvetot will be there.
His vote for a meeting with the Pope.
His ways aren't mysterious.
Ten votes ahead. Thank you, everyone.
Thank you and congratulations.
I don't accept the rupture.
Those who don't consent
to the rupture
from the establishment,
from capitalist society,
those people cannot be
members of the Socialist Party.
Sorry for disturbing you this early.
What's going on?
We lost three of the eight jihadists
It happened in a few hours.
The first one never came out
of his daughter's school,
the second one
disappeared in Chatelet-Les Halles
and the third one is Nisa.
The surveillance had been lightened
because of a level-5 alert
on the Toulouse cell.
How is that possible?
It's all I know.
I'm going to the crisis unit,
Boulevard Mortier.
Call me, I want to talk to them.
Recalled the darkest hours
of our history..." Come-on, guys.
What do you call
giving a list of names?
It's Doriot, that little shit.
And we are the collaborators!
Does he know my father
escaped his camp three times?
The little idiot.
No Godwin point.
Tell me, how do you know you are
on the list before the conference?
He's got all the media at home?
He gives names off the record.
If you listen to him,
Just have good scores in the ghettos
and have good relationships
with the Muslims
and you're in his crosshair.
This isn't very clear at all.
In Paris, between Concorde
and Palais Royal,
you don't have such problems.
Do you know what it's like, 12,000
Muslims in a 15,000-people estate?
Tell us if you want the party
out of the ghettos.
What's the goal? Losing them
after having lost the working class?
No one says that.
Balsan does.
If you can't shut him up,
the President will.
Leave her alone, the health care act
has her busy enough.
If she wants things to run smoothly,
she better listen to us.
The list and the law
are the same issue
As far as we're concerned anyway.
Absolutely
You're not voting for the law
if the kid's on the list?
What will you look like?
We're not stupid. We'll vote
in favour of your law.
But the deputies who should have,
turns out they don't.
We can't combine offices any more,
but we still got the regions and all.
We can allocate roundabouts too.
You're blackmailing the President.
Balsan is Rickwaert,
whom we know the President still
loves. Who's blackmailing who?
So you have it all in mind
before calling the President,
Rickwaert came to see me and tried
to get a spot on the European list.
Let me tell you this, just for you
to take the right decision
I think all this bullshit
has nothing to do with cronyism
and communitarianism.
Do you know what I mean?
Mr. Rickwaert?
The President is waiting downstairs.
Too many deputies
feel threatened by Cyril.
Malandrin has a knife
under our throats. With this list,
their allies will dump
the health care act.
Allies?
The Socialist deputies.
We're trying to know who exactly
but it's too short.
The vote is tomorrow,
we won't make it.
We started a buying group
to get as many people
but we're not the only ones
who know how to use it.
I'll make Ciryl stop.
Does it clash with your plans?
What?
European deputy.
All that fuss for that.
She's underused with you.
She?
Véro.
She can't find her place in Paris.
The protocol, the Ancien Regime stuff
isn't for her. She's an activist,
take Dunkirk's chimneys
and meetings from her
She's dead inside.
I see her every day,
that's how I learn it?
I told her not to tell you.
And to wait to be sure of her choice,
so as not to destabilise you.
Hence the frozen spot on the list.
Malandrin told Daniel...
He's a son of a bitch!
For him, Véro in her land
is the worst case scenario.
I have to stop Cyril.
This is Véronique Bosso's voice-mail
Please leave a message.
It's me. We have to see each other.
I'm meeting Cyril,
then I'll come to see you.
Call me back when you get this.
It's me again, we need to talk
before someone else chats you up
We must step back.
What?
Malandrin is leading a cartel of
deputies with crooks.
They're dumping the health care act.
Communitarianism and blackmail,
it makes things worse.
Can't be proven.
They bought other members,
we won't have time to prove it.
The vote is tomorrow.
What do I tell the journalists?
"Go home?"
I'm toast for a thousand years
if I do that.
They want you to put another coin
In the halal sweets dispenser.
You can do it, no problem.
The stake is Coulanges. Go ahead,
destroy him, but don't go further.
What about Malandrin? You're giving
up the European elections?
It's not a problem right now.
I'm ranking things.
We want the country to change
and Amélie to succeed.
What if we're not socialists?
Socialism isn't only that.
It's the republic until the end.
Does it still exist when you give up
ghettos to the religious?
Alright, but we're stuck.
Sorry.
You know I respect and love you.
And because of that, I'll go
to my office to smash these assholes.
I swear I understand, but
it'd be expensive.
How much are the people,
kids and families here worth?
Look.
This is what you'll do: go there
and say the party heard your call.
Kalenberg said he'll organise
an exceptional seminary
to clarify's the party's stance
on secularism. I can call Amélie now.
I know how it'll end.Meanwhile
they all keep doing their deal.
The situation for these-guys can be
summed up impunity.
Hear that?
How does it sound in the ghettos?
Where's the honour of France
when instead of the colours
of overalls you see the
colour of the skin?
What did you say, when you went
to the Assembly in blue
to defend the vocational children?
Today, it's the same debate,
the same issue.
I'm not saying anything more.
I'm just defending them.
The people in the ghetto are Muslims?
Maybe, why do we care?
You don't define someone
by their religion.
A socialist must speak to citizens,
to workers.
Stop with religion, it messes
things up and ends up in war.
I like that you quoted me.
Of course we agree at 1000%
but I can't, with Amélie.
Why? She's not Léon Blum.
If I'm not very close to her,
I don't know where we're going.
She tried Toreoni. Don't forget that.
She went far with him.
I saw the messages.
There were dozens. We've come
a long way, let's be smart
It's like the Tour de France,
let them take the lead.
What we're after isn't one stage.
then what is it?
The union of the left behind Amélie.
I've been on it for eight months
It's coming along, we're very close.
You are?
Yes
She listens, she knows I matter,
I can tell she trusts me.
I can convince her to unite the left.
Have you talked about it?
I'm waiting for the time.
She can't avoid an Assembly crisis
without going-back on the 49.3.
She'll dissolve,
and it'll be time
to clarify her politics.
You've advised her
not to use the 49.3?
It's too early for a crisis.
She can't dissolve again yet.
And she can't ally with Vidal
in a weak position anyway,
just after failing an important law.
I need time Cyril. It's too early.
Amélie and Vidal?
You won't make it.
Why not?
You still love her.
Me? Not at all.
It's the worse thing.
You don't even realise.
You're not thinking straight,
Philippe.
She's the one holding you
and you can't fight politically.
Which is what we usually do together.
Someone has to carry on.
I'll be right there.
Hello?
I lost him.
You lost him?
What do you mean?
How could you lose him?
Hello, everyone.
Thank you for coming.
A statement to make?
In a minute.
Well, Hassan, spying for Moscow?
Thank you everyone for coming.
Thank you for accepting
my invitation.
My message is simple.
If you don't consent
to breaking up with communitarianism,
this cronyism that attacks
secularism at its heart,
in that case,
I am telling you,
you cannot be a member
of the Socialist Party.