L'art du crime (2017–…): Season 5, Episode 2 - Le code Delacroix - full transcript

Who can tell me about the July Revolution?

Do you remember the date?
- 1789?

- No, that's the French Revolution

Everyone makes that mistake

The July Revolution is much later than 1789

Well?
- Just ask Simon

Just press the buttons.
He remembers everything

Simon the Robot?

It isn't a brain he's got, it's a hard drive

Hey, calm down!

Quiet please



All right Simon,
I think we need your help again

Do you remember the date
of the July Revolution?

- The 27th,28th and 29th of July, 1830

Charles X and the ultra-royalists
are overthrown

The liberals put Louis-Philippe in power.

That's the July Monarchy

- Good!

Thanks Simon

Delacroix believed in freedom

That's why he painted this woman

who represents Liberty leading the people

People who chased away their King

who wanted to restore the ancien régime

You understand?



All right, take notes!

And enough of those paper balls

You think I can't see you?

- Madame?
- Yes?

- Can I go to the bathroom, please?

- Yes, but be quick

What did I just say?
Enough of the paper balls now!

Were you followed?
- No no. Don't worry, I checked

Take it. it's all there

What the hell are you doing?
- What's this?

- Nothing, just drawings. Look

You trying to double-cross me?

- Of course not!

- What are you playing at here?

- Wait, I'll explain. I—

THE ART OF CRIME

Yeah Juliette, it's me, listen

Call me back. We need to talk
THE DELACROIX CODE

You can't just leave without saying anything
THE DELACROIX CODE

The kids are wondering where you are

They're wondering why
we're not getting married

I don't know what to tell them

Please, call me back

Did you get the CCTV images I sent you?

- Yes I saw them
And you, anything from Juliette?

- No, no

Briefly, here's the victim
a few minutes before his death

And what's weird is that he stands for ages

in front of the painting
before going to the bathroom

Yes, true, it's weird, as you say

But at the same time I can understand him
staying in front of a Delacroix

because it's a monument
It'sthe height of Romanticism

He's the painter of tumultuous passions

of conflicting emotions, of suffering

Of drama—
- Wait ! Stop! Stop!

No, it's impossible.
Are you doing it on purpose?

- What do you mean?

- The tumultuous passions,
the passion of love, all that!

- Oh no, sorry. I'm so sorry!
I wasn't thinking of Juliette at all

I was talking about passion in general

I got carried away because of Delacroix

He thrills me.He's extraordinarily tragic

I think I'm going to like this Delacroix

I can feel it!
- Wait, Captain

He can be an outlet in times like this

Lucas Brochand - 40 years old

He's a computer engineer with no history

No record, no wife, no kids

- Cell phone?

- No. Not on him anyway

Just his wallet

He was shot dead with two 9mm bullets.
One in the stomach and one in the heart

- No cameras?
- Just one in the hallway

I have the recording. Look

The killer had a cap on his head.
He's not recognizable

Here is his accomplice who was
on the lookout. And presto!

The gun's in her bucket

We ran facial recognition on the girl
but she's not in our files

- Where's the boy? Can we see him?

- His teacher's just arrived

Come with me, she's over there

At the centre we welcome children
with difficult backgrounds

- Thanks

- Usually they come because the parents
are unable to take care of them

- How long has he been with you?
- It's been a year

You know, Simon is a very very sensitive boy

He has a special kind of memory

- Special?

- He's hypermnesiac
- Really!

- He remembers absolutely everything

Words, sounds, images, everything

Even what he would like to forget

It's harder to live with than you might think

The other kids keep bullying him about it

- Thanks a lot

Hello Simon

All right?

- So the killer said the guy betrayed him?
- Yeah

- And the victim gives him
something you couldn't see

Then the other one shoots him
and leaves with the portfolio, right?

- Simon, what were the drawings?

- Like—copies of paintings.

But without colours

There was—

Those two there
That one and that one

Yes, Liberty Leading the People
and The Barque of Dante

There was a third one

A portrait of a sleeping woman

But I don't know it

- With a sleeping woman?

Is that it?

It's Madeleine in the Desert
Another Delacroix

Do you remember if the killer said
anything else about the drawings?

- No

He was angry and—

- Simon?

Are you all right?

- There's an envelope
- What?

- That's what he gave to the killer

A large brown envelope

He had it with the drawings

There was something printed on it

I couldn't see all the letters but—

It started with a D

and a P

That's all I saw

- Does this woman mean anything to you?

- No, I've never seen her

- Well, okay, thanks Simon. Your youth worker
will take you home, okay?

- I have no home

- Yes, I'm sorry—To your centre

Take your stuff

Here's my card

If some detail, anything at all,
comes back to you, call me any time

OK?
- Yes

For me "D" is for Delacroix

I'm sure it has something
to do with the drawings

- I don't know. No idea

- The first thing we have to find out
is what was in that envelope

- Captain?

We're done checking the victim's stuff.
We found this

Lucas Brochand. But we can't
identify her at the moment

- Wait, show it to me please

I know her!
- What ?

- She's a curator at the museum

- Here?
- Yes

Lucas and I have been—
we were together—for eight months

And—

- He was supposed to move into my place

- Madame Fabre, M Brochand had an appointment
here at the Louvre, to deliver an envelope

Did he—

Did he tell you about that?
- No

Lucas just came in to tell me that
he'd come to see the paintings again

And—

He kissed me

- Alice?

Did he have a portfolio with him?
- Yes

Yes, because he comes to the Louvre to—

To copy paintings

- You mean he made the Delacroix
copies in the portfolio?

- He started drawing again when we met

- Can you tell us precisely
what was your boyfriend's job in computing?

- He secured websites for art galleries

That's how we met

- And—Was there anything in his behavior
that changed in the last few days?

That seemed to you—

out of character?

- He'd bought a disposable phone

You know, the ones you buy in tobacconists?
- Yes

He told me he wouldn't give his number
to a hysterical client who kept calling him

Five phones were purchased
in this tobacconist on the same day

All we have to do is identify Brochand's.
Then with luck we can geolocate it

Well done Adèle

Sounds like a settling of scores?

- We have to know what Brochand
had in the envelope he was handing over

- What did he want with the portfolio?

- The killer took it because
his fingerprints were on it

- I don't believe that

Sorry but it doesn't fit

- How doesn't it fit?

- Just before he was killed, Brochand
stood in front of these two paintings

but we don't know what he was doing

Okay, he was looking at the paintings

But see there, he's waving his hand.
A gesture I don't understand

Sorry, but I really think
we're missing something.

Juliette: Can we meet?

You all right?

- She wants to meet

- I suppose that's progress

Anyway, sorry. What's wrong, do you think?

- Yes, well, we have a situation
where there are only unknowns

There are three unknowns, X X X:

What's Brochand carrying in his portfolio?

Wait, wait, you can't leave like this

We've hardly talked about it

- It's a little late to talk, isn't it?

- Please stay
- Stop it!

Antoine, I can't get married
thinking it's better than nothing

I don't want to have any doubts

Do you understand that?
- Wait, wait!

What doubts are you talking about?

What the hell did I do?
- I saw how you were with her, Antoine!

- But who!
- Florence, dammit! Admit it!

I saw how you looked at her
when she got threatened with a gun

How you took her in your arms
I was there! Fuck!

- We were on an operation, okay?

She had a gun to her head, what did you
want me to do? She's my partner—

- No! For you, she's much more
than a partner, Antoine

- This makes no sense
- It makes no sense?

Antoine, try to be honest with yourself
for once in your life, please

Dammit, you don't even know
what your heart's telling you!

The movers will be here tomorrow
to pick up the boxes

Brochand looks at these two paintings

And a few minutes later, he's killed

It can't be a coincidence

There are the Damned

in Hell's river, attacking
Virgil and Dante in their barque

There we have a victim of the riots

And there we have Mary Magdalene,
expiating her sins, about to die

The Dead, the dead, the dead

I painted them a lot, didn't I?

- Yes, we could say that violence
is in almost all your paintings

- Yes

But it must be said that as a child,
I almost burned to death

Drowned, poisoned

- And that was only the beginning

Because when you were seven

Your father died

Two years later, your brother dies
at the battle of Friedland—

- A hero!

- Yes, a hero, but—he still dies

And at 16

You bury your mother. This is—

A tormented life

Like my era

Antoine, try to be honest with yourself
at least once, please

Dammit, you don't even know
what's in your heart!

Here

- What did Juliette tell you?

- Well, actually—

- We haven't identified Brochand's
disposable phone yet

However Adèle searched his computer—
- I never saw that!

- There's absolutely nothing in it!
No files, no messages, no photos, nothing!

He's not even on social media

He wiped every trace he might have left

It really smells of trafficking
- Yeah

If you ask me, he didn't just
secure sites for art galleries

I got the list of his clients

We'll check for any that might have been
pulled in or sentenced for trafficking

- Don't you find it odd that a guy like
Brochand is with a curator of the Louvre?

Conveniently—
- Yes, absolutely!

And I thought maybe you could check
what she's working on right now

Discreetly

- Yes, as always. I'm going to see Hugo
because he works with her from time to time

- Very good! Keep me informed
- Yes

- I'm off

Go on, see you later

- Madame Chassagne?
- Yes?

- Since we've worked together, has there ever
been a time when you might think—

that I looked at you
other than as a work colleague?

- Certainly not

- Are we agreed that we're just partners,
you and me?

- I mean—

- No

You even asked me
to be a witness to your marriage

Yes, yes—No, yes, of course—

No but what I mean is—
did I ever lead you to believe—

that—

that the two of us—

- Could you—

clarify what you mean?

I never let you think I was attracted to you?

Do we agree?

- We agree

We agree.

Partners. That's what I was saying

You see?

I hang around for two years
Some really hard times

Waiting for Monsieur to deign
to be interested in me

And now he shows up all wet behind the ears

to ask me that!

- And that's why Juliette dumped him?
- Well, that would explain everything

Which proves it wasn't just in my head

Anyway, before he notices something—

He's "Monsieur Denial"
the champion of denial!

- And if he ends up realizing that he—

that he "digs" you, as he says
- Oh no!

No, no! No way! That's exactly
what you didn't understand

That he didn't say "to dig".
Anyway, there's no risk

Tell you what, it's been going on two years,
so it's not going to change now.

And even if it changed, for me it's over,
terminado. It's ok, I've had too much fun

What?

- Nothing, I'm glad to see you're moving on

- Well anyway, back to business.
Look at this!

- Well, what do you want
to know about Alice Fabre?

- I want to know absolutely everything!

There's something off about her bloke,
so we're investigating

- Wait, is that her bloke?
The one who was killed?

- Exactly. He stands for 10 minutes
in front of Liberty Leading the People

And we don't know what he was doing

What?

- Liberty—
- Yes ?

- The painting's going to be taken down
and transported for an exhibition.

- Wait—Liberty Leading the People

The Louvre's second most precious painting
after Mona Lisa is going to be moved?

- It's top secret!

But Alice is supervising the transport

She's in charge of the operation

- No way!

The painting going to Japan, isn't it?

- Yes, that's right.
In fact it's an exchange with the Japanese

- Madame Chassagne, hold on,
I want Alex to hear

- Okay, but speak clearly because
I can't hear you very well

- Yes yes
Apparently the painting's going to Japan

Go ahead, Madame Chassagne

Well, Japan's sending us masterpieces
of ancient statuary, sublime pieces

And we're lending them
Liberty Leading the People in exchange

- Hang on, the logistics of that
must be immense, right?

For such a valuable painting

Everything has to be under tight control
The date, the flight route

- Brochand would have had access
to this information?

You think that's what was in the envelope?
- That's exactly what I think

Look at this envelope. D and P.
That's what Simon told us about

"Département de Peinture du Louvre"

That's where Alice Fabre works

- She made fools of us, didn't she?

- Looks like it

- I still don't know what Brochand
was up to in front of this painting

just before he was killed

But I'm absolutely sure he knew
it was going to be stolen

- It's one of the most expensive
paintings in the world

- "Crime of the century"

- Come back here, Madame Chassagne,
we're going to put pressure on Alice Fabre

Yes, I'll be there in 15 minutes

Sit down there

But—he couldn't have known

I never told him about it

It's confidential.
Everything has to stay confidential

- When will the transport take place?

- In a week

It's essential—It's absolutely essential
that I inform my Management

They'll have to cancel everything
- No, don't worry, we'll take care of it

Did you know that Mr Brochand hadn't worked
for art galleries for at least 5 years?

- What?

He must have been working for one
eight months ago

Because that's how I met him—
at a private viewing

- And the exchange project with Japan
was already being planned, right?

- What are you suggesting?

That it wasn't luck that Lucas and I met?

And that he chose me because
I was working on this project?

- Alice, I'm sorry, but we can't see
any other explanation

- No, that's not possible

I swear to you, it's not possible

OK, so, did you know he was
a specialist in computer encryption?

- No, not really, but—

- It protects sensitive data belonging to
banks, manufacturers, that sort of thing

But it's also used by criminal organisations
who don't want to be spied on by the police

You see what I mean?

- Lucas worked for a criminal organization?
- Probably

Maybe you can help us find this organization?

- Me?
- Listen, you were together for 8 months

So either he set it up in advance
to steal your documents

Or he wanted to recruit you.

To have an accomplice working in
the organization shipping the painting

could be very very useful

- I swear to you, I didn't know

It's not my fault

I loved Lucas

He was great with me

Can I talk to you for two minutes?
- Yeah

What's the matter ?

- Adèle geolocated Brochand's phone
- Great!

- She found it in a locker
in the Louvre cloakroom

- Let me see

What's in it?
- Nothing, not a single call sent or received

But there is a saved phone number. Look!

- Fuck, that's my number!

- And usually, when you save a number,
it's to use it

- Maybe he wanted to warn you about the theft

- And if he hid it in the Louvre

It's because he wanted to
call after delivering the envelope

- Except he got himself killed first

- So what about Alice Fabre?

Did you personally have to be involved
in the painting's transport?

Did you have to be on the plane?

- Yes, I had to accompany
the two security guards

I couldn't let the painting out of my sight.

I was responsible for monitoring conditions
on the plane. Temperature—

And pressure

- Was there a technical stopover planned?

- Yes, but—

It was confidential. Only three people knew

On the face of it that'd be the best time
to steal the painting

Good morning, you are—?
- Morning, engine maintenance

For a painting worth a few hundred million,
they weren't going to be cautious

But there are no engines here

You could have identified them

They'd already killed two men,
they had to kill you too

Brochand wanted to save your life

He wanted to warn us
so we could cancel the transport

- But—

But then why did he steal my documents?

- Because if he didn't, they would have known
he was going to betray them

I should have realised

When he told me at the Louvre

that he cared about us
I should have known something was wrong

We were in front of
one of his favorite Delacroix

Orphan Girl at the Cemetery

But that girl in the—

in the painting,
he'd never looked at her like that

And then—

He asked me to—

to take a picture of him
with my daughter in his arms

- May I have your phone?

Orphan Girl at the Cemetery

Lucas didn't want your daughter
to be orphaned because of him

If at first, he seduced you to manipulate you

He changed his mind

And he really loved you

- I couldn't see any of this

- He was stuck, Madame Fabre

Even if you'd known,
you couldn't have helped him

You couldn't have

- Thanks

So, what did you want to show me?

- I knew I had to sort my stuff

- You definitely need a clearout!

- There! Look what I got yesterday morning,
from an anonymous sender

- OK—
- It's Orphan Girl at the Cemetery

- I know, Madame Chassagne
I'd be amnesiac if I didn't remember

No, it's one of Brochand's favorite paintings

And coincidentally, I get this the day
he's supposed to call you on his phone

Give me two seconds

- Yes of course

Bingo Pepito!

There's no exhibition on Romanticism
in Aix-en-Provence at the moment

- Wait, does that mean Brochand
sent you a fake invitation card?

Why would he do that?

Well, that I don't know

- Look, there's a link to a website there

at the bottom "www.expositionromantisme"—
- Wait, wait!

I'm typing the first w. www—?

OK, the guy was a cryptographer?
- Yeah

- His job is to hide, encrypt, computer data

- Does that mean there's a hidden message?

- Well I don't know, maybe.
Worth checking out, right?

Come on, I'll forward it to IT
- OK

- I'll do it, I have to use my email address
- Yes

Here!

Then that!

No, but here!
- Yes, sorry

Sorry !
- Now youve wiped it

Madame Chassagne, it already takes forever
to get out of here each time

If you stop to look at all the paintings,
it's just impossible!

- I don't understand

- What don't you understand ?

- I don't understand

this gesture!

Why does Brochand make this gesture?

- Can we stop obsessing over that?

Listen, given what he was about to do

isn't it understandable he stayed a long time
in front of the painting, looking at it?

So he did that, and?
- Yes, okay!

Except that I watched the video on a loop

I keep watching it because I don't understand

Look!

First, he makes this gesture
in front of Liberty Leading the People

Then he does it again

Moving forward to the next time he does it—

Here. He makes the same gesture
in front of The Barque of Dante

But The Barque of Dante was not
going to be exhibited abroad

OK ?

So The Barque of Dante isn't connected with
the theft of Liberty Leading the People

So what is Brochand doing,
by making this gesture?

You don't find that weird?

Captain?

Captain! Captain!

Tachycardia, feeling of suffocation

Have you had hallucinations too?

- No, no

- Well, anyway, you tick all the boxes

- What ? Which boxes do I tick?

- The Louvre calls me in regularly
for this kind of discomfort

It's called Stendahl syndrome.

- Stendahl syndrome?

No sorry, forgive me, with all due respect

Captain Verlay can't possibly
have has Stendahl syndrome

- What is Stendhal syndrome?

- It's as if you were violently seized
by the deep meaning of an art work

- That's it, exactly! It's when you have
a physical reaction, discomfort

from an overflow of beauty, you see?

It's a very strong aesthetic shock

- You're very sensitive, aren't you?

- No! Well actually yes and no

It'd take too long to explain, but—no!

Captain Verlay really
has no artistic sensibility

- No, not artistic, no

- Have you had an emotional shock recently?
- Yes, a break up

He was about to get married, he was in front—
- You can't!

- But I still have to explain, it's important
- No!

He was at the church steps
and his wife didn't come

But Madame Chassagne, you don't have to tell—

- Well, there you go. Don't look any further

You're weakened, your sensitivity is on edge

And you see things you didn't see before

It's a classic case

- Classic?
- Just be careful

It's often the harbinger of depression

So you'll have to rest for a few days

I'll sign you off for three days

I haven't taken a day off once
in my 15-year career!

And I'm not starting today

Especially for such minor discomfort

Do you really think I have
a Stendhal syndrome face?

- Oh no, certainly not!
- So that's it! End of story. Thanks goodbye!

- Captain!
- We're not talking about it!

- Hello. Is there a problem?

- No, no, there's no problem
- You're a bit pale

- Heard from IT about the encrypted message?
- Yes

- And?
- No, apart from the painting, nothing

No attachment, no link, nothing

- Come on, let's try something

If you don't want a message to be read,
basically, there are two solutions

Either you encrypt it

Or you hide it in another document

- Sorry, does that mean the message
could be hidden there, in the painting?

- Yes, maybe, try clicking on it to see

- I don't know—

No, nothing's happening

- May I use your computer?
- Please

- We know this painting fascinated Brochand

He certainly saw Alice Fabre's death in it

So there must be a connection with death

There, you see, there are graves with crosses

Maybe he put it there

No?

What's up, can't you come closer?

- I'm close enough.
I can see just fine from here

- Of course, there's the pain of the orphan

Look at her eye, there's a tear

- Good Lord!

That's what Brochand wanted to send us
without being detected.

When he talked to you, he'd have
told you how to open it

- Shit, it's encrypted!

- Fuck it, this guy was completely paranoid!

- Couldn't he give us something clear?

He thought he was James Bond
- Or he knew he was being watched

- Hold it! There's a second file

f you're reading this letter,
it means all hope is not lost

I want to denounce
the organization I work for

For 10 years, they have sponsored the theft
of more than 50 artworks all over the world

They didn't hesitate to kill for it

The names of those in charge
and the documents proving all these crimes

are in the attached file

I'm prepared to give you the key to decode it

and to answer for my actions in Court

But in exchange, I claim the status
of repentant to protect my girlfriend

and her daughter

You have 24 hours to answer by email

Damn, the guy was going to give us the
biggest network of art traffickers in France!

He wanted to purge himself
of the bad things he'd done

He knew that without it,
Alice could never love him again

He was so close—
- Good, Madame Chassagne

The urgency is to decrypt the second file

- Yes, I'll send it to IT
and let you know tomorrow

- Excuse me, but psychology
matters in an investigation

It's exactly like the profile

- OK ! And we have the list of
galleries Brochand has worked for?

- Here. But none of them
was involved in trafficking

- But actually, that doesn't mean they
weren't hiding a network of traffickers

- Right. I know who to show this to

- Lieutenant Attias
- Go on, have a good evening.

Mum?

Why are you calling from a withheld number?

I told you, I'm at work. Stop calling me

You're embarrassing me

- Well, see you tomorrow Madame Chassagne
- See you tomorrow

Captain?

- Yes?

- Take it easy!

- Don't worry

All right, down a bit, I'd like it
to resonate with the gray painting there

Yeah. I think if everything is
in line with the 3 paintings

it'll be much better and the public will see—
- Wait, excuse me

Hi Victor

- Alex?

Alex!

Is this a joke?
What the hell are you doing here?

Don't tell me, you quit the police
and you're coming to work with me

- No, not yet, no

- My New York gallery needs a new manager

- Well, I'm waiting for you to come back
to work at the OCBC first.

- Are you kidding?You were
such a good cop, it hurt my ego

Mathilde!
- What?

Alex?

I'll be right back, gentlemen

- Hello Mathilde
- How are you?

- I'm fine, you?
- Yes, very good, it's been a long time

- A very long time

- Tell him I was a useless cop

- Well, we can't lie to each other,
it's true he's a better art dealer

And if you'd listened to me,
I think you'd have liked it too

- It just wasn't my thing

Can I talk to you ?

- Anyway, I have things to do

I'll leave you to it, see you later
- See you soon

- Do you want to go to my office?
- Yes

Damn, are you wearing ties now?
- Yeah, I'm copying you

A Paul Klee?

Do you still love the 20s as much?
- Oh yes, always!

- So wait—Here, Lucas Brochand.
I knew I kept his card

He was canvassing
all the galleries at that time

But that was at least seven years ago

- This is the list of galleries he worked for

Any of them ring a bell for you?

- You know, Alex—

The traffickers don't shout it from
the rooftops when they launder their money

We notice it when they
overpay for pieces, that's all

No. I'm sorry
- It doesn't matter

- What's more, galleries like these
change their names like their shirts

However, one thing doesn't change—

that's the faces of the guys
in the auction rooms

I've got some photos here I can show you
- Really?

- You can have them, if you want
- That'd be great

It'll remind me of the good old days

- You've got a deal!

Yes, come in

- Good evening

- You're still here?

- I found this
I didn't know what to do with it

- A gift basket?
- Yeah

Fucking stupid Stendhal!

I bust a nut over The Red and the Black

I almost failed my bachelor's because of you!

Come on Verlay, the syndrome...

Stendhal

Here, click!

Stendhal syndrome,
all roads lead to Florence

What the fuck is this bullshit?

For you, she's much more
than a partner, Antoine

A syndrome experienced by Stendhal in—

in the city of Florence

Maybe he ended up developing
a certain artistic sensibility thanks to you?

- "Artistic sensitivity" and "Verlay" are—

contradictory

But I really believe he had a vagal reaction

It wasn't faked

On the other hand, after what he's
been through, that's not surprising!

- I can tell you, when you broke up with me,
I couldn't face love paintings any more

And I can tell you, that's not easy
working at the Louvre

You need to make some big detours

- What?
- Nothing

- Why are you looking at me like that?

- I'm glad you moved on with your captain

- No, stop

- Sorry

- Wait

Boss, I'll put it in
the evidence room for you, okay?

- Yes, yes, you can put it
in the evidence room, that's fine

- You don't want to check it first?
- No, no, I trust you.

Put it in there, that'll be perfect. Thanks

And close this thing. Why are you
walking around with this open?

- To show it to you, Boss
- Oh right, good idea—but no, it's—OK—

I brought you some pastries

Are you all right?

- Yeah yeah, I'm doing fine

It's odd, you look different
- I do?

- Really?
- Yes. Adèle, come and look

Do we agree that
Madame Chassagne looks different?

- Yeah

You look happy

- Happy?
- Yes, that's it!

- Well no, I—

Adèle, any news from IT?

- Yeah, they've just emailed

They can't do it

They can't decode the encryption key
and they need a more powerful computer

- Right, Simon's here, come on

I asked him to come in. Thank you Adèle!

There's something I want to show him

Good morning, Simon

Take your time and have a close look

I need to know if you think any of these guys
might be the man you saw in the toilet

- Why do you think it's them?

- They all own art galleries and we think
the dead man worked for one of them

- What I need now is you to tell me
if you recognize any of these guys

OK? It's important
- Yeah

Go on

- And finally

- You do know I only saw him from behind?

- I know. It's just maybe a little detail
will remind you of something, okay?

Sorry, our premises aren't
as glamorous as your gallery, but—

- You should tell your mother
to come in and decorate

Here, this is for you, a gift
to celebrate our reunion

Numbered and signed, a genuine Paul Klee

- But, Victor, you know I can't accept it

- Don't complicate everything, okay?

It's just a small lithograph.
That's not corruption

- Its magnificent. Thank you Victor

It really means a lot to me

- You know, I've been thinking. Are you sure
you don't want to come and work with me?

You've been doing this for 20 years.
You've seen everything

Look at your face! You're the same colour
as your décor there!

You're the real art lover

- You know, to hell with those who destroy
my idea of art, that's fine with me too

But this time you're going to help me

Go on ! To work!

No, that doesn't ring any bells

- How about if I show you the paintings?

I mean the ones that were in the portfolio

Maybe that would help you to remember

- It was like that

- Like that?

OK—

- He had a watch!

A big gold watch with a red strap

- OK, can you remember the brand?

- No, it was hidden

Wait!

I heard a sound too

Just before the portfolio fell

- Simon, you have to be sure, okay?

We didn't find anything there

Are you sure?
- Yeah !

It was a sound like plastic breaking

Quite close. Like in another stall

- That's great, Simon

Are you all right, Simon?

- I'm tired. Too much stuff in my head

- Yes, of course, I understand

Hey, would you like a hot chocolate?
we've got a new machine

And Viennese or cream chocolates,
I'm never sure

But you know,
hot chocolate with whipped cream

- Sorry I could 't help you much with that

- It's fine, no worries, thanks for coming in

- See you tonight ?
- Sure, looking forward to it

- This one's lovely, but the captain's right

No sprinkles in the whipped cream.
For you, big boy

- Thanks

- It's him?

Hang on, a former OCBC cop

An art dealer that everyone knows

Could he be capable of such a thing?
- I have no idea

He always liked money but surely by now—

- The kid saw the watch
for barely half a second

So if we take Chinsky into custody

His lawyer is gonna fuck us over

In addition we put the kid in danger

- No no. We can't take the risk

We have to investigate first

- Well, I'm going to ask Adèle to get us
his phone calls, his bank statements

And I'm going to ask the Attorney
to put a tap on his phone

He doesn't know we canceled the transport.
Maybe he'll give himself away

- Yeah, and also, the kid told us we may have
missed something at the crime scene

He heard a noise like—

something falling
A sound like breaking plastic

We'll check that out, okay?
- Okay

Let's go!

You don't want me to help you?
- I think there's something in—

- Because there you are—

Wait, let me hold the lamp for you
- Thanks

- Wait!
- Sorry, excuse me

- There's something in there, at the back!
Yes! got it.

I think there's more

What's that?

I don't see how this helps us

It could be anything

A battery, a charger, anything

- It might have Chinsky's prints on it

- What's the matter?

- Is there another way to get there?

- Oh no ! Don't tell me
it's Stendahl syndrome?

With a statue?

OK come on, this way

Let's go through here. Stand up

Look at me

- Yes—
- OK

Well. I thought it was better?

Just a little discomfort,nothing at all

- Listen, I may have been wrong,
then again, I don't know—

- Fine, but if it's the syndrome
how can you work in art?

You don't want to see a specialist?

- No it's OK. I don't want him telling me
exactly the same as the other one.

That my break-up makes me
perceive things I didn't see before

In fact, the less I think about it
the better I am, that's all

And you know with all that bullshit,
I even thought it was because of you?

- Of me?

Why because of me?

- Because of the works of art, all that.
You deal with it every day. Then hey—

Then hey— what?

- All right, there you are
I really got my brains in a twist

I thought that the other one, Stendhal
was in love with a woman called Florence

Like you

And that's what screwed him up

When in fact it was the city of Florence

So stupid!

- What are you going to do?

- I don't know. Grit my teeth
for two or three weeks and it'll pass

Stendhal won't get the better of me!

This Stendhal syndrome is a
manifestation of his desire for you

- What ?

- It's trying to find a way
to his consciousness

- That's no good at all. I don't agree

- I'm not sure you have any say,
Madame Chassagne

- But of course I do! Have you seen
how he made me suffer for years?

Frankly, that little buried desire for me?
He can shove it anywhere he likes

Anyway, I've moved on to other things now

- And "other things" would be Hugo?

- Yes! You've understood everything

What do I do in order to ensure his desire
never find its way to his consciousness?

Yes, I know, I know. You're an analyst,
you're not here to give me advice, blah blah

But frankly, it's a case of force majeure.

- Listen. It's usually the crises
that bring awareness

- So no crisis, no awareness?

- In a way—
- That's it

It's not that hard

End of session, right?

How are you?
- Fine thanks

You seem distracted
- No no

I was admiring everything
Victor could buy himself

He's had remarkable success

What's his secret?

- His secret? You know his secret

He always gets what he wants

- Are you happy with him?

- Do you mean more than
if I had been with you?

- No

Just happy, that's all

- My happiness is here

- Did you know Lucas Brochand?

- Not really. Victor met him, I believe

- He took three bullets

because he was going to denounce
an art theft and a network of traffickers

Mathilde, if you know something
you have to tell me

- Seeing you two chatting
makes me feel 20 years younger

Well ?

You convinced him to come and work with us?
- No not yet

I think Alex loves his job way too much.

- What were you talking about?

- Of our dreams, 20 years ago

You know that I knew Stendhal well?
- Yes I know

At least we agreed on one thing

Without passion, art is worthless

- Romanticism is very nice,

but the beating heart, the tachycardia,
the whole circus, frankly, there are days—

I'm sick of it!

Yes it's true love didn't really work for him

- Sorry, excuse me, but we can't say
that you had such a great experience

because the only woman
you shared your life with

was your servant who stood guard
in front of your house

It's also not—
- Yes

I've always been very careful
not to live with the women I loved

- But why? Because you were afraid
of suffering too much?

Were you afraid it would
stop you from painting?

No. Let's say that, for me—

lovers are like two complementary colours

They destroy each other
if they get too mixed up

it's better to separate them,
if we want them to exist

- The colour!

Everything's your painting

It's your whole life's work

Antoine!
- Yeah?

It's just back from the lab
- Great, and?

- no Chinsky prints. Only Brochand's

- Damn. Naturally

What could it be, in your opinion?
- Captain! Commander!

I think I know how to find the encryption key

Do you remember the gesture
Brochand made in front of the paintings?

- Yes
- Do you know what he had in his hand?

A colorimeter, and that's the broken
plastic thing we found in the toilet

- Yes, of course—

- Well, what is it then?

- It identifies each colour by a code
so it can be reproduced exactly

At the Louvre, it's used in making
spectroscopic maps of the paintings

- Absolutely right

- My outside interests

- A little demonstration

This is a colorimeter. My colorimeter, okay?

I—I'm sorry, excuse me. I need this

Not for your cup but for the colour

I aim the colorimeter at the colour

Press here

And there you have "B94943"

You see ? That's actually a colour, a code

One code for each colour in fact

- Wait. So just before being killed

Brochand was measuring colours in paintings?
- Exactly

- I don't understand why he did that

- He was logging the codes
to send them to you

- Ok—And how would he do that?

- Captain, I just explained it—

- Yes sorry, excuse me,
but I didn't understand

- You OK, Antoine?
- Yes, fine

- No problem. There isn't a problem
I'll start again

For each shade of colour there's a code

For example, I take this folder

See that red? I do this—

B54326

That's the code for this red

Now I take this folder that's a different red

I aim the colorimeter

B04139 is another code

For each shade there's a different code

Understand now?

- The key's a series of colour codes?
- Exactly!

- So to find the codes, we have to
measure certain colours in the paintings?

- Yes that's it
- Except that the meter is broken

So how do we retrieve the codes?

- We need two things to find the codes

One: we have to be in front of
the real painting

Two: We have to point the colorimeter
at a precise position

Precisely the places Brochand had chosen

- In the exact position?
I don't see how we can do that

We're not in his head
We don't see what he's pointing at

- No, but I think I know where he wrote down
his measuring points. Look carefully!

Each time, before taking a measurement,
he looks at his drawings

I'm sure the measurement point is
somehow indicated on the drawing

And how many drawings are there?
- Three.

- Three! Three points!
Three parts of the encryption key!

- Yes, but the problem is that
we don't have these drawings!

- No—

- But we do have someone
who might be able to remember

Don't look! Don't look!

- Seeing the paintings and thinking of
the drawings may trigger a memory

- He doesn't like paintings, does he?

- It's nothing, I'll explain later

Are you okay Captain?
- Yes, I'm fine

- Just look at the floor
- Yes, that's all I can do

- Come on
- Look, it's the Mona Lisa

- Yes, be careful Simon—
- Madame Chassagne!

Sorry, no, you can't do that
You have to stay close to me

If you don't guide me, I can't—
- Sure! Absolutely! Excuse me

I'm coming, I'm here
Go for it

Look at the floor
- Why don't you look?

He doesn't look because
he doesn't want to look

I don't look because I think it's ugly
- There!

He thinks it's ugly
- You certainly think it's very pretty

I think it's ugly.
Everyone to their own taste, my friend

There you go,
you have every right to find it ugly

OK—

OK Antoine, we're ready with Adèle.
We're listening to you

- Hold on

- Captain, look at your feet please.
- I'm only doing this

My neck hurts from looking down too much

- I'm sorry, I don't see anything
- Are you sure?

Wasn't there, I don't know,
like a mark, a cross, a dot, something?

- No
- It's okay, we tried, it doesn't matter

- Wait!
- What?

Have you found something?
- Wait, Alex, two seconds—

- Yes go ahead

- There, the red scarf

The hat was there on the drawing,
but not the scarf

- The hat was there, but not the scarf

Maybe it's like the seven differences game?
Wait

It looks like the seven differences game

- Right in the middle

C15438, I repeat C15438
- C15438

Any good?

That's it! It's a progressive encoding

- Well, we still can't read the document
but the first code seems to be valid

And there's a new box
opened for the second code

- OK. It seems to work
- Come on, let's go on

- Alex, we're going to the other painting.
Wait

- Focus now. You have to find the difference
between the painting and the drawing, okay?

- Hold on, Alex, it's coming

- That kid, Gavroche

His bag's missing

- Don't move

- Well?

"D91217", "D91217"
- "D91217"!

- It worked! It's valid
Only the last 6 characters are missing

- Hurry to the Delacroix Museum
to find the third code!

- Not another museum!
- You can wait outside

- You can wait outside

Look down! Look down!

Come on, a little faster

If I have to look down, Madame Chassagne,
you can't leave me alone!

Ferdinand Victor
Eugène DELACROIX

lived in this house until the end of his life
August the 13th, 1863

It's my mother, can I?

- Yes, go ahead, be quick
- Then come to the Delacroix workshop

You'll see, it's signposted
- OK

What's the date for the family allowances?
When do I get them?

- I don't know
- Yes you do honey, last time, make an effort

- Come on, think!
- Why are you asking me that?

Because you were there when I—
- No I don't know

You do this on purpose, you're useless
Fine! I'll manage

I'll let you know
- OK

Come on, don't worry
- Yeah

- You all right?

- She just wanted
the family allowances, as usual

She doesn't give a fuck about me

Yeah Alex!

- Well? Have you got the code?

- Not yet, but they won't be long

- What? You're not with them?

- Yes. I had to come out.
I'm going back in now. I—Yes, yes—

- That's it!

- I know that woman

- What woman?

- She was in front of the toilets
when the guy was killed

- When I say Now, we run to the left

Now!

The door, Simon!

- Yes Madame Chassagne

- Captain! Chinsky's accomplice is here!

Quick, hurry up!

- Okay, okay! I'm coming!

- Look out!
Go ahead, go ahead!

Go up, up!

Come on, up! Up!

Come on!

Go right! To the right!

Get down, get down!

Yeah, Antoine?

- We've just been shot at!

- Who by?

- The girl who was at the Louvre with Chinsky

- Are you okay?

Do you have the latest code?
- Yeah, wait

Do you have the code, Madame Chassagne?
- Yes, yes!

Wait two seconds

"R92933", "R92933"

Its good!

Damn!

- Oh shit!
- What, what?

- That wasn't the last part of the key,
there's still at least one more code

- What do you mean at least one more? What?
- But that's not possible!

There were 3 drawings in the portfolio?
- Yes

- Until we decrypt this document,
we're in deep shit

They know we need the kid for that

- I don't know how they knew we were there

They certainly knew,
and she was waiting for us

Alex, are you still there?

- Yes. Come back to OCBC.
We'll decide what to do

Thank you Adèle, you can go

Antoine, it's worse than I thought. You must
put the kid under protection. Right now!

- Why? What's going on?

- Chinsky put a microphone in my office
- Shit!

I'll find you a hideout! I'll call you back
- OK

Yeah Alex? It's fine, we're here

Don't worry, I'll call you back

Yes they're there, don't worry
See you later

What's this place?

- A former nightclub that went bankrupt

- We have a deal with the owner

Here!
- I'll let you settle in

- That's perfect guys, thank you

- No problem, that's what we're here for

I saw how you were with her.
I saw how you looked at her.

Antoine, try to be honest!
- Captain?

- Yes?

- All right?

- Yes, I'm fine, I—

I'm going to lock the car, I'll be right back

- Right—

What do we do now?

Locked up—

Alex, what the hell is this?
- You're being taken into custody

and questioned as part of the investigation
into the murder of Lucas Brochand

- What?
- You ordered the death of a kid!

- What are you talking about?
- That's it, don't take me for a fool!

- Fuck it Alex, you know me, right?
- No!

The man I knew no longer exists
Go on, take him

- Alex!

Now try to remember if there was
anything else in the portfolio

Even if it's something that
doesn't seem important

You have to scan everything
Do one thing after another

- I can't take any more of this
- Please, Simon

We're almost there
Go ahead, stay focused, concentrate

- OK
- Go ahead

Relax, everything will be fine

- There was something there too!
Drawn directly on the portfolio

- Yes?

- But it wasn't finished

- What was it?

- Like—branches—

with leaves—

- Branches with leaves? A tree maybe?

- It's ok, everything's in place

- Captain, I think we found a fourth painting

We only have one element to identify it,
branches and leaves

- Can we find that?

- We'll have to do all the Delacroix works
one by one with Simon

It may take a little while,
but yes, I think it's possible

- Chinsky's been arrested but until we
catch his accomplice, the kid is in danger

- Yes, well, I know that

- I know—

- I know you know
I say that because they'll stop at nothing

Monsieur!
- Yes ?

- May we know who you are?
- Pierre Chassagne

- Put your hands up please

- But—Why—

This is ridiculous, I came to see my daughter
- Monsieur, hands up

- Your ID please ?

- Florence, can you explain
to these gentlemen that—

that I rarely go out carrying a bazooka

- Leave them alone Dad,
It's the procedure. Thank you

- The procedure—
- It's fine, do you have them?

- Yes, yes. All of Delacroix's paintings
with trees and foliage

- Thank you very much!
- The reproductions are only average

Well, to see you next time, where do I go?

A high security prison?
An underground base? A nuclear submarine?

- Dad, really, I'd love to—
- You know Hugo's looking for you everywhere?

- Hugo?
- Hugo! He seems to care a lot more than you

Have you got closer recently?
- No, why do you say that ?

- Well I don't know
He seems to speak of you with great affection

Do you have anything to tell me?

- Madame Chassagne?

- For the moment I have nothing to tell you

but when I do,
I promise, you'll bw the first to know

Max has to come with you because
it's getting really dangerous.

- That's all?
- If you please, Monsieur

That one!

- No.

I love this one

Lion devouring a rabbit, look!

- No, it's not that one
- No ? Even behind there, at the back?

- No

- All right

The Lion Hunt?

- No

- Well, find anything?

- No. And he did a lot of paintings with
trees, foliage, branches

we're not out of the woods yet

Wow, Captain! That's very well presented!

- It's more important for it to be good
- Simon!

Your cutlery is not for pigs

- At the centre, they don't bother about that

- At the centre, maybe,
but here you eat correctly

- Enough! You're not my parents!

- Really Captain! No! You tell him not to eat
with his hands, then throw bread at him?

- Just trying relax the tension a little
- Well sorry, but it isn't relaxing me at all

- Surely!
- No, it's a very bad example

He'll go back to the centre,
not just eating with his fingers

but chucking bread at everyone as well!

- He's not going to do it there—
- No, it's a bad example!

Sorry. I'm no educator, but to me—
- Stop, stop!

- Are you a couple?

- No, why?

- Well, I don't know,
you seem to be good together

And she's always looking out for you

- No no, just—
- It's just because—

- It's because—just because—I'm nice

- Yeah, basically it's because you're nice

- You know Simon, once in a while,
without realizing it

We say things that aren't quite
what we're meant to say

- What she's trying to say is you're
the world champion of bullshit questions

That's what she's trying to tell you

- But—Well, are you a couple or not?

His lawyer called, he's coming

- Fine, we're ready

- Except that I've some not-so-good news

- What's wrong?
- There are no fingerprints on the microphone

Apart from the kid's testimony
about the watch we have nothing

We're naked!

- Sir, Madame Chinsky's at the front desk
She's waiting for you

- Put her in my office, I'm on my way
- Right

She can still testify

Victor says he was with you
when Brochand was murdered

Can you confirm that?

- If he says that, it must be true

Did you know he also ordered
the death of a 14-year-old boy?

Do you really want to be part of this?

- Don't ask me that Alex, please!

- Mathilde, I can't believe
you still love him

He's a trafficker, a thief and a murderer

- He's changed so much

He's become so hard

- Power and money

It's not just in Shakespeare
they drive you insane

Does he talk to you about his deals?

- No but I'm not blind

- Mathilde, I need your help

If you testify, he'll have
no more reason to kill the kid

- If I testify against him, he'll kill me
- But we'll protect you

- He won't be able to do anything to you
when he's in jail

You can't go on like this, Mathilde

All you have to do is come with me
and make a statement

Will you do that?

Come with me

- Commander !
- Yes ?

- Maître Oger, Chinsky's lawyer.

He wants to speak to Madame

- He just wants to intimidate you
He can't do anything against you

You're under no obligation
to speak to him, Mathilde

- I'm sorry—

- Madame, come with me

- Are you asleep?
He's going to mess up her head

We don't let a defence lawyer
wander around our premises like that

- I didn't think
- You didn't think? Didn't think!

Yes, what ?

- The lawyer says Madame Chinsky
wants to go home

Do we let her go?

- Yes, let her go

Either way it's fucked

The only way we can pin him down now
is with this fucking code!

Simon!

We're here

- Relax Simon
You had a nightmare, just a nightmare

Breathe
- Could you get a glass of water?

- Don't go!

Stay here!
- Calm down, calm down, big boy, come on

Calm down, calm down

- It started when my father left

I was 8 and—

we had to move house

I was happy before that

And suddenly it all stopped

- And—the hypermnesia?

Is that when it started?

- Maybe

the psychiatrist says
I'm still afraid of losing everything

And that's why I hold on to all of it

- Well, you know, for now,
the most important thing is for you to rest

All right? You need to sleep

- It's cool being with you

- Yes it's cool

Go on

Want some blanket?
- Just a little, I get too warm

OK like that?
- Sorry, I'm getting comfortable

- Sorry. Anyway, once I fall asleep,
I'm like a mummy, I don't move

- Same for me, I don't move at all

My mother alway says Florence,
it's incredible, when you sleep—

- Turn off the light, please

I'm sure Brochand didn't
choose his paintings at random

In any case, one thing's certain:
There was a theme there

A fight

Death

Brochand was ready to fight
for the woman he loved. That's for sure!

I've never fought over a woman

Women

We lose them anyway

- Yeah, you never fought for a woman but—

- You always fought for your painting

You talk a lot about it in your diary

It bedevils and torments me

I run to it,
like a young man to his mistress

- In fact painting for you was a bit like
a woman you were ready to give your life for

Painting was all I thought about

I only schemed for painting
- Exactly like Brochand

- He too was ready to give his life
for the woman he loved

Painting still leaves me the strength
to overcome the agonies of the body

- And the sorrows of the soul
I love that sentence!

The agonies of the body
and the sorrows of the soul

You wrote that in your diary

when you were painting
Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

Isn't that right? But wait a minute—

That's a painting you fought for

How long did you take to complete it?

Eleven years!
- Eleven years! Can you imagine?

Hold on—

Yes!

Trees—Leaves—Branches

Of course!

Jacob wrestling with the angel

And apparently it was a fight
that Mr Brochand ended up losing

Simon !

Damn!

Wake up!

Is this the painting?

- Yeah
- Yes!

- Where is this painting?

- In Saint-Sulpice

Max you take the South entrance,
you take the North, we'll do the main

It's good, let's go

- Here, Simon, Come with me

Now it's up to you

- I can't do it
- What's happening?

I don't remember anything

- It's fine

It doesn't matter. Maybe it's even
a good sign in your case, okay?

Relax. Breathe
We'll find another way

They're inside, but don't stay there

We mustn't be seen together

My colleague?

- Don't worry, he won't say anything

Like you

This is where we're looking, see?

The part with the foliage, there?
- Yeah

- Right! Keep focusing
Do you remember the foot of the tree there?

- Yeah I think so
- OK that's great ! That's one element

Keep it up, you're doing great!

The hands! The clutching hands there?

Does that tell you anything?

- No, nothing

-If there were hands in a drawing,
you'd remember them

- Yeah!

Wrestling hands, the fight!

That's the difference

Great! Come on

Captain!

Oh no ! Not churches too! Captain!

It's me, Florence!

Captain, it's me, Florence!

- Florence!
- What ?

Come with me!

This way

At the transept turn right
Now!

- She's here!

- Run! Run!

Come on Simon!

- Come on!

Here we go Adèle, I've got the code
- What is it?

- D24149

- That's it! We've got it! We've got it!

Brochand had saved everything

Your list of artworks
you've stolen in the last 10 years

The money-laundering networks

And best of all the deposit you paid for
the theft of Liberty Guiding the People

Your accountant was meticulous

He wrote everything down

- What about Mathilde?

- She confirmed she wasn't with you
at the time of the murder

Take him away

- Happy now?

You've got your petty revenge?

- Bye Victor!

- You look really terrible, you know!

You all right?

He can't hurt you any more

You did what you had to do

Have you seen Madame Chassagne?
- Yes, hello?

- You're not with Captain Verlay?

- No, I have an appointment
with him in his office

- But he's not here

- What do you mean he's not here?
- Just he's not here

- Strange, I'm calling him
and he isn't answering

It's worrying, isn't it?

For Freedom!

English subtitles by
jeremys and Marseille

TNT 2022