Spiral (2005–…): Season 7, Episode 8 - Episode #7.8 - full transcript
...
A knock at the door.
...
- Hello.
- Your Honour.
- Thank you for coming so early.
Take a seat.
So, where have you got to
with David Cann?
- He's giving nothing away.
But he's under pressure.
If you summon him, he will crack.
- No, it's premature.
Uh ...
Have you gathered preliminary
information on Investco?
- Yes, but ...
the companies
are registered in the Bahamas.
It will take some time.
The problem is the Cann search.
The network may close.
We must act quickly.
- We must first test
the reliability of this report.
- Sorry,
Your Honour ...
during the search
at Mr. Cann's,
you went straight to this report.
Did you have inside information?
- Yes.
- Can you tell me more?
- Well ...
our source is nefarious.
Stay out of it.
- But I'm already involved.
- Please, do not press me.
We will check it out.
I have picked ... three names.
- Uh ...
Are we going to summon them?
- We are conducting a search
tomorrow morning.
We are looking for evidence of
interaction with David Cann,
bank statements and especially
sums of cash equal to those
in the report.
Uh ... that's it.
So keep these names to yourself
until the last moment.
- Yes.
There are some VIP's there, Your Honour.
I hope you know what you are doing.
Opening credits
...
- You're here?
A door slams.
- Oh...
Steps
- Oh, you're here.
Can you make me a coffee?
Cann's custody has done me in.
OK, I understand.
Cann was imperial.
The cops
questioned him about the report.
He held his line.
Investco is an investment fund
that he recommends to his clients.
The company is registered
in the Bahamas. So what?
He lies well, this prick.
You should have seen it.
A real lesson.
The cops are going to take a fall.
Intense music
- Commander Escoffier, District 2 Judiciary Police.
- Hello.
- Hello.
- You can take off the cuffs.
His mom is coming.
- I've lost everything.
- You must be brave.
Your mother only has you left.
Go on.
- Oh Lord, forgive him
and grant him mercy.
Grant him salvation and forgiveness.
Assure him of a noble dwelling.
Extend to him a grave
and wash it with water,
with snow and with hail.
Prayer in Arabic
Amen.
- Amen.
She sniffs.
- Where did we see him?
- The coffee shop in the 12th district, the Djerbians.
Cann's Barmitzvah.
- What the hell is he doing here?
- They are looking at each other ...
They know each other.
- Hmm ...
He's not chopped liver.
- He got into the Porsche.
- Yeah, Tom?
Can you run a number plate for me?
DX-598-FQ.
Yeah, OK. Anyway,
we're on our way back to the station.
His name is Oury Mazouz.
He's there.
- We're going to wrap this case up quickly.
- You wouldn't think he was bent.
- Smartest kid in the class,
we suspect nothing.
- Can you tell me where you were?
- At Fouad's funeral.
- Can you explain why?
- Nothing to explain. We just wanted to be there.
- I would have liked to go too.
- Is it just to piss me off?
Don't you think you have done enough?
We are overwhelmed with work,
there's only two of them.
Ali, tell him
what you heard from the wiretap.
- Ken and Barbie
are off hunting again tmorrow.
- I'm counting on you
to catch them in the act.
- Let's go,
we'll work on the operation.
Tom, you're monitoring the wiretep
for information.
- What is it?
- Good morning, Judge Roban.
Could you open up, please?
Crackling
Madam, open up, otherwise I'll have to
bring in a locksmith.
Beep
- What's going on?
- Hello Madam.
Fran?ois Roban, investigating judge.
We are conducting a search.
Stay with me
to witness our actions.
- My safe is there
if you are interested.
She types in the code.
- Sir,
Could you empty the safe, please?
- We found binders of
account statements.
- Take them.
Can we sit here?
- Do I have a choice?
- Oury Mazouz has a record. He got
two years for complicity in VAT fraud.
I have a phone number, but it's useless
since we are off the case.
- We'll use
the Ken and Barbie case.
I'll tell the prosecutor that the druggie
gave us a contact
and that we suspect him
of being their sponsor.
- Are you sure?
- He is connected to too many people:
Fouad, Cann and now Rayan. Eh ...
Commander Escoffier, could I
speak to the Prosecutor's Office?
Punch
- Here.
- Thank you.
The beep is getting weaker.
- Sir, could you purchase
some batteries for me?
- Can you get me some cigarettes
while you are out?
Same as these.
- Uh ... go on, yes.
Phone rings.
Yes? Commissioner Br?mond? Yes.
Wait.
Yes.
How are you doing on your side?
- We are almost done.
We have some bank statements,
Rolex watches, cash,
but nothing related to the report.
And you?
- Uh ...
There is nothing
very convincing either.
- If you want, I can come over.
- Yes, please do.
- See you soon.
- Thank you.
- Have you checked the batteries?
- Yes.
Here.
- Thank you.
- Escoffier,
I just spoke to the magistrate.
He's OK with your wiretap.
- Thank you.
- What wiretap?
- The druggie gave us the mobile number
of a guy who is
in contact with Ken and Barbie.
He could be their boss.
- You are aware that
unwarranted wiretaps kill cases.
- Yes, I know.
- Are you still on Herville?
Is that it?
- He was our boss.
- That's your excuse for everything. You think we're idiots.
For fuck's sake!
- That's not the story.
- What is the story, then?
- We don't do everything by the book.
- OK.
- We don't want to get you involved in that.
- Of course.
You're right, it turned out so well
the last time ...
You're not with us.
We're preparing to catch them in the act.
Do you understand?
- I understand. Don't worry, we're with you.
Beep
- Seek! Great! There.
There.
There. OK.
OK, brilliant. Seek, seek ...
- It smells like money all around here.
- Yes,
but we can't find it anywhere.
- Great!
Seek, seek, seek ...
Seek ...
There, there ...
Seek ...
Seek, seek ...
Gasping breath of the dog
The chair is giving a positive indication.
- Fred!
- It's an Arbus. Do you know how much that costs?
- You would have to sticker all your belongings.
- 30,000 euros
- We had better find something,
otherwise it will cost us dearly
in compensation.
- Go ahead.
Effort
- Here we are.
Here we go ...
I think that's enough.
100,000 euros is the amount
that was in the report.
You have your test.
- We have something concrete.
- Are you going to indict Cann?
- No, not right now. We're going to pull at the thread.
We'll make Madame Lazare talk
and afterwards, we'll see.
Believe me,
we must be careful and discreet.
- Your Honour!
- Would you like to make a statement?
- Why this search?
- A statement?
The journalists
overwhelm him with questions.
- Please...
- We said no press!
Someone explain to me
how my client finds herself
being quoted on a news channel?
What am I going to tell my clients?
Shit!
- It's an abuse of process,
we all need to settle down.
- You're dreaming!
These mangy dogs won't let go.
There was cash at Lazare's place.
Are you aware?
100,000 euros!
- Where did it come from, that money?
At least it's not from you.
- Of course not. Lazare hasn't asked me
for anything in two years.
That's why I listed her
in your fucking report.
I was convinced
that they wouldn't find anything
at her place.
- She has other dealers than you.
- Ah, ah ... Thank you, Pierre.
- The problem,
is that if Mrs Lazare cannot justify
having the money,
Roban will have a means of
putting pressure on her.
She could make a deal with him.
Overlook her minor infraction,
in return for testimony against you.
- I shouldn't have listened to you.
It was stupid, this false report.
I have the press up my arse,
I can't believe it.
The press ...
- Maybe a tactic of the judge
to avoid the Prosecutor's Office
suppressing the case.
- It was me.
It was me who alerted the press.
You all approved the plan.
Well, the plan only works
if Roban's error is made public.
- What's going on?
- Playing it safe against Roban,
is playing to lose.
You need brass balls.
But, hey .. that ... well ...
- What is she saying, this bitch?
Huh?
Make her shut her mouth!
The door slams.
- I like her.
- Oh, yes?
And your name on page one,
do you like that too?
- What exactly is your problem?
I get you out of jail, I take you on
and you thank me by dropping me in the shit?
- Are you kidding? I spoke to the Law Council.
I know you lied to me!
What did you imagine? Huh?
That you were going to keep me captive
like a little dog?
- Listen ...
- I did four months in prison.
4 months in prison.
And you take advantage of my situation?
It's despicable.
- I'm stupid.
- How did you think
it was going to work?
The Law Council is reviewing my case today.
I will regain my right to practice.
I'm taking the Lola case
and I'm leaving.
- Josephine ...
Heels
- Close the door.
Guess who Oury sent an SMS to?
- Cann?
- Nadia, Fouad's mother.
- "We have to talk.", "Later."
Fuck! This is crazy!
Is she involved in the network?
- In the Khelfa family, ask the mother.
- Gilou! Let's move!
Ken and Barbie are in district 15.
- OK. Get ready, we're going!
- What does he want from Nadia?
- I don't know.
- Why are they changing their hunting ground?
- We'll ask them.
You stay here and
monitor the wiretap.
- OK.
- I'm coming with you.
Berthaud, what are you doing?
Come on, everybody.
Closes the computer
- I'll track the location
of Oury's cell on my phone.
- They're taking Miollis Road,
heading north.
- We are getting closer.
- They are heading towards building 8.
- I'm in position.
- Negative, negative.
Damn, he's going to Nadia's house, this
prick.
Gilou, they're coming towards you.
- Listen, Mr Ramirez, it's not complicated,
I gave you deadlines and the deadlines are past.
I've been waiting for 2 weeks.
- Yeah, they're going to lobby 6.
- Received, we are approaching.
- OK, I'll take them.
- Gilou ...
- What's happening?
- Oury Mazouz is with Nadia Khelfa.
What do we do?
We have to get out of here, Gilou.
- Let's go.
- Yeah, they're entering building 6.
Building 6.
- They're taking the elevator on the right.
I repeat, elevator on the right.
- Uh, Escoffier, what do we do?
- Well, you and I, we're going in.
The other two will secure the entrances.
We make the arrest when we confirm
that an offence has been committed.
Ali, take over the operation.
- Wait, what? What did you say?
- Where's that coming from?
- Did something come up?
- He has to learn, doesn't he?
- They're on the 9th floor.
- 9th floor.
- Come on, Amrani!
The door.
- OK ... secure the entrances to the building.
- How do we play this?
- They're on the 9th floor.
Go up to the 10th and take the stairs back down.
I'm going up on foot.
Does that work?
- Yeah.
Yeah, yeah ...
- Laure, you stay there.
He whistles.
Ali to the operation team.
Are you all in place?
- To all from Beckriche.
I am on the 9th floor. Nothing to report.
- Escoffier ...
- I'm on my way, boss.
- Gilou, what the hell are you doing?
He pants.
- I'm checking the floors.
Beep
Come on.
- Thanks a lot. See you soon.
- Goodbye.
A door closes.
The elevator arrives.
- From Beckriche to the operations team,
they're leaving.
- OK. Has an offence been committed?
- No. No, no. Hang on, I'm checking.
He knocks.
Police, open up!
...
- Nobody move. We're waiting for confirmation
that an offence has been committed.
Gilou?
Gilou?
- He's still at Nadia's place.
- Fuck ...
- An offence has been committed.
Beep
- An offence has been committed.
- Police!
- Arrest!
A shout
Police!
Stop!
Effort
Don't move. Don't move!
Don't move!
...
Asshole!
Give me your other hand.
- Ali, are you OK?
- The other hand.
- Ali!
- Yeah ... it's OK.
Police siren
- Move! Move, there, fuck!
There's the Porsche. He's here.
A shout
A door slams
- Crap.
- I'll be back tomorrow.
- Okay. Hold on...
I'm going back to work.
- Are you sure? You don't have to.
- I'm going crazy here ...
- No.
- What are you doing?
- Will it be OK?
- Of course.
- They're together,
they're kissing.
Ali picks up a sheet of paper.
- You had that on you
when we arrested you.
- It's not mine.
- It was in your bag.
Wasn't it?
- It's not mine.
- It's not yours?
That's not yours either?
We found it in your closet.
Purchased from your computer
with Mrs. Moreau's bank card.
- I don't use that.
It fucks your hair up.
- It fucks your hair up?
It fucks your hair up?
- Yeah.
- OK.
You think I'm fucking stupid?
- Quick! Take your hands
out of your pockets and sit down.
- Crap ...
Hey ...
- I'm very worried ... about you.
I don't know what the fuck you're doing,
but you're heading for a brick wall.
Leaving the team
in the middle of the operation ...
I reviewed the wiretap.
The number you are monitoring
never connects with Ken and Barbie.
Funny kind of sponsor.
He puts the sheet down.
Who is this Oury Mazouz?
It's a serious matter,
lying to the Prosecutor's Office.
- Stealing a report,
that's a serious matter too, isn't it.
- I'm sorry?
- Why did you gave the access codes
to the case to Lebrion?
- What are you insinuating?
He just offered to give me a hand.
- He took advantage of the situation
to make a report disappear.
- What is this bullshit?
- Wang was Lebrion's informer.
- Hang on, are you delusional?
- Wang was Herville's informer. Herville introduced
him to Lebrion and he became Lebrion's informer.
- No. St?phane always said
that he didn't know either Herville or Wang.
- Then he lied to us.
He even stole a report to make sure
that the Crime Squad would not discover the connection.
- That's why he asked for the access code
to erase the report.
- What do we do, boss?
- Right now, we have to help Ali.
He's struggling with the two assholes.
- Yeah.
Where are we up to?
Do you want us to question them?
- Don't you have something better to do?
- What are you complaining about?
You got your arrest.
You acquitted yourself well as a leader.
- What have we got?
- Who is this?
- Lila, she follows them everywhere.
- She's cute.
- Yeah, you think so?
They look like each other.
- Mmm.
- Shall we get them?
Did you make these purchases on the Internet?
- No, no. I told your colleague,
I didn't buy anything on the Internet.
- Why is the IP address the same as your computer?
- Somebody must have hacked me.
- OK. Did somebody also hack your closet?
Because we found everything at your place.
The facial sauna,
the epilator, the razor.
I imagine
that's probably for your guy, right?
- What does that prove?
It was already mine.
I didn't buy it.
- There's a leather bracelet
engraved "I Love Lila".
Uh ... Continuing down the list.
- What?
- A necklace
engraved "Killian Loves Lila" ...
Really, it's crazy ...
- What is this bullshit?
- I don't know.
I'm just reading what I see.
Who's Lila?
- A fat slut!
- Oh! Take it easy! Oh ...
- I don't believe it.
- Who did the ordering?
The bastard or you?
- It's that son of a bitch!
- With the card you stole.
- I didn't touch the card.
He stole it.
- There you go,
we'll put everything in writing.
So, your name?
Date of birth?
- We don't need your confession anymore.
Your girlfriend said that
you put her up to it.
That's not very nice.
My colleague gave me her statement.
Oh, she's blaming you.
- That's not true.
Jennifer's not like that.
- Oh no? Well, here you go, take a look.
Go on, get up, take a look.
Look at her.
When prison threatens,
tongues are loosened.
Go on, go and sit down.
You didn't know anything about energy.
She was the one who worked at EDF.
It was her idea, right?
- Yes.
- Yes?
- Yes.
- There you go. We'll put all this in writing.
It will be perfect.
Take his statement, Tom.
- Straighten up.
- Look over there.
- So ...
Can you confirm that it was her idea?
- Yes.
- So...
- Here.
- You did your little tap dance routine?
- It was almost too easy.
- You prefer
when it's complicated.
Even if I'm making it harder.
- You couldn't have known.
- I want to know
what Lebrion is hiding.
I know a guy in Bercy
who works with the Fraud Squad.
I have setup a meeting.
The three of us are seeing him tomorrow.
- Are you sure of him?
He won't warn Lebrion?
- Have a little faith.
Things will change.
OK, see you tomorrow.
It's him.
How are you?
- Hi. It's been a while.
We haven't seen each other
since he went to the Judiciary Police.
- Commanders Escoffier
and Berthaud.
- Hello.
- Pleased to meet you.
- A coffee?
- Thibaud, a guava juice.
And a fruit salad.
You're not having anything to eat?
- No.
We were taken off a case
for reasons that are not clear.
We are wondering if you have some insight into that.
- Go on. Spill the beans. What's the case?
- I'll give you the details,
but the inquiry has a fairly significant
money-laundering component
involving Chinese wholesalers
in Aubervilliers.
- That's funny.
It's Lebrion's inquiry.
He told me about it a few weeks ago.
We met because I was preparing
a presidential trip to China,
with a delegation of business owners
looking to sign big contracts.
We were looking to identify anything
that could interfere with negotiations.
The police informed us
about current investigations
of Chinese nationals
or Chinese companies based in France.
- So if I am investigating
a Chinese national
managing an illegal workforce,
that will come to you? Is that it?
- It's what we call 'unsigned reports'.
When you target the Chinese,
the Fraud Squad has a lot of records.
- Did you receive any unsigned reports
regarding our network?
- It's possible. Thank you.
It was at the start
of one of Lebrion's investigations.
It was targeting
the wholesalers of Aubervilliers.
- So what?
- It seemed big
and inconvenient for us.
Bercy asked the Fraud Squad
to stop the investigation.
- To avoid problems with China.
- We stop an investigation
to further the interests
of private enterprise?
- When thousands of jobs
are in the balance, yes.
- That doesn't bother you?
- It's my job.
- Laure ...
Can you confirm that it's our network?
It's important.
- I can do better than that.
I can send you the unsigned report.
- Great.
- I believe, madam,
that you do not appreciate
the gravity of the situation
in which you find yourself.
We are investigating
a money-laundering network
whose activities
are subject to heavy penalties.
We have a document
which connects you to this network.
- I worked with David Cann
a few years ago.
On ways to optimize tax.
I made some investments through him.
- You seized
evidence of these investments
during the search.
Everything is transparent and legal.
- Uh ... the report mentions
a transfer of 110,000 euros.
To a company
registered in the Bahamas.
A witness told us
that this fictional company
deposited bank transfers
in exchange for cash payouts.
110,000 euros,
that's within 10,000 euros,
of the sum found at your home,
madam.
How do you explain that?
- Excuse me,
but who are we talking about?
There's nothing in the file.
- Anyway,
we will have to justify
the source of this money.
I'm listening to you.
- It's a sale.
I sold a painting.
- Mrs. Lazare had a painting
from the Dutch school
held at the duty-free port of Geneva.
She sold this still life
two months ago.
- Do you have evidence
of this transaction?
Did you notify the French tax authorities
of this sale?
You are therefore in breach.
- Hold on, it's an oversight.
- Regrettable.
I have some latitude in
assessing the evidence.
If you decide to cooperate.
What do you know of
Mr. Cann's activities?
- My client has just provided proof
of the origin of the money.
This invalidates the justification
for the custody order
which brought us here.
- I'm not certain of that.
The money could be hidden elsewhere
or could have been spent.
No, Attorney,
this process does not stop here.
- My client does not know anything.
I do not know where this report comes from,
but we could file a complaint
for false accusation.
- Is this a marriage proposal?
- What you have done is huge.
The thing with the press,
it was brilliant.
The judge made a fool of himself.
- We haven't won yet.
- Don't be modest.
I know Edelman is parting company
with you.
I would like to hire you.
- That's very kind of you,
but I'm not sure
I'm going to accept.
Fraud and money laundering,
it's not my area of expertise.
I'm a criminal lawyer.
- Exactly ...
We need people like you
in the business world.
Bold, inventive ...
You know, I've paid for a lot of lawyers,
but brass balls like yours,
it's the first time I've seen that.
Here's 8,000 euros.
- Are you buying me for that price?
You're doubling the bet.
- It's more than that.
There's 10,000 in that one.
- And the keys?
What's that for?
- You need a new office.
I have a building
awaiting refurbishment.
A big deal that I just closed.
- How long does this take?
- News of this report has gone viral
on social media.
- They got me.
They got me.
- Who are you talking about?
- Uh ...
I need to get some fresh air
- We'll ask him.
- Your Honour ...
Your Honour!
Your Honour ...
Your Honour ...
- What's going on? Is something wrong?
- The press ...
- Yes?
- I want to talk to Judge Roban.
- He is busy.
- I only need 2 minutes.
- Call and make an appointment.
- I have some questions...
- Call and make an appointment.
- Thank you.
Intense music
- I received the unsigned report.
Shall we look at it together?
- I finished reviewing the summary notes.
I didn't find anything.
- They have changed the names of the cases,
it's not easy.
- It's fortunate that they change the names.
These reports are circulated to
a bunch of political staff.
It's to maintain the confidentiality
of the case.
- Hang on. There's something here.
"The source of information
is considered very reliable.
"He is a Chinese restaurant owner
in district 13
"and is linked to
the money-laundering network."
- This idiot has done a poor job
of redacting the report.
There aren't 12,000 restaurant owners
in the network.
- Might as well have left Wang's name in there,
it would have been the same.
Who had this in their hands?
- Let's take a look at the emails.
I have a list
of all the recipients.
Here.
- There you go ...
Aline Lecomte, the MP
in contact with Fouad.
- Why did she receive it?
- No idea.
- She chairs the
Franco-Chinese commission of the Assembly.
Oh, look!
It's Mr. Chen.
Lebrion sends
his unsigned report to Bercy,
and since he has poorly redacted it,
Aline Lecomte discovers
that the Fraud Squad is conducting
an inquiry on the money-laundering
network she uses.
And she warns them.
- They liquidate Wang and Herville.
That's what Lebrion wanted to hide.
He exhales loudly.
- That bullshit cop
killed Herville.
- Take the dogs.
Go up to the apartment.
Be careful.
What are you doing here?
- Let's take a little walk.
- What happened to you?
You look terribly agitated.
- For a former prosecutor
of the Republic,
you should be ashamed.
- What are you talking about?
- You directed me
to a fake report.
For this falsification,
I will pursue you.
- You won't do that.
- Yes I shall, and I'll go all the way.
- Your pride blinds you.
You may have right on your side,
but you are not
in a position of strength.
A judge who meets in secret
with a suspect
in one of his cases,
it's a bit off, don't you think?
To show poor judgement,
it doesn't flatter you,
but to flout the rules
of your profession,
well, that is
something else entirely.
I kept some photos from
this moment of distraction as a souvenir.
We see you sitting there
in good company.
The press will eat it up,
that is for sure.
A few weeks before retirement,
to be dragged through the mud ...
It would be a real bloodbath.
Believe me,
for a magistrate to be disqualified,
it tastes like ashes in your mouth.
End credits
Subtitles:Ian Munro
Thanks:Lylo Media Group & Google Translate
A knock at the door.
...
- Hello.
- Your Honour.
- Thank you for coming so early.
Take a seat.
So, where have you got to
with David Cann?
- He's giving nothing away.
But he's under pressure.
If you summon him, he will crack.
- No, it's premature.
Uh ...
Have you gathered preliminary
information on Investco?
- Yes, but ...
the companies
are registered in the Bahamas.
It will take some time.
The problem is the Cann search.
The network may close.
We must act quickly.
- We must first test
the reliability of this report.
- Sorry,
Your Honour ...
during the search
at Mr. Cann's,
you went straight to this report.
Did you have inside information?
- Yes.
- Can you tell me more?
- Well ...
our source is nefarious.
Stay out of it.
- But I'm already involved.
- Please, do not press me.
We will check it out.
I have picked ... three names.
- Uh ...
Are we going to summon them?
- We are conducting a search
tomorrow morning.
We are looking for evidence of
interaction with David Cann,
bank statements and especially
sums of cash equal to those
in the report.
Uh ... that's it.
So keep these names to yourself
until the last moment.
- Yes.
There are some VIP's there, Your Honour.
I hope you know what you are doing.
Opening credits
...
- You're here?
A door slams.
- Oh...
Steps
- Oh, you're here.
Can you make me a coffee?
Cann's custody has done me in.
OK, I understand.
Cann was imperial.
The cops
questioned him about the report.
He held his line.
Investco is an investment fund
that he recommends to his clients.
The company is registered
in the Bahamas. So what?
He lies well, this prick.
You should have seen it.
A real lesson.
The cops are going to take a fall.
Intense music
- Commander Escoffier, District 2 Judiciary Police.
- Hello.
- Hello.
- You can take off the cuffs.
His mom is coming.
- I've lost everything.
- You must be brave.
Your mother only has you left.
Go on.
- Oh Lord, forgive him
and grant him mercy.
Grant him salvation and forgiveness.
Assure him of a noble dwelling.
Extend to him a grave
and wash it with water,
with snow and with hail.
Prayer in Arabic
Amen.
- Amen.
She sniffs.
- Where did we see him?
- The coffee shop in the 12th district, the Djerbians.
Cann's Barmitzvah.
- What the hell is he doing here?
- They are looking at each other ...
They know each other.
- Hmm ...
He's not chopped liver.
- He got into the Porsche.
- Yeah, Tom?
Can you run a number plate for me?
DX-598-FQ.
Yeah, OK. Anyway,
we're on our way back to the station.
His name is Oury Mazouz.
He's there.
- We're going to wrap this case up quickly.
- You wouldn't think he was bent.
- Smartest kid in the class,
we suspect nothing.
- Can you tell me where you were?
- At Fouad's funeral.
- Can you explain why?
- Nothing to explain. We just wanted to be there.
- I would have liked to go too.
- Is it just to piss me off?
Don't you think you have done enough?
We are overwhelmed with work,
there's only two of them.
Ali, tell him
what you heard from the wiretap.
- Ken and Barbie
are off hunting again tmorrow.
- I'm counting on you
to catch them in the act.
- Let's go,
we'll work on the operation.
Tom, you're monitoring the wiretep
for information.
- What is it?
- Good morning, Judge Roban.
Could you open up, please?
Crackling
Madam, open up, otherwise I'll have to
bring in a locksmith.
Beep
- What's going on?
- Hello Madam.
Fran?ois Roban, investigating judge.
We are conducting a search.
Stay with me
to witness our actions.
- My safe is there
if you are interested.
She types in the code.
- Sir,
Could you empty the safe, please?
- We found binders of
account statements.
- Take them.
Can we sit here?
- Do I have a choice?
- Oury Mazouz has a record. He got
two years for complicity in VAT fraud.
I have a phone number, but it's useless
since we are off the case.
- We'll use
the Ken and Barbie case.
I'll tell the prosecutor that the druggie
gave us a contact
and that we suspect him
of being their sponsor.
- Are you sure?
- He is connected to too many people:
Fouad, Cann and now Rayan. Eh ...
Commander Escoffier, could I
speak to the Prosecutor's Office?
Punch
- Here.
- Thank you.
The beep is getting weaker.
- Sir, could you purchase
some batteries for me?
- Can you get me some cigarettes
while you are out?
Same as these.
- Uh ... go on, yes.
Phone rings.
Yes? Commissioner Br?mond? Yes.
Wait.
Yes.
How are you doing on your side?
- We are almost done.
We have some bank statements,
Rolex watches, cash,
but nothing related to the report.
And you?
- Uh ...
There is nothing
very convincing either.
- If you want, I can come over.
- Yes, please do.
- See you soon.
- Thank you.
- Have you checked the batteries?
- Yes.
Here.
- Thank you.
- Escoffier,
I just spoke to the magistrate.
He's OK with your wiretap.
- Thank you.
- What wiretap?
- The druggie gave us the mobile number
of a guy who is
in contact with Ken and Barbie.
He could be their boss.
- You are aware that
unwarranted wiretaps kill cases.
- Yes, I know.
- Are you still on Herville?
Is that it?
- He was our boss.
- That's your excuse for everything. You think we're idiots.
For fuck's sake!
- That's not the story.
- What is the story, then?
- We don't do everything by the book.
- OK.
- We don't want to get you involved in that.
- Of course.
You're right, it turned out so well
the last time ...
You're not with us.
We're preparing to catch them in the act.
Do you understand?
- I understand. Don't worry, we're with you.
Beep
- Seek! Great! There.
There.
There. OK.
OK, brilliant. Seek, seek ...
- It smells like money all around here.
- Yes,
but we can't find it anywhere.
- Great!
Seek, seek, seek ...
Seek ...
There, there ...
Seek ...
Seek, seek ...
Gasping breath of the dog
The chair is giving a positive indication.
- Fred!
- It's an Arbus. Do you know how much that costs?
- You would have to sticker all your belongings.
- 30,000 euros
- We had better find something,
otherwise it will cost us dearly
in compensation.
- Go ahead.
Effort
- Here we are.
Here we go ...
I think that's enough.
100,000 euros is the amount
that was in the report.
You have your test.
- We have something concrete.
- Are you going to indict Cann?
- No, not right now. We're going to pull at the thread.
We'll make Madame Lazare talk
and afterwards, we'll see.
Believe me,
we must be careful and discreet.
- Your Honour!
- Would you like to make a statement?
- Why this search?
- A statement?
The journalists
overwhelm him with questions.
- Please...
- We said no press!
Someone explain to me
how my client finds herself
being quoted on a news channel?
What am I going to tell my clients?
Shit!
- It's an abuse of process,
we all need to settle down.
- You're dreaming!
These mangy dogs won't let go.
There was cash at Lazare's place.
Are you aware?
100,000 euros!
- Where did it come from, that money?
At least it's not from you.
- Of course not. Lazare hasn't asked me
for anything in two years.
That's why I listed her
in your fucking report.
I was convinced
that they wouldn't find anything
at her place.
- She has other dealers than you.
- Ah, ah ... Thank you, Pierre.
- The problem,
is that if Mrs Lazare cannot justify
having the money,
Roban will have a means of
putting pressure on her.
She could make a deal with him.
Overlook her minor infraction,
in return for testimony against you.
- I shouldn't have listened to you.
It was stupid, this false report.
I have the press up my arse,
I can't believe it.
The press ...
- Maybe a tactic of the judge
to avoid the Prosecutor's Office
suppressing the case.
- It was me.
It was me who alerted the press.
You all approved the plan.
Well, the plan only works
if Roban's error is made public.
- What's going on?
- Playing it safe against Roban,
is playing to lose.
You need brass balls.
But, hey .. that ... well ...
- What is she saying, this bitch?
Huh?
Make her shut her mouth!
The door slams.
- I like her.
- Oh, yes?
And your name on page one,
do you like that too?
- What exactly is your problem?
I get you out of jail, I take you on
and you thank me by dropping me in the shit?
- Are you kidding? I spoke to the Law Council.
I know you lied to me!
What did you imagine? Huh?
That you were going to keep me captive
like a little dog?
- Listen ...
- I did four months in prison.
4 months in prison.
And you take advantage of my situation?
It's despicable.
- I'm stupid.
- How did you think
it was going to work?
The Law Council is reviewing my case today.
I will regain my right to practice.
I'm taking the Lola case
and I'm leaving.
- Josephine ...
Heels
- Close the door.
Guess who Oury sent an SMS to?
- Cann?
- Nadia, Fouad's mother.
- "We have to talk.", "Later."
Fuck! This is crazy!
Is she involved in the network?
- In the Khelfa family, ask the mother.
- Gilou! Let's move!
Ken and Barbie are in district 15.
- OK. Get ready, we're going!
- What does he want from Nadia?
- I don't know.
- Why are they changing their hunting ground?
- We'll ask them.
You stay here and
monitor the wiretap.
- OK.
- I'm coming with you.
Berthaud, what are you doing?
Come on, everybody.
Closes the computer
- I'll track the location
of Oury's cell on my phone.
- They're taking Miollis Road,
heading north.
- We are getting closer.
- They are heading towards building 8.
- I'm in position.
- Negative, negative.
Damn, he's going to Nadia's house, this
prick.
Gilou, they're coming towards you.
- Listen, Mr Ramirez, it's not complicated,
I gave you deadlines and the deadlines are past.
I've been waiting for 2 weeks.
- Yeah, they're going to lobby 6.
- Received, we are approaching.
- OK, I'll take them.
- Gilou ...
- What's happening?
- Oury Mazouz is with Nadia Khelfa.
What do we do?
We have to get out of here, Gilou.
- Let's go.
- Yeah, they're entering building 6.
Building 6.
- They're taking the elevator on the right.
I repeat, elevator on the right.
- Uh, Escoffier, what do we do?
- Well, you and I, we're going in.
The other two will secure the entrances.
We make the arrest when we confirm
that an offence has been committed.
Ali, take over the operation.
- Wait, what? What did you say?
- Where's that coming from?
- Did something come up?
- He has to learn, doesn't he?
- They're on the 9th floor.
- 9th floor.
- Come on, Amrani!
The door.
- OK ... secure the entrances to the building.
- How do we play this?
- They're on the 9th floor.
Go up to the 10th and take the stairs back down.
I'm going up on foot.
Does that work?
- Yeah.
Yeah, yeah ...
- Laure, you stay there.
He whistles.
Ali to the operation team.
Are you all in place?
- To all from Beckriche.
I am on the 9th floor. Nothing to report.
- Escoffier ...
- I'm on my way, boss.
- Gilou, what the hell are you doing?
He pants.
- I'm checking the floors.
Beep
Come on.
- Thanks a lot. See you soon.
- Goodbye.
A door closes.
The elevator arrives.
- From Beckriche to the operations team,
they're leaving.
- OK. Has an offence been committed?
- No. No, no. Hang on, I'm checking.
He knocks.
Police, open up!
...
- Nobody move. We're waiting for confirmation
that an offence has been committed.
Gilou?
Gilou?
- He's still at Nadia's place.
- Fuck ...
- An offence has been committed.
Beep
- An offence has been committed.
- Police!
- Arrest!
A shout
Police!
Stop!
Effort
Don't move. Don't move!
Don't move!
...
Asshole!
Give me your other hand.
- Ali, are you OK?
- The other hand.
- Ali!
- Yeah ... it's OK.
Police siren
- Move! Move, there, fuck!
There's the Porsche. He's here.
A shout
A door slams
- Crap.
- I'll be back tomorrow.
- Okay. Hold on...
I'm going back to work.
- Are you sure? You don't have to.
- I'm going crazy here ...
- No.
- What are you doing?
- Will it be OK?
- Of course.
- They're together,
they're kissing.
Ali picks up a sheet of paper.
- You had that on you
when we arrested you.
- It's not mine.
- It was in your bag.
Wasn't it?
- It's not mine.
- It's not yours?
That's not yours either?
We found it in your closet.
Purchased from your computer
with Mrs. Moreau's bank card.
- I don't use that.
It fucks your hair up.
- It fucks your hair up?
It fucks your hair up?
- Yeah.
- OK.
You think I'm fucking stupid?
- Quick! Take your hands
out of your pockets and sit down.
- Crap ...
Hey ...
- I'm very worried ... about you.
I don't know what the fuck you're doing,
but you're heading for a brick wall.
Leaving the team
in the middle of the operation ...
I reviewed the wiretap.
The number you are monitoring
never connects with Ken and Barbie.
Funny kind of sponsor.
He puts the sheet down.
Who is this Oury Mazouz?
It's a serious matter,
lying to the Prosecutor's Office.
- Stealing a report,
that's a serious matter too, isn't it.
- I'm sorry?
- Why did you gave the access codes
to the case to Lebrion?
- What are you insinuating?
He just offered to give me a hand.
- He took advantage of the situation
to make a report disappear.
- What is this bullshit?
- Wang was Lebrion's informer.
- Hang on, are you delusional?
- Wang was Herville's informer. Herville introduced
him to Lebrion and he became Lebrion's informer.
- No. St?phane always said
that he didn't know either Herville or Wang.
- Then he lied to us.
He even stole a report to make sure
that the Crime Squad would not discover the connection.
- That's why he asked for the access code
to erase the report.
- What do we do, boss?
- Right now, we have to help Ali.
He's struggling with the two assholes.
- Yeah.
Where are we up to?
Do you want us to question them?
- Don't you have something better to do?
- What are you complaining about?
You got your arrest.
You acquitted yourself well as a leader.
- What have we got?
- Who is this?
- Lila, she follows them everywhere.
- She's cute.
- Yeah, you think so?
They look like each other.
- Mmm.
- Shall we get them?
Did you make these purchases on the Internet?
- No, no. I told your colleague,
I didn't buy anything on the Internet.
- Why is the IP address the same as your computer?
- Somebody must have hacked me.
- OK. Did somebody also hack your closet?
Because we found everything at your place.
The facial sauna,
the epilator, the razor.
I imagine
that's probably for your guy, right?
- What does that prove?
It was already mine.
I didn't buy it.
- There's a leather bracelet
engraved "I Love Lila".
Uh ... Continuing down the list.
- What?
- A necklace
engraved "Killian Loves Lila" ...
Really, it's crazy ...
- What is this bullshit?
- I don't know.
I'm just reading what I see.
Who's Lila?
- A fat slut!
- Oh! Take it easy! Oh ...
- I don't believe it.
- Who did the ordering?
The bastard or you?
- It's that son of a bitch!
- With the card you stole.
- I didn't touch the card.
He stole it.
- There you go,
we'll put everything in writing.
So, your name?
Date of birth?
- We don't need your confession anymore.
Your girlfriend said that
you put her up to it.
That's not very nice.
My colleague gave me her statement.
Oh, she's blaming you.
- That's not true.
Jennifer's not like that.
- Oh no? Well, here you go, take a look.
Go on, get up, take a look.
Look at her.
When prison threatens,
tongues are loosened.
Go on, go and sit down.
You didn't know anything about energy.
She was the one who worked at EDF.
It was her idea, right?
- Yes.
- Yes?
- Yes.
- There you go. We'll put all this in writing.
It will be perfect.
Take his statement, Tom.
- Straighten up.
- Look over there.
- So ...
Can you confirm that it was her idea?
- Yes.
- So...
- Here.
- You did your little tap dance routine?
- It was almost too easy.
- You prefer
when it's complicated.
Even if I'm making it harder.
- You couldn't have known.
- I want to know
what Lebrion is hiding.
I know a guy in Bercy
who works with the Fraud Squad.
I have setup a meeting.
The three of us are seeing him tomorrow.
- Are you sure of him?
He won't warn Lebrion?
- Have a little faith.
Things will change.
OK, see you tomorrow.
It's him.
How are you?
- Hi. It's been a while.
We haven't seen each other
since he went to the Judiciary Police.
- Commanders Escoffier
and Berthaud.
- Hello.
- Pleased to meet you.
- A coffee?
- Thibaud, a guava juice.
And a fruit salad.
You're not having anything to eat?
- No.
We were taken off a case
for reasons that are not clear.
We are wondering if you have some insight into that.
- Go on. Spill the beans. What's the case?
- I'll give you the details,
but the inquiry has a fairly significant
money-laundering component
involving Chinese wholesalers
in Aubervilliers.
- That's funny.
It's Lebrion's inquiry.
He told me about it a few weeks ago.
We met because I was preparing
a presidential trip to China,
with a delegation of business owners
looking to sign big contracts.
We were looking to identify anything
that could interfere with negotiations.
The police informed us
about current investigations
of Chinese nationals
or Chinese companies based in France.
- So if I am investigating
a Chinese national
managing an illegal workforce,
that will come to you? Is that it?
- It's what we call 'unsigned reports'.
When you target the Chinese,
the Fraud Squad has a lot of records.
- Did you receive any unsigned reports
regarding our network?
- It's possible. Thank you.
It was at the start
of one of Lebrion's investigations.
It was targeting
the wholesalers of Aubervilliers.
- So what?
- It seemed big
and inconvenient for us.
Bercy asked the Fraud Squad
to stop the investigation.
- To avoid problems with China.
- We stop an investigation
to further the interests
of private enterprise?
- When thousands of jobs
are in the balance, yes.
- That doesn't bother you?
- It's my job.
- Laure ...
Can you confirm that it's our network?
It's important.
- I can do better than that.
I can send you the unsigned report.
- Great.
- I believe, madam,
that you do not appreciate
the gravity of the situation
in which you find yourself.
We are investigating
a money-laundering network
whose activities
are subject to heavy penalties.
We have a document
which connects you to this network.
- I worked with David Cann
a few years ago.
On ways to optimize tax.
I made some investments through him.
- You seized
evidence of these investments
during the search.
Everything is transparent and legal.
- Uh ... the report mentions
a transfer of 110,000 euros.
To a company
registered in the Bahamas.
A witness told us
that this fictional company
deposited bank transfers
in exchange for cash payouts.
110,000 euros,
that's within 10,000 euros,
of the sum found at your home,
madam.
How do you explain that?
- Excuse me,
but who are we talking about?
There's nothing in the file.
- Anyway,
we will have to justify
the source of this money.
I'm listening to you.
- It's a sale.
I sold a painting.
- Mrs. Lazare had a painting
from the Dutch school
held at the duty-free port of Geneva.
She sold this still life
two months ago.
- Do you have evidence
of this transaction?
Did you notify the French tax authorities
of this sale?
You are therefore in breach.
- Hold on, it's an oversight.
- Regrettable.
I have some latitude in
assessing the evidence.
If you decide to cooperate.
What do you know of
Mr. Cann's activities?
- My client has just provided proof
of the origin of the money.
This invalidates the justification
for the custody order
which brought us here.
- I'm not certain of that.
The money could be hidden elsewhere
or could have been spent.
No, Attorney,
this process does not stop here.
- My client does not know anything.
I do not know where this report comes from,
but we could file a complaint
for false accusation.
- Is this a marriage proposal?
- What you have done is huge.
The thing with the press,
it was brilliant.
The judge made a fool of himself.
- We haven't won yet.
- Don't be modest.
I know Edelman is parting company
with you.
I would like to hire you.
- That's very kind of you,
but I'm not sure
I'm going to accept.
Fraud and money laundering,
it's not my area of expertise.
I'm a criminal lawyer.
- Exactly ...
We need people like you
in the business world.
Bold, inventive ...
You know, I've paid for a lot of lawyers,
but brass balls like yours,
it's the first time I've seen that.
Here's 8,000 euros.
- Are you buying me for that price?
You're doubling the bet.
- It's more than that.
There's 10,000 in that one.
- And the keys?
What's that for?
- You need a new office.
I have a building
awaiting refurbishment.
A big deal that I just closed.
- How long does this take?
- News of this report has gone viral
on social media.
- They got me.
They got me.
- Who are you talking about?
- Uh ...
I need to get some fresh air
- We'll ask him.
- Your Honour ...
Your Honour!
Your Honour ...
Your Honour ...
- What's going on? Is something wrong?
- The press ...
- Yes?
- I want to talk to Judge Roban.
- He is busy.
- I only need 2 minutes.
- Call and make an appointment.
- I have some questions...
- Call and make an appointment.
- Thank you.
Intense music
- I received the unsigned report.
Shall we look at it together?
- I finished reviewing the summary notes.
I didn't find anything.
- They have changed the names of the cases,
it's not easy.
- It's fortunate that they change the names.
These reports are circulated to
a bunch of political staff.
It's to maintain the confidentiality
of the case.
- Hang on. There's something here.
"The source of information
is considered very reliable.
"He is a Chinese restaurant owner
in district 13
"and is linked to
the money-laundering network."
- This idiot has done a poor job
of redacting the report.
There aren't 12,000 restaurant owners
in the network.
- Might as well have left Wang's name in there,
it would have been the same.
Who had this in their hands?
- Let's take a look at the emails.
I have a list
of all the recipients.
Here.
- There you go ...
Aline Lecomte, the MP
in contact with Fouad.
- Why did she receive it?
- No idea.
- She chairs the
Franco-Chinese commission of the Assembly.
Oh, look!
It's Mr. Chen.
Lebrion sends
his unsigned report to Bercy,
and since he has poorly redacted it,
Aline Lecomte discovers
that the Fraud Squad is conducting
an inquiry on the money-laundering
network she uses.
And she warns them.
- They liquidate Wang and Herville.
That's what Lebrion wanted to hide.
He exhales loudly.
- That bullshit cop
killed Herville.
- Take the dogs.
Go up to the apartment.
Be careful.
What are you doing here?
- Let's take a little walk.
- What happened to you?
You look terribly agitated.
- For a former prosecutor
of the Republic,
you should be ashamed.
- What are you talking about?
- You directed me
to a fake report.
For this falsification,
I will pursue you.
- You won't do that.
- Yes I shall, and I'll go all the way.
- Your pride blinds you.
You may have right on your side,
but you are not
in a position of strength.
A judge who meets in secret
with a suspect
in one of his cases,
it's a bit off, don't you think?
To show poor judgement,
it doesn't flatter you,
but to flout the rules
of your profession,
well, that is
something else entirely.
I kept some photos from
this moment of distraction as a souvenir.
We see you sitting there
in good company.
The press will eat it up,
that is for sure.
A few weeks before retirement,
to be dragged through the mud ...
It would be a real bloodbath.
Believe me,
for a magistrate to be disqualified,
it tastes like ashes in your mouth.
End credits
Subtitles:Ian Munro
Thanks:Lylo Media Group & Google Translate