Maigret

♪ ♪ REPORTER (on TV): Footage of today's shocking suicide in Paris... ♪ ♪ Do you know why she did it?

Because I took her backpack?

KERNAVEL: What was in it?

JANVIER: A man's suit.

LAPOINTE: Blood.

LUCAS: You know the young woman who was on the news?

ISABELLE: She is my daughter, Adeline.

LUCAS: This guy showed up at the morgue last night.

Whose blood is on that suit?

Get out!

(tires screeching) (Maigret grunts) Boss?

Are you okay?

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (thunder claps) (whimpers) (click) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (sirens wailing) (thunder rumbling) (emergency radios running) ♪ ♪ How is he?

A couple of cracked ribs and a concussion, but he's awake and talking.

Louise.

(alert beeping in background) I'm sorry about this.

What on earth happened?

An accident.

I wasn't paying attention, stepped out into the road.

(winces) Mm, yeah, cracked ribs.

They will hurt.

The sooner I can come home, the better.

Andrea said you were concussed, so, you're staying here tonight, at least.

(exhales) You should send them home.

(groans) It's after midnight.

I need two minutes with them.

Please.

I'll talk to the doctors.

Get them to keep you here all week.

(chuckles) Two minutes, no more.

(groaning): Okay.

Janvier, Lapointe, you were talking to me about the hanged man.

No, no, no, no-- first, tell us what happened.

It wasn't an accident, was it?

It was Claude Van Damme.

Check his car.

I fired two rounds, maybe I hit it.

He ran you over?

Right, we'll arrest the bastard.

No, leave him, keep him under pressure.

Check his car, but the official story is, it was a hit-and-run, okay?

And speaking of rounds, where's my gun?

Paramedics recovered it.

I've got it.

MAIGRET: Okay.

Lapointe, tell me again what you found.

Ten years ago, a 21-year-old man named Emile Klein hanged himself from the church of Saint-Pholien in Louvaignes.

He worked in the science department at the university where Adeline Jeunet studied biology.

And where Genevieve Belloir studied astronomy.

Good work.

(chuckles) Really good.

In the morning, deep background on Klein and see if he fits the suit that was in Adeline's backpack.

And Adeline's phone-- keep looking for her phone.

(footsteps approaching) Night, boss.

Night, Louise.

LOUISE: Good night, Andrea.

Thanks for coming to get me, Berthe.

Any time-- good night.

LOUISE: Bye, Karim.

LAPOINTE: Night, Louise.

Dr.

Masson is going to give you something for the pain, my love.

And I'll sit here so you can't escape.

(chuckles, moans) (phone ringing in background) All set.

Thank you.

I know it wasn't an accident.

You went looking for trouble and you found it.

♪ ♪ I'm sorry.

Every time you don't come home when you say you will, I worry.

Not just worry, it's like, it's like there's this knot in my chest, because this might be the day that you don't come home.

(voice trembling): So when I opened the door and I saw Janvier there, looking scared, I... (crying): I thought you were dead.

♪ ♪ (softly): Hey.

I'm not.

I'm here.

Stupid, but not dead.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (horn honks) (people talking in background) So, I hear Maigret had a fight with a car and the car won?

That's funny-- what about the suit?

Yes, it could have been worn by Emile Klein or any other man in Europe who's 1.72 meters tall.

Know anything more about the blood?

It is blood.

That's not helpful.

Let me be even more unhelpful.

Klein was O-positive.

The blood on the suit is A-negative.

You've identified one dead man.

You need to find another one.

How do you know he's dead?

I also analyzed the sleeves, where the blood is thickest, and found bone fragments and brain tissue.

So the other man was shot in the head.

And the man in the suit, who could be Emile Klein, he was right there.

Like, trying to stop the bleeding.

So someone was murdered.

MOERS: Yes.

Now you just need to find out who.

No, I'm not getting in that.

Maigret, it's the rules.

My legs are fine.

It's ridiculous.

Ah, the wounded hero.

And the lovely Louise!

How are you, my dear?

Very well, Director.

Please tell Maigret he has to use the wheelchair.

I will not.

Can't have one of my officers looking like an invalid.

What if there are news cameras outside?

Would you give us a moment, please?

So, a hit-and-run, I hear.

Any idea who?

No, sir.

But you were on police business?

I was talking to Claude Van Damme.

Did you learn anything?

No, sir.

Well, that ought to tell you something: time to drop the case.

We have a new lead.

A new lead to what?

(sighing): Like I said before, suicide is not a crime.

♪ ♪ I was looking at the paramedics' report.

Mm?

The paramedics from last night?

Strong smell of alcohol, they said.

Lying in the middle of the street, they said.

So, this narrative can go one of two ways: brave officer run down in the course of his duty or... ...something else entirely.

♪ ♪ I won't tell you again: drop the case.

Take a break.

Let Louise look after you at home for a few days, hm?

Better still, get out of Paris, huh?

Saint-Fiacre.

Oh, the country air!

Nice to see you, Louise.

♪ ♪ (radio running) LUCAS: So, the blood on the suit isn't Emile Klein's?

Nope.

Then we're looking for another man.

Another dead man or woman.

If the suit is Emile Klein's, then he was at the shooting.

Maybe he even did it.

Well, come over-- I've found a connection between Emile Klein, Adeline Jeunet, and the other two.

The in-house paper of University Paris-Champigny was very helpful.

(mouse clicks) LAPOINTE: "Ten Years Later: Where Are They Now?"

LUCAS: Mm-hmm.

LAPOINTE: There's Claude Van Damme.

And Adeline.

And Genevieve-- is that... Yep.

Emile Klein.

Genevieve was lying-- they all knew each other.

Madame Prosecutor, good morning.

Morning.

Have you heard from Maigret?

Not since last night.

He's still in hospital.

Well, since he hasn't told you, I will.

Director Guichard has decided not to pursue the case.

(starts) This is crazy.

Last night, he... Last night what?

Is Maigret's accident connected to the case?

Uh, no, we think it was a hit-and-run.

Right.

Anyway, as I say, the Adeline Jeunet case is closed.

But the Brigade Fluviale are still searching the Seine for her phone.

It could be the key to the whole thing.

Call them off.

My IGDS interview, can I call that off, too?

That's not up to me.

Good morning.

♪ ♪ (phone ringing and vibrating) Louise?

Hey, it's Maigret.

Have you been shut down?

Uh... (snapping) Yes.

Kernavel just left.

Bring everything to my apartment.

Maigret, no, that's not happening.

You've been ordered to rest.

Which is it, boss, bring the stuff or not?

♪ ♪ (mutters): Fine.

Bring it.

And the rest?

The divers looking for Adeline's phone, the bullet in Van Damme's car, close all that down, too?

Yes, but slowly.

Sometimes people don't answer their phones, messages don't get through.

Got it.

Janvier will bring what we've got to you, Lapointe will check on Van Damme's car, and I will be interviewed by IGDS.

IGDS already know that what happened was my responsibility, so don't answer any questions you don't like, understood?

Understood.

(button clicks) Thank you.

You're welcome.

You're incorrigible.

Ah, I think you mean encourageable?

Would you like another cracked rib?

(people calling in background) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ What we're trying to understand is the progression of events.

Okay.

It starts with Chief Inspector Maigret responding to a call for assistance... A call which, by the way, was answered by a dozen other units.

You mean we shouldn't have responded?

It continues with an entire section and a drone following a young woman across Paris because Maigret thinks her behavior is suspicious.

It was suspicious.

And it ends with him confronting the woman, who then kills herself.

This is filmed on a dozen iPhones, to the great embarrassment of the Judiciaire.

LUCAS: Is there a question?

CAVRE: Yes-- why?

Why do any of it?

There was a bomb threat.

We neutralized the threat.

But there actually wasn't a threat and a woman ended up dead.

From what we know, a completely innocent woman.

She made bomb threats, ran from the police, possessed an unlicensed firearm.

You know what I mean.

No one could have anticipated the gun.

CAVRE: Well, Maigret thought she had a bomb.

He should have anticipated that she would have a gun.

He said so himself.

He trusted his usual wild intuitions, and this time, finally, his luck ran out.

His case closure rate's over 90%.

That's not luck.

You want to damage him because you weren't up to the mark.

And just because you grow a beard doesn't make you Maigret.

I have work to do.

(door opens) Wow, she's loyal.

(sighs) (door closes) She's in love with him.

She'd follow him over a cliff.

(sighs) I like your beard.

Shut up.

JANVIER: It's from the university newspaper.

It's about the science students in Adeline's year and what they've done with their lives since they left university.

So, Genevieve Belloir works at the Banque de Vincennes and is the proud mother of two children.

Claude Van Damme owns a medical supply business, his wife runs a restaurant, and they have one daughter, Lucille.

But all poor Adeline gets is, "Adeline Jeunet works in public health."

There's even less about Emile Klein.

Mm.

"Unidentified."

How come the university couldn't identify him?

Maybe because he was just a humble lab assistant, and no one remembered him.

Also, he only worked there for two years.

He was fired for substance abuse.

The blood-stained suit, is it his?

Size-wise, it could be, but Moers says the blood type isn't Klein's.

And it's not just blood on the suit.

There's brain tissue and bone fragments, too.

So someone was shot in the head and Klein was there?

That's the theory, yeah.

(sighs) (water running) "Now you'll know what it feels like."

That's what Adeline said before she shot herself.

(water stops) So she was there?

When this other someone was killed?

You know he shouldn't be doing this, don't you?

He should be resting.

Yeah, but he's our boss.

If he says, "Jump," we say, "How high?"

Oh, another comedian.

(phone ringing) (exhales) Janvier.

(knock at door) Yeah.

Is it a purple case?

Fantastic-- I will be right there.

Police Judiciaire.

Louise.

(door closes) Brigade Fluviale just called.

They've found Adeline's phone.

Brilliant-- go get it, take it to Moers.

Bye, Louise, and sorry about the joke.

This was in the brake light casing of Van Damme's car.

Good shooting, boss.

♪ ♪ MAIGRET: Right.

I intend to keep going, but since we're officially shut down, if anyone wants to leave... Uh, we've now got three unexplained deaths.

We're staying.

Don't look at me-- I just live here.

I have to get changed.

(door closes) MAIGRET: Okay.

Next step, we use the ammunition as ammunition.

♪ ♪ LAPOINTE: This was in the rear brake light of your car.

It was fired by the cop you ran down.

We don't like people who try to murder police, but my boss is a very nice man.

What does he want?

He wants to know why Emile Klein hanged himself.

He wants the truth.

Or this and your car will go to the lab and you'll be charged with attempted murder.

♪ ♪ Prison visiting rooms.

Not a great place for a kid.

♪ ♪ (door opens) Are you okay?

I'm okay.

I'm worried about you.

Sweetheart, I'm fine.

Someone tried to kill you and you know who it is, but you don't arrest him.

You just use it as leverage.

Is that normal police procedure?

(stammering): Not exactly, but... And if it comes out, which it could, would you be in trouble?

Probably.

Especially with Inspector Cavre, who is not your friend, sniffing around.

Yes.

So you could lose your job.

I don't think... And you know what?

I wouldn't mind.

When Guichard said I should take you to the country, to Saint-Fiacre, it was like a new world opened up, a new life.

Are you serious?

Why not?

You could ask Maurice for your father's old job.

Live in your old house.

I just know that out there, away from all this madness and noise, we'd stand a much better chance of having what we both want so badly.

Children.

A child.

Even one.

♪ ♪ (knock at door) (door opens) LUCAS: Sorry to interrupt.

Uh, Lapointe called-- Genevieve and Van Damme will meet you at her office in 20 minutes.

♪ ♪ Will you drive me?

Of course.

(door closes) Moers.

(starts) Adeline Jeunet's phone, just recovered from the Seine.

Your manners are as bad as Maigret's.

Anyway, dozens of TikTokers drop their phones into the Seine every day.

How do you know it's hers?

Same color case.

We need her call log, photos, search history.

You do know the chances of getting data off a phone that's been in nearly ten meters of water for 48 hours are... Are slim, yes, but it has been done.

I know you weren't much help with the suit.

I hope you can do better with this.

And Maigret likes working with you?

♪ ♪ (engine stops) Boss?

LUCAS: Madame Belloir, this is Chief Inspector Maigret.

Is Claude Van Damme on his way?

You've just got me, I'm afraid.

That's not what we agreed.

I phoned the Public Prosecutors' Office and found there is no investigation, so in what capacity are you actually here?

There will be an investigation if we arrest Van Damme for attempted murder.

But you haven't arrested him.

So in what capacity are you here?

Honestly, I don't know in what capacity.

We just want to know about Emile Klein.

If I tell you, will you leave us alone?

Will it explain why Adeline died?

It will.

MOERS: So, I've removed the cover, battery, lenses, leaving just the logic board.

It's only been in water 48 hours, but there's already corrosion.

It's an old phone and its seals were weak.

JANVIER: What does all that mean?

Can you get her data off it?

Corrosion is caused by electrochemical migration.

Metal ions on the anode combine with hydroxide ions produced by water electrolysis and spread towards the cathode.

When they get there, they cause a short-circuit-- multiple short-circuits-- which stop the board from working.

Can he fix it?

Wonderful-- another scientist.

Can you fix it?

No.

Then why are we here?

I can't fix the phone, but I can try a chip-off analysis.

You mean remove the memory chip.

MOERS: Correct.

GENEVIEVE: We were friends, Claude, Adeline, and I. We were all scientists.

Adeline was a biologist, I was studying astronomy, Claude, medicine.

Emile worked in the same lab as Adeline.

He was charming, funny, fun.

They became lovers.

She brought him into the group.

LUCAS: Did you join Adeline on her environmental protests?

We did some marches, a, a sit-in or two, but it was more parties than protests.

In our final year, we pulled back.

We had exams to worry about.

And that was hard for Emile.

The group was everything to him.

He and Adeline broke up.

That sent him over the edge.

She dumped him, so he hanged himself?

Not just that.

He was high all the time, not coming in to work, and eventually, the university fired him.

He was lost.

After he killed himself, what happened?

Well, we fell apart.

Claude failed his exams.

Adeline dropped out completely and just disappeared.

We heard nothing from her for ten years.

LUCAS: Till the blackmail started.

Why did she wait ten years?

I have no idea.

Perhaps because she saw this.

"Where are they now?"

They must have interviewed you to find out about your good job at the Banque de Vincennes, your husband and two lovely children.

Emile Klein's in the photo, too.

You didn't identify him.

None of you did.

Your friend Emile.

Because we didn't want to remind ourselves of that terrible time.

It was a mistake, I know.

Why, because it made Adeline angry?

She saw the nice lives you had, and that you denied Emile's existence.

That's why she came after you.

She wanted us to suffer.

And she did that by taking all the money we'd made.

She said it was money that Emile would never earn.

She ruined our lives.

Claude's medical business is basically bankrupt.

You seem to be doing all right.

(laughs) Am I?

Yesterday was my last day here.

I've been let go for borrowing money from a client account just to pay Adeline.

Do you know why she made that stupid bomb threat?

Because we said, "Enough."

We wouldn't pay anymore.

ADELINE: Don't hang up!

Don't you dare!

Her last call was to you.

She was raging.

She said she'd tell everyone everything.

I said I didn't care-- I told her to do her worst.

And she did.

Now the last image I'll have of my friend is of her putting a gun to her head.

I did that.

♪ ♪ So did you.

My family.

I've told you everything I know, so if you'll excuse me.

MAN: Here's Mommy!

BOYS: Mommy!

Mommy!

Hi, boys.

Have you been good for Daddy?

The NAND chip is soldered to the board, so I need to melt the solder with the heat gun.

(gun stops) ♪ ♪ And once the solder is melted, I can lift the chip, turn it, and clean off the old solder... Why didn't you ask about the suit?

And the blood on the suit?

Well, because I didn't want to hear another lie.

They let themselves be blackmailed for a quarter of a million because Klein hanged himself, an event which was investigated and reported on at the time?

No.

There's something else.

Blood on the suit.

Find out if their protests were as innocent as she claims.

Check on suicides and suspicious deaths connected to protests, sit-ins, break-ins at oil companies, chemical companies, government labs in the Paris area... Boss... (exhales) Those parameters are a bit... Yeah, in the six months leading up to Klein's death.

(sighs) Okay, got it.

What are you gonna do?

Go home.

Pray that Moers gets something off Adeline's phone.

At least the phone won't lie.

...lift the cleaned chip and place it in the chip reader.

Now to see if this has been a complete waste of time.

(typing) ♪ ♪ Here goes.

A directory.

No, you're out of luck.

No call or internet history-- just a lot of video files.

JANVIER: So let's see them.

(mouse clicking) (computer beeps) MOERS: Nothing there.

Data's corrupted.

Which as I told you, was the most likely... Try the next one.

(mouse clicking, computer beeping) ♪ ♪ ADELINE: How can you be so cruel?

(gun fires) (mouse clicking, computer beeping) ♪ ♪ (mouse clicking, computer beeping) (mouse clicking, computer beeping) ♪ ♪ (sighs) (mouse clicking, computer beeping) ♪ ♪ (mouse clicking) Well, well, well.

♪ ♪ JANVIER: That's all we could get, 51 seconds.

That's Claude Van Damme and Genevieve Belloir.

And Emile Klein, in his suit.

(whispering): Guys, we have a job to do-- come on.

Who's filming this?

My God, that's Adeline.

(Adeline chuckling) Is that it?

Just 20 more seconds.

(all panting softly, chuckling) (animals chittering) Louis, my man!

Christ, how many are you?

EMILE: Just us.

Hope you turned the CCTV off.

Yeah.

Hey, don't bloody film me!

JANVIER: That's it.

Maybe there are more films that can be rebuilt, but for now... Uh, what was that logo in the foyer again?

Uh, BSI: Berlinguer Systems International.

Moers says it's a government testing company.

That lab was closed down eight years ago.

BSI came up in my search earlier.

21st of October 2016, a security guard, name of Louis Mortier, killed himself at a BSI lab in Barbizon.

(key taps) LAPOINTE: Same guy.

What do you know about him?

Uh, he was 42, lived alone, had a serious gambling problem, lots of debts.

JANVIER: How did he kill himself?

Gunshot to the head.

His own gun-- suicide, just like Klein and Adeline.

(knock at door) What we don't know is how, or even if, Adeline and her friends witnessed Mortier's death.

(door opens) First thing tomorrow, get hold of the crime scene report.

(door closes) Is there a date on the film?

JANVIER: Boss.

Can I have a word, Chief Inspector?

(clears throat) I was worried about you-- I wanted to see how you were.

Thank you.

I'm okay.

Cracked ribs, I heard.

Painful.

Perhaps you better say what you want to say.

I know you don't work for me, but you do work for Director Guichard.

He told you to drop this case.

Why haven't you?

I don't like an incomplete picture.

Really?

An incomplete picture?

You know, I was told something recently, that I've been too supportive of you.

Given you too much rope.

Yeah?

Who told you that?

That I've encouraged you to believe that you can do whatever you want.

But I don't believe that.

Look at what you're doing.

Ignoring a direct order, compromising your entire team.

You might not care about your career.

Don't you care about theirs?

I didn't force them to be here.

No.

You knew you just had to ask.

Did you ever wonder why Torrence left?

Was it because he was an older man, with a family, and he was afraid that one day he might disappoint you?

♪ ♪ You always mean well, Maigret, but you... No.

No, I now know about not one, but three deaths.

Three ugly, violent, self-inflicted deaths.

Now, if I can't investigate them, then the law is a joke.

And as I've said to you once before, in this apartment, how can you, as a prosecutor, tell me not to?

I can't.

But be careful.

You cross too many lines.

People are waiting for you to fail.

♪ ♪ (door opens and closes) (inhales, moans softly) We heard.

(exhales) So before you tell us again that we are risking our careers and we don't have to stay, there is a date on Adeline's film.

21st October 2016, the night Mortier died, they were all there.

We're staying.

♪ ♪ Okay.

This is what we do.

♪ ♪ (mouse clicks) (typing) ♪ ♪ (mouse scrolling) ♪ ♪ (mouse clicks) (chuckles) (mouse clicking) ♪ ♪ (horns honking) ♪ ♪ (cars approaching) (engines stop) I'm, uh, sorry about the other night.

Shall we go inside?

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Ten years ago, on the night of the 21st of October 2016, the two of you, together with Adeline Jeunet and Emile Klein, broke into this laboratory.

I've never seen this place before.

JANVIER: Before you say anything else, watch the film we got off Adeline's phone.

(key taps, video starts) That's you, Claude, and that's you, Genevieve.

(whispering): Guys, we have a job to do-- come on.

And that is Emile Klein.

(key taps, video stops) Okay, yes, that's Emile.

I already told you we were friends with Emile.

MAIGRET: We're not here for Emile.

(key taps, video resumes) EMILE: Louis, my man!

LOUIS: Christ, how many are you?

EMILE: Just us.

Hope you turned the CCTV off.

LOUIS: Yeah.

Hey, don't bloody film... ♪ ♪ Louis Mortier.

He's why we're here.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ This is where you met the security guard Louis Mortier.

♪ ♪ Then you went into this room.

(whispers): Let's go.

♪ ♪ The animal lab was your target.

You were gonna open the cages and release the animals.

♪ ♪ ADELINE: There are so many.

(exhales) (Genevieve speaking indistinctly) ♪ ♪ You don't know any of this.

You can't even prove we came in here.

If you had film, you'd show it.

We don't have film, we have photos.

This is the lab on the morning of the 22nd of October 2016.

You can see the cages and the animals still in them.

And then there's this.

♪ ♪ MAIGRET: Louis Mortier.

One minute he's alive, next minute he's dead.

How?

You're right, we don't know.

This is your last chance to tell us.

Or what?

Or Adeline's film goes to the detective investigating Mortier's death and the coroner who said it was a suicide.

♪ ♪ Okay.

Yes, yes.

That was the plan-- we were gonna release the animals.

Emile had worked at BSI, he knew Mortier, and he bribed him to let us in.

But when we got here, Mortier suddenly demanded ten times the money.

♪ ♪ I don't like this.

I want more money.

We already paid you 500.

Now I want 5,000.

I didn't know there'd be so many of you.

Pay up or I'll call the police.

No, we had a deal.

It changed.

You let us in here, man.

If you call the cops, we'll drop you in it, too.

Don't you threaten me!

Hey!

No!

(gasps) GENEVIEVE: He pulled his gun on us.

That was bad, and then it got worse.

Emile was coked out of his head.

Okay, okay, we're going.

We're going.

We're leaving.

Take it easy.

No, don't, Emile!

Traitor!

We had a deal!

(squeaking) What we're doing is good, you understand?

(men grunting, shouting) (animals squeaking) (men grunting) CLAUDE: Get off!

(gun fires, cartridge falls) (gasps) ♪ ♪ (gun falls) (groaning) (groaning) GENEVIEVE: The gun went off.

Emile tried to stop the bleeding, but there was nothing he could do.

Mortier was already dead.

And that was it.

LUCAS: So, you decided to leave and just, what?

Pretend nothing had happened?

That was on me.

I said that it was an accident and yes, we had to pretend nothing had happened.

(voice trembling): We're sorry.

We've been sorry for ten years.

So, because of this accident, both Adeline and Klein killed themselves?

Look, I said we're sorry.

You know everything.

Please, just tell us what you're going to do.

But I don't know everything.

Before Adeline shot herself, she said, "Now you'll know what it feels like."

It's like she was handing me her guilt, but also her responsibility.

It was an accident.

If anyone was responsible, it was poor Emile.

And he's paid his debt.

The gun went off.

The bullet entered Mortier's head here and exited here.

So he wasn't dead.

Mortally wounded, but not dead.

♪ ♪ You've been very quiet, Claude Van Damme.

You were studying to be a doctor.

Emile tried to help Mortier.

He had his blood and brains all over his suit.

What did you do?

Did you try and save his life?

Did you?

Claude, don't say anything.

♪ ♪ Did you?

There was no point.

He was dying.

An ambulance would have never arrived in time.

(breath trembling) (groaning softly) ADELINE: He's still alive.

We have to help him!

I'll call an ambulance!

No, don't.

Claude, please, do something!

(Louis wheezes) ♪ ♪ I did the opposite of trying to save his life.

I helped him die.

♪ ♪ There's nothing we can do.

(Louis groaning) ♪ ♪ (Louis moaning, feet scraping) (exhales, breath stops) ♪ ♪ CLAUDE: I told myself I was putting him out of his agony.

But really, I was protecting my friends.

I was protecting myself.

That's why I sell medical equipment.

I knew I would never become a doctor.

(sighs) "Now you'll know what it feels like."

I've lived with that for ten years.

Not anymore.

Do what you want.

♪ ♪ (inhales) (birds chirping) (car doors opening and closing) (engine starts) Shall I take you home?

(engine starts) Can you wait here a minute?

Good detective work.

Yep.

You arrest them?

No.

Why on earth not?

I know all about Louis Mortier.

You must have found some proof that they were there when he died.

At the very least, they conspired to conceal a crime.

You have to arrest them.

Klein paid the price for Mortier and Adeline paid it for Klein.

Those two will pay the price forever.

Do you want to destroy their lives, too?

You're not a judge, Maigret.

You don't get to decide a case like this.

There is no case, remember?

Just me and my team following up a few leads.

And your team, they just accept this, do they?

Well, they came to their own conclusions.

You want to come to a different conclusion, that's up to you.

Do you want me to arrest them?

Doesn't matter what I want.

Just do what you think is right, Justin.

That's what I try to do.

What you do... It's not right.

♪ ♪ (dog barks) ♪ ♪ (door opens, keys jangle) (door closes) Good timing.

Chicken with tarragon and asparagus tips.

Nice.

Starving.

Did you get your confession?

Yes.

And did you absolve them?

That's not my job, but I did let them go.

Why?

Well, they've paid.

They'll, uh, go on paying.

Mm.

(groans) God, my ribs!

Oh, dear.

Well, you'll go on paying, too, for a while.

Have you absolved yourself?

(exhales) Not quite.

Perhaps, as I get older, I won't care as much or resist authority.

Experience will deaden reality.

I will become stolid.

Inured.

And if you don't?

Then it's what you said-- country air.

Saint-Fiacre.

(knock at door) Mm, what is it now?

(door opens) MAIGRET (groans): Oh, God.

MOERS: Not quite.

(door closes) Moers.

Louise.

I apologize for interrupting what smells like a really... Um, no, you cannot stay for dinner-- what do you want?

For the sake of completeness, I checked every single one of Adeline's files.

I found absolutely nothing except one more fragment of film.

Rather sad, if you're the sentimental type.

Which of course I'm not.

I'll leave it here.

Something to watch after your dinner.

(bag zips) Just play it.

...birthday tomorrow, but instead of just sending you a card, I thought... (inhales) I know I have disappointed you with the choices I've made, but I want you to know that I have done some good things to make up for the bad.

I know you only wanted the best for me.

When I think of you, I have so many happy memories, like waiting at the school gates when I was five.

♪ ♪ The joy in your face when you saw me.

And the explosion of love I felt in my heart.

I miss you.

♪ ♪ Happy Birthday, Mama.

You could give it to her mother.

Would a mother want to see this?

It's fine, it's nothing.

(sniffles) Moers, please stay for dinner.

No.

But thank you.

Good night.

(door opens and closes) (crying softly) ♪ ♪ (cup clanks) Did you know that Maigret continued to investigate the Adeline Jeunet case?

Really?

Well, he works for you, not me.

He continued to work the case, but made no arrests.

Which either means there was no case to answer... ...or he decided to become judge, jury, and executioner.

What do you think about that?

If it happened, it's not correct.

Not correct?

(chuckles) I thought you would say, "Positively dangerous."

A detective who thinks he's beyond the law.

The IGDS were investigating him.

What do they say?

They were only investigating the events leading up to the suicide.

And what did they find?

That in the circumstances, Maigret's decisions and actions were... (inhales) ...reasonable.

Well, that's good, isn't it, given that you promoted him.

Inspector Georges Bonfils did, however, note the extreme loyalty that Maigret inspires in people.

What do you think about that, Maigret inspiring extreme loyalty?

I don't think anything-- he works for you, not me.

I'm thinking about breaking up his team.

I think he needs to be taken down a peg.

What do you think?

As I keep saying, he works for you, not me.

Yes, that's right.

So, stop enabling him.

Bye, Mathilde.

(door opens) (door closes) (phone ringing, people talking in background) Madame Jeunet.

We have something to show you.

Part of a film your daughter made.

ADELINE: ...birthday tomorrow, but instead of just sending you a card, I thought... I know I have disappointed you with the choices I've made, but I want you to know that I have done some good things to make up for the bad.

♪ ♪ (faintly): I know you only wanted the best for me.

When I think of you, I have so many happy memories, like waiting at the school gates when I was five.

(crying softly) ADELINE: The joy in your face when you saw me.

And the explosion of love I felt in my heart.

I miss you.

♪ ♪ Happy Birthday, Mama.

♪ ♪ I'm afraid that's all there is.

We have to talk to you about some money Adeline had.

It's quite a lot of money.

Can I watch it again?

ADELINE: ...birthday tomorrow, but instead of just sending you a card, I thought... So a mother did want to see it.

I wondered if the pain of losing a child would outweigh the joy of having one.

Now I don't think so.

ADELINE: I know you only wanted the best for me.

(button beeps) We will try again, won't we?

We will.

♪ ♪ You did good, all of you.

You gave her back her daughter.

Proud of you, Maigret.

(elevator doors open) ADELINE: Happy Birthday, Mama.

(click) ♪ ♪ Help!

LUCAS: A young woman drowned three weeks ago.

Death was ruled an accident.

Who was she?

She was the live-in nanny for a cosmetic surgeon.

(shutter clicks) You seem very calm, given what you're accused of.

What's the motive?

Jealousy?

Motive is your department, Maigret.

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