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- Camille, a young and modest woman, is found dead. A former law student with a brilliant future in store, she had thrown it all away to become a housemaid for the wealthy Marchand family. The investigation reveals that Bertrand Marchand, gave a lot of money to a fortune teller - who was actually in cahoots with Camille. How did she get involved in a scam and what exactly got her killed?
- The bodies of two women are found on the banks of the Seine. One is a readily recognizable journalist, the other is impossible to identify. What links the two victims? The subject of the mysterious article the journalist was investigating? Why is it so difficult to determine the identity of the second victim? Could she herself have tried to erase her past? Chloe and Rocher take over the reporter's investigation and discover the consequences of a tragic family drama.
- Dimitri Saillan, a young man with no known priors, is found shot to death at the edge of a cemetery in Paris. Chloe and Rocher soon discover that he had been traumatized by the assassination of his sister, and disguised as a police officer, had taken the law into his own hands. Obsessed by what he saw as his mission, Dmitri spent days and nights investigating, in parallel with the police, a rape case he had witnessed. How far did the search of this inexperienced renegade go? Could a young man with no police experience have actually succeeded in getting his hands on the rapist?
- After the death of Matthew Perac, Chloe Saint-Laurent has taken some time off, and has vanished from the scene. Meanwhile, Perac's position has been filled by Rocher. Just as he and his team are solving a very tough case, Rocher knows he needs the help of the best profiler in the country. But he must find her and convince her to come back.
- A woman is stabbed on her wedding day. She falls into a coma and is rushed to the hospital. The method reminds Chloe of something - with reason. It turns out the victim is engaged to Simon Andrieux, out of prison after being condemned to an eight-year sentence for having stabbed his last fiancé the same way, the day before their wedding. Chloe is confronted with her own faulty judgment: it was her psychological evaluation that allowed Simon Andrieux to get out of jail early.
- Chloe and Rocher discover the corpse of Francois Renier, a man declared dead 10 years ago. The team finds out that this family man, suffering from huge debts, had staged his own death for the insurance money, to save his family from poverty. How did those close to Francois, who thought he had been dead for years, react to him reappearing like a ghost? And above all, why did he feel the need to come back into the life of a family he was forced to abandon?
- Adrien Keller, a respected reporter who survived two years of captivity in a FARC camp in Columbia, is assassinated just before he was slated to give a press conference to launch his book about his escape. The investigation turns out to be a complicated matter, especially for Chloe, who also has to find a way to announce her pregnancy to the father of her child.
- Fred and Hyppolite break down as they are coming home from a party in the middle of the night, during a violent storm. In a large, isolated house, they find the lifeless body of a 35-year-old architect. Meanwhile, determined to bring to justice the reckless driver responsible for his wife's death, Rocher is subject to the increasingly vicious intimidations of his lawyer Barbara Cluzel. Not least of which entails an investigation by the family court to determine if he is fit to be awarded custody of his son Lucas. Chloe, who is now in the second trimester of her pregnancy, resolves to keep her baby a secret from the father, Judge Hoffman.
- The lifeless body of Laure Brevin, hard-hitting commissioner of the Banditry Repression Brigade, is found in her decimated apartment. Brevin and her team had been working for two years to break up a multinational European child trafficking ring. Mafia retaliation? The investigation takes a new turn when Chloe discovers a member of the team was on an intimate basis with the commissioner.
- In the wake of a horrible car accident caused by the number one suspect of their investigation, Chloe falls into a coma. From that moment on, Rocher has only one obsession : to catch the person who is trying to break up the team. A prisoner of her mind, Chloe continues the investigation in her head, attempting to reconstruct evidence of the dreadful manipulation they have all been drawn into.
- Contemporary art photographer Jeanne Krakowski is found murdered in her loft. Her dazzling success had apparently led her to turn her back on her husband and little seven-year old girl. Meanwhile, Rocher, determined to catch the reckless driver who killed his wife, has to face a new obstacle.
- A crazy sniper terrorizes all of Paris by opening fire on crowds. The city is on red alert. After two murderous gunnings, Chloe and Rocher succeed in identifying the killer: Adrien Fontel, a former military agent of the Special Forces destroyed by what he lived through in Afghanistan. Chloe diagnoses him as suffering from Capgras Syndrome, a psychiatric condition in which the patient believes that people around him are gradually being replaced by villainous doubles preparing to enact evil plans. Convinced he is on a mission to fight these invaders, Fontel kidnaps his own daughter, thinking he is protecting her. With the help of Colonel Amelie Davout, Chloe succeeds in identifying the root of evil beneath his paranoia, and is able to predict the next attack. Operation arrest: high tension.
- Tension is at an all-time high for Chloe and Rocher's team, under the gun of the Police Inspector General. The police of the police looks into the Julie Lafayette case, a seemingly harmless investigation of a drug ring with dramatic consequences that have taken their toll on the investigators.
- A beautiful woman in her forties is found dead at the back of a jazz club, where she had been singing for the last few weeks. The club manager only knows her stage name: Julie Garland. A magnificent voice and incredible talent who apparently had no career ambition at all. The only thing that seemed to matter to her was her pianist, a young genius with wild ways who has gone missing since the singer's death. In their search to find the victim's true identity, Chloe and Rocher discover that "Julie Garland" had been singing all over France for the last ten years, always gigs in small venues, and never more than a month in the same city. She had been accompanied on the piano by her shady young genius for the past two years. Could it have been a fusional relationship that ended in murder? What sort of danger could have forced this woman with such a pure voice to run away and wander about for so long?
- Chloe makes a guest appearance on a series of late-night radio shows about psychology in daily life. Among the callers, on a range between eccentric and totally nuts, is one woman who introduces herself as Caroline; in a trembling voice, she explains that she is afraid of her husband, who is becoming more and more violent. As Chloe encourages her to go to the police and talk to social services, we suddenly hear a man's voice behind her. Caroline screams and lets the telephone fall. We hear the noise of blows and screams, then silence. The media seize this live public crime and brandish it as a flag symbolic of the fight against domestic violence. Chloe convinces the Attorney General to open up an investigation, and the team scrambles to make best use of the scant evidence they have to find Caroline, hoping she is still alive. But when a series of strange roadblocks stunt the investigation, they can't help but ask themselves the uncomfortable question: does this woman really exist?
- Tension is at an all-time high on Skela and Chloe's team. Two kids named Quentin (10 years) and Manon (5 years) have disappeared from their parents' hotel room. Claire and Bastien Laffont, on vacation with their children in Paris, had left them unsupervised in the room for a few hours, to go out for a romantic lunch together. The kidnapping alert is sent out with urgency, especially considering that sleeping pills for children are found in the room of another client of the hotel who had checked in under a false identity and left in great haste at the time when the kids disappeared. Could it have been a premeditated capture for a pedophilia ring of human trafficking? Though that hypothesis remains credible, Chloe tries to find out more about the parents' habits; for statistics show that in this type of case, the parents themselves are often linked to the crime. And, in fact, the Laffonts have lied. Their supposed romantic lunch was actually a consultation for Bastien with one of the best addictologists in Paris. A drug dependency that led to debts for which their children have paid the price? A pathology likely to have put their children in harm's way? Is Bastien the only one in the relationship who has unmentionable secrets to hide?
- The lifeless body of Antoine Garrel is found on display in a shop window in the neighborhood, hands and feet bound, with a gagged mouth. A psychologist specialized in couple therapy, he had no lack of enemies among his clientele of cheating husbands and crabby wives. Among his patients, one couple had just suddenly stopped therapy - and with good reason. Showing up a bit early for their session, they found Garrel in his office, in an compromising situation with his mistress. An affair the dead therapist's wife knew nothing about. While her team works to identify this woman, Chloe asks Hyppolite to look into the crime methods of the murder and discovers two other men had been assassinated under similar circumstances in Belgium. To the amazement of all, the investigators find evidence that the serial killer is none other than a woman suffering from postpartum depression; but Chloe has a hard time subscribing to that theory.
- Opens in 1945, with the discovery of the dead body of Armand Jonquet, a veteran of the French Resistance. The agent leading the investigation, Pierre Barreau (a look-alike of Thomas Rocher) finds a woman leaning over the corpse. She is Jonquet's psychiatrist, Diane Danville (a look-alike of Chloe). Back in the present, Chloe and Rocher investigate the murder of Pierre Vasseur, a painter who had just begun to exhibit his work in galleries. One of Vasseur's ex-girlfriends had tried to warn him of his imminent death, informing him of the exact date according to her theory that she and the painter are reincarnations of Armand Jonquet and his wife. Rocher immediately rejects this irrational interpretation, and digs into Vasseur's life in search of enemies on THIS plane of existence. But what he discovers surprises everyone on the team. Vasseur had been charged with plagiarism by Jonquet's son, who accused him of copying his father's paintings.
- Marie, a 25-year old young woman, is found stabbed to death on the altar of a church. Gabriel Mangin, a young repeat offender, comes forth and admits to having murdered her. When questioned, Mangin expresses his profound affection for the victim. While the investigators search for a possible motive, the young man's behavior completely changes. He is possessed by a demon who calls himself Belial and claims to have committed the murder. Chloe sees the incident as a sign of schizophrenia, but Rocher thinks it is Mangin's strategy to avoid serving a mandatory prison sentence. While they disagree, the case takes a new turn when investigators discover the young victim was hardly the saint she seemed to be. Chloe, whose request to adopt little Lili has been rejected by social services, sinks into a self-destructive phase, using Garrel to drift further and further astray. Completely broken, she begins to wonder if she isn't a bit demonic herself.
- pregnant woman just about to give birth has been brutally attacked in a park. While she and the baby are on the brink of death, Rocher and Chloe find out that she had been in Paris for several weeks, using a false identity. Was she trying to escape the baby's father? Chloe, who is preparing to adopt little Lili, is extremely sensitive to the mother's predicament.
- Just as the Chief of Police brings in three young criminologists selected to participate in a hands-on internship led by Chloe Saint-Laurent, the criminal brigade receives a shocking DVD of a young woman getting her throat cut. Suffice it to say that the kids' internship gets off to a quick start.
- When Chloe attends a party held by the Chief of Police, she sees a woman among the guests and passes out on the spot. And with good reason: as she reveals to Rocher upon awakening, the woman is none other than her own mother, presumed to have been beaten to death by her father 20 years previous. Despite a growing accumulation of evidence contrary to her convictions, Chloe throws herself headlong into an investigation that becomes a personal quest to retrace her mother's troubled past.
- Chloe and Rocher rush onto the scene of a crime: an apartment where EMTs have found the corpse of a young athletics teacher who has been castrated. Chloe is questioning the psychological implications of this act, when they hear a sound in the apartment. Rocher pulls out his weapon, and the whole team watches as the victim's young roommate comes out naked and drugged, after being locked up in a closet. The investigation looks into a young woman who seems to have had a vendetta against men in general, and against the highly seductive athletics instructor in particular. But Chloe's theory is confirmed when Hyppolite succeeds in following the lead of a young woman seen exiting the victim's apartment building at dawn. A lead that puts the investigators on the path of a young woman who was raped by her father and hid the incestuous child in a remote house out in the country.
- A young woman is hit in the middle of the night by the utility van of a forest ranger. She was running breathlessly in the middle of the forest, half-naked and covered in blood. Blood that isn't her own - Hyppolite identifies the probable location from which the young woman was fleeing: a long-abandoned manor house. When Chloe and Rocher visit it, they understand the residence probably hosted some very special parties under the direction of the Marquis de Sade. Evidence seems to show that the last of these parties degenerated into murder.
- Hyppolite is about to get married in a country church.The priest and guests are there, everyone is ready.Except for his bride Jessica, who keeps everyone waiting. Finally, she calls it off with Hyppolite by telephone, at the last minute. Faced with her friend's despair, Fred makes the snap decision to convince him to marry her. They are made for each other and they know it.So the whole team attends Hyppolite and Fred's wedding. But at the end of the ceremony, Fred is brutally stabbed. Thirty-six hours earlier: Chloe, Rocher and Fred show up in a cemetery.During the burial of a young woman, her husband, wild with grief, succeeds in opening up the casket - only to reveal a plastic mannequin in the place of his wife's body. Organ trafficking? Necrophilia? The team pursues the investigation with great determination, not knowing it will lead them to the edge of the abyss.
- Chloe and Rocher get an urgent call to a freeway rest stop, where witnesses saw a woman try to get out of a car trunk, only to be beaten and forced back into the trunk by the driver. They find the car crashed into a nearby tree. The driver, a repeat murderer of women, fresh out of prison, was killed in the accident. His victim, a completely traumatized German woman, has no idea where she is or why she was abducted. But as the investigation unfolds, public opinion will turn on her, breeding outrage and revealing the poor woman in a new light.
- Adele joins the team to help clear charges against Chloe, who has been charged with murdering all the criminologists at the conference in Belle-Ile-en-Mer. The situation, which is far from enchanting for everyone involved, turns tragic when the team succeeds in identifying the scheming villain who framed Chloe. The department's worst demons return to haunt our investigators. Will Adele be able to take it?
- While Chloe meets her former professor and mentor at a criminology conference in Belle-Ile-en-Mer, Rocher is dealing with the murder of a young babysitter who was beaten to death. The investigation turns out to be much more personal than it would seem, with unexpected consequences that create tangles in Rocher's family ties. Stormy weather for Chloe as well, when the conference turns into a blood bath. Stuck on the little French island during a record storm, the criminologists are dropping like flies, and no one can figure out who the killer is.
- Seventy-year old Georges Vitalis abducts and attempts to kill Alice, the daughter of his future son in law, but is arrested just in the nick of time by Rocher and his team. Soon after, Natalia Volodia, a prostitute who had just arrived from the Ukraine, is found murdered in the old man's apartment. What is the link between the murder of a Ukrainian prostitute and a grandfather who is beginning to show signs of senility? The criminal brigade investigates the family of this unusual suspect and soon finds out that in many ways, his future son in law is not necessarily the good man he seems to be. The new criminologist Adele has joined the team for good, but has a tough time fitting in with her unconventional methods.
- A team of journalists has been given authorization to film Rocher and his team at work on a case. When they discover the dead body of Jessica Serrano, a waitress who was hiding several thousand Euros in cash in her apartment, Chloe is surprised to run into Joseph, a autistic genius she met a few years back in a psychiatric hospital. A brilliant mathematician, Joseph is none other than the No. 1 suspect of the investigation being filmed up close and personal with our heroes.
- A student opens fire for more than an hour on his fellow college students, and films the massacre on his cell phone. Rocher worries about not being able to find the crime weapon, but the end of the video shows the shooter being stopped by a professor, who then cold-bloodedly kills him with the weapon before running away. Why did this university teacher, who had already resolved the situation, suddenly turn into a murderer? Thus begins Chloe's analysis of one the most complex profiles she has ever faced. Meanwhile, Chloe meets a powerful businessman who asks her to help find his runaway daughter. Rocher continues his descent into hell with Volker, the perverse inmate who says he is willing to donate his kidney to save the life of Rocher's sister.
- The body of a young woman is found dismembered. Her murderer took care to send all of her body parts out to addresses all over France. The victim, 22-year old Violette Grimal, was living with her younger sister Eglantine. The criminal brigade finds Eglantine alone in their apartment, giving birth. The leads to find Violette's killer are weak, especially since her sister refuses to reveal the father of her child. A mysterious man she seems to fear, and who could well be the key to the investigation. After a year-long break, Lamarck comes back to the team. Chloe settles into her new life with her little adopted daughter Lili and her mother, with whom she is reunited after 20 years of absence.
- An extremely troubled young woman comes in to file rape charges with absolutely no memory of what happened the night before. She seems to have been drugged, then woke up naked in her bed at home. Chloe and Rocher take the case seriously, until they find out the young woman has already filed dozens of similar charges, each without a shred of evidence of an aggressor. Chloe sets out to understand what could be hiding behind the so-called lies of a woman who no one believes anymore.
- After months in a psychiatric institution, Chloe returns to find the criminal investigation division still in shock from Fred's death. She can't do field investigating, but Lamarck finds her a job in archives. Rocher, polite but distant, is in denial about his partner having set him up. Hyppolite, drowning his grief in bitterness, is persecuting all the new lieutenants appointed to replace Fred. In this tense atmosphere, Rocher witnesses the attempted kidnapping of a eighteen-year old girl. Detained and questioned, the perpetrator explains that he mistook the girl for his sister Coralie, who disappeared fifteen years ago when she was a little girl. Chloe is deeply moved by the story of this family who never got over the loss of little Coralie. Though forbidden to investigate, Chloe delves into the case. But in her efforts to help, she may reveal a truth even more appalling than the unresolved case of a missing child.
- Chloe and Rocher have managed to identify the man responsible for the disappearance of five women considered dead at the hospital, as well as the brutal attack on Fred: Doctor Tobias Roze. Rocher's secret is discovered; his relationship with Hyppolite gets tense. For Chloe, the only way to get information out of Roze is to destabilize one of his disciples in his presence. So Chloe and Rocher organize a confrontation in prison. Nothing happens as planned. They find themselves plunged into a sea of mutiny orchestrated by Roze. But the 800 prisoners aren't their only enemies; without her medicine, Chloe lives in constant risk of having a violent psychotic fit.
- Rocher and the new lieutenant Emma witness the death of a female student in prep school found suffering in the basement of her high school. The first witness accounts point the investigators to Alain Mandrillon, a lively literature teacher who gives his course content a sexual slant to lure certain students into his bed. When they go to his home to question him, they find him knocked unconscious by Jules Leroux, a repeat-offender delinquant in his senior year at the school. Two assaults in twelve hours - hardly a coincidence. But why was Jules going after his perverted teacher? If he wanted to avenge the death of the assassinated girl, why didn't the victim's boyfriend, a brilliant student and musical prodigy, participate in the the punitive expedition? The quest for answers leads Chloe and the team far away from the Parisian high school, all the way to Hanoi, Vietnam.
- While still relegated to the archive department, Chloe is called in by Rocher to investigate the disappearance of Arthur, eight years old. And with good reason: the boy, who disappeared when leaving school, goes to the same school as Lili. The video surveillance footage Hyppolite recovers shows the child peacefully following his teacher, whose identity and address turns out to be false. When the team finds out the kidnappers had at one point been planning to abduct Lili, Chloe has to draw on all her strength to keep from letting guilt impair her analytic abilities. Hyppolite, shocked by what she learns about Emma's identity, takes drastic measures to oust the new Lieutenant from the brigade.