Maigret (2025) s01e02 Episode Script

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Yeah, stay here, we'll need
to take your statement.
The transfer form's legit.
Look at the signature of
the authorising doctor.
Jules Maigret. Funny.
Boss, Raison was the one robber
we actually managed to arrest
and the gang just
spirited him away.
I thought you asked Cavre to
stay here and watch Raison.
I did.
CCTV give us anything?
Okay. So here are
our bank robbers,
leaving the ward with
their wounded friend,
uniform just standing around.
And Cavre nowhere.
They go into the elevator.
And out into the ambulance bay.
Ambulance waiting, doors open.
They load on their friend,
second the door's
closed, they're off.
They're all masked,
this is useless.
Keep your hair on, Janvier.
There.
Driver didn't bother
to wear a mask.
I know that face, he's
one of Traude's guys,
the helicopter pilot.
Very good, kid.
He is Rene Lussac.
Well done, Torrence.
Can you rewind?
Yep. They have a look-out.
It's Monique, Raison's
pretty fiancée.
But where's her baby gone?
Traude sent her
to scout the place
and "pretty" Monique took
you bozos for a ride.
What's she doing now?
Reporting mission accomplished.
-Can we get closer?
-Yeah.
That camera. Move over, Uncle.
Come on, come on.
Here we go.
Three, two, two, nine, eight
eight, one, nine.
I got everything
except the first digit.
That makes ten possibilities,
should be easy to trace.
She'll have called Traude.
Get his number, trace
all the numbers he calls
and drop a net over
the whole gang.
Call me when you have something.
Maigret.
I hear you just
lost your only lead.
-Yes.
-Can I ask why on earth
you didn't leave one
of your team here?
I made a mistake.
I also hear the robbers put
your name on the transfer form.
They seem to find this
almost as amusing as you do.
Well, I don't find it amusing.
But it interferes
with you investigating
the death of your
burglar, doesn't it?
I've spoken to the Director and
he agreed that Inspector Cavre
will now share the lead
in this investigation.
Do you have any objection?
No.
Goodnight.
Hey, are we good?
-Yeah, man.
-Let's go.
Sorry I'm late.
Are you shopping?
Just looking.
Bad day?
The score is now bank
robbers five, Maigret nil.
I'm now sharing
the investigation
with Inspector Cavre.
Do you mind?
I made us a brandade.
-Hmm.
-I hope it's not dried out.
That looks perfect.
When are you coming home?
Bad dream?
The same.
-My father wakes me.
-Mmm.
The church, Sophie.
She asks the same question.
"When are you coming home?"
You haven't been home since
your father died, have you?
No.
Well, maybe you should.
Make your peace.
You think there's peace to make?
I don't know.
But we're trying to have a baby.
You might become a dad, so
why shouldn't you dream
about your father and
about home
Saint-Fiacre?
We believe we've identified all
five members of Traude's gang,
plus Monique Delacroix,
who's working with them.
Very good.
What about Fernand's
wife, Rosalie?
I thought she was
working with them.
We think so, but her
phones have gone quiet
since we visited her, probably
because we visited her.
So what's your next move?
The plan is to mine GPS
and cell phone data,
track the gang in real time.
Put surveillance on them
24/7, cars, phone, home.
And then when we're ready to
swoop, we'll pull 'em all in.
Surveillance on six
people round the clock,
that'll be heavy on manpower.
Yeah, but we'll catch
them, all of them.
Then I'll ask for
more resources.
Come with me, help
me make my case.
Why are you letting
him take over?
We're working this together.
Well, you don't seem to
be working it at all.
I joined La Crim to work
with you not that idiot.
Er, that's enough, you two.
Yeah, well, they're
not wrong, are they?
As long as we catch them,
what does it matter
whose methods we use?
Anything new on
the Cuendet case?
I was told to leave him alone.
We never do what we're told.
So the limestone that
caved Cuendet's face in
is from a quarry that
supplies half of Paris.
That's not much use.
You should read more
carefully - it's Liais,
the finest Lutetian limestone,
from the Saint Maximin quarry,
which suggests its
owner is not poor.
He isn't.
You know who did it.
Try to get a look
inside his house.
He's either missing
an expensive lamp
or he's got one covered in
Cuendet's blood and brains.
What about the bank robberies?
That's what Inspector
Cavre asked me,
-very early this morning.
-What did you tell him?
That I only talk to
Chief Inspectors.
What are you working on?
The one bank robber
you did catch,
completely by accident,
I hear, then lost,
-leading to your demotion.
-Yes, Moers.
There's something
odd on his boots.
What?
Mud from the Seine.
What's a bank robber
doing wading in the Seine?
The Seine.
-Thank you.
-Have a good day.
Just get in, Maigret.
Why are you sniffing
around Azhar Rafik?
Why are you asking?
It's a national security matter.
A Syrian businessman is a
national security matter?
Pull the other one.
I'm asking politely,
why is your poodle Foulon
asking questions about Rafik?
-My poodle?
-He's working for you, isn't he?
Poodle. Mmm? Foulon
is more of a terrier.
For God's sake, Maigret,
don't be so damn touchy.
Look, we have an
interest in Rafik.
What? Oil? Weapons?
Will you get off your
high horse for one second?
Rafik is our eyes
and ears in Damascus,
in fact across the
whole of the Levant,
a region where France
has many interests.
I'm just a cop, this
is way over my head.
My wife is waiting for me at
home. Will you stop the van?
-Will you leave Rafik alone?
-No. Stop the van.
You don't give me orders.
Bloody fool!
Marriage licence!
A marriage licence?
Oh, I love you, Adam!
I apologise for turning
up at your home like this.
-It must be important.
-It is.
Colonel Danet said you
refused a direct order
to lay off a person of
interest to the DGSE.
I don't work for the
DGSE, neither do you.
We work with them.
We rely on them.
I told you to leave
that damn burglar alone.
It's not your case. Drop it!
-I can't.
-Do you want to lose your job?
I want to do my job.
A French citizen was murdered.
I know how, where, when, and
I'm close to knowing by whom.
How can you, a Prosecutor,
tell me to drop it?
May I introduce my wife.
Louise, this is
Prosecutor Kernavel.
Madame Maigret.
Louise, please.
It's nice to meet you at last.
Maigret speaks highly of you.
Can we offer you a drink?
That's very kind of
you, but no, thank you.
About your burglar,
Maigret, maybe you're right.
I'm sorry for the intrusion.
Goodnight.
Pont-Levis Security.
-What are we doing here?
-Damaging your careers.
So if you don't want to
get involved, walk away.
Is it about your burglar?
Then what do you need?
Pont-Levis handle
security for Azhar Rafik.
I believe that on the
night of July 30th,
my burglar got
past that security
and into Rafik's house,
I want to know how.
We need to look at
their CCTV back-up.
And they'll check with Rafik
before they let us see it.
We tell them we have information
about a kidnap threat
against Rafik and we want to see
if their security's been breached.
If they're still not happy,
we ask them if they
want Rafik to see this.
Pont-Levis security guards.
Asleep on the job.
Hello, Maigret?
Maigret? Hello?
Maigret, are you there?
Madame Prosecutor.
I need to talk to you.
Cavre now has the gang
under surveillance.
He wants to arrest.
You can arrest them,
but you'll release
them two hours later
because you have
nothing to hold them on.
-What would you do?
-Catch them in the act.
You mean, wait for
another robbery?
How do you even know
there's gonna be one?
Because they're still here,
still talking to one another.
That suggests there'll
be another target
and that will be the big one.
Maigret I'm under pressure.
I need a result.
Arresting the gang
would be a result.
It would make a splash,
even if, a year later,
it didn't get a conviction.
Do you understand me?
Yes.
-I mean, can you give me a day?
-To do what?
To find out what
they'll hit next.
How?
The jeweller's. That's the key.
I'm convinced it was
just a diversion.
Alright. One day.
Thank you.
What have we got?
Rafik's house is a fortress.
Every door has magnetic
and manual locks,
laser sensors cover every
inch of the exterior,
every element has
triple redundancies.
Basically impenetrable.
How long until we find
out how Cuendet got in?
Already know. He
hacked into Pont-Levis.
The system does a routine
check for upgrades
at 11:55pm every day.
July 30th, an
upgrade is installed.
But it's not an upgrade,
it's a software patch,
just for Rafik's house.
It over-rode all the codes and
set the electronic keypads to 00.
And copied a two-minute loop
onto all the security cameras
starting at precisely
01:05am on July 31st.
Watch.
Exterior of Rafik's house.
See that?
In 12 seconds, you'll see the
headlights of the same two cars.
The cameras haven't worked since
July 31st and no one noticed?
No. The patch and the loop were
on a 30 minute clock themselves,
then they reversed
the execute commands,
returned the system
to normal operation.
There. Same two cars.
-So that's how he got in.
-It might be how he got in,
but it doesn't prove he got in.
It doesn't show what
he did when he got in.
It just shows, well, nothing.
Well good job.
Report to Lucas,
she needs your help
for surveillance on
the bank robbers.
I'm gonna have one more look at
the jeweller's in Rue Charlot.
You said there were
two city offices
and one of them was
something to do with water?
Er, yeah, some kind of archive,
but no-one actually works there.
-Did they have security?
-On the building, yeah. Why?
Don't you have
your own computer?
Brilliant. The Seine. Why?
You said the robber had
river mud on his boots.
-Which part of the river?
-Mud and faecal matter,
-and cocaine and
-Moers, which part of the river?
Have a look.
Er I see nothing. Squiggles.
They're plant spores, from ferns
only found in the Himalayas.
It's a clue.
Jardin des Plantes.
Correct.
The gardens are
right on the Seine.
The bank robbers aren't going
to bust in the front door,
they're going to come
in through the sewers.
Somewhere
here.
-Lucas?
-Mm-hmm?
Get the names and
addresses of every bank
on a sewer line or tunnel
within one kilometre
of the Jardin des Plantes.
Boss, you've got to tell
me what this is about.
It's about water.
The raid on the jeweller's
was just a diversion
so the gang could get
into the water archives.
The archives aren't staffed but
they have armed security 24/7.
I checked the CCTV from
the day of the robbery.
The minute the car
hits the jeweller's,
both guards run out
into the street.
Three seconds later, a
man in a baseball cap
enters the building
and goes upstairs.
95 seconds later he comes out,
rolled-up plans under his arms.
Remember what I said about
About Fernand and
city infrastructure.
Exactly. So identify all the
targets and recall the team.
Inspector Cavre's got everyone watching
the gang, we can't just pull them off.
The surveillance
is a waste of time.
-But you agreed to it.
-Did I?
Well, anyway, get them all back.
If Cavre objects, then
tell him to call me.
What if Kernavel objects?
Then tell her to call me.
I've gotta go.
Evelyne?
Come in.
-Justine.
-I got in touch.
-We've become friends.
-Where is my hat?
The hat she made me.
-I will return it, I promise.
-You see?
You can't trust any of them.
Evelyne, you said you received
something from Honoré?
If you show it to
him he'll take it
and it still won't
bring Honoré back.
It came in the
post this morning.
The Monaco Pendant.
Justine's right.
If you do give this to me as
police I will have to take it.
You see?
Will it tell you who killed him?
I know who killed him, I did.
I said I liked the
stupid necklace.
Why didn't I just
keep my mouth shut?
If it wasn't this, it
would've been something else.
It was in his nature.
Don't blame yourself.
You made him happy.
Go
take it.
Use it.
Nearest post office
is Rue Beccaria.
This was franked
in Rue Beccaria.
You think he posted it here?
He didn't want to get stopped
with what he'd stolen.
He got in, got
the item, got out.
Posted it here in an envelope
already addressed
to his girlfriend.
But then they caught
him, and what?
Beat him to death in the street?
-Good afternoon.
-Get out of the way.
What the hell do you
think you're doing?
Give me that phone or
I'll kick your teeth in.
Really?
Sorry. I thought you were a pap.
Just leave it, darling.
Nice car.
What's the trunk space like?
Does it have room for a body?
No. They didn't beat him
to death in the street.
They dragged him back inside
and beat him to death in there.
Maigret?
Do you have any news for me?
Not yet, you gave me a day.
Inspector Cavre.
We waited too long, they're
already on the move.
A van picked up Traude,
what, ten minutes ago.
We're tracking their phones but
we should really pull 'em in,
we just don't have enough
manpower to follow them all.
He says the whole gang's moving.
Are they going to the same
place or a different place?
Cavre, where are they going?
They all seem to
be leaving Paris.
One's in a taxi heading to Orly.
-They're leaving Paris.
-No, they're not.
-Maigret, they are!
-I bet you they're not.
Oh, for God's sake.
Inspector, arrest them all.
Yes, ma'am.
All units, this is
Alpha. Pull them in.
Pull them in.
Yeah, I'll tell her.
See you back here.
That was Cavre. The gang
all dumped their phones
at exactly the same
time, then disappeared.
If you hadn't taken your
team off surveillance,
then we wouldn't have lost them,
not every single one of them.
Possibly.
You had a theory
about the robbers.
-Is it still just a theory?
-No.
5th Arrondissement,
Jardin des Plantes,
the major private
banks and vaults.
They will rob one
of these banks,
and they will come
at it from below,
using the sewers and
drainage tunnels.
Okay. What's your evidence?
-Plant spores and faeces.
-Plant spores and faeces?
That and the fact that when
the gang robbed the jeweller's,
they also raided the archives
of the Paris Water Authority
where all the old
sewer maps are kept.
So when will they hit
one of these banks?
-Don't know.
-You don't know?
-So it could be never.
-Not never.
-But you don't know.
-No.
Disappointing.
I have a meeting with the
Director and he will be
disappointed.
Any point in us staying, boss?
Yes, if you want to catch them.
So, you really think
they're gonna do something?
I do. Lucas, you
should order in.
Menus.
What are you having, Janvier?
Fake meat and fresh air salad?
Better than a dead
cow, planet killer.
Lebanese for me.
Always Lebanese.
-I thought you were Moroccan.
-I am.
What kind of name's
Lapointe then?
It's French.
Tell me something.
Why would a thief only break
into houses to steal things
when the owners are there?
Perhaps he wants to see if the
things are in the right hands.
The right hands?
Perhaps the burglar thinks
that too few have too much.
Boss.
Boss!
The security company
for the Banque Privée
de Zurich just called.
Their motion sensors
have detected vibrations
under the bank's vault.
They say it could
be a false alarm.
No. It's them.
Alarms have started.
Five minutes.
Get the drills out, okay?
-Let's push those locks through.
-Yeah.
Let's go! Clock's ticking.
C'mon. Just cash and
bonds. Fast as you can.
C'mon, clock's ticking.
Martin, round there.
Alright, let's go.
Down.
Okay, next one.
Let's go.
What's the hold-up, Martin?
-Hello.
-Put down your guns.
You really want to turn a ten
year sentence into thirty?
End of the road, guys.
Got a woman here.
Hello, Rosalie.
Monique!
How's the baby?
Alright, watch your head.
Well, you did it.
Congratulations.
I got lucky.
I called it one way,
you called it the other.
Don't patronise me.
Are you okay, boss?
I just wonder why
Rosalie wasn't here.
And you know who
else wasn't here?
Rene Lussac, the
helicopter pilot.
Correct.
And they took Jacques Raison,
a man with an arm in a
sling, but not Lussac?
They came in through the sewers,
why would they need
a helicopter pilot?
Exactly. Why?
Torrence, I want you
to watch Rosalie's.
For how long?
As long as it takes. Got it.
Lucas, keep in
touch with La Tour.
I want updates on
Fernand twice a day.
Four times a day.
Goodnight.
Chief Inspector.
My congratulations.
A job well done.
Thank you, Madame Prosecutor.
You could have made
it easier, you know,
if you'd shared some
of your reasoning.
We are on the same side.
I don't really care about sides.
They stop people seeing
what's in front of them.
Well, thank you for
that piece of wisdom.
-You're welcome.
-Is there anything else?
Yes. This is the
Honoré Cuendet dossier.
It was compiled by
Inspector Foulon and myself.
It shows how Cuendet
died, and where, and why,
and who killed him.
Show him in.
Emil Danet is here.
I wonder why.
Perhaps you should
care about sides.
Maigret.
Mathilde, how are you?
I'm well, thanks, Emil. Please.
Oh. I need to confirm
that our young friend here
will stop harassing Azhar
Rafik, who, as I told him,
is an important
intelligence source.
Maigret doesn't work
for me so I can't.
No, but you do speak
to the Director
and you do decide whether
the case proceeds or not.
Yes, I do decide. And here
is more than sufficient evidence
for the arrest of Azhar Rafik.
Well, that would be
a serious mistake.
The interests of the state
Does Rafik have
diplomatic status?
No. He's an intelligence source.
I don't want to embarrass
the intelligence services,
nor Monsieur Rafik,
so I won't arrest him.
But I will suggest a compromise.
Maigret will prepare
a reconstruction.
He will present his evidence at
the scene of the alleged crime.
Rafik and his lawyer can
challenge the evidence.
Then I'll decide
on the next step.
No, I can't agree to that.
Oh, I'm sorry, Emil, is
that your call to make?
Are you Rafik's lawyer now?
It's this or I arrest him.
Sides, Maigret?
Over to you.
Thank you.
What's a reconstruction?
It's a re-enactment.
The law allows the police to
show how a crime took place,
at the scene of the crime, in
the presence of the accused.
The victim's family
can attend as well.
That's you.
What do you advise?
It has to be your decision.
It was a brutal crime
so the reconstruction
will be brutal too.
Do you want to
upset us even more?
I want to upset them.
So they know what they've done.
So they find the
knowledge hard to bear.
Big day.
For both of us.
Will you call me as soon as you
know the result of the test?
This reconstruction is
for the police to describe
the events they allege
took place in this house,
which led to the death
of Honoré Cuendet.
Normally a reconstruction
takes place after the suspect
has been arrested,
interviewed and charged.
Out of respect
for Monsieur Rafik
and Mademoiselle Buondonno,
we are giving them
an early chance
to challenge the evidence.
Madame Tielemans, can we start?
As long as it's clear that my
clients are here voluntarily
and can end this
whenever they choose.
Yes. Chief Inspector Maigret.
The dossier contains copies
of all written and
photographic evidence.
July 30th, 11:55pm.
Pont-Levis Security is hacked.
A software patch is installed,
disarming every
lock in the house.
At 1:05am on July 31st, a
two-minute loop is copied
onto every security camera,
effectively blinding them.
That allowed Honoré Cuendet
to get access to the house.
What about the security guards?
In your dossiers you'll
see photos of the guards
in their van asleep.
Cuendet knew this because
he'd watched this house
for six weeks, watched it
from the Hotel Le Bouglion.
Once inside the house,
Cuendet made his way upstairs
and into the master bedroom.
Where he took what he came
for, the Monaco pendant,
which was on Ms
Buondonno's bedside table.
As if she would leave something
so valuable beside her bed.
According to the interview
with Ms Buondonno
in the magazine Luxe Plus Luxe
that's exactly what she does.
Cuendet took the pendant
and left the room.
He went back down the
stairs. He left the house.
Oh, so he was
alive when he left?
And if the cameras were blind,
how are you so sure that
he was even in the house?
You don't know.
You have nothing.
Not quite nothing. Evelyne.
I received this in
the mail two days ago.
With a note from Honoré saying
it would look better on me.
I don't want it. You have it.
That's the pendant he
took from your bedside.
He had the envelope with him.
He posted it in the mailbox
outside the side door,
seconds before you caught him.
You caught him but you
couldn't find the pendant.
You dragged him inside.
Is this really necessary?
A reconstruction must also
show how the death happened.
Cuendet was hit from behind,
by a square object
made of limestone.
He was stunned, not killed.
He was turned over
and hit again.
He was hit in the
face five times.
Then he was hit
another five times,
this time by a
left-handed person.
Those were the blows
that killed him.
What hand are you
holding your pen in?
Then Honoré Cuendet was
stuffed in the trunk of a car
and dumped on the
banks of the Seine,
where his body was
found the next morning.
That is our reconstruction of
the death of the man you loved.
Madame Tielemans?
Monsieur Rafik?
This is all a fantasy.
You can't prove he
was in the house,
you can't prove a thing.
But I can try.
Inspector Foulon, please
arrest Monsieur Rafik
and Mademoiselle Buondonno.
-Alright, on your feet.
-Get off!
Time to go.
Justine, Evelyne, shall we go?
Yeah.
My home is your home.
Can I go now?
I'll see you again.
La Crim, Lucas.
Thanks. Er, hold on. Boss.
My contact at La Tour prison.
Gustave Fernand's just
checked into the infirmary
complaining of severe
abdominal pain.
They've called a
medevac helicopter.
La Crim.
Oh, hello, Uncle.
Torrence. He says Rosalie
just left the house,
carrying a small suitcase.
Get onto the Prefecture. They
have to track that helicopter.
-But it'll just be going to
-It isn't going to any hospital.
Tell Torrence to follow Rosalie.
She must not see him.
You worked it out?
This is the deal Fernand made.
He gave Traude the
plans for the robberies,
in return Traude is going
to spring him from prison.
Guess who's flying
the helicopter?
Helicopter pilot Rene Lussac.
Hello, Rosalie.
So Nicolas Traude
kept his promise.
No, get off me!
Get off me!
Get off me.
Get off me!
Go.
Armed police!
-Police! Don't move!
-Police!
Stop right there. Do not move!
Do not move!
On your knees.
I'm sorry, Rosalie.
At least you'll be together,
even if it is in prison.
That's enough.
Oof! She got you boss.
She must like you.
Do you want to add assaulting
an officer to everything else?
-Take them in.
-Come on, love.
Darling, I'm sorry, I just
I think I'm gonna start moving
the stuff out of the spare room.
You've done the test?
I've done the test.
I'll be home as soon as I can.
I'm afraid I've, um
been in a bit of a fight.
Oh What?
Come home.
Um, home soon.
So, two victories.
The bank robbers and the
killers of your burglar.
Three victories. You. Us.
All three of us.
Um, there you are. Good as new.
Ignore it.
Oh, it's Foulon.
Aristide?
Thank you for letting me know.
One less victory. Honoré
Cuendet's killers got away.
I'm sorry, I have to go out.
I won't be long.
Well?
I didn't come all this
way just to be stared at.
Where are Rafik and Buondonno?
Probably halfway to Damascus.
-Was it you?
-No.
More likely a
balls-up at your end,
or the Syrians sneaked him out.
Rafik was of value to them too.
I told you to leave
it alone, Maigret.
Now you've lost your
case, I've lost my source.
Nobody wins.
Especially not Justine Cuendet.
Maybe she should have brought up
her son to be a better citizen.
I bet this'll ease her pain.
She's the mother of
a thief after all.
She can share it with that
pretty little hat maker.
Do you know what they'll
want to do with this?
Yes, cash it in,
live it large for the
rest of their lives.
Everyone's a saint till
they get the smell of money.
I should make you swallow this.
No, please!
They already said
they don't want it,
or your dirty money.
Okay?
Not perfect, but better.
Where were we?
We were celebrating.
Just a sip.
Here.
To us, Maigret.