35 years ago, 2 boys, one of them the Creepy Victor, are
telling ghost stories before being put to bed. Victor even acts like a real boy
and not a creepy creepy killer. But in the night there are several loud bangs –
and screaming. Victor hides in the closet and a masked man comes into the room
and finds him – but tells Victor to hide, be quiet and not let another man find
him. To keep him calm he tells Victor to think of something happy, to sing a
song in his head. A song from school. But the second man comes in as the first
is talking to Victor – he tries to assure him that a child won’t talk, but the
second man shoots Victor. Blood leaks from the closet
And in the present day, Victor wakes up from a nightmare. Where there’s another scream – one of Julie’s neighbours has found the dead, murdered, cat eaten body of Miss Payet – Julie’s annoying neighbour.
At the Séguret household, awkward family life continues
and Claire agrees they should move for Camille’s sake – but she’s still not
jumping back into a relationship with Jérôme. And the police arrive to take Jérôme
for questioning about Lucy – he was… associated
with her after all.
Camille doesn’t feel the need to leave – she can keep the
Alice ruse up and she knows Léna doesn’t want to. Léna’s more concerned with
the scar on her back that has grown massively and nastily – and now seems to be
making her weak; she falls down the stairs and Claire calls for an ambulance.
Thomas is busy using police resources and CCTV to stalk
Adèle when he now has 2 murder cases on his books – and he’s still regarding Simon
as a suspect apparently because of his jealousy.
Simon is staying in Adèle’s attic, harboured by her. When she takes him breakfast he grabs her and starts kissing her and taking off her clothes – he doesn’t listen when she tells him to stop, to wait – until she slaps him. He apologises and eats his breakfast in an incredibly moody fashion; and he has a plan all worked out, they’ll move into the shelter, taking Chloe with them. She is less than eager and he has some moody sniping about Thomas
Thomas finishes his essential stalking to turn up at Miss
Payet’s murder with Laure, reporting no sign of a break in and giving Laure a
chance to interview Julie. The tension is still very very thick but a light
going out in his hiding spot scares Victor, making him remember his murder and
he runs out to hug Julie. Laure quickly finds out Victor’s story and thinks
Julie has lost her ever loving mind and asks why she didn’t turn him over to
the police to try and find his parents – Julie says she doesn’t trust the
police. She’s good at turning that knife. Hmmm... given the amount of stabbing
on the show that may be a poor choice of idiom.
On the edge of town, Pierre runs into a roadblock that’s
been set up to find Simon, gets a call from Claire telling him Léna’s in the
hospital and sees a convoy of tankers and lorries presumably related to the
rapidly depleting dam water.
He goes to the hospital and Camille talks about the scar on Léna appearing when she returned – she think it’s because of her and Léna agrees. She leaves – and Pierre stops Claire following, going instead to give Camille a not very useful fluffy sermon assuming all is good and kind.
Adèle and Simon get all hot for each other looking at
Chloe’s drawings and this time we have mutual passion in kissing and undressing
– all watched by Thomas on CCTV. This man has wired his entire house to spy on Adèle?!
That’s not creepy at all! And, hello, murders? Remember? A little more important
than your fiancée getting it on with her fist love, the father of her child,
who is also almost a decade younger than you (does it sound bad when I put it
like that?)
Thomas decides to talk to the priest about resurrection.
There follows a dance where the priest can’t quite say it’s IMPOSSIBLE because
that would be theologically problematic, but also doesn’t want the police
captain running around thinking it happens. The vagueness doesn’t satisfy
Thomas
And on the “this is so a bad idea” category, Camille
decides to hang out with Frédéric. Meanwhile Léna is undergoing tests in the
hospital, the only thing she can think of that could have caused it is falling
into a chair a year ago at the pub. Must have been one hell of a chair. Claire
tries to talk to her but Léna asks her to leave
Perhaps shedding more light on things, Jérôme is being
questioned by Bruno and another policeman about his time with Lucy – and how, a
year ago, he brought Léna to the hospital with back injuries. He denies hitting
her; she fell. He also denies that he was having sex with Lucy, denies that she
was a prostitute.
To the lake! Let’s have more ominous rumblings about the
lake water dropping, no racks in the dam and the power station flooding. No
answers of course.
Chloe returns home to Adèle, still disturbed by the
noises in the loft that make her look up – and see a camera in her room. Adèle
goes up to see Simon and discuss Thomas spying on them – and Chloé follows the
sound of their voices and finds them, getting an introduction to undead daddy.
They tell her he’s an angel.
Laure returns to see Julie that night to take Victor to
Helping Hands. Julie objects and says she knew she couldn’t trust Laure (ouch)
but falls silent when she sees Victor’s latest pictures. Pictures of Miss Payet’s
dead body, the wounds on her stomach being eaten by her cats. Aha, Julie, you
have seen just how creepy the creepy kid is! Stunned into silence, she just
watches as Victor is taken away.
In a stunning lack of any kind of ethics, one of the police
tells Pierre about Jérôme being accused of beating Léna and he, in turn, calls
and tells Claire. And tells her she has to forgive him – yeah, not so much.
Which is when Jérôme arrives home; she asks him if he hit Léna and he doesn’t
answer. She kicks him out
Simon is spotted by the police but manages to escape when the power for the whole town goes out, taking out the CCTV
And the lights in the almost deserted Lake Pub where Camille is making Frédéric very nervous with her direct questions and flirting. She also shows she knows that Frédéric slept with Léna during the bus accident. And like then, the twins seem to share feeling, Léna feeling Frédéric’s hand on Camille’s arm. She leaves the hospital and goes to the pub. She confronts Camille and blames the car on her in the middle of the now crowded pub and demands Camille tell everyone who she is. Camille is silent, so Léna tells him the truth. Of course, no-one believes her and as Léna becomes more hysterical – with Camille insisting she is Alice – Frédéric assumes there’s something wrong with Léna who leaves in tears.
Thomas returns home to Adèle and she asks about the
cameras – they’ve been there for 2 years. He tries to excuse it by referring to
her past suicide attempt, saying he used them if she didn’t answer the phone.
She says she’s leaving – and he responds by telling her Simon didn’t really die
in a car accident; the priest asked them to say that, he actually died from… I’m
going to guess suicide here
Back to the police station and Laure is told that Lucy
was a medium (presumably what Jérôme was seeing her about). Speaking to the
dead was something she did during sleeping with the men It seems – well that’s
one way to try and dodge accusations of prostitution. Laure also gets the Post
Mortem results on Miss Payet and calls Julie to confirm Payet wasn’t killed by
the man who attacked her. Apparently it was suicide.
Suicide? She stabbed herself a dozen times in the stomach in a suicide? That kind of makes Victor MORE creepy, not less.
Victor is at Helping Hands and, I think, so is Mrs. Costa
(I think that’s her). It seems they intend to put him in a dormitory with at
least one adult? Yeah social services in this town leaves much to be desired.
Pierre tries to cheer him up by telling him to think of something happy, to
sing a song in his head, perhaps one from school.
Ooookay, the exact same words as the accomplice of the
man who murdered him 35 years ago. Not so good.
At Adèle’s, Chloe draws a picture of Simon – shooting himself.
Looks like I was right
Hurting and bleeding from her spine, Léna staggers into
the underpass. She collapses and Serge arrives and bends down over her helpless
body.
Well, Simon’s cuteness points dropped several notches. I’m
relieved that him continuing to molest Adèle when she said “no” didn’t turn
into passionate sex because that would have been vomitworthy – but it was a
cringeworthy scene. But they both forget that and later arehappy to get all hot
and sweaty together; it was passed over easily
To be honest, I’m not keen on Thomas or Simon and Adèle
may need to find some hills to flee to. Simon is moody as hell – which is
understandable, but he also needs slapping to make a no stick and hasn’t ever
asked what Adèle wants. While Thomas is outright stalking Adèle and derailing a
virtual serial killer investigation for the sake of keeping Simon away from Adèle
rather than talking to her.
I don’t like the depiction of women in general we’ve seen
on the show so far; they’re so passive. Léna is afraid and lashing out and
needing support and guidance. Julie is a victim, clearly hurting badly and in
need of some support and help; Adèle has clearly had problems, is easily lead
and has two very controlling men pulling her in different directions. Claire is
incredibly passive and constantly looks to Pierre or Jérôme for guidance (this
episode showed some determination to protect her daughter – but even that was
instigated by Pierre) We also have a pretty large collection of victimised women
from the murders. We have Laure, but the most we know about her is her massive
guilt about Julie. Ironically, the strongest female character is Camille, the
only woman to bluntly say how things are and challenge what is expected of her
without it being seen as a symptom of her sad vulnerability. And she’s a
teenager, little more than a child.
There’s a lot of characters here which means for a lot of
storylines. More, I don’t think we’re
getting any answers to these storylines – we’re constantly raising more and
more questions.
