Dr. Knock (Knock)

Your luggage is already here, dear colleague.

Yes, Dr. Parpalaid. - Jean will place it near him.

The three of us can go in the back.

The body is quite spacious, the seats very comfortable.

It's not as tight a build as nowadays.

Is everything okay? Is the fuel injection ready?

In both cylinders? Did you clean the spark plugs?

It would be wise after an 11 km drive.

Make sure the carburetor is sealed properly.

Perfect, perfect.

Everything is fine. I'll sit down...

Excuse me.

This folding chair feels more like a collapsible seat.

This is a Torpedo, something I regret...

since we bought it. - It does have...

some advantages over the old model.

We can't do without a car. - Certainly not in our line of work.

My dear successor, you made a good deal.

You fell for a man who wanted to offer you a reckless act.

My husband wants to finish his career in a big city.

You get my patients for very little money.

You think so? - That's correct.

I hate negotiating. - Without my wife's rheumatism,

I would have said no.

Does Mrs. Parpalaid have rheumatism? - Unfortunately, yes.

Are there many rheumatism patients here?

Only rheumatism patients.

That's important for anyone wanting to study...

rheumatism. - I was thinking about the patients.

No. The people here wouldn't go to a doctor anymore...

for rheumatism, just as you wouldn't go to the priest...

to ask for rain. - That's a shame.

Oh, we'll never get there like this.

Luckily I brought my umbrella.

If there's no rheumatism, should we compensate

with pneumonia and pleurisy?

Those are rare.

The climate is harsh, and weak newborns die...

within six months, without the doctor intervening.

Those who survive are tough boys. We have the heart patients,

strokes. They don't hesitate and die instantly.

But with those sudden deaths, did the

treatments you gave fail?

Of course, yes.

Then we still have the flu. Not ordinary flu, but...

global flu epidemics.

It's like wine from an exceptional year. If I have to wait...

for the next global epidemic...

I've seen two. The one in 1889-1890, and the one in...

1918.

In 1918, we had many deaths here.

Much more than in the big cities.

With our percentage, we left 83 departments behind.

Did they get treated? - Yes, especially towards the end.

We earned well with Saint Michel.

Here clients pay with Saint Michel.

Listen to how the engine starts again.

What does that expression mean?

Which one? - The Saint Michel one.

Is it the equivalent of the Greek Kalendae or Saint Never?

Saint Michel falls at the end of September.

And now it's early October.

So you chose the right moment to sell.

For a simple consultation, clients pay you well?

On Saint Michel, that's the custom.

If the client only comes for a consultation and you don't see him again...

On Saint Michel.

People come...

just for a consultation. - What about regular patients?

Which clients?

Those who come a few times a week...

or a month. - Do you hear that? Clients like...

at the baker and butcher. The doctor is deluded.

Jean, stop.

We shouldn't have stopped. We're unlucky to go further.

With this stop, we can stretch our legs.

And enjoy the view. - Yes.

Believe me, here you have the best type of clients.

Those who let you be independent. - Independent?

You have good ones. - Let me explain.

You are not at the mercy of a few

clients who, one day, get cured and

whose loss affects your budget. Depending

on everything, you don't need to depend on anyone.

I should have brought some worms and a fishing rod.

But maybe we can find that there?

The situation is becoming clear.

You transferred me for a few thousand-franc notes...

your clients who...

are in every way comparable to this car...

for which one could say that at 19 francs, it's not too expensive, but at 25,

it's overpriced. Since I like to do things right,

I'll give you 30.

I won't let it go for 6000. - I expected that.

I can't buy it. It's a shame, I thought...

of turning it into a Breton wardrobe.

As for your clients, I would refrain, if there was time.

You are the victim of a misunderstanding.

Because of you, I am a victim. If someone is fooling me,

I will not tolerate it. - Fooled you?

Protest, dear friend.

You are Doctor Knock, right?

You set the payment term to three months, while...

for the clientele it should be one year.

That needs to be corrected.

Aren't you going to pay us on the agreed dates?

I would gladly pay you, but it's beyond my means...

to move in on Saint-Juttemis.

So Saint Michael. - Correct.

It's going to rain. Let's take shelter in that shed.

Yes.

Have a seat.

Medicine is fertile ground, but crops don't improve by themselves.

Your youthful dreams misled you.

Your proposal is full of inaccuracies. I am 40.

My dreams are not youthful dreams.

But you've never practiced the profession. - Another mistake.

But you only completed your dissertation this year.

Yes, 32 pages on supposed health conditions.

With the motto I gave to Claude Bernard:

"Healthy people are ignorant sick people."

We agree on that.

About my theory? - About the fact...

that you are a beginner. - My studies are recent,

but I have practiced medicine...

for 20 years. - Without a degree? Secretly?

In front of the world. Not in some provincial hole, but in...

an area of 7,000 km. - I don't understand.

It's simple. 20 years ago I had to stop studying Romance languages,

I became a salesman at "Dames de France de Marseille."

Tie department. I lost my job.

When I walked along the harbor, I saw on a steamship of...

1,700 tons, bound for India, a poster asking for a doctor,

the doctor title was not required.

What would you have done?

But... Undoubtedly nothing.

You have no vocation. I signed up.

There is a dislike for wrong situations, I said...

that I was not a real doctor. And I added that I didn't yet know...

what the subject of my dissertation would be.

They said they did not care about the

doctor title or the title of my dissertation.

So only the question of compensation remained.

You have no knowledge at all?

Since childhood I had a passion for advertisements...

in medical journals, and also instruction leaflets that...

I found in boxes with pills and syrup bottles.

By the age of 9, I already knew the complete instructions about...

their weak effect against constipation.

These texts made me familiar with the style of my profession.

My current method flows...

from this. - I'd like to know that.

I don't do propaganda.

Excuse me.

I need to disassemble the carburetor. - Go ahead.

If our conversation continues, I told this young man...

to clean the carburetor.

How did you manage on that boat?

I spent the last nights pondering before boarding.

Six months of practice onboard helped me manage my plans.

Did you care for many people? - The crew and seven passengers.

35 people in total.

That's quite a few. - Any deaths?

No, none. That was against my principles.

I support reducing mortality.

Like we all do. - I wouldn't have believed that.

We must work on patient preservation.

There is truth in what the doctor said.

Did you have many sick people? - 35.

Everyone? - Yes.

How did they operate on the ship? - We had a...

shift system in place.

Say, you really are a doctor now, right?

I am doctor.

Do you plan to apply your methods here? - I'd rather have a big city.

How many inhabitants in Saint-Maurice?

3,500 in the urban area and nearly 6,000 in the municipality.

And the canton?

At least double.

Is the population poor? - Actually very wealthy.

Many live off their income.

Terribly stingy.

Is there no bad trait?

What do you mean?

Opium, cocaine, black mass, sodomy, politics.

I've never heard of opium, nor black mass.

They are interested in politics as everywhere...

And adultery? - What?

Adultery, has it increased significantly?

Is it a subject of intense activity?

There are, as everywhere, cheated spouses, but not excessively.

People watch you closely.

You see nothing that could be an issue for me regarding sects...

superstition, secret societies?

In the past, maybe.

In short, the medical era can begin.

I get the impression you have wasted a wonderful opportunity.

It was gilded, and now you must leave.

Clenching your buttocks on a mattress full of obligations. You, madam, with...

three rows of pearls around your neck. Both in...