HIP - High Intellectual Potential

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Morgane?

Ludo left me.

I can't stay with Gilles,

I have too many memories. -Come in, come in.

It'll be ok.

It'll be ok.

Don't worry, it's just for a night or two.

I'll bounce back.

2 MONTHS LATER

TV, Your transfer to the Caymans, 2 MONTHS LATER

your relationship with Alice...

Come on! It's time to get up!

Come on, let's tidy up a bit too.

Leave me alone, can't you see I'm "bad"?

Morgane, you haven't come to work in two months.

You know what would do you good?

A little investigation!

You do it. Move, it's my soap opera.

Very well, stay here if you want,

but I'm warning you, you're missing

an extraordinary crime scene.

Gilles says we could have a cross between

"The Black Dahlia" and "The Mystery of the Yellow Room."

The victim is a judge,

murdered in her courtroom.

Murdered in her courtroom.

Her body was found in

a windowless office.

And most mysteriously,

It was locked from the inside.

Oh, you were fucking with me with "The Mystery of the Yellow Room"?

In this place with 15 windows and 18 doors?

Yes, well, I didn't have all the information.

Oh yeah?

Hello, Morgane!

Happy to see you.

, Me too, yippee!

She needs to dive back in,

will you brief her?

will you brief her?

Uh huh, yeah;

Carole Massart, 49, judge, she presided over an assize jury.

She went to her office for a file, but

never came back. -Ah!

A willful murder.

Intriguing, right? -I'm very intrigued here.

Dr. Bonnemain,

do you think the modus operandi is particularly sophisticated?

No no, not at all, a cerebral hemorrhage caused

by a blow from a paperweight like this, a classic.

But nothing is certain,

we have to finish the autopsy.

Gilles? -Yeah?

Gilles, have you found any gray areas

in the victim's private life?

Uh... Yes, yes, yes, of course. Listen... uh...

She's single, no children.

A big earner.

And a very very weird thing,

she drove an automatic.

No!

Gilles, you have to help me stimulate Morgane.

I can't take it anymore seeing her depressed,

you have to motivate her.

Morgane, you found something?

The setting.

It was the jurors who warned me that Madame Massart was not coming back.

So I went to look in her office.

But she was...

Sorry, I was her clerk for 15 years.

She was an exceptional magistrate,

brilliant, and very human too.

Mr. Le Goff, when did you find the body?

It was 10,21 am.

No! It was 10,22 am.

Your workstation is in Judge Massart's office?

LE GOFF, Yes, that's right. -Where were you this morning?

With the budget cuts, I work in several departments.

At the beginning of the week, I am in Family Affairs.

On Thursday afternoons I'm with Madame in

the Court of Appeals,

of a thousands cops the Court of Appeals,

except during school holidays. Then-

If I understood right, Judge Massart was assassinated

before the verdict in an ongoing trial.

-Yes. -What kind of case?

An involuntary manslaughter during a hazing.

Highly charged.

Let me explain the context.

If you followed the debate over article 225-16-1 of the penal code...

Yes? Hello Henri, how are you?

Morgane, I have an urgent question for you,

What do you put in your blanquette sauce so that it's so tender?

Henri, there's no "my blanquette,"

I've never made it in my life.

Ok, well I don't know anymore...

ok, well I don't know anymore...

It was Ludo, Henry.

Ludo was the cook.

Ah yes, it must be Ludo. How are you doing then?

Well, so-so.

It's not as much fun here since your departure.

I was shocked when I saw the new owners of your house, that I can tell you

Wait, new owners?

They sold it, your house,

I didn't tell you?

No. -Ah...

And the children, how are they?

If you need "babysitting,"

I have my metro card.

Henri, I have to go. We miss you too. Gotta go.

Kisses.

Can you tell me more about the ongoing trial?

It happened on a prospective-students weekend.

A student, Adrien Modier, died after a coma.

It was a case of seniors forcing freshmen to drink.

Mm hmm. -Hence the involuntary homicide.

Who was at the hearing this morning?

Who would have wanted to prevent a verdict?

I don't know, it was cancelled.

The jurors know the verdict, but they are bound to secrecy.

It was "Guilty"!

They were going to declare them Guilty by a 6-2 vote.

Absolute majority!

Only the judge's input is missing,

but that wouldn't have changed anything.

Morgane, you did not break jury secrecy?

I didn't break anything, we chatted.

ok, initially, the setup favored the defendants,

They paid for "pit bull" lawyers,

and witnesses who asserted that the boy was drinking alone,

of his own free will on the night he died.

So it smelled like the acquittal of the year.

And then! A Saint-Tropez twist!

The judge called the victim's mother to the stand.

She explains that her son

never drank a drop of alcohol,

because his father died of alcoholism.

So, big trauma, yada yada,

In short, according to her it was impossible

that he drank without being forced.

That turned around the opinion in the room.

From there it went downhill.

Members of the student body who came to support their friends

started to cause an uproar,

but the judge acts.

She clears the room.

In the days that follow, according to the jurors

the judge had a complete attitude change.

She is no longer very focused.

She doesn't seem to be listening, she's on her phone.

There's even one who says she was seen crying in the toilet.

Weird.

Did you also notice this change in Judge Massart's behavior?

Yes, lately, she was distracted.

Do you think she received threats, or someone tried to intimidate her?

She would rather die than give up her integrity.

Yeah, well that's kind of what happened.

Wow!

This kind of outfit never suits me,

but on you... Wow!

Smoking hot!

Well thank you.

Sandra Weber. I take care of miscellaneous items and court cases at the Lille Courrier.

Ah. Morgane Alvaro.

I work with Supercop over there.

Ah! You work with Commander Snippy.

I admire you. What a story, a murder of a judge.

Do you have any leads?

Lille Courrier, you say?

Are you the same group as "Illustrated Entomologist"?

My son is a subscriber and it has become very expensive.

Will you tell them?

Uh... Yes, I will

get some information.

If you ever want to have a drink, I'll leave you my card.

Ring me.

Balls. That reporter's a shit-digger;

You didn't say anything, I hope?

Yeah, I didn't give anything away.

By the way, speaking of people we're not supposed to be buddy-buddy with,

Yes? -...when were you planning to

tell me you slept with Miss IGPN? -Yeah, I...

Don't try to deny, I have spies everywhere.

I wanted to talk to you about it when you came back to work.

Oh yes? -Yes.

I'm here. -So you are.

Yeah. -Well, you know about it.

When exactly did she seduce you?

When she tried to get you fired,

or when she asked for my head?

Move, please! Please!

There's the two defendants.

Murderers! - No, madame. -Slowly...

You're not going to get away with it!

Madame! Madame! Look at me.

Madame; Calm down. Look at me.

This won't change anything.

Look at me, look at me.