Le juge est une femme

- Season 22

(2017)

While shooting a video for a loved one on a lake shore, Benjamin Desplat, 21, receives a blow to the head and falls dead, his cell phone broken. His body is found the next day on a country roadside. Alice and Marquand visit his home, a 40-meter loft, without a bathroom, where he has prepared everything for a baby. The commander discovers the burned remains of a paper with the letterhead of the association "Egalité-Papas" (equality for parents). At home, Alice receives the unexpected visit from the social worker who keeps the Ada adoption file.

Elisabeth Vasseur, 37, prepares orders in her catering "Les Paniers de Babeth" and drinks water. Her ex-husband, Eric, comes over to talk to her, but Tristan, their son, interrupts them and Babeth leaves on her scooter to deliver the orders. While driving, she becomes dizzy, with blurred vision, and loses control of the scooter; her helmet gone, she hits his head on the curb and dies. The coroner confirms that she has been poisoned with pills dissolved in the drink. Alice and Marquand will get married in one month.

While Karine Martin, 40, a landscape gardener with no friends, no bank account and no past, lays some flowers on a blue cedar tree with a commemorative sign that reads "For Ninou", a stranger sticks a lawn mower in her chest unexpectedly. She and her boss, Lisa Dufresnes, had come from Marseille six months ago and didn't know anyone in Paris. Jérôme Ravalec, an old acquaintance of Alice, joins as coroner. In the meantime, Mrs. Bosc notifies Alice of Ada's disappearance from the juvenile center.

Rémi Garcin, 29, single, climbing teacher, talks with his mother about his childhood and insistently forces her to remember until she suffers an attack. To calm her down, he turns on a music box. As she dances, Rémi appears covered in blood, falls to the floor and asks her to call the ER, which she does with difficulty. When the emergencies arrive, Rémi has already passed away. Valérie Garcin suffers from Alzheimer's disease in a very advanced stage and has disappeared, which makes her the main suspect.

Anne Laforge, 35, drives her car into a zoo and opens the gate to the lion cages. A stranger hits her on the head with a peg to feed the animals and opens the cage of Zorba, one of the lions, while she lies on the floor. Anne was there to visit her boyfriend, Richard Guillaud, owner of the zoo. The two had met three months earlier at the European Credit Bank, where Anne worked as a secretary to Thierry Rougier, the director, when Richard went to ask for a loan to save the zoo from bankruptcy.

Antoine Bétillon, 36, architect, leaves Hotel Z in a sad face, receives a text from his wife Inès saying she is waiting with a bottle of champagne and he answers he will be home in half an hour. Antoine enters the building, but it is Lou, their teen daughter, who arrives home first, her hands covered in blood, crying out it is her father's. Ravalec declares death from a shot to the chest. Antoine kept the bankruptcy of his architecture studio a secret and had begun to work as a scort to get money for his family of four children.

During a séance conducted by medium Carlo Conti, where Léo and Diane Vidal try to contact their father Marc on the tenth anniversary of his death, Anya Vidal, their aunt, suffers a seizure and dies when the Ouija board conveys the word "butterfly". The séance is held in the former home of the Vidals, converted into a hotel and run by Joséphine Marquand, the commandant's mother, where he and Alice plan to celebrate their wedding. Medical examiner Ravalec confirms that she was not frightened to death, but poisoned with an injection at least half an hour before the ...

Christophe Grangier, GP at SOS Médecin, 37, married to Sarah, walks through the corridors of a hospital until he gets into a room where he looks up some patient names on the computer and prints them out. Back to his car, he starts it up. Later a stranger sets it on fire, with Grangier inside. Alice finds out that he had been assaulted by the angry grandson of a patient. Christophe and Sarah were expecting.

After being strangled to death in the archaeological site, Noémie Fournier, 29, supervisor of the excavatios, is given three injections, her body wrapped in a white cloth, like a shroud. However, the autopsy can't be performed because the van transporting the body to the morgue is stolen. Her husband, Ghislain Fournier, informs the investigators that Noémie suffered from anxiety since her mother Marielle's departure, but her condition had worsened in recent weeks. Alice fears that Léa will take revenge on her because of Marquand.

Gisèle Humbert, 16, practices "Parkour" on the roofs of Paris hooded, takes off her balaclava, straps it to an aerial and continues jumping terraces until she enters one building through the roof door. Her body is found lying on the sidewalk the next day. The coroner declares it was not a suicide, for the traces of tear gas in her eyes. Investigation reveals she had been raped two years earlier by Sylvain Bontemps. Alice and Marquand discover that their first steps in street stunting coincide with the pedophile's release from prison. Only two days are left for Alice ...