Profilage

- Season 3

(2012)

After the death of Matthew Perac, Chloe Saint-Laurent has taken some time off, and has vanished from the scene. Meanwhile, Perac's position has been filled by Rocher. Just as he and his team are solving a very tough case, Rocher knows he needs the help of the best profiler in the country. But he must find her and convince her to come back.

Camille, a young and modest woman, is found dead. A former law student with a brilliant future in store, she had thrown it all away to become a housemaid for the wealthy Marchand family. The investigation reveals that Bertrand Marchand, gave a lot of money to a fortune teller - who was actually in cahoots with Camille. How did she get involved in a scam and what exactly got her killed?

A woman is stabbed on her wedding day. She falls into a coma and is rushed to the hospital. The method reminds Chloe of something - with reason. It turns out the victim is engaged to Simon Andrieux, out of prison after being condemned to an eight-year sentence for having stabbed his last fiancé the same way, the day before their wedding. Chloe is confronted with her own faulty judgment: it was her psychological evaluation that allowed Simon Andrieux to get out of jail early.

Dimitri Saillan, a young man with no known priors, is found shot to death at the edge of a cemetery in Paris. Chloe and Rocher soon discover that he had been traumatized by the assassination of his sister, and disguised as a police officer, had taken the law into his own hands. Obsessed by what he saw as his mission, Dmitri spent days and nights investigating, in parallel with the police, a rape case he had witnessed. How far did the search of this inexperienced renegade go? Could a young man with no police experience have actually succeeded in getting his hands on ...

The bodies of two women are found on the banks of the Seine. One is a readily recognizable journalist, the other is impossible to identify. What links the two victims? The subject of the mysterious article the journalist was investigating? Why is it so difficult to determine the identity of the second victim? Could she herself have tried to erase her past? Chloe and Rocher take over the reporter's investigation and discover the consequences of a tragic family drama.

Chloe and Rocher discover the corpse of Francois Renier, a man declared dead 10 years ago. The team finds out that this family man, suffering from huge debts, had staged his own death for the insurance money, to save his family from poverty. How did those close to Francois, who thought he had been dead for years, react to him reappearing like a ghost? And above all, why did he feel the need to come back into the life of a family he was forced to abandon?

Adrien Keller, a respected reporter who survived two years of captivity in a FARC camp in Columbia, is assassinated just before he was slated to give a press conference to launch his book about his escape. The investigation turns out to be a complicated matter, especially for Chloe, who also has to find a way to announce her pregnancy to the father of her child.

Contemporary art photographer Jeanne Krakowski is found murdered in her loft. Her dazzling success had apparently led her to turn her back on her husband and little seven-year old girl. Meanwhile, Rocher, determined to catch the reckless driver who killed his wife, has to face a new obstacle.

Fred and Hyppolite break down as they are coming home from a party in the middle of the night, during a violent storm. In a large, isolated house, they find the lifeless body of a 35-year-old architect. Meanwhile, determined to bring to justice the reckless driver responsible for his wife's death, Rocher is subject to the increasingly vicious intimidations of his lawyer Barbara Cluzel. Not least of which entails an investigation by the family court to determine if he is fit to be awarded custody of his son Lucas. Chloe, who is now in the second trimester of her ...

Chloé has a breakdown and begins to throw and break objects in her apartment. She is admitted to the Les Cambrières psychiatric clinic, where Rocher is informed by Dr. Capel that she is sedated. The criminologist suffers from reactive depression due to the sudden loss of the baby she was expecting. Rocher thinks she came back to work too soon after her sick leave. The doctor becomes interested in the last case they worked on together two days before, for it could have been an additional emotional burden for her. Rocher explains that it did not end well: Laurent ...

The lifeless body of Laure Brevin, hard-hitting commissioner of the Banditry Repression Brigade, is found in her decimated apartment. Brevin and her team had been working for two years to break up a multinational European child trafficking ring. Mafia retaliation? The investigation takes a new turn when Chloe discovers a member of the team was on an intimate basis with the commissioner.

In the wake of a horrible car accident caused by the number one suspect of their investigation, Chloe falls into a coma. From that moment on, Rocher has only one obsession : to catch the person who is trying to break up the team. A prisoner of her mind, Chloe continues the investigation in her head, attempting to reconstruct evidence of the dreadful manipulation they have all been drawn into.