Profilage

- Season 4

(2013)

A beautiful woman in her forties is found dead at the back of a jazz club, where she had been singing for the last few weeks. The club manager only knows her stage name: Julie Garland. A magnificent voice and incredible talent who apparently had no career ambition at all. The only thing that seemed to matter to her was her pianist, a young genius with wild ways who has gone missing since the singer's death. In their search to find the victim's true identity, Chloe and Rocher discover that "Julie Garland" had been singing all over France for the last ten years, always ...

A crazy sniper terrorizes all of Paris by opening fire on crowds. The city is on red alert. After two murderous gunnings, Chloe and Rocher succeed in identifying the killer: Adrien Fontel, a former military agent of the Special Forces destroyed by what he lived through in Afghanistan. Chloe diagnoses him as suffering from Capgras Syndrome, a psychiatric condition in which the patient believes that people around him are gradually being replaced by villainous doubles preparing to enact evil plans. Convinced he is on a mission to fight these invaders, Fontel kidnaps his ...

The lifeless body of Antoine Garrel is found on display in a shop window in the neighborhood, hands and feet bound, with a gagged mouth. A psychologist specialized in couple therapy, he had no lack of enemies among his clientele of cheating husbands and crabby wives. Among his patients, one couple had just suddenly stopped therapy - and with good reason. Showing up a bit early for their session, they found Garrel in his office, in an compromising situation with his mistress. An affair the dead therapist's wife knew nothing about. While her team works to identify this ...

Chloe makes a guest appearance on a series of late-night radio shows about psychology in daily life. Among the callers, on a range between eccentric and totally nuts, is one woman who introduces herself as Caroline; in a trembling voice, she explains that she is afraid of her husband, who is becoming more and more violent. As Chloe encourages her to go to the police and talk to social services, we suddenly hear a man's voice behind her. Caroline screams and lets the telephone fall. We hear the noise of blows and screams, then silence. The media seize this live public ...

Tension is at an all-time high on Skela and Chloe's team. Two kids named Quentin (10 years) and Manon (5 years) have disappeared from their parents' hotel room. Claire and Bastien Laffont, on vacation with their children in Paris, had left them unsupervised in the room for a few hours, to go out for a romantic lunch together. The kidnapping alert is sent out with urgency, especially considering that sleeping pills for children are found in the room of another client of the hotel who had checked in under a false identity and left in great haste at the time when the ...

Opens in 1945, with the discovery of the dead body of Armand Jonquet, a veteran of the French Resistance. The agent leading the investigation, Pierre Barreau (a look-alike of Thomas Rocher) finds a woman leaning over the corpse. She is Jonquet's psychiatrist, Diane Danville (a look-alike of Chloe). Back in the present, Chloe and Rocher investigate the murder of Pierre Vasseur, a painter who had just begun to exhibit his work in galleries. One of Vasseur's ex-girlfriends had tried to warn him of his imminent death, informing him of the exact date according to her ...

A desperate, armed mother urges the team to solve the murder of her son before the 14-year statute of limitations expires. Navigating resistance and denial from a prestigious private boy's school to solve the case is no easy feat.

pregnant woman just about to give birth has been brutally attacked in a park. While she and the baby are on the brink of death, Rocher and Chloe find out that she had been in Paris for several weeks, using a false identity. Was she trying to escape the baby's father? Chloe, who is preparing to adopt little Lili, is extremely sensitive to the mother's predicament.

Marie, a 25-year old young woman, is found stabbed to death on the altar of a church. Gabriel Mangin, a young repeat offender, comes forth and admits to having murdered her. When questioned, Mangin expresses his profound affection for the victim. While the investigators search for a possible motive, the young man's behavior completely changes. He is possessed by a demon who calls himself Belial and claims to have committed the murder. Chloe sees the incident as a sign of schizophrenia, but Rocher thinks it is Mangin's strategy to avoid serving a mandatory prison ...

Tension is at an all-time high for Chloe and Rocher's team, under the gun of the Police Inspector General. The police of the police looks into the Julie Lafayette case, a seemingly harmless investigation of a drug ring with dramatic consequences that have taken their toll on the investigators.

Just as the Chief of Police brings in three young criminologists selected to participate in a hands-on internship led by Chloe Saint-Laurent, the criminal brigade receives a shocking DVD of a young woman getting her throat cut. Suffice it to say that the kids' internship gets off to a quick start.

When Chloe attends a party held by the Chief of Police, she sees a woman among the guests and passes out on the spot. And with good reason: as she reveals to Rocher upon awakening, the woman is none other than her own mother, presumed to have been beaten to death by her father 20 years previous. Despite a growing accumulation of evidence contrary to her convictions, Chloe throws herself headlong into an investigation that becomes a personal quest to retrace her mother's troubled past.