Research Unit

- Season 10

(2016)

A murder is discovered at Martin Bernier's very smart wedding. One of the bride's best friends is found dead and it turns out he was harassing a woman guest and wouldn't take no for an answer.

Jennifer Marsay drives back home after work but finds out that her son Kevin, 6, and her partner Stéphane Brossetti, 34, are not home. She phones Stéphane, but his corpse lies on the pitch of Stade du Ray, in Nice, with a blow to the head and a 100 euros bill under his body. The keeper of the stadium had phoned Stéphane to bring his truck to tow double parked cars. The SR sets an alert for Kevin's disappearance. Arnaud Blaise, Kevin's father, is worried for his boy, but seems happy of Stéphane's death and becomes a suspect.

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Christophe Garcia, a mean, hypochondriac man, quits his wife to start new life, but he is found murdered in Daluis canyon. The SR discovers that, after the separation, he had been betting and spending money and thus incurring in big debt. They will have to understand what made him change in such a radical way and if his sudden transformation may be the motive for his assassination.

Thomas's bachelor party turns into a nightmare when he wakes up locked in a coffin. He phones his friend Greg, author of the macabre joke, to get him out, but he is found dead by a pool covered in blood. The SR must find the coffin before Thomas runs out of oxygen and find the culprit of the murder among all these young students who attended the party. This time, Capitaine Bernier is not in the best of moods after the situation with his marriage.

During a shootout at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire in Cannes, Franck Mercoeur, a convicted serial killer, who is undergoing skin grafts in the hospital, manages to escape. As the SR tries to locate the fugitive, Bernier is nowhere to be found. His drifting ship sounds the alarm that something serious may have happened to him. When they discover that Bernier is not on board, they fear that he may have been kidnapped by Mercoeur, because Martin was the one who sent him to jail years ago.

Adjutant officer Myriam Jacquemin collapses in front of her house, victim of a devastating heart attack. During her funeral, the SR takes possession of the body, in front of the astonished relatives and police officers. Capitaine Bernier hands them a letter from Myriam, written just before her death: "Piacci killed me." She was on sick leave due to depression since her husband's suicide and was starting to display a psychotic behavior, blaming everyone of his death. Her family was increasingly worried of her health and considering to send her to a psychiatric hospital.

Laurent Pastoré is forced to leave his wife and children for a work meeting on a Sunday. But a few hours later his half-naked body appears in a luxurious hotel suite.

Noah has just won a regatta and celebrates with his family. Meanwhile, Gaby, his lifelong friend, cannot forget that his mother has been missing for three months.

As part of a ceremony during the night of the Nice carnival, attendees burn a figure in the sea. However, soon after they discover the corpse of a disabled man inside the figure.

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The team duly suspects a connection when several gendarmes in a row are individually killed without warning. They belonged to the SWAT team of Alexandre Delmotte, who since surprising early retirement runs his own firm and lets an armed robber get away. They jointly came to arrest a reformed ex-con but fatally shot him at home, whose family swears he wasn't even armed, set up hastily. Surviving, still active SWAT men Nicolas Sorbier and mate refuse police protection, despite practically confessing the semi-accidental homicide, which the victim's kid brother seems to ...