Maigret | Season 2 | Episode 3 - PBS

Maigret investigates both a young woman's drowning and a congressman's disappearance.

Maigret investigates both a young woman's drowning and a congressman's disappearance.

As Maigret investigates the drowning of a young woman, he is assigned another high-profile case: the disappearance of a congressman. To make matters worse, Guichard makes changes to Maigret's team, complicating his investigation.

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As Maigret investigates the drowning of a young woman, he is assigned another high-profile case: the disappearance of a congressman. To make matters worse, Guichard makes changes to Maigret's team, complicating his investigation.

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Learn about the key players in this new crime drama from star Benjamin Wainwright, and more.

Meet the British actor, outdoorsman, dog dad, and Francophile playing Chief Inspector Jules Maigret.

Stefanie Martini dishes on croissants, cookbooks, and her character Mme Maigret on Masterpiece!

LUCAS: A young woman drowned three weeks ago.

LUCAS: She was the live-in nanny for a cosmetic surgeon.

You seem very calm, given what you're accused of.

MAIGRET: Guichard lands two major cases on me, then cuts off my right hand?

I told you to be careful, didn't I?

MAIGRET: Then what's the motive, jealousy?

Motive is your department, Maigret.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (thunder claps) (whimpers) (click) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (birds chirping) ♪ ♪ (gasps, groans) (exhaling) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (Giroux breathes softly) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (gasping) (gurgling) (gasping) ♪ ♪ (splutters) ♪ ♪ (dial clicking) ♪ ♪ MARTIN: Olga?

(water splashing) (Martin shuddering) (panting) ♪ ♪ (grunts) Help!

♪ ♪ (breath trembling) ♪ ♪ LUCAS: Where are you going, boss?

Death was ruled an accident, then lawyers got involved.

Olga's family appealed, the result was an exhumation and now an autopsy.

She was the live-in nanny for a cosmetic surgeon, Armand Giroux.

Her parents found evidence of an inappropriate relationship.

Yeah-- the lawyers claim Giroux exploited his power and his profession to hurry her to her grave.

Guichard says that Giroux is wealthy and well-connected, and most likely an innocent target for unscrupulous ambulance-chasers.

He's relying on you to handle this case.

HELENE: Is there anything I can bring for tonight?

Just bring a bottle of something nice.

I was hoping, praying, I would find you here.

I have misplaced the prescription you wrote for me for the clonazepam, and I'm about to close the deal of a lifetime and I need to be cool, and I need to be calm, and I am neither, so, please... All right, all right, we'll go to my office.

Oh, forgive me, madame, I'm sorry, I forget my manners.

Louise, a patient of mine, François Lagrange.

Well, it's Baron, actually, but I don't stand on ceremony.

(chuckles) You're not related to Detective Maigret, by any chance?

I can express my admiration to him.

And I can tell him my unique situation.

I'm sorry, we only have food for four.

Please, you'd be doing me such a favor.

♪ ♪ MAIGRET: Send me the results, Moers, as soon as you can.

You must be Chief Inspector Maigret.

I have visiting privileges at this hospital.

You've just conducted an autopsy on Olga Borysenko.

Blood and tissue won't be analyzed until tomorrow.

Please, can you tell me, did you find anything unexpected?

Is the fact that Olga Borysenko was three months pregnant unexpected?

♪ ♪ I'd like to talk to you at the Police Judiciaire at 10:00 tomorrow, all right?

I want a watch on his house tonight.

He's rich enough and maybe stupid enough to run.

♪ ♪ I've never met a plastic surgeon before.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Any chance of a quick game before?

HENRI: "To Chief Inspector Jules Maigret, "with gratitude and admiration... (chuckles) ...from your friends at the FBI."

(lock clicking) (Henri chuckles) Gotta love America.

Some countries would give you a plaque.

You should keep it at the Judiciaire, not here.

(scoffs) More than sure-- let's eat.

(box closes) (birds chirping) GIRL: I don't like it.

(shutter clicking) MARTIN: It's good for you.

GIRL: I don't like... (conversation continues) (lens focuses, shutter clicks) ♪ ♪ (shutter clicking) (Giroux speaking indistinctly) (conversation continues) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Good evening.

I suppose you're here because Chief Inspector Maigret is worried I might abscond.

Well, there are three reasons in there why I won't.

I'll be at the Judiciaire at 10:00 tomorrow.

Then I will ask Martin to bring you some food.

(taps car) ♪ ♪ HELENE: He just showed up in my surgery two years ago.

"I am Baron Lagrange, but you may call me François."

Well, he says the title came from his father, but who knows, right?

I mean, he is such a character-- like, one minute, he's closed this billion-euro deal in Dubai, and the next, he's asking if he can delay paying me for a month.

I'm worried that he might be in trouble.

He was even more twitchy than usual today, and he's been on anti-anxiety medications for months now.

Blood pressure spikes, racing pulse, paranoia.

I mean, I'm no shrink, but I think a lot of it is psychosomatic.

Who, to his credit, Lagrange has brought up on his own.

Two have left home, but the youngest, Alain, who's 15, 16, something like that.

HELENE: A good father, but a troubled man.

LOUISE: Is that why the older children left home?

But you can only imagine how hard it must have been for him.

His wife died after giving birth to his third child.

She'd looked after the children for years.

It was ruled an accidental death, but girl's family appealed, demanded an autopsy.

Got some sharp lawyers and won, and... Come on, man.

And now it's not an accidental death.

All those children without a mother.

(page turns) ♪ ♪ Do you want me to steal one?

(chuckles) ♪ ♪ Is that the only option?

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (birds chirping) (phone vibrating) (button clicks) Hélène.

(keys clattering) (door opens) (sighs): Okay.

(door closes) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ I don't know you.

Maigret, la Brigade Criminelle-- hm.

(knocks) (knocks) It's Chief Inspector Maigret.

Hélène Pardon said you needed to speak to me.

(door closes) Monsieur Lagrange... It's Baron.

You invited yourself for a drink, you didn't show up.

She said you had something important to say.

Don't think there aren't people that would be very happy to see me dead.

(exhales) ♪ ♪ I move in high circles.

I hear words and they add up to money.

If you know something that I should know, as police, tell me.

(exhales) (voice breaking): She is a gem.

So, do you have anything to tell me?

♪ ♪ Only that they... (lowering voice): ...they watch me through the walls.

(laughs) You're one of them-- you don't fool me.

♪ ♪ Why are your children's photos turned face down?

Not that they will disappoint you, but that you will inevitably disappoint them.

You're trying to get me to talk, aren't you?

(door slams) (lock turns) (sighs, buttons tapping) Hélène.

You want to know my honest opinion?

I think he's taking you for a ride.

The girl's family have accused her boss of having put a bun in her oven and bumping her off to avoid a scandal.

While we await blood and tissue analysis from the autopsy, we will interview Dr.

Giroux and his research assistant, Martin Vignolet.

I have just come from the Ministry of the Interior.

He had a TV interview at 7:00 a.m., didn't show, didn't show for a staff meeting at 7:30.

"The New Broom," whatever that means.

Delteil's phone was switched off at 10:00 last night.

Last sighting was an Instagram post from the Champ de Mars nightclub at 10:35.

(phone rings) Director Guichard has just added a pregnant corpse to our caseload.

The minister said that Director Guichard specifically recommended you.

Delteil has many enemies, especially in the government, so they're keen to avoid even the appearance of a delay.

This is Delteil's brother's number.

He said he can meet you now, just name a place.

(Lucas groans) Can I leave this with you, Maigret?

For a start, what is an anti-corruption campaigner doing at a strip club?

Lucas, you and Lapointe go to the Champ de Mars nightclub.

He's putting me up for promotion to inspector, but to make time to study for exams, I'm being transferred to IGDS.

Guichard lands two major cases on me, then cuts off my right hand?

(softly): I told you to be careful, didn't I?

What, so this is some kind of punishment, taking my best detective?

I'm sure he's sending a replacement.

I only want replacements that I choose.

Maigret, I work for the prosecutors' office.

(phones ringing in background) Okay.

Lucas, better do what Guichard says.

Lapointe, Janvier, go to the nightclub.

Uh, what about the Olga Borysenko case?

Uh... Janvier, you run the Olga case.

Interview Giroux's research assistant... Excuse me, Chief Inspector.

I've been transferred to your section.

Is there, is there, is there a desk that's free?

Um, can I just say what an honor it is to be working with you?

Go to the Champ de Mars nightclub, interview the management, get hold of the CCTV.

Lapointe will fill you in on the way.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (doorbell ringing) Can I talk to Chief Inspector Maigret?

How do you know where we... I asked a neighbor.

I'm sorry, you really should go to the Police Judiciaire.

(softly): François Lagrange's son's just showed up here.

He says he won't or can't go to the Judiciaire.

Is there any way you can come home?

I know this is the last thing you need, but he's just a child, Maigret.

My brother's convinced our offices are bugged, if not by the Russians, certainly by the French.

And I spoke to him at 10:00 last night.

He said he was going into a meeting, he didn't say who with, and turning off his phone.

This meeting was at the Champ de Mars?

Does your brother often switch off his phone and meet people in nightclubs?

My brother is dedicated in his mission to getting big business out of politics.

Even in a club owned by a major player in the gambling business, with known connections to organized crime?

Look, even a moral crusader needs a night off now and then.

How do you know he isn't waking up in a hotel room right now, with a bad headache and a naked woman in bed beside him?

Every man is that sort of man, given the chance.

If he was, why did I call the police at 8:00 this morning?

Why am I going out of my mind with worry?

(inhales) So, one of his enemies decided to bump him off?

You make it sound ridiculous, but yes, that is exactly what I am afraid of.

Or kidnap, or some other form of violence.

Including in the gambling business?

No, but you know that business is infiltrated by organized crime.

Has he received any actual threats?

How do you damage an anti-corruption campaigner?

Can you give me an example of these rumors?

Yes, that André has taken money in exchange for political favors.

And before you ask, it's a damned lie.

I run his finances, so I would know.

So... He had enemies everywhere, but you can't name names.

You can't show me any actual threats.

Do you have any idea what he was afraid of?

Yes-- he was afraid of people like you.

Who are so cynical you can't believe that someone would go into politics to do good.

Well, you can sneer all you want, but that's who André is.

You know, I was told you were the best man to find my brother.

I just ask the questions I have to ask.

But, if what you've told me is true, I'm afraid he's already dead.

There is nothing more dangerous than an incorruptible man.

(hands clasp) Call me if you think of anything or hear anything.

(keys jangle) (phone vibrating) Hi, love, um, on my way now.

LOUISE: No, don't worry, he's gone.

And then I went to get the laundry.

Maybe he lost his nerve, maybe it was nothing.

His father was also desperate to see me this morning.

When I turned up, he accused me of being a fake cop and threw me out.

MAIGRET: I told Hélène, she said not to worry, so I won't-- neither should you.

(button clicks) ♪ ♪ REPORTER (on video): ...nanny-gate.

Olga Borysenko worked as a nanny for surgeon-to-the-stars Armand Giroux.

The investigation into her death has been reopened, and La Crim's star detective, Chief Inspector Maigret, has been entrusted with the case.

(video continues) (sighs) Don't touch my stuff.

REPORTER: ...but following pressure from the young woman's family, an exhumation was ordered and an autopsy performed, the results of which... (groans) REPORTER: Giroux is no stranger to the selective circles of Paris, London, all the way to Hollywood, because of his work with the stars... (objects rattling) (video continues) REPORTER: ...untimely death of his wife, who died shortly after giving birth to the couple's third child.

The police are refusing to say whether Dr.

Giroux is a suspect, but he has been asked to present himself for interview at the Police Judiciaire this morning.

(clears throat) (typing) Chief Inspector Maigret, interviewing Dr.

Armand Giroux, 4th of May, 11:40 a.m.

GIROUX: I was just admiring your Alphonse Bertillon poster.

Bertillon, responsible for the first use of biometrics in police work.

Also responsible for the incorrect diagnosis of handwriting in the Dreyfus case, which led to his wrongful conviction.

Why didn't you ask for an autopsy for Olga?

Because the cause of death was self-evident.

You, the expert, decided it was so.

It wasn't me the expert who decided.

I didn't want that poor girl cut open on a slab.

I also hear you refused an autopsy for your late wife.

My wife died of septicemia following childbirth.

I was with her every second of her long death.

I saw everything that was done to keep her alive.

An autopsy would have given us no medical fact we didn't already know.

You seem very calm, given what you're accused of.

I make a lot of money out of people's vanity.

Sometimes, the work does not produce the rewards they expect.

I'm always honest about the risk and the likely result.

So in court they have no leg, no boob job, no collagen lip to stand on.

You seem to despise your profession.

Sometimes, it does make people's lives better.

The rewards mean I can afford to go to places like Kyiv, and Gaza, and help those who really need cosmetic surgery.

(mouse clicks) ♪ ♪ (door buzzer sounds) We understand he was here last night.

A photo taken yesterday, of Delteil in your club.

(car horn honks) We need to know who Deputy Delteil was talking to last night.

But you must have a, uh, visitors' book of some form?

This is a strip club, not an art gallery.

(stammers): Is, is there, um... I'm... Uh, who, who are you?

♪ ♪ (lock turns) Do you mind if I... You're not going to make trouble for any of the girls?

(typing) The manager told me to give him a private dance.

(typing) Are you married, Karim La Crim?

(typing) And you all live together?

Um, you must stop-- I'll get fired.

Say I tried to get you to open the door and you refused, okay?

(computer chirps) (door opens) (keys jangling) (lock turns) What's going on?

Um, he wanted me to open the door, I said no, I said... Okay, you can go.

You don't go sneaking around bullying my staff, right?

But, you know... I'm a bit of a health and safety nerd.

That fire exit sign isn't working, and anyway, the corridor is too narrow for a fire exit.

It's a Ukrainian name, so not a citizen of the E.U.

I assume her work permit is in order, and that you're making all her health and social security payments?

I'll send it to the Judiciaire this evening, all right?

La Crim appreciates your cooperation.

♪ ♪ (lock turns) I saved your bacon.

Giroux, Dominique, Julia, and little Gustave.

She died two days after that was taken.

Two children and a newborn baby, it was, it was too much for Dr.

So her death must have been a shock.

She swam in the lake every single day.

(gasping) MARTIN: If I hadn't, she'd still be alive.

(breath trembling) You were in love with her.

Of course she knew-- we were lovers.

(exhales) ♪ ♪ (breath trembles) Help!

(sniffles) But why didn't she tell me?

(breath trembling) Perhaps she didn't know.

(sniffles) We were lovers-- the child has to be mine.

He'd never hurt her, whatever her family are saying.

So, if you're his research assistant, how can you do any work if you now look after the kids all day?

He has an office and a lab here, so he can be close to the children.

It's where we do the serious research.

(exhales) No, I'm not allowed to let other people see.

♪ ♪ LAPOINTE: CCTV footage from the nightclub last night.

This is what I managed to download at the club without them knowing, and this is what the club sent us 20 minutes ago.

My theory is that's 23 seconds they don't want us to see.

(typing) Show me what you've got of Delteil.

Yes, ma'am, that's footage of Deputy André Delteil.

He was only there for about 15 minutes.

A stripper comes in and talks to him.

(key taps) ♪ ♪ Well, well, François Lagrange.

He told me he was sick in bed-- here he is swigging champagne.

LAPOINTE: Doesn't look like Delteil wants to swig it with him.

KERNAVEL: What are those documents?

Delteil doesn't talk to anyone else, but he bumps into your friend again on the way out.

It's 10:45, and his phone was switched off at 10:08, so he's got another phone.

And Delteil's brother said Delteil's first enemy is the gambling business.

This club is owned by one of the big online companies.

Lagrange will know-- Lapointe, with me.

Find out what the club doesn't want us to see.

Oh, but I'm, I'm not very good with computers.

♪ ♪ (knocks loudly) LAPOINTE: Excuse me.

(music playing loudly on headphones, water pouring) (muttering): Great, the wire's been cut.

(buttons tapping) You showed him some papers-- he got angry.

(stammers) I don't remember, I've been having blackouts.

François, I think you're in trouble, and I think it's to do with Delteil.

Can you tell me what's in those papers?

And I'm scared, and... I'm not well.

♪ ♪ (papers shuffling) "Never trust the new broom."

(magazine drops) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (chuckles) "The Detective Who Cares About Killers."

♪ ♪ François... FRANÇOIS (panting): No.

Why are you interested in me, François?

(whimpering): Please, please don't hurt me!

I have no intention of hurting you.

Well, if I ever wanted to become a burglar, there's a deaf concierge.

And no working CCTV at either entrance, so anyone can get in and out at any time.

What, what... Lapointe... However, there is CCTV on a bar across from the back gate, and it saw this.

7:45 this morning, a courier from F.A.I.

He goes in with a trolley, comes out with a big trunk, which he loads onto his van.

What's this got to do with Lagrange?

Then he goes back to get the waybill signed.

only does air cargo, so whatever it is could already be on a plane.

Get him to track the shipment, urgent.

Lagrange is not to leave, however much fuss he makes.

A package was picked up by an F.A.I.

van at 7:45 this morning from 56 Rue Blaine.

We need to track it, and if it's leaving the country, stop it.

Okay, but it's not quite as simple as that, is it?

Well, has the owner of the package been informed?

Oh, for God's sake, I'll be there in ten minutes.

(call ends) ♪ ♪ What are you doing here?

I solved Olga's pregnancy anyway: the daddy is Martin Vignolet.

They were in love, he didn't know she was pregnant, he's heartbroken.

The necrosis of the liver alerted us to the possibility.

It's hard to get good tissue samples from a body that's three weeks dead, but I am 99.9% sure that Olga was poisoned with ricin.

You said Vignolet was in love, so what's the motive?

I don't know, but the doc had enough weird stuff in his lab to poison a village, including a black mamba.

MOERS: As I explained to Detective Janvier, Giroux is a cosmetic, as well as a plastic surgeon, so interested in skincare as much as skin cutting.

(phone vibrating) He may have been synthesizing peptides with the mamba's venom, which can be used in anti-aging creams.

Okay, fascinating-- what's the motive?

Motive is your department, Maigret.

Accidentally or not, somebody in that house poisoned Olga.

There are three young children living there.

We need them out and a forensics team in now.

(phone continues) Okay, set it up your end.

Ah, Chief Inspector, I tracked the package... Lapointe and I tracked the package that was picked up from Lagrange.

warehouse at Orly, and booked on their plane to Bahrain at 20:30 tonight.

Well done-- I'll head out there with Lapointe.

Janvier will come to you, go to Giroux's, move him and his family out.

Moers will be there with a forensic team... BONFILS: Sorry, can I interrupt, Chief Inspector?

Our priority is the André Delteil case, no?

I've had the press calling, and the prosecutors' office.

Fine, but... BONFILS: So I believe I should be at Orly to coordinate everything.

I'll bring, uh... I'll bring Lapointe.

(exhales) Well, it's good to know who's boss.

Look, I know I'm super-capable, but even I can't handle a house search and babysit Dr.

Death and his three children on my own.

CHEF (speaking Japanese): LUCAS: (phone ringing) (speaking Japanese) (phone ringing) Boss.

(speaking Japanese): ♪ ♪ (siren blaring) BONFILS: Chief Inspector, I, uh, we've identified the package and requested immediate inspection.

Now, I suggest we interview all the warehouse staff so that the chain of evidence is preserved.

(stammering): Um, should, shouldn't, shouldn't we wait for Crime Scenes?

♪ ♪ GIROUX: What on earth's going on?

Olga Borysenko ingested poison before she died.

We need to evacuate you and your children and Martin Vignolet.

OFFICER: Full sweep downstairs first.

Garbage disposals, toilets, sinks, all kitchen appliances.

Let's get the children packed and out... ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (police radios running) (people talking in background) I need Delteil's brother to do an I.D.

before I can tell the press anything.

This is not a smart way to dispose of a body.

The airline would have scanned the trunk.

Not all cargo is X-rayed-- maybe that's what he was hoping.

The press are ready for you, Madame Prosecutor.

Shall I take you over and introduce you?

Hey, love-- sorry, I'm gonna be a bit late.

LOUISE: Your gun, the one you showed Henri?

It has to be Alain, Lagrange's son.

(breath trembles) (button clicks) ♪ ♪ (click) (sirens blaring) François Lagrange, we're arresting you on suspicion of the murder of André Delteil.

(whimpering) MAIGRET: Your son took my revolver and disappeared.

LOUISE: Questioning him in this state is unethical.

MAIGRET: I want to stop a 15-year-old boy from killing someone or getting killed, don't you?

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