Le juge est une femme

- Season 17

(2012)

In full service at her restaurant, Nelly Gourmet, a Michelin-starred chef, walks with a knife stuck in her back seeking help from her office to the kitchen until she collapses. Although her relatives affirm that she lived only for her work, investigators discover that she was also a devoted mother for her daughter Justine, who had suffered harassment for a video with sexual content and whom she was trying to support by posing as her teenager friend on the internet. Alice will work on the case with the sad news that Lemonnier has requested the transfer to Marseille.

Philippe Llorens, a veterinarian, is found asphyxiated in his office at Maisons-Alfort veterinary school. He was an activist fighting against intensive breeding and pet trafficking and was ready to denounce main breeders. One suspect is Benoit Rioux, pet shop owner selling animals of dubious origin. During the investigations, they should also find out the whereabouts of Angelo, the Bartholi's family cat, a rare Scotish Fold cat with gold eyes that could be related to the murder. The judge is forced to combine the case with the concerns caused by Mathieu's insincerity.

Karim Benhaoui, 30, manager of a supermarket that sells clearance items and foods about to perish, walks through the store with a shopping cart, putting in various products. A hooded man breaks into the store and cuts the electricity cables when Benhaoui has just entered the walk-in freezer, where he is trapped all night at a -21º, until the next morning the corpse is found by Véronique Fauré, another employee. The judge must investigate the case with Marquand, while Mathieu is at her home and her thoughts are on the commandant.

Isabelle Doré, 27, waitress at restaurant "Le Patio", enters her apartment, cries sitting on the couch, listens to a music box, burns a photo of herself and her best friend and roommate, Roxane Rousel, and opens the window. Next morning, the police knock on the door and Roxane opens up to find Isabelle's body in the courtyard of the building, gagged and with her hands tied. Evidence suggests that she was beaten before being thrown out of the window and laid in agony for two hours. Apparently, he was having an affair with two different men at the same time. While the ...

Natalia Galati, 30, Romanian, interpreter for a Franco-Romanian consortium, living in France only after a few months, takes a shower, prays in front of her wedding dress and leaves her apartment towards the car park. While talking on the phone to someone she will meet after the ceremony, an acquaintance comes unexpectedly and they have an argument. Hours later, she is found murdered. The coroner confirms that she bled to death. Unfortunately there are no cameras on site. Her fiancé, Alexandre Leman, 62, a bookstore owner, is missing.

Françoise Forrestier, farmer, is driving back to her farm when she notices the tractor is on fire. Running, she looks for a fire extinguisher in the barn, but a hooded man appears from his hiding place and attacks her. Although she defends herself with the fire extinguisher, hours later her body appears in the Cité de Pomier; the BJ concludes it has been transferred from the crime scene. In her pockets, a strip of hashish from a batch seized by the police three years earlier, but the autopsy reveals that she did not use drugs. The phone records reveal that she asked ...