Le juge est une femme

- Season 19

(2014)

Alice dreams she is tried for covering up Mathieu and sentenced to ten years, 750,000 euros and professional disqualification. Marquand phones to tell her he has been cleared and back to work. They haven't met since their arrest in the operation Van Varenberg. Prosecutor Divo has turned the case into a personal vendetta against the judge and catches them together, which prevents Marquand from being a witness for the defence. In addition, the corpse of Alexandre Morteau, court clerk, is found in the Palais de Justice basement. Lemonier is accused of his murder and ...

Michel Aubry, eminent musician, a former soloist turned teacher of gifted pianists, teaches Qiu Chang. Karl Constantin, another of his students, bursts into the room and they have a violent argument. Later, in the middle of the night, he runs through a forest and is hit by his own car, which still has the keys in it. All his students are the first suspects. When Marquand and the judge visit his wife Muriel to communicate his death, they find her having sex with a stranger. She claims that the couple had been swingers for fifteen years. Marquand reveals to Alice that a...

While Sister Bénédicte reads the gospel, Corinne Leblanc has lunch in the refectory of the convent of Appolines, finds a cockroach in the salad and defies the congregation by throwing away the food. Back in her bedroom, "vade retro" has been painted on the wall. Later on, Sister Clémence finds Corinne with the corpse of Sister Bénédicte, 39, poisoned. Corinne was sent to prison for poisoning the educator of the orphanage she directed. He had denounced her for pedophilia and child prostitution. Known as "The Monster of Villeneuve", she becomes main suspect. She has ...

Mattéo Fabrizzi, 29, famous couturier, is preparing his new collection, the third of his career, which will secure his place in haute couture. With less than two days left, he is unhappy with the designs, in particular with the opening dress, prepared by stylist Jeanne Mercoeur. Enraged, he dismisses all his employees until the next day; later on, he collapses dead near the catwalk. Investigators discover that he was wearing a bulletproof vest and the coroner confirms death due to internal bleeding. On the private ground, Alice and Marquand disagree on the situation ...

Régis Sannier teaches Léo how to defend himself against a dog attack at Leo's father breeding centre. Sylvain Besse, 45, dog breeder, disagrees with his employee's methods and they have an argument over that particular dog, which he considers dangerous, and decides to shoot the dog himself. The next day, Pia Besse finds her husband, his throat slit with a pair of shears. Marquand receives an unexpected visit from Lucie and Rachel Fronsac, who ask him for shelter alleging that they have been kicked out of their flat. In the crime scene, Alice and Marquand discover that...

Lisa Pouvray, 15, packs her backpack, kisses her father Jérôme, who works nights, goodnight and goes to bed. Later that night, she is in the streets, dressed in shorts, fishnet stockings, hair in a bun, searching for a pharmacy. She complains about a pain in her abdomen but passes out in front of the pharmacist who finds out she has blood on her right side and calls an ambulance. The coroner declares cause of death a gunshot. Lisa had morphine in her blood and signs of recent sexual activity. At the lycée, Marquand and Alice discover she was a model student, but not ...

The corpse of Rose Leroux appears hanging with her wedding dress at the place of the ceremony. Rose had serious financial problems, since her accounts were blocked for being suspected of fraud and had also been charged with attempted murder, but claimed to be a victim of identity theft. Unfortunately nobody believed her and she tried to prove her innocence on her own, which led to numerous arguments with her husband, Paul Leroux, who becomes the main suspect when the investigation reveals that his first wife had denounced him for mistreatment.

A group of teens at a skate park watch Kevin Marchot's skateboarding progress who receives applause for his prowess. Kevin insists his friend Julien Madek to try, but Madek declines. Then, they have a fight and Kevin urges him to stop his game. Later, a jogger sees Julien's body plunge over a railing and fall down to another street level, where he crashes dead into the pavement. Julien, 21, had been abducted nine years ago and reappeared at a service station only a few months before. Kevin becomes a prime suspect after their dispute.

Louise Chevalier, 32, secretary, married for five years, runs through Paris at night, in a red dress and high heels, which she takes off to go faster. Her husband is waiting for her at 4 am in front of the Hôtel des Invalides, an annual appointment where they first kissed in. After kissing, they walk home, when she loses one shoe on the cobblestones. As she turns to put it on, a sports car hits her dead of a cervical fracture. Investigators are surprised to find 50,000 euros in the corpse.

During a class at the Faculty of Psychology, two hooded men break in and shoot Professor Clément Garrel. It is a test he carries out each year with his new students, only problem is this time bullets are not blank, one of the attackers escapes and Professor Garrel dies. Evidence leads Alice and Marquand to the book he was writing on his theory that anyone can become an executioner if given enough power, based on the experiment with a group of students carried out five years earlier, that had to be stopped by collaborator Anne-Laure Raynaud because of the extreme ...