1.3 "Julie"
Batman and Catwoman argue outside a party, although as it turns out they're both women. One wants to go home, one wants to stay. As she leaves anyway, we hear the other call her Julie and as she herself takes off her mask in disappointment we see it's Laure, the now police inspector. As Julie heads home through the underpass she is attacked and stabbed brutally. Shift to present day and the funeral of Mr. Costa is taking place. Nosy Miss Payet meets Julie there and she can't shake her off. The parish priest remarks to Thomas that Adele is looking radiant, and better than he has seen her before. Camille has not been able to attend, though Lena and Claire have, and they meet Pierre there, telling him that Lena has suspicions that Simon is another "revenant", and they wonder if there will be more.
At the graveside, Payet tells Julie about the attack on Lucy Clarsen, and Julie, terrified that her would-be killer is back, staggers out of the cemetery. During the eulogy it becomes clear that the woman who reappeared to Mr Costa was his wife, dead thirty years, called Vivianne. There is a cameo portrait of her on the grave, and unnoticed by anyone, she has also attended the funeral of her husband. Camille tackles her father over his broken relationship with her mother, realising that her death must have been at least partly responsible. He tells her that the whole thing was very hard on her sister, and Camille goes to see her in her room, noting as she changes that there is a nasty mark on her back. When she asks about it though Lena asks her to leave, rather abruptly.
The level in the reservoir continues to drop, now experts are in to check it. Robots are sent down but no fissures are detected. At the police station, one of the officers, not knowing what to do with Simon, contacts Pierre. Seems he runs an outreach project he calls The Helping Hand, which shelters the destitute and gives refuge to those who need it. Pierre agrees to come to the station and pick Simon up. Jerome suggests the family move, and Claire thinks maybe it's a good idea; start somewhere new, where Camille is not known, and can perhaps have a normal life. At the station one of the officers suggests they question Julie, as she was involved in the original attack, and may have remembered something that might help them. Laure says she will go. Alone.
The visit does not go well. It seems that the two were romantically involved, but broke up. Julie will not talk to the inspector. Lena is not pleased to hear that her family plan to move, seeing it as being all about Camille with nobody caring about her. On the way to the Helping Hand Simon learns from Pierre that he died when hit by a car on his wedding day, but he does not seem to remember the incident that ended his life. He decides not to go to the outreach and has Pierre drop him in town instead. Camille convinces her mother to take her shopping, but they are spotted by Sandrine, whose eyes widen when she sees the dead girl. Camille pretends to be a cousin, Alice. Lena's scar, meanwhile, far from healing is getting worse, and bigger. Captain Thomas is furious to find that Simon is gone, as he --- perhaps rather rashly --- views him as the main suspect in the attempted murder of Lucy Clarsen. He goes to the Helping Hand but is told by Pierre that Simon did not wish to come here and he let him out in town.
After the police inspector leaves Miss Payet knocks and threatens to shop Julie to the cops, believing that Victor is an illegal immigrant. Julie shuts the door in her face. Adele takes Simon to see his daughter, Chloe. In the Lake Pub, Toni is dealing with the toilets, which have become blocked and full of dirty water like the ones in the church earlier. Here Lena meets Serge, and Toni, who did not know he had arrived, is annoyed, worried that people may start asking questions. He asks Serge to go home. Victor is drawing some very disturbing things, which seem to be sketches of murders. When Julie has gone out he goes across the corridor to Miss Payet's apartment. She is delighted to see him and invites him in, no doubt hoping to find out who he is and tell the police, thus getting Julie into trouble.
When Adele gets home Lena is waiting for her. It seems she used to tutor her, but that's not what she's here for. She asks Adele about Simon, saying he came to the Lake Pub looking for her. Adele is now confused; she thought Simon was a ghost, a figment of her imagination. She thought she was the only one who could see him, but now it seems that's not the case, and maybe he's not just in her mind. For his part, Simon decides his only recourse at this point is to take up Pierre's offer and so he goes to the Helping Hand.
On returning home, Julie is worried that Victor is not there and goes looking for him. She thinks she hears something downstairs and comes face to face with her attacker from seven years ago. Armed with a scissors she is still overpowered, but when she looks again it is Victor's face she sees. He takes the scissors from her wordlessly. Thomas watches CCTV footage of Simon meeting Adele, while Lena sneaks out of her house. Jerome tries to convince Claire that moving is the best thing for them all, but she is not sure. Their relationship seems to be improving though. Camille meets Frederic and tells him she is Alice, but Lena is less than happy to see her. They face off and Camille goes. Lena and Frederic begin to make love in a booth but when he sees her scar and asks what it is she freaks out and runs.
Simon goes to see Adele again, and this time, realising he is somehow real, she kisses him. This is monitored by Thomas, who has the whole house wired for sound and vision. Back in Miss Payet's apartment, her cats nose around her bleeding, dead body as she sprawls in a pool of her own blood.
QUESTIONS?
What has the dropping of the water level in the reservoir got to do with anything? It's being flagged as being important, but why?
What happened on the stairs, when Julie thought she was being attacked, but it turned out to be Victor?
Did the boy murder Miss Payet, to stop her from going to the police?
What were the pictures he was drawing? If, as they looked to be, they were murders, is he a child killer, and is Julie in danger? Given the fate of the nosy neighbour, you would have to guess that the answer to both questions is yes. But then, he wants to stay with Julie so did he just murder --- if he did --- Miss Payet out of necessity, to stop her from having them split up? And if that's true, what other lengths is he prepared to go to to keep them together?
CONNECTIONS
We now know that there is a very definite link between Julie and Laure, that they were in fact what appears to have been lovers, and that the attack on Julie drove them apart. Like Lena about Camille, it's quite possible that Laure feels guilty for having left Julie to walk home alone. Had she gone with her, or convinced her to stay, Julie might not have been attacked. Now Julie is working for the police and in the uncomfortable position of having to both revisit her ex-lover and dredge up a past Julie would much rather remain buried.