Returning his son Raoul (Etan Simon) to his wife Claire (Ludivine Sagnier), Assane (Omar Sy) only narrowly escapes a police trap - upon which Claire, horrified by the danger Assane has put his own son in, forbids Raoul to ever talk to him again. This pretty much breaks Assane's heart, and so, to have his revenge on Pellegrini (Hervé Pierre), his arch enemy and the cause for this in the first place, he decides to go after Pellegrini's offspring, Juliette (Clotilde Hesme), conveniently an ex-girlfriend of his and former partner in crime. He "by chance" meets her in a restaurant, they skip out on the bill, steal a scooter - in a word, have lots of fun like in the old times. And Assane promises her it can go on like this, so much so that he steals a priceless painting from a museum and sends it to her. But she insists he steals a bracelet from Claire, given to her by her new lover Marc (Salim Kechiouche) - which Assane does, and in return he asks Claire to talk to her estranged mother (Nicole Garcia), to ask her why Assane's dad really got arrested (it was a set-up by Pellegrini, as pointed out in earlier episodes), and that ultimately leads to Pellegrini's arrest.

In the end, it's revealed that the whole "romance" between Assane and Juliette was machinated by Assane as a means to an end (to finally hand Pellegrini his just desserts), but ultimately he isn't ruthless enough to just drop Juliette after she has pretty much sold out her father ...

A rather weak episode, as there's no elegance in Assane's scheme, so much so that the "reveal" in the end doesn't really tell the audience anything new, other than that all of Assane's crimes were much less daring (or even criminal) than they appeared at first sight (he actually paid the bill he pretended to skip, reimbursed the owner of the scooter and forged rather than stole the painting), which makes everything that went on before even lamer in retrospect. And even Pellegrini's arrest, that should have been the centerpiece of this episode, seems a bit arbitrary. In all, a bit of a let-down really.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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