HPI S04E05, "L'effet râteau"

Episode: Haut potentiel intellectuel S04E05, "L'effet râteau" (The Rake Effect), runtime 55:23

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Midseason premiere. As this episode begins, Morgane is very pregnant now. She's still trying to build good karma, but it's tough for her to be selfless with Ludo and Afida still living with her and the kids. Also trying her patience is Karadec, who returns to work at the PJ brigade criminelle (Gilles couldn't be more thrilled), but doesn't remember having sex with Morgane. Thea is worried about child support, and schemes to acquire potential father DNA samples for paternity tests.

Myra Tyliann as Afida.

This episode's case concerns a woman found dead in her bathtub, electrocuted, and Morgane deduces it is murder, not an accident. Daphne runs the DNA evidence and gets a series of hits-- deaths of women stretching back several years, but ruled accidental. The group reopens the old cases, and soon the PJ office is jammed with detectives and officials wanting to get in on the action.

NOTES

CloClo (2'22") was the nickname of the multi-talented Claude Francois, a singer/songwriter/musician who died in 1978 due to an accidental electrocution in his bathroom. He may be best known as  co-author of the song "Comme d'habitude" ('As Per Usual,' 1967), on which Paul Anka based his later adaptation, "My Way." 

Morgane refers to the victim as a catoche (4'14"), which is Spanish for 'bad mood.' I have no idea what it means for the French, I can only imagine it's something like 'Dying can ruin your whole day.'

Interesting pronunciation thing: Instead of saying Je savais pas (I didn't know) in full (10'51"), Daphne shortens it, ever so slightly, to Je savais p'.

Daphne tells Morgane that she'll lose her good karma if she doesn't find Afida an apartment that is "at least a T4."  A T4 means a living room and 3 other rooms, PLUS bathroom and kitchen.

The banner Gilles has organized for Karadec's return reads Welcome Back in English (11'50").

Lille-Sud, 'Lille South' (17'18") is probably a reference to Solidarité Et Jalons Pour Le Travail, an employment training organization located in the Lille-South district. The Lille University Hospital Center (CHU) is also located here.

The OCRVP (25'02") is the Central Office for Repression of Violence Against Persons, a Judicial Police unit that is also involved in anti-organized crime work.

Arras (33'05") is a city of about 45,000 about 20 miles south of Lille. It was known as Nemetacum in Roman times. Arras was a major producer of tapestries in the 15th century; in Hamlet, Polonius was hiding behind an 'arras' when he was stabbed.

Morgane catches Thea and Eliott at the station, and he lamely claims, On fait in tri selectif (We're doing a selective sorting), for school (33'51"). Tri selectif means 'waste separation,' such as for recycling. I'm putting 'wastestream sorting.'