Who Shot G.H.?

Mademoiselle Holmes, S01E06, “Le Dernier probléme” (The Final Problem), runtime 51:34
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The first season concludes.

Even after the shock of the climax of the preceding episode, Charlie wants to work with the rest of the team on the hunt for Georges’s attacker. But that's against regulations, so instead Florence hands her a safe little stolen packages case. But she and Samy solve it in just a few hours. What to do? The haul from the package thief’s place yields a clue to her reckless driver from Episode 1– and she takes the bait.

This episode takes its title from the Doyle story of the same name. I don't notice any plot similarities, other than the Reichenbach Falls.

Charlie and Samy debate her final chance to trap Georges's assailant

NOTES

1’17”: We learn that the Holmes lake house is at 5 Impasse de L’Etang (lagoon/pond), a fake address in Fay-de-Bretagne, a real town near Nantes. There are several Impasses de L’Etang in France, the closest to Fay-de-Bretagne is in Petit-Mars, 15 miles to the east.

I can't find fanboy Samy’s chess board factoid (5’19”) in Holmes canon.

Mademoiselle Holmes S01E05, “-20 Degrés”

Mademoiselle Holmes S01E05, “-20 Degrés” (-20 Degrees), runtime 52:49
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The penultimate episode of Season 1, we come to a 2-episode story arc and a cliffhanger. I have no idea which Sherlock Holmes story this episode references, if any.

The brigade is called to Maison Yvrard, a successful gourmet ice cream company, where the glacier has been found dead in a freezer. Maybe things aren’t as successful as it appears. Charlie quickly homes in on company founder Vincent Yvrard. He’s played by Stéphane Brel, whom I automatically suspect because he excels at playing honest-looking handsome guys who turn out to have no problem with criming (see the final episode of Les Pennac(s) and the Candice Renoir Halloween special). In that way he's sort of the male Anne Caillon.

L-R: Dewaere, Caroline Ferrus as Eléna, Stéphane Brel as Vincent.

Meanwhile, Georges has gone off to their lakeside country house for some relaxation and to polish his chess game.


NOTES

5’18”: Claus Henssge (1936-2021) was the German doctor who developed the standard formula for estimating time of death, expressed in a table or grid.

Mademoiselle Holmes S01E03, "Sortie de route"

Mademoiselle Holmes S01E03, "Sortie de route" (Left The Road), runtime 48:28

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This time I'm trying something a little different. I have no French subtitles to start from for most of Season 1 of Mademoiselle Holmes, such is the case with about a third of my subtitling projects. In such situations I have to translate it using my ears and Google Translate. But this time I thought I would try the Vosk audio transcription add-on for Subtitle Edit. Yes, I know many say Whisper is better, and maybe it is but I can't get it to work at an acceptable speed (20-36 hours to process one 90 minute file is ridiculous). Even if Vosk doesn't get the words right, I'm hoping it will at least get the slots and timings correct and I'll save some time. I'll sum-up at the end.

The mystery at the center of "Sortie de route" concerns the car accident death (immolated following an engine explosion) of Anthony Sinçon, brother-in-law of Charlie's old friend Nicolas Belliard.

Charlie and Samy are greeted by a kid armed with a banana

Something about the circumstances feels off to Charlie. Chris and Florence first suspect Nicolas, then his wife Suzy, a mechanic, then Roxane, Nicolas’s former mistress/current stalker. Charlie naturally just wants to help her friends. Florence's cool private eye sister Muriel pops in.

The plot has an element of the Sherlock Holmes story "The Bruce-Partington Plans," except the victim dies by falling from a train, and there were missing submarine plans.

It occurs to me that perhaps Muriel is meant to be the Mycroft analog, but Florence's sibling rival rather than Charlie's.

Mademoiselle Holmes S01E02, "#RECHERCHEK-LISTA"

Mademoiselle Holmes S01E02, "#RECHERCHEK-LISTA" (#LookingForK-Lista), runtime 49:09
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Charlie's style makeover continues, and Georges's vigilance becomes concerning.

Charlie discovers massaging car seats.

Chris hands Charlie and Samy a missing persons case: a man is reporting his daughter Callista missing. She's a fashion influencer on social media, where she goes by 'K-Lista.' Is Callista's disappearance due to a crazed fan? A competitor? Her PA? Her father? Her secret boyfriend? And what role does lactose intolerance play?

NOTES

Cold open: Le Tigre was an all-woman American synth/punk band with one album in 1999, reissued in 2004.

Nantes does not have an Avenue de Gallebin (5'46").

Finally, Georges mentions his father (12'40").

This is a Lola Dewaere stan page

Mademoiselle Holmes S01E01, "On ouvre ses chakras!" (We open our chakras!), runtime 50:33
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Four-and-a-half months after deciding to translate only episode 4 of Season 1 of this light mystery, I've received reader requests for the other five episodes as well. They asked nicely, so here we go.

This episode does what a pilot or first episode is supposed to do, establishing the setting (Nantes), main characters, and their dominant personality traits.

• Charlie Holmes:  great-granddaughter of Sherlock; police detective (low level at first). 'Nuff said.

• Samy Vatel is the Watson, sweet-natured yet slightly anxious.

• Chris Hervieu is the Lestrade, the brigade criminelle team leader who is capable but not especially clever, a harried divorced father of teens.

• Grandfather Georges seems a kindly old man, but, as I wrote about episode 4, he uses Charlie's medications like a leash. He was a high-ranking cop, commissaire at Charlie's station, so he can't have been all sweetness and light.

• Florence Billon, Georges's successor as commissaire, is expectedly tough yet caring toward her work family.

• Jess and Loïc are the lieutenants, she's not as obviously quirky as Daphne on HPI, but he appears to be as strange as Gilles.

I don't yet see a Mycroft analog.

 

Lola Dewaere (the ice cream is a clue)

Second thoughts: Capitaine Marleau, "La cité des âmes en peine"

Masiero and Dalle in episode show art

Three-and-a-half years later, and it has suddenly occurred to me 💡 that the title of Capitaine Marleau episode 23 (the one with Beatrice Dalle), instead of "The City of Souls In Pain," should be translated "The Lost Souls Project."  Recall that cité, 'city,' can also mean 'housing project/estate.'  The housing for the fish factory workers is a cité in both senses, and additionally Marleau's project is helping the lost souls living there.  Well, that's how I see it.

"The Lost Souls Project" at Opensubtitles