The Jacques Files, part 2

Astrid et Raphaëlle S06E02, “Le Pensionnat” (Boarding School), runtime 49:32
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The Léo Dumas case continues– and it’s equally a case about Jacques Slimani and Overlook, the boarding school he attended. Raph is perplexed by how rich her life was in the coma; fearing being sidelined, she goes AWOL from the hospital. The surviving ghost debunkers burgle Overlook to make up for the lack of a search warrant, emerging with what could be a ghost trap or maybe just a canister vacuum cleaner. What does it do? Who is Raph’s ghost buddy Hubert? What clues point back to rising guest star Alice ‘the Selena Gomez of France’ Cornillac? Will Mulder and Scully be dropping by?

Benoit Michel in front of the Fondation de Rosa Abreu de Grancher

NOTES

3’04” c.f.: Now that it’s been established that Odin is an acronym, I’ll be spelling it ODIN, and treating them as plural as needed.

6’48”: Astrid has a ‘horseshoe puzzle,’ but of course in French the H is silent, so it sounds like ‘or-shoo puzzl.’
      Il était trop pris, ‘it is too taken/caught,’ I think means it preoccupies her.

A tableur (11’59”) isn’t a painting, it’s a spreadsheet or table.

Heures sup' (14’21”) means ‘overtime’/OT.

A 10-31 (19’12”) is ‘crime in progress/pick up suspect.’

The vacuum cleaner (20’41”) actually does look like a gammagraph.

The Actemium Gam80 gammagraph

21’06”: Carl reminds the team that the vacuum cleaner is evidence on pourra jamais l'intégrer dans la procédure (we will never be able to integrate it into the procedure). I have to shorten it to ‘it’s procedurally excluded.’

Raph talks about laisser des plumes, ‘lose feathers’ (23’44”), meaning to suffer damage.

The ‘Institute for Paranormal Studies’ building (25’03”) is the Fondation de Rosa Abreu de Grancher at 59A Boulevard Jourdan, a student dorm in the international enclave of the University of Paris.
      It’s at this point that the episode starts to feel like a backdoor pilot for Ghost Debunkers.

The Hopital l’Est Parisien (28’09”) is a private hospital in Aulnay-sous-bois, east of Paris. It is not the hospital shown at 2’03”.

Feathers again.  ‘The feather of the flying elephant’ (38’50”) is, of course, a Dumbo reference.

45’44”: It sounds like Nico is describing an Ironman suit. Jean Slimani just walked out of his lab in one, killed Leo, and returned it? Sure.