Guédira tells Assane and Claire that he saw a man fitting Léonard's description shove Raoul into a gray BMW and drive off. Claire immediately becomes hysterical; Assane attempts to assure her that he will bring Raoul back to her unharmed, and breaks into another car, preparing to chase Léonard down. Guédira jumps into the car as well, telling Assane that he wants to help. The two drive off, leaving Claire behind in Étretat to call the police. Claire becomes upset when the local cops don't respond to the situation with a great deal of urgency and decides to seek help from Benjamin in Paris.
Léonard stops in a pub in the sleepy town of Bourneville and calls Hubert Pellegrini, explaining what happened. Hubert is horrified to hear that Léonard has kidnapped a child and orders him to fix his mistake. Shortly after Léonard leaves the pub, Assane and Guédira arrive in town; Assane asks the locals if they have seen any sign of Léonard, but no response is forthcoming. (Guédira, meanwhile, takes the opportunity to discreetly phone a shocked Belkacem and ask for assistance.) Luckily for Assane, Léonard alerts him to his presence by aggressively speeding away. Assane and Guédira tail Léonard to an abandoned mansion, where Léonard ties Raoul up and threatens to kill both him and Assane.
Assane ties Guédira up after revealing he knows that he is a police officer, and heads into the dilapidated mansion in search of Léonard. When he finds him, the two begin another Brutal Brawl which ends with Assane defenestrating Léonard. However, he doesn't know that Léonard has locked Raoul back in the trunk of the BMW. Léonard manages to stand up and sets the vehicle ablaze, texting Assane from Raoul's phone telling him to "try the car next time." When Assane realizes what Léonard has done and sees the car explode, he breaks down in devastated tears. Seconds later, Belkacem arrives and places him under arrest.
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Tropes that appear in this episode:
- Birthday Episode: A continuation of the events of Raoul's rather unfortunate fourteenth birthday.
- Bound and Gagged: Raoul spends most of the episode in this state.
- Broken Tears: Claire when she learns that Raoul has been abducted by Léonard, and Assane when he believes that Raoul has been incinerated in Léonard's car.
- The Chase: Assane steals a car and, along with Guédira, pursues Léonard through Normandy in order to recover Raoul.
- Disney Death: Assane tosses Léonard out of a window. From the way he lands, it seems like he should have broken his back, but he manages to get up with little difficulty and lights his BMW on fire, with Raoul locked inside.
- Dude, Not Funny!: When he and Assane are speeding through the countryside while chasing down Léonard and Raoul, Guédira mentions that he needs to make a call to his (fictional) wife, joking that otherwise she will think that he was kidnapped. He stops talking after Assane gives him a withering look.
- Empathy Doll Shot: The episode closes with a shot of the top-hatted Arsène Lupin action figure, that Assane had given to Raoul for his birthday earlier that day, lying on the ground. Subverted in that although at this point both Assane and the viewer have been led to believe that Raoul was killed by Léonard, the next episode reveals that Guédira managed to save him in the nick of time.
- Gasoline Dousing: Seemingly out of frustration at his inability to kill Assane, Léonard does this to his car, with Raoul locked in the trunk.
- Oh, Crap!: A major one for Assane when he sees Léonard's BMW go up in flames.
- Old, Dark House: After kidnapping him, Léonard brings Raoul to a creepy abandoned hunting lodge in the countryside of Normandy.
- Out-of-Character Alert: Assane figures out that Léonard is pretending to be Raoul in a text by making a deliberate error in reference to one of Lupin's storiesnote , since the real Raoul would have immediately corrected him.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The fact that their son has been kidnapped causes both Assane and Claire to behave in abnormal fashion: Assane loses his sense of humor entirely and goes into a cold, anxious rage, while Claire basically has a public Freak Out, shrieking that Assane is responsible for the kidnapping and even giving him a disgusted shove.
- Plot Parallel: Assane's quest to get Raoul back from Léonard is contrasted with a flashback sequence depicting his theft of a violin in his teen years. In both cases, he winds up snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
- Punk in the Trunk: Léonard puts Raoul in the trunk of his car after kidnapping him.
- Racing the Train: Assane does this during the pursuit of Léonard, much to Guédira's horror.
- Speed, Smarts and Strength: The episode contrasts Assane's brute-force fighting style with the smaller, skinnier Léonard's more agility-focused approach.
- Switching P.O.V.: The opening minutes of this episode depict the events of Chapter 5 from Guédira's perspective, including his witnessing Léonard shoving Raoul into a stolen BMW and driving off.
- Undercover as Lovers: Guédira attempts to conceal his identity from Assane while the two are chasing Léonard and Raoul, and tells him that he needs to make a quick phone call to his wife. After Assane agrees, he calls Belkacem from a pub; when Assane comes near him, Guédira is forced to awkwardly tell Belkacem that he loves her, thus providing the first in a series of Ship Tease moments between them.
- Unexpectedly Dark Episode: Unlike most of the series, which mixes moments of lighthearted levity with more serious drama, this episode is extremely and unrelentingly dark, even ending with the suggestion that a young child has been burned alive. (Likely for this reason, it's one of the lowest-rated episodes of the show across several user-generated review platforms including IMDB and TVTime.)
