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The Series focuses on Police detective Yoann Peeters (Yoann Blanc), after he moves from Brussels to Heiderfeld with his daughter following the death of his wife. Soon after he arrives, the body of a young African football player is pulled from the river, and while everyone thinks its suicide, Peeters suspects there's more to it.

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The Series focuses on Police detective Yoann Peeters (Yoann Blanc), after he moves from Brussels to Heiderfeld with his daughter daughter, Camille, following the death of his wife. Soon after he arrives, the body of a young African football player is pulled from the river, and while everyone thinks its suicide, Peeters suspects there's more to it.



* CelebrityImpersonator: Timothee, who looks a lot like Sid Vicious when throwing parties.



* PermaStubble: Peeters.



* SceneryPorn: Given it's filmed in the Belgian Ardennes.

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* SceneryPorn: Given it's filmed in the Belgian Ardennes.Ardennes.
* SlippingAMickey: Sorta. Camille willingly takes the drug offered since its part of the initiation if you want to take part of Heiderfeld's special party scene.
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''La Trêve'' (The Truce), also known as ''The Break'' on international markets, is a Franco-Belgian crime drama television series, produced by Anthony Rey and directed by Matthieu Donck. It debuted on [=RTBF=]'s La Une on 21 February 2016, on France 2 on 29 August 2016, and on Netflix in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada on 21 December 2016.

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''La Trêve'' (The Truce), (French: ''The Truce''), also known as ''The Break'' on international markets, is a Franco-Belgian crime drama television series, produced by Anthony Rey and directed by Matthieu Donck. It debuted on [=RTBF=]'s La Une on 21 February 2016, on France 2 on 29 August 2016, and on Netflix in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada on 21 December 2016.
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''La Trêve'' (The Truce), also known as ''The Break'' on international markets, is a Franco-Belgian crime drama television series, produced by Anthony Rey and directed by Matthieu Donck. It debuted on [=RTBF=]'s La Une on 21 February 2016, on France 2 on 29 August 2016, and on Netflix in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada on 21 December 2016.

The Series focuses on Police detective Yoann Peeters (Yoann Blanc), after he moves from Brussels to Heiderfeld with his daughter following the death of his wife. Soon after he arrives, the body of a young african football player is pulled from the river, and while everyone thinks its suicide, Peeters suspects there's more to it.

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''La Trêve'' (The Truce), also known as ''The Break'' on international markets, is a Franco-Belgian crime drama television series, produced by Anthony Rey and directed by Matthieu Donck. It debuted on [=RTBF=]'s La Une on 21 February 2016, on France 2 on 29 August 2016, and on Netflix in the United States, United Kingdom Kingdom, and Canada on 21 December 2016.

The Series focuses on Police detective Yoann Peeters (Yoann Blanc), after he moves from Brussels to Heiderfeld with his daughter following the death of his wife. Soon after he arrives, the body of a young african African football player is pulled from the river, and while everyone thinks its suicide, Peeters suspects there's more to it.



* NoodleIncident: Operation Berger. All we know initially is that Peeters was involved in it and that it ended with four cops dead. It is one of the reasons he moves away from Brussels.

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* NoodleIncident: Operation Berger. All we know initially is that Peeters was involved in it and that it ended with four cops dead. It is one of the reasons he moves away from Brussels. [[spoiler: It is eventually revealed that Operation Berger was a surveillance mission on a drug cartel gone awry when their cover is blown; during the fracas, a child is held hostage and Peeters commands his unit to rescue him without backup, which results in four cops dead, but the child is rescued successfully.]]
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''La Trêve'' (The Truce), also known as ''The Break'' on international markets, is a French-language Belgian crime drama television series, produced by Anthony Rey and directed by Matthieu Donck. It debuted on [=RTBF=]'s La Une on 21 February 2016, on France 2 on 29 August 2016, and on Netflix in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada on 21 December 2016.

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''La Trêve'' (The Truce), also known as ''The Break'' on international markets, is a French-language Belgian Franco-Belgian crime drama television series, produced by Anthony Rey and directed by Matthieu Donck. It debuted on [=RTBF=]'s La Une on 21 February 2016, on France 2 on 29 August 2016, and on Netflix in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada on 21 December 2016.
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* SceneryPorn: Given it's filmed in the Belgian Ardennes.
* TheDanza: Actor Yoann Blanc plays Detective Yoann Peeters in the show.

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* SceneryPorn: Given it's filmed in the Belgian Ardennes.
* TheDanza: Actor Yoann Blanc plays Detective Yoann Peeters in the show.
Ardennes.
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* SceneryPorn: Given it's filmed in the Belgian Ardennes.

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* SceneryPorn: Given it's filmed in the Belgian Ardennes.Ardennes.
* TheDanza: Actor Yoann Blanc plays Detective Yoann Peeters in the show.
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The Series focuses on Police detective Yoann Peeters, after he moves from Brussels to Heiderfeld with his daughter following the death of his wife. Soon after he arrives, the body of a young african football player is pulled from the river, and while everyone thinks its suicide, Peeters suspects there's more to it.

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The Series focuses on Police detective Yoann Peeters, Peeters (Yoann Blanc), after he moves from Brussels to Heiderfeld with his daughter following the death of his wife. Soon after he arrives, the body of a young african football player is pulled from the river, and while everyone thinks its suicide, Peeters suspects there's more to it.
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* IncestIsRelative: [[spoiler:The Malausas. In fact, the sister is so dominant, that one of the brother's nightmares is him being cuckcolded by his sister and Driss.]]

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* IncestIsRelative: [[spoiler:The Malausas. In fact, the sister is so dominant, that one of the brother's nightmares is him being cuckcolded by his sister and Driss.]]
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Jeoffrey, a stable boy, appears to be in the autistic spectrum. [[spoiler:He's also the victim of abuse at the hand of the Malausas]].

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* AmbiguousDisorder: Jeoffrey, a stable boy, appears to be in the autistic spectrum. [[spoiler:He's also the victim of abuse at the hand of the Malausas]].
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* PostHumousCharacter: Driss Assani. He pops up from episode to episode either as part of people’s dreams or in video logs.

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* PostHumousCharacter: Driss Assani. He pops up from episode to episode either as part of people’s dreams dreams, flashbacks or in video logs.

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* ProperlyParanoid: One of the farmers complains to Geeraerts that his cows are being poisoned. [[spoiler: Geeraerts sends Peeters and Drummer just to calm him down, but further investigation proves the farmer right.]]

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* ProperlyParanoid: One of the farmers complains to Geeraerts that his cows are being poisoned. [[spoiler: Geeraerts sends Peeters and Drummer just to calm him down, but further investigation proves the farmer right.]]is not entirely wrong.]]
* RedHerring: All over the place in relation to Driss' murder.
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* BondageIsBad: [[spoiler:The Malausas run a BDSM dungeon in their farm, with the sister being the dominatrix.]]


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* IncestIsRelative: [[spoiler:The Malausas. In fact, the sister is so dominant, that one of the brother's nightmares is him being cuckcolded by his sister and Driss.]]

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* AmbiguousDisorder: Jeoffrey, a stable boy, appears to be in the autistic spectrum.

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* AmbiguousDisorder: Jeoffrey, a stable boy, appears to be in the autistic spectrum. [[spoiler:He's also the victim of abuse at the hand of the Malausas]].


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* ProperlyParanoid: One of the farmers complains to Geeraerts that his cows are being poisoned. [[spoiler: Geeraerts sends Peeters and Drummer just to calm him down, but further investigation proves the farmer right.]]
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* HarassingPhoneCall: Fischer, the Mayor, starts to get this.
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* HowWeGotHere: The series starts after the events of Heiderfeld, with Peeters relating what happened to a psychiatrist.

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* HowWeGotHere: The series starts after the events of Heiderfeld, with Peeters relating what happened to a psychiatrist.psychiatrist, as part of an inquiry.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Jeoffrey, a stable boy, appears to be in the autistic spectrum.
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* PostHumousCharacter: Driss Assani.

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* PostHumousCharacter: Driss Assani. He pops up from episode to episode either as part of people’s dreams or in video logs.
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* NoodleIncident: Operation Berger. All we know initially is that Peeters was involved in it and that it ended with four cops dead. It is one of the reasons he moves away from Brussels.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Chief Rudy Geeraerts. He initially wants to rule Driss’s death as a suicide and it just goes downhill from there.
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* CommunityThreateningConstruction: A dam project -- and while its touted as bringing tons of benefits to the town, several people would have to sell their land for it to happen. [[spoiler: One conveniently dies, and others have had their cattle die in mysterious circumstances.]]
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* HighSchoolSweetHearts: Ines and Peeters were this, but then he left and she stayed behind.
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* {{Cuckold}}: [[spoiler: Robert Malausas has this fear. One of his nightmares is him walking on his wife seducing Driss.]]
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* {{Cuckold}}: [[spoiler: Robert Malausas has this fear. One of his nightmares is him walking on his wife seducing Driss.]]
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* PostHumousCharacter: Driss Assani.

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* PostHumousCharacter: Driss Assani.Assani.
* SceneryPorn: Given it's filmed in the Belgian Ardennes.
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* LonersAreFreaks: Jeff the Indian, which makes it easy for people to pin Driss' murder on him.

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* LonersAreFreaks: Jeff the Indian, Lequais, which makes it easy for people to pin Driss' murder on him.
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* MakeItLookLikeASuicide: Driss. Everyone just wants to believe this is what happened, except for Peeters, and he's right.

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* MakeItLookLikeASuicide: MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Driss. Everyone just wants to believe this is what happened, except for Peeters, and he's right.

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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: The Chief leans hard on Jeff and convinces him to confess to Driss' murder -- shortly after, Jeff hangs himself in his cell.]]



* LonersAreFreaks: Jenn the Indian, which makes it easy for people to pin Driss' murder on him.

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* ImposterForgotOneDetail: [[spoiler: The killer wrote a suicide note and left it at Driss' apartment, but the killer forgot one thing, Driss was practically illiterate, which is what convinces Peeters he's on the right track that Driss' death is foul play.]]
* LonersAreFreaks: Jenn Jeff the Indian, which makes it easy for people to pin Driss' murder on him. him.
* MakeItLookLikeASuicide: Driss. Everyone just wants to believe this is what happened, except for Peeters, and he's right.
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* LonersAreFreaks: Jenn the Indian, which makes it easy for people to pin Driss' murder on him.
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''La Trêve'' (The Truce), also known as ''The Break'' on international markets, is a French-language Belgian crime drama television series, produced by Anthony Rey and directed by Matthieu Donck. It debuted on [=RTBF=]'s La Une on 21 February 2016, on France 2 on 29 August 2016, and on Netflix in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada on 21 December 2016.

The Series focuses on Police detective Yoann Peeters, after he moves from Brussels to Heiderfeld with his daughter following the death of his wife. Soon after he arrives, the body of a young african football player is pulled from the river, and while everyone thinks its suicide, Peeters suspects there's more to it.

!!''La Trêve / The Break'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* HowWeGotHere: The series starts after the events of Heiderfeld, with Peeters relating what happened to a psychiatrist.
* PostHumousCharacter: Driss Assani.

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