Research Unit

Bernier is getting married to novelist Laura Belmont, his great love. But while the party is in full swing, Laura finds her best man, childhood friend Antoine Blessac, murdered in a bedroom. The murderer must be among the guests.

Stéphane Brossetti was beaten to death on the terraces of Nice's Stade du Ray. Kévin Blaize, his 6-year-old stepson who was with him, has disappeared. How did this happen?

While supervising a group of teenagers, climbing instructor Steve is thrown off a cliff. Bernier's team is convinced it's murder.

Madame Duval, a famous singer, was found dead at the wheel of her car in a ravine on the high corniche. Everything points to suicide. The press seized on the case. Why would this young mother, whose career had never faltered, take her own life?

Christophe Garcia, a stingy, hypochondriac man, left his wife to start a new life. When he's found murdered in the Gorges du Daluis, SR discovers that since his separation, he'd become a spendthrift, racking up debts and a string of conquests. Why did this man change so dramatically?

A bachelor party turns into a nightmare. Thomas, the groom-to-be, wakes up locked in a coffin. The perpetrator of the macabre joke, the only person who knows where Thomas is, lies in a pool of blood... The coffin must be found before Thomas runs out of oxygen, and the culprit must be found among all the young students at the party.

A shootout breaks out at the university hospital in Cannes. Franck Mercœur, a serial killer, manages to escape. While the team tries to locate the fugitive, Bernier remains nowhere to be found. It was Martin Bernier who had succeeded in arresting Mercœur a few years ago. His sailboat is drifting off the coast. Could Bernier have been kidnapped by Mercœur?

Warrant Officer Myriam Jacquemin collapses in the street outside her home, the victim of a massive heart attack. The Section arrives in the middle of the funeral and takes possession of the body, in front of stunned relatives. Bernier hands them a letter from Myriam, written just before her death: “Piacci killed me”.

On a Sunday, Laurent Pastoré leaves his wife and children for a business meeting. A few hours later, he is found strangled, half-naked, in a suite at the Carlton, a luxury hotel in Cannes. Was it a sex game gone wrong? A crime of passion? The young family man was undoubtedly hiding a double life. Yet everything leads back to his business, Cocoon, a flourishing start-up.

Two neighboring families, two 18-year-old boys, Noé and Gabriel, who never leave each other's side. Today, Noé is being appropriately celebrated: he has just won a regatta. Gabriel drinks alone. His mother, Juliette, has been missing for three months. He has no news of her. During the party, Juliette's body is discovered in the cellar freezer.

On Carnival night in Nice, the crowd gathers to set fire to the king's head. But the morning after the festivities, the charred body of a man is found inside. He was soon identified. He was Félix Moreau, an ex-biker who had been disabled in a serious accident? How to explain his death?

Stanislas Meyer is found beaten to death in his garage. On arriving on the scene, Sara becomes livid: she had been having an affair with Meyer and since their break-up, he had been harassing her. She had confided in Lucas the day before, who had threatened to “beat the shit out of her”. By mutual agreement, Sara and Lucas keep their mouths shut.

Alexandre Delmotte, a former captain in the gendarmerie, is shot dead at his workplace. SR establishes that Delmotte's murder is linked to that of Alexandre Raynaud, another gendarme.