Si j'étais libre
or If I Was Free
20 Oct 1941
Hortense is visiting Müller just down the hall from where Marcel, Suzanne, and all the other civilians who were rounded up are being held. Hortense had sex with Müller and on the way out she sees Marcel. She goes back and explains to Heinrich who Marcel is before leaving.
Müller interrogates Marcel and Suzanne. He asks her a lot more questions that him. He has serious doubts about her story. He winds up letting them go when Kollwitz comes to see him and wants to know what he's doing.
Jeannine Schwarts bakes a cake for a contest sponsored by the school. She is proud of her cake and expects she will win. Two of the judges do not show up because of the roundup of civilians. One is Daniel Larcher. He spends time on the phone trying to get a list of all the people who have been rounded up. The other missing judge is Madame Servier. Beriot asks Lucienne to be one of the judges.
Judith thinks that Raoul, Marie's older son, stole the preserves. She asks De Kervern to look into it, which he does. Raoul insists that it wasn't him. Judith is not convinced. De Kervern later finds the missing preserves. It was Marie's younger son who took it. De Kervern does his best to defuse the situation.
Daniel gets a list of the civilians being held by the Germans. He notices that Hortenses cousin's name is on the list, the same cousin that Hortense said she was visiting when she was actually with Muller. Daniel asks her about it. She lies and says that she was meeting with Marchetti to tell him that they couldn't see each other anymore. He accepts her story.
Marcel and Suzanne go back to her place. There is a French policeman waiting for her. He tells Marcel to leave. Marcel returns once the policeman has left and asks Suzanne what's going on. She tells him that she is stringing the policeman along. Marcel has doubts.
The cake contest doesn't go as Jeannine hoped it would. She loses to Anna Crémieux. Jeannine is angry and accuses Anna of using black market materials. Lucienne points out that all the cakes were made with ingredients from the black market. Jeannine leaves angry.
Hortense meets up with Müller for a second time. He tells her, while they are getting dressed afterwards, that they are going to have to play it cool for a little while. He doesn't want anyone to find out about them because she is the mayor's wife. He is woried that he will get sent to the Russian front if they were found out. She suggests that things could be different if she was free.
Jeannine wants to get revenge on Lucienne, her son's teacher whom she blames for her loss in the cake contest. Marceau, her son, tells her about how Gustave saw Lucienne kissing a German soldier.
Thoughts
The title of the episode is a line spoken by Hortense. I don't see how it connects to anything else.
Raymond Schwartz is in this episode but only briefly. This is the second consecutive episode in which he barely plays a role since he killed and dumped the body in the river.
Hortense seems to have fallen hard for Heinrich. He does not seem quite as head over heels for her.
Jeannine is a very petty person. Early in the episode she tried to take the place of the missing judge. She claimed that she could be impartial even though she baked one of the cakes in the contest. In my mind she shouldn't even be entering the contest since she is one of the people sponsoring it. Her pettiness knows no bounds. I'm not sure what will happen to Lucienne but whatever does happen I'm sure it won't be good.
Suzanne is looking more and more untrustworthy. I'm not sure what to make of her. I'm not sure where her relationship with Marcel is going.
This episode was an improvement over the last one but didn't impress me quite as much as the one before that.
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