Une chance sur deux
or One Chance Out of Two
26 Oct 1941
The communists are getting ready to execute their plan. Yvon has a toothache. Marcel convinces him to come with him to a pharmacy to get something for it. Some German officers enter the pharmacy while they are waiting in line at the pharmacy. Yvon sees an opportunity and shoot the German officers. Yvon and Marcel take off running. Yvon convinces Marcel to hide in a cellar while he takes off to find another hiding place. Marcel spends the rest of the episode hiding in the cellar.
Lucienne decides to accept Jules offer of marriage but there is a snag. Her father is a devout Catholic and Jules was never baptized. Jules goes to the church to talk to the priest about getting baptized. The shooting in the pharmacy happens while he is in the church. The German soldiers won't let anyone leave. Jules helps an older man who gets knocked down by a German soldier. The man introduces himself. He is Lucienne's father.
Daniel goes home after talking to Kollwitz who doesn't have an answer for him about taking the place of the other hostages. Hortense is there. She says she is worried about him and she needs him. He is skeptical. Horstense leaves. Daniel tries sending Sarah to get Gustave but by then the manhunt has most of the city in lockdown and she returns empty handed.
Jeannine Schwartz is preparing a dinner which Kollwitz will be attending. The dinner gets canceled when the manhunt begins. Jeannine tries to return some of the food she bought for the meal but she doesn't get very far. The German soldiers she encounters don't speak French and don't care what her reasons are for wanting to get past the roadblock.
Raymond is getting ready to go to a meeting when he is approached by Jerome Michelet, Servier's nephew. Jerome is trying to figure out who killed Caberni. He knows that Raymond met with Caberni the day that he disappeared. Raymond suggests that Jerome come with him while he goes to see Kollwitz. They get caught up in the search for the killers. Jerome is carrying a pistol. They are both arrested and thrown in a jail cell.
Daniel goes to pick up Gustave. He gets to the house and finds Gustave just before Muller shows up. Muller makes it clear that he plans to use Gustave as leverage against Marcel. Daniel objects but doesn't have much of a choice.
Jules brings Lucienne's father back to the school with him. The two of them plus Lucienne talk. Her father figures it all out. He is okay with Lucienne marrying Beriot.
Kollwitz gets Raymond out of jail, apologizes to him, and tells him to go home. Jerome is not quite as lucky.
Muller interrogates Daniel. Kollwitz walks in. Muller and Kollwitz start talking in German. Muller tells Kollwitz about his plan to use Gustave against Marcel. Daniel interrupts their conversation and speaks to them in German. Kollwitz agrees to let Gustave go home with Daniel but he warns him that if Marcel is not found then 20 hostages will be killed.
Thoughts
The translation of the title of this episode is literal. I would translate it as Fifty-fifty. I think it sounds better than the translation they picked.
De Kervern, Judith, and Marie Germain are not in this episode.
Hortense has some nerve telling Daniel that she still cares about him. Maybe she is just that naïve to think that her old tricks will still work now that she is openly cheating on him.
Jerome proves himself to be just as vile and anti-Semitic as his former boss, Caberni. Schwartz seems to have dodged a bullet but I suppose it is conceivable that Jerome might return at some point in the future.
I wasn't very taken by the part of the episode that dealt with Jules, Lucienne, and her father. It was all a little too convenient, especially how her father figured everything out and was okay with her marrying Jules.
Marcel is still in the cellar at the end of the episode. I'm not sure how he is going to get out of there or what happened to Yvon. Even if Marcel gets out of the cellar it isn't clear where he can go.
This episode was very good, better than most. I am eager to see what comes next.
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