Mille et une nuits
or A Thousand and One Nights
Bériot makes it back to his house the next morning. He tries to hide the truth from Lucienne but winds up telling her what happened. Crémieux makes it to Marie Germain's farm. He still doesn't know that his wife has been taken to the school. Marie agrees to go down the road try calling his house.
Bériot goes to the school. He talks to Anna Crémieux. She asks him to bring Hélène, her daughter, to the school. He sends Lucienne to pick up Hélène and bring her to the school. Lucienne gets there and finds Hélène but then Marchetti and a couple other policemen show up. They search the place. They know that Crémieux was one of the men who ran from the police the night before. They don't know that Bériot was the other one.
Marie calls the Crémieux house while the police are there. Marchetti has Hélène answer the phone. Marie hangs up when Marchetti gets on the phone. Hélène doesn't know Marie and can't help Marchetti with identifying the person on the other end of the line. Lucienne takes Hélène to her mother.
Kollwitz, the German commander, gives Servier and Larcher orders. They have to separate the Jewish children from their parents. If they don't do it then the Gestapo will do it. They try to reason with him but he doesn't give them any other choice. Larcher argues with Servier after they leave the building. Larcher can't take it. He tells Servier that he will have his resignation in the morning.
Marchetti goes to see Rita, the woman he let go in the previous episode. He takes her for a walk in the park.
Raymond Schwartz tells his son, even though his wife doesn't want him to, about what happened to Hélène and her mother and why they are being held at the school. Marceau and Gustave take off later to see Hélène at the school.
Servier talks to Judith Morhange. He convinces her that she needs to break the news to the parents at the school about having to separate from their children. She wavers but finally agrees to do it.
The act of separating the children from their parents happens while Marceau and Gustave are outside the school. They see a couple parents have to be restrained by the gendarmes. Jeanine Schwartz is also there.
Daniel gets into an argument with Hortense. She accuses him of having something going with Sarah. He yells back at her and tells her to leave.
The episode ends with two scenes. Daniel is writing his resignation letter in the first one when Sarah comes in. They talk about the fight he and Hortense got into earlier. He tells her what Hortense thinks. He insists that he doesn't feel that way about her and then they start making out. Jeanine Schwarts and her son Marceau are back home in the second scene. She has him sing her a song he learned in school.
Thoughts
I wasn't too crazy about the last two scenes in this episode. Daniel starting something with Sarah isn't too surprising but it still makes me feel icky. He has to be 30-40 years older than her. I have no compassion for Jeanine Schwartz. I don't want anything to happen to Marceau, and I doubt that it will, but I could care less about her feelings.
I think Rita is supposed to be a younger character than she seems to be. The actor playing her is about a dozen years older than the one playing Marchetti. My guess is that she is supposed to be about his age.
This was another difficult episode to watch. I don't expect any relief from this until after the sixth episode of the season. I can't help but get emotional watching this. Knowing that it happened in the past doesn't make it any easier. What is past is prologue.
What's next? Will Daniel really resign? What is going to happen to Albert Crémieux? Will Bériot get identified as the other man who ran from the Germans? One prediction I have for the sixth episode of the season is that Lucienne will go into labor and possibly give birth at a crucial moment.
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