Un Village Français 5.11

Le Jour d'après

or The Day After

12 Nov 1943

Chassagne wants to know where Antoine and the Resistance fighters can be found. He has most of the people who were at the parade arrested and questioned but no one provides any useful information. 

Marchetti interrogates Lucienne and Marguerite. He's convinced that they must know something. They manage to come up with a good story but in the end Marchetti finds a hole in their story. Marguerite, changes their story and admits that they were together, sexually. She has an arrest record for this sort of thing which the police are able to check. They are released after her arrest record is verified.

Suzanne returns and finds out that Marcel has been sentenced to death. She turns to Loriot, one of the policemen, for help but he tells her that unless she can give him Antoine then there's nothing he can do.

Müller and Schneider find themselves facing trouble because of the parade. Müller comes up with a plan but in order to get Schneider to go along with it he blackmails him. Schneider agrees to go along with Müller's plan which involves executing Chassagne. Müller tells Servier that he should be happy. Berlin wanted mass executions but now there will be just one.

Claude tells Antoine that he is going to quit the Resistance. He thinks that the parade was stupid. Antoine brings Thierry over and tells Claude to tell him. Claude fumbles and doesn't tell Thierry that he will be leaving. He later tells Antoine that he will be leaving the next morning at dawn, which is also a line from the play they were rehearsing.

Chassagne is thrown in the same cell as Marcel. He gets a visit from Jeanine. He admits to forcing himself on Hortense. Jeanine is disgusted and leaves angry.

Marguerite returns to the police station as instructed by Marchetti where she finds him talking to Rainer.

Thoughts

Hortense, Marie, Daniel, Raymond, and Gustave are not in this episode.

This episode was exactly what the title said it would be and what I thought it might be.

It looks like I am going to be right about Chassagne not  surviving the end of the season. I'm not so sure about Claude and Marguerite. I'm not convinced that they are safe.

This was another good episode. It was very tense as the investigations took shape. The back half of this season has been much better than the first half. I'm not sure what to expect of the final episode of the season other than at least a couple executions.