Un Village Français 2.06

Coup de Grace

or Death Blow

11 March 1941

Lorrain is ready to kill Raymond. Marie begs him not to do it. He ties Raymond up in the barn and takes Marie into the house. Marie talks him into letting Raymond live but Lorrain insists that he will have to leave Raymond crippled.

Doctor Larcher is confronted by a mob of mothers who are desperate because they don't have any food for themselves or their children. He tries to tell them that everyone has it bad. They don't back off until German soldiers show up.

Janine Schwartz goes to the police station looking for Raymond. She tells De Kervern what she knows. He encourages her to go home, it is after dark and after curfew. De Kervern goes to the Germain farm. He gets there just as Lorrain is getting ready to cut Raymond's throat. De Kervern shoots Lorrain in the hand. Marie helps De Kervern to tie up her husband. Schwartz goes home to his wife and tells her that it is over between him and Marie

Un Village Français 2.05

Danger de Mort

or Risk of Death

10 March 1941

De Kervern needs to get a look at the German's files on Essarts. He asks for Marie's help to forge a pass. She resists at first because it means lying to Raymond but in the end she agrees to do it.

Marcel Larcher needs to host a meeting for some higher level people in the Communist party. Gustave, his son, finds out about it and fears that his father is going to kill his rabbit and serve it to his guests. Gustave comes up with a plan to save Gustave's rabbit by using the ration tickets that he and Marceau took in the previous episode.

Müller interrogates the surviving members of the Jewish family. The father reveals that Lorrain is the first name of the man who was helping them but then deserted them. Müller also interrogates Sarah, from whom he learns that Lorrain was in fact Lorrain Germain. 

Un Village Français 2.04

Votre nom fait un peu juif

or Your Name Is a Little Jewish

4 March 1940

Schwartz and Von Ritter are socializing, sharing a drink at the sawmill at night when they get interrupted. Someone has painted the words "Schwartz. Dirty Jew" on the outside of the sawmill. Schwartz insists that he is not a Jew. Von Ritter tells him he will have to get the grafitti cleaned up immediately.

Lucienne sees Kurt again. Her radio is broken. He offers to fix it. She makes a date to see him at 9 PM. Mr. Bériot, the principal imposes on her later that day. He invites her over for dinner. She doesn't want to accept but doesn't know how to say no to him without raising suspicion.

De Kervern comes home to find that Judith has taken in a Jewish family from Belgium. They are headed south. She was afraid they would get arrested. He isn't happy about it but he tries to help them. He talks to Marie about it. She suggests that her husband could get them through the woods and across the line.

Un Village Français 2.03

La Leçon de choses

or The Lesson

12 Feb 1941

German soldiers enter Lucienne's classroom. They search the classroom and find a hunting rifle that belongs to Jules Beriot, the principal. He tries to explain but they take him away. She goes to see him in jail. He begs her to find him a lawyer. She tries but nobody is willing to take the case. Hiding weapons might get him Beriot the death penalty, even though it is an old rifle and no longer functions.

Marchetti looks into the spy ring. He rides the bus to Essarts a few times without finding anything. He starts telling people, with Müller's permission, that there is going to be a a big arrest in Essarts the next day. De Kervern hears Marchetti talking about the arrest and prepares a message for Marie to pass along.

Un Village Français 2.02

L'Engagement

or Commitment

Feb 4, 1941

Inspector Marchetti has a sting operation set up to catch people selling goods on the black market. It turns out that the Germans have a similar operation going. Marchetti tries arresting someone only to discover that it is a German police man, the same one that De Kervern met in Besançon in January.

De Kervern goes back to see Natacha at the brothel. He gets information from her that she got from Von Ritter, one of her clients. He also runs in to Marie Germain in Besançon. He recruits her to transport letters for him for the Resistance. She agrees to do it even though she has problems of her own with her husband who has been selling things on the black market.

Lucienne practices with the three German violin-playing soldiers. She thinks that Kurt, the soldier who recruited her to join the quartet, likes her. She finds a message from him written in letter cubes on her desk. She writes him a note which read "Me Too" and sticks it in his pocket. She later finds out that he isn't the one who left the message on her desk. It was her Jules Bériot, the principal, who left it.

Un Village Français 2.01

La Loterie

or The Lottery

De Kervern celebrates with Alfred, a friend. They recently bought a winning lottery ticket. They won 150,000 francs. Alfred goes upstairs with one of the prostitutes who works in the brothel where they were celebrating. Minutes later Alfred is dead. The prostitute doesn't know where Alfred's wallet is. De Kervern takes her in for questioning.

Daniel Larcher goes to see Marcel, his brother, in prison. He brings him a picture that Gustave drew for him. He tries to get Marcel to sign a paper promising to give up his political activities but Marcel refuses. Daniel starts to suspect that there is something going on between Hortense, his wife, and Jean Machetti, the policeman. He questions her about it but she insists that it is just his imagination. Daniel finds Marchetti a place to stay and makes it clear that he wants him to move out as soon as possible.