Maigret Sets A Trap Page #2

Synopsis: Over a five month period in 1955 four women are stabbed to death in Montmartre after dark, a prostitute and a midwife among them - women with nothing in common beyond being brunette. Justice minister Morel leans on chief Inspector Maigret to catch the murderer and Maigret sets a trap, using policewoman Marthe Jusserard as a decoy. She survives an attack, sartorial evidence leading to married mother's boy Marcel Moncin, whom Maigret arrests. However whilst Moncin is in custody there is a further murder and Maigret looks to Moncin's family to help solve the murders.
 
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2016
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that she left the family tenement

in the evening

to fetch medicine from a nearby

pharmacy for her sick baby,

and was murdered as she made

her way home through Montmartre.

The body was discovered...

Good evening.

Hello. ..who's been interviewed

by Chief Inspector Maigret...

I bought us some apples.

Oh, right.

I bought some myself today.

We've got enough now

to start a cider press.

But not to worry.

I can always make something.

..any witnesses in the vicinity

of Rue Lepic yesterday evening

to come forward

and to contact investigators

at the Quai des Orfevres.

According to a police statement,

Chief Inspector Maigret has made

no further progress in the case...

They were talking in the queue

at the grocer's this afternoon

about the -

..no new leads have been established

and -

You will find him.

Are we not eating?

Oh, we're out for supper tonight.

Don't you remember? Dr Pardon's?

Oh. Do we have to?

Well, they've already rung

to confirm and...

..he's invited a colleague to meet

you. Professor Tissot from the

Sainte-Anne Institute.

Oh.

I'll get you a beer.

How is he, Louise?

Well, I've never seen him

like this before.

I watch him while he's sleeping

and his face is grey.

He won't talk about our holiday

this year or anything.

It's like life can't continue for

him until he's caught this man.

I hope he does. Life cannot continue

for any of us until he does.

Drinks, ladies.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I hope you don't find this

impertinent, Chief Inspector,

but I was with some friends this

morning and we were all wondering

why the Police Judiciaire

were not doing their job.

We're doing the best job we can.

Then why haven't you caught him?

Because it's often not that simple.

Why is it not?

How many more dead women

do they need?

Simone, we were just talking about

why this man,

who has lived for, 20, 30 years

withought ever committing a crime,

one day decides to attack

these women?

How do you know he's never committed

a crime before?

Because we've gone back 20 years,

both in Paris and the districts,

checking prisons and psychiatric

institutions for all inmates

released.

Your institute at Sainte-Anne must

have been contacted, Professor?

It was.

But we can find no offender

that we can place in Montmartre

at this time.

So it's obviously somebody new

then, isn't it?

Freud would say your man had sexual

obsessions.

He'd talk about complexes and work

his way back to childhood.

Well, thank God Freud

isn't on the case as well,

with all that nonsense.

I deal a lot with the criminally

insane, Maigret.

I think what links them - Can we not

talk about his anymore, please?

What links them

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Stewart Harcourt

Stewart Harcourt is a British screenwriter and showrunner. He has created, written, and executive produced the series Maigret (ITV, 2016), Agatha Raisin (Sky, 2016), Love and Marriage (ITV, 2013), Jericho (ITV, 2005) and Hearts and Bones (BBC, 2000-2001). He has written screenplays for Agatha Christie's shows Poirot and Marple, and also adapted the novels Treasure Island for Sky, Dracula for BBC, and Churchill's Secret for ITV. more…

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