The Absentee

Episode 7 (1x7)

Air date: Oct 04, 2021

Alex is visited by her real mother, Sylvie, who abandoned her without a word when she was a toddler. Laurent has found his daughter's killer. He carries him on his boat and goes to the open sea to torture him. When he removes the hood that hides the sobbing man's face, we recognize Sully, Hélène's friend. Laurent tortures him all night to make him confess the truth. He is a sick man, a pedophile, he raped and killed little Marina eleven years ago. Alex goes to Jonathan's hotel to declare his love for him and wants to have sex with him, but Jonathan is furious at all of Alex's lies and rejects her. Hélène discovers that Eléonore has run away with Maël. Her older brother Loïc and Alex manage to find Eléonore and bring her home. Victoire understands that it is Sully who has been kidnapped by Laurent. Laurent, at his wit's end, ends up killing Sully. Victoire rushes to the coastguard boat but she can't find Laurent's boat.