4 DAYS BEFORE THE NIGHT OF NOTRE-DAME
Are those statues of kings?
No, they're apostles.
Protectors of Notre-Dame.
Bassem, are you working overtime or what?
Yeah. Be right down.
Pass that ball!
Excuse me?
- Hello? - Hello.
- So they yours, then? - No, they're my brother's.
- Where's your brother? - Over there.
Billy!
Coming. Coming.
Yeah?
- Hello. - Hello.
- Would you sell them to me? - No.
Please, come on. How much do you want?
All right, then. Fifteen euros.
- Fifteen euros? - Yeah.
They were a gift,
and you're not supposed to sell gifts unless the price is right. Fifteen euros.
They were a gift, and you're not supposed to sell gifts unless the price is right. Fifteen euros.
Okay.
Here.
Thanks.
- Thanks. And your name is? - Billy. And you?
Bassem.
- Thanks, Billy. - It's all right.
"Here a dinner was given in His honour."
This has to be the third time.
How far to go?
We should reach the upper corridor soon, I reckon.
Are you supposed to be up here, sir?
I was caught by surprise.
- Anyone still else up there? - No. I'm the last.
- Okay. You need to evacuate. - Okay. Thanks.
Thank you. This way, gentlemen. Move along, please.
Go on.
- Gentlemen, gentlemen. - Antony!
Beg your pardon. Sorry, miss.
- Are you okay? - Fine. Fine.
Antony!
- We need to move. Come on! - Let's do it!
Can I help you?
Hello.
Yes?
What do you want?
Get out! What do you want?
Open up, will you?
Open up. I just wanna talk.
I'm armed! Get out!
Don't be afraid. I'm here.
We're holding on! We're not giving an inch!
Make sure the fire doesn't spread to the chapels!
Left! To the left!
The spire's not all that's at risk.
The heat weakening the stone and the weight of the burning timber,
the whole vault is in danger of collapsing.
We have to evacuate.
Varèse! Get everyone out.
- But, General... - No buts! Now!
The vault could collapse. Too dangerous.
We have to redeploy and attack from the outside.
But the risk was accepted and approved. We can't give up on the nave now.
The galleries are safe. We can contain the spread...
And if the vault collapses, then the galleries could fall.
For *** sake, evacuate! And that's an order. Got it?
What's up with you? This isn't like you, General.
***!
- Where are we going? - Nowhere.
We're just driving around.
Seeing Paris.
You know what my rates are?
- You have a rate for car rides? - I sure do.
There's a rate for all and for each minute that I'm with someone.
Right. You know, I just wanna talk. That's all.
That's great. 500, half an hour.
500? I'm in the wrong line of work.
All right, I'll pay.
I need information on one of your colleagues. Victoire.
Okay, you can drop me here.
I'm not a grass, so let me out of the car.
Good. I'm not the police.
A car like this, I didn't think you were. So stop the car now!
You're staying put and listening.
It's important to me.
Come on, seriously?
Pepper spray inside a car? Are you crazy or what?
You just had to stop the car!
It stings. Do you have water?
Don't rub it. That'll make it worse.
***!
Here.
This is my daughter.
Here.
I can't focus right now.
That's her mother, me, and her. I'm her dad.
No wonder that she's mad.
Seriously?
Why should I help with this?
If she won't talk to you, she must have her reasons.
We haven't been in touch for a long time, and I'm trying to find her.
And?
And her mother is dying.
I'm trying to bring her daughter back to her. Understand?
If your mother was dying, terminally ill in a hospital,
wouldn't you do everything to try and see her again? No?
My daughter, where does she stay?
I think she's staying at her friend's.
Sometimes she stays in a hotel,
sometimes with other girls, sometimes with clients.
She called me earlier, probably because...
she's looking for a gig 'cause she needs money. There.
A client?
A client.
These clients,
where do they usually hang out?
- Hi. - Hi.
Just so you know, I'm buying you clothes, then you're on your own, okay?
How's this, then? Does it fit?
Can I get a shirt like Mbappé?
Armbands instead, maybe. Little armbands so you can learn to swim.
No, that's too big for you, Billy.
I don't know. That's good! We'll take it.
Come on, let's go.
- Come on. - What about a coat?
Yes, grab one, quick.
Sorry, it's wet. Really sorry, we fell in the Seine.
And she can't swim, so I saved her life.
- Who can't swim? - You. So I saved your life.
- You saved me? - Yeah.
All right.
Seventy euros.
- How much? - Seventy.
I might use the pay-over-three-installments offer
with my member's account.
- Yeah, sure. - If that's all right with you.
Yes, my card. My loyalty card.
Amazing.
Perfect.
Okay, Billy, I'm going to a shop, but you can't come with me.
Why not?
Just because. And it's time for you to go home.
The subway is right there. All right?
- Say bye to me. - You can't.
You can't just leave me.
Victoire!
Come on, then.
- You miss me already? - Shut up.
Stop laughing.
- Where we going? - To see Mother Christmas.
And I'm warning you, you better behave, okay?
Got that?
- 41st is on its way. - Okay. Send them to Central Command.
Proceed to Central, and we'll send any wounded.
Chaligny, Massena, and Rousseau are also there.
Not here yet.
No, the problem's on the south side. The ground's complete drenched.
I'm worried we won't be able to set up a platform there.
It's worth the risk.
We'll position one here at the front, and one on the south side.
Be careful with the stained-glass windows.
The force from the hoses could shatter them.
- Okay. - Wind still easterly?
- Yes. - Our priority is still to cool down
the spire and the roof.
How will the water drain away?
Will it behave itself? How are the lead tiles arranged?
- These are all important questions. - Okay. Understood, General.
What's the latest with Taupin's team?
They're trying to get closer to the spire, General.
Holding out for now.
Find a way up the scaffold.
- No higher than three meters. - Copy that.
- Go on, click. Whenever you want. - Should I do it now?
Go on.
So what have we got?
It doesn't work every time, but...
- Yeah, I don't see anything. - Yeah, but hang on.
See there?
See the face?
The eyes, mouth, and hair.
Yeah, I see it.
As I told you, fire is... a spirit.
Haunted.
Adamski!
Get down from there!
Adamski, get down!
Adamski... that's an order!
- She dived in? - Well, yeah. Someone saw her jump in.
- Why'd she do that? - I don't know. It happened really quickly.
We barely saw her swim, and then she got out on the other side.
You couldn't have told me that before?
Sorry. So she swam to the opposite bank.
Yeah. And then she went off with the kid.
A little kid?
Yeah. A boy, yeah.
It happened so fast, there was nothing we could do about it.
Thanks.
We agreed 500, right?
No, keep it.
I just hope that you can find her.
Can I drop you somewhere?
No, no need. I'm only ten minutes from here.
I'll walk home.
Max?
Maybe I shouldn't tell you this, but...
Victoire's in trouble because she's like me.
An addict. Dependent on all kinds of bad stuff.
Dependent, okay.
I don't really know what's going on with her one bit.
But if she has made a lot of money from her client,
I can guess what she's after.
And who will have it.
Her dealer?
Yeah.
Let me have your hand a second.
It's a news agent in the 17th district.
That's where she's been going lately.
Thanks. Thanks.
That car doesn't really suit you, Max.
It's not mine.
So, listen. Okay.
A grand.
Settle down.
I'll give you a grand for it.
- What was that? - A thousand.
Gold and diamonds, a thousand?
Gold and diamonds?
You think this is One Thousand and One Nights?
- It's rubbish. - You're saying it's rubbish?
- Yeah. Pretty, but rubbish. - Come on.
You're off your head, you are.
***, my phone.
Hey, can I borrow your phone just for a second?
- I'm gonna show you a video. - Victoire?
Could you just relax, Billy, please? Stop touching everything.
You're not at home. Sit, settle down!
Can I have your phone just for a minute?
I'm not gonna steal it. What's wrong with you?
No Insta?
Why would I have Insta?
Okay.
All right, forget that.
Hey, ***! Hey...
- See where the cross is from? - Yeah.
Well, that guy here is a multimillionaire.
Do you know what that means? Multimillionaire?
It means his car costs as much as an apartment.
That's what it means.
Do you really think a fake cross is his style?
So about the original price... I'll give you half.
- 500? - Well...
500 for this? Do you have any idea how much it costs to fly to Los Angeles?
I'm not a travel agent.
- ***! Are you *** kidding me? - Whoa, calm yourself.
Miss, you need to calm down.
No! Because she's *** with me, and I'm not okay.
***.
I'm not *** with you, I'm taking a big risk.
Look, if I take this cross, and it's stolen,
it's handling stolen goods, and from a celebrity.
You're probably the one who stole it too, so big risk. Got it?
- ***. - That comes at a price.
- That's how it is. - Everything here is stolen. All this?
Your Oscar there? So you won it? Is that what you're saying?
You got on stage, gave a lame speech,
and then decided to put it on the shelf for sale?
- That what you're saying? - Enough drama.
You're taking me for a ride. Pay me what it's worth.
Pay me my thousand, please.
So, it's 500. I'll give you 500, and no more ***.
Take it or leave it. I don't care.
We can't use the hoses. It's too dangerous!
Okay, get back down.
Adamski!
Stop! Stop there!
It's too dangerous! Get back down!
- What you doing? - You hear me?
Go!
Here, take the hose.
Hey, come back!
That's an order!
Adamski, get down!
Alice!
General, I'm sorry to insist, but the nave...
Didn't you understand, Varèse? The vault could collapse any moment.
Like that.
The only thing holding it together is its age.
So we attack from the outside, then we try to save the spire.
If it falls, it's catastrophe.
We have to forget the nave, I'm afraid.
And if the cranes aren't here in ten minutes,
it's not just the nave, but the transept and the belfries as well.
General. You want to leave the Brigade with a win?
Well, it won't be a win if everything in the nave burns.
All the works of art, the paintings.
If we can't save it, we won't be forgiven.
Are you willing to give a life for some statues?
Well, I'm not.
General!
But it's Notre-Dame.
Miss Varèse, what are you doing?
Come on.
I'm coming.
So, the wallpaper needs changing, but you could move in soon.
I don't know how many you've seen, but this one's pretty rare.
I gotta tell you there's a lot of viewings here,
so if you wanna talk to your husband or bring him here,
I could hold the apartment for you, but only for two hours.
No longer.
Thank you very much, but it's just me.
I'll buy it.
Our logo on all the footage?
Yeah, it is.
How long do we have the exclusive?
Whatever happens, we're the first to have the images.
The other channels will react within 20 minutes.
Marion, you're up.
We're seeing this catastrophe.
In just a few seconds, we'll have the images from Elena.
Who's handling the socials? We need exclusive teasers right now.
# Notre-Dame, #exclusive, #BFM, all the hashtags imaginable.
In English, French, Spanish, Chinese. Let everybody know.
- Elena, can you hear me? - Yeah.
You keep it up, you hear? 'Cause it's great.
Elena, could you zoom in on the crack?
That's it.
What the *** are you doing?
I'll be right back.
Elena, what are you doing? I said no, ***!
Elena?
Antony?
I'm sorry, but I... I had to.
Yeah, right. I know what you did there.
Basically, you saw me and thought, "There's an opportunity to get somewhere."
"I'll flash him a smile so he thinks he's still the man of my dreams."
- So what? Thinking I'd let you in? - Ma'am!
- It's not like that. - What is not like what?
Whatever. Right now, it's moot. Just get out.
We need to get out of here!
Just... Just a shot or two more.
- You are formidable. - Hang on just a second!
- Keep going. - Just a few more shots, please.
Elena, cut it out.
Come on, ma'am! Get out, now!
Elena, it's too much.
Come on!
- Stop messing around. - Keep going!
- That's enough, come on! - Elena, keep going.
Do you hear me? Right now!
Elena? This is Steph. Can you hear?
Elena?
I don't *** believe it.
Absolutely not. You simply have to go back in.
No, Father, I'm sorry, but as things stand,
going back to the nave is too big a risk for my crew.
And your priorities?
Well, how do you decide?
All!
All of it's a priority.
The sculptures, the paintings, all of Notre-Dame's treasures.
The crown.
The crown? What crown?
- The Crown of Thorns. - Of Thorns.
You're saying... the one Christ wore on the cross?
You didn't know it was in Notre-Dame?
I'm coming with you.
But you belong with the politicians and the journalists. You know that.
You're a pain, Varèse.
But all right. Team of ten, tops.
Focus only on the most valuable things.
If the vault looks like collapsing, evacuate.
Varèse, with or without the crown.
Understood.
Yes, I rely on you for information.
The *** is this?
I'll call you back. Excuse me.
- General. - Yes, Lieutenant?
General Ducourt?
- Who authorized these images? - What images?
The ones broadcasting live on all the news channels.
- I'm sorry, General... - I authorized the images.
- Even though... - I know you didn't want it.
But right now, it's not you who decides. I do.
Do you know that journalist?
Yes. Well, I mean, I used to.
I'm sorry, General.
- She told me... - She never had authorization.
Don't worry. We'll get her out of there.
My thanks, General.
Calm down, calm down.
Calm down.
I haven't finished stitching. You'll reopen the wound.
Calm down.
I'm not going to do anything.
I'll fix you up and then get out of here. Okay?
All right, shall I fix you up or leave you like this?
Shall I fix you up?
Don't move.
Listen,
I... I'll make it better myself, okay?
So where did you learn to apply stitches?
In Boston.
Long ago.
In Boston?
Well, I studied there way back.
I'm a doctor.
So am I.
I guessed as much.
I'm a vascular surgeon. You?
I'm a... a dental surgeon.
I-I work as a roofer,
but... in Syria, I did implants.
Before the revolution.
What about me?
I don't know what you want.
It's complicated.
No, we'll contain the fire while you get the crown.
- Yes, Colonel. - That's most urgent.
Go, go!
Come on, guys. Let's keep moving.
More in the centre! The centre, the centre!
Stay above it!
Now more on the right.
On the right!
Tell Chaligny to get in position with Sévigné on the south side. Okay?
I'll keep the other two as backup.
What are they doing now? Who is that?
Massena, you can't park there. We need space for the cranes.
No, no, no. On the forecourt with the others.
Thank you.
Elena?
Elena, come in.
Elena?
Colonel, Colonel, the journalist. She's still behind the altar.
We are actually watching live right now
as part of the roof is totally ravaged by flames.
This incredible monument,
which is so important to the history of France,
the history of Europe, which is burning in this way.
It's a very powerful image.
It's an extremely difficult image to look at.
Has this type of event ever happened to Paris firefighters before?
Well, no, not really.
This is an unprecedented challenge
for the brigade, of course.
Look, Max. There's something I want to show you.
- Beautiful, yeah? - Yeah.
Shut your eyes.
And now? Still as beautiful?
Yeah.
You see, beauty isn't just in objects.
Beauty isn't just in objects, Victoire.
It also lies in your soul.
- It's huge. - Yes, it is.
You okay?
Yeah, I'm okay, all right?
I just need to go see someone, okay?
Are you a druggie? Are you missing it?
What are you talking about?
You're not the first person I've seen like this.
You okay?
Adamski!
Hey! Adamski!
It's coming down!
Get away! Let's go! Move! Move!
I'm live.
No, no, no, no!