All the Devils are Here

Armand and Reine-Marie go to Jean-Guy’s apartment. He tells them about the chase as Annie wakes up and joins the conversation. Jean-Guy shows them the original security footage revealing Claude sitting with Madame Roquebrune in the Hotel George V. Reine-Marie tells them about her conversation with Monique about the matching cologne Claude and Fontaine wear. They discuss how odd it is that Fontaine would have old records from World War II ready at hand so quickly, noting that she must have already been looking for something to hold over Stephen’s head. Then Annie reveals what she knows about Alex Plessner to the family. Alex Plessner had worked with her law firm to draw up an agreement for a partnership with Banque Privée des Affaires’s venture capitalism division, which is where Daniel works. What’s more, Daniel’s name is on the incorporation certificate, proving that he knew Alex Plessner.

Reine-Marie convinces Armand, who is upset about Daniel, to wait until morning before speaking with his son. Armand sleeps well and takes an early morning walk, contemplating the mystery of Paris. He returns to breakfast with Reine-Marie before heading over to Daniel’s. He tells her about Stephen’s will, which leaves a sum to a foundation, to Mrs. McGillicuddy, and several million to each of the Gamaches.

Reine-Marie goes to the Archives nationales, where the head of the Archives, Allida Lenoir, helps her find documents from 1944. Meanwhile, Armand goes to Daniel’s apartment. He plays with his granddaughters for a bit and tells them the story behind everyone’s name, that Daniel means “the Lord is my judge.” He and Daniel amiably go for a walk. But when Armand confronts him with the truth about Alex Plessner, Daniel gets defensive. He accuses Armand of choosing a dangerous job over his family. Daniel tells him about how as a child he overheard Armand telling Reine-Marie about joining the special forces team, triggering years of nightmares about Armand’s death. Armand tries to comfort Daniel, but Daniel storms off.

Annie and Jean-Guy move into Stephen’s suite at the Hotel George V to be safer. A policeman stands guard at their door, but when Jean-Guy leaves the hotel he sees that Loiselle has followed them. Jean-Guy moves around until Loiselle is close enough to grab. He pats him down, takes his gun, and brings him into the backroom of a boutique. Loiselle doesn’t fight back. Loiselle tells him he recognized him and Armand from a video former SecurForte agents watch to remind them what they lost: a video of Gamache leading his agents into a bloodbath in a factory. Loiselle informs Jean-Guy that SecurForte is more powerful than he can imagine, that they are worried he will find whatever it is they’re looking for first.

Reine-Marie discusses the troubled history of World War II with Allida. Allida tells her how difficult it is to determine who was pretending to be friends with the Nazis for information for the Resistance and who was actually a Nazi. When Reine-Marie asks Allida when the last time someone accessed the records of Stephen Horowitz, Allida reveals that five weeks before, Daniel Gamache had been the one to find the photo of a young Stephen at the Hotel Lutetia. She calls Armand to meet her at the Archives.

Armand takes Reine-Marie to a crowded restaurant to talk without being overheard by whoever is surely following them. They agree that Daniel couldn’t have been the one to find Stephen’s photograph in the Archives. Armand suggests that someone like Fontaine could have planted his name to divert attention from herself and threaten the Gamache family.

Jean-Guy brings Loiselle to the top of the Eiffel Tower to meet with Séverine Arbour, also with the intention to not be overheard. He asks Séverine about the Luxembourg project, but she tells him that the real problem is the Patagonia project. She reveals that mining equipment has been sent by their company to mine a rare earth material that was found there. She suggests that the Luxembourg project is simply a cover up to get money to pay off the Patagonia project.

Reine-Marie calls Daniel and asks him to move into the Hotel George V suite with Annie and her family, for safety. He agrees and is surprised by the tough police officer with his machine gun guarding the door. It prompts Daniel into understanding how grave the situation is and what his father is truly trying to protect. Reine-Marie and Armand go to the Louvre to meet with a curator at the suggestion of someone back home in Québec.

Jean-Guy brings Séverine and Loiselle to the GHS Engineering office to look through Madame Gossette’s office. They are interrupted by Thierry Girard, head of security at GHS and recognizable to Jean-Guy as the third man at the table in the Hotel Lutetia with Claude and Madame Roquebrune. Daniel goes to Fontaine’s office to tell her the truth about his professional relationship with Alex Plessner. Fontaine isn’t altogether surprised, but she lets him leave quickly.

Reine-Marie and Armand bring the curator from the Louvre, Professor Bernard de la Coutu, to Stephen’s apartment to examine his paintings. Bernard confirms Armand’s secret suspicion that Stephen’s priceless art is in fact fake. Bernard also confirms that Stephen had indeed bought originals, so these copies must have been implanted by people who stole the originals while Stephen was away from Paris. Later, at Bar Joséphine, Armand receives a text from Mrs. McGillicuddy confirming that the paintings at Stephen’s place on Montreal are also fakes. Armand suggests to Reine-Marie that Stephen had sold the paintings. He had discovered that Stephen had been siphoning billions of dollars to Alex Plessner over the span of years, likely money he had from selling his artwork. Armand speculates that Stephen and Alex had been using that money to buy into small companies owned by a larger company like GHS Engineering. A few weeks before, money had been wired that would be available in Daniel’s bank, though Armand is doubtful that Daniel knew much about what Stephen was really doing. Suddenly worried that Stephen and Alex were killed for slowly taking financial control over GHS Engineering’s smaller companies, they try to find Daniel, worried that he is also a target. Armand traces Daniel on his phone and finds him in Stephen’s hospital room.

Armand, Reine-Marie, Annie, Jean-Guy, Séverine, and Daniel meet in the suite of Hotel George V to discuss all they know so far. Though Armand notes that they are certainly being listened into, he wants whoever is listening to know that they know it all. Daniel looks over Stephen’s documents and confirms that he can’t recognize any of the companies he was looking at. Armand tells him that Stephen had been planning to attend the board meeting for GHS Engineering, but Daniel insists he wouldn’t have been able to enter unless he paid someone on the board for their position, possibly also with information about something imminently controversial about the company.

Armand, Reine-Marie, Séverine, Daniel, and Jean-Guy receive a key from the hotel manager so they can go down to the basement where there are no cameras and no way of being overheard. They speculate that Stephen stayed at Hotel George V because this luxury hotel would also house the visiting board members for GHS Engineering’s upcoming meeting. Reine-Marie goes back upstairs to ask the manager, and she finds out that they are all staying and meeting at the Hotel Lutetia.

Jean-Guy tells them about Loiselle’s conversation with him regarding wanting to betray SecurForte. They debate if Loiselle is trustworthy or not. Jean-Guys informs Armand that a man named Thierry Girard oversees SecurForte, and Armand is shocked. Thierry used to be Claude’s second-in-command. It occurs to Armand: “It looked like Claude Dussault had quietly taken over as head of SecurForte, with Thierry Girard back as his loyal second-in-command. Running the day-to-day operations of the private army, while Dussault remained at the head of the Préfecture. His power absolute” (318). It also dawns on them that the second-in-command who had given Claude the same cologne must be Thierry, clearing Fontaine of suspicions of wrongdoing.

The concierge passes a note to Armand. Loiselle has looked through Carole Gossette’s files and found the term “Neodymium,” a rare earth element. Jean-Guy and Reine-Marie go back to Archives to learn more about the Board members’ histories, and Jean-Guy spots a drone following them. Daniel heads over to the Banque Privée des Affaires where he uses Armand’s JSPS card to get in. Séverine and Armand go to the Lutetia, where Armand spots important people from the GHS Engineering Board of Directors.

At the Archives, Reine-Marie and Jean-Guy focus their search on what AFP (found in Stephen’s notes) could mean besides Alexander Francis Plessner. They find two board members with AFP initials one of whom, Alain Flaubert Pinot, is remembered by the Chief Librarian for being silly and unintelligent. Upon further digging, they discover that Alain Pinot had gone to university in Montréal and had invested money in Agence France-Presse.

Daniel discovers what Stephen was going to do with his billions but is interrupted.

Séverine and Armand’s online search on Neodymium doesn’t reveal anything unethical. Neodymium is mostly found in China, so if there is a mine of it in South America, Western governments wouldn’t have to deal with China for it. The rare earth material supports construction of magnets and technology. Armand remembers the nickels they had found in Stephen’s belongings, nickels that seemed glued together but couldn’t be ripped apart. He leaves the Lutetia with Séverine to go to his meeting with Claude, still unsure if Séverine is on his side or not.

Reine-Marie figures out that the numbers on Stephen’s card could be dates, so she searches the Agence France-Presse using the same numbers. She finds a story about Anik Guardiola, a reporter for the AFP who went missing in Patagonia and was later found dead in a gorge without her phone or computer. Jean-Guy suspects that she was murdered for finding out information, then her proof was confiscated.

Armand and Séverine head to Armand’s apartment, where he has kept Stephen’s box of belongings. He is surprised to find that someone has planted a gun in the box. He hides the gun and shows Séverine the coins stuck together. But the screws, the coins, and a wrench in the box don’t magnetize each other, though Armand had hoped there would be a sign of neodymium. Armand brings Séverine to the Archives to stay with Reine-Marie and Jean-Guy while he meets with Claude.