Mr. Ballin

An hour later, Verrier sat in a cramped cubicle of the SET police station, scrolling through a file on his laptop.

Based on Claude's tip, he'd looked up the hairstylist's name in the police database and had immediately found a connection to Patryk.

Back in 2009, so a few years after Patryk's divorce, Patryk had been questioned as a witness in the suicide of Remi Shen's wife, a woman named Nadezhda Shen, who had worked with Patryk at the hospital.

Apparently, Nadege had come home after a work party and confessed to Remy that she'd been having this affair with Patryk.

The couple argued for hours about it, and Nadege ended up sleeping on the couch while Remy went upstairs to their bedroom.

And then the next day, Remy found Nadege in their garage, hanging by the neck.

As soon as Verrier was done reading this, he knew he finally had a suspect, and so he looked up Remy's last known address and contact information.

At around 10 a.m.

the next day, so July 7th, Verriere followed Remy Chen into an interrogation room at the SEP police station and shut the door behind them.

Remy was a short, wiry man with a very obvious scowl on his face that made it clear he thought he was being very inconvenienced here.

Verriere immediately got the feeling that Remy would likely only crack under intense pressure.

So right away, he tried to shake Remy by saying they knew he was involved in the kidnapping of Patrick Iswar.

Now, this was a total bluff because Verriere did not actually have any evidence, but he wanted to see how Remy would react.

And to his surprise, and irritation, Remy just laughed.

Remy acted like he literally had no idea who Verriere was even talking about.

And when Verriere brought up his late wife and sort of insinuated that obviously Patrique had had an affair and was a witness when she had died, Remy just scoffed and reminded him that it had been five years since her passing.

He said he had moved on and begun dating other people.

And anyways, it was sort of absurd to think that he would hold a grudge for five years without doing anything, but then suddenly now decide to take some sort of revenge out of the blue.

It just didn't add up.

But Verrier didn't really know what to make of this.