Mr. Ballin

And slowly, the girl began to speak.

She said that about a week before her dad disappeared, he'd brought her along on a very strange errand.

They'd parked outside of a tunnel, and he'd told her to wait in the car.

And then he got out and walked into this tunnel to meet with someone.

It was a man.

but it was too dark in the tunnel for Alabama to make out the man's features.

But she definitely saw her father, Patrick, hand this man some kind of package before he quickly turned and ran back to the car.

And then afterwards, her father wouldn't tell her who this man was.

He just said that he'd done something really stupid, and because of it, he now owed some people a lot of money.

After Alabama finished talking, her mother, Claude, thanked her and sent her back out of the room.

And then once she was gone, Verriere asked Claude if she knew who this man in the tunnel might be.

But Claude said she had no idea.

But she said she did have one name that was worth looking into.

Now, this was not someone who would have lent Patryk any money.

But instead, it was a man who held a personal grudge against him.

His name was Remy Shen, and he was a local hairstylist.

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.