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Certain characters were a mystery...


I missed Sartet's brother (Luc Sartet), who he was, what his character did, and if he ended up dead. So hard to keep up...

Also, the son of the murdered senior Meyer (called Fils Meyer in the credits). How did he figure in, did he die?

I'm relieved I got as many characters as I did, given the fast action diluted by having to read the subtitles.

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I believe Sartet's brother was the body found under the sheet when they return to where Nadia was being kept.
Remember when he left the room to investigate a noise and then the two dirty cops entered? That's when he was killed.
Luc was essentially the driver to Hugo's safecracker.

I took it that Meyer's son either escaped with his life as he was the one who asked for his father to be killed because he "didn't want to wait" for the inheritance, or he too was killed to cover up the crime in the wake of the discovery of the video.
I don't think it was made clear, could be wrong.
In case you didn't realise (I had to use Google translate as my French is a bit rusty!) 'fils' means 'son', so his name wasn't Fils. 'Fils Meyer' just means 'Meyer's son'.

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At the end, during the news on TV at Samuel Pierret's house it was announced that Meyer's son was assassinated when on a one day leave from prison.

Then it switched to wherever corrupt police chief Werner was and in the same room appeared the safecracker, Sartet, and that scene implied that Sartet was going to get revenge by killing Warner. Also the TV news switched from the party at Pierret's to Warner's at the end.

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I believe the news reporter was reporting on WERNER's assassination on a one day leave; ie, what Sartet is about to do.

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"I believe the news reporter was reporting on WERNER's assassination on a one day leave; ie, what Sartet is about to do. "

Correct.

You have to assume that Meyer's son also went to prison as part of the conspiracy. He is clearly seen on the video being given a copy of the updated will from Werner.

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