Monday, around 9:59 p.m. There is a risk of an immense collective cry of fear, when the last seconds of the final of Reasonable doubt will appear on the screens of hundreds of thousands of fans.
It’s a resounding punch, and hard to guess, that closes the third season of Radio-Canada’s thrilling police thriller, which gets better every year. Following Reasonable doubt will resume in winter 2025 “literally a second after this event”, confirms the author of the TV series, Pierre-Marc Drouin.
Now, no need to alert my bosses to The Press or the grumpy Dorcely (Benz Antoine), I will not divulge anything without the presence of my lawyer. Or something like that.
This last episode of Reasonable doubt completes the long investigation into the cord collector and even jumps two months in time so that certain wounds – physical and emotional – heal and heal, you will understand when watching.
After the arrest of the racist and misogynist Alex Gravel (terrifying Jean-Moïse Martin), unable to maintain an erection, the GICCS team deduced that the attacker of the joggers was not operating alone. Someone was hitting (that’s Gravel) and someone was raping (identity to be confirmed).
This person, who was exchanging text messages with Alex Gravel, hung a green cord on the door handle of Alice Martin-Sommer (Julie Perreault) to threaten her. From there, everything goes downhill.
In the shoes of the tormented heroine of Reasonable doubt, Julie Perreault shines in this final episode. With her frightened eyes, her body in withdrawal mode and her cracking voice, the actress offers a Gemini caliber performance.
Several viewers wonder why the tortured Alice, who suffered a gang rape at the age of 13, does not seek the help of a sexologist or a psychologist to better live with her traumatic past. The answer ?
It is not for everyone to consult. Alice is afraid of scratching these things. It took everything for him to tell Fred [Marc-André Grondin] that she was raped. She wouldn’t be the type to sit for an hour with a therapist and just talk about that.
Pierre-Marc Drouin, screenwriter of the series Reasonable doubt
Totally valid point. It is also this confidence from Alice, around the fire, which allowed Fred to finally let down his guard, he who is wary and who has been watching Alice since the very first episode of Reasonable doubt.
And no, Alice and Fred will not be a couple. “I would be extremely surprised by that. The whole team of Reasonable doubt resist going there. We want to keep the tension between the two and we don’t want to act like in X Files », specifies Pierre-Marc Drouin.
Fans of X Files have long hoped that Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) would date. When the two FBI agents finally kissed, after seven seasons, it was like something had been broken on the show.
Either way, Alice’s heart beats for the handsome real estate agent Rémy Deblois (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), the first who managed to break through her shell in nearly 30 years of relationships without intimacy. “I have so much empathy for Alice. She has trouble getting a hug and sleeping in the same bed as a man. It’s completely brutal to start your life with a gang rape. It is completely scarified and its foundation is cracked,” notes author Pierre-Marc Drouin, who has already written the first two hours of Reasonable doubt 4.
On the other hand, the prolific screenwriter, too busy with the new soap opera Arms of TVA, will hand over to William S. Messier for the writing of the last eight episodes, which will bring back all the members of the GICCS for other cases of sexual assault to be clarified.
This winter, the interrogation scenes of Reasonable doubtinspired by those of Mindhunter on Netflix, were particularly effective and captivating. It showed a brilliant and cunning woman (Alice) who took on hyper-intelligent suspects, but in the most twisted way possible. These oral jousts between Alice and Alex Gravel, as well as between Alice and Yvan Belzile (François Papineau), were chilling and choreographed with impressive attention to detail.
As for the final of Reasonable doubt on Monday, already online on the Tou.tv Extra, it involves a poker, almost fluorescent white wine, outfitter’s trout with Italian spices and an old ham that doesn’t bend. Prepare to scream.
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