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Night Squad
2001 - 2009 6.3 (3 votes) 7 Seasons
Genres
Crime Drama
Networks
France 2
Created By
Olivier Marchal
Mathieu Fabiani
Bernard Marié
Marc-Antoine Laurent

Night Squad (Central Nuit)

Overview

The daily life of a night police station in which a Parisian police brigade deals with both shoplifting, serial murders, burglaries, trafficking or other assaults ... Victor Franklin (interpreted by Michel Creton) is the Commander, taking care to hold the "central" with an iron fist but also to lead the team whose main characters are very appreciative and show great solidarity in the hardest moments .

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Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (2001)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: No night for a dog
2001-09-14

Blanche is wounded, intervening during a hold-up. One of the criminals is arrested by the police, but his accomplice manages to get away and breaks-into the home of the CEO Pierre Garrigue. The burglar takes Garrigue's dog hostage, threatening to kill it if his partner isn't released...

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 2: The little girl in a cupboard
2001-09-21

A little girl, found prostrate in a cupboard, is the sole witness to a murder. She alone will be able to identify the murderer, a psychopathic killer who has already killed before. But she's in shock and unable to talk...

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 3: Diplomatic accident
2001-09-28

Leaving the cinema, a child is killed by a hit-and-run driver. Witnesses identify the registration number as being that of a diplomatic vehicle.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 4: Cop's word
2001-10-05

Two police officers are involved in the death of a drug dealer. One of them, Alberge, is an old friend of Franklin. The latter believes his friend when he says it was legitimate defence, despite the suspicions that surround the circumstances of the incident.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 5: A busy night
2001-10-12

A psychiatric patient, obsessed by the idea of being a policeman, hasn't returned to hospital after being allowed out on leave. He succeeds in stealing a police car, uniform and weapon, and begins working as a police officer. His behaviour rapidly becomes threatening...

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 6: Last fling
2001-10-19

Following a routine identity check, Viking spots Bellaïche, a gangster known for his involvement in organised crime. Seriously wounded during an attempted arrest, Viking nevertheless succeeds in also wounding the gangster, who then takes a doctor as a hostage...

Runtime: 52 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (2003)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The gang of cowards
2003-02-28

A gang of thieves pass themselves off as police officers in order to take advantage of the gullibility of the elderly. The criminals, belonging to a group of travellers, are arrested. But the victims have difficulty in identifying them and the travellers' community closes ranks to protect the black sheep.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 2: On the dark side of chic
2003-03-07

The party is at its height in the sumptuous apartment of a former government minister, when one of the guests takes a fall. Suicide, accident or attempted murder? The same evening, mysterious visitors succeed in entering the home of a journalist to place hidden microphones...

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 3: Beyond the law
2003-03-14

A customer in a nightclub doesn't appreciate the particularly high bill he is asked to pay. A gangster involved in organised crime, he reacts as he usually does: with violence...

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 4: Circus games
2003-03-21

During a banal identity check, the police discover the photograph of a tortured teenager in the wallet of one of those who have been stopped. The investigation centres on a settling of scores between two rival gangs...

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 5: Police trap
2003-03-28

A complaint has been made against Viking, accused of having beaten up the father of a young racketeer. But his situation becomes more serious when a thief is found dead in his cell and everything seems to point to the police officer, including a witness...

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 6: E6 52min Modern-day slaves
2003-04-04

A young Asian girl is knocked-over by a hit-and-run driver who leaves the scene after having called an ambulance. From this apparently banal accident, the police end up investigating a new form of slavery.

Runtime: 52 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (2004)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: More than they bargained for
2004-09-10

Three individuals fake an accident in order to steal a luxury car. The driver is in hospital, his wife is in a panic: at the back of the car was the carry-cot with their five month-old baby sound asleep...

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 2: Recidivist
2004-09-17

Martine Davrat's apartment was burgled and her son Jérémie, aged 16, beaten up after having stabbed one of the burglars. The police, intrigued because there was no sign of forced entry, quickly discover that Jérémie is a drug-addict...

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 3: Illegitimate violence
2004-09-24

A police intervention during a hold-up ends badly with a trainee police officer taken hostage. The whole team is hard at work to try to catch the gangsters and free the trainee unharmed...

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 4: Flowers on the tarmac
2004-10-01

Neighbours, no longer prepared to put up with the prostitutes working their street, create a committee charged with getting rid of them. The group is led by Edmond Margol, fervent supporter of zero tolerance. One evening, he sets fire to a prostitute's vehicle, whilst she's sleeping in the back.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 5: The sound of a murmur
2004-10-08

Anne Dumont, Viking's replacement, arrives at the Central with a suspect accused of assaulting Éric, a wheelchair-bound teenager. Franklin notes a certain number of worrying details in the attitude of the victim, an apparently well-behaved young man who lives with his mother, a recluse that no-one has seen for months.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 6: When it all goes wrong
2004-10-15

A figurehead of organised crime is arrested thanks to the statement given by a witness. Well-broken to police techniques, the suspect accuses Franklin of having faked the testimony in an attempt to get him to confess.

Runtime: 52 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (2006)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: On the skids
2006-04-07

An important slot machine salesman has been kidnapped. The police suspect Valérie, his partner, of having organised the kidnapping. Already well-known to the police, her lies only serve to make them even more suspicious.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 2: The law of the inner-city
2006-04-14

A father notifies the police that his young daughter has disappeared. She is found soon afterwards in a car park, raped and with serious burns. Franklin makes it a point of honour to find those who did it, but the witnesses are terrorised and refuse to talk.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 3: Undesirable guests
2006-04-21

Lulu works on the black as a security officer in a gay restaurant. One evening, the premises are attacked by masked men who steal his police weapon. To save his colleague's career, it's imperative that Franklin finds those who carried out the assault.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 4: Love triangle
2006-04-28

Germain Vidal is arrested as he prepares to throw his partner's body into the Seine. At the same time, the police officers are investigating the suicide of Natacha Valmorel, mistress of a leading light in the world of the press.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 5: Unhappy Christmas
2006-05-05

It's Christmas Day in the evening but the team is feeling anything but festive. One of the day shift committed suicide in the toilets. Each tries to piece together the circumstances that led to the tragedy. Meanwhile, Franklin is in search of Le Solitaire, known for stealing from elderly women...

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 6: Caught red-handed
2006-05-12

A jeweller is detained by force in his shop and his family held hostage. The police manage to arrest two of the criminals with no harm done. But the third forces his way out and takes Anne hostage...

Runtime: 52 min
Season 5 poster
Season 5 (2007)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Show of force
2007-09-28

The impresario of a famous singer is violently assaulted. After having left him for dead, the attackers get away not only in his car but also with his passenger, Cindy, the singer's mentally-deficient sister, defenceless against the violence of the attackers...

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 2: No motive
2007-10-05

In less than three hours, a secretary, a private detective and a caretaker have all been shot and killed by the same man. There's no time to waste, the killer will certainly continue his macabre series...

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 3: Fanny
2007-10-12

Fanny Dubois, a two year-old girl, has disappeared. It seems more than likely that she was kidnapped by a sexual predator. This worst case scenario is confirmed when Fanny's body is found in the canal...

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 4: A question of honour
2007-10-19

A high school student has been stabbed several times, but there is no hole in his tee-shirt. When he comes round, he refuses to press charges. Was it a racket that ended badly? But during the night, he is attacked again, this time in his hospital room...

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 5: Red lights
2007-10-26

A child is injured in a traffic accident. Hardly unusual, except that the witness's versions are very different. Meanwhile, Anne and Blanche arrest the person who had assaulted a petrol station assistant. And it turns out that the weapon used is the same one with which someone had shot Franklin...

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 6: Funny business
2007-11-02

During a breaking and entering, a large quantity of drugs is found in a vehicle. The owner of the car collaborates with the police and denounces his dealer, who is caught red-handed. It turns out to be the informer who provided information to Commandant Gimenez, Anne's former boss.

Runtime: 52 min
Season 6 poster
Season 6 (2008)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Like sisters
2008-09-12

A little girl disappears just as a supermarket is closing. A first suspect is arrested. But the security cameras show that she had disappeared somewhere in the bakery area. The new suspect is now Ludovic, a 15 year-old bakery apprentice...

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 2: The man who doesn't exist
2008-09-12

An ordinary accountant is violently assaulted by two men. A stranger comes to his rescue and provides first aid, but runs away as the police arrive. The Good Samaritan is Omar, an African doctor, a refugee in France illegally. But his statement could bring down Bati Morelli, a major gangster.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 3: Problem area
2008-09-19

A woman waits for the lift, the doors open and she enters without looking, falling five stories down the lift shaft. The last straw for the residents, tired their ever-deteriorating environment, who demand that those responsible are found. Beneath the machinery cables, the investigators find a hoard of drugs.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 4: Dangerous liaisons
2008-09-19

Whilst doing their regular beat, the police officers come across a man of Asian origin, who panics when he sees them. As he flees, he throws away a box containing a woman's finger, recently amputated.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 5: Nightmares
2008-09-26

The police are called to the scene of a serious traffic accident. Various items found in the vehicle enable them to make a connection with the murder of a young girl for which a down-and-out had been charged and found guilty.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 6: Body and soul
2008-09-26

The body of a woman has been placed on a bench in the Bois de Vincennes. The corpse is dressed in luxury clothing but it rapidly becomes obvious that she was naked when killed. She is soon identified as being Marie Guibert, wife of a renowned cardiologist.

Runtime: 52 min
Season 7 poster
Season 7 (2009)

No overview available.

7 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: All in the family
2009-06-19

The police are notified that a cyclist has been assaulted. Seeing a young man force a woman into his car, he had tried to intervene and was shot. Anne is accused of murder, but the whole team know only too well that it's really a scheme engineered by Gimenez.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 2: The new barbarians
2009-06-19

Julie Astié informs the police of her brother's disappearance. Apparently he had a date with his new girlfriend but fell into a trap. Meanwhile, the police try to untangle a case of attempted murder amongst firemen. As for Franklin, he's doing all he can to get Anne out of prison...

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 3: Big thugs, little thugs
2009-06-19

As Anne finds her imprisonment increasingly hard to bear, Vincent, her replacement, arouses suspicion and questions. Blanche and Lulu investigate a case of assault. Two thugs had stolen the bag belonging to a woman in her sixties, but she chased after them, knocked over their scooter and recovered her property...

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 4: Fallen angel
2009-06-26

Anne is waiting to be released. Sylvie Fabre, who has only recently passed her lieutenant's exam, is assaulted as she returns home. The attacker has stolen her police firearm and identity card. A suspect is arrested, but Blanch is unconvinced that he is really the guilty party...

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 5: Broken dreams
2009-06-26

A young footballer dies during a match, victim of an overdose of a drug illegally used to enhance performance. But why would this up-and-coming champion have been doping himself when he really didn't need to?

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 6: Not quite as planned
2009-06-26

After the shoot-out that cost Gimenez his life, Franklin is relieved of his command and replaced by Blanche. An appointment that exacerbates the tensions within the team. A shooting takes place in a car park. The only witness suffers from Down's syndrome and is hyper-emotional.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 7: In all innocence
2009-07-03

After the shoot-out that cost Gimenez his life, Franklin is relieved of his command and replaced by Blanche. An appointment that exacerbates the tensions within the team. A shooting takes place in a car park. The only witness suffers from Down's syndrome and is hyper-emotional.

Runtime: 97 min

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