Victor Lessard

Suspended for a mission gone wrong, Victor Lessard is back on the job. Reunited with his long-time partner Jacinthe Taillon, Lessard leads the investigation of the macabre murder and medieval styled torture of Judith Harper. Isabelle Harper, the daughter of the victim, tells investigators her mother was a psychiatrist who enjoyed an ordinary life, but provides no clues to her killer.

With suicide victim André Lortie now a suspect in the gruesome murder of psychiatrist Judith Harper, Detectives Lessard and Taillon search Lortie’s room, where they find a series of mysterious sentences scribbled on cardboard scraps, and an old business card belonging to attorney Phillip Lawson.

Victor investigates William Bennett, Isabelle Harper’s husband, of the murder victim Judith Harper, and a practitioner of strange sexual rituals. Nash supplies an alibi for Lortie - the jumper, who until now was a murder suspect.

Investigators find a DVD at the Philip Lawson crime scene, with a voice recording belonging to Lee Harvey Oswald. As Victor and Jacinthe question Rivard about the letter his partner Philip Lawson received containing the ominous graphic icon of the Hangman Game, it occurs to them that the lawyer is also playing a dangerous game of his own.

Victor and Jacinthe identify MKUltra as a code name for the CIA's Montreal based illegal mind control program designed to produce forced confessions through drugs and torture. At the time, it’s learned that murder victim Judith Harper was in Montreal, studying for her Phd.

Victor and Jacinthe locate a former MKUltra subject who gives them a letter written by Attorney Philip Lawson. Young Martin Lessard falls into bad company and steals some dynamite. Victor decodes the enigma of the Hangman Game, a new suspect disappears, and a link between the murder victims begins to emerge.

Desperate to learn more about the man she loves, Nadja turns to those closest to Victor for help. Ted, Victor’ s surrogate father, tells her about his past. Victor discovers a provocative clue in the Hangman Game drawing: the letters J-F-K. Rivard is found dead.

The enigma of the ominous ‘Hangman Game’ is finally revealed – the macabre icon represents a company named ‘Evergreen’, with Senator Tousignant’s wife listed as owner. The fugitive killer attempts to give Victor privileged information that somehow echoes the detective’s own past.

The killer forces Senator Tousignant to record a confession of his involvement in the clandestine CIA MKUltra program. Victor’s team identifies the killer, but a showdown ends before the Senator can be located.

The Detectives apprehend the killer, and the kidnap victim Senator Tousignant, in a remote cabin on the shores of a lake. Charlie Couture confesses that she wanted to avenge her father, an accountant for the Evergreen company - used by the CIA to transfer funds to those who killed President John F. Kennedy - and was killed when he threatened to become a whistle blower.