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. Victor and Jacinthe question Lawson’s junior partner Rivard about Lawson’s impromptu vacation.

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. Martin starts carrying a gun and desecrates a jewish cemetary.

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.