Le juge est une femme - Season 18 (2013)

At Roussel fashion house, Naïma, 27, co-director of the company with her husband Olivier, puts the finishing touches to a wedding dress. Late in the evening, when the workers are gone and the atelier is empty, and after talking to her mother on the phone, a stranger stabs her with sewing scissors. The crime scene has been altered to look like it was a robbery gone wrong. Her husband was in Bordeaux delivering a wedding dress, when they should have been together celebrating their wedding anniversary.

Francis Bosco, 50, former gendarme converted into security guard in a housing estate, leaves his spot at midnight after and makes the round on his patrol of the neighborhood. The next morning his body, electrocuted by a taser, is discovered by one of the neighbours, Vanessa Carmoy, while jogging. Despite having the recordings of the surveillance cameras installed by the victim, the judge and the commandant confront 35 neighbours, all of them suspected of murder. As per Alice, using the keys found in his trunk, she discovers a secret from Mathieu.

Maëlle Leguennec, hip-hop teacher and choreographer, rehearses with her group. As she prepares to leave and close the facilities of the centre where she works, a stranger attacks her, they fight and she dies. Maëlle had given up a tour to England because of her sister Gwendoline and her boyfriend, Philippe Prigent, and she had fallen out over it. Alice and Marquand discover that she had lied to everyone and that her death may actually be related to her old girl gang, "Les Amazons". Meanwhile, Mathieu has returned and Marquand argues with the judge for this reason.

Joss Ferat, a top war reporter, and Marianne Pilorget, a soldier returning from Afghanistan, spend a romantic dinner, followed by a passionate night. While they are sleeping, she has a nightmare related with her experience in the war. When he wakes up, he has the body of his partner covered in blood in his arms. The police go to the crime scene alerted by Ferrat himself, whom they find terrified, hiding in a closet, convinced that he stabbed her during a psychotic attack. Both met in therapy for the post-traumatic stress disorder they suffer from. For his part, ...

Marquand and Max intervene in Sergeant Foucault's house, main suspect in Marianne Pilorget case, and find him bound and gagged with a bomb stuck to his chest, which explodes when they get in. It seems that someone wants revenge on the military unit that was in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, a henchman has kidnapped Alice and Paul and forces the judge to listen to Van Varenberg, who proposes a deal to recover the diamonds stolen by Mathieu and threatens to harm her son if she refuses.