So many questions......


This is my first time watching this French version.I saw last week and caught some shows from the first season. Very similar to the A&E version. Please help with some questions, confused.
How was Victor killed, his parents were shot but he wasn't?

Where are the returned living, are Camille and Victor at the same place? I know the ones that didn't leave are at that safe place.

What happened to the cop Adelle was with and the others that were outside that safe house?

Really like this one, thanks in advance.

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Victor was shot through the closet door so he died the same night?

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Ignore the question mark

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SPOILERS FOR US VIEWERS







Yes, Victor was shot too that night. The only one who lived through the robbery was his father it seems.

Victor and Camille are not at the same place. They're both hiding away in houses somewhere surrounded by the flood (well at least Camille is). They may be in the same vicinity, but not the same actual house.

As for Thomas (that was his name right?), I'm not sure actually. I've been meaning to give S1 a rewatch, but now I may just wait to see all of S2. I don't think they've exactly spelled out everything that happened between the finale and where we're at now. Someone is free to correct me since it's be a while between the seasons I don't remember it all.

The show seems to be intentionally murky and unclear about it all though, hence the mystery! All in good time me thinks....!

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Thank you for the answers. The A&E version didn't show Victors parents killed like that. There was no father, the mother was shot and Victor got shot in his closet. I hope they explain where everyone is. Was wondering why Lena can't find her mother and sister. Guess time will tell.

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You're welcome! And I never saw the A&E one so I can't compare or really know. I think it'll all be explained in due course. I think where Lena is is cut off from where Camille and the rest of them are. I think the flood isolated parts of the town so people are kind of stuck where they are. I could have misinterpreted that though....

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Is this the flood that happened in current times that they showed at the end of last season? The other version always spoke about a flood that happened many years ago.

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Yes. That's why they've been studying the lake and the dam wondering how it broke open. You can see just how flooded it is in the latest ep (S2:E2) when Camille and her dead bus buddies walk to the edge of that road, where some of the horde coming creeping in, and it's totally blocked off by water.

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I see, maybe there was no flood in the 1940's also, like the other show had.

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There was one in the past though. They talked about/showed it in S1, no?

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Oh there was another flood, story line is really the same. Just have to get use to new faces.

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They're good faces to get to know 😉

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Thanks for all your answers. Ill be back when I have more, lol.

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Hey, no problem. It's a wonderful show without enough people to talk about it with, so I'm all for it!

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Both shows were working off of the same movie. So they were bound to be very similar. The U.S. version tweeked certain aspects(like Victor only having a mother). To me, the only differences(other than the language) would be the location. Unlike others, I don't find the acting to really be all that different. I know some my bite my head off for this, but I find the American version of Victor(the actor) to be more creepy.

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Did people complain about the acting on the American one? I never watched it, so I'm genuinely curious. I knew the reception for it would be shoddy, at the very least, but I never paid enough attention to all of that to know people's main gripes about it.

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It was the general complaints...too wooden, no emotion, etc. It was mixed on the boys who play Victor though. The U.S. Victor was sooo innocent looking to the point that it made him creepier. To me, the only thing the French version has over the U.S. version is the small country town look(ie atmosphere). I have a friend who had watched the French version, & she brought up a good point. There's something about the French language that adds to the mysteriousness. It makes it seem kind of an old school horror/thriller show(ie. Bela Lugosi as Dracula).

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That's surprising a little because it had some fairly good cast members too!

Maybe I should check it out just for comparisons sake haha...it may never be as creepy anyways since I've seen this one and know how the story will be going, for the most part. I don't know, I just love this one so much it didn't make sense for me to watch a whole other that was going to be similar anyways.

The French thing is an interesting thought. I suppose it depends on the viewer and how used to watching foreign show/movies they are (that is if it is foreign to them). If this was the first time someone had watched something in a complete other language than I can see how it would kind of add to it as something outside of what they're used to and having to adjust for it a little. I never thought of it harkening back to the old school genre of that stuff, but could be it too!

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I agree with what you said. The casting was, on the American version, generally well-done ... with the very big exceptions of Victor, Pierre and Julie. Henry's character was more innocent-looking but turned out to be a downright psychopath. French Victor's face works better with his moral ambiguity, and he definitely seems to make the transition between innocent angel and creepy child-of-Satan better, depending on the scene's requirements. The French Julie has tragedy etched into her very face and does a much better job of playing an angry, bitter woman who has built very high walls around her. The American Julie, not so much. And of course, Pierre's character was played wonderfully by Sisto, and he was the right choice for the character the way the American guys envisioned him. But he is not a hero. He is absolutely messed up, and has strong undercurrents of a mad sort of menace to him, and for that, you really need an actor like the current French guy playing him. And, eh, Simon's way sexier on Les Revenants, but that's not my brain talking. 

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There was a flood in the past, 35 years before the "present day" of the series. And the new flood at the end of the first season is *not* from the dam breaking, which is why the officials are so confused by it.

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The plot said the dam broke about 34 yrs ago. Assuming they are now in 2014 or 15, that would make the first dam burst at about 1980. What I want to know is who was Julie pregnant by?? Since she was in a relationship with Laure
And the nosy lady across the hall mrs. Payett, is she going to come back?? That would be annoying.

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The American version came after the French version, and it started off pretty much scene-for-scene but fairly soon went off on its own storyline so most things you learned in that version are not applicable to this one. Personally I do prefer the French one, it's more complex and darker I think. Could just be that I saw it first.

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I have questions as well. What is up with the parents of the unreturned dead kids? The first thing out of their mouths when they realize Camille is back is "why is she back? How come she came back and not my kid?" and other resentful, hateful, self concerned, inconsiderate remarks.
And when that family hanged themselves in the storage barn that bitchy lady can only accuse Camille of causing their deaths.

And another question: why doesn't someone, Camille's parents or the counselor guy, say something sensible to the hateful parents? When they call Camille a monster on multiple occasions, nobody scolds them for being hateful and childish. Instead they sympathize with them.
Is that some kind of PC thing I don't know about? When some emotionally immature person attacks a child, is it PC to sympathize with them, hold their hand and speak very gently to them? It wasn't just one time that the bitchy lady was hateful and accusatory toward Camille, it was multiple times. It was every time. It wasn't a momentary emotional breakdown, words said out of character, followed by an apology. That really bitchy lady is constantly acting offended, paranoid, hateful, and acting justified in do so. And nobody says to her even something as mildly reproachful as: "hey, come on now. You're being unkind and harsh toward a young girl who has done nothing wrong. She is not the cause of your child's death or your suffering. You have no reason for saying these things to and about her. And you owe her an apology."
There was nothing like that any of the many times any of the parents acted puerile, inconsiderate, and hateful. There was nothing said to them to indicate to them that they were out of line, barring one occasion. Instead everyone coddled them.

I cannot understand that at all. Is this some PC thing?

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Hi, OP, it is probably for the best if you were to see every episode of the French show to properly appreciate and understand the story in Season 2. After all, there are only 8, and every episode of Season 2 is supposed to be a mirror to the episodes of Season 1, according to the director. If you can't do that, at least watch episodes 5-8 of the French Returned. I saw the American version too and that's where the story really deviated. But even without all that, things will be confusing. (Lucy's story is strikingly different from the American version, for example, because in the French one, she isn't a fraud before her 'death' who later starts seeing visions.)

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I actually love both versions. I'm happy to see I'm not the only one confused about the French version. It's hard enough trying to put new faces with old names. It seems like some of the back stories are different from the English version, also everyone acts so depressed almost like they are in a trance.

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Yes, the back story is very different, especially for the American equivalents of Lucy, Pierre and Victor, and the characters are more intensely complex ... or maybe that's just their French-ness.  I didn't mind the American version very much (all thanks to Jeremy Sisto), but the characters' incessant need to talk through everything kind of ruined the atmosphere and the show generally for me, especially since THEN the cliffhanger seemed even more annoying. The show also failed to put its finger on the underlying menace behind the whole thing or create a sense of wholeness to the story in general. (I won't blame the American writers for that though. I have a feeling that the French creator must have been very unforthcoming with information about his future plans for the show, and that essentially led to the Americans doing their own fanfiction-y version.) I'm bothered that they weren't able to finish telling their story, and certain that the story itself would have been a solid one, if not as surreally haunting as Les Revenants. It was going off in such an interesting direction too! All end-of-daysish.

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I'm about just as confused as you are, so after every episode I go to this website to read the summary!

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/series/the-returned-episode-by-episode

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