Judex (Episode 01): L'Ombre Mystérieuse

Jacqueline discovers the extent of her father's dishonesty, confirmed by her father's secretary Vallières, and begins giving away his fortune to those he ruined, and the remains to the Public Assistance Bureau. She breaks her engagement with the fortune-seeking de la Rochefontaine, dismisses her household, and sends her son, Little Jean, to be raised by his former nursemaid in the countryside. Jacqueline receives a phone call and hears her father's voice begging her for forgiveness. In reality, Judex had used a specialised drug on Favraux to induce a death-like coma, smuggled his body out of the tomb, and imprisoned him in the deep, subterranean dungeons of his secret base, Château-Rouge, and forced him to speak on the phone.