1991. Alexander Falco, a young police officer, married and father of a little girl takes a bullet in the head during an operation that goes wrong. He goes into a coma.

2013. He opens his eyes in his hospital bed. He thinks he was unconscious only for afew days, he discovers that he was in a coma for twenty-two years. The world is not the same, his wife has a new life and his daughter is now a woman. When leaving the hospital, determined to rebuild his life piece by piece, Falco rescues a young woman. Confused with his attacker, he's arrested. The next day, the young woman is murdered. Falco is suspected and decides to clear his name. Even if it means putting himself in harm's way.

Falco, still trying to realize what happened to him, is finally reinstated in the police under the command of his former teammate, now Commissioner, Jean-Paul Menard. Young Lieutenant Chevalier, Falco's new teammate, sees in him only an unpredictable and unstable man. But the mysterious murder of a taxi driver will allow Falco to prove that he lost none of his qualities as a cop and to discover, finally, the identity of his wife's companion: the medical examiner, Philippe Cheron, with whom he will have to collaborate on each case...

Falco and his team face a killer who poisoned several women, they have to stop him before he makes any more victims. Who is behind this disturbing M.O ? Are the victims as random as they seem ? Furthermore, the awakening of Falco jeopardizes Carole's couple, his wife. Will she choose to resume their relationship ? How will Chéron react?

A student was assaulted. She is currently between life and death. At the time, the girl was dressed as Little Red Riding Hood. Falco and Knight are responsible for the investigation. They discovered first that the student led a blameless schooling and obtained brilliant results. But the reality behind appearances, is much more complex. So the girl was lying on his family for several months. In parallel, the relationship between Carole and Falco takes a new twist, while Falco's past resurfaces and memories of his accident due to it ...

Falco is obsessed by the vision of his best friend, John Paul Menard, shooting him twenty-three years earlier. Disturbed, unable to believe it, insomniac, he gives himself fully in the investigation, assisted by Knight. A young man fled, leaving behind her little sister, wandering in the Bois de Vincennes, bloodied his teddy in her arms ...

Falco follows Ménard for days, watching his every move. Since graduating from the coma, the Commissioner lying to him ... Meanwhile, Clara Benetti, twenty-four years, was found dead while she was supposed to have been murdered by a serial killer, Drouet, at the age of six. Where was for eighteen years?

While Falco is more than ever face the lies of the past, the corpse of a carpenter was found in his home, brutally executed ... Strangely, his identity is false. His daughter, born in France, ignorant of his true identity ...

Falco can not accept the death of his best friend, Ménard, a disappearance which deprives him of the truth about their common past. While everyone is mourning the police, a body is found, murdered in what amounts to a Christian ritual. An investigation begins, in which Falco suffers from the distance Romain Chevalier takes with him. Up track of cylinders used to sedate the victim and Bibles distributed by a priory, Falco discovers Samael, the angel of death, a serial killer who is about to hit a fourth time. The policeman deductions allow him to prevent another murder but is now the target of religious fanatic: he, the Risen who has seen God.

While the DPJ is entrusted to a new Commissioner, replacement of Menard Romain disappeared ... Falco receives a video showing him tied and shackled in kilograms of explosives. It serves as a lever to push Falco to help a prisoner escape to local IGS. The policeman began by refusing, but the kidnapper, a woman, extirpated by force Romain enough to tip the balance: Pauline and Carole. While Falco accepts blackmail, Eva investigate the man who has to escape, Alban Dauzier and seeks to identify and locate the woman who kidnapped Roman. The escape attempt was cut short and turns into hostage. Falco manages to get by, but ends up with its own DPJ and the IGS in pursuit. Isolated, it can only rely on itself to achieve save Romain.