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investigate Maurel, so Linné confronts him alone. Adrien and Linné converge on Maurel's house at the same time, and Linné chooses to trust Adrien over Maurel during a standoff. Maurel wounds Linné and chases after Adrien, who has escaped with Amélie. Before Maurel can finish off Adrien, Linné kills Maurel. However, the father of one of Maurel's victims shoots Adrien in the mistaken belief that Adrien is the rapist. Adrien falls off a cliff and disappears. In the epilogue, Amélie receives a letter that is implied to be from her father.
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Carrega reveals that he was dismissed from the
Gendarmerie due to his obsession with Maurel, but, using his remaining contacts, he is able to find Maurel's last location. Meanwhile, Linné has come under increasing pressure to recapture Adrien now that Maurel has framed him. She hesitates once again when she finds Adrien at Carrega's house, and she is demoted to desk duty. Adrien does not escape unscathed, and he is shot in the side when Carrega returns to rescue him.
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his cellmate and saves him from a savage beating by
Russian mobsters. When Adrien's former partner puts him in the prison hospital, Maurel visits Adrien. Although Adrien does not trust Maurel enough to reveal the location of his stash, Adrien gives Maurel a hint to pass along to Anna, Adrien's wife, as Maurel is being released early due to his alleged victim recanting her charges of rape.
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Using a cell phone, Adrien briefly makes contact with Maurel, who assures him that his daughter Amélie is safe – but only so long as Adrien stays away, as
Christine, Maurel's wife, desires a child. Desperate, Adrien sneaks into Carrega's house and forces him at gunpoint to help him track down Maurel.
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Carrega is critically injured when he breaks a police barricade, and he urges Adrien to abandon him. Adrien tracks Maurel on foot, and Linné researches Adrien, Carrega, and Maurel, whom she comes to believe is responsible for a recent rape. Her superior mocks her "feminine intuition" and refuses to
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After a successful heist, Franck Adrien and his partner are convicted and sent to prison. Adrien is the only one who knows the location of the stash, and he refuses to tell both his wife and his partner. However, despite his initially aloof relationship with Jean-Louis Maurel, Adrien comes to trust
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was released in France on 13 April 2011. Cohen Media Group released
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in the United States on 6 June 2013, where it grossed $ 13,959.
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called it "a model of breathless efficiency". David Fear of
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As of June 2020, the film holds a 70% approval rating on
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645:"The Prey – review"
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320:Serge Hazanavicius
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590:"The Prey (2013)"
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410:Tell No One
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296:Sergi López
165:102 minutes
130:StudioCanal
86:Produced by
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925:2011 films
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850:2014-04-02
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