The Hunter
2010•45m•7.0/10
CrimeDrama
Ratings
🎬TMDb
7.0/10(2)
French thriller about a serial killer whose life is about to fall apart. Samuel Delauney is a professional hitman working for his mother, the glamorous and domineering matriarch Natacha who helps wealthy clients get rid of their enemies. Natacha has never quite forgiven Samuel for the one and only contract he never fulfilled. On that occasion, instead of killing his mark, he married her.
Production
France Télévisions, Son et Lumière
Language
FR
Status
Ended
First Aired
January 20, 2010
Last Aired
January 27, 2010
Networks
France 2
Where to Watch
Region US · Lang EN
US
No providers available for this region.
Seasons & Episodes
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Season
E1
Episode 1: The Hairdresser
Air date: 2010-01-20
A serial killer is arrested and, to clear his name, commissions skilled assassin Samuel Delaunay to carry out a murder replicating his sadistic ritual of shaving his victims' skulls after the killing
E2
Episode 2: Alice Sonneville
Air date: 2010-01-20
Franck Peszynski, a casino owner who ordered the murder of Samuel's wife Lauren, returns and discovers that she's still alive. Samuel's mother Natacha sends him to kill an editor and fake her suicide.
E3
Episode 3: The Thiriet Brothers
Air date: 2010-01-20
A fugitive gives Natacha and Samuel a new contract: to kill the person who betrayed him to the police - his own brother. A persistent Peszynski discovers the connection between Natacha and Lauren.
E4
Episode 4: Mother's Own Hands
Air date: 2010-01-27
A representative of a bank in Luxembourg needs Samuel to dispose of an MEP who is proposing to regulate tax havens and then make the death look like an accident. Natacha meddles in her son's marriage.
E5
Episode 5: Doctor Piriot
Air date: 2010-01-27
A woman hires Samuel to assassinate her boss, a plastic surgeon whom she's accused of sexual abuse. When Lauren finds her son Arthur playing with a gun, she turns to her neighbour Charlotte for help.
E6
Episode 6: Lauren Laccan
Air date: 2010-01-27
When Samuel realises that Natacha has delivered Lauren to Peszynski, he is furious and heads off to rescue her. But at the rendezvous, the French intelligence services give him a terrifying ultimatum.
Cast
Yannick Soulier
Samuel Delaunay
Marie-France Pisier
Natacha Delaunay
Estelle Skornik
Lauren Delaunay
Olivier Rabourdin
Gilles Mercier
Jean-François Stévenin
Franck Peszynski
