Anthracite: Season 1, Episode 3 - Trust No One (2024)

Juliette's stabbing is shown in a flashback, but the attacker is not identified in that opening moment. Soon after, Gio tracks Denis and follows him to Caleb's ruined cult house, where Denis breaks through a mural covering a wall and exposes the dead body of Derevko, confirming that the man from the earlier ritual flashback was hidden there all along.

Denis, confronted by Gio, collapses into a full confession. He explains that Caleb recruited him because Denis was already suffering from dementia and promised he could be healed; trusting that promise, Denis took part in the ritual that ended with Derevko being stoned to death. Denis says that afterward he panicked, fearing the other cult members would expose him, and poisoned the cult's water supply, killing them. He insists, however, that he did not kill Roxane and did not attack Emma.

While Gio is dealing with Denis, Ida and Jaro continue pushing through the case from another angle. Their investigation brings them closer together, and they end up sleeping together. The next morning, Ida forces a new partnership by blackmailing Gio into working with them, using what she knows to keep the investigation moving on her terms.

The trio's inquiry leads them to Horizon Prestige, a ruined condominium project tied to the case. There, the group is ambushed, knocked out, and taken away, leaving the investigation briefly derailed by a sudden, hostile intervention.

In parallel, the situation around Solal grows more alarming. Back at the hospital and elsewhere in town, the authorities react to the poisoning case with anger and confusion, and the police leadership decides to suspend Gio. The captain orders Erwan to take over and to close the case by treating Denis as the murderer of the girls. In the same breath, he reveals that Erwan wants Gio transferred to Brittany, which only deepens Gio's frustration and sense of betrayal.

Elsewhere, Solal wakes to discover that one of his legs has been amputated. The injury horrifies the people around him and adds a brutal new layer to the already collapsing situation.

At a storage location, Jaro watches a tape that finally clarifies the stabbing of Juliette. The recording reveals the attacker is Detraz, a female student, overturning the uncertainty from the opening flashback and giving the group a new name to pursue.

Jaro and Roméo set out to find Detraz, but the journey turns violent. Eddy intercepts them on the road, slams into Roméo's car, and forces a dangerous crash. He then drives them toward a cliff and opens fire, but the boys manage to escape the attack alive.

After fleeing the road ambush, Jaro and Roméo continue on foot until they reach Detraz's house. Inside one of the bedrooms, they find Solal. They move him into Detraz's car so they can get him out, but before they can leave, Detraz herself appears, armed with a rifle, and traps them in a fresh confrontation as the episode ends.

The episode ends with a violent standoff at Detraz's house, where Solal is found in the bedroom and the characters are caught in a tightening trap. Eddy and Romeo's pursuit turns deadly, and the confrontation ends with more threats, guns, and no real safety for anyone caught in the sect's orbit.

A little later in the episode, Jaro and the others are still moving through danger and suspicion, and the sense of trust has completely collapsed. By the end, no one escapes cleanly from the episode's violence, and the main characters are left shaken, separated, or pushed deeper into the mystery.

In the final stretch of the episode, the story moves from pursuit to direct confrontation. Eddy and Romeo are heading toward Detraz, but before they can get there, Eddy crashes into Romeo's car. The impact sends the situation off balance immediately, and the boys are forced into a desperate struggle to survive. Romeo fires at them, trying to stop them before they can uncover anything more, but they manage to escape. They run through the terrain until they reach Detraz's house, where the tension rises again as they enter the bedroom and find Solal there. Solal is placed into Detraz's car, as if the car itself has become part of the escape plan, but the danger does not stop there.

Before anyone can get away, a woman arrives carrying a rifle. Her appearance freezes the scene and turns the house into a place of immediate threat. The episode closes on that pressure point, with the characters caught between exposure and violence, and with the truth still buried under fear, lies, and armed force.

As for the main characters at the end of the episode: Jaro is still alive and still entangled in the investigation, but he remains trapped in uncertainty. Ida is also still in the story's web of danger, with her search still active and unresolved. Solal is found in Detraz's bedroom and then moved into Detraz's car. Detraz is connected to the hiding place and the escape attempt, but the episode leaves his position under threat. Romeo is still dangerous and active, firing on the others during the pursuit. Eddy survives the clash and remains part of the confrontation. The armed woman arrives at the end as the final immediate threat in the episode.

Yes. The post-credits scene is in the season finale, not episode 3, and it shows a documentary crew wrapping up the story of the mines, then cuts to Ida and others being interviewed before ending on CCTV footage of a woman opening a mysterious box at her doorstep and screaming as she runs away.

For episode 3, "Trust No One," the available episode descriptions and recaps do not mention any post-credit scene, which strongly suggests there is no separate credits tag attached to that episode.

In the episode, Giovanna and Ida push past their usual distance and begin working in sync while exploring the mountain terrain, which suggests their shared curiosity starts outweighing their distrust. Their movement through the hidden landscape is part of the episode's tightening investigation into the sect and the people tied to Roxane Vial.

Jaro teams up with Roméo to pursue a recluse who may know the truth about Roxane Vial. This search places Jaro in a more active, suspicious role, as he keeps following leads that seem to connect the present-day murders to the sect's earlier history.

The episode centers on Jaro and Roméo seeking a recluse who may have key knowledge about Roxane Vial. The recluse matters because the person appears to hold information that could clarify the long-buried events surrounding the sect and the current mystery.

The episode opens with Solel questioning students about Roxane, showing that the school community is already under scrutiny. That interrogation helps widen the investigation from a private disappearance into a broader search through the people who may have seen or hidden something about Roxane.

Episode 3 deepens the practical alliance between Ida and Giovanna while also sending Jaro and Roméo toward a witness with crucial secrets. These parallel searches make the episode feel like a pivot point, with multiple characters moving from suspicion into direct confrontation with the sect's buried truth.

No, this episode is not family friendly; Anthracite is a TV-MA thriller with strong adult content and intense, disturbing subject matter.

Potentially upsetting elements for children or sensitive viewers include violence, gore, dead bodies, ritualized or cult-related imagery, sexual content, partial nudity, sexual violence, drug use, strong language, and a heavy atmosphere of fear and menace.

Even without spoiling episode 3 specifically, the series overall is designed for adult viewers and may be distressing because of its dark cult themes, traumatic references, and graphic intensity.