Double bill of made-for-TV mystery dramas based on the novels by Georges Simenon and starring Rowan Atkinson as the eponymous French detective. In 'Maigret Sets a Trap' (2016) Chief Inspector Maigret is on the trail of a serial killer targeting women in the Montmartre district of Paris. Under pressure to capture the perpetrator, Maigret sets a trap with the help of one of his female colleagues. Will his plan help him finally snare his man? In 'Maigret's Dead Man' (2016) the detective receives a worrying call from someone convinced they are being followed. When he later turns up dead Maigret is determined to find the killer, a quest that takes him deep into the Parisian criminal underworld. Meanwhile, the rest of his force is pre-occupied with a series of farm killings. Could the two cases possibly be linked?
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