Character Relationship Map: Killer

Characters

• Commissioner Le Guen (played by Jean Gabin) — protagonist

  Commissioner Le Guen is the experienced officer who originally arrests the dangerous killer Georges Gasset. He repeatedly pursues him, manipulates the Marseille underworld, pressures the criminal netw...

• Georges Gasset (played by Fabio Testi) — supporting

  Georges Gasset is the dangerous killer at the center of the story. After feigning insanity and escaping a psychiatric hospital, he moves between Marseille and Paris, kills people he believes have obst...

• Gerda (played by Uschi Glas) — supporting

  Gerda is a young German prostitute whom Georges Gasset meets in Marseille. She becomes one of the few people he continues to trust, remains in contact with him, and helps him seek a hideout through Fr...

• Campana (played by Félix Marten) — supporting

  Campana is involved in the police operation surrounding Georges Gasset at the countryside hunting lodge. When Gerda warns Gasset that the police have encircled the location, Gasset flees and seriously...

• François Tellier, director of the PJ (played by Bernard Blier) — supporting

  François Tellier is the new head of the Judicial Police and represents a more modern approach to pursuing Georges Gasset. He tries to exploit Gasset's uncommon Boyard corn paper cigarettes and his con...

• Frédo Babasch, the sheep (played by Gérard Depardieu) — supporting

  Frédo Babasch is a police informant, described as a stool pigeon, whom Commissioner Le Guen places in François Gassot's cell. His assignment is to obtain information quickly about Georges Gasset. Afte...

• François Gassot (played by Jacques Richard) — minor

  François Gassot is Georges Gasset's brother and one of the few people with whom Gasset maintains contact. He earns a living through a small porn-film scam, but police trap him with a real pornographic...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Commissioner Le Guen → Frédo Babasch, the sheep (Professional Investigator And Informant) — Le Guen uses Frédo as an informant to help locate Georges and prepare the eventual trap.

  Le Guen arranges for Frédo to be placed in François's cell and assigns him to obtain information about Georges as quickly as possible.

• Commissioner Le Guen → François Tellier, director of the PJ (Professional Rival Investigators) — The two police leaders disagree over methods and responsibility, yet Tellier eventually authorizes the operation Le Guen proposes.

  The plot says Le Guen clashes with Tellier over investigative methods. Tellier criticizes Le Guen's tactics after a failed arrest, but later accepts t...

• Georges Gasset → François Gassot (Family Brothers) — François remains one of Georges's few trusted contacts and helps connect him with Frédo, unknowingly enabling the police to follow Georges.

  The plot states that Georges keeps in contact with his brother François and asks Gerda to visit him for help finding a hideout.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Georges Gasset → Campana (Conflict Violent Adversaries) — Campana is seriously injured while Georges attempts to escape the police operation at the hunting lodge.

  During the final pursuit, Georges flees after Gerda warns him of the police encirclement and seriously injures Campana.

• Frédo Babasch, the sheep → Georges Gasset (Conflict Police Informant) — Frédo gains access to Georges through François and reports back to the police, making him an informant in the pursuit.

  François sends Frédo to meet Georges, after which Frédo immediately returns to the Judicial Police to keep them informed.

• Frédo Babasch, the sheep → François Gassot (Narrative Informer Placed In Custody) — Frédo uses his placement in François's cell to reach Georges and then returns to the Judicial Police with information.

  Le Guen has Frédo placed in François's cell to obtain information. François later sends Frédo to meet Georges.

• Gerda → François Gassot (Narrative Go-Between) — Gerda carries Georges's request to his brother, setting in motion the contact that leads François to send Frédo to Georges.

  Georges asks Gerda to visit François so that François can provide him with a hideout.

• François Tellier, director of the PJ → Georges Gasset (Conflict Police Pursuer) — Tellier applies investigative methods intended to identify and capture Georges, including tracking clues connected to his cigarettes and Gerda.

  Tellier tries to trap Georges by using his uncommon Boyard corn paper cigarettes and his association with Gerda.

• Commissioner Le Guen → Georges Gasset (Conflict Pursuer And Fugitive) — Le Guen's persistent pursuit of Georges drives the central conflict, but his unorthodox tactics repeatedly fail to secure an arrest.

  Le Guen originally arrests Georges, repeatedly pursues him, and arranges a final trap at a countryside hunting lodge. Georges escapes that operation a...

• Georges Gasset → Gerda (Social Trusted Companion) — Gerda becomes one of Georges's few trusted contacts, helps him seek a hideout, and warns him during the final police operation.

  Georges meets Gerda in Marseille and thereafter remains in contact mainly with her and his brother. At the hunting lodge, she spots the police encircl...

Story Analysis

A relentless police pursuit closes in on Georges as rival methods, criminal suspicion, and personal trust shape his final escape attempt.

Plot Progression

1. Escape and Marseille Rumors — After Le Guen's arrest, Georges feigns insanity and escapes from a psychiatric hospital. In Marseille, he meets Gerda while Le Guen uses a journalist and local murders to shape the underworld's view o...
2. A Fugitive Returns to Paris — Georges returns to Paris and continues killing people he sees as obstacles or betrayers. Le Guen misses him again as the competing police approaches and Georges's criminal plans intensify.
3. The Hideout Arrest Fails — Tellier follows clues including Georges's uncommon cigarettes and his connection to Gerda. The backers interrupt Le Guen's attempted arrest, and Georges kills them to escape, worsening the conflict be...
4. Frédo's Dangerous Errand — Le Guen uses François's detention to place Frédo in his cell and gather information on Georges. François sends Frédo to Georges, and Frédo returns to the police, helping Le Guen prepare a trap that Te...
5. The Lodge and Final Choice — At the countryside hunting lodge, Gerda detects the police encirclement and warns Georges. He flees, seriously injures Campana, and, surrounded by police, shoots himself before Gerda, Le Guen, and Tel...