This first map lights up to signal a crime reported near Pigalle, initiating the police investigation. The climax of the film shows a car chase that begins in the suburbs east of Paris, 'au carrefour de Pantin', though the first light on the larger map on which the chase will be traced is again at Pigalle: A close up of the map shows lights in the general area of the chase ('...le Pré Saint Gervais... le boulevard Sérurier...'), but this is followed by a longer shot showing the light on in Pigalle again: The radio controller is looking at the right part of the map, and perhaps we can read the light pointing to Pigalle as a narrational reminder of where it all started, though I'm more inclined to think that at its exciting climax the film simply isn't concerned about matching the chase with the map. What concerns me more is the procedural accuracy of this set-up. I can't see that a map able to trace movements in so approximate a manner could be particularly useful to the police. This looks more like a fantasy about tracking of a kind with the more famous set-up in Melville's Le Samourai, twelve years later, which I also think is a fantasy (see here):
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