Bye Bye Morons / Adieu les cons Ending Explained [SPOILER!]

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A seriously ill woman tries to find her long-lost child with the help of a man in the middle of a burnout and a blind archivist.

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Bye Bye Morons / Adieu les cons Plot Summary and Synopsis

At 43, hairdresser Suze Trappet learns that she has little time left to live because she has an autoimmune disease caused by the cosmetics she uses in her salon. She remembers her son, whom she had at 15, having given birth X under pressure from her parents. She then sets out to find him before dying.

At the administration services, he was told that his file was not digitized and that it could take several months to find it. In the office next door, Jean-Baptiste Cuchas (aka JB), a genius computer scientist, is about to commit suicide by leaving a filmed farewell message, following the decision of his superiors to entrust the securing the computer system to people younger than him. But by wanting to shoot himself with a wire connected to the trigger of a shotgun, he pulls too hard and the gun turns over, damaging the adjacent wall and seriously injuring the administrative officer who was handling the case of Suze.

Realizing what he’s done, JB panics and falls into his chair. This shock causes him to shoot at the ceiling and he is knocked unconscious by the debris. Suze, having nothing more to lose and seeing that this stranger takes care of computer services, embarks the laptop used to record the video of the suicide and takes JB, still unconscious with her. He wakes up on a roundabout, the old place where the hospital where Suze gave birth was. Now wanted by the police and the Ministry of the Interior, JB is offered a deal by Suze: she will give him back his computer, which contains proof of the accident if he helps him find his file. JB explains to him that the file is kept in the departmental archives but refuses to help him.

Once arrived at the archives, Suze is finally joined by JB, reconsidering his decision. But they must act quickly because the police are after him. They manage to descend to the archives where they learn that they are managed by Serge Blin, a man who has become blind since the police officers shot him in the eyes at the LBD and who has since developed a panic fear of the police. Thanks to his computer skills, JB manages to unlock the lockers of all the people who gave birth under X and whose name begins with T. But the files are numerous and it is after several hours of research that Suze, M. Blin, and JB come across the voucher, which leads to the address of the parents who have taken in the child. With the 28-year-old document, JB believes there is a good chance the family no longer lives at the address given.

Unfortunately, the police are already there and manage to arrest JB, while Suze and Mr. Blin flee through a back staircase. The address on the file is no longer listed on the GPS, but Mr. Blin manages to guide Suze through his memories of the city. Arriving on the scene, Suze sees a man of the age of her child. But after a brief exchange, she realizes that he is not hers. Farther on, a distracted florist’s truck collides with Suze’s car. The florist believes Mr. Blin was driving despite his blindness and decides to call the police. Horrified at the thought of going to jail, Mr. Blin starts Suze’s car and has another accident a few yards away with the police car that was carrying JB. The latter gets out of the car and promises his superior to come back with a witness to exonerate him.

JB finds Suze and suggests that she contact the doctor who took charge of her delivery 28 years earlier, Dr. Lint. Once they arrive at the hospital where he is interned, they realize that the doctor has developed Alzheimer’s disease and does not remember anything. Desperate, Suze falls on a chair and knocks over the bookcase. She thus accidentally stumbles upon one of the doctor’s diaries: the writing is illegible but it could contain information on the birth of Suze’s child. The trio then goes to the doctor’s wife who manages to decipher part of the notebook. They thus discover that the child has been entrusted to a certain “Without-Fallopian”. As Suze has a violent asthma attack, JB realizes that she doesn’t have much time to live. While they go to a pharmacy to look for a new inhaler, Dr. Lint, after rereading his diaries, regains his memory, escapes from the hospital, and joins his wife, thus making it possible to identify Sans-Fallopian.

Thanks to the information contained in the diary, JB retraces everything using his computer, but he has to update it and is again spotted by the police. Suze’s child is called Adrien. He lost his adoptive parents in his teenage years, graduated from high school, and is head of the computer network at a large, publicly traded company. Suze, JB, and Mr. Blin go to the address where Adrien lives. Overwhelmed by emotion, Suze finally catches a glimpse of her son, working on a computer, but refuses to speak to him. JB realizes that something is wrong with Adrien: given his social status, he shouldn’t live in such a neighborhood. He indeed comes across poems thrown in the trash intended for a certain Clara, a colleague of Adrien. The trio, therefore, decides to come up with a plan to get Adrien to talk to Clara alone.

Arrived at Adrien’s workplace, still accompanied by Mr. Blin, JB agrees to help Suze. The trio has little time to act. JB sabotages the building’s security system to line up the elevators to the thirteenth floor, turn off the lights and activate the fire alarm. He then controls the opening of the elevator doors to force Adrien and Clara to find themselves alone in the same elevator. Finally, JB entrusts the computer to Suze, asking her to pretend to be the security technician. Suze moved, manages to tell Adrien that you shouldn’t be afraid to confess your love and that “I love you” are the most important words to say in life.

Bye Bye Morons / Adieu les cons Ending

Mr. Blin, motivated by Suze’s words, is no longer afraid of the police and agrees to be zealous in allowing JB and Suze to escape. In a parking lot, JB tries to open a car with his computer, but the police find them anyway. Suze, knowing that she was doomed by her illness, picks up a weapon that a police officer dropped while trying to subdue Mr. Blin. She intervenes between the police and JB to let him go. But finally, this one asks him if he can come with her by confessing his feelings to him. The duo points the gun at the police, committing suicide by the police.

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