Rudy (Le crime de Noël)

In the Le crime de Noël episode of TV series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie, Rudy is one of the orphans at the Orphelinat Sainte-Cécile. He is considered the ringleader among the children and is probably the oldest. He frequently steals out of the orphanage to commit various petty thefts. At the beginning of the episode, for example, he steals Marlene's bag which contains a radio which she had intended to be a present for Alice. Using this radio, Rudy leads the children in the dormitory in a brief spell of dancing before they are stopped by the director/matron of the orphanage, Madame Hautin. When Baptiste Sauvage and his sister Louison decide to escape from the orphanage, Rudy helps them by giving them some money from his hoard of stolen items. Later, Louison tells commissaire Laurence that she saw a gun among Rudy's cache. She identifies it as a Luger, which was the type of gun used to murder Hubert Dopagne. In fact, according to Louison, Rudy had said that he did not believe in Santa Claus and if he ever saw a Santa, he will kill him. Commissaire Laurence examines Rudy's trunk and finds a large quantity of stolen items including Marlene's radio. Rudy is arrested for a time but at the end of the episode he has apparently been released because he can be seen in the orphans' choir at the Christmas market which Marlene has organised to sing "Mon beau sapin". Rudy is portrayed by Merlin Delarivière.