Etienne Bousquet

In Jeux de glaces, the TV film adaptation of Agatha Christie's They do it with Mirrors by France Télévisions, the parallel character is named "Etienne Bousquet" is the parallel of Lewis Serrocold in the original novel. He runs "La Main Tendue" (the Helping Hand) a halfway house for young mentally disturbed youth most of whom had committed violent crimes. Helping him, and supplying him with most of the money for his centre is his wife Rose-Marie Bousquet, the Carrie Louise Serrocold parallel. Etienne Bousquet is portrayed by Olivier Rabourdin.

Etienne is Rose-Marie's second husband, not the third as in the original novel. Otherwise, the portrayal is quite similar to the novel and other adaptations. He runs the rehab centre and in this case he is actually a qualified psychiatrist himself, with a diplome from the Hôpital Psychiatrique Saint Anne á Paris (an actual institution). Thus there is no Dr Maverick here. Etienne believes in his work and has dreams of buying a private island to set up his rehab experiment in ideal conditions where his patients can live and learn to relate in an a kind of utopia without discrimination.

The details of the crime vary from the novel and from adaptation to adaptation. In this case, Etienne embezzles funds from Rose-Marie's fortune to fund his private island project. Pierre Montauban, Rose-Marie's business manager and friend discovers this. However what happens next is substantially different from the orginal. Etienne confesses this to Rose-Marie and she loves him dearly. In this adaptation she is the one who masterminds and plans the killing of Montauban and later that of Léonard Jeandel (the Edgar Lawson parallel). In this adaptation, Etienne does not die in the end but is arrested.