Roger Foucher

In L'Heure zéro, the French adaptation of Agatha Christie's Towards Zero for the TV series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie, Roger Foucher is a long time and well-known news anchor of the TV Nord station. At the beginning of the show, he is found dead, apparently having drowned after falling into the water while fishing from a boat in the middle of a lake. The actor who portrayed Foucher is not credited. There isn't really a parallel for him in the original novel. Mr Treves died from a heart problem while climbing the stairs of his hotel and his death is also thought initially to be an accident. However his role in the plot is different. Sir Matthew Tressilian also died some nine years before the events in the book. Like Foucher, Sir Matthew also died from drowning in a boating accident, but here again, his role in the plot is different.

With Foucher's death, Audrey Fontaine is appointed to be the news anchor for TV Nord. This is a historical first and set the stage for the rest of the events in the plot.

The forensic pathologist Timothée Glissant examined the body and determined that the death was probably an accident. However, late in the show, Etienne Foucher. Roger's son, later told the police that there was no reason for his father, who couldn't swim, to be fishing from a boat in the middle of a lake. Nor could it have been a suicide because his father really enjoyed life. This left only murder, and only a certain kind of murderer, one strong enough to push Foucher overboard.

At the end of the show, Maxime Beaumont confessed to the killing him as part of a complex plan which ultimately involved four murders in all.