Intro. Your best friend is an ex-gendarme, he was discharged for beating a prisoner leaving him at risk of life, who later died. He beat the prisoner because he had stabbed another gendarme, his companion and his friend, who died a few minutes after being stabbed by the prisoner, who tried to escape and escape from prison in the process. In court, all evidence of "self-defense" was rejected because, as the lawyer for the prisoner's family said, provided by the governor's office, "the human rights of the inmate were violated, and he died because of the gendarme" . That devastated Nicholas and infuriated him, since no one considered his friend to be dead because of the prisoner...
In short, he was discharged and now lives sad and depressed remembering every minute of what happened.
Only you can get him out of the hole he is in. (You were always in love with him)