Wait Until Dark

A mother of 10 comes to Mr. Fabre for help. Her 18-year old son was arrested for a theft at the port of Marseilles. She says with tears in her eyes that her son sends money home to her family every month, and that he has never stolen anything from anybody. Inspector Fabre gets on the train to Marseilles with his assistant Gonza. After struggling to find and examine some evidence, they find the true culprit. It is a big organization of smugglers led by the notorious woman called Lady Schnider. Hiring fireflies as their crew, they use the lights of the fireflies to send Morse code signals between the ships and the land. Unknowingly, the son of Inspector Fabre's client opened a box of smuggled goods. The smugglers tried to lay blame on this young man so that they can put him in jail. Thanks to Mr. Fabre's smart reasoning, the case is solved and the son is released. Back in Paris, all the other sons of his client come to play in his house. He is happy, but also a little embarrassed at all the noisy boys.

Inspector Fabre, André Boyer (Baron Spider), Charlotte, Gonza, Ganimar

Inspired by "The Diary of Insects," by Jean Henri Fabre, a 19th-century French entomologist and author. In his original works, Fabre vividly described the life of insects. In this series, all the insects have been personified and drawn into animated characters.