The essential episodes of Balthazar
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Balthazar — each pick states its reason.
- 01
A man and a woman are found dead in their home, and charismatic medical examiner Raphael Balthazar is called to the crime scene. Once there he immediately clashes with his new coworker, the intelligent chief inspector Helene Bach.
- 02
The realization that his wife’s killer might still be at large has left Balthazar in a state of shock. However, his duty cannot wait as he is called to examine a gruesome crime scene where a man was found beaten up and mutilated.
- 03
As he examines a dismembered body that was found in the river, Balthazar realizes there must be another victim. At the same time, he contemplates if he should share with Bach a crucial piece of information about Lise’s killer.
- 04
Season 1 finale. When Balthazar arrives to the scene of a horrific car accident, he discovers the body of a woman a few yards away. Even though the police assume she was killed in the crash, it seems she had been dead for hours.
- 05
As the second season begins, the police are searching for a missing child, after they discover a dead dog with traces of human blood. Although the officers soon suspect the child’s nanny, Balthazar comes to a different conclusion.
- 06
Devastated by the death of a friend, Balthazar has left his job in Paris and spent the past six months sailing around the Atlantic, vowing never to touch a corpse again. His resolve is tested when he discovers a dead body near a remote island.
- 07
While Balthazar is examining the body of a young man with Bach’s help, he is called to rescue a woman who has been brutally assaulted. Soon enough, though, he realizes that these seemingly unrelated cases share a surprising link.
- 08
Balthazar is speeding away, trying to escape from the army that is pursuing him. Helene and a wounded man are with him in his car. But what could have possibly happened in the last 48 hours that brought them to this exact moment?
- 09
The badly beaten body of a woman is discovered in a chapel and the DNA sample that Balthazar analyzes links her death to that of two other women in the past 12 months. Were these women truly the victims of a serial killer?
- 10
Balthazar is investigating the case of a man and a woman who were found in the forest brutally murdered. However, soon he finds himself in a world between fantasy and reality that will help him realize a great deal about his life.
- 11
A bloody-faced little boy turns up at a gas station and disappears just as fast. Raphael and Bach are sent to locate him, but their investigation brings them face to face with some shocking revelations and a recent murder case.
- 12
The body of a missing man is found in a balloon-covered pool and the crime bears the marks of a psychopath who has been escaping from the police for a while now. Meanwhile, Raphael gets one step closer to the truth about Lise.
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