Jo
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Jo St-Clair is a veteran detective in Paris' elite Criminal Brigade, tackling the city's most challenging murder cases. Brilliant and brutal, St-Clair must outwit pathological killers to solve the most shocking murders, all while juggling a personal life just as challenging and as dangerous as the cases he solves.
The series (formerly known as "Le Grand"), shot in English entirely on location in Paris, stars Jean Reno as Joachim "Jo" St.-Clair, a veteran French detective tackling the city's most challenging murder cases, each tied to an iconic Parisian location, including the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame and the Catacombs. Emmy-winning producer René Balcer ("Law & Order", "Law & Order: Criminal Intent") serves as the showrunner of "Jo", which he created with Malina Detcheva and Franck Ollivier. Directors of the first season include Charlotte Sieling ("Bron/Broen" a.k.a. "The Bridge"), Stefan Schwartz ("Dexter") and Kristoffer Nyholm ("Forbrydelsen" a.k.a. "The Killing").
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- 01Notre DameA body is found beaten and strangled under the Last Judgment portal of Notre Dame. His ears have been pierced and his face positioned so that his dead eyes are aimed at a figure of an angel blowing his trumpet to wake the dead for the final judgment. By making the victim symbolically deaf to the angels trumpet, Jo surmises that this was the killers way of saying that this victim wasnt worth Gods mercy.
- 02PigalleDuring fashion week, the barely-alive body of a glamorous former model is found hanging in the upper levels of the Eiffel towers iron structure. At first, her lover's estranged wife is suspected he apparently wanted to leave the model to return to the mother of his children, but the model refused to let him go. But then Jo finds another trail that leads to a 22-year-old stripper in Pigalle, dancing in a Josephine Baker revue. The stripper is the dead model's illegitimate daughter she gave up for adoption at birth.
- 03Place De La ConcordeNotorious young stunt man Alain Spiderman Robert is found with his neck broken and dressed in climbing gear at the base of the Obelisk. As it turns out, Alain was hired by a rich industrialist to plant video equipment recording a kinky humiliating sex play in a suite of the Crilion Hotel involving the wife of one of France's most prestigious families' heir. However, there is an even more sinister game at stake threatening the unhappy wife. No longer comfortable with the marriage they arranged, both her arriviste family and her powerful mother-in-law decide to put her out of the picture.
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Season01
- S01E01Season's bestNotre DameApril 25, 2013A body is found beaten and strangled under the Last Judgment portal of Notre Dame. His ears have been pierced and his face positioned so tha
- S01E02PigalleApril 25, 2013During fashion week, the barely-alive body of a glamorous former model is found hanging in the upper levels of the Eiffel towers iron struct
- S01E03Place De La ConcordeMay 2, 2013Notorious young stunt man Alain Spiderman Robert is found with his neck broken and dressed in climbing gear at the base of the Obelisk. As i
- S01E04Les InvalidesMay 2, 201335-year-old Mirage fighter pilot Charlotte Dumas is found dead inside Les Invalides wearing a ring stolen in a notorious unsolved murder of
- S01E05Place VendômeMay 9, 2013In a garage under Place Vendome, firemen find a burnt corpse behind the wheel of his car. The cops identify Philip Roquin, an accountant at
- S01E06Le MaraisMay 9, 2013Place Des Vosges, a stones throw from Victor Hugo's apartment. A young woman is found dead from a blunt-force head wound. Jo deducts the mur
- S01E07The OpéraMay 16, 2013On a sunny afternoon after taking his daughter to her ballet lesson, a middle-aged man gets stabbed on the steps of the Palais Garnier. The
- S01E08The CatacombesMay 16, 2013A young woman is found stabbed to death in the Catacombs. Since some parts of the Catacombs are a known hang-out for Goth teenagers and woul
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