The BEST episodes directed by Frank Van Mechelen

#1 - Het proces

Aspe - Season 5 - Episode 10

#2 - De krotkoningin

Aspe - Season 7 - Episode 2

#3 - Episode 12

Salamander - Season 1 - Episode 12

Paul Gerardi finds himself in grave danger after it appears his cover has been compromised, and the exposure places the entire case in jeopardy. However, recent events leave Klaus feeling betrayed, and he takes matters into his own hands in a manner that could have catastrophic consequences. Belgian crime thriller, starring Filip Peeters, Mike Verdrengh and Koen De Bouw.

#4 - De zaak Christiaenen

Aspe - Season 7 - Episode 3

#5 - De wraakengel

Aspe - Season 5 - Episode 2

#6 - De barbiemoorden (2)

Aspe - Season 4 - Episode 7

#7 - Geen post vandaag

Aspe - Season 5 - Episode 1

#8 - De stalker

Aspe - Season 5 - Episode 7

#9 - Episode 9

Salamander - Season 1 - Episode 9

At an emergency meeting with the prime minister, the minister of justice is told that the palace is calling for heads to roll in the case which is paralyzing the country. He is introduced to the new personal adviser to the PM, a certain Vincent Noel, the ambitious young man who is also the protege of Raymond Jonkhere.

#10 - Het Lelijke Eendje

Aspe - Season 3 - Episode 4

#11 - Oud zeer

Aspe - Season 4 - Episode 4

#12 - De ongenode gast

Aspe - Season 5 - Episode 3

#13 - Rijke Stinkerds

Aspe - Season 3 - Episode 3

#14 - De Verborgen Agenda (1)

Aspe - Season 3 - Episode 6

#15 - Episode 10

Salamander - Season 1 - Episode 10

With the struggle getting deadlier, Salamander plays its best card as Vincent Noel becomes internal security adviser to the prime minister. Persigal knows that his time is running out but manages to pass vital information to Gerardi.

#16 - Episode 8

Salamander - Season 1 - Episode 8

Wolfs, the man behind the Jonkhere bank raid, instructs Klaus to send out envelopes of incriminating evidence to more members of Salamander, leading to resignation, disappearance and suicide, which threatens the stability of Belgium.

#17 - Episode 11

Salamander - Season 1 - Episode 11

Paul accepts an invitation to dinner at the Wolfs’, and a war-time photograph on display in the living room makes him realize he is edging closer to the truth about the break-in at the Jonkhere bank. Meanwhile, Gil finds himself unable to trust his daughter’s new boyfriend, and asks Klaus to conduct a background check. Belgian crime thriller, starring Filip Peeters, Mike Verdrengh and Koen De Bouw.

#18 - De Verborgen Agenda (2)

Aspe - Season 3 - Episode 7

#19 - De barbiemoorden (1)

Aspe - Season 4 - Episode 6

#20 - Bijna beroemd

Aspe - Season 4 - Episode 8

#21 - Episode 6

Salamander - Season 1 - Episode 6

Paul discovers that a member of the Royal Family has been involved in a scandal which has been hushed up by Guy Rasenberg and the Salamander organization.

#22 - Episode 2

Salamander - Season 1 - Episode 2

On witnessing the assassination of Urbain and hearing of the death of his informant Strubbe, Geradi now knows his suspicions of a major unreported bank robbery are correct, but he is perturbed to realise that his house is under surveillance and that his official enquiries are being thwarted.

#23 - Episode 7

Salamander - Season 1 - Episode 7

Knowing that he was the intended victim of the car bomb which killed his wife, Gerardi follows the only lead he has – Karin Rasenberg who, now reconciled with her husband, prepares for his swearing in as Minister of the Interior.

#24 - Episode 5

Salamander - Season 1 - Episode 5

Gerardi is finally persuaded by Persigal to join the elite P9 agency with instructions to discover who is behind the break-in at the Jonkhere bank. The Salamander organisation suffers a blow with the suicide of the Minister of Interior, but they are soon lining up their forces behind Senator Guy Rasenberg to stand as his successor.

#25 - Zoenoffer

Aspe - Season 1 - Episode 8

Van In delegates security for a museum visit by the daughter of Spanish prime minister Aznar to Neels, while he and Versavel suspects links between violent crimes and the security breach at that very Gruuthuse museum, where security chief Ferdinand Boedt waves a warning, while his wayward son Olivier is a next victim. Van In's fanciful acquaintance, the Spanish director of Bruges' 'College of Europe' (post-graduate EU studies) next door, is somehow connected with the ETA terrorist cell that plans lucrative and political crimes.

#26 - Botenbusiness

Aspe - Season 2 - Episode 3

#27 - Episode 1

Salamander - Season 1 - Episode 1

A professional gang break into the vaults of Jonkhere Private Bank in Brussels and target 66 safety deposit boxes, stealing only certain valuables and documents. The owners of the targeted boxes are all prominent figures from the top layer of Belgian society and determined to keep their secrets, but Inspector Paul Gerardi of the Belgian Federal Police gets wind of the robbery and wonders why the crime has not been reported.

#28 - Episode 3

Salamander - Season 1 - Episode 3

Flemish drama series about a police inspector that gets caught up in a case that leads to the highest levels. Being pursued by unknown forces, Paul takes shelter in the monastery where his former boss Carl Cassimon has retreated, to ask for his help. Meanwhile his wife and daughter are at breaking point from constant surveillance and mysterious silent phone calls depriving them of sleep. Paul follows one of the leads on the list given to him by Robijns before Robijns's suicide.

#29 - Episode 4

Salamander - Season 1 - Episode 4

As Paul flees the monastery, he realises that his daughter will be targeted by the goverment agents, so hastens to her school only to find that she has already been taken. Persigal, unsure of whom to trust, meets with Jonkhere, who demands results in identifying the perpetrators of the bank raid.

#30 - Dood tij

Aspe - Season 1 - Episode 7

#31 - Zwarte Anjers

Aspe - Season 7 - Episode 1

#32 - The Children of Chronos

Aspe - Season 1 - Episode 2

A child digs up an old skeleton on the land of a former farm, converted into a bordello, later semi-donated to a shady charitable foundation which sold it to the present owner couple, former whore Linda Aerts and the husband William she reports missing and cleared out a bank account she claims joined and has the banker compensate privately, as price for privacy. Van In soon suspects the key is the link to the murky activities of the foundation and its rich main donor's present 'executive' bordello, formerly managed by William. It turns out he's presiding a committee of notables, one by one being murdered grotesquely, including criminal attorney Provoost.

#33 - Het Liefdesnest

Aspe - Season 2 - Episode 1

#34 - Kinderen van de nacht

Aspe - Season 2 - Episode 5

#35 - The Midas Murders

Aspe - Season 1 - Episode 1

Bruges chief inspector Pieter Van In, grumpy head of detectives, is even less friendly as his bank is about to foreclosure on his house due to systematic mortgage payment delays. New substitute Hannelore Martens soon flirts with him, while taking an instant dislike to politically connected, ambitious veteran magistrate Joris Creytens, who invokes his experience to wave routine forensics and close cases without proper investigation. The city is hit by a wave of violent crimes, including an apparent terrorist bomb at a statue, which the mayor orders police chief Roger De Kee to give top priority, especially the theory it may link to a never solved Walloon extremist bomb decades ago.