The WORST episodes of Balthazar

#1 - Perfect Family

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/16/2023

A family is executed on a highway rest area. Balthazar discovers the family is not what it appears.

#2 - The Truth Is Elsewhere

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/9/2023

A pensioner bus is found empty in a field, the passengers vanished. The driver speaks of a bright white light and in the field the investigators discover a huge crop circle.

#3 - Eros and Thanatos

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/31/2022

Balthazar's lab is being filmed by a documentary team. Called to examine a skeleton found in the river, he continues to embarrass Vesinet as the police realize they're hunting a killer with an apparent taste for human flesh.

#4 - Paradise Lost

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/12/2020

#5 - Facing Death

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/5/2019

Balthazar examines a body at a derelict toy store and determines that the victim died from an accelerated version of the bubonic plague. Having been exposed to the virus, Balthazar locks himself inside to stop its spread, but will Bach's team be able to find the cure before he ends up another victim?

#6 - Puppets

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/19/2023

Balthazar lives happily, far from his troubles and from the police who hunt him, still convinced of his responsibility in the murders perpetrated by his brother. But Balthazar's peace of mind is shattered when he learns that Camille, Delgado and Olivia have lost their jobs because of their help during his escape and their failure to stop a bloodthirsty criminal raging in Paris, The Puppeteer.

#7 - À la folie

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/10/2020

#8 - Puzzle

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/10/2022

A freshly severed foot, a decapitated head and an innocuous man reporting his missing wife is just the start of one of the team's most disturbing cases.

#9 - Still Life

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/17/2022

While investigating the brutal deaths of three young men, Balthazar is being audited by the forensic sciences institute and having to deal with Maya's continuing harassment.

#10 - In Appearance

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/17/2022

A little girl is abducted from her room during the night and 24 hours later a ransom demand is made, but the truth behind the kidnapping is much darker than the team realizes. Meanwhile, Maya's presence continues to haunt Balthazar.

#11 - Bad Encounter

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/28/2019

When a woman is found hanged from a bridge, it appears to be straightforward suicide, but Balthazar finds it strange that another victim died the same way days earlier. The fact that both victims had used a blind-dating site before their deaths points to a serial killer targeting women.

#12 - Last Resort

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/24/2022

During a lecture at the school of medicine, Balthazar and his team are held hostage by a student desperate to exonerate his father, who has already confessed to murder. Meanwhile, Camille continues meeting her mysterious friend.

#13 - Friday the 13th

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/12/2020

#14 - The Debt

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/5/2019

After hearing an emergency call from a distressed teenager, Bach arrives at a peculiar crime scene: an empty car with smashed windows and a trunk full of snakes. With little else to go on, Balthazar and Bach race to find the missing girl.

#15 - In Full Flight

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/10/2022

Recovering from his injuries and the loss of Hélène, Balthazar flies home to Paris from Istanbul. When passengers start falling ill, he realizes they have been poisoned.

#16 - Last Remains

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/21/2019

Balthazar analyzes a collection of bones discovered in an old abandoned building and finds three bodies dating back to the Middle Ages and one who died a week ago, partially dissolved in acid. The victim's girlfriend, who reported him missing, lives with her parents in a creepy house said to be cursed.

#17 - Game Over

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/23/2023

Camille learns that Maya has just escaped from prison thanks to Alexandre. The infernal duo is back. What do they want?

#18 - Under The Influence

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/26/2023

Balthazar is stuck at home awaiting the judges' decision and spies on his neighbors to fill his boredom. At the same time, in Paris, a nightmare erupts: a figure in a duck mask kills three random passers-by.

#19 - Wall of Trophies

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/12/2019

Balthazar examines a dead woman dressed as Snow White and determines she was shot, then buried alive. A USB drive hidden in her wounds reveals portraits of seven missing people, including the victim's son.

#20 - The Human Bomb

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/2/2023

Balthazar is back at the IML with his daughter, whom he has on his hands for forty-eight hours until she is placed. To keep busy he autopsies an old lady, only to have a surprise discovery.

#21 - Remember

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/7/2022

Balthazar is sent to his hometown to investigate the ritualistic killing of a cow and runs into memories of a childhood he'd rather forget. When former friends start dying, Balthazar's blackouts suddenly seem a lot more sinister.

#22 - Funeral March

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/21/2019

A dead dog covered in human blood leads police on a frantic hunt for a missing infant. Suspicion immediately falls on the child's nanny, who is not who she says she is, but Balthazar connects the case to a prestigious music academy instead.

#23 - Cold Blood

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/28/2019

A husband and wife suffer a knife attack that bears the marks of a serial killer who is supposedly in prison. When Balthazar links the crime to a remote town in the mountains, he and Bach travel to the snow-covered village to determine whether the murderer is a copycat or still at large.

#24 - Against the Wall

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/19/2020

#25 - Death Sentence

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/6/2018

Reeling from the realization that the person who murdered his wife, Lise, could still be at large, Balthazar investigates the gruesome killing of a man.