The WORST episodes of The Crimson Rivers
Every episode of The Crimson Rivers ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Crimson Rivers!
Inspector Niémans and his colleague Camille Delauney are investigating four separate cases which lead them to various French provinces and to Germany. Each case entails a murder mystery which demands the involvement of the Parisian specialists.
#1 - Case: Songs of Darkness
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/5/2018
Niémans is tracking a monk whose habit can be seen by the light of the moon. Niémans loses him, but finally catches up. Too late. Brother Guillaume is dying, but with his dying breath is able to say,« the sword and the snake» as he shows the palm of his left hand, tattooed in blue.
#3 - Case: Children’s Crusade
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/26/2018
Modernist architecture, systematic vandalism, the social paradise designed by some generic architect has mutated into a vile, miserable hell. While searching for drugs in the trash in an abandoned parking lot, “two hoods” discovering a severed hand, that of a child.
#4 - Case: Day of the Ashes
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/12/2018
A large vineyard, during the grape harvest. A rose coloured chapel with a black bell tower is being renovated. A corpse is discovered with a battered head, and bleeding crotch. The man has been castrated. The murderer appears to have fled, knocking down one of the walls of the chapel, hence destroying a fresco.
#5 - Case: The Last Hunt
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/3/2018
Hunting parties in the forest... But the corpse that is found is not of a deer, but a hunter. Horribly mutilated. His ribcage cut open, viscera torn out, multiple bite marks ... and as a final touch, an oak twig dipped in his own blood placed between his teeth. The victim is not just any young man. He was Jürgen von Geyersberg, the heir to one of the biggest fortunes in Germany, just across the border.
#6 - The Innocents
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/2020
A new corpse is discovered hanging by the wrists in the grounds of the Clinagen clinic. The victim bears the same stigmata as the first: a rosette on the stomach. The two women were allegedly tortured according to a ritual used by the executioners during the Inquisition. Investigators discover that the two women were carriers of the same blood type, that they lost a lot of blood and that they were following the same revitalization program. The director of the laboratory and Claude, the witch, continue to intrigue the two investigators who are trying to unravel the mystery of a witchcraft that seems to terrify everyone...
#7 - Black Moon
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/8/2021
While Camille is on vacation on the Opal Coast, she meets Paul, whose wife has disappeared under strange circumstances. She shares her doubts with Niémans who immediately joins her on the spot. Niémans came to this village during his childhood, with his brother and his mother. While painful memories seem to come to the surface, Niémans and Camille witness a fatal accident that does not seem to be a coincidence. This will lead them on the trail of a fearsome serial killer, who seems to kill each victim in the order of the astrological signs.
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#8 - Holy Theft
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/2020
We discover a macabre scene in front of the church of a small village. The body of the priest is found naked, crucified on an inverted cross. Pierre Niemans and Camille Delaunay investigate this murder, the staging of which recalls the death of a 3rd century martyr. In addition, the relics of the saint have disappeared from the parish of the neighboring town. In full investigation, Camille discovers a note from the killer in his jacket: "The first letter of the Father's name has been pronounced." It is then that a second crime occurs; other relics are again stolen.
#10 - The Last Wave
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/2022
Niemans and Delaunay escort a serial killer - Philippe Cernac, known for hunting his "prey" with a bow - to an experimental prison/treatment centre where psychopaths of all kinds are dealt with... Cernac escapes, but caught by Niémans, who's still trying, with his partner Camille, to find the killer.
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#11 - XXY
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/22/2021
In a small Belgian village, a church catches fire. As the firefighters battle the flames, the scene of a dark spectacle is revealed before their eyes: two bodies, a man and a woman, naked, sewn back to back and with their throats cut. Camille and Niémans, arrived on the spot, discover on the victims bracelets from a neopagan festival with strange rituals, perched in the mountain. Niémans finds a former colleague and friend, Audrey, who works in the Belgian PJ. Very quickly, this investigation brings the trio into the strange world of neopagan rites and leather tanneries.
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#12 - Redemption
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/15/2021
As Camille and Niémans go to the countryside to meet Arnaud Morillon, a former colleague of the BRI and friend of Niémans, it's shocking. They find his corpse, infected with bubonic plague, the Black Death, thought eradicated for centuries... While an initial analysis reveals that the infection was voluntary, a doctor from the Pasteur Institute, announces that there has just been another case, kept secret to avoid panic. Very quickly, the two investigations seem linked. After the discovery of the corpse of another colleague of Niémans at the BRI, also by the plague, everything points to the former group of Niémans as the common denominator. Niémans and Camille then set off in pursuit of a mad killer, wearing the typical mask of "beak doctors" dealing with cases of plague at the time, who threatens to spread this deadly bacteria in the capital. In a nightmarish Venice carnival, the investigation plunges them into what looks like revenge against Niémans' team, twenty years earlier...
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#13 - Final Judgment
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/29/2021
Niémans is called in the middle of the night by Marek Volsnic, a former robber who seems to know him well. As he rushes to the spot, Marek is found unconscious by a guard in his cell, alongside another comrade, mutilated face, lacerated body, eyes gouged out. Niémans, with the agreement of the prison director, investigates under the radar with the help of Camille. The latter, feeling that Niémans is hiding the real reason for their presence here, renews ties with Kleinert. Very quickly, they discover that Niémans is covering up a terrible secret from his past. An investigation that will tip Niémans to the other side of prison and where Camille will have to redouble her efforts to save her mentor...
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#14 - The Line of Glass
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/27/2020
As he walks through the garden of the Monferville property, the butler comes across a 17-year-old boy in poor condition. According to him, he would be Herminien de Monferville, child of the large eponymous family, who disappeared 6 years ago. For her part, Camille, supposedly on vacation, is looking for her son Léo, of whom she can no longer find any trace. His investigation leads him to the Monfervilles. Because she has understood her son's plan: to pretend to be this missing child who strangely resembles him, in order to benefit from the luxurious lifestyle of this family. What is his surprise when Caroline de Monferville confirms that it is indeed Herminien! Camille is convinced that Léo is profiting from the misfortune of this grieving mother. But the investigation takes on a whole new dimension when she receives a DNA test between Leo and herself: no match! For his part, Leo, locked in this disturbing building, understands that he has thrown himself into the mouth of the wolf...
#16 - Kenbaltyu
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/2020
The body of a black woman is discovered in a disused hangar. A scabrous staging, and a sharp engraved on the forehead of the victim. The investigation directs the investigators to a jungle of migrants, a few kilometers away. For Niémans and Camille, it is an African ritual crime, tinged with voodoo and mysticism. While Niémans discovers the identity of a first suspect, Camille, she infiltrates the jungle by posing as a volunteer. As the puzzles accumulate, the duo of investigators discovers the existence of a Fulani demon, which seems to terrify the migrants in the camp: the Kenbaltyu. Its mark: a hash engraved on the forehead...