Balthazar

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.

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.

When Balthazar is called to examine a young woman found dead in a truck, he is surprised to find that she is frozen solid. The police have few leads to go on, until Raphael discovers some DNA that connects the body to a cold case.

While at the cinema, Balthazar is called to help a young couple that has been stabbed. But when Buck interviews their families to figure out what happened, she realizes that there is more than meets the eye to the 'happy' couple.

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.

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.

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.

Balthazar analyses bones discovered in an old building and finds three bodies dating back to the Middle Ages, and one recent victim partially dissolved in acid.

Balthazar and Bach travel to a remote mountain village when a husband and wife suffer a knife attack that bears the marks of a serial killer who is supposedly in prison.

When a woman is found hanging from a bridge, it appears to be straightforward suicide, but Balthazar finds it strange that another victim died the same way days earlier after using a blind-dating site.

Balthazar locks himself inside a derelict toy store after he examines a body and determines that the victim died from an accelerated version of the bubonic plague.

After hearing an emergency call from a distressed teenager, Bach arrives at a crime scene with an empty car with smashed windows and a trunk full of snakes.

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.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.