By Claudia Connell For Weekend
Published: 00:13 GMT, 25 March 2019 | Updated: 00:29 GMT, 25 March 2019
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Baptiste
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Catchpoint
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The crime was solved, the loose ends had been tied and maverick French detective Julien Baptiste declared: ‘We’re safe.’
The only problem was there was still 20 minutes left to go on Baptise (BBC1) so it didn’t take the sharpest of armchair detectives to work out that a twist or hair-raising plot development was yet to come.
By the time the explosive scene arrived, the moment had been lost since the series finale had already demanded so much suspension of disbelief in the build-up.
Detective Baptiste (Tcheky Karyo) made his mark in The Missing and Tcheky Karyo is a charismatic and gifted actor, but he needs far more than a cheesy script and a plot full of holes if he’s going to survive another spin-off series [File photo]
Let’s put aside for a minute the fact that Baptiste didn’t work for the Dutch police and yet they still gave him unrestricted access to a murder and organised crime investigation in Amsterdam.
In the penultimate episode Baptise stumbled upon a voyeuristic oddball, a man who liked to stealthily install CCTV cameras in the town where he lived. At the time it seemed to have little relevance to the story.
But then, last night, Baptiste urgently needed to know about a conversation that happened in a petrol station lavatory — and what a stroke of luck that the village oddball had the very recording he needed.
Her past as a human-trafficking mastermind exposed, trans character Kim Vogel was murdered. But, fortunately for Baptiste, she left behind a detailed book of codes that led him to the building where the underage girls were held. Another stroke of luck!
Let’s put aside for a minute the fact that Baptiste didn’t work for the Dutch police and yet they still gave him unrestricted