45 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestA young geneticist was stabbed in the Paris Catacombs, a Satanist symbol etched on her back. Jo is convinced that this is a crime of passion. But the case takes an unexpected turn when the team discovers that the victim was conducting experiments with plague bacteria recovered from skeletons of the catacombs. The trail leads to a mysterious woman who could well be a serial killer on the run. She seems to already have chosen her next victims: the family of a prominent politician. The killer turns out to be Nicole Wallace (played by Olivia d'Abo), the one-time nemesis of Det. Robert Goren in the series Law & Order: Criminal Intent (also created by René Balcer).
Jo is an English-language French police procedural television series created by Canadian/USA screenwriter René Balcer of Law & Order fame with French writing team Franck Ollivier & Malina Detcheva, known for the mini-series Lost Signs. It is co-produced by the French Atlantique Productions and the Belgian Stromboli Pictures companies in association with broadcast partners TF1, RTBF, Sat.1, ORF and RTS.
Acting
Jean Reno's weary gravitas carries every scene.
Cinematography
Paris shot like a character, not a postcard.
Production
Law & Order DNA grafted onto French crime sensibility.
Creators
René Balcer, Klaus Zimmermann, Olivier Bibas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
René Balcer created it while still running Law & Order: Criminal Intent, making this his European vacation project.
TF1 commissioned it specifically to compete with British crime imports like Luther—France wanted their own gritty star vehicle.
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