Warning, this article contains spoilers for the final episode of Balthazar, which airs this Thursday night on TF1. If you don’t want to understand anything, don’t read!
A final round of applause for the most popular forensic scientist on the small screen. After five seasons and 38 episodes, the Balthazar series was recently released on TF1 after a very successful final episode called “Game Over”, which brought to an end the adventures of the characters played by Tomer Sisley and Constance Labe.
With the return of his brother Alexander (Olivier Sitruk), whom he forgot existed last year, Balthazar confronts this evil alter ego one last time in a final face-to-face encounter rich with tension and twists of all genres.
Indeed, the end of the detective series begins with the worst news for Rafael Balthazar: Maya (Leslie Medina) escaped from prison with the help of Alexander. And the duo of psychopaths decide to hit where it hurts and follow Camille Costes to Balthazar.
Kidnapped by Alexander, Camille finds herself locked in a coffin and buried alive. The start of a real race against time for the doctor, played by Tomer Sisley, who is ready to do anything to save his best friend. And from one episode to a hundred per hour, in which the main characters of the series agreed to respond to AlloCiné.
Maya kills Alexander in front of Balthazar.
As he becomes more and more desperate for Camille, who will soon run out of oxygen, Balthazar realizes that his brother was only looking for one thing in the beginning: to kill. To prove to him that they are the same. Indeed, Alexander reveals to his little brother that the moment his heart stops, he will receive the coffin’s GPS coordinates on his cell phone and be able to save Camille.
Unable to lose Camille, Rafael seems ready to kill his own brother, when suddenly Maya, realizing that Alexander is only a puppet in his eyes, intervenes and stabs him several times across the room, using a scalpel.
“I did this for you. I didn’t want your life to be ruined. You are the most beautiful thing that has happened to me in my life.”Maya confesses to Balthazar, whom she has never stopped loving, even if she is responsible for Lisa’s death.
“Maya’s intervention, somewhere, is the most beautiful proof of love she can give to Balthazar”explains Clothilda Jamin, creator, producer and director of TF1’s detective series collection. “Maya loves Balthazar deeply. In a totally perverted and neurotic way, but she really loves him. Because he’s not like her. To kill him is to keep Balthazar.”.
But would Balthazar have gone all the way without Maya’s intervention? Would he kill his brother to help Camille? “Of course, no doubt”Continued by Clotilda Jamin. “He would have done it if Maya hadn’t intervened, he would have killed her to save Camille, that’s for sure, Camille is one of the women in Balthazar’s life. It represents his future“.
Camille is very close to death
Another highlight of this final episode: Rafael Balthazar’s frantic race to save Camille. The writers manage to convince us until the end that Camille is not going to get away with it, and we are headed for a devastating outcome. A feeling enhanced by the high-flying performance of Tomer Sisley and especially Constance Labbe, stunning throughout the episode.
But luckily, all’s well that ends well, as Rafael finally manages to extremly discover the place where Camille is buried.
“When I was reading the script and I found out that they were going to lock Camille in this coffin, I said to myself, ‘Well, where is this story going?'” (laughs). But I suspected Camille wasn’t going. death”says Constance Labe, who spent two days locked in a box for the sequences where Camille is buried alive.
“The public must have thought until the end that this would be the end of my character”continues the actress, who joined the series in season 4 to replace Helen de Fugerol. “But really, when you think about it, it can’t be the end, because Raphael Balthazar always manages to do it. He’s not going to get there. He was still going to save Camille. He didn’t make it. Let it be otherwise.”.
However, the ending of the series could have been different. Indeed, Clotilda Jamin told us that other scenarios were under consideration. and that it was especially thought that it was Balthazar who would be in great danger.
“We thought of a lot of things for this finale. We imagined several scenarios, including that it would be Balthazar who would be in trouble.”Explains the screenwriter when asked if the authors immediately agreed that the hero played by Tomer Sisley would have to save Camille.
“But we really wanted him to save someone dear to him. Because last time he didn’t succeed.”adds Clotilda Jamin. “For us, Balthazar is the story of someone who failed to save the person he loved, Lisa, about fifteen years ago. This was the genesis of the series. And at the end of the series, he had to save himself. To save another woman he loves, if he loves in a different way, but he also loves”.
“Somewhere, that circle had to come in so that she could live again and agree to move forward. That’s why we wanted Camille’s survival to be thematically connected to Lisa’s death. That’s what we wanted. With this coffin, with Alexander, with Maya.”.
The final scene in the background of the show
With Balthazar’s race against time over, the series ends with a surprise final scene that takes place some twenty years later and reveals Alice turned legal expert, like her father, going to the first crime scene in the company of Raphael. Or at least that’s what they try to make us believe.
In reality, Alice Balthazar (Liz Lomm) has inherited her father’s gift and is therefore able to communicate with the latter… when he is dead. At some point during the twenty-year ellipse that separates the last two sequences. Even if the circumstances of his death are not mentioned.
“The writers have been wondering for a long time how they were going to end the series. And I have to say they had a great idea, the ending is fantastic for Balthazar”Tomer Sisley comments on this very well thought out final sequence.
“The actor they chose to play Alice is great. And it’s great that she has the same talent as her father, it’s a great idea. I imagine it opens up a field of possibilities for the sequel.”adds the actor, who is currently shooting for Largo Winch 3. Even if he claims he doesn’t know if there is actually a Balthazar spin-off on the TF1 side.
So, will Balthazar’s universe have a sequel, in one form or another? Or is this really the end for the pathologist who talks to the dead and his daughter, who is destined to follow in his footsteps? future will show.
Source: Allocine
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