SPIRAL REVIEW POLICIER ON FINAL CASE PROFESSIONAL

Roban Judge Roban (Philippe Duclos) and Captain Laure Berthaud (Caroline Proust) (Photo: BBC/Son et Lumière/Canal+/Caroline Dubois) At least she has now started that process by confiding in her boss-turned-defence-lawyer Edelman. For Joséphine to have any chance of winning her upcoming court battle, she’ll need to open up about the date-rape that led to her inflicting such violence on Vern. Now that the weaselly Vern has woken from his coma, he’s (correctly) accused her of being the one in the car that ran him over. Joséphine has had a wretched time of it in season six, especially the final episodes. Joséphine Joséphine Karlsson (Audrey Fleurot) finds herself in police custody in Spiral (Photo: Canal+) Will he return to Laure’s team eventually? Let’s hope so: Spiral wouldn’t be the same without the Gilou and Tintin comedy sideshow. And while he’s still a rather shambling shadow of his younger self, at least he is the one who retains some integrity to the end.

In the finale, Tintin finally signs his divorce papers, and decides to quit Laure’s team after he cleverly discovers Gilou’s complicity with Drissa. Every time he looked over angrily at their not-s0-subtle flirtations you just wanted to grab him by the lapels and tell him to snap out of it. When he wasn’t toiling through a divorce or struggling to bond with his teenage son, he was sulking over Laure and Gilou’s barely concealed affair. Tintin has cut a forlorn figure throughout season six. (Special mention for his deranged attack on Jolers in the police station – it’s been a while since we’ve seen Gilou’s red mist descend.) Tintin Tintin (Fred Bianconi) finally has to sign his divorce papers in Spiral (Photo: Canal+) It remains to be seen whether he’ll find domestic bliss with Laure and Romy, or return to his errant, bachelor boy days. He even seems to have evaded responsibility for his theft of the gold ingot after striking a dodgy deal with Drissa Camara. After smooching his way through season six as his steamy fling with Laure got serious, he seemed ready to put his own troubled younger days behind him and embrace a happy family life. In an image that is sure to become meme-worthy, he wasn’t left holding the baby so much as a giant cuddly panda (see above). Gilou Thierry Godard plays the streetwise Gilles “Gilou” Escoffier in Spiral (Photo: BBC/Son et Lumière/Canal+) The earlier chastisement from Tintin over “crossing the line” by covering for Gilou’s gold theft may well have convinced her that she wasn’t fit to take on even more responsibility in her life. Even with Gilou by her side, she couldn’t face up to life as a mother, and when the time came to collect baby Romy from hospital, she ran away from her new responsibility, quite literally, as she legged it up a dark hill.

SPIRAL REVIEW POLICIER ON FINAL CASE PROFESSIONAL

She may have achieved some professional success with the capture of the ruthless Moldovan, who was revealed as Mercier’s violent killer, but life is never easy for Captain Berthaud. Laure Laure Berthaud (Caroline Proust) struggles to face up to her new status as a mother in Spiral (Photo: Canal+) Here’s how the Spiral team came to the final fin of season six – including spoilers.

If anything, the finale left more questions unanswered than we might have expected, but the good news for Engrenages fans is that production on its seventh instalment has already begun, so at least we won’t have to wait another three years for our Parisian crime fix again.

In truth, this season’s case of bent coppers, trafficked Roma girls and a couple of ruthless gangster brothers posing as community leaders wasn’t the most compelling in Spiral history (how many times were episodes filled out with inconsequential surveillance scenes?), but that hardly matters when the audience is so invested in characters we’ve come to like and loathe over the past 12 (yes, 12!) years.

Spiral review policier on final case