Jo

Jo
Format	Crime Drama Police procedural
Picture Format	480i (SDTV), 1080i (HDTV)
Running Time	40–45 minutes
Created by	René Balcer Franck Ollivier Malina Detcheva
Starring	See below
Narrated By
Opening Theme	by Thomas Hass Christensen
Country of origin	France
Language	English
Original channel	TF1
Original run	April 25, 2013
Finale	May 16, 2013
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	8
List of episodes
IMDB profile	Jo
TV.com summary
related shows	Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Jo St-Clair is a veteran detective in Paris' elite Criminal Brigade, tackling the city's most challenging murder cases. Brilliant and brutal, St-Clair must outwit pathological killers to solve the most shocking murders, all while juggling a personal life just as challenging and as dangerous as the cases he solves.

The series (formerly known as "Le Grand"), shot in English entirely on location in Paris, stars Jean Reno as Joachim "Jo" St.-Clair, a veteran French detective tackling the city's most challenging murder cases, each tied to an iconic Parisian location, including the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame and the Catacombs. Emmy-winning producer René Balcer ("Law & Order", "Law & Order: Criminal Intent") serves as the showrunner of "Jo", which he created with Malina Detcheva and Franck Ollivier. Directors of the first season include Charlotte Sieling ("Bron/Broen" a.k.a. "The Bridge"), Stefan Schwartz ("Dexter") and Kristoffer Nyholm ("Forbrydelsen" a.k.a. "The Killing").

Cast

• Jean Reno as Joachim "Jo" St-Clair
• Jill Hennessy as Karyn
• Tom Austen as Marc Bayard
• Orla Brady as Dormont
• Heida Reed as Adele Gotee
• Chris Brazier as Yannick Morin
• Celyn Jones as Nick Norman
• Wunmi Mosaku as Angelique Alassane
• Sean Pertwee as Charles "Charlie" Lapier

Guest Stars

• Sam Waterston as David Zifkin (episode #6 Le Marais)
• Olivia d'Abo as Madeleine Haynes (episode #8 The Catacombes)

Trivia

Olivia d'Abo's Madeleine Haynes character is revealed to be Nicole Wallace, a character originally created for Law & Order: Criminal Intent to be "Moriarty" to Detective Robert Goren's (Vincent D'Onofrio) Sherlock Holmes-like character. Jo reads several profiles of Wallace written by "a New York detective", but Goren's name is not mentioned.

Episodes

Episode	Airdate	Summary
#1 Notre Dame	April 25, 2013	A body is found strangled under the Last Judgment portal of Notre Dame. His ears have been pierced and his face positioned so that his dead eyes are aimed at a figure of an angel blowing his trumpet to wake the dead for the final judgment. By making the victim symbolically deaf to the angels trumpet, Jo surmises that this was the killers way of saying that this victim wasn't worth Gods mercy.
#2 Pigalle	April 25, 2013	During fashion week, the barely-alive body of a glamorous former model is found hanging in the upper levels of the Eiffel towers iron structure. At first, her lover's estranged wife is suspected he apparently wanted to leave the model to return to the mother of his children, but the model refused to let him go. But then Jo finds another trail.
#3 Place De La Concorde	May 2, 2013	Stunt man Alain 'Spiderman' Robert is found with his neck broken and dressed in climbing gear at the base of the Obelisk. As it turns out, Alain was hired by a rich industrialist to plant video equipment recording a kinky humiliating sex play in a suite of the Crilion Hotel involving the wife of one of France's most prestigious families' heir. However, there is an even more sinister game at stake.
#4 Les Invalides	May 2, 2013	35-year-old Mirage fighter pilot Charlotte Dumas is found dead inside Les Invalides. A person of interest at the time of the LeGoffs killing, is a mechanic in Charlotte's crew. Convinced that the mechanic did kill the LeGoffs, Jo starts unraveling a setup. Faced with a calculating degenerate killer, all is not what it seems.
#5 Place Vendôme	May 9, 2013	In a garage under Place Vendome, firemen find a burnt corpse behind the wheel of a car. The cops identify Philip Roquin. His family and employer's testimonies differ: the latter hasn't heard of Philip in two weeks while his wife tells the cops he has been in a car accident. Jo tracks back Philip's trail to discover he was having an affair, which might have led him to his death.
#6 Le Marais	May 9, 2013	Place Des Vosges, a stone's throw from Victor Hugo's apartment. A young woman is found dead from a blunt-force head wound. Jo deducts the murder was not premeditated, but maybe a crime of passion, maybe the result of a struggle an argument gone bad. Her husband has an alibi, though his general demeanour rubs Jo the wrong way. Maybe she was meeting a lover?
#7 The Opéra	May 16, 2013	On a sunny afternoon after taking his daughter to her ballet lesson, a middle-aged man gets stabbed on the steps of the Palais Garnier. The victim is an economist and a family man, and everything suggests the murder was random. Soon after however, a teaching assistant to a Political Science professor is found stabbed to death in a similar fashion. Jo finds out that the two murders are linked.
#8 The Catacombes	May 16, 2013	A young woman is found stabbed to death in the Catacombs. Since some parts of the Catacombs are a known hang-out for would-be Satanists, suspicion at first falls on those two groups. But the style of the killing suggests a sexual motive. The victim is identified as a repressed loner who frequented sex bondage clubs - the police thinks that maybe she was in the Catacombs for a sexual rendezvous.