History Series / Salamander

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-> ''"Everyone has secrets. But these secrets can bring down a nation."''
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* WomanScorned: Karin Rasenberg. Neglected by her husband and rejected when she offers herself to Gerardi, she sets about getting revenge on both.

* StuffedIntotheFridge: Yolande, the public prosecutor's secretary, is sexually degraded after her death.

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[[caption-width-right:195:There is something rotten in the state of Belgium]]

An American and British remake is currently in production.

Broadcast in Europe in late 2012, and on the BBC in January-March 2014, this was BBC4's first Belgian acquisition. In Flemish, with some French, this is a twisty and compelling tale. The second season aired from April 14th in 2018 on BBC4.

An American and British remake is currently in production. The second season is currently in production in Belgium.

The second season start with a death of an asylum seeker named Léon Tchité. During Paul's investigation in his death, he finds out that his death was no coincidence and it's somehow linked to a blood diamonds network operating in Europe from Belgian soil.

Broadcast in Europe in late 2012, and on the BBC in January-March 2014 - this was BBC4's first Belgian acquisition. In Flemish, with some French, this is a twisty and compelling tale. The second season aired from April 14 in 2018 on BBC4.

It centres on skullduggery at the Jonkhere Bank, a small private bank in Brussels. In what at first looks like a straighforward heist, 66 safe deposit boxes belonging to the most powerful people in Belgium are robbed. The owners want to keep the thefts under wraps, ostensibly to avoid bad publicity and depositors losing confidence in bank security. However, maverick cop Paul Gerardi (Filip Peeters) throws himself into the investigation, despite being warned off the case. Gerardi discovers that the victims are members of a secret organisation called Salamander, made up of the country's industrial, financial, judicial and political elite, and the safe-deposit boxes contained their most intimate secrets – secrets which go back to World War II, and could bring down the nation. ''[[BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord Persuasion]]'' soon follows theft of the boxes, and several compromised people choose suicide as the only option. As he becomes the target of both the criminals and the authorities, Gerardi - at great personal cost - must quickly find out what their agenda is and who is behind the thefts. Sub-plots involve Gerardi's home life and disintegrating marriage, and his own single lapse into corruption - falsifying a police operation that went wrong so as to save a colleague from disgrace. The colleague, who shot a man dead needlessly, was so shaken he became a monk. He has also, unknown to Gerardi, betrayed him by having had an affair with his wife. The same ex-colleague also betrays him to Salamander.

Broadcast in Europe in late 2012, and on the BBC in January-March 2014 - this was BBC4's first Belgian acquisition. In Flemish, with some French, this is a twisty and compelling tale.

* WomanScorned: Karin Rasenberg. Neglected by her husband and rejected when she offers herself to Gerardi, she sets about getting revenge on both.
* WorldWarTwo: Salamander has its roots in a Second World War resistance operation of that name.

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