The Camino as background to a crime show "Crossing Lines"

[Wyvernsridge]

Last night I was catching up with shows on Netflix, in particular "Crossing Lines" about a crime-solving team from the International Court of Justice (ICC). Quite good, worth watching. This episode revolved around a series of unexplained murders by drowning, in which a shell had been found deep in each victim's throat.
So the team end up in (allegedly) SJPdP and Roncesvalles. I say allegedly because neither location looked like what I remembered from my Camino Frances.

Anyway, it turned out that the murderer was a crazed religious fanatic that was befriending and kidnapping pilgrims so that he could do full-immersion baptisms until they drowned!

Good to think that such things don't happen in real life ...

Alex

 

[TaraUltreia]

I think I'll be watching that episode *after* I return home!

 

[Anemone del Camino]

You forgot to mention the "spoiler alert"

 

[julia-t]

Please can you tell us what the episode was called, or which season it was from?

 

[Phillypilgrim]

Looks like season 2, episode 10 "The Long Way Home", although I have not yet seen any of this series!

 

[movinmaggie]

Last night I was catching up with shows on Netflix, in particular "Crossing Lines" about a crime-solving team from the International Court of Justice (ICC). Quite good, worth watching. This episode revolved around a series of unexplained murders by drowning, in which a shell had been found deep in each victim's throat.
So the team end up in (allegedly) SJPdP and Roncesvalles. I say allegedly because neither location looked like what I remembered from my Camino Frances.

Anyway, it turned out that the murderer was a crazed religious fanatic that was befriending and kidnapping pilgrims so that he could do full-immersion baptisms until they drowned!

Good to think that such things don't happen in real life ...

Alex

I'll pass…..

 

[julia-t]

OK, a quiet afternoon at home (I walked this morning!) so I looked this one out. It's actually quite good, I shall now have to watch the rest of Crossing Lines as I enjoyed it!

Yes, there is a brief scene in Saint Jean Pied de Port and another somewhere close to Roncesvalles - it shows pilgrims on the mountain, but then they move towards Estrella and one of the potential victims mentions he had hoped to have been 'in Burgos by now' when he accepts a ride from the murderer.

It's not available on netflix in the UK, but it's on youtube (small window on-screen) or projectfreetv.

Thanks for the heads-up, Wyvernsridge.

 

[Phillypilgrim]

I just watched the episode on Netflix. It was entertaining!

 

[Anemone del Camino]

I had never seen this series. Interesting. What I do know after watching this episode is that everytime the voice in my heads asks me if we can cheat a bit by using motorised transportation I will remember this show