'Baptiste' Season 2, Episode 4: The Hero Of The Guilty

Last week's episode of Baptiste closed on the big twist everyone probably saw coming. Not only was Emma's son Alex not dead, but he was also in deep with the right-wing extremists led by political candidate Kamilla Agoston and was one of the snipers murdering helpless immigrants in a massacre directed by the mysterious Gomorrah. Poor Emma has now lost the use of her legs and seen her son die, not at the hands of a terrorist, but Baptiste, who shot Alex dead to protect the living. But she's not the only one left staring into the middle distance in shock, as Baptiste is also stunned, having shot the very child he was supposed to be rescuing.

Emma: I'm British... You know our insatiable desire to remain polite in the face of Armageddon.

In the world of 14 months ago, Emma's long-suffering assistant Nadeem brings flowers and receives abuse in return for having already buried the story as a matter of course. Emma now must nod along at all the sympathetic tongue clicking, pretending to mourn her son's death instead of being allowed to deal with the horror her child perpetrated against a population she was supposed to be serving. Nadeem also notes the press are clamoring to know who shot the "nameless" gunman, calling him "the hero of Józsefváros," and it is obvious he plans to name Baptiste.