'Baptiste' Season 1 Finale Recap: "Into the Sand"

The Baptiste season finale opens with Stratton, still in his safehouse with his dead ex-wife and her husband. Their assassin, Nicolai, isn't dead yet, but as Edward points out when he wakes up, he will be if an ambulance isn't called. What does Edward want in exchange? Cristina's freedom. He's still trying to be the hero, with a line of dead bodies behind him. But Nicolai knows nothing, pointing him towards those who are already dead: Kim and Constantine. Stratton leaves him to die and heads back to the Netherlands determined to find and rescue Cristina.

Greg: My capacity for believing things I didn't think were possible has recently expanded.

After the realization that Martha is probably the mole in their investigation, Baptiste has gone to her apartment, frantic to get ahold of her. Genevieve thinks this is insanity, but Baptiste says he has to know. Their efforts bring them to Niels, drunk, and combative over the revelation Baptiste is his father. (Genevieve's face y'all. She did not ask for this twist to be thrown at her any more than the rest of us.) But one thing about Baptiste is he's dogged. He spells out the evidence Martha is working for the Brigada Serbilu, much to Niels' shock. The soap opera of his life contains many things, but his mother informing to Romanian gangs is not one he's willing to entertain.