'Professor T' Season 3 First Look Photos Has Jasper in a Pickle

Though it followed the same contours as the Belgian series, Professor T Season 2's cliffhanger was one of the show's best decisions of the sophomore outing. Fans of the original series who knew that Professor Jasper Teerlinck (Koen De Bouw) ended the second set of 13 episodes by shooting a police inspector to death in cold blood in front of a crowd of witnesses would have spent most of the Season 2 finale uncertain if the U.K. version would have Ben Miller's Professor Jasper Tempest make the same decision. Having Jasper shoot an unlicensed gun in the police station (a felony offense in the U.K.) but not at the episode's antagonist was a brilliant way to split it.

It also gives Professor T Season 3 the same place to start as its Belgian counterpart, but with less of a struggle for the viewer (and the series) to find its way out of this pickle. Professor T has been hauled off to prison, where he will remain until he has served his time on the gun charges. However, no one has to deal with the uncomfortable fact that the show's hero committed murder, only that he knocked someone out with the butt of a gun.

It also allows fans of the series to enjoy something that they might otherwise not have been able to: the sight of Jasper Tempest coming up against his most significant challenge to date: living in a community prison where the upkeep is not currently conforming to his standards of cleanliness. How can a man be expected to work under these conditions?