Blood Coast

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While this show is a basic cops-versus-drug-dealers kind of action movie, it's done with some subtlety so it's definitely a cut above the average shoot-em-up. We're with the police narcotics squad in Marseille, France. They are engaged in constant low-level squabbling with the ruling drug dealers, as is normal, but then a couple of new characters come to town and the bodies start hitting the floor. 

One is Franck Murillo, a bank robber. He escaped from prison when he was allowed to attend the funeral of his young son who was killed in a shooting. The funeral is attacked by a squad of armed men who snatch him and spirit him away. At least one policeman is killed here, the father of Alice Vidal, the attractive young police-woman. Off-screen, Franck escapes to Venezuela where he stages his death. 

Alice comes across some guns that were being smuggled and finds Franck's fingerprints on them, so he's not dead. She expects him to turn up in Marseille, his hometown, so she finagles a transfer there. 

Lastly we have Tarak Hamadi, known as The Indian. He is particular violent, he is aiming to replace narcotics with meth and he's using brutal methods to bend the street people to his will. Murillo and the Indian are working together, though they have different goals. Murillo wants revenge on the man who killed his son. We don't know who that is, though we still have one more episode to go.

There are also high level politics at play here. Clueless politicians want to preserve the status quo and they don't like all these dead bodies turning up and they are blaming the police, so they have brought in a super obnoxious Internal Affairs investigator to dig up dirt on the narcotics squad. You get the feeling that the politicians are trying to protect the current drug lord's operation. They don't realize the coppers are the only ones keeping the The Indian from taking over and killing their golden goose.

Marseille has appeared here before, also here. One show we watched prompted me to look up Notre-Dame de la Garde, an old church built on top of a hill near the center of town. It shows up now and again in this show in panoramic scenes of the town, so here's a picture:

Notre-Dame de la Garde