Season 4

2008-09-01

The colleagues of Gerard Gijsbrechts find his body in a hangar. The man got under an agricultural machine and had no chance to survive. The cable ties that are found next to the machine, let Tom Segers suspect that the man was murdered. His partner Dani doesn't want to expel an accident or suicide. And especially not when Kathleen Mees -the colleague who founds his body- tells that Gijsbrechts was always alone, and when they discover a box of Prozac pills in his apartment. The autopsy makes everything clear: Gijsbrechts was murdered. Before they finds any clues ...

2008-09-08

Luc Geens is found dead in the storeroom of his do-it-yourself store. His forehead is pierced with a nail-pistol and next to his body a print of a sport-shoe gets found. Tom Segers is leading the investigation and his new police-partner Fien will feel it. The just graduated inspector doesn't get taken serious and gets not one single chance to prove herself. After a conversation with the victim's girlfriend, Tom is sure that Geens was killed by his son Bart. The boy had a fight with his father about money, and in his house they find the sport-shoe and a nail-pistol. ...

2008-09-15

While uniformed officer Mike is enjoying 'intimate services' in the harbor's prostitution quarter, he accidentally witness a brutal mugging. Trucker Marcel Liekens get beaten into hospital by a masked man and passerby Sven Raes who tries to save him is killed himself. Mike only reports it anonymously. Tom suspects both victims were attacked as closet-gays, based solely on a porn magazine, but desk work shows Liekens was in desperate debt since a disastrous traffic accident. The informer invites the cops, with freebies, to the opening of his strip bar. Forensic expert ...

2008-09-22

In Antwerp's grand Central Station, a baby is found, abandoned in a cardboard box. The poor quality-security camera recording shows only the time of abandon. Elise Huybrechts (15) is reported missing, the mother was partying all the previous evening and night; the problem seems rooted at home. Jimmy considers his partner Mike, always late on the job, useless, yet starts a petition against his suspension (ordered by the police chief). The chief also wants the early retirement of widowed desk officer Ivo, who has trouble handling modern equipment. However, Ivo thinks of...

2008-09-29

Chassidic diamond trader Ariel Reuben is killed, shot in the head and chest. He was last seen by his assistant Benjamin Beer, who claims their Biblical faith keeps him calm, but he has no alibi. The chief declares that the case is top priority and insists Ivo must retire soon. He wants the case passed 'discretely' to the federal detectives - Tom gets a single day respite from his commissioner. Ariel's brother Simon, a cutter in the major firm of Kiril Simeon, asks for the widow's hand. Such 'Levitic' marriage is a traditional way to keep assets in the family. Lucas ...

2008-10-06

Whilst the precinct prepares a retirement party for Ivo, who never wanted to be pensioned off, the commissioner scolds Tom for his affair with Kathy, but her husband Lucas assures him that poses no professional problem. Attorney and gambler Maarten Timmermans (30) is found shot through the heart outside the Antwerp 'palace of justice' (grand courthouse). Only two hours later manager Geert Dehondt (29) is shot with the same gun on the steps of his Meir (shopping square) bank branch, after failing to recognize the killer, a bitter Antwerp law school year friend. Ivo is ...

2008-10-13

The very evening Antwerp prostitute Marishka breaks from her pimp, she's run over by a car and robbed. Autopsy shows she was killed by a prior knock on the head. Ivo, who died on field assignment for which the chief wants the commissioner severely sanctioned, gets a grand funeral. Snitch Ludo tells the alibi he was supposed to provide for Boris Joeratsjev, Marishka's Croat pimp and his bar's investor, is fake. Next Daisy, who told the police about Juracev's Eastern European 'girls supply', is beaten in hospital. At her accusation Tom arrests the pimp, who denies. ...

2008-10-20

Tom's youth friend Mark Debruyn's father is found hanging in their family brewery, actually a fake suicide. As sir distrusted Mark's selfish wife too much to turn over his CEO post and a P.I. delivered proof of her infidelity recently, suspicion falls on her. Nevertheless, a stupid prank Tom and Mark pulled years ago proves tragically relevant after another murder.

2008-10-27

Convict Dirk De Vulder, a rapist-murderer Tom arrested, escapes during treatment for knife-wounds in hospital, murdering both police guards. His cell-mate of six years, murderer Benny Stassyns, claims he was unpopular but feared beyond bullying as a former para-commando. Tom blames himself for not having killed Dirk instead of taking him prisoner. Two weeks earlier, notary Bruno Cassiman transferred 20,000 Euro to Stassyns' account for an anonymous client, allegedly from an inheritance. Shortly after shopkeeper Van Mulkebeek, next to De Vulders ex's laundry shop, is ...

2008-11-03

A party-goer, about to dive into the river for a swim, accidentally notices three African corpses floating in the Schelde (river Escaut). They didn't drown but suffocated in a container, illegals on a ship from Ghana. Hesitant surviving refugee Kofi, a self-declared Kenyan tells Jimmy that more Ghanese will arrive that day. Jimmy's Ghanean girlfriend feels 'discriminated' even by him when her father's bar isn't spared the intimidating interviews. She convinces him to keep quiet about wounded Ghanean refugee Kwami they know, who the next day turns up shot through the ...

2008-11-10

Lucas Neefs mobilizes the team urgently, having found after a night in bed with Fien that his young sons, one of which saw them, are missing. They went to former nanny Jadwiga's home, but she's found beaten to death there, besides a boy's cuddly toy. The team deduces an ex-con suspects shortlist, but Lucas initially keeps silent which one he recognizes and fails in a solo-rescue attempt. Yet fiend Tony Cuypers now demands a ransom, leading to a failed handover and a wild chase.

2008-11-17

Lascivious rock musician Jeff Nash went missing during his stay in an Antwerp luxury hotel. As a favor to the owner, the chief, as society friend, and acting commissioner Wim Jacobs arrange a discrete undercover investigation. Tom, whose ma discharged herself from hospital hoping he'll take her in, must play the bellhop, thus winning barman Robbie confidence. Fien plays a rich guest, flirting with Dutch big spender Marco Mulder. They thus attend the illegal poker nights for big stakes in a lounge closed for renovation, with a rich couple allegedly practicing 'open ...

2008-11-24

Handsome port policeman Robbe Meulemans's wife Mich Nelis is murdered and her corps dropped in the river after she left a yacht-club champagne party on notary Willem Sanders's yacht. Shortly after, the notary is murdered too. Robbe is shattered when the investigation reveals his wife's infidelity, yet his suicide by slitting his wrists in bath turns out staged again. Inheritance and family secrets prove crucial. Guy's attempted mutiny against Wim being instated as commissioner proves in vain.