Mon, Apr 14, 2008
The killer-courier makes a fourth victim, same type and MO. After some wrapping paper is found with another, Van In gets the idea a courier could have met all victims professionally, and Mitch's legwork ends up identifying Koen De Bock. Photos of three victims before their death are found on a shrine in his home. Van In is worried that Nadine, who worked in Justice, isn't among them, and soon finds further reasons to doubt she fell victim to the same killer; as there are yet resemblances beyond what was revealed to the press, a second killer would have to be tipped off inside Justice where more secrets have leaked to criminals recently... Meanwhile Mitch's mother is terminal in hospital and Guido has to leave the adoption procedure once more solely to his gay partner Frank, who is told the agency can't commit a child because they have no binding legal partnership, so Frank makes a crucial choice. Hanne is offered her old job back as her successor is promoted to procureur (Belgian equivalent of D.A.), all with suspicious speed...
Mon, May 5, 2008
To Guido's utter horror, Frank has been fatally shot by a SWAT sniper while dressed as the robber who sent him outdoors to check out the getaway-car, meanwhile Cel Govaerts has escaped. Arrested accomplice 'Zotte' ("crazy") Gene Bertels refuses a deal, but the other gang member, Dirk Bastiaens, offers Guido Govaerts in exchange for fixing his file enough to get off on a technicality. The federal police starts an inquest, to Van In's open anger, but their own negotiator, inspector Serge De Koninck, claims he got orders to use the sniper from the political top. After Mitch finds a picture of Bastiaens with the baker's daughter Suzy Terryn, the team concentrates on them...
Wed, Jan 30, 2013
The daughter of real estate developer Dirk Van Santvoort gets brutally kidnapped, with her personal lifeguard being shot to death. When the team finds out that Isabelle had an affair, Van In starts to suspect her own husband of having set up a conspiracy. He changes his thoughts, when he discovers the Van Santvoort family has certain enemies.
Mon, Sep 5, 2011
The badly beaten body of the Albanian Besnic Fishta is found in a hovel. Because Besnic and his younger brother Adhem were several months behind in paying their rent, the inspectors suspect that landlady Thérèse D'Auregem has sent powerhouse Daerdien round. When Thérèse is later found dead and all the tracks point to Adhem, Van In fears that the boy took the law into his own hands. Or is it a setup? The relationship between Hannelore and Van In is under pressure when Hanne still seems to be planning to use the incriminating material on judge Kaasdeckers for her reappointment.
Mon, Nov 21, 2011
The team hooks up in the manhunt for serial killer Senne Dillis and is assisted by profiler Marianne Vissers and brand new investigating magistrate Andrea Kosinsky. Dillis has kidnapped the mother and baby of inspector Carine Neels and it is a race against time to save them. Neels suddenly gets a phone call from Dillis and decides to take the law into her own hands.
Mon, Apr 28, 2008
Masked men take bank manager Tony Dekkers, his wife and teenage son Tim hostage in his villa to force the banker to open the vault, but didn't count on a time mechanism forcing them to wait till 9AM. The first customers are also taken hostage, but a police patrol passing by chance when they came out pins them down, cop Peter is shot, terminally, as well as hostage taker Eddy Terryn. Frank objects to Guido turning their marriage into a grander event then they agreed, also gets taken hostage and secretly sends Guido a text message, then leaves his cellphone line open so Van In can hear them. A federal SWAT team surrounds the bank. Robber chief Cel Govaerts demands an escape car or a mother and 5 year-old girl get shot, but Van In manages to convince him to release them as sign of good will instead. Federal police negotiator Serge De Koninck officially takes charge. When the car still doesn't arrive, Cel Govaerts thanks the yuppie hostage who betrays Frank's phone by letting him go- then shoots him in the back. The robbers' escape van allows Mitch to identify Cel and Eddy. Banker's son Tim cleverly passes a hint to a classmate while excusing himself from class, Mitch follows up and discovers the Dekkers family is still held hostage by the third robber in the villa, posing as postman he gets the wife to write down there's only one hostage taker and the spot of his car, the SWAT team moves in and gets him. When the escape car finally arrives, the SWAT commander orders a sniper to shoot the masked man who approaches it- a horrible mistake...
Tue, Nov 6, 2012
One morning Jens Paulussen, a psychiatric patient, discovers the dead body of one of the inhabitants of his institution. Investigating magistrate Andrea Kosinsky reveals that director Ludo Van de Vijver is a suspected embezzler, but Van In is sure that this has nothing to do with the case. He wants to interrogate the other patients, such as Tijl and Lily, but gets counteracted by madhouse supervisors Simone Buts en Kurt Vervaet.
Mon, Apr 13, 2009
Nora Schokkaert's sister Chantal (27) had her throat slit with broken glass at night outside her home during a wine tasting catered by merchant Herman Mensinck for her birthday with Mitch's former schoolmate Evy Luckx. Shy Chantal administered their late parents' fat trust fund, yet Nora, who got an allowance, worked in Jeroen Peeters's 'club' brothel Flaubert gray sports car.