On Sunday, the Jeans follow a kidnapping- oops, an elopement. An ice hockey referee denies having hit a player causing a bloody nose in front of the crowd. The commissioner orders Tom to investigate the latest of 12 -usually frequent- deaths in a retirement home; autopsy confirms at least one was a result of poisoning by injection. The Antwerp Zoo director reports repeated vandalism, no break-in.

When Mrs. Lea Vanacker goes to the mayor complaining her report on the disappearance of her husband Renaat got no reply in three days, as the precinct is badly under-manned and Wim is in custody, the chief of police lectures the zone chief's managerial incompetence. Tom gets the case, Lea claims it must be murder by Renaat's business partner André Verboven, who would be romantically after her. André claims she is the seductress and an unbearable nagger, so he believes Renaat took another identity to flee the country with his mistress Els, about which he told Lea ...