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. ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...