Thu, Feb 5, 2015
Lucas Verduyn, son of a rich car dealer, suddenly goes missing from his own wedding party. The team, joined by Michael Van Acker since Walter Sibelius left for another teaching job abroad, starts interrogating Lucas's worried wife, as well as his parents and in-laws. They discover that things went wrong after the more low class Nathalie was inspired by her parents to trick Lucas into an unexpected pregnancy. Lucas acted happy at first, but soon started to see another girl, Ella Michiels, who belonged to his own social class. Together with his father and an old colleague, Lucas came up with a plan to murder Nathalie on their wedding night, in order to avoid any scandals. Lucas eventually did not dare to go through with it. After a long search in the woods nearby the wedding venue, the team ends up in an abandoned bunker and discovers the body of Lucas, who hung himself. Later that day, when arriving at home, commissioner Tine Peeters gets knocked down by Jan Degraeve.
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Thu, Feb 12, 2015
The team is investigating the disappearance of its own commissioner, Tine Peeters. Her husband Dirk is able to provide them with a facial composition of a man he recently spotted watching their house. The drawing is a perfect match to Jan Degraeve, a condemned murderer whose case belonged to Tine back when she was working as a homicide detective. When they discover that Degraeve was recently released on parole and is now nowhere to be found, Tine's colleagues believe her life to be in danger. Tine meanwhile finds herself tied up in Degraeve's car, as they are driving through the forests of the Ardennes. She suddenly succeeds to escape after Degraeve pulls over to replace a flat tire. During her run she however slips and ends up with a severe leg injury, which makes it more difficult to continue. Degraeve soon proves to be back on Tine's track, as she witnesses him shooting a passerby in cold blood, which makes her realize once more she is not likely to survive her adventure. The cat-and-mouse game continues and eventually comes down to a final confrontation, during which Tine is fortunately able to pull a knife and stab Degraeve to death.
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Thu, Feb 19, 2015
Elementary school teacher Ruben Michiels goes missing, three days after Lara Van Gingelom, one of his female pupils, accused him of sexual abuse. During the investigation, the team discovers that Lara lied in order to protect the real offender: her own grandfather. A flashback shows how Michiels found this out as well, right before he disappeared. When the police retrieve Michiels's car on the side of road and notice blood stains, it seems like someone has wrongfully taken law into his own hands. Finger prints found at the scene, lead the team to a man called Sven Meersman, who soon admits he helped his brother to abduct Michiels. Anthony Meersman's daughter was after all kidnapped, abused and killed in the same area a few years ago, without the pedophile ever being found. Talks about Lara's case on social media, convinced Anthony that Ruben Michiels was the man he had been looking for ever since. Sven however decided to drop out of the plan, after his brother started torturing Michiels, who kept claiming to be innocent. With the help of Sven, the team begins a race against time to save Michiels. They eventually retrieve him in a heavily wounded state.
Thu, Mar 5, 2015
Clever criminal blackmailer John De Bruyn's five-year old, autistic son Lars goes missing after a paternal anger outburst. To Steve's horror, Tine, who stubbornly keeps working and neglects her own psychiatric trauma therapy since her abduction, focuses only on John, assuming he must have resumed crime and thus have become the indirect target. There was a man lurking around, but doesn't fir here theory, and her precipitous shooting needlessly costs a life. The team also works out that De Bruyn's marriage to the boy's mother Maureen was falling apart, but again Tine's assumption that John must have abused her and maybe disposed of the boy proves utterly false.
Thu, Apr 9, 2015
Successful, popular football (soccer) player Bruno Rogiers is reported missing. Before his car is found, torched with a corpse in the boot, the team has worked out that his deadbeat brother Jarno, a gambling addict with wife and young son, was too deep in debt with ruthless Dutch bookie Hannes Libeert.