Zone Stad (2003)
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Warre Borgmans as Korpschef Frederik Speltinckx
Episodes 21
Schijn bedriegt
Hanging around conspiring criminals in a nightclub, sneaky snitch Ruige Ronny learns about a heist on an armed money transport, but while Tom is in the shower his hot date turns off his cellphone. Commissioner Wim Jacobs soon regrets having ignored Ronny's call when a violent attack on the road is reported to have caused spectacular damage. Next day, after the chief insists progress must be made in the hunt for Interpol-signaled, never trialled terrorist Sadun Hamudi, it takes all Dani's female charms and born bastard Tom's meanest persuasion by shameless threats to ...
Read MoreDe nieuwe
As the zone chief realizes it will never click between Jean and bitch Gwenny (who exchanges jealous tantrums with her cohabiting lover, commissioner Wim Jacobs), she is transferred -again- to poor Stijn, while old dog Jean gets the new boy as partner: colored Jimmy N'Tonga, who worked a year in another Antwerp precinct. Inititally both burly boys are suspicious, Jimmy of Jean's gay reputation and possible racist tendency, but it soon becomes clear different backgrounds and perspectives can be useful when dealing with gay viz. ethnic minority civilians. Snitch Ruige ...
Read MoreBabymoord
An Antwerp supermarket cleaning lady finds a bloody baby corps in a toilet bin, asphyxiated. After watching security videos, Tom believes the mother is the woman who wore a masking wide jacket they find in a dumpster. Rudi remembers her, young Dorien Rooms, who declared the loss of her ID a few weeks earlier... Jean and George pick up a lifter in boxer shorts who was forced to strip in a Dutch car, which is chased, both perps are arrested. When Jacobs' SWAT team has accomplice Remco Maertens's house surrounded to catch drug dealer Soenens, the fiend holds a gun to ...
Read MoreWapensmokkel
Tom and Dani are watching from the police-helicopter for a gum-ball trough the city. They see a Ferrari which drives too fast and send Jean en Jimmy. After an exciting chase it doesn't seem to be a normal offender. Meanwhile Gwennie is missing since a week. Wim is certain Tom has something to do with her disappearance. He's not the only one who thinks about it like that.
Read MoreDe zegelring
Tom is suspended, being Internal Affairs's suspect for the disappearance of his cop party-flirt, Gwen Callens. The alternative theory, abuse by her steady friend commissioner Wim Jacobs, is as unpopular in the precinct. Jogger Patrick Ringoet (46) is run down, possibly in purpose, but by whom and why? Witte and Jean, who is jealous of his athletic body and bored with his diet, must stake-out a flasher in a Seniors city quarter.
Read MoreDe doorbraak
Ronny proves very useful, tracing Gwen's signet ring's origin. Dani keeps looking, Tom gets drunk and refuses all collaboration with IA, which only makes him look more suspect. Jean and Jimmy are called in as witnesses when a man's apartment is opened, but find him murdered; tracing his suspicious, unemployed neighbour, they stumble across a presumed pedophile porn network. The search for Gwen Callens makes dramatic progress...
Read MoreDe ontvoering
Dirk Verhulst, founding CEO of major Antwerp textile manufacturing company Texta, is kidnapped by two masked, armed men from his car before the eyes of his unharmed children, which he exceptionally drove to school at the insistence of his wife and firm's computer specialist Kristien Smekens. Commissioner Wim Jacobs' black-out defense seems even more hopeless now the fatal bullet is proven to be fired by his police pistol; Tom still doubts Wim's guilt but the prosecutor formally charges Wim and the chief suspends him. Jean and Jimmy investigate black African Tomani's ...
Read MoreVerdwenen met de Noorderzon
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 ...
Read MoreInbraakgolf
Illegal construction worker Ivan Semberas falls to his death on an Antwerp wharf. His boss says he'll bring him to hospital himself, but the body is dumped besides a road, out of sight. Jimmy spots this, braving Jean's usual skepticism, but is in an unprecedented foul mood, even bitching at Rudy on the day of his demented wife's burial after her fatal fall in the rest home. Jimmy suddenly makes a huge problem of Jean's playful 'race related' pleasantries, but heroically singlehandedly prevents a drama when Belgian-born 'Moroccan' Rachid uses a knife to enforce ...
Read MoreLijk in het bos
Now Wim Jacobs' case is closed, he asked and got his transfer to another police zone, so Tom Segers is promoted against his will to acting commissioner, an essentially administrative job, so he is most eager to get out investigating a case in the field. A mountain-biker finds a corps in the woods, with traces of wounding cuffing, several gun shots and bite marks. Tom guesses right it was a man hunt. The victim is a drug addict, who was saved from a theft conviction a few months earlier by his voluntary pro-deo lawyer Poortmans, whose hobby is hunting with hounds. The ...
Read MoreGeïnfiltreerd
Ruige Ronny enjoys a pheasant hunt with Poortmans' club, observed by Tom and Dani, who enjoy 'playing' a couple making out. Jean and Jimmy help a woman get her cat down and successfully follow up a anonymous tip about illegals in a sealed container on a ship to England. Willem Poleunis' wife, a nurse, is first missing, then found murdered in her car, burned out in the woods. He was cheated on and seems to be faking a alibi, but it turns out legit and there's another suspect very close. Ruige calls while snooping at the Dogvile kennel, when suddenly...
Read MoreManhunting
Snitch Ruige Ronny is kept imprisoned in a cage together with a chained hound at Dogville, where he had been working to spy. Lawyer Poortmans cleverly covers his tracks with an antedated contract for the transfer of his animals to another firm, 'De Kluif' (Dutch for the Bone). When the corps commander hears Tom and Segers shadow the lawyer without authorization from the investigating magistrate, he orders them to cease and gives them another case, the disappearance of Gracienne Wuyts, daughter of a textile baron, according to her 30 year younger lover Diederik with ...
Read MoreDe korpschef
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Schuld en boete
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 ...
Read MoreDe spijkermoord
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. ...
Read MoreDubbel spel
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 ...
Read MoreDe kleine prinses
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...
Read MoreDiamant
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 ...
Read MoreOnzichtbaar
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 ...
Read MoreHoren, Zien en Zwijgen
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. ...
Read MoreDe Brouwerij
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.
Read MoreDe Zondebok
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 ...
Read MoreBaba Polley
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 ...
Read MoreOog om Oog
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.
Read MoreFull House
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 ...
Read MoreHet Blijft in de Familie
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.
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