The team is called to a hostage situation in the Antwerp City Hall.

Antwerp boy scout troop masters Max and Jelle Dhondt, brothers and Laurens report the disappearance of unpopular, difficult loner Bram, who was tied up near the rising stream for a game, or rather as implicit punishment. The team soon discovers there was more going on in the troop, involving girl scout Julie. More violence is at hand.

A night-watcher of the Rubenhuis, Antwerp's splendid baroque museum, has been murdered at night. The intruder probably came trough a hatch to the old sewage system. Lucas is on FBI forensic training course. Team Tom works out the tensions between museum staff and the significance of selective theft from its un-exhibited paintings collection, both reaching back into history.

Sandrine Pauwels Pauwel throws out her husband Bert Nijs's things and him, then claims 40 year-old surgery professor Han Wuyts's car, which hits Bert on the road right there, meant to kill, although he got fatally injured himself. His widow, nurse Margot, denies he knew Bert and knows no enemies, nor did Han care for art, although his trunk contains a valuable painting by Lievens. His death cleared the way for his assistant Johan Beunis to be promoted and his anesthetist Vincent De Belder to run for rector (university chancellor). Autopsy shows his ribs were ...

Catholic curate René Delandsheer reports the theft of his parish church's valuable black Madonna. Most mentioned suspect is rascal Dede, of African descent. Shortly after, the boy is found under the bell tower after a fatal fall. But it was a mere fall down the stairs that killed him, so probably covered-up murder. After an old secret is found out, a confession is made, which Tom firmly disbelieves. Meanwhile Mike and Jimmy hunt down a fake uniformed cop.

A possibly fake motorbike pizza deliverer beats Herman De Bruin cripple with an iron bar. Same MO fails to hurt nightclub bouncer Berre Verdonck. Openly promiscuous gay Sylvain Bosteels however is beaten to death. He extorted many small businesses by raising rent on the buildings he owned and accepted 'payment in kind' by hunky debtors, or in ugly pizzeria-owner Willy Peeters's case suggested his sexy son and deliverer Kevin. Tom meanwhile worries about his ma's possibly reviving affair with limping first-ever lover Marcel, and finds an apparent link.

Two accomplices help Marc Vercruysse escape from a convict transport, perhaps the never recovered loot of a robbery five years ago. Guy checks on his disloyal girlfriend, Marc's brother Dirk, their mother and presumed gang mates, but several are killed shortly after. Back from his LA forensic training, Lucas Neefs learns Kathy cheated on him with Guy and keeps his boys from her, while the atmosphere at the precinct is grimly tainted. Mike is injured physically and Jimmy verbally while they investigate churchyard vandalism, but also save OD victim Davy Huybrechts.

While Peter Bruylands jogs in the Antwerp city park with his wife Barbara Van Dijck, his eyes are suddenly stabbed out by a masked assailant, who looses epilepsy pills while fleeing, apparently having failed to slit Peter's throat. While Jimmy and Mike stand guard at blinded Peter's hospital room, press photographer Ben Rijpens is allowed an interview. He tells how his son Jasper first lost the ability and later died after an accident and suddenly pierces Peter's ears, then escapes. Miranda Kuipers points out her daughter, photographer Anna, also has eyes and ears cut...

Wealthy investment broker Paul Dewachter, who just invited Frederik for a hare dinner as new member of his investment club Croesus, finds his beloved Persian cat Arsalan skinned at home. Later a bomb explodes in his car. Tom discovers the at first sight happy family is a mess, including son Kristof, a cocaine addict. Bad investments have terrible consequences. Lucas accepts his boys want their mother and accepts a divorce. Fien considers what to do with Brik's baby.

Tom's investigation of an apparent suicide soon focuses on a dodgy dentist. Meanwhile Tom assumes Lucas hired a P.I. to spy on him as part of his dirty divorce, but learns Lucas nobly puts his kids' interest first while the real culprit can't even offer a motive.

While Guy and Annick Van Dijck are shopping independently in a mall, her two year-old son Robbe disappears, presumably kidnapped in his pram. Divorced father Jurgen Matthys is a rich entrepreneur, but no ransom is claimed, while he insists Annick's latest ex Michael Torfs must be a pedophile. Tom ignores the missing persons unit's jurisdiction. Commissioner Dani stands in as his partner now pregnant Fien is on desk duty. Suddenly Jurgen's sacked employee Dorien Vervoort turns up, claiming she has the toddler. Meanwhile Mike's moonlighting proves dangerous for him and ...

On the way to Tom's wedding, he and Mike witness how Jimmy is run over during an alcohol control by a speeding car driven by undercover Brik. Federal commissioner Wim Jacobs demands cooperation to catch Brik, whom he believed defected to Rodrigo Alva and son Dimitri Garcia's Russian synthetic drugs gang, which he infiltrated. Fien and Tom believe he's actually close to nailing the gang. Indeed he wins Rodrigo's trust, but brutish Dimitri is jealous.