Flikken

- Season 6

(2004)

With pride Commissioner Nauwelaerts and his team want to tell the press about a large narcotics capture. But the good feeling soon changes. The Russian narcotics mafia demands their property back and take John as security. It appears that the local police have seriously underestimated their enemy. John is kidnapped, Bruno goes mad and Britt gets thrown into the battle unprepared in between two honeymoons.

Caroline Heymans, a blind young woman, is strangled at home and exposed in a shocking way. Profiler Robert Nieuwman sees in this method the signature of an assassin who also made three victims in The Netherlands. Merel gets provisional charge over the investigation, but Britt feels that she is insecure and interrupts a family outing in Paris to help her partner. For a start she is not very impressed by the theories of Nieuwman.

Pasmans and Raymond take care of Aliceke, a confused old lady. There was a burglary, her husband was beaten into hospital and her coupons were stolen. In the search for the murderer of Caroline Heymans, Robert and Britt find their first common small successes. They start to appreciate each other's professional area and on a more personal level the ice slowly starts to melt.

Two fake custom officers steal a truck in the middle of the night. The female driver gets away with a lot of fright and a broken collarbone. When the police find illegal cigarettes in the cargo hold, she says she knows nothing about it. But it isn't the first time she is suspected of smuggling. Britt and Robert talk in Brussels to a young woman who survived an attack from the murderer. Due to circumstances they have to stay the night in a hotel.

Just when the team gets a big breakthrough in the search for the quadruple killer, Britt is faced with a gigantic crisis in her family. Dorien doesn't endure it any longer to always be left alone. She runs away and doesn't leave one word of her whereabouts. Britt tries to find her daughter back and simultaneously continues with the hunt for the killer. She is in danger of messing up on both fronts.

A prostitute is being pushed into the trunk of a car with great violence by two men and disappears without a trace. The next day a man contacts the police with an anonymous phone call and thinks that's it. But there is no case without a witness. John puts pressure on his team to find this witness. When Bruno exuberantly calls out that he has won the lottery, Nick starts to fantasize about what he will do with the money. But Bruno doesn't understand it that way.

During a nightly patrol, Pasmans and Raymond discover a wounded man in his car in front of his own house. It is 'Den Bok', the former gym teacher of Pasmans to which he keeps the fondest memories. But 'Den Bok' is very secretive about his injuries. The behaviour of Pasmans' model teacher is more and more questioned. During a reassembling of facts, Britt gets unpleasantly confronted with Feiremans again.

Raymond and Pasmans prevent arson at a furniture factory. The manager isn't very helpful during the search for the culprit. It is clear that something is covered up. Bruno goes on a search for his stolen car and meets the shady car dealer Giovanni Di Renzo. Nick and Mihriban get more and more concerned about the junkie girl Eva. Merel tries to cope with the break up with the married Tommy Desmit, but discovers that it always can get worse.

Patsy De Weert is set free after 13 years. Once, during an interrogation with John Nauwelaerts, she admitted killing her husband. But soon after, she retracted her statement. When Patsy gets killed, John has to dig up the old files. Has this broken hearted woman really killed her husband? Or has John made a mistake and is the real murderer still out there? His conscience begins to bother him.

A seriously burned woman is thrown out of a car in front of the emergency door of a hospital and abandoned. The diagnosis of Mihriban is very straight: the woman will die soon. Nobody knows who she is, but she wants to see her children one more time. While the situation of the burned woman rapidly deteriorates, the team tries hard to find her children. Between Merel en Winter World War 3 threatens to break out.

Two motorcycle gangs clash and destroy the furniture of a bar. When the team tries to find who is responsible for the damage, nobody seems to be willing to name the culprits. Soon it turns out that behind the rough appearance of the motorcyclists there are just some ordinary men, with ordinary men's dreams and ordinary men's problems. In the Feiremans case Britt and Robert get invited for a tourist outing to the Begijnhof. They come to a strange discovery.

Mystery: a young woman, handicapped, strangled and put to show in a shocking way. It seems that the murderer of the last 4 victims has struck again. But Luc Feiremans is in jail, it's impossible that he is the killer. For the prime suspect and his lawyer it is very clear. The real culprit is still running loose; the police have made a mistake and have the wrong man in custody for months. John, Britt and Robert refuse to believe that simple truth.

Five dead, one missing. The team refuse to believe that there is a sixth victim and keep searching hard for the disappeared Mieke Geeraerts. While Britt and Robert try to corner Feiremans until he breaks and tries something desperate, the rest of the team collect evidence against any other possible perpetrators. And then Pasmans tries to pin it down on a very unlikely suspect.