Vermist

- Season 3

(2011)

Steve's fiancée Jolien's legally dead ex, Bart Geeraerts, is spotted after being missing for six years, so the wedding is delayed. Nick has been cleared by IA and returns on the job, albeit under drug supervision. he stills braves Coppens's instructions by telling Steve, who informs Jolien, but she's kidnapped soon after. Nick and Steve investigate, although the team is officially off the case, discovering not only Bart's fake Brazilian identity but also he must be entangled in dirty cops' organized drug crime.

When teenager Amber Dierickx disappears, her parents are clueless. Searching her room and questioning her best friend indicate the 'good girl' had affairs with popular teacher 'McDreamy', who took her to Amsterdam for fun and drugs, and with big sister Roos's fiancée, slick advertising executive Lars Vermeer. Yet Amber is spotted alive at the funeral of another, recent friend, Jolien Geeraerts, who proves the link to a grim character. Meanwhile Coppens suspends Nick from active duty until he handles mandatory psychotherapy.

Mark Somers's bachelor party is organized by his kid brother Bruno for them and buddies Dave and Willem at Vresse-sur-Semois, near Bouillon, where the older trio used to come annually. All four were reported missing, but soon are found, victims of rowdie locals after a bar brawl, except Dave. The team and local police 'chief' (with only three constables) François find out that the trio's former fourth musketeer, Aron Van Snick, who lies about recent contacts, is involved and the affair goes back four years, when local girl Diane disappeared.

Erik's brother mailman Mark's young son Jeroen and wife Lisa Janssens go missing during a beach holiday. The boy soon returns alone, she and the couple's papers are gone. Mark is even more shocked then the team when it's established Lisa lied about her entire life for years. She lost her job and set up a pyramid-scheme, and her double life includes unwittingly bigamous partners, one of whom might be Jeroen's biological father. Her apparent mental condition spells grave danger, and she manages to abduct Jeroen shortly after.

Mark Coppens ordered a paternity test, but worries if he can be the single Jeroen needs even if he is biologically. Ethnic Moroccan Dina Ben Sallah (18) is reported missing after a bus holiday in the home country by sister Nora, who ultimately admits Dina refused her arranged fiancé Hanif. Big brother Sabir is suspected of an 'honor crime', but has an alibi. Security camera recordings and luggage tracing leads the team to social worker Driss, who turned her down romantically, and a hash smuggling trail.

JT Capital CEO John Termont, a ruthless restructuring specialist who even refused to spare his pa Lucas's family firm, is reported missing after his personal assistant Guillaume discovered John never arrived in Qatar. His credit-card was used regularly by an unemployed nobody, but he was hired to do so by John and tailed by a PI, who leads the team to another tycoon, who has a weird wager with John. But the bet is a done deal and John remains missing, spotted only with vagrant Stijn.

Repeatedly child abuse-convicted Karel Dooms is reported missing by miss Allaerts, his pregnant partner since a year, who ignored his past. To the colleagues' horror, Nick had just distributed pamphlets to all Dooms's neighborhood's families illegally denouncing his criminal record. The supervising magistrate just suspends him and still delays punishment after he illegally tracked down, with Vince's reluctant help, and finds the corpse of Ludo Walreat, an abuser who recently contacted Dooms. So Nick heads for a final confrontation with Dooms and a surprising third ...

Having learned magistrate Coninx is a sexual predator himself, Nick grudgingly teams up with probably set-up ex-con Dooms. Tailing the judge helps discover he paid a fortune to Kosovo-Albanian pulmonary specialist Ghezmend Zhulani, searching his house illegally that his daughter Kato suffers from lethal lung disease. Dooms escapes after Nick told his his partner is pregnant, but plays a heroic part in the final confrontation.

Antwerp tycoon Hans Vanpoucke acts surprisingly uninterested when his much younger wife Angela is reported missing 'longer then usual' by the assistant at her charitable Dream Wish foundation. Hans deliberately failed to report having caught her flirtatiously inviting Rik Van Baelen, the cross-country cycling champion his firm sponsors. Neither did Hans tell about her alcohol abuse, trough AA key to discovering her latest known whereabouts and another illegal substance.

Snackbar owner Kenny Aernauts (33) is reported missing by his partner. The security video shows he got a handgun, almost certainly from visiting auto shop owner Fabian Dewael, and used it in a carjacking. Both belonged to the same violent robbers gang ,until Kenny left 9 years ago, after the traumatic death of a third gangster. Junior Bofane, the killer from a rival gang, was paroled days ago. Kenny swore revenge, but in fact he only roughed up the African and gave him two days to leave forever. Computer research shows Kenny has a half-brother in the gang, Mitch ...