Vermist

- Season 4

(2012)

Tine's highly irresponsible kid sister Hanne is missing. She even left her job as 'party starter' at a nightclub after finding her lover, manager Glenn Bauwens, in bed with another and threatened to expose 'creative accounting'. Carl Delaere, who raped Hanne years ago, was recently paroled. Without any serious evidence, Tine and even Rik, who at least restrains her worst excesses, systematically violate his rights. Before an angle is found for a search warrant, she enters his home illegally, with dramatic consequences.

Tine's highly irresponsible kid sister Hanne is still missing. Sole suspect Carl, whom Tine abused and killed in his home, actually had a criminal alibi: a rape elsewhere. While she's suspended, the rest of the team tries to focus on the next case, Flemish Islam-convert Marie De Bock, last seen with ethnic Moroccan presumed boy-friend Abdel Hadbou, suspect of planning a terrorist bombing after a home-search. It soon becomes clear that's no abduction but a hold-up, during which they and a third accomplice are arrested. The team discovers they are part of the gang of ...

Commissioner Erik Coppens has transferred to the undercover section to avoid breaking up the team he feels will never trust him enough. Toddler Emma Stubbe (3) is reported missing from Nadia Ingels's private day care. her inseparable cuddly animal in the nearby canal gives the team an uneasy sense of urgency. They work out Emma's divorced father Stefaan Stubbe and mother Katrien Van Daele are keeping secrets, as well as Nadia, who was fired from a large crèche, and her somewhat teenage son Tuur.

Business consultant Myriam is reported missing by her supervisor after he found her inseparable cell-phone crushed on the street. Steve is not amused with new colleague Eva Meyer's arrogant, unhelpful attitude. A street camera recorded Myriam being pulled into a minivan. She was last seen with a friend, the wife of Alex Beurssens, whom he and Myriam warned in vain against conman Rolf De Caluwé's 'church branch'. The couple still grieves the senseless killing of their young son in an armed robbery.

Ambulance EMT Thomas Malfliet is reported missing by his wife, who also devotes her life to their daughter Klaartje, whose only hope of surgically curing her paralysis was recently squashed. After Thomas's car is found, his colleague Gust Tijsmans reveals Thomas was diagnosed terminal and not only stole pills from the hospital but also cash from the site of a Turkish mob shooting. The team discovers a complex pot involving Turks and his wife. Nick hesitates when Erik offers him a transfer to the undercover section.

Boarding schoolboy Jona Verreyt (13) is missing. Room - and athletics team mate Tim reluctantly tells Jona had an altercation with their coach, Lukas Neyrinck, practically a substitute for Jona's ever-absent father, divorced businessman Bernard Verreyt. Nick's ex from vice, Monica Legaer, helps the team discover Lukas's clandestine practices and spot him on an illegal child abuse website, near his prostitute mother's pimp-controlled residence.

Antwerp police administrative supervisor Christine Seynaeve is reported missing just after she instigated an I.A. investigation by commissioner Bourlon against her superior, Joris Tavernier. His unlikely claim she made career 'on the couch' proves right, and Bourlon was her last adulterous lover. Christie's colleague was her cahoot in blackmail. Nick ultimately accepts Eric's offer to join his undercover section.

Funeral undertaker Paul Van As is reported missing by his wife, who even ignored he started, after their son Yuri's graduation, social sciences studies himself in Ghent. He was last seen with generation students Kobe De Lathouwer and Bram Van de Putte, having walked out in panic from their joint presentation. The knaves dragged him into a crazy prankster and mischief party, which left them too drunk to remember much, but the team stubbornly 'helps' them retrace their steps. Paul's story keeps getting darker.

Ief Boussard is reported missing by his mother, who admits he's an unruly football hooligan. His 'bad friends' are a Neo Nazi gang, who are involved in a war with a rival gang, whose leader was shot recently. Erik Coppens decides to share no information when the team discover their other former member, Nick, is undercover to infiltrate their circle. Steve is ordered to tail Nick, but that endangers all of them.

Nick has a very hard time to preserve his Neo Nazi cover and preventing his captured colleagues form being killed, ultimately even helping them escape. Yet he succeeds, seducing apparent leader Lotte, an estranged industrial heiress, and wins the trust of the real mastermind, her equally discredited uncle Cyriel Wijnants. A sniper episode isn't conclusive. Thus he can warn Erik in time to sabotage operation Ragnarok, which turns out to be a murderous attack o the PM's anti-nationalist party.