Vermist

- Season 2

(2010)

Workaholic Walter Sibelius was supposed to mind his daughter Lena, while his ex Anna concentrated on her career, but he gave priority to an urgent investigation. Lena, who refused to confide in him, goes missing. Her cellphone is found. It turns out ma didn't realize either she kept dubious company, including some involved in gambling, private porn, drag racing and drug dealing, even an ex-con. Most of them lie of hide the truth.

Mother Decaluwé reports her daughter Elise and her best friend, Marie Sterckx, both 16, missing after attending the previous day's Clouseau mega-rock concert and backstage meet and greet in Antwerp. Marie's phone easily traces her to boyfriend Franky Durnez's apartment, where she 'slept' after parting from jealous Elise. Behavioral analyst Marc Plasschaert joins the team, being the forensic specialist of the similar cases of the never caught 'festival strangler', who drugs his victims before rape, murder and dumping in a canal to remove all DNA traces. Concert ...

Vincent Weemaes, Nick's first police partner, goes missing after the reconstruction IA commissioner Bourlon organized of how Weemaes shot at escaped serial 'Armani gang' jewelry shop robber Johnny Heylens but fatally hit a girl. Weemaes didn't report his earlier meeting with Vincent's recently paroled crime parter Didier Renard. Johny's corps is found, shot in the gut. Nick tries to find help Vince, but Stan keeps track while Bourlon watches both. Vince admits he was trying to help his shady kid brother Davy, who is in trouble with Israeli mobster Avi Rapkin's gang. ...

Leuven university student Tessa Vermeersch, a test person in a diabetes drug trial, goes missing. her father, procureur (D.A.) Anton ignores here whereabouts. The day before, as sadistic pledge-master with lover De Ridder, she ordered freshman Koen 'Ketchup' Cuyaerts' genitals exposed and smeared during a public hazing orgy. Since the Weemaes case, Steve and Nick's rapport is affected, but they make up. Koen saw Tessa being visited by the Moroccan father of her friend Dashia Boussedra, about keeping her rape secret, it's not the only one, and Tessa's abuse is hard to ...

Arne Pauwels (19) is missing since the Hoogstra neighbors' party shortly after their daughter Fleur dumped him. She and Arne's sister Laura claim he supplied an income as a gigolo, notably with Nicole Hoogstra, as his dad Herman's life-insurance never paid because he committed suicide six months ago. Arne also planned to blackmail Nicole. He deeply resented Nicole's recent new boyfriend, Jozef, who advised Herman the investment he lost the family's savings on.

Julie Herspoel (8) is abducted while playing alone on the street by a masked man in a car. Father Jan, manager of the year, runs his own ICT company and is willing to pay 250.000 Euros ransom. Jan also refused a share of the profit to co-founding chief designer Sam De Wael, who bitterly resigned, but only confesses to stealing back some of his own designs. Nick openly resents Walter being succeeded not by Tine but by her ex-lover, commissioner Eric Coppens, and illegally arrest habitual pedophile Karel Dooms. A vague ransom call trace leads to ex-con Carl van Looy, ...

After a traffic accident, an amnesiac Jane Doe, who speaks only Russian and gets nicknamed 'Valentina' by Steve, is brought to hospital. Two men in white coats try to abduct her. One of them soon appears officially as Yegor Lugavoy, deputy of Russian embassy security chief Leonid Bereshoy, who claims her as wanted Russian mobster Svetlana Kirilova. The team tends to believe her, but that proves a dangerous gut feeling.

Mike De Vries is reported missing by his naive sister Carla. She assumed him happy with his former prison-pen-pal, Tabitha Moens. In fact her husband Yves happily arranged Mike to be fired by exposing his criminal record. Leysen, Veronique Tabitha Moens. He also quit boxing with Hassan Ben Abdessalem after a gym fight with drug dealing minor Ahmed. Mike is also presumed to have stashed the lot from robberies. Traces lead to fellow ex-con Vic, dirty P.I. Rottiers and Tabitha's ex, Andy Meersman, not the only one to have lied about his own past.

The team knows that Internet pedophiles Kerberos and Hades are planning to abduct a 12 year-old girl, but can't identify either party. Kim is reported missing but is found. Eric discovers Nick's amphetamines addiction and suspends him after another illegal encounter with never-condemned suspect Karel Dooms. But Nick, who is in therapy for nightmares, calls his markers on former partner Vic to entrap the abductors. To pose as pedophiles, they need hard porn, which they extract from Karel Dooms.

Nick continues his extreme undercover infiltration, posing as Karel Dooms in Kerberos's sadistic retreat, where they await cahoot Hades. Even Steve has lost all contact, yet Eric grudgingly tries to cover him. Even after learning Nick's father is a convicted pedophile. Doms is found starkers, dumped handcuffed on a waste-site. Vincent finally tells Eric's team the truth, who keep it discrete. Already sick to his stomach, Nick finds and frees the captive girl and makes her pretend to know 'Karel', but that way out backfires. Clever Steve is finally on a trace. Nick ...