Antwerp detective inspector Tom Segers and his partner Rob Biesemans have been after the drug gang of 'Rosse (i.e red-haired) John' for a long time. During a critical stake-out, they go in before reinforcements are properly in position, and Rob gets killed by Rosse. As if facing his buddy's widow and orphan weren't bad enough, Tom is under serious investigation by internal affairs. He's in no state to continue this investigation, and the 'two Jeans', uniformed patrol car partners, mistake another red-hair for the fiend. The only one who may deliver Rosse John to Tom ...

Internal affairs examines his ex Katrien Meersman's staged rape claim against commissioner Wim Jacobs. The two Jeans are negligent when arresting a street vandal, one of them even looses his service gun; they decide to keep quiet, later must handle a father who threatens to drop his child from a deadly height unless the mother returns to him. Chief cares only for her daughters, victims of a hit and run; the eldest proves terminal. Tom and Danny give tracing the guilty car priority over a series of DVD thefts, but informer Ruige Ronny has an urgent tip to find Rosse ...

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.