Bart Decorte's wife Anne (35) is found knocked down with a golf-club while apprehending a nightly burglar and fatally strangled, however in the home of her divorced lover Rik Beernaert, whose daughter Merel ends up making a weird confession.

Informer Ruige calls a marker when he finds his sister raped and beaten into Intensive Care. As a harlot, her shady life is riddled with potential suspects. furthermore, the building includes some suspicious characters and was repeatedly robbed. Commissioner Neefs fails to cover up Fien's influential pa Jean-Yves Bosvoorde is the prime suspect, as she provides DNA test material, yet keeps trying to prove him innocent. Tom's memory is finally triggered concerning child-abuse by his lush dad Ray and the brute's traumatic end.