
Zone Stad (2003)
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Hans Herbots — Director
Episodes 4
Dubbel spel
While uniformed officer Mike is enjoying 'intimate services' in the harbor's prostitution quarter, he accidentally witness a brutal mugging. Trucker Marcel Liekens get beaten into hospital by a masked man and passerby Sven Raes who tries to save him is killed himself. Mike only reports it anonymously. Tom suspects both victims were attacked as closet-gays, based solely on a porn magazine, but desk work shows Liekens was in desperate debt since a disastrous traffic accident. The informer invites the cops, with freebies, to the opening of his strip bar. Forensic expert ...
Read MoreDe kleine prinses
In Antwerp's grand Central Station, a baby is found, abandoned in a cardboard box. The poor quality-security camera recording shows only the time of abandon. Elise Huybrechts (15) is reported missing, the mother was partying all the previous evening and night; the problem seems rooted at home. Jimmy considers his partner Mike, always late on the job, useless, yet starts a petition against his suspension (ordered by the police chief). The chief also wants the early retirement of widowed desk officer Ivo, who has trouble handling modern equipment. However, Ivo thinks of...
Read MoreDe Zondebok
Convict Dirk De Vulder, a rapist-murderer Tom arrested, escapes during treatment for knife-wounds in hospital, murdering both police guards. His cell-mate of six years, murderer Benny Stassyns, claims he was unpopular but feared beyond bullying as a former para-commando. Tom blames himself for not having killed Dirk instead of taking him prisoner. Two weeks earlier, notary Bruno Cassiman transferred 20,000 Euro to Stassyns' account for an anonymous client, allegedly from an inheritance. Shortly after shopkeeper Van Mulkebeek, next to De Vulders ex's laundry shop, is ...
Read MoreBaba Polley
A party-goer, about to dive into the river for a swim, accidentally notices three African corpses floating in the Schelde (river Escaut). They didn't drown but suffocated in a container, illegals on a ship from Ghana. Hesitant surviving refugee Kofi, a self-declared Kenyan tells Jimmy that more Ghanese will arrive that day. Jimmy's Ghanean girlfriend feels 'discriminated' even by him when her father's bar isn't spared the intimidating interviews. She convinces him to keep quiet about wounded Ghanean refugee Kwami they know, who the next day turns up shot through the ...
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