Flikken Maastricht

- Season 6

(2012)

A corpse is found, knocked unconscious and burned alive, on the fields site being prepared by roustabouts for singer Frans Bauers' Maastricht concert. Wolfs hasn't given any sign of life, so a replacement arrives, Ferdi Van Dam, much to partner Eva's dislike. Meanwhile the new commissioner, an ex-army former prison warden, follows orders to give top priority to meticulously preparing security for a US presidential visit. Wolfs turns up after all. Romeo deals with joyriders and a squatters fight involving his partner's son.

A Chinese girl's expertly severed head is found in a dumpster. The only missing Chinese hospital patient is linked to a massage-parlor, from where she was brought in after a collapse by gentle client Sjoerd. The corpse, found later, is however terribly mutilated. Floris suspects the owner is triad-linked and set up a girls switch to cover up the crime behind his cover firm. The business empire includes a restaurant and even a hospital doctor, but probably also illegal prostitution and human trade.

Iraqi Kurdish asylum beneficiary Said dies at his rented home from ricin, a poison made from a tropical African plant. Neighbor Thieu Scheffers suspected his wife of an affair, perhaps with Said, who also scorned the asylum center's director's romantic overture. Iraqi Christian Anwar knows more. Even center-employed nun Serafine's colorful past and family background may be relevant.

Baby Gaga disappeared from the car of jobless, immature, accidental mother Dr. Ilse Rijk, who absurdly initially blames her recent partner Yoeri Herms. The team first checks on the stable gay couple the baby was promised to by fickle Ilse before the birth, but they're already hoping for another. That leaves the couple's house-mates as suspects. Meanwhile Flemish teenager Caspar Vandeputte bravely searches for his Brussels father Lucien, who went missing after buying drugs in a 'coffeeshop', which is also linked to a corpse found in the woods.

Just after Joachim Schwarz, the 'Aachen monster' who was jailed for cannibalizing a victim's amputated limb, is paroled, his college mate, now Dr. Tiedemann MD in Maastricht, reports first threats, then abuse at his home and surgery. Wolfs collaborates with the German police, but soon realizes Schwarz isn't the only one with dark secrets. Romeo starts looking for a pair of fake uniformed cops who extort money form tourists and 'confiscate' their car when they don't pay. Eva has confessed her pregnancy and refuses to consider abortion, regardless Wolfs' apparent ...

Maastricht's soccer team MVV's ethnically Turkish player is blackmailed to make an own-goal, apparently by the Chinese mob, trough his wife. Wolfs sets up a protection and trap operation, which fails, but works out the real culprits. The White House delegate to prepare a presidential visit helps identify one of them a s a multiple murderer, but dangerously (too?) late. Meanwhile a neighbor is about to profit hugely from a naive heiress's intention to leave Amsterdam for a lunatic cult's Australian estate.

Ronald Punt is found beaten to death. He ran as 'treasurer' a probably bogus sports for the handicapped foundation, which received regular stipends from a fancy corporation. Wolfs mistrusts the staff and finds some paths keep crossing at a health club. That includes Bilal, who had fist- and financial altercations there involving Punt. The D.A. left at the precinct a briefcase containing top-secret witness protection documents. Romeo and Marion are to return them, but ignore their importance and loose them while chasing a petty shoplifter, or was that a setup? Romeo ...

When Romeo and Marion go to the bank, uniformed, they are taken hostage, with manager Reein and other clients by a woman later identified as Annemarie Hofstede, who has no criminal record. Her only demand is the transfer from prison to the bank of hardened criminal Evert Smeenk, who denies even knowing her. The chief's incompetent negotiation worsens things, but the worst comes after Evert's arrival.

Romeo and Marion focus on her missing son, model student Felix, despite the formalistic chief's hostile attitude. As feared, he's kidnapped, probably by anti-globalists, and her American musician-lover seems heavily involved. Wolfs pushes to resume the investigation against the 'Greeks', only to conclude that's probably a diversion: the real threat fro the impending US presidential visit may come from a US tycoon, but White House delegate Bill Stark won't even consider this theory.

Wolfs presses on his theories about the anti-globalist threat to the Us president's life being a diversion for some other fiend and discovers Demetrios's true identity and opportunity to set a trap in the church where father Machielsen just read a mass for Obama. The US Secret Service has taken Romeo and Marion in illegal 'custody'. Bill Stark sort of tries to hold back both Dutch and American sleuthing efforts. Hostage Frits is set up deviously when the fiend strikes, but Wolfs and Eva spare efforts nor risks to prevent bloodshed.