While Peter Bruylands jogs in the Antwerp city park with his wife Barbara Van Dijck, his eyes are suddenly stabbed out by a masked assailant, who looses epilepsy pills while fleeing, apparently having failed to slit Peter's throat. While Jimmy and Mike stand guard at blinded Peter's hospital room, press photographer Ben Rijpens is allowed an interview. He tells how his son Jasper first lost the ability and later died after an accident and suddenly pierces Peter's ears, then escapes. Miranda Kuipers points out her daughter, photographer Anna, also has eyes and ears cut...

On the way to Tom's wedding, he and Mike witness how Jimmy is run over during an alcohol control by a speeding car driven by undercover Brik. Federal commissioner Wim Jacobs demands cooperation to catch Brik, whom he believed defected to Rodrigo Alva and son Dimitri Garcia's Russian synthetic drugs gang, which he infiltrated. Fien and Tom believe he's actually close to nailing the gang. Indeed he wins Rodrigo's trust, but brutish Dimitri is jealous.

The famous architect and collector Johan De Bruyn is murdered with his own crossbow. It looks like a failed burglary. Tom Segers and Fien Bosvoorde leave this track when they find out that the wife of De Bruyn was cheating on him. The inspectors decide to sow discord between the lovers to solve the case.

Tom suspects Maarten De Ryck of the basement murder on a women looking alike Fien, she stands by her lover, who has an alibi. Plumber Patrick Libotte, Maarten wildest fan, makes a confession Fien chooses to believe, Lucas and Tom see trough. Tom hires Ruige to help investigate his father's death in the 1970s. Jimmy is finally recovered enough to return to duty, but feels guilty having developed his own substance problem.

Violent gang leader Dimitri Alva is sprung from return back to jail after his appeal failed. After murdering front construction firm accomplice Petrus Thijssen, he concentrates on revenging his pa's death during a fight with Tom, who meanwhile continues digging into his own abusive lush pa's death. Mike saves Tom's life when trapped by a tip trough Ruige Ronnie. Commissioner Neefs can't get the team to leave things to the feds, even gets actively involved. Mike faces a dilemma when his lover's adolescent son Stijn in kidnapped to blackmail him.