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- De Cock and his team investigate the murder of a man found in a gay meeting area. It looks like an intimate meeting gone awry, and Buitendam deems controlling the Russian mafia to be a higher priority. Then, one of the suspects commits suicide, and an old case of blackmail is uncovered.
- Registrar's official Niels Daniel Degenaar's five days old corpse is found at home, nibbled at by his also locked-in cats. The sci-fi fanatic was mutilated and has an apparent tracking device as in an alien abduction story. He was slapped with a restraining order by his former therapist, alien abduction specialist Matthieu Landman, after an affair with his daughter. Niels's busybody neighbor has access with a key to feed his cats, her world-estranged daughter is still in abduction therapy. Niels had an unusually bad fight with his steady girlfriend Sanne, who ignored he was already married with child.
- Lucrative Amsterdam dating service manager Caroline Hulst is found in her garage, a poorly staged monoxide-suicide. Suspects are her ruthlessly greedy partner Gerda Sieben, ex Marcel de Haan who has custody of their pre-teen daughter and two men who reacted to her contact ad: restraining order-slapped 'stalker' Jacco de Ridder and businessman Willem Groen. All lied about motives and/or alibis.
- Violent, tyrannic squatters leader Marco Kruisveen (27) is knife-butchered in Paul Mast's building trough throat, belly and both eyes. In his blood was written 'see no evil' on the wall. The answering machine recorded 'You've seen to much'. Fellow squatters Nicole Kemper, Marco's bitchy, pregnant ex-girlfriend, and severely dyslexic painter Tom Koopmans, who was covered in blood, her present lover, and blind sculptor Wanda Lammers, all lack alibis. Someone threatens and follows the detectives, even stabs Vledder in the arm.
- Former fencing champion Waldemar Kant is killed in what seems a freak accident during a nightly training fight at the club with his best pupil, Boris Soetens. Commissioner Buitendam is on first name (Corneel) basis with both society families since his college days, to Vledder's sarcastic amusement. De Cock wants to know why widow Sofia Kant is as protective of Baris as his own father Max, while her son Ivar demands the killer be arrested. It turns out both families have secrets, one even a paternity matter which may be crucial for the fat inheritance.
- Amsterdam crime baron Jan van der Ploeg has been shot in his car. After even a TV appeal yields no clues, De Cock grumpily throws in the towel. Then accidental bystander Anouk volunteers information, but only as anonymous witness, contradicting Jan's widow Sacha's eightfold alibi. Supervising magistrate Van Galesloot refuses any witness protection, so still no case officially, but De Cock keeps rattling chains, uncovering the suspiciously well-informed van der Ploeg family lawyer Dijs is also Sasha's lover and her adolescent son Ronald holds a deep grudge.
- Eddy de Zwart's corpse is found aboard a floating boat, rented in a marina near Amsterdam. Den Koninghe works out he was killed elsewhere. Eddy was hated by but not divorced from his wife Nelleke, who nevertheless admits he was a good father for their daughter. Crazy Louise van Staveren-Harinxma stalked him, claiming to expect his child. More females were involved in his complicated love - and business life. Meanwhile womanizer Vledder is suspended by Buitendam pending a formal complaint from an 'inappropriately treated' woman.
- De Cock and his team investigate the murder on a beautiful French teacher at the Amsterdam Lyceum, who was found in her residential boat. A lot of rejected admirers turn up as suspects.
- De Cock and mob boss Adriaan de Koning meet again when Adriaan's son is murdered in a sex club. De Cock races to find the murderer before a vengeful Adriaan does, and his frequent visits to the Amsterdam underworld quickly cause co-workers to eye him with suspicion. Worse, his determination to solve the case could cost him his life.
- Ballet school professor Ernst Dietrich has been poisoned by morphine OD. De Cock's team finds the school was a cesspit of ruthless rivalry and ambition, which even included under-age sexual favors to Dietrich, notably by star dancers Sacha van Dromen and Bobby Roelofs. But who knew what, when, and was willing to murder for it?
- De Cock and his team investigate the murder of a young dominatrix who has been strangled in her own SM equipment. Her practices did not make her very popular amongst her neighbors and family. A blind young man with good hearing turns out to be an excellent help for De Cock.
- 1995–200643m7.6 (25)TV EpisodeDe Cock and his team investigate the murder of a criminal junkie, and are troubled by indifferent reactions from the man's family and friends. Iris de Graaff is Prins's replacement, and Vledder and Keizer have some doubts when they discover that she had a burn-out after being involved in a hostage crisis a year ago, and has just returned working.
- Dutch Turk Erdogan Olgün's wife Dobbe is stabbed fatally during their wedding party. Vledder thinks of the Turkish mob or racism, but father Achmed Olgünand his business seem legitimate. Her bigot father Evert Dobbe has an alibi. Baantjer also checks out Erögan's best friend Ali Kuçuk, who has a bitter with him argument that evening, but no apparent motive, and the bride's alleged infidelity.
- Transport firm acquisitions chief Tjeerd Fokkema (43) is found in his garden by a neighbor's grandson, skull smashed with a 'silence' monkey garden statue. He was on bad terms with his grumpy neighbors, including sculptor Siep Wijers, rumored to have an affair with Fokkema's girl-friend Viola, which both deny. Recluse Wim Van Eck's alibi in an obvious fake. Rude rumor-monger Mrs. Harskamp keeps her cancer-recovered daughter Jolien in bed needlessly, but she sneaks out to be with Tjeerd's abused dogs, which she and Wim care for. Old secrets, including a whole identity, are needed to close the plot.
- Successful pigeon-fancier Cor Boekel has his skull smashed in the pigeon-house with a breeding shale. Cor's neighbor, asthmatic retired ex-prize-boxer Arie Kooy, hated him for the pestilent birds and smacking his grandsons for a soccer-intrusion. Cor had shady dealings with rival fancier bald Gerard, a grumpy recluse. Cor was known widely to cheat with foxy pigeon club-official Tineke Toolen on his his pregnant wife Anja, who shares an alibi with her father Manfred Tol, who never applauded the marriage. Meanwhile Buitendam gives top priority to the royal heir Willem-Alexander's wedding.
- Kees van der Vlis is fatally stabbed with a filleting knife in the major fish firm he ran with his blind brother Henk and his ambitious protégé, Robert Overkleeft. The MO fits the treat a day earlier by Özkul, the Turkish father of a menial employee who was allegedly sexually abused by Kees. The murder also means reinstatement for CFO Jaap Tetteroo, who was fired recently for gambling debts. Buitendam fears forced retirement, but is screened for a higher knighthood.
- At Christmastide, Amsterdam shelter junior salvo Betty de Wijn is murdered. Obvious first suspect is regular homeless junkie Ferdy van Nieuwkerk, who found her with major Dreef. It soon becomes clear even Salvos can be deeply involved in illegality, such as drug dealing, as certainly applies to Betty's ex, now an officer-trainee. Tragically, a suspect is killed himself.
- In charge while De Cock is on holiday, Vledder doubts Dr. de Koninghe's suspicions about he apparently natural, yet unprovoked death of Annie Bunk, one of the pensioners in Mrs. Nachtegaal's private Amstyerdam retirement home. De Cock convinces him to order an autopsy anyhow, which suggests murder. Bunk has (potential) heirs from two marriages, who lie about alibis. Things have disappeared from the deceased's room. Nachtegaal and her unpaid deputy, pensioner Jacob Breekland, have their own secrets.
- Just after his prison-release, Amsterdam pimp Regilio Graanoogst is murdered. Shortly after, his popular jailer Nico van der Kolk suffers a similar fate. The team looks into rivalry between illusive local crime king Adriaan de Koning and Graanoogst's rival street gang, inherited by brother Orlando, but also personal matters, such as infidelity, and improbable coincidences with alibi relevance.
- De Cock and his team investigate the murder of a psychiatrist who turns out to have used rather unorthodox methods. He was also investigating the psyche of severe criminals with another psychiatrist, and the cooperation between the two was rather uneasy.
- Shipyard owner Ronald ten Bosch is found fatally hit with wood just before his intended wedding. The notary points out that prevents the finalizing of his new will, which provided a competition between his bitterly opposed twin sons Alex and Kasper for control of the firm, while widow Ilse, who claims it was her idea, negotiated a shares sale to competitor Douma, whose wife's affair with Ronald wasn't the only suspicious one. Keizer meanwhile is abused by women after a drunken memory-lapse.
- Vledder reacts sarcastically when he and De Cock are called to the crash site in the field of KLM pro-pilot Hans Holstege's private airplane, where Durch air authority official Rob Maartens remains vague about the incident. Hans was drugged with chloroform and a neighboring farmer saw a parachute drop nearby. His widow Ida lies about her marriage and whereabouts, pointing at his denounced smuggling colleague René Grenier's. The team digs up more old grudges.
- Leading Amsterdam restaurant critic Johannes de Boer is found in a street dumpster, poisoned in a triple mustard sauce dinner. His wife lies as if she were filing for divorce, while he was and the prenuptial would have left her destitute. His often abusive reviews ruined several restaurateurs, unlike his nephew Wouter Bossong, whose is still in financial trouble. Buitendam enjoys finding out which restaurant serves the mustard dish. De Cock however also discovers another type of grudge.
- 1995–200643m8.6 (25)TV EpisodeDe Cock and his team investigate the murder of two prostitutes. Both have fish figures carved into their abdomen, suggesting the culprit could be a crazed serial killer. Another possible culprit is a ruthless Albanian gangster. The girls' pimp, Frits Raven, is the daughter of De Cock's old friend Sanne Groot-Koerkamp. De Cock decides to retire, and Den Koninghe considers changing jobs.
- 1995–200643m8.7 (24)TV EpisodeVledder is deeply shocked when his present girlfriend, newspaper reporter Renee Goes, is found murdered in a parking lot. It gets worse as the investigation suggests she was sleeping around with the growing lists of potential suspects, some of whom were implicated in a drug network she intended to report to him. Vledder can't control his doubly-motivated hostility to his rivals-suspects, so he has to be suspended. A suspect drug-pusher escapes from the precinct after pointing at a a rival gang, only to be found presumably pushed down from a high balcony.