Now largely recovered Van In remains at home, Robert De Maegd takes his place as well as his desk to take charge of the case of a high-school girl Laura (17) found strangled and dragged to a woodland. Her wining ma and hot-tempered, domineering pa Raf Vanhee vaguely blame no-good lover Ryan Leeman. But she was pregnant and told so, to get away from home, to youth center friends, including him, decent admirer Bart Stijnen and his friend, medical resident Jeroen. Robert looses the commissioner's favor by openly suspecting Raf. Yet Van In, who steps in and solves the case, chooses him as suitable partner when returning to the Bruges precinct.
—KGF Vissers