The Team

Three prostitutes in Antwerp, Berlin and Copenhagen are found dead, all shot through their left eyes and a finger cut off... What first appeared to be a brutal series of murders by a single perpetrator soon becomes a much larger case, when the connection to the killing of a fourth woman six years ago is detected.

The Lithuanian billionaire Marius Loukauskis appears in connection to the case. Loukauskis is suspected to be the head of an internationally operating criminal network being leading when it comes to human trafficking and forced labor. Loukauskis is top ranking on Europol's wish list, but so far has been legally untouchable.

It turns out journalist Jean Louis was working on a book about Loukauskis and his criminal business and interviewed the murdered prostitutes. They testified against Loukauskis - perhaps the reason why they were killed...

Pimp Theo Janke and his daughter are found shot to death. The net gets tighter around billionaire Loukauskis when the trace of the two murders leads to Bruno Koopman, Loukauskis' personal security chief. Harald gets in touch with an undercover agent working inside Loukauskis' organization...

On her way to meeting Iris Gabler, Jackie gets attacked and shot by a masked man. She is badly wounded but can survive in hospital in Berlin. Harald and Alicia come to Berlin, but all they find is closed doors...

When the Danish police arrive at the illegal chicken farm, the building is burning brightly. Many of the forced labourers who were locked up died in the flames. Survivors left no doubt: this was modern slavery at its worst. But most evidence is lost in the flames so the only key to nailing Loukauskis is buried in Jean Louis material...

Loukauskis slipped away. But at least the team can put an international arrest warrant on him as they found evidence that he raped Maria, Iris Gabler's daughter, when she was 14. However, it proves that Jean Louis wasn't insane at all...

The more the team learns about Loukauskis' methods of putting trafficked people into forced labor, the more it becomes obvious how effective his organisation works. He can just disappear in an instant, so they can't keep up with him. But the more the police learn about his business, the easier it becomes to cut him off his entourage and narrow down Loukauskis' options of hiding...