Dok 12

During the making of a Chinese film in the harbour a stunt man gets killed by a sword, which someone stuck in a slit in a door. There are four suspects. Henk van Leur scouts for locations for the film. His brother was involved with the Chinese mafia a few years back and was shot dead on the street. Henk is still upset about this and pestered the police at the time to find the killer. They never found him. Cor Dijkstra does the catering. He had a Chinese wife, but she left him 18 years ago. Jimmie Do is a young man who is a stand-in for the stuntmen and adores Ka Sing who is the lead actor in the film. His dream is to become a stuntman. Siu-Waj is the leading lady and only speaks a few words Dutch. It seems that someone kicked her by accident during a shoot. Lex finds her very attractive. While on patrol Busse comes across another dead Chinese stuntman. The next day they continue filming. Two stuntmen are in the mast of the ship and act a fight. One of them falls and is supposed to get caught by a safety net. When he hits the net, the rope, with which it is fastened, breaks and the stuntmen hits the ground and dies. There are now three Chinese stuntmen dead within 24 hours. Busse gets a new partner: Rayna, fresh from the police academy. She immediately makes the impression that she is no pushover and almost loses her new job on the first day. Chief Nora Roemers has a meeting with a Chinese delegation. She tells them that they have to stop filming, because the police can't guarantee their safety anymore. When she leaves the meeting she gets shot. Luckily only her arm was hit. Lex gets talking with the chambermaid of the hotel where Siu-Waj stays. She has been in The Netherlands for a long time and knows a lot about the Chinese community. She becomes the key to the solution of the case.

The Yugoslavian ambassador and his wife get a tour on a ship on the Maas in the presence of the mayor. The river police keep an eye out. Suddenly there are three shots. The ambassador gets shot in the head and dies on his way to the hospital. The building, from where the shots were fired, is surrounded immediately. Four people come out. Luc Dupont is a Belgian who studies in Delft. He was with Jetje de Groot. A shy Dutch girl. They both say they haven't heard any of the shots. They both seem very unlikely candidates for the murder. Then there is Pieter Scheper. He is a freelance photographer and has a job as a waiter at the Park Hotel, where the ambassador stayed. Rayna asks where he originally comes from and writes it down: Pec. Pec is a place in Yugoslavia. Has he got a motive for killing the Yugoslavian ambassador? He was a volunteer in the army and a perfect marksman. The fourth person is a homeless person. He was very drunk when they got everyone out of the building. Next day Nora meets him in the library and they get talking. It seems he was a historian, but was fired because of his drinking problem. Everyday he can be found in the library. But not the day before, because the library was closed. He is very interested in the American history and especially in how some of the American presidents were shot. It also seems the police hadn't checked if he was actually drunk that day, because he was stinking of booze at the time and they just assumed he was drunk. But was he really drunk or just pretending?

Ome Ko (61) is marrying Katja Altich (29). They have their party on a boat. The river police observe from a distance, because they know ome Ko very well and wonder why Katja is marrying ome Ko. They only knew each other for six weeks. When the band starts to play, Katja walks away through the crowd and the police loose sight of her. Suddenly they see something white in the water. White with red. The bride is dead. The rudder of a second boat crushed her head. Ome Ko is also considered a suspect, but is soon cleared. He is very upset about the death of his bride and handcuffs himself to a table at the police station. He insists they find the murderer. It turns out that Katja was a porn star. Just before the wedding she told ome Ko, but he didn't seem to care, he just loved her. Xandra is Katja's sister and she holds a grouch against her, because Katja inherited everything from their wealthy father and Xandra got nothing. Arthur had been her lover for some time and was present at the wedding. He was also her co-star in her films. And then there is Conny. He used to be the producer of her films and says Katja had lost all her money and needed some badly. Now she is dead and the murderer can't be found there is a lot of interest in the papers and on TV for the ex-porn-star. This also means there is a new interest in her films. Which means money for the producer and the ex-boyfriend. But also for Katja?

The women eight rowing team is practicing on the river. Suddenly the cox sees a man, half swimming, half drowning. It's impossible to stop or steer away in time and they go over him. The man, Gary Kelly, had a lot of money on him. It turns out that he was shot before he got in the water. At the point where he went in the river, there are also found two drums with chemical waste. The stickers on them lead the police to the firm Madeco, which is a waste-disposal plant. The manager, Jack van de Made, says that the stickers are theirs, but the drums aren't. At first he denies to know Gary Kelly, but he has to come back on that after it turns out that he personally fired him. Jack was involved with fraud, but had it all cleared some time ago. Gary said, at the moment he was fired, he had some papers in relation to the fraud, which would have been very bad for Jack. Gary went to work for the firm Laurie after he was fired, which is also a waste-disposal plant. The manager, Frans Bom, has a 23 percent share in Madeco. After it got known that Madeco was involved with illegal waste-disposal, it's shares dropped rapidly on the stock exchange. This also means that it is a very good time for Frans to take over Madeco. The team find out that drums were from Laurie. Who had the better motive for the murder?

A coffin is brought ashore and a woman demands to look inside. She says she is the boy's mother. Lex tries to calm her and gives her his card. She calls him the next day. Leonie asks him to accompany her to Dover in a lend boat to collect her son's private things from customs. When they arrive back in Rotterdam, she goes into the cabin and sets the timer of a bomb. It lays on a pack of drugs. Lex knows nothing of this. When they get out of the boat, they can't get away fast enough and Leonie gets badly hurt and lands in hospital. She is kind of married to Harry Simons, who made money on the stock exchange. She has a lover, Frits van Dille, who owns a club. And she has connections with Casper Groothuizen who deals in drugs. Leonie is the only one without a police record. She turns the three against each other, saying that the other one has put the bomb on board. Then Casper gets shot. Who shot him and what is Leonie's part in it all?

Busse, Rayna and Lex are on patrol and see a boat. There is a fancy party going on. They all wear Venetian masks. Marga has a date and they dine in a restaurant. While they're eating the party from the boat come in. Somehow Marga is interested in them and follows them for a while. The party leaves and go back with the boat. When they arrive back, the captain of the boat walks to the after deck and finds four of the party bent over the body of the woman in a red dress. Ryan was murdered with a pin straight through her heart. When the four are questioned they exactly tell the police how Ryan was killed with the pin. Nora is not satisfied with this explanation. She wants to know who of the four killed Ryan.

There is a fisher boat on the Maas. The two men on board constantly throw out nets and taking them up again. Rayna and Busse find this suspicious and ask the two what they are doing. They behave strangely and Rayna and Busse decide to take them to the police station. Soon they start to talk. A man, Klaus van Kemenade, ordered them to find a body in the river. They were promised 100.000 guilders. They already got 20.000 in advance. The police go to Klaus his address. There are his wife Lucy, his business partner Winston and his son Frederik. According to them, Klaus went to LA for business and he usually didn't phone home when he was away. The police find out that Klaus wasn't on a plane and never arrived at his hotel in LA. They also find out that Klaus has an apartment in Amsterdam, where he regularly invited call girls and he also had girlfriends when he was abroad. The advertisement business from Klaus and Winston wasn't doing well and one of them had to leave the firm. Frederik hated his father for his infidelity. Rayna finds out that Winston and Lucy are having an affair. Then they find Klaus his car. There were traces of a struggle. The police suspect that one of the three has murdered Klaus and dumped him in the river, but without a body they can't arrest anyone. Maybe the solution lies with the two who tried to fish a body out of the water.

The river police have a party on a boat on the Maas. When Marga drives home, someone in the back of the car, drugs her. The next day she is missed immediately by her colleagues and they start a full investigation. Lex finds a strange love poem in her locker. It turns out Marga had a stalker. The poem leads them to her old school. They invite the class teacher who identifies the pupils and the team investigate the whereabouts of them all. They come up with four likable suspects and they invite them to the bureau. Frank van Kooy was a bit of a bully and also pestered Marga. He admitted that he was secretly in love with her at the time. Co de Witte was also in love with Marga, but that was after they left school. Petra van Kamerling was her best friend. She was a bit jealous of her, but Marga always stood up for her when it was needed. Ellen Crince le Roy admits Marga was the prettiest girl of the class and also was a bit jealous of her. In the mean time Marga is held prisoner on a ship. A distorted voice tries to manipulate her with images of their schoolmates projected on the wall and music from that period. The person who brings her food is someone else who wears Marga's shoes. A gas cylinder with a timer is attached to the room. Does one of the four know more, or is there a fifth suspect. And will they get in time to Marga, before the timer runs out.

The police see a speedboat exploding from up close. The fuel line was cut with a very sharp knife. The dead man, Bernhard Fransen, under the influence of drugs and alcohol, was severely burned. His parents, who work and live on a boat, say they don't have any contact with him since his new girlfriend, Bridget. He called his mother, who is in a wheelchair, names and never had contact with them again. His parents don't know why. Bernhard, Bridget and her new boyfriend Ian were all members of the same, very posh, boat club. Bridget split up with Bernhard a week ago, because she thought him to clingy. Ian has a very lengthy record with the police, but was never convicted. His father, a diplomat, always got him out. He was in all kinds, but especially drugs. It turns out that he was in drugs again with Bernhard helping him. But Bernhard also helped himself. There was always something missing when he made the drop. What Ian didn't know, was that Bridget always went with Bernhard on those trips. But when the police examine the boats on the wharf and Bernhard's boat more closely, they discover a complete new angle, which will be a dramatic turn in the investigation.

The police see a suitcase hanging from a bridge. When they examine it, they find an alt saxophone and a chopped of right hand with a wedding ring. Through the ring they find out the woman was Yoyo, a very good and famous sax player. She also wrote the music and lyrics for her band. Her husband Koos is also her manager. Her sister Annemieke does the backing vocals and her husband Istvan is the producer. No-one benefits from Yoyo's death, so there seems no reason for killing her. The police drag Yoyo's body out of the water. She was in there for at least twelve hours. She was strangled with a snake leather belt with a big buckle. Almost certain the same belt she wore in the last video they had almost finished before Yoyo's untimely death. Then the police find out that Yoyo couldn't play or write at all. Annemieke did it all, but wasn't given many credits for it. Yoyo was just the face of the band and mimed everything. It also turns out that Koos and Annemieke were an item before Yoyo came along. And now Istvan and Yoyo have a secret affair, which Koos knows about. Also all the royalties go to Istvan now she's dead. So suddenly everyone has a motive for killing her.

There is an SM-party going on at the Humbug. A woman takes pictures secretly. Then a girl, who is being flogged suddenly dies. The girl is called Alice. She was an air hostess in America and frequently came down to Rotterdam for the SM-parties. Her friend Pauline is in shock. She later declares she never wanted to go there, but Alice talked her into it. Tom, the owner of the club, goes missing. Jeanne a councilor executive declares she is being blackmailed. Pictures of her from the same party the girl was killed were sent to her. The note states she has to leave the country immediately or the pictures will be sent to the papers. She thinks it comes from colleague Paul van Oosterhout, who she saw taking money from a real estate agent. Jeanne's on and off girlfriend Ieke was also present at the party, but like Paulien she also wasn't a fan. Ieke can't handle the relationship with Jeanne very well. She gets support from an unlikely source. Jeanne's mother Diane. Diane doesn't like the way her daughter treats Ieke at all. After the second threatening letter, the story takes an unlikely twist and confession.

In a bus a party is going on. The people on board all have won a great deal in a street lottery. There are drinks and fireworks. The driver cautioned them repeatedly about the fireworks. Then someone puts one of the firecrackers under the seat of the driver and instead of breaking, the driver hits the gas. The bus drives into the water. The police try to save everyone, but one elderly lady dies. During the investigation it turns out that the lady, Mrs. Goedhart, was murdered under water. She lived next door to her son and daughter in law. She wasn't a very easygoing person and ruled her son, Piet. Henriette, his wife, hated her mother in law. The photographer Marcel lived on the other side of her. Mrs. Goedhart made his professional live a misery and he lost a lot of clients. Then there is Willem, an alcoholic and gambler, who goes missing after the bus went into the water. It is said from nurse Amber, who frequently visited Mrs. Goedhart that she stole from the old lady. She denies this and says she was given things, because she was the only one who was kind to her. Amber is mentioned in the recently changed will of Mrs. Goedhart and inherits all off her money. Amber says she knew nothing about this. All in all a lot of potential suspects.