The Team

Three prostitutes in Antwerp, Berlin and Copenhagen are found dead, all shot through their left eyes and a finger cut off - only hours after the Belgian Journalist Jean Louis Pouqelin (Carlos Leal) visited them. Europol sets up a Joint Investigation Team under the lead of Harald Bjørn (Lars Mikkelsen) from Denmark, Jackie Mueller (Jasmin Gerat) from Germany und Alicia Verbeek (Veerle Baetens) from Belgium. 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. And it seems that more lives are at stake. Many more. The investigation takes The Team all over Europe, soon facing the fight against a widespread criminal network.

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. The famous German jazz singer Iris Gabler offers a reward for information leading to the arrest of one of the prostitute's murderer who turns out to be her daughter. While a strange connection between organised crime, German nobility and corruption in the Belgian police unravels, the Team manages to find the journalist Jean Louis in Austria - tortured nearly to death in a Villa that belongs to Loukauskis. The main suspect as a victim and a billionaire in the crosshairs - fits well. Too well?

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... All of his material is stored on a password protected web server, but Jean Louis himself is not cooperating with the police. And strangely, information about the old case six years ago got "lost" in the Belgian police department...

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 - it seems that Loukauskis' ex wife Dahlia and Bruno were plotting against Loukauskis' ever since she was cheated out of loads of money after the divorce...

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. No indication of the shooter, no trace whatsoever, even nothing leading to Loukauskis or his entourage. Until, for the first time, a carefully hidden side of Loukauskis' business comes to light...

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. But Jean Louis seems to have lost his mind suffering from post-traumatic stress after having been tortured. All Alicia can get out of him is a love poem he recites.