Nelly and Gregor take Malus's mother to the safehouse, but Said arrives before they do. The police is investigating the illegal trade of antiques from Syria.
Nelly is chasing the man who tried to kill Paula. The investigators gather for a briefing. They receive data from a Syrian mobile located at the German/Danish border, its location matches the man who tried to kill Paula.
After a number of murders of prostitutes at a motorway stop near Berlin, in a rear courtyard in Antwerp, and in a brothel in Copenhagen, Europol decides to form a taskforce to tackle the case. Harald, a Dane, Jackie, a German, and Alice from Belgium embark on the hunt for the killer. As the case unfolds, the killings prove to be just the tip of the iceberg, the iceberg itself being a large, pan-European criminal organization involved in everything from drugs and financial crime to corruption, hired killings and not least people trafficking , illegal labor and prostitution.