Cape Town

New Year in Cape Town. Police Captain Mat Joubert (Trond Espen Seim) is still devastated by the murder of his wife Lara (Jenna Upton) - a member of the elite police unit 'HAWKS' who was killed 13 months ago during an undercover action. She and her target person Carsten Petterson (Karl Thaning), with whom she had to start an affair in order to convict him, were killed during the operation. Mat is on the point of taking is own life...

Mat and his new partner Sanctus 'Sanct' Snook (Boris Kodjoe) get called to a new crime scene: the body of Drew Wilson (Aubrey Shelton) is found - this time the victim wears a Humphrey Bogart mask. On the gay man's laptop Mat and Sanct find a picture indicating that the victim had an intimate relationship with Charlie Zeelie (Clyde Berning), a famous cricket player...

Galia Gorischenkos (Anna Baranowska) dead body is found in a quaint lake east of Cape Town. The autopsy reveals that she has been drugged heavily and drowned afterwards. Her friend Irena Kroll (Isolda Dychauk) is still at Villa Enigma. She seems to buy Brian's (Colin Moss) lie that Galia has been sent back to Europe, but soon senses that she is in danger. Her attempt to escape from Villa Enigma fails...

Star coiffeur Oliver Nienaber (Jonathan Pienaar) is in panic, as well. Anticipating that he could be the next victim, he asks Robin Van Rees (Arnold Vosloo), Head of 'Rinkhals Security', for protection. Again, we don't know yet how Nienaber is linked to the other Mauser victims - and what makes him think he might be the next one...

In the Mauser case Mat and Sanct interrogate the star coiffeur Oliver Nienaber whose car was seen at Alexander MacDonald's (Bart Fouche) place. Nienaber at first denies knowing MacDonald, but then finally admits it in a rough interrogation. Shortly after, Nienaber falls victim to the Mauser murderer, too...

Irena Krol, who has survived the brutal rape by Vitus Moremi (Vusi Kunene), is on the run. She is chased by a 'Rinkhals Security' guard and then gets hit by a pickup. Having to be treated in intensive care, her life is not only threatened by her critical condition but also by Norbert Wernicke (Axel Milberg) and Rinkhals Security who try to finish off the potential witness...