Three prostitutes are found dead: one in Antwerp, one in Berlin, and one in Copenhagen; each had been shot through the left eye and had a finger cut off, and each had received a visit just hours earlier from Belgian journalist Jean-Louis Poquelin.

Lithuanian billionaire Marius Loukauskis is suspected of masterminding a criminal network specializing in human trafficking and forced labor; Loukauskis is at the top of Europol's most wanted list, but he has proved legally untouchable.

It's discovered that journalist Jean-Louis had interviewed the murdered prostitutes.

Pimp Theo Janke and his daughter are found dead; the net tightens around billionaire Loukauskis when the team trace two murders back to Bruno Koopmann, his personal security chief.

On her way to meet Iris Gabler, Jackie is attacked and shot by a masked man, leaving her badly wounded; Harald and Alicia travel to Berlin to find out who shot her, but there are no leads on the would-be assassin.

When the Danish police arrive at the chicken farm, the building is burning brightly and several of those forced to work there have died in the flames; the survivors leave the police in no doubt that this was modern slavery at its worst.