Code 37

How do you know if you have a lot of sperm in your semen?

If you like to be nibbled before she can swallow.

Miss, where are you going?

Superintendent Maes, Sexual Crime Squad, I'm supposed to be here.

Sexual Crime Squad? - Our new boss.

Who? Are you ... ?

I think we're your team. - Ah, well.

Inspector Charles Ruiters. Kevin Desmet.

And that's Bob Degroof. - Bob.

Commissioner Vermaelen brought me in. Did you know about this?

Yes, but we didn't know ... - That the ... ?

That you ... ? - That you were a woman.

Yes, it can happen. Well, where is it?

It's over there. - The fourth floor.

But you've come for nothing, there's a murder.

I'll have to decide that. Shall we?

Go, come on.

Ms Maes, congratulations on your promotion.

Sexual facts are delicate, where do you draw the line?

If an adult has sex to his or her liking,

I have no problem with that.

And when that isn't the case? - Then it must be investigated.

You realize not all perpetrators can be caught?

Cold cases don't exist.

There are just cops who didn't search long enough.

Who is the victim? - Kristien de Vadder.

Age? - 35.

Who found her? - The chambermaid.

Who does she think she is? - Our boss.

Well done. - Clean, very clean.

Good day. Willems, Homicide. - Good day. Maes, Sexual crimes Unit.

Say, baby, where were you on my day off?

At my work. Cause of death? - I'll talk to your colleagues ...

Strangled during sex.

Is that semen or vaginal fluid? - I think the latter.

Vaginal fluid, so it really wasn't against her enthusiasm. Well ...

And is probably my case. In my book it's called murder.

Is that so? Mr. Willems,

Clearly this woman murdered during sex.

In my book that's code 37.

She let herself be strangled for a more intense orgasm

and that's my knowledge of sexual offenses, isn't it, guys?

Do you have precise experience.

You don't have any at all. Call me, please, when will the autopsy be finished?

Call my commissioner. - Well, yes, I'll do that.

Bob, check out her briefcase, mobile phone, laptop, everything inside.

Sorry, I'm just forgot your name. - Kevin.

You talk to the rest of the staff. Who saw her last?

Maalik Tembo, room service. - We'll go there now talk to him.

Let's go.

Come, Maalik, tell us.

The lady requested room service for two.

Ah, so she expected a visitor. - She knew her murderer.

Say, what time did you bring up the food?

My shift was almost done. a little before eleven, I think.

Shortly before she died. Do you see anything special, anything suspicious?

Was she alone in the room? - Yes.

Was she a regular special guest? - I've served her a few times.

Mrs. de Vadder, where should it go?

Yes, just leave it there.

Here you go.

Always alone? Maalik? She was always alone?

Discretion is important in a hotel, as my boss discovered ...

Listen, you're the last one to see her.

What do you prefer? Being a witness or a suspect?

What's it to be?

The lady came here alone and met different men.

Thank you.

No, ma'am, we can't help you.

Yes, I understand it's boring for you,

but we can't do anything; the fact your husband

is a regular customer in Glasstraat isn't enough ...

Listen now, ma'am.

Visiting a prostitute isn't an offense.

Your husband runs after whores is your problem,

but it's not our problem, Good day.

Guys, she's really something to be married to.

To go to a whore is the stupidest thing a man can do.

You know the joke about these two bulls?

They stand on a hill and graze down on ten cows.

Gramps, says the one bull, we'll hurry down

and fuck a cow.

No, says Gramps, we'll go down slowly

and we'll fuck them all.

That's good, right?

Guys, I got her personnel file.

Come, let's see. - Say, wait for gramps.

Ah, Superintendent Maes,

I just got a phone call from my colleagues in Homicide,

you've taken over a homicide. - The Sexual Crime Unit took over.

That's something quite different.

She started as an ordinary cop, two years in Homicide ...

One year profiling in Quantico, internship in Chicago.

Chic, say. Here, her dad is a judge.

Always handy for permanent appointment.

There, you've meet most of them.

That's Kevin, who comes from Computer Crime.

Charles, he's the specialist in interview techniques.

And we have Bob, who ... - Brings the coffee around?

Among other things. Good, that's your office there.

It was mine, now it's yours. Welcome to the Kremlin.

The Kremlin? - Yeah, that's what we call our place here.

And Charles knows, everyone works here 14:00-18:00.

Good, questions? - No.

Good luck. - Thank you.

Cool.

The briefing room?

Ah, yonder. - Thank you.

Briefing room? - Madam comes from America.

We found nothing on the laptop, it's password protected.

We're working on it. - And the lab confirmed

the stains were vaginal secretions.

Fingerprints?

Fingerprints of Kristien de Vadder on the bed and the door.

And the man from room service wears gloves.

He left no traces. - No prints on the door?

No, which may be logical,

as it has opened for the killer.

So no traces of room staff or previous guests?

No, this is a hotel, that's cleaned every day.

And fibre and DNA analysis haven't arrived yet.

You spoke to the staff? - Yes, even with the guests.

None noticed anything special , nothing suspicious.

Then they found her mobile phone.

But she called yesterday only with her husband.

No call of an escort, a pimp?

No.

Do you think Kristien de Vadder was a prostitute?

It is possible. She had strangulation sex at a hotel where she regularly came.

Then she might have a second mobile phone for her customers.

A family-mobile and a sex-mobile or what?

Why not?

Background check? - Background check?

Kristien de Vadder had a Masters in HR management from London

and worked as a head-hunter for World Wide Consulting.

Customers all over Europe. Living in Sint-Martens-Latem.

No criminal record. Married Kurt Maeschalck, dentist.

Children? - Yes, a daughter of 4 years.

Yes, the police, we'd just like to speak with you?

I have always hated those business trips abroad.

Those hotels with all those strangers ... - She was murdered in Ghent.

How, in Ghent?

We don't know, she was supposed to be in Paris.

She had sex just before she died. Strangulation sex.

She was strangled during sex.

Is there perhaps a place where we can talk quietly?

Outside or somewhere? - Yes, outside.

Charles, can you just ... ?

Dad?

Let's go play.

Did you not know your wife enjoyed strangulation sex?

Kristien was always more adventurous in bed than me.

Since the birth of Emma A lot has changed.

When she become much more distant.

Perhaps there was someone else. - Good people.

Luc? Is that you? - Kristien.

What are you got on? Get it off.

Earlier they shared a flat as students and become good friends.

There was something between them, a special bond,

something Kristien and I never had.

You never spoke about it? - She said I just saw ghosts.

Did he come over often? - Often?

I asked him once to help pay the mortgage, he almost lived here.

When did you last see Luc?

It was about six months ago. Suddenly he was gone.

They quarrelled, she wouldn't tell me why.

How many phones did your wife have?

Two, one blue for the family and a red for her work.

Mobile number two. Bob, that's a little job for you.

You should call anyone in it, they're probably her lovers

and who knows, maybe the killer. Do you know more about Luc Nys?

35, a freelance journalist, bachelor, his address there.

Charles, we'll go there now.

And another thing, I want you to switch around the desks,

I don't like looking at someone's back, okay?

Move around desks. What's next?

Hanging new curtains? Do you think that's normal?

So out together, at work together.

I mean not like at the dentist's.

When we interview someone together, that's with an appointment.

Like "Good cop, bad cop"? - No, they know that.

We must show we complement each other.

The suspect should never feel we're work against each other.

When should I intervene? - No unexpected things.

Always signal or at least make eye contact.

Well, yes.

Kristien, dead?

You knew each other at the university?

Fifteen years. - What was your relationship?

She was just my best friend.

According to some people, you had a close relationship, right?

Kurt? Kurt's never been fond of me.

Did he have reason to? - No, we were just ...

We were just good friends.

Until 6 months ago.

Go on, coming.

I want you as a man. - What are we doing?

Finally. Yes, baby. Here l come.

Want a surprise?

Certainly it happened there? - On the sofa.