7.7/1013 votes#1 - De Gijzeling
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 3/1/2010
The team is called to a hostage situation in the Antwerp City Hall.
Director: Frank Tulkens
Writer: Koen Tambuyzer
- NaN/100 votes
#2 - Welpen en Wolven
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 3/8/2010
Antwerp boy scout troop masters Max and Jelle Dhondt, brothers and Laurens report the disappearance of unpopular, difficult loner Bram, who was tied up near the rising stream for a game, or rather as implicit punishment. The team soon discovers there was more going on in the troop, involving girl scout Julie. More violence is at hand.
Director: Frank Tulkens
Writer: Hola Guapa
- NaN/100 votes
#3 - De laatste ronde
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 3/15/2010
A night-watcher of the Rubenhuis, Antwerp's splendid baroque museum, has been murdered at night. The intruder probably came trough a hatch to the old sewage system. Lucas is on FBI forensic training course. Team Tom works out the tensions between museum staff and the significance of selective theft from its un-exhibited paintings collection, both reaching back into history.
Director: Maarten Moerkerke
Writer: Hola Guapa
- 7.9/1011 votes
#4 - Het schilderij
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 3/22/2010
Sandrine Pauwels Pauwel throws out her husband Bert Nijs's things and him, then claims 40 year-old surgery professor Han Wuyts's car, which hits Bert on the road right there, meant to kill, although he got fatally injured himself. His widow, nurse Margot, denies he knew Bert and knows no enemies, nor did Han care for art, although his trunk contains a valuable painting by Lievens. His death cleared the way for his assistant Johan Beunis to be promoted and his anesthetist Vincent De Belder to run for rector (university chancellor). Autopsy shows his ribs were ...
Director: Maarten Moerkerke
Writer: Koen Tambuyzer
- 7.4/108 votes
#5 - De Zwarte Madonna
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 3/29/2010
Catholic curate René Delandsheer reports the theft of his parish church's valuable black Madonna. Most mentioned suspect is rascal Dede, of African descent. Shortly after, the boy is found under the bell tower after a fatal fall. But it was a mere fall down the stairs that killed him, so probably covered-up murder. After an old secret is found out, a confession is made, which Tom firmly disbelieves. Meanwhile Mike and Jimmy hunt down a fake uniformed cop.
Director: Johan Thiels
Writer: Hola Guapa
- 8.2/1010 votes
#6 - Koud Geserveerd
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 4/5/2010
A possibly fake motorbike pizza deliverer beats Herman De Bruin cripple with an iron bar. Same MO fails to hurt nightclub bouncer Berre Verdonck. Openly promiscuous gay Sylvain Bosteels however is beaten to death. He extorted many small businesses by raising rent on the buildings he owned and accepted 'payment in kind' by hunky debtors, or in ugly pizzeria-owner Willy Peeters's case suggested his sexy son and deliverer Kevin. Tom meanwhile worries about his ma's possibly reviving affair with limping first-ever lover Marcel, and finds an apparent link.
Director: Johan Thiels
Writer: Jan Schuermans
- 8.0/1010 votes
#7 - Ontsnapt
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 4/12/2010
Two accomplices help Marc Vercruysse escape from a convict transport, perhaps the never recovered loot of a robbery five years ago. Guy checks on his disloyal girlfriend, Marc's brother Dirk, their mother and presumed gang mates, but several are killed shortly after. Back from his LA forensic training, Lucas Neefs learns Kathy cheated on him with Guy and keeps his boys from her, while the atmosphere at the precinct is grimly tainted. Mike is injured physically and Jimmy verbally while they investigate churchyard vandalism, but also save OD victim Davy Huybrechts.
Director: Frank Tulkens
Writer: Koen Tambuyzer
- 7.9/1010 votes
#8 - Isoleercel
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 4/19/2010
While Peter Bruylands jogs in the Antwerp city park with his wife Barbara Van Dijck, his eyes are suddenly stabbed out by a masked assailant, who looses epilepsy pills while fleeing, apparently having failed to slit Peter's throat. While Jimmy and Mike stand guard at blinded Peter's hospital room, press photographer Ben Rijpens is allowed an interview. He tells how his son Jasper first lost the ability and later died after an accident and suddenly pierces Peter's ears, then escapes. Miranda Kuipers points out her daughter, photographer Anna, also has eyes and ears cut...
Director: Frank Tulkens
Writer: Koen Tambuyzer
- NaN/100 votes
#9 - King of Skate
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 4/26/2010
Geoffrey 'King of Skate' Brouckaert makes a fatal fall during one of his daring stunts. Contractor Antoine Vermeer already has Geoffrey's rival Stan 'The Lord' Van Avermaet roughed up for intruding his construction site but has an alibi. Stan runs for the police, which leads to a crash landing him in hospital, but also has an alibi. Tom dares CSI Lucas for forensic evidence in the case and his lover's. When Fien tells her undercover lover Brik Delsing she's pregnant, he bluntly demands an abortion. Jimmy and amused Mike handle the case of Wouter Van Belle and his ex's...
Director: Maarten Moerkerke
Writer: Hola Guapa
- NaN/100 votes
#10 - De club
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 5/3/2010
Wealthy investment broker Paul Dewachter, who just invited Frederik for a hare dinner as new member of his investment club Croesus, finds his beloved Persian cat Arsalan skinned at home. Later a bomb explodes in his car. Tom discovers the at first sight happy family is a mess, including son Kristof, a cocaine addict. Bad investments have terrible consequences. Lucas accepts his boys want their mother and accepts a divorce. Fien considers what to do with Brik's baby.
Director: Maarten Moerkerke
Writer: Stefaan Werbrouck
- NaN/100 votes
#11 - De stille doder
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 5/10/2010
Tom's investigation of an apparent suicide soon focuses on a dodgy dentist. Meanwhile Tom assumes Lucas hired a P.I. to spy on him as part of his dirty divorce, but learns Lucas nobly puts his kids' interest first while the real culprit can't even offer a motive.
Director: Johan Thiels
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#12 - Vergeten
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 5/17/2010
While Guy and Annick Van Dijck are shopping independently in a mall, her two year-old son Robbe disappears, presumably kidnapped in his pram. Divorced father Jurgen Matthys is a rich entrepreneur, but no ransom is claimed, while he insists Annick's latest ex Michael Torfs must be a pedophile. Tom ignores the missing persons unit's jurisdiction. Commissioner Dani stands in as his partner now pregnant Fien is on desk duty. Suddenly Jurgen's sacked employee Dorien Vervoort turns up, claiming she has the toddler. Meanwhile Mike's moonlighting proves dangerous for him and ...
Director: Johan Thiels
Writer: Jan Schuermans
- 7.0/107 votes
#13 - Verloren Zonen
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 5/24/2010
On the way to Tom's wedding, he and Mike witness how Jimmy is run over during an alcohol control by a speeding car driven by undercover Brik. Federal commissioner Wim Jacobs demands cooperation to catch Brik, whom he believed defected to Rodrigo Alva and son Dimitri Garcia's Russian synthetic drugs gang, which he infiltrated. Fien and Tom believe he's actually close to nailing the gang. Indeed he wins Rodrigo's trust, but brutish Dimitri is jealous.
Director: Johan Thiels
Writer: Stefaan Werbrouck, Hola Guapa
The Best Episodes of Zone Stad Season 5
Every episode of Zone Stad Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Zone Stad Season 5!
Zone Stad is a Flemish-Belgian TV series about a police-department located in Antwerp. In the series, police officers solve various crimes, which are shown as...
Genre:Drama
Network:VTM
Season 5 Ratings Summary
"De Gijzeling" is the best rated episode of "Zone Stad" season 5. It scored 7.7/10 based on 13 votes. Directed by Frank Tulkens and written by Koen Tambuyzer, it aired on 3/1/2010. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Welpen en Wolven".