In 1983, pals Marc and Franky have drifted apart for good, but they don't realize it yet. Franky gets accepted into Team Diane, which is an elite and intensively trained police squad for special interventions. Making it to this team has always been his lifelong dream, but now it feels more like a reward for having kept his mouth shut regarding what happened at a stakeout. Marc and his supervisor are investigating a couple of brutal murders and find that they can be connected to each other. Privately, Marc still seeks out whether his father truly was a corrupted cop, and he also becomes closely involved with Franky's sister Vicky. 1983 is also the year in which the first three, and increasingly violent, hold-ups at supermarkets took place.
Admittedly the weakest of the four installments thus far, perhaps due to the further isolation of the lead characters. Marc and Franky are drifting apart, but also Inspector Vernaillen conducts his own secret investigation. The episode also contains slightly less authentic media and news footage from the era itself, and a lot less screen time for the anti-heroes that made the previous episodes so powerful (Inspector Goffinard, Bouhouche, Debels,...). Still, though, the first images of those notorious hold-ups at supermarket stores are guaranteed to send cold shivers down the spines of every Belgian citizen who is over 40 and grew up with the actual news facts.