55 minSeason 2 • Episode 6
LatestPaternoster and Robin now share a big secret. Paternoster is the new manager of the Rainbow Club and the casino, but problems soon arise. Dimitri Kremer puts pressure on him.
Walter Wilson (Kevin Janssens) and Robin De Rover (Ella-June Henrard) once started their careers in the police force with great dedication and noble ideals, but too often saw months of intensive and dangerous detective work lost due to what they considered irrelevant procedural errors, dexterity of expensive lawyers and dubious decisions of foreign judges. They are increasingly colouring outside the lines during their patrols: for example, they tip criminals off about future police actions and get heavily paid for them. Wilson is also addicted (women, booze, drugs...) and that makes him incalculable. When he is suspended from the police force after repeated conflicts, he looks for even more rapprochement with the criminal environment, but in the meantime is tipsy game.
Acting
Janssens plays addiction as sweaty, charming, and genuinely terrifying.
Writing
Cops written as petty entrepreneurs of their own collapse.
Creator
Mark Punt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Belgian crime drama often explores institutional failure with more cynicism than American equivalents — Fair Trade continues this tradition of weary fatalism.
Creator Mark Punt deliberately structured both seasons as a complete arc after learning the show would end, allowing Wilson's addiction narrative to resolve rather than endlessly cycle.
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