Two Summers Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Episode #1.1

Fri, Jun 3, 2022

Minister Stef 'Mowgli' Van Gompel's brother Peter, billionaire CEO of a Silicon Valley corporation, invites the whole gang of friends from their teen years at buddy Didier Verpoorten's doc pa's villa, to his private island at the Côte d'Azur, at the occasion of is wife Romée's birthday. Just before his flight to Europe, he receives an anonymous blackmail video: a fortune in Bitcoin or it shows on Internet the 'rape under influence' of gang member Sofie Geboers, although the cording was burned shortly after it was made 30 years ago. He tells nobody and has no IT reach on the island. Memories from those teen days keep resurgent, some happy, most now suspicious, even a fatal fire in the villa.

Episode 2

Episode #1.2

Peter shows the blackmail video to his shocked brother, minister Stef, then they consider together which of the guests would be the vindictive nemesis, while questioning even each-other, as it's a mystery who got access to the burned 'rape' tape. Reminscing doesn't inspire a joint suspicion, so Stef decides to ask Didier straight, isolated from the rest. He sounds also clueless and promises to keep the secret but his marriage with the victim is in trouble. The birthday celebration goes on, other guests have dark memories too.

Episode 3

Episode #1.3

The three men in the know try to probe another suspect, now hunky for 'cancer weakling' Luk Van Gael, who may seek revenge for how he was treated, but also proves most remorseful for having locked Mark in his room the night of the fatal fire. The whole proceeding results in him angrily revealing that his flirtatious partner, Dutch nurse Lia Donkers, a retire 'escort', included Didier among her clients, which rocks his marital boat badly.

Episode 4

Episode #1.4

On the island, the atmosphere gets grim after Luk's nurse partner's escort past exposure and someone plays the rape video in the living-room. Stef and Peter can barely stop everyone seeing it, but not Romée, who seriously doubts ending their marriage and won't promise silence. Ample flashbacks show twenty years ago, the gang agreed ti experiment with drug, alcohol and sleep deprivation, leading to the mindless gang-rape of passed-out Sofie. The video was taken from Didier's -then rare and expensive- camera and supposedly .perished in the fire, which killed Mark, and Luk still feels guilty for having locked the incorrigible brat in his room after one brawl too many.

Episode 5

Episode #1.5

While especially Romée proves bitterly vindictive, intending to take Peter to the cleaners in a divorce, the men keep searching -as Justice later- for the inconvenient truth, presuming a traitor is blackmailing Peter. Actually Luc, when grilled, admits he secretly took the video after the fire, having been switched with an innocent lovers selfie, and once wanted revenge when he found out his handicapped son is biologically his brother's, whose never told either until recently. He didn't post it and makes up with his brother, leaving the mystery who stole or rather copied it from his phone, which Romée is capable of.

Episode 6

Episode #1.6

Tensions run high. The group falls apart. Nobody seems to trust or support each other anymore. It is clear that no one will leave this island until the truth finally comes to light. After Luk and Romée, Lia and Sofie are also questioned.