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Safety First

2013 • 7.0 • Comedy • 25m

BE • Dutch

Writers: Gerrie Van Rompaey

After he’s laid off, Dirk Porrez is more determined than ever to get back to work. He establishes ‘Safety First,’ a private security firm that provides security services at all kinds of events. We follow the adventures of Dirk, Smos, Ingrid and Luc, four former colleagues who formed the company together. Although they’re good at maintaining their friendship, they excel at utter incompetence.

Cast

Ruth Beeckmans

as Ingrid Porrez

Ben Segers

as Luc Turlinckx

Bruno Vanden Broecke

as Dirk Porrez

Matteo Simoni

as Simon "Smos" Vos

Episodes

Saturn

E1 23m

The security team 'Safety First' gets hired for a test period at a multimedia store. Team leader Dirk Porrez hopes to end up with a permanent contract, but he and his colleagues soon start spoiling every chance they have.

Bedrijfsevent

E2 26m

'Safety First' is guarding a high class business event, hosted by celebrity actor Koen De Bouw. He soon gets approached by Luc, who believes they were friends in kindergarten. Dirk meanwhile feels excluded by his friends.

Parkeergarage

E3 24m

Today, the team of 'Safety First' must guard a parking garage. Dirk is forced to put Smos in charge, but soon tries to prove that only he is capable for the job. Ingrid meanwhile investigates the car of a handsome driver.

Haven

E4 22m

'Safety First' has an assignment in the Antwerp port. Luc and Smos lose every focus on the job, due to today's important cycling race. Dirk meanwhile gets attacked by an angry truck driver.

Museum

E5 25m

Dirk's hopes for a permanent job return when 'Safety First' gets asked to guard the prestigious Royal Museum for Central Africa. A group of annoying school kids however threatens to spoil the chances.

Goeroe

E6 25m

Dirk takes his colleagues to a seminar of his favorite security guru. The guy however instantly starts to make fun of 'Safety First'. Smos feels sexually insulted by his also present ex-girlfriend.

Beurs

E7 25m

'Safety First' is guarding a home fair. Dirk however loses his focus when learning the organizer is his college sweetheart. Luc is meanwhile recovering from another fight with his wife. He wants to make up with her by buying a new bathroom.

Stuntman

E8 25m

'Safety First' is guarding the headquarters of the VTM television network. After meeting stunt man Olivier, Smos starts thinking about quitting his job. Ingrid meanwhile falls in love with Olivier, making Luc jealous.

Bobbejaanland

E1 25m

Dirk proud briefed that Safety First is to guard theme park Bobbejaanlaanland 'with a team of eight', but is embarrassingly told on site to shut up by haughty local team leader Kim, who treats the subcontractor team as infantile surplus. Luc and Ingrid actually get caught while he borrow her cellphone. Smos is instantly smitten with Kim, b-neglecting his duty to chase her tail, yet after a booty call, strangely following a rude scolding, is crushed to be told such a 'mere boy' could never be more then a quickie. Attempted petty revenge on a Segway backfires for everybody.

Schoolrock

E2 24m

Safety First is hired to guard the prestigious technical school Kardinaal Van Roey's annual school rock festival, starring Smos's showbiz idol, DJ & singer Reggi Pinxten. Smos also turns to this musical hero when he learns that his form idol Dirk has life-long trust issues, stemming from a failed trust building exercise in class. Smos's efforts to build confidence with Inrid's help rather underline her. Meanwhile Luc, eager to impress Ingrid, promises to get her kid into the school, which she left too long, but it doesn't fit the criteria and the principal is beyond bribery, so Luc hires a boy to pretend her son is in a wheelchair.

Bouwwerf

E3 22m

Automarkt

E4 25m

Safety First must guard an exclusive car sales market. Smos falls in love with a foxy blue sports-car but isn't allowed to leave his post, so he begs Ingrid to negotiate for him. Her clumsiness and Smos's open avidity to get it make the owner too greedy to accept a reasonable price, so Luc advises dirty tricks, like sabotage, which go pear-shaped. Dirk is accidentally slapped in the eye by Luc, who refuses to apologize on command, leading to a childishly escalating row. It seems to compromise the whole team spirit, until everyone pulls together to attempt rescuing Smos's dream and Ingrid herself.

Cinema

E5 25m

Multinational

E6 25m

Safety First is proud to guard a world executives summit hosted by the modest Belgian branch of a Korean multinational, to prepare the top-secret launch of its latest smart-phone model. Dirk's home-made badges system produces panic when one gets mixed up with Ingrid's during a booty call with Luc. Smos is on their trail, but gets taken off by Dirk, who rather invents a moll hunt and orders a lock-down.

Bowling

E7 25m

Dirk offers his staff a team building event, in Pol's bowling alley. He believed Luc's boasting to get mates rates as former champion team member, but is charged full price, for which he lacks the cash. Worse, he's hiding for the team that the firms is as good as broke. Smos meanwhile feels miserable, having found out Luc and Ingrid's forbidden romantic relationship, even kissing on the job. Both secrets are bound to get out.

Ziekenhuis

E8 25m

Having collapsed, over-stressed by dire firm finances requiring a dismissal, Dirk is hospitalized and seeks to prolong his stay to postpone the inevitable. The physician firmly calls security to evict the malingerer, Smos and Luc clash with the 'aggressive' agent. Insecure Ingrid meanwhile fusses about whether to have plastic surgery, only to find out she's expecting Luc's baby, which forces both truth time and a surprising temporary way out.