Helmut Voegler is an ambitious young journalist specialising in horticulture, but when he gets in over his head in Rotterdam, a mysterious older gentleman makes certain that Voegler doesn't make his deadline. Alexander contacts his editor, Lorraine Sydberg, wondering where the third in a serious of articles on tulips is, prompting Sydberg to head to the Netherlands looking for the reporter, with whom she also shares a personal relationship. Convinced that there must be more than meets the eye to the situation for an editor to hop on a cross-country flight, Alexander sends his team in so that they can look into Voegler's disappearance and asks Suzanne to do some digging into the young man's vanishing act.moreless