Wed, Feb 24, 1999
Jacob De Graaf's Dutch shipyard is nearly bankrupt, so likely to be bought by rival Max Noordermeer. His wife gets son Marco, a brilliant naval engineer, who always warned they needed to modernize, to return home. Max welcomes his daughter Fleur and astray son Anton, who behind his back uses illegals fro cheap waste treatment. Marco gets a visit from (ex?) lover Fleur, whose husband Maurits is surprised by her pregnancy, but soon welcomes it. Fleur refuses to resume a sexual relationship with Marco, but can't deny still to love him. Charlotte cheats on her husband, corporate lawyer Pierre, with bachelor Turkish apprentice Abdullah.
Mon, Mar 1, 1999
Fleur finds and rescues Marco passed out in the water, beaten up while intruding the Noordermeer shipyard, where De Graaf plans are used illegally. His father, Jacob, still won't even listen. The Indonesian, Keela Bangor, shows up at Max's claiming Mr. Noordermeer is her baby's father. His wife Sofie doubts his denial, but in fact she meant Anton, whose toxic waste disposal subcontractor's team is experiencing health problems.
Wed, Mar 3, 1999
Now Marco has exposed the theft of his design by Noordermeer, its lawyer Pierre wants to quit, until his (actually adulterous) wife Charlotte uses sex to make him stay and finds a loophole: reverse engineering. Maurits discovers in bed that his bride Fleur dreams of Marco. De Graaf is down to pawning family jewels to postpone bankruptcy. Marco trust his new engine screw design can save the wharf, but Jacob feels building a prototype is no longer within their means.
Mon, Mar 8, 1999
Noordermeer now risks losing a major Greek shipbuilding order itself. Charlotte and haughty mother, Iris, finds a way out. Marco can't get a bank loan for his prototype. Sophie has moved out and found a flirtatious friend in Victor Wijndels. Max suspects Marco of helping Keela making the video that drove Sophie away. The pollution victims' condition worsens, but Anton's cahoot locks the illegals up.
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Wed, Mar 10, 1999
Max suspects Marco of helping Keela making the video that drove Sophie away and gets very drunk. Secretary Marleen warns him Charlotte plans to deal with the Portuguese behind his back- too late, their bickering makes Iris pull rank. One of the illegals escapes to seek medical help; the other dies and his corps is dumped. Anton has his cahoot Willem Bakx play a fairly respectable entrepreneur to reassure Max, who smells a rat. Maurits presses Fleur to tell her family. Jacob decides to go for Marco's project, which requires selling personal luxuries.
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Mon, Mar 15, 1999
Now Keela has presented baby Junior to Anton as his son, he's confused and thinks of damage control. Iris tells max to forget Sophie and take control of his life and the shipyard. Charlotte taunts him till he looses his temper and is sent home by Iris. The prototype costs every luxury, but brings Marco back into the family fold. Charlotte tries to seduce Abdullah into spying on Marco, even if that requires making him jealous with colleague Fatih Kazarjan. Instead he resigns, and steals Noordermeer company secrets. Maurits fights to get Marco away from his wife Fleur.
Wed, Mar 17, 1999
Haughty Charlotte holds a triumphant press conference flaunting 'her' success. Jacob enjoys working with Marco, but his already terminal cardiac condition worsens again. Abdullah joins them, with the stolen Noordermeer PC. Secretary Marleen invites Max for a home dinner, but even a massage can't get him relaxed or romantic. Victor makes Sophie happier, but she still won't go all the way. Now the surviving illegal wants to see a doctor with friends, Backx kills him and maims the corps, but Anton refuses to pay him extra. The publicity changes the price and survival potential of De Graaf's shipyards. Fleur finds out Anton is Junior's dad and makes him confess to Max.
Mon, Mar 22, 1999
Sofie won't believe Max Anton is junior's dad, and stays with Victor, but when he dares her to follow her heart she refuses to make love. Anton's personal confession makes her return home. Max takes her back but forgives neither, Anton is fired. Marleen discovers her ploy to 'free' Max is undone and beleaguers Keela. Jacob's next cardiac attack nearly causes a fatal car accident. The hospital diagnoses a brain tumor. Maurits's parents insist on paying for a traditional classy wedding, but he fears bride Fleur won't agree with 'medieval'. Max returns to work, to learn the vital De Graaf takeover isn't a done deal.
Wed, Mar 24, 1999
The press has got wind of the illegal cleaning and bugs ignorant Max. Bakx demands 50,000 Euros to keep quiet, but Anton wants him silenced permanently. Thanks to a professional analysis, Max finds out his enamored secretary, Marleen, made the Junior recording which nearly wrecked his marriage. Jacob leaves hospital to help Marco. Maurits is fed up of Fleur's mood and lack of interest in their wedding preparations. Sofie takes to the illegitimate grandchild and brings the child home, Anton won't have a bar of fatherhood.
Mon, Mar 29, 1999
Due to Charlotte's greedy contract, Noordermeer desperately needs the extra capacity only buying De Graaf can give them. Max thinks up a way to get it: indirectly pay major creditor Staalenco to demand bankruptcy. Jacob refuses to have surgery meanwhile. Niels is diagnosed in class with concentration problems, but Charlotte refuses to have him properly tested as daddy Pierre wants. Max hires a replacement for Marleen, highly qualified Felix Schippers. Fleur realizes she drove Maurits to pull the plug on their wedding plans.
Wed, Mar 31, 1999
Pierre comes up with a third way for Noordermeer to finance buying out De Graaf: going to the stock exchange. Max now divulges there's a fourth stockholder even Charlotte never knew about. Sophie flippantly tells Fleur straight-out she's adopted, Max's late sister Myrna biological daughter. Charlotte discovers and tells Max his new secretary Felix is gay. Anton, who is tricked to have a DNA fatherhood test, are furious about over 20 years of secrecy. Pierre has Niels tested, despite Charlotte. Fleur, the mystery no. 4, initially refuses any part in the firm, then simplistically sides with protesters about the missing cleaners.
Mon, Apr 5, 1999
Now Anton's DNA test confirms his paternity, Sophie demands that he takes care of Junior and even Keela - he grudgingly signs a marriage license. Pierre is furious that Charlotte puts her arrogance blindly before Niels's educational needs. After the boy runs away, Pierre puts him back in Sascha's class. Jacob finally goes to hospital - by stretcher, having implored his family to stick together. At night, Anton intrudes with chloroform for Marco, but forgot Abdullah who chases him before he can damage the prototype crucially.
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Wed, Apr 7, 1999
Openly disinterested and disgusted, Anton weds Keela on parental instigation. Noordermeer celebrates its impending stock exchange quotation (actually lack of capital) in grand style. Alas, Fleur brings Jamila, the shabby widow of Bakx's illegal toxic accident victim Fatih, and keeps twisting Max's arm in her favor. Pierre gets personally interested in Felix. Jacob coaches Marco on how to call a marker in to make master shipbuilder, Richard Popescu, leave Noordemeer and build his prototype. Pierre proves to Charlotte that Niels lost confidence in her. Anton has a drug-addicted prostitute but abandons her having OD'd. Marco and Fleur make love.
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Mon, Apr 12, 1999
Marco's overt business style 'à la Jacob' appeals to Kofferman, but the Noordermeer board is determined to outbid De Graaf, even at a loss, to buy that wharf after all. Charlotte denies her maternal instincts. After Niels finds out, Pierre seeks comfort from Felix. Anton's drug practices become known to Sam. Opinions differ on Marco's rekindled affair with Fleur.
Wed, Apr 14, 1999
After crazy visions, Jacob has a cardiac arrest, but pulls through. Max and Charlotte are confident they can win over Kofferman to place his order with them. Pierre finds an outlet for his home frustrations in playing squash with gay office colleague Felix, and kisses him in the sauna. By sitting at dad's side, Marco misses a crucial meeting, and probably the ship order. However Fleur tells him Max can't deliver in time, just in time to warn Kofferman.
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Mon, Apr 19, 1999
Suspecting Pierre of adultery, Charlotte catches him in the act, not with Sascha but Felix! She brags about her own discrete infidelity but ends up spoiling their marriage and starting a fight with Niels for nothing. Marco and Abdullah dread telling the family they have the order but no finance to pay staff. Noordermeer suspects their people are being lured away by Popescu, so Anton buys an ambitious welder as their spy. Just now Anton starts acting as Junior's dad and Keel's husband, she leaves.
Wed, Apr 21, 1999
Charlotte meanly suggests to Pierre and others that Felix should be fired for her sake. Max refuses to miss either fine employee and Emma laughs at her whining about 'neglected' youth. Sam's false complaints get Anton questioned as an abusive drug suspect, but released with an iron-clad alibi. His spy, Freddy, is fired after an arrogant row with Abdullah, but agrees to sabotage. Keela, leaving with Junior, only hurt Anton's pride, but Sofie feels useless and takes to homeless busker-painter-poet Kasper.
Mon, Apr 26, 1999
Freddy's welding sabotage has caused a major explosion. Foreman Richard Popescu is killed. Kasper also impresses Emma, but hides a drug problem. Felix is not amused that Pierre seems willing to make up with Charlotte on Max's orders, albeit for Niels's sake. Charlotte lies that the boy doesn't miss Pierre. But his absence, and seeing her with a studly one night-stand Bert make him physically ill, curable only by daddy's comforting. Despite a scolding from Marco, Kofferman stays with De Graaf.
Wed, Apr 28, 1999
Max starts to worry about delivering a vital order in time, until Charlotte finds a Belgian subcontractor. He is none other than her flirtatious holiday friend Raymond Hendrickx, but Pierre finds a body in his closet. After Marco knocked the stuffing out of Anton, Fleur sides against her lover and leaves. Abdel already slept in new lover Sasha's bedroom, but decides he can't love her truly. Kasper steals again to pay for drugs but is caught and evicted. He's beaten up while working as a prostitute; Sofie takes him in again, to Max's anger.
Mon, May 3, 1999
Only Max still resists considering subcontracting, maybe even to De Graaf. Felix is delighted when Niels offers him a drawing of a home with two daddies, but hesitates to commit to helping Pierre raising him. Kasper breaks in to steal from Emma but she and Fleur catch him. He threatens them with a broken bottle until they cancel the police alert. He ties them up, but a patrol sees broken glass and beleaguers the kidnapper. Sofie talks him out of resorting to violence but breaks her promises this time.
Wed, May 5, 1999
Marco is worried sick that the judge may throw him in jail for violent aggression, but Anton and Max hope so. A cellphone-mix-up makes Fleur discover saboteur Freddy's frequent contacts with Anton. Jacob refuses to attend and so does Max, they must negotiate the subcontracting. Both drive a hard bargain, but Max is over a barrel, only Pierre sincerely admires Jacob's cool professionalism. The judge sees trough Anton's arrogance and fake neck-injury and imposes a merely suspended jail term.
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Mon, May 10, 1999
De Graaf entertains Karel Fernhout, the Dutch banker in London who financed their last loan, but learns he intends to use the clause that allows him to turn it into a share worth up to 35% at default. His son Edward Fernhout, in English boarding school, meets and impresses fellow swimmer Sam. Pierre has no more patience with Max as Charlotte refuses co-parenting Niels. Fleur suspects saboteur Freddy and tries to trick him into confessing by posing as a journalist, but Anton prevents that. She apologizes to Marco, who feels that changes nothing, and tells her family, which decides to send Anton to therapy.
Wed, May 12, 1999
While Sam entertains Edward in Marco's boathouse and gets frisky, yet not quite, Connie tries to sweet-talk pa Karel into softening his credit terms. She rudely refuses to 'pay' in bed, he caves in. Pierre starts working half-time and risks Felix's love to care for Niels, but the judge awards lair Charlotte temporary custody. Unwilling Anton's therapy takes a bumpy start, but nightmares turn him. To max's horror, Marco unwittingly employs his former secretary Marleen.
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Mon, May 17, 1999
Edward takes Sam for a nightly illicit sexy swim. Marco is seduced in his boathouse. Warned by a consultant the stock exchange, where they're launching themselves, favors companies with stable leadership and succession, the Noordermeer board agrees Anton is unfit until further notice. Now Niles is temporarily assigned to Charlotte, Pierre is pressed to work full-time again. Sofie discovers Marleen is stalking them, but has a hard time convincing Max, the police won't do anything anyhow.
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Wed, May 19, 1999
To Anton's horror the board excludes him from the stock launch roadshow. Emma suggests Fleur could do business school in New Jersey. After a sneer at Marco for moving in on Ellen, Abdullah accepts their affair. Now Edward must return to his London boarding school, he spends a lavish hotel night with Sam. Jacob is ready to hand over the reigns, but ma only accepts if he formally resigns. Max arranges bodyguard John Bijlsma for Sofie against the stalker, yet she dares wine he 'puts the firm first'. Marleen manages to intrude and stab John. Anton makes an embarrassing scene at the roadshow. Noordermeer looses an independent subcontracting assessment and its hold on De Graaf.
Mon, May 24, 1999
Trough his own crazy fault, vindictive scorned heir Anton gets hurt in an explosion so badly he needs months of plastic surgery. De Graaf successfully completes the ship order. Noordermeer is running out of orders. Marco goes steady with Ellen while Fleur is at business school in the States.
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Wed, Oct 6, 1999
Over a year later, Fleur graduates in America and returns to Rotterdam, hoping to get Marco back, but he isn't interested. Anton hopes to return home and exact revenge on his family, but gets a violent rage when Emma refuses him entry. Noordermeer proudly launches the latest build ship, but is desperate for new orders. De Graaf expects a South African order for 7 container ships, but must then expand, dump regular customer Kofferman's smaller order and subcontract some work to Noordermeer. Max manages to finds out the client and plans to offer them a better price. Abdullah is with Charlotte again.
Wed, Oct 13, 1999
Noordermeer is stalling the deal negotiations. Charlotte flies to South Africa to outbid De Graaf, but client Pieter Bloemfontein refuses knowing they can't get Marco's patented screw and decides to rat on her. Charlotte kept Fleur in the dark, so her reconciliation attempt with Marco fails disastrously. Abdullah realizes Charlotte only seduced him again to probe for the client. Before and after her trip, Charlotte is played masterly and anonymously by rich seducer Quinten Borgia.
Mon, Oct 18, 1999
After Charlotte's treachery, De Graaf has canceled the deal, but lacks an alternative. Jacob would turn to Kofferman instead, the others consider even teaming up with Noordermeer after all. Anton visits his family part-time, but clearly still suffers from a fire trauma, yet wants another sports car. Max agrees to a new deal without Charlotte. Quinten keeps toying with Charlotte, which gets her in bed. Fleur refuses to approach Marco professionally; when she tries romantically, he mistrust her and walks away.
Wed, Oct 20, 1999
Noordermeer and De Graaf receive Bloemfontein in style for the festive signing. Pierre is insulted the prude's prejudice prevents Felix being invited, so he brings him as classy drag queen Felicia. Sofie wines about her hostess effort remaining unmentioned, gets drunk and has sex with waiter Egbert. Sam nearly makes a fatal scene about their parents inviting Edward, who comes study in Holland, staying with them. Bloemfontein invites delegates back to Sout-Africa- Abdullah and Fleur accept. Tired of being kept out of business, Anton sabotages Max's presentation so he can take over. Quentin lures Charlotte away to a love nest.
Mon, Oct 25, 1999
Max and Connie's visions on doing business clash again, now on how to award subcontracts. This time his 'sophisticated modern' approach wins out. Anton now convinces his parents it's time to allow him back in the family firm, and steals psychiatric drugs to administer to his shrink, and steals Henri Hazelhof's file to make her crazy. Quinten Borgia makes Charlotte wait for him in vain, then arranges an official visit with two colleagues from his employer, Delta Consultants, which is making a study for the city which wharf should cede land for residential buildings. Edward refuses to be cruelly dumped.
Wed, Oct 27, 1999
Connie antagonizes her staff by accepting Max's proposals for coordinated HR management. She even manages to annoy Jacob by buying a grand company car like Max's. Sam meanly tries to force Edward out of the house. His college friend Trevor, a fellow horse-lover, is eagerly dated by Sascha, until Sam kisses him just to spite Edward. Charlotte enjoys Quentin's next romantic mystery date and hopes a threesome will convince him to doctor the zoning advice- in vain. Anton manages to make his shrink Freja believe former patient Henri, an ex con, is her stalker, not him, even poses as her protector and becomes her lover.
Mon, Nov 1, 1999
Conny's attitude is about to cause De Graaf's first ever strike, yet she still won't listen to Marco and Jacob. Max offers Sofie a new sculpting studio and a catalog of Dutch models to chose from, nut the first, Stephan, seems slightly too frisky. Marco discovers Ellen stands in for dad Willemminding her dementing uncle Koos, an ex-con for a police homicide in a strike incident, and the truth behind that conviction. Quentin gets Chatlotte's keys. Edward finds the perfect gift for Sam, but mistakes her thank you-kiss for returning his love. Emma promises Anton a wharf position if he gets a clean bill of mental health, just now Freia passed him on as patient, but he finds a drastic solution.
Wed, Nov 3, 1999
Conny still hasn't learned to trust Marco and Jacob's operational experience. Emma promises Max may get Charlotte's lead chair back if he uses his charms on Conny. He accepts, but cleverly steals a fax, as Marco guess but can't prove, to cause 30,000 Euro damage and win her grateful trust as savior. Sam keeps abusing helpful Edward, who overhears her ridicule his 'doggish' serviceability. Quentin introduces an SM element in his games with Charlotte and seems to make friends with Niels, who hates his new nanny Katelijn because he misses her predecessor. Anton gives lover-therapist Freya a kitten, but also taunts crazy Henri Hazelhof who now really stalks them.
Mon, Nov 8, 1999
Abdullah is back from South Africa just in time for his ex presenting her present hot lover Carlos Vandevelde, but he's actually a paid escort. Sam sees him kiss another and tells everybody, Abdullah finds out the truth. Max uses a business reservation incident to share a London hotel room with Connie, retreat before she accepts romantic action and copy most of De Graaf's contract with Bloemfontein. Pierre discovers Charlotte hid Niels's bruises for him, and therefore suspects her of abuse, until she confesses her affair with presumed culprit Quentin. In a gallery, Sofie meets real sculptor Borkus Koetsier, who teaches her to feel a model, then passion. Carlos actually makes love to Sasha. Niels has a new bruise, Felix discovers pictures of the undressed boy. Anton poses as a medical supervisor to taunt Henri with bloody results.
Wed, Nov 10, 1999
Now Edward realizes how loveless ingrate Sam abuses him, he accepts to write her English essay, but makes sure it poetically exposes her, then moves out. Both De Graaf and Noordermeer face delays for lack of electricians. Labor rules, an accident and contract terms below the belt drive both to despair. Jacob saves Marco's bacon, but Max ends up paying dearly from his personal account for the workshop for ingrate Sofie, who is getting seduced by Borkus. Katelijne is turned in for child abuse but released for lack of proof. Niels's attitude to the fired nanny suggests her innocence, an abused teddy-bear points to another suspect. Anton gets in, but only as 'all-round secretarial assistant'.
Mon, Nov 15, 1999
Bloemfontein's inspector De Swart rejects Marco's untested design improvements: a significant delay and fine, but he allows a demonstration. Tijnnagel's crew accidentally cuts the current at Noordermeer. After a dreary dinner with boring De Swart, Max and Connie decide to collaborate. Now Felix's abuse of Niels is known, Pierre refuses any contact. He moves back in with Charlotte, but Niels senses his parents are not really together. Anton's meeting with old friend Leo drags him into high stakes gambling, for which he needs Freja's ability to see trough poker-faces. Borkus seduces Sofie into financing his L.A. exhibition, which requires scamming Fl. 10,000 from Max.
Wed, Nov 17, 1999
Emma's P.I. finds prove Anton seduced shrink Freia, who is suspended. Even Max doesn't resist the board firing Anton, who attacks him for not warning in advance and starts setting fire to the office. Charlotte begs to see Quentin again, and gets her wish with a macabre twist. Marco accepts to enter a speedboat race, despite Conny and Ellen's objections he's swamped in wharf work, Jacob and Abdullah help him. Pierre moves with Niels into his new apartment. Sophie lies to Max so she follow her adulterer lover Borkus Koetsier to the States. Anton and Freija bet with his mate Leo on his boat the Arrow, but regret that seeing Marco is the adversary.
Mon, Nov 22, 1999
Marco's speedboat has exploded during the race when hurting a floating keg, but he will recover. Jacob believes he can take Marco's place as screw engineer, but ignores the sketches are for a rejected version and his health suffers. Anton fails to blackmail Emma with grandpa Antonius's war past, but Freia helps him find out there is more and stage an alternative approach. Missing and hating Felix, Pierre seeks comfort with eager Sasha. Max's uneasy seduction of Conny continues. Adulteress Sofie tells Borkus she can't come to the States, changes her mind and thus catches him with a new floozy, then promises Max an new start and has plastic surgery.
Wed, Nov 24, 1999
Marco realizes the ship won't be finished on time without him. Even after collapsing at his first attempt, he discharges himself. Freia's boss, Dr. Christiaan de Deugd, accepts to lift her suspension if Anton passes a mental health test with him. Freia coaches him successfully. After Sofie's breasts bleed, she fails to follow Max's advice tu sue Dr. Burghart, rather lets him try reconstructive surgery. Noordermeer sanctimoniously offered some of its staff to De Graaf until they realize Marco may still make its deadline, then call them back and fly in grumpy client Bloemfontein, but it's too late.
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Mon, Nov 29, 1999
Now De Graaf has made its Bloemfontein deadline, it's offered the next six ships order. Marco pleads an independent course anyhow, but soon finds alternative orders are very hard to get. Max and Conny ignore Sam saw them kissing in the car before they get a room to make love. Anton hates being denied the company password, but sabotages the network and gets it. Thus he learns Noordermeer never filed for copyrights worth a fortune. When Max proposes to accept subcontracting with Conny again, Emma decides he has fallen for Connie and tricks him. Charlotte stays CEO, the subcontract is refused and Max blackmailed not to warn Connie.
Wed, Dec 1, 1999
Noordermeer's triumph is undermined from within when Fleur calls a stockholders meeting, pleading for a Bloemfontein deal with De Graaf she finally convinces Marco and Connie to accept. Emma, Anton -who feels accepted again- and Charlotte believe they can swing the meeting by convincing two major non-preferential stockholders in advance a De Graaf bankruptcy promises better dividend in the long term, but a mysterious stock buyer seems to change the rule of the game. Niels is bullied at school because dad is seen kissing Sasha. Sam tells she saw ma kiss Max.
Mon, Dec 6, 1999
Now Sophie swung the Noordermeer stockholders meeting her way, moralist Fleur resigns from the board and becomes Conny's administrative assistant. Marco worries about Ellen's jealousy. Emma threatens Max to reveal his infidelity, then actually tells Sophie, who now confesses her own adultery. Conny must tell Jacob, after the anniversary dinner her prepared. He beats up Max, she moves out.
Wed, Dec 8, 1999
Zoning officer Theo Schopman announces the city is confiscating the Noordermeer real estate, at a ridiculously low estimated value. Max and Connie's known adultery still makes both families miserable. Adulteress Sofie plays the cheated wife, she and Max pretend to have hot dates but she can only get a nightclub gigolo who leaves disappointed. Anton overcomes Emma's objection to commercializing technological copyrights. Connie refuses to continue with Max, Jacob takes her back. Ellen's vicious jealousy of Fleur turns violent.
Mon, Dec 13, 1999
Only provincial official Huib Verhey can still save Noordermeer from being expropriated. Emma first sends Charlotte to try female charms, then decides he's her generation and takes over. He won't be persuaded but gets drunk enough to betray a guilty secret. Pierre can barely stand Felix long enough for him to retrieve his stuff, announcing he accepted a job abroad. Anton is blackmailed by a mysterious do-owner, and suspect the network system manager. Ellen tries repeatedly to prevent Fleur waking up and telling she caused the 'accident'.
Wed, Dec 15, 1999
Anton's anonymous blackmailer is back. An ICT specialist traces him to a queer quarter. Seeing Felix there with dogs, Anton makes him an offer leading to a permanent solution. Now De Graaf is the wharf to be expropriated, the city offers them an interesting alternative site. Max appeals to real estate contact Ed Doeselaar to cross them. Freja's conditional loyalty gets her dumped. Marco gathers the courage to get back with Fleur. Having made love, they decide to drop the charges against Ellen, who is released to emigrate.
Mon, Dec 20, 1999
Now De Graaf wharf is to be expropriated, only Marco still feels like starting over again somewhere else. He ends up accepting the others prefer to sell and enjoy the profit, even Abdullah. max and Charlotte decide to pull together and Emma's power-games- so the old tyrant takes full charge herself. Sasha decides to move to Vienna, in pursuit of her horsemanship ambitions. Marco takes a job in an engineering design firm, but the rigid chain of command stifles his brilliant ideas, so he resigns. Their parents hope to unwind on a long cruise, a plan with a short fuse.
Wed, Dec 22, 1999
After turning down every possible wharf location in Holland, De Graaf family considers accepting EU subsidies to relocate to Poland. Marco must wait if Fleur would follow. Sam is irrelevant, as she wants to join the Dutch Navy. Appie invests his shares value in a bar, but soon finds he desperately lacks experience, so must rely on a temp.
Mon, Dec 27, 1999
Now the De Graafs are known to be moving to Poland, Mr. Staal presents his security firm as pricey protection against the Polish mob. Marco gets attacked but expects he can handle the fiends on his own. Sam starts boot-camp in the Dutch Navy, where studly Simon Veghte becomes her guardian angel. Anton starts billing Noordermeer. Appie's pub doesn't work, so he sells it and buys a home. Temp waitress Bob becomes his house-mate. Emma gets another uppercut when Max joins his sons form and sells his preferential wharf shares: the family looses majority control.
Tue, Dec 28, 1999
Just when the De Graafs board for Gdansk (Dantzig), Fleur tells them there's an alternative: Anton's blackmail has made Noordermeer's stock so cheap they may buy the majority. Sophie's 10% proves decisive, and the lush hates the family business- now Max has defected and tries to help her beat the bottle, she sells to Jacob. Abdullah hits the Turkish nightlife and finds a hot date, but she only wants meaningless sex.