Van der Valk

- Season 5

(1992)

A former judge is shot dead and Van der Valk is brought in to solve the case. A suspect is apprehended, but confesses that someone else got to the the woman first. What is the connection between the judge's killing and a drug case Wim is investigating?

Michael Tromp and his son Rudi are kidnapped. Is his young wife - allegedly on a shopping trip in Germany - involved?

Van der Valk is called back from the start of his holiday to help his boss 'smooth over' a political embarrassment that may undermine a national project being pushed through by a senior minister. This national project, a new large-scale sea barrier, creates a lot of opposition by environmental groups, especially a new radical group called the 'Green Force'. Once Van der Valk starts to get more involved he starts to uncover blackmail, corruption, drugs and murder.