Westenwind

- Season 4

(2000)

Now their ship has sunk at the launch, the Javans refuse building any more. The bickering Noordermeers are rated as bad credit risks by the bank, just now Anton wanted a mortgage for a dream house as Sam wants him to move out. Charlotte assumes correctly it was sabotage by Marco, but nobody believes her without proof. Nancy, released on account of his girlish Christian name, tries tireless till he wins Tessa back. Pierre wants Charlotte to take Niels while he tries out a promising job offer in Sweden, but the boy causes a terrible accident. Jealous of Fabienne's child...

Now Pierre has died in the car crash his hyperactive son Niels caused, the boy is totally out of control, unable to understand he can't be with his beloved daddy anymore. After sex with Nancy, Tessa keeps giving confusing signals and stands him up at a romantic dinner. She pretends she's being stalked until her cruel fickleness drives him to come after her grinding an ax and is arrested. The city and national authorities have landed a giant order from the United Arab Emirates, but they require Noordermeer and De Graaf to collaborate again, even if the unwilling ...

Abdullah 'Appie' is in town, as his ship passes by, but Marco can't spend much time with him as the rival wharfs must prepare designs for the huge UAE order. Charlotte misses it, suddenly turning maternally responsible now Niels is obsessed with reviving dear daddy or joining him in the grave, literally. Anton moves into a luxury apartment with Sam. Appie's 'sailor widow' Katja moves in with Marco, in exchange for diving lessons.

Max's insinuation De Graaf's wharf can't handle huge ships is cleverly enough bluffed to make Marco sign over part of the huge order, then hires a diver to wreck in for real. At their housewarming party, Anton presents Sam to his drug dealer, crock-lover Gideon 'White adder' Splint. Rudi beats Anton, threatening with worse if he keeps exposing Sam to such bad friends. Anton visits his designer drugs lab behind her back, with his own solution.

Marco and Appie's mate Katja's attraction grows, a movie leads to kiss. After a nightmare about Abdullah he tries to dump her, but passion wins out. Anton stages danger which he can rescue young Chemokid, whom he discovers to be a shy virgin, from as 'protector', hoping to make him run a drug lab of their own, in stead of Gideon, who lurks around. Courting lessons do the trick. Max has Matthijs back home while Emma's lawyer prepares to get him custody over the 'Noordermeer heir'. He and Anton plan to make Fabienne's post-natal depression last by substituting her pills...

Marco finds a design flaw which allows De Graaf a better share. He celebrates by making love with Katja, still behind Appie's back. Matthijs is found asphyxiated in his crib. Charlotte realizes Niels must have 'silenced' the baby. Fabienne charges Max and Sofie with child murder but feels guilty as lousy mother. Emma convinces Charlotte saying so can only make things worse, but the boy betrays his having been in Matthijs's room to Sofie. Anton now deals in drugs designed by Chemokid, even pays a captain to export them to the US. Gideon has his revenge.

Matthijs's death makes the Noordermeers relive Myrna's, actually by fire set by Charlotte. Max isn't informed about El Houssa's whereabouts and Marco neglects him to make love with Katja. But Rudi entertains the fellow horse-lover. Gideon's revenge forces Anton to borrow from Max. He nearly OD's, but Chemokid pulls him trough, only to be abused by both enemy drug bosses. Emma convinced Charlotte to put Niels in Berkhobe, her former boarding school, but at the last moment she decides instead to tell Sofie the truth.

Max scolds Emma for shielding Niels, and unlike Sofie wants revenge on his baby Matthijs's murderer. Charlotte is forced to accept residential drug therapy. El Houssa tells Max about 'impossible design adjustments' which make him suspect military contraband. Max wants a merger with wharf Driessen, promising the UAE contract. Anton uses his vote to demand a department manager position. Emma is against, but depends on Charlotte's vote too. Anton is threatened by his drug client it's time to deliver. He sets up Chemokid in a new, secret lab. Abdullah tells Katja he'll ...

Max proposes to El-Houssa to build him a contraband warship provided he dumps De Graaf, but is told that never was the order. Max now convinces Charlotte the only other way to convince Wim Driessen to merge is a love affair with the wheelchair-ridden billionaire. Now Abdullah is back, Katja claims she never wanted a relationship with Marco and leaves with Appie. Chemokid has prepared new drugs for the US market, Anton smuggles them in double walls on ships Noordermeer repairs. Gideon finds the lab, destroys it, shoots Chemokid and blows up Anton's car. When El Houssa ...

Driessen goes trough with the merger, so the Noordermeers court him to be appointed directors. He decides on Max and Emma. De Graaf's future looks bleak. The authorities fail to come to the wharf's aid and the Janssen brothers take charge of staff protests. Rudy tempts Conny to give up and start stud-farming with him in America.

Emma laughs away Charlotte's claim she wasn't kept as director because Driessen destines her for 'even better'. At first that's just 'ambassador of the Dutch shipbuilding industry', but ultimately the wheelchair-ridden billionaire proposes to her. De Graaf desperately tries to out-place its staff, without much luck. Conny accepted to join Rudi in his Nevada stud-farm adventure. After Rudy proudly presents a deal for Driessen to take over their staff, Conny decides to stay and fight without him, accepting Bas Jannsen's suggestion their laborers will work a few months ...

After a near-accident Juup and Tessa become lovers. He successfully stands against Bas for staff representative on the wharf board. She's appalled to find Juup has both child and pregnant wife. Now the police and press know about Anton's drug contraband, Driessen wants his head. Unlike Sofie, Max refuses to spare their son: the fiend is fired and delivered to the police, but refuses to collaborate, fearing for kidnapped Sam. Sofie gets word to Marco, who solves Gideon's Biblical clues to find his stupid sister, ODed.

Juup had seduces Tessa again, assuring he only stays in his loveless marriage for his offspring. Whne wife Sendy finds out, he's thrown out by her and his own dad Bas. Gideon has trapped Marco on a yacht, later Anton also, who is literally crucified. Marco gets loose, but faces a booby-trapped bomb. Driesses marries Charlotte, despite her confession the flesh may well weaken, but afterward confesses he has terminal MS.