Westenwind

- Season 6

(2001)

Marco managed to escape the burning wharf hall and drag out Iris, but she's badly burn-mutilated. Emma convinces her to leave him, promising best plastic surgery. She coldly tells Louis he gave up everything for her in vain, he's dumped. Bas finds his son's lighter on the site, but believes his protestation of innocence. Arsonist Juup finds a homeless accomplice to commit more arson and take the blame for all. Conny accepts to apologize, give him a job and take him in at home. Tessa moves away. Charlotte has nightmares about the mansion, where only rats are actually ...

Noordermeer wants to branch out into cooling ships for Godfried van Haveren, so Charlotte hires brilliant young specialist design engineer Roland de Wit. He discovers, too late, the Charlotte design Max just signed for is technically impossible. Marco won't accept Conny's plan to marry Bas and make Juup an equal heir, but even the other laborers still hate him. Emma hires top surgeon Dokter Vandersteen for desperate Iris.

Godfried van Haveren refuses a deal about Charlotte's flawed design, invoking a monster fine clause. Max and his lawyer hope they found a loophole, but after an intervention from the attorney general Noordermeer looses the trial. Emma brings Iris to a Belgian private clinic for an expensive and life-threatening experimental facial skin transplant. Sofie and a nurse keep Marco informed, but security is impenetrable. Bas and Connie go ahead with their wedding although not all children can attend. When Marco gets word Iris is dying, they reschedule.

Charlotte hopes to charm Godfried van Haveren out of imposing a huge fine. He becomes the main character in her bloody ritual nightmares. After his accomplice barely manages to remove a slaughtered girl she actually found in the mansion of his friend, her late husband Driessen, she puts the house up for sale. Then Godfried drops his claim. Iris' transplanted face confuses her and Marco, who cancels their first date. But they soon become lovers again.

Emma demands Iris must pay her own facial transplant back or dump Marco. This brings Iris to reveal that her twin split up in the press. Marco dumps her for being utterly unlike Fleur. Sam makes Sofie betray the Siegfried code to contact Anton. The first reaction is a threat from Gideon's gang, but a mystery man deals with that. Sam accepts to join Anton in tropical exile.

Emma and Max ignores Charlotte's theory Godfried and some college frat friends, including Christoffer Deurloo, are after the wharf. Emma even replaces her as design department chief by Roland. Emma engages and tests Iris, who succeeds thanks to Roland's help. Charlotte discovers the 'alumni' run a blackmail racket and accepts a deal with Godfried, who orders her reinstated. She a Juup flirts with his sister Sjouke, but she ignores his warning not to date loser wharf laborer Dennis, who nearly rapes her.

Juup is short of cash to pay his arson dupe's silence, so he steals from Marco, staging a break-in. Ignoring their hostile background, recovering Max and Sjouke bond over ice-skating and race horses, but she wants more, while Sofie is interested in him again. Charlotte can't make head or tail of Godfried's attitude, rude in business, shielding his private life but 'handling' a disrespectful laborer.

After seeing the red cross-symbol from the secret nightmare rite in Niels's drawings, Charlotte has it researched. It links to a sinister sectarian offshoot of the St.John's order of knighthood, banned for human sacrifices. Emma considers her mad and promotes Iris to take over. Teaming up with admirer Roland, she makes a ruthless start, which estranges Marco completely. Godfried promises Charlotte an introduction, which in fact seems to clear her brain. Max admits being enamored in Sjouke.

Juup's greedy arson dupe Erna forces him to be driver at her friend Sjourd's next robbery, but it goes wrong. Juup just escapes arrest and confesses the fire to dad Bas, who gets him to turn himself in and tells Conny. Max feels he needs to dump Sjouke as too young. Iris diagnoses Charlotte's grave memory loss -only Roland prevents disasters- is temporary and physically, but even hospital specialists can't identify the traces from Godfried's order's electric brainwashing.

Despite Conny's meanly hostile attitude, Bas hires top lawyer Adriaan Spelt to defend Juup on trial for the arson he already confessed. Sjouke tells Bas she accepted an au pair job in Brussels and convinces Max to come along for hot hotel fun. Marco is drawn between crazy Iris and his criminal ex Ellen. De Graaf thus ends up losing formerly loyal client Halberstadt to Noordermeer.

Sjouke makes sure everyone notices her with Max at shipping magnate Schimmelpennick's retirement party, to both's parents' disgust. Godfried is succeeding to the maritime empire. Marco is back with saboteur Ellen, but would consider taking Iris back if she leaves Noordermeer wharf. Charlotte and her hypno-therapist discover the secret of the sect's ritual. A fellow victim refuses to expose Godfried, but she convinces him to let her join. Bas's bullish intrusion at Max's and beating him only drives Sjouke further in Max's arms.

Ellen's environmentalist action against pollution by Noordermeer's subcontractor gets even the staff's support. The wharf risks being shut down and bankrupted, but Charlotte gets new sect-fellow Godfried's support so she can arrange a way out, shining in the press and regaining Emma's respect. Marco is sick of working his tail off and saving everyone's bacon. Yes Iris pushes him to even crazier risks, wins him back and turns against Emma. Sofie refuses to help Emma fight Max's choice for Sjouke, although she'ld want him back, instead encourages Max to leave the wharf ...

With Marco away and Juup in jail, where no plans may be drawn, Bas and Conny 's technical incompetence means all work is blocked until Marco can fax the solution. Godfried orders Charlotte to entertain Chinese sect tycoon Chin Wou. To her horror, his taste is young boys, and he has nude pictures of her own son Niels. When Emma sees her ready to try threats at gun-point, she brings a Rotary friend, judge van Ostaijen, to secretly start a criminal case against the whole sect. When Godfried finds out, he kidnaps Niels, but Emma does the same with his daughter.

Because the province needs flooding areas, Noordermeer wharf, which planned to expand, will be disowned. Emma wants their older, higher grounds back from De Graaf. The rival must therefore be busted by offering their staff higher wages to transfer immediately, which sabotages completion of the royal yacht. So has an undercover laborer, Ernst Romer. Max's new life included manual labor at De Graaf's, but he makes a bad fall. In prison, Juup is pestered by bully jailer Snoeck. When the warden accepts Juup's complaint, Snoeck arranges for the worst scum to rape him in ...

After jailer Snoeck's further abuse drives Juup to a failed escape, he's in isolation under the fiend's thumb. Nancy and Sjoukje help him escape and flee the country. Marco is delighted when Iris finally manages to inform him she's expecting their baby. Emma ignores an option Charlotte advanced to move the wharf to Groningen. Her plan to break De Graaf by sabotage fails when Ernst Romer, whom she bribes with a motorbike-racing career, chooses a stable career under better HR management.

Emma contacts feared shipping magnate Rudd Kamphuis so he'll place a dangerous order, trough her, with De Graaf. Pregnant Iris decides to warn Marco, who is on an ecologist mission to save the blue whale, also about the provincial site threat. But she stupidly wrecks his radio at sea. During the next storm, this means the rescue arrives late when his boat gets in serious trouble. Emma's plan succeeds in swamping De Graaf, so they loose out on another order, which Noordermeer really wants. Max insists to throw a grand party for Sjoukje's 18th birthday. It coincides ...

Marco is buried, leaving Conny emotionally numb, so Tessa takes charge. Noordermeer and Kamphuis continue their game and succeed in making De Graaf sign a bid likely to wreck them. Juup is back, slips Sjoukje a note to meet him secretly and sort of fake-kidnaps her to demand 1,000,000 Euro, even tries to cut off his own finger as 'proof'. Max can't liquidate that much, so he asks Emma, who insists to bring in two private detectives. They advice a set-up to kill the kidnapper, which Bas and in the end Max himself oppose. Iris decides to hide Marco is her baby's father ...

Realizing Max is broke because no insurance covers ransom, Sjoukje contacts Juup, who agrees to meet her but refuses to pay him back. Max nearly dumps her for being Juup's accomplices. He pretends the gun he packs isn't loaded, but driving with a plastered foot proves even more dangerous. Grieving Conny is side-tracked, Bas ignores doctor's orders to rest with a hernia. Tessa isn't up to negotiating a safe contract with Kamphuis, who meanwhile gets Emma to guarantee completion where De Graaf fails pay the down payment in his place.

Marco's baby seems lost in stillbirth, in fact it's twins to Emma's delight. Uncosolable Conny guesses not Riland but Marco is the father. Max wants to celebrate loosing his plaster cask with a sports-car for Sjoukje, but his credit-cards are maxed-out because of the ransom. Emma refuses a loan, so he wants to take a temporary consulting job, but Emma's black reference wrecks that. Kamphuis starts tightening the delivery clause screws on De Graaf.

Because Emma sabotaged him finding a job at his top executive level, Max finally enlists temporarily in De Graaf's accounting to afford a Hawaian holiday. The Kamphuis contract ruins De Graaf after Bas, who stupidly kept working with a hernia, pushes the wrong control buttons and thus wrecks the ship's entire front section. Juup secretly returns however to re-capitalize them.

Max knows about Juup's ransom investment and demands Marco's former 25% share in De Graaf for his silence, yet accepts a buy-back clause in a year contract and wins over the staff. Tessa first refuses to return to Juup 'Diederik De Ridder', then finds Belgium's Burgundian style turned him classy but still dumps him cruelly. Niels's latest imaginary friend, a modeled after fiend Dexter from Sofie's lesbian porn, inspires dangerous games. Charlotte falls romantically for Mark Landers. At a family dinner Emma throws to test Max, he reveals his investment and knowing ...

Emma convinces Kamphuis to declare an arranged bankruptcy, so De Graaf doesn't get paid and is near the same fate. Max acts as broker and convinces all but Connie to sell, yet Emma offers only an absurd low price. Roland's patience with ingrate Iris runs out. Juup 'Diederik' finds Belgian potential ship buyer De Smet, so Tessa must spend time with both flirtatious men. Connie finally guesses the flooding motive and gets confirmation from city official Bart. She goes public, so Noordermeer looses its clients' confidence. Sofie has survived the electrocution, but a ...

Tessa's 'rapist' ex Nacy is released early on parole and gets a retail shelve-stacker job. There she bumps into him and joins an ultra-feminist committee which persecutes former sex convicts. Only when his new life is wrecked and the bitches beat him to pulp absolutely unprovoked, Tessa remembers her real feelings for him, but he has already left town. Charlotte overrules Emma, who still stakes everything on buying up De Graaf, and starts negotiations to buy a wharf in nearby Delfzijl. But Emma gets the naive staff to oppose leaving Rotterdam and extorts Sofie's ...

Stephan Bakhuyzen allows De Graaf to bid for a new order, but like Noordermeer they are outbid by a young firm. Bas wants to fight, even if that means starting over somewhere else, but Conny is lost is melancholy, like Sofie who waits for heart surgery. Roland is still waiting for his marriage or its consummation. Ernst Romer convinces Tessa and Sjoukje to accept featuring in his brother Arthur's film academy exam documentary 'Love and Sex in the 21st century', but Max is furious when his private video message love declaration is used, actually Tessa's doing.

Juup happens to witness a shooting among criminals and mutually recognizes dirty jailer Snoeck. He escapes by diving, hides in Marco's shed. He finally gathers the courage to testify to the police at Diederik, but is jailed after gangster Duro Kertes identifies him during his own line-up. Emma enjoys making bankrupt De Graaf wriggle. Max discloses the Noordermeer assets to force a fairer bid. Juup sends Belgian mates to fake a rival bid. Charlotte and Iris decide to sign, but Emma finds the foul. Feeling neglected, Sjouke accepts to join the Romer brothers celebrating...