Stille Waters

Jana and her business partner Yannick are looking forward to the new collection, which should arrive soon for their boutique in Antwerpen. Her brother Guido reminds her about their father's birthday. She can't show up two years in a row, so she goes to see him. She receives a warm welcome in Terhaven, but her father looks very concerned with something. But then she receives a phone call from Yannick. The shipment of the new collection has gone wrong and she has to go back immediately. A few days later her father is found dead on the banks of the Schelde. Was it suicide or was there more? And what is the role of Alexander Vorlat in all of this. He was supposed to be her father's best friend. Or was he?

Jana's stepfather wrote her a letter. Two years ago he did something terrible with Vorlat. Something worse than murder. He couldn't bear the guild any longer and that's why he ended his life. Jana wants to find out what happened two years ago, but several people advise against it and urge her to go back to Antwerpen. In the mean time she gets very friendly with Rob who works at Vorlat's factory. The offloading of logs from a truck goes wrong and Rob's best friend Kenny gets stuck underneath and dies. Rob blames Vervenne, Vorlat's right hand, for Kenny's death. He attacks him at the factory, but these actions have serious consequences.

Two small boys go rowing on the Schelde and drown under suspicious circumstances. One of the boys father is Pierre, a foreman at Vorlat's factory. Vorlat has to sell his factory in Poland with heavy losses. Now he needs 7 million fast. He tells his wife Claudine to go to any lengths to get the money from her friend Baron de Bethune. She refuses. Then he tries it himself with the baron. Strong words are changed, but no money. With no more options left, Vorlat lends the money from Claudine's multi-millionaire brother Robert, who is just back in Belgium. Tobie, Vorlat's eldest son, thought his uncle was dead. His father tells him why there are no more strings between his uncle and his family. It's a shocking story.

Alex asks his youngest son Ben to keep quiet about him lending 7 million from Robert. Ben doesn't agree about lending money from his uncle. Claudine had broken all ties with her brother and doesn't agree either. The parents of the two ten year old boys are getting nowhere with there inquires. They want to know why their sons were drunk and had a lot of money on them. They are getting nowhere with the authorities and want to stop. But then Coppens, a befriended journalist, finds a similar death from five years ago and the name Robert de Wesemael!

Jana learns the news about Robert from Erna. All Terhaven seems to know about it, but nothing had been done about it. She also comes in contact with Herman. He tells her that he was Robert's last victim before his sister, Claudine, kicked him out of the family. Herman was 9 at the time. Robert's yacht was seen on the Schelde five years ago when a 10-year-old boy drowned and at the time Tim and Kristof drowned. With all this new information they go to the authorities, but again they getting nowhere. As a last resort they start a petition about reopening the case. Alex and Claudine are not at all happy with this.

Ben Vorlat signs the petition. This divides the family in two. Alex tries to drown his problems in alcohol and goes to Wendy. But she is busy with another client at the club. Alex tries to buy the client out, but he is not impressed. Very drunk Alex takes his frustrations out on Claudine in a terrible way. Prosecutor Van Wallegem starts to have doubts and investigates the case of Sven Borgmans from five years ago. He turns to the attorney of law Hervé with his findings. At last Hervé tells him how that was his last case as a prosecutor and he got too scared to continue after he found out the truth. He urges Van Wallegem to stop for the good of public interest. What will Van Wallegem do?