Westenwind - Season 5 (2001)

Abdullah 'Appie' is blinded by a torpedo hitting the UAE ship he was sailing on. He bitterly refuses unfaithful Katja and Marco's help, but the crew insurance doesn't cover war risks. Marco works out Noordermeer-Driessen illegally converted El Houssa's 'cargo' ship from which the torpedo was accidentally fired, tells Charlotte and breaks in at Noordermeer with Katja to gather proof they release to the press. Max pretends he was fired because he refused the illegal conversion, backed up by Emma. Charlotte must resign, but probably still hasn't saved the wharf. She pays...

A judicial inquiry seals the wharf for months. After Sofie uses the family lawyer to launder Anton's drug cash and buy a mansion, Max gets wind and courts her. Emma also finds out, tries to threaten her and ruins everything. Emma also met Louis Donnier, but pushed him away once aware the charming old man is a priest. Sam leaves therapy just when hypnosis was reaching the problem, lies at home and lands with another hardcore junk.

Max is terrified when El-Houssa threatens with huge completion delay fines. Juup solves his problem by offering a commission on top of goop prices to subcontract to De Graaf, where orders are desperately needed. To make Marco and Conny accept, Max's mate Mebius Schalke pretends to be the client. Emma is obsessed with old priest Louis Donnier, whom she wants as lover. Sam has hit rock-bottom, stealing with fellow junkie Herman Scholte.

Sam is noticed among the other drug addicted prostitutes. Marco tries in vain to lock her up to detox at home. Sofie contacts Anton, who arranges for them to visit his tropical American hiding place. There shaman Johnson cures her, but she refuses to stay. Having spotted Emma in a restaurant with priest Louis, Charlotte tells him in confessional about her hatred for her mother from hell's crimes, including the illegal warships. Narcotics traces Sofie to Anton, who stages a fake death.

Marco discovers Schalke is a cover for subcontracting El-Houssa's two remaining warships set up by Noordermeer. Bas and Tessa accept Juup's denial of his part. Marco and Appie finds out the minister and her husband, the UAE consul, arranged it all without even Max knowing the links. Marco and Max take down the corrupt politician but loose the order. Juup is fired and breaks up with Tessa. Bas is rehired as foreman. Sofie breaks down at a memorial service Emma had held for Anton by her lover, priest Louis.

Juup is now Max's HQ deputy. After Tessa tells she's expecting his baby but decided to abort it, Marco beats Juup beastly. Visiting Sofie after her collapse in Fleur's memorial service, Emma bumps into her therapist Raymond de Haas, whom she reminds of her warning to keep far from her family. But Sofie keeps mistaking his daughter Iris on sight with Fleur. Ray tells her, as Emma tells Louis, Iris is Fleur's twin, split up at birth under a deal by them. Emma's patience and open flaws ironically finally seduce Louis in bed, ending his Catholic priestly vocation.

Juup works out the labor inspector is a court intimus, who will advise the royal court about ordering a yacht. He proposes to Emma to pass unsuspecting De Graaf another order so they'll be unable to accept. But Charlotte has chosen to return now Max is in hospital, and turns against Juup. Meanwhile he spies on his dad's treasured yacht model, a son-father project. Marco is inspired by it to a royal design, which Juup gets copied and destroyed. Iris seems to fall for Emma's lies against her dad, but tells him that's a ploy to get lucrative revenge, which starts when ...

After the police finds the stuff robbed from Bas's shed dumped nearby, he realizes his own son hired them. Juup responds he only meant to have the model smashed up, which he helped make, but is expelled. Emma wants to make De Graaf lose the race for the royal yacht order by asking Iris to distract Marco. The Fleur lookalike certainly stirs his memories and arouses enough mixed feelings to keep him sleepless. Max and Charlotte are displeased Emma planned this without consulting them.

The crown prince has decided to ate-tend a sailing race between finalists De Graaf and Noordermeer. Marco has a headache preventing him to captain, so Bas takes his place. Juup manages to sabotage their yacht. Crook Ed Doeselaar returns to blackmail Emma for 500,000 Euro or he'll use his court contacts against Noordermeer.

Louis can't keep living in sin with Emma, who only accepts his second proposal. Told that Niels is ready for a foster-family, Charlotte refuses and takes him home. Max forgives his baby's killer, but she can't control the disturbed boy and looses him in the Driessen mansion. After Marco clearly wasn't troubled by seeing his mother kiss Bas, they announce their wedding. Emma eagerly expected Juup would romantically bind Iris, but she soon returns to Marco. Seeing Juup with other girls, Emma fires him. Marco abuses him, so he sets fire to the wharf while Marco and Iris ...