De Ridder

- Season 2

(2014)

There is a bomb alert in the harbor at the big and powerful firm OT&C. They see Rudi Kassel running away and arrest him. It turns out he wanted revenge on the firm, because he got cancer from working with illegal radio-active transports he took part off. He says the firm knew about it and was OK with. Helena wants to investigate OT&C on the illegal transports, but gets a lot of resistance.

The police catch two Roma children breaking in and can arrest the girl. They let her go and follow her. When she goes to her mother, they arrest her and her son too. The children are too young to charge them. Because of language barriers and cultural differences, it's hard to get the parents take responsibilities for their children. Helena is still blamed for the leak on the investigation of OT&C, but they can't prove anything. Manu confesses to her he accidentally mailed the information to a journalist. Helena doesn't want him to tell the Attorney-General, because it...

Martijn Kramer, an employee of a brewery, jumped of a silo after a party at work. Although the head and confidential advisor said Martijn was a loner and difficult at work, it soon becomes clear he was bullied. They find terrible pictures of the party, but is it enough to get a conviction? In the mean time Helena finds a letter on her desk informing her of an old case which puts Christine and Thomas in bad daylight. She decides to ask Christine about it.

At night there is a scuffle at a pub and the police are called. Tony and Frank try to break up the fight. Tony gets stabbed with a broken bottle by Julien, a homeless person. Julien who has tuberculosis also coughs a lot in Tony's face and now he also has it. Ravenakkers is Julien's lawyer and gets Julien off easily. The next day Julien is found beaten up badly and accuses inspectors Frank and Tony, but did they really do it? Thomas gives Helena evidence against OT&C, but he doesn't want to reveal the sailor's name who gave him the information. When a letter about ...

Mark, a gay man, is badly beaten up in a dark alley and lands in hospital. He says he was attacked from behind and doesn't know who they were. His husband Gerrit, a prominent and very active leader of the gay-movement, wants to take action, but Mark doesn't want to press charges. The wife of Faruk, the Turkish grocer who found Mark, says Faruk was also attacked, because his shirt was torn and full of blood. This contradicts Faruk's earlier statement. Mark says he doesn't know Faruk, but the police find out he called him several times. Faruk keeps changing his story ...

Cara Heijne is the deadly victim of a hit and run. When they investigate the scene, the driver Jasper De Schryver suddenly turns up. He knows it was wrong to drive on, but he panicked. He declares, despite him driving a bit too fast, Cara suddenly was in front of his car and he couldn't avoid her. Helena finds out Cara had been to a party and was very drunk. She already fell from her bike once when she decided to go home. Helena thinks Cara and Jasper share the blame, but what will the judge say and how will Cara's parents react? Yves finds it difficult to accept ...

The case OT&C goes to court. Helena wants to know the name of the sailor who was a witness to the illegal radio-active transports, but Thomas doesn't want to say. Because she doesn't have the name, she doesn't make a chance in court. Thomas sees she can't do anything this way and finally gives her the name. Julie Kassel doesn't believe in Helena anymore. Nicole Claus is threatened, because she is the lawyer of OT&C. There is a big conflict between Christine and Yves.

Veerle De Pannemaeker is being stalked by journalist Henk Courteyn. He doesn't think it's stalking. When Veerle has good news, she invites him in, but when there is bad news, his paper also wants to print it. Veerle hardly comes out of the house anymore since Henk makes her life a misery. Helena wants to pursue Henk's paper. Now Chrisine is gone, Yves takes over for the time being. Helena discovers the papers chief-editor Smets knows Ravenakkers. Yves doesn't want to pursue any longer, because he thinks Veerle should be used to journalists. Helena can't go against him...

Helena investigates a fire in a dog-kennel. A combustible mixture was poured over a dog and set alight. Then he was send through the entire kennel. An alienist thinks a 16 year old student who works there, did it. He thinks she's a psychopath and treatment won't work. Her father says Charlotte has been like this all her life. She always has known how to manipulate people. Is it possible to treat Charlotte, or should she just go to prison? Thomas is accused of raping a waitress at a party. Helena doesn't believe it, but when she gets a video send where she sees Thomas ...

When Helena sees the images of Thomas going after waitress Charlotte into the bathroom, she doesn't know if she can trust him anymore. The images were send to her anonymously. She tells Yves everything and he takes the necessary steps. He tells Zohra to check out everything about Thomas and Charlotte to the bottom. There is a complaint against Paul Temmerman for beating up his mother. His sister made the complaint, but their mother says Paul is taking very good care of her and she doesn't want to go anywhere else. When she ends up in hospital because of her diabetes, ...

Helena has an encounter with Charlotte. Charlotte is aggressive and wants to hit Helena. She tries to defend herself and pushes Charlotte away, who falls to the ground. The next day Charlotte files a complaint against Helena and pictures of Helena pushing Charlotte appear in the tabloids. Everyone believes Helena hit Charlotte out of revenge. Helena thinks OT&C are after her and Thomas and that's why they're brought in discredit. Vicky Van Belle hits Michael Snoeckx, a man from a credit institution, with her car. She has a lot of debts and Snoeckx seemed to harass her.

Lynn Michiels carried Lut and Philippe's baby, but Lynn doesn't want to give it them. The more they find out about what exactly happened, the more they find out Lynn lies about a lot of things. Stefanie is the new trainee and Helena has to guide her. Helena asks Cleo to ask around in the neighborhood where she had a fight with Charlotte. Cleo finds a witness who saw a car. When Helena tries to find out who's car it was, Yves finds out what she's doing.

The evidence against Giovanni has been removed from the dossier, because it was gathered illegally. They need to get new evidence. Zohra can persuade Van Der Zeypen to get Giovanni questioned. They find revealing pictures on his camera. They decide to let him go free, but put a tap on his phone. Some of the pictures tell the truth about Helena's encounter with Charlotte and finally she has her job back. Other pictures prove people are being blackmailed not to say anything. Through the phone-tap, they find out Ravenakkers and Claus are up to their necks in it. Now all ...