Hugo's niece, accounting clerk Karen Demulder, claims to be raped by her flirtatious boss, J.C. Pickery, after being fired for gross public insolence. But there are no physical traces of abuse, only a vindictive motive to lie on her part. Gabriel disbelieves her, Chris takes her complaint case anyway, helped by Hugo. Karen however commits Internet libel Pickery first offers a settlement, then threatens with a counter-claim. Instead she tries to injure him by blackmail over dirty money from double books.
—KGF Vissers