Sat, Jan 25, 2020
John is running a lucrative business on the De Beco company grounds and he makes money by the truckload. Everything is going according to plan, until Ella discovers a bank statement and confronts John with his lies: he promised her never to get involved with anything illegal again. Barry's decision to work with John, on the other hand, proves a tremendous boost. Especially when John discovers De Pelsmaecker's weak spot. In the meantime Barry's mind wanders off to another woman: Julie Beckers.
2018
Marjan drives to the apartment building where Barry is. She is astonished to see Ella come out of the building. Having built a strong case, Rasha suspects Patrick De Beco. She wants to raid Patrick De Beco's premises, but meets with opposition from the commissioner. John discovers that De Beco has been spying on him and has tons of evidence documenting his addictions and adultery. John and Carl agree that the De Beco problem needs a permanent solution. Adjusting her strategy, De Pelsmaecker manipulates the commissioner into allowing Rasha to conduct a large-scale raid on De Beco after all.
Sat, Feb 1, 2020
De Pelsmaecker intends to tackle the Van Cauwenberghe issue. Because she has to look after her sick father, she puts the matter into The Driver's hands, soon regretting her decision when the port alderman winds up in the hospital and on the news. Van Cauwenberghe himself is pretty pleased when he manages to score a date with Marjan Michielsen. Life is less kind to Carl, who, with the aid of his therapist, is struggling to tell Ella how he feels and how he misses her .
Sat, Jan 18, 2020
When John appears on a talk show, he later receives an offer to host a new TV quiz show. An idea that Barry, in particular, finds very appealing. It is, however, also John's first 'day at the office' for De Pelsmaecker. Soon enough, John realizes that he is now operating at an altogether different level and that the risks and expectations are commensurate with his position. Port alderman Van Cauwenberghe launches into a scathing criticism of the city's lax drug policy and, supported by right-hand man Didier Buelens, he finds a perfect scapegoat in the commissioner. Who, sensing an ultimate strategic opportunity with De Pelsmaecker, manages to save his skin and secure his pension .
2018
Carl tells John he is Ella's father. And how Patrick De Beco has been aching to use his secret as leverage to sabotage their business with De Pelsmaecker. Carl is livid and wants to destroy De Beco. John promises Carl he will burn down De Beco's empire to the ground. Licking his wounds, Carl agrees. Meanwhile, Marjan learns that John has been hiding his friend Barry from her. Marjan discovers the apartment where John has tucked away Barry. For their part, Sven and Rasha are trying to prove that Freddy did not surface at the spot he was found by accident.
Sat, Jan 18, 2020
While John was locked away on remand, the world hasn't stopped turning: Marjan has filed for divorce, Barry has woken from his coma, although clearly not his old self anymore, and Ella is bearing John's child. In the meantime, De Pelsmaecker is putting pressure on her network to get John out as quickly as possible. When, after two months, she finally succeeds and John is released for lack of evidence, she expects a favour in return: John has to take over De Beco's business on her behalf.
Fri, Dec 14, 2018
Has-been TV celebrity John Beckers leaves rehab clinic and convinces a friendly paparazzo to keep that out of the press for once. He starts a new career in the Antwerp port company of his father in law, Michielsen. After a scary bluff (?) story initiation by colleague Carl Dockx, John is taken along to a networking party at the notorious banana boat nightclub, and is asked to pickup the boss later that night in the harbor, but misses a call to come early and finds him dead on the dock. Furthermore, he and his wife keep secrets for each-other, in his case visits 'during work hours' to a comatose friend in hospital, apparently at his expense, even teen son Arno has a secret Internet life.
Fri, Dec 21, 2018
John Beckers keeps secretly visiting the comatose man, a key person from his TV celebrity past. His family is utterly surprised but acts unconcerned when they find out his teen son Arno is gay, having bee, caught kissing in the school johns. John lets Carl Dockx believe his father in law, whose corpse hasn't been found, probably is in Spain with his bar maid rush, but when she is found that's disproved. Reputed dirty harbor business baron Patrick De Beco is also after the deceased, and his henchman don't do things lightly.
2018
Freddy's death sends a shock wave through the lives of Marjan, the children and Carl. With characters from his previous life knocking on his door to collect an old gambling debt, John has little time to deal with their mourning. At the autopsy, police inspector Rasha discovers that Freddy's fall didn't kill him, but merely rendered him unconscious. Hearing the news, John collapses and starts to drink again. In the meantime, John has to secretly relocate Barry and tend to his medical needs. Shortly after, powerful business lawyer Benedicte De Pelsmaecker makes him a proposition. It concerns criminal activities that could earn him a lot of money. John refuses.