The Knight

Helena De Ridder is a lawyer at Ravenakkers & Partners. When the well-known former footballer Paul Vandenbon is accused of pedophilia, Helena is put on the case. Helena throws herself into the matter, but the confrontation with the alleged victim brings her to doubt.

Helena is going to work for the public prosecutor's office. There she investigates the death of a toddler after an unfortunate fall of a staircase. Helena is immediately noticeable when, on the basis of an anonymous tip, she stops the child's funeral and so scares the parents.

Four women are found dead in a caravan. Research shows that they have contracted CO poisoning. The women appear to be part of an Eastern European group of women who have to clean toilets along the roadside restaurants of the company Lunchline for a hunger wage. With the help of the sister of one of the murdered women, the public prosecutor tracks down the driver of the group of traffickers. There appears to be a whole tangle of businesses and intermediaries attached to human trafficking. In the end Lunchline will be taken to court and compensation will be paid to the victims.

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 ...