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Episode 1270

On a flight towards Las Vegas, Kelly tries a game of seduction on Craig. When they arrive, she invites him to her hotel room, and tries to do everything not to sleep with him. She hides his wallet to search it, while Craig does the same and discovers that he has met Kelly Capwell. Questioned by Ethan, Jeff Nugent admits having pulled a gun on Maria to frighten her, fearing that she will report this to Michael. But he denies having killed Leo Mitchell. He accuses Michael of being the murderer. Ethan asks Cruz to arrest Michael. Michael and Laura search Jeff's studio. Michael tells Laura that he is going to go to the police. He lets Laura leave in front of him and follows her up to Ethan's boat. He phones Cruz and asks him to join him there. With Rafael's help, Eden researches the Sirens, hoping to find evidence on Robert's regular allusions. She accepts the dinner appointment to question him, but gets nothing from him. Back at home, she discovers from Dante, Cruz's spy, on the telephone, that Robert is bound for Las Vegas and that Kelly is already there. But Dante is stunned by a henchman. Eden tries to contact Cruz so that he helps Dante. However, Cruz arrives at the marina with Julia and finds Michael on board Ethan's boat. Michael surprises Laura there with the weapon which killed Leo and, bearing a grudge, pushed Laura who bashed against a boot and fell on the ground. Ethan arrives at the tower and sees his unconscious wife beside Michael, a weapon in his hand...

Episode 1271

While Laura is in the hospital in a coma, Michael is arrested by the police. Heather visits him at the police station and informs him that she called their father to tell him about the situation. Julia and Cruz think about the evidence at their disposition and conclude from it that the culprit of Leo Mitchell's murder can only be Laura. But Michael refuses to envisage this possibility. He begins fighting with Ethan when he comes to question him in a powerful way. Eden follows Robert to Las Vegas. Kelly ends up agreeing to go with Craig up to the casino. Craig finds Robert there, who also discovers that Eden followed him. He asks Craig to make both women go back to Santa Barbara. Robert has an appointment with his boss, who asks him not to let any more drag in the operation against Capwell Firms. Robert finds Eden and announces to her that the plan of fusion is cancelled: he counts from the following day to throw O.P.A. against Capwell Firms...

Episode 1272

Arthur Donnelly arrives in Santa Barbara to visit his son in prison. He assures him to believe in his innocence. In the hospital, he recommends to Ethan to arrest Laura. Cruz questions Jeff Nugent, and Jeff hits Cruz to the face. Cruz uses this as an excuse to arrest him, in spite of the immunity which Ethan gave him for his evidence against Michael. Eden wakes up and discovers that Barr Industries took control of Capwell Firms from the opening of the grant. Being the head of the company, she feels responsible. C.C., devastated, goes to see Robert. He tries to do well and refuses his offer to keep Capwell at the head of the society. With the Armonti Firms, Sophia makes cardboard to Gina's great satisfaction. Robert comes to become established in C.C.'s office.  Uneasy to have had acted this way, he pleads with Eden to remain working for him. But respecting the orders of her father, she refuses and leaves Robert in the big empty office...

First reappearance of Dr. Arthur Donnelly since episode 1090. From this episode, William Sabatier becomes his new French voice.

Episode 1273

Sophia tries to comfort C.C.. C.C. goes on the disused oil rig where he proposed marriage for the first time to her. Sophia finds him there and shares a sandwich with him. Celeste visits Michael in prison and offers to take blame for the murder of Leo Mitchell. Michael refuses. Laura wakes up and pronounces some words to Ethan regarding police and the statement. Straight after, she dives back into the coma again. Arthur decides to operate on her, with Scott's help. The operation goes well, but Arthur cannot pronounce her state. Michael's trial begins, but Ethan is not in his normal state. Julia asks the judge to challenge it. When Cruz goes back to his office at the police station, he finds Ethan consulting Leo Mitchell's file. Cruz asks him to leave...

Episode 1274

In prison, Heather and Julia try to persuade Michael that Laura is Leo Mitchell's murderer. But Michael continues defending her. Ethan proves to be more suspicious towards Jeff Nugent and calls him in for questioning. He however lets him leave the prison. Ethan's helper who took the trial back in hand does not succeed in finding Leo Mitchell's file. Besides, the murder weapon disappeared from the police office. As Nugent disappeared without leaving a trace, Michael's trial ends immediately in a dismissal. Cruz wonders what motivated Ethan to release Nugent. Learning that Laura is out of the coma after her operation, Ethan rushes to her bed and asks her if she wants to speak to him about Leo. Eden brings back the bunch of flowers which Robert sent to her home. Robert asks her about her personal business which she kept at the Capwell Firms. After this meeting, Eden's visions become clear: she sees herself more distinctly this time having been fished out of water by Robert and waking up on a beach on her side...
Jeff Nugent will reappear one last time in the series in the episode 1351.

Episode 1275

C.C. and Greg launch a challenge to repair the display of the first oil rig bought by Capwell Firms. They reach it after a long working day. Laura confesses to Ethan that she killed Leo Mitchell. She tells him that in the evening in question, she saw him going up to Michael and getting ready to shoot him in the back. She immediately pulled a weapon on him, then threw Leo's weapon into the ocean, before lining up Ethan's revolver in his drawer. Ethan prefers keeping the secret, but tells Cruz the truth when he questions him on the classification of the affair. Laura confesses to Michael that she is the murderer. When Ethan comes back to see her, he asks her if she slept with Michael these last weeks and Laura admits that she has. Eden goes to see Robert and questions him on her visions. He admits that it is about memories and events which took place in the past. Eden goes back home very unsettled. She prefers saying nothing about all of that to Cruz...

Episode 1276

Heather asks Laura to remain distant from Michael to help him regain the upper hand. But in spite of Ethan's promise to excuse her disloyalty, Laura cannot help thinking of Michael. Sophia goes to see Robert and announces that she takes back her decision and that she wants to occupy her place of joint manager once again of Armonti Firms. She wants to straighten the bar in front of the inappropriate decision made by Gina to reduce the value of the famous mark of clothes. Cruz learns from his father that Eden went out to discuss the beach with Robert. But since, she is untraceable. Thanks to his informant, Cruz finds Robert at his fitness club and threatens him with retaliation if he makes his wife suffer. He then goes to Craig Hunt's office and asks him for information on his boss in Las Vegas, when the telephone rings. Cruz listens and hears Craig ask what Eden has put on the key...

From this episode, Joseph Cali becomes the new interpreter of Jack Dante.

Episode 1277

In spite of Bunny's advice, Gina takes out the most vulgar and bare dress to assist in the appointment of Sophia's business with an important client in the Orient Express. She offers Ric to work for her and to participate in her plan. But in the restaurant, Gina looks ridiculous and Sophia does not miss the opportunity to make fun of her in front of her client. Ric even does not dare to intervene. Dante, Cruz's informant, installs a microphone following Craig. But he is discovered by a security agent. Eden goes to a psychiatrist and tells him about her visions of which she thinks to be events of past which she forgot. The doctor explains to her that she must suffer from selective amnesia further to a shock to her head. Eden thinks that it is due to her fall in mountains two years before. She questions her father about facts of drowning in her youth, but C.C. remembers nothing. She goes aboard of the Capwell yacht to try to remember, when Cruz joins her. They make love and Eden recollects a dispute with her father about a boyfriend at the age of 18 years...

Episode 1278

Heather takes a second ultrasound scan. Arthur, eager to see her reconciled with Scott, sends him to accompany her. Kelly becomes a model for Sophia to get possible photos of the new Armonti collection as quickly as possible for William Klein, their client in New York. Gina, who is jealous is pushed aside from this operation, tries to sabotage the session photos, then the development of them. She finds herself locked up in the camera room with Sophia, her hand wedged in the door. Kelly sends the photos to Klein, but Ric intervenes to intercept them and to give them to Gina. Robert announces to Cruz that he decided to withdraw his complaint against Jack Dante. He makes Cruz understand that he needs to earn the heart of Eden. Robert goes to see Eden and tells her about the gold coin which he sent her in the morning. He tells her that, several years earlier, having saved her from drowning, he brought her home and showed her gold coins which he seems to have stolen. Cruz arrives and Robert stops his history. Eden announces to her husband that she finally decided to work for Robert. Cruz is upset by this decision...

Episode 1279

Laura is authorised by Scott to leave the hospital. Michael announces to Heather and Celeste that he is leaving Santa Barbara for Boston. He goes to his old chapel for a last goodbye and finds Monroe, a young boy there stealing properties from the Church. He tries to reason with him and promises to come to see him at home the next day. Laura finds Michael in the chapel, but he repeats that, further to his lies, everything is finished between them. Dante informs Cruz that Robert prepared his yacht for an exit in the sea before the arrival of his boss from Las Vegas. Cruz goes aboard and installs a microphone in it. It is finally Eden who goes up with Robert there. On the high seas, Eden begins remembering her first meeting with Robert at the age of 18 years. Robert confesses that they were in love with each other. Eden is confused. She discovers that Cruz is aboard and goes down to find him in the boiler room. There, she finds the listening device and fears that he heard her discussion with Robert...