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Episode 1520

To return a jealous Mack, Gretchen pretends to be interested in Amado and offers him to become the manager of Bar None. Augusta and Lionel argue about Amado, whom Augusta does not agree with him seeing Laken frequently. Dash Nichols arrives at Mason’s office and accuses him of having thrown the bomb which blew up during the demonstration. Mason explains to him that he has nothing to do with it. He introduces Dash to Julia. She discovers that the plan of Capwell Oasis is going to harm a sanctuary with protected birds. Gina has the idea of trapping Augusta to create tension between her and Lionel. She follows Lionel in the tunnel and leaves a good-luck charm belonging to Augusta behind him. Lionel hears a noise behind him and recognises Augusta’s object. He thinks that she is following him and that it was her who hid pictures that disappeared from the tunnel. He is going to search for her in Pacific Bay polo club to have a discussion with her...

From this episode, Lorelle Mayne replaces Marcia Christie in the role of Sarita.

Episode 1521

Augusta refuses to answer Lionel’s accusations. In The Lair, C.C. takes off as soon as he sees Sophia arriving, still bearing a grudge against her from the public scene which she reserved for him in Pacific Bay polo club. Ric has an appointment with Harland Richard. He discovers a cheque in his files made out to Jack Sellers, the man who threw the bomb on the demonstrators of Blue Sky Brigade. Eden interviews Dash Nichols in Bar None, before being interrupted by Kelly. Kelly is very upset with her for Robert’s letter which she hid from her. Eden defends herself by reminding her that she was only obeying Robert’s request to hide from her true feelings. In The Lair, Gina spies on Sophia and on Lionel, from a neighbouring table. She follows them up to Sophia’s home, where they left to have dinner. A romantic song leads them to dance and to kiss each other. From a window, Gina takes photos of them. Robert goes to see Flame to end the interview. Flame puts him to sleep with a gun with a dart. Quinn then arrives and notices his twin brother for the first time in many years. He leaves to join Renfield on Robert’s yacht. Flame operates a hatch to make Robert fall in the basement of the home. She gets changed and notices Robert, locked up in a room enclosed by bars...

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Episode 1522

Robert wakes up on a bed, and understands that he is prisoner of Flame. From behind the bars, he asks her why she kidnapped him and what ransom she wants. Quinn begins looking at the first files together with Renfield. He receives Craig’s visit, who gives him his resignation. Quinn does not understand why and speaks about it to Flame. Sophia wakes up in the early hours next to Lionel. She feels uncomfortable, but Lionel appeases the situation. After leaving, he finds a pearl necklace in front of the French window in the living room. In Bar None, Gina shows Phyllis the photos which she took the day before. Julia learns from a journalist that Mason and his associates at Capwell Firms are conscious that the plan of Capwell Oasis is going to undermine the sanctuary of birds.  Cassandra boards a train chartered by the Blue Sky Brigade with the aim of an environmental conference. She has a conversation with Ric, before surprising him in brave company with a young blonde woman. Cruz is worried about which affair soaks up his brother. Eden tries to make peace with her sister, but Kelly loses her temper against her, accusing her once again of wanting to govern her life. Kelly then goes on Robert’s yacht and is facing Quinn. He is unaware of how he must react...

Episode 1523

In The Lair, Bunny surprises Gina looking at photos of Sophia and Lionel. He discovers that she has never gone blind. He again receives a gift, sent by an unknown admirer. Gretchen and Mack have dinner in private. Mack makes Gretchen entrust him that she did not make love with her husband since they were married. They finish the party in Mack’s convertible, facing the full moon. Quinn lets Kelly speak to him about their relationship, and discovers that she and Robert rekindled their link. He phones Flame. In Pacific Bay polo club, Kelly arrives to have lunch with Sister Allegra and discovers Quinn sitting down at the table with Flame. She proves to be jealous. Flame then goes back to Robert. She lets him think that Craig is behind his abduction. Quinn comes to reassure Kelly as for his feelings for her, and kisses her passionately. Kelly is under his spell...

Episode 1524

Mason insists that Stephen accept the million dollars promised in exchange for the abandonment of his claims against C.C.. Laken meets Stephen and sees herself offering to work for him on a full time basis as a helper on the new plan. She announces the news to Amado, while he had just got her a job in Bar None. Julia and Mason receive the visit of Belle Sedgewick, a society journalist come to interview them about Capwell Oasis. She is particularly interested in Julia, whom she tries to look at before organising a photo session. Julia has become the victim against her will. Anxious not to hear news about his brother, Cruz questions Tawny about Ric. She swears not to know where he is. Tawny then asks her father if he sent Ric to work at the Blue Sky Brigade, but Harland swears that he did not and assures her not to know where he is. Eden learns from Cassandra that Ric made the acquaintance of a very appealing young blonde woman in the train which took them to the environmental conference. Cruz discovers that Ric has never arrived at his hotel in Asilomar, and that he got off the train earlier together with the mysterious unknown. He gets worried more and more for his brother...

Episode 1525

Cruz explains to Tawny that Ric was seen by two witnesses together with a pretty woman in the train. Tawny is confused, but still stops herself from telling Cruz that Ric works for her father. Cruz and Vic Boswell search Ric’s flat and find explosives similar to those found in Jack Sellers’ van. Cruz is persuaded that they are trying to trap Ric. Kelly gets ready for a romantic dinner with Robert in Pacific Bay polo club. Augusta discovers that she is followed by a man sent by Lionel. Lionel persuades C.C. to acquire a picture. Gina and Phyllis use Lionel’s presence at the Capwell villa to search his home. They search for the name of a purchaser for the pictures which they are hiding at C.C.’s. They manage to run away upon Lionel’s return, but he sees them. He follows them up to the Capwell villa and surprises Gina exchanging one of C.C.’s pictures for a copy brought by Phyllis. In his cell, Robert creates a short-circuit and cuts the electricity in Flame’s home. But he does not manage to open the grids. Flame and Quinn study the active financiers of Robert and think that they do not need him living anymore. Meanwhile, Kelly still waits for Robert in Pacific Bay polo club. She resigns herself to leave when suddenly Craig arrives...

Episode 1526

Craig announces to Kelly that he is leaving the city for good. Having noticed Gina, Lionel is nose to nose with Phyllis. Both women are worried that Lionel discovers their strategy, as well as the fact that Gina is not blind. Gina then takes out the photos which she took of Sophia and Lionel and threatens Lionel to show them to C.C.. Whilst talking with her, Lionel understands that Gina thinks she is in possession of original pictures, while she has only copies. To appease her, he offers to combine with her to sell pictures. Eden encourages her mother to make the first step to be reconciled with C.C.. Sophia goes to the Capwell villa, but she finds C.C. together with a woman. Lionel tells Augusta what he discovered Gina’s hanky-panky. Augusta asks him why he circled the date of 21 on the calendar. Lionel explains to her that he owes some money to men, and that he must imperatively reimburse them before this date. Kelly joins Quinn on the yacht. She is furious that he forgets her, but ends up excusing him. They kiss each other. After Kelly’s departure, Flame reminds Quinn that it would be dangerous to start a relationship with Kelly. Craig decides not to leave for San Francisco, but to stay in Santa Barbara...

Episode 1527

Cruz finds in a forest a piece of shirt with Ric’s blood. He goes back to question Tawny, who ends up confessing that Ric works for her father. Cruz questions Harland Richard at the police station, who admits having engaged Ric. But he supports that the missions which he entrusted him with are not linked to the Blue Sky Brigade. Julia participates in a meeting of the ecological association at the invitation of Dash Nichols. She tries to persuade her members of her good faith and of her independence in relation to the plan of Capwell Oasis. But she becomes disenchanted when she learns from Dash that no protection will be brought into the sanctuary of birds. She announces to Mason that she does not support the plan anymore. Cruz learns that some firms belonging to Harland Richard were linked to Anthony Tonell, and therefore to Robert. He goes on Robert’s yacht and declares to Quinn that he knows who he really is...

In the ending credits, Rosalind Allen joins the regular cast of the series in the part of Gretchen Richards, whereas Peter Love, in the part of Ric Castillo, is not credited as regular actor anymore.

Episode 1528

Mason organises a party at the building site of Capwell Oasis. Dash intervenes to alert the guests on the incurred environmental risks. C.C. asks him to leave, while Mason searches for abatement. Julia joins the party and offers to Dash to bring him the necessary legal assistant to oppose the plan. On Robert’s yacht, Cruz asks Quinn if he has information regarding the disappearance of his brother. Naturally, Quinn has nothing to tell him. Cruz then questions Craig, who tells him nothing. He then receives the visit of the prefect of police who asks him to cease harassing Harland Richard and suspending his inquiry. Kelly joins Quinn on the yacht. They kiss each other and are about to make love, but Quinn pulls himself together. He uses Craig’s arrival to place Kelly at the door. From his cell, Robert offers Flame money if she releases him. Flame replies angrily that she is not interested. She threatens to go to Kelly if he does not bring him the answers which she needs...

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Episode 1529

Laken becomes established in a seedy flat above Topsy Turvy’s. Augusta visits her and is not happy to discover that Amado just lives next to her home. Without seeing him, Lionel is followed by a man of Asian origin. Laken seems to be interested in Stephen and embarrassed when she hears him talking with a woman on the telephone, who proves to be Cassandra. Cruz learns from Cassandra that Ric had a Dictaphone with him in the train in which he disappeared. At the offices of the Blue Sky Brigade, Jeremy, one of Dash’s supporters, gives him the equipment which he recovered in the wagon after Ric’s disappearance. In Ric’s flat, Cruz and Michael find other tapes where Ric made the report of his surveillance of the members of Blue Sky Brigade as for Harland Richard. Julia begins working for Dash and shows that she is capable of other than preparing envelopes. Mason joins her and they oppose again about the Capwell Oasis plan...

From this episode, Karmin Murcello replaces Carmen Zapata in the role of Carmen Castillo.