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Episode 2000

Angela speaks about marriage with Warren, while Ted makes a request dressed up for Katrina. She makes fun of his proposal and prefers not taking him seriously. Having fallen by the window, Gina gets up again and runs towards the Oasis. Mason is there, organising a stage play of Shakespeare for Julia. He takes auditions, and encourages Dreyfuss to try his luck. Gina arrives on the stage and asks Mason to give a note to Lionel arranging to meet her at the airport. Lionel joins her there and they say their goodbyes, before Gina goes up to her plane. She suddenly discovers that she is sitting down next to C.C.. Realising that she causes trouble for Lionel and Channing III, she gets out of the plane and slips into a case to be delivered to the Oasis. Reese and her police colleagues lose their trace. Lionel announces to all that marriage will not take place. Mason then invites everybody to attend the play. The topic of marriage comes up just as much about Angela and Warren, Katrina and Ted, Kelly and Cruz, and Julia and Mason. Suddenly, Gina comes into sight from the case and, dressed in an Elizabethan costume, goes up on stage as the role of the bride. Lionel recognises her and joins her. He uses the presence of a priest among the actors to make his vows to Gina and both find themselves married. Minx sheds a small tear. Gina and Lionel escape up to the garden of the Lockridge villa and repeat their vows. But Reese arrives and puts Gina under arrest for the murder of Taksan...

Last appearance in the series of David Raymond.
This episode is dedicated to the memory of director Michael Gliona,
who died on June 2, 1992.

Episode 2001

Lionel is hospitalised after the fact that he believes he had a mild heart attack. Warren is at his bed head, while Gina is driven to the police station. The medical results arrive, and Lionel suffers only from a small panic attack. Frank announces to B.J. that he is not going back to Florida and that he stays in Santa Barbara. He manipulates Reese insidiously to take him up against Cruz, and sends Jodie to Kelly by implying that she needs assistance to take care of Chip. Kelly sees Jodie arriving while she was about to succeed in cajoling the little boy. Jodie realises that Chip is feverish. Warren agrees to give a job to B.J. at the newspaper. Jodie offers that she works on articles around cases of rapes and of incest's in her job. Cruz points out that B.J. and Warren are close. Rafe accompanies Lily and Channing III in the hospital to see Lionel. They find Gina there, who was released for a few minutes. While Lionel is still confined to bed, they undertake a new wedding ceremony to be sure of being very legally married...

Episode 2002

Aurora visits her father in prison. She assures him to believe in his innocence. Questioned by Julia and Cruz, Abigail raises a portrait to load against Micah, accusing him of being a sociopath without morality and dangerous. Cruz notices that she brings no proof of the supposed delinquency of her son-in-law. Jodie gets Kelly to drive Chip to the hospital, and takes care of his strong fever. When Cruz arrives, Chip is cured thanks to the intervention of Jodie. Having read the police reports on cases of child sexual abuse, B.J. decides to begin writing the article. Frank joins her and proves to be very ambitious. B.J. tells him that if she escaped Florida, it was to avoid her. On his departure, Frank reads the beginning of the article of B.J. on his computer. Aurora joins her grandmother in Ballymoor. Abigail tries to move her away from Sawyer, and says she fears for her life if Micah gets out of prison. At the same time, Julia releases Micah under bail...

Episode 2003

Frank invites Walker to have dinner in the Oasis. Sawyer prefers staying alone at home with Aurora. B.J. discovers that her article on child abuse has disappeared from the computer. She guesses that it was Frank who erased it. Warren announces to Angela that he invited Katrina and Ted to join them to have dinner. They become a foursome at the Oasis. Katrina criticises Warren for giving a journalist job to B.J., who is still only a student. She leaves the restaurant prematurely to join Suzanne, who is finally authorised to leave the hospital. The nurse gives her the cameo which she found down in her room. Suzanne speaks to Katrina about the face of the old lady whom she sees in her dreams. Frank criticises B.J. for her article. From the table, Warren sees B.J. escaping, confused. He joins her, but does not manage to make her say what made her behave like this. Angela surprises them hugging each other. She joins Ted and dances with him. Unsettled by Frank's allusions, Reese asks Jodie if she has already slept with Cruz. Jodie says that she has not. Abigail discovers that Julia released Micah. She predicts a risk of death concerning Aurora. Micah goes to Mariah's grave. He has a vision of her living, and starts to dance with her in the moonlight...

Episode 2004

Reese entrusts to Kelly that she doubts that Frank instituted this in his mind. Due to their resemblance, he wonders if Cruz could be B.J.'s father. Sophia visits Lionel, confined to bed in the Lockridge villa. Gina surprises them while they recollect their common loving past. Kelly is interested in Ken's past. She speaks to him about his childhood in Paved, in Texas, and a marriage cancelled by his fiancée the day before the ceremony. He then speaks on the telephone in a suspicious way with an unknown person. In the Oasis, Rafe tells Cruz that Lisa is pregnant to him. Reese joins Cruz to toast a glass. Cruz guesses that Reese is hiding the reasons of a visible resentment towards him. Lisa tells Rich that she is not pregnant to Rafe and that she rigged the pregnancy test. His purpose is to do everything to make Lily suffer by moving him away from Rafe. Rich especially gets worried to know if she intends to marry Rafe. Lily confides in Rafe and says that she is in love with him. Rafe does not know that to think. They embrace each other, when suddenly Lisa arrives and surprises them...

Episode 2005

In Ballymoor, Micah leaves Abigail alone for a few moments in the living room. She gets up from her wheelchair and takes some steps. Immediately, Julia, Mason, Micah, Sawyer and Aurora arrive to surprise her. Aurora is shocked that her grandmother has lied to her all these years about her paralysis. Abigail uses a momentary cut of electricity due to a storm to escape. Turning 18 during the day, Aurora officially gets her part of the inheritance. Lily and Rafe leave the Oasis for the beach. They kiss each other, but Rafe changes his mind. He joins Lisa in the stables. Walker, Cruz and Frank organise a small party for Aurora's birthday. Abigail notices from the outside of the chalet. Aurora asks Micah and Sawyer to accompany her to her mother's grave. Suzanne goes to Julia and Mason and sees the portrait which she drew of the old woman who attacked her. They recognise Abigail. Under the storm, Abigail comes into sight behind Sawyer and stuns him. She then goes up to Aurora, with an axe in the hand...

Episode 2006

Julia, Mason and Micah run up and prevent Abigail from killing her grand-daughter with blows of an axe. Abigail looks at Julia and has a vision of her daughter Mariah who accuses her of having killed her by fiddling with the brakes of her car when she wanted to kill Micah. Abigail moves back and falls from the top of the cliff. Micah and Sawyer walk Aurora back home in Ballymoor, where Julia and Mason offer her to become established, and this time in an official way. Kelly announces to Jodie of the suspicion of Reese concerning B.J.'s father.  On the beach, Reese expresses the doubts to Cruz on this subject. He asks him if he has already slept with his wife, which Cruz answers negatively. In the chalet, Frank tries to physically get closer to B.J.. B.J. grabs a pair of scissors and hurts him to his hand. She immediately feels guilty and apologises. Under Frank's influence, she criticises her however for having deprived her of her innocence from the age of 10 years while she had no means to push it back. Frank barely accomplishes what she accuses him of. B.J. takes the business and leaves the home. Cruz finds Jodie on the beach, near the rock where, with Reese, they had engraved their names in their youth. Cruz tells her that he lied in Reese by maintaining that they had never slept together. He asks Jodie the truth concerning B.J....

Last appearance in the series of Abigail Beckwithe.
Nobody, not even Aurora, seems shocked by the violent death of Abigail. They all go back to Ballymoor with a smile and get ready to spend a good night. We just hope that somebody thought of taking back up the body of the deceased from the bottom of the cliff...

Episode 2007

C.C. is back from a business trip in Paris. He goes to Sophia's and gives her chocolates and a splendid brooch in the hope of recovering her. Sophia begins pushing him back, when Ken appears behind C.C. and asks him to leave. He tells him that he moved in with Sophia. B.J. leaves Warren's place, while he is in bed with Angela. She asks him if he can accommodate her for night. Warren stays an instant to talk with her. Angela goes back to lie down and phones Ted. Jodie and Cruz continue talking on the beach where they had an adventure as youths. Cruz questions Jodie about B.J.. She assures him that B.J. is Reese's daughter and not his. Kelly and Reese spy on them in the distance. Jodie goes back home and lies to Reese about the where she spent the evening. Cruz, he, plays the card of honesty with Kelly, and reassures her on his love...

Episode 2008

Micah does not seem to appreciate the relationship between Aurora and Sawyer. He announces to Julia and Mason that he is going back to Italy with Aurora. Suzanne also announces her departure for Charleston to Julia and Mason, who say goodbye to her. C.C. offers them to become established in the Capwell villa rather than becoming established in a flat as they had envisaged it. He manages to sweet-talk Samantha by promising her a dog if she comes to live in the villa. Julia and Mason are forced to accept his offer. Lionel recommends to Lily to do everything to keep Rafe if she is really in love with him. Rafe announces to his father that Lisa is pregnant to him. Lily joins him in Rosas Cantina and announces to him that she accepts that he is the father of Lisa's baby, but that she nevertheless wants him to make his life with her. Gina receives a call from David who offers to be his lawyer during his trial for the murder of Taksan. Lionel orders him to refuse. David announces that he is leaving Santa Barbara to take care of the countryside of re-election of George Bush. Rafe joins Lisa on the beach and declares that he takes responsibilities concerning the baby, but that he is going to give in his love for Lily. Lisa answers that, in this case, she is going to abort...

First reappearance of Rafael Castillo, from now on played by Castulo Guerra, from episode 1957.

Episode 2009

Rafe sees no other choice than to give in to Lisa, and offers to marry her. Lisa, first halting, ends up accepting this marriage of reason. Rafael invites the general Fenimore in Rosas Cantina and tells him that Lisa is pregnant with his son. The General, contrary to Rafe's ideas demands that Lisa aborts, refusing any wedding idea. Lisa stands up to him and refuses to follow him. B.J. gives her article to Warren. Warren offers him to come to move into his office at the newspaper. Frank brings back to Jodie and Reese that B.J. is with Warren. Reese, in a rage, refuses to speak to his daughter. Cruz tries to find out what bothers B.J. and what prevents her from having food at her parents. Going contrary to what she promised Lionel, Gina phones one of the Taksan threads. Suzanne says goodbye to Cruz, announcing to him that she found a place in a gallery in South Carolina. She leaves him by crying. Nothing more goes on between Jodie and Reese, who makes her carry B.J.'s departure on her shoulders...

Last appearance in the series of Suzanne Collier.