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Episode 50

Warren confesses to his mother that he stole valuables belonging to the Capwell's at the time when he saw Channing Jr frequently. But he swears that under no circumstances is he his murderer. He is interrupted by Summer, who has come to announce to him that she got conservative's post in the museum of Santa Barbara. The police find a shirt in rags on the reefs: it would seem that it belongs to Joe, who has been missing since ten o'clock. They now believe Joe is dead. Marisa comes to announce this sad news with Jade at the high school and interrupts the course of Mr Bottoms. By solidarity, all pupils of the class, and Ted in first, disobey the orders of Bottoms and leave the room to be with Jade. For her part, Kelly refuses to think that Joe is dead.  Cruz tries by using his radio to find any trace in the sea. Lionel, having viewed a video recording of Sophia, goes to The Mesa and makes deposit of a blindfold intended for Eden. Eden places it into her hair, without knowing who the mysterious shipper is. In his office, Peter rejoices to have finally got rid of all his enemies, when Veronica announces to him the arrival of an appointment: it is terrible Ginger who promises this time not to lose grip...

Episode 51

Mr Bottoms decides to punish Ted for having made the class leave his course the day before. To take out revenge on Bottoms, Ted announces a mischievous plan that involves Laken and Danny. In The Mesa, Kelly sees an announcement in the newspaper to get into contact with Dominic. She entrusts her certainties and John Perkins regarding Joe's innocence, when Sally informs her he has tried to reach her by telephone. It is Dominic who waits for her in the habitual den. Eden stops Lionel from leaving a note of appointment on Sophia's grave. Warren brings Summer home to show her works of art belonging to the family. She is newly welcomed by Augusta, obviously jealous.  At the Capwell hotel, Gina is in search of Brandon who seems to have disappeared. Believing Brandon's joke, she finds his plush bear in the corridor on the floor. But no trace of Brandon...

Episode 52

Peter accepts Ginger's visit to his office and makes the first down payment of his ransom to her. At the Capwell hotel, everybody bustles about to find Brandon. To help the police, Mason asks Gina for the date and place of birth of the child. C.C., who was told by Gina that Santana was at the hotel during the day, goes home. Using an excuse to look after his security, he searches each of the rooms, in reality in search of Brandon. Finally, Peter enters the linen room to take possession of the presidential suite, finds Brandon asleep on the floor. Once in the room they discover the other face of the two-way mirror, it does serve as a hiding-place for Brandon in another room.  He brings back Brandon, still asleep, following Gina. Peter is thanked and treated as hero by C.C.. Eden leaves the graveyard again without seeing anybody. Lionel recovers the present which he had given her and gives it to Augusta: it is a scarf and a big necklace which had been intended for Sophia in the past. At night, Ted and Danny go to a circus. They drive him up to the high school Lyman and lock him up in the schoolroom of Mr Bottoms. Jade, Marisa and John are told information by Cruz that helps stop their rescue in the sea to find Joe. Joe is in fact lying inanimate on the high seas, on a small boat driven by two foreigners without seeing their faces...

First episode of Charles A. Pratt as executive producer.

Episode 53

Joe wakes up on board of a boat with two mysterious men from Yugoslavia, Ivo and Jasna. They at last discover who Joe is, but agree to keep him, nonetheless with them. Ted and Danny paly a joke in Mr Bottoms' classroom: Mr Bottoms is shocked when he discovers a camel in the early hours in his schoolroom. At home, Dominic destroys his medical records which Joe had stolen in Anchorage. Peter learns from C.C. that he overheard a discussion the day before between him and Gina whom he discovered that Brandon had been adopted. C.C. makes a promise to repeat nothing. Peter understands that he put the finger on a means to make some money. In possession of a recording of the discussion that occurred behind the mirror of presidential suite, Peter offers a deal to Mason: he reveals the secret he knows if Mason gives him 230 00 dollars which he has to then give to Ginger. When, later, Mason finds Santana in the Capwell residence, he casually slips him the information about Brandon being an adopted child.  Santana doesn't have to wonder for long if Brandon would be her son. Warren withdraws from the rescuer's rack the case containing the gold coins which he stole from the Capwell's and decides to bring them back home. But, surprised by the arrival of Summer, he drops the chest and overturns all rooms with earth...

Episode 54

Summer sees the gold coins that Warren stole from the Capwells, but lies to her about their origin and succeeds in taking out this bad step. He accuses Summer of working with Kelly by questioning her about her contacts with the Capwells. When he arrives back home, Warren shows his mother the coins and tells her that Summer saw them. Lionel accompanies Minx in The Mesa where she has an appointment with a young man, Brick Wallace, whose curriculum vitae she seems to know by heart. She offers him to be her new driver, Ambrose having left to go into exile in Australia! Lionel suspects his mother of having a relationship with his interlocutor of The Mesa. On board of the boat, Joe discovers a system of an electronic radar hidden in a cupboard. Ivo and Jasna threaten him with a weapon after noticing his discovery, but Joe manages to avoid them. After different negotiations, Mason offers Peter to deposit part of the money which he needs if he reveals to him the information which he has. Peter accepts and informs Mason that it is C.C. who took responsibility for the adoption of Brandon himself by Gina and whom he wants to keep this secret operation. Santana speaks to her mother of her doubts concerning Brandon. While C.C. spends the night at home, she discreetly phones Brandon and asks him for the date of his birthday. Brandon tells her the same day when she gave birth to her son...

First appearance in the series of Brick Wallace.

Episode 55

C.C. wakes up alone and finds the photo of Brandon which Santana took out from his wallet and forgot to line up. Anxious, he tries then to reach Santana and learns that she is not at her job. Suspecting something, he calls home and questions Rosa. Rosa, who has just learnt that her daughter left for Los Angeles to find her son, becomes confused and accidentally puts C.C. on Santana's track. To support his accusations of murder concerning his son, Augusta shows Lionel the gold coins which Warren stole from the Capwells. Lionel obliges his son to speak, but in vain. It is the first working day of Brick, the new driver of Minx. He is already tested by "innocently" leaving the purse on the seat of the car. But he proves his integrity by returning the money in its entirety. Having spent hours in the room of Channing Jr, Kelly goes to a church, to pray for Joe, when a mysterious person comes to sit down not far from her.  It is Joe.  Before C.C. takes the plane for Los Angeles in pursuit of Santana, Mason brings him up to date on the intervention in the adoption of Brandon by DeMott. C.C. allows him to speak whilst boarding the plane, the pilot of which is other than... Dominic! Arriving at Los Angeles, he makes a lookout in front of Gina's flat, when he finally sees Santana in a car coming into sight. He goes up to the vehicle and surprises her...

Episode 56

Santana tells C.C. how she discovered the truth about Brandon. C.C. asks her to abandon the idea of seeing her son if she really likes him. On board of the plane, piloted by Dominic, which sees them arriving in Santa Barbara, C.C. asks Santana to choose between her son and him. Santana chooses Brandon. Warren gives a jewel to Summer to apologise for her behaviour with the other evening. But Summer refuses to keep the jewel, using their friendship as an excuse not to sell. Mr Bottoms suspects Ted of being at the origin of the visit of the dromedary in his class. Joined by Marisa at the high school, Jade learns that his sister Amy is about to come back for the memorial service for Joe. Kelly recognises Joe finally in the church. Both take refuge in a barn where they make love finally. But suddenly, while they are asleep, a mysterious woman enters the shelter...

Episode 57

When Kelly leaves the barn to search for something to eat, Joe has a surprise meeting face to face with Jasna and Ivo. Both prove to be spies and offer Joe to join them in their mission. But they are interrupted by the return of Kelly. Joe asks him to inform Jade and Marisa that he is alive. Kelly drives Jade up to the barn where she finds Joe. Marisa, who has stayed at home with John to welcome her other daughter, Amy. Santana learns from Rosa that C.C. offered Gina to leave while abroad. Santana then goes to see C.C. and who offers her a contract in which she needs to agree to abandon the idea of seeing Brandon again. Very irritated, Santana refuses. Lionel who is concentrating on Amanda Lockridge, a family boat having cast years ago with in his edge a big collection of works of art, when he accepts the visit from Summer.  Summer offers Lionel a common job in the museum. Summer then goes back to the presidential suite of the Capwell hotel which she leaves to move into the own flat. Warren comes to help her pack the suitcases and sees one of the gold coins stolen from the Capwells. The floor waiter delays this room later for Kelly, who suspects immediately Warren of having lost her. Kelly shows the room to Ted who also seems to admit her as being one of the rooms stolen during the break-in of the residence. The memorial service for Joe begins. Parents and friends of Joe, Augusta and including Dominic, are present. Cruz begins his speech...

First appearance in the series of Amy Perkins.

Episode 58

Jade goes out of the church with her mother and informs her that Joe is alive. With Amy, they are going to find him in the barn where he is hiding. Kelly makes Joe listen to Cruz's funeral speech which she recorded on a tape recorder. Joe records some words in continuation that Kelly makes Cruz listen to.  In the church, John mourns the death of his son and regrets that he is too much late to start everything with him again. Amy arrives at the airport to welcome Jeff Barber, her boss and baby-friend, with whom she must leave to Hawaii this weekend. And yet Jeff announces that he is going there with another woman. C.C. announces to Santana that he is ending their relationship. Later, it is discovered that Cruz knew about the filiation of Brandon for several days. She packs her suitcases and leaves for Los Angeles. She arrives to where Gina is and finds only the security guard of the home, who tells her that Gina left for the Caribbean with her son. Warren realises that he lost one of the gold coins. He is told by Summer that it is Kelly who found it and kept it. Lionel carries out his small entertaining speech to the museum in front of the whole assembly, composed between Summer and Eden. When Eden goes back to the car, she finds Lionel's note which arranges to meet him in the museum after the closing...

First appearance in the series of Jeff Barber. It will be necessary to wait for episode 91 before seeing him again.

Episode 59

Mason hopes for a phone call from his mother, Pamela, for her birthday today. He thinks she is still in Majorca. He goes to see Santana, still suffering from her separation with C.C., and he makes her smile. John who is still unhappy about his supposed son dying learns from Marisa that he is alive. Jade keeps Amy company in State Street bar to forget her fiancé. They are accosted by a fragile man and find their greeting only to be interrupted by the intervention of Brick. Warren informs his mother that Kelly is currently in possession of one of the stolen gold coins. Lionel starts a session of facial massage with Augusta to leave the residence without her knowing it. He goes to the museum where he has an appointment with Eden. Once Eden arrives, he lights a light in the uninhabited room and reveals his identity. Kelly and Joe have a romantic dinner with candles in the presidential suite of the Capwell hotel. Whilst leaving his office, Peter decides to make a small detour in the linen room where the back of the famous two-way mirror is...