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Episode 970

Victoria returns for a last visit with Cruz before her departure. She tells him that she does not want him to see Chip again. Eden gets ready to leave to have fertility tests in Los Angeles and asks her parents to lie to cover it to Cruz. But indications push Cruz to suspect that she is hiding the true reason of her trip from him. C.C. takes Gina's proposal from her word and asks her and Keith to sign a document certifying that they promise to leave the city if all the Capwells go to their wedding. Keith insists that Mason is also present. Sam Hastings, the representative of the Supreme Court, comes to give Julia news of the spying of Keith's activities. Julia explains that Keith leads a crusade against the Capwell family and that he accuses Mason of murder without any proof. But Keith manages to persuade him of the opposite by showing him the proof which he received from his secret informant. Father Michael once again prevents Mason from talking with Sister Sarah about Mary. The night arrives, a person with an weapon goes up to Mason, who is asleep. Behind the steering wheel of her car, while she turns to Chip, Victoria does not see a vehicle which is heading straight for her...

First reappearance of Sam Hastings, from now on played by F.J. O'Neil, since episode 925.

Episode 971

Mason wakes up on the second when the blade of the weapon beats down on him. He runs in pursuit of his attacker in the convent, but he is finally stunned in the chapel. Help arrives at the accident scene for Victoria. She is immediately driven to the hospital. Heather asks Dr Garfield to back Scott up in an operation, as he has a lack of confidence in his competences. Alerted by telephone, Julia and Cruz arrive at the hospital. Cruz is reassured when he sees that Chip has been taken out of the accident without a scrape. But the hospital refuses to allow him to take the baby with him for the night without his mother's permission, who is still unconscious. Upon her waking, after the success of her operation, Victoria grants the right to Cruz to keep Chip. In Los Angeles, Eden's doctor recommends that she informs Cruz of the tests which she waits for. But she does not manage to reach him on the telephone. Upon his waking, Mason goes up to the bell tower of the chapel and finds Sister Sarah ready to jump off. He prevents her from it, before Father Michael and Sister Agatha arrive by explaining to him that Sarah is special. Not to disrupt their lives, Michael asks Mason to leave the mission the next morning. Mason then questions Sarah about the death of Mother Isabel and she tells him that she was pushed from the top of the bell tower...

Sophia shares with Eden her memories of the beginning of Eden's adolescence, while she disappeared from Santa Barbara when Eden was only seven years old.

Episode 972

Father Michael and Sister Agatha discover thanks to a photo on the cover of The Santa Barbara Tribune the man whom they know as Mitchell Carter is in reality named Mason Capwell. Sister Sarah hides Michael's office key and gives it to Mason, who is still hidden in the bell tower. Mason goes there and discovers a revolver hidden in a small chest. He tells Sarah that he is persuaded that Michael has something to do with the death of Mark McCormick. Only with her, Ming Li pushes Andrea to the limit by accusing her of wanting to put space between her and her father. Exceeded to limit, Andrea slaps her. Cruz goes with Chip to see Victoria in the hospital. Still in a critical state, she is worried that Chip does not recognise her and is persuaded that she is going to die. Eden obtains the results of her tests: she suffers from an anomaly in the uterus likely to make her sterile. The reason for this is a medicine that Sophia took during her pregnancy. Back in Santa Barbara, Eden comes back home and finds Cruz sitting in the living room with Chip on his knee...

Episode 973

Pamela pays Sophia's accountant so that he makes her believe in a financial malpractice of T.J.. Jeffrey returns to Kelly after spending the day drunk at The Lair, with a romantic dinner. They do again finally make love, but Kelly nonetheless seems to move away from Jeffrey. While Cain and Andrea are on the beach, he offers Andrea a midnight swim in the ocean. She uses this time to escape with his clothes and Cain must go out half naked to Cruz's to find his clothing. Eden doesn't look very happy seeing Chip at her home. Cruz tries to speak with her, but Eden knows that she acts in a selfish way. She gets ready to confess to Cruz the true reasons of her stay in Los Angeles, when the telephone rings: her doctor tells her that she risks not being able to give birth. In Goletta, Father Michael finds Mason searching his office, in search of his weapon. But Sister Sarah arrives behind him and stuns him. She tries to drive Mason towards a tunnel so that he could run away, but Michael catches them. A fight occurs between both men, when a violent explosion of gas occurs in the convent...

Episode 974

On her hospital bed, Victoria asks Julia to establish a will in which, in the event of her death, she entrusts the lawful protection of Chip with his true father. Victoria's mother goes to see Eden and Cruz and asks to take Chip with her. But Cruz refuses and Eden stands up. C.C. asks Cruz to make a choice between Eden and Chip. Kai phones Ming Li and arranges to meet him at Major Hamilton's. He tells her that he knows that she lied about her true identity and that she used Cain to become established in the United States. After the explosion, Mason manages to get out of the debris and runs away. But for Father Michael and Sister Agatha, he is untraceable. Julia, who learns incidentally that an explosion took place, arrives there. The firemen inform her that a body was found in the cellar...

First and last reappearance of Dorothy Lane since episode 946.
It will be necessary to wait for episode 1024 before seeing Mason Capwell again.
At last, as from this episode, Eva LaRue is not credited in the ending credits anymore. She will reappear for a few last scenes as from episode 992.

Episode 975

By giving way to despair that the place she dreamt about for her marriage has disappeared in smoke, Gina finds Mason's signet ring among the debris of the church of the Sacred Heart. Keith questions Michael and Agatha, who identify Mason on a photo. All are persuaded that the body found is Mason. Julia alerts Eden and Cruz, who immediately leave to lead the investigation at the convent of Goletta. Ming Li confesses to Kai that she lied about the advice from Tran-Kwe, Soo Li's sister, to use some of Cain's money to come and live in the United States. When he learns the truth, Phillip Hamilton decides to use Ming Li as a weapon to destroy Cain. Thanks to falsified proof of his malpractice at the Armonti firms, Pamela threatens T.J. to harm him and Sophia if he refuses to entice Kelly. She gives him some money so that he complies. Sister Sarah manages to escape from the room where she was locked up and searches the debris at the church. She finds a book there where Mason had recorded his proof for her attention against Father Michael. But he comes into sight and catches her. Cruz accompanies Julia to the morgue, for the identification of the burnt body found at the convent. Eden, C.C., Pamela, Sophia and Gina arrive at the tower. Julia, almost hysterical, refuses to believe the obvious. Keith arrives suddenly and announces that the dental examination certifies that the body is Mason...

Episode 976

Sophia learns from Kelly that Mason died, while Pamela tells Jeffrey the same. Julia, who wants to think that Mason is alive, asks Cruz to follow the inquiry at the convent in Goletta. There, Cruz finds Keith, questioning Father Michael. Father Michael uses sign language with Sister Agatha without Cruz knowing what they are talking about. Once only, Michael accuses Agatha of having paid the man who sent proof against Mason to the prosecutor and who attacked Cruz. But Agatha disclaims, telling him that she was persuaded that it was already there. In The Lair, Gina drowns her grief with alcohol, first together with Pamela, then with Ted. Ted authorises her to attend the memorial service which his father is going to organise for Mason. Julia goes to the convent and spies on Michael gathering himself...

Episode 977

After learning that a fire took place at the convent of the Sacred Heart, Heather panics and goes there. She finds Michael there, who proves to be her brother whom she did not see for five years. Later, during a picnic on the beach, Heather, usual on reservation, confides in Scott about her family. Kelly arrives at home accompanied by a policeman: she stole flowers for Mason's funeral, having a good time paying tribute to her stepbrother. In service, each of the members of the Capwell family makes a speech about their memories of Mason. Julia arrives and asks them to stop, proclaiming that he did not die. Eden tries to reason with her. In Goletta, Michael has a flashback of himself, firing a gunshot...

In the French version, Heather speaks about her father as being a tough Italian American man, which does not really correspond to the profile of Jon Cypher, who will play this part as from episode 993.

Episode 978

Facing his lack of remorse after the death of Mason, Gina decides to leave Keith. But Brandon refuses to leave. Cain wakes up in bed with Ming Li by his side. She uses the storm to organise a picnic in the boat and tries to entice Cain by feeding him like a child. Julia hires Cruz so that he investigates the convent in Goletta. There, he questions Sister Sarah, who tells him nothing noteworthy. But it is in fact another sister whom Michael asked to play the deaf-and-dumb to deceive Cruz. The true Sister Sarah manages to run away from the room where she was prisoner and goes to Julia's in spite of the storm. She leaves her a note, but it flies off because of the wind. Eden books a plane ticket for Paris. But it is Cruz who takes delivery of the ticket in the mail, without making sense of it. Julia decides to lead her investigation into the disappearance of Mason and dresses up as a nun. While she collects herself at night on Mason's grave, Sarah is surprised by Michael who found her trace...

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Episode 979

In her hospital bed, Victoria is hysterical after Ted tells her that Mason died. Eden invents a new business reason for Cruz to hide the true reason of her stay in Paris: a fertility operation organised by C.C.. Cruz asks for an explanation from C.C. on this displacement, but he pretends not to understand what he asks. Heather and Michael have lunch together in the Orient-Express to become established again. Scott then invites him to Heather's and gives him a picture which he painted himself. They finally get ready to make love when Heather's beeper blares and she goes back to the hospital. T.J. offers Kelly to pay tribute to Mason on the beach with a bottle of wine. Kelly confides in him about her marriage. A bit unsteady, she asks T.J. to embrace her, then to make love. Eden tries to say goodbye to Cruz, when the telephone rings: it is Victoria who asks him to bring Chip to her. Julia gives Samantha to Sophia and C.C. and goes to the convent in Goletta. She comes to Father Michael dressed as a nun, under the name of Sister Rebecca...

In the French version of this episode, Scott says to Heather that "Even given a cold, you are pretty", her French voice Françoise Pavy having the voice broken in the second half of the episode.