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 The
mysterious and distant Dr. Alex Nikolas makes his entry in Santa
Barbara at the time of the new wedding of Sophia and C.C. Capwell
in March 1987. His old official friendship with C.C. is in fact only a
lure intended to hide the hatred that he feels for the rich businessman. Formerly
fiancé to Pamela Conrad, Alex saw his lover to escape from him for
Capwell money, before dying by
the fault of the same C.C.. Alex finds allies in his search of revenge
in Jeffrey Conrad and Mason Capwell, both eager to honour the memory of their late
mother.
A third ally is added to the previous two in the person of Gina DeMott Capwell, who
gets interested in him. Alex goes so far as to buy her an apartment, but he is not long fooled by the fact that
her interest in him is above all for his power and his research work. Their
affair badly adjusted from the start does not however last a
long time.
One
of Alex's many researches consists of the creation of a serum likely to
cure the strange evil from which Caroline Wilson suffers. As he refuses
to deliver his first prototype before it is not more tested, Lionel
Lockridge takes the initiative to steal the serum that Caroline
injects to herself. Gina and Keith Timmons do the same without Alex's knowledge, and sell
to C.C. a sample of the serum so that he can commercialize it under his name. But the product has harmful effects and
kills all its users, included Caroline Wilson.
Alex
then finds himself directly related to the affair of the
supposed death of Eden Capwell in this year 1987, since he turns to be
the adoptive father of the woman who makes her being called Eleanor
Norris :
frightening Elena Nikolas. When he discovers that she knows the truth on
her filiation (she is Pamela and C.C.'s daughter), Alex fears that her
disturbed nature does not lead her to terrible misdeeds. Alex is not at
the end of his surprises when, at the death of Elena, at the time of the
lawsuit of Cruz Castillo for her murder, he discovers that Pamela is still
alive and
back to Santa Barbara ! Alex's deceitful behavior makes him an obvious actor in the death of Elena. After a
missed suicide attempt, Alex ends up acknowledging that he was with his adoptive
daughter at the time of her death and that he killed her by accident with
her gun. The continuations of the investigation however clear him, since it proves that in fact Elena
killed herself.
Whereas
he has already lost Elena, Alex must also go to the obviousness about
Pamela : this last one is only interested in C.C. again and will never turn
over towards him again. He then prefers to leave definitively Santa
Barbara at the beginning of the year 1988...
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Murderous
smile,
1992
