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 The
dangerous and merciless Anthony Tonell appears in 1989, in full period
of crisis for Capwell Enterprises. Robert Barr took the power and the
Capwells lost everything. It turns out then that Robert works for
another man, an important Las Vegas businessman with little scrupulous
methods, and worthing of the worst gangsters : Anthony Tonell.
Tonell
moves back in front of nothing to get what he wants. He has under his
orders an effective henchman, Craig Hunt, thanks to whom he can make as
well lock Cruz Castillo into the San Sebastian prison on a false pretext,
than to shoot Rafael Castillo. Without moral qualms, he makes accuse
Julia Wainwright of the murder of Bunny Tagliatti, and blows up a train
in which are Eden and Cruz. Tonell is not indeed used to get troubled
about those who block his way. We understand his real intentions when he
uses the El Diablo gold mine to hide in false ingots pounds of
plutonium. He then uses a railroad belonging to Capwell Enterprises to
escort his load towards the United States, and to use the threat of
plutonium explosions to obtain always more power and wealth.
But
meanwhile, Tonell loses a major ally, Robert Barr. This latter changes
of camp, by love for Eden Capwell, and rebels against his former mentor.
The danger makes more and more threatening when Tonell discovers that
his mistress, Sasha Schmidt, cheated on him with Mason Capwell in Palm
Springs, and fell in love with him. The intervention of a hitman is
required to put an end to Tonell's
outburst of anger, who dies from a bullet in front of Cruz Castillo.
The
hitman turns out to be paid by Tonell's
widow, even if it was never clearly established that she ordered the
death of her husband. At the time of the reading of Tonell's
will, everybody discovers unbelievingly that the maffioso's widow is no
other than Augusta Lockridge ! She moreover turns out to be the one who
blew to Tonell the idea to acquire Capwell Enterprises. Augusta cries
her late husband with crocodile tears, especially as a big part of
Tonell's goods leaves to Robert Barr and not to her.
Even
if he represented an exciting danger, Anthony Tonell was maybe too much
unidimensional so that we can really become attached to him. His true
motivations remained vague for too long, and even the real circumstances
of his death will have remained uncertain...
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