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is a few weeks after the tragic disappearance of Eden Capwell in 1987
that Carmen Castillo makes the surprise to go back to her brother Cruz,
plunged into mourning, in Santa Barbara. Alternately rebel but kind and
helpful, the young girl left the family house and a too intrusive mother
to find a brother she hopes laxer and more open-minded towards her. But,
she realizes very fast that Cruz, who is a policeman, tends to act with
her more as a second father than as a brother.
Having
never known Eden whom everybody considers dead, Carmen can not stop but
wanting to comfort her brother by trying to bring him together with
Eleanor Norris, the mysterious woman who seems to dedicate a quite
particular interest for Cruz. She even organizes without their knowledge
a romantic camping evening on a desert island for Cruz and Eleanor,
which turns in a fiasco : a fire starts on the island Cruz and Eleanor
have the chance not to burn and die before the arrival of the rescuers.
Always
avid to be useful, Carmen obtains from his brother to work in the
detectives agency which he has just created. Confined in works of
reception and secretariat, Carmen does not wait before taking
initiatives and intervenes repeatedly on her own initiative in the field
without the authorization of Cruz or Pearl Bradford, his colleague. But
her naivety is rewarded, as in the affair of the kidnapping of young
Johnny Wallace, where Carmen succeeds in localizing the malicious
adoption agency by playing a future mother avid to give up her child. It
is still her who finds Pamela Conrad's track at her return in Santa
Barbara, under a false identity.
Above
all faithful to her brother, Carmen is devastated when this latter is
sued then condemned for the murder of Elena Nikolas, a.k.a. Eleanor
Norris. She supports as she can Eden, returned from the dead, and
participates actively in the operation of Cruz's escape during the
wedding of Kelly Capwell and Jeffrey Conrad.
At
the beginning of 1988, Carmen is at the origin of a drama, when she
invites her new boyfriend Blister at a party given at The Lair. This
latter, idiot and violent, gets drunk all evening long and knocks down
Hayley Benson with his car at the exit of the club. Carmen feels
immediately responsible for the accidental death of Hayley, but gets
amended by allowing her friends to find Blister.
Without
that any reason is never given, Carmen disappears from the show a few
days later. While her mother, then her brother Ric will afterward make
speak about them, never it will be made mention again of Carmen, whose
passage in the show will have been too much superficial...
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