|
 Before
all a doctor, Dash
Nichols is at his first appearance in the show in 1990, the president
of the Blue Sky Brigade, an ecologist movement. He hires Julia
Wainwright as a lawyer in his fight against the Oasis project,
instigated by the Capwell Enterprises, which would
harms nature and
birds. Dash gets closer to Julia in particular at the occasion of the
explosion of the Blue Sky Brigade offices, destroyed by Harland Richards,
during which they get trapped under the rubble.
Become very
close to Julia, Dash is very quickly suspected by Mason Capwell, Julia's
husband, to be his lover. Mason then starts to drink again and Julia
decides, for the good of their young daughter, Samantha, to divorce. Dash
then comes to comfort Julia and, for the
first time, they both spend the night together. Fallen in love with
Julia, Dash rents a house in the hope that she will move in it with him.
He invites her to diner, and refuses to hear her saying that she regrets
their night together. Without realizing it, he forces her to sleep with
him again.
Dash is then accused of rape by Julia.
The trial which follows is the
occasion for Julia to see herself reproached her affair with
Michael Donnelly two years before, and for Dash to see a painful event of
his past reappearing : the accidental death of a former patient he was in
love with, Eileen Becker, and of whom he had been accused at the time.
But at the end of the trial, Dash is finally discharged because of lack
of evidences. Being a nervous wreck, Julia kidnaps Dash in an isolated
cabin in the mountains and obliges him to admit his faults. Dash
refuses to recognize that he committed a reprehensible act,
remaining persuaded
that Julia was willing this evening and that they really love each other.
While Dash injures himself the head, Julia runs
away
to look for help in the snow and falls into a hole. Dash saves her, but
Julia is not for all that decided to forgive him everything.
Learning
that she begins a therapy with a rape
specialist, Dash gets closer of Julia's
psychiatrist,
Dr.
Denise Foxworthy. Under a false identity, he gets seduces
her,
at first to spy on Julia's statements, before having
real feelings for her. However he
eventually admits his lie to Denise, and takes her
to task
in the hope of proving that it is not in his personality to force women
in anything. He almost succeeds in also convincing of his innocence
Augusta Lockridge, Julia's own sister. Settled on a boat neighbor of
hers in the marina, he even feels, after many recurring visits, that she
fell under his charm.
One evening when he saves a woman
from a rape in a bar, Dash realizes the contents of his act
with Julia. He
then obliges himself to execute community works to make his fault
forgiven. This is when he meets Katrina Ruyker, the young German girl
lodged by the Capwells. In spite of C.C. Capwell's wrath, Katrina
decides to ignore Dash's scabrous past and they both begin a nice
love-story. On
C.C.'s order, Craig Hunt tries by all means to make them part, going as far as paying
henchmen to intimidate them by
violence. So Dash's past as
a
rapist pursues
him constantly, putting many
spokes
in both lovers'
wheel.
Helped by Katrina, he
gets a
job as a doctor in
Saint-Louis.
He leaves then,
reluctantly, the one he loves. But at
her
departure of Santa Barbara in 1992, Katrina announces her intention to
pass by Saint-Louis,
to apparently take up with the past...
If
no doubt ever really remained as for Dash's guilt
in Julia's rape, this latter
nevertheless
knew
how to remain a strong,
deep and terribly human person...
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Dashing,
1990
