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 Serious,
upright and without much imagination, judge David Raymond arrives in
Santa Barbara in the summer of 1991. His marriage to the beautiful
Angela is struggling and the couple is about to separate. Old friend of
C.C. Capwell's, David is primarily the former law teacher of the lawyer Julia
Wainwright, with whom he aspires to a love relationship. But he must
face Julia's inability to detach herself from her ex-husband Mason
Capwell. Thus, his advances remain vain, although his eagerness to
seduce her continues for several months.
If
he renounces to run for a senator post that will keep him away in
Washington, David is willing to part with Angela and to ask for divorce.
But Angela, to dissuade him, threats him of retaliation : if he starts
the procedure, she will denounce to the police his role in the death of
her sister, Marilyn. Killed in a car accident with him, Marilyn was
above all David's first love, before he met and married Angela.
Finally,
Angela having found a new love in the person of Warren Lockridge, David
sees opening the possibility of finally getting a divorce. He then
resigns from his post as a judge, fearing the impact on his career. He
moves as a lawyer, and even participates in the defense of Warren in his
trial for the murder of Amado Gonzalez. He then plans to reveal
information about Marilyn's death in order to harm Angela, which could
exonerate Warren while making her a possible suspect. But the real
culprit, Craig Hunt, is discovered. David leaves Angela in peace,
getting at that same moment his long awaited divorce.
However
the Marilyn case catches him up through Cassandra Benedict who, jealous
of seeing Angela with Warren, seeks to destroy her rival. Unwittingly
drugged by Cassandra, David admits that Angela is involved as much as
him in the death of Marilyn, as she was driving the car the night of her
death. Pushed at her turn to confess herself by Cassandra, Angela admits
the facts.
David
enjoys his new found tranquility to get closer to Gina DeMott Capwell.
But David's proximity with C.C. permanently creates doubts towards
each other on the sincerity of their feelings : David is afraid that
Gina uses him to gain the favors of C.C., whereas Gina wrongly thinks
that David dates her on his old friend's order of to keep on eye on
her actions. The relation does not last and David, finally alone and
without ties, leaves Santa Barbara without being missed for all that by
the persons who will have frequented him...
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