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 If
Nick Hartley is a reliable straight and honest man, his brother Dylan
Hartley can be considered as his perfect antithesis. He landed one fine
afternoon in Santa Barbara on the board of an aircraft in flames he
leaves over the ocean, and swims to the beach, where Julia Wainwright
looks at him coming with excitement. Dylan
finds in town his brother Nick and his girlfriend Janice Harrison,
surprised to see him arriving so abruptly. Nick is particularly
disappointed that his brother is still a liar, a profiteer and
refractory to work. Dylan finds however a little support from Kelly
Capwell, Nick's
fiancée, not indifferent to his charm and his adventurer side.
But
Dylan's arrival hides a well thought plan
: with the help of his friend Sam Williams, he came into possession of a
map leading to a mysterious treasure, an old Africa gold mine. But this
map, stolen to the dreaded gangster Carlo Alvarez Dylan was working for,
causes him to be chased by Carlo's
henchmen. To escape them, Dylan makes a fake map with Sam. But when
these men start to hunt him, Dylan hides the real map in a ghost town
with the help of Kelly. After a chase through the ghost town where he
puts Kelly's life in danger, Dylan is forced to leave the real map to
Carlo. However he manages to save Kelly alive from the adventure, just
before being rescued by Nick and Sam.
Dylan
is then blamed by his brother for having brought Kelly in this story and
have made her risk her life. He is also left by Janice, who reproaches
him his too little interest for her.
Whereas
he goes with Kelly on a jet in San Francisco, Dylan is forced to stop in
Santa Rosa. With the promiscuity, they both end up making love on board
without considering the consequences. It is only the next day that they
realize the seriousness of their act and the betrayal it causes towards
Nick. They however decide to keep secret this night of passion.
Shortly
after this, Dylan invests himself in a new adventure : the casino. He
indeed proposes to the Capwells to open a casino in the middle of the
ocean, on a disused oil rig belonging to C.C. Capwell. The idea goes on
and Dylan becomes one of the managers of the establishment, once opened.
But the conflicts continue with Nick, and Dylan is still unable to win
of his brother the approval that he is secretly waiting for, especially
since the opening day of the casino, Dylan implies to his brother that
Kelly and him share some deep feelings for one another. Dylan,
who wants to keep control of the casino money, do not hesitate to rig
the roulette wheel, and Warren Lockridge is one of the players who is
his the more often victim of it.
While
her wedding with Nick approach, Kelly shares to her mother and her
sister her one-night affair with Dylan and the remorse that chase her,
thinking she is really in love with him. On the eve of the ceremony, she
confided the truth to Nick, who immediately cancels the festivities.
In love with Kelly, Dylan, even if he promises
the contrary many times, do not leave the city so far. He even continues
to pursue Kelly of his ardor with more insistence. One evening, when
Kelly had organized everything for a reunion with Nick, he turns again
more pressing and joins her, a gun in the hand, in the presidential
suite of the Capwell Hotel. Dylan shows off a new side and wants to
force Kelly to give up Nick for him. Feeling threatened, Kelly (who sees
Peter Flint's
attitudes in Dylan's), pushes Dylan in self-defense against the glass
which gets broken into pieces and let him falling from dozens of stairs
on the sidewalk.
The
shock, which will cause a profound psychological impact on Kelly, is
also a shock for the viewer, who sees a devious but impossible to
dislike character disappear in a tragic manner from the show...
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