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singular malicious
character (what will be thereafter the trademark
of the show), Ginger Jones arrives in town to reveal Peter Flint's dark
past. Eccentric until the nails bottom - just like Augusta Lockridge - Ginger arrives from Miami, after having read in a
newspaper the engagement of Peter Flint to the young and
rich Kelly Capwell.
Her
arrival in Santa Barbara is not particularly friendly since Ginger comes to
claim the 250.000 dollars that Peter owes her. She does not leave him
any possible exit : wether he pays her, or she reveals to her future family-in-law
his not very glorious past. In front of the threats
of Ginger and her henchmen, Rip and Bobby, Peter has no other possibility
than to use the Capwell account to repay his
debt. So much more that Peter knows perfectly what Ginger Jones is able
to : he has seen killing Nick, his friend, because he wanted to
cease working for her. And because Peter is long in returning her money
to her, Ginger, little by little, reveals his past. His real name, as his
former
profession. Because, in Miami, Peter - Antonio Fiorno was just a simple gigolo
at her service. Joe is the very first one to learn this secret, at the time
of a terrible face to face between Peter and
Ginger.
Not
fearing anything nor nobody, Ginger, to increase the pressure on Peter's
shoulders, even goes until harassing him at his office where she does
not hesitate to flirt with Mason Capwell, and to pass for
the personal dressmaker of her fiancée, Kelly. Whereas
Peter, on a blow of chance, turned over the situation to his advantage (he
convinces Ginger to cease harassing him until his wedding with Kelly, if not she
would lose all her chances to recover her money),
Ginger decides to attack : she does not hesitate, during a fitting meeting
with Kelly, to organize her own kidnapping. According
to her orders, Rip and Bobby make irruption in the room, gag them and
dope Kelly. By phone, Ginger orders that it is Peter who comes to
give to her the 250.000 dollars ransom. But, after two unfruitful
attempts, Ginger is obliged to release Kelly, giving up at the same time
the town of Santa Barbara and her money, fearing to be
apprehended by the police.
Ginger
will come back later to honour the memory of Peter Flint; she will make
engrave his real name on his tomb stone and, as a goodbye sign, she will
deposit a red rose on it. And whereas Mason Capwell attends to Peter's succession, Ginger Jones
settles in Santa Barbara and
decides to launch out, just like in Miami, in the businesses, and to
offer some "pretty girls" to this corner of paradise at the
edge of the Pacific. As all the good society seems to league against her,
Ginger offers to herself the services of an ally, until there
unthinkable : Mason
Capwell. Without home, without work, at the edge of the society, Mason
has no other choice that to borrow some money to Ginger to survive (Mason needs
money to pay an expert and a
diamond-cutter to evaluate and to recut the diamond discovered in the
Amanda Lockridge, in Lionel Lockridge's chinese box).
Ginger,
as a perfect business woman, leaves him only a few days to repay her.
And to maintain the pressure, Ginger does not hesitate to employ the strong
manner : threaten, harassment... She even goes until lodging two of her
girls in Mason's appartment. Mason is then obliged to accept Ginger's proposals, and
it is how he
officially becomes his personal lawyer. Ginger realizes then one of her best
tricks, since Mason will protect her or her girls from
the claws of justice, but especially he will try to make legal a
business which is not.
Unfortunately
the character of Ginger will lose some importance episodes after
episodes (the intrigue getting centred on the investigation on the murder of
Channing Junior and the consequences of the return of Sophia Capwell).
And it is without another great moment that Ginger will set out again,
certainly for Miami. Generally wearing some panther skin, Ginger Jones
will be, throughout her short appearance in the show, faithful to the
character of her fetish animal. It can be regretted that her character
did not survive a long time to Peter, because as we know her personality,
we should have attended some beautiful duel between her and Augusta Lockridge,
and later with Gina DeMott...
Portrait
written for this site by Lilian
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