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 It
is during
one of Summer
Blake's
flashback that
Hank
Judson
makes
his first appearance
in
Santa
Barbara.
We
discover
that
while he
was
dating
her
sister,
Gina,
in
Atlantic City, he
raped
Summer
one evening
on
the beach.
At
her death,
the first suspicions
of the police
focus
on
Hank,
whom
Mason
Capwell
finds
in
Los
Angeles.
But
Hank
has
an
alibi
for
the night
of
Summer's murder and he is
left
in peace.
A
few weeks later, learning that Gina
is going to marry the
wealthy millionaire
C.C. Capwell,
Hank goes to Santa
Barbara. As
he knows all
the sulphurous
past the young
woman, he has the
idea of
blackmailing
her by demanding
money against his
silence. Gina,
desperate, does not
know how to react, and
even tries to
reverse a
night Hank
with her car. Missing
her target and victim
of an accident, she starts
taking painkillers
with which she
quickly becomes hooked.
In need, she turns
to Hank,
whom she asks to
supply drugs.
Hank exults
to see Gina
at his feet.
But
Hank does
not stop there and
decides to
ration Gina
with her precious pills.
While he
finds her one day
rummaging his
apartment looking
for drugs,
Hank refinds his
former violence and
rapes Gina. This
latter, humiliated but
still suffering
withdrawal symptoms,
brings
Hank
in
the tunnel
between
the Capwell
and
Lockridge
mansions pretexting
to
buy
new
drugs
to him.
But
Hank
finds
her
armed
with a
revolver,
eager
to
end
the
pressure he exerts
on
her.
At
the appearance of
Ted
Capwell
who
surprises them,
Hank gets
the
gun
and
threatens
his
assailants,
just prior to
the occurrence of
a
collapse.
Hank
dies
instantly,
crushed by falling
rocks.
With
him
die for
a time the
secrets
about
Gina's past,
of which he was
himself
one
of the
terrible
pillars...
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