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emblematic character of 1985, Jack Lee could have known a longer destiny
in Santa Barbara if the sudden death of his interpreter
had not precipitated his premature disappearance. Naturally charming and
sure of his competences, Jack is presented as the irreproachable lawyer
of C.C. Capwell. Whereas
he
tries to seduce
Augusta Lockridge, his
way crosses that of Augusta's
sister :
Julia Wainwright. In
spite they frequented each other
in the past, Jack does not recognize her.
But very quickly, not to make the masks
fall,
Jack enters
the game,
and seduces
besides
easily
Julia, lawyer like him, who had however given up
love.
It
however
very quickly appears that he
is implied in the pregnancy of Amy Perkins. To keep the
control on the situation, he offers to Amy a job of secretary, and
allows his accomplice, Dr. Renfro, to follow her pregnancy. Besides,
Jack seeks to weaken C.C. Capwell : for that, he charges Brandy
Fairbanks to seducez Mason and to kill Kelly. Intrigued by his changes
of behavior (Jack is suddenly begun a smoker and ambidextrous), Kelly
Capwell, with Nick Hartley's help, tries to discover the
truth. Thanks to his henchmen, Jack succeeds in trap her in a ghost town.
He then asks Dr. Renfro to practice on her the experimentation of his
last invention : a memory eraser. Jack is surprised in his action by
Nick, but Kelly has already lost a big part of her memories of her love for Nick.
With
the birth of Amy's baby, the events get in a hurry. Feeling the trap
tightening him, Jack panics. To get safe from it, he is obliged to
kill his accomplice, Dr. Renfro. Jack then lets us see his true face : he
is not in fact the one we
believe he is. It is indeed to his lookalike cousin, Jerry Cooper, that
the inhabitants of Santa Barbara have to deal with ! Jack has in fact
been kidnapped by Jerry and sequestered on New Stailand island, not far
from the famous baby of Amy.
Because
it
is
on the
behalf
of the princess of this small principality lost in Europe who was
looking for a heir, that Jerry
Cooper has
kidnapped
the
child.
Found
there
by Julia, Amy and Brick Wallace, Jack finally regains Santa Barbara
and by the same occasion his real identity.
Even
if Julia endeavours to find in him the man she loved, Jack is well
decided to break with everything that can still link him to his cousin
and to lead his own existence according to his own intentions. Some
intentions not necessarily as benevolent as those one could have
otherwise expected : obtaining the direction with Eden Capwell of her
father's enterprises, then plunged in a semi-coma, Jack drawns a
machiavelic strategy : to keep off Cruz Castillo, Eden's lover, of her,
in order to seduce her and to obtain the seizure of the Capwell empire.
Whereas he had just put his plan at execution while making play his
relations to send Cruz in Mississippi, Jack suddenly disappears for New
York without any explanation.
It
is finally another character, Kirk Cranston, who will come to take over
Jack's tortuous plan a few weeks later. Turning to be Jack's
illegitimate
son, Kirk thus extends the destiny of a character who still promised
quite good bounces...
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Joel
Crothers, 1985
