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 Responsible
for Victoria Lane and Eden Capwell's car accident (in which she loses
her baby), Jack Benton, as pointed by Cruz, is no stranger to this kind
of crime. Already convicted three times, he always had the chance to get
out of it with minor penalties. This time, Julia certifies him that it
will not happen that way. They have witnesses of the accident, what will
play to Jack Benton's disadvantage.
Jack
Benton is a man of a certain age, bald head, who symbolizes a certain
category of people : those living in failures and seeks by every ways to
erase all the evidences verifying this fact.
When
he goes out of the courtroom, he finds himself face to face with Cruz
Castillo, who introduces himself as the father of the child he has just
killed. Of course, Jack Benton takes refuge behind false excuses : it is
just an accident. Then seeing that this man is a Hispanic American, he
makes a racist remark : "At least I did not kill a white
child." And Mason Capwell who was right beside him (the moment
before, he prevented Cruz to hit him), sends him a violent punch in the
face.
This
scene follows another dramatic scene in which Victoria and Mason were
discussing with tension the future of the child she is expecting.
Victoria is indeed pregnant with Cruz's
child, a child who may be the only one Cruz may have if Eden, following
this miscarriage, is unable to have other children. Moreover, throughout
this episode, the tension about this unanswered question will rise
higher and higher until Eden comes to the courthouse and tells Cruz that
no aftereffect of the accident will prevent her of having children.
Portrait
written for this site by Lilian
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