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of his first and short appearance in Santa Barbara, Jeff
Barber shows us who he really is : a perfect unmannerly guy, only
interested by girls and money. And especially, he does not seek, by
desire or fear, to stabilize himself with a woman, preferring by far to
live like the perfect image of the Californians : sea, sex and sun.
And
when Amy Perkins (who is used by him as girlfriend and employee), comes
to the airport to welcome him with her little sister, he coldly
announces to her, without the least care, that he leaves for the weekend
to Hawaii, in company of another girl. Slapped by Amy, the stay of Jeff
in Santa Barbara could have stopped there, if Amy were not
pregnant.
Certain
that the child is of him, he receives a few weeks later the visit of
Amy, accompanied by her valiant knight, Brick Wallace. Initially
reticent to acknowledge everything to him because of his behavior, she
does not listen to Brick's advices and finishes by acknowledging him
that he is going to be a father. Jeff violently rejects this child he
does not want and of which he wants even less than paternity could be
recognized to him. And for a very good reason : he underwent a vasectomy one
year ago. The discussion degenerates and Jeff insults Amy.
Brick and him end fighting.
Back
to Santa Barbara, Jeff comes to see if Amy made a good use of the money
he gave her as he ordered to her. Jeff has then the great surprise to
discover that she did not made any abortion, but that on the contrary
she bought a bedroom for the future child that she well hopes to keep. Jeff
enters an insane anger. He
does not want this child. He does not want to see him being born.
Because Jeff is sure that this child is not his, and he does not want
that, later, money would be claimed to him to provide for his education.
Moreover, Jeff, to prove his statements, agrees to pass examinations.
And science confirms : he is sterile. The news makes the effect of a
bomb : who would be then the father of Amy's child ? On her side, she
does not cease protesting that it can
only be Jeff because she never knew another man.
Thereafter,
the truth will be exposed by Brick. Whereas he is on the phone with
Brick, ready to reveal to him the identity of the biological father of
Amy's child, Jeff is killed by the henchmen of the false Jack Lee.
While he goes to get news of Jeff in San Fransisco, Brick finds him dead
in a dustbin. His autopsy will confirm his sterility. The death of Jeff
starts again all the hypothesis as for the father of Amy Perkins' child...
Portrait
written for this site by Lilian
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