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 Married
to Reese, a police officer just like her, the dynamic Jodie Walker lands
to Santa Barbara in spring 1992. It is the idea of finding there her youth friend
Cruz Castillo which decides her to go to a reunion party of
high school alumni. Delighted to find Cruz, Jodie is seduced by his
proposition to join, with her husband, the police forces of the city.
If
Jodie gets along well with Reese and their son Sawyer, it goes otherwise
with B.J., her daughter, with whom she often gets in conflict. But her
work within the Santa Barbara police motivates her amply, especially the
defense unit for assaulted women into which she invests a lot of
herself. She thus comes to help Connie De La Vega, a housewife whom she
encourages to
leave the marital home to escape the violence imposed by her husband.
It
also appears very quickly that Jodie was formerly very close to Cruz.
She kept with him a great complicity, which does not go without making
Reese sometimes jealous. The arrival in town of Frank Goodman, an old
friend of the couple, is going to enlighten of another light the past
relation between Jodie and Cruz. After several weeks of embarrassment,
it indeed turns out that Frank has in the past raped the young B.J..
While the truth is discovered, Jodie is taken hostage by Frank, who
threatens to kill them, she and Cruz. Jodie chooses then this moment to
confess to Cruz a secret kept for such a long time : he is B.J.'s
father, conceived during their youth adventure. When Frank is
mysteriously found dead, Cruz, suspecting B.J., blames himself for the
murder and leaves the United States. Jodie finds
then
herself alone in front of her past, being obliged, in front of Reese's
suspicions, to admit the truth to him.
Immediately
abandoned by Reese, Jodie draws from her strength and her inenarrable
energy to support her children, alternately accused of Frank's murder.
While Sawyer runs away from California to Boston, B.J., as for her, is
arrested and undergoes a heavy trial where all the details of her abuses
are detailed. Jodie finds some comfort with Dr. Micah DeAngelis, with
whom she leaves to Boston to look for Sawyer and Aurora, Micah's
daughter. If she rather tends to squabble with him at first, Jodie
eventually falls under his charm and begins an affair with him. At least
for a short duration.
Because
the wedding of B.J. with Warren Lockridge offers to Jodie the
opportunity to get closer to Reese. This latter thus agrees to forgive her
and to give a new luck to their life as a couple. A luck for Jodie, even
if he has a last ordeal to cross : to tell one day the truth also to
B.J....
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Cruz's
two loves,
1992
