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Raised by : Jack Lee

Married to : Eden Capwell (1986)

Profession : Employed at the Capwell Enterprises

Kirk Cranston is the prototype of the wicked one. Not the one you like to hate, no, the one you really hate ! Employed at the Capwell Enterprises, he arrives at the good moment whereas Eden and Cruz live their first couple crisis, in 1985. Eden is at this time convinced that it is her who had disconnected the life-support system which connects to life her father, C.C., fallen into coma. But this is only a new machination of Gina to clear herself of the act... A truth that Kirk discovers rather quickly and of which he decides to make a good use. Whereas Eden suffers of the incomprehension of Cruz opposed to euthanasy, Kirk tightens his shoulder to her and very quickly approaches her, even going until marrying her when she falls pregnant of him.

But beside that, he does not hesitate to blackmail Gina that he knows guilty and by the same time Eden, by sending her anonymous letters. Those ones repeat to her that a person knows that she had wanted to kill her father and that to keep silence, she will have to pay. Eden thus starts to pay her own husband ! But Cruz takes care and discovers in particular that if Eden had fallen pregnant, it is because Kirk had exchanged her pills ! Moreover, Kirk must deal with Gina when she rebels against his directives, in particular the one of purely and simply eliminate Eden, after she had lost their baby in a car accident. He violently hits her and lets her as dead, drowned in the Capwell boathouse. The shock of discovering at his home, a few weeks later, Gina quite alive and decided to lead him to his loss, cause to Kirk a heart attack. His survival passes by a transplant, which is finally offered to him on a plate by those that he wants to destroy : the Capwells and her husband David agree to concede to him the heart of the recently assassinated Madeline Capwell Laurent.

Even if Kirk survives to the transplant, he has now lost Eden. This one, with the help of Cruz and Nick Hartley, ends up bringing to light his real personality and his past crimes. Discovering that not only his intentions were revealed, but that the woman he wishes so much to control has returned to her former fiancé, Kirk is decided to finish with all that. And it is a new intervention of Gina that allows to prevent Kirk from killing Eden and Cruz. Follows a run in Aqualand where from vertiginous falls to sharks basins, Kirk is finally arrested and imprisoned.

However, his absence is of short duration. He initially briefly reappears in 1987 : when the perfidious Elena Nikolas dies in C.C.'s arms by showing Cruz as her murderer, it is Kirk who draws the strings ! He indeed conditioned Elena so that she commits suicide without leaving traces. But Kirk is discovered and put in jail again. He briefly reappears in 1989, recently out of prison. He then turns to be responsible of the adoption by Hollis Castillo of Adriana, Eden and Cruz's daughter. A new time, he is presented to the justice.

That is in 1990 that he reappears at the head of a new machination. Reigning on Kahana island, he supervises an enormous traffic of narcotics from which many characters of Santa Barbara, whose Eden, are victims. Fortunately, Cruz, with the assistance of his two friends, Nikki Alvarez and Michael Donnelly that Kirk had made kidnapped, succeeds in locating him and arrests him on his boat. It is the last bad turn of Kirk before a new imprisonment of which he will not escape this time.

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