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 Lindsay
Smith's character is the subject of one of the biggest revelations of the
first year of Santa Barbara. While investigating the late
Peter Flint, suspected of being Channing Capwell Jr.'s murderer, Cruz
Castillo discovers in his stuffs love letters addressed to Channing and
signed by a certain Lindsay. Up this trail, he discovers with surprise
that Lindsay is actually a man, with whom Channing had a homosexual
relationship before his death.
Even
if he swears he is only interested by women since then, Lindsay
acknowledges that at the time he was deeply in love with Channing.
Questioned by Cruz, he however admits that under Peter Flint's
pressure, he began to blackmail Channing after their break-up. Cruz, as
the police officer Maggie Gillis, agree to keep his secret.
A
secret which will not stay one very fast, when Mason Capwell inadvertently
discovers the existence of Lindsay and his past relationship with his
half-brother he has always hated. He finds, in the tunnel between the
Capwell and Lockridge mansions, the hiding place where Lindsay and
Channing Junior reunited in secret, and also some compromising photos
taken by the couple. Willing to use his discoveries to destroy the perfect
image their father had of Channing Junior, Mason forces Lindsay to shoot a
video in which he tells his past affair and reveals the pictures found in
the tunnel.
But
it is Santana Andrade, Channing Junior's
former girlfriend, who is the first one to watch the tape. At first
shocked, she finally accepts the truth when Lindsay confides in her that
Channing Junior has confessed several times to him that he has been in
love with her.
Present at the reconstruction Channing Capwell
Junior's
murder at the Capwell mansion, Lindsay manages to avoid arousing the
suspicions about his role in the story.
He
reappears a few weeks later, summoned by Mason at the Capwell mansion.
Lindsay lets himself being persuaded by Mason that C.C. Capwell finally
accepted his beloved son's
homosexuality and that he is eager to meet the man who shared his life for
a while. But once there, Lindsay realizes that C.C. is not aware of
anything, and that Mason uses him again to take revenge on his father and
to shock him. Refusing to be used again, he leaves the house before C.C.
understands the meaning of his coming.
The
sudden and unexpected acceptance by C.C. of Channing Junior's
bisexuality will then end the appearances of Lindsay Smith, his interest
in the storylines of the show thus having lost all issue.
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Hotel
California,
2003
