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 Stereotype
of the journalist eager for scoops and without scruples, Lydia Saunders
will have known how, throughout her appearances in the show, to win in
depth and in humanity.
When
she turns up in Santa Barbara in summer 1988, Lydia has for objective to
direct a report on the Capwell family depicting its dark side, so public
as private. For this, she gets closer of C.C., who in a game of
attraction-aversion, eventually falls under Lydia's
charm and determination and dates her. Alerted by Eden on the infamous
nature of the report which Lydia prepares, C.C. eventually makes
disappear all the recordings already done and makes the project null and
void.
Not
considering herself defeated, Lydia becomes from then on the producer of
the television news of the local channel KSB
8, where Eden has just been
hired as a journalist. Witness of an aggression between Eden and the
young offender Critter, Lydia hesitates to exploit the event for her TV
news, or to take Eden's
sides. She finally chooses this second way after her colleague's
rape. Learning that one of the suspects is Cain Garver, she gets closer
to him under a false pretext and decides to lead her investigation. She
becomes allied to police lieutenant Vic Boswell and plays for him the
spies during the costume ball that C.C. Capwell organizes for Halloween.
In spite of her vigilance, Cain escapes her during the party, in the
course of which Andrea Bedford is raped and murdered in her turn.
Nevertheless,
the time she spent with Cain allows Lydia to be convinced of his
innocence. She puts the police on the track of Major Phillip Hamilton
whom she considers suspicious. In spite of the threats this one utters
her, Lydia persists and uses her function of TV newscaster to announce
publicly her opinions on the investigation. While at the hospital, Cain
rebels against a policeman come to arrest him, Lydia lets herself being
taken hostage by this latter to help him to run away. Hidden in an
abandoned barn, they are joined by the police. But Cain is finally
acquitted and left free. Lydia, moved by this adventure, shares to Cain
her feelings which began to born for him. But this latter prefers to
leave town to go back to the Utah mountains.
The
end of this storyline also sounds the end of Lydia Saunders character.
The journalist will make only a last appearance at the beginning of
1989, in the course of which she will have unfortunately found back the
perfidious and unrelenting personality who characterized her in her
debuts.
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