It
is during the hostage crisis by Peter Flint at the Perkins house that we
meet a new officer of the city : the young police sergeant Maggie Gillis.
Presented
as a strong
and determined woman, able to face
the world and its
realities, she is
nonetheless a woman with
her weaknesses and flaws.
Maggie
comes on her own to propose to Cruz to serve as a bait, by disguising
herself as Kelly Capwell to enter the house. Although recently arrived
in the police, this latter is highly rated by her superiors, and she is
the best at gun shooting of her promotion. However, during the hostage
crisis, she is unable to shoot Peter Flint, which could have put an end
to the drama. For a long time, Maggie will have to bear some culpability
in the death of Joe Perkins.
Calling
for a new chance to show her ability to Cruz, she gets from him to seek
and find Channing Capwell Junior's
former mistress, a young woman named Lindsay Smith. After
discovering the address of that person, Maggie makes again a new error
of judgement. During the investigation, she illegally enters the
apartment and, as she digs into his files, she comes face to face with a
man : Lindsay Smith.
Subsequently,
Maggie will be slowly removed from all police investigations, with the
exception of the one relating to Christie DuVall's rape. During this
investigation, she will have to face the macho behavior of the assistant
district attorney Steve Bassett.
Some
other flaws can be guessed in Maggie's
more personal behavior. Throughout
the meetings, her heart will open to the fiery journalist Warren
Lockridge. Attracted by Warren, Maggie feels deeply tortured
because she is actually married. Ben, her husband, is, from an accident
at work on a Capwell oil rig, completely paralyzed. Face to this man now
deaf, blind, mute and confined to a wheelchair, Maggie has chosen to
sacrifice herself for her love for him, but feels nevertheless the need
to feel loved. Touched
by the young woman's distress, Warren helps her to find a lawyer to
attack the Capwell Enterprises and to claim financial compensation. Represented
by Mason Capwell, Maggie is determined not to get revenge, but to obtain
justice. Showing herself strong, she refuses many proposals for an
agreement between her and the Capwell Enterprises.
But
the case also marks the
end of what might have been her
relationship with Warren, because Maggie realizes that she can not decently leave her
husband in the ordeal he is crossing. Respectful of the rights and of
her commitments, Maggie got married for better or for worse. Thus,
having placed him
in
a nursing specialty,
Maggie backtracks
and goes
with Ben
to New York. The
10 million dollars she
finally wins
in her
fight against the Capwell
Enterprises will be used to
treat Ben and
try to give him a
better life.
It is a shame
that officer Maggie
Gillis has quickly
left the center stage,
because due to her
links with the Capwells
and the Lockridges,
and especially because of her
so natural personality, she
would have deserved some new
storylines.
Portrait
written for this site by Lilian
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