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his relaxed and boasters look, Mel Stock is nevertheless the one who, in
1987, is going to accompany Victoria Lane towards her forfeiture.
Mel
meets Victoria while he begins the shooting of his new movie in Santa
Barbara. Director of B-movies, he has already had the opportunity to make
Victoria shoot and immediately suggests her to join his new production.
From their second meeting, in his hotel room, Mel proposes to Victoria to
comfort her of her conjugal setbacks with Mason Capwell, by sharing with
her some ounces of cocaine. Victoria refuses at first, but eventually
gives in a few days later, incapable to face the end of her marriage which
she feels close and her suspicions of Mason's infidelity with Julia
Wainwright.
Secretly in love with Victoria for a long time, Mel tries in a unique
attempt to seduce her, but Victoria resists him. Nevertheless respectful
of his muse, he does not insist and becomes before all his friend, his
confidant. In front of Victoria's
addiction to cocaine, he eventually stops sharing his personal reserve and
encourages her to buy herself her own doses, what puts Victoria in obvious
financial difficulties. But Julia discovers very fast that Victoria became
hooked, and understands that Mel is responsible for it. Mel, as Victoria,
decide to secretly follow a detoxification program and spend Christmas
1987 to be try to beat their demons. Mel then shows himself of a big
support by remotivating regularly Victoria, and by making her get back to
the center after she escaped to find her son, Chip.
Once
out of his drug addiction, Mel decides to write a movie to tell his
addiction and his cure. And it is again as a faithful friend that he helps
Victoria when this latter is confronted with her divorce from Mason. For
example, he rejects this latter who suggests him to have an affair with
Tori to favor him in the procedure.
While
everything seemed settled for Mel, this one reappears the next month again
hooked and this time in a worrying health condition. Victoria helps him
financially to pay his medical expenses and to get rid of his addiction.
She brings him to the hospital the cocaine he had kept and destroys it by
organizing with him a little ceremonial. But Mel duped in fact Victoria :
he exchanged the drug with some sugar and, from her departure, consumes
the dose which she innocently brought back to him. He dies from a heart
attack within the next hours, letting Victoria feeling guilty to have
given to Mel his fatal dose.
It
seemed well necessary to punish the one who had, by his vice, led Victoria
to live her worst moments. But nevertheless, Mel will remain a kind
character inside of him, as prove throughout his appearances his sincere
and frequent testimonies of friendship to Victoria...
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