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 Since
the death of Joe Perkins, Kelly Capwell, as well as the
small world of Santa Barbara, missed a bit of conscience
and of a breath of uprightness. With the character of Nick Hartley, the
inhabitants of Santa Barbara find in 1985 a little values that Joe
represented and carried only by the police officer
Cruz Castillo.
Friend
of Cruz's for long years, at the time when they both worked for the
C.I.A., Nick is a photographer who lost a great part of his illusions in
men at the time of the Vietnam war. Back from this tragedy, he seeks to forget and photography is for him a real
opened door on another world. This is as of his first appearance that Nick
crosses the way of Kelly, that he will not cease to save and
over all to love.
His
first contact with Kelly takes place in a park of Santa Barbara, whereas
this last one is, without knowing it, threatened by a
professional killer named Carla, who works for Jack Lee's cousin. Nick succeeds in saving
her of a murder attempt, then help her to find the young Brandon, who
get lost in the park. Already, a link seems to be created between the photographer and the young
woman.
Soon,
he and Kelly are
caught in the torment
which
shakes the life of the sweet Amy Perkins. They are interested in the behavior of Jack Lee,
whom they find more than doubtful. After
being kidnapped by his
men, Kelly undergoes
experiences that make her
lose her
memory.
Nick manages to free
her and they took
refuge in a ghost town, which
gets
finally realized
their common passion. Nick
is
immediately accused of having
kidnapped
Kelly, then
proves his innocence.
But on their return to
Santa Barbara,
Kelly finds the
memory of her
past, and in
return,
forgets
all about their adventure and
the romance that began
to born betweene them.
It will take perseverance
to Nick so
that the
elements of her
past come back to
Kelly and so that her
love for Nick finally
resurfaces.
During
these adventures, Nick has the surprise to see
arriving in town his younger brother, Dylan. This one is in the search of a
treasure,
also coveted by dangerous criminals. Nick sees himself meddled in this
affairy and involves in spite of him Kelly in unrestrained pursuits. The adventure finishes
quite fortunately well and Nick and
Kelly become engaged. It is the occasion for Nick to reproach to his
brother his nonchalance and his lack of serious, whereas Dylan opposes
to him his moralizer and too perfect side, while envying his love-story with Kelly.
Nick
is
encouraged
by Kelly
to resume
his job
as a
photographer.
He is
introduced by her
to a
publisher,
so he
can
make a
photo
book
on
the
Vietnam war.
Unfortunately,
the book
is not
sold very well
and, not
to let Nick loosing
hope,
Kelly secretly
buys
all the
stocks.
Of
course,
Nick
ends up
discovering
it and this
story
increases
the
tension
between them,
tension
already
heavy
since
Nick
feels
that there
is
really something
between
Kelly
and
Dylan.
Because
the
stability
that Nick thought that he had found with Kelly is quickly threatened by
Dylan, who hopes well to let know in Kelly that he fell in love with her
and that he will do everything to conquer her. This is besides what ends up
arriving when, at the time of a business trip far from Santa Barbara, Dylan and Kelly find themselves alone and make love. Until the
wedding ceremony which must unite him to his beloved, Nick is
unaware of this infidelity. It is Dylan who, jealous of his brother, is
the first to teach him this treason. But Kelly denies at first, incapable to
choose between the two brothers, then
eventually recognizes the truth. Nick cancels the wedding, but finally
grants to forgive her everything.
Understanding
that his future with Kelly is for the moment compromised, Nick charges
then a psychiatrist friend, Dr. Justin Moore, to take care of her
without telling her. But all his attention towards Kelly cannot prevent the drama
that occurs one evening at the Capwell Hotel : whereas she is alone in
the presidential room, Kelly is joined by Dylan who, mad of
love for her, threats with his gun to kill Nick if she does not give up to
him. By pushing back Dylan, Kelly makes him falling over one of the picture
windows and Dylan makes a mortal fall. Already psychologically fragile,
the poor Kelly ends up losing the reason and must be interned in a psychiatric
hospital.
Nick
must then make the mourning of a brother and a love and try to build a
new life while being surrounded of the close relations who remain to him. It is about in particular Brick Wallace, that he had managed to
make getting closer with his parents Katie and Glenn at the time of his
disease and who had chosen him to be his best man at his wedding. It is still Alice
Jackson, to who he proposes to pose for fashion photos (as he had already done
it a few months earlier with Janice Harrison, his brother's girlfriend, for a
little more stripped photos).
But in spite of the support of some friends and a return to his first
passion, photography, Nick does not succeed in really finding his smile. He ends up
disappearing, with a
lot of memories of loss and mourning in the head...
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A
caring kind of guy, 1985
