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is at a reunion party between Vietnam War veterans that Cain Garver
finds again his former major, Phillip Hamilton. Straight, almost
obsequious, Phillip then sends the image of a brave and honest man to
Andrea Bedford, Cain's girlfriend, while this latter sees in him the
exact opposite. Because
the two men have a heavy past in common : from Vietnam, Phillip accuses
Cain of having led his men to death, while Cain accuses him of failing
to keep his rank of Major. But another drama links them as enemies :
they both fell in love in the past with the same woman, a Vietnamese
name Soo Li, who died before the end of the war.
Thirsting
for revenge under his discreet and secretive look, Phillip moves in
Santa Barbara along with Kai, his faithful Vietnamese servant whom he
once saved from death. He immediately hires Andrea (whom he knew the
father in the past) in his foundation which helps to reunite separated
US-Vietnamese families. Phillip
then took the opportunity to do everything to take Andrea away from Cain
in delegating to her some urgent issues to treat or some appointments
outside the city.
Phillip
also becomes friend with Ted Capwell, who asks him to train him to stock
market investments. A collaboration not appreciated by C.C. Capwell,
with whom Phillip has been in trouble before. He
also gets close to Victoria Lane, even though his initial love interest
turns soon into a great platonic friendship. Phillip thus
supports her in her battle against her cocaine addiction and hosts her
at his home several weeks after her rehab. It is besides him who keeps
the little Chip when his mother is hospitalized again. However, Phillip
does not turn to be the desired protector, because he leaves Chip alone,
left to himself, in his big empty house.
Thanks
to Andrea's
work, it appears that Soo Li had a daughter in Vietnam. Phillip,
convinced to be the father, goes there and allows the young Ming Li to
join the United States, despite the fact that Cain is also on her trail,
certain to be his progenitor too. A thorough investigation of Kai will
be necessary so that Phillip finally discovers that Ming Li is an
impostor. Wishing
to be able to leave a squalid Bangkok to the United States, she chose to
act as Soo Li's daughter. Phillip sees in that a new
benefit in his vengeance against Cain : he forces Ming Li to seduce Cain
to make him separate with Andrea, otherwise he will unveil her
lies and send her back to Vietnam.
Phillip
is excited to see Ming Li starting to run, and Andrea living badly the
kind of competition she has to face. But more and more
uncomfortable in her role of schemer, Ming Li asks for Kai's
help to help her escaping the Major's ascending. This latter executes
his threats : he orders her extradition. At
his turn frightened by the hatred that lives in his master, Kai flees
the city with Ming Li. Phillip finds himself isolated, although he has
managed to cancel the wedding planned between Andrea and Cain.
His
true face beginning to be known to everybody, Phillip becomes one of the
leading suspects in the rape and the murder of Andrea, as a result of
the altercation he had with her a few days earlier. Inhabited
by his thirst for revenge against Cain, Phillip does everything possible
so that this latter would be accused of the rape and the murder of
Andrea; he even does not hesitate to fabricate some false evidences. Pursued
by the journalist Lydia Saunders, Phillip is finally cleared, but has to
face justice for the beating up he inflicted to Cain by his thugs. It is
neither revenged nor reconciled with his past, despite an attempt to
redeem his errors (he proposes to C.C. some money to participate in the
reward offered by Sophia), that Phillip will make his last appearance in
the show, on
the eve of his trial...
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