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 Very
little information had filtered about Rafael Castillo before 1989 : we
knew from him that he had abandoned his wife and children for years, but
that was it. Until Eden Capwell finds his tracks in a hotel in Acapulco,
and encourages her husband Cruz Castillo to reconnect with this man from
his past. Since he left the marital home, Rafael has become a very
talented magician, envied by many of his competitors. Among them, the
redoubtable Dr. Mephisto, who kidnaps him in his castle full of secret
passages and other traps. Rafael finds himself locked in a dungeon,
forced by Mephisto to reveal the secret of one of his most famous
tricks. Fortunately, it is time that chose Eden and Cruz to find him,
and Rafael is delivered safely. Moreover he owes his survival to his
second son, Ric, who kills Mephisto before he eliminates him.
Imaginative
and always cheerful, Rafael is delighted to find his sons. His
apprehension that they could reject him for having abandoned them once
disappears quickly, as his sons are convinced by his sincerity and his
commitment to them. Rafael joins Cruz and Ric in Santa Barbara, and gets
installed in a room above the garage of Eden and Cruz's house. The
reunion with Carmen, his ex-wife, are more strained. But Rafael ends by
being eventually accepted by her, even if they never re-form their old
couple.
Rafael
then remains, for all the months which follow, Cruz's confidant,
listening and advising him on his marital problems with Eden. He
accompanies him on Las Sirenas island to assist him in his investigation
on his heart rival, Robert Barr, and is even thrown in jail on this
occasion. Thereafter Rafael attends the long hesitation of his son
between Eden and Nikki Alvarez. He pushes him to choose between the two
women, advising him not to make the same mistakes he did.
Rafael
disappears a few months in mid-1990, before making his comeback the
following year. If Carmen has in the meantime acknowledged that Ric was
born from an adulterous affair and that he is not indeed Rafael's son,
this latter does not seem affected by it, Ric having meanwhile left
Santa Barbara. Rafael helps Cruz to overcome Eden's departure, and
encourages him to let go his emerging feelings for the beautiful Suzanne
Collier. But Rafael is not outdone on a love side, since he manages to
seduce the difficult Rosa Andrade, separated from her husband for
several years.
In
1992, Rafael discovers from a former mistress that he is the father of
another son, Rafe. Rafael becomes quickly fond of this young Hispanic
full of passion and helps him at his turn in his sentimental troubles,
as he knows to do so well. But however he disappears again very quickly
from the show, leaving with the simultaneous departure of Cruz, Rafe as
the only representative on the screen of the Castillo dynasty...
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Father
of A Martinez for the third time !,
1991
