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Very
first one of the long list of Gina's husbands, Stockman DeMott did not physically
appear in Santa Barbara, and precise details
on his personality allow us by the way to learn more on Gina and her relationship with
men. Recently deceased, Stockman was a
businessman,
just like his friend C.C. Capwell. Even if he
does not seem as rich as his friend, Stockman has the chance to enjoy a
real success, since he has a villa in Bel Air, rich district
of Los Angeles. A deep friendship and a great confidence are the master
words of the relation between these two men. Besides, it is as a proof
of this friendship that C.C. entrusts his descendant to
him. Knowing that Stockman and his young wife Gina cannot have children
(they passed many medical tests), C.C. resigned himself to offer this
child to them.
Thus
in August 1979, Gina receives from C.C.'s direct hands the little
Brandon, fruit of the affair between Channing
Capwell Junior and Santana Andrade. Stockman, too taken by his business,
has not been able to go to Mexico, and it is C.C. who is at
the sides of this woman, entirely dressed of red, to accompagny her in
this new stage of her life. It is certainly there one of the rare
meetings between Gina and C.C. Capwell.
It is
because
C.C. knows and
respects sincerely Stockman that he confided his grandson to him, but it
is also because he knows perfectly that, throughout the child's life, he
will be able to keep an eye on him. Knowing the strong character of the Capwell patriarch,
we can be sure that this
adoption has not been made without another thought in mind : Channing Creighton Capwell
is
not man to leave what he has of more precious without preserving any
control...
As
seeing C.C.'s personality, we can question ourselves on the origins of this friendship. Because throughout
Santa Barbara, any man or any woman does not seem to enjoy this same
consideration. We can imagine that Stockman was older than C.C. (that
would explain his sterility because, in the next events, we will
discover that Gina can have children). Thus, Stockman and C.C. could
have met in Harvard, where Stockman would have been a professor of the
young Capwell heir, or Stockman could have been C.C.'s superior at the
army during the second world war. These two kinds of relations can justify
the esteem, the confidence and the respect they seem to feel the one for
the other. At
her arrival in Santa Barbara
after the death of her husband, Gina takes refuge near the only friend
of her husband. She explains her situation of widow to him,
quite unable to face the administrative steps as for the debts left in
heritage by Stockman. Because contrary to C.C., Stockman was not
an excellent businessman.
His last investments even left him
and his family without money, and to pay his debts, C.C. must sell
the villa of Bel Air and lodge in his house the one who will
become the worst nightmare of all his life...
But, at that time, Gina
DeMott appears much more naive to us. And while she lives in the Capwell
mansion, she begins to talk about herself. We discover that she met
Stockman on the road to the airport : she worked in interim,
and he needed a secretary urgently. Thereafter, he asked on
several occasions for her services. And very quickly, he fell under her charm.
Besides, how could it have been differently ?
First victim
of Gina and especially great friend of C.C.'s, Stockman will not
have the privilege to appear in Santa Barbara, even in flashback or
as a ghost. At the time when thereafter the
Blake family will get reunited around Gina, it is regrettable that the
team of the
writers did not think of creating a character of Stockman's family who would come to
ask some explanations to Gina...
Portrait
written for this site by Lilian
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