The deaths of Santa Barbara Caroline's death
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The year 1986 sees returning in Santa Barbara a new woman, Caroline Wilson, C.C.'s former girlfriend, back in town to reconquer her children. The way is long for Caroline, who has to be forgiven for all her mistakes. Alice is the first to do so, then will come the forgiveness from her second daughter Jane and, at the same time, she will find love in Lionel Lockridge's arms. Caroline, over the time, succeeds in finding her place with Lionel between a recomposed family and the memory of Augusta.

Caroline ends up accepting Lionel's proposal : to leave with him a few days to Guatemala. On their return, Caroline starts to feel very weakened. Lionel is also touched by this sudden tiredness, but with a least degree. And whereas Lionel, in a romantic dash, proposes to her, Caroline collapses. Very quickly, Caroline Wilson's health condition gets worse and Lionel does not have any other solutions than to request the help of Dr. Alex Nikolas. Lionel beseeches him to use his antibodies to develop a vaccine which could save the woman he loves. Nikolas, realistic, knows perfectly that the production of such a vaccine will take enormous time.

In addition to her disease, Caroline must also face Laken, who sees of a very bad way the relation between her father and her. Laken accuses her of all her problems. And even if Caroline collapses during one of their argument, Laken does not matter : she is ready to everything to try to reunite her father and her mother again. Conscious that the time which passes is their more terrible enemy, Lionel, sure of his feelings, decides to advance the wedding ceremony as soon as possible. And after a sharp discussion between father and daughter, Lionel and Caroline get married in the garden of the Lockridge property. Their love will even receive a few days later the blessing of Minx !

Ready to everything to save the woman he loves and also because he is unable to look at her suffering, enters Alex Nikolas' laboratory to steal from him the vaccine which is being prepared. Conscious that she does not have anything to lose any more, so much the hour of the end approaches and because she wants to fully benefit from the happiness which is offered to her by Jane, Brick and Lionel, Caroline injects the vaccine to herself. Very quickly her health condition improves. Caroline is happy. Lionel is like in Heaven. Only Alex Nikolas comes to prevent them that it is perhaps only a short remission.

And indeed, Alex is right. After a few days, Caroline's health condition gets degraded days after days. The few days of respite spent following the injection of the vaccine are very quickly forgotten. The state of Caroline is such bad that one day Lionel hurries at the Johnny's to inform Jane : according to the family doctor, Caroline may not have more than a few days to live.

At the Lockridge residence, everyone is destroyed by this sad news. Caroline is confined to bed and she cannot benefit from the garden of the property anymore. Fortunately, Lionel does not leave her bedside. He suffers terribly to be there, helpless. Caroline and him share the same concern : the hour of the end is close...

Helpless towards the suffering of his wife, Lionel leaves looking for Alex Nikolas' help. Lionel beseeches him to make him a second injection of the vaccine. Alex refuses this, knowing well that there is no hope anymore. Lionel, helpless in front of Alex's lack of action, gets worked up : "You will stay without doing anything, so you can win...". Because the stakes of the vaccine is other : it is a revenge weapon of Alex against C.C. Capwell.

Then Lionel can only entrust his sorrow to Laken : "It is the end. Caroline is dying. It is useless to hope for a reprieve." Laken then realizes the error that she made : she did not say anything to her father, when she could note that Caroline's health condition get deteriorated.

In her bedroom, Caroline receives the visit of Jane, her daughter. And she talks about old memories passed on an island at seaside, whereas she was only a child. In Caroline's dream, passed and present mix. Lionel, Gus and Alice are also present. Thereafter, Caroline acknowledges that she regrets the years spent without children, and justifies herself behind the fact that she believed herself not to be a good mother. Caroline reviews the moments of her life lived here, at the Lockridge mansion : the best moments of all her life. She could have made peace with her children and she crossed the road of a good man she loves tenderly. Then, Caroline says to Jane that she loves her, and mother and daughter embrace themselves lengthily. Jane, while leaving the room, bitterly regrets her passed behavior, her anger against her mother. Brick comforts her and shows to her that all these errors enabled them to reunite again each other. Jane is afraid to lose her mother and realizes that she needs her.

Caroline is happy that today is a beautiful day while Lionel worries about her suffering. Feeling death coming, Caroline speaks about her native Georgia and the subtle perfumes of flowers. Caroline makes Lionel promise to bring her back to Georgia, then she asks him to take her in his arms, where she gives her last breath. Lionel lies her gently on the bed and moves away.

Then Lionel comes to announce to Brick and Jane the death of Caroline, by these words : "She did not suffer at all". Jane bursts out sobbing. Lionel entrusts to Jane that he will bring her back in Georgia, with Gus and Alice. Jane agrees to come with him, and says that she has to be buried near her parents in the family vault. Jane, destroyed by the sorrow, goes out in the garden to find the presence of her mother. Stayed together, Brick comes to comfort Lionel : the son becomes a rock just as his father Lionel helped him after the death of Amy. A real emotion can be read on Lionel's face.

During this time, at the Capwell mansion, Alex comes to announce to C.C. and Sophia the death of Caroline, whereas C.C. has just learned the confirmation that the department of health has just withdrawn the licence of the vaccine. On her side, Laken will look for comfort with Ted. She sincerely regrets the behavior that she had with Caroline. C.C. comes to see Lionel to present his condolences to him. Lionel does not want any. Arizona undergoes an epidemic of this virus. C.C. wants Lionel to give him the authorization to make the autopsy of Caroline's body. Lionel flatly refuses.

At the Capwell mansion, Sophia faces Alex. But this one acknowledges that the only person in charge of Caroline's death is neither C.C. nor him, but Lionel, because this is him who stole the vaccine, this is him who made it possible for Caroline to inject it to herself. Sophia, as a tender friend, comes to present her condolences to Lionel. She does not know how to say to him that she is with him from all her heart. Lionel tells her the last minutes of Caroline's life. At the time to leave, Caroline, huddled up in Lionel's arms, was serene, she did not have anguish anymore. Lionel, by smelling a flower, makes it possible for Caroline's memory to live again.

And faithful to his promise, Lionel accompanies with Jane Caroline's body towards her native village of Georgia, where she will be able to find peace. Gus and Alice will also be there to accompany her in her ultimate journey.

Text written for this site by Lilian