Some carnations for Kelly

Some carnations for Kelly

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Since he had passed very close to death after the terrible earthquake which had devastated Santa Barbara, Peter Flint felt that his body, and again more his mind, preserved scars of this drama. Inside of him, something (that he could not define for the moment) had just died and another had just opened to life. And the Peter Flint who had survived was different in many ways that before the seism. In addition, Peter even did not know if he had to be delighted or on the contrary to get sad by his transformation. However, Peter had an excellent reason to be delighted : in spite of the diagnosis of the doctors, of Mason Capwell's desire to see him dying, he had survived to his wounds. He had returned from the deads, ready to reconquer the small world of Santa Barbara.

However, rather than to look towards the future which get offered to him, the eyes of Peter remained unfortunately fixed on everything he had lost, on everything he had had in hands a few months ago. As of he closed the eyes, his look went back in the past : he was seeing himself again as the manager of the very powerful Capwell family hotel, promised in marriage to the beautiful and sweet Kelly, the daughter of the the rich Channing Creighton Capwell. Santa Barbara, California, the whole world was at his feet, ready to be conquered, because his alliance with the Capwell family promised to the former teacher that he was the most beautiful of the futures.

But as in all the fairy tales, there is always a moment when even the most beautiful dream transforms itself into nightmare. And one day, everything changed for Peter. This day coincides with the release of prison of Joe Perkins, Kelly's former boyfriend, where he was imprisoned for the murder of Channing Capwell Junior. Very quickly, Peter realized that a very strong attachment was always linking the one to the other, in spite of the drama which had separated their road. His morbid jealousy led him to make many mistakes, and Kelly moved irremediably away from him to get close to Joe. And whereas all seemed lost for him (Mason had discovered that he embezzled money from the Capwell Enterprises account, Kelly had just broken their engagement, and he was caught up by Ginger Jones and his past as a gigolo), a violent earthquake hit Santa Barbara on November 12, 1984 and gave him some hope again.

On the point of death, Peter always kept the hope to reconquer Kelly's heart, in spite of Joe's presence. Is it this insane hope which gave him the force to survive his wounds ? No one knows it. But, in order to refind Kelly's love, Peter chooses to offer to her the most beautiful of the gifts and made at the same time his biggest mistake. On his hospital bed, he asked Kelly to come to rejoin him and he cleared Joe of the murder of Channing Junior. Consequently, the events get accelerated and escaped from any control. Nothing was on the road of Joe and Kelly's happiness any more. Besides, even C.C. Capwell offered his blessing to them, since Joe was not responsible for the death of his cherished son. All the chances for Peter to regain the heart of Kelly had just left as smoke. Joe and Kelly even projected to marry, besides a date was fixed, the ceremony would take place at the end of January 1985.

And this is at this time that all changed in Peter's mind, that he discovered in himself another reality and that he let act "this other guy" who lives inside of him now. When one evening he went to La Mesa (the Mexican restaurant where Kelly works as a waitress) to meet his former fiancée and to have a real discussion with her, his way crosses the one of Barbara Anderson. Barbara is also a waitress in La Mesa, and she is as fair as Kelly. Whereas she is closing the restaurant, Peter proposes to her to take a last drink. Barbara invites him to come in, accepting his proposal, without suspecting that effectively, it will be her last drink.

When Santa Barbara awakes in this morning of January 1985, everyone in town speaks only about the murder and the rape of Barbara Anderson. Besides, this terrible drama already occupies the first page of the newspapers, and particularly of Santa Barbara Chronicles, which already found a nickname to the murderer : the carnation killer. The most insane rumours run in the city as for the identity of the murderer. The small world of Santa Barbara, paradise of the billionaires, is upset, disturbed by the violence of this crime, rather unusual in this paradise at the edge of the Pacific. The investigation is entrusted to sergeant Clifford T Monroe. Kelly attends the beginning of the investigation, she is upset by the death of her colleague and also by the fact that day after day, she will have to work in the place of the crime.

As for Peter, when he wakes up in his apartment, he does not have any memory of the cat he committed the day before in the evening. As usually for several days, he awakes with one of his violent headaches. This is only due to the television news that he learns the murder of a waitress of La Mesa. While forcing himself, Peter remembers to have gone yesterday evening in La Mesa with the goal to speak with Kelly and then, it is like a black hole. As he had drunk too much... However, sergeant Monroe finds strange the presence of a white carnation and thinks it is a message or rather a signature left by the killer. Whereas Monroe questions the owner of La Mesa, Peter spy their conversation. Questioned by Monroe, Peter, nervous, recognizes that he came here the day before and that he met Barbara, but he denies to have talked to her.

Later, Peter goes to the consulting room of his doctor, Dr. Bresley, to have the results of the tests about his many headaches. There, his doctor has a bad news to announce to him. Indeed, Peter suffers of brain tumour, a tumour which can turns to be mortal. Understanding that his future in Santa Barbara is compromised, Peter, who does not own anything any more, is obliged to beg Mason (his worst enemy) so that he could loan him the necessary money to his departure. Mason, who hates Peter to have accused him of the murder of Channing Junior, holds his revenge. And that is with empty pockets that Peter returns in his apartment, alone, forgotten by everybody. When Kelly learns the news of the death of Barbara to Joe, this one gets joined to C.C. so that Kelly ceases working for a time in La Mesa and returns to live at the Capwell mansion, where she will be more in security. Obviously, Kelly refuses to obey the orders of his father and his fiancé.

The days pass by and the depression in which which Peter plunges day after day is getting worse, his only goal remaining the reconquest of Kelly's heart. That becomes his obsession. Peter does live only for that. Because in his sick logic, if he finds Kelly's love again, he will find at the same time the situation which was his before Joe Perkins has come back in Santa Barbara. This is why day after day, Peter follows Kelly, spying each one of her actions, in the shadows, watching for the favourable moment to melt on her.

It is the arrestation of Lionel Lockridge, four days after the first murder, which provides the opportunity to Peter to cross the way of the object of all his desires. After having left Mason and Warren Lockridge, Kelly, accompanied by Summer Blake, goes to the State Street bar to have a drink, waiting for their return. Peter, withdrawn in a corner, looks at them since their arrival. In a moment of inattention, he does not notice that Kelly already left the table. And while he observes Summer, Kelly's face sometimes superimposes hers. Peter feels that reality is escaping from him. Summer, tired of waiting Warren's return, ends up leaving the table. This is at this moment that Peter chooses to leap on his prey. Intimate friend of Kelly's, Summer is not very surprised to cross the way of Peter. During a little second, in front of Peter's eyes, the image of Kelly dances with that of Summer. Very quickly, he invents a story to attract Summer in his trap : Warren would have had an accident, and Peter proposes to accompagny her to him. Unconscious of the danger which threatens her, Summer gets into Peter's car. Grateful, she thanks him to have come to take her and to lead her towards the one she loves. A few minutes after Summer left the State Street bar accompanied by Peter, Warren arrives at the bar and learns that Summer has just left with a man. At once, Warren thinks of the murderer who perhaps prowl in the neighbourhood and imagines the worst for Summer. Very quickly, he ardently reproaches to himself to have let her alone, feeling already guilty for what could happen to her.

Just sit in the car, Peter gives a white carnation to Summer. This is at this precise moment that Summer realizes that she is at the sides of a mad man who rapes and kills fair girls, like her. The car stops in an unused warehouse. Peter rapes and strangles Summer, believing to hurt Kelly. Peter then quickly leaves the place of the crime.

By a curious chance, it is Warren who discovers the dead body of the one he passionately loves. Warren is destroyed and feels responsable for the drama which has just happened. The police arrives immediately on the place of the crime, under the orders of sergeant Monroe. Very quickly, Clifford discovers the white carnation right beside Summer's body. Two murders in two days. And each time, it is fair young women. And each time, a white carnation is found at the sides of the victim. Monroe's deduction is obvious : the two murders are the work of an only man and, moreover, the murderer signs his crimes with a white carnation.

When the sun rises on the Santa Barbara bay, a new drama is on the first pages of all the newspapers. Because the carnation killer stroke again. After the shock, the fear finds its places in all the hearths of the city. Because, as the journalists underline it, the investigators seem to have any idea neither of the mobile, nor of the murderer. And it would seem that after the murder of Barbara Anderson and the one of Summer Blake, some other names may be added soon. In all the homes of the city, the fear gains some place. And you can be named Perkins, Capwell or Lockridge, everyone seems concerned by the murderer who strikes beautiful fair girls who likes populars restaurants.

On its side, the investigation continues. Of course, no print was found around Summer's body. And as for Barbara, there was a stocking sock near Summer (which was used to strangle her), and a white carnation, the sad signature of the killer. Sergeant Monroe, in charge of the investigation, does not see any possible suspect. This is only after a discussion with Warren that Monroe learns that Summer has already been raped in the past, and this is why she left to Los Angeles in order to follow a therapy. After having questioned Warren, Monroe, in company of Mason, questions Gina. This one learns them that at that time she was living in South Carolina and that she was dating a bad guy named Hank Judson. It is him who would have beaten and raped Summer.

On his side, Peter awakes with a terrible headache. His memories of the previous night are fuzzy and distant. He just notices that he has scratches on the face as if someone had tried to scratch him. And he learns with stupor that the murderer struck again. This is when, little by little, some images of him in company of Summer come back to his mind.

After a rapid investigation, Clifford Monroe succeeds in constituting a file on Hank Judson, that he quickly shows to Mason. For Monroe, Hank would have the profile to be the sinister guy who hides behind the carnation killer : his parents divorced when he was ten years old, he was placed in a reformatory school during two years, and he made several stays in prison since, and then he knew Summer Blake. Mason is agree with his opinion and, having learned that Hank is in Los Angeles, they both go there. There, they quickly decide to get separated so that they can increase their chances. Monroe, anxious for Mason, asks him not to try anything alone and to immediately call him when he will have found Hank. Mason waits for Hank at the Club 602, a bar where Hank usually spends his time. As usual, Hank ends up arriving. Immediately, he is alerted by Sam, the owner, that a man is at his research, indicating Mason to him by his look. And before this last can point his gun against him, Hank disarms him and starts to hit him.

Mason owes his life safe to the intervention of Warren, who came to Los Angeles after having questioned Gina at his turn. Obliged to answer the questions of the police, Hank certifies that he killed neither Summer, nor Barbara. Besides, for the first murder, he has an excellent alibi since he was in prison. Disconcerted, Monroe, Mason and Warren go back to Santa Barbara and continue their investigation. But for the moment, they do not have the least clue as for the identity of the killer.

In spite of the fear which get installed in the town, life continues. And the Capwells are all behind Gina to support her in this terrible moment. Inside of her, Gina feels partly responsible for the dead of Summer. Just like Warren. And it is full of remorses that they go to the funeral service in the memory of Summer. Peter, who always does not cease to spy Kelly, surprises a conversation in La Mesa and learns that she hopes to go theres despite the fear which overcomes her. And before the ceremony begins, Peter hides himself in the chapel. Hidden behind a curtain, his look never leaves the one who does not cease haunting his days and nights.

Everyone joins together around Summer to give her a last homage : C.C., Gina, Kelly and Joe, Warren, Eden and Cruz, Mason, Monroe. C.C. makes the praise of Summer. But, conscious that Summer loved Warren tenderly, he asks him to say a few words, in her memory. Peter, while moving behind his curtain, does a little noise, which wakes up Monroe's curiosity. However Peter succeeded to run away before he could be discovered. After the ceremony, Monroe comes to see Cruz Castillo in order to require from him that he agrees to be a police officer again (because Clifford and Cruz were together at the police academy), so that he can bring his help to them. And to help him in his choice, Monroe gives him the file of the carnation killer. Eden, who hears all their conversation, is surprised while learning than Cruz was, for a while, a policeman. On his side, Cruz ensures sergeant Monroe that he will think about his proposal, but that he cannot give him an answer for the moment.

The following day, Peter Flint meets his doctor, Dr. Bresley. This one worries for his health, because Peter does not follow his treatment, refusing to take his medication. Peter, knowing himself condemned, knows that he will die even if he takes care of himself, then he lets the disease unrelentingly follow its course, leading him more and more on the way of madness. And Peter continues with more rage on this road which, he knows it perfectly, will lead him to Kelly. By chance, whereas Joe had to go away, Peter immediately goes to La Mesa. There, from the telephone of the restaurant, he gives a phone call, asking the waitress to give a message for Kelly. Peter says he is Joe and would like Kelly to go on his work place to recover a toolbox that he would have forgotten.

Whereas Kelly is with Eden, her young sister, the waitress gives her the message. Kelly is annoyed. She accepted an interview with Susan Carlyle (who turns to be Sophia Capwell) for a discussion on the relationship between a daughter and her father. Eden then proposes to replace her. And Peter, who already left, does not assist at the end of the scene, where Kelly explains to Eden what she has to do. And without knowing it, Eden, instead of Kelly, walks to the trap Peter prepared to her. During her interview with Susan Carlyle, Kelly receives a call from Joe and she then understands that it is not him who required a service of her. Kelly panics, because she immediately understands that Eden is in danger.

On her side, Eden arrives at the warehouse and, instead of finding Joe's toolbox, she falls on a white carnation. The fear gains her quickly. And before she can utter just one cry, Peter, seeing the one he loves, stuns her and gets her into his car. Before leaving, he takes the time to bind her feet and her hands and to put a gag on her mouth and to veil her eyes. He however takes the time to look at her and to caress her hair, her face, while calling her by her first name : "Kelly, Kelly...". Peter then travels towards the forest, towards a deserted place where Kelly and he will be all alone.

Terrified, Kelly goes very quickly to the warehouse, where she finds sergeant Clifford Monroe. He shows her what he has unfortunately just discovered : Eden's scarf and a white carnation. It would seem that the hours are counted for Eden. Joe and Mason arrive at their turn on the place of the drama. By continuing the investigation, Mason finds some blood traces which can only belong to Eden. Kelly and Mason are shocked. And nobody establishes the link between "Joe"'s mysterious phone call for Kelly with the kidnapping of Eden. Monroe feels that the investigation is escaping to him and that he does not succeed to find the least clue left by the killer. That is why he asks for Cruz again, without however telling him that, this time, the new victim is called Eden Capwell.

In the Capwell clan, the fear can be read on all the faces. Fearing for the safety of the one he loves, Joe swallows his pride and asks Kelly to give up her work, but also makes her understand that it would be preferable for them to return to live at the Capwell mansion, where they will be safe. C.C., for once, is agree with Joe's opinion. As usual, all the members of the Capwell family reunites behind their clan chief. Everyone does not cease thinking of Eden, who is retained by the claws of an insane man. And this is at this time that sergeant Clifford Monroe says all the truth to Cruz, by learning him that the new victim of the carnation killer is Eden. Understanding the terrible danger which threatens the one he loves, Cruz immediately agrees to join his friend to track the murderer who terrorizes Santa Barbara. Only Mason at the beginning is reticent to his arrival. This is why Cruz is obliged to give him the phone number of his superior while he was working as a secret agent.

Reassured by the arrival of Cruz within the research team, the Capwell family continues to tremble for Eden. Because Eden is always unconscious in Peter's car, at the sides of the one who was almost for a time her brother-in-law. Peter drives fast in direction of the forest to be quiet, far from the world, in the exclusive company of his fiancée. After a long moment, Eden finally refinds conscience. It takes her only a few minutes to replunge in the hell of reality. Immediately, she tries to make a deal with her kidnapper, ignoring he is Peter Flint. She promises money to him, a lot of money if he accepts to release her. But Peter does not want money. Besides, he does not understand why his Kelly is so afraid of him. Arrived in a clearing, in the woods, he makes Eden getting off the car. Feeling that she is close to her end, Eden tries to struggle, to release herself from the claws of this insane man. Anger and rage go up in Peter. He does not understand why Kelly struggles as much. Peter then tries to strangle Eden. The fear of dying gives her more forces, and Eden manages to disengage herself from Peter's hands. And while trying to run away whereas she always has the bandaged eyes and the bound hands, Eden fall from the cliff which borders the clearing.

Peter, from the top of the cliff, looks at Eden falling. Eden finishes unconscious her fall; some blood runs on her face. By hearing a couple disputing, Peter decides to immediately run aways, giving up Eden at her sad fate. Before leaving to Santa Barbara, Peter deletes all the traces of his crime, in particular the traces of blood still present on the seat of his car. Then, he goes back to town. Throughout way, Peter asks many questions to himself because he does not understand very well what is happening to him. And while hearing on the radio that Eden Capwell has just been kidnapped, Peter feels himself more and more badly, not understanding anything to what happens inside of him.

As of his arrival in town, he goes to La Mesa to check that Kelly is always there. There, he questions a waitress on the many murders that occured near the restaurant. And while at a close table Cruz and Joe watch him, Peter understands that he is the only person responsible for the different murders. Besides some flashes of Barbara Anderson and Summer Blake appear to him. He is the carnation killer. He is the one who raped and strangled them. The truth is a real earthquake which destroys Peter. Unable to stay more time under the look of Joe and Cruz, Peter runs to hide himself in his apartment. While he comes back home, Peter has all the time to think. Joe also asks to himself many questions about him. Even if he is happy that Cruz joined the research time, Joe fears that it is too late. Because Joe feels that all the murders are related to La Mesa and perhaps also to Kelly because, every time, she was in company of the victims a little time before they die. To be sure of that, Joe decides to follow Peter until his apartment.

Just arrived at home, Peter knows that the end is close, that the things cannot last still any more. In one moment of lucidness, Peter takes his revolver and decides to commit suicide and thus to finish once for all with the carnation killer. When he points his weapon on him, he hears someone who knock with violence on his door. It is Joe. Joe penetrates the appartment and accuses him to be the carnation killer, by seeing a photograph torn and restuck of him in company of Kelly. Very quickly, the things degenerate and the two men begin to fight. Joe violently hits Peter who falls on the floor. By leaving the places, Joe finds a shirt covered with blood. For Joe, there is no more doubt : Peter is indeed the carnation killer, and it is Kelly that he wants.

During this time, Eden is always lying on the floor. She ends up finding her mind, succeeds in removing her blindfold and, after thousand difficulties, she succeeds in writing HELP on the ground. She hopes that someone will find her message and will come to help her. The things can only get better since her kidnapper is gone. She painfully goes up and starts to walk a little, looking for a way of returning to the civilization.

Joe, after his visit to Peter, gave a rendez-vous to Cruz and Kelly at the police station to present his theory to them : Peter would be the carnation killer. He is sure of that. Besides, Kelly was each time with the victims. Moreover, they were always fair young women, like Kelly. Cruz recognizes that his theory is interessant, but before to go to arrest Peter to question him, they need some other evidences than those Joe discovered, because they are inadmissible in a court. Joe gets annoyed and asks Cruz to go back to see Peter's doctor. Cruz says to him that it is already done, and that Dr. Bresley entrusted to him that Peter's health is critical and that he needs a treatment as fast as possible. Cruz seriously advises to him to let him lead the investigation as he wants to and especially not to interfere with it.

As from Joe's departure, Peter takes again his car and goes back to the place where he left Eden, with the serious intention to kill her. Arrived on the place, Peter discovers with horror the message of distress left by Eden. He immediately erases it, full of panic. Fearing to be found to have his new identity discovered, Peter gets in a hurry to research Eden. This one is always at the research of an emergency exit. But Peter gives up his research very quickly, because he hears a helicopter to approach near the forest. Taken by a terrible fear : that Eden could have recognized him, Peter quickly leaves the place and goes back to Santa Barbara.

At the same time, Cruz Castillo receives a phone call from the police station, and he learns that walkers would have found Eden. Cruz finds hope again. Very quickly, it apperas that this information is correct. Cruz is relieved to find Eden safe, the one he begins to love. He is moreover happy to learn than, contrary to the other victims of the carnation killer, Eden has not been raped.

After the joy of the reunion, the investigation continues. And following Joe's many suspicions, Cruz also begins to suspect Peter of being the carnation killer. And Cruz even makes convoke Peter at the police station in order to ask him some questions because, as Joe insists about it, Peter knew all the victims. Peter agrees to go back there, quite afraid, not ceasing wondering whether Eden recognized him or not. Cruz and Peter, while they are quarreling, are quickly joined by Mason Capwell, Clifford Monroe and Howard, Peter's lawyer. Understanding that they have absolutely anything against his client, Peter's lawyer does his utmost to clear and release Peter. Convinced that the whole world is against him, Peter swears to get free from this and to any price.

Back to his apartment, Peter has the surprise to receive the visit of Veronica Gayley, his former secretary who comes to bring some files to him. Very quickly their conversation derives on the mysterious carnation killer. Unconscious of the danger which threatens her, Veronica tells that she knew all the victims. And that it was also the case for Peter. Besides, she even saw him in La Mesa, with Barbara Anderson, the first victim. Fearing that she establishes the link between him and the killer and that she goes to talk to the police, Peter, in his tortured mind, decides to kill her. Whereas he is going to act, Veronica is saved at the last moment by Mrs. Ingle, the owner of Peter's apartment. By knocking on the door, she allows Veronica to leave Peter's apartment, however without realizing the drama which could occured.

But, always fearing for his safety, Peter projects to kill Veronica quickly. It is necessary for his future. And while discovering in the newspaper the announce for a movie this evening even at the Santa Barbara cinema, Peter has an idea. On her side, Veronica quickly phones Mason, in order to learn him that the day of the murder of Barbara Anderson, she saw Peter in her company at La Mesa. Unfortunately, Mason, mad of jealousy towards Veronica (she hid Lionel Lockridge in her apartment), does not leave her the possibility of saying the least word and rings off. Veronica, to relax, prepares for her a bubbling bath.

At the other side of the city, Peter goes to the cinema, where he buys a ticket for this evening film. There, he falls on Amy and Brick who also come to see the film. Peter shows himself very friendly with them, even sitting next to them. During the movie, Peter leaves his place and goes to the toilets. There, he locks the door in the inside and flees by the window that he leaves half-opened. And he immediately goes to Veronica's apartment. There, despite all the precautions of his former secretary, he manages to enter the apartment. Little by little, Veronica feels the fear falling on her and, while listening to Peter, she perfectly realizes that something is going wrong with him. She begs him in vain to leave, but Peter does not move. Very quickly, she then understands that behind Peter Flint's beautiful face is also hidding a monster. Veronica turns on the tape recorder, to record their conversation. And even if she struggles the best she can, the madness multiplies by ten Peter's forces. And Peter strangles Veronica. Before leaving the apartment, Peter transports the body of Veronica in the jacuzzi. There, he arranges the scene and deposits between Veronica's fingers a white carnation. Right before leaving, he falls on Veronica's tape recorder and, seeing that it is on, gets it with him. Not losing the least second, Peter goes up in his car and drives to the cinema. In way, he listens to Veronica's tape. In his sick brain, he is happy to hear shouting Veronica while he is killing her. Back to the cinema, Peter makes the same way inside out. But before regaining the room of the projection, he phones to Mason and puts the tape on. On the other side of the line, Mason only hears Veronica's screams. Then, he goes back on his seat comfortably, in order to watch the end of the film. And to create an undestructible alibi, Peter awkwardly reverses his popcorns on Amy. Without knowing it, Amy, Brick and Marisa, who joined them at the cinema, will thus be used as alibi for Peter's crime.

Mason, understanding that the worst arrived for the one who represented more than a simple secretary to his eyes, phones very quickly to the police and drives fast in direction of Veronica's apartment. There, he is annihilated by discovering the dead body of Veronica, still holding a white carnation between her fingers. The rage and the anger then violently fall on him. Did he neglected something during the investigation ? Didn't he see an element which could have prevented this crime ? He will never know it. And yet Mason knows that, somewhere, he was not able or did not want to see a detail which could have put a term at these odious murders. Mason is immediately joined by Cruz. This last one understands very quickly that it is about a new victim of the carnation killer and that it is also someone whom knew well Peter, the best suspect until this day. Mason, as the assistant of the district attorney, then agrees to convoke again Peter to the police station. And this is Cruz who takes the responsability to go to look for him at his apartment, where besides he has just arrived, still holding in his hand his bag containing Veronica's tape recorder and the tape. Arrived at the police station, Peter seems to lose his mind by seeing Elizabeth Peale's fair hair. Only Elizabeth seems to be aware of Peter's disorder.

During the examination, Mason and Cruz do not cease harassing Peter with questions. This last one tells them his day : after the visit of Veronica at his apartment, he went to the cinema. Besides Amy and Marisa Perkins, like Brick Wallace, can confirm his statements. This is what Cruz checks immediatley. And at the time when Mason certifies that Veronica phoned him, time when she was also killed, Peter was at the cinema. Joe, who arrived meanwhile, cannot believe that they are going to release Peter a new time, whereas he is the killer, he is sure of that.

Before leaving the police station, Peter hears a conversation between Joe and Cruz and thus learns that Kelly will be alone the next hour. And, while on his side, Joe checks the necessary time to the way between the cinema and Veronica's apartment, Peter goes to Kelly's home. During one moment, Peter watches her from the window. She is sleeping, in front of the television. Peter succeeds in entering the apartment and, at the time he is going to kill her, Cruz and Joe come in the apartment. Cruz is angry against Kelly because she did not locked the front door. Meanwhile, Peter hid himself in a closet. And while they all three go away, Peter hears Cruz to avow to Kelly that Peter is certainly the murderer, but that, for the murder of Veronica, he has a perfect alibi. Peter still remains a moment in the apartment of his beloved friend. Before leaving, he puts down a white carnation near the bed, an ultimate gift...

Cruz continues his investigation, continuing to try to find an clue which could imply Peter. Back to the cinema, Cruz remembers that, being a child, he allowed his friends to get in the cinema without ticket thanks to the window of the toilets. Very quickly, Cruz and Mason discover a piece of wood making it possible to maintain open the window. Cruz starts to clearly see in Peter's game. He then asks Mason to go back with him to Veronica's apartment, to check if nothing is missing. And after a while, Mason ends up seing that Veronica's tape recorder disappeared. In Cruz's mind, it is a detail which can have its importance. Cruz then requires if at the time of Veronica's phone call, he has not heard some music in the middle of her screams, as she was going to take a bath to relax. Mason says with authority that he didn't hear anything, just Veronica calling for some help. And that he is sure that it was real.

To be sure of it, Cruz goes to see Peter. While investigating, Cruz discovers a tape recorder in Peter's bathroom. Peter left it there, because when he tried to burn it with the tape, he fell on the page from the newspaper announcing the wedding of Kelly with Joe. Cruz, while leaving Peter, gives a strange phone call to Mason. Mason, on the other side, just hears some screams. He panics. And by hearing Cruz's explanations (he hired an actress to scream just like Veronica did), Mason understands that it is possible that Peter had them.

Fortunately in the middle of all these dramas, a happy event is coming : the wedding of Kelly and Joe. And more the date approaches, more Kelly is nervous, as if inside of her she knew that something worse was still waiting for her. Besides, night after night, she often makes the same nightmare : she dreams that Peter kills her, during her wedding ceremony. Whereas she entrusts her fears to Joe and in Cruz, she receives a parcel containing many white carnations. Convinced that the worst of all is coming, Kelly would like to delay their wedding, but Joe insists to do as they planned it.

Before the ceremony, Peter has the time to deposit a white carnation in the room where Kelly is supposed to wear her wedding dress. When she discovers the flower, she leaves the room by screaming. Joe and Cruz end up calming Kelly, who does not cease trembling from the head to the feet. After some long minutes, Kelly ends up finding her calms and she decides to continue the ceremony. She goes back to the cloakroom of the church to get dressed. And when she is going to dress, suddenly Peter enters the room. Kelly panics. She misses some air. She feels all around her the world falling down. Fortunately, Peter speaks to her very quickly, which enables her to immediately refind her mind. She does not listen to him, she just wants to leave, not to be in his presence any more. But Peter prevents her from leaving, saying to her that he came with the only goal of offering to her a gift for her wedding with Joe. Kelly says to him that she does not want it, that everything is finished between them. But very quickly, she realizes that the situation escapes from any control. Fortunately, Joe comes to see her and has the big surprise to find Peter Flint. Immediately, he drives him out violently, and before Cruz can intervene, in a moment of inattention, Peter has the possibility of going back to his hiding-place. It is Eden, disturbed to have refound her mother, who allows Peter to leave from this bad step. And despite the fear generated by the presence of Peter, after a common agreement, Kelly and Joe decide to make as if Peter Flint was not existing any more. Each one on their side, Kelly and Joe get dressed with their wedding clothes.

From his observation post, Peter observes all the ceremony, mad of rage. In front of the altar, before pronouncing their promises, Kelly takes a bible, in order to read a psalm. And when she opens the book, she immediately lets it falling down, because she found a white carnation inside of it. The fear takes her again. But, thanks to the presence of Joe at her sides, she prefers to continue the ceremony. It is then that, under the look full of hate of Peter, her former fiancé, Kelly Capwell becomes Joe Perkins' wife.

At the exit of the church of the newly-married couple, Peter gets his weapon and, always hidden, aims at the same time Joe but also Kelly. Very quickly, he realizes that he will not be able to make a success of his plan, because the guests congratulating the young couple embarrass him. Just after the reception, it is Cruz himself who accompanies them to the hotel, where they must spend their wedding night. But at the hotel, Peter is already there, observing them going to the nuptial suite that Cruz reserved for them. And what everyone is unaware of in Santa Barbara, is that Peter reserved the adjacent suite. And while Joe waits Kelly to go back from the toilets, he is accosted by a prostitute namedCandy Fox. Peter, who observes all the scene, takes her in his sick mind for Kelly. And as of she left Joe, it is him who accosts her and invites her in his suite.

It is at the same time that the two couples regain their respective room. Peter then proposes to Candy to wear the clothes he had prepared for Kelly, who even agrees to play the game of being his Kelly. This is only when he deposits a white carnation in her hair that she feels herself in a strange situation. But Peter shows himself so attentive, so tender, so in love. And while wanting to listen to music, Candy turns on the tape recorder of the night of the murder of Veronica. By hearing the screams of his last victim, Peter panics and strangles Candy in order to make her silence. Of the other side of the wall, Kelly and Joe hear the screams of agony and immediately alert Cruz and the hotel security. And whereas Joe makes irruption in Peter's suite, this last one succeeded in escaping by the window, taking with him the recorder and the tape.

Nevertheless, Peter is in trouble. Because now, Mason Capwell, who is also assistant of Santa Barbara district attorney, is convinced that behind the carnation killer is hiding Peter Flint. Sure of his culpability, Mason makes bring Peter to the police station, the following day, to question him. There, Cruz harass him with questions, requiring of him where he spent the night. Sure of him, Peter tells him that he slept in his car after having visited the bars of the town. Neither Cruz, nor Mason, believe a word of what he says. And Cruz requires of him, before leaving for a moment the room, to write what he made since the beginning of the murders. Peter begins. But Cruz it just out that he receives a phone call from a friend. And whereas the police officer who took the communication repeats the telephone number, Peter does the same. Because he understood the situation perfectly. It is the number of the place where Kelly will spend her honeymoon with Joe.

Always convinced of his culpability, Mason and Clifford Monroe make him pass a test to the lie detector. But unfortunately, Peter's personality being so sick, he succeeds this new test. Then, Cruz, to try to touch Peter, asks him for some help to catch the murderer who terrorizes all the fair women of Santa Barbara, while trying to make it comprehensible to him that Kelly Capwell is the next one on the list. Having no proof to arrest him, once again, Cruz lets Peter leaving the police station free.

Just out, Peter decides to act. Making as he was Joe Perkins, he contacts Cruz's friend and succeeds in obtaining the adress of the villa. And even before the newly-married couple cannot benefit from their honeymoon, Peter is already there, watching after them, constantly. And profiting of a moment when Kelly is alone, he enters the house and locks the door from the inside. This time, they are alone in the same house. Nobody will be across their road any more. Nobody will be able to prevent Peter to love Kelly. Kelly, by seeing Peter, is upset. She is terrified, and especially because Peter points his gun on her. Obeying to the one he loves, Peter poses his weapon and does not cease of talking to her about his love : he never ceased to love her. Conscious that Peter's mental state is very fragile, Kelly decides to make as she always loves him too. And when Peter gives her a white carnation, despite her fear, she allows him to kiss her in the neck. But the resistance is too hard and Kelly cannot resist the need to run away. In her run, she falls down and stays unconscious.

When she ends up awaking, she is in Peter's car and at his sides. While wanting to move, she has the surprise to realize that she has the feet and the hands bound. Dressed with only her nightdress, she panics because, at the inside of her, she is quite sure of what awaits her : the same fate than Barbara Anderson, than Summer Blake, than Veronica Gayley and than Candy Fox. Kelly trembles of fear. Peter sees that she is awaked and, tenderly, he asks her not to worry because it will not be long before they arrive to their destination. It will not be long before they arrive to the place he dreamed of for their honeymoon, where they will be alone in the world. Kelly shivers more and more by discovering the width of Peter's madness. The car continues its road and, after some long kilometers, Peter finishes by stopping near a lonely house. Kelly pretends to be unconscious. Peter carries her lovingly until the room, puts her delicately on the bed and goes back to take a cover in the car. During this short time, Kelly tries to phone to Joe and tells him that she does not know where Peter took her along, she just knows that they made a lot of kilometers. Too much quickly for our two lovers, Kelly has to ring off because Peter is always coming back. Always pretending to sleep, Peter lies down at her sides. After a long moment, Kelly gets up slowly, fearing to awake Peter who began to sleep. She slowly goes to the door. But before she could reach it, Peter runs on her and prevents her of leaving. In order to justify her act, Kelly complains about a terrible pain in her stomach. Then to calm the pain, she wanted to go to take some medicine in the car. Moreover, as he seems to be very tired, she did not want to awake him. Peter does not believe her. He leads her to the room with force, slips a white carnation in her hair and puts on her some of her favorite perfume.

When he is back, Joe perfectly realizes that something serious has just happened and he immediately imagines the worst things. And as usual, he calls his friend Cruz Castillo to help him. This last one arrives very quickly, accompanied of Eden Capwell, to begin as quickly as possible the search for Kelly. A little time after, they find Peter's car at the airport. The fear gains them because they do not have the least clue on Peter's destination. How to know where he led Kelly ? From many kilometers of him, Joe, Cruz and Eden panic because, if Peter took the plane under a false name, they have no way to know what is his destination. Fortunately, a police officer comes to put a term at their anxiety. Peter would have rented a car. Thus, as Cruz underlines it, they know now which vehicle they must look for. The run to save Kelly can continue.

Kelly, perfectly conscious of Peter's state of health, lets him do. She pretends to be always in love with him. Unfortunately, at one moment in their discussion, she speaks about Joe. Immediately, Peter is angry. He becomes as he was insane. He leaps on Kelly, puts her on the bed and rapes her. Immediately after, Peter feels guilty and he acknowledges to Kelly what he made since their rupture. He explains to her thta it is him who killed all the other women, that he did not want to kill them directly, but that he wanted to kill her, Kelly. And when she asks him why he does not do it, Peter answers her that he is perfectly unable of it. Then, after a moment, Kelly says she is hungry and that she would like to go to the restaurant. Peter does not like this idea, because he fears that they could be both recognized. But Kelly says to him that as it is their honeymoon, they need to enjoy it. Peter ends up yielding, attaches Kelly to the bed and goes by car to buy a dress to her. Whereas Kelly, always attached, succeeds to take possession of a knife, Peter learns by the radio that the Santa Barbara police began researches to find them.

In Santa Barbara, everything is done to find the daughter of the powerful C.C. Capwell. Because of the fatigue and the fearn, Joe ends up cracking and lets express all his anger and all his frustration. He is angree against Cruz to have had on several occasions Peter under the hand and to have released him every time. If he had stopped him, that would not be the same today. Cruz, as a friend, understands, but he knows that he right; at the time, he did not have any proof against Peter. Cruz decides to stay with Joe, because he fears that if this one finds Peter, he would kills him, and he would prefer to avoid that. He takes the direction of the research team and explains to the helicopters pilots the area where they must begin their research.

Bound on her bed, Kelly hopelessly tries to get released, but she is obliged to stop and to hide the knife under the covers, because Peter is already back. Seeing his face, she immediately notes that he is not in good humour. Nevertheless, Peter gives her the dress he bought to her. Whereas Peter turns the back to her, Kelly tries to wound him with her knife, but Peter stops her before she could hurt him. Then Peter decides that they are not going to the restaurant any more. And Kelly requires of him to turn on the radio, so they can dance together. It is how Kelly learns that in Santa Barbara, the researches already started to find them. Mad of anger, Peter turns off the radio and obliges Kelly to lie down at his sides.

On his side, Cruz centralizes all the researches. And the utilisation of the helicopters increases the speed of the researches, since they already found the hired car given up by Peter. Cruz, accompanied by Joe and Eden, immediately goes on the place. And Cruz, as a good detective, feels that they are on the right way. Indeed, a saleswoman in the close village recognizes the photo of Peter and says that he came to buy a dress for his wife who is called Kelly. They all find hope again.

During a moment of sleep, Kelly stabs Peter on the leg violently. The wound is important and Peter loses blood. Kelly tries to escape, but Peter gets up to catch her. In her run, Kelly throws a chair to him on his wounded leg. Peter howls of pain. The madness explodes in him. He shouts to her that he will be avenged, that he will kill her because she is not the real Kelly. However, Kelly succeeds in escaping in the desert. Obviously, Peter rejoins her.

At the same time, Cruz, Joe and Eden go back in the house where Peter has sequestered Kelly. By seeing the blood traces, Joe fears : and if Peter had killed Kelly ? The hate submerges him and Joe gets mad with Cruz, that he accuses to be responsible for the misfortune which falls on him. Fortunately, Cruz manages to calm him down, and they can continue their researches.

In her escape in the desert, Kelly finishes by getting hidden in an old abandoned camping-car. There, she hides herself inside, hoping that Peter who went to her research does not find her. Kelly trembles because Peter is cutting out the door with a power saw. And while he dominates her of all his force, Kelly launches a pillow on the saw. It gets blocked because of the feathers. Kelly hits him with an axe and tries to escape. Peter falls on the floor. And before Kelly manages to escape, he succeeds in grasping her by a leg. With a hand, he retains Kelly captive, and with the other, he gropes the ground searching for the axe. However, Kelly manages to be released from Peter's claws, and she runs away in the desert. As for Peter, he gets up with difficulty and if he can follow Kelly, it is thanks to a stick. In her run, Kelly ends up reaching a car.

Always in the search of Kelly and Peter, the rescuers get organized. This time, they warn Cruz that they have just discovered an abandoned camping-car with not only of blood traces, but also with prints of steps, at least two, which go in direction of the desert. And Joe finds hope again. Kelly would be always alive.

Indeed, Kelly is always alive. But she always has Peter behind her. Hidden in the car, she sees him who is coming right towards her. Indeed, Peter also noticed the car with an open door. Kelly, who found tissue and matches, has an idea. Discreetly, she leaves by the other side the car, slips the tissue into the reservoir and burns it. Immediately, Kelly runs to hide herself. From her hiding-place, she sees Peter who gets into the car right at the time when it explodes. It is finished. The nightmare is finished. And to be sure of it, she approaches the car in flames. She sees Peter lengthened, motionless at her side. She comes too close of him and Peter seizes her. Kelly beats him and runs away.

In the same time, the rescuers approach. C.C., present in one of the helicopters, warns Cruz that they located a car in flames. Joe decides to go there and convinces Eden and Cruz to stay there to make the relay with the helicopters. Joe, in his jeep, drives fast towards Kelly. Arrived near the car, he does not notice Peter, he just sees Kelly running. He goes next to her, by howling her name. Kelly, by hearing his cries, thinks he is Peter and that the nightmare continues. Very fortunately, Joe is faster than her and ends up catching her up. Mad of happiness and relief, they fall into the arms the one with the other. They will be able to continue their life where they had left it and to forget Peter. Definitively. However, Kelly says that she will be reassured only when Peter's body find be found.

And Kelly is entirely right to be feared. The nightmare is not finished, not yet. Because Peter travels towards Santa Barbara, in a car. A woman taken him on board. And while she was driving, she threw herself out of the car. That is what she says to the police. The man she welcomed looked like Peter Flint and, moreover, during the way, he began to call her Kelly. The fear falls again on Kelly and Joe, like on all the Capwell family.

At his arrival in Santa Barbara, Peter goes to his apartment. There, he writes his confession in which he recognizes being the murderer of Barbara Anderson, Summer Blake, Veronica Gayley as well of the prostitute. He explains that he did not really want to kill them, but that it is his disease which made him do that.

Cruz, by learning the news of Peter's return in town, asks the police to go to his apartment. Very quickly, he is informed of the last events : he stuned the guard who kept his apartment. Cruz immediately goes on the place and discovers the confession. By reading it, he learns that Peter recognizes being the carnation killer and also the murderer of Channing Capwell Junior (it will later be discovered that these lines were added by Marcello Armonti). If nobody is really surprised of the identity of the carnation killer, the fact that Peter is the killer of Channing Junior moves of the Capwell clan.

On their side, when C.C. learns them that Peter's body has just been found, Kelly and Joe breathe again. It would seem that it is indeed finished. And Kelly and Joe decide to take again the normal course of their life. And to overcome her traumatism, Kelly acknowledges in Joe that she voluntarily let Peter to rape her. She was too afraid that he kills her. Joe understands, promises to support her and to try to make her forget these terrible hours. To surprise her, he decides to lead her to a picnic-surprise on the beach, where she finds a little of her joy again. But Mason, who discovers that the body found is not Peter's, immediately goes to find them. And he finds them just at the moment when they were going to go back in their apartment. From the other side of the door, Peter waits for them, a gun in the hand.

In front of the door, Peter learns that Kelly and Joe are invited in end of the afternnon to a small party at Amy Perkins' house. And he has the time to run away before Kelly and Joe comes to take some stuff. There, they can notice that Peter came to their home, because all the apartment was sprinkled with Kelly's favorite perfume. And despite Mason and their family's warnings, Kelly and Joe decide to go, in spite of Peter's threat, at Amy's as if nothing happened. Thus everything is set up gradually so that Peter's revenge can take place. But the events will quickly escape from Peter's control.

After having left Joe and Kelly's apartment, Peter runs to Amy Perkins' home. Before she comes to open the door to him, he had to ring several times. Indeed, Amy, while she was cleaning the house, was listening to music and did not hearPeter's first calls. By opening the door to him, Amy is petrified by seeing Peter. Without a word, he pushes her and enters. Face to his gun, Amy is forced to obey to his orders. And in a first time, Peter wants her to call all the guests (others that Joe and Kelly) to announce to them that she cancels the party. Then, seeing that Kelly does not arrive, Peter gets impatient and asks Amy to phone her to require of her to come earlier. She has just rung off that the telephone rings. It is Jackie Parks who announces to her that her husband has a permission and that he comes to see her. This is why she is coming to take some stuff. Amy has not have the time to say to her not to come.

And a few minutes after her phone call, Jackie enters the house and falls face to face with Peter. Here they are now all two his hostages. Peter realizes that the situation becomes complicated. He awaited Kelly, his wife, and here he is retaining two other women captive. And after Jackie, it is Mason who rings at Amy's door. Obeying Peter, she tries to drive him out as she can, but Mason insists and ends up coming, finding himself face to face with Peter. Curiously, Mason had come to inform Amy to pay great attention, because Peter was prowling around.

Peter is mad of joy of holding captive the great Mason Capwell. And while he continues to take pleasure of it, a violent headache crisis obliges him to sit down. Peter is hurt a lot by this crisis, by this pain which obliged him, each time, to kill. Mason, who perfectly realizes his state, tries to reason him : he is sick and he needs to follow a medical treatment. But Peter does not believe in Mason's feelings about him. Amy then requires to phone to Gina DeMott to say to her that the party is cancelled. Peter accepts. However, actually, Amy phones Cruz who understands the situation. But, at the same time, Peter looks at the window and he notices Joe and Kelly discussing with Larry Parks. And when Gina DeMott really phones, Peter understands that Amy spoke with the police. Peter, in front of the sudden change of situation, starts to panic. By a violent blow, he hits Mason, who falls on the floor. Then, he does not leave the window any more, spying on Joe, Kelly and Larry. It is at this moment that all three decide to enter in Amy's home. While they ring at her door, Peter panics. He shoots Larry, taking him for a police officer because of his uniform. Larry falls down, Kelly runs to get hidden behind a car and Joe succeeds in going with his sister. Jackie is annihilated; like her, everyone in the house thinks that Peter killed Larry. She precipitates at his sides and cries. Fortunately, Larry pretends to be dead in order to trap Peter a little time after. Tired of hearing Jackie to cry, Peter accepts that Larry's body is moved in another room.

Slowly, Mason wakes up. Perfectly conscious of the situation, he beseeches Peter to let Amy go. He begs him to put a term at this nightmare for her and for the child she is waiting for. Because him, better than whoever, knows that a child should not grow without the love of a mother. Touched by Mason's words, Peter agrees to release Amy.

Decided to controle his future, Peter calls Cruz and orders him to make Kelly come or he will kill everyone. He leaves him only fifteen minutes. Cruz refuses that Kelly accepts this blackmail. And it is Maggie Gillis, a police officer, who will take Kelly's place. Thus, disguised as Kelly Capwell, she will be able to approach Peter and to shoot him. Unfortunately, it is first Peter who shoots her, while having noticed the presence of her weapon. It is at this moment that Larry jumps on Peter and manages to disarm him. In the action, Mason and Larry succeeded in being released, such as Jackie. In the house, there remains no one any more but Joe, alone with Peter. The forever rivals find themselves face to face for the ultime battle, the most important one.

If everyone is delighted by the release of the hostages, Kelly remains the only one to tremble, because her Joe is always a prisoner. Marcello Armonti, the famous psychiatrist who came to reinforce the police force, proposes to Cruz to use Peter's attack against the one he took for Kelly. Why not to say to him that Kelly is dying and that she reclaims him. That will at least result to make him leave his hiding-place. Cruz accepts. However, Kelly refuses categorically. Because if Peter believes she will die, he will want to be avenged on Joe, the only person in charge of their separation in his eyes. Cruz decides to continue. He calls Peter and says to him and to Joe that Kelly will die. Peter agrees to go out, but at the last time, understanding that there is perhaps a trap, he requires that someone brings Kelly to him, if not he will be constrained to kill Joe. Kelly panics and takes possession of a gun. And whereas Cruz is going to storm, he learns that Kelly is about to go back to the Perkins house.

Then Peter sees her. He also notices the weapon she has with her. He shoots her twice. Fortunately, Joe succeeds to get interposed. Wounded, Joe falls by the winsdow, before to be led to the hospital. Now, it is Kelly who is retained captive by Peter. Fearing of dying, Kelly acknowledges in Peter that she always loves him and that she is pregnant. She awaits a baby of him. Nothing more from now can be opposed to their happiness. At the limit of madness, Peter believes her. They take refuge in the child room prepared by Amy. Peter really believes that Kelly tells him the truth. He is so happy. He found Kelly again. And they still love each other. He leaves his weapon to take in his arms a teddy bear. He swears to be a good father for his child, better than the one he knew. Kelly, who always keeps an eye on the revolver, gets close to it. She succeeds in catching it and aims the gun on Peter. Very quickly, he succeeds in disarming her. In his sick mind, Peter now imagines that it is Kelly who is only the person responsible for his problems. It is her and nobody else. Then, to be avenged, he is going to give her the same lesson than to the preceding ones. He tries to rape her, but Kelly struggles.

It is at this moment that Cruz makes irruption in the room. Peter sees Cruz and is going to shoot. But before he can do it, Cruz shoots and kills Peter. And this time, the nightmare is really finished. Peter is there, dead, lain on the floor, in his blood, at a few meters from Kelly. She cannot believe it. Several time, she believed that Peter had definitively left her life. And there, she awaits him to get up and jump on her, to kill her. But Peter does not move. This time, it is finished with the carnation killer. Cruz approaches Kelly and tighten her very strong in his arms, obliging her to look at tomorrow...

And tomorrow, it is Joe, her husband who is at the hospital. Kelly goes there. The life elapses slowly. Everyone is happy to find her healthy and safe, but, for her, it is not finished. As well she will not hear that Joe is saved, that will not be finished. At Joe's bedside, she prays, she cries. Alas, the destiny will be crueler. The following day, Joe will die in her arms. It is the end of the world for Kelly. Joe, her Joe, died. Never she will be able to be forgiven for her testimony. Never they will be able to make up for these five years so stupidly lost. Never... Never... Never again the woman who is in her will love in the same way. And it is perhaps for that that when she will find love again, with Nick Hartley, it will be necessary for her to require Joe's permission, on his tomb, to be able to love again...

Text written for this site by Lilian