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Nickname : Cassie

Mother : Minx Lockridge

Brother : Lionel Lockridge (half-brother)

Former known boyfriends : Warren Lockridge (1990), Michael Donnelly (1990), Mason Capwell (1991)

Profession : Employed at the Oasis

Karen Moncrieff :
June 22 1990 (# 1489) to April 09 1992 (# 1942)

Tormented character because of a heavy past, Cassandra Benedict will very quickly from her arrival take an important place in the storylines of the show. Already before her first appearance, her name is in the center of the discussions between Ethan Asher, Craig Hunt, Stephen Slade and Derek Griffin for weeks. Indeed, Cassandra is known to be a young orphan adopted by the Capwell family, dead at eight years old in shady circumstances, but that the four men, her childhood friends, are well decided to clear up.

Cassandra makes a deafening entry in the show by appearing in front of Derek just as this latter gets ready to shoot Mason Capwell, whom he judges responsible for her death. The mystery around her presumed death not having its place any more, Cassandra gets closer to Stephen, openly in love with her, and to Craig, her great childhood friend. She above all finally gets back her place within the Capwell family, delighted to find her alive. But some unexpected events follows on around Cassandra : Ethan and Derek are arrested on the call of a woman, the movie which Stephen was shooting to the detriment of the Capwells is destroyed in a fire, this latter mysteriously disappears... Everything accuses Cassandra, but nothing can be proved.

Approached by the policeman Michael Donnelly, Cassandra lets herself being seduced, without knowing that this latter is in fact looking to know more about her past. Acting at Minx Lockridge's request, Michael thus discovers that Cassandra is in fact her daughter whom she abandoned at her birth to an orphanage. By learning the information inadvertently, Cassandra is shocked and has a great deal of difficulty in forgiving Minx. Especially because she then learns the return in Santa Barbara of the man who brought her out of the hell of Singapore and who became her big love, Warren Lockridge, Minx's grandson and thus henceforth her nephew. Their love turning out to be impossible, Cassandra turns herself towards Mason Capwell on whom she fixes her choice. She makes her possible to encourage his break-up with Julia Wainwright and accepts his wedding proposal.

But the day of the ceremony in San Francisco, Warren, who knows that this union is a marriage in a fit of pique, kidnaps Cassandra. This latter is led to Alcatraz disused prison, where Warren tries to reason her so that she gives up her union. Cassandra is perturbed by this loving surge, but stays with Mason. At least until she learns that no family tie finally connects them, because it turns out that Warren is not in fact Lionel Lockridge's son. Shocked that Mason, who knew this secret for months, did not say anything to her, Cassandra breaks up and tries to return with Warren. But it is too late, this latter lost his love for her and lives henceforth a passionate relation with Angela Raymond.

The psychological instability which was already felt at her then takes all its scale. Cassandra tries at first to slander Angela by revealing her responsibility in the past death of her sister, Marylin. But nothing changes, Warren forgives Angela. Cassandra then decides to take some bigger measures by trying to poison Angela, but it is Lionel who drinks the contaminated soup which was intended for her. Totally depressive and being at the end of her tether, Cassandra ends by accepting Minx's recommendation to enter a rehabilitation center. She thus leaves Santa Barbara and her too many bad memories...

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