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John Callahan :
August 09 1989 (# 1267) to January 27 1992 (# 1889)

Shady character and with uncertain motives, Craig Hunt is maybe one of the most dangerous characters of Santa Barbara, so much it is difficult to figure out all the facets of his personality.

Craig appears at first as the right hand of the mafioso Anthony Tonell, a redoubtable and violent man. But once Tonell fallen, Craig shows very fast an interest to get closer to the Capwell family and manages to gain the favours of the rich patriarch, C.C.. He seduces his daughter Kelly and proposes his services for diverse missions, thus becoming C.C.'s new henchman, often present in the walls of the Capwell mansion.

It is then that a part of Craig's past gets revealed when it appears to daylight that he is, with Ethan Asher, Stephen Slade and Derek Griffin, one of the four orphans trying to avenge the death of the young Cassandra Benedict, the other orphan formerly adopted by the Capwells. But his loyalty to his orphan friends already knows cracks when he prevents Derek from achieving his plan of revenge against Mason Capwell, suspected by the clan to be Cassandra's murderer. He thus helps Mason to escape to death and gains in return C.C.'s gratitude.

But the schemer Craig well realizes that, however, he has not and will never have at C.C.'s eyes only a status of henchman. Disappointed to see himself ceaselessly relegated in the background, he prepares his vengeance. During the reception for his engagement with Cassandra (who was not dead finally), Mason escapes a shot which accidentally kills the young Amado Gonzalez. If it is the journalist Warren Lockridge who finds himself at first accused of the murder, the investigation led by his girlfriend Angela Raymond tends to show Craig's guilt in the murder. To avoid being bothered, Craig blows up the offices of Warren's newspaper, hoping to erase all the proofs incriminating him, and tries to kill the too much curious Angela.

His hatred against Mason and the Capwells going growing, Craig is ready to go up to the end. Finally arrested by the police, he manages to escape from prison and takes as hostages Kelly and Cruz Castillo. Reasoned by the intervention of Cassandra, Craig agrees to surrender and returns to prison, from where we will never see him going out...

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