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 Married
to Reese, a police officer just like her, the dynamic Jodie Walker lands
to Santa Barbara in spring 1992. It is a letter that her youth friend
Cruz Castillo sent her which decides her to go to a reunion party of
high school alumni. Delighted to find Cruz, Jodie is seduced by his
proposition to join, with her husband, the police forces of the city.
If
Jodie gets along well with Reese and their son Sawyer, it goes otherwise
with B.J., her daughter, with whom she often gets in conflict. But her
work within the Santa Barbara police motivates her amply, especially the
defense unit for assaulted women into which she invests a lot of
herself. She thus comes to help Connie Dela Vega, a housewife who had to
leave the marital home to escape the violence imposed by her husband.
It
also appears very quickly that Jodie was formerly very close to Cruz.
She kept with him a great complicity, which does not go without making
Reese sometimes jealous. The arrival in town of Frank Goodman, an old
friend of the couple, is going to enlighten of another light the past
relation between Jodie and Cruz. After several weeks of embarrassment,
it indeed turns out that Frank has in the past raped the young B.J..
While the truth is discovered, Jodie is taken hostage by Frank, who
threatens to kill them, she and Cruz. Jodie chooses then this moment to
confess to Cruz a secret kept for such a long time : he is B.J.'s
father, conceived during their youth adventure. When Frank is
mysteriously found dead, Cruz, suspecting B.J., blames himself for the
murder and leaves the United States. Jodie has then to face her past
alone, Reese and B.J. blaming her for her lies.
Given
up by Reese, Jodie finds comfort with Dr. Micah DeAngelis with whom she
begins an affair which will remain short-term. Because the wedding of
B.J. with Warren Lockridge offers to Jodie the opportunity to get closer
to Reese. This latter thus agrees to forgive her and to give a new
chance to their couple life...
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Jodie,
the new love of Cruz ?,
1992
