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 Pearl
could be regarded as the eternal second role of Santa Barbara
:
present in many intrigues and adventures, he will have only played
the good buddies or the accomplices of characters to whom was granted
the foreground. Pearl is initially the former jovial and a little
eccentric friend of Cruz Castillo. This is by his intermediary that he becomes
acquainted with Kelly Capwell for who he immediately devotes a certain attraction. A
love which unfortunately will never be
concretized in a real relation, but which will continue during every year
that Pearl will spend in Santa Barbara.
This is another Capwell, Courtney,
a cousin of Kelly, that he seduces during the year 1986. He comes to comfort her
after the death of her sister Madeline, assassinated, while trying to
protect her from the pressures of David Laurent, the husband of the
latter. Pearl thinks of having found the perfect love before discovering
that Courtney is in fact the murderer of her sister...
His
thoughts then quickly return on Kelly, so much more so this one knows
serious troubles. He builds a plan to make her come out from the asylum where she is interned
by force by a psychopath doctor, Dr. Rawlings. There he finds the trace
of his brother Brian, formerly patient of the same doctor. Whereas he
thought he was dead, Pearl discovers that his brother is well alive and
renew his relations with him. Whereas the reunion
with his brother seems to be the result of a great adventure, Pearl will
not manage to make Brian stay a long time in Santa Barbara.
Always
so sociable and becoming intimate easily (among his regular friends can
be found as well Julia Wainwright and Carmen Castillo as Eden Capwell),
Pearl agrees in 1987 to enter into partnership with Cruz to create a detectives
agency. He has besides a lot to do with
his first case : the Elena Nikolas' affair, from the name of the dangerous
psychopath who comes to adjoin her services in the unavowed purpose to make disappear all
the Capwells from the surface of the Earth !
After these dangerous adventures, he takes a little his distances with
the risks of his job and dedicates himself to his passion : his friends
!
He very quickly becomes the accomplice of Jake Morton and with him has
fun inter alia in playing the baby-sitters for Carrie, the daughter of one of
his new friends and inavowable love, Rita Grant.
But
these stories of a very limited interest will cease at the moment of the
departure of Jake, idle after the death of his betrothed Hayley Benson. Pearl will also finish
by disappearing,
without tear nor goodbye, as discreetly as he had lived his three years
in Santa Barbara...
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«Television
is a plague !»,
1987
