Brandon DeMott Capwell }} Brandon came to Santa Barbara in late 1984 with his presumed-mother Gina DeMott. Santana Andrade learned that Brandon was her son (with Channing) and set out to get Brandon away from Gina. C.C. sided with Gina, whom he allowed to stay at the Capwell mansion. Santana continued fighting for custody, winning in 1986. Brandon was briefly raised by Santana and her husband, Cruz. However, after Santana entered rehab, Brandon went back to live with Gina. Brandon fell into a coma after being assaulted by an accomplice of the Video Rapist, and was rescued by Eden and Cruz. Brandon learned about his paternity in 1989. He forgave Gina for lying to him, and later bonded with his birth mother, Santana. Brandon was one of the rare child characters who never underwent
SORAS. Brandon left at the end of 1992, to attend boarding school.
C.C. (Channing Creighton) Capwell C.C. Capwell is the patriarch of the wealthy Capwell family serving as the president of Capwell Enterprises. He was first married to Pamela Pepperidge and son Mason was born from the marriage. Pamela fled the marriage and went to England but she was secretly pregnant. C.C. next married Sophia Wayne who gave birth to Channing Capwell III, Eden, Ted, and Kelly. C.C. is widowed after Sophia is presumed dead after a fall from Lionel Lockridge's yacht. He always loses son Channing after he is shot to death in 1979. C.C. has a difficult relationship with Mason but dotes on both daughters. In 1984, Gina Demott returns to Santa Barbara with her son Brandon. It is revealed that Brandon is really the son of Channing Capwell III and Santana Andrade. C.C. sides with Gina and eventually marries her, making Brandon his grandson and step-son. Sophia Wayne Amonti is actually alive and secretly returns to Santa Barbara and eventually is revealed to C.C. In 1987, C.C. learns that Pamela was pregnant when she left for England. Eden's rival Elena Nikolas is revealed as their daughter. In 1989 C.C. learns that he is the father of Greg Hughes by former lover Megan Richardson. He also has brief relationships with Santana Andrade and Angela Raymond. Despite all this, Sophia remains the love of his life. They are married three separate times and reconcile in the last episode of the series in 1993.
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Courtney Capwell Julia Campbell (March 12, 1986 – December 18, 1986) C.C.'s niece Courtney arrived in town from Boston in March 1986 with her sister Madeline; she was as kind and sweet as Madeline was snobbish and vain. She and Pearl Bradford met during the course of a scavenger hunt and fell in love. Madeline was murdered shortly thereafter and Courtney was intent on finding her sister's killer. The leading suspect was Madeline's husband David Laurent, who had been having an affair with his business colleague Sheila Carlisle, but he was acquitted and left town. Later, Courtney was devastated when Pearl fell in love with Kelly Capwell while he was undercover as a patient where Kelly was institutionalized to save her from the corrupt doctor in charge, Dr. Rawlings. Still, she helped Pearl put Dr. Rawlings away and track down his brother Brian, who had been presumed dead after being in Dr. Rawlings' care back in Boston. While the storyline of Madeline's murder had been dropped for months, suddenly in late fall 1986 Courtney began waking up screaming from nightmares and seeing blood on her hands. She became more and more unraveled and unsuccessfully tried to pin her sister's murder on Keith Timmons, who had secretly been having an affair with Madeline. Brian Bradford, who claimed never to have encountered a murder mystery that he could not solve, came to the conclusion that Courtney must have been the one who killed Madeline. He talked a reluctant Pearl into forcing Courtney to watch a staged re-enactment of the murder at the bungalow where it had happened to force the truth to the surface. Courtney told them that it was true that she killed Madeline, but it was not murder; Madeline had devised an elaborate plot to kill Courtney so she could have their inheritance all to herself, and Courtney was forced to kill her in self-defense. She let David stand trial for the murder because she had seen him come in and find Madeline and know she still had a pulse, and flee without calling for help, so it was clear that he had hoped she'd die. Pearl found a bullet in the wall that corroborated her story. None of them said anything further about the matter and Courtney left town.
Kelly Capwell In 1984, Kelly Capwell celebrates her engagement to Peter Flint on the same day that former boyfriend Joe Perkins is released from prison. Joe was exonerated of the killing of Kelly's brother Channing. She falls in love with Joe again and works with him to find the real killer. Peter becomes crazed with jealousy and goes on a killing spree with one of his victim's being Joe. Kelly also learns that her mother Sophia is still alive. Kelly next becomes involved with photographer Nick Hartley who rescues her from a kidnapping. Kelly also gets involved with Nick's brother Dylan. She admits to Nick that she slept with Dylan the evening before their wedding. Dylan becomes obsessed with Kelly and there is a confrontation which ends with Kelly pushing Dylan through the window at the Capwell Hotel resulting in his death. Kelly is institutionalized in a mental health facility. She then befriends Pearl Bradford before being transferred to Switzerland. While there she falls for Jeffrey Conrad but is shocked to learn he is the son of her father's first wife Pamela. Kelly and Jeffrey both begin working for a pharmaceutical company and are married in 1987. Kelly becomes pregnant but has a miscarriage. Jeffrey becomes distant and Kelly becomes close to T.J. Daniels. Pamela begins to poison Kelly and she falls into a coma. Jeffrey and Kelly divorce. in 1989, Kelly travels to Paris to help her sister Eden search for her missing baby. She then becomes involved with Ric Castillo, half brother to Eden's husband Cruz. She fights with her family against Robert Barr's attempts to take over Capwell Enterprises. She then falls for Robert before he leaves town. Upon his return, they renew their relationship and marry. However, Kelly really marries Robert's twin brother Quinn who has taken his place. Kelly falls down the stairs in their home and becomes unable to walk. Quinn's lover Flame Beaufort, secretly poisons Kelly. Kelly suffers another miscarriage as a result of the drugs. After the murder of Robert, Kelly breaks from Quinn. She then gets involved with musician Richard Sedgewick, an old family friend. He suffers a heart attack in their hotel room. Quinn helps her with the crisis and the reunite briefly before Kelly has to help him flee town. After a brief flirtation with Cruz, Kelly finds herself involved with policy officer Connor McCabe and psychiatrist Skyler Gates. Connor helps her investigate Sophia's fiancee Ken Mathis. Kelly and Connor remain a couple when the show concludes.
Mason Capwell Mason Capwell is the eldest sibling of the Capwell family. Mason and his father C.C. had a contentious relationship possibly due to the fact the C.C. never forgave Mason's mother Pamela for deserting them. When Joe Perkins is exonerated for the murder of his brother Channing, Mason searches for the identity of the real killer through his position in the D.A. office. Mason briefly pursues Santana Andrade and gets involved with Veronica Gayley In 1985, his stepmother Sophia is revealed to be alive. Mason engages in a romance with his father's new wife Gina Demott. Mason also learns that his deceased brother Channing had a relationship with another man and reveals this to C.C. Mason also reveals the news the Lionel Lockridge was really the father of Channing. C.C has a heart attack. Mason then falls for C.C.'s new nurse Mary Duvall who is a reformed nun. Mary loves Mason but eventually marries Dr. Mark McCormick. Mason eventually reunites with Mary but she is killed when the letter C from the Capwell Hotel sign falls and kills her. Mason becomes an alcoholic and briefly leaves town. Mason returns with new love interest, an evangelist known as Lily Light. This relation finally ends after Mason learns that Lily is the daughter of Gina Demott. Mason then gets involved with attorney Julia Wainwright and Julia decides she wants Mason to father her child but with no involvement in raising the child. Mason then takes up with Victoria Lane who is secretly pregnant by Cruz Castillo. After Julia gives birth to their child Samantha, Mason is kidnapped by his long lost sister Elena Nikolas. He is rescued but Elena dies from injuries. Mason divorces Tori and moves in with Julia and their daughter Samantha. After the remains of Mark McCormick are found, Mason is believed to be his killer. He seeks the true identity of the killer at the convent where Mary lived. He discovers the true killer but then is involved in an explosion in the church. As a result he develops a split personality persona known as Sonny Sprocket. He once again gets involved with Gina which cancels his planned marriage to Julia. Then as he is about to marry Gina, Mason is shot which helps him to remove the alter ego. Mason then marries Julia. Mason begins to drink heavily and is convinced to join
Alcoholics Anonymous. He leaves town but returns when Julia is accused of a murder. Julia learns Mason had an affair with Sasha Schmidt. Sasha is murdered and Julia work together to find who killed her. Mason continues to drink and Julia divorces him. Mason then gets involved with Cassandra Benedict when they both work together running the new Oasis hotel complex. Cassandra is really in love with Warren Lockridge so Mason hastily proposes marriage. At their engagement party, Mason is shot by Craig Hunt but he suspects Warren. Mason and Cassandra run away together but their wedding is stopped by Warren. Mason and Julia are drawn back together and they buy the haunted Ballymoor mansion. Daughter Samantha gets very sick. Mason longs for a second child but they struggle to conceive. The pair take in pregnancy teenager Gracie who wants the couple to adopt her child. After the baby is born, Julia informs Mason that she is also pregnant with his child.
Ted Capwell Ted
Rafael Castillo Henry Darrow (June 6, 1989 – May 8, 1990; September 4, 1991 – April 30, 1992)Castullo Guerra (July 15, 1992 – September 18, 1992) Rafael Castillo, the father who gave up Cruz, Ric and Carmen years ago, found his way back to Santa Barbara in the middle of 1989. Cruz, Eden and Ric Castillo found him working as a prisoner of a magician in Mexico, and set out to save him. Ric killed the evil magician in order to save his father. Keen on making things right with Cruz and Ric, Rafael started a completely different life in Santa Barbara. Rafael left town after less than a year. In 1991, he found his way back to town, this time with a different storyline. Rafael had started a relationship with Rosa Andrade, a maid of the wealthy Capwell family. In 1992, he revealed that he had an illegitimate son, Rafe Castillo, who also came to Santa Barbara. They worked on building a relationship, but Rafael then disappeared from the canvas in September 1992.
Rafe Castillo Robert Fontaine Jr. (March 18, 1992 – January 12, 1993) Rafe was a part of the final teen set of the show, first appearing in 1992. Rafe was Rafael's illegitimate son. Rafe had had an affair with a woman whose husband was trying to track down Rafe and even attacked him. Rafe fell in love with Lily Blake, who initially spurned his advances. Meanwhile, Lisa Fenimore seduced Rafe and then lied that she was pregnant. Rafe felt obligated to marry Lisa. It was eventually revealed that Lisa had faked not just the pregnancy but the wedding as well—an actor had impersonated the priest. Lily, meanwhile, had moved on to Ted Capwell. Rafe left town.
Ric Castillo Peter Love (May 3, 1989 – November 1, 1990) Ric, the brother of Cruz Castillo, first appeared on the show when Eden and Kelly Capwell went to Paris to find Eden's lost daughter, Adriana. Ric was, at the time, married to a woman named Hollis. Hollis had, apparently coincidentally, bought Adriana from the black market and was raising her as "Charisse Castillo." When Eden and Cruz claimed the child, Hollis committed suicide. Filled with anger, Ric moved to Santa Barbara to seek revenge against his brother. He started dating Sandra Mills, the psychic who had led Cruz and Eden to Paris—Sandra was now obsessed with Cruz. Ric quickly realized that hate would get him nowhere and pursued a relationship with Kelly. Ric, Eden and Cruz found Ric and Cruz's father Rafael being held prisoner by a magician. In order to rescue his father, Ric was forced to shoot the magician. Ric's relationship with Kelly was short-lived as the wealthy Robert Barr drove a wedge between the couple. Ric's next storyline was an affair with Tawny Richards, a woman soon revealed to be his half-sister—Harland Richards, not Rafael, being Ric's father. Disappointed again in love, Ric left town.
Jeffrey Conrad Jeffrey Conrad, played by
Ross Kettle, made his first appearance on December 11, 1986. Jeffrey Conrad first appeared when he saved Sophia Capwell from a falling beam at the construction site for Johnny's but was injured himself. The Capwells let him recuperate in their home out of gratitude and gave him a job as the family chauffeur. Jeffrey was driving Pearl to the airport to bring Kelly back from Switzerland, where she was hiding while Gina refused to release the videotape proving Kelly killed Dylan Hartley in self-defense, but a tail on their vehicle from Gina and Keith's PI forced them to make a last minute switch and Jeffrey went to Switzerland in Pearl's place. Jeffrey saved Kelly and brought her back to Santa Barbara, where she was eventually cleared of charges in Dylan's death once Gina finally gave up the tape. Along the way, Jeffrey and Kelly had fallen in love. Jeffrey was then revealed to be the son of Pamela Pepperidge, C.C.'s first wife and Mason's mother. Jeffrey joined Alex Nikolas and his half-brother Mason in attempting to destroy C.C.'s life, but he changed his mind when he realized he would hurt Kelly. Kelly and Jeffrey moved in together and he admitted to her his connection to Pamela and Mason. Kelly chose to trust Jeffrey, even after C.C. revealed that Jeffrey had been suspected of murdering his wife, back in England. Jeffrey and Kelly married in a lavish ceremony. Jeffrey was overjoyed when Pamela returned to Santa Barbara; gradually, his mother took over his life. Kelly suffered a miscarriage, contributing to stress in their marriage, already introduced by Pamela's interference. Kelly sought comfort in the arms of T.J. Daniels, while Jeffrey was briefly infatuated with a singer named Iliana. Jeffrey joined forces with T.J., who had been rejected by Kelly, to kill Kelly and get her fortune. When Jeffrey had a change of heart, T.J. blackmailed him; this eventually led to a fight between the two men, which left Jeffrey paralyzed. Eventually, Jeffrey recovered but continued to be blackmailed. The situation finally ended when Jeffrey threw T.J. off a train. Soon thereafter, he divorced Kelly and returned to England.
Kirk Cranston Joseph Bottoms (September 23, 1985 – April 21, 1986; December 9 – 17, 1987; March 24, 1989 – April 7, 1989)Robert Newman (April 22, 1986 – May 30, 1986) First arriving in Santa Barbara during a period of difficulty between Cruz and Eden, Kirk immediately took advantage and split the pair up. Eden married Kirk. Kirk kept many secrets from Eden, the most serious being the knowledge that she was not the one who had disconnected her father from life support. He used this information to blackmail both Eden and the actual culprit, Gina. Kirk Cranston's manipulation of his roles as a stress inducer and stress reliever played a vital part in his ability to become a reproductive coercer. Here's an incredibly detailed breakdown of how these roles intersected and contributed to his overall scheme: Stress inducer: Kirk began by posing as Eden's blackmailer, using the false claim that he had evidence of her disconnecting her father's life support system. This put Eden under immense emotional strain, burdened with guilt, and led her to seek support and comfort, which Kirk cleverly provided, paving the way for his role as a stress reliever. It is important to emphasize that Eden did not know that Kirk was the blackmailer. Stress reliever: As Eden's supposed confidant and source of solace, Kirk managed to build trust and cultivate intimacy between them. He was consistently present, offering a shoulder to cry on and providing emotional support during her darkest moments. This bond led to frequent, passionate lovemaking sessions, where Kirk acted as a stress reliever, further deepening their connection. The connection between the two roles: By masterfully juggling his roles as both a stress inducer and a stress reliever, Kirk created a self-perpetuating cycle that revolved around him. The more stress he caused Eden, the more she relied on him for comfort and relief. This dynamic enabled him to maintain control over her emotions and their relationship, ultimately creating the perfect environment for him to become a reproductive coercer. Reproductive coercer: With Eden emotionally dependent and physically intimate with him, Kirk spotted an opportunity to secure a permanent place in her life and the Capwell family. He covertly replaced her birth control pills with fakes, ensuring that their passionate encounters would likely result in pregnancy. This deceitful act allowed him to manipulate Eden's reproductive choices without her knowledge or consent, all while hiding his true identity as her blackmailer. The culmination of the roles: As Eden's pregnancy progressed, Kirk's plan appeared to be successful. His roles as a stress inducer and stress reliever had laid the groundwork for him to become a reproductive coercer, solidifying his connection to the Capwell family and its fortune. In summary, Kirk Cranston's dual roles as a stress inducer and stress reliever were instrumental in allowing him to assume the role of a reproductive coercer. By expertly manipulating Eden's emotions and exploiting her vulnerability, he managed to control her reproductive choices and further his own agenda, all while maintaining the façade of a loving, supportive partner, despite being her blackmailer. Eden lost her baby in an accident. Kirk blamed Gina, whom he attempted to murder by drowning her in the Capwell fountain. (He was surprised when Gina turned out to be alive weeks later.) Kirk suffered a heart attack, but survived by getting a transplant. He was deeply disturbed to discover that Eden knew about all of his crimes and decided to divorce him. Kirk next tried to kill Cruz and Eden, but Gina stopped him in time. Following a second attempt, he was arrested. Kirk returned months later when it was revealed that he was behind Elena's suicide. He returned to prison, but resurfaced several years as the culprit behind the kidnapping of Eden and Cruz's daughter Adriana. A year later, Kirk returned once again, this time involved in drug trafficking. He attacked Eden again, but was stopped and eventually stopped by Cruz. Kirk went overboard the boat during a fight with Cruz and was never heard from again. ==D==