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KIRK
CRANSTON
Actor History
Joseph Bottoms
Episode Tenure: 296-436;
Airdates: September 23, 1985 to April 15, 1986; December 9 to December 17,
1987; March 27 to April 10, 1989; April 24 to May 4, 1990Robert
Newman
Episode Tenure: 440-469
Airdates: April 21 to May 30, 1986
Occupation
• Vice president of Capwell Enterprises
• Drug lord
Relatives
• Jack Lee (father)
Marriage
•
Eden Capwell (1985 to 1986;
divorced)
Brief
Character History
1985
When Kirk Cranston first appeared, he went on a business trip to
Hawaii with rich girl Eden Capwell as a business advisor. At the time,
Eden was in charge of Capwell Enterprises while her father C.C.
lay in a coma. Charmed by Kirk, she hired him as a vice president at
the company. Kirk soon set his sights on Eden, who was currently
engaged to Hispanic cop Cruz Castillo. Meanwhile, Eden was torn over
fulfilling her father's earlier request for euthanasia, which was
something Cruz disapproved of. She found herself being supported by Kirk,
unaware that he was plotting to win her away from Cruz.
 Things
became more complicated when vilainess Gina
Demott drugged Eden and had her pull the plug on C.C.'s life support
system (with Gina's help). Upon hearing the life support alarm go off,
Kirk found Eden by plug and assumed that she had tried to kill her father.
He took her out of the room before anyone could find her. Soon, Eden grew
to rely on Kirk as he continued to cover for her. She also believed that
Cruz couldn't live with what she had done, so she agreed to marry Kirk. After
the wedding, Kirk figured out that Gina, not Eden, had pulled the plug on
C.C. He withheld this information from his new wife for fear of losing
her. In addition, he started sending blackmail notes to Eden so she would
continue believing she was responsible for the murder attempt.
1986
C.C. came out of his coma and approved of Kirk and Eden's marriage. This
pleased Kirk. However, when Eden was reluctant to have his child, he took
matters into his own hands and tampered with her birth control pills.
Later, he was furious after finding letters in which Eden admitted that
she loved Cruz, not Kirk. He promptly decided to kill Eden. He blew up a
mountain cabin with Cruz and Eden inside, but they both survived. Kirk
then blackmailed Gina into shooting Eden at the Capwell boathouse. The
plan failed when Gina fell into the water and seemingly drowned after she
and Eden struggled over Gina's gun. Eden wound up unharmed, though she
lost the baby Kirk didn't know she was carrying. Following this incident,
Eden became suspicious of Kirk.
Later, Gina turned up alive at the Capwell house, scaring Kirk and
causing him to have a heart attack. Kirk nearly died. He survived when he
received the heart of Madeline Capwell Laurent, who had recently been
murdered, as a transplant. He then tried to kill Eden again, chasing her
around Aqualand and throwing her in a shark tank. When Cruz rescued Eden,
Kirk tried to kill them both. Fortunately, Gina resurfaced and saved them.
Kirk was finally arrested.
1987
Making another appearance, Kirk turned out to be responsible for Elena
Nikolas's plot to kill herself and frame Cruz for the act. Kirk was
imprisoned again, though not before another attempt to kill Cruz and Eden.
1989
The one-legged man involved in the kidnapping of Cruz and Eden's daughter,
Adriana, turned out to be none other than Kirk Cranston. He had escaped
from prison by taking on the idenity of a prisoner who was paroled.
Eventually, Kirk was once again arrested.
1990
Kirk was revealed to be a drug lord on an island called Kahana. He
kidnapped Cruz's cop friends Michael
Donnelly and Nikki
Alvarez to lure his archenemy to the island. Cruz was able to save his
friends. On their way back to Santa Barbara, Kirk disappeared when he fell
overboard the boat they were on during a storm. He wasn't heard from again.
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