Flame Beaufort

Flame Beaufort is a fictional character from the American soap opera Santa Barbara. She was portrayed by Canadian actress Roberta Weiss from June 29, 1990 to July 19, 1991, and briefly by Marguerite Hickey from July 31 to August 12, 1991.

Character history

This under the identity of "Debra London" that the new schemer of Santa Barbara makes her appearance in 1990. Her real name: Flame Beaufort. Her real motivation: to approach the businessman Robert Barr under the cover of a false article to learn from him all his practices and his relations. Because Flame has in her pocket a big secret... She is the mistress of a character that nobody still knows in Santa Barbara, California: Quinn Armitage, the twin brother of Robert Barr! They both fomented a diabolic plan : to get rid of Robert and, without the knowledge of everyone, to allow Quinn to take his place and his money.

When Robert starts to have suspicions on the identity of Debra, Flame decides to action the plan and locks up Robert in a cell. Quinn, who thanks to Flame, learned how to act like his brother, starts to take his place in society... and in particular in the heart of Kelly Capwell, then engaged to Robert. But Craig Hunt, in love with Kelly and thus on his guards towards his lover, suspects a connection between Flame and Robert when he surprises them together on different occasions. Feeling that he is not far from discovering the truth, Flame decides to get rid of the real Robert by sending him in a camp of forced work in Louisiana held by her aunt and her cousin. Flame then organizes the transport of Robert to New Orleans in a coffin.

However, what Flame had not provided, this is that Quinn really falls in love with Kelly and ends up marrying her. The honeymoon come, full of anger, Flame pushes Kelly from the top of the stairs and this one becomes paralysed. She then dopes her by spraying toxics on the paints, and makes her believe that Robert/Quinn has a love-affair with her sister Eden. To do this, Flame does not hesitate to spread Eden's perfume in Kelly's bedroom, or steals one of Eden's negligees. But Quinn takes hold of her and locks her up.

Flame manages to escape the evening when Robert, delivered from the camp by Cruz Castillo, is back to Santa Barbara and when for the first time the twin brothers come face to face. She shoots him whereas Eden Capwell, also armed, makes fire in the same time, feeling threatened. Flame then makes an agreement with the district attorney Keith Timmons: she will benefit of immunity during the trial if she can help him to convict Kelly, then Eden of the murder. Whereas she comes to accuse herself of the murder to the police, Eden is victim of a road accident and falls into coma. In a dream on her hospital bed, she understands that the shot came from another weapon than hers. When Flame is suspected, she lies while saying to have shot Robert to protect Eden. But she is finally arrested.

It is Michael Donnelly, who supports her rehabilitation while proposing to Cruz to use of her services for risked police affairs, as a new Nikita... Flame has then also a one evening adventure with Michael, but the following day, despaired to be rejected by him, she tries to commit suicide. She finds a job at the newspaper that Warren Lockridge has just repurchased, but her heavy past reappears at the great day and she is fired. Without future in Santa Barbara, she prefers to try to rebegin her life elsewhere and leaves the town.

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