Carlota Alvarez
(Sonia Braga) is Amanda’s best friend and is also a widow. (Her husband
was killed in the same plane crash
as Amanda’s.)
An unrepentant hippie, she runs a good restaurant in town and is the real
power in the local Democratic Club. In many
ways she is Amanda’s opposite – dark where Amanda is fair, frank where
Amanda is discreet, public where Amanda is
private, (everybody
knows whom Carlota is sleeping with). But, they are as close as sisters
and unwaveringly loyal to each other especially in public.
Alex Wyatt
(Douglas Wert) is Amanda’s son. At 30, he is pushing 40; he probably
was born 40. He really is a nice guy and a good businessman and is completely
devoted to his mother. But, he has a limited sense of humor – jokes are
a form of dyslexia to him – and he’s the guy you always forget to invite.
He’s engaged to a woman named Melody who is anything but elodious.
It’s not that
she’s not pretty, it’s just that when she’s not standing in front of you,
you forget what she looks like. It’s hard to
imagine them
having genitals.
Kate Wyatt (Megan Ward) has them – she has her brother Alex’s too. At 25, a brat with a brain. She was born a month after her father was killed, so she never knew him. She has been getting even with all men ever since. Pretty, fiery, athletic, short tempered, funny and above all willful – very willful.
Ava Alvarez
(Dahlia Weingort) Carlota’s daughter, is 29, a school teacher, very intelligent,
neat and attractive, though seemingly repressed (thought: Who repressed
her? Certainly not Carlota). Ava has her mother’s civic devotion and sense
of
responsibility
but not her passion. Not up front, anyway.
Tomas Alvarez
(Kamar de Los Reyes), 27, is Carlota’s son, a Catholic priest of great
faith but no illusions, no piousness. A good guy with a social conscience
and a desire to change what needs changing – in the church and in the community.
He was
not always
a priest; his youthful love affair with Kate Wyatt won’t completely go
away. Kate refuses to acknowledge that a
stupid thing
like a vow of chastity might mean that he’ll never make love to her again.
Tomas handles temptation pretty well,
though, of
course, it wouldn’t be temptation if it weren’t tempting, and sometimes
he’s tempted.
Sam Haskell (Raymond J. Barry) is the rugged foreman of FOUR CORNERS. Devoted to Amanda and her children, he’s devoted too, to his own son, but doesn’t always know how to show it.
Caleb Haskell
(Justin Chambers) is in his late 30’s and is Sam’s son. He returns to FOUR
CORNERS from prison. A funny,
self-deprecating
guy – he’d be the first to admit he’s got plenty to deprecate – with a
lot of surprising skills but no great talent,
no focus,
no goals. Without knowing exactly why, Carlota Alvarez is afraid of him.
Amanda, however, isn't, and thinks he’s
terrific.