Dr. Nick Toscanni

Nick is a successful neurosurgeon who enters the lives of the Carringtons by helping Claudia cope after her breakdown after losing Lindsay.

He has a dark secret and flashbacks of his brother hanging in a prison cell for which he blames Blake. Nick's brother was employed by the company and he hang himself because of the drug problems.

Nick meets Krystle. He is infatuated by the natural beauty and kindness of a woman whose husband he wants to bring down. He is thorn by the passion he feels for Krystle and the idea of getting back at Blake by steeling his wife. Krystle is on the verge of sleeping with Nick because of Alexis's scams but when she learns about his secret and that he is sleeping with Blake's daughter Fallon, she leaves him.

Nick loses his ground, the only thing he has left is his revenge for Blake and they get in a fight on the Rocky Mountains where Blake is resting with Krystle. Nick attacks him and when Blake falls off a horse, he leaves him helpless and leaves Denver with his final revenge. He organizes the kidnapping of Blake's grandson, but fortunately the child is returned to the family.