Roberto Flores

**Roberto** "**Beto**" **Flores** is a supporting character on The CW's *Dynasty*. He is portrayed by Geovanni Gopradi.

Heir to the Flores empire, Beto is the cold and calculated brother of Cristal Carrington who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Sam Jones sees through Beto and finds that, under a mask of rugged machismo, lies a closeted gay man who is simply insecure in his identity. Despite ultimately coming to terms with himself, Beto remains determined to inherit his family's legacy by any means necessary. This comes at the expense of Sam's acceptance and his closeness with Cristal, as he grooms a doppelgänger to impersonate his sister as part of an unsuccessful scheme to take back his father's company.

## Biography

### Early Life

Roberto was the second born child of Silvio Flores, head of a powerful Mexican family involved in numerous criminal activity behind the family's company, Flores Incorporado. Roberto lived in the shadow of his older sister, Cristal, but her eventual estrangement allowed for him to move up and become their father's righthand man, helping build the family company that he hoped to one day inherit. Roberto's idealization of his father led to personal struggles, a battle with internalized homophobia and influenced resentment toward his sister for her supposed betrayal of the Flores. ("Motherly Overprotectiveness", "Miserably Ungrateful Men", "Filled With Manipulations and Deceptions")

### Season 2

When competing with Jeff Colby over land to build The Atlantix soccer stadium, Cristal reaches out to her family for help to acquire the land without Jeff's knowledge. Following the plan's success, she meets Beto away from Carrington Manor, not wanting him near her new family, to finalize the paper work that signs over ownership of "DiFiore Exports" and the acquired land into her name. Cristal asks for Beto to thank their father, but Beto hands her a plane ticket to Mexico, as their father expects an in-person "thank you." ("Motherly Overprotectiveness")

When Cristal refuses to visit their father, Beto arrives and the manor and presents Cristal another opportunity to even the score with their father, to recruit a midfielder, Carlos Aguirre, to The Atlantix. Cristal recognizes her family's shady business-dealings, but Beto won't return to Mexico until she agrees, so she lies to her fiancé, Blake, that Beto is Sam's cousin. While Cristal handles business, Beto is left to be entertained by Sam, who calls him out for his homophobic and sexist behavior. Sam later confronts Beto at the manor, only to walk in on Beto kissing a man. Identifying with Beto's repressed sexuality and internalized homophobia, Sam talks him through the anger he feels toward Cristal and warns Beto to forgive Cristal, otherwise she may not be there when he needs her most. Beto takes this to heart and covers for Cristal when she fails to hire Carlos. In addition, he turns over a file that their father has on the Carringtons, warning her of the war that's to come between the Flores family and the Carringtons. ("Miserably Ungrateful Men")

Cristal calls Beto to discuss their father's looming threat against the Carringtons, but his failure to respond leads to Cristal coming clean to Sam about Beto's initial visit and the history of their family's criminal activity. ("How Two-Faced Can You Get?")

After an Atlantix goalie is injured in a car accident, Cristal calls Beto to accuse their father of orchestrating the event. Beto, however, claims that Blake and Cristal aren't in Silvio's cross-hairs as he is too concerned with the first game at the Flores' stadium in Mexico, with an expected 87,000 attendees. Beto assures that he has Silvio under control, but that it won't last unless Cristal can control Blake, due to how their father responds when he feels threatened. Beto later calls Cristal after a power outage at the Flores' stadium in the second half of their game that took an hour to fix and cost millions to do so. Cristal swears Blake's innocence, but Beto struggles to believe her. ("Life Is a Masquerade Party")

### Season 3

Concerned about the Judge Fairbanks, known for his tough verdicts, assigned to oversee Blake's murder trial, Cristal organizes photographs of Beto with Fairbanks' son to paint a narrative of a prominent federal judge making dirty deals with the powerful Mexican family. Disgusted by the accusations but understanding his reputation to be at risk, Fairbanks agrees to step down. ("Mother? I'm at La Mirage")

Upon learning Alexis Carrington to be responsible for her miscarriage and the death of Mark Jennings, Cristal calls for Beto to help with having Alexis killed. ("A Wound That May Never Heal")

Beto arranges for a hitman, Wayne, to assassinate Alexis, but he backs out when Cristal admits to Dominique Deveraux spotting them together, under the impression they are having an affair. Beto agrees to see the plan through after Cristal convinces Alexis to attend Fallon and Liam's engagement party. Beto is unclear which car belongs to Alexis when seeing two black SUVs in the parking garage. He is forced to make a choice when Cristal doesn't respond, and he attaches the bomb to the wrong car as Alexis leaves the party early. Beto struggles to detach the bomb when it's made clear to be the wrong car, but it ultimately goes off and leaves Beto unconscious and covered in blood. Beto survives the explosion and recovers at Atlanta General Hospital, but despite the explosion currently ruled as an accident, Cristal fears Beto getting caught. ("That Wicked Stepmother")

Beto continues to recover in the Carrington wing of the hospital when the police stop by to question him again. He assures it was an accident and that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but Cristal moves to fly him back to Mexico before the police's suspicions increase. She lies to Blake about borrowing their private jet to attend her friend's bridal party, but he surprises Cristal by joining them on the flight to Mexico, and she delays coming clean about their assassination attempt. During the flight, Beto collapses after choking on his pain medicine, and a hysterical Cristal makes a vow to God to reform, if her brother survives. Once Beto is returned safely to Mexico, Cristal reveals the truth behind Beto's visit. ("Up A Tree")

### Season 4

Cristal dreads Beto's pending visit to Atlanta after he fails to reach out during her battle with cancer. He claims to have been kept in the dark as criminal charges pile against Silvio, whose laying low leaves Beto responsible for all matters involving Flores Incorporado. He hopes for Cristal to turn over evidence of The Atlantix's rigged gambling systems, to have Silvio arrested and provide both of them an out from their corrupt family. As Cristal weighs her options, Beto is invited to stay in the manor where Sam finds him on a gay hookup app. Beto overhears a discussion between Sam and Cristal in which his sister leaves Sam with the necessary evidence to have Silvio imprisoned. Beto uses Sam's attraction to his advantage and seduces Sam in order to steal the evidence to have Silvio incarcerated. Silvio's lawyer reaches out, however, and reveals that Flores Inc. has been left to Cristal. Beto returns to the manor to confront his sister where it becomes clear that Beto was using her to take the reins of the family business for himself. Cristal refuses to back down, and Beto vows to get the company back from her. ("A Good Marriage in Every Sense")

When Blake's senatorial is put in jeopardy after the farmers pull their support, Cristal investigates the situation and finds out that Beto visited the union heads and used the Flores family name to threaten to disrupt the import-export chain between the farmers and their Mexican distributors unless they dropped their support for Blake. Cristal assures Blake that she knows him to handle Beto. ("You Vicious, Miserable Liar")

As Blake continues to worry about his senatorial campaign, Cristal reveals that she has a PI searching for Beto and that they will know as soon as he resurfaces. ("Affairs of State and Affairs of the Heart")

Beto further sabotages Blake's campaign by speaking to the press about The Atlantix's rigged gambling systems, so Cristal arranges a meeting where she offers him money to back down. Beto declines, unsatisfied until Flores Inc. is handed to him, feeling entitled to the company he helped build while Cristal turned her back on their family. He assures that, unless Cristal gives him the company, things will get much worse for Blake's campaign. Thus, Cristal and Blake decide to handle Beto together by moving the company's headquarters to Atlanta, as well as threatening to tell Silvio of Beto's betrayal if he does not back down. In a last ditch effort to reclaim the company, Beto arrives at Blake's political gala with a gun, but before he can act in the midst of Blake's speech, the gala is alarmed when Fallon is suddenly shot by her vengeful assistant. ("Filled With Manipulations and Deceptions")

### Season 5

After being thrown out of Flores Incorporado and having a huge fight with his sister Cristal, Beto goes to a bar where he stumbles across Rita– who looks just like Cristal.

Two weeks have passed, and Beto and Rita are plotting against Cristal as Beto is teaching Rita to talk, walk and eat like Cristal as if Rita is gonna replace Cristal entirely.

After making sure that Rita is fully prepared, Beto kidnaps Cristal and Rita replaces her just at the time of a Carrington Gala.

## Trivia

* Beto shares his name with Ana Brenda Contreras's (former Cristal Carrington) brother.
* The character of Roberto Flores is an original character to the *Dynasty* reboot. However, he seems to be a reworked version of the Sammy Jo character from the 1980s *Dynasty*, acting as a trouble-making relative of Cristal Carrington. This is heavily emphasized in the fifth season when Beto takes on Sammy Jo's role in the storyline featuring Rita, Cristal's doppelgänger. Unlike Sammy Jo, Beto does never makes amends with Cristal.
* Beto's Georgia license plate is "70J9P86." ("Motherly Overprotectiveness")

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 In "How Did The Board Meeting Go?", Roberto's mother is stated to have two siblings, Javi and Rosa.
2. ↑ In "A Good Marriage in Every Sense", Cristal's cousin calls to inform her of Silvio's arrest.