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Victor Kiriakis

 

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Victor Kiriakis is the brother of Alexander Kiriakis. He is the father of Bo Brady, Isabella Toscano, and Phillip Kiriakis. He has been married to Carly Manning and Vivian Alamain, and illegally married to Kate Roberts. Victor is Greek by origin, having been born on the island of Naphleon near Athens. Although his family in Greece was prominent and had amassed a vast fortune over the centuries with their shipping industry, Victor often spoke of the meager childhood he had to endure, which suggests that some ill fate fell on the Kiriakis shipping business when he was growing up. However, Victor struggled through his younger years to reconstruct the Kiriakis empire, and eventually achieved wealth and power, although he paid dearly to gain that wealth.

In the summer of 1985, Victor Kiriakis reestablished himself in Salem. He had lived in Salem many years ago, when he had been a young man working in a shipping business. He seemed like a good enough man, and shared a past with both Caroline and Shawn Brady. However, Victor was soon revealed to have ties to illegal business in Salem, namely Savannah Wilder's recording company. Savannah's company had already been revealed to be a cover for a major drug ring in Salem, and Victor turned out to be the leader of this operation. This operation, which had moved from New York City earlier that year, had already claimed the life of Danny Grant and almost killed Liz Curtis. Victor's move to Salem signified the establishment of the drug ring in that city. Yet, only Theo Carver, Bo Brady, and Shane Donovan suspected Victor of any wrongdoing. In the meantime, Victor preoccupied his time with helping Caroline Brady and her family. It soon became obvious that they had been lovers at one time in the past and he wanted to rekindle that relationship. Through Caroline, Victor met her daughter Kimberly. Since Kimberly was blind at the time, Victor offered to let her stay in the mansion while she recuperated. While Victor took care of Kimberly, he continued to pursue Caroline. As it turned out, Caroline and Victor had had an affair years ago before he ever had any wealth. He constantly offered Caroline to take her away from the Fish Market, and promised to give her anything and everything in the world. Shawn began to notice Victor's interest in Caroline and told him to stay away. One night, Victor caught Caroline outside the Fish Market, once again promising the world to her, and kissed her. At that moment, Shawn arrived and decked Victor, and made Caroline choose what she wanted. Although Caroline had deep feelings for Victor, she couldn't throw away her marriage to Shawn, whom she obviously loved. Dissatisfied, Victor resolved to romance Caroline's daughter, Kimberly.

In addition to the drug industry, Victor was also in search of something of great importance. He had a film whose photos were clues to something he said would destroy his entire organization. Unfortunately for him, those photos accidentally fell on the hands of Pete Jannings and Melissa Anderson when a mix-up occurred at the photo lab. Desperate to find those photos, Victor ordered that the kids be killed if necessary. Pete and Melissa ran away after one of Victor's men tried to kill them and began following the clues. Thinking that he this could work to his advantage, Victor had Savannah send Todd Chandler to join the kids in order to keep an eye on their actions and eventually destroy them and get the clues. However, Todd soon crossed teams and began helping Pete and Melissa. So Victor sent another goon, Patch Johnson, after them. Over the following weeks, the chase led from Salem to Los Angeles, to Chicago, to Boston. Finally, Patch caught up with the trio before they could discover that their "treasure hunt's" next stop would be Miami.

Meanwhile, Shane, Theo, and Bo were close to uncovering Savannah's drug ring and Victor's involvement with it. Eventually, one of Savannah's key people, chief of police Richard Cates, was unmasked and murdered. It was only a matter of time before they could connect Victor to both Cates and Savannah. Victor was not oblivious to the fact that Shane and Bo were investigating him. Also by this time, Kimberly had begun to distrust Victor; having secretly regained her eyesight, she now saw that Victor was keeping a lot illegal secrets. However, at a party, Victor noticed Kim switching a drink that had been drugged by Emma Donovan. Wondering if Kimberly could see, Victor tested her. When knocked a glass over, she reflexed and Victor had his answer. Victor was extremely angry at her deception, and was now determined to keep her on a leash, so to speak. Knowing that Kimberly was involved with Shane, he forced her to tell Shane that she didn't love him. Not long after, he made plans for her to come to his house in Miami in hopes to romance her. Victor was traveling there under the pretext of participating in a boat race, but in reality he was going for much bigger business.

Once arrived at his palatial Miami estate, Dolphin House, Victor was angered to discover that Shane was there as well. Shane claimed that he was there for the boat race as well, but both of them knew why each other was in Miami. That's why when Shane asked Victor if he could stay at his house, he didn't refuse; Victor vowed to get rid of Shane once and for all right in his very own home. Among the reasons Victor had gone to Miami was to oversee a large drug deal with one of Miami's leading traffickers, Panama Jack. Savannah would be in charge of that. Victor's main goal in Miami was a secret meeting with two other parties that involved a certain Purse, Power, and a Pawn. The two other parties involved were Petrov, Stefano DiMera's former right-hand man, and George Nickerson, the corrupt head of the ISA. The Purse was a treasure chest, which was at the bottom of the ocean near Miami -- it was in reality a bomb meant to be a trap; the Power was a book of codes important to the ISA; the Pawn, the one thing that Victor was truly interested in, was in fact a bandaged person in Petrov and Nickerson's possession. According to Victor, it was the most valuable of the three things. Meanwhile, Victor discovered that Kimberly was helping Shane spy on him and ordered her to remain a prisoner in the mansion.

Meanwhile, Victor constantly tried to get rid of Shane with and alligator pit, a tarantula, and an overly aggressive boat race. But when Shane finally got to close to his operation by finding the book of codes and attempting to decode it, Victor had him locked in the study and planned to kill him. Trying to save Shane's life, Kimberly distracted Victor by making love to him. Unfortunately, after their lovemaking was over, one of Victor's men told him that he was forced to kill Shane. However, Shane was not dead. He had been wearing a bulletproof vest and had escaped from the mansion. Later on, Victor was furious to discover that the drug deal with Panama Jack, which had occurred on his yacht, had been broken up by Bo and Hope Brady. The yacht had exploded (someone had set off the bomb in the treasure chest.) Furthermore, his entire drug operation had been uncovered by them. The Miami police soon arrived at Dolphin House and arrested him. Victor faced an incredible prison sentence for his crimes.

After being placed in jail in Salem, Victor was visited by Kimberly and she begged him to keep their affair in Miami a secret. To avoid hurting Caroline, he agreed. Soon after, Victor summoned Larry Welch. Somehow (this convenient little plot twist was never explained to the audience), Victor had discovered that he had been responsible for killing Megan Hathaway earlier that year. Victor threatened to expose Larry if he didn't take the fall for him. So, Larry confessed to heading the drug operation and went to prison, while Victor went free. Immediately, he continued to have contact with Nickerson and Petrov in order to finish the business that had been interrupted in Miami. After Nickerson committed suicide, Victor had Petrov come to Salem with the Pawn; he then had Petrov killed and took the Pawn. However, the Pawn escaped after being mysteriously nursed back to health by Kate Honeycutt, a former employee of Stefano DiMera's. Victor soon put up a $1 million reward for his return. In the meantime, Victor was delighted to see espionage charges brought against Shane Donovan.

During this time, Victor also decided to seek revenge against the Brady family for causing him so many problems. By muscling Alex Marshall into becoming his new right-hand man, Victor began buying Riverfront properties, with the ultimate goal to buy out the Fish Market and oust the Bradys out of their only source of income. Meanwhile, Kimberly discovered that she was pregnant. As soon as Victor heard the news, he summoned her to warn her that the child could be his. Not much later, Kimberly suffered a car accident but she and the baby turned out fine. However, Victor was furious to discover that she had been on her way to an abortion clinic when she'd had the accident. Victor warned her to take care of herself, or else he'd let everyone know what had happened between them in Miami. What Victor didn't know that Kimberly did was that one of the Brady children was actually his. Kimberly believed that she was Victor's daughter. Meanwhile, Victor also took an interest in Pete Jannings, manager of the nightclub Jump!, and had him work with his organization. Jump! soon became the cover for the importation of illegal goods through Victor's company, Allied Cargo. Although Pete tried to get out of Victor's business many times, Victor always found a way to muscle him into staying. Furthermore, he ordered Pete to get a liquor license to make even more money, despite the club's teenage orientation. Eventually, Victor lost his control over the club after the illegal activities were discovered.

Victor was having no luck in searching for the Pawn. Steve (formerly Patch) Johnson claimed to have had the Pawn in his possession but he had escaped. This proved to be a great problem for Victor. The Pawn had taken his bandages off...and no one knew what he looked like. At around this time, Victor needed to have a state-of-the-art security system installed in his home. A man named John Black offered his services to Victor. Unbeknownst to Victor, John Black was The Pawn.

At the same time, Victor became very concerned with the arrival of Britta Englund, a Soviet spy that figured into his plans with The Pawn. Victor, who was working with the Soviet KGB, wanted Britta out of Salem before she could reveal anything about a certain incident that had occurred in Stockholm in 1979; this incident

Kristen's schemes/The killing pool (1997-1998)

Kristen became somewhat crazy and thought that if she could get Elvis back, John may be able to love her again. Kristen goes to Susan and tells her that the only way the baby can be protected from Stefano is if she raised him. Celeste and Marlena soon learn that Stefano is the father of Susan's child, but Stefano refuses to acknowledge it. Later, Marlena hears Kristen talking to a woman about getting her son back. Kristen lured Susan over to the DiMera mansion and drugged her with spiked eggnog. She then tricked Susan into signing away all legal rights over little Elvis to her. Kristen, disguised herself as Susan, and then kidnapped little Elvis. When Susan confronted Kristen, Kristen had the legal documents that proved the child was now hers. Susan almost attempted to kill herself, but John stopped her before she could jump into the icy Salem River. Susan went to get her brother, Thomas (the third triplet), to help her steal back little Elvis. However, Sister Mary Moira stopped Thomas before he could do anything sinful to Kristen. When Stefano learned what Kristen had done he was outraged and helped John steal back little Elvis and return him to Susan. Kristen took Susan to court, but Susan, John, and Marlena double crossed her. John delayed Kristen and Susan pretended to be Kristen at the courthouse and said what she did was wrong and withdrew the legal agreement Susan had signed. When Kristen learned what they had done to her she was furious. John arranged for Susan and Little Elvis to leave the country safely and live in peace. Marlena and John said goodbye to Susan and watched her leave. Stefano arrives at the airport after Susan has left. Stefano vowed to John that he would find his son again.

In 1997, Celeste was drawn to Jonsey's townhouse because she was sure that Peter Blake was hiding there. However, Celeste was shocked when Kristen answered the door. Celeste barged her way in and got into a fight with Kristen. Kristen was hiding the syringe behind her that contained the cure for Jungle Madness, but Stefano warned her it would give a healthy person the Jungle Madness Disease. Kristen and Celeste ended up falling onto the floor and Kristen accidentally, without Celeste's knowledge, injected her with the Virus. Stefano was furious with Kristen not only disowned her, but told her that when he got Elvis back she would not get near the child, let alone raise it.

Peter returned to the DiMera Mansion after he lost Jack and Jen in the Grand Canyon and Stefano helped him try to locate Jen and get a cure for his jungle madness. Stefano came up with the idea of planting a listening device on Laura, who they suspected knew where Jack and Jen were. Jack and Jen were hiding in a circus, which eventually came to Salem. Peter managed to tip the FBI off to Jack's wherabout and he attempted to kidnap Jennifer. Jen got away and speed off in a car, which crashed and she was presumed to have died. Jack was let out of jail to attend Jen's funeral. Laura slipped out of the church to find Kristen and make her pay. Peter showed up with a shotgun and started shooting.

Suddenly, Jen's spirit rose from her coffin. Jen convinced Peter to turn himself in. Jack was released from prison immediately. Jack and Abby returned home to find Jen standing in their home. Jen explained that her death and her resurrection were faked by the people at the circus. Jen told him that Jasper was supposed to tell them all, but Jen wasn't aware that Jasper was in a coma. Jack, Jen, and Abbey all went to the Brady Pub and they celebrated the fact that Jen was alive. Later, Jasper came out of his coma. Peter was taken to jail and Stefano gave him the cure for his jungle madness. Peter asked Stefano if he was going to break him out, but Stefano told him that he couldn't do that because it would ruin his new reputation as an upstanding citizen of Salem. However, Stefano did manage to get Peter placed in a white-collar- crime prison instead and he would be up for parole in a few years.

While Stefano was busy helping Peter, he did not realize what Kristen was planning behind his back. Kristen planned on leaving town and moved out of the Dimera Mansion. She moved into the Blake house and planned to sell Susan into white slavery. Kristen kidnapped Sister Mary Moira and called Susan. She told Susan that she was to fly to Salem immediately and wear a white dress. She was to bring the baby or her sister would be murdered. Susan showed up at the house and talked with Kristen. Kristen offered Susan a soda, and Susan accepted because she thought there was no way she could drug a canned soda. However, she was wrong. Kristen asked where Elvis was and Susan said she left him in England. Susan got into an argument with Kristen and threatened to kill her with a letter opener. Susan eventually passed out from the drugs and Kristen made her getaway, dressed as Susan. Susan, was kidnapped by the man and taken to a palace were she was to be the latest harem girl for "The Supreme Leader".

Kristen, disguised as Susan, was about to fly off to England when Abe and Roman found her. Susan had phoned them earlier and reported that Kristen had kidnapped her sister. Sister Mary had been rescued and they came to the airport to catch Kristen. Suddenly, Abe received a phone call from John and Marlena. Kristen Blake was found dead at the Blake House and they told "Susan" that she couldn't leave town just yet. Abe and Roman took "Susan" into the station for questioning. "Susan" claimed to never have been at the house. Suddenly, Edmund burst into Abe's office. Edmund introduced himself as Susan's fiance. Edmund asked if "Susan" was being arrested and Abe said no. Later, Edmund proposed to "Susan" and Kristen had no choice to accept. Kristen feared that Susan was the person who died in the pool and that she would be charged with her murder if anyone learned she wasn't really Susan.

Kristen kept pretending to be Susan and let Salem think that Kristen was dead. A funeral for Kristen was held at St. Luke's and all of Salem attended. Laura attended, wearing a bright red outfit. During the service, Laura recalled going to the Blake House the day of Jen's funeral and shooting at Kristen. Later, Stefano stood up and publicly slandered everyone in the room and blamed them all for Kristen's suicide.

Stefano got so worked up that he had a heart attack, but Lexie saved him. Stefano was rushed to the hospital. At the hospital, Stefano learned that Kristen's death had been reopened by the police and that Laura was the number one suspect. Stefano told this to Laura, who was shocked and also frightened. Later, Marlena Evans confronted Laura with the bottle of Placiden from the Blake House and asked her if she killed Kristen. Laura said no and was appalled by her best friend's accusation.

Stefano went to the cemetery after being released from the hospital and told Kristen's grave how sorry he was that he was angry with her and if he had a second chance he'd let her raise his son. Kristen, just happened to be at the cemetery, disguised as Susan, and she revealed herself to Stefano. Kristen begged Stefano to help her escape town, but Stefano told her if she left now it would make "Susan" look guilty. Later, Kristen learns that Susan was no longer a suspect and was free to leave. Kristen planned on skipping town when Edmund surprised her by bringing Violet and Elvis to Salem. Kristen attempted to drug Violet and sneak off with Baby Elvis. Unfortunately, John found her and brought her to the Penthouse Grill, where Edmund had arranged a surprised wedding. In order not to blow her cover, Kristen married Edmund. After the wedding, Kristen wanted to leave Salem immediately, but Elvis came down with an ear infection and couldn't fly. Kristen, still pretending to be Susan, rushed to the airport for her honeymoon and hoped to beat Edmund to the plane and leave without him. Kristen met up with Stefano at the plane and they hugged as Kristen was about to leave. Suddenly, Edmund showed up and accused Stefano of attempting to deceive "Susan" Stefano left and "Susan" and Edmund boarded the plane.

Stefano went to the Blake House to make sure there was no evidence that could indicate Susan was the person who was killed, not Kristen. Upon searching, Stefano found a picture of Edmund and Susan and on the back was a note from Susan to Edmund. Stefano then realized that Edmund had killed Susan, and now he was alone with Kristen. Stefano feared what Edmund would do to Kristen. Stefano called Kristen, who had learned that Edmund was the killer. Kristen told Stefano that she would escape Edmund once their plane landed.

Meanwhile, Susan escaped her island prison and hired a pilot to fly her to Bermuda where she surprised both Kristen and Edmund. Susan exposed Kristen and both Kristen and Edmund were confused as to who was killed in the pool. Right then Susan realized that Penelope had been killed. Susan to Edmund and Susan about her forth sister, Penelope Kent, who came to Salem to help her. Edmund admitted to killing her, but Susan says she knows it was an accident and that Penelope was dying anyways. To get revenge on Kristen, Susan arranged for her to be sent back to the island prison where she had sent her to. Susan, Elvis, and Edmund live in England and Susan periodically checks in with Stefano, pretending to be Kristen so his suspicions aren't aroused.

Hope's past/The Gina storyline (1998-2000)

After Stefano was hospitalized when he had a heart attack at Kristen Blake's funeral, Hope decided to use Stefano's stay in the hospital to search out what happened to her during the four missing years of her life. Bo convinced Hope to let him help her and they broke into Jonesy's townhouse. There, Hope saw a picture of a painting which she recognized. Bo and Hope had to split when Bart, Stefano's henchman, showed up. Hope confronted Stefano about her past and Stefano told her the same old story, he found her in New Orleans and cared for her for four years while she underwent painful surgeries.

Hope didn't believe Stefano and went to Celeste. Celeste told Hope she couldn't help her because she was only with Hope a few weeks before John rescued her. After Hope left, Celeste sent her a box of possessions Hope had while at Maison Blanche. Later, Stefano visited Celeste and ordered her to tell Hope that she was with her for four years at Maison Blanche. Celeste went to Hope and told her this and she said she lied before because she didn't want Hope to remember that she underwent many surgeries over the four years and they were very painful. Celeste also tried to retrieve the package she sent Hope, but Hope opened it in front of Celeste. Inside were a lipstick container, a silver comb, and a silver compact with a G on it. Hope asked Celeste why she would have these things if her face was scarred for four years. Celeste admitted she lied about being with her because Stefano forced her to. Celeste also suggested that Hope drop her search because Stefano would be furious if he learned she was searching for her past.

Stefano went to Jonesy's townhouse, which in reality was his, to get some cash from a secret hiding place. Unfortunately, the cash was gone. Stefano feared that Jonesy had used it, but he was happy to see that his art treasures and a mysterious freezer in the basement were untouched. Stefano owned the townhouse and everything in it, but Jonesy had been assigned to guard it. Later, Stefano saw some of his art treasures in a pawn shop. Stefano sent Bart out to find Jonesy and soon learned that Jonesy was dead.

Stefano soon went to see Kate Roberts, who knew why he had come to see her. Stefano inherited Kristen's 49% share of Titan. Kate offered to buy the shares from Stefano, but he refused to sell and wanted to remain an investor. Kate and Stefano had a past. Stefano had found Kate when she was a call girl and was responsible for turning her into the business woman she was today.

Vivian decided to host a party at her new townhouse and invited Stefano. Vivian told Ivan that if she could get Stefano on her side, she could take over Titan. To finance her new lifestyle, Vivian began selling some of Jonesy's art treasures. Stefano accepted because he was interested to see where Vivian was staying. Stefano showed up at Vivian's party with Kate. Stefano was shocked to learn that Vivian was living in his townhouse and selling his art treasures. After the party, Kate made a call to a friend about the townhouse because he used to own it. Kate learned that he lost the house to Stefano Dimera. Upon confronting him, Stefano told Kate that the townhouse and the treasures were his, but she must keep it a secret. Stefano said that there was a problem with the IRS and taxes on all the treasures, so he had loaned them to Jonesy.

Stefano decided to empty out the contents of his freezer before Vivian found it. At the same time, Vivian became curious as to what is in her basement. Vivian eventually got down into the basement and found the freezer, but Stefano knocked her out. When she came to, Stefano told her that he found her down here unconscious. Bart, Stefano's henchman, showed up in a radioactive suit and told Vivian there was a chemical explosion and everyone had to evacuate the house until it could be cleaned out. Vivian and Ivan left and Stefano and Bart emptied the freezer.

Vivian decided that the best way to start out her company was to snag Titan's two top authors, a pair of sex therapists. Vivian managed to lure them away from Titan, which enraged Kate. Kate asked Stefano for help and he told her that Vivian would not be a problem for much longer.

Stefano's treasures were legally Vivian's now, but he wanted them back. Stefano schemed to have Vivian declared legally incompetent and then he would swoop in and regain his treasures when he gains power of attorney over Vivian. This time they would be his legally. Dr. Rolfe returned to Salem and Stefano asked him to prepare a potion that would knock Vivian out, but would keep her from remembering what happened to her. Stefano invited Vivian over for dinner and then drugged her. Once she was out, Dr. Rolfe implanted a device in Vivian's tooth which would alter Vivian's mood as Stefano wished. However, Dr. Rolfe told Stefano that he had to be careful with the mood altering device because it would tire Vivian out if overused and could be dangerous to her if he put her in one mood without normalizing her first. Vivian almost died during the surgery, but managed to make it. Ivan and Celeste showed up when Vivian didn't return home and Vivian was acting very odd, Stefano had put her into an up mode. Celeste and Ivan took Vivian home, but she wanted to dance and kept them out all night.

Stefano had a run in with Hope, who questioned him about her past again. Stefano refused to talk and went home. Dr. Rolfe told Stefano that there is no way Hope will remember her past. Stefano hoped so because it would be disastrous if Hope learned what she did for him as Gina.

Stefano began to use his device to make Vivian act irrational in public. Celeste and Ivan were convinced that Stefano was behind Vivian's mood swings.

In 1999, Stefano DiMera had activated the microchip in Hope's neck and transformed her into his art thief accomplice Princess Gina Von Amberg. Princess Gina once had a passionate affair with her partner in crime John Black. Stefano had erased John's memory by implanting a microchip in his neck. John is in love with Marlena and they had a daughter Belle but John was unaware of his past as Stefano's mercenary and Princess Gina's lover. Once Hope's transformation was complete, she had no interest in Bo. She was only interested in pursuing John, the love of Gina's life. Once again, Bo and Hope became estranged due to Stefano's mind control.

In that year, John and Marlena traveled to Hawaii for a much deserved honeymoon vacation, but they did not count on Gina/Hope's interference. John spotted a drowning woman and swam out to sea to rescue her, but he was kidnapped and held captive on board Gina's submarine. Gina/Hope brainwashed John into his former identity and the two made passionate love on board the submarine. After John returned to shore, Gina/Hope then made love to Stefano. Because of the microchip in his neck, John recalled nothing of his love making with Gina and resumed his life with Marlena and their teenage daughter Belle.

Soon after, Hope was locked in a Parisian castle with her nemesis Stefano while the real Princess Gina took over Hope's identity. During her time in captivity, Hope discovered that she was pregnant. Because Hope's recent Gina memories had been erased by the latest satellite transmission, Hope had no idea that she was estranged from Bo and slept with John and Stefano. John's microchip began to malfunction and he recalled his love affair with Gina/Hope on board the submarine, but kept his newfound knowledge a secret from Marlena.

In 2000, Hope and Stefano were rescued from captivity and Bo and Hope enjoyed a much awaited reunion.

The baby switch (2000-2002)

Bo realized that he could not be the father of the baby, since the couple was estranged during Hope's time as Princess Gina. He decided to keep this knowledge a secret from Hope in an effort to put aside the past and concentrate on his family. Bo and Hope's son Shawn was delighted at the news of a new baby and looked forward to having a brother/sister as well as having the bond between his parents solidified.

Meanwhile, both John and Stefano began to worry about the paternity of Hope's baby. If John had fathered Hope's baby, his marriage to Marlena could suffer. If Stefano was exposed as the father, he could be arrested and sent to prison for good. John sought Stefano's help in making sure that Hope would never recall her time as Princess Gina. Stefano replied that John had the ability as a surgeon and could remove the microchip from Hope's neck himself. Secretly, Stefano planned on bringing back John as his mercenary.

Rolf's pregnant and drunken niece Marlo arrived in Salem. Coincidentally, Marlo was at about the same stage of her pregnancy as Hope was. Stefano decided to mastermind an elaborate baby switching scheme so that he could hide the paternity of Hope's baby. He enlisted Rolf and Bart's help in making sure that Marlo and Hopes' babies would be switched at birth. Meanwhile, Abe and Lexie had been trying for months to conceive a baby the natural way so gave up and decided that they would adopt. Stefano then encouraged Abe and Lexie to adopt Marlo's baby. Despite some reservations, Abe and Lexie both agreed. However, Stefano and Rolf both got more than they bargained for and found it impossible to keep Marlo under control. On several occasions, Stefano caught Marlo drinking alcohol. Stefano and Rolf even had to lock Marlo in the secret room to stop her from drinking.

On the same day that Hope went into labor, Rolf injected Marlo with a drug that would make her go into labor so that the two women would give birth at the same time. At the Salem University Hospital, Bo and Hope had a quick wedding with their son Shawn as a witness before the baby was born. Hope gave birth to her son JT and Marlo gave birth to Abe and Lexie's adoptive son Isaac. The two baby boys were then taken into their cribs in the maternity ward. Disguised as a female doctor, Rolf entered into the room and switched the bracelets on JT and Isaac. Although both bracelets looked no different to begin with, they magically changed names, thanks to the special name tags that Rolf invented. The nurses believed that they made a mistake and placed the babies in their 'right' cribs. Bo overheard this mix-up and thought nothing of it. He also noticed that JT looked a little different than he did when Hope first gave birth, but didn't make anything of it.

Bo, Hope and Shawn were devastated to discover that JT was suffering fetal alcohol syndrome. Hope blamed herself for 'her' son's condition, since she had been drinking and smoking during her time as Princess Gina. Hope feels that the baby is rejecting her. Hope and Bo rush the baby to the hospital after it loses consciousness. Stefano tries to get DNA sample out of Isaac while john tries to get a DNA sample out of little Johnny. Isaac was a perfectly healthy baby, which Bo thought was odd considering that Marlo was a drunk. Lexie brought baby Isaac over to Hope's house. They place the two babies in bassinets out back. John arrives and mistakes Isaac for Johnny. Johnny gets rushed to the hospital once again. As hope spent time with Isaac she notices that he does things that Shawn use to do when he was a baby.

As Bo leaves to Ireland Johnny goes back into the hospital. Baby Johnny dies. But the doctors get him to start breathing again. That's when Hope and Lexie decide to have the babies baptized. That's when Johnny became JT. Bo, Hope and Shawn's love and nurturing helped to pull JT through the health crises that he faced.

Although Bo realized that JT could not have been his son, he still bonded with him and loved him like his own. Hope believes that Stefano could be JT's father. And she is afraid he might try to kidnap him.

Marlo continued to cause trouble for Stefano and Rolf. During an argument, Rolf lost his temper and pushed Marlo down the stairs. He then snapped her neck on his knee to ensure that she was dead and then disposed of the body in the river. Lexie had found out about Marlo's death, but Stefano convinced her to keep quiet about what she knew. If the press was to ever find out, Lexie and Abe could lose their son Isaac. Despite her reservations, Lexie complied with Stefano's request and kept her knowledge of Marlo's death a secret, although she felt guilty about lying to everybody, including her husband Abe. For the first time, Lexie resorted to dishonesty, but would do anything to make sure that she could keep Isaac.

Stefano and John worked at getting a blood sample to find out the true paternity of 'Hope's' baby. Stefano was forced to manipulate the results, since he was the only one who knew about the baby switch.

John then dropped a bombshell on his wife Marlena that could shatter their marriage forever - he announced that he is the father of Hope's baby! Although Marlena was shocked by John's announcement, she eventually forgave John and realized that both he and Hope were under Stefano's complete control. John also admitted to Hope that he fathered her baby. John, Marlena and Hope decided to keep 'JT's true paternity a secret from Bo, although they felt guilty about leaving him in the dark. Stefano and Rolf noticed a woman working at Hudson Diner who bore an uncanny resemblance to Marlena. Stefano decided to use Hattie as part of his plan to have his mercenary John back. He planned to kidnap Marlena and replace her with Hattie. With Marlena out of the picture, Stefano could work on John and transform him back into the mercenary that he once knew. Rolf disguised himself as a plastic surgeon named Dr. Steiner and convinced Hattie to have surgery so that she can look more like Marlena. After several operations, including Rolf's dentistry, Hattie began to look like a carbon copy of Marlena Evans. At the same time, Hattie began to fall for Marlena's ex-husband Roman Brady. When Marlena encountered Hattie in Salem Place, she experienced flashbacks of her twin sister Samantha, who had been killed by the Salem Strangler years ago. Marlena was astounded by Hattie's resemblance to Samantha. Hattie would later play an important role in the baby switch story line.

On New Years Eve of 2000/2001, Bo and Hope exchanged vows at a beautiful wedding ceremony. During the reception, some of the guests went ice skating on the frozen lake.

Belle, Shawn, Phillip and Chloe found a dead corpse holding on to the mysterious can that they found last summer when they built Mimi's new house. Lexie was horrified to discover that the body belonged to Marlo. She feared that if the body was identified, she could lose her adoptive son Isaac. A distraught Lexie sought out Stefano and begged for his help in covering up Marlo's death. Rolf and Bart stole Marlo's body from the morgue and dissolved it in a vat of acid. Hattie saw the body in the foyer of the DiMera mansion, but Dr. Steiner/Rolf covered up by claiming that she only saw an old Halloween prop.

Unfortunately, the Salem PD was able to draw a sketch of the dead woman and identified the body. A man named Glen Reiber read the news report on Marlo's death and decided to travel to Salem. It turns out that Glen was Marlo's ex-boyfriend and could be the father of her baby. Abe and Lexie took a trip to Green Mountain lodge where they met Glen and his wife Barb. Glen and Barb explained their situation to Abe and Lexie and the two realized that Glen could be Isaac's biological father. Lexie did not tell Glen and Barb that she and Abe adopted Marlo's baby and she manipulated the couple, trying to convince them to concentrate on having a baby on their own. Abe was shocked by Lexie's manipulation and began to suspect that Stefano was having an evil influence on his wife.

When Glen found out that Abe and Lexie adopted Marlo's baby, they ordered a DNA test to find out his true paternity. Because Lexie did not know about the baby switch, she decided to take matters into her own hands and arranged for the test results to be rigged. Lexie enlisted Brandon's help in switching the results of the DNA test to make it seem that Glen is not Isaac's father. Since JT was having a medical check up on the same day, Brandon decided to swap Isaac and JT's blood samples! Lexie and Brandon were both horrified to learn that Glen is really JT's biological father. Lexie confronted Stefano about the test results and realized that the babies had been switched at birth. Lexie decided to keep her knowledge of the baby switch a secret so that she and Abe would not lose Isaac.

Stefano ordered Rolf and Bart to rig explosives at the East side lab to foil Glen and Barb's search into Isaac's paternity. Rolf decided to set additional bombs at a lab near Tuscany, the power plant and the Salem Bridge.

Many of Salem's residents dined at Tuscany that evening, including Bo, Hope, John, Marlena, Victor, Nicole, Phillip, Chloe, Nancy and Craig. Marlena and Hope got into a heated argument about JT's paternity. Lexie overheard the argument and realized that JT is not Bo's son. Suddenly, an explosion ripped through Tuscany and injured Lexie. In mercenary mode, John rescued Lexie and took her to the hospital. Nancy Wesley overheard Lexie having a nightmare about the baby switch and became suspicious. Stefano threatened Nancy into keeping silent and she agreed. She even kept her suspicions and Stefano's threat a secret from her husband Craig to avoid Stefano's wrath.

Because of the power plant explosion, Belle and Shawn were trapped in the elevator to Marlena and John's penthouse. This caused Belle to suffer an anxiety attack because of her claustrophobia. Brady fell on top of the elevator trying to rescue Shawn and Belle. John rescued Brady and released Shawn and Belle from the elevator.

Jennifer baby sat JT that night and drove him home, with JT in Isaac's baby capsule. Jennifer drove along the Salem bridge, just as it exploded, placing the two in great danger. Jack managed to rescue Jennifer from the car, but JT's baby capsule fell into the river. Glen and Barb spotted the baby capsule with Isaac's name on it and assumed they had found Isaac. Glen and Barb decided to kidnap him, mistaking JT for Isaac. Phillip and Chloe spent some time alone near the river, where they carved their initials on a tree. Chloe had spotted a couple taking the baby, but did not recognize him as JT. Glen took a DNA sample from 'Isaac' and sent it to a remote lab for testing. Jennifer became hysterical over JT's disappearance and Jack tried to get through to her, telling her that the accident was not her fault. Hope on the other hand attacked Jennifer and told her that she wished she had never returned to Salem. When Chloe found out about JT's disappearance, she flashed back to the couple taking the baby from the river and immediately told Bo and Hope what she saw. Bo figured out that Glen and Barb had kidnapped JT and mistaken him for Isaac. After seeing a news report on JT's disappearance, Glen and Barb realized that they took JT, having mistaken him for Isaac. Bo, Hope and Shawn were relieved when Glen and Barb returned JT safely to them. Hope gave Jennifer a humble apology for her behavior and the two resumed their close friendship. Hope also decided to mend fences with Marlena after the fight they had at Tuscany. Although Lexie recovered from her injuries, she continued to keep her knowledge of the baby switch a secret from everybody, even her husband Abe.

Glen and Barb demanded DNA testing for Isaac but Lexie had no concerns, since she knew very well that Glen is not Isaac's father. Meanwhile, the test that was done out of town on JT when he was kidnapped by Glen and Barb had arrived on the Reibers' doorstep. Barb was shocked when she learned that Glen is really JT's father and figures out the truth behind the baby switch. Because Barb wanted her and Glen to concentrate on having a baby of her own, she decided to throw out the test results and keep Glen in the dark.

Dr. Rolf/Steiner and Stefano continued with their plan to transform Hattie into Marlena. Hattie's began to have a nightmare about the body she found in the foyer of the DiMera mansion. In her dream, she was dancing with Rolf and all of a sudden, he morphed into the dead corpse that she saw. Hattie's conscience prevailed and she informed Roman about the body. Hattie's confession finally gave the Salem PD a reason to lock up Stefano DiMera for good.

Knowing that he was in trouble with the law, Stefano tried to convince Lexie to leave town with him and she agreed, but regretted having to leave Abe behind. The Salem PD surrounded the DiMera mansion and Stefano held Lexie hostage. Stefano and John had a face-off in one of the secret passageways in the DiMera mansion. Lexie overheard their argument and realized that John was the father of Hope's baby. After a heated struggle, Stefano fled from the DiMera mansion and skipped town. Lexie, Rolf and Bart were left to take over the reins of the DiMera empire in Salem.

Lexie demanded that she and Abe move into the DiMera mansion together, although Abe was against the idea. Lexie took delight in taking over the DiMera mansion, ordering the household staff around and even playing with Stefano's chess board! Bart addressed Lexie as Ms. DiMera and she replied, "It's Mrs. Carver you idiot!!" Bart felt right at home, since that is what Stefano often called him. Abe was disgusted by what he saw of Lexie's behavior and their marriage was heading for trouble. Tony Dimera returned a year later with ashes that were said to be that of Stefano's citing he had died out of town. Two years later, however, he claimed that he had killed Stefano so he could cure his own blood disorder.

Stefano's illness and The Brady/DiMera feud (2006-present)

In December 2006, however, John and Marlena found Stefano in an Italian hospital and confronted him, trying to learn why he had sent a young man named EJ to Salem. His face obscured within an oxygen tent, Stefano revealed that EJ is his son, Elvis, by Susan Banks.

In late February 2007, EJ relocated Stefano to a secret location in Salem, where he received a kidney transplant from John. He was then moved back to Italy. The burnt remains of Maison Blanche, Stefano's mansion located in Louisiana, was found, partially destroyed by a hurricane. Stefano's health was revealed to be rapidly declining, and that the DiMeras need the stem cells from Sami's unborn child in order to save his life.

As it would appear in an old letter written in Italian, the Brady/DiMera feud began when Stefano's father, Santo, had Colleen Brady taken away from him. This is a complete retcon of events, as the feud began when Roman Brady pursued Stefano for his criminal activities.

When Stefano returned in June 2007, he was quasi-kidnapped by EJ and Sami in an ambulance, and driven away from the DiMera Mansion for a time, as the two saw it as the only means in which they could speak to Stefano without interference from Tony, Bart, or Dr. Rolf. When Stefano came to, still groggy from whatever medication he's been on, he mistook Sami for Colleen, taking both Elvis and Sami by surprise. Stefano quickly came to his senses, and Sami and EJ's hopes of a cease-fire were quickly tarnished when Stefano cryptically told them that this was not possible until all the wrongs of the past had been righted. He told EJ and Sami that Grampa Shawn knew about all the wrongs and they should ask him about them. Tony's attorney was able to get the ambulance to turn around, and Stefano arrived home just as John and Lucas showed up, looking for Sami. Stefano and John had a conversation, in which Stefano reminded John that John was his favorite pawn. When asked by Stefano about Marlena, John told him that she was looking forward to a dance on his grave. He told Sami the only way to end the feud, between the two families, would be to marry EJ and raise the child as a DiMera.

It has recently been discovered that Stefano's daughter Lexie was alive but kept hidden in a tunnel that ran from Doug's place to the DiMera mansion along with a bomb hidden in a musicbox that exploded when Bo and Hope accidentally set it off. When questioned about it Stefano claimed he had nothing to do with it. He then chastised Tony for acting without his knowledge or consent, to which Tony responded by claiming he had to it to protect the family. Stefano was angry and told Tony to get his act together. Tony informed his father that he'd sacrificed his friends, his social standing and his entire life in Salem to carry out Stefano's wishes to exterminate the Bradys and told Stefano "If you don't finish the Bradys, I will." Stefano responded by calling a family meeting, which consisted of Tony, EJ and Celeste (who arrived in place of Lexie. She openly blamed the Dimera family for her daughter's imprisonment and refused to allow Stefano near her). Bart and Dr. Rolf, long-time servants of the Dimera family, were also present. Stefano placed a photo of Colleen Brady (an exact duplicate of her great-niece Sami) in public view and told the story of her love affair with his father Santo. He claims that Colleen was murdered by a member of her own family. He then informed his bickering sons that order needed to be restored in the family, and asked Tony and EJ to put their differences aside and embrace as brothers. The two reluctantly obey him. After telling Celeste to leave Stefano orders Tony to follow her and dismisses the family servants from the room so he can share yet another secret with his youngest son EJ. He pulls out an old picture of his father Santo. EJ looks like his grandfather, Santo DiMera.

In January 2008, Stefano was arrested for the kidnapping of John Black. While in jail, Marlena Evans injected him with a drug that induced an irreversible coma that still rendered him the ability to hear everything that happened around him. In August 2008, Stefano's state changed when he had a seizure leading Marlena, John, Tony and EJ to fear he could wake up at any moment. Stefano finally woke from his coma and vowed revenge on those who had betrayed him. When tony goes to meet philip KIRIAKIS & suffers a freak accident,  stefano believes it 2 be foul play.

ON THE NIGHT OF E.J. & NICOL'S WEDDING STEFANO LET S E.J. KNOW THAT THIS WILL BE THE DAY THAT PHILIP DIES. E.J. SAYS," FATHER IT HAS 2 LOOK LIKE WERE GOING 2 A WEDDING." STEFANO TELLS HIM NOT 2 WORRY . AFTEER THE WEDDIN IS OVE4R STEFANO HEADS 2 THE HOSPITAL & PRETENDS LIKE HE IS CONCERNED 4 PHILIP. VICTOR LETS HIM KNOW THAT HE KNOWS HE DID  IT & THAT  THE WAR HAS JUST BEGUN.

 LATER THAT NIGHT STAFANO GOES 2 THE JAVA CAFE & VICTORS GREAT-NIECE MELINA KIRIAKIS SUDDENLY APPEARS 2 BE THE NEW GIRL WORKING AT THE JAVA CAFE. UNAWARE OF THEIR RELATION STFANO TAKES THE FROZEN MACCIATO LACED WITH A SLOW KILLING POISSON.

WHEN STEFANO RETURNS HOMES HE SUDDENLY FAINTS NO ONR HEARS HIM 'CAUSE NICOLE AMD EJ. ARE IN THEIR ROOM MAKING LOVE. WHEN SSTEFANO WAKES UP FROM HIS VERY LONG FAINTING NAP, HE GETS ON THE PHONE 2 ORDER EXTRA GUARDS.

WHEN STEFANO IS SCHEDULED TO TAKE A TRIP TO BRUNIE,  HE IS SOMEHOW CAPTURED BY THE kIRIAKIS'. VICTOR CALLS EJ AND SAYS TTHAT HE WILL RERURN HIS FATER WHEN HE HANDS OVER THE DIMERA ENTERPRISE 

HE AGRREES BUT HE HAS A PLAN IN THE WORKS

 

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Stefano DiMera (Part 1)

 

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Stefano DiMera is the father of Renée DuMonde, Megan Hathaway, Benjy Hawk, Lexie Brooks, and Elvis Banks. He is also the adoptive father of Peter and Kristen Blake, and raised Tony DiMera believing that he was his son. He had a nephew, André DiMera. It is unknown exactly how many offspring Stefano has. Although we've seen eight of his children and two wives, it has been said that he has others. Stefano had a common-law marriage with Daphne DiMera, who is also deceased, and was briefly married to Ellen Hawk. He is also the ex-husband of Vivian Alamain. Stefano first entered the show as an organized crime kingpin. Throughout the years, he has become more gothic, especially through his firm belief that he will never die. According to Stefano, he is like a Phoenix, and he will always rise from the ashes to his former glory and power. He is the seventh son of the seventh son; as a 300 year-old DiMera family legend dictates, such a son will never die. He certainly has proven this time and time again. Stefano has "died" ten times, coming back stronger than ever each time. Because of this, he holds the record in Salem for the most faked deaths.

In early February, 1982, Tony DiMera went to Rome, Italy, to visit his powerful father, Stefano, who was making plans for coming to Salem to move the DiMera business and build a family there. Stefano had asked Tony to bring slides of the life and people of Salem. Tony had recently held a gala at his home which he had secretly taped for his father. Viewing the images from this party, Stefano got to know the good people of Salem before he arrived, acquiring a great advantage over them. However, he also wanted to see the female scenery. While watching the video, two women stood out to Stefano: Dr. Marlena Evans and Julie Williams. Marlena, Stefano thought, would make a great addition to the DiMera family as a bride to Tony. He believed her to be a great choice to give birth to a future DiMera heir. But Julie...Stefano wanted Julie for himself, despite the fact that she was married. A third woman, Kayla Brady, also caught their eye and they believed her to be very valuable in the future, although Tony warned Stefano that her brother was a captain in the police force.

Meanwhile, Stefano was holding Stuart Whyland prisoner. Stuart, who had been living in Salem for several months, had been responsible for the shooting of Alex Marshall, having been ordered by Stefano to shoot him. Stefano had ordered Stuart to shoot him because he was getting in the way of an Anderson Manufacturing takeover masterminded by Stefano. Now, Stefano had taken Stuart prisoner to keep him from divulging any of the DiMera involvement in the matter, in addition to making transgressions against the DiMera family. Furthermore, Stefano could use Stuart to immediately become respected in the Salem community. In Rome, Stefano instructed Stuart to confess to ordering Alex's shooting - Stefano threatened to kill Evan Whyland, Stuart's son, if he didn't comply. He then had Stuart taken to Salem to be arrested and stand trial. Immediately, the Hortons were in his debt (David Banning had been suspected of shooting Alex), especially Julie. Soon after arriving in Salem, Stefano met with Julie and demonstrated great romantic interest in her. At the same time, he rekindled a relationship with his former mistress and Julie's nemesis, Lee DuMonde, and moved into her penthouse. Stefano would soon move into the former Whyland mansion. To make it his own, he hired Julie to redecorate the house, hoping to romance her in the process. He also forced Liz Chandler, Tony's estranged wife, to move in and carry out the part of a loving wife to Tony, and suggested that she try to become pregnant with Tony's child.

Already a hero for turning in Stuart Whyland, Stefano continued his heroic facade by contributing vast amounts of money to the fledgling University Hospital and various charities. Because of this, he now controlled the hospital and had many more people in his debt, Tom Horton among them. Everyone lauded Stefano for his goodness and generosity. But everyone was ignorant to the fact that Stefano was the leader of an international crime syndicate under the guise of DiMera Enterprises. He then made Alex Marshall hospital administrator, the position previously held by Stuart. However, he warned Alex not play any games. One of the reasons Stefano had sought revenge against Stuart was that he'd embezzled money from the hospital. Meanwhile, Stefano and Tony asked Doug Williams, Julie's husband, if they could be silent partners in Doug's Place, with the intentions of eventually taking over the club. Doug's refusal only fueled their mysterious determination to take over the club. Their relentless pursuit for a piece of Doug's Place only awakened suspicions. In the meantime, Stefano claimed a small a victory after Mary Anderson finally agreed to sell him Anderson Manufacturing (Alex seduced her into selling.) Unfortunately, this was indeed a very small victory because Mary was killed by the Salem Strangler before she signed the plant over to DiMera Enterprises. Anderson Manufacturing was now equally owned by Mary's mother Phyllis, and her 15 year-old sister Melissa. Alex eventually convinced Phyllis to sell her half of the company over to the DiMeras.

Another victim of the Salem Strangler who had survived her attack had been Renée DuMonde, Lee's younger sister. Feeling an obligation to Lee, and seeing Tony's interest in the girl, Stefano offered his home Renée and guaranteed her protection. However, Lee protested Stefano's generosity. For whatever reason, she did not want Tony and Renée to form a relationship. In fact, the thought of it disturbed her. Stefano paid no attention to Lee's warnings, but he was disturbed by the fact that Lee knew so much about him and the business. In order to keep Lee from possibly revealing information about him, Stefano paid off a judge to release Lee from her court-ordered therapy with Marlena Evans. This only caused more conflict between Stefano and Lee. Finally, the Strangler attacked Renée again. To protect Renée, Tony took her away from Salem. Lee desperately pleaded with Stefano to find them and stop them from forming a romantic relationship. Though he did try to find them, he resented Lee's objections to Tony. After this, Lee abruptly left Salem. And coincidentally, when Renée and Tony were found, she wanted nothing to do with Tony and moved out of the DiMeras. Concerned over what Lee may have told Renée, Stefano vowed to find her and make her pay. After some months, Stefano did find Lee. But by that time, he already knew what she'd told Renée: that Lee and Stefano were her parents. Stefano didn't believe this at first but Lee's claim was proven through blood tests. Because Lee was his newfound daughter's mother, Stefano promised not to hurt her as long as Renée moved into the mansion and lived as his daughter. This became a bit difficult because of the relationship she and Tony had shared. In order to get his children to resolve their feelings for each other and live together as siblings, Stefano faked an attack of angina. The plan having worked successfully, Stefano now encouraged Renée to resume her relationship with David Banning. Having David -- a Horton -- in the family would prove useful to him. She and David eventually married.

Meanwhile, Stefano was fed up with Liz. Not only had she not become pregnant with Tony's child, but she was having a rather indiscreet affair with Neil Curtis. To get Liz to quit her philandering and return to the mansion, Stefano had a bomb set in Neil's hotel room, almost killing him. Getting the message loud and clear, Liz complied and returned to Tony. Less than a month later, she found out that she was pregnant. At this time, Stefano was angered at the arrival of his ex-wife and Tony's mother, Daphne. Stefano hated her for some reason and warned her to leave and to stop interfering in Tony's life. Eventually, she did disappear.

Finally, several people became suspicious of Stefano. His past in Europe became known to Doug, Julie, Don Craig, and Mickey Horton. Doug and Julie were hot on his trail by questioning a madam named Foxy Humdinger, who had had an affair with Stefano in the past; Mickey and Don were retracing all of the crimes committed by the DiMera family in Europe. However, only one person truly knew all about Stefano's dealings, and that was Stuart Whyland's son, Dr. Evan Whyland. Evan had found out what had transpired between his father and Stefano, and the proof was hidden in a safety deposit box. In addition, Evan was blackmailing Stefano with this information. However, Stefano was able to steal the key to the deposit box from Evan and disposed of him. He ordered his henchmen to tamper with the brakes on Evan's car. One night, Evan's car crashed. Both Evan and Maggie Horton had been in the car. In the hospital, Evan died while murmuring something about Stefano and Caracas. Acting on Evan's cryptic last words, Mickey discovered that Stefano owned a large compound in Caracas, Venezuela, and boarded a flight there to investigate his dealings. However, his visit to Venezuela ended in disaster. Two steps ahead of Mickey, Stefano arranged for Mickey to be kidnapped upon arriving in Venezuela. Furthermore, he constructed an elaborate hoax to make it look like Mickey had died in a plane crash. Pictures of the wreck reached the frightened Salemites. Also, Stefano switched Mickey's dental records to match those of a burned body found in the wreckage. While everyone in Salem mourned Mickey, Mickey was held prisoner in Stefano's Venezuelan compound.

All of this activity began to rouse more suspicions, especially among Roman Brady and Abe Carver. Roman, in fact, was working for the ISA to reveal Stefano's organized crime empire, which had already taken a stronghold in Salem via drug trafficking. To keep Roman at bay, Stefano had Alex frame Roman for drug dealing and accepting bribes. After Roman was suspended from the police force, however, Roman went underground to smoke him out and the chase for Stefano turned red hot. Growing more and more furious at Roman's inability to give up, Stefano tried to kill his sister Kayla by poisoning her. However, Kayla survived and all this did was add Chris Kositchek, Kayla's boyfriend, to Stefano's growing list of enemies. Following this, Stefano had Alex tamper with the hospital robot in order to kill Alice Horton in another attempt to warn Roman. Fortunately, the robot malfunctioned and Alice escaped the incident unharmed. Stefano was going to try it a second time, but a secretary at the hospital discovered the plan and she was killed instead. Roman still not giving up, Stefano had one of his officers, Tim Casey, murdered. Stefano also toyed with Marlena, Roman's fiancée, by leaving a bloody mannequin wearing her clothes in her penthouse. Finally, Stefano had no choice but dispose of Roman. Through his ingenious "Tuxedo Plan", Stefano planned on having Roman killed on his wedding day at the tuxedo store. The plan failed. However, Stefano had a backup plan called "High C", which entailed having a gunman shoot Roman during his wedding when Doug hit a high C while singing a song. This plan was also thwarted. After the wedding, Stefano continued trying to kill Roman on his honeymoon, not knowing that Roman, instead of going on his honeymoon, had actually gone undercover to get Stefano's hired assassin to confess. When he finally did, Stefano knew that the game was over.

On top of this, Stefano suspected that Renée and Tony were having an incestuous affair. Finding it very odd, Stefano wondered if Tony was even his son and decided to locate Daphne. He finally found her in a Chicago hospital where Tony had hidden her. There, she finally got her to confess that Tony was the son of a man with whom she'd had an affair, Enrico. Shell-shocked, Stefano confronted Tony. While Stefano didn't want anything to change, he felt betrayed by Tony because he had known for months. Stefano realized that things with Tony would never be the same again. Defeated, Stefano took desperate measures.

By coincidence, Liz had decided to blackmail Stefano into giving her back her freedom. She, too, had noticed the relationship between Tony and Renée and had been taking pictures of them together thinking that it would create a scandal. But since Tony and Renée weren't really siblings, Stefano only laughed at Liz's blackmail attempt held her at gunpoint. He planned to use her as a hostage while he escaped from the police. Using the underground tunnel that connected the mansion with Doug's Place, Stefano ran into Chris Kositchek and shot him. Stefano and Liz emerged from the cellar of Doug's Place; Marlena had the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Stefano took her hostage as well and fled to his mountain estate, Ridgecrest. There, he held a gun to both of his ladies. He awaited the arrival of a helicopter that would take him and his prisoners away. Soon, Liz went into labor and Stefano ordered Marlena to deliver the child. Afterward, Stefano took Marlena and attempted to board his helicopter. In the nick of time, Roman arrived and arrested Stefano. Stefano was held in jail without bail while he awaited trial. While in prison, Stefano suffered a stroke. After being admitted into the emergency room for surgery, he was declared dead.

Even from the tomb, Stefano caused problems. His will stipulated that Tony and Renée would live together in the DiMera mansion as brother and sister. Since there was still sexual tension between the two, it was pretty hard. Furthermore, the will awarded $5 million to the first one of his children to give him an heir. At the time, Tony was married to Anna, and Renée to David. A race ensued, in which neither party won. In the end, it was all a ruse Stefano had concocted; a real will was found in which all of the DiMera fortune was left only to Renée, since Tony wasn't really his son to begin with. But Renée soon was killed. A rash of killings ensued in Salem in 1983, and the perpetrator named the Salem Slasher. Although at first it seemed like the Slasher was Roman Brady, and then Tony DiMera, the killer was really André DiMera, Stefano's nephew. André looked exactly like Tony as a result of plastic surgery.

André was receiving orders from a man whose face we did not see for a long time, just a ring bearing a Phoenix on the facet. When the face of "The Phoenix" was finally revealed, it was the face of Stefano! He was still alive! Stefano had sent André to Salem to get rid of any evidence of his faked death. Although Stefano had not ordered Renée to be killed, André was forced to commit the murder when she realized that he was not Tony. Nurse Kelly Chase had been killed because Stefano had paid her to find a body at the morgue and tag his name to it; afterwards, Kelly had wanted to confess everything, thus she signed her own death warrant. The third murder victim, Trista Bradford, was killed because she'd discovered discrepancies in the lab reports at the hospital the night that Stefano died. Daisy Hawkins, a prostitute, had been murdered to frame Roman for the killings. Leticia Bradford had been killed to divert attention onto Eugene Bradford, thus allowing Stefano to confuse the police and steal a certain thing of precious value to him. Meanwhile, André kept the real Tony DiMera locked up in chains inside a secret room in Tony's penthouse. Roman, who was believed to be the crazed killer, faked his own death to be able to capture the true Slasher. Roman's stunt only tricked the Salem PD; with hidden cameras throughout Salem, Stefano was well-aware that he wasn't really dead.

This thing of value that Stefano desired was an ancient talisman named the Baka. The Baka was a curious wooden artifact that had been the subject of a great animosity between two families, the DiMeras and the Bradfords, which were connected through a marriage in the late 18th century. On one face, the Baka showed the Bradford Family crest; on the other, a rising Phoenix. According to legend, the Baka held negative power for the Bradfords, and positive power for the DiMeras. For 200 years, the Bradfords had held onto the Baka in order to keep the DiMeras from taking advantage of its power...that is until Stefano stole it from Reginald Bradford. Somehow, the Baka was stolen from Stefano and fell back into Reginald's hands, who gave it to Eugene shortly before his death. In addition to all of this, the Baka was also the centerpiece in one of Stefano's most dastardly plans. After having André steal the Baka, Stefano used it to build a bomb. He planned to have André kill Marlena during a nationally-televised concert; if the plan did not work, his backup plan was to set off a bomb at the concert hall which could only be defused using the Baka. While André busied himself organizing the charity concert which would benefit a new psychiatric wing for the hospital, Stefano busied himself by trying to drive Eugene insane. He had Delia telephone Eugene incessantly pretending to be his deceased wife Bonnie. Delia also created phantom projections of Eugene's other dead wife, Trista. Though the plan originally worked, Eugene soon realized that he was being duped. Meanwhile, Stefano managed to capture Roman and hold him captive.

The night of the concert finally arrived. It was a blacktie primetime network special with famous entertainers such as Billy Vera & the Beaters, Al Jarreau, Serge Anatol, and even Liz Chandler. While he Stefano had Roman released and led him through a cat-and-mouse game, Stefano and his lover May awaited in an old prop room in the concert hall for the moment when Marlena would be killed. While waiting, Stefano even took Serge Anatol's place as conductor of the Salem Philharmonic Symphony and conducted the Sleeping Beauty Waltz! Finally, the time came for André to perform his last act as "the Slasher", only to bungle it. While trying to kill Marlena, André was tripped by a drunken Alex Marshall and was forced to escape. Enraged, Stefano promised André that he would pay for his stupidity; he also revealed that he never planned on helping André escape because he had killed Renée. Now that Stefano's cover had been blown, Stefano and Petrov raced to escape Salem and the police. During the high-speed chase, Stefano discovered Alex Marshall in the backseat. An argument followed between the two, and Stefano's car plunged off a bridge into the icy waters of the Salem River. Only Alex was found. After searching the river, the police declared Stefano and Petrov dead.

But dead he was not. Stefano was residing in a secret location on his yacht, carefully planning a way to retrieve three valuable prisms that were in the possession of Maxwell and Megan Hathaway. The prisms, he said, would cure his brain tumor. Although Stefano had faked his death, he was really suffering from an inoperable brain tumor. During this time, Megan Hathaway was revealed to be Stefano's daughter, not Maxwell's. That is why she had no problem when Maxwell was killed. In the end, the prism remained lost in the Louisiana bayou after an alligator ate it. The prisms were of great importance to Stefano. They were not ordinary crystals. When the prisms were together and held underneath a laser, they revealed coded instructions to several breakthroughs in technology and science; one of these breakthroughs was how to operate on Stefano's type of tumor. The prisms had been designed by an American, but Communist, scientist named Victor Chorvat, and were part of a Soviet plot called the Triad Experiment.

Dismayed, Stefano began searching for the second prism. Unbeknownst to him, the prism was among Daphne's jewelry collection as a charming necklace. After Stefano discovered this, he had André go after the necklace. The chase for the second prism reached its zenith in an island located in the Bermuda Triangle. André had crashed a plane carrying several Salemites (and the prism) on the island, where Stefano awaited. Over the course of a week, the prism passed hands from Calliope to Hope to Anna to André to Tony to Jasmine to Roman. Knowing that Roman held the prism, Stefano confronted him and held a gun to him. Roman was shocked to see him alive. Leading him the top of a cliff, Stefano went into a monologue revealing his admiration for Roman as an opponent. "You and I are very much alike, Roman." He went on to cite how both of them treasure family above all else. In the middle of his speech, Stefano got a stinging headache from his tumor. Roman took this opportunity to take the gun away from Stefano. During the struggle, the gun went off, shooting Roman in the stomach and sending him off the cliff to his apparent demise. Stefano coldly looked at Roman's body, laughed, and escaped aboard a helicopter. However, Stefano later stole Roman's dead body from the beach where he lay dead. "Now I have you exactly where I want you," he said while standing over Roman's body.

Now that he had the second prism, Stefano focused his efforts on retrieving the first and third prisms. He sent his henchwoman, nurse Kate Honeycutt, back to the Bayou to retrieve the blasted thing. In a matter of days, Honeycutt located the prism; some alligator poachers had found it inside the stomach of an alligator. Now with two prisms in his possession, he came up with an ingenious plan to get the third and final prism, which was still in the U.S.S.R. This was Megan's turf. Stefano had Megan coerce Larry into helping them smuggle the last prism into the U.S. After all, Larry was the son of Victor Chorvat, the inventor of the prisms.

Meanwhile, Stefano felt a little melancholy. He had enjoyed Roman as an adversary. Now, with him being out of commission, Stefano missed the thrill of the hunt. He soon realized that he had an enemy as clever and as cunning as Roman -- Marlena! He convinced one of his henchmen, Jimmy Porterfield, to get involved in Marlena's life. Jimmy soon decided to introduce Marlena to his godmother, Mrs. Lafferty. What Marlena did not know was that Mrs. Lafferty was Stefano in disguise! He had dressed up as an elderly woman to further examine his opponent. And a worthy opponent she was. Unbeknownst to Stefano, Marlena and Eugene had discovered information about the Triad Experiment...and the location of his compound in Venezuela.

The Triad Experiment was moving along very well. A Soviet named Bronski successfully managed to smuggle the last prism out of the Soviet Union through an ice-skating troupe. Soon after, however, Megan died; she was electrocuted in a hot tub at Chris Kositchek's gym, The Body Connection. Stefano was unaware of the fact that Larry had accidentally killed his daughter; he also didn't know of the explosive nature of the last prism. Apparently, Victor Chorvat had devised it so that it would explode if its ice covering was melted as revenge against America. Stefano was devastated by the loss of his "golden girl," and vowed revenge on the person who had killed her. He attended Megan's funeral dressed as Mrs. Lafferty and quietly grieved his daughter's passing.

Having lost another child, Stefano decided it was time to begin anew. He decided to kidnap the newborn twins Samantha and Eric Brady and raise them as DiMeras. He also wanted to kidnap Marlena so that she could be a mother to the children, and a wife to him. Stefano was able to kidnap the children and took them to his hideout in Caracas and kept them in a nursery. Stefano was unaware that Bo Brady went to rescue the children.

Of course, he still needed to cure that pesky tumor. In February 1985, the ice-skating troupe that had the prism arrived in Salem, to perform a show at the Salem Civic Center. But those darn Bradys got in the way of Stefano's plans once again. Hope had managed to infiltrate the ice-skating troupe and joined the team. She had the prism sewn on her costume's headpiece, but she didn't get in time and had to go out on the ice with it on her head. Stefano knew, however, and he ordered another flunky, Sonia Romanov, to retrieve the crystal from Hope. After Sonia got it, she and Stefano made their way to the rafters above the ice rink. Just as they were going to escape through the roof and catch their helicopter, Marlena appeared brandishing a gun. He did not think that Marlena was a real threat; he simply told her to put down the gun and come along with him so that she could be reunited with her kids. "My kids are safe at home in their beds," she told him. Amidst tears, Marlena refused to let herself be a victim to Stefano again. "You're never going to hurt anyone again," she said, and shot Stefano in the stomach. Stefano dropped the prism when he was shot. The prism, in turn, fell on some oily rags and began a raging fire below them. Stefano then lost his balance; he grabbed Marlena intending to take her with him, but she was saved by Bo. Stefano fell off the catwalk and into the flames below. After the fire was put out, a charred body was found among the ashes. It was burned beyond recognition, but everyone assumed that the body was Stefano's.

The poor people of Salem didn't exactly realize that Stefano wasn't dead, despite the fact that he'd already faked his death twice and his former employees were trying to send Marlena to jail for his murder. Stefano was alive and well, but nowhere near Salem. He secretly masterminded the return of Roman Brady through his former chauffeur, Petrov, the ISA Chief, George Nickerson, and Salem's new criminal kingpin, Victor Kiriakis. Roman was given plastic surgery, was branded with a Phoenix tattoo, brainwashed, and wrapped up in bandages. The ending result was an amnesiac who was brought to Salem by Nickerson and named "The Pawn." Eventually, this Pawn escaped, renamed himself John Black, and remembered that he was Roman Brady. Stefano oversaw all of this off-screen.

In late 1988, Stefano returned to wreak havoc once again. This time, he wanted his son back. Son? As it turned out, Stefano was the father of a young deaf boy who had been staying with Steve & Kayla Johnson, Benji Hawk. Stefano sent his operative Iago to Salem to achieve this goal. Iago just happened to be Shane Donovan's twin brother, Drew. While Drew unsuccessfully tried to take possession of Benji (and killed his mother, Ellen Hawk), Stefano also hatched a plan to take revenge on Roman and the Bradys. It seems that during the year that Stefano had had Roman in his possession, he had programmed him to be the ultimate assassin, with the help of a Karate master named Orion Hawk (who happened to be Benji's grandfather), and had commanded him to do various crimes. Only one word could trigger Roman's killer tendencies: "pagoda." Actually, even just the picture of a pagoda would put Roman in a trance. Now, Stefano was messing with Roman's head by sending him pictures of pagodas and making him believe that he'd murdered Ellen. Also, Stefano sent many clues to make Roman and Diana believe that Marlena, who had been presumed dead the year before, was really alive. His plans quickly turned more dastardly.

On Halloween night, Stefano ordered Carrie to be kidnapped. He took her to his island in the Bahamas and held her prisoner along with Orion, who had tried to sabotage his plans to kidnap Benji. Stefano sent Roman an anonymous note asking to exchange children, but Stefano didn't plan on ever returning Carrie. Stefano was endeared with the girl and wanted to raise her as his own daughter. Stefano finally kidnapped Benji, who loved him very much, and managed to lure Roman, Diana, Shane, Kim, Steve and Kayla to his island. Having captured all of his enemies, Stefano treated his guests to a Thanksgiving Dinner, during which he revealed everything: while Roman had worked for him, Stefano had ordered him to kill a powerful enemy but Roman botched up the hit. Roman had blown up the building in which Stefano's enemy was, unaware of the fact that Benji had been in the building. It was for this reason that Benji was deaf, and why Stefano wanted revenge. Also, it came to light that during the time that Roman was presumed dead, Shane had known all along that he was alive and in Stefano's possession. Shane and the ISA had had the chance to retrieve Roman, but instead retrieved Drew, who had also been in Stefano's possession. This obviously caused great animosity among the family. Stefano then put Roman under a Pagoda spell and ordered him to kill everyone present. Diana was able to make Roman snap out of it. Roman then went after Stefano, and the two met atop the very cliff they'd been standing on 4 years earlier. This time, the struggled that ensued sent Stefano off the cliff. Barely hanging from the edge, Stefano warned Roman that Milo, his henchman, would shoot Diana if he didn't help him back up. Roman reluctantly helped Stefano, and the ruse continued.

Stefano continued to taunt Roman and finally put him under another trance, this time to shoot Diana. However, the trances had a weaker effect on Roman every time he went under, and so Diana was able to bring him out of it. However, Diana became separated from Roman in the moments after this, and Stefano was able to kidnap her, making it seem like she had died in an explosion. Stefano continued to taunt Roman after he returned to Salem, and finally lured him to his hideout outside of the city. There, he told him that he could have either Marlena or Diana; Roman was convinced that Marlena was dead and that this was all a game, and chose Diana. At this point, Benji, who had stowed away in Roman's car and had been witness to everything, finally believed what everyone had told him: his father was a bad man. Benji told Stefano this. Stefano, his plans dashed and hated by his own son, decided to escape aboard his helicopter.

Go to Part 2 of Stefano's history

 

 

The character of Stefano DiMera has been played by the following:

Joseph Mascolo (1982-1985; 1988; 1993-2001)
Frank Fata (1991)
 

Stefano DiMera (Part 2)

 

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In late 1991, Stefano briefly reappeared inside a Mayan temple in Chichen Itzá to reveal himself as the mastermind behind Marlena Evans' 5-year disappearance and the return of the true Roman Brady, the one that had fallen off the cliff in 1984, making the Roman Brady who came to Salem as the Pawn, John Black, an impostor (see John Black for more details.) Stefano had kept both the real Roman and Marlena comatose in the Caribbean island of San Cristobal for years, and had released them in the Fall of 1991. For weeks, Stefano had been luring the two Romans and Marlena to Mexico. Both Romans had information stored inside of them regarding the Landen Case, an ISA case involving hidden Mayan codices that were of extreme value. Together, the two Romans discovered the secret location of the codices. At that moment, Stefano revealed himself and made Roman the impostor (John) a proposition: in exchange for the codices, Stefano would give him a valise containing information about his true identity. John accepted, but as the exchange was being made there was a struggle. A gun went off shooting Stefano and causing him to fall in the fire, seemingly killed.

In October 1993, Stefano returned to Salem. But for the first time, he was powerless. Following a stroke due to a brain tumor, he remained feeble and in a wheelchair. This time around, Stefano was revealed to have two more children, Peter and Kristen Blake. Although they were not his biological children, Stefano had raised them. For his security, Peter hired Curtis Reed, a hitman on Stefano's payroll, to bring Stefano to Salem. However, Curtis took advantage of the situation and kidnapped Stefano, taking him to Smith Island. In a desolate cabin, Curtis taunted Stefano about how powerful he had once been and how helpless he was now. Finally, Curtis contacted Kristen Blake to work out a ransom. Meeting her on a rainy night, Curtis demanded an exorbitant amount of money that Kristen did not have. But instead of money, he settled for her expensive jewelry. This humiliating act more than angered Stefano, and promised himself to avenge this atrocity.

In late 1988, Stefano returned to wreak havoc once again. This time, he wanted his son back. Son? As it turned out, Stefano was the father of a young deaf boy who had been staying with Steve & Kayla Johnson, Benji Hawk. Stefano sent his operative Iago to Salem to achieve this goal. Iago just happened to be Shane Donovan's twin brother, Drew. While Drew unsuccessfully tried to take possession of Benji (and killed his mother, Ellen Hawk), Stefano also hatched a plan to take revenge on Roman and the Bradys. It seems that during the year that Stefano had Roman in his possession, he had programmed him to be the ultimate assassin, with the help of a Karate master named Orion Hawk (who happened to be Benji's grandfather), and had commanded him to do various crimes. Only one word could trigger Roman's killer tendencies: "pagoda." Actually, even just the picture of a pagoda would put Roman in a trance. Now, Stefano was messing with Roman's head by sending him pictures of pagodas and making him believe that he'd murdered Ellen. Also, Stefano sent many clues to make Roman and Diana believe that Marlena, who had been presumed dead the year before, was really alive. His plans quickly turned more dastardly.

On Halloween night, Stefano ordered Carrie to be kidnapped. He took her to his island in the Bahamas and held her prisoner along with Orion, who had tried to sabotage his plans to kidnap Benji. Stefano sent Roman an anonymous note asking to exchange children, but Stefano didn't plan on ever returning Carrie. Stefano was endeared with the girl and wanted to raise her as his own daughter. Stefano finally kidnapped Benji, who loved him very much, and managed to lure Roman, Diana, Shane, Kim, Steve and Kayla to his island. Having captured all of his enemies, Stefano treated his guests to a Thanksgiving Dinner, during which he revealed everything: while Roman had worked for him, Stefano had ordered him to kill a powerful enemy but Roman botched up the hit. Roman had blown up the building in which Stefano's enemy was, unaware of the fact that Benji had been in the building. It was for this reason that Benji was deaf, and why Stefano wanted revenge. Also, it came to light that during the time that Roman was presumed dead, Shane had known all along that he was alive and in Stefano's possession. Shane and the ISA had the chance to retrieve Roman, but instead retrieved Drew, who had also been in Stefano's possession. This obviously caused great animosity among the family. Stefano then put Roman under a Pagoda spell and ordered him to kill everyone present. Diana was able to make Roman snap out of it. Roman then went after Stefano, and the two met atop the very cliff they'd been standing on 4 years earlier. This time, the struggled that ensued sent Stefano off the cliff. Barely hanging from the edge, Stefano warned Roman that Milo, his henchman, would shoot Diana if he didn't help him back up. Roman reluctantly helped Stefano, and the ruse continued. Stefano continued to taunt Roman and finally put him under another trance, this time to shoot Diana. However, the trances had a weaker effect on Roman every time he went under, and so Diana was able to bring him out of it. However, Diana became separated from Roman in the moments after this, and Stefano was able to kidnap her, making it seem like she had died in an explosion. Stefano continued to taunt Roman after he returned to Salem, and finally lured him to his hideout outside of the city. There, he told him that he could have either Marlena or Diana; Roman was convinced that Marlena was dead and that this was all a game, and chose Diana. At this point, Benji, who had stowed away in Roman's car and had been witness to everything, finally believed what everyone had told him: his father was a bad man. Benji told Stefano this. Stefano, his plans dashed and hated by his own son, decided to escape aboard his helicopter.

A tale of two Romans (1991)

In late 1991, Stefano briefly reappeared inside a Mayan temple in Chichen Itzá to reveal himself as the mastermind behind Marlena Evans' 5-year disappearance and the return of the true Roman Brady, the one that had fallen off the cliff in 1984, making the Roman Brady who came to Salem as the Pawn, John Black, an impostor, one of Stefano's assassins. Stefano had kept both the real Roman and Marlena comatose in the Caribbean island of San Cristobal for years, and had released them in the Fall of 1991. For weeks, Stefano had been luring the two Romans and Marlena to Mexico. Both Romans had information stored inside of them regarding the Landen Case, an ISA case involving hidden Mayan codices that were of extreme value. Together, the two Romans discovered the secret location of the codices. At that moment, Stefano revealed himself and made Roman the impostor (John) a proposition: in exchange for the codices, Stefano would give him a valise containing information about his true identity. John accepted, but as the exchange was being made there was a struggle. A gun went off shooting Stefano and causing him to fall in the fire, seemingly killed.

Stefano returns to Salem/Stefano kills Curtis Reed (1993)

In October 1993, Stefano returned to Salem. But for the first time, he was powerless. Following a stroke due to a brain tumor, he remained feeble and in a wheelchair. This time around, Stefano was revealed to have two more children, Peter and Kristen Blake. Although they were not his biological children, Stefano had raised them. For his security, Peter hired Curtis Reed (abusive ex-husband of Kate Roberts, and father to Austin & Billie Reed), a hitman on Stefano's payroll, to bring Stefano to Salem. However, Curtis took advantage of the situation and kidnapped Stefano, taking him to Smith Island. In a desolate cabin, Curtis taunted Stefano about how powerful he had once been and how helpless he was now. Finally, Curtis contacted Kristen Blake to work out a ransom. Meeting her on a rainy night, Curtis demanded an exorbitant amount of money that Kristen did not have. But instead of money, he settled for her expensive jewelry. This humiliating act more than angered Stefano, and promised himself to avenge this atrocity.

Later, Stefano struggled with Curtis Reed and shot him. Stefano planted the gun on Billie Reed and let her take the rap.

Tony DiMera returns/Stefano fakes his death (1994)

Tony DiMera returned to Salem to marry his fiancee, Kristen Blake (recent revelations indicate this was most likely Andre, impersonating Tony). Stefano told Kristen that before he died, he wanted to see them marry. Kristen agreed to marry Tony, even though she loved John Black. However, Kristen left Tony at the altar to help John Black find Marlena and Roman's daughter, Belle.

Stefano realized that in order for Kristen to marry Tony, he would have to discredit John in her eyes. Stefano did some investigating and thanks to a stolen diary of Sami Brady's, Stefano learned that John was really Belle's father. Stefano took this information to Roman. Sami eventually admitted that she had switched the paternity test results. Stefano's plan worked and Kristen despised John.

Tony and Kristen were about to marry when John showed up at the wedding, claiming that he had evidence linking Stefano to Curtis Reed's murder. When Stefano hopped in a car and drove off, John shot at the tires. Stefano had planned it so his car would go off the road and he would be "killed" in the crash. Kristen, blaming John for her father's death, married Tony on February 18, 1994. Tony learned later that Stefano was alive, but he kept it a secret because he feared Kristen would leave him.

Maison Blanche (1994)

In late February, Tony made Stefano leave Salem, so he traveled to Maison Blanche. From there, he sent John puzzle pieces. There were a total of 3 puzzle pieces, which together formed a picture of a window and a column. John knew that Stefano was taunting him, and tried to find out more about the house in the picture. After learning that the place was Maison Blanche, John went to New Orleans to visit it. When he arrived he was taken prisoner by Stefano and his henchwoman Celeste. Stefano chained John up in the basement and planned to re-brainwash him. Celeste, who liked John, told him that everything he needed to save himself was in his cell. After searching the cell, John found a block that had Johnny Black, 1984 inscribed on it. Behind the block John found a necklace with a crucifix and a prayer on a piece of paper. Using a recording of John's voice, Stefano lured Marlena to New Orleans as well. When she arrived, Celeste knocked her out with ether and locked her up with John. Stefano was planning on erasing John's memory, so Marlena tried to prevent him from doing it with a strip show. Stefano also forced Marlena to call Roman and tell him that she was on vacation with John Black. Meanwhile, Celeste became jealous of Marlena because she knew that Stefano was in love with her. Later that year, Kristen, Tony, Peter, Jen, Bo, and Billie all came to Maison Blanche for a charity event Kristen held. Billie saw a woman who looked like Bo's dead wife Hope, but nobody would believe her. Hope was at Maison Blanche, but she was called Gina by Stefano and Celeste. Roman also showed up, but to arrest Peter Blake for trafficking drugs in one of his clubs. A jealous Celeste leaked gas into the cell where John and Marlena were being held and started a fire. Roman managed to rescue them. John came out and shocked both Kristen and Tony, who were horrified to see John in shackles. Kristen looked up and screamed when she spotted her dead father, Stefano. Tony ran back into the house to try and retrieve his father's computer, which contained a file on John's past. Maison Blanche burst into flames. Tony got the computer, but went blind in the process. Stefano slipped away with Hope, but John managed to catch up with Stefano and rescued Hope. Bo and Billie were shocked when they saw Hope, but Hope claimed to be a woman named Gina.

Marlena's possession (1994-1995)

Stefano returned to Salem in late 1994. Stefano knew of Mike Horton's involvement with a woman in the mid-east who tricked him into transporting arms. He blackmailed Mike into providing him with the key-code to Marlena's apartment. Stefano rented the apartment next to her and built a secret passage between the two through Marlena's armoir. Stefano began visiting Marlena in the nights, but he wore a mask to hide his identity. Stefano's nightly visits opened up Marlena's soul for the taking, and Satan took it. In 1995, John, Father Francis, Kristen Blake, and Caroline Brady all worked to help exorcise Marlena. Marlena tricked Stefano into untying her from her bed, where John had bound her, and she promptly threw him off her penthouse terrace. Stefano lived, but he was paralyzed and suffered from amnesia. Abe Carver and Pat Hamilton wanted to arrest Marlena for her attempted murder, but when they came face to face with her supernatural powers they realized that Marlena was not responsible for her actions. After being exorcised, Marlena felt extremely guilty about what she had done under the demon's possession. Marlena felt especially bad for Stefano, who was paralyzed and amnesiac. Marlena took it upon herself to help Stefano regain the use of his legs and she invited him to live with her. As Marlena worked with Stefano, Stefano began to fall in love with Marlena.

Aremid (1995-1996)

In December 1995, Tony DiMera was shot and killed and John Black was arrested for his murder, a murder that Tony himself framed John for. Stefano and Marlena went to Aremid. Marlena went to be with John and Stefano went to say goodbye to Tony.

Marlena continued to council Stefano in Aremid as 1996 began. Stefano began having faint memories from his past. Stefano recalled giving gifts to a beautiful woman, who continued to reject him. Stefano also found himself attracted to Marlena. One night while out in a rain storm, Stefano was struck by lightning. Celeste found him and took him back to the Blake House. Mike feared that Stefano could have regained his memory after being hit by lightning, but Stefano claimed he remembered nothing. However, Stefano remembered everything. Unfortunately, the Woman in White left Tony's diary behind in the Blake House when she was forced to hide as Celeste was bringing Stefano in out of the storm. Stefano tries to persuade Marlena to go away with him, but when she declined his offer he realized it was because of John. Stefano decided that he must rid himself of John somehow, and he realized his trial was the perfect way to do it. Later, Stefano uncovered Tony's Diary from the Woman in White's secret room and he vowed to never let anyone know the truth.

Paris (1996)

John Black's trial resumed in 1996 and Peter Blake put Kristen Blake on the stand. Kristen admitted to the court that she believed that John killed her husband, Tony DiMera. John was sentenced to death because Stefano blackmailed the judge. The death sentence was to be carried out immediately. On the night of John's execution, Stefano dined with Marlena Brady at the Blake House. Marlena managed to get Tony's diary and give it to the Woman in White. The Woman in White dropped it on the way to the courthouse, but Jack Devereaux found it and got it there in time to save John from the gas chamber. Meanwhile, Marlena told Stefano that she knows he ordered John's death sentence and she hates him. Stefano abducted Marlena and tried to make his getaway, but Celeste followed him and demands he take her too. Stefano refused, so Celeste tells him that Lexie is his daughter, in hopes of staying with him. Stefano escaped with Marlena into some underground tunnels below Aremid. Lexie tried to reason with her father, but he and Marlena are lost in a cave in. Stefano managed to escape to the ocean, but John rescued Marlena. Stefano escapes via helicopter and vowed to return for Marlena.

Stefano returned to Salem like he vowed. He arranged for Jonah Carver to return to Medical School to please his daughter, Lexie. Stefano contacted Kristen and asked her to help him kidnap Marlena. Kristen refused to at first, but after learning that John loved Marlena more she agreed to help. Kristen gave Stefano the plane number that Rachel and Marlena would be flying to San Francisco on. Stefano told Kristen that he would return her mother to her later. Unfortunately, the police got tipped off that Stefano was back in town and his plan to kidnap Marlena was foiled. Stefano forced Vivian and Ivan to help him flee Salem.

Marlena and Rachel made plans for another trip and Marlena gave Kristen a list she was to obey. Kristen was not to sleep with John and she was not to wear his engagement ring. Stefano arranged for himself to be captured, so it appeared that Marlena and Rachel were safe to fly to San Francisco. After their plane took off, John learned that the man they captured was wearing a latex mask. Upon searching the DiMera Mansion they found Rachel Blake bound and gagged. Stefano, disguised as Rachel, had snuck onboard the plane with Marlena. Stefano faked a plane crash which convinced Salem that Marlena and Stefano had both died.

Stefano took Marlena to some caverns below Paris which he ruled as King and he intended to make her his queen. Marlena became deeply depressed and a doctor told Stefano that if she wasn't cheered up soon she could die. Stefano produced a set of goggles that allowed the person wearing them to view people who were dear to them. Marlena was able to see John and her children though these goggles. However, Stefano learned that the other set of goggles he had left in Salem were being used and realized John was the one using them. In the Paris underground, Marlena began to write things in a daily journal. Stefano planted a bomb in the warehouse where the second set of goggles were in order to kill John. The plan failed, but Stefano convinced Marlena that John died in the explosion. Stefano agrees to let Marlena out of the cage and takes her to a street carnival where they are spotted by Vivian and Ivan. Upon learning John was in Paris, Stefano sent a forged fax from John to Kristen and Rachel asking them to come to Paris.

John realized that Stefano is holding Marlena prisoner in the Paris underground. To lure him out, John set up a huge ball, where Marie Antoinette's crown would be displayed. John knew that Stefano would try to steal it for his "Queen" Marlena. John also knew that if Stefano follows the game, Marlena would show up wearing a gold gown. Unfortunately, Stefano anticipated this. Stefano took Marlena to the ball, but he arranged for many women to be dressed exactly like Marlena. John, Kristen, Abe, Lexie, and John's French cop friend Renee combed the ball looking for Marlena and each had a mini TV set that was hooked up to many cameras at the ball. Marlena and Kristen came face to face and they argued. Marlena ran off and eventually found John. Unfortunately, Stefano stabbed John with a needle and drug him off while Kristen watched. Stefano also managed to steal the crown by having someone impersonate Renee.

In the Paris Underground, Stefano put John on trial for his crimes against him. John was found guilty and was sentenced to be executed by beheading. Marlena attempted to stop the execution, but failed. Luckily, Vivian and Ivan were searching for Stefano and managed to free John from the guillotine he was in. John and Marlena ran for the tunnels and Stefano pursued them. Kristen decided to find the Paris Underground to try and save John and her mother, Rachel, insisted on going. An explosion in the underground buried Kristen and Rachel, but Abe and Lexie managed to save them. They all searched for John and Lexie. When the found him, John had a gun and was holding it on Stefano. Marlena was hurt during the explosion and John gave his gun to Rachel to hold on Stefano so he could carry Marlena. Stefano managed to escape and Rachel followed him. Rachel and Stefano ended up near a gas tank. Rachel, knowing the consequences, shot at Stefano. The tank exploded and Stefano and Rachel were presumed dead.

Kristen's schemes to keep John/Peter's schemes to keep Jennifer (1996-1998)

Stefano, who was very alive, returned to Salem and learned about Peter and Jennifer's troubles. Stefano revealed himself to Peter and promised to help him get Jennifer. He also learned about Kristen and John and promised to help Kristen keep John. from Peter. Peter, following Stefano's advice, was planning on kidnapping Jen. Stefano also told Kristen that she should try and marry John as soon as she can. He also blackmailed Kristen's doctor into keeping quiet about the fact that she isn't pregnant.

Stefano brought Susan Banks, a pregnant woman, to Salem. With a blond wig and false teeth, Susan looks exactly like Kristen. Susan agreed to impersonate Kristen when needed and to give her baby to Kristen, in exchange for a large sum of money. Meanwhile, Marlena began to become more and more suspicious of Kristen and even told Laura Horton that if she didn't know any better, she'd say Kristen wasn't pregnant.

Daniel Scott showed up at the Blake house to find Peter and extort more money out of him. Unfortunately, Daniel ran into Stefano. The two argued and Daniel backed into a large window and fell to his death from the 2nd story. Salem gathered for Peter's funeral. After the funeral, Laura saw Kristen adjusting her pregnancy pad when she thought nobody was looking. Laura ran back into the church to tell Marlena, but she ended up coming face to face with Stefano and Peter. Stefano revealed that the body in the casket was Daniel Scott, with a latex mask of Peter on. Stefano kidnapped Laura and took both her and Peter to the Blake house. Peter was very ill still and he forced Laura to care for him. Kristen eventually stumbled upon both Laura and Peter. Stefano wanted to take Laura with her when he and Peter left the country, but Kristen and Peter asked if there was another way to solve the problem. Stefano eventually had one of his scientists zap Laura's mind with a laser that would remove her memory for the last few days. Stefano placed Laura out in Salem park on a bench and he and Peter skipped town.

Outside of Salem, Stefano continued to plot. He hired Nurse Lynn Burke to be Laura Horton's caretaker and to feed her pills which would keep Laura from remembering the truth about Peter and Kristen. He also helped Kristen to try and control Susan Banks, who had become obsessed with John Black and her own child she was to give up. Stefano had a secret room built in the DiMera Mansion where Kristen was to hide Susan. However, things went wrong and Marlena Evans was put into the secret room after she learned the truth about Kristen. Kristen called Stefano and told her that Marlena was locked in the room and awaiting him. Stefano returned to Salem and forced Vivian and Ivan to help him kidnap Marlena. Meanwhile, Susan planned an Elvis themed wedding for herself and John, which Kristen and Marlena were forced to watch from the secret room. Desperate to stop the wedding, Kristen tried to dig through the wall and ended up hitting a gas line, which knocked Kristen and Marlena unconscious.

Stefano showed up dressed as a waiter and was planning to escape with Marlena. Unfortunately, Laura showed up, still wearing her pajamas from the hospital, and accused Kristen, who was really Susan, of kidnapping Marlena. Laura slapped Susan and her fake teeth landed in Vivian's glass of champagne. Susan confessed everything and John managed to save Kristen and Marlena from the secret room, both had passed out. Stefano fled the party.

Soon after Susan and John's wedding came to a halt, John arranged for Marlena, Lexie, and Laura Horton to all have a relaxing day at the Salem Spa. Stefano snuck in and almost kidnapped Marlena, but Lexie saw him and ratted him out. Stefano escaped, but Marlena was saved.

John planned an engagement party for Marlena at the Penthouse Grill. Kristen, Vivian, and Ivan crashed the party and when Kristen heard John propose to Marlena, she lost it. Kristen went out to the ledge and threatened to jump, but John talked her down. Stefano was also at the party and planned to kidnap Marlena, but Kristen ruined his chance and he was furious with her.

Roman's cure (1997)

John and Marlena planned to marry in July of 97, but Kristen and Stefano brought the wedding to a halt when Kristen showed up at the wedding with Marlena's dead ex-husband, Roman. Later, John and Marlena learned from Shane that Roman claimed to be dead because he really was dying of a deadly virus and didn't want his family to watch him suffer. Kristen convinced John and Marlena that Roman would be the most comfortable living in the DiMera mansion. Roman refused to stay in the hospital and accepted Kristen's offer. Kristen further caused problems by telling Roman that she and John were married and Marlena never became involved with anyone else after he left Salem.

Stefano allowed himself to be captured and then told John that only he had the cure for Roman. John didn't want to believe him, but it seemed there was no other way to save Roman. John, with Lexie and eventually Abe's help, broke Stefano out of jail. John and Stefano speed to the airfield where John's plane awaited them. Kristen managed to convince John and Stefano to let her come along. Marlena also wanted to go, but John said she should remain behind because this could be a trap. However, Hope decided to tag along to keep an eye on Kristen. Stefano was furious when John found Hope stowed away and wanted to return to Salem and leave her behind, but they couldn't because they would be captured for sure. John, Hope, Stefano, and Kristen all traveled to a jungle compound where they were introduced to Dr. Rolfe, the man working on the cure for Roman. Dr. Rolfe recognized Hope, but Stefano managed to warn him not to say anything to Hope. Hope ended up breaking into a storage room, which infuriated him because there were things, including a table, in that room that could jog her memory from the missing four years of her life. Stefano promptly locked the room up with a high tech lock. When Dr. Rolfe finally finished the cure, the vial containing the cure was dropped and it was lost.

Dr. Rolfe and Stefano tell John and Hope that the only way to make another cure is for someone to brave the jungle and the natives and retrieve a special orchid. John and Hope volunteer to find the orchid. Hope and John found the orchid and John put it in his backpack, but a native knocked John off a cliff and Hope, Kristen, and Stefano thought he was killed. John's backpack was recovered, but the orchid was missing. Hope managed to find some of the orchid's seeds and Rolfe made a cure using them. As they were about to return to Salem, John showed up alive, but was poisoned by a native's dart. John was cured and they all flew back to Salem. On the way back, their plane crashed in the Bermuda triangle, but they managed to return to Salem with the cure. John, Hope, Stefano, and Kristen showed up at the hospital with the cure just as Marlena was about to marry Roman, because it was his dying wish. The cure was administered to Roman and Stefano was granted a pardon for his crimes. Stefano's cure began to fail, which Stefano knew would happen. Stefano said that the only way to save Roman was to donate his own blood, mix it with some other drugs, and give it to Roman. Stefano had also suffered from the disease Roman had and he had been saved in a similar manner. However, Stefano only agreed to do this if Marlena would forgive him and be his friend. Stefano announced that he wanted to become a respected citizen of Salem, secretly it was all a part of his master plan. Marlena reluctantly agreed and gave the second cure to Roman, which worked.

Peter's madness (1997-1998)

Jennifer Devereaux Blake confronted Stefano and told him that he would need the Hortons to back him if he wanted to become a respected citizen of Salem. Jennifer warned him that if any harm came to Jack then he would not have the Hortons' backing. Stefano called T.C. and told him not to harm Jack Devereaux. Unfortunately, Travis and T.C. had pinned Jack under a press, which would smash his head flat. Luckily, T.C. and Travis stopped the press in time before it killed Jack. Jack realized that someone wanted him alive and realized that T.C. must be on Peter or Stefano's payroll.

Stefano finally admitted that Peter was alive, but he claimed he didn't know where he was. Meanwhile, Peter recovered from his shooting on a jungle island. When he was well, he paid Trent Davis to kidnap Jennifer Horton and they were to meet at the Grand Canyon. Unfortunately, Peter was bitten by a mosquito in the jungle and contacted Jungle Madness, a strange disease that slowly drives a person mad, yet also gives them incredible strength and fits of violence. Stefano contacted Peter and told him that he needed medication and told him to go to the island compound where Dr. Rolfe could give him some pills. Peter acquired the pills, but got into a fight with Dr. Rolfe, who wouldn't let Peter leave till he was cured. Peter lost the pills in a battle with Dr. Rolfe and he flew off in Rolfe's airplane.

 

Chloe Lane Horton (formerly Black) is a fictional character on the American NBC soap opera Days of our Lives. Chloe has been portrayed by Nadia Bjorlin from 1999 to 2005 with some breaks between appearances, and from 2007 to the present.

 

Introduction

In foster care for the early part of her life, Chloe discovers that Nancy Wesley is her biological mother. It is ultimately revealed that Nancy's husband Dr. Craig Wesley is Chloe's father, Nancy having given Chloe up for adoption without telling Craig. Chloe becomes romantically involved with Philip Kiriakis and later marries Brady Black.

 

Return

Chloe returned in November 2007 without Brady. She at first tried to forget about Brady by almost sleeping with old love Philip but they later become friends again while Chloe searched for Brady, which led to a few romantic moments. After finding where Brady was and getting divorced, Chloe decided to move on and started a friends with benefits deal with Philip.

Although Chloe and Philip have a deal with each other, it is clear that Chloe has become jealous of a new flame in his life, Morgan Hollingsworth. The distress over kisses and romances between Morgan and Phillip has allowed for Chloe to feel isolated and alone in Salem, as everyone is against each other. She turns to Philip's brother Lucas Roberts for support as he is currently going through problems with his ex-wife, Samantha. Chloe and Lucas "made love" in the elevator at her hotel. Sami is furious with Chloe for starting a relationship with Lucas and for "ditching" Brady. But Chloe has pointed out that Sami has never cared for Brady and that Sami is the one to blame for Chloe and Lucas's relationship for "playing Lucas and EJ like puppets".

With Sami currently hiding in the witness protection program, Lucas and Chloe's relationship has bloomed. Chloe has also made a temporary truce with Kate Roberts, who isn't fond of Chloe for allegedly "breaking Phillip's heart by being with Lucas", because of Kate's cancer. Chloe has even encouraged Kate because Chloe knows how hard it is. Recently, Dr. Daniel Jonas confided in Chloe that he always got too involved in his patients' recovery. He didn't want Kate to see his agitation. Chloe promised to keep his secret.

Chloe's ex-husband, Brady has returned to Salem. The two have made amends and found closure to their messy relationship.

On December 1, 2008, Lucas proposed to Chloe and she accepted. It was revealed on December 4, 2008 that Chloe was the only match for Kate, who needed a bone marrow transplant, despite the fact that Chloe herself had had one in the past. Kate, of course, was less than pleased, given the fact that all of her family and even Melanie had been tested. Chloe broke off the engagement with Lucas to be with Dr. Daniel Jonas. However, after Lucas almost died, Chloe decided to do the right thing and finish things with Daniel. They shared a goodbye kiss that was secretly witnessed by Kate. Now, Kate is ready to make Daniel and Chloe pay for their betrayal.

Chloe and Lucas got married on March 17, 2009.

 

CHOLE TELLS DANIEL THAT KATE HAS FOUND OUT ABOUT THEIR AFFAIR DANIEL SAYS THAT HE GLAD THAT IT HAS FINALLT COME OUT BUT THAT SHE NEEDS TO WATCH HER BACIK.
 

>Sami Brady is the daughter of Roman and Marlena Brady. She is the twin sister of Eric Brady. She is the half-sister of Carrie Brady, Isabella Brady, and D.J. Craig; the latter passed away before Sami's birth. Sami is also the mother of William Reed and the ex-wife of Austin Reed. Sami originally loved her sister Carrie and her mother Marlena very much. However, certain circumstances led Sami to turn her back against them, and evolve into manipulative vamp.

Samantha Gene Brady was born on October 19, 1984. She was named after Marlena's deceased sister, Samantha Evans, and Marlena's best friend, Eugene Bradford. A few months after her birth, she and her twin Eric were kidnapped by Stefano DiMera. He was exacting revenge on the Bradys for causing his own daughter Megan's death. He planned to raise Sami and Eric and turn them into DiMeras. Fortunately, Bo Brady prevented this. Sami and Eric grew up thinking that John Black was their father, Roman Brady. Their mother Marlena had died when they were still infants. In 1991, this changed when Marlena and the real Roman Brady resurfaced. Although apprehensive at first, Sami and Eric accepted their new father and welcomed their mother; however, they also liked their "uncle John". In 1992, when they were still no more than 9 years old, Sami and Eric were sent to their grandparents' home in Boulder, Colorado after their mother went missing.

>In January of 1993, someone skulked around Salem, watching the Bradys. When an intruder tried to get into the Brady home, Roman pulled out a gun and threatened to shoot; it was Sami. She had run away from her school in Colorado and come back to Salem. What was more surprising was that she was now 15 years old! When asked why she had returned, Sami explained that she'd become homesick. Marlena and Roman decided to let her stay. Soon after settling in Salem, Sami became infatuated with a piano player at Wings, Austin Reed. However, she was unaware that he was her sister Carrie's boyfriend. When she found out, she was mortified. Yet, she was determined to make him fall in love with her.

>At a Titan Publishing party in February, Sami discovered something that would tear her family apart. Straying away from the party at the Penthouse Grill, Sami went down to the Titan Offices and witnessed John and Marlena make love on the table in the conference room. She was upset with her mother, and feared for her father's feelings if he ever found out. A troubled Sami kept what she saw a secret. Although she began to lose respect for Marlena, she did not tell her that she saw her affair with John. But it would continue to haunt her, as Marlena found out two months later that she was pregnant. Desperate to tell someone her predicament, Sami confided in her best friend, Jamie Caldwell.

To forget about her troubles regarding her unborn sibling, Sami focused on making Austin fall in love with her. She tried to get close to him by asking him to give her piano lessons. Austin, being the nice guy that he was, agreed to it. Sami was disappointed when that scheme didn't lead anywhere. Her plans picked up steam when she met newcomer Lucas Roberts. Lucas desperately wanted Carrie's affections, and the two teamed together to break them up. Sami and Lucas pretended to be dating in order to make Austin and Carrie jealous. However, that plan also failed and they "stopped dating."

Meanwhile, Marlena and Roman had blood tests done on the unborn child. Sami became aware of this, and panicked. If that baby was John's, Roman would be devastated; Sami wanted to spare her father the pain. Since Sami was a candy-striper at University Hospital, she decided to find out for sure who the father was. She studied hematology texts, and even sought a doctor's advice on how to interpret blood samples. With this knowledge, Sami discovered that the baby was John's. She went ahead and altered the samples so that they would reveal Roman as the father.

At the same time, Sami and Lucas came up with the perfect plan to drive a wedge between Austin and Carrie. Carrie was somewhat disfigured at the time, as months earlier she had suffered burns on her face as a result of acid being thrown at her. The scars on her face caused Carrie to be very insecure about herself and her relationship with Austin; she feared Austin would stop loving her. She had driven Austin away, but Austin still believed that Carrie loved him. Lucas hired a Bella model, Brandee, to seduce Austin. Sami was very excited about this plan, despite Jamie's concerns. Curious to know how she kept such a fine figure, Sami and Jamie discovered that Brandee was bulimic. Shortly thereafter, Sami also began bingeing and purging thinking that Austin would love her if she had a better figure. Meanwhile, the Brandee plan worked. Carrie saw Austin and Brandee kissing. Carrie and Austin temporarily broke up, and Lucas was conveniently there to comfort Carrie. Meanwhile, Sami increased the quality time she spent with Austin.

By December, Sami began to feel the pangs of guilt. She hated what she and Lucas had done to Carrie. Meanwhile, their scheme unraveled by itself. Brandee was fired from Bella and sought revenge against Lucas, for he had promised her a lifetime job. She burst into the Brady Pub and told Carrie and Austin what she'd been hired to do and by whom. Sami backed up Brandee's story, and Lucas was made out to seem like the bad guy.

>Sami's bulimia continued to get worse. Even though she no longer was after Austin, she strove to get a perfect body. In addition to the constant vomiting, Sami also worked out constantly at The Titan Spa to the point of exhaustion. Soon after Marlena gave birth to baby Belle, Marlena noticed something was wrong with Sami. However, Sami would not tell Marlena; in addition, she became extremely hostile toward her mother. A short time after Belle was brought home from the hospital, the doctors asked to do another set of blood tests on her. Sami panicked. The night before the blood samples could be taken, Belle was kidnapped from her crib. Someone had climbed through the window using a ladder and taken her. Unbeknownst to everyone, Sami had kidnapped her own little sister.

>Sami kept Belle hidden in Jamie Caldwell's house; the Caldwells had an apartment above the garage they did not use. Meanwhile, Sami planned to get rid of Belle. She absolutely refused to let Roman be hurt by the truth of Belle's parentage. Posing as Nancy White, Sami met with a crooked lawyer named Steven Miller. He was a middleman in the black baby market. Sami went to him to sell Belle. After Steven found a couple who wanted to buy a child, Sami began to feel guilty. Yet, she decided to go through with it. The night she went Chez Vous to meet with Steven Miller and Belle's prospective parents, she was shocked to see John and Kristen there! They had posed as the couple to find Belle. Able to sneak out of the restaurant before she was found out, Sami quickly packed her things and went to the airport ready to board a plane to Florida. But, John and Kristen got to her before the plane could take off. After Roman was informed of his daughter's part in kidnapping Belle, he made her attend sessions with Dr. Matt Dorman, a psychiatrist at University Hospital.

 

>Once Belle was back at home, everything seemed to be normal. The doctors no longer wanted to give Belle a blood test, so there was no danger. But Sami was still angry at her mother. Marlena, who had caught on to Sami's bulimia, finally confronted her. Sami told her that she was there the night John and Marlena had slept together. She also told her that Belle was John's baby; that's why she'd kidnapped her. Marlena was devastated by this and tried to comfort Sami for having to deal with such trauma by herself. But Sami refused to have anything to do with her. Marlena pleaded with Sami not to tell Roman and she agreed; but not because she'd asked her to, but because she did not want to hurt her father.

The day of Belle's Christening, all hell broke loose. In front of the entire congregation, Marlena tearfully confessed that she'd had an affair with John. Later, Stefano DiMera came to the Brady home. He showed a disbelieving Roman photocopies of Sami's diary pages, in which she wrote about John being the real father of Belle (Stefano had stolen her diary from her locker at the hospital after overhearing a conversation between Jamie and Sami.) Roman asked Sami if what the diary said was true and she nervously admitted it. Marlena then left the house, to Sami's joy.

>During this time, Alan Harris, who had briefly dated Carrie, surprised Sami by asking her out. She eagerly accepted. "I can't believe it! A guy just asked me out...a CUTE college guy," she said to herself. She was not aware that Alan had tried to rape her sister Carrie just a few days prior. Her dreams were dashed when Marlena refused to allow her to see Alan. Alan was 21, and Sami only 15; although Roman was angry with Marlena, he agreed that he was much too old for her. She secretly continued to see Alan over the next three months. He would take her to frat parties and get her drunk. Sami didn't know that Alan was bad news.

On May 29, the inevitable happened. Alan asked Sami to come to his apartment and cook him dinner, which she gladly did. After dinner, Alan took out his camera and asked Sami to let him take sexy pictures of her. At first, she agreed and innocently played along. But when he asked her to take off her clothes, she refused to. Alan then pinned her to the couch and raped her. As an upset Sami was leaving his apartment, he taunted her saying she liked it. Sami was ashamed and disgusted with herself and sought Jamie's help. She advised her to press charges, but Sami couldn't do it. She did, however, get tested for a pregnancy and AIDS; they both came back negative.

Sami tried to get Alan to turn himself in, but he refused. She eventually told Lucas, Carrie, and Austin about the rape. They told her that it was much too late to press charges against Alan because they had no evidence. Carrie decided to wear a wire and extract a confession from Alan. Carrie soon became missing. Although the police checked out Alan's apartment, Carrie was nowhere to be found. Sami figured out that Carrie was at his apartment and went to rescue her. The botched up rescue attempt resulted in both Brady girls being tied to a chair by Alan. He planned to leave Salem with them. Sami tried to seduce Alan in order to escape, but she only succeeded in making Alan angrier. He'd had enough of her and grabbed a knife, ready to kill her. Fortunately, Austin and Lucas burst into the apartment and saved the day.

Although Sami didn't want to, Pat Hamilton, Carrie, and Marlena convinced her to press rape charges against Alan along with kidnapping. However, there was no evidence that Alan had raped Sami; she had not gone to the hospital or the police immediately after the rape. Pat Hamilton, who confessed that she had been a rape victim once, warned Sami that it would be a tough battle. Yet, Carrie and Lucas discovered that Alan had raped another girl, Elaine Parker, while attending Fairfield Military Academy. Carrie found Elaine, now married and going by the name Elaine Parker-Marshall, and begged her to testify at Sami's rape hearing. But at the hearing, Elaine said that when she had dated Alan he'd been "a perfect gentleman" (Alan had made threats against Elaine, whose husband was a minister.) The case was dismissed, and Sami became angry at Carrie for giving her the false hope of victory. However, Carrie continued to encourage Sami and said that Alan wouldn't be able to weasel his way out of the kidnapping charges.

Unfortunately, he did. At the kidnapping hearing, Alan's lawyer badgered Carrie to the point that she made Sami sound like a liar. A mistrial was declared as a result of a dead-locked jury. Furthermore, the tabloid The Intruder published all the details about the hearing and called Sami a liar, humiliating her. All her friends at school stayed away from her, and no guys would ask her out; they teased her saying that she might accuse them of rape. Sami blamed Carrie for all of this and slapped her. She also blamed Marlena, who had begun to rebuild their relationship together. She was determined to get revenge on both of them.

Things got a little better for Sami and Marlena after Sami's 17th birthday. Marlena gave her a diamond pendant she'd always admired since childhood. Sami was touched. However, Sami sought revenge against Carrie. She devoted herself to win Austin away from her once again. She was jealous that Carrie had him to comfort her, while Sami had no one (yeah, right.) In the beginning, Sami asked for Lucas' help in her mission but he wanted no part in it. Thus, Sami worked alone, using her rape as bait. She continuously begged Austin to spend time with her because she was scared of Alan. Nicely enough, Austin was there for Sami every time he wanted to spend time with Carrie. Lucas saw how this was working and decided to join forces with Sami.

On one particular occasion, Lucas lured Carrie to lunch with him. At the Shawn & Caroline's house, where Sami was staying, Sami told Jamie to go out for pizza. Sami proceeded to wear black clothes and a ski mask, knowing that Jamie would see her from the street. Jamie called Austin, and when he arrived to rescue Sami from her attacker, she sat in a corner with her shirt torn and looking rather upset. This plan worked, and Austin began to spend more time with Sami. Meanwhile, Lucas called it quits with Sami. He couldn't believe the disgusting lengths she'd go to to break up Austin and Carrie.

>For a few months, Sami's plan worked. Every time Austin and Carrie would try to spend time together, Sami would call Austin acting upset. Carrie began to suspect Sami of crying wolf, and so did Alan. Her plan would come back to haunt her. In mid-January 1995, Sami called Austin from the docks wanting him to come see her. But Carrie answered the phone and never gave Austin the message (he was out buying wine for a romantic dinner with Carrie). Instead, Alan showed up at the pier brandishing a gun, with the intention of raping Sami once again. He knew that Austin wouldn't show, and he knew that Sami had been crying wolf. Nevertheless, Sami was not about to let herself be raped again and successfully pried the gun away from Alan. As she pointed it at him, he continued to move towards her, convinced that she didn't have the guts to pull the trigger. Too bad for Alan. Sami, cornered at the end of the pier, shot Alan in the groin! Although this seemed like a heroic way to fight back, Sami was crucified by The Intruder, which published the headline "Sami Brady Bobbittizes Alan Harris!" However, Alan got the last laugh. Before leaving Salem, he told Carrie that Sami had been crying wolf the entire time.

Carrie confronted Sami with this, but she denied it. Angry, Carrie slapped her! Unfortunately for Carrie, Austin walked into the room as she slapped Sami and became furious at her. Later, Austin broke up with her. Sami was delighted. Sami tried to seduce Austin by wearing a negligée, but Austin blew her off. Depressed, Sami went to the Cheatin' Heart. There, she was harassed by some drunks but was saved by Lucas, who had also gone there to drown his sorrows. Together, they went back to the Countess Wilhelmina offices and slept together. While they were having sex, Austin peeked in and saw Carrie's shirt on a chair (Sami had been wearing it), and wrongly deduced that Carrie and Lucas were sleeping together. When Lucas told Sami that Austin saw them, Sami was overjoyed. Lucas wanted to tell Austin the truth, but Sami threatened to press charges of statutory rape against him if he did.

Sami was determined to get Austin into bed with her. While helping rebuild St. Luke's Church (which had been burned down), Sami had an interesting conversation with a nurse from University Hospital, Lynn Burke. Although Lynn mostly spoke of her dislike for Jonah Carver and Wendy Reardon, she also mentioned a friend of hers who had used the drug Validan to get a man to make love with her without remembering the next morning. This piqued Sami's interest, so she stole Lynn's key to the Pharmaceuticals room in the hospital and took a bottle of Validan. While Austin was out one night at the Cheatin' Heart with Jonah, Sami slipped the drug into Austin's beer. Then she waited for him at his apartment wearing a negligee and Carrie's perfume. A very out-of-it Austin arrived home and made love to Sami thinking that she was Carrie. Austin reacted with disgust the next morning and apologized to Sami, who had obviously enjoyed it. Sami told Austin that he had professed his love for her, but he said that wasn't true. He asked her to keep this a secret from Carrie.

>After this incident, Sami decided to seek advice from her ill mother. Marlena was in the hospital fighting a case of anemia. Of course, she was really by the devil. So it came as no surprise when MarDevil goaded Sami into trying to sleep Austin again. Sami followed her mother's advice, and Austin rejected her. He said that he only liked her as a friend. Mortified, Sami decided to run away. After informing Jamie of her plans, Sami caught a train bound to Los Angeles.

>Three months passed with no sign of Sami. She was living on the streets of Seattle, Washington with a friend named Ashley. Sami attempted to return to Salem, but when she arrived she saw Austin and Carrie kissing. Convinced that she had no life in Salem, she went back to Seattle. There, she discovered that private investigator was following her, and that Lucas had hired him. She decided leave Seattle by stealing a car, but she crashed it and went to the hospital. At the hospital, the doctors discovered something that Sami apparently pretty happy to hear. While recuperating, the owner of the car decided to press charges and Sami was arrested. With Ashley's help, Sami tried to escape the hospital inside a food cart, but was caught and sent to jail. There, she was informed that John Penetta, the owner of the vehicle, had decided to drop charges and that her bail had been paid. Sami and Ashley met her mystery benefactor when this person invited them to a scrumptious dinner at the finest hotel in Seattle. It was Vivian Alamain. For some reason, she had arranged for Sami to return to Salem in the morning. Devious Sami didn't want to wait and got her ticket changed for that very night, to Vivian's chagrin. After an emotional good-bye to Ashley, Sami flew home. She arrived just in time to witness Carrie's bachelorette party through a window. Jamie saw her and spoke with her, telling her that her entire family had been worried about her. Sami, however, decided not to make her appearance just yet; she wanted to ruin Carrie and Austin's wedding.

 

>The next day, Sami watched the ceremony from the vestibule of the Church waiting for the right moment. Unfortunately for her, Mickey Horton found her and announced to everyone that she was home. Carrie was so happy to have her sister back that she asked her to be the maid of honor. Before that could happen, Sami "fainted". When she came to, she began to frantically ask about her baby. In a separate room in the church, Sami confessed to Carrie and Marlena that she and Austin had slept together and now she was carrying his child. The wedding was off, and Sami's mission was complete.

Sami tried to get Austin interested in her through her baby, unsuccessfully. So she manipulated Jamie into telling Austin that she was going to have an abortion. Sami went to the abortion clinic not really intending to get rid of the child. But the doctors there gave her some powerful drugs that knocked her out, so Sami was not awake to stop the abortion from taking place. Fortunately, Austin came rushing in and stopped the procedure.

At this time, nurse Lynn became a problem. Lynn had decided to find out who was the "slut" who had ruined Carrie's life. Afraid that Lynn would remember their conversation about Validan, Sami had Lucas hire Lynn to do a promotional shoot for medical utilities, and quickly sent her away to Chicago. With this threat out of the way, Sami focused on spending time with Austin. Her plans were almost ruined at "A Night of Magic", an event held at the Penthouse Grill. One of the persons in attendance was John Penetta. Sami convinced him to pretend not to know her. However, she heard him speak of a Sister Mary Vivian who looked exactly like Vivian Alamain. Sami figured out that Vivian hadn't just helped her in Seattle out of the goodness of her heart and blackmailed her into getting her a job at Titan. She used this job to keep an eye on Carrie and Austin. Sami and Lucas successfully kept the couple apart, for a while anyway.

>Vivian got sick of being blackmailed by a little girl, and decided to ruin things for her. She arranged for Carrie and Austin to go to a conference at their special place, the Green Mountain Ski Lodge. Desperate to keep Austin and Carrie from making love, Sami stole Lucas' BMW and raced to the lodge. But the weather was bad and Sami wasn't a very good driver, so she crashed. She was unharmed. The incident did nothing to break up Carrie and Austin. Sami was alone. One night, Sami became very melancholy. She returned to the old Brady home to seek comfort without telling anyone. She hoped Austin would become worried and come looking for her. In her old bedroom, Sami went into labor. However, she had no phone. Luckily, Austin and Carrie found her in time to call an ambulance. At the hospital, Sami suffered complications and had to have a caesarian. She gave birth to a boy, who was eventually named William Robert Reed after Austin's sister Billie and his late mother, Kate Roberts. Soon after his birth, Will was discovered to have a heart irregularity and was kept in an incubator for a week. Soon, both mother and child were fine and returned home.

She convinced Austin to let her stay with him because her grandfather Shawn had the chicken pox, which would be harmful to Will. But still, Austin made time for Carrie. Sami used New Year's Eve as an opportunity to break up their relationship once and for all. She knew that Lucas was drunk and passed out in Carrie's apartment, so Sami slipped a tab of Validan into Carrie's champagne. After Carrie passed out, Sami placed her in bed with Lucas. They thought they'd slept together. After Austin found out about Carrie's infidelity, they completely broke up. Carrie began dating Lucas once again, and Sami was on her way to scheming her way into Austin's life.

Sami convinced Austin to let her move in with him. Now that he and Carrie had broken up, and Jonah was living with Wendy in a separate apartment, Austin had enough room for both Sami and their son. In January, Austin was shocked to find out that his mother, Kate Roberts, had not died at all. Kate had been living aboard a Spanish freighter and had made her way back to Salem. Austin and Sami presented Kate with her grandson, and Kate reluctantly welcomed Sami into the family. In reality, Kate felt that Austin could only love Carrie and tried to bring them closer together by making them work together. Sami knew what Kate was up to and resented her for this. In turn, Kate discovered that there was a connection between Sami and Vivian and began to spy on her. Indeed, there was something going on between the two. Vivian was blackmailing Sami into posting her bail (Vivian had been arrested for Kate's attempted murder.) However, Sami didn't have to do this since Kate went ahead and bailed Vivian out. Soon after, Kate arranged for Vivian and Sami to be alone together and overheard them talking about the way they had broken up Austin and Carrie. Kate confronted them and told them that she'd tell Austin & Carrie about their devious plans. But when the time came, Sami and Vivian covered up their prior connection with numerous lies that both Austin and Carrie bought. Austin apologized to Sami for the way Kate had treated her and promised to provide her with a good life. Sami lived a delusional life with Austin. She felt that Will was the bond that would bring them together. This wouldn't last, however.

>In May, a series of events began Sami's downfall. First, Kate began hounding Jamie, knowing that Jamie knew the truth about Sami. Kate had actually convinced Jamie to tell the truth, but Sami and Lucas convinced her to keep her mouth shut. Though she thought she was in the clear, Sami was now in a bigger mess. Nurse Lynn Burke returned to Salem to tell Austin everything. While in Chicago, Lynn had figured out that Sami had drugged Austin with Validan. She only returned now because she was out of a job; Kate had terminated the job Lynn had been doing in Chicago. Sami and Lucas struggled to keep Lynn quiet and gave her $10,000 to do so. Lynn was happy with her money...for a day. She quickly spent the dough at Salem Place in clothes and jewelry, and continued to blackmail Sami & Lucas. Lucas promised Lynn more money as soon as he turned 21 in July and was able to access his trust fund. Lynn thought that was too long to wait and decided to tell Kate all about Sami's actions. She figured that Kate would pay her nicely for her information. However, Kate lost her fortune right before Lynn told her (Victor had had a stroke and Vivian was still Mrs. Kiriakis), so there was nothing Lynn could get and stayed quiet. Sami & Lucas breathed easier for about two seconds, because soon Kate recovered her fortune! Sami and Lucas schemed to keep Lynn away from Kate by posting police guards outside of Victor's hospital room, where Kate was devoted to stay. Lynn outsmarted them by becoming Victor's personal nurse! One fateful evening, Sami was blown out of the water. Lucas, Kate, Austin, Carrie, and Sami assembled in the Kiriakis living room, where Kate exposed Sami's lies. This time, she had proof. Lynn entered the room and announced the way that Sami had drugged Austin with Validan. When Sami tried to disprove Lynn, a guilty Jamie entered the room. She backed up Lynn's story. There was no way that Austin and Carrie could disbelieve the angelic Jamie. Austin viciously told Sami to move out and to leave Carrie and him alone!

>Sami defiantly held her head up high and moved out of Austin's apartment. Rather than return to her grandparents' house or live with Marlena, Sami got her own apartment in a seedy building. Austin and pretty much everyone else in Salem protested her move into such a bad neighborhood, but this is exactly what Sami wanted. She hoped that by putting herself and Will in a dangerous situation Austin would want her back (sound familiar?) She staged various mishaps in her run-down apartment, and Austin cluelessly went to her rescue. Austin remarked several times that this place wasn't safe, and extremely disliked Sami's neighbor, Mary Brook. She was an eccentric kook who lived with dozens of cats and showed special interest in Will. Sami stressed that Mary was her friend and a loving woman. Sami should've listened to Austin, because Mary soon kidnapped baby Will.

>Austin, Carrie, and Sami were able to track Mary and Will to Paris, France. After a series of dead-ends, they discovered that Mary had taken Will to a hotel on the coast of Brittany. When they got there, Mary avoided being spotted even though her room was right next to Carrie & Austin's. When they finally found Mary, it was too late: she had already sold Will to a French couple. After a tiresome search, the couple, Gerard and Michelle Bernard, gave Will back to the authorities. Despite this, all was not well. The French government refused to give Will back to a single mother! For Will's sake, Austin agreed to marry Sami in order to let the French think that Will would have a loving home environment stabilized by two parents. Sami was overjoyed at this but pretended to be doing it only for Will. They were married in Carrie and Austin's hotel room using Abe & Lexie's wedding bands. The entire event was captured on video to show Judge DeBont that it was real. Despite the videotaped wedding, Judge DeBont ordered two social service agents, Simone Berte and Claude Beauchamp, to keep an eye on Sami and Austin to make sure they'd married for love. In the meantime, Sami and Austin could not leave France with Will. Another judge, Judge DuBois, considered making the couple live in France for six months to make sure they loved each other. Although Sami was willing to make that "sacrifice," the judge ultimately chose to let Sami and Austin return to America.

 

>As soon as they returned to Salem, Austin filed for divorce just as Sami was afraid he would. She tried to hang on to Austin by seducing him at the Green Mountain Ski Lodge one weekend. But when Carrie walked into the room and saw Sami trying to seduce Austin, she hit her! Sami had Carrie arrested for assault and eventually attained a restraining order against Carrie which forced Carrie to stay at least 100 feet away from Sami and Will. Sami engineered all sorts of silly situations to have Austin be with Will, and thus unable to be with Carrie (because of the restraining order.) Then, Sami tried to move into the Kiriakis mansion with Vivian's help. Unfortunately, their plans failed. Soon, Kate began legal proceedings to have Vivian kicked out of the house, and custody of Will given to Austin. Desperate, Sami decided to blackmail Kate. She went to Kate's bedroom and rummaged through her things until she finally found something valuable inside the closet. In a white envelope, Sami discovered scandalous information that would make Kate a very hated woman. With this information, Sami convinced Kate to let her stay at the mansion and give her a job at Titan.

>For months, Sami thought of ridiculous ways to use her position at Titan and at the mansion to break up Austin and Carrie, to no avail. On New Year's Eve, Sami discovered that Austin and Carrie were going away on a romantic getaway and decided to crash it by stealing Austin's car and going to their hotel. Instead of crashing the getaway, she crashed the car. When Austin went to the impound lot to pick up his car, Sami warned him that something had been wrong with the car and that's why she'd crashed. Austin refused to listen and began to drive away. However, the car unexpectedly went into reverse and backed into Sami. Sami ended being hit against a wall and fell into a coma. For an unbelievably long time, Sami did not recover. People rallied to her side to bring her out. When she finally woke up, she had amnesia. She believed that she was 16 years old. She began to remember the past four years of her life when she saw her son Will. She also remembered her wedding to Austin and believed they were happily married. In the end, Sami was released from the hospital. She had paralysis in her legs, but the doctors believed it to be temporary. At this time, Sami was also heartbroken over the fact that her father Roman died while on a mission for the ISA. Meanwhile, Sami moved in with Austin. Unbeknownst to her, Austin was only playing the faithful husband for fear that the truth would shock Sami back into a coma. But speaking of shocks, that's exactly what cured Sami of her amnesia. While ironing, the faulty iron electrocuted Sami and she regained her memory and use of her legs.

>However, she kept this miracle a secret. Only Lucas recognized that Sami was back to normal. He convinced her to keep quiet and feign amnesia so that they could break up Carrie and Austin once and for all. This time, the plan was to make Austin believe that Carrie was interested in Mike Horton because the two had been rather chummy as of late. Meanwhile, Kate discovered that Sami was faking her amnesia and threatened to tell. Sami, however, once again held the blackmail material over Kate's head. The envelope, which Kate had been unable to find while Sami had been in a coma, had been hidden inside of Sami's childhood doll, Molyanna. Sami once again used the blackmail information to slither her way into the Kiriakis mansion. While arguing with Kate one day, a photo fell from the blackmail envelope onto the floor. Victor, who was in a wheelchair, saw the photo and immediately had a stroke which left him comatose. The photo had been of Kate - she had been a prostitute sometime in her past.

Nevertheless, Sami kept quiet about Kate's past in order to continue to blackmail her. Things were going fine, also, with the plan to make Austin believe Carrie and Mike were falling in love. But Sami received a horrifying shock one day when she discovered a mistake in Will's medical records. Upon further investigation, she realized that Will was not Austin's son...he was Lucas'! Sami tried to alter Will's medical file in order to cover up this information but was unable to do so. However, no one suspected the truth. Meanwhile, Roman turned up in Salem - he wasn't dead at all! However, he was dying of a synthetic virus he'd been infected with on a mission in the Middle East. Sami convinced her father that she and Austin were very much in love and engaged to be married; she also told him that Carrie and Mike were gushing with romance. Since Roman's condition was so delicate, no one could risk shocking Roman with the truth, so everyone played along with Sami's lie. By now, Austin was the only one who still believed Sami had amnesia; everyone else suspected otherwise. Even Eric, recently returned from Colorado, sensed that Sami was lying about one thing and covering up something else. At this time, Kate tried to tell Austin everything about Sami, but she pulled out another trump card from the blackmail envelope: proof that Kate had brought Franco Kelly to Salem to break up Bo and Hope Brady. Kate remained quiet for fear Austin and Billie would hate her as a result of her machinations.

>Sami and Lucas' plan finally worked. Austin, believing that Carrie and Mike were in love, decided to propose to Sami and have a family. Sami joyously accepted and began wedding preparations. However, the wedding was halted by Carrie. She and Eric had discovered that Lucas was Will's father, not Austin, and that Sami had recently tried to cover it up...proving that she'd faked the amnesia. In front of the entire church, Carrie punched Sami and Sami was kicked out. Later that day, Carrie and Austin tied the knot in a shotgun wedding with all the trimmings, while Sami stood outside a window and tearfully watched the entire event.

Still, Sami hoped to get Austin back and decided to sabotage the honeymoon. After getting a job as Mike's personal assistant, Sami discovered that the honeymoon was in Rome. Knowing that there was a medical conference in Rome, Sami made arrangements for Mike to go; secretly, she also booked a flight and a room for herself. Once in Rome, Sami skulked in the background disguised as a nun. At one point, Franco, who was also in Rome on a photo shoot, ran into Sami and recognized her. To keep him from telling anyone about her presence, Sami threatened to tell Bo and Hope that Kate had hired him to break them up. Holding that over his head, Sami also forced Franco to help her sabotage Mike's relationship with fellow doctor Debra Thomas so that he wouldn't forget his feelings for Carrie.

>Once back in Salem, Sami began trying to make Austin jealous using Franco. In the process, however, Sami slowly began falling for him. Although she still wanted revenge against Carrie, Sami started to forget about her original plan and started spending a lot of time with Franco. While working on a publicity campaign for Bella Magazine called "New Faces", she fell in love with him and they wound up sleeping together. Meanwhile, Sami used Eric as her photographer and launched a friend of his, Nicole Walker, as the star model of the campaign.

Lucas, who knew that Sami was blackmailing his mother but didn't know with what information, became more embittered toward her. To get him out of the way, Sami tried to convince everyone that Lucas was an alcoholic and an unfit father. Thus began a battle between them in which one tried to destroy the other...but neither succeeded. Meanwhile, Franco proposed marriage to Sami and she accepted. While he wanted a quick marriage, she wanted a large vent. Sami was oblivious to the fact that Franco, who had been seducing her all of these months, merely wanted to marry her to obtain a green card.

By this point, Lucas' drinking problem had become a reality. One day, Sami witnessed Lucas accidentally drop Will while playing with him. Claiming that Lucas was drunk, Sami took Will to the hospital and claimed that Lucas had hit Will. After filing child abuse charges against Lucas, Sami sought full custody of the child. Although the abuse charges were eventually dropped, Sami did receive full custody. Sami used this entire matter in order to split up Carrie and Austin, and it worked. While Austin firmly believed in Sami, Carrie maintained that Sami had lied about Lucas.

Sami is engaged to Lucas Roberts in 2004 and they plan to marry. Not wanting Sami and Lucas to be together, Kate drugs Sami (and with the help of Eugenia) puts her in bed with Brandon. Lucas walks in and assumes the worst. The engagement is called off, and Sami dresses like a man named "Stan" to prove her innocence unnoticed.[] In the process, Sami/Stan manages to do several misdeeds and unknowingly works for Brady family enemy, Tony DiMera Eventually, she is able to prove that Kate had been lying, and Lucas proposes to her again. At their wedding, Kate exposes Sami's actions as Stan, and Sami is once again alone. Austin gives her a shoulder to cry on, and Sami believes that she is falling in love with Austin again. However, she also knows that Carrie is his true love, and she herself still pined for Lucas. Eventually, Carrie reappears as an executive in charge of her own company, HighStyle. Austin intended to buy the company out, unaware that Carrie is running it. Sami, working for Austin at the time, manipulates circumstances to ensure that Austin does not find out Carrie in charge of the company until after the buyout. Lucas, Austin's business rival, has a romantic interest in Carrie and also intends to buy out the company, but backs off after learning Carrie is in charge. He deliberately does not warn Austin about Carrie, knowing that when Austin takes over the company, Carrie will hate him. Carrie is later admitted to the hospital, and Sami blackmails Dr. Lexie Carver. Sami threatens to tell Lexie's husband Abe about Lexie's affair with Tek Kramer if the doctor does not come up with a way to keep Carrie and Austin apart for good. Lexie soon tells Carrie that any child that she and Austin conceived would have congenital defects, driving Carrie to pick Lucas over Austin.

 

2006

Sami was eventually with Austin and shortly after he popped the question to her, she and Austin received a new neighbor, an English race car driver named EJ Wells, who was immediately smitten with Sami. They soon developed a close friendship and a guilty Sami confided in EJ regarding her secret, after receiving several notes and calls from a mysterious gloved hand. She received one the day she was to marry Austin, but called it off to avoid humiliation. EJ comforted her and they kissed for the first time. The next day, Will did not show up for school and due to a phone call presumably from 'the gloved hand', Sami feared that he was kidnapped, so she told Lucas, Austin and Carrie about the notes she received (but not the reasoning behind it). Sami and Lucas went on TV, courtesy of Mythic Communications, to plea to the child abductor to return Will to safety. However, Will came home and revealed that he actually ran away from home to avoid embarrassment at school after Sami's latest wedding disaster. Realizing that Will needed a stable environment, Lucas and Will moved in with Sami (while Will was gone, Lucas discovered that Carrie was cheating on him with Austin and the two were separated).

Soon enough, the infamous gloved hand slid another note under Sami's door and despite her efforts to keep it to herself, Lucas picked it up and discovered the truth about Sami's blackmail. She and Carrie got into a fight and Carrie swore to tell everyone about this sick deed. Lucas and Will moved out again and her entire family abandoned her. She found comfort once again with EJ.

Unknown to Sami, EJ came to Salem to bring grief to the "good people of Salem" (especially the Bradys). In his conversations with Kate, it was revealed that he was simply trying to seduce Sami on Kate's behalf, to keep her away from Kate's sons, Lucas and Austin. However, EJ told Kate that he wanted Sami to conceive his child because he is very concerned with lineage and believes that Sami is the perfect woman to continue his family line. It is eventually revealed to viewers that EJ is in fact Elvis Aron Banks and is presumably behind the gloved hand crimes.

Sami and EJ have a couple of dates but at the same time Lucas is making moves toward a reconciliation. After Sami found out that EJ was sleeping with Kate, she broke off any involvement with him. But Sami was forced to act like she was interested in EJ again on her uncle Bo's request because the police were conducting a search on EJ's apartment. EJ reasonably believed that she wanted to continue their relationship but Sami wanted to try things out with Lucas again.

By this point, it had long ago become clear to all but Sami and Lucas themselves, and a few parties such as Kate, who could not stand Sami, and EJ, who wanted Sami for himself that Sami and Lucas were perfect for each other. Of course, things seldom run smoothly for a couple or a potential couple in a soap opera, and Sami's romances tend to run over even more bumps in the road than the usual soap opera romances. Nevertheless, the fact that the two share a child together was a major factor always tying them together. Sami and Lucas rekindled their love in spite of Kate and began working to rebuild it.

Sami and Lucas decided to go away on a romantic trip. After their car broke down they went to an abandoned cabin. The two made love for the first time in over a year. Soon after they were talking about their future when the roof caved in and trapped Lucas in the rubble. Sami tried desperately to help him, but she could not lift the beam. She decided to go find help. Unfortunately Sami found help, EJ Wells was on the run after having shot Sami's stepfather John Black. EJ held a gun to Sami and told her she had to get him past the police. EJ was upset with Sami for luring him into the trap set by John Black and the police. After Sami got EJ past the police, she begged him to help her with Lucas. EJ told Sami that the only way he would help her was if she slept with him.

EJ informed Sami that his father Stefano had instructed him to plant the Dimera seed in a Brady woman. Sami was disgusted by EJ's request, immediately calling it rape, and cursed him. In the end Sami realized that she had no choice but to agree to EJ's physical coercion. Because Lucas's life was at risk, Sami had no choice but to allow EJ force himself on her. EJ frequently refers to it as their night of love. But Sami refers to it as rape.

After the incident, EJ taunted Sami and told her she was incredible and that he would remember her always. He said that he might have to tell Lucas about their little tryst. Sami viciously slapped EJ and told him to never speak of this again, saying she would find a way to live with what he did to her. After threats were exchanged, EJ finally accompanied Sami to the cabin and saved Lucas' life. He then forced a kiss on Sami, threatened her again, and then left.

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2007

On January 23, 2007, Sami told Lucas that she was pregnant, leaving out the fact that he might not be the father.

Sami and Lucas finally took their marriage vows on May 9, 2007. Part of Sami's secret came out when EJ arranged for a picture of himself and Sami speeding in Lexie's car the night John was shot and when EJ forced Sami to have sex with him to be displayed in the middle of Lucas and Sami's wedding reception. Lucas stood by Sami, and after returning to their apartment Sami admitted the truth to Lucas about the rape and that the baby may not be his. Lucas blamed himself for Sami not trusting him enough to tell him what had happened to her and tearfully apologized. He tells Sami he will stand by her and the baby regardless of paternity and the two make love, consummating their marriage. Later, EJ tells Lucas of Sami drugging Lucas and then attempting to kill him (EJ) in the cabin fire and, though Lucas is upset about the drugging, once again stands by Sami.

While on honeymoon, in New Orleans, Sami realized that the house she and Lucas had been repairing, is Maison Blanche, which belongs to the DiMeras.

Celeste performed a voodoo ritual and declares that E.J is the father of Sami's baby. Tony DiMera and EJ are now attempting to steal the unborn child's stem cells, in order to save Stefano DiMera, but it appears that EJ may have a change of heart.

It was recently revealed that Sami looks exactly like her great-aunt Colleen Brady, who had a love affair with Stefano DiMera's father Santo DiMera. Santo looked exactly like his grandson, EJ Wells. Stefano agreed to end the Dimera feud with the Brady family if Sami and EJ wed (claiming the fact that Sami is already married is "of no consequence" to him) but Sami adamantly refused.

On June 25, 2007, during an amnio test to establish paternity of her child, Sami discovered she was having twins. Nick Fallon is supposed to run the DNA test on the amniotic fluid from the test but Kate blackmails him into telling Sami the twin's are EJ's. At the time, Nick does not run a test; he gives Marlena a fake report to give to Sami while Kate goes to EJ to tell him he is the father.

Because of the truth, Sami is kidnapped by Stefano DiMera to get Sami's babies' stem cells. As Stefano and his doctor are about to carry out the procedure on Stefano's private jet, Stefano's henchman Bart comes in to tell them to stop. According to a medical chart he declares that EJ is not the father and the stem cells are therefore not a match for Stefano. Upon review of the chart, Stefano's doctor, Dr. Rolf, confirms that "there is another father." Stefano leaves Sami in a motel somewhere in Salem after the revelation.

On July 31, 2007, Nick reveals he had a second test done and that EJ is not the father of Sami's babies; Lucas is. Nick tells Lucas and Sami that he rushed the first test and that's why it was in error. He apologizes, never admitting Kate blackmailed him or that he did not run the original test. Lucas and Sami are excited and Sami kicks EJ out of their apartment.

EJ did not walk out of Sami's life however and continued meeting her claiming that he wanted to end the Brady/DiMera feud so tha their families could be safe. When Stefano arranges for Kate to meet Andre and collect a folio that would end the feud, Sami and Lucas went in her place and tried to steal the folio from Andre. However, their ploy failed and Andre beat up Lucas and locked Sami and EJ in a steam room before turning up the heat.

EJ attempted to hot wire the fan in the steam room to keep them cool while waiting for help but was electrecuted instead. Sami tried to revive him by giving him rescue breaths. EJ suddenly kissed her which she returned before pulling away. She wondered out loud that she must be oxygen-deprived. Lucas frees them and they were sent to the hospital. EJ visits Sami and suggested they read Santo-Colleen's love letters which informed them about Santo's and Colleen's tryst.

In mid-October 2007, even though she insists she loves Lucas, Sami asked Lucas for a divorce so that she could marry EJ and end the feud between the Bradys and the Dimera. Helping convince Sami that marrying EJ was the right thing to do was Andre DiMera's multiple attempts to kill Sami and EJ. The final decision was made when Sami's step father, John Black was killed in a hit and run accident. While John was dying, Sami forced Lucas to sign annulment papers.

While Sami and Lucas were in Santo Domingo to get a "quicky" divorce, EJ faxed the results of a new paternity test to their hotel room. It revealed that the twins Sami was carrying have different fathers--the girl is Lucas' daughter, while the boy is EJ's son. Sami tucked the fax in her bathrobe pocket to hide it, but Lucas noticed it sticking out when she fell asleep. This knowledge, and the fact that Sami kept it from Lucas, drives them further apart.

With Lucas by her side, on October 23, 2007, Sami finally gave birth to the twins, a boy and a girl, delivered by their grandma Marlena. While there was a complication with the girl during the delivery, the cord wrapped around her neck, Marlena was able to successfully deliver her with no further complications. While the family celebrated, EJ and Kate arrived interrupting the happy day. While they had originally planned to name the boy Roman Thomas Roberts, they changed their plan and decided to name the boy after the presumed dead John Black as a tribute, he was given the name of John Roman Roberts. His name was later changed to John Roman DiMera after Sami and EJ were married. The girl was given the name of both her great-grandmothers Alice Horton and Caroline Brady and her full name is Alice Caroline Horton. Lucas plans to call her Alli.

After a trip to Santo Domingo for a "quicky" divorce, on November 9, 2007, Sami and EJ were married in a ceremony attended only by the bride, the groom, and the groom's father Stefano, along with multiple unknown guest with guns. Immediately after being pronounced husband and wife, three shots rang out, one fired by Kate one by Lucas and the last was by Marlena, one of which struck EJ in his lower back, lodging in his spine. EJ was rushed to the hospital where emergency surgery was performed. The doctors were unable to remove the bullet leaving EJ paralyzed from the waist down. Sami witnesses EJ cry in Stefano's arms when he discovers he is paralyzed. Sami has been by his side to help him have the will to live while still living with Lucas and the twins. On December 3, EJ was released from the hospital and took custody of Johnny. Sami faces new decisions with EJ home from the hospital. Her decision is made for her when Lucas is sent to prison for attempted murder of EJ.

 

2008

Meanwhile to escape the DiMera war EJ and Sami moved into a safe house where they remained until Stefano fell into a coma.

Sami and EJ are still married, but were going to get a divorce when EJ discovered he was about to be deported, because of some visa problems. They have moved in together with the to prove to the immigrations officer that they are a loving family. EJ also has a law degree and has joined Mickey Horton's firm. He has taken on his first case, which he is defending no other than Nicole Walker Kiriakis, which Sami cannot stand.

On May 15, 2008, EJ and Sami have their first real conversation about the night that Johnny was conceived. Sami finally decides to put the past behind them and have a clean slate. EJ is worried about her change of heart and calls her out on it. Sami then tells him about the time she "forced" herself onto Austin, and how he eventually forgave her. Then on Tuesday May 20, 2008 EJ and Sami finally gave in and made love for the first time. Lucas walks in on her and EJ, after getting out of jail to switch to house arrest. EJ, Lucas and Sami are all stuck together under one roof. Most recently, EJ has moved on with Sami's arch-nemesis, Nicole Walker and Lucas is starting a relationship with Chloe Lane, whom Sami is upset with for allegedly neglecting Brady.

Sami learns that she is pregnant with her second baby with ex-husband EJ Wells while he learns that Nicole is pregnant with his second or third child depending when the baby was conceived.

At the moment Sami is living in the Horton cabin with Lucas and Chloe. Sami has sworn Lucas to secrecy regarding her pregnancy, but is unaware that Chloe has recently found out that Sami is pregnant with EJ's child. Although Sami intended to tell EJ, she changed her mind upon spying him making love to Nicole. As she was leaving the DiMera mansion, Sami stumbled upon the murder of Salem's Mayor, which forced her into the witness protection program. While saying her goodbyes to her family, Johnny reaches for Sami's tummy and says 'baby' in front of EJ. Sami and her father both explain the word as Johnny's name for his sister Alli, in their own "twinlanguage", with Roman recalling Eric did the same thing with Sami when they were infants.

Now in the Witness Protection Program, Sami is living with FBI Agent Rafe Hernandez who is guarding her. They are getting closer as time goes on...

 

2009

In January 2009 Sami gave birth to her and EJ's second child together, a baby girl, but Nicole, EJ's fiance and Sami's arch enemy switched EJ and Sami's baby with the baby she was going to adopt from a teenage girl named Mia.

Sami has now left the Witness Protection Program, She is living at the penthouse with her eldest son, Will and the twins who now spilt their time between their fathers houses and their mom's. She left "her" daughter at the orphanage with Sister Theresa. Since returning home, Sami has decided that she wants "her" daughter to come home where she belongs. On March 27, 2009 Sami and Rafe brought Grace home telling everybody that Grace was adopted.

AFETER SPENDING TIME WITH SISTER THERESA & HER PLEADING WITH HER TO TELL EJ ABOUT GRACE, SHE FINALLY DECIDES THAT SHE IS GOING TO TELL HIM. WHILE AT THE BRADY PUB SAM'S CAR BROKE DOWN. MAX OFFERS TO FIX IT.  HE REALIZES THAT HE CAN'T SO SHE TAKES HIS CAR & HEADS 2 THE WEEDDING.

WHEN LEXIE RECIEVES A CALL SAYING THAT PHILIP HAS BEEN SHOT, SHE PUOINTS THE FINGER AT E.J  WHEN E.J LATER CONFRONTS SAMI ABOUT HER VERY RUDE INTERUPTION, SHE SAYS THAT IS THE WAY SHE IS A SPURR OF THE MOMENT PERSON.

SAMI STOPS RAFE FROM GOING 2 NEW  YORK BY TELLING HIM SHE IS SORRY HE RIGHT & SHE HAS DEEP FEELING 4 HIM. THEY HEAD BACK 2 EVANS TOWN HOUSE &START KISSING.

 

WHEN SAMI & RAFE ALMOST MAKE LOVE THREE IS A KNOCK AT THE EDOOR EJ SAYS THAT  HE HAS COMES 2 DROP OFFF BOCHURES 4 PRESCHOOL FOR JOHNNY & TELLS SAMI SAMI THAT HE THINKS SHE IS STILL IN LOVES WITH HIM. SHE DENIES IT.

LATER SAMI & RAFE GET IN2 A FIGHT ABOUT IT HE HEADS 2 THE JAVA CAFFE. HE MEETS UP WITH HIS SISTER ARIANA HERANADEZ.

 
 

Sami and Nicole later discover that they are both pregnant with E.J's child. Sami confides in Lucas about the pregnancy. Lucas agrees to keep the pregnancy a secret. Sami then witnesses a murder and her life is now in danger. She is placed in the Witness Protection Program where she befriends FBI agent Rafe Hernandez. Shortly afterwards Lucas confesses Sami's secret to Chloe who then lets it slip to Nicole. After Nicole suffers a miscarriage, she fakes her pregnancy. Nicole then decides that she wants Sami's baby because it was fathered by E.J.. Sami is nearly murdered by the hitman who is after her but Rafe saves her. After Sami gives birth to E.J.'s daughter in secret on January 28, 2009, Nicole steals Sami's child and replaces it with another baby. Sami names this baby Grace Rafaela Brady. Nicole names Sami's real baby Sydney Anne DiMera and passes her off as her own child. Sami then returns home to find her teenage son Will has returned from Switzerland, and she also reunites with her twins. As a way of protecting her "child" Grace, she and Rafe declare that the child is adopted. On June 9, 2009, Grace dies devastating Sami. She ends up telling E.J. that they are the biological parents (although Grace is really not their child). E.J. is furious with Sami for keeping his daughter a secret from him and vows to get revenge. Without Sami and Rafe's permission, E.J. changes Grace's tombstone name from Grace Brady to Grace DiMera. Sami soon forms an alliance with Nicole. On November 12, Sami and Rafe make love again and get back together. Rafe later tells Sami that Sydney is her and E.J.'s daughter. Nicole kidnaps Sydney and runs, but Anna DiMera takes her from Nicole, and, per E.J.'s instructions, sends ransom notes regarding Sydney.

On August 26, 2010 Sami find out EJ was the one who kidnapped Sydney and Sami take the kids and leave. On September 3, 2010 Rafe proposes to Sami and she said "Hell Yes."

On September 2, 2010, Sami shots E.J. then throws the gun in the river. She later goes back to Rafe

Sami and Nicole later discover that they are both pregnant with E.J's child. Sami confides in Lucas about the pregnancy. Lucas agrees to keep the pregnancy a secret. Sami then witnesses a murder and her life is now in danger. She is placed in the Witness Protection Program where she befriends FBI agent Rafe Hernandez. Shortly afterwards Lucas confesses Sami's secret to Chloe who then lets it slip to Nicole. After Nicole suffers a miscarriage, she fakes her pregnancy. Nicole then decides that she wants Sami's baby because it was fathered by E.J.. Sami is nearly murdered by the hitman who is after her but Rafe saves her. After Sami gives birth to E.J.'s daughter in secret on January 28, 2009, Nicole steals Sami's child and replaces it with another baby. Sami names this baby Grace Rafaela Brady. Nicole names Sami's real baby Sydney Anne DiMera and passes her off as her own child. Sami then returns home to find her teenage son Will has returned from Switzerland, and she also reunites with her twins. As a way of protecting her "child" Grace, she and Rafe declare that the child is adopted. On June 9, 2009, Grace dies devastating Sami. She ends up telling E.J. that they are the biological parents (although Grace is really not their child). E.J. is furious with Sami for keeping his daughter a secret from him and vows to get revenge. Without Sami and Rafe's permission, E.J. changes Grace's tombstone name from Grace Brady to Grace DiMera. Sami soon forms an alliance with Nicole. On November 12, Sami and Rafe make love again and get back together. Rafe later tells Sami that Sydney is her and E.J.'s daughter. Nicole kidnaps Sydney and runs, but Anna DiMera takes her from Nicole, and, per E.J.'s instructions, sends ransom notes regarding Sydney.

On August 26, 2010 Sami find out EJ was the one who kidnapped Sydney and Sami take the kids and leave. On September 3, 2010 Rafe proposes to Sami and she said "Hell Yes."

On September 2, 2010, Sami shots E.J. then throws the gun in the river. She later goes back to Rafe

Sami and Nicole later discover that they are both pregnant with E.J's child. Sami confides in Lucas about the pregnancy. Lucas agrees to keep the pregnancy a secret. Sami then witnesses a murder and her life is now in danger. She is placed in the Witness Protection Program where she befriends FBI agent Rafe Hernandez. Shortly afterwards Lucas confesses Sami's secret to Chloe who then lets it slip to Nicole. After Nicole suffers a miscarriage, she fakes her pregnancy. Nicole then decides that she wants Sami's baby because it was fathered by E.J.. Sami is nearly murdered by the hitman who is after her but Rafe saves her. After Sami gives birth to E.J.'s daughter in secret on January 28, 2009, Nicole steals Sami's child and replaces it with another baby. Sami names this baby Grace Rafaela Brady. Nicole names Sami's real baby Sydney Anne DiMera and passes her off as her own child. Sami then returns home to find her teenage son Will has returned from Switzerland, and she also reunites with her twins. As a way of protecting her "child" Grace, she and Rafe declare that the child is adopted. On June 9, 2009, Grace dies devastating Sami. She ends up telling E.J. that they are the biological parents (although Grace is really not their child). E.J. is furious with Sami for keeping his daughter a secret from him and vows to get revenge. Without Sami and Rafe's permission, E.J. changes Grace's tombstone name from Grace Brady to Grace DiMera. Sami soon forms an alliance with Nicole. On November 12, Sami and Rafe make love again and get back together. Rafe later tells Sami that Sydney is her and E.J.'s daughter. Nicole kidnaps Sydney and runs, but Anna DiMera takes her from Nicole, and, per E.J.'s instructions, sends ransom notes regarding Sydney.

  On August 26 , 2010 Right before they say, "Ido," Sami find out EJ was the one who kidnapped Sydney and Sami take the kids and leave

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On September 3, 2010 Rafe proposes to Sami and she said "Hell Yes."

On September 2, 2010, Sami shots E.J. then throws the gun in the river. She later goes back to Rafe

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The character of Samantha Brady has been played by:

Ronit Arnoff (1984)
Lauren Ann Bundy (1985)
Jessica Davis (1985-1986)
Tiffany Nicole Palma (1986)
Ashleigh Sterling (1986-1990)
Christina Wagoner (1990-1992)
Alison Sweeney (1993-present)
 

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Billie Reed is the daughter of Kate Roberts and Curtis Reed. She has a full brother, Austin Reed, and two half-brothers: Lucas Roberts and Phillip Kiriakis. She is the wife of Bo Brady, and mother of the deceased Georgia Brady. Billie began her tenure as a sweet, streetwise, spunky heroine who wouldn't let life keep her down. She was the proverbial hooker with a heart of gold, although she wasn't a hooker but a former porn actress. Finally escaping her demons, Billie lost the man she loved to his ex-wife. Billie then transformed, and stopped at nothing to win back the love of Bo Brady. She even went as far as to use her dead child as ammunition.

In the fall of 1992, Billie flew into Salem surprising, not only viewers, but even her own older brother, Austin. Austin had been quite worried for some time about a particular "her" who had gone missing. As it turned out, "she" was Billie, who had run away from a drug rehab center in Boston where Austin had been keeping her. Up until now, Billie and Austin had led very rough street lives. Along the way, Billie had done some questionable things, among them getting involved with drugs. Although she swore Austin that she was clean, we knew better. Almost as soon as Billie met Austin's gambling partner, Tim Rollins, she became involved with drugs once again. Tim encouraged her drug habit by procuring cocaine, heroin, and ecstasy. On one particular evening, Tim and Billie attended a party at which she tried to score some ecstasy. Unbeknownst to her, the dealer was an undercover cop! The party was busted, and so was Billie. Upon being arrested, she met officer Bo Brady and became smitten with him. Billie got off rather easy and tried to stay away from Tim and his shady gambling ring. Soon after, her past began to catch up with her however. Certain shady characters were aware of secrets from Billie's past and were willing to use them to attain their goals...

At the time, Austin had been boxing nights, trying to make ends meet. He had fallen into the influences of a gambling ring that orchestrated the boxing matches in order to win money. This ring also dealt drugs and laundered money. When Austin tried to stop boxing and throwing fights the ring went after Billie. In the past, Billie had appeared in several porno films directed by fellow Salemite Phillip Collier. At one point, Billie sought police protection from her mysterious enemies and Bo Brady was assigned. Even though Billie was obviously interested in Bo, he was engaged to Dr. Carly Manning. Nevertheless, she and Bo struck up a friendship, which was strengthened by Billie's ability to support Bo following the death of his sister, Isabella.

In the meantime, Billie kicked her drug habit. She tried to turn her life around by getting a decent watering job at Casey's Roadhouse and by moving in with Austin's girlfriend, Carrie Brady. However, she managed to convince Austin to continue fighting in order to keep her past in the closet. The only person who knew about it was Phillip, who wouldn't dream of telling anyone. Phillip was now the producer of the Jennifer Deveraux show and engaged to Kimberly Brady; to tell that he'd produced pornos would mean the end of his career. For now, Billie was safe.

But her lucky streak would soon be challenged by a new, and somewhat amusing (if not unbearably convoluted), situation. Tony Becker, an old friend of Billie's, had recently been arrested and facing a couple of months in jail. Tony asked Billie to hide $100,000 that he'd acquired while he was in prison, for safekeeping. Billie agreed, and decided to hide the money in an old barn outside of Salem. Of course, not without taking some money for herself. Meanwhile, Austin was facing yet another desperate situation with the gambling ring. He was ordered to throw a major fight -- a fight that would reward the victor with $50,000! Austin was sick of throwing fights and decided against doing so with this one, but Billie told him not to. Gus Bartoli, one of the honchos in the ring, had already made threats against Billie and Austin. Billie finally convinced Austin to go ahead and throw the fight. He almost did, until Carrie cheered him on and caused him to win. Billie knew this wouldn't sit well with Gus and urged Austin to leave Salem. In addition to Gus and his ring, there was the threat of the police finding out that Austin was involved with the illegal gambling ring -- Tim had been arrested in connection to the ring and warned Austin to get him out of jail or he'd go down with him. Billie decided to spring Tim with Tony's money and then get out of town. But it was too late. Gus and his men got to Austin and nearly beat the life out of him, sending him to the hospital with severe injuries. Austin managed to come out of it okay, but it was enough to put a nervous streak down Billie's back.

Yet the problems for Billie were never-ending. Soon after this, she went to check on Tony's money to discover that it was gone! She put an ad in The Spectator hoping to get a clue as to who found it, unaware that it was Jack Deveraux himself who'd literally stumbled upon her stash of dough. On top of this little dilemma, Billie's life was once again at risk after Abe Carver was shot at the Salem docks following a rough drug deal. In investigating the shooting, Bo questioned Billie about the pier. Who usually ran the pier? Whose turf was it? Billie knew darned well whose territory it was and hesitated to tell Bo. Cash Bowman, a lowlife dealer, had already thought ahead and warned Billie not to tell the cops anything -- he had shot Abe. Nevertheless, Billie told Bo and Cash was arrested.

Meanwhile, Jack saw Billie's ad and contacted her about the money, which he'd already spent in his quest to regain control of The Spectator. After much bickering, the two decided to try to get it back. Jack found the perfect solution in his very own house. Hidden inside of it was a manuscript for a very intriguing autobiography. Jack thought it was very good and sure to sell. With a few adjustments, Jack decided to get this novel published by Titan Publishing. In the Midnight Hour by Miranda Miller was to be a sure hit. Playing the part of "Miranda Miller", Billie presented the novel to the publisher, Kate Roberts. Kate had someone else read, who assured her it'd be a success. In the meantime, Billie was continuously harassed by Cash, who'd been released from jail. Soon, however, the harassment stopped. After Cash became the center of a police scandal involving Bo, he left town.

At this time, a curious incident occurred. While Jack and Billie were trying to raise money to pay back Tony, they decided to join in a high stakes poker game. Billie beat the pants off of several people at this game. Although the game was broken up by the cops, Billie won the deed to a company that night. It was a small cosmetics company, which Billie named Countess Wilhelmina Cosmetics after herself (Wilhelmina being the female version of Wilhelm, the German version of William, from which the name Billie is derived. Get it?) Jack and Billie were less than impressed with the dumpy-looking place that this company operated from. But Billie was determined to make it work.

Soon after, Jack and Billie's publishing scam blew out into the open. After reading the manuscript, Kate became enraged and accused Billie of having stolen it! Jack and Billie were unaware that the mysterious manuscript had been written 17 years earlier by Kate herself! Billie and Jack were outraged at Kate's accusations and threatened to take the novel to another publisher. Finally, Kate purchased the novel. However, she did not publish it. Jack and Billie cared very little about this. All they cared about was that they now had enough money to pay back Tony. Tony finally returned to Salem, got his stinkin' money, and left for good.

For the next few months, Billie worked on getting her company off the ground. This was kind of hard, since the only person helping her was someone who'd come with the company -- the scientist who developed the cosmetics, Charlie Van Dieter. Billie decided to seek major help and pleaded her case to business tycoon Victor Kiriakis. With a lot of flirting and sexy moves, Billie got Victor to consider a partnership in Countess Wilhelmina. In the end, it did not work out and Victor turned the offer down. Billie was dismayed. She knew that her cosmetics were good and would make money, but no one had faith in her small company. She tried to bring it out of the mist by herself. While Charlie worked on new fragrances (and drooled over Billie while doing so), Billie took pictures of a shirtless Bo for ads to promote the company (and drooled over Bo while doing so.) Her tactics worked. By selling Countess Wilhelmina products from a small booth in Salem Place, Billie began to make a profit. Kate Roberts took a note of this wondered if maybe Victor had been too hasty in his decision to turn down Billie's offer. Kate made Billie an offer. She proposed to give Billie a substantial loan with which to build her company. After much hesitation, for Billie despised Kate, Billie went ahead and signed a contract with Kate. She would soon regret her decision. In her spare time, Billie also helped out Alice Horton by being a volunteer at the hospital. In doing so, she quickly struck up a friendship with Kristen Blake, who worked with Alice at the Horton Center.

While her company's future looked up, Billie's love life did not. After all of this time, she was *STILL* infatuated with Bo Brady, despite the fact that he was *STILL* engaged to Carly (the mind boggles!) Billie had almost given up on Bo when Carly suddenly died. Once again, Billie played the sympathetic friend and comforted Bo over the death of a loved one. Meanwhile, Billie was shocked one day while leaving Salem Place. She became the sole witness to an assassination attempt at the parking lot which resulted in the shooting of DA Rebecca Morrison. The shooter saw Billie looking at him. Billie was so nervous that she went to see Bo at his boat, only to find out that he was about to leave for a couple of days to deal with Carly's death. Billie stowed away on the boat but gave herself away when she got seasick. Bo and Billie eventually got stranded somewhere outside of Salem, where the parking lot shooter cornered Billie. When he came out of the shadows, Billie noticed that it was none other than her deadbeat father, Curtis. The only problem with computing this notion was that Curtis had supposedly died years earlier. But no, Curtis was not dead. He was very much alive and working for the mob. Billie told her father to leave her alone, but Curtis convinced her to take him under her wing, as well as to keep quiet about what she'd seen at the parking lot. Billie agreed to let him stay in the basement of her building, but only if he agreed to go into drug rehab. Curtis obliged. Billie was actually somewhat happy to have her father back, but kept his return a secret from Austin.

Soon after, Bo began investigating the Parking Lot Shooter, partly to forget about Carly's death. In little time, Bo was hot on Curtis' heels, and Curtis informed Billie that he'd be going to Los Angeles to meet with some "friends" and take care of business. Billie was extremely glad to see him go. However, she became worried for her father when Bo got a lead from Los Angeles police commander Ozzie. When Billie heard that Bo was going to LA undercover to bust the Parking Lot Shooter, she felt obliged to protect her daddy. So Billie followed Bo to LA and sneaked into his hotel room at the Ritz Carlton. Though Bo wasn't there, Billie was so mesmerized by the luxury suite that Billie took a bubble bath and fell asleep in the tub. When she woke up, Bo (calling himself Hank Richards) and some shady men were staring at her. Bo and Billie quickly covered up her mistake saying that she was his girlfriend from back East. Later, Billie explained to Bo that she'd come to LA because she'd been worried about him. Bo allowed her to stay since she had been witness to the shooting and might recognize the shooter. Before getting down to business, Bo and Billie had some time and LA taxpayers' money to kill, so Bo took her out on the town. From a luxurious shopping spree on Rodeo Drive, to a bike ride at the beach, Bo and Billie had quite a good time spending police money. This time together brought them closer together -- Billie was thrilled when Bo caught the brass ring for her on the merry-go-round. That evening, Bo and Billie were to meet the mobsters at a fancy cocktail party. Before going out, Bo presented Billie with a sapphire & diamond necklace. He also gave her the brass ring on a gold necklace. They finally admitted their feelings for each other. Leaving the romance, they met with the mobsters. Billie was horrified to see Curtis there and told him to get out as soon as possible. When Bo asked her if she saw the Parking Lot Shooter there, she said no. With their mission in Los Angeles a failure, Bo and Billie returned to Salem.

Soon after returning from Los Angeles, Bo began to be troubled once again by the ghost of Carly. Although Billie tried to convince him that she was dead, Bo began thinking that she was alive and staying with Lawrence Alamain. Billie thought he was just upset, but Bo was actually right on the money. One night, Bo and Billie were watching the Alamain mansion and Bo thought he saw Carly dancing with Lawrence. They went inside the house and questioned Lawrence, but he and Vivian squirmed their way out. Later that night, Bo and Billie were at the park...and were shocked to see Carly there. Carly didn't seem to recognize Bo or Billie; soon Lawrence arrived and spirited her away. In the end, it was explained that Vivian had buried Carly alive in a deranged revenge plot; Lawrence had rescued her in the nick of time, but Carly had been left with amnesia. Bo struggled for some time to make Carly remember him to no avail. Finally, Billie decided to help. Even though she knew that she'd lose Bo if Carly recovered, Billie felt compelled to help. After speaking with Marlena Evans, Billie decided to track down Carly's son, Nikki. Marlena had said that seeing Nikki would possibly trigger Carly's memory. No one knew where Nikki was, and Lawrence would not say where he was. So Billie devised a plan to find him. She went to the Cheatin' Heart one night, where Ivan (Vivian & Lawrence's houseman) was drowning his sorrows (he was upset over Vivian's questionable future.) Billie got him drunk and flirted with him, and finally got him to say where Nikki was. Billie unselfishly picked up Nikki and brought him to the airport, where Lawrence and Carly were preparing to leave the country. The plan worked, and Carly remembered everything. Billie thought she lost Bo. But the time that they'd spent together in Los Angeles, and the time that Carly and Lawrence had spent together in the mansion, was too much to keep Bo & Carly together. They parted amicably, and Carly left for Paris with Lawrence and Nikki. Bo was now ready to move on with Billie.

Although things seemed fine for Billie, they flipped upside-down when Curtis returned from Los Angeles. Again, he needed a place to hide out from certain people. And once again, Billie allowed him to stay in the basement of her building. In time, Billie did tell Austin that Curtis was staying there, although Austin was extremely unhappy about this. But trouble was brewing. Although Curtis led her to believe that he was still in drug rehab, he was actually consuming vast amounts of cocaine. And that was just the tip of the iceberg...Curtis kept asking Billie for money for this and that. Billie innocently obliged, using up Countess Wilhelmina profits.

With the encouragement of Caroline Brady and Bo's son, Shawn-Douglas, Bo and Billie fell into a quirky teen-age relationship. As the weeks droned on, Bo and Billie grew more serious, and what was to be their biggest night finally came. At Shawn D's suggestion, Billie organized a costume birthday party for Bo at the Penthouse Grill. Bo was to be dressed as Romeo, and Billie as Juliet. Alice Horton made Billie a grand blue dress for her to wear, and Billie felt this would be the greatest night of her life. But she couldn't have been more wrong.

The night of the party, Billie was lured away from the party by Curtis. He'd been acting strangely for a while and Billie was suspicious. Curtis took her to the park by force, where he informed her that he'd gotten some good stuff for them, just like "in the old days." He pinned Billie against the ground, where he injected her with heroin and raped her. Billie tried to get away from him and threatened to tell Bo, but Curtis warned her that if she did, he'd show Bo the porno films she'd starred in. Curtis laughed at Billie, telling her that "Bozo" would never want a junkie porn queen for a girlfriend. Soon after, Billie began passing out. Curtis took her to the basement of her building and covered her with a tarp while various people came looking for him. In the early morning, Billie woke up in the alley behind her building to find her father dead. He'd been shot.

Austin found Billie and took her back upstairs to her apartment. Once Billie recovered from the effects of the heroin, Billie confessed to Austin. She told him what Curtis had done to her the previous night, and proceeded to unleash another terrible secret: Curtis had sexually abused Billie for many years, beginning when she was 12 years old. He would drug her into oblivion and then rape her; Billie had never told Austin because Curtis had constantly warned her that if she did, he would kill him. Billie had blocked out the abuse until the previous night, when it obviously came back to her. Austin and Billie swore to each other that they would keep the fact that "Curtis Brown, the Parking Lot Shooter", as the Salem PD had identified the body, was their father. They wanted to avoid any murder charges at all costs.

This was kind of hard to do, however, since Billie quickly became the prime suspect. She had been missing for most of the night and couldn't account for her lost time; part of her dress, which had been ripped, was found near the murder scene; Curtis had been living in her basement; but most of all, a gun was found in Billie's dresser drawer. Her fingerprints were all over it, and ballistics tests proved that it'd been the gun with which the murder had been committed. Although the evidence against Billie was strong, there was no motive, thus the DAs case against Billie was weak. Other suspects were investigated, such as Kate & Victor Kiriakis, Lucas Roberts, and Stefano DiMera. In the end, newly-arrived District Attorney Pat Hamilton charged Billie with the murder of Curtis Brown.

To make matters worse, Kate then decided to take back the loan she'd given Billie. Kate had noticed the disappearing profits from Countess Wilhelmina and recalled her loan. Since Billie still owed her money, Kate acquired the entire company to make up for the difference. In other words, Kate stole Billie's company from right under her. Billie's hatred for Kate now reached an all-time high.

Early in 1994, Billie was constantly freaking out about her upcoming trial. It would begin in early February. Throughout this entire ordeal, Bo stood by Billie, believing in her innocence despite that he was the one who found the gun in her apartment. The day before the trial, Bo tried to calm Billie down by taking her on a short trip down the Salem River on his boat. Billie soon woke up on a deserted island, where she and Bo had been shipwrecked. Together they stumbled upon an old chest that contained various tropical clothes which they decided to wear. On the island, Bo & Billie frolicked and such. At one point, Bo brought Billie a number of seashells. A particular one triggered something in Billie. If you haven't guessed it by now, this didn't really happen; it was just one of Billie's silly dreams (which was filmed on location in Puerto Rico.) However, this dream contained a significant clue to what happened the night of the murder -- the shell. Billie would eventually remember that somebody arguing with Curtis that night had been wearing shoes with that shell on them. Bo had a sketch of the shoes made and tried to track them down. But no shoe store or manufacturer had any record of ever having carried such a shoe. Finally, Bo discovered that the shoes had been used the previous year in Bella Magazine ads, but they had since been discontinued. When he asked Kate about the shoes, she didn't know anything about them.

One of the first persons to take the stand during the trial was Billie's neighbor and friend, Wendy Reardon. Wendy's testimony was extremely important to Billie's case, as it shifted suspicion from her. Wendy had heard two different arguments in the alley the night Curtis had been killed, proving that Billie wasn't the only one there. That's where the leads stopped. Marlena offered to put Billie under hypnosis so that she'd remember what had happened that night, but Billie refused. She was afraid that she'd spill everything about her past under hypnosis. It looked hopeless for Billie until one night, when she and Bo went to the Cheatin' Heart. At the bar, Billie noticed a blonde woman at the bar who was wearing some very peculiar shoes. They were the shell shoes! Bo quickly arrested the woman and brought her down to the station. As it turned out, the woman was Mary, one of the maids at the Kiriakis mansion. At first, Mary kept quiet under orders from Victor. But eventually she confessed. She stated that the shoes had belonged to Kate. The night of Curtis' murder, Kate had arrived home with bruises on her face. She'd been wearing the shell shoes that night. Soon after, Kate had asked Mary to throw away the shoes. But Mary had liked them so much that she'd kept them for herself. This testimony now cast suspicion away from Billie and on Kate Kiriakis.

Mickey Horton, Billie's attorney, then decided to put Kate on the stand. When asked if she'd known Curtis Brown, Kate denied it with a high-and-mighty air. "My husband and I attend many charities and fund-raisers here in Salem, but I can assure you they are not held in alleys frequented by drug addicts." But Laura Horton, who had just returned from the dead minutes earlier, burst Kate's bubble. Laura announced that Kate was lying. When she took the stand, Laura said that Kate knew very well who Curtis was because they had been married. Billie and Austin were speechless, as this could mean that Kate Kiriakis, of all people, was their mother! Billie ceased to be the focus of the trial, as both counsels began to suspect that Kate had murdered Curtis. On the stand, Kate testified that, indeed, she had been married to Curtis and that she hated him. She said that he had stolen her two children away from her. She also revealed that Curtis had been blackmailing her -- that's why she had gone to the alley the night he was killed.

Billie and Austin were virtually stupefied by Kate's testimony. What if she was their mother? She'd been married to Curtis, and she'd had two children by him. Austin seemed hopeful, but Billie hated everything about it. She despised Kate, and she refused to believe she was their mother. One day, before court resumed, Billie decided to find out the truth. She followed Kate into the ladies' room, where she asked her about her children. Kate, who was in great distress, resented her questions and went so far as to call her a drug-addicted whore. She blamed Billie of trying to shift suspicion on her and ultimately accused her of being Curtis' lover. Naturally, this upset Billie. Upon returning to the courtroom, Billie begged Mickey to do everything in his power to convict Kate. And he did, demonstrating that Kate had already tried to kill Curtis once before in 1975 during their stormy marriage. Mickey then asked the court to drop charges against Billie because Kate was guilty. But in the heat of the argument, Lucas Roberts, Kate's son, stood up and said that he had killed Curtis! As a result of this, a mistrial was declared in Billie's case and Lucas was promptly arrested.

Even though she was free, Billie was hardly out of trouble. Just as she and Bo were ready to consummate their relationship, began to be haunted by what appeared to be Curtis' ghost (I choose to think that it was just Billie's subconscious.) In addition to Curtis telling her that the truth about his murder was still not out, telling her to "think back", Curtis also teased her about their incestuous relationship. Of course, this kept Billie and Bo from making love (oh no!)

Billie attended Lucas' arraignment. He had signed a confession saying that he'd shot Curtis. But during the proceedings, Billie began to have flashbacks of the night of the murder. She remembered that Kate had argued with Curtis about something that he was supposed to have taken care of. Later that night, after Kate had left, Curtis told Billie that Kate was a "high and mighty bitch" who he was going to kill if she didn't give him what he wanted. All of this proved that Kate hadn't killed Curtis because he was still alive after she'd left the alley. Billie also remembered that Lucas had come looking for Curtis that night, but Curtis hadn't been there. Later that night, Curtis also talked to Billie and talked about how Lucas was just a "little punk." Again, this testimony suggested that Lucas hadn't killed Curtis because he was still alive after he'd left. Finally, Billie recalled seeing Kate in the alley still later that night; Kate had gone to the alley brandishing a gun only to find that Curtis had already been killed. Because of this, charges were dropped against Lucas and any suspicion towards Kate disappeared. Unfortunately, this also meant that the trial against Billie would resume.

This time, the case against Billie hit her with vicious force. With Billie still refusing to go under hypnosis, there was nothing to help her case. Things got worse when Pat Hamilton finally decided to put her on the stand. Once on it, Billie accidentally confessed that Curtis had been her father. Having let that little tidbit slip, Billie had no recourse but to confess everything, all while Bo sat in the courtroom stunned. He realized that she had gone with him to Los Angeles the year before to keep him from catching up with Curtis. Billie nervously informed the court that Curtis had sexually molested her as a child, feeding her drugs in order to make it easier for him to rape her. She also explained that she'd starred in pornographic films after running away from home -- films that Curtis had threatened to show Bo the night he was killed. This was the possible motive that Pat Hamilton had been looking for. Next, Pat Hamilton asked Billie to try to remember what had happened in the alley. Billie suddenly became hysterical and rambled about several things...hearing voices in the alley...one of which said "Check, Checkmate." Billie finally concluded that she must've said that and killed Curtis.

 

Billie Reed Brady (Part 2)

 

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Having confessed to murdering Curtis, Billie was sent to jail to await her sentence. In jail, Billie sat up during the night and remembered her hellish childhood with Curtis. She recalled the first time he raped her, when she was 12, one day after coming home from school with an exemplary report card. Curtis had told her that she needed to take her mother's place. While remembering all of this, Billie came to the conclusion that everything bad that had ever happened to her was her mother's fault. If she had been there to protect her from Curtis, she wouldn't have gotten raped, she would've finished high school, stayed away from drugs & pornos, etc. And for this reason, Billie was less than pleased to come face to face with Kate. Austin and Jennifer had done some research and discovered that Kate was indeed their mother. Kate came to the jail to visit Billie, but Billie let her have it without listening to her explanations. Kate said that Curtis had taken Austin & Billie, changed their names, and moved constantly to avoid detection; one day, he called her up and said the children had died in a car crash. Nevertheless, Billie blamed Kate for her problems and made it clear she didn't want her mother now.

Meanwhile, Bo didn't come too see Billie. She was convinced that Bo didn't love her anymore as a result of the revelation of her past, and her lies about Curtis. In reality, Bo was prohibited from seeing Billie by Commissioner Samuels, who believed his personal connection to Billie was making a mockery out of the justice system.

The day came for Billie's sentencing. Just before the judge was to pronounce her dreaded sentence, Bo burst into the courtroom demanding one last attempt to free Billie. After much squabbling, the judge allowed Bo to question Billie, who believed that she held the key to unlocking the mystery of Curtis' murder. According to Billie's previous testimony, the murderer had said "Check, Checkmate"; however, chess is something completely foreign to Billie, so she couldn't have possibly said it. Next, Bo asked Billie to recall the kind of shoes Curtis had been wearing that night, to which she responded, "men's dress shoes." Funny, considering that the police photo of Curtis' body clearly showed that Curtis had been wearing snake skin cowboy boots. Somebody else must've been there that night. Finally, Bo said the words "Check, Checkmate" in a deep voice to help Billie remember. And something clicked, because she did remember. The now-supposedly-deceased Stefano DiMera had shot Curtis. Billie remembered being in the alley behind some crates in a drug-induced haze, and watched Stefano and Curtis fight, ending with Stefano's shooting of Curtis. However, it seemed to Billie like the shooting had been in self-defense. A corroborating witness, Fred Harris, testified that everything Billie had remembered was true. Fred, an ex-police officer, had been on Stefano's payroll and the guard to his hospital room the night Curtis had died. After Stefano had returned from the alley that night, Fred had gone back to the alley, found Billie unconscious, placed her fingerprints on the gun, and put the gun in her apartment. With all of this evidence, Billie was cleared of all charges and finally freed.

Having survived this horrible trial, Bo and Billie started anew. Bo let Billie know that he wanted to be different from the men who had treated her so poorly in the past. He wanted to take things slow. And to start things off, he concocted a trip into the past to commemorate their official first date. Bo and Billie dressed in 70's outfits and went to see a movie at Salem Place, followed by a picnic in the woods. They continued to take things slow for a couple months. In the meantime, Bo encouraged Billie to go back and finish high school. She took a few classes that she needed at Salem High School, with Sami Brady and Jamie Caldwell among her classmates, and was on her way to getting her long-awaited diploma.

While that was underway, Billie got a desire to start a new cosmetics company. Though Kate was now willing to become closer to Billie, she refused to return control of Countess Wilhelmina back to her. And so, Billie began her search for investors for a new company. One of the people she sought help from was Jamie's father, attorney David Caldwell. David Caldwell heard Billie out, and told her that he would consider investing in her company. Meanwhile, Billie noticed Jamie acting very oddly in school when teased by other boys about her virginity. She also noticed a couple of bruises on Jamie. This made Billie very suspicious. With every passing day, she believed that Jamie was being abused by her father. However, Bo told Billie to forget such ridiculous thoughts. One evening, Bo and Billie went to the Penthouse Grill and saw the Caldwell there. At one point, Jamie and David were on the balcony alone, and Billie followed. She saw David make a move on Jamie and made a big scene about it. David denied everything and so did Jamie, and Bo was deeply embarrassed. Worst of all, David told Billie to forget about him investing in her company! Billie was made to believed that she had misconstrued what she'd seen on the balcony and wanted to apologize to David. The following evening, Billie went to David's office and found that her suspicions had been warranted. She walked in on David trying to kiss Jamie! After Jamie ran away in shame, David grabbed Billie and tied her to a chair. For a while, David didn't know what to do, and drank to "clear his head." When he was good and drunk, David concluded that he needed to kill Billie to save his reputation. But he didn't get the chance. Jamie had told Bo what had happened and he came to Billie's rescue.

Billie was safe, but her dreams of beginning a new company were dashed. Or were they? Kristen decided to help out Billie. Her husband Tony DiMera, who had recently acquired 49% of Countess Wilhelmina stock, didn't want to actively work in the company. And so, Kristen convinced Tony to make Billie his representative in the company. Thus, Billie was now part of the Board of Directors, and able to actively work with her company once again.

By that point, it was clear that Bo truly loved Billie. One day, Kristen surprised Billie with the news that Bo was going to propose to her! Yes, it was supposed to be a secret, but Kristen just couldn't keep this from her best friend. In fact, Kristen invited Bo & Billie to a charity cotillion she was holding in her plantation home of Maison Blanche, in New Orleans, to give the proposal a romantic atmosphere. Billie was extremely overjoyed and thought it was too good to be true. And she was right. For some time, Billie had worried about the memory of Bo's late wife, Hope Brady, coming between her and Bo. As soon as Billie and Bo arrived at Maison Blanche, Billie caught glimpses of a mysterious woman with dark hair around the plantation. However, the woman kept running away from her. The night of the cotillion, which everyone attended exquisitely dressed in Old South costumes, Billie met face to face with the woman. Before having a long conversation with her, the woman ran away once again. Later that night, Billie saw a picture of Hope and swore to Bo that the mysterious woman looked exactly like her. The cotillion ended when a hurricane struck the plantation, in addition to a fire in the main house. While taking shelter in a separate house on the estate, Billie saw the woman once again and ran after her, ultimately slipping on the wet grass and hitting her head on a rock.

Fortunately, Bo found Billie and healed her wound. Despite Billie's cries saying that Hope was alive, Bo assured her that that was impossible. He decided to take her to a hotel, where he was going to do what he'd intended to do. In a candlelit suite, Bo proposed to Billie and presented her with an engagement ring of sapphires, diamonds, and rubies -- each stone represent a particular quality of Billie. Just as the happy couple was to make love, however, the unimaginable occurred: John Black, half-naked and on the verge of passing out, burst into the room carrying an unconscious and half-drowned woman who looked like...you guessed it, Hope Brady! Bo and Billie took John and the Hope look-alike to a New Orleans hospital, where all was explained. Stefano DiMera, who was not dead as everyone had believed, had been keeping John and Marlena prisoners in the basement of Maison Blanche. Upon escaping, John had rescued another one of Stefano's hostages, this woman who looked exactly like the "late" Hope Williams Brady. Bo refused to believe that this woman was really Hope, but Billie was already worrying about her future with Bo.

When the woman finally awoke, she didn't remember anything. She didn't remember her name, or her past before Maison Blanche. Finally, she recalled that her name was Gina. Still, Bo decided to prove that this Gina was an impostor and flew in some medical experts. The real Hope had perished 4 years prior in an acid explosion; if this woman was really Hope, she would have scars from such an explosion. The medical experts, one a plastic surgeon and the other a dental surgeon, gave mixed results. After through examination, the plastic surgeon informed Bo & Billie that Gina had been given extensive plastic surgery, the scars still visible behind her ears. Said scars looked like the result of acid burns. The dental surgeon examined Gina's dental structure and said that Gina had been given extensive dental work, although the roots of her teeth were very similar to Hope's. Meanwhile, Bo decided to bring Gina back to Salem and try to jog her memory. However, he remained faithful to Billie. At the same time, Billie befriended Gina and asked her to move in with her, making their current situation quite peculiar.

One of the first things Bo did to prove Gina was not Hope was give her a DNA test. Because no DNA samples of Hope were available, since DNA testing was not done during her lifetime, Gina's DNA was tested against Shawn-Douglas', Hope's son. The tests were sent to Washington DC and everyone anxiously awaited the results. When they finally came back, they were inconclusive. Her DNA did not match Shawn-Douglas' exactly, but did suggest that she was related to him. Meanwhile, Gina began acting strangely. She began going into trances and having flashbacks of Hope's lifetime, which really worried Billie. After numerous flashbacks, Bo was convinced that Gina *HAD* to be Hope, and was forced to break things off with Billie. Meanwhile, Billie curiously came upon some helpful evidence of the state of things. One day while sleeping on her sofa, Billie had the strangest of dreams, in which she thought she was Hope. When she woke up, she saw a woman quickly leaving her apartment. Confused, Billie picked up a book that the woman had dropped. The book contained memories of Hope Brady's life; Billie put two and two together and figured that the woman had thought she was Hope and had been feeding her these memories, thus the weird dream. Seeing that something fishy was obviously going on, Billie decided to show Bo this book. After much searching, she found out that Bo & Gina (who now called herself Hope) were on Smith Island ready to make love at the Horton cabin. The ferry had stopped running by then, however. Kate, who had been trying to bond with Billie for some time, offered to help her by having the Titan helicopter fly her to the island. Billie greatly appreciated this, but it was too late. When she got to the cabin, Bo and "Hope" were already beginning to make love. Billie tried to show him the book of memories, but he wouldn't listen. Tearfully, Billie left the book there and left.

With nothing left for her, Billie decided to leave Salem that very day. She packed her things and got on a train headed to Helena, Montana. While on the train, all she thought about was Bo. A woman she met on the train, Teresa, even suggested to Billie that maybe leaving Salem was not the answer to her problems. Little did Billie know that Bo had found the book of memories and was fighting Heaven and Hell to get on the train! Meanwhile, Billie came face to face with Celeste, Stefano's helper who'd been charged with burning down Maison Blanche; Billie also recognized her as the woman who'd been feeding her the Hope memories, although Celeste vehemently denied this. Finally, Bo made his way inside the train and surprised Billie! He apologized for the way he'd acted in the cabin and proposed to her, after which they finally made love. Upon coming to the next stop, the happy couple got off the train boarded another one back to Salem.

Convinced that Gina couldn't possibly be Hope, Bo and Billie began preparations for a New Year's wedding. Gina, who felt like a third wheel, having fallen in love with Bo, decided to leave Salem. However, Billie asked her to stay. Despite everything that had happened, Billie still treasured her friendship with Gina. While she and Bo prepared for their wedding, Billie tried to set up Gina on dates, one of which was with the available Dr. Mike Horton! (yikes!) Fortunately, Gina and Mike did not hit it off.

 

 

 

 

Bo and Billie prepared a New Year's wedding at St. Luke's Catholic Church. Kristen decided to help Billie out by having a famous designer, Jacques Marcel, come to Salem from Paris and make a wedding gown for her. Everything seemed perfect. Kate, who had slowly developed a close relationship with Billie, gave Billie an old handkerchief to carry down the aisle -- it'd been her grandmother's. Billie appreciated this and began to think of Kate as a mother more than ever. Austin walked Billie down the aisle, with Shawn-Douglas as the ring bearer. But of course, everything was too perfect. During the ceremony, the chandelier above the altar fell and nearly killed the wedding party. Bo pushed Billie out of harm's way. No one was injured, but the wedding was temporarily postponed. Abe considered closing the Church for investigation, suspecting The Desecrator, an anti-Christmas bandit that had been wreaking havoc for some weeks, as the culprit for the chandelier falling. In the end, the wedding continued as planned. But just before Bo and Billie were to be pronounced husband and wife, something even more unbelievable than a chandelier's fall happened: Alice Horton stood up and proclaimed that Bo couldn't marry Billie because Hope was still alive. Alice believed that Gina was Hope, and until that was positively disproved, Bo couldn't marry Billie. Father Jansen, who presided over the ceremony, agreed that he could not marry Bo & Billie if there was a possibility that his late wife was still alive. Yet another bump on Bo & Billie's chances to be happy.

Yet, Gina had no desire to stand in the way of Bo and Billie's happiness. And although she wished to continue to explore whether or not she was Hope, Gina agreed to have Hope declared legally dead in order for Bo & Billie to be married. In February of 1995, Bo and Billie were finally wed, and this time nothing went wrong during the wedding. No, the wedding was fine; it was the reception at the Penthouse Grill that went awry. After Bo and Billie had left, Marlena Evans, of all people, entered the restaurant stark naked. Meanwhile, Bo and Billie slithered away from the party and went back to the Fancy Face, where Bo presented her with an unbelievable wedding gift: adoption papers. Bo wished for Billie to adopt Shawn-Douglas and become his mother. Billie happily signed the papers, and Bo & Billie spent a quiet day at home with Shawn-Douglas.

Billie moved into the Fancy Face with Bo and Shawn D., and leased the apartment to Gina, who now took the surname "Horton" at Alice's suggestion. Gina was still trying to search for her identity by playing around with a puzzle box that only Hope & Tom Horton had know how to open. If she opened it, then it would suggest that she was Hope. In the meantime, Bo and Billie were happily (and tediously) married. At one point, a clue to Gina's past came from New Orleans, and Billie went there to investigate under the guise of Countess Wilhelmina business. In New Orleans, Billie met a hospital orderly named Bobby Lee Cooper, who had found Gina in 1990, two weeks after Hope's death. Bobby had in his possession a gold bracelet that Gina had been wearing when he found her; the bracelet had an inscription that read, "To Hope with all my love, Bo." Billie considered keeping this information to herself, but finally decided to tell Bo & Gina. They then all went to New Orleans to see the bracelet, but Bobby Lee melted it before they got a chance. After that, Bobby Lee kept mum.

Meanwhile, Billie finally formed a true relationship with Kate. They had bonded, and Billie had actually managed to call her "Mom." One day, Kate confided in Billie and told her that she was suspicious of Vivian Alamain. She didn't know why, but she felt like she couldn't trust her anymore (Kate and Vivian had become friends.) Because of all this, it was devastating when Billie got word that Kate had died in a plane crash. The pilot who had been flying her plane had fallen asleep. Kate's body was not found, but Billie was beyond consoling. Soon, Billie thought back to her talks with Kate and began to think that Vivian was acting very peculiar. She went ahead and had Steve, the pilot, checked for drugs. Nothing. Still, it seemed very odd that Steve had fallen asleep, especially since he claimed to have drank a lot of coffee before flying. Billie still believed he'd been drugged. She was going to have the thermos from which he'd drank coffee tested when it was mysteriously lost. By the time they found it (actually, Vivian's dog Noelle dug it up from the Kiriakis rose garden), it had been thoroughly washed, erasing any traces of drugs. Billie could do nothing but accept Kate's death.

After many excruciating months, the question everyone had wondered for over a year was finally revealed. At Austin & Carrie's wedding, Billie literally stumbled upon the blasted puzzle box, which had been stolen, lost, thrown away, etc. over the past few months. Outside of the church, Billie saw Abby Deveraux playing with it; the silly girl had had it for several weeks now! Billie returned the thing to Gina, and Gina opened it. The box contained a letter that Hope had written to Bo on their wedding day. Bo began to read it out loud, and halfway through, Gina recited the rest of it without having seen it. Still, Bo refused to believe Gina was Hope. However, when he lifted Hope's fingerprints from the letter they matched Gina's. At last, the truth that Gina indeed was Hope was finally revealed. Of course, this also meant that Bo and Billie's marriage was invalid.

Despite the fact that Hope was still alive, Bo remained faithful to Billie and vowed to divorce Hope and remarry Billie. Bo and Hope traveled to the Caribbean island of Santa Rosa to receive a quickie divorce, while Billie stayed in Salem. However, Billie decided to join them just to see what was taking so long. To her dismay, she found out that Santa Rosa was a special place for Bo & Hope; they had renewed their wedding vows there while traveling around the world on the "Fancy Face." Billie watched Bo and Hope while they were all in Santa Rosa, and it began to occur to her that he still had feelings for Hope. After the divorce was finalized, they all returned to Salem. Billie began to think that marrying Bo would be a big mistake. She finally realized this when she overheard Shawn-Douglas praying for God to let Bo and Hope get married again. Billie didn't want to break up a family and decided to step out of the picture. Some time earlier, she had received a letter offering her a position in Paris as the Overseas Manager of Countess Wilhelmina. She chose to take it. After saying good-bye to Austin, Billie rushed to the airport. As she was about to board her plane, Bo showed up and tried to talk her out of leaving Salem. However, Billie told Bo that he still had feelings for Hope and he needed to explore them before jumping into marriage with her. And with that, Billie boarded her plane and left Salem.

Billie tried to get over Bo in Europe, and almost did. But after a visit from Austin and Carrie in 1996, Billie could not ignore her residual feelings for Bo, and came back to Salem with the pretext of attending a conference. She stayed, and was delighted to see Franco Kelly living in Salem. She had dated Franco in Italy sometime in the past year, although it was obvious they only wished to remain friends. Bo thought Franco was bad news, and he watched over Billie. Hope mistook Bo's caring for Billie as love, but Billie assured Hope that she wanted nothing with Bo. Soon after, Hope and Bo were engaged. Although Billie was hurt, she thought their marriage was for the best. Despite that, she couldn't bring herself to go to the wedding; so she went to Smith Island, to the Horton Cabin, the night before the wedding. Bo found out and hurried to the island fearing for Billie's safety. A murder had just occurred on the island and Bo was afraid that the murderer was still there. So he raced to the island during a windstorm, found Billie, but discovered that the boat had gotten loose. The ferry wasn't running, and the telephones were down. So Bo and Billie were stuck on the island. Bo refused to miss his wedding and tried to swim ashore, but he almost drowned in the raging waters. Luckily, Billie saved him and dragged him back ashore. Both of them were half-frozen and, to keep warm, took off their clothes and held each other tight in bed at the Horton cabin. They stayed like this for the rest of the night. When the morning came, and Bo didn't show up at the wedding, Hope found out he'd gone to the island, so she went there. When she walked into the cabin, of course, Hope assumed the worst.

Although Bo & Billie tried to explain to Hope what had happened, the damage had been done. In the meantime, Billie innocently sought the advice of Franco, whose one wish was to break up Bo and Hope. As 1997 began, Bo and Hope were still apart, and Billie was beginning to wish she could be with Bo once again. To pass time, she hung out at a new nightclub, The Snake Pit, and witnessed many illegal actions, like drug dealing. And one night, she witnessed Bo talking to one of the drug dealers, Max. Bo had just been demoted to being a "beat cop", so Billie assumed that Bo had gone bad. To her surprise, Bo informed her that his demotion had been a ruse to fool J.L. King, a drug kingpin; Bo was playing "bad cop" in order to infiltrate J.L.'s organization. Bo begged Billie to keep this a secret, and she did. Unfortunately, she tried to help him out, only getting into deeper trouble. Eventually, Billie was forced to play along with Bo's routine and pretend to be his girlfriend -- which, of course, didn't sit well with Hope. Bo and Billie couldn't tell Hope that they were only pretending because it would blow their cover. Hope was hurt, and tried to move on with Franco Kelly. Meanwhile, Billie took this opportunity to try to regain Bo's love. However, he constantly reminded her that he only cared for her as a friend. Hope was the only woman he loved.

After some time, it seemed like Bo was successfully becoming J.L.'s right-hand man and very close to having enough information to bust him. At that point, J.L. informed Bo and Billie that they were to travel with him to Rome to meet with some big time drug dealers from Italy. J.L. wanted to bring Bo and Billie along because he was convinced that they were wonderful together. In Rome, J.L. surprised Bo and Billie with the news that he'd arranged a wedding for them! To add insult to injury, Hope and Franco were also in Rome and J.L. invited them to witness the wedding. And so, certainly the most uncomfortable wedding took place in a little Roman garden. With Franco as the best man and Hope as the maid of honor, Bo and Billie were married. Although Hope fainted during the ceremony, it did go off, and Billie secretly relished the moment.

Soon after, J.L. was arrested in Rome. Bo and Billie's mission seemed over. All they had to do was wait for the trial, at which Billie would be a key witness to the prosecution. Billie was dismayed because she and Bo had gotten closer, but he remained faithful to Hope. One evening, she was kidnapped by Max, J.L.'s cohort who was still on the lose. Max took her back to a seedy apartment and tied her to the bed. Then he revealed that he was going to pump drugs into her until she became a junkie. Max was under orders from J.L., who believed that Billie's testimony against him would be meaningless if the court found out she had a drug addiction. Max gave her all kinds of drugs, including heroin and drugs. While Billie was strung out, she saw visions of her dead father, Curtis. Curtis taunted her about their past together and encouraged her to become a drug addict. After days of being missing, Billie was finally found by Bo. Bo somehow discovered that Curtis' ghost was tormenting an unconscious Billie. So somehow Bo crossed into the astral plane and battled Curtis' ghost to keep Billie from becoming hooked on drugs again. Bo defeated Curtis and saved Billie. Later on, after Billie recovered, the two "accidentally" slept together. However, Bo told Billie that he only loved Hope and was going to start divorce proceedings. Before that could happen, Billie discovered that she was pregnant.

Because of Billie's pregnancy, Hope left Bo for good. Meanwhile, Billie convinced Bo to be a responsible father and remain married to her for the child's sake. All the while, however, Bo longed for Hope. In the meantime, Billie suddenly turned into a witch and waged war on Hope, even though Hope constantly told her that she didn't want Bo! Their friendship dissolved and months of boring and bitter rivalry ensued, all because Billie knew that Bo could never love her again. But despite Billie's knowledge of this, she tried to win Bo any way possible. In one instance, she pretended to drink alcohol just to get Bo's attention. After some time, Bo found a way to become involved with Hope again.

Hope had begun trying to find out what she had done during the four years she had been missing from Salem during which she adopted the name Gina. Bo tried to help her in this quest for the past, which led them to New Orleans and the surrounding Bayou Dugar. Thinking that Bo and Hope could reunite by working closely together, Billie traveled to the Bayou even though she was well-advanced into a delicate pregnancy. While in the Bayou, Billie met a family of backwoods people comprised of a mother, Erline, and two sons, Wayne & Earl. For some reason, the boys tried to get fresh with Billie and she tried to escape from them. In doing so, she went into labor in the middle of the swamp. Erline delivered the child, a stillborn baby girl whom Billie tearily named Georgia. Despite the loss of her child, Billie decided to continue to feign a pregnancy in order to hang onto Bo. She, Erline, Wayne, and Earl buried the baby in a shallow grave in the swamp, unaware that a mysterious bayou inhabitant, Swamp Girl, watched.

Billie acted as if nothing had happened and never told Bo about the death of the baby. Finally, she convinced Bo to return with her to Salem. Once back home, Billie goaded Hope into a bitter argument at the Salem Place. Once finished, Billie left the mall only to end up in a car accident. Working with a corrupt obstetrician named Dr. Appleby, Billie claimed that the accident, caused by the stress from the aforementioned argument with Hope, had caused her to miscarry the child. Billie continuously blamed Hope for little Georgia's death, turning Bo against Hope for a brief period. Billie and Bo then mourned their child together, giving it a burial in the cemetery. Unbeknownst to Bo, Georgia's grave was empty; Georgia's remains were still in the Bayou.

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The character of Billie Reed has been played by the following:

Lisa Rinna (1992-1995, 2002-2003)
Krista Allen-Moritt (1996-1999)

 

 

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The character of Billie Reed has been played by:

Lisa Rinna (1992-1995)
Krista Allen-Moritt (1996-1999)

 

 

 

 

 

Melanie Layton played by Molly Burnett

Melanie Layton is the spitfire daughter of Trent Robbins, and the half sister of Max Brady. She’s a party girl who keeps a video blog bragging about her glamorous life. Charming and crafty, this young gold digger is always on the prowl for her next mark, but secretly, she’s lonely and pining for true love.

Melanie spent most of her younger years in boarding schools in Europe. When Max learned she existed, he tracked her down in Marseilles, France. Initially, the brother and sister didn’t hit it off so well, as her con ended up getting Max and Stephanie thrown in jail. Eventually, Melanie and Max mended fences, but Stephanie was less than thrilled with the girl. With Trent’s gambling debts mounting up, Melanie agreed to help her father by meeting with the French man, Claude, who was threatening Trent. Claude tried to attack Melanie, but Nick and Max arrived on the scene and saved her. Nick was shot in the process, and as he recuperated in the hospital, Melanie thanked him with a passionate kiss.

After Claude’s arrest, Melanie decided to go to Salem, hell bent on confronting Trent for putting her in a dangerous situation and for hiding Max from her.

Melanie returned to Salem, she stayed with Max's adoptive mother, Caroline. Not long after Melanie was there, her father, Trent Robbins, was stabbed in the back with a knife and died in the Salem cemetery. Caroline Brady was originally a suspect, but was taken off due to Melanie becoming a suspect. She was soon cleared because Bo and Hope searched the DiMera home, where Nicole, another suspect, lived due to her pregnancy. Melanie was cleared of her suspicion until one night when she received a note that said, 'I saw you in the park, I know what happened'. Nick soon realized this and allowed Melanie to live with him. She happily agreed. There, Melanie found a the same type of stationary as the ones that her notes were written on. After being confronted by Melanie, Nick told the truth about the note, but quickly made up an excuse about them. Melanie forgave Nick. Soon after, Hope confronted Nick and she told him that Melanie should watch her back. Nick immediately told Melanie and they left Salem soon after. They went to a hotel, where Nick took pills that he said were helping his hurt hand and mixed them with alcohol. Melanie then reminisced on the events that took place on the night her father was killed and quickly realized that Nick killed her father. She tried to trick Nick so she could leave the hotel, but couldn't. Later, since Nick took Melanie's cell phone, Melanie took Nick's. Nick then snatched the phone out of her hand and dropped it on the floor. This resulted in a struggle between Melanie and a drugged Nick. Nick accidentally stepped on his phone, which caused it to call Stephanie, who was with Philip. Philip and Stephanie heard the struggled and ran to tell Bo and Hope, who had already located where Melanie and Nick were and hurried off to it. Melanie and Nick stopped their struggle but Melanie, frightened, ran to the door, where Nick caught her and while he was locking it, Melanie ran to the window. Nick ran to the window and grabbed hold of her. Bo and Hope smashed through the door, shocked Nick, who dropped Melanie off the balcony! A brave Philip had been climbing up the fire escape when she fell and caught Melanie. Nick was then arrested for the murder of Trent Robbins. Melanie was bad-mouthed constantly for feeling sorry for herself, not Nick. This resulted in Melanie and Chelsea getting into a fight at the Brady pub. Philip broke up the fight and an angry Chelsea stormed out of the pub. A man saw Melanie fighting Chelsea and bought a broke Melanie a coke or as he called, a 'pop'. The man revealed that his name was Bob. Melanie left Bob, but, had stolen his wallet. Bob then caught Melanie in the pub parking lot, but Melanie was quickly rescued by Philip, again. Melanie also decided, thanks in part to Maggie, to get tested to see if she would be a match for Kate's bone marrow transplant. Before she could, though, Philip chewed her out for showing up at the hospital. It was revealed that Chloe, despite having had a bone marrow transplant herself, was the match. Later, Nick leaves Melanie all the rights to his alternative feul project and therefore, she goes to work for Philip and Titan. At Titan, she stirs up a lot of trouble, mostly for Stephanie and Philip who were an item. After constantly provking Philip and being "mistreated" by him, Melanie decides to take the project elsewhere, namely to EJ DiMera. However, Melanie reveals to brother Max that she just wants more money and she hopes to start a bidding war between EJ and Philip. While talking to EJ, he implies that he knows about her plan to start a bidding war and tells her that she will not win the game that she's trying to play. He also implies that she is in love with Philip, which she quickly denies. Philip, determined to keep the project from Titan, comes to Maggie Horton's place, where Melanie is staying. He tells Melanie how in love he is with her and they kiss, which Stephanie sees. Stephanie then tells Philip to pick once and for all: her or Melanie. He picks Melanie and Stephanie leaves. Then Melanie tells Philip she's not stupid and tells him she knows what he's doing and tells him to leave. Later there is a knock on the door and she thinks it's Philip. Ready to tell him she over reacted, she opens the door and says, "Philip--" but it's Stephanie, who slaps Melanie across the face. The development of the fuels project is almost a bust when neither family wants 2 produce it. Melanie decides 2 get in2 business with Tony Di MERA. Melanie has already been warned on countless ocasions 2 stay away from them. Being"All about a dollar," she doesn't listen. When she goes 2 the cheating heart, she asks Max 2 give her the fuels project formula. when he tells her not a chance, she breaks in 2 the safe when  he leaves. When she calls Tony 2 tell him she has it, he hands her a check 4 $10,000. Melanie returns 2 The cheating Heart 2 tell Max what she has done & Max yells at her.

Later Melanie Finds out that Tony has died from a freak accident unvolving philip. Realizing now that she is out of a job and has no money she gets a job at UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL as a CANDY STRIPER

Maxineone of the toughest hospital staff member get on her case 4 slacking off.

A PATIENT THROWS SPINACH AT HER.

CHELSEA ARRIVES 4 WORK SUPRISED & DISAPOINTED 2 SEE THAT MELANIE'S IS WORKING THERE & WARNS HER THAT SH'LL DO THE JOB OR ELSE. CHELSEA GETS PREPARED 4 CHILDRENS THERAPY SESIONS & LEAVES.

 

 

MAGGIE COMES IN 4 CHARITY WORK & TEACHES HER HOW 2 CLEAN A HOSPITAL BED. ASKS ABOUT DANIEL CAUSE SHE HAS HER EYES ON HIM . MAGGIE STRONGLY WARNS HER NOT GO THERE. AFTER GETTING INTO EVERYBODY'S BUSSINESS ONCE AGAIN BY TELLING CHELSEA THAT MAX HAS APPLIED 4 MEDICAL SCHOOL IN CHICAGO. MELANIE RETURNS BACK 2 WORK JUST IN THE MIST OF THE KIRIAKIS & FUED.

WHEN MELANIE IS ABOUT 2 IS ABOUT TO FLUFF PHILIPS PILLOW A NEW NURES STOPS HER & SAYS SHE WILL BE THE ONE TO DO IT. WHEN HOPE HEARS ABOUT IT SHE SUSPECTS SOMETHING FISHY . THE NURSE TURNED OUT 2 BE A HIRED AASSASSIN. THEY QUICKY ARREST HER.

MELANIE CALLS STEPHINE 2 TELL HER THAT THERE WAS ANNTHER ATTEPT ON PHILIPS LIFE

 

Stephanie Johnson played by Shelley Hennig

Stephanie was born in prison, where Kayla was serving time for a murder she did not commit. Steve hired a nanny to help him care for Stephanie with Kayla locked up. When it was revealed that the nanny was really the deranged Sheila Salsbury, Sheila kidnapped Stephanie. Kayla escaped prison and headed to Australia to locate her baby girl. Steve and Kayla rescued Stephanie and returned to Salem, where Kayla was exonerated for her crime.

After Steve and Kayla remarried, Steve took a job with the Salem Police Department. After a deadly boat explosion, Steve slipped into a coma and was later declared dead. A grief-stricken Kayla packed her bags and headed to Los Angeles with Stephanie.

Years went by and Stephanie became a racecar driver. She and Kayla returned to Salem for a wedding and the biggest shock of all was that Steve was alive! He was suffering memory loss and was pursuing a relationship with Billie. When Stephanie sustained serious injuries on the racetrack, she called for her father and pleaded with him to work things out with Kayla. With Stephanie confident that her parents were finding a way back to each other, she left for Dayton to take a job on a racing team.

Several months later, Stephanie returned to Salem with a new reckless, defiant streak and a new rebellious boyfriend, Jeremy Horton. She clashed with her parents, as Steve was trying to recuperate from the DiMera's brainwashing.

Stephanie took a job at Touch the Sky airlines as a flight attendant. Jeremy worked for the airline, as well, and convinced Stephanie the job would bring fun and partying in Las Vegas, where the airline was headquartered. Jeremy's temper was getting short and Stephanie was questioning her relationship and turning to Max for advice.

After Touch the Sky airlines was exposed for its illegal operations, Stephanie returned home and forgave Jeremy for the entire ordeal. But, after finding out the police were after him, Jeremy fled Salem and Stephanie for good.

Stephanie moved on and enrolled in Salem University with Chelsea. The girls pledged a sorority and moved into the Theta house. Around this time, there were a series of rapes going on around the campus. One of their "sisters" from the Theta house admitted she'd been raped by hotshot rich boy Ford Decker. The sorority girls all planned a revenge on Ford, whose father's money kept him out of jail.

Stephanie repaired her relationship with her parents. She confided in her mother that she thought she might be pregnant and at the time was sinking into a deep depression. To take her mind off her worries, she took a job at her aunt's bar, The Cheatin' Heart, and worked side-by-side with Max.

Meanwhile, the Theta girls were planning their revenge on Ford and lured him back to their house. Once there, they drugged him, but their plan backfired: Chelsea was about to become Ford's "victim" when he realized he had been tricked. He tried chasing Chelsea and tripped and fell. The girls took his pulse and discovered Ford was dead! The girls couldn't call 911 out of fear of being accused of murder. Instead, they called Max over to help them hide Ford's body.

Stephanie eventually opened up to Kayla about her depression and admitted she'd been raped by Ford and that was why she needed the pregnancy test. She later told Max about her ordeal and he encouraged her to see a counselor and promised he would not leave her side.

The investigation into Ford's disappearance heated up. The truth was eventually revealed and the girls were all exonerated because of their claims of self-defense. Max was sentenced to community service for his part in hiding the body.

Stephanie and Max grew closer and leaned on each other when John Black's plane disappeared off the coast of Ireland. Many family members were on board, including Kayla and Steve. The passengers were saved, but they and the rest of Salem were devastated with the news that Grandpa Shawn hadn't survived the crash.

Happiness triumphed over tragedy when Stephanie received news she was going to be a big sister. Steve also confided in his daughter that a mysterious woman from his past had been following him. He wanted her to keep the secret from Kayla, fearing that too much stress would endanger the baby. Steve's suspicions were right: Ava Vitali showed up in Salem to cause trouble. Her parents were being held captive at the Vitali's family mansion outside of Salem. When the police eventually rescued them, Kayla went into premature labor. After a very difficult birth, she had a boy, which delighted Stephanie.

Stephanie focuses her time on trying to salvage her relationship with Max, as he continues to push her away. She has vowed to help Max battle his demons in hopes of building a better future with her.

Stephine moves on to philip & even their relationship has a great friction because of his overly shew manneer in bussiness,

.When Victor once  again fires Philip 4 his incompetence Stephanie ASKS philip 2 move in with her. Both leave the KIRiakis MANSION & go home and make out on the couch In the middle of the make out session, Chelsea was in & sees them.  Chelsea looking displeased tries 2 gets out of the house as soon as she can.

 

CHELSEA ASK TO SPEAK 2 STEPHANIE IN PRIVATEBUT SHE TELLS CHELSEA THAT SHE AND PHILIP ARE NOT HER BUSINESS.

STEPHINE AND PHILP GROWMUCH CLOSER WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS & SHE DEVELOPS PLAN TO TAKE HIS FOCUS AWAY FROM WORK. WHEN SHE MAKES A CALL PRETENDING TO BE A CLIENTE OF HIS, HE RUSHES RIGHT OVER TO MEET HER. SHE THEN SURPRISES HIM AT YHE DOOR BY WEARING A SULTRY NIGHT  GOWN 

  aFTER A PASSIONATE NIGT OF LOVE-MAKING STEPHANIE GOES 2 THE BATHROOM 2 CHANGE. UNAWARE THAT THERE WAS A CONTACT OFUT 4 HIS LIFE

WHEN STEPHANE GOES 2 THE BATHROOM 2 CHANGE THE THE HITMAN SHOOTS HIM WITH A SILEENCER GUN.  STEPHANIE SEES &STARTS SCREAMING UNCONTROLLABLY & CALLS 4  HELP. THE HOTEL STAFF RUNS 2 SEE WHAT HAS HAPPENED. SHE YELLS 4 SOME ONE 2 CALL AN AMBULANE. THE JANITOR DOES & PHILIP IS TAKEN 2 THE HOSPITAL.

 

UNAWARE THAT SHE HAD 4GOTTEN 2 CHANGE MELANIIE OFFER HER SOME CLOTHES THAT WERE IN THE DONATION PILE. WHEN SHE AND MELANIE GO AND ASKE LEXIE HOW PHILIP IS, SHE SAYS THAT HE HAS LOST A LOT OF BLOOD AND THAT THEY HAVE HAVE 2 WAIT AND SEE.STEPANIE CRIES 4 A WHILE. AFTER 2 OR SO HOURS, PHILIP COMES OUT OF SURGERY. STEPHANIE ASKS IF SHE COULD SEE HIM. 

   LEIXIE LETS HER GO IN FOR AWHILE. PHILIP WAKES  UP TUCHES HER HAND & SAYS HER NAME THEN SLIPS INTO CADIAC ARREST.

STEPHANIE'S UNCLE BO BRADY ARRIVES AT THE HOSPITALAND ASKS HER TO TELL HIM WHAT HAPPENED. HE TELLS HER NOT TO WORRY & THAT PHILIP IS TOUGH &HE'S GOING TO PULL THROUGH. 

 

 Philip does pull though after almost dying tice. Stephine makes an offer that Philip refuses when she suggest leaving Salem 2 get away from the drama he says that the Kiriakis don't run & he is ging to stay & fight. NOT LIKING HIS RESPONSE  SHE TELLS HM SHHE SHE CAN'T STAND THIS & HEAD 2 THE APARTMENT.

Rafe Hernandez played by Galen Gering

Rafe is the handsome FBI agent assigned to guard Sami Brady when she is sent into the witness protection program. Upon meeting Sami, Rafe is less than thrilled to be playing babysitter, and makes that very clear. He has little tolerance for Sami’s tirades, or her attempts to bend the rules of the program. All work and no play seems to be the name of the game for Rafe.

Will Rafe be able to protect Sami from the killer who’s hunting her, or will she drive him crazy enough to kill her himself The killer was taken care of by the SALEM PD sbut sami sill remained at the same house till sidney but who she she thinks is grace was born. Rafe agreed to watch grace untill she foud a way to bring her home. since GRACE KEPT GETTING RASHES THEY THEY DECIDED TO BRING HER HOME SONNER THEN PLANNED & RAFE TELLS HER HE'LL HELP HER GO FIGHT THE DI MERAS

Nicole Walker played by Arianne Zucker DAUGHTER FAYE WALKER PAUL MENDEZ SISTER OF BRANDON MENDEZ WALKER & TAYLOR mENDEZ WALKER

Nicole first appeared in Sale &m as an overworked, underpaid waitress at the Java Cafe. Sami soon decided that Nicole was just the new face to launch her "New Faces" campaign, with Sami's brother Eric serving as photographer. Once the cover of Bella magazine came out, Nicole went from nobody to somebody quickly.

Nicole took time in between photo shoots to find true love with Eric Brady. Yet her fear of Eric discovering the truth about her past kept her from becoming fully committed to their relationship. Nicole's insecurities steered her toward Lucas and his continuing temptations of money, power and fame. Although torn between her heart and her checkbook, Nicole accepted Eric's engagement ring and kept refusing Kate's offer of $5 million dollars to marry Lucas. However, while on a personal appearance trip in Chicago, two thugs violently threatened Nicole, demanding revenge. Unable to live with her fears, Nicole quickly cashed Kate's check and married Lucas -- trading love for the security and safety that Lucas promised. Eric wound up leaving town, while Nicole was left married to Lucas. She helped Lucas gain custody of Will, but was eventually enlisted by Sami to help HER get custody. She and Lucas eventually divorced and she set her sights on bigger fish -- Victor Kiriakis, her boss at Titan.

Nicole stayed busy, trying to fight her attraction to Colin Murphy, stealing accounts from Kate Roberts at Basic Black and renewing her relationship with Victor. He scared her with his warnings about being faithful, but she was convinced that she could control herself. As she went to a dinner where she and Victor were to become engaged, though, a bullet that was intended for him hit her instead. She was in a coma for some time and when she recovered, she and Victor became officially engaged. As a wedding present, he promised her he would destroy both Sami and Kate.

Victor surprised Nicole with a wedding one night at Tuscany. Unfortunately, Kate stopped this wedding at the last minute with papers that proved Nicole was still married to Lucas. When their divorce is final, she and Victor will be married. They planned a New Year's Eve ceremony. What Nicole didn't know was that Victor knew all about her affair with Colin. Nicole was Victor's prisoner. He forced her out of her job at Titan, telling her she had to stay at the mansion and cater to his every whim. Her life was hell, until Victor's grandson Brady moved in. Unhappy at first, Nicole soon found herself attracted to this handsome guy who was closer to her in age.

While Nicole fought her attraction to Brady, she also wondered how she would get out of her marriage to Victor. She teamed up with Jan to kill Victor and make it appear to be the work of the Salem Stalker. The plan worked, except that Victor (like other Stalker victims) wasn't actually dead.

Not knowing any of that, Nicole felt free to seduce Brady. Brady, however, was still hung up on Chloe. Nicole's break came with Chloe's mom told Brady that Chloe was killed in an accident in Europe. Nicole soon learned the truth: Chloe was alive, but seriously disfigured and never wanting to see Brady again.

Among the Stalker victims who weren't dead, was Colin Murphy. Since Victor was also discovered alive, Brady thought Nicole and his grandfather would renew their relationship. With "Stan's" help, Nicole schemed to keep Chloe out of the picture. The plan involved botching an experimental surgery. When Brady left to help Shawn, Rex and Lucas rescue Philip, he made a promise; when he returned, they would be engaged. Once Nicole realized Stan was Sami, she attempted to blow her out of the water, but Sami knew about Nicole's big plans. When Brady discovered Chloe was alive, he accused Nicole of masterminding her 'death', and kicked her out of his life. Heartbroken, Nicole plotted to destroy Chloe and Brady's wedding, but Victor managed to stop her. Later, Nicole and Kate bonded over their mutual hatred of Sami. Nicole dropped the bomb that Sami was "Stan," which eventually lead to Lucas calling off his upcoming wedding to Sami.

Nicole then set her sights on her old friend, Austin, who had come back to Salem for the wedding that didn't happen. Though Sami still pined for Lucas, she was not ready to give up Austin to Nicole! Things get further complicated when both Sami and Nicole go to work for Austin, and Nicole moves into Sami's apartment with the two of them to start the business. Both were instrumental in the hostile takeover of a Los Angeles company, but Austin discovered too late that the company's CEO was none other than Carrie. Sami was thrilled that the couple's chances for a reunion were destroyed. Nicole, on the other hand, had grown tired of her complicated living situation and the direction her life was going. After a stint of being drunk and depressed, Nicole finally agreed to be transferred to Austin Reed and Company's Los Angeles office. Before she left town, though, Nicole found time for a boozy one-night stand with Roman.

Two years later, Nicole has returned to Salem, ready to cause trouble for Victor, Sami, and Chloe - just to name a few! .

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In 2008, Nicole returned to Salem claiming to still be married to Victor. However, Nicole found out that she was still married to her first husband,Trent Robbins. She had thought that their marriage had been annulled; as a consequence, her marriages to both Lucas and Victor were invalid. Nicole hired E.J. Wells to represent her in her divorce from Victor. When Trent was murdered in September 2008, Nicole became a prime suspect. While working together, E.J. sometimes used Nicole to make Sami jealous. After being dumped by Sami, E.J. and Nicole had sex in an elevator (during which time he called out "Sami"). Soon after the elevator romp, Nicole discovered she was pregnant. Sadly, Nicole miscarried their daughter, but didn't tell E.J. about it, and pretended she was still pregnant. In January, E.J. proposed to Nicole.

In January 2009 Sami gave birth to her and EJ´s second child together, a baby girl, but Nicole who was angry at Sami because she was pregnant with EJ's baby and Nicole was not, switched EJ and Sami's baby with the baby she was going to adopt from a teenage girl named Mia.

Mia returns to Salem from Japan and heads to the DiMera manison. She asks to see Nicole, but Tony says she isn't home. Mia says she wants to see her baby, realizing her mistake, runs away. Tony then goes to the church to confront Nicole and says he knows Sydney isn't her baby and he was told by Mia. Tony warns Nicole that he will reveal the truth at the worst possible time

when phil9ip & Tony get into a scuffle & Tony dies at the hospatal it causes friction in the Di MERA HOUSHOLD BECAUSE NICOLE TELLS THE POLICE THAT IT WAS AN ACCIDENT. STEFANO BELIEVES SHE IS HIDIING SOMETHING.

some how she manages 2 deflect whats coming 2 her and she and ej get married

 

WHEN NICOLE RETUUNS HOME, SHE GET A CALL FROM EJ SAYING HE HAD ERRANDS 2 RUN.

 

HOPE STOPS BY 2 ASK NICOLE WHERE STEFANO IS & SHE SAYS THAT DOESN'T KNOW. HOPE: "THEY'VE STARTED THEIR TRAINNG ALREADY HUH? THE GOOD DI MERA HOUSE WIFE." NICOLE: I AM NOT GOING 2 SIT HERE & HAVE YOU INSULT MY FAMILY EJ IS A GOOD HUSBAND & fATER WE BOTH WOULD DO ANYTHING 4SIDNEY."  WHEN SIDNEY BEGINS 2 CRY SHE ORDERS THAT HOPE LEAVES,

NICOLLE SHUSHES  SIDNEY & THEN EJ ARRIVES. NICOLE ASKS HIM WHAT TOOK HIM SO LONG & HE SAYS ITS JUST ERRANDS. WHEN SHE SEES THE MENILLA ENVELOPE WITH SAMI'S NAME SHE FREAKS OUT.

HE CALM HER  WITH KISSES ON THE NECK & THEN THEY MAKES LOVE.

while NICOLE IS @ THE JAVA CAFE, SHE SPOTS SAMI & RAFE THEN BEGIN 2 PICK ON THEM.

WHAEN RAFE CALLS HER A BITCH & ASKS HER 2 LEAVE, SHE SUDDENLY SPOTS  DR. BAKER & ACT AS IF SHE HAS LOST HER KEYS. WHEN THE GUARD FOLLOWS HER OUTSIDE  SHE ACTS AS IF THEY ARE THE BEST OF FRIENDS AND TELLS HIM  NEEDS 2 LEAVE TOWN.

    WHEN HE TELLS HER THAT HE IS NOT A MAN THAT RUNS SHE GETS PISSED AND LEAVES.h

NICOLE TELLS SIDNET THAT SHE WOULD RATHER DIE THTHEN HAVE SIDNEY  BE TAKLEN AWAY FROM HER

E.J. TELLS NICOLE THAT THEY WILL BE HAVING A GUEST BUT HE DOES NOT ENTION WHO, WHEN DOCTOR BAKER SHOWS UP,, SHE GOES IN2 PANIC MODE. WHEN EJ CGETS A CALLFROM VICTOR, NICOLE GIVES HIM ONE MORE CHANCE 2 LEAVE WHEN HE GOES UP STAIRS 2 SEE SIDNEYSHE ANGRILY PUSHES HIM DOWN & FALLS UNCONCIOS MARY THE DI MERA MAID CALLS THE AMBULANCE .

Romantic Status: Her baby daddy is also MIA.

Mother of: Grace, though she thinks she's the mother of Sydney.

Teen mother who agreed to give her baby to Nicole in exchange for money to pursue her dance career in Japan. Turns out Japan wasn't fun, and she's missing "her" baby. Might turn out to be the cutest little thorn in side Salem has ever seen!

Fun Fact: Well, giving your baby to a crazy lady is kinda out there! Mia plans in japan don't workut so she heads backto salem to reclaim her child. Mia goes to Di Mera masion TONY ASWERS THE DOOR & MIA ASKED TO SEE NICOLE. WHEN TONY TELLS MIA THAT NICOLE ISN'T HERE SHE ASKED ABOUT SIDNEY. TONY PRESS MIA A LITLE & THEN SAYS THAT NICOLE LOST HER BABUY SO SHE GAVE HER HERS.ONE PROBLEM WITH THAT IS THAT SIDNEY IS REALLY SAMI BABY BUT MIA BELIEVES IT TO BE HERS. mIA SAYS SINCE NICOLE ISN'T HERE SHE BETTER GO.   

AFTER MIA WITNESSES HALF OF SIDNEY'S CHRISTING SHE RUNS TO THE SALEM DOCKS & CRIES. WILL SPOTS MIA & ASKED IF SHE'S OK. AFTER SHE VERRY RUDELY SHEWS HIM OFF, SHE APOLOGIZES.  

SO THEY START TO TALK ALITTLE AND WILL OFFE RS HRHER SOMETHING 2 EAT HE GETS FRIES & DISCUSS FAMILY ISUES. WHEN SHE SPOTS BO FROM SOME REASON SHE RUNS OFF.

MIA MEET UP AGAIN WITH WILL HE TAKES HER HOME & SHE MEETS BABY GRACE.

 

WHILE MIA IS AT THE BRADY PUB, SHE SEES THE NEWSPAPER& IN ARE THE ONES WHO "ADOPTED HER BABY" WHEN WILL COMES IN SHE SSEES THE DISTAIN 0N HIS FACE. MIA ASKS HIM WHAT'S WRONG . HE TELLS HER AOUT NICOLES PAST & TRYING 2 KILL VICTOR & THE PORNOGRRAPHY.

 

MIA CAN'T BELIEVE  WHAT SHE IS IS HEARING. SINCE DHE DOESN'T WANT TO LET ON THAT SHE IS "SIDNEY" MOTHER SHE TELLS WILL THAT THIS INFORMATION IS 4 A FRIEND & THAT SHE NEEDS 2 WARN HER . WHEN WILL IS FFINISHED & TRIES 2 CHANGE THE SUBJECT, HE GETS A CALL FROM SAMI SAYING THAT SHE NEEDED 2 RUN AN ERRAND & COULD HE WATCH GRACE.

 MIA CONFORNTS NICOLE& TELLS HER THAT THERE NO WAY SHE IS WILL LET HER BABY BE RAISED BY AN EX-PORNSTAR SLASH ATTEPTED MURDERESS. NICOLE PLEADS WITH 2 TALK  ABOUT IT & AT FIRST SHE IS IS UNYIELDING UNTIL NICOLE THREATEDS GER WITH THEPOSSIBILT OF GOING 2 JAIL 4 BABY BROKING. MIA TELLS HER HER THAT SHE IS A MINOR AND THAT THEY'LL GO EASY ON HER . NICOLE LETS HER KNOW THAT SHE DOESN'T KNOW WHO SHE'S DEALING WITH & THAT SHE DOUBTS THEY'GO EASY ON HER WITH THE WAY SHE'LL SPIN I.

 

nNICOLE TELLS HER THAT SHE REMINDS HER OF HER & TJAT SHE HAS HER WHOLE FUTURE AHEAD OF HER & THAT A BABY WOULD MESS IT UP. NICOLE SAYS SINCE MIA DOES NOT HAVE ANY FOUNATION THE BAB MIGHT BE PUT IN FOSTER CARE .

 

WHEN MIA REALIZES THAT NICOLE IS CORRECT, SHE CALLS WILL AND ASKS IF SHE CAN COME OVER AND PLAY WITH GGRACEonce again having 2nd thoughts Mia shows up at Nicole & E.J.'s wedding. WHEN FATHER MATT ASKS IF THERE IS ANYONE WHO CAN SHOW JUST CAUSE WHY THESE TWO SHALL NOT BE 2GETHER SPEAK NOW OR FOR EVER HOLD YOUR PEACE, SHE INTERUPTS. sHE SAYS,"i HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY. WHEN SHE IS ABOUT TO REVEAL THE TRUTH, NICOLE SAYS, "MIA PLEASE!" mIA SAYS, "I JUST WANT NICOLE 2 HAPPY." WHEN SHE IS ABOUT INTERUPT AGAIN, DOCTOR BAKER GABS HER ARM & TAKES HER OUT TO THE CHURCH LOBBY. THE DR. WARNS HER THAT MESSING WITH THE DI MERAS IS A VERY DANGEROUS THING. THEY HEAD 2 THE JAVA CAFE SO HE CAN SHOW HER WHAT THEY DO. AFTER SHE SEES WHAT THEY HAVE DONE& WHAT THEY'RE CAPOABLE OF DOING SHE SAYS THAT THERE IS NO WAY SHE IS LEAVING HER BABY THEM. DR. BAKER TAKER TALKS ABOUT THEM SOME MORE & ONCE AGAIN SHE CHANGES HER MIND

 wen  mia WILL AT THE JAVA CAFEE  PEOPLE FROM HER OLD HIGH SCOOL SHOW UP AND WHEN SHE GOES TO THE LADIES ROOM THEY TELL WILL THAT SHE USED DRUGS &B SHE CONFERMS IT,

Frankie Brady (née François Von Leuschner) is a character on the American soap opera Days of our Lives.

The role of Frankie was played by veteran Emmy-Award winning actor Billy Warlock from July 1986 to October 1988, from November 1990 to July 1991 and from June 26, 2005 to November 24, 2006. In 1990, Christopher Saavedra played the character in a flashback sequence.

Frankie, along with his younger "brother" Max were adopted by the Brady clan in the mid-80s. Frankie is now a lawyer and single, living in Washington D.C.

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Frankie eventually returned to Salem in the summer of 2005, keeping an eye on his younger brother Max. He and Max soon moved into the garage apartment at Jack and Jennifer's (recently vacated by Patrick Lockhart), and it became clear (to viewers) that Frankie was not over Jennifer. Frankie was initially concerned about Max's romantic involvement with their niece, Chelsea, but his storyline soon centered around Jack Deveraux when he learned that Jack was dying and Jack wants him to look after Jennifer when he passes. Frankie finally agreed, and stayed, if only to keep trying to convince Jack to tell Jen about his seemingly fatal illness. Jack insisted he wants to kept it quiet, claiming it is to save his family the slow angst of watching him die.

At some point during the winter of 2005, Jack disappeared, and everyone assumed he was dead after finding his car went over an embankment near a river, even tho they did not find Jack's body. Frankie was torn over keeping Jack's promise, or letting Jennifer deal on her own, with the help of her family; he finally decided on the latter, and went to leave town. But a fall on some ice resulting in a broken leg ends up keeping Frankie in Salem, and he and Jen mourn Jack together, eventually growing closer over the next few months.

Cut to summer 2006, Jen and Frankie are about to get married, while we find out that the disappearance of Jack was because he snuck off to a private hospital somewhere to die on his own. Except he is not dead yet, and he found his long-lost brother Steve, who was also thought to be dead, except now he has no memory of being Jack's brother. For their own reasons, they get each other to go back to Salem together. They end up at the church, and Jack accidentally crashes Jen and Frankie's wedding...

Over the next few months, Jen, Jack, and Frankie are living together, and Frankie uses his connections to try and find a cure for Jack, insisting they are not letting him die so easily this time. Meanwhile, Jen angsts over her old feelings for Jack and her new commitment to Frankie. The three are stuck in rare type of triangle in which all three really care about each other, and just don't want to let go.

But finally, it seems that Jack is completely cured, thanks to Frankie's research and treatments at the hospital and whatnot. Jack and Jen go on some reporting assignment, and get sort of kidnapped, and amidst the adventure of escaping, rediscover their feelings for each other.

After getting back to Salem, Jack and Jen are in the hospital for the last time- Jack is cleared to go home. Jennifer has made her choice, and she and Jack have a tearful parting with Frankie, who is understanding as he always knew Jack was her number one, and although it breaks his heart, he knows she'll be happy, and that's all that ever mattered.

Later, in September 2006, Jack and Jen accept a London job, and although Frankie stays in Salem a little while longer to help with some court cases, he soon leaves to work at a firm in Washington, D.C.

 

André DiMera
 

 

 

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André DiMera is a nephew of Stefano DiMera through one of his brothers. Having been employed by his uncle Stefano to get rid of any evidence of his faked death, André was the Salem Slasher.

 

In the summer of 1983, Renée DuMonde, Stefano DiMera's daughter, married Alex Marshall, an ex-cohort of the deceased Stefano. After she discovered that he had only married her because of her inheritance from Stefano, she told him, and everyone else she felt had done her wrong, exactly what she thought of them at a party that had been organized at the DiMera residence in honor of her recent nuptials. After she finished the very heated speech, she went upstairs, and was soon joined by Tony DiMera, who had realized his strong attraction to her during her speech, and the two made love. Not long after this, Delia Abernathy discovered Renée's body. She had been stabbed with a knife and a raven feather had been left by her side. Upon further forensic examination, however, it was discovered that she'd died from a poison placed on the knife - the stab wound had not been fatal. Renée had been the first victim of the serial killer that would soon be called The Salem Slasher.

 

It was exactly during this time that Tony seemed to have undergone a personality change. Although Tony was extremely furious at Renée's death, which caused him to offer a $1 million reward for information on her murderer, he seemed strange. He showed affection toward Anna, whom he had already divorced, and even seemed interested in Gwen Davies. Alone in the penthouse, he would receive strange phone calls from someone wearing a ring with a Phoenix insignia on it. Meanwhile, another victim was claimed by The Salem Slasher. This time, it was a nurse from University Hospital who moonlighted as a prostitute, Kelly Chase. Only a week after Kelly's murder, Gwen Davies was also attacked by the knife-wielding killer but escaped unharmed. Not long after this, a third victim was claimed. This time, the new bride of Eugene Bradford, Trista Evans. By this time, Tony seemed to desperate to pin the crimes on someone, supposedly to honor the memory of his beloved Renée. And finally, Tony found his scapegoat. Brett Fredericks, Anna's estranged brother, firmly believed that his sister had killed Renée and Trista. Brett had seen her wiping blood off of her fingers the night Renée had been killed, and Trista had seen her bloody hands as well. This seemed to be proof enough for Tony and he turned her into the police. However, she was not charged with the crime for lack of evidence. Not much later, however, a fourth victim, Leticia Bradford, was murdered by what appeared to be her cousin Eugene.

 

One night as Marlena Evans and Sandy Horton walked into prostitute Daisy Hawkins' apartment, Daisy was killed by the Slasher; problem was that he looked exactly like Roman Brady, Marlena's husband! Almost all of the Slasher's victims until now had been closely acquainted with Roman, especially Trista and Leticia; with this much evidence against him, Roman was arrested for the murders. Meanwhile, Tony was instructed by the "Phoenix" to steal a certain object called the Baka from Eugene. After much trouble, Tony was successful in taking the Baka from him.

 

In late 1983, Roman escaped from jail and faked his death by causing his house to explode. During his investigation, he figured out that the killer had framed him by wearing a latex mask of his likeness when committing the crimes. It was at this time that the audience learned exactly why Tony had been acting so incredibly peculiar: Tony was the killer. Or was he? As it turned out, Tony wasn't Tony at all. He was André DiMera, Tony's cousin and Stefano's nephew. Furthermore, Stefano DiMera was still alive, and he was the mysterious Phoenix. André had come to Salem at his uncle's request in order to tie all loose ends that had been left. When Stefano had been jailed earlier that year, he had faked a stroke in his jail cell. He had been taken to the hospital, where he made his escape and a different body from the morgue was tagged as his own. Now, he was eliminating any trace of his disappearance by eliminating those who could cause problems for him. At the same time, he was exercising his revenge on Tony for not being his son. André, who was a failed but classically-trained actor, had been given flawless plastic surgery so that he looked exactly like his cousin Tony. Then, the night of Alex and Renée's party, André took Tony's place while Tony was locked up in a secret dungeon in the penthouse. Renée's death, however, had not been planned. After Tony and Renée had made love, she'd realized that André was not Tony and so he felt compelled to kill her. Kelly Chase was murdered because she was one of the nurses on duty when Stefano was brought into the operation room; she was the one who put a body from the morgue in place of Stefano's and put his tag on it. Trista was killed because she'd discovered some discrepancies in the lab reports regarding the time and cause of death, and it would have been only a matter of time before she discovered the entire truth. Now that those people had been disposed of, André had to cover his own tracks. And so, having taken advantage of the fact that Eugene Bradford was the main suspect in the killings, André had disguised himself as Eugene and murdered Leticia. Leticia had a pet raven and lived with Eugene; Eugene had been a suspect two years earlier of being the Salem Strangler, so her death pointed straight to him.

 

Thanks to strategically-placed cameras throughout Salem, Stefano and André knew darn well that Roman had not died, and continued to monitor him as he tried to find out who was framing him for the murders. In the meantime, André learned Stefano's curiosity for the Baka. The object was an ancient artifact that had the DiMera family crest on one side, and the Bradford family crest on the other; it proved a link between the two families, which had been forged through a marriage in the 18th century. Legend had it that the Baka held power over the two families. In the hands of the DiMeras, the Baka gave a positive effect that made the family extremely powerful; in the hands of the Bradfords, it had the opposite effect. Stefano wanted the Baka to assure his strength and success. Meanwhile, André and Stefano attempted to drive Eugene crazy by conjuring up ghosts from his past. Secretly, André placed 3-D projectors throughout Eugene's house, creating ghostly images of Trista. And Delia called Eugene constantly on the phone pretending to be his other late wife, Bonnie. Although the ruse worked in the beginning, Eugene eventually learned it was trickery. Meanwhile, André began organizing a grand charity event for the hospital at Stefano's request. This spectacular event would be the setting for the final phase of Stefano's plans. Meanwhile, André continued to have Tony in shackles in the penthouse, all the while romancing Anna.

 

In early 1984, André finally began to slip up in his role of Tony. It all began with an old friend of Tony's, Louis Coureville, who was shocked when "Tony" didn't remember. This incident awakened Anna's curiosity. But she finally realized that Tony was not Tony when she accidentally discovered the dungeon in the penthouse. Inside, she found the real Tony in shackles wearing a helmet that kept him in the dark. Just as Anna was getting ready to help Tony, André found her and locked her inside the dungeon as well. Meanwhile, following Stefano's orders, André kidnapped Roman (who had figured out that Stefano was behind everything) and held him prisoner in the penthouse. Roman eventually escaped, although that was also part of Stefano's game. Now, everything was set for the last phase.

 

The charity benefit was to be a nationally-televised concert featuring stars like Al Jarreau and Billy Vera & the Beaters. André was to make one last appearance as the Slasher to claim his final victim, Marlena. At the end of the show, when Marlena would receive the money for the hospital, André was to come out in his Roman disguise and kill Marlena in front of millions, sealing Roman's fate forever. They would then quickly escape from Salem, while a bomb blew up the entire concert hall with everyone in it. André only had one condition: he wanted to take Anna with him. The night of the benefit everything was set. But just as André was going to kill Marlena on stage, Alex Marshall, who was extremely drunk, accidentally tripped André and foiled his entire plan. André quickly made it offstage and made his way to the closed-off prop room where an incredibly furious Stefano waited for him. There, Stefano told André that he was not going to help him. In fact, Stefano had never planned to help him escape because he was still very bitter over Renée's death! And so, Stefano escaped without him and left André to be killed in the explosion.

 

Despite uncle Stefano's rejection, André managed to dodge the police that had swarmed over the concert hall. After everyone was evacuated and the bomb disarmed, André ran into none other than Tony and Anna themselves. They had escaped the dungeon. Now, after months of torture in the dungeon, Tony wanted to settle the score with André. And they did it with a good old-fashioned sword fight. After an intense duel, Tony and André only managed to stab each other and both wound up being taken to the hospital. Problem: once in the hospital and out of their respective clothes, it was impossible to tell who was who. André continued to act like Tony so that he couldn't be arrested, because the police didn't know who to arrest. However, he knew it was just a matter of time before they figured out who was the real Tony. Fortunately for André, he received a very lucky phone call from Delia. Although Delia despised him, she felt compelled to help him. And help him she did. In no time, André was out of the hospital and on his way to London undetected.

 

About six months later, André was still in London acting in a production of Shakespeare's "Othello," when he decided to gain Stefano's trust again. Along with Delia's sister, Abigail Abernathy, he came back to Salem to retrieve one of the prisms Stefano was now desperately looking for to cure his brain tumor, which he saw in a newspaper photo dangling from Kimberly Brady's neck. However, when he arrived in Salem he was led to believe that Stefano was truly dead, so André decided to proclaim himself the new head of Stefano's Cartel. In trying to locate the prism, André murdered one of Stefano's cohorts, Maxwell Hathaway. Finally, he found out that the prism had disguised as a diamond necklace and it was going to be used at a photo shoot in Haiti for Anna DiMera Designs. So, André disguised himself as a pilot and infiltrated the plane going to Haiti, carrying Eugene, Liz, Hope, Tony, Anna, Bo Brady, Kate Honeycutt, Calliope Jones, his aunt Daphne DiMera, and Carlo Forenza. Halfway into the flight, André caused the pilot to have a heart attack and took over the craft, which soon crashed on an island in the Caribbean.

 

Thanks to the crash on the island and the confusion that followed, Tony was separated from the rest of the group, and André was able to assume the role of Tony once again to fool everyone. The performance of a lifetime came when Daphne died in his own arms as a result of injuries from the crash. Just as Daphne was about to reveal that "Tony" wasn't Tony, she died. In the end, André found that Tony had the prism. When he finally found Tony in the jungle with an island girl named Jasmine, they battled it out once again. This time, their fight involved bamboo sticks instead of swords. During the duel, they both fell into a patch of quicksand. And right then and there, Stefano, alive and well, showed up and snatched the prism necklace from around Jasmine's neck and left both André and Tony to die in the quicksand. While Jasmine pulled Tony out of the sand, André only sank into it and died. THE SO CALLED "DEATH WAS STAGED.

 

André returned to Stefano's island compound where the two formulated their next plan. Their goal was to acquire three prisms designed by Larry Welch's father in order to heal an inoperable brain tumor Stefano had. One prism was in the belly of an alligator, another in a necklace owned by Daphne DiMera which fell into Calliope Jones' hands and the third in Russia. André and Stefano also planned to use the opportunity to get revenge on their enemies by luring them to Stefano's secret compound and soon the timing seemed perfect for them to carryout their vengeance.

In 1984, Tony, Anna, and Alex Marshall formed a fashion company and picked Haiti for one of their photo shoots. In addition to Tony and Anna, aboard the plane to the shoot were Eugene Bradford, Calliope Jones, Bo Brady, Hope Williams, Liz Chandler, Carlo Forenza, and Daphne DiMera. Unbeknownst to the others, Andre stowed away! While in flight, he shocked his enemies by emerging and demanded the pilot to change courses. Because of his threatening nature, the pilot died of a heart attack and the plane crashed on a remote island. As a result of injuries obtained in the crash Daphne died in his arms. When Tony learned about his mother's fate, he and Andre fought which ended with Andre's demise in a patch of quicksand … or so everyone thought. In reality, Andre had escaped death and he and Stefano continued to plot revenge against their enemies. In 1985 Tony was forced to leave Salem, but was soon kidnapped by Stefano and Andre and stranded on a deserted island where he would spend the next twenty-two years of his life. With the "real" Tony out of the way, Andre's vengeance would be nearly unstoppable.

The Tony-Impersonation Years

(Please note, anytime the name "Tony" appears in quotes it reflects Andre posing as Tony). Under the guise of Tony, Andre returned to Salem in 1993 to marry his fiancée Kristen Blake. She and her brother, Peter, were adopted by Stefano as children when their parents were killed, yet Stefano had plans for her and "Tony" to wed someday. Stefano, once again on the verge of death, had told Kristen that he wanted to see them marry before he died. Kristen agreed to marry him, even though she was in love with John Black. However, on the day of the wedding, Kristen left him at the altar to help John find Marlena and Roman's daughter, Belle.

Meanwhile, Billie Reed decided to turn her life around and start her own cosmetics company, Countess Wilhelmina. To fund her venture, Billie convinced Alice and Maggie Horton to become investors. Unfortunately, Kate Roberts bought out Countess Wilhelmina to spite Billie for posing as the author of Jack's manuscript. Later that year, Billie befriended "Tony." He bought up 49% of Titan Industries and then brought Billie in to run the Countess Wilhelmina division.

"Tony" and Kristen were attempting to marry for the second time when John showed up at the wedding claiming that he had evidence linking Stefano to Curtis Reed's murder. However, when Stefano hopped in a car and drove off, John shot at the tires. Stefano had planned it so his car would go off the road and he would be "killed" in the crash. Kristen, blaming John for her father's death, married "Tony" on February 18, 1994. "Tony" learned later that Stefano was alive, but he kept it a secret fearing Kristen would leave him.

In late 1994, Kristen, "Tony," Peter, Jen, Bo, and Billie ventured to Maison Blanche, the DiMera Family home in the Louisiana bayou, for a charity event Kristen was holding there. Unbeknownst to the guests, John and Marlena were being held captive there by Stefano, but they weren't the only ones as Billie saw a woman who looked exactly like Bo's deceased wife Hope wondering the grounds. Unfortunately, nobody would believe her, yet an amnesiac Hope, called Gina by Stefano and his assistant Celeste, was in fact there. As the event went on, Roman arrived to arrest Peter for trafficking drugs through one of his nightclubs. Meanwhile, a jealous Celeste leaked gas into the cell where John and Marlena were being held and started a fire, but Roman managed to rescue them. When John emerged from the rubble, both Kristen and "Tony" were shocked and horrified to see him in shackles. Kristen was also shocked when she spotted her father Stefano who was supposed to be dead! "Tony" ran back into the fiery house to retrieve his father's computer which contained a file on John's past. He managed to get the computer, but Maison Blanche burst into flames before he could escape and, as a result, "Tony" went blind.

Upon returning to Salem, Kristen began sleeping with John. She had learned that "Tony" knew Stefano was alive all along and that he had also switched her birth control pills with placebos. Kristen left him and began living with John at his loft. She also managed to crack the notebook computer from Maison Blanche and was horrified to learn that John was a priest. Kristen told John the truth, but he refused to believe it. In search of the truth, they traveled to a parish where he served and his mentor, Father Francis, recognized him as Father Black. A woman from the parish also recognized him. John had put his handprints in a wall near the parish and he was shocked when they matched and he was forced to accept that he was a priest. Though he wanted to be released from his vows, a friend told John to live as a priest for awhile in order to see what he was giving up. Kristen returned to "Tony," who had bought a gun and was planning on killing John. When Kristen told him about John, he abandoned his plans. Later that year "Tony" regained his site, but he continued to lie in hopes of catching Kristen and John together.

When John was released from his vows as a priest, Kristen left "Tony" again to be with him. Meanwhile, "Tony" learned that he had a rare, but fatal blood disease and only had a short time to live and formulated a plan in which he would frame John for his own murder. "Tony" wrote his entire plan down in his diary and he also confessed his plans to Father Francis. When he learned that Father Francis was going to tell John the truth, "Tony" confronted him. "Tony" took Father Francis' blood pressure pills and agitated him until he had a heart attack. Later, "Tony" cut of Father Francis' oxygen at the hospital causing him to lapse into a coma.

"Tony" then journeyed to Aremid for Peter and Jennifer's wedding, yet his true intentions were to set his trap at the Blake House for John. At the wedding reception, "Tony" picked a fight with John and got him worked into such a frenzy that John shouted out he wanted to kill him. "Tony" then went up to his room and lured John there with a phone call. "Tony" disguised his voice and told John that "Tony" was the one who attempted to kill Father Francis. Up in his room, "Tony" and John fought. John eventually left through another door which "Tony" had sprinkled gunpowder on. He then began begging John not to shoot him as various Salemites listened in. "Tony" then activated a device that caused his gun to fire. When the Salemites finally got into the room, "Tony" was mortally wounded and died shortly after. Everything was going according to his plan except one thing - The "Woman in White" got a hold of his diary. Eventually, John was cleared of the murder charges and everyone assumed they had heard the last of "Tony DiMera."

It was seven years before the citizens of Salem learned that "Tony" was not dead, but had been kept alive and nursed back to health by Stefano. Although he still believed he suffered from the blood disease, a lie which Stefano convinced him of, he was otherwise healed from his gunshot wounds. "Tony" made his grand re-entrance at John and Marlena's anniversary party. He not only stunned everyone with his "resurrection," but with his new-found obsession with Marlena. He found out that the "Gemini Twins," Rex and Cassie, were his children with Marlena and used them to get closer to her. However, a short time later, he had another shock coming when he found out that John was his half-brother, from his mother Daphne's side. Since John believed "Tony" capable of anything, the newfound siblings were unable to form a relationship. Things quickly got worse for "Tony" and he was devastated to learn that Rex and Cassie were not his children after all and was furious with Stefano who knew the truth all along. Later, Stefano escaped to Europe and he was unable to get his revenge.

As the "Salem Stalker" murders began in 2003, "Tony" was quick to become the number one suspect until Mickey Horton agreed to defend him and got him out on bail. The night of the Horton Circus, "Tony" took center stage promising to reveal the killer. While dragging out the moment for dramatic effects, a bucket of blood was dumped on him and he was attacked by a tiger. While in the hospital recovering from his wounds, the Salem Stalker came in to administer a fatal dose of drugs. "Tony's" last words to the killer confirmed his knowledge of who the Salem Stalker was as he looked up into the eyes of Marlena Evans. "Tony" died while trying desperately to communicate the truth to the others.

Months later it was discovered that "Tony," as well as all of the other victims of the "Salem Stalker," had survived their attacks and were being held captive on the island of Melaswen. The island itself was designed to look exactly like Salem. He had hidden himself for quite sometime and, when he made himself known, the others didn't trust him. After sabotaging every attempt the captives made to escape, "Tony" finally revealed himself as the mastermind behind the whole shebang - a plot he cooked up to get back at everyone he felt had wronged him. As it turns out, he had never forgotten about his ex-wife, Kristen, who left him for John years earlier. He again faked his death after a duel with John, making certain everyone believed he was gone for good. Nevertheless, when the captives were making their escape, he set off a device that caused a massive explosion which, in turn, caused the sea around the island to become choppy and many of the hostages were feared dead once the others were rescued. In reality, "Tony" had some of them re-captured and sent to a DiMera Castle in Europe.

All the captives eventually escaped, but "Tony" wasn't finished wreaking havoc on the citizens of Salem. Using an intermediary, he enlisted Sami Brady into a scheme to punish all of those who had done her wrong, which satisfied his own need for revenge. After getting John hooked on painkillers as well as an assortment of other crimes, Sami eventually turned on him after he took Lucas, Brady, Philip, Shawn and Rex hostage. Because she was involved for months, "Tony" held it over her head and, once he was incarcerated, used the information to blackmail her into helping him break out of jail. Unfortunately, he was ultimately unsuccessful.

By using the DiMera wealth and power, "Tony" was eventually able to get out of jail so he could attend to Stefano, who was once again dying of an incurable disease. At first he was part of a plan that involved stealing John's comatose body from the hospital, removing one of his kidneys and transplanting into Stefano. When that didn't help, Stefano knew what it would take to cure his sickness - stem cells from Sami's unborn child whom she conceived with his son, E.J. "Tony" was enlisted to help get the cells by any means necessary and often tortured and tormented Sami. Ultimately, E.J. foiled all of "Tony's" kidnap attempts on Sami and they turned the tables on him and kidnapped Stefano in hopes that they could convince him to end the Brady/DiMera "Vendetta," thus getting Sami and her unborn child out of harms way. Stefano was released, but had not cooperated, yet his actions prompted the Brady family to investigate the cause of the war between their families.

A short time later, while searching for clues to end the feud, Bo, Hope, Doug and Julie discovered Lexie, whom every believed had died months earlier in a car accident, imprisoned in tunnels which ran from the DiMera Mansion to the abandoned Doug's Place on the lake. Despite narrowly escaping an explosion set by "Tony," Bo and Hope managed to rescue Lexie and reunite her with her family. To the Bradys, Stefano claimed that no one in his family was responsible, but privately blamed Andre and was furious with him for harming one of his children. Andre, still acting as Tony, declared he was doing it for the good of the family, yet Stefano was beginning to realize he had created a monster.

It would be Anna DiMera's return to Salem that would ultimately lead to everyone discovering that the man they believed was Tony was actually someone else. Once she arrived in town with letters she believed would help the Brady family uncover the truth about the Vendetta, Anna was asked to see Tony and get more information from him. As the plan was unfolding she soon began to suspect the man everyone called "Tony" was not, in fact, the real Tony DiMera. After convincing the Bradys of this, Bo confronted the imposter, who revealed himself as Andre, and demanded to know what happened to Tony. After a scuffle on a rooftop, Bo managed to get the upper hand and forced Andre to admit that Tony's whereabouts were tattooed ton Bart's back. Andre then fell from the roof and was taken to the hospital where he later escaped from as he had been faking his injuries all along. Yet the end of Andre's era of impersonating Tony was officially over, but, unfortunately, his reign of terror was not.

Because of all of his rouge actions, including his imprisonment of Lexie and stealing a piece of Benjy's liver, Stefano lost faith in Andre. Feeling betrayed, yet still wanting revenge, Andre continued to terrorize the Brady family as well as Tony, who after twenty-two years of being stranded on an island, was rescued by John, Marlena and Anna. During a duel with Tony, Andre accidentally killed Stefano's beloved, yet bumbling henchman, Bart. Stefano was distraught and, after he discovered Andre also killed Benjy, turned his back on him. Andre then went into hiding. Later, when an unbalanced Steve Johnson kidnapped Stefano and hijacked a newscast to draw him out of hiding, Andre found it as his chance to save Stefano and hopefully get back in his good graces. Upon arriving at the TV station, there was a very tense standoff, but, in the end, Andre managed to escape by taking Hope hostage. On a ledge of the stations rooftop, Bo tried to make a deal with Andre in return for Hope's safe release. When it became clear that wouldn't happen, Bo had no choice but to take a shot. Andre fell from the roof and was again hospitalized, yet this time his injuries were real.

While he lay helplessly in his hospital bed, Andre was visited by Shawn Brady, Sr. who had the notion of turning off his life support thus ending Andre's reign of terror once and for all. Shawn went as far as to barricade himself in the room with Andre, but, when it came down to it, he couldn't do it. Shawn didn't want to turn into a killer himself and he abandoned his plans. Seeing one last attempt to get revenge on his enemies, Andre feebly turned off his own life support, killing himself, in hopes that Shawn would be blamed. Ultimately Shawn was cleared yet, even from the grave, Andre had one more act of vengeance planned as he had contracted his former cellmate to kill John. The hit was made and initially seemed to go off as planned as everyone believed John was dead. However, Stefano had stolen John's body and tried to m DIED AT old him into what he had always wanted Andre to be - the perfect soldier.
ANDRE OFFICIALLY DIED AT THE HOSPITAL.





 

 

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The character of André DiMera was played alternately by:



Thaao Penghlis (1983-1984)

Wayne Northrop (1983; 1984)

 

Kimberly Brady Donovan
 

 

 

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Kimberly Brady is the daughter of Shawn and Caroline Brady. She is the sister of Roman and Kayla Brady, the half-sister of Bo Brady, and the adoptive sister of Frankie and Max Brady. Kimberly is the mother of Andrew and Jeannie Donovan. She is the ex-wife of Shane Donovan, and has also been illegally married to Paul Stewart.

 

At a young age, Kimberly Brady left Salem to try out her luck as a photographer in Europe, where she had befriended Daphne DiMera. During the summer of 1984, Kimberly returned to Salem on an invitation from Daphne. She pretended to have come to work for Anna DiMera Designs (ADD). But in reality, Kimberly was fleeing from something from her life in Paris. While at ADD, Kimberly came into contact with a hideous necklace belonging to Daphne that was being used in photo shoots. Kimberly actually found the thing attractive and decided to wear it to a social function. At this time, someone broke into her apartment and ransacked the place, while a different person watched the apartment and seemed particularly interested in her. Kimberly was unaware that several people were after the necklace. She eventually loaned it to Melissa Anderson. Meanwhile, the Brady family was concerned about Kimberly's distance from them. Since her arrival, she had spent very little time with any of them. Furthermore, Kimberly soon began inviting men to her apartment to show them a good time. It soon became clear that Kimberly was a prostitute; that's what she had done in Paris when her photography career failed. No one in her family knew, but the secret would be very hard to keep. Several people in Salem knew Kimberly from Europe. Kim was soon introduced to Captain Shane Donovan of the ISA, who was working on locating three powerful prisms. One of those prisms was in the necklace that Kimberly had borrowed from Daphne. As it turned out, Shane was the person who had been surveilling her home. When he confessed this to her, Kimberly realized that he knew she was prostituting. However, he promised to keep her secret. What he truly wanted from her were some negatives from a Caribbean photo shoot she'd once done. Shane needed those negatives to find the hideout of Stefano DiMera. Not long after this, a group of people from Salem crash landed on that island. While trying to rescue them, Roman was shot and killed by Stefano DiMera.

 

Kimberly was naturally broken up about her brother's death. But his death brought someone back into Kimberly's life whom she hated: her uncle Eric. In confidence, Kimberly told Shane that her uncle had sexually molested her as a little girl. Meanwhile, she kept a watchful eye on him, especially when Marlena (Roman's widow) allowed him to babysit her kids. She was right to be wary; Eric was soon caught trying to molest a little girl. After he was arrested, Kimberly testified to the police that Eric had molested her as a child. He was promptly arrested and carted off to prison. But despite being right about her uncle, the accusations that Kimberly made were met with anger from her own family. Shawn even suffered a heart attack when he was told. Luckily, she had Shane to comfort her. Meanwhile, Linda Anderson, who had been living in Salem for several months under the name Madame DuPrix, revealed herself to Kimberly. Linda just happened to have been Kim's madam in Europe and now wanted to blackmail her. Linda had in her possession a video tape in which Kimberly was making love to a stranger. To keep that video from being distributed, Linda wanted Kimberly to work for her again. At first, Kim gave into Linda's blackmail. But after deciding that she didn't want to continue with such a seedy life, she sought Shane's help. Without letting Shane know that she was being blackmailed, he told her an easy way to erase tapes with magnets. Shane's tip worked and Kimberly was able to stop hooking.

 

During this time, the mystery of the prisms was still hanging over Salem. Shane was especially preoccupied with it. This worried Kim, who had become quite chummy with Shane. However, his preoccupation was not about the Prisms per se; it was about an order he'd received. Shane told Kimberly that ISA chief Nickerson wanted her help in recovering the last prism. It was being brought through an ice skating troupe owned by Leopold Bronsky. Bronsky just happened to be a former client of Kimberly's. The plan was for Kimberly to seduce Bronsky in order to figure out the location of the prism. Kimberly was disgusted by Shane's suggestion that she go back to prostitution and told him to leave her alone. However, he reminded her that Roman had died trying to prevent Stefano from recovering those prisms. This really got through to Kimberly and she decided to help. But, she was determined to do it without sleeping with Bronsky. And she did, by drugging him and telling him afterwards that they'd made love. Kimberly found out that Bronsky called the prism "Diamond Ice", because it needed to be encased in ice; the third prism was a potent bomb that would explode if its ice casing melted. After many mishaps, the prism, disguised in an ice-skating costume, wound up being carried by Hope Williams. However, the prism was no longer in its casing and was about to explode. When Bronsky saw this, he forcefully took Kimberly and left the auditorium, intent on leaving the country with her before the prism exploded. Fortunately, Shane stopped him and later halted the prism's detonation process. Following the resolution of the Prisms, Shane finally admitted that he cared for Kimberly. But with the Prisms case over, Shane was no longer had to stay in Salem and was given an assignment overseas. Kim was saddened to see Shane leave because she, too, had begun to care for him. But shortly after, Shane returned. He missed Kimberly and had decided that she was reason enough to stay in Salem.

 

Kim and Shane continued their timid relationship, never quite admitting their obvious feelings to each other. During this time, a nobleman was murdered in Salem at a fashion show where Kimberly was taking photographs. The killer was presumed to be a British anti-monarchist named The Dragon, whose identity remained a mystery. All that was known about the Dragon was that he planned to eliminate all members of the British royal family. This episode was especially disturbing for Shane because his wife, Emma, had been killed in an explosion caused by The Dragon. As luck would have it, Kimberly saw the Dragon's face but then suddenly suffered a temporary attack of blindness. She kept the attack a secret, and simply claimed that she couldn't really remember what the Dragon looked like. Soon after this, Shane received a call from his butler in England asking him to come urgently. Since this also gave him a chance to check up on the Dragon, Shane asked Kimberly to come with him. Kimberly was still unsure of where they stood and didn't give him a definite answer. Frustrated, Shane told her to meet him at the airport. However, Kimberly suffered yet another attack of blindness and didn't show up. Later, after speaking with Bo, Kimberly realized that she couldn't let go of Shane and decided to go to England to find him. When she appeared on his doorstep, they argued about their yo-yo-like relationship. Finally, Shane admitted to Kimberly that he loved her, dispelling all of her fears once and for all. Following this admission, the couple at last made love.

 

Following this, Shane wanted to give Kimberly a special memento to show her how much she meant to him. He was going to give her his late mother's cameo. But when he went to the safe to retrieve it, he found the safe to be almost empty of its contents. Shane confessed to Kimberly that it was odd since only his dead wife, Emma, had known the safe's combination and the emotional value of its contents. Meanwhile, Kimberly continued to suffer from sporadic attacks of blindness, which only became worse as she stressed over the possibility that Emma was still alive. At this time, Shane and Kim received word that the Dragon was in Salem and had tried to kill Hope, so they decided to go back home. Once back in Salem, Kimberly went to see Dr. Neil Curtis about her blindness. Neil told her that she might be suffering from a condition called Papillitis, which could either go into remission or cause total blindness. He recommended that she try to remain calm and stress-free, which wasn't easy considering the circumstances. Meanwhile, Shane gave Kimberly his mother's cameo to let her know just how much she meant him. After finding out that the Dragon's next target was Lady Joanna Clapton, Shane, Kim, Bo, and Hope planned another trip to England. Despite Neil's warnings not to travel, Kimberly went along and continued to keep her condition a secret.

 

Once back in England, the group figured that the Dragon would strike next at a charity masquerade ball. While looking through the attic at Donovan Manor, Kimberly found an extravagant gown and decided to wear it to the ball. When she showed it to Shane, he was somewhat nervous about it but allowed Kim to wear it anyway. At the ball, a mysterious woman wearing a mask caught Shane's attention. Meanwhile, Kim also spoke to that mysterious woman, who said that she had a dress similar to the one Kimberly was wearing. Later on, the unmasking was held and Shane saw that the mysterious woman was Emma. Suddenly, the Dragon tried to attack Lady Joanna. While Bo and Hope took care of the Dragon, Kimberly and Shane took Emma into a parlour. Kim was shocked at the fact that Shane's wife was alive but tried to remain calm and helpful. Emma seemed to be drugged or under a hypnotic spell; she didn't recognize Shane and constantly repeated that she needed to carry out her "duty." Kimberly was suspicious about the fact that Emma had reappeared at the same time that the Dragon was trying to kill Lady Joanna, and deduced that the two events were connected. Eventually, Shane got through to Emma and took her back to his home. Kimberly was unsure about where she stood with Shane, especially when he saw her taking care of the fragile Emma. Kimberly also realized that the dress she wore to the ball had belonged to Emma and felt humiliated for not having been told the truth. Shane apologized to Kim and let her know that nothing had changed; he still loved her. Soon after this, Bo captured the Dragon and he was sent to prison. As a reward, the royal family rewarded Bo and Hope with a wedding. Kimberly and Shane attended the wedding while leaving Emma at home to recover. But as the wedding ended, Emma appeared a the church brandishing a gun. Still under a post-hypnotic suggestion implanted by the Dragon, she was about to kill Bo and Hope. Luckily, Shane subdued his wife. Again, he doted over her, leaving Kimberly shaken. As a result, Kimberly's bouts of blindness worsened. After this, Kimberly decided to return to Salem alone to let Shane and Emma work everything out. Emma knew that Shane and Kim were involved and subtly let Kimberly know that she wasn't willing to give up Shane. Despite Shane's protests, Kimberly returned to Salem.

 

Convinced that there was no hope for her and Shane, Kimberly stressed even more, and became almost totally blind. However, she refused to let anyone know of her condition, especially Shane, who continued to call and try to talk to her. Shane eventually returned to Salem with Emma, but sought Kim out anyway. Pretending she could see, Kim met with Shane and told him to stay with Emma and leave her alone. After that, Kimberly and Neil travelled to Cleveland to see an eyesight specialist. She was given the terrible news that she would be blind indefinitely. After this, Kimberly decided to tell her family about her condition. However, she continued to hide it from Shane. He finally discovered her secret when he visited her and she thought he was Neil. Nevertheless, the fact remained that Shane was a married man. Although he pledged his love for Kimberly, she couldn't ignore his marriage to Emma and pushed him away. Meanwhile, Emma got continously more jealous of Shane's love for Kimberly. Her jealousy finally exploded one day when she visited Kimberly to tell her that she was an obstacle in her marriage to Shane. During their fierce argument, the once-fragile Emma spotted Shane's cameo and decided to take it from Kimberly, since Shane had originally given it to her. When Kimberly demanded Emma to return the cameo, a furious Emma threw it against a window, breaking the glass. She then told a blind Kimberly to find the cameo, and proceeded to take it with her. The cameo meant so much to Kimberly that she got on her hands and knees and searched for it through the broken glass. Shane eventually found the cameo in Emma's possession and returned it to Kim as a sign that he still loved her.

 

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The character of Kimberly Brady was played by the following:



Patsy Pease (1984-1990; 1991; 1992; 1996; 1997; 1998)

Anne Howard (1990; 1991)

Arianna Chase (1992-1993)

 

Hope Williams Welch Brady
 

 

 

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Hope Williams Brady is the daughter of Doug and Addie Williams. Here is where her genealogy gets weird: she is the half-sister of Julie Williams, who also happens to be her stepmother. In addition, Hope also has half-brothers Steve Olson and Charles LeClair. She is the ex-wife of Larry Welch and current wife of Bo Brady. Hope is the mother of Shawn-Douglas Brady and John Brady. She has been one of Salem's long-suffering heroines. Somehow, Hope manages to pull through every ordeal with her strength and intelligence...and sometimes the help of her true love, Bo Brady.

 

Hope Williams was born in Salem University Hospital on January 10, 1974 (this is in real time. Later, for aging purposes, her birth date would be changed to December 24, 1963.) Her mother, Addie, had been suffering from Leukemia during her pregnancy; neither Addie nor the baby had been expected to survive the delivery. Addie had been determined to fight her illness and refused to give up. Hope's birth symbolized that no one must ever give up hope on something, hence the name Hope.

 

Three months after Hope's birth, her mother died by pushing Hope's baby carriage out of the way of an oncoming truck. Hope was sent to live with her grandparents, Tom and Alice Horton, while her father recovered from the tragedy. By 1975, she was back in her own home living with Doug. The following year, Hope proudly participated in Doug and Julie's wedding ceremony as the flower girl. For most of her childhood, Hope grew up with Doug and her grandparents. But in 1979, Doug precipitated into a marriage to Lee DuMonde. Although Hope was upset about the marriage at first, Lee spent time with her, and eventually earned Hope's trust. In fact, they got along so well that the following year, when Doug and Lee's marriage was coming to an end because of Lee's machinations against Julie, Hope took Lee's side! Lee continued to manipulate Hope in order to remain in Doug's life, so Doug sent Hope away to boarding school.

 

 

 

The following year, Hope returned as a fifteen year-old girl. She had been corresponding with Lee from her boarding school. Lee had convinced Hope via letters to stop Doug and Julie from remarrying, so she ran away from school. When she finally arrived in Salem, she was met with the fact that Lee had been pulling her strings. Hope quickly forgot any opposition against Julie and Doug's marriage and settled in Salem. She soon began to unknowingly flirt with danger, as she developed a crush on Jake Kositchek. Fortunately, Jake was not interested in Hope. Although they went out a few times, Jake never really took to her. Plus, Doug and Julie disapproved of Hope dating a much older boy. Besides, Jake found a girlfriend named Angel and dated her on the side. Jealous, Hope followed Jake and discovered that Angel was none other than Jessica Blake, her cousin! He and "Angel" were planning to elope soon. Concerned for Jessica, Hope informed her aunt Marie of Jessica's double life. Hope continued to keep her eye on Jake, while the Salem Strangler stalked Salem. Eventually, the body count began to mount and Hope felt more alone than ever, so she decided to go back to boarding school. It was a lucky thing that she left, because the Strangler was none other than Jake himself.

 

In 1983, Hope returned once again to Salem. Although it seemed like a relationship between her and Bo Brady was destined to occur, Hope first became infatuated with his brother, Roman Brady. Although there was plenty of playful flirting between Bo and Hope, she felt that Roman was the perfect man for her. Hope had moved out of her house as a result of a fight between her and Julie; Roman and his wife Marlena had offered to take her in while she and Julie worked out their differences. It was while living with Roman, and seeing how great he was to Marlena, that Hope developed her crush. Over the span of two months, her attraction to Roman grew into a what she thought was love. A confused 17 year-old, Hope came to the decision that she had to prove her "love" for Roman by making love to him.

 

She believed her best chance for this would be one weekend when Roman was to go to Lake Ewing for a fishing trip with his wife, Marlena. To keep Marlena from meeting him at the lake, Hope asked her friend Jane to feign a suicide attempt at Marlena's clinic, The Right Connection. While Marlena was busy with Jane, Hope hopped on a car and went to Roman's fishing shack with the excuse of bringing him a fishing pole he'd forgotten. Alone with him in the shack, Hope finally admitted her feelings to Roman. Roman gently explained to her that she was not in love with him. Although Hope was crushed, she understood that Roman could never love her. Nevertheless, she attempted to win him over and abruptly kissed him. At that point, Marlena and Bo, who had finally settled the Jane situation, walked in on Hope and Roman. It was not a pretty scene, and Bo punched Roman for "taking advantage" of Hope. The entire incident was cleared up, and Hope finally resolved her feelings for Roman. She soon began spending a lot of time with Bo. Eventually, she fell in love with him. However, she kept her feelings a secret.

 

 

 

While fighting her feelings for Bo, Hope was consistently courted by a little weasel named Brett Fredericks. Hope wasn't exactly thrilled with Brett and turned him down at every possible moment. Meanwhile, a sort of scavenger hunt propelled a relationship between Bo and Hope. When Renée DiMera was murdered, Tony DiMera announced a $100,000 reward for information on her killer -- a reward all of Salem, including Bo and Hope, was after. Though they didn't get the reward, the constant work together brought them very close. Bo was obviously interested in her, but continuously was annoyed with her. Bo was a very busy man at the time, planning a prison break for his friend Liz Curtis. Hope continued to get in the way and Bo was afraid that she would be hurt in the process. Bo was also involved with a gang called the Vipers, who took it upon themselves to beat the life out of Bo for having Pete Jannings, a gang member, arrested. Hope strayed from home for days to nurse Bo back to health, knowing full well that she was as much in danger as Bo. While Bo was delirious, he called for someone named Megan -- Hope felt her first pang of jealousy.

 

In time, Hope admitted her feelings to Bo. Likewise, he began to soften. They planned to show each other their love on Hope's upcoming 18th birthday party. In the meantime, Hope, Alice, and Julie made extravagant preparations for the party. Knowing that she would inherit a fortune from her mother on that day, Hope began buying expensive things for everyone. On the night of Hope's 18th birthday, everything initially went well. However, when Bo gave Hope a meaningful gift -- a poetry book given to him by his father -- she merely tossed it aside and gave Bo a present. It was a cashmere sweater. Knowing that Hope hadn't even bothered to put thought into that gift, Bo got angry stormed off. The argument continued throughout the night. Finally, Hope looked at the gift Bo had given her and realized how special it actually was. Wanting to apologize, Hope went to Bo's flat and made up with him. They almost made love, but the experience was interrupted by Doug, who disapproved of Bo so much that he had a heart attack when he witnessed what she was about to do with Bo. Doug's heart attack was the first of many obstacles for Bo and Hope, as the guilt of causing Doug's attack caused her to distance herself from Bo.

 

Trying to forget about Bo, Hope began seeing district attorney Larry Welch, who Doug found more suitable. And though Larry was very interested in Hope, all she could think of was Bo. Soon, Doug and Julie left for Europe to continue Doug's treatment. Hope was now free to see Bo once again. Unfortunately, Bo was busy trying to clear Roman of murder charges against him. The Salem Slasher, a serial killer who had begun his spree with Renée's murder months earlier, had framed Roman for his crimes. Bo wanted to keep Hope away from harm and constantly pushed her away. But Hope was her usual stubborn self and defied Bo's wishes. After Hope herself almost became a victim of the Salem Slasher one night, Bo seemingly gave up on her. He had a woman named Diane Parker move in with him and made it appear like he and Diane were lovers. Their ruse was quite convincing and crushed Hope. She turned away from Bo and, unfortunately, fell into Larry's clutches. Though she still loved Bo, Hope began to depend on smooth-talking Larry, who knew how to push all the right buttons. He finally whisked her away on a whirlwind trip and proposed to her. Hope was quite moved by the gesture but decided to think about it. Larry tried to get her drunk almost every night to get her to accept; she almost did, but then she received news from Salem. Bo had been shot trying to capture the not-so-dead Stefano DiMera, who had masterminded his nephew André "The Salem Slasher" DiMera's killing spree. Hope and Larry quickly flew back to Salem and Hope rushed to Bo's bedside. But he didn't want her there; he had just been told that he might be paralyzed and pushed Hope away. Heartbroken, Hope turned to Larry once again and finally accepted his proposal.

 

Despite her acceptance to marry Larry, Hope loved Bo. But whenever she tried to see him at the hospital, Diane would tell her to go away. Delirious, Bo was only asking to see one person, Megan. Whoever this Megan was, she was really irritating Hope. Wedding preparations were soon underway, and Larry did anything possible to keep Hope from seeing Bo. Thinking that Bo no longer loved her, Hope continued with her wedding plans despite everyone's disapproval of slimy Larry. Up until the last moment, Hope anguished over her feelings for Bo, knowing she'd be miserable with Larry. And at the last moment, before Hope was to walk down the aisle, Bo burst into her room and warned her of making the biggest mistake of her life. While arguing with Bo, Alice came upon them and helped them buy some time. While Bo forcefully took Hope on his motorcycle away from the Church, Alice arranged for Howie Hoffstedder, a friend of Bo's, to put on a wig and a wedding dress and pretend he was Hope. Once away from the Church, Bo and Hope argued about their current situation. Hope was deeply hurt by Bo and Diane's "affair"; Bo explained everything and, thankfully, worked everything out.

 

Unfortunately, everything worked out for about one hour. Bo took Hope to the Simmons farm in Brookville, where they hoped to become more intimate. Just as they were about to make love, sirens were heard outside and Bo had to hide. While waiting for Bo to come back, Hope was confronted by two men who forced her to write Bo as Dear John letter; they threatened to harm her family if she didn't push Bo away and marry Larry. She reluctantly obliged and was then kidnapped by the men. Later on, however, she informed them that she would never marry Larry. To show her that they weren't kidding around, the men had someone almost beat Bo to death in his jail cell (he'd gone to jail for committing several small crimes on his way to the Church.) The men, part of a mysterious group called The Cartel, were working not for Larry, but for Maxwell Hathaway, a New Orleans banker who wished for Larry's political career to soar. Convinced that Bo's life depended on her, Hope went back to Larry and promised to marry him. This time, they married for real, although she didn't make her misery unknown to Larry. Following the wedding, they agreed to sleep in separate bedrooms.

 

Following The Cartel's orders, Hope and Larry pretended to be blissfully wed, even though by now they despised each other. To keep an eye on them and ensure that nothing went wrong, The Cartel placed a man named James London as butler in the Welch home. However, London was quickly replaced by another butler who seemed to be extremely intrusive. Meanwhile, she longed to be with Bo. Not much later, Megan, girl Bo had often called out for when he was hurt, arrived in Salem. She was none other than Megan Hathaway, Maxwell's daughter and Bo's high school sweetheart! Hope was destroyed as she watched Bo and Megan spend time together but continued to put on appearances for his sake. At this time, Hope overheard a conversation between one of the members of The Cartel and Larry. The Cartel wanted him to get Hope pregnant, in order to boost his political career. Before Larry could even propose the idea to Hope, she told him that she was pregnant with Bo's child. Working against the clock, Hope created a false hospital file order to have Larry and The Cartel believe her story. Alice caught her as she was faking the documents, and Hope was forced to tell her everything! Fortunately, Alice agreed to help her, since it was a great relief to her that Hope didn't love Larry but Bo. Since Hope was already pregnant, supposedly, Larry decided to pretend that this baby was his. It wasn't long before Hope's pregnancy became public.

 

Hope and Alice knew how much these news would hurt Bo, so Alice devised a plan for them to meet in the underground tunnels that ran beneath Salem. Alice lured Bo there. When arrived, only Hope was there. Finally, they were able to talk, and Hope explained the entire situation to Bo. With that mess finally cleared up, Bo promised Hope that he would stop Larry and the people that controlled him. Suspecting Maxwell Hathaway, Bo used Megan to infiltrate his organization. He soon began working for Maxwell, although he had to prove himself several times. Meanwhile, Bo pretended to date Megan. Knowing that she and Bo couldn't afford to be seen together, they used a clever gadget created by Eugene Bradford to communicate with one another: walkie-talkie watches. And of course, Hope and Bo continued to sneak visits with each other in the tunnels thanks to Alice and Eugene.

 

One night, Maxwell invited Hope & Larry and Bo & Megan out to dinner at Blondie's. The night began very well, as Hope and Bo silently demonstrated their feelings for one another as Liz Curtis sang their song, "Whatever We Imagine." But later in the evening, Hope received a terrible blow. In the restroom, she found Megan crying. Megan explained to Hope that she'd had a child with Bo many years ago and had given him up for adoption. Bo acknowledged that he had been aware of this and had been meaning to tell her. Although Hope was angry at first, she decided to stand by Bo. In the meantime, he was ordered to go to New Orleans by Maxwell to guard an art exhibit at the World's Fair. A particular piece in the exhibit seemed to be very important to Maxwell -- a prism. Bo and Hope agreed that they would steal it in hopes that it would lead them to the truth behind Maxwell.

 

 

 

 

 

In New Orleans, Bo and Hope dodged Larry, Megan, Maxwell, and even Gwen Davies (who was sleeping with Larry), in order to see each other. Then Howie and Alice arrived and a plan was made to steal the Prism exhibit. Hope, Howie, and Alice distracted the guards while Bo stole the Prism and replaced it with a fake. The plan was almost perfect but the alarm went off. Bo and Hope narrowly escaped from the guards thanks to an unknown person who shot at the guards. Unfortunately, this same unknown person later attempted to take the Prism from Howie and caused the Prism to fall into the Mississippi River.Following the attempted robbery, Hope secretly met Bo at Oak Alley Plantation after taking great pains to keep their meeting a secret (Hope hitchhiked her way to the plantation with a tribe of gypsies.) The Plantation's only living soul was a drunken caretaker who too out out of his mind know what was going on. Hope and Bo rejoiced at their being able to be with one another. After she dressed up in an Old South period gown from the plantation's museum, Hope and Bo playfully acted as if they were in the Old South. Bo then carried her upstairs to one of the bedrooms, where the two finally made love for the first time...and the second time. They spent the next day with each other, playing dress-up with Old South period costumes. They topped off their magical day with a symbolic wedding in the drawing room of the plantation house.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After this, suspicion from The Cartel began to fall upon Bo & Hope after Howie was found at the scene of the robbery, and after they discovered the fake Prism on the exhibit. As Hope and Larry returned to Salem, The Cartel made its feelings known to Hope and they kept her on a very short leash. Nevertheless, she and Bo continued to see each other whenever possible. Meanwhile, Hope spied on Megan and discovered that she was not as innocent as she seemed. Even though Bo insisted that Megan had always been an honest girl, Hope noticed that she was plotting to manipulate Bo through the son he and Megan were searching for. A child, Zachary Parker, was actually found, but in no time it became known that Zach was Diane's, Bo's friend, missing son. Megan was indeed trying to manipulate him. They would later learn that Megan was the daughter of Stefano DiMera.

 

Meanwhile, Hope continued to fake her pregnancy. By now, she was needing to to use a pillow to demonstrate some development. While she did this, she prayed that Bo would soon unmask The Cartel before she ran out of time. But her time ran out too quickly. One night, one of the members of The Cartel who guarded her, Will Robbins, discovered the pillow. Knowing that she wasn't pregnant, Will attempted to rape Hope. But just as he was about to do that, Larry arrived and threw him off of Hope. However, Will wasted no time in telling Larry that Hope had been faking the pregnancy. Following a fierce argument, Hope punched Larry so hard that the blow sent him falling down the staircase. The fall had only knocked Larry unconscious, but Hope was afraid that she might have killed him. Not knowing where else to turn, Hope ran to the airport; Bo and several other people were on a plane that was preparing to take off for Haiti. Hope managed to get on the plane and told Bo everything that had happened. They would just have to wait until their return to solve the matter of Larry.

 

In the meantime, other problems arose. The plane they were on crashed on a Caribbean island. Although Hope came out of the crash barely unscathed, she and everyone else were afraid they'd never be rescued because the island was deserted. One day, Hope was on the beach when she stepped on a stingray. Naturally, the poison caused her to become ill but Bo nursed her throughout her sickness. Not long after she recovered, Hope happened to see a yacht off-shore and waved to it, not knowing that it belonged to Stefano DiMera (a second Prism that Stefano, the leader of the Cartel, needed was on the island in the form of a necklace that Daphne DiMera had owned.) At this point, two of Stefano's "Amazons" (beautiful but dangerous female mercenaries that worked for him) captured Hope and held her hostage on the yacht. Luckily, Bo rescued her once again. As they were heading back to the island on a zodiac, Bo and Hope watched as Stefano, atop a cliff on the island, struggled with Roman (Roman had tracked Stefano down to the island and had arrived to capture him.) Moments later, Stefano shot Roman, sending him falling off the cliff and landing on the beach below. By the time they got to Roman, he was barely alive; Roman died in Bo's arms. Bo and Hope briefly left Roman while they went to get help from the others, but when they returned Roman was gone. Apparently, Bo's body had been washed out to sea. Bo was devastated by Roman's death but kept his feelings to himself. All he could do was shut Hope out. Following Roman's death, the U.S. coast guard arrived and rescued everyone.

 

Upon returning to Salem, Hope discovered that she hadn't killed Larry at all. In fact, he had used the plane crash and her disappearance as a method of getting sympathy from voters to win the election! But at a press conference held for the returning plane crash survivors, Hope ruined Larry's victory. In addition to exposing Larry's connection to The Cartel, Hope declared that she was *not* pregnant, that she only loved Bo Brady, and that she was preparing to divorce Larry and marry Bo! While she received the expected reaction from Larry, Hope was shocked by Bo's. All he could say was that Roman's death changed everything. During one particular argument, Hope finally understood what Bo's problem was: he blamed her for Roman's death. If he hadn't been saving her from the yacht, he could've Bo...or so he thought. Knowing that Bo needed to work this out on his own, she decided to step aside. In the meantime, she prepared for her divorce from Larry (who was forced to resign his position as Lt. Governor) and began packing her bags. However, Larry was so furious with her that he threatened her. Fortunately, Alice was present to punch Larry in the jaw and keep him away from Hope.

 

Despite her separation from Bo, Hope still cared for him. One day, she heard that he'd been arrested for causing trouble at the Fish Market. While trying to visit him at the police station, Hope accidentally stood in the wrong line. When Bo was brought out of Abe's office and saw Hope, he laughed hysterically -- the line was for police academy applicants. Steamed at Bo's reaction, Hope sought to prove that she wasn't just a pampered princess and decided to join the police academy. To everyone's surprise, she was admitted and with flying colors! Bo continued to tease her, along with everyone else. And with good reason. On her first day of training, Hope showed up perfectly made up, clad in a fur coat. Naturally, everyone in the class poked fun at her. However, she began to take her classes more seriously after that day to prove that she wasn't just as spoiled rich girl.

 

Bo continued to shut Hope out of his life. During the holidays, however, she attempted to demonstrate that she still loved him. However, he continued to ridicule her for having joined the police which really pushed Hope's buttons. On New Year's Eve, Hope attempted to reconciliate with Bo following an argument they'd had. She was going to give him his Christmas present. But when she arrived at his apartment, she found her cousin Melissa wearing nothing but one of Bo's T-shirts. In tears, Hope smashed the present she'd bought Bo and left. Melissa later explained to Hope that nothing had happened, they had just hung out together -- Bo had spilled beer on her dress so he had given her one of T-shirts to wear while it dried. Nevertheless, it still hurt Hope to think that Bo had "traded" her for someone else. Since Bo was willing to spend time with other people besides her, Hope decided to dedicate herself to her police training. Despite her determination, some students still saw her as a cream puff. One in particular, Norma Kirkland, didn't think Hope had it in her to be a cop. Admitting that she did need to tone physically, Hope began working out at The Body Connection most nights; she also began ice skating, which she had done as a child.

 

Unbeknownst to Hope, Megan, who still wanted Bo, began to develop a serious hatred toward her. Even though Bo and Hope were separated, he still longed for her and ignored Megan. Several arguments sparked between Megan and Hope that caught everyone's attention. One evening, Hope arrived at The Body Connection to take a dip in the hot tub. As she was about to get into the tub, she found Megan lying in the tub seemingly unconscious. As she was about to help her, one of Hope's hairpins fell into the tub, producing sparks. An electrical current was running into the tub. Shocked, Hope ran into the machine room and turned off the electricity but it was too late: Megan was dead. By the time the police arrived, Hope was in a state of shock. However, Bo arrived and comforted her; when he had heard about the dead woman in the tub, he had thought it was Hope. Unfortunately for Hope, a murder investigation was opened, and it pointed her as the prime suspect. Not only had she and Megan been fierce rivals, but also her fingerprints were all over the electrical controls at the spa. In addition, one of the workers had seen Hope coming out of the machine room when Megan was lying in the tub. Even though Hope explained how those things happened, the police remained doubtful of her innocence. Bo, on the other hand, firmly believed in her. In fact, he deduced that Megan had been trying to set a trap to kill Hope and it had somehow backfired! Although the police didn't think that Bo's theory held water, there was not sufficient evidence to indict Hope on murder charges. Some time later the police found the evidence to support Bo's accusations against Megan and the entire matter was dropped.

 

Meanwhile, the whole matter of the Prisms became very clear when a third one was found to have been smuggled into the U.S. by a Soviet ice skating troupe. An invention of Larry's natural father Victor Chorvat, the three prisms held the key to curing Stefano from his tumor. It also was the key to amazing power. As everyone would later learn, this last Prism was actually the most potent bomb the world had ever seen, capable of destroying not only Salem but the entire state. Working with Bo and Shane, Hope infiltrated the Salem Ice Arena (where the skating troupe would perform) and searched for the Prism. After a series of mishaps, the Prism wound up being sewn into the headdress of one of the skating costumes. To keep it away from Stefano's people, Hope adopted an awful Russian accent, pretended to be part of the troupe, and performed in the show while wearing the Prism on her head. Unfortunately for Hope, the coach of the troupe, Sonia Romanov, caught on to her game when she saw Hope's pathetic performance on the ice. As soon the curtain came down, Stefano's people slid over to Hope and held her down while Sonia took the Prism from her headdress. The Prism was eventually recovered following a struggle between Marlena & Bo and Stefano. Later that night, however, Hope and Bo returned to his apartment only to be ambushed by Jimmy Porterfield and Kate Honeycutt, two of Stefano's goons. They were still looking for the Prism and mistakenly thought that Bo and Hope had it. Yet another fight ensued. During the struggle, Hope was shot by Honeycutt.

 

Hope had been seriously wounded. Although her condition was stable, the doctors advised Bo to give Hope something to look forward to. And did he ever! Bo proposed marriage to Hope! She tearfully accepted his proposal and they were finally on their way to a lifetime together. Hope managed to pull through and recovered from her gunshot wound in no time at all. As soon as she was up and about, she and Bo tried to prepare their wedding. However, everyone was getting in the way with different suggestions and ideas. Wanting to just get married, Hope and Bo decided to elope in New Orleans. They had a very difficult time getting there, and when they finally got there they decided that they couldn't go through with the wedding without their families. So they hitchhiked back to Salem. Once home, Hope and Bo attended a fashion show hosted by Anna DiMera Designs. During the event, Anna DiMera's boyfriend, Prince (soon-to-be king) Nicholas Arani II, was murdered right in front of Hope. A disturbed man had pricked him with a poisonous ring. Hope managed to elude the assassin, who turned out to be an anti-monarchist named The Dragon. His favorite pastime was killing members of the British royal family. Having actually seen his face (which no one had apparently ever done), Hope was now next on The Dragon's "to do" list. Bo wanted to help capture the Dragon before he and Hope were married, and Hope naturally wanted to help. After much harping, Bo allowed Hope to be part of the ISA mission to capture the Dragon.

 

On the tip that The Dragon's next Royal victim would be Britain's own Lady Joanna Clapton, Hope, Bo, Kimberly, and Shane flew to England and stayed in Shane's vast estate outside of London, Donovan Manor. Bo was there pretending to be an American rock star, which would give the group access to restricted Royal events without drawing attention to themselves! While organizing a concert for Bo, Hope was spotted by The Dragon. After chasing her throughout London, he caught her and took her back to his (believe it or not) castle in the outskirts of London. Hope managed to escape, only to be chased by the maniacal gun-toting Dragon. After dodging a few shots, Hope arrived at a bridge on the grounds and jumped into the moat. She stayed underwater long enough to let The Dragon believe she'd drowned. Afterwards, she caught a ride back to Donovan Manor with some American tourists. Hope related her harrowing experience to the others, but couldn't remember where the castle was. Unbeknownst to her, the castle belonged to none other than an old Donovan family friend, the Duke of Earl. Meanwhile, the group deduced that The Dragon would attempt to kill Lady Joanna at the upcoming Noblemen's Charity Ball, a splashy costume event. Bo would be the star attraction. The Ball began without any problems, and a good time was had by all...until Shane's "dead" wife Emma appeared. At that moment, Hope saw The Dragon approaching Lady Joanna. He tried to make a run for it and Bo chased him all throughout London. Hope wound up going after them as well, finally ending up at the bank of the Thames River near the Tower of London. There, she found The Dragon pointing a sword at Bo. However, he turned around and held Hope captive. Luckily, she freed herself and Bo defeated him.

 

For their crucial role in the capture of The Dragon, the Crown offered Bo and Hope a reward of their choice. Since they had been trying to get married for the past couple of months, Hope and Bo asked to be married in England with their family and friends present. The Crown graciously granted them their wish and arranged the travel arrangements for the family, as well as the wedding dress and ceremony. Although they were going to plan the wedding at Westminster Abbey, Hope asked for it to be held in a small church in the Cotswolds instead. On May 22, 1985, Bo and Hope were married in a spectacular wedding fit for royalty. But as they were leaving the Church, they were met by a gun-toting Emma. Apparently in a trance caused by The Dragon (who had escaped from jail), she was acting out The Dragon's revenge. She'd been programmed to kill Bo and Hope. Luckily, Shane stopped Emma from shooting the couple. Bo and Hope were hurried out of the Church for their safety and taken to their hotel. But when they arrived, they were met by police. While sightseeing a day earlier, Bo and Hope had stolen a milk truck in order to get back home (they'd been very tired.) Also, before the wedding, Bo had stolen a constable's horse in order to get to the Church on time. Because of this, he was arrested. At the police station, Hope tried to get Bo released, but all she managed to do was to get herself arrested. Since there were many people talking at the same time, she picked up a gun and fired it into the ceiling. She and Bo spent their first night as husband and wife in jail. Fortunately, Theo Carver, an old friend of Bo's and Abe's brother, was able to get them released by disguising himself as a magistrate. However, the Dragon oddesy was not over. Once back in Salem, Emma tried to shoot Bo and Hope again, this time while listening to a music box that played "God Save the Queen." Realizing that the song was the trigger for Emma's post-hypnotic suggestion, they her deprogrammed. Meanwhile, The Dragon finally died while trying to kill Shane at his apartment.

 

When they returned to Salem, however, Bo clashed with a one-eyed hoodlum who frequented Shenanigans, Patch. Now Patch and Bo clearly shared a past and hated one another intensely. But when Hope questioned Bo about it, he clammed up. It was obviously painful for him and the memories of that past began to haunt him. Worried about Bo, Hope unsuccessfully tried to get information out of Patch. All that Hope knew was that it had to do with Bo's time as a merchant marine and that the secret was connected to Bo's knife tattoo. Meanwhile, Bo told Hope that their friend Danny Grant, who had moved to New York earlier that year, had been secretly murdered. They went to New York City to investigate into the matter and found that Danny had been involved in some shady drug business that was connected to Savannah Wilder, a record producer who had recently arrived in Salem. Once back in Salem, Hope and Bo worked with Abe, Theo, and the new police chief, Richard Cates, eventually finding that Savannah's company was merely a cover for a drug smuggling operation.

 

Meanwhile, Hope graduated from the police academy with high marks, and received Norma as her partner. Norma soon began working with Hope to investigate corruption in the police department in order to find the connection to Savannah. One night, Norma was shot on the docks. Before she died, she told Hope that Cates had shot her. Realizing that Cates was the one covering for Savannah, Hope hurried to tell Bo. The two of them tried to leave town but were followed by Cates in a high-speed chase, which ended when Cates ran Bo & Hope's car off the road. Hope ended up tumbling down a ravine. Before Cates could get to her, she was picked up by a young monk from a nearby monastery. At the monastery, Hope recovered from her injuries with Brother Francis' help. She eventually told him about her situation and begged him to let her hide out at the monastery until she figured out a way to bring Cates to justice. She and Francis finally decided to send a note to Alice telling her where she was. Meanwhile, Brother Francis, who had grown attracted to Hope, kissed her. Francis was immediately troubled by this, but Hope gently told him that he wouldn't have to worry about this once she left. Soon after this, the note finally got to Bo. However, Cates also found out the contents of the note and reached the monastery first. There, he found Hope. Just as he was ready to shoot her, Brother Francis jumped in the way and saved Hope's life. At that moment, Bo arrived. Although he lost Cates, he and Hope were finally together again. Soon after this, Cates was killed by Abe.

 

However, the mastermind of the operation was yet to be revealed, although Shane Donovan, who had been doing some investigating of his own, had a hunch that it was Victor Kiriakis, a new citizen of Salem. Teaming up with Shane, Bo and Hope traveled to Miami to look for a certain treasure that Victor was seeking -- part of a puzzling mystery referred to as the three P's, the Purse, the Power, and the Pawn. With four clues to the treasure (the Purse), Bo and Hope roamed around Miami looking for it, beginning at Miami's Orange Bowl. Though they didn't find anything at the Bowl, they did take time out to play a hysterical game of football (Hope won.) Shortly after this, Hope was kidnapped by Patch, who was working with Savannah. He would only release her if Bo handed over the clues to the treasure. While being held hostage, Hope was tormented by Patch. He tied her to a chair and supposedly rigged a pan of acid over her head so that it would spill on her as soon as Bo opened the door. Imagine her shock when Bo came in and all that came down was water.

 

Despite this horrifying experience, Hope was determined to find the treasure. She and Bo managed to sneak into Victor's estate and found a book of codes (the Power) that Shane was looking for. They also found a map to the treasure, which was underwater in the bay. They successfully brought the treasure chest up from the bottom of the sea. But when they surfaced, they were met by Savannah and Patch holding them at gunpoint from Victor's yacht. Savannah and Patch forced Bo & Hope to give them the treasure and held them captive. But while Savannah was busy conducting a major drug deal on the deck, Bo managed to untie himself and got into a brawl with Patch. Meanwhile, Shane and Chris Kositchek raided the yacht and all hell broke loose. In the madness that ensued, someone opened the treasure chest. But the treasure was a trap - a time bomb that would explode in 5 seconds. In the nick of time, Bo and Hope jumped into the sea while the yacht blew up. Savannah, Patch, and Victore were arrested after the smoke cleared. Following this, Bo and Hope broke into Victor's estate once again to search for the real book of codes (the other one had been a fake.) Instead, they discovered some film in a garbage can. When they developed the film, they found a photo of the last and most important piece of the puzzle -- The Pawn.

 

Meanwhile, the secret of Bo's past with Patch continued to haunt Hope. Desperate, she sought Patch for answers once again. And once again, all she got was more intrigued. Finally, Bo decided to confide in Hope. It turned out that Bo and Patch had been friends in the Merchant Marines, but they had gotten in a fight when Bo found Patch in bed with his girlfriend, Britta. What tormented Bo most of all was the fact that he had put Patch's eye out. Although Hope was grateful to finally know this information, she still couldn't resist delving deeper into Bo's past with Patch, and especially his past with Britta. She decided to go to Howie for help. While waiting in Howie's office, a client came in. Hope took on the case, which was to capture a magician thief named the Amazing Klipton, and succeeded. She enjoyed working on the case so much that she asked Howie to let her become his partner. After much convincing he accepted and Hope quit the police force to become a P.I. Once partners, Hope told Howie that their first assignment would be to investigate the mysterious Britta. Meanwhile, Bo and Hope topped the year off by buying a new home, a rustic loft on the riverfront.

Bo and Hope eventually married in a beautiful ceremony. Having little money, and Bo having a desire to get to know his biological father, Victor Kiriakis, the newlyweds moved into the Kiriakis mansion. Shortly after, Hope became pregnant with their first child. The stress of how Bo was changing and becoming more and more like his father eventually caused Hope to miscarry the child. The miscarriage and Hope’s feelings toward Victor caused a rift in their marriage and they separated but were still deeply in love. During the time of their separation, Hope once again found herself to be pregnant. Hope gave birth to Shawn-Douglas Brady in 1987. Wanting a change, Bo and Hope boarded the “Fancy Face,” a sailboat Bo named after Hope, and sailed around the world, leaving Salem for three years.

Hope's return to Salem was short lived. She and Bo got involved with the vengeful Ernesto Toscano. In a storyline dubbed the Cruise of Deception, Hope was separated from Bo. Bo had been kidnapped by Ernesto and Hope was led to believe he wanted a divorce rather than live a quiet life in Salem. Eventually Bo and Hope were reunited and Hope vowed to work out the problems in her marriage. Ernesto, however, was seeking revenge for the events that occurred on his ship. He kidnapped Hope and several Salemites. He put Hope into a cage and held it over a vat of acid. Ernesto set off an explosion and made it appear Hope's cage had gone into the vat of acid. No body was recovered but it was believed Hope perished in the acid.

 1994

Four years passed, and Bo tried to move on. First he tried to be with Carly, but that ended badly (with her being buried alive—long story), then he found the possibility of love in Billie Reed.

In the Spring of 1994, the citizens of Salem found themselves at Maison Blanche, an eerie, mysterious mansion, owned by Stefano Dimera. While there, Bo proposed to Billie. Moments later, John carried an unconscious woman into the room, laying her on the bed. It was Hope.

She didn't know she was Hope, though. She believed her name was Gina. Alice Horton immediately took to her, knowing in her heart that this was her precious granddaughter. Unfortunately for everyone else, Bo refused to believe "Gina" was Hope. He wouldn't even let her go near Shawn-D.

 1995

A year came and went, and "Gina" got used to life in Salem. She had made some great friends, including Billie.

Alice found a puzzlebox that only Hope knew how to open. When "Gina" opened it, there was a note inside that Hope had written to Bo on their wedding day. He started reading it aloud, and "Gina" finished it, word-for-word, without looking. It was undeniable, now: Gina was Hope!

Bo had a major decision to make, yet he couldn't bring himself to do it. It wasn't Billie's fault that Bo's presumed-dead wife returned. He rationalized staying with Billie, because he knew Hope was strong enough to handle the rejection, whereas Billie was not.

During a stake-out (gone wrong), Hope was taken hostage by two thugs involved in a computer heist. She tried to escape several times, unsuccessfully, but managed to get a call in to Abe's office, and leave a quick clue as to her whereabouts, before being knocked unconscious. Bo arrived just in time to rescue her from the burning warehouse, and while trying to revive her, he made his feelings quite clear to Billie. "Hope, please don't leave me. I need you. I love you. Come back to me. Please don't die again! I can't live without you this time," etc. Billie left town, and Bo and Hope began their timid process of reconciliation.

Before Bo could tell Hope his true feelings (while she was actually conscious), she was caught in an avalanche on a mountain in Aremid, and "rescued" by Jude St. Clair, who took her prisoner. His plan was to make her pay for gouging out his eyeball when he attempted to rape her a few months ago.

Months passed, and Bo thought Hope had perished in the avalanche. He knew that must have happened, but his heart couldn't let go, and against his own better judgement (and everyone else's in Salem), he returned to Aremid to search for her. Hope's fever and near-death kept Jude from harming her. When she was better, he did some threatening and inappropriate touching, but never actually raped her. After finding her badge, and realizing Hope was in law enforcement, Jude prepared to kill her. But Hope attacked him, and escaped. Jude caught up with her just as Bo was cresting the hill, and after a struggle, Jude knocked her out. Bo knocked Jude out and was reunited once again with his Fancy Face.

 1999

In the Fall of 1998, Hope began looking into the four years she was missing from Salem. She discovered that she had been brainwashed by Stefano DiMera into believing she was Princess Gina Von Amberg, an art thief and forger used by Stefano to steal art in the 1980s. Hope was a dead-ringer for Princess Gina, and Stefano used her for the same purpose as the real Princess Gina. In early 1999, Stefano once again turned Hope into Princess Gina, and instructed her to steal a painting known as "Spring Morning". Unbeknownest to Stefano, the real Princess Gina and John Black had been having an affair. After being brainwashed again by Stefano, Hope had all of the real Princess Gina's memories and tried to reunite with the lover that she remembered, John. On the day of John's wedding to Marlena Evans, Hope presented John with a portrait that she painted of them. During the honeymoon, Hope orchestrated John's kidnapping and turned him into the man that the real Princess Gina loved. After the transformation, the two made passionate love on a submarine. Soon after, Stefano discovered them and turned John back into his current self. Having lost John, Hope seduced Stefano into not killing him, simply throwing him overboard. Stefano then instructed Hope to steal his painting. It was also during this time that Hope met the real Princess Gina, who had been imprisoned by Stefano in a castle in France, although Gina called herself "Countess Elsa". Through much work on Bo's part, he was finally able to rid Hope of the spirit of Princess Gina and reunite with her. However, their reunion was short lived as the real Princess Gina revealed herself to Hope and imprisoned her in the same castle turret that she had spent the last nine years in. Princess Gina then had plastic surgery, left Europe, and began to impersonate Hope in Salem.

2000

After the real Princess Gina was discovered and accidentally killed at her wedding to Bo, the Salemites traveled to the castle to lay Gina's body to rest. Inside the turret, Hope and Stefano, who had also been imprisoned by Gina, started a fire to let the others know they were inside. The fire quickly spread and became out of hand. Hope was rescued by Bo and Shawn Douglas. During this time it was revealed that Hope was pregnant with her second child. Because Stefano had erased Hope's memory of 1999, she did not realize that the child she was carrying could be John's or Stefano's. In June 2000, Hope gave birth to a baby boy that was named John Thomas Brady. However, Stefano would not allow the Brady's to raise a child that might have been his, and he switched the baby with another baby that his daugher Lexie and her husband Abe were adopting.

[edit] 2001

Lexie discovered that her son Isaac was really Hope's biological child and did everything she could to try to keep them apart, including attempting to turn her back into Princess Gina at a "Mother of the Year" Party she threw. It was at this party that the Salemites discovered that John was the probable father of J.T. Soon after, J.T.'s real biological father, Glen Reiber, came to Salem to find his son. It was during this time that Hope discovered that Isaac Theo Carver was indeed her biological child. Bo and Hope gave J.T. to his biological father, and renamed Isaac Beauregard Isaac Theo Brady, "Zack" for short. Hope soon had memories of her time as Princess Gina. During one of these memories, she remembered that she had slept with Bo in the fall of 1999 when he was under Stefano's control. Faced with the possibility that Bo was Zack's father, a DNA test was ordered. It confirmed that Bo was indeed the biological father of both of Hope's sons.

 2006

On New Year's Eve 2006, Zack was killed in a hit and run. After Zack's death, Hope learned that it was not a drunk driver or a random hit and run that killed her son, it was Bo's daughter Chelsea Brady that had killed Zack while driving Bo's car and that Bo had known since the night it happened. Already grieving for her son, Hope kicked Bo out. Shortly after Zack's funeral, Hope received a call from the Salem Police that Bo was drunk and at a motel. She went to a motel where she was told Bo would be. Billie Reed, Bo's ex-wife, got there first and climbed into bed with a very drunk Bo and pretended to be making love to him. Furious, Hope left, never making her presence known to Bo or Billie, although Billie knew she had seen them.

Hope left Salem and went to Morgan Island where she ran into Patrick Lockhart, a man she believed to be her friend. It turned out the bungalow she had rented was Patrick's and he had gone there to also get away from Salem for a time. While Patrick and Hope were growing closer, Bo was doing everything he could to reach Hope, sending emails apologizing for everything that he had done that he was aware of doing. However, Chelsea was intercepting these emails and changing them so that they would say that Bo wasn't sorry and that he was in love with Billie. Hope was devastated by the emails and soon turned to Patrick for comfort and they then made love.

Hope returned to Salem and demanded a divorce from Bo who couldn't understand what was going on. Chelsea continued to break them up by having Billie get into bed with Bo while he was asleep so that Hope would see them together. Chelsea meanwhile went on trial for killing Zack, but because of a DVD that showed her driving Bo's car while talking on her cell phone went missing, she was only sentenced 200 hours of community service. The disc disappeared because Chelsea's grandmother Kate Roberts paid police officer Eve Michaels to steal it. Unfortunately for Bo, he was in the evidence room at the time the disk was stolen and he was blamed.

Angry, Hope filed for divorce. At the divorce hearing Billie rushed in and admitted to everyone that it was she and Chelsea that set Bo up for everything and that he was innocent. Very soon after, it was revealed that Bo didn't take the evidence disc. Bo and Hope grew close again and things were looking up.

At Jennifer Horton and Frankie Brady's wedding on June 27, 2006, Hope fainted and was rushed to the hospital were she learned that she was pregnant. Hope was overjoyed but one thing put a damper on the celebration, who was her baby's father? After tests were run, it was determined that the baby was Patrick's. What was unknown to Hope was that Patrick had paid off Dr. Bader to fix the tests in his favor.

Even with this information Bo and Hope continued to grow closer and soon fell back in love over Christmas. Patrick realized this and soon kidnapped Hope and took her to an abandoned warehouse were he planned to take her out of town. Unfortunately for Patrick, Bo soon found them right as Hope's water broke. Bo busted in and helped her deliver the baby Ciara on December 29, 2006. Patrick then told Bo that he had bribed Dr. Bayder into changing the test results into showing that he was the father when Bo really was. Patrick eventually went to jail for a multitude of crimes and Bo and Hope went to the hospital with their new daughter.

 2007

Hope spent most of 2007 with Bo, John, Marlena, and Roman trying to end the Brady-DiMera feud and raising Ciara at home. On Thanksgiving, her son Shawn was married to Belle Black.

 2008

Hope helped Bo through a difficult medical crisis shortly after the death of Shawn Brady Sr. Bo became terminally ill and Chelsea was the only donor who could save his life. Chelsea helped save Bo's life, which helped to bring Chelsea and Hope closer. Hope helped Bo recover but as time went on Hope became upset with Bo due to his involvement with Phillip's feud with John Black.

 2009

On February 2, 2009, Bo's latest vision, similar to the one where he predicted Theo Carver's accident, came true. Days earlier, he saw a vision of Hope shooting Kayla. And she did. On the 2nd, while aiming at Mayor Marino's killer, Kayla tripped, and fell into Hope's line of fire. As she did, her gun went off, shooting Kayla in the side.

 

 

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The character of Hope Brady has been played by the following:



Kristina Osterhaut (1974)

Kimberly Joy Weber (1974-1975)

Natasha Ryan (1975-1980)

Tammy Taylor (1981-1982)

Kristian Alfonso (1983-1987; 1990; 1994-present)

 

 

 

 

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Lawrence Alamain
 

 

1990 one of his trusted friends was sent to find Katerina. Years and years ago, Jennifer Horton and Katerina were in boarding school together. Lawrence and Katerina were supposed to meet for the first time when they were teens, but Katerina talked Jennifer Horton into taking her place. When people came to Salem looking for Katerina, Jen stepped in and posed as Katerina again. Jen believed that after the phony marriage occurred, she'd be allowed to go free because all Lawrence wanted was the money. Jennifer, along with Alice who was posing as Cecily Smith, flew to Alamainland. There Jen was to marry Lawrence. Alice attempted to escape and get help, but Lawrence cought her and imprissoned her. Jen and married Lawrence, who knew all along that Jennifer was not Katerina. Lawrence raped Jennifer on their wedding night and held her prisoner. Jack Deveraux came looking for her and ended up being imprisoned in a cell next to Katerina's brother, Francois. However, Francois was really Frankie Brady. Jack and Frankie escaped and managed to find Jen. Frankie had told them that Lawrence was holding him prisoner and was going to trade him to Katerina for the Von Leuschner fortune and Bo Brady. Lawrence's plan failed and he set of an explosion which caused a chain of earthquakes trapping them all underground. Leopold helped them escape, but in the process he had a heart attack and died. Alice Horton suffered a stroke after returning to Salem and required surgery.

In late 1990, Lawrence came to Salem to find Katerina and the Von Leuschner fortune. Lawrence through a New Years Eve party at the end of 1990 and at the party, Emilio Ramirez was pushed out a window and fell to his death.

In 1991, Lawrence had begun to kill ISA agents of with a virus he had developed and shared with Victor Kiriakis. Kimberly Donovan befriended Lawrence, but was actually a spy for the ISA. However, Kimberly began to develop feelings for Lawrence.

Jennifer Horton filed rape charges against Lawrence, but Lawrence claimed that he suffered blackouts since he was a child and he claimed that he could not recall raping Jennifer. Kimberly worked with Lawrence to discover the cause of his blackouts. Lawrence had been taking medication all his life which he believed was for a blood pressure problem. It was actually suppressing the memories of watching his younger brother, Forrest, drown in the family swimming pool. Lawrence's parents felt it would be better that he not remember that traumatic day. While counseling and spying on Lawrence, Kimberly discovered a secret room in his house which had security camera tapes from every room in his house. Kimberly located the tape on which Lawrence confessed to raping Jennifer, but she couldn't expose Lawrence because her brother Bo was sick with the virus Lawrence was spreading and she couldn't blow his trust. Kimberly allowed Jack Deveraux to find the tape and Lawrence was sent to prison.

Later that year Lawrence was released and he was desperate to get back Kim's friendship and love. Lawrence learned that Kiriakis' henchman kidnap Emmy Borden. Lawrence bribed the henchman to work for him and Emmy was to be the bait to lure Bo to a warehouse. Once there, the henchman was to give Bo the cure. However, things went wrong and the henchman ended up giving Emmy a lethal dose of the virus. Before she died, Emmy confessed to Bo that she had poisoned him.

When Victor Kiriakis learned that his son, Bo Brady, was infected with Lawrence's virus, Victor offered to trade the "John Black" file to Lawrence for the cure. The deal fell through and during the trade the vial fell to the floor and broke. Luckily, Carly Manning was able to save some of it and reproduce the cure, saving Bo and many others.

In 1992, Lawrence saved Carly and Shawn D. when they were set adrift by Raffi Torres. Later that year, Lawrence's Aunt Vivian came to Salem to live with her nephew.

When John Black began searching for his true family, Vivian Alamain recognized the piece of locket that John had in his possession as being the second half of a locket that Lawrence's mother gave her two children. Vivian and Lawrence had the coffin of Lawrence's younger brother, Forrest, exhumed and sent to Salem. When they opened the coffin they were shocked to see it full of sand. Vivian and Lawrence realized that if John was really Forrest Alamain, then he would have the right to claim half of the Alamain Empire as his own. Up until now, Vivian had been running the half which rightfully belonged to Forrest Alamain. Lawrence and Vivian had decided to keep this a secret, but things changed. Carrie Brady had become smitten with Lawrence and had planted herself on his bed. When John learned what Carrie was about to do, he charged into Lawrence's house and ordered Lawrence at gunpoint to leave Carrie alone. Panicked, Lawrence shouted "You wouldn't kill your own brother would you?" Lawrence confessed everything to him and a DNA test proved that he was Forrest Alamain. When Victor told John that legally he owned half of Alamain Industries, John took over and forced his Aunt Vivian out on her butt. Vivian was furious that she had lost everything.

Lawrence hired Lisanne Gardner as the Alamain Corporate Lawyer and he also had a fling with her, though he really loved Carly Manning. After Lisanne did some snooping she told Lawrence that Carly was pregnant long ago. Carly admitted to Lawrence that she was pregnant, but she told him it wasn't his child. She claimed to have slept with another man shortly after they broke up. Later however, Carly admitted that the child was his, but he died after being born.

Later that year, Vivian Alamain brought her adopted son Nikki to the US. Lisanne did some snooping and eventually learned that Nikki was Lawrence and Carly's son that Vivian had stolen. Lisanne began to blackmail Vivian, but the two ended up in an argument. Nikki came home and saw Vivian falling to the floor and thought that Lisanne was hurting his aunt, who was really having heart problems. Nikki pushes Lisanne away from his Aunt and she fell, striking her head on a stone cat, which killed her. Nikki never knew he killed Lisanne. Lawrence and his servant, Ivan Marais, staged a fake car accident to cover Lisanne's death, but Bo Brady didn't buy it.

Lawrence soon learned that Nikki was his son by Carly Manning. Lawrence verbally attacked Vivian, who had a heart attack as a result. Lawrence told Carly about Nikki and the two discussed their options. First they both agreed to protect Nikki from knowing that he had killed Lisanne Gardner. They told Nikki right away that Lawrence was his father, but they didn't tell him Carly was his mother. When Carly and Nikki began to bond, Vivian panicked and tried to flee Salem with Nikki. Lawrence then burst into Bo and Carly's wedding and announced that Vivian had run off with their son Nikki. Bo eventually caught Nikki and Vivian before they could leave the country.

In 1993, Lawrence set out to break up Bo and Carly once again. Lawrence hired Bo's partner, Taylor McCall, to help him frame Bo for beating up a drug dealer named Cash. Lawrence hoped that a police brutality trial would cause problems between Bo and Carly. Lawrences plan eventually failed when Taylor provided Bo with a tape which cleared him.

In 1993, Lawrence's world crashed down when Carly Manning was believed to have died. However, Lawrence learned that his Aunt Vivian had buried Carly alive. Lawrence rescued Carly, but she was near death. Vivian had Dr. Wu come over and treat Carly. Carly pulled through, but she had no memory of the past 10 years. Carly still believed Lawrence to be James, the man she fell in love with years before she knew who he really was. Lawrence used this to his advantage, but Carly was eventually spotted by Bo and Billie. When Lawrence tried to flee the country with Carly, Billie stopped them and jogged Carly's memory by bringing Nikki to her. Carly remembered everything, but she remained in love with Lawrence. Lawrence, Nikki, and Carly all left Salem by the end of 93.

The two are now assumed to be happily married.

 

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Lawrence Alamain is the son of Leopold and Philomena Alamain. He is the brother of Forrest Alamain (John Black), grand-nephew of Vivian Alamain, and father of Nicholas Alamain. The Alamain were a prestigious European family of noble descent from an obscure Mediterranean country. From birth, Lawrence was betrothed to Katerina Von Leuschner, a member of an equally prestigious European family of noble descent. Lawrence and Katerina were to be married on November 2, 1990, Katerina's 25th birthday; in doing so, they would fulfill an alliance that would empower both families. Lawrence only met Katerina one time, at a dinner he arranged at her boarding school in Switzerland when she was a teenager. Shortly thereafter, Katerina disappeared. Finally, only two months before Katerina's birthday, she was located.

 

On September 28, 1990, the much-mentioned Lawrence Alamain appeared in New York City during a party at his country's embassy to meet his future bride. Katerina Von Leuschner was a ravishing woman with long golden hair and an air of elegance about her, who looked and acted just like she had when Lawrence had met her at the Swiss boarding school. There was only one problem: Katerina was an impostor. Katerina, the one Lawrence was meeting at the embassy and getting formally engaged to, was Jennifer Horton, an American from Salem and Katerina's best friend from boarding school. However, Lawrence was fully aware of this mistake. In fact, he was taking advantage of it. Lawrence knew that Jennifer would bring Katerina back to him. Meanwhile, Katerina was living in Salem, going under the name of Carly Manning. He had been keeping tabs on Carly through a company that he owned in Salem, Jencon Oil. Jencon was establishing an oil refinery near the Salem River, and their plans were met by much controversy because of the environmental and economic impact that it would have on the community. Many protests were made against the company, most led by Carly and a friend of hers, Bo Brady. Meanwhile, a producer named Porter Rollins arrived in Salem to begin producing a teenage horror film and attained Nick Corelli, Victor Kiriakis, and Shane Donovan as investors. The production of the movie was redundant, confusing, and plagued by mishaps. Money was spent but never accounted for, a fire broke out, ghosts haunted the set, and drugs were found on one of the actresses. The people affected by these mishaps were all tied to influential townspeople, and Lawrence was behind all of it. The movie was a ruse meant to distract everyone from his plans involving Jencon Oil and its hostile takeover of the forested Green Oaks area. Soon, the Jencon project began to be sabotaged by a criminal known as the Riverfront Raider. Also, Bo, Carly, and Steve Johnson began investigating Jencon, getting ever closer to finding out that Lawrence was the head of the company.

 

By marrying the Katerina impostor, Lawrence would gain the Von Leuschner fortune and also lure Katerina out of hiding. But Lawrence also had another ace up his sleeve. He was holding Katerina's younger brother, François Von Leuschner, hostage. Meanwhile, the wedding plans with Jennifer began. Lawrence feigned not knowing her real identity, but at the same time intimidated Jennifer into going along with her charade. In New York, the embassy hosted their engagement ball. All during this time, a strange man seemed to hover over Jennifer pretending to be English nobility. Lawrence would soon find out that he was Jennifer's snoopy, intrusive, journalist, off-and-on boyfriend Jack Deveraux. Lawrence also pretended not to know who he was, but managed to keep him at bay. Meanwhile, Lawrence was alerted to the fact that Bo Brady was the Riverfront Raider and had discovered various corrupt dealings that Jencon had made. Wanting him out of the way, Lawrence ordered for a bomb to be placed on a boat he'd rented, with a note attached that read, "Farewell Bo Brady. Your friend, Lawrence Alamain." However, the one injured in the explosion was Steve, not Bo. Steve survived the explosion and seemed to recover. However, Lawrence ordered someone in Salem to make sure Steve didn't survive because he had read the incriminating note. As Steve's condition improved, the doctor, who was working for Lawrence, switched his IV bag at the hospital. Shortly after, Steve apparently died. Apparently, but not surely. After Steve's funeral service, gravediggers working for Lawrence switched Steve's coffin for an empty one and took Steve away. Why they did this would never be revealed. Although Nick Corelli, who had been following Lawrence's orders, was arrested for causing the boat explosion, he was working on a plea bargain with the police; he'd tell them everything about Jencon in exchange for a light sentence. On Halloween, Nick was murdered.

 

At this time, Jack returned to Salem (Steve was his brother.) Coincidentally, a kind elderly woman visited the embassy looking for Katerina. The woman claimed to be Cecily Smythe, Katerina's childhood governess. Lawrence was fully aware that the woman was yet another impostor; she was Jennifer's grandmother, Alice Horton. Shortly after this, "Katerina" asked Lawrence to let her go to Salem with "Cecily" to visit a "sick friend." Lawrence kindly agreed and made all travel arrangements...to his home country. The unsuspecting Jennifer and Alice were shocked beyond belief when they boarded the plane and were told that they were being taken to Lawrence's country. Once home at his villa, Lawrence kept Jennifer and Alice under close watch, making sure that they didn't cross paths with his father, Leopold. However, Alice proved to be too smart for her own good. She managed to meet Leopold and sweet-talk him into driving her to the airport nearby. Before they could make it there, Lawrence reached them. Knowing that Alice was a danger, Lawrence had her locked up in the basement...next to François Von Leuschner.

 

It was now painfully clear to Jennifer that Lawrence had been setting her up all along, so she went to him, confessed that she was not Katerina Von Leuschner, and asked to be released from the engagement. But Lawrence refused. He told her that he had known all along that she wasn't Katerina; he had known for a long time that the girl he met in Switzerland all those years ago was not Katerina. In fact, he knew that her name was Jennifer Rose Horton, he knew that Cecily Smythe was her grandmother Alice, and pretty much everything about them. However, he couldn't call off the wedding because it would hinder all of the plans for the Von Leuschner-Alamain union. Besides, he had numerous fake documents proving that Jennifer was Katerina. To ensure that Jennifer wouldn't spoil his plans and reveal her identity, he took her to the basement and showed her to François' cell. François was Jennifer's former boyfriend, Frankie Brady. Lawrence threatened to harm him if she didn't go through with the wedding. And so, Jennifer continued to play the role of Katerina and married Lawrence. All throughout the wedding, however, Lawrence fantasized about marrying the real Katerina Von Leuschner. Obviously, he and Carly shared an intimate history that no one was aware of. Later that evening, Lawrence unexpectedly found Jennifer in his bedroom. Unbeknownst to him, she was waiting for Jack, who had infiltrated the villa. Jennifer tried to stall Lawrence by pretending to be there for him but the plan backfired. In a psychotic daze, Lawrence thought that Jennifer was Katerina. He then recalled a violent argument he and Katerina had had years ago. Angered by this memory, Lawrence began to make advances toward Jennifer. Despite her pleas to stop, he continued to force himself on her and raped her.

 

The following morning, Lawrence denied doing anything out of the ordinary and continued to keep Jennifer a virtual hostage. Meanwhile, Gregory, his right-hand man, informed him that Jack Deveraux had been captured. They were keeping him in the basement along with Frankie. Unfortunately, Jack and Frankie escaped that very same day. Lawrence's men managed to get Frankie back, but Jack was gone. Or was he? That evening, Lawrence received a slew of guests from Salem who had supposedly come to attend Leopold's upcoming birthday gala. These guests were Shane Donovan, Julie Williams, Kayla Johnson, and...Jack Deveraux. Lawrence was gracious enough to his "guests" but let them know that he had the upper hand by orchestrating an earthquake. Since the Alamains were big movie buffs, the entire Alamain villa was rigged with strange special effects devices.

 

By spying on Jennifer and overhearing her conversations, Lawrence discovered that his new guests were working with the ISA to bring him down as the leader of Jencon and the one responsible for Steve Johnson's death. Soon after, Lawrence received two more guests, the ones that Lawrence had most eagerly waited for: Carly and Bo Brady. Meeting secretly with Carly, their past relationship was finally revealed. Years before, Katerina had gone into hiding to avoid being married to Lawrence. To win her love, he tracked her down to Paris and met her under the assumed name of James. Since Katerina had never met Lawrence Alamain, she had not known that James was Lawrence. As James, Lawrence romanced Katerina and soon they planned to be wed. One evening at a café, Katerina accidentally discovered the truth about "James". A terrible argument followed in which Katerina tried to leave but Lawrence stopped her. Suddenly, an American merchant marine came to Katerina's defense and fought with Lawrence, allowing Katerina to get away and go into hiding, forever shattering Lawrence's dreams of marrying her. That merchant marine had been Bo Brady, and Lawrence still wanted revenge on him. This had been the reason for everything Lawrence had done. He had kidnapped François and would only exchange him for Bo.

 

Meanwhile, Lawrence continued to spy on Jennifer's meetings with Jack. He warned her to never stop pretending that she was his happy wife. But during one such meeting, Jack stole a kiss from Jennifer, who relented to his advances. Angered by Jennifer's actions, Lawrence vowed to make Jack pay. At Leopold's birthday party, Lawrence challenged Jack to a duel using real swords. Lawrence tried to seriously injure Jack several times, but Jack unexpectedly fought back and defeated Lawrence. Suddenly, Bo stepped out of the crowd that had gathered, pulled out a gun, and threatened to shoot Carly. Bo remembered Lawrence from the café all those years ago and knew that Carly was working with him to free her brother. However, Lawrence didn't move a muscle to save Carly. Instead, he let his guests argue among themselves until they discovered everything about each other. Just as Lawrence was ready to leave with Jennifer, though, Jack convinced her to free herself from him. Knowing that he'd lost his hold on Jennifer, Lawrence escaped through a trap door in the floor. Making his way out to a helicopter, he set a final plan into motion to seek revenge against everyone inside his house. At that moment, a fake earthquake, much stronger than the previous one, rocked the entire house. As a result, the people inside became trapped inside underground tunnels that would eventually collapse, burying them alive. In the meantime, Lawrence and Gregory were planning to escape the country with Leopold when they noticed that Leopold was missing. Fearing for his father's life, Lawrence returned to the villa only to find his father unconscious; he had helped the Salem crew escape from the tunnels but was caught in a landslide. Lawrence arrived in time to dig his father out, but he was unconscious. He later died in the hospital. After briefly grieving his father's passing, Lawrence gave the ISA the slip but vowed revenge.

 

Not long after, Lawrence reappeared in Salem, to everyone's shock. In spite of everything he had done, no charges could be brought against him because there was no evidence. Jencon ceased all operations in Salem and the movie production was officially terminated. What Lawrence did do was make a healthy contribution to University Hospital in order to gain social acceptance. Next on his agenda was getting the Von Leuschner inheritance. Since Jennifer had been revealed to be a fake, the Von Leuschner fortune still sat in the hands of Carly and Frankie. Lawrence refused to grant Jennifer a divorce unless she could convince them to give him their inheritance. Meanwhile, Lawrence decided to host a "Murder Mystery" party at his house (which had served as the horror film's set.) The point of this party was to figure out who had murdered Nick Corelli. Why? Because Nick had received a crucial letter with information about Lawrence the night he was murdered, and whomever had killed Nick probably had it. While everyone was distracted with the party, Lawrence sent men to the houses of every murder suspect to look for the letter. However, the letter was not to be found. The only thing that came from that night was yet another murder. At the stroke of midnight, the body of Emilio Ramírez was found in the garden; he had been pushed from an upstairs window.

 

Dodging any connection to either murder, Lawrence continued his relentless pursuit of the Von Leuschner inheritance. Knowing that Jennifer and Jack were engaged, and that she hadn't told him about the rape, Lawrence threatened to destroy their relationship by telling Jack that they'd "made love" on their wedding night. Desperate to keep Lawrence from doing such a thing, Jennifer got Frankie and Carly to give up their fortunes. After the inheritance was signed over to Lawrence, he agreed to a divorce from Jennifer. However, Lawrence still wanted revenge on Jack so he made a bid to take over Jack's newspaper, The Spectator. He knew that Jack would never be able to come up with the money to buy the other half of the newspaper, which belonged to Diana Colville. But miraculously, Jack did come up with the money and retained the newspaper.

 

During this time, Lawrence also calculated his revenge against Shane Donovan by obtaining information from his ex-wife, Kimberly Brady. Lawrence traveled to Los Angeles and orchestrated a chance meeting with her at an abuse clinic. Lawrence and Kimberly really hit it off and became fast friends. But when she discovered who he was, she told him to stay away. Nevertheless, they continued to cross paths once she moved back to Salem. Despite the Bradys' warnings, Kimberly befriended Lawrence. Their friendship grew as Lawrence began to open up about his childhood. With Kimberly, Lawrence felt so comfortable that he confessed to her that events from his childhood traumatized him. Because Kimberly's specialty was child abuse, she felt compelled to help him. Working with Kimberly, Lawrence remembered his mother taking care of him. Something about a "forest" seemed to haunt his memory. While working on the subject of his childhood, Lawrence and Kimberly grew very close. Even though Lawrence's pursuit of Kimberly had begun with an underhanded objective, Kimberly, as he once put it, intrigued him. He soon invited her to go on a trip with him back to his homeland. There at his villa, they almost made love. However, he knew that she still had doubts about him because of her family's warnings. But when the attacks on Lawrence became too harsh, Kimberly said good-bye to her family and moved in with Lawrence.

 

Meanwhile, a deadly synthetic virus was killing off ISA agents. Lawrence was the source of this virus. Along with Victor Kiriakis, Lawrence had secretly commissioned Dr. Jordan Barr to manufacture and propagate the virus in order to destroy the organization. The virus seemed to be working brilliantly and Lawrence hoped that Shane would soon be infected. Little did he know that Kimberly was secretly working with the ISA to nail him as the virus' creator. Gregory warned Lawrence that Kimberly was snoopy, but Lawrence refused to listen. In fact, he vehemently protected Kimberly against Gregory's accusations. So much so that he even threatened to fire Gregory. That night, Gregory tried to infect Kimberly with the virus while she slept, not knowing that Shane was watching his every move. When Shane confronted him, Gregory took a gun out and threatened to shoot him. At that moment, Lawrence walked in, and Kimberly leapt out of bed toting a gun and took Lawrence hostage. Either Gregory let Shane go or Lawrence was history. Lawrence could not believe Kimberly's betrayal and was truly hurt as he was led away in handcuffs. However, Lawrence knew that Kimberly did care about him. This belief was strengthened when she came to see him in jail, anguished over what she'd done to him. But Lawrence's stay in jail was brief; he managed to pin the entire virus plot on Gregory and got off scot-free.

 

Once out of jail, Lawrence faced another problem: Jennifer was pressing rape charges against him. Fortunately for Lawrence, there was no evidence of rape to be found anywhere (unless someone knew where to look, that is.) Since the rape charge was a long shot, Jack and Jennifer tried to figure out who Nick's killer was. They were sure Lawrence was the culprit. His New Year's break-ins at the suspects' homes had been discovered and made him a very likely suspect. Nevertheless, Lawrence wasn't worried because he didn't kill Nick. As far as the letter Nick had had in his possession, Lawrence was convinced it was gone and didn't worry about it. What he did worry about was gaining Kimberly's trust once again. To redeem himself in the public's eye, Lawrence helped Melissa Anderson be cleared of the murder of Emilio Ramírez. She had accidentally pushed him out of the window to his death, and Lawrence's security camera had captured it all on tape. This magnanimous gesture brought Kimberly back to Lawrence. In a heartfelt conversation, they both admitted to having entered their relationship with underhanded motives; and they both admitted to having feelings for each other. As a result, they decided to wipe the slate clean and start over. Kimberly moved back into the mansion, to her family's chagrin, and continued to help Lawrence recall the traumatic childhood event that so deeply bothered him. Lawrence claimed that he'd had blackouts since childhood, and that he couldn't recall raping Jennifer. In living at the mansion, Kimberly took notice of some pills that Lawrence swallowed frequently. Lawrence said that they were medication his mother had told him he must always take for his blood pressure. But Kimberly was sure that they were connected to his childhood trauma so she told Lawrence to stop taking them. Little by little, Lawrence remembered his trauma. When he was young, Lawrence and his younger brother, Forrest, had been riding their tricycles around the Alamain pool. Forrest had fallen in, and Lawrence had done nothing to help him, letting him drown. The pills his mother had prescribed him blocked out the memory; the pills actually caused someone to forget any evil deed they'd done. This was the information that was on the letter Nick had received, which is what Lawrence needed to protect himself from future criminal charges. All of this caused Kimberly to believe Lawrence was innocent of any wrongdoing. Soon, she and Lawrence became lovers.

 

Meanwhile, Jack and Jennifer had found the letter and were angered by the fact that it actually helped Lawrence. Convinced that there was proof that Lawrence raped her, Jack and Jennifer returned to the Alamain homeland and infiltrated Lawrence's villa. Knowing their every move, Lawrence surprised Jack while he searched his bedroom at the villa. There, Lawrence challenged him to yet another duel. This time, Lawrence drew blood by slicing Jack's hand, and won the battle, with his sword pointed at Jack's throat. If Jennifer hadn't arrived at that moment, Lawrence might very well have killed Jack. In an effort to save face (and feign innocence), Lawrence graciously allowed Jack and Jennifer to leave the villa freely. Unbeknownst to him, they had taken with them Lyla, one of the maids who had heard Jennifer's screams the night Lawrence raped her. When Lawrence returned to Salem, he brought with him a box full of video tapes. As it turned out, the security system at the Alamain villa had captured the rape on tape. When Lawrence realized that the ISA was aware of this fact, he decided to get rid of it. Without this crucial evidence, Jennifer's case against Lawrence was shot. Lyla's testimony wasn't enough for a conviction. However, on the final day of the trial, the ISA surprised Lawrence with a tape. It contained a conversation between Lawrence and Gregory in which he confessed to the rape. Furthermore, Gregory was ready to testify against him. Although the tape was legally inadmissible in court, nothing could stop the ISA from leaking it to the media, causing a detrimental scandal. Grudgingly, Lawrence pleaded guilty to the spousal rape charges. The only person to stand by him through this was Kimberly. However, it was Kimberly who had actually obtained that incriminating tape; she was still working for the ISA.

 

The ISA was interested in the rape charges against Lawrence because it made it easier for them to find a cure for the deadly virus, which was still killing off agents left and right. And Kimberly was to continue her charade in order to learn the location of the virus' cure. However, Lawrence continued to deny having the cure. In time, Kimberly became fed up with Lawrence and broke her relationship with him. Wanting Kimberly back, Lawrence decided to have Bo, who had contracted the virus, injected with the cure. That plan failed miserably, angering Kimberly even more. Seeing that Kimberly would never be his again, Lawrence quit his pursuit of her acceptance. Meanwhile, he secretly worked out a bargain with Victor Kiriakis from prison. Since Bo was his son, Victor wanted the cure. Lawrence decided to give Victor the cure in exchange for a mysterious "John Black" file that was in Victor's possession. Victor agreed to the trade and gave Lawrence the file. However, Lawrence double-crossed Victor. He ordered a hitman to destroy the vial containing the cure as it was being handed to Victor. Nevertheless, Carly managed to get salvage enough of the formula to devise a new cure. Though Bo Brady lived, Lawrence relished at the fact that he now had the valuable John Black file. With his attorney's help, Lawrence was able to get out of prison after serving less than three months of his sentence. As soon as he got out, Kimberly told Lawrence what a slime he was, returned his house key, and said good-bye forever. Lawrence didn't really seem to care; he already knew that Kimberly had worked against him all along. Right now, the mystery surrounding the John Black file was much more important.

 

John Black happened to be the alias that Roman Brady had adopted when he had first returned to Salem in 1986. Whatever Lawrence had up his sleeve involved him...and astronomy. As soon as Lawrence was able to, he went to Miami to search for an assistant with an extensive knowledge of astronomy. The perfect person for the job showed up unexpectedly in the form of the beautiful Gretchen Lindquist. Lawrence and Gretchen became lovers almost immediately and returned to Salem together to get started on his mystery project. Whatever it was, it would yield an enormous amount wealth. While in Salem, Lawrence noticed that Gretchen changed her looks and purposely avoided being seen by the real Roman Brady, who had returned to Salem following 7 years of imprisonment overseas (the other Roman went back to using the name John Black.) Knowing that Gretchen knew more than she was letting on, Lawrence forced her to talk. It turned out that she had worked for whomever had kept the real Roman captive. She had imprisoned Roman in the island of San Cristobal shortly before his return to Salem. Gretchen explained that because of Roman's escape she had been fired by her employer, who had always remained anonymous. Deciding that Gretchen was much too valuable to his project to distrust, Lawrence continued to work with her. Eventually, they went to Cancun, Mexico for the last phase of the project. They knew that Roman and John would follow them. The plan was to let them find the treasure -- valuable ancient Mayan codices -- and then take it from them. However, Lawrence revealed that he didn't plan to make money off of them. He was actually planning to turn the codices over to the Mexican government! One can only guess it was to regain some sort of public dignity. Regardless of his reasons, Lawrence and Gretchen followed Roman and John into the main Castillo at the ruins of Chichen Itzá. There, at noon on November 2, 1991, the light of the sun would shine directly into a temple chamber, revealing the location of the hidden codices. As John and Roman looked for the codices, Lawrence and Gretchen surprised them and held them at gunpoint in order to get the codices. But just as they found the artifacts, Bo Brady came running in. He had discovered that someone was manipulating all of them. At that moment, Stefano DiMera appeared in the chamber. Holding everyone at gunpoint, Stefano took the codices for himself. A gun battle ensued, Stefano was killed, and John recovered the codices. Following this, Lawrence returned to Salem empty-handed, somewhat of a hero for altruism, and completely Gretchen-less (she was revealed to be an ISA agent.)

 

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The character of Lawrence Alamain was played by Michael Sabatino from 1990-1993

Patrick Lockhart grew up with his mother Bonnie, sister Mimi, and brother Conner on the streets (his father David had an on/off relationship with his mother). He spent most of his time protecting his family and being the man of the household. He also was a childhood conman. While unclear why, Patrick left Salem and may not have even finished high school.

 

Patrick made his dramatic re-entrance to Salem when Jennifer Horton literally ran into him with her car. They were both taken to the hospital and Jennifer felt guilty because Patrick had no insurance and no place to stay. He soon tricked Jennifer into paying his medical bills. She then offered him a home in her garage apartment, which he gratefully accepted.

 

Soon after, it became obvious that there was more to Patrick Lockhart than met the eye. Jennifer and all of her friends were shocked when they learned that his mother was housekeeper Bonnie Lockhart. Patrick continued to live in Jennifer's garage apartment and took care of her throughout her difficult pregnancy, even mysteriously saving the baby with the help of an antique doubloon. It was soon revealed that Patrick had been doing dealings with some sort of mobster and had been hired to come to Salem to kill Jennifer, which since he had grown attached to her, he refused to do.

 

When Jennifer left to find Jack Deveraux, Patrick was determined to find her. He and Hope Brady took off in a cargo plane and followed Jennifer to the remote tropical island where Tony DiMera was holding all of the "victims" of the Salem Stalker. Patrick and Hope's plane was shot down in the ocean and the two swam to shore and found all of the "dead" people of Salem. Not long after, they ended up in the jungle, where Patrick delivered Jennifer's baby, Jack Jr. They ended up in Tony's compound, where Patrick's history as a DiMera operative became clear. He even helped DiMera keep some of the Salemites hostage. When push came to shove, however, he helped his new friends escape.

 

Patrick returned to Salem, where he returned to his old life. He grew closer to Billie Reed and to Hope Brady, both of whom trusted him, but Bo Brady did not. He and Billie briefly hooked up, but they both seem interested in others, namely Bo & Jennifer.

 

Patrick soon went to a place called Morgan Island and ran into Hope who had recently lost her son Zack. He comforted her and the two soon made love. While on the island Patrick admitted that he had been to the island before and that he had fallen in love with a woman named Alma Delgado and the two had plans to elope/wed and have a family. She was mysteriously gunned down before the two of them managed to run away. Patrick always felt guilty and that it was because of his dealings with the mob that had resulted in Alma's death. But with a letter found by Hope from Alma to Patrick it revealed that it was Alma's own mob dealings that had ended her life.

 

After returning to Salem he fell in love with Hope and tried to manipulate her into divorcing her husband. After Hope found out that she was pregnant Patrick bribed her doctor into changing test results to show that he was the father when Bo really was.

 

Even with the test changes, Bo and Hope began to grow closer so Patrick tried to get Hope to go away with him. Hope soon learned that Patrick was working with EJ Wells and had committed many terrible crimes including being the gloved hand and the murdering officer Eve Michaels. Soon after, Patrick kidnapped Hope and took her to an abandoned warehouse where he told her that he had only got close to her on Morgan Island because he was ordered to and that now he had been ordered by E.J. to kill her. Bo soon found them and when Patrick tried to leave with Hope, her water broke. Hope then delivered a baby girl that Patrick finally admitted was Bo's. Patrick is currently sentenced to 8 years in prison.