Kim blackmails Rex's biological mother, Echo DiSavoy, to convince her son to return the Buchanan fortune to Clint so she can pay her friend's medical bills.
On December 1, 2008, Charlie reveals that he had rebuilt Carlotta's diner, which had burnt down earlier in the year, in the image of the Bon Jour Cafe, naming it the Buenos Dias.
Carlo, bent on revenge, announces publicly that she and the Crown Prince (Cain Rogan in disguise) are frauds, and reveals that Jonas is the true heir to the throne.
Antonio, Sarah, and Cristian later return; they drug Carlo and Jonas and stage them in bed together, and Talia leads a team of reporters to discover the scene.
Eli Clarke first appears in Llanview in August 2009, when Nora and Bo Buchanan hire him to represent them in a lawsuit filed by their son, Matthew.
"[8] Daniel's controversial[8] storyline was compared to former New Jersey Governor, James McGreevy, to which Headwriter Dena Higley attributed the character's inspiration.
Hillary B. Smith, who played Daniel's wife Nora, explained that support groups such as Straight Spouse Network praised the story for bringing attention to those women who are dealing with their husbands identifying as gay.
Marty stays with Wes in a platonic arrangement, and her son Cole Thornhart and former love interest John McBain become concerned that she has taken up with a questionable stranger.
In 2011, Jessica Buchanan, who met Wes a few times during her stay in St. Ann's, develops an alternate personality based on memories of him and stories she heard from Brody.
He becomes a favorite instructor of Jessica Buchanan, who recruits him along with psychiatrist Rae Cummings and student activist and radio host Marcie Walsh to help her expose a scandal between her friend and another professor who had demanded sex in return for a passing grade.
In the meantime, Rae Cummings also deduces Haver's secret; he takes her hostage, forcing her to act out his twisted psychological ritual of posing as his mother before apparently strangling her and then immolating her isolated prison.
John is shocked to learn that Haver was once the White Rose Killer, whom he had hunted unsuccessfully during his tenure with the FBI; and who had murdered McBain's fiancée, Caitlin Fitzgerald.
Schuyler's ex-girlfriend Stacy Morasco comes to town, and he stumbles upon her plot to steal her sister Gigi's boyfriend Rex Balsom through blackmail.
[21] As Todd, Victor quickly made an enemy in police detective John McBain, and even had his own son, after being raped by Margaret Cochran.
In May 2011, the real Todd Manning arrives in Llanview with his "old face", after escaping from the top secret CIA facility where he had been held captive for the last eight years.
On the series finale, as Todd is being arrested for his murder, as Victor is revealed to be alive, bound and gagged on a bed, and being held hostage by Allison Perkins.
A disguised Marcie walks into the Bon Jour Café, not realizing that Victoria "Viki" Lord Davidson has been working there incognito to temporarily escape her life.
Weeks later, Eve is abducted by the Music Box Killer, and is forced to tell Natalie Buchanan that her dead husband Cristian Vega is alive.
The role was originally to be played by Mary Beth Evans, who backed out at the last minute,[31] when she got a contract offer from As the World Turns, where she had been recurring since 2000.
Though she is slowly able to deal with her grief over Hugh, Paige continues to struggle emotionally and ultimately decides to leave town to work with the humanitarian aid group Doctors Without Borders.
On August 22, 2011, Kimberly, who is in Anchorage, Kentucky working as a stripper at The Spotted Pony strip club, is seen talking to a mysterious comatose woman at a hospital.
[43] FBI Agent Lee Ramsey is assigned to track down Marcie McBain, who has taken her adoptive son Tommy on the run after custody is awarded to his biological father, Todd Manning.
Llanview police officers Antonio Vega and Talia Sahid are determined to get Bo his job back, and work with John to oust Ramsey and expose him as a crooked cop.
When Tina briefly moves in another room, thugs sent by United States Ambassador Jonas Chamberlain burst into the penthouse and shoot Ramsey to death.
In addition, Ramsey had been in Hesser's employ as part of the scheme with the Mendorran crown jewels, and had secured Carlo's secret release from Statesville Prison.
Longtime platonic friends with Noelle Ortiz, the two begin to grow closer in 2007 while they are seen during Victoria "Viki" Lord Davidson and Gigi Morasco's time in Paris.
Unlike Moe, Jeremiah is a mellow, peace-loving fellow who is shown to oppose the Vietnam War and deal in certain "medicinal substances," which he includes as ingredients in some of his baked goods.
[50] Dr. Spencer Truman comes to Llanview, Pennsylvania, in 2005; his younger brother, David Vickers, and ex-wife, Paige Miller, are furious to have him back in their lives.
In 2020, Candace Young and Charlie Mason from Soaps She Knows put Evangeline on their list of Daytime's Most Important African-American Characters, calling Goldsberry "the future Tony winner [who] struck one match after another as the Llanview lawyer whose case we never wanted to be closed.
Todd takes a proactive role in saving Evangeline's eyesight, believing her to be the only true friend he has left in Llanview after his own brush with death.