Sam would eventually follow in his father's footsteps, becoming the Harmony Chief of Police himself in 1999.

He has a younger brother named Hank Bennett, who is only slightly older than Sam's eldest son.

Since the Winthrop and Crane families are both affluent, the two patriarchs think a marriage between their children is far superior to Ivy marrying a Bennett.

But the night she marries Julian, Ivy realizes she does not love him and had succumbed to her father's wishes.

Sam leaves Harmony for several years and goes to Boston, where he saves a woman named Grace Standish from a fire.

Ivy blackmails photographer David Hastings into pretending to be Grace's first husband, from before the fire that took her memory.

When Hurricane Peggy hits Harmony, Ivy helps Sam place a beacon on the lighthouse to save teenagers, including the Bennett girls, who are stranded on an island after a school trip.

Grace, upon learning the truth about Ivy's plot, decides to come home and reunite with Sam.

However, she dies when a bomb explodes on the bus, she is taking to the airport to return to Harmony.