The community is a fictional suburb of
Philadelphia. It is thought to be modelled after the
Chestnut Hill section of the city,[by whom?] although the prevalence of
Welsh placename elements may suggest an inspiration from the
Welsh settlements in the area such as the
Upper Merion and
Lower Merion Townships, north west of the City.[citation needed] The series employs the Welsh language placename element Llan for Llanview, which is the county seat of Llantano County and located on the Llantano River, across from All My Childrens
Pine Valley. The
Lord family's estate is called Llanfair.
Llanview is the home of Llanview University and the
conglomerateBuchanan Enterprises. Town media is owned by the Lord family, with preeminent local newspaper The Banner owned and run by
Victoria Lord. The Banner's rival publication is The Sun, run by Viki's half-brother
Todd Manning. Llanview Hospital is the local medical center, and Angel Square is a central area located in East Llanview.
Llanview Woman of the Year - Annual banquet held at The Palace Hotel to celebrate and honor a woman of Llanview for her involvement and charitable acts in the community, notable because every year something disastrous happens to the honoree during the event. Honorees have included:
Go Red Ball - An annual fund raiser gala held at The Palace Hotel for the
American Heart Association to benefit heart health awareness; also notable because every year something disastrous happens during the event.
2009 -
Dorian Lord publicly revealed the missing Buchanan heir,
David Vickers and that she married him.
2008 -
Allison Perkins kidnaps
Jessica Buchanan holding her at gunpoint then falling over a high balcony, before revealing her big secret.
Llanview Man of the Year - Annual gala held at Shelter by the Llanview Veterans' Organization to celebrate and honor a man of Llanview for his involvement and charitable acts in the community, notable because every year something disastrous happens to the honoree during the event. Honorees have included:
2013 -
Bo Buchanan - His award presentation was crashed by his drunken (and drugged by Carl Peterson and Jeffrey Wright, who were both part of an evil organization to take down the Lord, Manning, and Buchanan families) brother
Clint Buchanan (who originally was supposed to receive the award before he was dumped in favor for Bo after he punched out Shelter's doorman Diego Padilla in a intoxicated rage), who had a public meltdown during the gala before he was taken to the hospital.
Paul Cramer sets off a major chain of events between Llanview and Pine Valley by helping his sister
Kelly Cramer obtain a baby after she miscarries and attempts to hide the truth from her husband
Kevin Buchanan. While
Babe Carey and
Bianca Montgomery are simultaneously in labor, Paul fakes a helicopter crash and switches the babies around, giving
Babe's child to Kelly and
Bianca's child to Babe. The truth about the babies' identities is ultimately revealed in the resulting three-way custody battle. Paul is eventually murdered, and the backlash is as equally explosive as the Baby Switch itself.
Killing Club Killer (February 2005 - August 2005)
A serial killer, re-enacting the events in
Marcie Walsh's new
novel, kills or kidnaps those close to her; the killer is later revealed to be someone from her past who holds a grudge against her; her former high school classmate and current publisher, Hayes Barber.
A terrible storm hits Llanview on the day of Marcie Walsh and
Michael McBain's wedding day. St. James' rectory collapses, resulting in life-threatening injuries to
Kelly Cramer and the death of
Duke Buchanan. The adoptive parents of
Tommy McBain are also killed, and
Evangeline Williamson is temporarily rendered
blind from flying broken glass.
One Pure People Arson Attacks (December 2006 - August 2007)
At B.E.'s annual shareholders' meeting in the Palace Hotel,
Dorian Lord announces her hostile takeover after revealing that
Jared Banks is in fact not
Asa Buchanan's son. Afterward, Jared and
Nash Brennan fight, and Nash falls through a skylight to his death.
Baby Switch 2 (November 2008-June 2009)
The storyline begins when
Starr Manning finds herself pregnant with
Cole Thornhart's baby.
Jessica Brennan also became pregnant with the late
Nash Brennan's baby. On November 6, Starr's water breaks and goes into labor. Meanwhile, Tess, Jessica's alter ego, plots revenge against her sister and boyfriend,
Natalie Buchanan and
Jared Banks. After planting a bomb on Natalie and Jared, Tess goes into premature labor. Starr gives birth to a girl, who she names
Hope with the help of the baby's adoptive mother,
Marcie McBain and Starr's mother,
Blair Manning. With the help of Tess's mother, Viki's alter ego, Niki (which was only Tess's imagination), Tess gave birth to a stillborn baby girl, who she named Chloe. Chloe's death resulted in a second alter ego, Bess. Bess goes to the hospital and switches her dead baby with Starr's baby. Chloe died of Rh disease. Starr and Cole were tested and came out both Rh negative. Throughout the storyline, the Manning family mourned Hope's death. In June 2009, Jessica admitted to causing the whole switch and gave Starr and Cole back their baby. As of today, Jessica is mourning Chloe's death and Starr is raising Hope with the help of Cole and the rest of her family.
A series of stabbings in 2009 is suspected to be the work of the same killer. The victims are each left with a letter from the alphabet, seemingly the killer's calling card:
Lee Halpern (K),
Wes Granger (A), and
Blair Cramer (D), who survives. With these clues seemingly pointing to the 1993 gang rape of
Marty Saybrooke at the KAD fraternity house at Llanview University, Todd — who has a grudge against each of the victims — is the initial suspect. Suspicion then falls upon Zach Rosen, another of Marty's rapists, but the killer appears to still be at large when
Talia Sahid is murdered while Zach is in custody. The killer is ultimately revealed to be
Powell Lord III, Todd's cousin and yet another of Marty's rapists.[3] Assisted by
Rebecca Lewis, Powell's one-time fiancée and Todd's former love, Powell kidnaps Todd, Marty, and Todd's ex-wives Blair and
Téa Delgado to give Marty closure by punishing Todd.[3]
Llanview Blizzard (February 2010)
A blizzard rolls into Llanview and evil cult leader,
Mitch Laurence, who previously faked his death, kidnaps his daughter
Jessica Buchanan and brings her to Llantano Mountain, with intention to reclaim his cult legacy through his son
Rex Balsom's unborn child. While many people try to save her, a huge car crash happens injuring many people. Mitch kidnaps the carrier of Rex's baby
Stacy Morasco, whose actual father is actually
Oliver Fish. When Mitch finds out that Oliver is the father, he abandons Stacy in a blizzard on top of Llantano mountain. Jessica's boyfriend
Brody Lovett comes to save her, but Mitch had already put Jessica in his plan, giving her selective amnesia so she can't remember anything past her high school years.
Dorian Lord and
Charlie Banks makes an appearance on Llantano Mountain where Charlie was planning to kill Mitch, but accidentally shoots Mitch's nurse, Nurse Charles, and Jessica. The police come and stop everything, arresting Mitch and bringing Jessica to the hospital. Meanwhile, Stacy's sister
Gigi Morasco finds her and helps her give birth to Sierra Rose, but while on the way to the hospital, Stacy falls in the ice and drowns.
The Tale of Two Todds / Who Shot Victor Lord Jr. Murder Mystery (May 2011 - January 2012)
A man with
Todd Manning's old face and his old scar arrives in Llanview after escaping from being held captive in a secret compound in
Louisiana for eight years. When he first sees another person who claims he's Todd, he is shocked and confused about his and the other person's identity. He then spies on his family members and remembers them with photographic memories. He also befriends
Sam Manning, who says his father is Todd. The man with Todd's old face later confronts the man claiming to be Todd at his office at the headquarters of The Sun newspaper. Todd denies that he is an imposter, and then the man with a scar is later disposed by rogue CIA agent Baker by being shot, and thrown into the Llantano river and left for dead. A homeless man named Louie later rescues him, and tells him to call his friend police detective
John McBain. The man with a scar then meets John at the docks, and tells him he thinks he's the real Todd. John then takes him to his home at The Angel Square Hotel to hide out from the bad guys. Todd then sneaks out to attend "The Vicker Man" movie premiere (A biopic starring con artist turned actor
David Vickers, which is also produced by his wife
Dorian Lord and directed by
Starr Manning's friend
Markko Rivera) to finally reveal himself to his family, where they are shocked to discover the man with Todd's old face. At first his family is confused with who is the real Todd, but then a DNA test is performed, and it reveals they have the same DNA! It is also later revealed that Todd's mother
Irene Manning is still alive and runs the rogue CIA operation that's been keeping the man with a scar captive at the secret compound! Irene then arrives in Llanview herself to reveal herself to her old friend
Viki Lord and her family. Irene then explains that she had the real Todd kidnapped in 2003 after he was abducted by evil cult leader
Mitch Laurence, and put her in her compound, and switched him with his long lost twin brother
Victor Lord Jr., who she raised by herself at the compound to program him with Todd's old memories. She then cut a scar on Victor Jr.'s face and also had plastic surgery done to his face to resemble Mitch's brother
Walker Laurence, before she released him to go to Llanview claiming to be Todd. Victor Jr. is shocked to find out he's not the real Todd, but his wife (and Todd's ex-wife)
Tea Delgado helps him to accept his newfound identity. Victor Jr. is then tragically shot and killed by an unknown assailant on August 31, 2011. After other suspects like
Rex Balsom and
Shane Morasco were dismissed, Todd found out in the fall of 2011 that he murdered his own brother Victor Jr. when he has a vision of his dead mother Irene telling him he killed his own brother. Todd would later set up
Tomas Delgado (who was dating Todd's ex-wife
Blair Cramer at the time) as the guilt culprit by having him kidnapped and held hostage in an undisclosed location to make it look like he was arrested in prison. At the end of the show's final episode on January 13, 2012, it was revealed that
Allison Perkins, a former follower of
Mitch Laurence's cult, was holding a still-alive Victor Jr. tied up to a bed in a mysterious location holding him hostage and having faked his death to fool his loved ones thinking he was "killed" by his brother Todd.
During the show's final two weeks on the air, a blackout occurred on New Year's Eve that was caused by someone cutting of the electrical power to cover-up a prison breakout at Statesville Prison that was later to be revealed to be caused by prison inmate
Allison Perkins, a former follower of
Mitch Laurence's (who also escaped from prison) cult. Allison and Mitch, along with other prisoners and fellow former Llanview residents
Cole Thornhart (now played by
Van Hughes), Troy MacIver,
Hannah O'Connor and
Lindsay Rappaport all escaped from prison during the blackout. Allison went to the Llanfair estate to shoot and kill both
Viki Lord and
Clint Buchanan after revealing to them that Clint was the biological father of
Jessica Buchanan, not Mitch who they both led to believe several years ago! Viki and Clint were later taken to the hospital to recover from their gunshot wounds after Viki and Clint's daughter
Natalie Buchanan and her boyfriend and police detective
John McBain discovered them both at their house after John saved Natalie when she was kidnapped by her ex-husband Mitch, who John and Natalie also shot and killed. Troy showed up at
Bo and Nora Buchanan's apartment to see his ex-girlfriend Nora so that he could win back her love, and to kidnap her and hold her hostage at the Buchanan Lodge. Cole showed up at the front door of the Laboulaie Mansion to surprise his ex-girlfriend
Starr Manning so that he could see her and their daughter
Hope Manning. Cole's other ex-girlfriend Hannah also showed up at the Laboulaie Mansion to try to kill Starr for putting her into prison for kidnapping her, Hope, and Starr's boyfriend
James Ford. Starr's father
Todd Manning later showed up at the mansion to stop Hannah and to arrest her to bring her back to prison. Bo came to the lodge to rescue Nora from Troy after Lindsay showed up at his apartment to tell him that Troy kidnapped Nora, but he was shot when he was struggling to get Troy's gun. Nora convinced Troy to save Bo's life, and Lindsay later showed up at the lodge to let go of Nora and to take Bo's car so that she can tell the paramedics at the hospital to get Bo to the hospital, where he later recovered from his gunshot wounds. Troy, Lindsay, and all the other escaped prisoners were eventually later round up and taken back to prison, except Allison who was still on the loose and was later revealed to be keeping a presumed dead but still alive
Victor Lord Jr. at a mysterious location at the end of the show's final episode on
ABC.
Buchanan Enterprises (B. E.) – Conglomerate founded by patriarch CEO
Asa Buchanan and originally operated exclusive in the
oil industry run by Buchanan until his death in 2007. The board of directors is populated by his progenitors, several of whom work out of offices in
London. On June 28, 2011,
Clint Buchanan gave B.E. to his estranged son
Rex Balsom in exchange for a
heart transplant from his
brain dead fiancée,
Gigi Morasco. On October 20, 2011, Rex quits his job running B.E. when he gives back the entire Buchanan fortune back to Clint.
Lord/Manning Plant - Plant owned by the
Lord family which
Victoria Lord and her then husband
Clint Buchanan consider closing for financial reasons in 1984. It is initially the main source of employment for the
O'Neill family.
Tabloid newspaper founded by
Todd Manning and owned and operated by
Victor Lord Jr. for eight years. Betrothed to
Irene Manning as part of Victor Junior's Last Will and Testament until her death on October 3, 2011. On October 7, 2011,
Jack Manning was named owner and editor-in-chief of the newspaper after Irene's death. Ownership reverted to Todd after
Tina Lord, his sister, bequeathed it to him after she inherited in Irene's will. He also runs The
Port Charles, New York, branch of The Sun on sister soap General Hospital
Reporter
Jessica Buchanan rejoined The Sun on June 11, 2010. Currently taking time off to take care of her children after suffering another breakdown from her D.I.D. mental illness since the summer of 2011.
The Intruder - Tabloid and newspaper formerly owned and operated by
Dorian Lord from 1989 to 1995, which she used to exposed Niki Smith as responsible for killing Johnny Dee Hesser. She also exposed Viki and
Sloan Carpenter's affair in the paper. At one point, Blair ran the Intruder as editor, until Dorian sold the paper in 1995 to
Todd Manning who later renamed it the Sun.
The Chronicle
Lord Press - Founded by
Dorian Lord in 1979 to compete with The Banner, despite the fact that she was on the Board of Directors of The Banner
Maniamagazine
Crazemagazine - Owned by
Blair Cramer. A woman's magazine, Craze covers the hottest fashion trends and all the latest things. Blair herself has taken a leave of absence and the magazine is currently being run by
Dorian Lord, Blair's aunt. Former employees include
David Vickers, a reporter for the magazine. Currently, coverage is being done to feature Fusion Cosmetics and their model
Ava Benton in
Pine Valley.
Llannet Search (Website) - Search engine frequently used by Llanview and
Pine Valley
MyTube (Website) - Video sharing website similar to
YouTube
MyFace (Website) - A social networking website that similar to
MySpace (There is an actual social network service called MyFace.)
WVLE radio station
WVL TV station
Wave (TV Show) - A former television show broadcast from
Pine Valley
Nothing But the Truth (TV Show) - A former television show broadcast from
Pine Valley
The Cutting Edge (TV Show) -
Tad Martin's former talk show broadcast from
Pine Valley
Fraternity Row (TV Show) - A former
soap opera taped locally in Llanview
New Beginnings (TV Show) -
Erica Kane's former talk show; broadcast from
Pine Valley
He Said/She Said (TV Show) - Erica Kane's new talk show with
Jackson Montgomery; broadcast from
Pine Valley (On Hiatus)
Everyday Heroes (TV Show) - Talk show broadcast from
Port Charles. Former hosts include
Sam McCall.
Christina Comes Home For Christmas (Film) - 30s/40s film played on TV many times around Christmas through Llanview and Port Charles, that came out on DVD in 2012
Restaurants and Eateries
Buenos Dias Cafe - (2 Angel Street [10]) Diner in Angel Square owned and operated by
Carlotta Vega since the 1990s. It burned down in 2008 and was rebuilt by
Charlie Banks in the image of the Bon Jour Café in Paris, Texas, and named the Buenos Dias. Its former name was the DK Diner.
The Hook-Up (Male strip-joint) - formerly owned and operated by
Sonia Toledo
The Hot Spot (Bar) - Frequented by
Victoria Lord Banks's alternate personality
Niki Smith, and where pedophile Norman Leeds abducted five-year-old
Jessica Buchanan on numerous occasions
Boutet Long-Term Health Facility (1404 Bell Road)[13] - Medical care center where
Roxanne Balsom had
Mitch Laurence kept in secret, claiming he was dead.
Religious
St. James Church - the rectory is often seen as well—the rectory is the home of the Episcopal congregation's priest
While trying to figure out why there were two
Todd Mannings, Jack Manning suggests that one might be a clone, referring to a Guiding Light storyline from 1998; "It happened to some lady in Springfield once!"
Other places
Mendorra - a small European monarchy with many ties to Llanview residents.
St. Blaze's Island- A private island getaway once owned by
Asa Buchanan. Asa left ownership of the island to his butler
Nigel Bartholomew-Smith in his will after his death in 2007, but Asa's ex-wife
Alex Olanov convinced Nigel to give her ownership of the island along with Asa's private yacht so that he could keep the secret that
David Vickers is Asa's long-lost son and the secret heir to the Buchanan fortune (which was later revealed that David was really the biological son of Asa's son
Bo Buchanan instead!).
Layla Williamson currently resides here after accepting a job under a top fashion designer. She plans to commute back to Llanview periodically to see her former fiancée
Cristian Vega
Tomas Delgado, an American painter, was contacted by
Blair Cramer when she received a mystery painting from her late husband
Elijah Clarke. Tomas left Paris in 2011 to be with his sister
Tea Delgado in Llanview.
Rex and his aunt
Corinne Balsom lived here during his teenage years after
Roxy left him here; Corinne continues to reside here.
Gigi and
Stacy Morasco grew up here; Gigi eventually left for Paris, Texas while pregnant with
Shane while Stacy left for
Las Vegas, Nevada, after their parents died.
Brody Lovett lived here with his family before being deployed for the
Iraq war; his sister
Nadine continues to live in the family house after their mother died.
Kelly Cramer and
Joey Buchanan resided here in the Buchanan Compound until their return to Llanview in 2010. At the end of the summer 2011, the couple reunited and returned to London.
Ross Rayburn resided here after returning from the dead and revealing to Danielle that
Todd Manning is her biological father until his real death in 2010 when he was shot by his brother
Elijah Clarke in Llanview, and drowned to death in the Llantano River at the docks.
Blair Cramer and
Elijah Clarke were married here on August 30th, 2010. Later, Elijah was shot by Blair in self-defence after she had found out he had been responsible for several murders.
Melinda Cramer was hospitalized at Compton Clinic periodically. She was remitted and resided at the clinic from late 1997 till her death in March 2010 from an unexpected "heart attack". It was later revealed, she had been murdered by
Elijah Clarke.
Evangeline Williamson has resided here in the care of her mother, Lisa Williamson, after being lapsed into a coma in 2007. On July 26, 2010, Evangeline died after being taken off life support.
Tea Delgado decided to reside here in a hospice in St Kitts during her final days of being diagnosed with a fake inoperable brain tumor.
Dr. Greg Evans was blackmailed into faking her death and has been taking care of her during this time.
On August 19, 2011,
Rex Balsom and
Natalie Buchanan both go to investigate a strip club called "The Spotted Pony", based on a clue they got from both psychic
Madame Delphina and
David Vickers concerning the whereabouts of
Gigi Morasco based on Rex's visions of his dead fiancée. Rex also discovers that
Kimberly Andrews, the best friend of Gigi's deceased sister
Stacy Morasco, is stripping there using the stage name of his late wife "Gigi". "The Spotted Pony" is also connected to a dark and mysterious secret that both Kim and her con artist brother and former scamming partner
Cutter Wentworth are hiding from their friends and loved ones. On October 14, 2011, it was revealed that the secret was that Cutter killed a rich man named Mr. Berger by putting too much "mickey" into his drink when Cutter enlisted Kim to seduce Mr. Berger for his money by working as a stripper at the club several years ago. The incident was witnessed by Kim's former French boarding school roommate Rama Patel, who took a picture of Cutter and the dead guy with her cell phone, and wanted to use that picture to blackmail Cutter ever since. Rama also wanted to get her money back from Kim that she stole from her to pay for her plastic surgery to improve her looks. Kim is also keeping her friend
Stacy Morasco in a local hospital in this town, which was later revealed that she had plastic surgery in
South America to look like her late sister Gigi so that she could take over her life after she survived drowning in that frozen lake on Llantano Mountain outside Viki's cabin, and ended up in a coma when she decided to track down her sister in Llanview, and ended up trapped in the basement of a rental house with Gigi and were both poisoned by leaking carbon monoxide that also killed her sister. In November 2011, it was later revealed that Stacy was really her sister Gigi, and that Stacy was the one that died in that basement. Cutter is later arrested for the murder of Mr. Berger and was imprisoned for his crime until he was released from prison.
In 2011,
Stacy Morasco went to Rio to get plastic surgery done by Dr. Fascinella to look like her sister
Gigi Morasco. Dr. Fascinella also did surgery on Jane Campbell to look like
Pine Valley resident
Erica Kane that same year.
References
^Later in July 2008 it is established that Talia is the daughter of
Carlo Hesser and had been adopted by her Syrian stepfather.
^On April 29, 2013, Cutter states that Rama and Vimal are separated.
^Dorian's role in the company was mentioned in the June 3, 2008 episode, during Dorian's takeover of BE.
^Web page in the form of a search engine result and map shown in the 23 March 2011 episode entitled "MyFace Search: James Ford" also indicates the diner is between Washington Ave. at Madison Ave.
^In the January 21, 2009 episode,
Dr. Joplin's address at Llanview Hospital is noted to be 1421 Plumtree Road, Llanview, Pennsylvania 19100.
^From Court Order shown during episode "One For My Baby, and One S'more For The Road", aired 24 November 2008. Note spelling on Court Order was St. Anne's.
^From return address shown during episode "Skin and Bones", aired 9 November 2009. The name on the envelope was "Boutet Clinic".
^From sign shown during episode "As Close As The Beat Of My Heart", aired 17 June 2009.
^From John McBain's business card, shown during the episode aired 15 April 2010.
^From filing jacket shown during episode "The Blair Snitch Project", aired 11 Aug 2009.
^The 8 April 2009 episode, "Teach Your Children Well", showed this return address on mail addressed to
Blair Cramer.
^Signage featured in the September 24, 2008 episode.
^Signage featured in the February 4, 2010 episode "All On A Wintry Night".
Harmony (Passions) Salem, Illinois (Days of Our Lives) Bay City, Illinois (Another World / Summer Desire) Somerset, Michigan (Somerset) Henderson (Search for Tomorrow) Madison (The Doctors) CBS's As the World Turns and Guiding Light share the same universe continuity with NBC's Another World. NBC's Another World, Somerset, and Texas share the same universe continuity with each other.
The community is a fictional suburb of
Philadelphia. It is thought to be modelled after the
Chestnut Hill section of the city,[by whom?] although the prevalence of
Welsh placename elements may suggest an inspiration from the
Welsh settlements in the area such as the
Upper Merion and
Lower Merion Townships, north west of the City.[citation needed] The series employs the Welsh language placename element Llan for Llanview, which is the county seat of Llantano County and located on the Llantano River, across from All My Childrens
Pine Valley. The
Lord family's estate is called Llanfair.
Llanview is the home of Llanview University and the
conglomerateBuchanan Enterprises. Town media is owned by the Lord family, with preeminent local newspaper The Banner owned and run by
Victoria Lord. The Banner's rival publication is The Sun, run by Viki's half-brother
Todd Manning. Llanview Hospital is the local medical center, and Angel Square is a central area located in East Llanview.
Llanview Woman of the Year - Annual banquet held at The Palace Hotel to celebrate and honor a woman of Llanview for her involvement and charitable acts in the community, notable because every year something disastrous happens to the honoree during the event. Honorees have included:
Go Red Ball - An annual fund raiser gala held at The Palace Hotel for the
American Heart Association to benefit heart health awareness; also notable because every year something disastrous happens during the event.
2009 -
Dorian Lord publicly revealed the missing Buchanan heir,
David Vickers and that she married him.
2008 -
Allison Perkins kidnaps
Jessica Buchanan holding her at gunpoint then falling over a high balcony, before revealing her big secret.
Llanview Man of the Year - Annual gala held at Shelter by the Llanview Veterans' Organization to celebrate and honor a man of Llanview for his involvement and charitable acts in the community, notable because every year something disastrous happens to the honoree during the event. Honorees have included:
2013 -
Bo Buchanan - His award presentation was crashed by his drunken (and drugged by Carl Peterson and Jeffrey Wright, who were both part of an evil organization to take down the Lord, Manning, and Buchanan families) brother
Clint Buchanan (who originally was supposed to receive the award before he was dumped in favor for Bo after he punched out Shelter's doorman Diego Padilla in a intoxicated rage), who had a public meltdown during the gala before he was taken to the hospital.
Paul Cramer sets off a major chain of events between Llanview and Pine Valley by helping his sister
Kelly Cramer obtain a baby after she miscarries and attempts to hide the truth from her husband
Kevin Buchanan. While
Babe Carey and
Bianca Montgomery are simultaneously in labor, Paul fakes a helicopter crash and switches the babies around, giving
Babe's child to Kelly and
Bianca's child to Babe. The truth about the babies' identities is ultimately revealed in the resulting three-way custody battle. Paul is eventually murdered, and the backlash is as equally explosive as the Baby Switch itself.
Killing Club Killer (February 2005 - August 2005)
A serial killer, re-enacting the events in
Marcie Walsh's new
novel, kills or kidnaps those close to her; the killer is later revealed to be someone from her past who holds a grudge against her; her former high school classmate and current publisher, Hayes Barber.
A terrible storm hits Llanview on the day of Marcie Walsh and
Michael McBain's wedding day. St. James' rectory collapses, resulting in life-threatening injuries to
Kelly Cramer and the death of
Duke Buchanan. The adoptive parents of
Tommy McBain are also killed, and
Evangeline Williamson is temporarily rendered
blind from flying broken glass.
One Pure People Arson Attacks (December 2006 - August 2007)
At B.E.'s annual shareholders' meeting in the Palace Hotel,
Dorian Lord announces her hostile takeover after revealing that
Jared Banks is in fact not
Asa Buchanan's son. Afterward, Jared and
Nash Brennan fight, and Nash falls through a skylight to his death.
Baby Switch 2 (November 2008-June 2009)
The storyline begins when
Starr Manning finds herself pregnant with
Cole Thornhart's baby.
Jessica Brennan also became pregnant with the late
Nash Brennan's baby. On November 6, Starr's water breaks and goes into labor. Meanwhile, Tess, Jessica's alter ego, plots revenge against her sister and boyfriend,
Natalie Buchanan and
Jared Banks. After planting a bomb on Natalie and Jared, Tess goes into premature labor. Starr gives birth to a girl, who she names
Hope with the help of the baby's adoptive mother,
Marcie McBain and Starr's mother,
Blair Manning. With the help of Tess's mother, Viki's alter ego, Niki (which was only Tess's imagination), Tess gave birth to a stillborn baby girl, who she named Chloe. Chloe's death resulted in a second alter ego, Bess. Bess goes to the hospital and switches her dead baby with Starr's baby. Chloe died of Rh disease. Starr and Cole were tested and came out both Rh negative. Throughout the storyline, the Manning family mourned Hope's death. In June 2009, Jessica admitted to causing the whole switch and gave Starr and Cole back their baby. As of today, Jessica is mourning Chloe's death and Starr is raising Hope with the help of Cole and the rest of her family.
A series of stabbings in 2009 is suspected to be the work of the same killer. The victims are each left with a letter from the alphabet, seemingly the killer's calling card:
Lee Halpern (K),
Wes Granger (A), and
Blair Cramer (D), who survives. With these clues seemingly pointing to the 1993 gang rape of
Marty Saybrooke at the KAD fraternity house at Llanview University, Todd — who has a grudge against each of the victims — is the initial suspect. Suspicion then falls upon Zach Rosen, another of Marty's rapists, but the killer appears to still be at large when
Talia Sahid is murdered while Zach is in custody. The killer is ultimately revealed to be
Powell Lord III, Todd's cousin and yet another of Marty's rapists.[3] Assisted by
Rebecca Lewis, Powell's one-time fiancée and Todd's former love, Powell kidnaps Todd, Marty, and Todd's ex-wives Blair and
Téa Delgado to give Marty closure by punishing Todd.[3]
Llanview Blizzard (February 2010)
A blizzard rolls into Llanview and evil cult leader,
Mitch Laurence, who previously faked his death, kidnaps his daughter
Jessica Buchanan and brings her to Llantano Mountain, with intention to reclaim his cult legacy through his son
Rex Balsom's unborn child. While many people try to save her, a huge car crash happens injuring many people. Mitch kidnaps the carrier of Rex's baby
Stacy Morasco, whose actual father is actually
Oliver Fish. When Mitch finds out that Oliver is the father, he abandons Stacy in a blizzard on top of Llantano mountain. Jessica's boyfriend
Brody Lovett comes to save her, but Mitch had already put Jessica in his plan, giving her selective amnesia so she can't remember anything past her high school years.
Dorian Lord and
Charlie Banks makes an appearance on Llantano Mountain where Charlie was planning to kill Mitch, but accidentally shoots Mitch's nurse, Nurse Charles, and Jessica. The police come and stop everything, arresting Mitch and bringing Jessica to the hospital. Meanwhile, Stacy's sister
Gigi Morasco finds her and helps her give birth to Sierra Rose, but while on the way to the hospital, Stacy falls in the ice and drowns.
The Tale of Two Todds / Who Shot Victor Lord Jr. Murder Mystery (May 2011 - January 2012)
A man with
Todd Manning's old face and his old scar arrives in Llanview after escaping from being held captive in a secret compound in
Louisiana for eight years. When he first sees another person who claims he's Todd, he is shocked and confused about his and the other person's identity. He then spies on his family members and remembers them with photographic memories. He also befriends
Sam Manning, who says his father is Todd. The man with Todd's old face later confronts the man claiming to be Todd at his office at the headquarters of The Sun newspaper. Todd denies that he is an imposter, and then the man with a scar is later disposed by rogue CIA agent Baker by being shot, and thrown into the Llantano river and left for dead. A homeless man named Louie later rescues him, and tells him to call his friend police detective
John McBain. The man with a scar then meets John at the docks, and tells him he thinks he's the real Todd. John then takes him to his home at The Angel Square Hotel to hide out from the bad guys. Todd then sneaks out to attend "The Vicker Man" movie premiere (A biopic starring con artist turned actor
David Vickers, which is also produced by his wife
Dorian Lord and directed by
Starr Manning's friend
Markko Rivera) to finally reveal himself to his family, where they are shocked to discover the man with Todd's old face. At first his family is confused with who is the real Todd, but then a DNA test is performed, and it reveals they have the same DNA! It is also later revealed that Todd's mother
Irene Manning is still alive and runs the rogue CIA operation that's been keeping the man with a scar captive at the secret compound! Irene then arrives in Llanview herself to reveal herself to her old friend
Viki Lord and her family. Irene then explains that she had the real Todd kidnapped in 2003 after he was abducted by evil cult leader
Mitch Laurence, and put her in her compound, and switched him with his long lost twin brother
Victor Lord Jr., who she raised by herself at the compound to program him with Todd's old memories. She then cut a scar on Victor Jr.'s face and also had plastic surgery done to his face to resemble Mitch's brother
Walker Laurence, before she released him to go to Llanview claiming to be Todd. Victor Jr. is shocked to find out he's not the real Todd, but his wife (and Todd's ex-wife)
Tea Delgado helps him to accept his newfound identity. Victor Jr. is then tragically shot and killed by an unknown assailant on August 31, 2011. After other suspects like
Rex Balsom and
Shane Morasco were dismissed, Todd found out in the fall of 2011 that he murdered his own brother Victor Jr. when he has a vision of his dead mother Irene telling him he killed his own brother. Todd would later set up
Tomas Delgado (who was dating Todd's ex-wife
Blair Cramer at the time) as the guilt culprit by having him kidnapped and held hostage in an undisclosed location to make it look like he was arrested in prison. At the end of the show's final episode on January 13, 2012, it was revealed that
Allison Perkins, a former follower of
Mitch Laurence's cult, was holding a still-alive Victor Jr. tied up to a bed in a mysterious location holding him hostage and having faked his death to fool his loved ones thinking he was "killed" by his brother Todd.
During the show's final two weeks on the air, a blackout occurred on New Year's Eve that was caused by someone cutting of the electrical power to cover-up a prison breakout at Statesville Prison that was later to be revealed to be caused by prison inmate
Allison Perkins, a former follower of
Mitch Laurence's (who also escaped from prison) cult. Allison and Mitch, along with other prisoners and fellow former Llanview residents
Cole Thornhart (now played by
Van Hughes), Troy MacIver,
Hannah O'Connor and
Lindsay Rappaport all escaped from prison during the blackout. Allison went to the Llanfair estate to shoot and kill both
Viki Lord and
Clint Buchanan after revealing to them that Clint was the biological father of
Jessica Buchanan, not Mitch who they both led to believe several years ago! Viki and Clint were later taken to the hospital to recover from their gunshot wounds after Viki and Clint's daughter
Natalie Buchanan and her boyfriend and police detective
John McBain discovered them both at their house after John saved Natalie when she was kidnapped by her ex-husband Mitch, who John and Natalie also shot and killed. Troy showed up at
Bo and Nora Buchanan's apartment to see his ex-girlfriend Nora so that he could win back her love, and to kidnap her and hold her hostage at the Buchanan Lodge. Cole showed up at the front door of the Laboulaie Mansion to surprise his ex-girlfriend
Starr Manning so that he could see her and their daughter
Hope Manning. Cole's other ex-girlfriend Hannah also showed up at the Laboulaie Mansion to try to kill Starr for putting her into prison for kidnapping her, Hope, and Starr's boyfriend
James Ford. Starr's father
Todd Manning later showed up at the mansion to stop Hannah and to arrest her to bring her back to prison. Bo came to the lodge to rescue Nora from Troy after Lindsay showed up at his apartment to tell him that Troy kidnapped Nora, but he was shot when he was struggling to get Troy's gun. Nora convinced Troy to save Bo's life, and Lindsay later showed up at the lodge to let go of Nora and to take Bo's car so that she can tell the paramedics at the hospital to get Bo to the hospital, where he later recovered from his gunshot wounds. Troy, Lindsay, and all the other escaped prisoners were eventually later round up and taken back to prison, except Allison who was still on the loose and was later revealed to be keeping a presumed dead but still alive
Victor Lord Jr. at a mysterious location at the end of the show's final episode on
ABC.
Buchanan Enterprises (B. E.) – Conglomerate founded by patriarch CEO
Asa Buchanan and originally operated exclusive in the
oil industry run by Buchanan until his death in 2007. The board of directors is populated by his progenitors, several of whom work out of offices in
London. On June 28, 2011,
Clint Buchanan gave B.E. to his estranged son
Rex Balsom in exchange for a
heart transplant from his
brain dead fiancée,
Gigi Morasco. On October 20, 2011, Rex quits his job running B.E. when he gives back the entire Buchanan fortune back to Clint.
Lord/Manning Plant - Plant owned by the
Lord family which
Victoria Lord and her then husband
Clint Buchanan consider closing for financial reasons in 1984. It is initially the main source of employment for the
O'Neill family.
Tabloid newspaper founded by
Todd Manning and owned and operated by
Victor Lord Jr. for eight years. Betrothed to
Irene Manning as part of Victor Junior's Last Will and Testament until her death on October 3, 2011. On October 7, 2011,
Jack Manning was named owner and editor-in-chief of the newspaper after Irene's death. Ownership reverted to Todd after
Tina Lord, his sister, bequeathed it to him after she inherited in Irene's will. He also runs The
Port Charles, New York, branch of The Sun on sister soap General Hospital
Reporter
Jessica Buchanan rejoined The Sun on June 11, 2010. Currently taking time off to take care of her children after suffering another breakdown from her D.I.D. mental illness since the summer of 2011.
The Intruder - Tabloid and newspaper formerly owned and operated by
Dorian Lord from 1989 to 1995, which she used to exposed Niki Smith as responsible for killing Johnny Dee Hesser. She also exposed Viki and
Sloan Carpenter's affair in the paper. At one point, Blair ran the Intruder as editor, until Dorian sold the paper in 1995 to
Todd Manning who later renamed it the Sun.
The Chronicle
Lord Press - Founded by
Dorian Lord in 1979 to compete with The Banner, despite the fact that she was on the Board of Directors of The Banner
Maniamagazine
Crazemagazine - Owned by
Blair Cramer. A woman's magazine, Craze covers the hottest fashion trends and all the latest things. Blair herself has taken a leave of absence and the magazine is currently being run by
Dorian Lord, Blair's aunt. Former employees include
David Vickers, a reporter for the magazine. Currently, coverage is being done to feature Fusion Cosmetics and their model
Ava Benton in
Pine Valley.
Llannet Search (Website) - Search engine frequently used by Llanview and
Pine Valley
MyTube (Website) - Video sharing website similar to
YouTube
MyFace (Website) - A social networking website that similar to
MySpace (There is an actual social network service called MyFace.)
WVLE radio station
WVL TV station
Wave (TV Show) - A former television show broadcast from
Pine Valley
Nothing But the Truth (TV Show) - A former television show broadcast from
Pine Valley
The Cutting Edge (TV Show) -
Tad Martin's former talk show broadcast from
Pine Valley
Fraternity Row (TV Show) - A former
soap opera taped locally in Llanview
New Beginnings (TV Show) -
Erica Kane's former talk show; broadcast from
Pine Valley
He Said/She Said (TV Show) - Erica Kane's new talk show with
Jackson Montgomery; broadcast from
Pine Valley (On Hiatus)
Everyday Heroes (TV Show) - Talk show broadcast from
Port Charles. Former hosts include
Sam McCall.
Christina Comes Home For Christmas (Film) - 30s/40s film played on TV many times around Christmas through Llanview and Port Charles, that came out on DVD in 2012
Restaurants and Eateries
Buenos Dias Cafe - (2 Angel Street [10]) Diner in Angel Square owned and operated by
Carlotta Vega since the 1990s. It burned down in 2008 and was rebuilt by
Charlie Banks in the image of the Bon Jour Café in Paris, Texas, and named the Buenos Dias. Its former name was the DK Diner.
The Hook-Up (Male strip-joint) - formerly owned and operated by
Sonia Toledo
The Hot Spot (Bar) - Frequented by
Victoria Lord Banks's alternate personality
Niki Smith, and where pedophile Norman Leeds abducted five-year-old
Jessica Buchanan on numerous occasions
Boutet Long-Term Health Facility (1404 Bell Road)[13] - Medical care center where
Roxanne Balsom had
Mitch Laurence kept in secret, claiming he was dead.
Religious
St. James Church - the rectory is often seen as well—the rectory is the home of the Episcopal congregation's priest
While trying to figure out why there were two
Todd Mannings, Jack Manning suggests that one might be a clone, referring to a Guiding Light storyline from 1998; "It happened to some lady in Springfield once!"
Other places
Mendorra - a small European monarchy with many ties to Llanview residents.
St. Blaze's Island- A private island getaway once owned by
Asa Buchanan. Asa left ownership of the island to his butler
Nigel Bartholomew-Smith in his will after his death in 2007, but Asa's ex-wife
Alex Olanov convinced Nigel to give her ownership of the island along with Asa's private yacht so that he could keep the secret that
David Vickers is Asa's long-lost son and the secret heir to the Buchanan fortune (which was later revealed that David was really the biological son of Asa's son
Bo Buchanan instead!).
Layla Williamson currently resides here after accepting a job under a top fashion designer. She plans to commute back to Llanview periodically to see her former fiancée
Cristian Vega
Tomas Delgado, an American painter, was contacted by
Blair Cramer when she received a mystery painting from her late husband
Elijah Clarke. Tomas left Paris in 2011 to be with his sister
Tea Delgado in Llanview.
Rex and his aunt
Corinne Balsom lived here during his teenage years after
Roxy left him here; Corinne continues to reside here.
Gigi and
Stacy Morasco grew up here; Gigi eventually left for Paris, Texas while pregnant with
Shane while Stacy left for
Las Vegas, Nevada, after their parents died.
Brody Lovett lived here with his family before being deployed for the
Iraq war; his sister
Nadine continues to live in the family house after their mother died.
Kelly Cramer and
Joey Buchanan resided here in the Buchanan Compound until their return to Llanview in 2010. At the end of the summer 2011, the couple reunited and returned to London.
Ross Rayburn resided here after returning from the dead and revealing to Danielle that
Todd Manning is her biological father until his real death in 2010 when he was shot by his brother
Elijah Clarke in Llanview, and drowned to death in the Llantano River at the docks.
Blair Cramer and
Elijah Clarke were married here on August 30th, 2010. Later, Elijah was shot by Blair in self-defence after she had found out he had been responsible for several murders.
Melinda Cramer was hospitalized at Compton Clinic periodically. She was remitted and resided at the clinic from late 1997 till her death in March 2010 from an unexpected "heart attack". It was later revealed, she had been murdered by
Elijah Clarke.
Evangeline Williamson has resided here in the care of her mother, Lisa Williamson, after being lapsed into a coma in 2007. On July 26, 2010, Evangeline died after being taken off life support.
Tea Delgado decided to reside here in a hospice in St Kitts during her final days of being diagnosed with a fake inoperable brain tumor.
Dr. Greg Evans was blackmailed into faking her death and has been taking care of her during this time.
On August 19, 2011,
Rex Balsom and
Natalie Buchanan both go to investigate a strip club called "The Spotted Pony", based on a clue they got from both psychic
Madame Delphina and
David Vickers concerning the whereabouts of
Gigi Morasco based on Rex's visions of his dead fiancée. Rex also discovers that
Kimberly Andrews, the best friend of Gigi's deceased sister
Stacy Morasco, is stripping there using the stage name of his late wife "Gigi". "The Spotted Pony" is also connected to a dark and mysterious secret that both Kim and her con artist brother and former scamming partner
Cutter Wentworth are hiding from their friends and loved ones. On October 14, 2011, it was revealed that the secret was that Cutter killed a rich man named Mr. Berger by putting too much "mickey" into his drink when Cutter enlisted Kim to seduce Mr. Berger for his money by working as a stripper at the club several years ago. The incident was witnessed by Kim's former French boarding school roommate Rama Patel, who took a picture of Cutter and the dead guy with her cell phone, and wanted to use that picture to blackmail Cutter ever since. Rama also wanted to get her money back from Kim that she stole from her to pay for her plastic surgery to improve her looks. Kim is also keeping her friend
Stacy Morasco in a local hospital in this town, which was later revealed that she had plastic surgery in
South America to look like her late sister Gigi so that she could take over her life after she survived drowning in that frozen lake on Llantano Mountain outside Viki's cabin, and ended up in a coma when she decided to track down her sister in Llanview, and ended up trapped in the basement of a rental house with Gigi and were both poisoned by leaking carbon monoxide that also killed her sister. In November 2011, it was later revealed that Stacy was really her sister Gigi, and that Stacy was the one that died in that basement. Cutter is later arrested for the murder of Mr. Berger and was imprisoned for his crime until he was released from prison.
In 2011,
Stacy Morasco went to Rio to get plastic surgery done by Dr. Fascinella to look like her sister
Gigi Morasco. Dr. Fascinella also did surgery on Jane Campbell to look like
Pine Valley resident
Erica Kane that same year.
References
^Later in July 2008 it is established that Talia is the daughter of
Carlo Hesser and had been adopted by her Syrian stepfather.
^On April 29, 2013, Cutter states that Rama and Vimal are separated.
^Dorian's role in the company was mentioned in the June 3, 2008 episode, during Dorian's takeover of BE.
^Web page in the form of a search engine result and map shown in the 23 March 2011 episode entitled "MyFace Search: James Ford" also indicates the diner is between Washington Ave. at Madison Ave.
^In the January 21, 2009 episode,
Dr. Joplin's address at Llanview Hospital is noted to be 1421 Plumtree Road, Llanview, Pennsylvania 19100.
^From Court Order shown during episode "One For My Baby, and One S'more For The Road", aired 24 November 2008. Note spelling on Court Order was St. Anne's.
^From return address shown during episode "Skin and Bones", aired 9 November 2009. The name on the envelope was "Boutet Clinic".
^From sign shown during episode "As Close As The Beat Of My Heart", aired 17 June 2009.
^From John McBain's business card, shown during the episode aired 15 April 2010.
^From filing jacket shown during episode "The Blair Snitch Project", aired 11 Aug 2009.
^The 8 April 2009 episode, "Teach Your Children Well", showed this return address on mail addressed to
Blair Cramer.
^Signage featured in the September 24, 2008 episode.
^Signage featured in the February 4, 2010 episode "All On A Wintry Night".
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