Bo whisked Didi away to New York and pledged his love.

After failing in scheme after scheme designed to destroy Bo and Didi�s relationship, Asa packed up Becky and baby Drew and flew to Arizona. Their private plane ran into foul weather and they were forced to parachute to the ground before the pilot made a crash landing. Asa and Drew survived the night in an abandoned building, but Becky went missing.

Asa searched high and low for his wife, but she was gone! Suffering from amnesia, Becky was working as a waitress in a New Mexico tavern. Asa offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to Becky�s safe return. A greedy couple, Lou and Evelyn Maddox, discovered her whereabouts and demanded a cool million dollars from Asa instead.

Samantha Vernon and a now police officer Rafe Garretson fell in love. Rafe and Samantha were married at the Crown Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, but the ceremony was interrupted when mobster Herve Boudin suddenly raced through the reception room. He had just murdered Leo Coronal, kingpin of an important Philadelphia crime family. Leo�s grandson, Rob Coronal, witnessed the shooting, fled the scene, and escaped to Llanview where he took refuge in the deserted Athenaeum Theater. There, he met and fell hopelessly in love with Cassie. She was equally enchanted with Rob, the son of mobster Alessandro Coronal (who had changed his name to Alex Crown) and gone straight�buying a string of legitimate hotels.

Alex had raised Rob alone after his wife, Laurel Chapin, had died in childbirth. Now, years later, Alex discovered that she was alive! Laurel was equally amazed to learn that her son, who was stolen from her at childbirth by Leo, was hiding out somewhere in Llanview. Together, Alex and Laurel tracked down Rob, who had disappeared after the shooting in Atlantic City. They shared a touching, but tentative reunion.