David and Jenny needed a little help while on the run in Europe.

Tina discovered that Asa had been living another life for years; posing as a sea captain named Jeb Stuart, he had married a woman named Pamela Oliver on the faraway island of Malakeva. Armed with this news, Tina decided to set Asa up. Tina persuaded Pamela to pretend to be on her deathbed to get Asa to marry her for real! Giving in to Pamela�s �dying wish,� Asa married her. Seconds after the ceremony, Pamela leapt out of her bed and confronted Asa. In time, Asa decided he wanted Pamela back in his life and invited her to live with him in Llanview. Theirs, however, would be a rocky union that was almost doomed from the start.

Cord was devastated when his father, Al Roberts, died suddenly of a heart attack. On his deathbed, Al wrote a letter to Cord, revealing that Clint was his actual father. Before Cord could see the letter, Asa stole it. Unbeknownst to anyone, just days before his fatal heart attack, Al had confessed the twenty-year-old secret that Cord was Clint�s son to, of all people, Mitch Laurence.

Released from prison, Mitch returned to Llanview; adopting a seemingly upright new image, posing as a modern day evangelist. In truth, Mitch was as nefarious as ever. Now was a ruthless drug dealer and cult leader, he recruited and drugged young women like wholesome young Joy O�Neill, sensitive Allison Perkins and teenager Mari Lynn Dennison to do his dirty work. By the time Mitch told Tina that Cord was Clint�s son, she was set to elope with Richard Abbott. Now with the knowledge that Cord was a Buchanan heir, Tina kept Richard at bay as she contemplated her next move. Quickly, she made a decision: dumping Richard and quickly eloping with Cord!

Using the information to her own advantage, Tina confronted Asa�blackmailing him into changing his will so that Cord would immediately receive one million dollars under the guise that the funds were left to him in Al Robert�s will. Tina now had what she had wanted all along�she was rich!