Alex kidnapped Cassie and tried to drown her.

Cassie Callison returned to town to attend the swearing-in ceremony for her father, Herb, who replaced Viki as the Mayor of Llanview. Bo ran into Cassie at the airport and was immediately charmed by her poise, her beauty, and her zest for life. Upon their attending the swearing in party together, Alex saw them dancing and laughing together and fled in a jealous rage.

As Bo and Cassie began to spend more and more time together, Alex�s behavior became more erratic. Alex�s unrequited love for Bo drove her to desperate measures. Dorian, meanwhile, was furious at her daughter for falling in love with a Buchanan. With their mutual disdain for Bo and Cassie�s bonding, Dorian and Alex joined forces to concoct a scheme to break them up.

When Bo and Cassie later decided to take a vacation, Alex followed them and soon kidnapped Cassie! Hauling her to a nearby boat, Alex ordered Cassie to row into the middle of the lake, where Alex tried to drown her! Fortunately, Bo rescued Cassie and Alex. Totally unhinged, Alex was taken away to the Mountainview Clinic. When Cassie later learned that it had been her mother behind Alex�s actions, she was livid�causing yet another rift in their frequently rocky relationship.

Bo proposed to Cassie and she joyfully accepted. As the wedding day grew closer, a mysterious phone call from a woman who sounded like Sarah alarmed Bo. Then, Cassie opened a package containing a negligee worn by Sarah on her honeymoon. Was Sarah alive�or was someone gas lighting Bo? The culprit turned out to be Alex, who had escaped from the sanitarium!