Upset with Blair's infidelity, Todd kidnapped Starr.

Patrick realized Carlo was Poseidon and was determined to prove it. Marty finally confessed her love to Patrick. Back home, she resolved to tell Dylan. Afterwards, she promised to meet Patrick on Llantano Mountain. Patrick waited, and waited. However, Marty never came because just before she was to tell Dylan, he suffered a serious back injury (resulting from an earlier scuffle with Patrick) on the basketball court at the Community Center. The injury paralyzed Dylan. Torn between her love of Patrick and her commitment to Dylan, Marty decided she couldn't leave her husband now. In agony, she told Patrick they were through.

Patrick finally gave in to Blair's seductive efforts. After one particularly romantic dinner, they made love. One hot summer night, as Patrick and Blair made love on the floor of her penthouse apartment, a mysterious man stood in the shadows. In stunned silence, he absorbed the shocking sight of the two souls in the heat of passion. It was Todd Manning!

Harnessing his rage, Todd ran off. Keeping his return secret from everyone except his sister, Viki, Todd was overjoyed to hold his daughter Starr in his arms. Determined to make Blair pay, Todd kidnapped Starr, before finally returning her and revealing his miraculous "return from the dead" to his "unfaithful" wife. Blair's prayers had been answered: Todd was home. But their hiatus'd honeymoon was over.

Resuming his position as Publisher of The Sun, Todd set out to make Blair's life miserable. Todd waged an internal debate. Should he end their union or give Blair a second chance at proving her love? Just when it seemed that they might reconcile, Todd was stunned to discover that Blair was pregnant again…this time with Patrick Thornhart's child!

Uniting forces with RJ Gannon, Carlo schemed to get rid of Asa and settle a long-standing score by getting revenge on Viki, whose alter ego Niki Smith had killed his son Johnny Dee six years earlier. Carlo coerced famed psychiatrist Elliot Durbin into hypnotizing Viki to kill her own son, Kevin, but Viki could not murder her own son.