News Ticker: In the midst of Laura Wright's departure from GL, the show announced that they would be recasting the role with Cynthia Preston from GH. Weeks later the show would announce Signy Coleman's return as Annie Dutton for a 4 week stint. Shortly after Coleman's stint on the show was announced, it was announced that Kim Zimmer would be going on hiatus from the show for a unspecified amount of time. After Coleman's character, "Annie" killed off Zimmers' Reva, Zimmer would remain the show making sporadic appearances in flashbacks and as a ghostly figure to her children Jonathan, Marah, and Shayne. Months later the show dropped a bombshell on fans revealing that Cynthia Preston would not only be playing the role of Cassie Layne, but also Annie Dutton when the character returned yet again. Weeks later, Kim Zimmer was announced to be reprising the role of Reva Shayne Lewis on the show after a year and a half of doing flashbacks and appearing as ghost Reva to her character's children.

Paul Taylor joins the show as Remy Boudreau.

Amy Van Horne joins the show as Nurse Kimberly Lambert.

Brian Gaskill (ex-Rafe PC) joins the show as Kirk Winters.

Veronica Redd joins the show for a short amount of time as Ella-Mae Boudreau.

Marcy Rylan joins the show as Lizzie Spaulding.

Greg Marxx (ex-Tom ATWT) joins the show as Dr. Keith Sullivan.

Annie Dutton, notorious for her last stint in Springfield, returned with a vengeance. Having seduced her therapist at the asylum Alan had set her up in. As time progressed she seduced her way out, and was released with a clean bill of health. Annie however was far from it. She made her way back to Springfield, ready to claim what she had lost to her nemesis, Reva Shayne. To her dismay, it wasn't Reva who she had to be threatened by; it was Reva's sister Cassie. As Annie lurked around Springfield, eager to stay under the radar, she plotted to get rid of Reva once and for all. One night as Josh was watching Reva head to her car, it exploded in front of the Lewis home. To his horror, they recovered Reva's remains, however they were beyond identification. Having lost Reva forever Josh retreated to a dark place in his life. Annie was slated to make her move at any moment now, but to her surprise Cassie beat her to it. As this was happening, Alan received a long delayed call informing that Annie had been released from the sanitarium. Alan began to suspect that Annie was back in Springfield. As time went by, Cassie and Josh began to slowly develop feelings for one another. Harley, having been in the same situation the last time Reva was presumed dead warned Cassie about her feelings. Cassie however ignored her warning, and during a heated argument between the two in which Cassie suggested Josh to get over Reva's death, the two impulsively kissed. It was the kiss to remember, for at the time Annie was witnessing it. As a new year began, Cassie and Josh began a secret affair. Seeing the two so happily together, Annie tried several times to kill Cassie, but the danger only pushed them closer together. Meanwhile Frank would reveal to Josh and Cassie that his investigation led him to believe that Annie Dutton was behind the explosion that had killed Reva months ago. He informed them that Annie had been released from the sanitarium weeks before Reva’s death. As the police looked for Annie, Annie stayed hidden seeking shelter at the lighthouse. After hearing an argument between Cassie and Tammy over her romance with Josh, Annie began to stalk Tammy along with Josh and Cassie. Annie adored Tammy, and believed if she could have a child she would want them to grow up to be Tammy (She even imagined the child that she and Josh had lost growing up to be Tammy). Annie obsession of Tammy stemmed from when Tammy was once taken by social services and put in foster care. Tammy had stayed with the Spauldings (at this time Annie was married to Alan). Amazed by how much that little girl had grown up, she longed to take the place of Cassie as her mother. Suddenly this gave her an idea. As a haughty Annie relished in the light of her new plan, Alan and Frank were hot on her heels. Realizing this, she fled from Springfield. Annie would soon arrive at her destination, Arizona. It was where her and Rick had met and had gotten married. It was also the place where she knew she could find somebody to help her; that man was Dr. Keith Sullivan. Keith had been a friend of Rick's. The two bonded over their knowledge of medical procedures. Keith was a doctor who specialized in plastic surgery. When Annie showed up on his doorstep, she showed him a picture and demanded that he make her look like the woman in the picture. Keith complied, as Annie held a disturbing and unknown fact about the doctor. Months later, Annie returned to Springfield, resembling Cassie Layne! Meanwhile it had been a year since Reva died, and his romance with Cassie had become public knowledge. Josh planned on proposing to Cassie. He planned to do it at a candle lit dinner he had prepared at the lighthouse. The night that Cassie was supposed to show up at the lighthouse, she was stopped dead in her tracks. Cassie was confronted by a woman who looked exactly her. Annie then kidnapped, and temporarily stashed Cassie at a familiar place, the carousel. She then headed over to the Lewis’s, put on a dress that belonged to Cassie and took her place at the dinner Josh had prepared for Cassie. It was Annie, not Cassie who Josh was proposing marriage to, and who graciously accepted! A few days later, a starved and dehydrated Cassie was apprehended by Annie when she attempted to escape from the carousel. At first Cassie thought it was somebody there to rescue her, to her dismay the masked assailant was none other than Annie; her look alike. Annie then drugged; stashed Cassie in the back of Cassie’s car, and took Cassie to the lighthouse. There inside of the basement, Annie stashed Cassie inside a cell. When Cassie awoke, she could not believe her cell mate was! To her surprise, it was a very much alive Reva Shayne Lewis! Later on Annie would explain to both of the Shayne girls how they had ended up at this point. After drugging a Dr. Thomas's wife (the therapist who she had an affair with), she placed her body in Reva's car which had been fixed to explode. When it did, she took an unconscious and mildly injured Reva to the lighthouse. She had been keeping Reva locked up for a year and a half. Annie jokingly added that when she left for Arizona she left her with a variety of junk food to last her for months. Annie did leave Reva with some departing words as she prepared to resume the life she had taken from Cassie. Annie left it up to Cassie to update Reva on how everyone was able to move on after her death. When Cassie explained, Reva already knew. Reva revealed that Annie had set up a camera in the Lewis house to rub Cassie and Josh's relationship in her face. A look of shock eclipsed Cassie's face. <To be continued.>

When Eddie Rodriguez was hired to work for Danny Santos, he hoped to be working along side the big boys. To his dismay, Eddie was working beside Danny’s gardener. It was nothing Eddie expected. Elsewhere, a newly returned Lizzie, came face to face with an old rival of hers from boarding school, Eddie’s sister Sophia. Before the two could revive their rivalry, Lizzie met and became enamored with the handsome Seth Reardon, Tony and Annabelle’s second oldest son. Lizzie had met Seth one night on the lake. Was there romance on the horizon?

Remy Boudreau and Billy Lewis’s club, “The Blue Orchid” was a major success. His grandmother, Ella-Mae, became his star singer.

Alan Spaulding was apoplectic when his prize dog Lila ran off with Cooper mongrel, Jeffrey, and the two behaved like animals! Alan really lost his temper when Lila disgraced the family by becoming pregnant. She gave birth to two puppies Raoul and Scotty.

A new arrival brought profound terror to Springfield. Kirk Winters was handsome, smooth, and smart. But not smart enough to stay away from his ex-wife, Nurse Kimberly Lambert who worked at Cedars. Kirk had just been released from prison after serving time for spousal abuse. He immediately began subtly stalking her, careful to lean on the right side of the law while he was doing his evil deeds.

Tony Reardon and Rick Bauer kept a watchful eye on Kirk’s every move, hoping to catch him in the act. But Kirk was not going to be stopped! In a horrible act of revenge, Kirk set fire to Tony’s house with Annabelle trapped inside. Tony rushed in the burning house, and pulled Annabelle to safety. Doctors at Cedars, said that Annabelle, blinded by the explosive blaze, might never see again.