There was something like a con going on. I'm not sure on the deets, but the guy running the con might have been in prison at the same time as Alan? He dragged his girlfriend into it, getting her to impersonate Beth, having her paint in Beth's style and paint canvases that would definitely trigger Phillip. Phillip even wants to pay a "ransom" for Beth, but Blake pulls the plug on it, even persuading Van and Henry that Phillip is having a breakdown even though she knew Alan had lied and set up the "proof" that Beth had died.
Anyhoo, for some reason, Bradley is in the hospital at the same time as Mindy (who Will had nearly killed by forcing her to take an overdose). Beth is for some reason wandering the hospital, and reacts to seeing both Mindy and Bradley. Mindy briefly wakes and sees her, but because she's recovering, no one quite trusts that she saw Beth.
I think Alan telling Phillip was more about trying to keep him from marrying Blake, because he distrusted Roger's influence on her.
I do think P&G loved James Rebhorn, because, as @DRW50 mentioned, it's kind of close to the reveal on ATWT. But, it was a good use of history, especially as Daniel Pilon, bless him, wasn't a hit as Alan. (Although, I'm fuzzy on when the reveal on ATWT was. This brief return on GL was the fall of '89, and the ATWT stint started in '88, and the reveal might not have been until '91)
RIGHT? :) Like Larkin didn't know his character was going to revolve around Reva's various moods and hairstyles?
Van and Lillian would randomly interact. Not long after Mo died, Bill was in a car accident with Mindy (thanks to Eve) and of course it's Lillian there at the hospital--mostly because she's the only nurse Springfield had for quite a while. And while I'd expect Van to be polite, there's not one hint of resentment or irony given that Van's in the hospital awaiting news of her son's injuries (it's even a head injury, but it's in no way serious).
Even though we think of Springfield as a community, it had serious story bubbles back into the '80's.
C'mon...don't you want to come over to the dark side and hate ****? Just a little? I don't know if Rauch was trolling ****ressa fans or throwing a dig at Maeve, if those rumors are true. But yeah, #### clearly wasn't all that immune to Beth.
Not only would OGBilly have kicked ****'s ass, but he would've melted Van's panties with a silky "Darlin'.." and that would've been the end of that blasted saccharine pairing.
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