You may be absolutely right! I'm trying to remember who actually interacted with Brandon before his death in and around September of 1979. I do remember Lucille being with him, but was anyone else? I honestly can't remember, other than Lucille. I assume Alan was...? I was very young at the time, so I can't recall.
Regarding 1984 and the November Babados storyline - all I was able to gleam years ago was that Mike - still apparently upset with Alex at that time (for whatever reason, that wasn't clear) decides to go to Barbados to both help rescue Alex and to get some type of revenge for the death of Hillary. Lillian doesn't want Mike to go, but he does it, anyway. The point of this was to bring Mike and Alex back together and to legitimize Brandon's sudden reappearance. And you are correct - if Mike helped Brandon with his will, it would tie him in some way to Brandon besides just Alex accepting his return.
I never found out if Pam Long had anything else planned for Mike Bauer beyond 1984. I've been told that Mike was going to have to make a tough choice at Christmas, whatever that meant. I assumed it would mean being with either Lillian or Alex. Hell, it could have meant choosing between regular and decaf 😆.
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