Something, anything. There was just no way it was believable that she found out the truth and thought she had no right to raise Phillip anymore.
As far as Alan, yes. Elizabeth, no. She acted like Phillip HAD to be with his natural parents. Why? She fought so hard to get custody. Not only had Alan lied to her, so had Jackie, who had insinuated herself in their lives only so she could be near Phillip. Then she married Alan with the sole purpose to take custody away from Elizabeth. She should have been HOPPING MAD at Jackie.
Yes, yes, Marland wanted to be rid of Elizabeth. Fine. Then, yes, a terminal illness or even better, a sudden accident, would have taken care of that, rather than this absurd storyline where Alan inexplicably gives custody to Justin and Jackie.
There was ONE time I recall that Phillip told Justin he loved him. That was when Pennock was playing the role.
I'm not so sure now that they got to do it just because they wanted to. That interview with Potter that was posted a few days ago implied that there were strong rumors going around that they were going to fire a significant number of people. This was right after Jane Elliot was fired. He denied it, but I'm thinking it was already planned back in 1982. Maybe the problem they had with PFS and Browne was that they didn't want to put the Bauers on the chopping block. Clearly, Kobe did not have that issue.
They toyed with that kind of thing with the Dreaming Death and art theft storylines. I didn't care for either story. Alan was best when he was stirring the pot with people's personal lives. In the beginning he was not really a criminal in the sense that he wanted to get richer, he mostly got pulled into criminal activity because of personal issues, like doing the baby switch.
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