Allison Perkins
Allison Perkins | |
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One Life to Live character | |
Portrayed by | Barbara Garrick |
Duration |
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First appearance | August 1986 |
Last appearance | August 19, 2013 |
Classification | Schuyler Joplin (adoptive) |
Allison Perkins is a fictional character on the
Barbara Garrick originated the role from 1986 to 1987,[1][2][3] returning from August 15, 2001[4] to August 27, 2002[5] and then making brief appearances from October 24 to October 28, 2002[6][7][8] and January 10 to January 31, 2003.[2][3][9] Garrick once again returned to the role from January 25, 2008[10][11] to March 3, 2008.[12] She reappeared on February 26, 2010, until April 13, 2010.[13] She escaped Statesville and returned to Llanview during the blackout on January 5, 2012, and remained until the broadcast finale January 13, 2012. Under secrecy, Garrick returned for the first-season finale of Prospect Park's version of One Life to Live on August 19, 2013.
Development
The character of Allison became a key player in the 1986
Garrick returned as Allison in 2001 for what Soap Opera Weekly called "The Mother Of All Reveals,"[15] a storyline in which the series exploited a loophole in its continuity and created a secret history that would "resonate for months and years."[16] The reveal that teenage Jessica had actually been switched with another baby by Allison in 1986 – and so was not the daughter of Viki and husband Clint Buchanan – "was about as big as they come."[15]
When
Storylines
1986–87
While a volunteer at
The sheltered daughter of the warden of Stateville Prison, Allison soon falls under the spell of charismatic
on September 23, 1986.Compelled by Mitch's
2001–03
In 2001, Allison reappears in Llanview at St. Ann's mental institution. Sane and remorseful, Allison tells her new psychologist, Dr. Rae Cummings, that she is desperate for Viki's forgiveness. A close friend of Viki's, Rae urges her to visit Allison;[2][4] Viki's husband Ben Davidson, however, is suspicious and recommends against it.[22] A compassionate Viki meets with and forgives a grateful Allison.[2][22] But Ben soon hears Allison say "Viki forgave me. It's all set." to someone on the phone; he decides to infiltrate St. Ann's, posing as mental patient "Dave" to gain Allison's confidence. Allison begins falling in love with "Dave," but before Ben can learn what she is up to,[22] Rae arranges for a "rehabilitated" Allison to leave the institution for good. Yet Allison has indeed been faking her remorse to fool Rae and get Viki's "inadvertent endorsement," thereby securing her release from St. Ann's. A free woman, Allison can now reveal the most shocking part of Mitch's original plan.[2]
Allison seeks out her secret accomplice, Jessica's new friend Natalie Balsom, who has ingratiated herself to Jessica and her family in the short time since she had arrived in Llanview. Allison herself had tracked Natalie down and lured her to town; now having secured the genetic proof they need, Natalie and Allison confront Viki with a devastating announcement: Natalie is Clint and Viki's biological daughter. Allison is delighted to reveal that when she had kidnapped the Buchanan baby in 1986, she had returned another child who grew up to be Jessica.[2][22] Their biological daughter – Natalie – had been raised by another family in relative squalor.[2] Viki cannot believe she could have mistaken another child for her own, and worst of all, she despises the scheming Natalie and wants nothing to do with her. Viki declares Jessica "her one and only daughter," but Allison has papers drawn up that give Natalie the legal right to live at Llanfair.[20] As Natalie forcibly moves in, she and Allison make life as difficult as they can for Viki and Ben.[22] Natalie desperately wants the money she "deserves" and the life that Jessica has "stolen" from her; once Natalie has access to her inheritance, she has agreed to share it with Allison.[2][3]
A troubled Jessica begins a tenuous relationship with Natalie's wild mother
Allison becomes the cellmate of
In October 2002, a
It is ultimately revealed that Mitch Laurence had secretly raped a drugged Viki around the same time she conceived a child with Clint. Viki had unknowingly become pregnant with fraternal twins, one fathered by Clint (Natalie) and the other fathered by Mitch (Jessica). Viki's
In early 2003, Mitch visits Allison at St. Ann's. Though Allison is "insane and incoherent," Mitch orders her to pull herself together and indicates that they still have more to accomplish.[2]
2008
Jessica had suffered her own bout with dissociative identity disorder from 2005 to 2006. Though not genetic, it had been explained that the illness had been triggered by childhood sexual abuse inflicted on Jessica while Viki had been running around as Niki Smith. In 2008, a recovered Jessica pretends to be her alter, "Tess," to gain the trust of schemer Jared Banks, who had crossed paths with Tess in the past. Jared contacts St. Ann's, however, and Jessica is committed – per her own past instructions – on the suspicion that Tess has indeed taken over again.[26] As Jessica waits for her husband Nash Brennan and Viki to arrange her release on January 25, 2008, she is spotted by fellow patient Allison. Allison rushes up to Jessica and giggles, "I know something you don't know."[27] She tells a doubtful Jessica that she has a big secret about Jessica's family.[28] With Jessica's interest piqued, Allison makes a deal to tell Jessica what she knows – if Jessica breaks her out of St. Ann's.[29] Jessica soon enlists Natalie's aid, telling her shocked sister that she plans to sneak Allison out of the sanitarium.[30] Dressed as nuns, Jessica and Natalie smuggle Allison out of St. Ann's with every intention of returning her when they have heard her secret; Allison muses on the humor in the fact that now they are "absconding" with her in the night.[31] Allison insists on an assurance of her total freedom before she will say anything. Promising to leave their family alone once she has revealed her secret, Allison leads the sisters to a familiar place where she can "show" them what she knows: the mausoleum on the grounds of Llanfair where their evil grandfather Victor Lord lies.[32] Jessica locks Allison in, hoping to force her to reveal what she knows; undaunted, Allison opens a secret panel in the mausoleum and, thanking Mitch, takes out a wrapped package – and a gun.[33] By morning, Jessica and Natalie find that Allison has escaped.[34] Allison finds refuge with a reluctant Roxy,[35] soon going to the Valentine's Day "Go Red Ball"[36] and holding Jessica at gunpoint.[37] Jared Banks throws himself in front of Jessica, and in a struggle for the gun he and Allison fall over a high balcony;[38] hanging for their lives, Allison defiantly lets herself fall rather than return to St. Ann's, gloating to Jessica that her secret will die with her. Jared is saved and Allison's fall is broken by an awning, leaving her alive but in critical condition.[39] She opens her eyes for a moment on February 29, 2008,[40] but remains comatose.[12]
2010, 2012–13
A presumed-dead Mitch Laurence turns up alive and begins terrorizing the residents of Llanview on November 9, 2009.
Allison escapes from Statesville Prison during the blackout in January 2012. She reappears on January 5, sneaking into Llanfair to see Viki and Clint. She confesses to them that she is no longer following Mitch and that she caused the prison break. Allison also begins hinting about Jessica and Natalie's paternity. On January 6, Allison tells Clint and Viki the truth: Jessica and Natalie are both Clint's biological daughters, and she had lied to Mitch that one baby was his to please him. She then shoots Viki and runs off. On January 13, Allison narrates the last episode of One Life to Live from an unknown room. She tells the life stories of Viki and Clint, and hints at the future that others in Llanview might have. Allison ends the episode by saying "But why spoil what happens next? You of all people should know things are rarely what they appear" and throws the script she wrote for the last episode at a man who is tied to the bed of the room she is in: Viki's brother
In the One life to Live online series on May 1, Victor Jr. reappears in Llanview, having at some point escaped from Allison, but then being held prisoner by an evil organization. On August 12, it is revealed that the head of this organization,
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