Michael McBain

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Michael McBain
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Michael McBain is a fictional character from the ABC soap opera One Life to Live.

Casting

The role was originated by R. Brandon Johnson in November 2003. Nathaniel Marston stepped in on February 16, 2004, and ultimately left on November 29, 2007. On January 9 and 10, 2007, Robert Harte temporarily filled in for Marston as Michael. Chris Stack took over the role from December 3, 2007, to June 17, 2009,[1][2] later making a guest appearance from July 14 through July 16, 2009,[3][4][5] and on November 12 and 13, 2009. Michael returned on October 25, 27, 28, 2011.

Marston originally played the role of

Marcie Walsh; when Al was killed off, fans of the couple organized a write-in campaign calling for Marston's return.[citation needed
] Marston later returned to the series in a storyline in which Al's "spirit" helped Michael change his selfish ways and win Marcie's heart. Johnson and Marston alternated in the role of Michael as Al's spirit sometimes "took control" of Michael. At the conclusion of the story on February 16, 2004, Al's spirit took over Michael's body permanently and lost all memory of Al's life; Marston assumed the role full-time with no mention of Al's spirit being inside Michael's body. To the viewer Michael looked like Al, but presumably to everyone else he looked like he did before Al's spirit got inside him.

Storylines

Dr. McBain worked at

Tommy McBain
.

Michael was told by

Spencer Truman
's murder, believed Michael was the one who stabbed Spencer to prevent him from revealing the paternity of Tommy to Todd Manning (Spencer had kidnapped Tommy, who was really the child of Todd Manning and Margaret Cochran on the day of his birth); Michael believed Rex had committed the murder for the same reason. However, after John had Rex and Michael held overnight in a holding cell for questioning because he believed they were hiding something and wondered what the two could possibly be keeping secret between them, they talked it out and discovered that neither of them had killed Truman.

Michael kept the truth about Tommy's parentage from Marcie. When the truth of Tommy's parentage came to light, Michael had been arrested for perjury. He skipped bail when he went to Paris, Texas with Charlie Banks in order to try to find Marcie (who had left town with Tommy after Todd had been awarded custody of his son, whom he called Sam).

Michael was arrested and bought back, but eventually returned to Texas with his brother John. The authorities followed, and a crazed Marcie took Viki Davidson hostage in the stand-off. Michael took Viki's place as Marcie's hostage and convinced her to give up Sam and return to Llanview.

Todd's pregnant teenage daughter

Seattle Grace Hospital, and they decide to leave Llanview and start over.[9] While Waiting for a cab to pick them up on June 17, 2009, they were overjoyed when a home pregnancy test reveals that Marcie is pregnant.[1]

Michael briefly returned in July 2009 to help Rex and Gigi prove that Stacy was not Shane's stem cell donor before he returned to Seattle to be with Marcie where she gave birth to their son, whom they name

Gabriel Thomas, on November 13, 2009.[10]

Michael and Marcie returned on October 25, 2011, to surprise John that Marcie was six months pregnant with their second child.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b "One Life to Live recap (6/17/09) - Soaps.com". Archived from the original on 2009-06-20. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
  2. Soaps.com. June 17, 2009. Archived from the original
    on April 20, 2009. Retrieved June 17, 2009.
  3. ^ One Life to Live recap (7/14/09) - Soaps.com
  4. ^ One Life to Live recap (7/15/09) - Soaps.com
  5. ^ One Life to Live recap (7/16/09) - Soaps.com
  6. ^ One Life to Live recap (6/5/09) - Soaps.com
  7. ^ One Life to Live recap (6/8/09) - Soaps.com
  8. ^ One Life to Live recap (6/15/09) - Soaps.com
  9. ^ One Life to Live recap (6/16/09) - Soaps.com
  10. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-11-16. Retrieved 2009-11-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. ^ One Life to Live recap (10/25/11) - Soaps.com

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