Soap Opera Digest, October 30, 2007. Late Breaking News section. Thanks, Nancy!


GL's Edmund Returns

Cassie's twisted San Cristobel family ties resurface this week after she receives a disturbing phone call from her estranged adopted son, Will, who still resides on the island with his father, Alonzo. "It just sounds like he doesn't have any friends and he's lonely, and Alonzo disappears for weeks at a time," explains Nicole Forester (Cassie). "Even though Cassie isn't the biological mother of Will, she definitely feels that she raised him fom the time he was a baby. The only reason she gave him up was because she felt it was the best thing for him, but now he's not doing well. She wants to make that right."
So she tells Josh that she'd rather battle for custody of Will than have a baby of her own. "He's completely onboard," Forester notes. Realizing that Alonzo won't give up his son without a fight, Josh and Cassie rally Jeffrey's legal support and make a list of people who could testify on Cassie's behalf. "In that list is Edmund, unfortunately. The psycho that he is, he was there to see that she was a great mother to Will, so they feel it necessary to get Edmund involved."
The history of bad blood between the exes isn't ignored. Josh assures Cassie that she won't have to make contact with Edmund, who still "very much loves Cassie," says David Andrew Macdonald (Edmund). "It's been the focus of his life ever since he fell in love with her. Edmund has a tenuous relationship with reality sometimes--as all true geniuses do! There's a weird alchemy between genius and a heart of gold and it creates delusion." Forester adds," He might have done some crazy, insane things, but it was always to protect Cassie. His love is so obsessive that it's unhealthy."
Ya think? After a few phone calls, Edmund agrees to testify on Cassie's behalf...if she meets with him face-to-face. Then he stalks an unsuspecting Dinah at the mental institution. "Edmund lurks with the best," Macdonald laughs. After leaving an anonymous note promising to help her, he secretly places flowers in her room. "Well," says Macdonald, "he's a gentleman if nothing else. He may have little things like compromised ethics and morals, but he's nothing if he's not well-bred!" Shudders Forester, "He's a creepy, creepy man!"



Ellie