Robert Ford (One Life to Live)
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Robert "Bobby" Ford is a fictional character
from the ABC
original soap opera
One Life to Live
. The role was originated by David A. Gregory on August 10, 2009 on a recurring basis. Gregory was upgraded to contract status in December 2009.
David A. Gregory debuted in the recurring role of Ford in August 2009. Originally his role was meant to be short term, but Gregory is later placed on contract and returns in December 2009. In an interview with Michael Fairman, Gregory reveals the producers original plan for Ford. "Initially they were going to have him, you know a well suited up producer, kind of slick and then when they wrote that scene [the barn scene], I remember thinking, 'This is kind of unlike anything we've done before." Though the writers make him out to be the bad guy originally, steps are taken to redeem the character. - MichaelFairmanSoaps.com
When Gregory first returns, he finds out from executive producer, Frank Valentini
that his character is getting a brother James Ford
(played by Nic Robuck). Later Nate Salinger
(played by Lenny Platt) is revealed to be their younger brother as well. Gregory claims that he was surprised that Platt's character would be tied into his storyline because Platt was already on the show and his character was already involved in another storyline. Gregory's co-star Brittany Underwood
(Langston Wilde
) occasionally mistook Platt for Gregory while onset.
Besides his role on One Life to Live
, Gregory also appeared on an episode of Law & Order
in 2008. Gregory also starred in the Airborne vitamin commercial as "Sebastian."
was trying to film. After being rejected by his ex-wife, Dorian Lord at La Boulaie, the film crew went to Llanfair and tried to secretly tape David's interactions with his friend, Victoria Lord
. But when Jessica Brennan saw someone hiding in the bushes, she assumed it was the stalker who had been following her and bashed the person over the head, only to find out that the person was Ford. After Viki kicked David out, the film crew moved on to the Buchanan mansion and took up temporary residence in the horse stables. Langston Wilde
went looking for her boyfriend Markko Rivera
, who was working as the cameraman, when she spied Ford trying to beat the heat by pouring a bucket of water over his head and bare chest. Langston likes what she sees but is embarrassed when Ford sees her watching him. They chatted about the reality show and seemed to hit it off, but then Markko interrupted and Ford took off. Later, Ford quits and leaves town after realizing the reality show idea was a flop.
On New Year's Eve, Ford surprises Langston by showing up at Ultraviolet. Langston has thought about Ford often since their encounter in the stables, and Ford said he had been thinking about her too. When Markko interrupts them, he was dismayed to learn that Ford had taken a job at Llanview University as a teaching assistant in the very class that Markko would be taking. Ford hit on Layla Williamson
while working out at the gym but backed off after learning she was dating Cristian Vega
. When Ford needs a place to stay, Layla, Cris and then roommate, Fish
invites him to stay with them.
Ford tells Cris that he is smitten with a younger woman, and Cris assumes she is a college student, not the high school senior Langston. Langston confides in her cousin Blair
that she has fantasized about Ford while having sex with Markko, and Blair warns Langston to stay away from Ford. When Ford shows up at Langston's 18th Birthday party, she secretly makes out with Ford. After interrupting them, Blair tells Ford to go after someone his own age and plants a wet kiss on Ford. Later, Blair invites Ford to La Boulaie to prove to Langston that Ford is only interested in sex; when Ford arrives, he pretends that he only came there to tell Blair to back off, and Langston falls for his lies. Ford accuses Langston of playing it safe with Markko and eventually gets Langston into bed. Langston and Ford continue their affair, although Langston is unaware of Ford's other pursuits. Llanview University student Hannah O'Connor, who had been paired up with Cole Thornhart
on a class project, confided in Cole that she had recently broken up with her boyfriend and then gotten involved with an older man, a teaching assistant at Llanview University who dumped her after they had sex. After Hannah nearly overdoses on pills, Cole learned that the man was Ford. Ford also is having casual sex with Karen, the pizza delivery girl. Hannah confronts Ford at the diner, in front of Cole and Markko, about dumping her after they had sex. But Ford manages to convince everyone that Hannah is stalking him and they never had.
When Langston's best friend and roommate Starr Manning
comes home to find Langston and Ford together, with an open condom wrapper on the floor, Langston admits she is having sex with Ford. But Langston refuses to break it off with Ford, going so far as to lie to Starr and Cole that she had broken up with him. Langston briefly considers actually breaking up with Ford when Markko nearly catches them together at the Palace Hotel and Ford embarrasses Markko. But Ford tells Langston that she is the one making Markko look like a fool, and then Ford tells Langston that he is falling in love with her. The two are later caught kissing by Destiny Evans
who tells her friend, Matthew Buchanan
. When Destiny and Matthew are deciding whether to tell Markko, their conversation is accidentally recorded on Markko's video camera.
On prom night, Ford asks Langston to come over and she says that she can't but later changes her mind. Meanwhile, Ford invites Karen over and Langston finds them having sex. Ford manages to convince Langston that his thing with Karen was just a one-time thing, and they start kissing as Markko walks in. He is furious and after a few heated words, punches Ford out. Ford then tells Langston that they never had anything real, it was just sex. Ford later finds Jessica Buchanan
(who thinks she's a seventeen year old in high school) crying on his doorstep after Cristian rejects her and proposes to Layla. Ford convinces her that sex will help her forget about how Cristian hurt her and the two go to bed together. But before anything happens, Jessica remembers her father Mitch Laurence
trying to rape her. Ford attempts to calm her down, which is how he is last seen until Cristian and Layla find him brutally beaten.
On June 9, 2010, Ford's younger brother James
comes to Llanview to visit him in the hospital. On July 2, it is revealed that Ford was attacked by Elijah Clarke
, who is really Bennett Thompson. On July 22, Ford learns from James (who is still unaware that Inez is his mother) that Inez has another son with Ford's father, Nate. On August 8, 2010 all three brothers reunite with Inez. It is also revealed to Clint that Ford is the father of Jessica's new unborn baby, so he has Vimal Patel change her paternity test to say that the baby's father is Jessica's fiancee, Brody Lovett
. John McBain takes Ford in for questioning. When he arrives at the police station, John gets him to admit that Eli attacked him. Ford doesn't budge at first and then Kelly convinces him to admit it and write it on his statement. After the whole Eli mess blows over, he tries to get Langston to take him back, but she doesn't fall for it and makes sure he doesn't come near her again. Langston records her and Ford's love scene and turns it in to the dean's office immediately. The next day the dean fires him on the spot and puts it on his permanent record, making it so that he can never teach again. Ford was devastated when he found out it was Langston that set him up. He vowed never to see her again. He is currently working at the country club as a bus boy. Clint is contemplating on getting the dean to reinstate him.
On January 11, 2011, Jessica gave birth to Ford's son, she and Brody named Ryder Asa Lovett, thinking that Brody is the biological father. On February 14, 2011, Ford learned he is Ryder's biological father from Access Llanview and that Clint had Jessica's DNA test changed, although everybody believed that it was only Vimal's doing. A shocked Ford seeks out Jessica and Ryder, but instead finds Brody who refuses to let Ford anywhere near Jessica or the child. As Ford is about to see Langston for their Valentine's Day date, he bumps into Jessica who reveals that she is really her alter, Tess. Ford is upset that he may never get to know his son, so Tess comes up with a plan to fix that, and the two leave town for Las Vegas. Langston and Brody track them down, but find they are too late. Ford and Tess get married and return to Llanview, living in Ford's crowded apartment with James, Ryder and eventually, Deanna. The two have to pose as a happy, healthy family in order to get custody of Ryder because Jessica's mother, Viki
, tries to keep him in her custody until Jessica comes back. The day before the trial, Tess visits Viki and tries to cause her a heart attack, resulting in Niki Smith, Viki's alter, coming out. Niki agrees to throw the trial and to give Tess and Ford the baby. After Viki fights with her alters and the judge deems Ford and Tess unfit parents, the custody of the baby almost goes to the commonwealth, but Joey
and Aubrey
decide step up and take the baby for temporary custody. Although they're falling in love, Ford attempts to bargain with Aubrey and Joey and tells them he'll commit Tess for the baby. Joey and Aubrey leave with Ryder, and Ford calls St. Annes, angering Tess to the point that she hits him in the head with a lamp and thinks she killed him. Tess goes to Cutter
so he can hide her. After learning that her husband is in fact alive, she marries Cutter so she cannot Ford cannot commit her. However, Cutter does commit Tess after he bargains with her father, Clint, for a piece of his fortune and his house. Tess goes to St. Anne's and realizes that she is in love with Ford after Bess, another of Jessica's alters, points it out. Meanwhile, James makes Ford realize he's in love with Tess. Ford goes to St. Anne's dressed as a nun to break her out, and they hide out at the Minute Man Motel. Tess and Ford make love, and Ford leaves to force Cutter to file for divorce. Cutter declines the offer, but his housemate, Rama Patel, blackmails him into doing it. Ford comes back to the motel and finds Tess gone. Jessica has come back, and Ford tries to convince her to let him see his son. An overwhelmed Jessica threatens to call the police if he does not leave her alone. On June 28, 2011, Ford abducts Jessica from the hospital and holds her hostage at the Minute Man Motel to plead for her to still let Ryder be a part of his life, and to make Tess come back out. After a while, Jessica pretends to be Tess and Ford removes her gag so she can talk. Jessica screams, alerting Aubrey and Rama, who both had just broken up with their husbands. They go check out Ford's room, so he reties Jessica's mouth and hides her and tells them everything's fine. When they leave, Ford realizes what he did was wrong, so he unties Jessica and tells her she can scream. She tells Ford that she won't turn him in, he did not rape her and that she's willing to negotiate for Ryder. John
arrives after he realizes Jessica was abducted, but she tells him that she's fine and that he should leave. Ford gives Jessica a ride back to the hospital after they happen to catch the Fourth of July fireworks.
Later, Jessica and Natalie get in a fight and Jessica goes to Ford for comfort. He then invites Jessica and Bree to the park with him and Ryder for a family date. James thinks Ford is falling for Jessica. In the Premier of "Vickers man" Ford is hired for help. Markko brags to Ford about his Fame. Jessica told Ford that John not Brody, is Liam's father and Ford thinks Brody already knows.
On November 15, Ford and Jessica make love.
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original soap opera
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One Life to Live
One Life to Live
One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
. The role was originated by David A. Gregory on August 10, 2009 on a recurring basis. Gregory was upgraded to contract status in December 2009.
Character creation and casting
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David A. Gregory debuted in the recurring role of Ford in August 2009. Originally his role was meant to be short term, but Gregory is later placed on contract and returns in December 2009. In an interview with Michael Fairman, Gregory reveals the producers original plan for Ford. "Initially they were going to have him, you know a well suited up producer, kind of slick and then when they wrote that scene [the barn scene], I remember thinking, 'This is kind of unlike anything we've done before." Though the writers make him out to be the bad guy originally, steps are taken to redeem the character. - MichaelFairmanSoaps.com
When Gregory first returns, he finds out from executive producer, Frank Valentini
Frank Valentini
Frank Valentini is an American television producer, director and composer for the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. From 1985-1994 he worked as stage manager. In 1994 he was promoted to Associate Producer assuming full producer duties in 1996 and in 2003 he became executive producer, replacing Gary...
that his character is getting a brother James Ford
James Ford (One Life to Live)
James Ford is a fictional character from the ABC original soap opera One Life to Live. The role was originated by Nic Robuck on June 9, 2010.-Casting and character creation:...
(played by Nic Robuck). Later Nate Salinger
Nate Salinger
Nathaniel "Nate" Q. Salinger is a fictional character from the ABC original soap opera One Life to Live. The role is currently portrayed by Lenny Platt since April 12, 2010, and was on recurring status. He was put on contract in late October 2010....
(played by Lenny Platt) is revealed to be their younger brother as well. Gregory claims that he was surprised that Platt's character would be tied into his storyline because Platt was already on the show and his character was already involved in another storyline. Gregory's co-star Brittany Underwood
Brittany Underwood
Brittany Underwood is an American actress from New Jersey. She is most recognizable for her role as teenager Langston Wilde, Starr Manning's closest and most loyal friend, on the daytime soap opera One Life to Live, a role she originated in 2006.Underwood's first television role was in an episode...
(Langston Wilde
Langston Wilde
Langston Wilde Cramer is a fictional character on ABC's daytime drama One Life to Live. She has been played by Brittany Underwood from May 17, 2006 til April 12, 2011...
) occasionally mistook Platt for Gregory while onset.
Besides his role on One Life to Live
One Life to Live
One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
, Gregory also appeared on an episode of Law & Order
Law & Order
Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It aired on NBC, and in syndication on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24,...
in 2008. Gregory also starred in the Airborne vitamin commercial as "Sebastian."
Storylines
Robert Ford, going by his last name, showed up in Llanview in August 2009 as the young producer of a reality television show David VickersDavid Vickers
David Vickers Buchanan is a fictional character from the daytime soap opera One Life to Live, portrayed by Tuc Watkins.-Appearances:...
was trying to film. After being rejected by his ex-wife, Dorian Lord at La Boulaie, the film crew went to Llanfair and tried to secretly tape David's interactions with his friend, Victoria Lord
Victoria Lord
Victoria "Viki" Lord is the principal fictional character and matriarch of the Lord family on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live...
. But when Jessica Brennan saw someone hiding in the bushes, she assumed it was the stalker who had been following her and bashed the person over the head, only to find out that the person was Ford. After Viki kicked David out, the film crew moved on to the Buchanan mansion and took up temporary residence in the horse stables. Langston Wilde
Langston Wilde
Langston Wilde Cramer is a fictional character on ABC's daytime drama One Life to Live. She has been played by Brittany Underwood from May 17, 2006 til April 12, 2011...
went looking for her boyfriend Markko Rivera
Markko Rivera
Geraldo "Markko" Rivera is a fictional character on ABC's daytime drama One Life to Live. He has been portrayed by Jason Tam since May 21, 2007. Tam last aired as Markko on November 10, 2010 when he left town to continue studying at UCLA...
, who was working as the cameraman, when she spied Ford trying to beat the heat by pouring a bucket of water over his head and bare chest. Langston likes what she sees but is embarrassed when Ford sees her watching him. They chatted about the reality show and seemed to hit it off, but then Markko interrupted and Ford took off. Later, Ford quits and leaves town after realizing the reality show idea was a flop.
On New Year's Eve, Ford surprises Langston by showing up at Ultraviolet. Langston has thought about Ford often since their encounter in the stables, and Ford said he had been thinking about her too. When Markko interrupts them, he was dismayed to learn that Ford had taken a job at Llanview University as a teaching assistant in the very class that Markko would be taking. Ford hit on Layla Williamson
Layla Williamson
Layla Williamson is a fictional character on the American daytime soap opera One Life to Live, who has been portrayed by Tika Sumpter from July 15, 2005 to September 14, 2010 on a contract basis and on November 9, 2010, November 10, 2010, January 21, 2011 and January 24, 2011 on a recurring...
while working out at the gym but backed off after learning she was dating Cristian Vega
Cristian Vega
Cristian Vega is a fictional character on the American daytime drama One Life to Live. The character was most notably portrayed by David Fumero, who played Cristian from June 26, 1998 to September 8, 2011.-Casting:...
. When Ford needs a place to stay, Layla, Cris and then roommate, Fish
Oliver Fish
Oliver Fish is a fictional character on the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live, portrayed by Scott Evans since January 15, 2008. The June 2009 announcement that the character would be romantically linked to another man in an ongoing storyline came to wider attention when Patricia Mauceri, an...
invites him to stay with them.
Ford tells Cris that he is smitten with a younger woman, and Cris assumes she is a college student, not the high school senior Langston. Langston confides in her cousin Blair
Blair Cramer
Blair Cramer is a fictional character on the American daytime drama One Life to Live...
that she has fantasized about Ford while having sex with Markko, and Blair warns Langston to stay away from Ford. When Ford shows up at Langston's 18th Birthday party, she secretly makes out with Ford. After interrupting them, Blair tells Ford to go after someone his own age and plants a wet kiss on Ford. Later, Blair invites Ford to La Boulaie to prove to Langston that Ford is only interested in sex; when Ford arrives, he pretends that he only came there to tell Blair to back off, and Langston falls for his lies. Ford accuses Langston of playing it safe with Markko and eventually gets Langston into bed. Langston and Ford continue their affair, although Langston is unaware of Ford's other pursuits. Llanview University student Hannah O'Connor, who had been paired up with Cole Thornhart
Cole Thornhart
Cole Patrick Thornhart is a fictional character on ABC's daytime drama One Life to Live. He was played by Brandon Buddy from October 10, 2006 to November 10, 2010. He is also the nephew of Ian Thornhart, Patrick's identical twin brother from the now-defunct series Port Charles...
on a class project, confided in Cole that she had recently broken up with her boyfriend and then gotten involved with an older man, a teaching assistant at Llanview University who dumped her after they had sex. After Hannah nearly overdoses on pills, Cole learned that the man was Ford. Ford also is having casual sex with Karen, the pizza delivery girl. Hannah confronts Ford at the diner, in front of Cole and Markko, about dumping her after they had sex. But Ford manages to convince everyone that Hannah is stalking him and they never had.
When Langston's best friend and roommate Starr Manning
Starr Manning
Starr Irene Manning is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. Portrayed by Kristen Alderson since 1998, Starr is the oldest child of Todd Manning and Blair Cramer, and was originally known for her mischievous behavior, exacerbated by her parents' volatile...
comes home to find Langston and Ford together, with an open condom wrapper on the floor, Langston admits she is having sex with Ford. But Langston refuses to break it off with Ford, going so far as to lie to Starr and Cole that she had broken up with him. Langston briefly considers actually breaking up with Ford when Markko nearly catches them together at the Palace Hotel and Ford embarrasses Markko. But Ford tells Langston that she is the one making Markko look like a fool, and then Ford tells Langston that he is falling in love with her. The two are later caught kissing by Destiny Evans
Destiny Evans
Destiny Loretta Evans is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. The role was portrayed by Shenell Edmonds. Edmonds was put on contract in May 2010 with her first contract episodes airing the week of June 9....
who tells her friend, Matthew Buchanan
Matthew Buchanan
Matthew Buchanan is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live.-Casting:The role was portrayed by child actors Steven and Nicholas Towler from 1999 to June 2000 and Ian Chandler Sheaffer from July 2000 to May 2001...
. When Destiny and Matthew are deciding whether to tell Markko, their conversation is accidentally recorded on Markko's video camera.
On prom night, Ford asks Langston to come over and she says that she can't but later changes her mind. Meanwhile, Ford invites Karen over and Langston finds them having sex. Ford manages to convince Langston that his thing with Karen was just a one-time thing, and they start kissing as Markko walks in. He is furious and after a few heated words, punches Ford out. Ford then tells Langston that they never had anything real, it was just sex. Ford later finds Jessica Buchanan
Jessica Buchanan
Jessica Eugenia Buchanan is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live...
(who thinks she's a seventeen year old in high school) crying on his doorstep after Cristian rejects her and proposes to Layla. Ford convinces her that sex will help her forget about how Cristian hurt her and the two go to bed together. But before anything happens, Jessica remembers her father Mitch Laurence
Mitch Laurence
Mitchell "Mitch" Laurence is a fictional character, portrayed by Roscoe Born, on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live, from 1985 to 1987 and again from 2002 to 2003...
trying to rape her. Ford attempts to calm her down, which is how he is last seen until Cristian and Layla find him brutally beaten.
On June 9, 2010, Ford's younger brother James
James Ford (One Life to Live)
James Ford is a fictional character from the ABC original soap opera One Life to Live. The role was originated by Nic Robuck on June 9, 2010.-Casting and character creation:...
comes to Llanview to visit him in the hospital. On July 2, it is revealed that Ford was attacked by Elijah Clarke
Elijah Clarke (One Life to Live)
Elijah Clarke is a fictional character on the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live. He was portrayed by Matt Walton...
, who is really Bennett Thompson. On July 22, Ford learns from James (who is still unaware that Inez is his mother) that Inez has another son with Ford's father, Nate. On August 8, 2010 all three brothers reunite with Inez. It is also revealed to Clint that Ford is the father of Jessica's new unborn baby, so he has Vimal Patel change her paternity test to say that the baby's father is Jessica's fiancee, Brody Lovett
Brody Lovett
Brody Lovett is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live portrayed by Mark Lawson since April 24, 2008.-Arrival:Brody is a former Navy SEAL brought to Llanview by Adriana Cramer to distract Gigi Morasco from Adriana's fiancé Rex Balsom...
. John McBain takes Ford in for questioning. When he arrives at the police station, John gets him to admit that Eli attacked him. Ford doesn't budge at first and then Kelly convinces him to admit it and write it on his statement. After the whole Eli mess blows over, he tries to get Langston to take him back, but she doesn't fall for it and makes sure he doesn't come near her again. Langston records her and Ford's love scene and turns it in to the dean's office immediately. The next day the dean fires him on the spot and puts it on his permanent record, making it so that he can never teach again. Ford was devastated when he found out it was Langston that set him up. He vowed never to see her again. He is currently working at the country club as a bus boy. Clint is contemplating on getting the dean to reinstate him.
On January 11, 2011, Jessica gave birth to Ford's son, she and Brody named Ryder Asa Lovett, thinking that Brody is the biological father. On February 14, 2011, Ford learned he is Ryder's biological father from Access Llanview and that Clint had Jessica's DNA test changed, although everybody believed that it was only Vimal's doing. A shocked Ford seeks out Jessica and Ryder, but instead finds Brody who refuses to let Ford anywhere near Jessica or the child. As Ford is about to see Langston for their Valentine's Day date, he bumps into Jessica who reveals that she is really her alter, Tess. Ford is upset that he may never get to know his son, so Tess comes up with a plan to fix that, and the two leave town for Las Vegas. Langston and Brody track them down, but find they are too late. Ford and Tess get married and return to Llanview, living in Ford's crowded apartment with James, Ryder and eventually, Deanna. The two have to pose as a happy, healthy family in order to get custody of Ryder because Jessica's mother, Viki
Victoria Lord
Victoria "Viki" Lord is the principal fictional character and matriarch of the Lord family on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live...
, tries to keep him in her custody until Jessica comes back. The day before the trial, Tess visits Viki and tries to cause her a heart attack, resulting in Niki Smith, Viki's alter, coming out. Niki agrees to throw the trial and to give Tess and Ford the baby. After Viki fights with her alters and the judge deems Ford and Tess unfit parents, the custody of the baby almost goes to the commonwealth, but Joey
Joey Buchanan
Joseph "Joey" Riley Buchanan is a fictional character on the ABC daytime serial One Life to Live. The character is the son of original characters Victoria Lord and Joe Riley, Sr.-Casting:...
and Aubrey
Aubrey Wentworth
Aubrey Wentworth is a fictional character on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live. She has been portrayed by Terri Conn since her debut on November 29, 2010...
decide step up and take the baby for temporary custody. Although they're falling in love, Ford attempts to bargain with Aubrey and Joey and tells them he'll commit Tess for the baby. Joey and Aubrey leave with Ryder, and Ford calls St. Annes, angering Tess to the point that she hits him in the head with a lamp and thinks she killed him. Tess goes to Cutter
Cutter Wentworth
Cutter Wentworth is a fictional character on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live. He has been portrayed by Josh Kelly since his debut on December 29, 2010.-Casting:...
so he can hide her. After learning that her husband is in fact alive, she marries Cutter so she cannot Ford cannot commit her. However, Cutter does commit Tess after he bargains with her father, Clint, for a piece of his fortune and his house. Tess goes to St. Anne's and realizes that she is in love with Ford after Bess, another of Jessica's alters, points it out. Meanwhile, James makes Ford realize he's in love with Tess. Ford goes to St. Anne's dressed as a nun to break her out, and they hide out at the Minute Man Motel. Tess and Ford make love, and Ford leaves to force Cutter to file for divorce. Cutter declines the offer, but his housemate, Rama Patel, blackmails him into doing it. Ford comes back to the motel and finds Tess gone. Jessica has come back, and Ford tries to convince her to let him see his son. An overwhelmed Jessica threatens to call the police if he does not leave her alone. On June 28, 2011, Ford abducts Jessica from the hospital and holds her hostage at the Minute Man Motel to plead for her to still let Ryder be a part of his life, and to make Tess come back out. After a while, Jessica pretends to be Tess and Ford removes her gag so she can talk. Jessica screams, alerting Aubrey and Rama, who both had just broken up with their husbands. They go check out Ford's room, so he reties Jessica's mouth and hides her and tells them everything's fine. When they leave, Ford realizes what he did was wrong, so he unties Jessica and tells her she can scream. She tells Ford that she won't turn him in, he did not rape her and that she's willing to negotiate for Ryder. John
John McBain (One Life to Live)
John McBain is a fictional character on the American daytime drama One Life to Live, portrayed by Michael Easton since October 1, 2003.-Natalie and Evangeline:...
arrives after he realizes Jessica was abducted, but she tells him that she's fine and that he should leave. Ford gives Jessica a ride back to the hospital after they happen to catch the Fourth of July fireworks.
Later, Jessica and Natalie get in a fight and Jessica goes to Ford for comfort. He then invites Jessica and Bree to the park with him and Ryder for a family date. James thinks Ford is falling for Jessica. In the Premier of "Vickers man" Ford is hired for help. Markko brags to Ford about his Fame. Jessica told Ford that John not Brody, is Liam's father and Ford thinks Brody already knows.
On November 15, Ford and Jessica make love.