What is the history behind Alans imprisonment?
The year was 1989. Everyone thought Roger was dead. Phillip Spaulding & (Christina) Blake (Thorpe) Lindsey were engaged to be married. This angered Phillip’s father, Alan, who had previously had an off-camera romance with Blake & who was mortal enemies with her (presumed) dead father. Alan was wheelchair bound, presumably paralyzed from the waist down, the result of a gunshot wound inflicted by Sonni/Solita in Venezuela. Alex and Fletcher flew down to Venezuela after they found out Alan had been shot. On their way back to Springfield, the Spaulding jet crashed on a desert island. Alex & Fletch fell in love, but became separated in a storm. After the storm, Fletcher was rescued, but Alex was nowhere to be found. Alex had been “rescued” by the island’s secret inhabitant, Adam Malek, who wore a mask to hide his disfigured face. (Many viewers familiar with actor Michael Zaslow, who had played Roger 10 years earlier, knew immediately that Adam was really Roger Thorpe, who’s face was not dis
