Where did AC Mallet come from, and why did he bring Julie with him?
Mallet was a cop in NYC who went undercover to catch a mobster. He fell in love with the mobster’s daughter, Francesca, whom he called Chella [she of the large brown eyes], put her brother away, and made her father a bitter enemy. The father in turn set up a bomb in a car and Mallet thought the love of his life died in it. He was given a new identity and his family thought he was dead. He ended up in Springfield, and was brought into the show by the then assistant DA Lisa Dravecky, working as a P.I. investigating Phillip Spaulding’s “death” (during the Neil Everest murder investigation). AC was continually blaming himself for Chella’s death. Chella thought Tony was dead. Chella ended up in Springfield when she accompanied her aunt there for an operation (all the hospitals in NY and they had to come to Springfield?). The father followed. In the meantime, AC found Chella in a church, and they started meeting in secret. Roger was in business with her father, and having figured out that th
