The Evian Child (Passions)

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The Evian Child refers to the fan coined name of the unknown son of Eve Johnson & Julian Crane on the NBC soap opera Passions. The identity of their son has been an ongoing plot thread throughout the show's history.

The Evian child was concieved while Eve was a jazz singer in Boston somtime in the mid to late 1970's. Originally it was believed that the Evian child was born stillborn. As the show went on hints were dropped that the Evian child was alive and none other than Chad Harris, the boyfriend of Eve's daughter Whitney Russell. It was implied early on that Chad was named after the father of Eve's best friend (and fellow jazz singer) Crystal Harris

A DNA test was done on Chad & Eve which came back negative in the early years of the show. Several years later Eve's sister Liz Sanbourne came to town and eventually exposed Eve's past in Boston and the fact that she had a son with Julian. Shortly thereafter Julian's father Alistair Crane admitted that he had faked the death of Eve's son. He revealed that his grandson was none other than Chad Harris. This destroyed the relationship between Whitney and Chad. Whitney was devestated to find she had been sleeping with her half-brother. Soon after she realized she was pregnant and chose to pass the child off as her son with Fox Crane (another of Julian's sons and thus at that time Chad's half-brother). Eventually she gave birth to a son Miles Harris and gave it up for adoption. Chad adopted the child not knowing it was son not his nephew. Eventually the truth came out and Whitney joined a convent to become a nun.

Some time later Whitney became the victim of Alistair who had a plan to use her to get him a chalice that would help him rule the world. Near the end of the storyline it was revealed by Alistair's lackey J.T. Cornell that Chad was not the son of Julian & Eve. Instead he was the son of Eve's half-sister Liz and Julian's father Alistair concieved when Liz had been raped by Alistair when she was 14 (she had went to visit Boston to see her sister after she had been molested by her father Mr. Sanbourne). JT also revealed that Liz herself was adopted by Eve's mother and step-father and thus she and Chad were not blood relatives of Eve and her children, and Miles was not a product of incest. Alistair died soon after.

This revelation of Chad's lineage meant that Julian and Eve still do not know what happened to their son, if he is even alive and if he is alive who exactly he is.