Michael McBain

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Nathaniel Marston, in a still from the opening sequence of One Life to Live.
Nathaniel Marston, in a still from the opening sequence of One Life to Live.

Dr. Michael McBain (played by Nathaniel Marston) is a fictional character on the soap opera One Life to Live.

Dr. McBain works at Llanview Hospital, and is the brother of Detective John McBain and husband of Marcie Walsh (whom he married in May of 2006). He and Marcie recently adopted an abandoned baby boy currently named Thomas "Tommy" McBain. Michael has been told by Rex Balsom that the baby is really the missing son of Todd Manning. Since Rex ran into Michael at the hospital on the night of Dr. Spencer Truman's murder, Rex believes that Michael is the one who stabbed Spencer in order to prevent him from revealing the paternity of little TJ to Todd Manning. However, after John had Rex and Michael held overnight in a holding cell for questioning because he believed they were hiding something and wondered what the two could possibly be keeping secret between them, they talked it out and discovered that neither of them had killed Truman. Rex was found holding the pair of bloody scissors that was used to kill Truman, and fibers from John Mcbain's scarf that Michael had been wearing that night were found on the body. Both Michael and Rex had the same to kill Truman- to prevent him from telling anyone that Thomas "Tommy" John McBain was really the child of Todd Manning and Margaret Cochran, since Todd was currently searching for his missing son and knew that Spencer had kidnapped the day of his birth, but that he would never kill him. Rex only grabbed the scissors in order to replace the finger prints on them with his own because he was afraid that Michael had done the deed. Michael admitted to Rex that he had been there at the hospital the night of the murder, not working, and had thought about killing Spencer, and had even thought out how he do it. However, his conscience and the whole doctor's oath about saving lives, never taking them got to him and he couldn't go through with it. So he left. Now, Michael is trying to prevent his wife Marcie from finding out the truth that the son they both love so much is really Todd Manning's and trying to figure out who really did kill Truman. Who killed the guy that shot his and John's father? We'll find out soon. . . .