Tom Fisher (Y&R)
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Thomas 'Terrible Tom' Fisher was a fictional character in the soap opera The Young and the Restless. He was played by Roscoe Born from April 2005 to January 2006.
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The infamous 'Terrible Tom', the abusive father of Kevin Fisher (Greg Rikaart) and stepfather of Michael Baldwin (Christian LeBlanc), who had been violent towards them and their mother, Gloria (Judith Chapman), when they were young, arrived in Genoa City in early 2005.
Having learned that Kevin had won in the lottery, Tom visited his estranged son, hoping to scare him into giving him money. Kevin, who had dreaded his father's return for years, bravely told him to go away, but Tom promised he would be back. Tom went to see Michael, who was now a highly successful lawyer, and asked for $10 thousand, in exchange for his leaving town. Michael reluctantly agreed, threatening to kill him if he ever returned.
The money didn't last long, and Tom soon came back, trying to embezzle more from Michael. When that was unsuccessful, Tom paid a visit to Gloria, who was now happily married to the wealthy John Abbott (Jerry Douglas). Gloria had thought that Tom was dead, and was easily intimidated by her ex-husband, and realized that if Tom was still alive then she wasn't legally married to John. Tom threatened to tell John about this if she didn't pay him indefinitely. Fearful that the revelation could cause John to leave her, Gloria gave in and began to give Tom money, despite Michael's warnings not to.
John and his daughter, Ashley (Eileen Davidson), who Tom had been dating, found out that he was Gloria's abusive ex-husband and warned him to stay away from their family. When Gloria refused to pay him anymore, Tom threatened to kill John, so Gloria kept giving him money, being careful not to let John find out.
Tom met psychotic Sheila Carter (Kimberlin Brown), whom he knew only as the alias "Brenda Harris". They teamed up to exact revenge on the Abbotts and on Michael and his fiance, Lauren Fenmore (Tracey E. Bregman), who Sheila had wanted dead for years. Sheila told Tom that her plan was to kidnap Lauren on her honeymoon and then ransom her. However, her real plan was much more sinister - Sheila planned to kill Lauren and Tom. Upon learning of his ally's deception, Tom saved Lauren's life and dragged her to safety when her honeymoon yacht exploded.
Lauren was presumed dead, but was actually stranded in a bomb shelter with Sheila and Tom. Tom had both women tied up in the shelter, and decided to go back to Genoa City to extort money from Gloria in return for Lauren's safety. While Gloria agreed to meet Tom, Ashley instead headed to meet Tom in an alley, but John, (who overhead Tom's phone call to Gloria) got there first and shot Tom. Tom was taken to the hospital and, with his last strength, tried to tell an angry Michael and Kevin that Lauren was not dead, but before he could do so, he died. The doctors tried to revive him, but to no avail and it was the classic blanket over the head. Lauren and Sheila have since been rescued. John was sentenced to eight years in prison, where he resided until his death from a heart attack in August 2006.
During an arguement with Gloria after John's funeral, Jack blamed Gloria for Tom showing up and threating to harm John so much and caused him to shoot Tom. Apparently, deep down, Jack was close to saying, "Dad is dead, you are no longer his wife and you are no longer any part of this family, Mrs. Tom Fisher!"
