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[edit] Allison Perkins

Mitch managed to get paroled upon having convinced the officials that he had reformed. Returning to Llanview in 1986, Mitch presented himself to be a “changed man.” Claiming to have had a spiritual awakening, Mitch created a public image that presented him to be a religious evangelist. Everyone was skeptical, and as well they should have been, because it was all an act. As nefarious as ever, he secretly plotted to make Tina and Viki’s lives miserable…while setting up a phony religious commune, bilking people out of their money. Using his charm, and powers of persuasion, Mitch lured many of Llanview’s citizens into joining his cult—particularly young women, who he would the manipulate into doing his dirty work for him, while he kept up his “clean” image.

Shortly before Mitch’s death, he had programmed another of his followers, the young and naïve Allison Perkins, to kidnap the baby that Viki was now pregnant with upon its birth. In September, after Viki gave birth to a baby girl, Jessica, Allison snuck into Llanfair (Viki’s mansion) and kidnapped the infant from the house. The child, however, was returned four weeks later…

In 1987, Mitch was seen again—this time as a voyager on the “Star Ascension,” during Viki’s out-of-body experience as she suffered from a brain aneurysm. During the high stakes dream, which dictated whether she would live or die, Viki was able to ultimately destroy his power over her.

In 2002, an alive and well Mitch Laurence quietly returned to Llanview and befriended Natalie Balsom (who at the time was in angst over her stalled relationship with Cristian Vega.) Under the assumed name, Michael Lazarus, Mitch continued to build a rapport with Natalie, as he kept his presence shielded from the rest of the town. After having fully succeeded in charming Natalie, the two eloped. Natalie was eager to introduce her new husband to her mother, who was other than Mitch’s old nemesis, Viki.

It had been recently revealed that Viki had given birth to two daughters all those years earlier, and that Natalie was Jessica’s twin sister. Viki was mortified when she caught a gander of her new son-in-law. Like everyone else, she had assumed Mitch to be long dead. She also knew that any relationship he was having with her daughter was a sinister and manipulative one. During their confrontation, Mitch cockily revealed that he was fully aware that Natalie and Jessica were born twins and that he had instructed that Allison to switch them as babies. The biggest bombshell, however, was when he revealed that (before he had been assumed dead) he had drugged, raped, and impregnated Viki with Jessica in the same window of time that she and Clint had conceived Natalie.

Viki’s obstetrician, Dr. Walter Balsom had been one of Mitch’s cult followers—who he had instructed to not tell her that she was pregnant with twins. Upon Viki’s giving birth to the first child (Natalie), Mitch apparently reappeared in the delivery room (while Clint had stepped out to alert the family of the one baby) as Viki—unbeknownst to everyone else—progressed to give birth to the second (Jessica.) During the delivery…Viki was so startled by the presence of Mitch (who had “died” months earlier), the shock of having twins and being told by Mitch while in labor that he had raped and impregnated her, that she allowed him to take off with the one baby. Viki then proceeded to altogether suppress the memory, believing that she had only given birth to the one (Clint’s.)

Mitch took Jessica, while Clint and Viki brought home Natalie. He later instructed Allison to kidnap Natalie (whom was being called Jessica) and return the real Jessica in her place. Natalie was then placed with Dr. Walter Balsom and his hard-drinking wife, Roxanne. Mitch’s reasoning for all this: he wanted his daughter to grow up in the lap of luxury, while Clint’s daughter would subsequently have nothing. Mitch’s retelling of these events jogged Viki’s memory of the ordeal, and she was mortified to recall every detail.

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She was so distracted with living her own life that she didn't realize Viki had once again been taken over by alternate personality Niki Smith. When Viki/Niki pushed her husband Ben out a window and put him in a coma, she blamed Natalie, and Jessica fully backed her, believing Natalie not only wanted to take everything of hers, she wanted to destroy everything of Viki's. By the time realized the truth, Ben was in a more permanent coma after being accidentally shot by the cops during a standoff with Viki/Niki and Allison Perkins. Remorseful about her horrible, judgmental behavior, Jessica tried to extend an olive branch to Natalie.

Jessica's life began to spiral wildly out of control within weeks of this crisis. Long-thought-dead Mitch Laurence had slowly wormed his way back into the Buchanan's lives, marrying Natalie under an assumed identity. By the time she realized who he was, she was trapped and Mitch said the only way he'd free her was if Viki allowed him to get close to Jessica. Mitch revealed the revolting details to Viki, details so horrific she had blocked them out for decades: Mitch had broken into Llanfair, drugged the maid, and then drugged Viki's tea. While she was out of it, he raped her. Nine months passed, and she gave birth to twins. Mitch gave Natalie to trashy Roxy because she was Clint's daughter and deserved only the worst in his eyes. Jessica was his real daughter, and as an immobile Viki looked on, Mitch kidnapped Jessica. Although he had Allison return Jessica within a few weeks due to him having to disappear and wanting the best in life for his daughter, Viki was still guilt-ridden about not trying to stop him and then blocking everything out.

Mitch wanted Jessica to know she was his, and wanted to tell her. Viki sent Jessica and Seth out of town, only telling Jessica that she was in danger. After a while Jessica couldn't stand being kept in the dark any longer and locked Seth in the bathroom to return to Llanview. When she made it back, Mitch found her and told her every ugly tidbit. In disbelief, Jessica asked Viki, and Viki admitted Mitch was correct. Jessica was sickened by the image of Viki letting her go, and no amount of rational arguments from Viki or anyone else could help ease Jessica's rage. Her entire life now felt like a huge lie. She wanted nothing to do with the Buchanan name or the family she grew up with. She hid out with old friend Al Holden. Seth found her, and when she learned he'd known everything and didn't tell her, she dumped him, claiming she had lost her identity while involved with him.

Jessica was in grave danger with Mitch staying around, constantly looking for her. She went to his mansion to tell him she would never love him, and only the timely intervention of Todd saved her from assault. Jessica decided to flee town and stay with Clint for a while. Viki managed to track her down at the airport, and the two made a guarded peace before Jessica boarded her plane.

Jessica returned to town several weeks later, and was almost immediately kidnapped by Mitch to participate in a bizarre heart transplant scenario with Natalie. The police rescued the sisters just in time. Jessica warmed towards her mother again as well as bonding with Natalie, and although she detested Mitch, he persisted in his attempts to win her over. At one point they argued and he was accidentally blinded by chemicals. She was guilt-stricken, and attempted to form a relationship with him. He was then presumed dead (again) after falling into the river while trying to get Jessica away from Blair, Lindsay and Dorian, who had kidnapped her. Jessica had willingly participated in the kidnapping because she wanted Mitch to pay for his crimes, but had never wanted him to die.

Slowly, she began to get over his demise and fall in love with Antonio Vega. They had clashed on cultural and class levels for months, but now saw the best in each other. Unfortunately, just as Jess opened up again, a still-alive Mitch kidnapped her. He drugged her and saw her as the Viki to his Victor Lord. She managed to send several cryptic messages to her family and Antonio, thanks to a kind young cult member named Brian. Viki was also taken prisoner, and when Brian tried to help them both escape, Mitch shot him in cold blood. Moments later the police rescued the two women, but Jessica was traumatized by being drugged and mentally tortured by her father, as well as the enormous guilt of Brian dying because of his part in her escape attempt. She pushed everyone, especially Antonio, away, and with Jess having to deal with being a suspect in Mitch's death (real this time) and not-so-dead-Keri returning to town with her and Antonio's daughter Jamie, the wall Jessica had built grew higher and higher. However, when Antonio found himself accused of Keri's murder, Jessica's defenses broke down and, as she worked to find evidence to clear him, she opened her heart to his love.

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The series has received multiple Daytime Emmy Award nominations and wins, including a 2002 award for "Outstanding Drama Series," as well as Erika Slezak's six Emmys and Judith Light's two.

[edit] Mission statement

I can't disagree with a thing you've said, and I'll certainly leave the Days decisions to editors more dedicated to the show. But where you (and others) are still going amiss is that you're still thinking "storylines"; when I mentioned Joe and Thaao in the press, I was talking about their possible comments about the show itself, the impact of the DiMeras on the show and ratings over the years, comments about Jim Reilly's (and Hogan's) handling of them and their characters, etc. I believe both spoke in interviews during the Marlena serial killer storyline (and that when Thaao came back in 2002 he had talked about how he had personally added some business with Tony smoking before the character was killed in 1995 to make it possible that Andre was being killed). That's what most soap articles need right now, real-world context. Again, Pauline Fowler is the ultimate example, Bianca Montgomery is also great, even Alexis Colby is decent. Somewhere in WP guidelines it actually says plot summary info should be kept at a bare minimum; we ignore this because we see some notability and importance there, but we have to remember that the scope of an encyclopedia article is supposed to be real-world first and fiction later. This is not always possible and usually undesirable to us, but it is what it is. TAnthony 17:48, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
The relevant guidelines here are WP:FICTION, WP:PLOT, and WP:WAF (Writing about Fiction). These topics aren't unique to soap articles... Wikipedia has had extensive, long, drawn out, bloody battles about fictional subjects. For example, Wikipedia is often criticized for having more info on individual Pokemon characters, than about bonafide historical subjects. There are many folks who have tried to use Wikipedia an an info repository for fictional subjects: Plot lines of books, "biographies" of every character in a sci-fi series, extensive "battle" articles about space opera warfare in computer games, even collections of recipes for fictional meals. But the result of all these debates among the members of the Wikipedia community, is that the consensus of Wikipedia editors is that we're here to provide an encyclopedia for a general audience, not a collection of plot summaries that are of interest primarily to fans. See Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and search on "plot summaries". See also Wikipedia:Fancruft.
Now, because of the millions of people around the world that are fans of soap operas, we do have a lot of people flooding in to Wikipedia and creating articles about soap characters, where the "articles" are little more than plot summaries. My own feeling on this (and I think that I'm speaking for most of the members of this WikiProject), is that we accept that these articles are being created in good faith, often because there's confusion about just what Wikipedia is for. So we're fairly tolerant of these articles, as long as it's made clear that they're just stubs in place for later expansion into "real" articles, a la Pauline Fowler. But this is a very generous and tolerant view on our part, and we're well aware that to other editors on Wikipedia who are working on more "serious" subjects, they'd probably be absolutely horrified at the amount of crap low-quality information that's accumulating in the soap topics. And the only reason that most of the soap articles haven't been nominated for deletion, frankly, is because other editors don't want to waste the time to do it. Now, having said that, I think we, here at this WikiProject, can definitely do our best to organize the existing soap articles, categorize them and rate them, and do what we can to try and find a middle-ground between what soap fans want, and what the standards of an encyclopedia are. But in terms of ratings, we should stick with the standards of Wikipedia, not the standards of fandom. And the standards of Wikipedia are that a short article, with little information except a plot summary, is really little more than a stub (see WP:ASSESS). To call it "Start" class is being generous. To call it "B" class is not acceptable, and if it causes enough controversy, is probably just going to increase the chance that the article is going to get nominated for deletion. --Elonka 18:43, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
I do believe that diatribe completely misses the point of the discussion. We are talking in general about how to rate things, diatribes telling people to go other places don't help. As we are attempting to discuss ratings, I have removed the rating leaving the page in the unrated class for now.IrishLass0128 18:51, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for keeping an open mind!  :) --Elonka 19:07, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
My minds open, there's just not enough room for that much stuff at one time. :) Remember, I pull this editing stuff off at work. No home computer with internet connection.IrishLass0128 19:08, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
I for one appreciate Elonka's well-crafted comment above and think it's spot-on for this discussion; I am actually going to archive it myself for reference. WP has established rules and conventions, and such "go to" references to back up arguments are an important and essential part of any debate on this or any issue. We can decide whatever we want on this page, but without taking actual WP standards into consideration it means nothing beyond this page. TAnthony 19:16, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks TAnthony. If you think it's that useful, maybe we should save part of it, and work it into a "Mission statement" on the main WikiProject page? --Elonka 23:11, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
That is a great idea; as always, you're always one step ahead. — TAnthonyTalk 16:04, 12 October 2007 (UTC)



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[edit] Claudia Zacchara

Claudia Zacchara
General Hospital
Portrayed by Sarah Brown
First appearance 31 January 2008
Created by Robert Guza Jr.
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Gender Female
Occupation Mobster
Residence Port Charles, New York

Claudia Zacchara[1] is a fictional character on the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital. The daughter of mob boss Anthony Zacchara, Claudia has been portrayed by Sarah Brown [2] [3] since 31 January 2008. [4][5] Brown also originated the role of Carly Corinthos on General Hospital in 1996, leaving the series in 2001. [6]

“ Once a gangly and awkward teen, Claudia is now a force to be reckoned with. She's in Port Charles to get in on the family "business" — or rather, take it over. Don't expect smooth sailing: This mob princess may meet her match in Sonny Corinthos.[2] ”

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Claudia is summoned to Port Charles by Trevor Lansing in the hope that she can assert some control over her wayward younger brother, Johnny Zacchara. Mentally unstable mob boss Anthony Zacchara had sent his young daughter Claudia to Milan, Italy to be raised by her uncle. Trevor, who has been secretly running the now fully insane Anthony's illegal operations for years, is surprised to find that Claudia, once a "gangly and awkward teen,"[2] is now a strong and vicious woman bent on taking over the Zacchara empire.

Upon Claudia's arrival, she and Sonny Corinthos meet anonymously in a bar and end up in bed. Soon after, Claudia realizes his identity, knowing that Sonny is "her chief rival for control over Port Charles."[4] When Sonny learns who Claudia is and she makes her intentions for Port Charles know, the battle lines are drawn.

Claudia eventually hires Jerry Jacks and Ian Devlin to kill Sonny. Ian makes an attempt, but the bullet hits Sonny's son Michael instead, and the boy ends up in a coma. Jerry stabs Claudia on May 15, 2008. [7] and then kicks her into the river. She washes up on the beach and is found by Nikolas Cassadine , who at first mistakes her for his deceased love, Emily Quartermaine. [8] Nikolas takes care of her, and she admits that she is the one who hired Ian to kill Sonny; Nikolas threatens to tell Jason Morgan unless Claudia turns herself in. Nikolas ultimately allows Claudia to leave without reporting her to the police because she is aware that he had paid Devlin $10 million for drugs.

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  1. ^ The character's full name "Claudia Antonia Zacchara" is mentioned in the April 30, 2008 episode.
  2. ^ a b c Claudia Zacchara profile - ABC.com
  3. ^ Claudia Zacchara profile - Soaps.com
  4. ^ a b Claudia Zacchara profile - SoapCentral.com
  5. ^ Sarah Brown biography - ABC.com
  6. ^ Carly Benson Corinthos profile - SoapCentral.com
  7. ^ General Hospital recap (5/15/08) - ABC.com
  8. ^ General Hospital recap (5/16/08) - ABC.com

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