| Tom Fisher | |||||||||||
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| Roscoe Born as Tom Fisher | |||||||||||
| The Young and the Restless | |||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Jonathan Fraser (2004) Roscoe Born (2005–2006) |
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| First appearance | April 9, 2004 | ||||||||||
| Last appearance | January 13, 2006 (alive) March 31, 2009 (ghost) |
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| Cause/reason | Shot and killed by John Abbott, Sr. | ||||||||||
| Profile | |||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Terrible Tom Tom Callahan |
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| Gender | Male | ||||||||||
| Occupation | Con man Former carpenter |
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| Residence | Genoa City Motor Arms Motel Genoa City, Wisconsin |
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Thomas "Tom" Fisher is a fictional character from the American soap opera The Young and the Restless, portrayed by Roscoe Born from April 7, 2005 to January 13, 2006 and by Jonathan Fraser in 2 episodes in 2004. He also reappeared in a hallucination by Kevin Fisher on March 31, 2009.
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. Days later, Paul arrived at the bomb shelter and rescued Lauren, who had managed to work with Sheila to escape. However, Sheila fell behind and disappeared once again (she would return a year later after undergoing plastic surgery). John was sentenced to seven years in prison, where he resided until his death from a stroke on August 18, 2006.
After his death Kevin saw a ghost of Tom and said goodbye and good riddance to him. Kevin then had him cremated and then he poured Tom's ashes down Michael's sink. A safe deposit box key was one of the few things Tom left to Kevin in his will, though neither he nor Michael could determine where the box was located; the mystery surrounding the deposit box was never resolved until 2009.
In April 2010, it was revealed that Tom has two other kids, Daisy Sanders and Ryder Callahan and their mother was Sheila Carter. In January 2011, his daughter Daisy gave birth to his granddaughter Lucy.
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