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Sister : Dr. Heather Donnelly

Former known girlfriends : Laura Asher (1974-1982, 1989), Julia Wainwright (1988), Greta MacAdams (1989), Nikki Alvarez (1990), Cassandra Benedict (1990), Flame Beaufort (1991)

Professions : Police officer, priest, docks worker at Galvin Brothers

Frank Runyeon :
May 26 1988 (# 962) to October 14 1991 (# 1818)

Michael is, at his first appearance in the show, the priest of the convent where resided Mary DuVall and where Mason Capwell comes, in 1988, to lead his investigation about the death of Dr. Mark McCormick. Mason is supposed to be dead in an explosion when arrives then at the convent Julia Wainwright, disguised as a nun, Sister Rebecca. Former police officer, Michael pursue the inquiry with Julia and discovers that the murderer of Mark is in fact Sister Agatha. If the affair is resolved, Michael is now confronted to another dilemma : to combine his vowes of chastity with the love desire he feels for Julia.

He has to do with a new problem of conscience when Dr. Zack Kelton comes to confess to him that he is the author of the many rapes and murders which have struck Santa Barbara these last weeks. Michael then cannot fight against the respect of the confession secret imposed to every priedt denounces him to the police. To be avenged, Zack kidnaps Julia who owes her safety only to Michael's courage. They then both spend the night together. Michael ends by deciding to leave the priesthood.

In 1989, Michael is confronted to his old demons when he discovers the arrival in town of Laura and Ethan Asher. At the time when he was a police officer in Boston, Michael was in fact Laura's lover. But he has one day killed by error her son, Jamie, during a hostage crisis. By finding Michael, Laura forgives him and they both begin again their love-affair. But one day, Leo Mitchell, the brother of a dealer killed by Michael come to avenge, is found dead. Michael is suspected by the new district attorney, Ethan Asher, Laura's husband. But she however ends up by admitting to have killed him in self-defence.

Thereafter, Michael collects the love-affairs, first of all with Greta MacAdams, a former nun, then with Nikki Alvarez, with who he joins the police. They are both kidnapped by the new dealer who operates in town : Kirk Cranston, the first husband of Eden Capwell. Once saved by Cruz Castillo, Michael proposes to Nikki to marry him. But a few days before the ceremony, Nikki is killed in the explosion of the Blue Sky Brigade offices. Mad of sadness, Michael tries to kill the person in charge of the explosion, Harland Richards. Thereafter hired by Minx Lockridge to find the daughter whom she had given up at birth years before, Michael discovers that it is in fact Cassandra Benedict. After an affair of short duration with her, he meets Flame Beaufort, the vile accomplice of Quinn Armitage. Not having more faith in anything, not more in God that in justice, he sleeps with her. But rejected by him the following day, Flame tries to commit suicide. Michael dissuades her and ends up by falling in love with her. But after her last bad turns, Michael prefers to break and leaves the town definitively, alone...

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