I made this for people who are not even fans of One Life To Live yet. Years from now someone will become attached to the show and will hear about the Bess baby switch. Instead of having to look all over Youtube and the internet to get the story, here it is! Most of the story is in the clips, but I will tell you most of the rest from beginning to end....
In the summer of 2008 Jessica's husband, Nash, was pushed through a skylight by Jared. Jared did not mean to push Nash over the edge, but he did and Nash died. Jessica was unable to handle it and split (after having been successfully integrated for about 20 months) and Tess was in control.
Tess was the one who first fell for Nash in 2006 (I'll direct you to The Fire Escape to view all the clips from that fantastic storyline.) When Tess and Jessica were integrated, Jessica fell in love with Nash too. Tess wanted revenge, so, driven by anger she spent most of her time planning to kill Natalie and Jared. She wanted Natalie dead because Natalie had kept Jared's lies and hid the fact that he was not really a Buchanan. (Long story, irrelevant to this one, but if you want more information, ask me.) When this came out, Nash started yelling at Natalie and that's why Jared pushed him.
Tess went to only one prenatal appointment. She was not seeing clearly enough to focus on both her unborn baby and killing Natalie and Jared, so her baby went without much needed medical care and she died before birth. By the time Tess went into labor she was already on the run. People knew she was Tess and that she was responsible for Natalie and Jared's disappearance. At this point she had them locked in the basement with a ticking time bomb. Bree was at Todd's, who was keeping the secret that Jessica was Tess only because Tess knew he had Marty at his home. Tess went to the cottage that she and Nash used to live in to have the baby.
Tess was hoping to "see" Nash at the cottage, but instead she got her mother's other personality, Nikki Smith. Nikki told Tess that all her anger was not because of Natalie and Jared, but because of her. (When Tess was a child, Nikki brought her to a bar, where she was sexually abused, hence, Jessica splitting.) Nikki talked Tess into going back to Llanfair (home) to let Jared and Natalie out, but the contractions were too strong and Tess could not leave, so Nikki "delivered" the baby.
The baby girl did not move or cry at birth. This is where the movie starts....Tess passed out and Bess made her first One Life To Live appearance!
While Tess was at Todd's (her temporary hiding place) she over heard his plans to run away with Marty and Starr's unborn baby. (A child who Starr was planning on giving up for adoption to a couple Todd could not stand.) Todd recruited a doctor and nurse (through many threats) to help him get away with abducting the baby. Tess heard him tell Janet Ketring/Lee Halpern (the nurse) that when Dr. Joplin delivered the baby, she would take the baby to Joplin's office. Bess knew right where the baby would be, so she drove to the hospital and switched her dead baby for Starr's live one.
No one knew Chloe was Hope until one day when a guy brought Jessica's wallet (that Bess had left at the cottage) to Llanfair and Jared and Natalie saw the parking pass from the hospital. They decided to look into this mystery. Also, around this time Llanview was being hunted by a serial killer, who turned out to be Todd's cousin, Powell Lord.
When Todd, Powell, and some other guy (I don't recall his name) were in collage, Todd initiated the gang rape of Marty. (Which is why he didn't want anyone to know he had the amnesiac woman at his home. He had fallen in love with Marty and wanted to run away with her and Starr's baby.) Todd got off, the other guy went to jail, and Powell went to a mental hospital. Feeling guilty Powell wanted revenge on all the people who hurt Marty, so he killed them. Eventually he kidnapped Marty, Todd, Blair, and Tea. His plan was to have Marty kill Todd, but when the woman he was in love with (the woman who helped him escape from the hospital) found out her brother (Kyle) had information that could gain him a fortune (that Jessica had kidnapped Starr's baby) she went to Llanfair, took Chloe, and brought her to Powell, who informed Todd and Marty this was their grandchild.
With Chloe missing and the knowledge that, in an effort to find out how their baby died, Cole and Starr were going to have their baby's body exhumed, Natalie and Jared decided it was time to tell the family the information they had decided to keep concealed, that Chloe was dead and the baby Jessica was raising was Hope.
The rest of the story tells itself. Bess ran away with Hope to Nash's parents' home and shortly after was found.
The entire storyline from Nash's death to Jessica learning the tragic truth about her baby was 12 months, from June 2008 to June 2009.
This was just about the whole story, but if you have any more questions, let me know.
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