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Episode #233, "Thanks For the Memories" ATLANTIC CITY "Stop pacing," Hugh Rogers said, impatiently glaring at Melissa Bale. "This will be over soon enough. And then you'll be on your damn way."
"Both of you stop talking about me like I'm not here," Tyler Rogers said from his seat on the opposite side of the hallway. "I just want these test results to come back from the lab and tell me whether or not my mother is alive. I don't need you two arguing." "I'm sorry, honey," Melissa said, smiling. "Stop calling him that you screwball," Hugh said. "Dad, that's enough," Tyler snapped. "Because if what Melissa is saying is true, you kept me away from my mother. For my entire life!" "I did no such thing," Hugh said. "You're not her son." "You can lie about those memories," Melissa said. "No, but I'm sure all the booze you were hopped up on back then can," Hugh insisted. "I need some air," Tyler said, rising to his feet and hurrying out of the hallway. "You know what you did to me," Melissa said. "And when this is all over, don't think I won't have you arrested for kidnapping." "Trust me," Hugh said, frowning. "When this is all over, you're going to be committed." |
From Tyler's first appearance in 2005, it was always implied that he was Melissa's long-lost son that had been stolen from her by Hugh Rogers. When her cousin Aaron, showing his first signs of duplicity as he manipulated her in their therapy sessions, he tried suppressing her memories. But his plan backfired and she came to the conclusion that Hugh had been keeping her son all these years. Melissa never found out what Hugh was blackmailing Aaron with to get him to manipulate her, but we found out two years later when Robert Bale traveled to Atlantic City and tried to find out from Hugh. Hugh wouldn't tell him, but Tyler was more than willing to. Apparently, Aaron had molested his cousin Kyle when Kyle was younger, and Hugh knew it was kept out of the courts. Thus, we revealed Aaron's evil history and cemented Tyler's place amidst the Melissa/Robert/Aaron/Kyle storyline that first began in 2004. |