1989 (#4) - Todd's lies and the charade of Angela's coma

Now that everyone has discovered Angela's existence and it is no longer necessary to keep her locked up in the private clinic in Santa Monica, Stephanie insists to Todd that she be transferred to the Forrester house, where she would receive even more care and attention. What Stephanie doesn't know, however, is that "Angela" is not really her daughter. The real Angela, in fact, died years earlier due to a strange and unbelievable tragedy, caused by Todd who, during a walk with Agela, forgot to lock the brakes on the girl's wheelchair and caused her to plunge down a hill and crash into a tree. After days in intensive care, Angela died from her injuries and her already weak and partly compromised health. Todd at the time of the incident had told Stephanie about the accident, but reassured her that she had survived and needed plastic surgery. In reality, Todd had lied by hiring a con artist named Deveney Dixon to play poor Angela during Stephanie's weekly visits; all so that he could continue to see the woman, with whom he is secretly in love, and more importantly continue to collect and receive the monthly fee that Stephanie punctually pays to the clinic for Angela's hospitalization, in addition to all the various donations that he never fails to make. However, now that "Angela" would have to move in with the Forresters, Deveney would have to play the role of a woman in a vegetative state all the time. Angela and Todd, thus, come up with the idea of a "miracle." During one of Stephanie's visits, Angela slowly moves her hand and makes the woman jump for joy. She can't believe her eyes and the whole Forrester Family is happy for the girl's awakening.