to try to commit suicide. Reva would develop a relationship with Fletcher Reade, until Kyle learned that Fletcher was writing anonymous newspaper stories based on Reva's life. Phillip (played during this time by John Bolger) had caught on to all of India's schemes to stay married to him, and he slowly got her out of his life (he would later become a novelist, and started dating Beth again shortly before her supposed death in the summer of 1986). India then became involved with a magician named, Simon Hall who was using India to get to his true mark, Alexandra Spaulding. After Lujack was killed in an explosion, Simon showed up in Springfield and tried to pass himself off as the long lost uncle of Lujack and therefore Brandon's son and Alexandra's half-brother (Alexandra would later learn that Simon wasn't related to the Spauldings at all. Simon was Eric Luvonchek's illegitimate son with a woman named Maggie and therefore Lujack's half-brother). Also introduced, around this time, was Calla Matthews, who was the sister of Lillian Raines, and her daughter, Jesse. Calla got re-involved with her high school sweetheart, Ross Marler, and Jesse lobbied for them to marry. Jesse would later get involved with Simon, despite her mom's protests, because Calla was hired as Alexandra's personal assistant. Calla though resisted both Lillian and Jesse's attempt to marry her off to Ross, and Ross and Vanessa at first suspected it was because Jesse was their long lost daughter, but later it would be revealed that Calla had contacted from her ex-husband Gordon Matthews a sexually transmitted disease. For a while Claire would become Rick's medical school teacher at Cedar's, and nearly flunked him when it became apparent that Ed and Mo wouldn't comply with Claire's demands to give Michelle back to her. Claire would end up getting involved with the new marriage between Kyle and Maeve (as Maeve's doctor, but Fletcher would watch her every move not to hurt more of his friends), but in the meantime so did India, when India figured out that Kyle was paying for Reva's new house. Near the end of this time period, in the summer of 1986, Alan Spaulding (Christopher Bernau until the summer of 1988 and then played by Daniel Pilon until the winter of 1990) would come back to town and get involved with India and get her involved in an art forgery scam