of the Four Musketeers. Another character introduced during the "Dreaming death" storyline was newspaper reporter, Fletcher Reade. Near the end of this time, 1985, the Reardons were also nearly totally written out, with Bea coming back in the second half of 1986 (but leaving again, in 1987) and later, in fall 1986, the creation of Chelsea Reardon (the youngest of Bea and Tom's children) helped somewhat, but the writing was on the wall when the ratings dropped, yet again. Long left the show for a time, and the show went through a number of writers (and atrocious stories such as the "Sampson Girl" pageant, the "Infinity" brainwashing story, the introduction of Vanessa and Ross' long lost love child, daughter, Dinah Marler who was found in a carnival as a roadie, and the "Paul Valere" murder story) until she returned in the summer of 1987. With the departure of Long, the stories became even more convoluted, but fortunately, the casting of the show was still top-notch, with some of the characters and actors cast becoming favorites of much of the audience. Some of the characters introduced during this time were: Kyle Sampson. Kyle, was another Tulsa, Oklahoma businessman (Sampson Industries) who would turn out to be the son of former prostitute, Miss Sally Gleason from an affair she had with a Catholic cardinal, John Malone. Miss Sally also turned out to be the true biological mother of Billy Lewis, when it was revealed that unlike Trish and Josh's mother being "Miss Martha" (H.B.'s deceased wife), instead H.B. and Miss Sally had an affair that produced Billy. Kyle got involved with Reva Shayne during the time that Josh left Springfield, and they both tried to help Reva's sister Roxie and her boyfriend Rick Bauer, who had gone to Canada after Roxie had lost her memory. Roxie also brought back a Canadian citizen, who Rick almost had arrested for being in the U.S. illegally, Kurt Corday who would end up marrying Mindy Lewis. A little later, Reva and Roxie's father, Hawk Shayne, showed up in Springfield to help Miss Sally break up the budding romance of Reva and Kyle's, after Reva divorced H.B. But in an odd move, instead Miss Sally used an old family friend, and Springfield Journal newspaper editor, Maeve Stoddard, to break up the couple. Maeve found herself pregnant with Kyle's son (later named, Ben), and this would cause Reva