Ava moves to San Francisco. Josh and Reva's son Shayne Lewis, now wheelchair bound, returns to Springfield at the end of 2008. Father Ray Santos joins his cousin Danny in Louisiana. Alan Spaulding develops a brain tumor, leading to a series of visions of his dead son, Gus. Alan lapses into a coma and then recovers, only to have Spaulding Enterprises and the Spaulding mansion taken away from him by his adopted son Phillip's cousin Dinah and her half-brother Bill Lewis. Dinah's mom, Vanessa Chamberlain, moves from The Beacon into the Spaulding mansion with her daughter, Maureen, and ex-husband, Billy Lewis, joining Dinah and Bill. Alan later regains the Spaulding mansion and moves back in with his sister Alexandra. Bill Lewis faces health problems while Dinah has her second cousin, Lizzie Spaulding, kidnapped by Grady Foley. Lizzie is rescued by Bill, and they are injured in a car accident fleeing Grady. Bill falls into a coma and awakes to find that he is charged with the kidnapping. Alan, working with Grady, framed Bill in an attempt to wreck Bill and Lizzie's relationship. The charges are dropped when a warehouse containing evidence is burned in an apparent arson, but Bill and Lizzie break up because Bill, who had not regained his memory of the kidnapping and ensuing accident, could not remember if he had actually kidnapped Lizzie. In 2009, Edmund, the former prince of San Cristobal, emerges from his coma and returns to lurking around Springfield. Edmund is revealed as the long lost father of Shayne Lewis's late girlfriend Lara. Dinah and Shayne, who has recovered from his injuries, become involved until Dinah, trying to get Edmund out of their lives, deletes a video of Lara from Edmund's laptop. Coop is involved in a car accident while on the phone arguing with Alan on his way to stop Beth from marrying Alan again. Coop is rescued from the car accident and taken to Cedars hospital by Phillip, who had been tracked down by Bill Lewis and who returned to Springfield to make amends for his past misdeeds. Phillip catches up with best friend Rick Bauer, father Alan Spaulding, ex-wife Beth Raines, ex-father-in-law Buzz Cooper, and Lizzie, and learns that his and Beth's son James has been sent to boarding school, that ex-wife Harley and Phillip and Rick's son's Zach and Jude no longer live in Springfield, and that Lizzie has given