they talked it out and discovered that neither of them had killed Truman. Michael kept the truth about Tommy's parentage from Marcie. When the truth of Tommy's parentage came to light, Michael had been arrested for perjury. He skipped bail when he went to Paris, Texas with Charlie Banks in order to try to find Marcie (who had left town with Tommy after Todd had been awarded custody of his son, whom he called Sam). Michael was arrested and bought back, but eventually returned to Texas with his brother John. The authorities followed, and a crazed Marcie took Viki Davidson hostage in the stand-off. Michael took Viki's place as Marcie's hostage and convinced her to give up Sam and return to Llanview. Todd's pregnant teenage daughter Starr Manning gave her unborn baby up for adoption and chose Marcie and Michael as the adoptive parents. Michael suspected that Todd would attempt to thwart the adoption and feared that Marcie could not survive losing another child. Michael and Marcie separated, but Starr was determined to have Marcie to adopt her baby, married or not. When Starr gave birth on November 6, 2008, Todd had intended to kidnap the child and raise it in secret but changed his mind at the last minute. Meanwhile, after losing her own baby in childbirth on the same day, Starr's cousin Jessica Brennan — during an episode of her recurring dissociative identity disorder — switched Starr's living daughter with her own deceased baby girl, causing everyone to believe that Starr's child, Hope, had died. Seven months later, the truth about the baby switch came out and Hope was returned on June 5, 2009; Michael and Marcie finally assumed a few days later. After overhearing Starr talking about her regrets, Marcie returned Hope to Starr. Michael tells Marcie about an exciting job offer at Seattle Grace Hospital, and they decide to leave Llanview and start over. While Waiting for a cab to pick them up on June 17, 2009, they were overjoyed when a home pregnancy test reveals that Marcie is pregnant. Michael briefly returned in July 2009 to help Rex and Gigi prove that Stacy was not Shane's stem cell donor before he returned to Seattle to be with Marcie where she gave birth to their son, whom they name Gabriel Thomas, on November 13, 2009. Michael and Marcie returned on October 25, 2011, to surprise John