Schuyler Joplin, a new Llanview High School teacher, befriends student Starr Manning in January 2009 on the heels of the suicide of his mother, Dr. Leah Joplin.
In spring 2010, Allison Perkins shows up masquerading as a house inspector from child services at Schuyler's apartment, and later points a gun at Schuyler and then kidnaps Sierra.