Aidan Devane
Actor History
Aiden Turner (June 6th, 2002 to Present)
Tom Archdeacon (13 May 2004 to 28 May 2004 [6 episodes]; temporary recast)
Occupation
Private Detective (working with Tad Martin)
Former spy for Jackson Montgomery
Valley Inn bartender
Former construction worker at Erica Kane's penthouse
Former Special Forces operative
Resides At
Wildwind
The Pine Cone Motel, Room 17
Marital Status
Single/Engaged (Greenlee Smythe) [Engaged: Apr 11th, 2008; Married: Aug 11th, 2008]
Past Marriages
None
Relatives
Lindsay Devane (mother; deceased)
Alexandra Devane (aunt)
Anna Devane (aunt)
Gabriel Devane (half-uncle)
Robin Scorpio (cousin)
Leora Hayward (cousin; deceased)
Children
None
Flings & Affairs
Fiona Sinclair (lovers; deceased)
Morgan Gordon (lovers; deceased)
Kendall Hart (lovers)
Maria Santos (engaged)
Mia Saunders
Anita Santos (lovers)
Amanda Dillon (kissed)
Erin Lavery (lovers; deceased)
Di Henry (lovers)
Greenlee Smythe (engaged)
Kendall Hart (one-night stand)
Crimes Committed
Assault; Punched a police officer [Sep. 2nd, 2002]
Took David Hayward hostage. [2002]
Warrant issued for the arrest of Fiona Sinclair. [Charged dropped Feb 2003]
Theft; Stole a gun from David's cabin. [Oct 2003; Charged Oct 6th, 2003]
Trespass; Broke into David's cabin and planted a bug. [Oct 2003; Charged Oct 6th, 2003]
Stole Michael Cambias' body from the funeral home and buried it at the garbage dump. [Nov 12th, 2003]
Filled Michael Cambias' empty coffin with stones. [Nov 12th, 2003]
Theft; Rode in Greenlee Smythe's car knowing that Mia had stolen/hotwired it. [Nov 14th, 2003]
Hid prosecution witness Fred Lomax in an attempt to prevent him from being called to testify against Kendall. [Jan 2003]
Aided and abetted Greenlee Smythe in her eluding of the law. [Fall 2007]
Tied a noose around Ritchie's neck in an effort to make him talk. [Oct 8th, 2007]
Maladies and Hospitalizations
Suffered a gunshot wound to the abdomen [Dec 2002]
Shot in the hand [January 2003]
Cuts and bruises after jumping off a yacht [May 2003]
Tied up Michael Cambias and tossed him in a dumpster [Jul 25th, 2003]
Breaking and entering; Broke into Michael's condo to try to (unsuccessfully) steal money from his safe. [Aug 8th, 2003]
Knocked unconscious by Erin Lavery to prevent him from calling the police about Jonathan. [Nov 8th, 2005]
Brief Character History
Aidan Devane skulked into town in summer 2002. His attempt to meet up with his aunt, Anna Devane, resulting in a physical altercation with her husband David Hayward which would establish their future relationship. Anna and Aidan had never met; Anna had never even known that her older sister Lindsay had had a child. According to Aidan, Lindsay had died when he was young and he was sent to live with an aunt and uncle. He'd just gotten out of the GB Special Services before arriving in PV, and was hoping to find steady employment and reconnect with his family. He managed to get a job working on Erica's penthouse, and immediately came into contact with the volatile Kendall Hart. Kendall was trying to clear her name on an arson charge, and while attempting to plant a bug, got hot and heavy with the hunky Brit. Aidan was less than thrilled when he found out her true intentions, and spurned her. She meanwhile lost her fiancé Ryan due to her machinations, and he would remain a cloud over any future relationship Aidan and Kendall had.
One day Aidan helped a beautiful Latina woman after she had been mugged in the park. Her name was Maureen Gorman and she had come to town to find out who was digging into her life. She hid out in his hotel room and the two quickly became friends. Just as Aidan found himself seriously falling for this mystery lady, she learned she was Maria Santos Grey, presumed dead since 1997, married to Edmund, mother of Sam and Maddie. Maria felt a special bond with Maddie and kidnapped her from Wildwind to protect her. Aidan assisted in the plan for mother and daughter to flee town, but a jealous Kendall called the cops. Aidan punched an officer and was arrested. Maria decided to work on her past with Edmund and her children, but promised to stay friends with Aidan. Aidan regretfully agreed and began concentrating on Kendall again. He and Kendall became very close while working at the Valley Inn as bartenders, and even made love one night, but she made him leave her room the next morning due to not believing she was worthy of love and still being obsessed with finding Ryan. After they had a disagreement about her obsession with Erica, the relationship cooled once again, and he was drawn back to Maria.
Maria had regained none of her memory and wanted the help of the man who had zapped her memories in the first place, David. But David felt that he had enough problems regarding her return, and refused to get involved. Aidan held him hostage and threatened to give him the drug he had given Maria years earlier, but after Maria arrived David managed to get the gun and flee the room. Soon after this, Aidan was shot and fell on Maria's doorstep. Maria hid him out in the Wildwind stables as she treated him. Although he was initially hesitant to talk about his past, Maria pressed him after learning that Scotland Yard had a warrant out for his arrest on the murder of a Fiona Sinclair. Aidan confided in Maria of his past with working for a crime boss. The man's wife, Fiona, was madly in love with Aidan and was planning to leave her husband for him. One day Aidan left her in his hotel room bed, but when he returned a short time later, she was sprawled out with a bullet inside her, and a note warning Aidan he was next. Aidan had been on the run ever since. To his relief, Maria believed him, and when he began to heal she moved him to Hayley and Mateo's old condo to further recuperate. Kendall just happened to be looking at the place with Maria's mother (she was selling the property), but Kendall covered and bought the condo. Kendall and Aidan were once again in close quarters, and when Maria left Wildwind after Edmund locked her in a room and verbally abused her upon learning of her continued faith in Aidan, she joined them. It was truly a Three's Company situation, but Aidan knew he was putting their lives in danger. He attempted to get away on the next bus, but saw an old associate, Morgan, asking about him at the bus stop, and realized she must have been the one who shot him. Aidan returned to the condo, and the living situation continued until a few days later when Edmund dropped by the condo and discovered Aidan. When he learned of Maria hiding Aidan out and even letting him into Wildwind, he berated her for putting their family in danger. For once, Edmund and Aidan agreed. Aidan had seen Morgan flashing a photo of Maria, and could no longer bear the constant peril he was putting Kendall and Maria under. As Maria moved back to Wildwind, Aidan announced that he was returning to London, and the people after him would follow him there, leaving Pine Valley for good. Aidan shared a sad farewell with his two "birds", but actually didn't even leave the condo.
Unbeknownst to anyone, Aidan had been hit on the head right before his getaway plan. When he came to he was being held prisoner by Morgan, that redheaded woman. She had been hunting for him for quite a while and had orders to leave him tied up until Julian, who was Fiona's husband and Morgan's lover, showed up to finish off Aidan himself as revenge. Since Aidan and Morgan had been former partners in crime and between the sheets, Aidan managed to sweet-talk her over endless chess games until she agreed to break into Wildwind with him to split the loot and then split town together. Once arriving at Wildwind, Aidan opened the safe and instead of money, pulled out a gun! Morgan whipped out her own piece and the two were at a stalemate until Maria, who had entered the room undeteced, dropped a book on the floor, distracting Morgan long enough for Aidan to knock her out with the gun. After they tied her up, Maria told Aidan that Edmund had been drugging her and she wanted nothing to do with him ever again, but that she had developed feelings for Aidan and wasn't letting him leave without her. She grabbed all the cash from the safe and hotwired a car. Aidan's repeated insistence that it was too dangerous to go with him fell on deaf ears, so the duo fled to the Bahamas in search of Jordan...not realizing he had just arrived at Wildwind, posing as a Scotland Yard inspector, moments after they'd left.
While in the Bahamas, Maria and Aidan were aided by Aidan's old friend, a bar owner named Kingsman, and finally had a few moments to relax and enjoy themselves. In a passionate night on the beach, they consummated their love. The hectic pace returned when Julian took Kinsgman and Maria hostage, placing Maria in a beach chair with a bomb attached to her leg. Aidan managed to defuse the bomb and got Maria away in the nick of time. Kingsman wasn't so lucky, as Julian shot and killed him. The gunplay continued in a hotel room standoff when Julian again took Maria prisoner and Aidan grabbed Morgan as his hostage. Julian heartlessly shot Morgan, and would have done the same to Aidan and Maria if Aidan hadn't managed to lunge for the gun in time. The two men struggled, and Julian was killed.
With all charges against Aidan dropped, he and Maria returned to Pine Valley and continued their relationship. DA Jackson Montgomery, knowing of Aidan's Special Forces past, asked him to covertly seek out information on former fed Chris Stamp. Aidan had a great deal of respect for Chris, and agreed to do the job mainly because he didn't wanted to prove Chris was innocent. Aidan's first step was to get his old position back as Valley Inn bartender. When Maria saw him acting suspiciously, he reluctantly clued her in to his plans and even more reluctantly agreed to let her help him out. To his surprise, he began to uncover signs of corrupt behavior on Stamp's part. While investigating Chris and his associate Flanders, Aidan began to worry about Maureen's memory returning, and when she would leave him for Edmund. She reassured him this was not going to happen, and in spite of his doubts, he proposed. But just as she accepted, they had to go into hiding with Maria's daughter Maddie after Maddie witnessed Flanders killing someone (a few weeks later everyone found out that person was Chris). Flanders knew that Aidan had bugged his conversations, and he especially wanted to get Maddie out of the way. Flanders found the three of them on a yacht and he and Aidan struggled for control of the ship. The yacht exploded and Aidan was presumed dead, but in actuality he had jumped off into the rocks moments before. He had only minor surface injuries, but suffered a broken heart when "Maureen" revealed she had gotten all of Maria's memories back and was going to reunite with Edmund. Devastated, Aidan put up a brave face and wished her well. Even as he once again gravitated towards an equally unlucky in love Kendall, he pined for his Maureen.
Aidan's unfortunate interest in married Santos women continued. He pined for the unhappily married Anita Santos. Though Aidan secretly hoped that Anita would ditch husband Bobby Warner, Anita remained committed to her husband and tried to work out their differences. Over time, Anita and Bobby decided that their differences were irreconcilable and they went their separate ways. Aidan was nearby waiting to pick up the pieces of Anita's broken marriage and heart.
Anita unwittingly ended up with competition for Aidan's affection. Lily Montgomery, Jackson's teenage autistic daughter, developed her first crush in Aidan and asked him to be her "boyfriend." Jackson was livid and confronted Aidan about his interests in his daughter. Everything was quickly cleared away when it was revealed that it was Lily that had developed the crush on Aidan - not the other way around. Lily had become smitten with Aidan after her had helped her ward off the attacks of the "mean girls" at her high school. He also gave her some green-tinted sunglasses to help her when she saw the color red, a color that sent her into panic. Aidan accepted Lily's request to be her boyfriend, a role that Lily said would only require his being their to talk and play math games.
Aidan and Anita just sort of fizzled out. While investigating Jonathan Lavery, Aidan got involved with his sister, Erin, and the two fell in love with each other. Aidan also developed a form of protectiveness toward Jonathan, and was one of the few in town that did not actively oppose his relationship with Lily. Aidan was left confused and heartbroken when Erin broke off their relationship shortly after he accepted a job from Thompson McDermott to find his missing ex-wife Annie and their daughter Emma.
