Brody Lovett
Actor History
Mark Lawson (April 24, 2008 to Present)
Occupation
Police officer at Llanview Police Department
Former undercover police officer for Llanview Police Department
Former bartender at Rodi's
Former Navy SEAL
Resides At
Angel Square Hotel, Llanview, PA
Formerly St. Anne's psychiatric hospital
Formerly Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital
Formerly at Viki Davidson's carriage house at Llanfair (1177 Regency Drive)
Formerly in Michigan
Marital Status
Single/Never Been Married
Past Marriages
None
Relatives
Nadine Lovett (sister)
Children
None
Flings & Affairs
Gigi Morasco (kissed)
Jessica Brennan (lovers)
Crimes Committed
Faked a DNA test to prove that Shane Morasco was his son [2008]
Kidnapped Shane from school [2008]
Shot Rex Balsom after suffering post traumatic stress disorder breakdown [Oct 2008]
Failed to report John McBain for falsely claiming Mitch Laurence stabbed himself [2010]
Assaulted Mitch and then fled before authorities could apprehend him [2010]
Faked shooting John McBain to help him escape police custody [2010]
Maladies and Hospitalizations
Hospitalized for a mental breakdown [Oct 2008]
Impaled by metal rod during undercover drug operation [Sep 2009]
Brief Character History
Brody Lovett was a former Navy SEAL who had served in Iraq during the war. Gigi had met Brody in Michigan after Rex Balsom had left town and Gigi found herself single and pregnant. Brody promised to help Gigi raise her child, but while Brody was overseas Gigi was told by Brody's mother that he had died. After Gigi arrived in Llanview with her son, Shane, Rex's fiancé Adriana figured out that Shane was Rex's son, although Gigi denied it. Gigi had always told her son that his father was a former Navy SEAL who had died in the war - in other words, Brody. Nervous that Gigi and Shane would come between her and her Rex, Adriana got her mother to investigate Brody's history and discovered that Brody was actually alive. Adriana located Brody in Michigan and was shocked to learn he was a drunken wild boy. Determined to prevent Gigi and Rex from getting any closer by reuniting her with Brody, Adriana pays Brody to come to Llanview. The night before her wedding to Rex, Adriana learned from Brody that Rex was in fact Shane's real father. Although Brody still had feelings for Gigi, he was hesitant to disrupt her life. But convinced by Adriana that Gigi and Shane needed him, Brody showed up clean-shaven and sober in his full dress uniform at Adriana and Rex's wedding, making his presence known to a shocked Gigi and an elated Shane.
With Rex married to Adriana, Gigi and Brody kept up the pretense that Brody was Shane's father. Gigi felt she had no choice but to allow Brody back into her life, as she was unwilling to disrupt Rex's marriage or crush her son's hopes and dreams of finally knowing his "father." Brody hoped to pursue a real relationship with Gigi, but she was soon wrapped up again with Rex, who separated from Adriana after discovering her machinations. Brody focused his attentions and affection on Shane, who he grows very close to, thinking of the boy as "his son" in every respect. Seeing in Shane an opportunity for a new start, Brody found employment and began attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. During an AA meeting, Brody expressed his frustration at Shane not being his true son; Charlie Banks, who had posed as Rex's own father during a complicated deception, was attending the meeting as well and realized who Brody was talking about, but he promised Brody that what he heard in AA would stay inside those walls.
When Gigi learned Rex was missing in Texas and was desperate to go after him, Brody was jealous but ultimately gave her the money to go find him - money that Dorian Lord had paid him to come to town in the first place. When local psychic Madame Delphina cryptically warned Brody that Gigi and Rex may be "gone for good," Brody panicked, fearing that Social Services would put Shane into foster care if he was unable to assert paternity. Brody used a package Adriana secretly sent to Gigi - Rex's toothbrush, containing his DNA - to fake a paternity test which "proved" Brody to be Shane's father and therefore, his legal guardian in Gigi's absence. When Gigi and Rex returned to Llanview together, Gigi informed Brody that she had told Rex the truth about his son and was finally ready to tell Shane as well. She ordered Brody to move out of the house. Despondent, Brody suffered a mental breakdown, trashing the carriage house and accidentally injuring Gigi's friend Marcie McBain. Lapsing into "combat mode," Brody outmaneuvered Gigi and Rex by going to Shane's school and picking him up before them, then absconded with the boy to Llantano Mountain. Once there, Brody's delusions deepened, as he donned his old combat fatigues, unearthed his service revolver, and began to tell Shane about his experiences in Iraq. As Brody attempted to teach Shane survival skills, he found himself increasingly losing track of reality, suffering vivid hallucinations from his tours of duty, including seeing Shane in the place of an Iraqi child who Brody had accidentally killed during a raid. As his violent delusions threatened to overtake him, Brody was cornered by Police Commissioner Bo Buchanan and the Llanview Police Department, accompanied by Gigi and Rex. Desperate, Brody initially used Shane as a human shield when the SWAT team trained their guns on him, then declared that he could never hurt "his son" and sent the boy to his mother. Bo tried to talk Brody into dropping his gun, but Brody was too far gone and fired wildly into the night sky, accidentally shooting Rex. He was then arrested by the LPD and taken into custody.
Once in police custody, Brody's condition worsened, and Bo determined that Brody was suffering from a severe case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Having spoken to one of Brody's fellow soldiers, Bo, Gigi and Rex had learned of Brody's deep trauma stemming from his war experiences and the shooting incident with the Iraqi child, who Brody continued to "see" outside his jail cell. When Shane visited him, Brody was unable to distinguish between Shane and the child he killed, but in a moment of lucidity, he cried out that Shane was not his son. Bo promised Shane that he would see to Brody's care and treatment and told Gigi that Brody was being transferred to a Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital. Gigi and Shane went to see Brody at the hospital, and Gigi thanked Brody for being there for her and Shane and said she didn't blame him for what had happened. Rex visited Brody too and said he understood he was ill. Rex agreed not to prosecute Brody, allowing him to be remanded to St. Anne's psychiatric hospital for treatment.
At the hospital, Brody was visited by his old war buddy Wes Granger, who was in the same unit as Brody when the Iraqi child was killed. Brody began seeing visions of the child both with and without a gun, and Brody confronted Wes about what really happened. Wes admitted that the child Brody shot was unarmed, and Wes said he put a gun in the dead boy's hands because he felt Brody couldn't handle the truth that he shot an unarmed child. Brody was upset at Wes for lying to him, but grateful to finally know the truth. While at St. Anne's, Brody got close to fellow patient Jessica Brennan, who had committed herself after suffering another lapse into her alternate personalities. Brody came face to face with Jessica's alter Tess, who had emerged during a hypnotic session and tried to convince Brody to help her escape. Brody began to feel romantic feelings for Jessica, and was saddened when Jessica was released from St. Anne's. Jessica visited Brody often after she was released and tried to help him sort through his feelings about having killed the unarmed boy in Iraq. When Wes was found murdered, and Brody didn't have an alibi for the night, Jessica lied to Police Det. Antonio Vega that Brody was with her, but Antonio saw through it. Brody eventually was released from St. Anne's, and Jessica helped him find a room at Roxy Balsom's hotel in Llanview. It happened to be the same room that Wes was murdered in, but Brody was grateful to have a cheap place to live. Brody and Jessica shared a passionate kiss in his room, but then both agreed that they should just remain friends.
Brody was distraught when he learned that Shane had been diagnosed with leukemia. Gigi visited Brody one day and admitted to him that she was being blackmailed by her sister Stacy into breaking up with Rex so Stacy would donate her bone marrow to Shane. She asked Brody for his help and arranged for Rex to show up at Brody's and catch Brody and Gigi in bed together. The ruse worked, but Brody didn't count on Jessica showing up at the same time and coming to the conclusion that Brody and Gigi had slept together. Brody eventually told Gigi that he and Jessica liked each other, and Gigi eventually told Brody to tell Jessica the truth. When Brody came clean to Jessica, they admitted their feelings for each other and the two made love. They agreed to keep their relationship from their family and friends to help out Gigi. When Natalie and Jared caught Brody leaving Llanfair one night, Jessica admitted that they were seeing each other. Natalie was livid, believing that Brody was a lying cheater, but the confrontation was put on hold when Jessica discovered that Chloe had been kidnapped. Natalie and Jared pointed the blame at Kyle Lewis, a hospital lab technician who they said had taken an interest in Chloe. Jessica and Brody headed for the police station, where Kyle had been taken after being arrested at Todd Manning's home.
While driving to the police station, Jessica began having flashbacks about giving birth and seeing Bess driving to the hospital with the baby. She passed out in the car, and Brody took her to the hospital. Jessica was relieved when Marty and Todd showed up at the hospital with Chloe, who had been kidnapped by Powell Lord and Kyle's sister Rebecca Lewis. Jessica was relieved to have her baby back, but sensed that something was wrong. When no one was looking, Bess reemerged and escaped the hospital with Chloe. Brody admitted to Viki and Clint that he loved Jessica, and they told Brody what they had just learned from Natalie and Jared: that Jessica's baby had died at birth and had been switched by Bess with another child. As police searched for Jessica and the baby, Brody tracked down Jessica's car at a dealership and learned that she was headed toward Morgantown, West Virginia. Brody recalled Jessica telling him that Nash's parents lived there, and Brody showed up at the Brennan's home just as Bess was about to run off with the baby. Brody told the Brennans that Jessica wasn't well, but Bess told Phil and Cindy Brennan that Brody was trying to harm her. Cindy hit Brody over the head with a vase, knocking him out. Jessica reemerged, and the Brennans realized that Brody's story was true. Bess resurfaced and was about to walk out the house with the baby when the police arrived. She fled upstairs with the baby and Viki persuaded Bo to let her try to get through to Bess by pretending to be Viki's alter, Jean Randolph. Brody was relieved when Viki emerged with Jessica and the baby, and they all headed back to Llanview.
After handing over the baby to Todd and Blair, who were waiting to return the child to Starr and Cole, Jessica found comfort in Brody's arms and struggled to accept all that had transpired. Jessica encouraged Brody to apply for the police academy, but when Brody went to fill out the application he threw it in the trash because he felt he never had a chance with his history of mental illness. Bo talked Brody into applying, and Brody was thrilled to learn that he had been accepted. However, before he could start training, John McBain told Brody he wanted him to work on a very special undercover assignment with Cole Thornhart to help expose the people bringing drugs into Llanview. Brody eagerly accepted the assignment, even though it meant he would have to continue working as a bartender at Rodi's to establish his cover and let everyone think that he had failed to get accepted into the academy. Brody pretended to buy drugs off of Cole and was able to ID Cole's supplier, which helped the authorities close in on the ringleader.
Meanwhile, Brody began playing detective at home when Jessica started seeing someone in the shadows almost everywhere she went. The stalker was doing things that reminded Jessica of her dead husband Nash, such as giving Bree a toy elephant and drawing a heart on a windowpane at Llanfair. Jessica told Brody she was worried she was losing her mind. But after Brody determined that someone in fact had drawn a heart on the windowpane, he assured her that she was perfectly sane and that the person stalking her was real. Natalie and Jared gave Brody a DVD they had received at Buchanan Enterprises that had images of the night that Nash fell through the skylight and died, and they all agreed that the person that sent the DVD was the same person stalking Jessica. Brody wondered aloud if the stalkers could be Nash's parents, but Natalie said she didn't think so since Cindy and Phil were normal people and were grateful to learn that they had a granddaughter they could visit.
The undercover drug operation took a dramatic turn after the drug runners kidnapped Starr Manning and her daughter, Hope, and held her for ransom in a warehouse. Brody accessed the warehouse and managed to free Starr and Hope, but during a fight with one of the drug runners he was impaled with a metal rod. Brody survived the attack, but after Bo said he wanted Brody to join the force fulltime, Jessica worried that she would lose Brody like she lost Nash. Brody told Jessica he would give up being a cop to ease her mind, but Jessica said she would work through her fears. After a second DVD arrived at BE, this time threatening harm to Natalie and Jared for their part in Nash's death, Natalie went to tell Jessica and Brody about the DVD when a bloodied Jared showed up in Brody's hospital room, claiming to have fended off an attack by the stalker. John and Brody both become suspicious of Jared's story and evidence soon surfaced that the stalker, Wayne Landers, knew Jared in prison. When the stalker turned up dead at Llanfair, the police found evidence that Jared had been in contact with the stalker and had been funneling cash to him from Buchanan Enterprises accounts. Brody convinced Jessica to leave Llanfair with him, then Jessica located in her suitcase clothes from her alters that she had given away. A distraught Natalie told Jessica, Brody and John that Jared had confessed that he had been behind the stalking and had then ran off. Jared then was wanted for another murder after Pamela Stuart, whose deceased brother was Jared's step-father, was found dead at the Buchanan lodge.
Brody got a call from his estranged sister, Nadine, who begged him to come to Michigan to help her through a crisis. Brody flew to Michigan, where his sister claimed she was having financial troubles and would lose their mother's home without his help. After Brody learned from Jessica that she had received a disturbing call from someone whose voice was identical to Nash's, Brody prepared to head back to Llanview when Nadine drugged him and then tied him up. Rex later appeared at the same house, having been called there by his Aunt Corinne, who claimed to be dying. Rex was drugged too, and when John showed up looking for Rex, Brody managed to free himself. Nadine and Corinne both claim that someone paid them to bring the men there and keep them away from Natalie and Jessica. After Rex came to and revealed the women were at Nash's old vineyard in Napa Valley, Brody and John took a plane there. While in the air, John learned that Nash's dead body had been exhumed and began to piece together the clues, realizing that the only person able to pull off such an elaborate scheme was Jessica's presumed dead father Mitch Laurence. Mitch had revealed himself to Jessica, Natalie and a resurfaced Jared by the time John and Brody arrived. During an attempt to sneak up on Mitch, John stormed the scene and Mitch fired a fatal shot into Jared's chest.
After Mitch was discovered in John's office with a stab wound to his chest, Brody didn't buy John's account that Mitch had stabbed himself and grew suspicious when John wouldn't let Brody interview Natalie, who was in the office at the time. Jessica and Brody both agreed that Natalie had stabbed him, but Brody kept quiet to avoid getting John in trouble. After Mitch was released from jail, he wrote Jessica a letter asking her to meet him on the docks and Brody insisted on going instead. Brody assaulted Mitch but escaped before being arrested, leaving John to take the rap for it. When Brody returned to Llanfair, Jessica was gone. Brody had Mitch's letter analyzed by a lab and found trace elements of minerals from multiple continents, which he and John ultimately traced to an abandoned geological mine on Llantano Mountain. After a judge ordered John held without bail on charges of assaulting Mitch, Brody overtook a guard outside the courtroom and barged in to the courtroom with his gun drawn, threatening to shoot Police Commissioner Stanley Lowell if he didn't give up Mitch's whereabouts. Lowell hid behind John as Brody fired; John took the bullet, although it was all an elaborate ruse to break John out of custody. Brody broke free of the police officers who had apprehended him and joined John outside, where the two got into a getaway van driven by Natalie. On route to the mine, the van careened off the icy road and Brody headed off on foot while John tried to free Natalie, who was trapped in the van. Brody arrived at the mine just as Mitch was about to rape Jessica and shot Mitch. Brody was distraught when Jessica didn't remember him and realized that Mitch had performed electroshock therapy on her. Just then Charlie showed up and planned to shoot Mitch, but Charlie was startled when Dorian arrived and he misfired, shooting Jessica instead. Jessica survived the operation, but when she awoke she didn't remember Brody and believed she was still a senior in high school.
