John McBain
Actor History
Michael Easton (October 2003 to present)
Occupation
Owner, Rodi's Tavern
Detective with the Llanview PD
Former FBI Agent
Resides At
Angel Square Hotel
Formerly New Jersey, where he grew up
Marital Status
Single/Divorced from Blair Cramer [March 27, 2009 to July 20, 2009]
Past Marriages
Blair Cramer [March 27, 2009 to July 20, 2009; divorced]
Relatives
Thomas McBain (father; deceased: 1924-1981)
Eve McBain (mother)
Michael McBain (brother)
Shannon McBain (cousin)
Marcie McBain (sister-in-law)
Children
None
Flings & Affairs
Caitlin Fitzgerald (engaged; deceased)
Evangeline Williamson (lovers)
Natalie Buchanan (lovers; adulterous)
Marty Saybrooke (lovers)
Blair Cramer (lovers)
Crimes Committed
Withheld the information that John Doe was really Cristian Vega.
Aided and abetted a fraud; concealed the paternity of Tommy McBain/Sam Manning [2007]
False arrest and imprisonment; arrested Todd Manning to prevent him from getting to his son [2007]
Aided and abetted a fugitive; hid Marcie McBain's movements from the FBI [2007]
Breaking and entering; broke into Todd Manning's home to rescue Marty Saybrooke [2007]
Assault and attempted murder; shot Todd Manning's guard, assaulted Todd and Keyshawn "Keys" Riddick [2007]
Broke into Todd Manning's home to free Marty Saybrooke [2008]
Assaulted Todd Manning in his home [2008]
Brief Character History
John McBain arrived in Llanview in October 2003. An FBI agent, posing as a billiard scout for crime lord Flynn Laurence, McBain used Natalie Buchanan and her fiancé Cristian Vega to get the goods on the crime lord. The way to do that was use Natalie's new found skills as a billiards champion. Unfortunately, Natalie defied John's orders to throw the game for Flynn and as a result she was kidnapped by Flynn. Although Cris and John were able to rescue Natalie, Cris apparently lost his life in the attempt. At first angry at John's indirect role in Cris's death, Natalie soon developed a friendship with him.
Very soon after, John decided to leave to FBI and began working for the Llanview PD, investigating a serial killer. What made John the perfect man to investigate this case was the fact that he was very familiar with this killer, dubbed the Music Box Killer, having investigated him years earlier. Although John had not been able to catch the killer then, he taunted him so sufficiently that the murderer targeted John's lover, Caitlin Fitzgerald. After Natalie was nearly murdered by the Music Box Killer, she and John finally admitted that their friendship was turning into something more. John eventually apprehended Dr. Stephen Haver and brought him to justice as the killer.
Just as Natalie and John's relationship seemed to be getting stronger, Kathryn Fitzgerald, the sister of John's dead fiancée Caitlin, came to town. Kathryn had also been an FBI agent and confessed to John that she had always cared for him. John didn't feel the same way, so the feelings went nowhere. But jealous of the connection between Kathryn and John, Natalie began spending more time with Paul Cramer. Natalie and John again confronted their feelings for each other and the two nearly made love, but John wasn't yet over Caitlin. Natalie then began seeing Paul. After tying Paul Cramer to the Santi family crime family, Kathryn was soon out of the picture when she was found murdered in Evangeline Williamson's office. After another of Evangeline's clients was found murdered, she and John began working on the mystery together, which soon brought them closer together.
Natalie ended things with Paul long before it got truly serious, and began falling back for John, who by this time was with Evangeline. Just as Natalie was making an active play for John, Cristian showed up back in her life again, alive and well. As Evangeline and John grew closer, the reappearance of Cristian Vega only served to remind John that he still cared about Natalie. Convinced that Cristian was an imposter, he investigated him thoroughly, and it wasn't long before he was able to arrest Cristian for Tico Santi's murder. John received a shock when DNA tests came in proving that the man was no imposter and was in fact the real Cristian Vega, but Cristian begged John to keep it secret, not wanting Natalie and his family to realize what he had become. He kept the secret and continued his relationship with Evangeline, but his feelings toward Natalie remained strong.
Natalie and John finally began a romance, but it was short-lived. During the Statesville prison riot, Natalie learned that the man she believed was Cristian's imposter was in fact Cristian himself and, making matters worse, John had known all along. Natalie was furious with both men for lying to her and making her an adulteress. She immediately demanded a divorce from Cristian and attempted to cut John out of her life.
Over the course of 2006, however, Natalie reunited with John after working with him to prove her uncle Todd Manning innocent of the "murder" of Margaret Cochran, and helping him finger Spencer Truman as the man who killed John's father. Natalie took a job as receptionist for the Llanview Police Department and soon showed an interest in the forensics program. Working closely with John, her relationship with him deepened; Natalie began to hope for marriage. But after a horrifying car accident in which John was badly burned and thought dead, Natalie's bond with John began to fray. He became volatile and verbally abusive, unwilling to communicate. Thinking she was protecting John, Natalie tampered with evidence at the crime scene of Spencer Truman's murder; when the truth came out, she was dismissed from the forensics program. Her relationship with John disintegrated as well, but they ultimately parted as friends, with John admitting he should have treated her better.
After Truman was murdered, psychiatrist Marty Saybrooke began having flashbacks of blood and a scalpel in the hospital room where Truman was murdered and was convinced she was the killer. While in therapy, she admitted her belief that she had killed him and Miles Laurence, who was obsessed with Marty, obtained her confession on tape and blackmailed Marty into marriage. John, who had become friends with Marty, detected that something was wrong and eventually got Marty to admit that she believed she had killed Truman. Marty was arrested for the murder, but John continued to uncover the facts and eventually found conclusive evidence that led to Lindsay Rappaport as the real murderer.
After being cleared of murder, Marty annulled her marriage to Miles and continued to get close to John. Their friendship soon blossomed into love. But in the fall of 2007, Marty and her son Cole were abducted by Simon Ryerson, a former friend of Marty's dead husband Patrick Thornhart. Simon, it turned out, had actually killed Patrick. He held Marty and Cole captive in Ireland and threatened to kill Cole if Marty didn't hand over Patrick's list of names of the Men of 21. Marty was unaware that the list had been hidden on a microchip in a book Patrick had given to her. John began searching for Marty and Cole and at her apartment found the book with the microchip. He and FBI agent Lee Ramsey flew to Ireland and contacted Simon with plans to exchange Marty and Cole for the microchip. An impatient Ramsey fired shots into the van holding Marty and Cole and the van rolled down a cliff into a quarry. John raced to the scene and found Marty alive but Cole missing. He struggled to free Marty from the wreckage but she insisted that he first locate Cole. Thrown from the van, Cole was seriously injured but alive. As John returned to rescue Marty the van exploded and Marty was presumed dead. John and Cole returned to Llanview, where Cole was taken in by Nora Buchanan and turned to John for friendship.
In the spring of 2008, John became suspicious about Ramsey's shady activities since he became Police Commissioner of Llanview. Banding together with fellow police officers Antonio Vega and Talia Sahid, John worked to expose Ramsey as a dirty cop and avenge Marty's death. During the course of their investigation, the trio learned about a mysterious woman Ramsey was keeping hidden away in his high-rise penthouse, tended to by a private nurse named Janet Ketring. John became convinced the woman was the key to unraveling the mystery behind Ramsey's double dealings. John was correct: Ramsey masterminded the theft of the crown jewels of Mendorra from Lindsay Rappaport's art gallery in order to fence them and pay for his houseguest's costly medical care. Ramsey's mystery woman not only was bedridden but also mentally impaired. John discovered X-rays in Ramsey's office that detailed the severe physical trauma of an unidentified female patient.
John had a surveillance device planted inside Ramsey's penthouse. John, Antonio, and Talia staked out the building, waiting for Ramsey or his guest to come into audio range of their "bug." On June 11, 2008, the officers listened in as Ramsey spoke to the woman, who said only two words on tape before the surveillance device went out of range: "Help me." John struggled to identify the familiar voice, but he was unable to figure out that the mystery woman being cared for by Lee Ramsey was none other than Marty.
During a botched attempt to fence the stolen jewels, Ramsey was shot dead in his apartment. Todd Manning showed up and found a very-much-alive Marty upstairs. Realizing Marty had no idea who he was, Todd whisked her away to his new home and began nursing her back to health - all the while filling Marty's head with lies about how evil John was and how he had left her to die in Ireland. In several dreams, Marty had interactions with John, who urged her to question Todd's motives. But Todd managed to convince Marty that the dreams were not reality and that she should fear for her safety from John. John, meanwhile, found himself in a relationship with Todd's ex-wife Blair Cramer.
After months of failed attempts to figure out who Todd was keeping in his home, John obtained definitive proof from Todd's old bodyguard that Marty was the woman being cared for in Todd's home. A judge denied John a warrant to search Todd's home, however, so John broke into the home while Todd was away and found a shocked Marty. John told Marty that Todd had lied to her and that he was the one who had raped her in college. When Todd showed up, he admitted to Marty that it was all true. Marty was sick to her stomach, since just hours before she and Todd had made love for the first time since that fateful incident. When John learned this, he beat Todd to a pulp. Marty held a gun on Todd and considered shooting him, but John convinced her to let the authorities deal with Todd.
John found himself in trouble with the mayor after word came out about his role in freeing Marty. He resigned from the force but was given his old job back after embarrassing the mayor on live television, only to turn around and resign again anyway. John tried to be a friend to Marty, who was having a difficult time adjusting to life outside of Todd's orbit, but he was also trying to maintain a romantic relationship with Blair. Although Blair tried hard to be understanding about what Marty had been through, jealousy soon reared its ugly head and Blair felt threatened by the attention John was paying to Marty. John offered to take Blair away for a quiet vacation on St. Blaze's, the island once owned by Asa Buchanan, but Blair said she couldn't leave her family behind. She and John planned a romantic evening for New Year's Eve at Rodi's Tavern, which John had just purchased, but then John was called away by Cole after Marty turned up missing. Marty had begun to research everything about Todd's life, and John figured out that she was planning to lure Todd into some sort of trap. He tracked Marty down at the Palace Hotel, where she had booked a room, but neither Marty or Todd where there. When a man jumped from the roof of the hotel and fell into the river below, John jumped in and pulled the man to safety, only to discover it was Todd. Marty, who had goaded Todd into jumping from the roof, hissed at John for rescuing him. Blair meanwhile was forced to defend herself to John for reviving Todd and being grateful that Todd had not died.
Marty found a new friend in Wes Granger, a former Navy SEAL who was staying at the Angel Square Hotel. John felt Wes was a bad influence on Marty, who had begun reverting to her old ways and drinking too much, and had words with the younger man. Then he found out that Wes had just gotten a job at Rodi's working for John. John allowed Wes to keep his job, but it seemed that he was only interested in keeping an eye on Wes and Marty. Marty confessed to John that she was drawn to him but didn't want to get closer to him, and John responded by telling Marty to "forget about Blair." Blair overheard the conversation and later told Marty to back off.
Janet Ketring, the woman who had helped nurse Marty back to health, was found murdered in Todd's home. John noticed that Wes took a keen interest in the story. He did some research and learned that Wes' family had been taken for everything they had by Janet, back when she was known as Lee Halpern, and suspected that Wes may have killed the woman. John took Blair to the Go Red Ball but after a melee between Todd and Wes, who took out a knife and held it to Todd's throat, John publicly accused Wes of killing Janet. The next morning, John burst into Wes' hotel room after hearing Marty screaming and discovered a blood-soaked Marty lying in the bed beside Wes, who had been stabbed to death with his own knife. Marty said she didn't remember what had happened, and John believed her and was reluctant to call the cops. But when Blair walked in on the scene, she called the cops and Marty was taken into custody and arrested for the murder.
When Blair later found John back at the scene of the crime, searching for anything that could free Marty, Blair told him that he was still in love with Marty and broke up with him. Blair later called the sleazy tabloid, The National Intruder, and provided them a photo of a blood-soaked Marty that she had taken with her cell phone. John was livid to learn what Blair had done and had it out with her, but their anger turned to passion and they ended up in bed, ready to make love. They were interrupted by Marty, who called John's cell phone because she was worried about Cole, whom she had discovered was abusing drugs and flunking out of school. John went after Marty, and Blair told him to not ever come back; soon after, she was stabbed and nearly killed by an unknown assailant. While John and Marty were out searching for Cole, they heard a car accident and were shocked to discover that Cole had wrecked his car and nearly hit Gigi Morasco and her son Shane. Blair survived her attack, but John blamed himself for not being there to keep her from being attacked. When Blair's attorney Téa suggested that Blair marry John so Todd couldn't get custody of their kids, John agreed to marry Blair.
Police thought they had found their serial killer after one of Marty's former attackers, Zach Rosen, showed up in town and took Starr and Cole hostage after Todd refused to give him money. But when Police Officer Talia Sahid was found stabbed to death by John at La Boulaie, while Zach was still in custody, it was clear that the attacker was still out there. John was arrested after authorities found the knife used to stab Blair in his apartment, with his fingerprints on it. John escaped jail and realized Marty was the next target after finding a picture of Marty in his apartment with a knife through it. John went to Marty and warned her to be safe, but Marty said she was going to go with John to find out the truth. They ended up outside Rochester, New York, where Marty's third attacker, Powell Lord, was being held in a sanitarium. Using false names, Marty and John got in to see Powell. Powell pretended that he didn't remember Marty, but in fact he was colluding with one-time love Rebecca Lewis to get back at Todd. Rebecca was even posing as Marty so she could get access to the sanitarium. When John returned to the sanitarium to see Powell, he found an administrator dead and Powell gone and soon was locked in the room by Rebecca. Marty, Todd, Blair and Téa all succumbed to poison invitations sent by Powell and Rebecca and woke up at the KAD house, where Powell had reconstructed the room in which Marty was raped in a twisted attempt to make Todd pay for his crimes. John managed to escape from the sanitarium and burst into the room just as Powell was about to kill Todd, and he shot Powell dead. As John went to rescue Blair and Téa, who were locked in the boiler room downstairs, Rebecca appeared and lit a match, causing the place to blow up. Rebecca was killed and Téa was seriously injured but survived.
Marty told John that during the ordeal at the KAD house, her memories had come back to her. Wanting to explore a relationship with Marty, John asked Blair for a divorce and she agreed. But the memories of being with Todd haunted Marty, and she was unable to make love to John. When Cole Thornhart was arrested on drug possession, John managed to keep Cole from doing time by agreeing to return to the police force in exchange for being able to use Cole in a sting operation intended to find out who was supplying Llanview's youths with drugs. Marty was petrified for his safety, but realized that Cole was in less danger with John watching over him than he would be in Statesville Prison. To further aid the effort, John recruited Brody Lovett to go undercover as well and help expose the drug runners.
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