Oliver Fish
Actor History
Scott Evans (January 15, 2008 to present)
Occupation
Police officer at Llanview Police Department
Formerly a police officer at Cherryvale Police Department
Resides At
Apartment in Llanview (with Layla and Cristian)
Previously Cherryvale, PA
Previously Des Moines, Iowa
Marital Status
Single/Never Been Married
Past Marriages
None
Relatives
George Fish (father)
Barbara Fish (mother)
Children
Unborn child (with Stacy Morasco, via one-night stand in August 2009)
Flings & Affairs
Kyle Lewis (dated in college)
Layla Williamson
Stacy Morasco (one-night stand in February 2009; second one-night stand in August 2009)
Kyle Lewis (kissed)
Maladies and Hospitalizations
None
Crimes Committed
None
Brief Character History
Oliver Fish, known mostly by his last name, joined the Llanview Police Department in early 2008 when Llanview Police Officer Talia Sahid was transferred to the nearby Cherryvale Police Department. Sweet but awkward, Fish's stellar computer skills proved helpful to Detective John McBain on numerous occasions. Fish was transferred back to Cherryvale when Talia got her old job back, but John called him back into service to help him unwrap the mystery surrounding a woman staying in Todd Manning's apartment. Fish tapped into his computer skills to track down Todd's former bodyguard, who identified the mystery woman as believed-dead Marty Saybrooke.
Fish developed a crush on Layla Williamson, but Layla wouldn't pay him the time of day. During the Go Red Ball in February, Fish encountered a blonde beauty named Stacy Morasco, who invited him back to her place for sex. The next day, simpleminded Fish assumed that he and Stacy were now an item and promptly went to Layla and told her he was unavailable. When Fish returned to Stacy, she laughed in his face and said their encounter was nothing more than a one-night stand.
As Fish was helping John McBain investigate a series of murders in Llanview, clues began pointing to the 1993 rape of Marty Saybrooke at the KAD fraternity house at Llanview University. Fish told John that he was once a member of the fraternity. Fish was shocked to run into a fellow fraternity member, Kyle Lewis, who was working as a lab technician at Llanview Hospital. Fish and Kyle shared an awkward exchange, since they had fallen out of contact since attending school together.
In June, Oliver answered an ad for a roommate, not realizing that it was the apartment shared by Layla and Cristian. Layla initially was reluctant to let Fish move in, but after he proved himself capable of hooking up their TV with a new converter box, she relented.
After running into Kyle in the park, Fish quickly asked Layla to go out on a date with him, and despite her reservations she agreed. Cristian warned Fish not to hurt Layla, saying he was concerned for his friend. While on a date at the Palace Hotel, Layla noticed the male waiter checking out Oliver and pointed it out to Fish, who seemed to get flustered. Layla explained that it didn't mean Oliver was gay, and just then Oliver said he wanted to continue the date back at the apartment. Their evening was interrupted by Cristian, however, who told Fish that Kyle had told him that Oliver wasn't who he seemed to be. Fish said Kyle was just jealous because he wanted Layla for himself.
Based on Fish's advice, Layla got a job at the Llanview Police Department as Detective John McBain's assistant. She told Fish she didn't want anyone at work to know they were dating and got angry when Fish quickly spread the word. Fish explained that he was just proud of Layla and wanted to fit in with the rest of the guys. But when Layla tried to get intimate, Fish backed off, prompting Layla to ask Fish if he was gay. Fish denied it, noting he had slept with Stacy, and accused Layla of not taking their relationship seriously. Layla apologized, but then Cristian arrived home and told Layla that something had gone down between Kyle and Fish while they were in college. Layla told Cristian to mind his business, and she and Fish tried to get back on track.
In August, after learning that Kyle had told Roxy Balsom that he and Oliver were involved in college, Oliver confronted Kyle and the two got into a heated exchange in the ally behind the Buenos Dias Café. Kyle accused Oliver of being scared to accept that he was gay and told Oliver that he still loved him. Oliver tried to deny being gay, but Kyle pressed him to admit that they meant something to each other, and the two ended up in a passionate kiss. Cristian oversaw the kiss and confronted Fish, who claimed that Kyle had been stalking him. Cristian could tell Fish was lying and told him to come clean to Layla, or he would be forced to. Fish made several attempts to tell Layla the truth but chickened out. After putting Layla on the phone with his parents, who were excited to talk to the girl dating their son, Fish and Layla headed to her bedroom and had sex for the first time. After learning that Fish and Layla had sex, Cristian lashed out at Fish for not telling Layla the truth, but Fish denied being gay, saying he had only experimented with Kyle in college.
Fish was stunned to arrive home one night to a bitter Layla, who had learned about Fish's relationship with Kyle and demanded that Oliver admit the truth. Under intense questioning, Fish admitted that he and Kyle were together in college but denied he was gay. When Layla brought up the recent kiss between Oliver and Kyle, Oliver claimed that Kyle had pushed himself on him. Layla refused to believe it and begged Oliver to admit to himself and to her that he is gay. But Fish refused, forcing Layla to order him out of the house. A shaken Fish ended up at Rodi's, where Kyle confronted him about denying that he was gay. Stacy overheard the entire conversation and cozied up to Fish, ordering him drinks until he was so drunk that he went back to her place and had sex with her. The next morning, Fish was horrified to realize what he had done. He went back to the apartment and admitted to Layla and Cristian that he was gay. Fish volunteered to move out, but Cristian and Layla sympathized with him and asked him to stay.
When Fish's conservative parents said they were coming to town, Layla encouraged Fish to come out to them. Cristian even bought him a "how to" book about coming out to your parents. As Fish prepared to tell his parents the truth, his father discovered the book by accident and assumed that Cristian was gay. He excoriated Cristian for leading a gay lifestyle and told Fish that he would need to move out of the apartment, which prompted Fish to reveal the truth to his parents. Fish's father could hardly believe it, but Fish said his mother knew it was true because she once walked in on Fish in bed with Kyle in college. Fish broke up with Kyle because he was so ashamed, and he and his mother never spoke of the incident again. Fish's mother said she thought it was just a phase, prompting Fish's father to storm off. While on a police assignment at the hospital, Fish ran into Kyle and told him that he had come out to his parents, although only after having drunken sex with a girl. Back at the apartment, Fish's mother arrived without her husband and told Fish that she believed he could change if he wanted to. But Oliver said it wasn't a choice and that he needed his mother to accept him for who he was. On their way out of town, Fish's dad told Fish that although he loved him, he couldn't accept his "lifestyle."
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