1986 (#26) - Andy and Farren's wedding and Lauren's trip to Minneapolis

The relationship between Andy and Farren, meanwhile, continues smoothly and without anything or anyone getting in their way, even though Lauren does not resign herself to the idea that Farren, in her mysterious past, may have done something bad. Paul is happy to receive the invitation for him and Lauren herself to their wedding; on hearing the news of Andy and Farren's imminent wedding, however, Lauren receives a real cold shower. The girl, not wanting to receive criticism from Andy or Farren, or create problems in the friendship between Paul and Andy, Lauren accepts the invitation to the wedding, but confides to Paul about the whole Farren thing and finally convinces him that they have to do something. Meanwhile, the wedding day arrives, and Lauren admits that Farren and Andy are really a wonderful couple and that they deserve all the happiness in the world. The ceremony, intimate and very romantic, sees Andy and Farren fulfill their dream of love in front of a few, excited, intimate people. Unaware of the wedding, Diane tries one last desperate attempt to win back Andy, who is shocked to find Diane naked in his bed waiting for him on the wedding night. Farren, enraged, shows the ring to Diane who, in disbelief, apologizes to the couple and decides to leave, preferring to return to London despite Lauren begging her to stay in town as she may still have some hope with Andy. Just when Lauren seems to have no chance to find out the truth, and almost gives up the idea that she can, suddenly Farren disappears for a few days, leaving Andy very upset. Lauren thus regains courage and convinces Paul to investigate the case and search for the truth. In the meantime Farren returns to Genoa City without giving many reasons for her absence, even if in reality she starts to have some memories of her previous life. Without therefore meddling too much in the life of the two newlyweds, Lauren discovers that Farren's accident occurred in Minneapolis and decides to go there to investigate better. Lauren also convinces Andy to go with her, even if the hopes of finding some important clues vanish into thin air; Lauren returns to the city with the only certainty that Farren is not originally from Minneapolis, having found no information neither at the city registry office nor among the missing persons reports. Andy himself is increasingly skeptical in persisting in what has now become a useless search for him.

1986 (#22) - Farren's amnesia and the reconciliation attempt between Andy and Diane

It's not long before Lauren's suspicions and Farren's intuitions prove accurate. Noting in fact Farren quite strange, Andy asks him what's wrong. Despite initial reassurances from Farren, Andy senses that there's something Farren has to tell him and in the end the woman decides to open up completely to him. Farren thus confesses to Andy that she doesn't remember anything from his previous life before a year ago. In fact, the woman can't remember what her real name is, where she comes from or whatever happened to her before she woke up more than a year ago from a hospital bed after a car accident. Andy is completely stunned and shocked by Farren's words, but he promises the woman that he and Paul will investigate her past. Farren explains to Andy how the doctors kept her in a coma for a while before waking her up and realising that her brain has suffered severe memory loss. Andy, convinced by Lauren, decides to take Farren to a doctor specialized in psychology and brain damage, Dr. Mark Sloan, who advises Farren to look only at the future and the present, without worrying too much about her past. Farren, thus, assures Andy that in the end she doesn't care about her past by being happy with him, which is all she wants. Andy embraces his woman and promises that he will take care of her and make her feel safe. Andy then tells Paul the whole thing, while Lauren realizes that Tamra was actually right. Convinced that Farren's past could really hurt Andy, Lauren is even more convinced to follow Tamra's advice and promises to herself that she will succeed in separating Andy and Farren, even though Paul doesn't agree with his girlfriend at all, believing that Farren has the right to be happy too. Lauren thus decides to bring back to Genoa City Andy's greatest love, the beautiful Diane Jenkins, who is willing to try to win Andy back, since she bitterly regrets having asked for a divorce from Andy to pursue the illusion of being with Jack. When Paul explains to Farren that Diane is Andy's ex-wife, she doesn't hide her jealousy, also because Andy is immediately very sympathetic to Diane, which annoys Farren. When Diane informs Andy that she hopes that there may be a second chance between the two of them, without obviously revealing that she was convinced to take this step by Lauren, Andy initially seems undecided what to do, but soon rejects the woman's attempts at courtship, confirming his love for Farren. However, Andy greets Diane with a kiss goodbye accidentally noticed by Farren, who is furious even though she eventually forgives the man. Lauren, thus, is forced to accept the failure of Diane's attempt, while not giving up insisting on finding out the truth about Farren's identity.

1985 (#1) - Skip and Carol's engagement, the plans with Jack and Diane's divorce

While Lindsey could threaten at any moment to destroy the entire Abbott family, and in particular the reputation of Jill and Jack, if she showed and made public the photos of them together, Jack finds Carol a great friend and confidant. Abbott's model, in fact, always dispenses a lot of advice to the man who, as a good womanizer, makes his duty by wooing the beautiful girl. Jack, however, is disappointed when she reveals to him that she is not interested in a relationship, having recently become engaged to photographer Skip, the very guy that Jack wanted to hire instead of Joe. Jack, then, puts on a good face, wishing the couple all the happiness, and deciding to remain friends with the two of them. But Carol, of course, remains an exception and very few women can resist Jack's charm. An example of this is Diane, who, despite being happily married to Andy, feels that he lacks that passion and a touch of madness that only Jack has. Jack and Diane soon find themselves very close to each other, even though part of Diane feels guilty about betraying Andy. Diane then realizes she has to be honest with her husband and begins to think about divorce, as Andy begins to suspect that she and Jack might have something going on. The straw is dropped when the woman inadvertently overhears Jack talking about a gift for her. This one, convinced it's an engagement ring, admits all her feelings for Jack to Andy and immediately divorces him. Andy bitterly accepts the end of her marriage, leaving Diane free to pursue her one true love. In the meantime, Lindsey returns to show up at Jack's, reminding him of his pact of success and fame in exchange for the photos. Jill, while agreeing not to deprive herself of good and classy models like Christine and Carol, warns Jack that an affair with Diane could complicate things quite a bit. Jack, for once, listen to Jill. And so Diane, full of expectations and joy for the gift, is deeply disappointed when Jack gives her a simple friendship bracelet. The gift, Jack explained, is a simple way of saying that he is currently unable to commit to any woman. Disappointed and humiliated, and feeling completely foolish to have misinterpreted her entire relationship with Jack, Diane realizes that she has deluded herself unnecessarily, and has thrown away a marriage with someone who really loved her. Filled with a grudge against herself, even before Jack, Diane decides to leave Genoa City and leave for Europe to start a new life.

1984 (#9) - The wedding between Andy and Diane and the honeymoon in Manui

After about a year of relationship, the long-awaited wedding day arrives between Andy and Diane, who declare their eternal love for each other under the moved eyes of their family and friends. When Paul congratulates Andy and wishes him a happy and joyful married life, he is surprised to learn from the man that they are going on their honeymoon to the Pacific island of Manui, the same island where Rick's ex-wife Melissa Daros died. Paul brings Andy up to date on Rick's ongoing investigations and asks the man to try to find out something during his stay on the island. Andy, however, convinced that the episode is due to accidental drowning, knowing the dangers of the sea on the island, he agrees to investigate and ask a few questions around, since he notices that Paul is strongly convinced of Rick's involvement in the case. When Andy arrives to the island, he immediately consults the historical chronicles of the newspaper, learning that three years earlier a woman had died in a tragic accident while diving, having filled her oxygen tank with carbon monoxide. This immediately arouses Andy's curiosity, who starts asking questions and finds out that the dead woman is Melissa Daros. Andy immediately calls Paul to bring him to the island, where he informs him of the incident. More and more convinced that a murder is behind Melissa's tragic accident, Paul, together with Andy, manages to track down Peter Brown and Nasha Perkins, the couple who immediately rescued Rick and Melissa after the accident. However, neither of them remember anything strange, convinced that the episode was just an incredible fatality. Paul thus returned to Genoa City with many more doubts and the thought that perhaps it was just an unfortunate episode in Rick's life that he didn't want to talk about. Paul thus informs Kevin of everything he has learned and the man, now resigned to having to give up Nikki and Victoria, leaves Genoa City definitively declaring that he wants to convince his mother to return with him to San Francisco.

1983 (#28) - The engagement of Andy and Diane and the passion between Jack and Jill

Single after his divorce from Patty, Jack has meanwhile had to face numerous challenges, such as rehabilitating his legs following Patty's injury, the heart attack he suffered from his father John, and most recently the discovery of the identity of his mother Dina, the mother he never met, behind the powerful Mergeron Corporation insignia during the company's sales negotiation. These were situations that severely affected the spirit and energy of the boy, who began to feel the need to have someone at his side. And when Jack once again turns his attentions to Diane, telling her he loves her and proposing a trip to Greece, which however rejects all his attempts at approach, Jack's self-esteem seems to collapse. Diane declares herself sick of Jack's little games and his broken promises, informing him that she is engaged to a real man who really cares about her like Andy. In the same situation seems to be Jill, who in the same way has had to face the same hardships in the role of John's wife, opposed by the heavy presence of Mamie, who would do anything to kick her out of the Abbott house. Jack and Jill, who since the episode of John's heart attack have promised to lay down their arms to each other, already having enough enemies to face, thus find themselves in the company of each other to gain courage. Feeling threatened by Dina, who in the meantime makes it increasingly clear that she is willing to win back John's heart, Jill tells the woman that she is pregnant with John in order to block any attempt to get close to her ex-husband. But it was a lie Jill didn't think he could turn against her. And so, when Dina asks about John's pregnancy, Jill panicked, feeling the man's astonishment at Dina's words, ran away, frightened by the repercussions of her own words. Blocked by a blizzard, Jill asks Jack for help and once he arrives, he takes refuge with the woman in a bungalow where, destined to spend the night together in the cold, they hold each other in each other's arms and end up being overcome by passion. What Jack and Jill cannot imagine is that at the window there is a stranger named Lindsey Wells taking pictures of their night of love.

1983 (#14) - Jack's rehabilitation, Ashley's presidency and the investigation into Tom

At the hospital, Jack's still struggling to get better as fast as he can. The risk that his legs may no longer move is a real one and so he constantly undergoes long sessions of physiotherapy and rehabilitation to recover immediately. Meanwhile, John decides to temporarily entrust the presidency to Ashley, which leads Jack to work even harder to recover and regain his rightful place. Carl, meanwhile, is commissioned by John to investigate who may have shot Jack; neither Carl nor Patty remembers what happened. Initially, Carl's suspicions all point to Diane and Jill, although the investigation leads nowhere. Ashley, meanwhile, begins to take more and more power within the company, something that worries Jack, which pushes the doctors to return to work as soon as possible, not wanting to risk being overtaken by his sister in the company hierarchy. Carl's investigations, meanwhile, finally find a breakthrough when he manages to locate the gun from the shooting. This, in fact, was found in the possession of Tom Lamb, a criminal arrested for robbery. Initially investigated for Jack's wounding, Tom is soon recognized as a stranger to the facts and, to the police, confesses to Frank and Carl that he took the gun from a blonde girl, who evidently wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible. Carl's suspicions, therefore, lead to the exclusion of Diane and to focus mainly on Jill, ignoring that the real responsibility falls instead on his own daughter.

1983 (#5) - Carl's anger and Patty's abortion

Discovering Jack's cheating is Jill, who surprises him and Diane without him noticing. Patty, meanwhile, informs Jill, with whom she wants to be friends, of her pregnancy, and announces that she wants to inform Jack of the news immediately; and sneakily, Jill, happy to seize the opportunity to get in Jack's way, who has so much obstructed her marriage, encourages Patty to join Jack in the office that very night, well aware that at that moment the man is with Diane. Patty's shock at seeing Diane undressing her husband leads her to run away in tears upset and stumble over a vase in the hallway under the perplexed eyes of Carl, working at the company, who doesn't have time to help her. Only minutes later, when he sees Diane coming out of Jack's office, Carl understands what his daughter must have seen; and angry, he promises to make Jack pay the man. Later, when the man returns home, a desperate Patty tries to tell her husband to carry her child, but the visibly drunk man ignores his wife's words and, claiming to be tired from work, goes to sleep. The next day, as Patty receives a visit from Ashley, she begins to experience severe abdominal pain, most likely associated with the fall the day before. It is to Ashley, aware of the pregnancy, that she fully understands the situation and calls for help. Upon arriving at the hospital, Jack immediately asks for information about his wife, and when the nurse says that they are doing everything possible to save the baby, Jack appears incredulous and only now, stunned, understands what his wife was trying to tell him the night before. Despite the doctors' efforts, Patty is sadly forced to lose the baby. When a mortified Jack enters Patty's room and asks why she hadn't told him before, she admits she saw him with Diane. Jack thus realizes that he has hurt his wife and asks her for forgiveness, promising that from that moment on she will be the only one at the center of his thoughts. Patty, despite everything still in love with Jack, decides to forgive him, despite Carl is increasingly angry with the man.

1983 (#3) - Jack's affair with Diane and Patty's pregnancy

Jack and Patty's marriage, between ups and downs, still seems to be going well. The woman seems to have overcome the difficult moment in which she felt neglected by her husband, busy interfering with her father's relationship with Jill, and certainly Jack's decision to hire his father Carl as a security guard had reassured her about the possibility that her family would sooner or later accept her marriage. To Patty's surprise and joy, she also soon discovered she was pregnant. The first to be informed of the news is Mary, who participates in the joy of her daughter and promises her that for the moment she would not inform Carl of the pregnancy, since Patty would like to tell Jack first; she was just waiting for the right time. Jack, meanwhile, is under increasing pressure from the demands of the provocative Diane, always determined to take advantage of her secret about Jack's prenup night to get financial benefits. Jack, on top of that, is attracted to the woman, and begins to have a clandestine relationship with her, with whom he often meets in the office to have sex.

1982 (#20) - Jack's attempts to undermine the relationship between John and Jill

In addition to Jack's chairmanship, meanwhile, the Abbott family is still the focus of attention this time on the relationship between John and Jill. The two of them, after the separation of the woman from Andy, begin dating assiduously and show in public their relationship, which is becoming increasingly serious and important. Jack is astonished to find at his wedding the woman, with whom he has certainly closed not in good terms, in the company of his father. Jack immediately criticizes his father's decision to get back together with Jill, with which in the meantime John becomes clear about their farewell two years earlier. But if the relationship between John and Jill is strengthened as never before, Jack tries in every way to oppose them. First by revealing to his father that Jill has a child, Phillip Jr., about whom the girl had never spoken; then by threatening to call his mother and John's ex-wife, Dina Mergeron, back to help them get back together. However, Jack's attempts fail firstly because Dina, who had left the family eleven years earlier, categorically refuses to return to the city, and secondly because John willingly accepts the news of Jill's baby, happy to be able to raise Phillip Jr with her and guarantee them financial stability. Jack, then, decides to go on the attack again, proposing to Diane to seduce John in order to make him break up with Jill, but all the woman's attempts are in vain and have the sole effect of uniting the two even more. Then when John and Jill announce they want to get married, Jack tries one last attempt with Katherine. In fact, Jack convinces the woman, Jill's historical rival, to talk to Ashley to help her brother to fight the couple formed by her father and Jill; but even this attempt is in vain, since Ashley doesn't want to interfere with her father's plans and doesn't even want to hear about her brother's plots.

1982 (#18) - Jack's chairmanship at Jabot Cosmetics and Diane's requests

Following Jack's marriage, John as promised is ready to leave his son the position of president of Jabot Cosmetics. Ashley, however, despite not revealing Jack's betrayal to his father the night before the wedding, sends a warning to his father to try to desist from the decision. An angry John, however, silences his daughter, convinced that  it's just an outburst of jealousy, and thus formalizes the decision in front of an enthusiastic Jack. The first problems of Jack's new assignment, however, were coming. In fact Diane shows up in front of Jack, she turns out to be much smarter and ambitious than Jack could ever suspect. This, in fact, immediately puts Jack under blackmail as she threatens to reveal the whole truth if she doesn't get a job as a model. Jack is thus forced to mediate between Diane's demands and the expectations of his young wife, who dreams of a modeling job at Jabot. To complicate things there is also Ashley herself who is very annoyed by Diane's presence in the company and proposes instead to her father to replace the role of Chris, who left with Snapper in London, with Julia. John agrees to take on Julia, a decision he had already made in the past and it puts Jack in serious trouble. So he decides to take on Diane for the summer campaign, who promises to keep the secret, and also Julia after her success in promoting perfumes, immediately triggering Ashley's protests, but silenced by her father, confident in his son's decisions. Then Patty herself is disappointed, convinced, even though she is reluctant to put aside for now her dream of working at Jabot to dedicate herself to the house and her marriage. It's clear, however, how Jack finds himself immediately in difficulty in managing such an important position.

1982 (#16) - The betrayal with Diane and Jack and Patty's marriage

The night before the wedding with Patty, Jack goes with some friends to celebrate the bachelor party but, having drunk too much, he ends up in bed with a Jabot model, Diane Jenkins. The next morning, waking up drunk, Jack is convinced that no one will ever know about his stunt; however, he hasn't calculated that Ashley can get into the room. When the woman then sees Diane sleeping naked in her brother's bed, Ashley immediately understands what happened. Suddenly, she throws Jack in the shower so he can get prepared for his wedding and chases Diane out of the room hoping not to see her ever again. An angry Ashley, then, accuses her older brother of being a loser, a bastard and insensitive, and then tells him to marry Patty as if nothing had happened, because the prestige of the family couldn't afford a canceled marriage and not wanting to destroy Patty's dreams. Ashley, however, warns Jack not to hurt his future wife, otherwise she would have revealed the whole truth and made Jack get kicked out of the company. Meeting at the altar in the middle of the joy of everyone and the anxiety of both Jack and Ashley for what happened, Jack then marries a dreamy and unsuspecting Patty, very happy also for the presence at the ceremony of his parents, who, while opposing the decision of their daughter, wanted to show their support and love.