Adam
Alexander Carrington is most definitely his mother’s son. The
first child of Blake and Alexis Carrington, Adam was kidnapped
shortly before his first birthday on September 29, 1957 and
raised by Kate Torrance. Distraught over the loss of their
son, Blake and Alexis spent three years searching for their
firstborn but eventually called off the search and tried to
move on the best they could. Adam was renamed Michael
Torrance and led to believe that Kate was his grandmother and
he was the sole survivor of an auto accident that killed both
of his parents.
A lonely
young man, Adam never quite fit in with his peers and turned
to drugs as a way of escape. His drug use led to a nervous
breakdown and a residual affect of sometimes distorted
thinking. Putting his mental and dependency behind him, Adam
went to Yale and graduated with a law degree. He returned to
Billings, Montana and went to work as an attorney. It was on
her deathbed that Kate finally told Adam who he was and
supplied him with the proof needed to stake his claim to his
birthright. Armed with a silver rattle Adam arrived in Denver
and after being thrown out of Blake’s office, he approached
Alexis who (after seeing the rattle) immediately welcomed her
baby back with open arms.
Adam has a
very jealous streak, particularly when it comes to Jeff and in
his distorted frame of mind, poisoned him in retaliation for
coming to work at ColbyCo. He raped Kirby Anders and
proceeded to pursue her even after she married Jeff. When
Adam discovered Kirby was carrying his child, he did a
complete turnaround and became a responsible adult (at least
for a little while). He was mixed with hurt and rage when
Kirby left Denver on Alexis’ orders and proceeded to turn into
a bit of a playboy with a sinister edge by making passes at
Sammy Jo and eventually marrying Claudia.
After
Claudia’s death, Adam returned to his playboy ways and seduced
Dana Waring as a ploy to get information for Alexis as Dana
was Blake’s personal assistant at the time. What Adam didn’t
count on was falling in love with and marrying the girl who
had followed him from Billings, Montana with a secret that
she’d been pregnant with his child but had aborted it many
years before.
Desperate
for a child, Adam fathered a son with surrogate Karen
Atkinson. Fate again dealt a bad blow when Karen decided she
wanted to keep the child and Adam was denied any type of
custody or visitation. His marriage to Dana was over and the
entire experience left Adam even more bitter. Like his
mother, Adam has knows that there’s a very thin line between
love and hate, but it seems he’s always ending up on the wrong
side of the line.
