Введение
Таддейс Джеймс "Тад" Мартин и Дикси Луиза Куни Мартин – вымышленные персонажи и суперпара из американской дневной драмы "Все мои дети". Тада играет Майкл Э. Найт, а Дикси – Кэди МакКлейн. На интернет-форумах эту пару часто называют "T&D" или "TnD" (от Tad и Dixie). Эта пара стала одной из самых известных в истории мыльных опер на канале ABC Daytime. В начале 2007 года разгорелся скандал, когда бывший главный сценарист "Все мои дети" Меган МакТавиш приняла решение убить Дикси. Зрители протестовали против сценаристов и телеканала ABC, требуя найти способ отменить смерть Дикси. Однако смерть персонажа была признана окончательной. Чтобы успокоить фанатов и попытаться исправить ситуацию, руководство ABC Daytime и Кэди МакКлейн подтвердили в марте 2008 года, что Дикси вернется в сериал, но в образе призрака и ненадолго. Первый выход МакКлейн в эфир состоялся 2 мая 2008 года. В апреле 2011 года было объявлено о её возвращении в сериал перед его завершением 23 сентября 2011 года. Дикси появляется в эпизоде от 17 мая 2011 года, где показано, что она жива и находится в плену в неизвестном месте, удерживаемая Дэвидом Хейвордом, которому позже удаётся сбежать.
Сюжетные линии
Вскоре после прибытия в Пайн-Вэлли, Дикси попадает под влияние Адама Чендлера, заклятого врага ее дяди Палмера. Хотя Адам и Брук Инглиш в то время счастливо женаты, Адам понимает, что Брук не может дать ему самое желанное в мире – сына. У Адама был короткий роман с Дикси, и она забеременела. Он предлагает Брук усыновить ребенка Дикси, и она соглашается, но у нее есть одна проблема – она сомневается в отцовстве. Брук нанимает Тада Мартина, чтобы выяснить, кто является отцом ребенка Дикси, и Тад и Дикси становятся друзьями. Они разговаривают, смеются, едят куриные стрипсы и становятся очень близки. Однако их связь рушится, когда Дикси понимает, что Тэд интересуется ею только ради информации для Брук. Она решает попытаться наладить отношения с Адамом, но в глубине души знает, что Тэд завоевал ее сердце. Боже мой, я просто забыл всех женщин, которых когда-либо встречал! – говорит Тэд Дикси при их первой встрече в магазине платьев Миртл.
Dixie marries Adam, not knowing that he is only interested in gaining full custody of their child. Tad persists in warning Dixie about Adam's true intentions, but she simply will not listen. "I'm his wife, Tad, of course he loves me!" is what Dixie often replies whenever Tad suggests that Adam is only after the baby. Despite Dixie's stubbornness and refusal to face the truth, Tad persists in warning his beloved, and his insistence gets him beaten up by Adam's thugs. Dixie nurses her best friend back to health, and the two once again feel the closeness they shared at the beginning of their friendship. On the day Adam Jr. (later known as JR) is born, Tad reveals to Dixie that he wants more than friendship from her. He has fallen in love with the girl from Pigeon Hollow and finally admits his true feelings. Although it is obvious (to the audience) that Dixie loves Tad as well, she decides to stay with Adam and tells Tad that they cannot be friends or see each other anymore. Staying away from each other proves to be very painful and difficult for Tad and Dixie, especially considering that Pine Valley is a small town. Try as she may, Dixie is unable to stay away from Tad and when JR is kidnapped, Dixie immediately calls Tad. While everyone thinks that Skye Chandler is the kidnapper, Tad manages to prove that the baby snatcher was really a woman named Karen. Determined to get sole custody of JR, Adam comes up with a very elaborate and sadistic plot to make Dixie think that she is losing her mind. In time, Adam's plan works and he sends Dixie to a sanitarium. Adam looks forward to raising his son and winning back Brooke, but has not counted on the fact that Tad will stop at nothing to get Dixie out of the mental institution. With characters Cecily and Nico's help, Tad manages to free his beloved from the clutches of Adam and his accomplice, Dr. Snow. While on the run from Adam, Dixie finally admits her true feelings to Tad; she does not love Adam, it is him she loves. Even though they manage to prove that Dixie is sane, she still loses custody of JR, and Adam offers her generous visiting privileges if she agrees to a quick divorce, which she does. Finally freed from Adam, Dixie falls into Tad's arms and he proposes to her wearing a bright yellow chicken suit. Dixie happily accepts, and the two make plans to wed. Their happiness is further cemented when Dixie regains custody of her son, and Palmer gets the best of Adam in a business deal. Tad and Dixie finally marry in late December 1989. The couple divorces, however, just months later in May 1990 after Tad's mother, Opal, and Palmer interfere. They soon grow close again, but their plans to remarry are spoiled after Tad is presumed dead following an explosion. Nearly three years later, in late 1992, it is revealed that Tad had survived the explosion and has been living in California under a different name. He and Dixie reconcile, and in 1994, they remarry. With Tad's help, she finally regains custody of Adam Jr.
Their second marriage, lasts about 2 years until JR (then 8 years old) catches Tad having an affair. Dixie divorces Tad, takes JR and moves to Pigeon Hollow, West Virginia. But she returns to Pine Valley in 1998 when Adam Chandler demands to see his son. She and Tad began dating again, and in 1999, they marry a third time. By late 2001, their marriage has collapsed. In January 2002, Dixie leaves Tad and JR, off to the Caribbean, where she gets a divorce from Tad. Dixie regrets this decision, however, and returns to Pine Valley to try and reconcile with Tad. She and Tad make up, but Dixie learns that she is pregnant with a baby girl and flees to Switzerland to give birth to the child in secret. When Dixie is in her third trimester, she writes Tad a letter, telling him that she is pregnant and wants to come back to him. However, on May 10, 2002, while driving back from Geneva to Bern, she is in involved in a horrible car crash and is presumed dead. Tad and JR mourn, but eventually move on with their lives. When I looked at Dixie, all I ever saw was home. And when I held her, I knew I was where I was supposed to be.|Tad, at Dixie's first memorial
Dixie is still mentioned, and there is a time where a woman named Di Kirby claims to be the "back from the dead" Dixie. It is later revealed that she is rather Dixie's half sister. On December 23, 2005, it is shown (to the audience) that Dixie did indeed survive the automobile accident that was thought to have claimed her life while she was in Europe. Di, the only one who knows that Dixie is alive, goes to visit her, and urges her to return to Pine Valley and let her family know that she is alive. Dixie seems adamant on not taking Di's advice at first, but soon returns to Pine Valley in February 2006. She attends the Mardi Gras ball thrown by Erica Kane. Because her face is hidden by a mask, no one from her family recognizes her. She does, however, witness a tender moment between Tad and Di, as well as JR and Babe. Janet Dillon rigs the hot water heater at the mansion where the ball is being held so that it will explode. When it does, many people die and are injured and Dixie is trapped by some rubble. She manages to escape without being discovered by anyone. She goes to Wildwind, where Di is staying. In the middle of confronting her sister, Tad arrives and Dixie runs off before he can see her. Later, she runs into Zach Slater, and he promises not to reveal the fact that she is still alive. Later, she secretly watches in horror as her son holds a gun to Krystal Carey at a cabin, demanding to know where his ex wife, Babe, has taken their son. Dixie hides as Tad arrives and tries to wrestle the gun away from JR, but the gun goes off and hits Dixie (who is outside) in the arm. It is soon revealed that Tad and Dixie's baby, Kate, is in fact alive, but was taken by Dr. Greg Madden, a famous surgeon who is hated by virtually everyone in Pine Valley. A few months earlier, Tad had informed Erica that Greg stole her baby, the one she aborted twenty something years ago, and Erica's son is also alive, going by the name Josh Madden. On April 14, 2006, Tad and Dixie finally come face to face since her presumed death. Tad looks at Dixie with an astonished expression and leaves with her, resulting in him punching Dr. David Hayward, who was and is determined to keep Tad from Dixie. Tad first thinks that David's obsession with Dixie has led him to have plastic surgery performed on someone, but once Dixie says the words "Ozzie and Harriet", he knows that this woman is his true love. Tad is furious, however, that Dixie let him and JR think that she was dead for four years without a word. He grows even angrier when he learns that she gave away Kate after letting Greg Madden convince her that Tad could not love a daughter, who, Madden claimed, would remind him of Dixie's death too much for him to love the child properly. Tad vents his anger while testifying at Dixie's trial when she stands accused of Greg Madden's murder. Afterwards, though, the two begin to reconcile. Tad invites her for a date one morning, and Dixie accepts. However, in 2007, she dies that day after eating poisoned pancakes that were meant for her daughter in law (Babe). Babe's attempted murderer is known as the Satin Slayer, a serial killer killing off the women of Fusion Cosmetics. Dixie's ghost/spirit later sees Tad playing with a little 4 year old named Kathy and instinctively knows that the little girl is actually their lost daughter — Kate. At first, no one else in Pine Valley knows this but Dixie. Adam, however, later discovers the child alive and keeps the knowledge to himself. He is conflicted on a number of occasions on whether to tell Tad, but ultimately decides against it when he finds out that Tad has married the woman he loves, Krystal Carey. In May 2008, Dixie's spirit returns to Pine Valley. On a mission to reunite Tad with his daughter, she haunts Adam, telling him that she will only stop if he tells Tad where Kate is. Adam constantly refuses, but finally relents once Tad is shot by a deranged Rob Gardner at Jesse Hubbard and Angie Baxter's wedding, where celebration has just ended. As Tad experiences the life he could have had with Dixie while lying in Pine Valley hospital hanging between life and death, Adam calls out to him. At Tad's bedside, he tries to reach Tad through the unconscious. Dixie hears Adam calling Tad and smiles, still in Tad's embrace. Tad and Dixie say once last goodbye, after one last kiss, and part hands. Tad goes back to the land of the living to be a father to Kate. On May 17, 2011, despite her ghostly appearances, Dixie is revealed to be alive and being held under observation in a locked cell by David. It later turns out she is one of the patients in David's medical experiment called Project Orpheus. Dixie manages to escape, still disoriented and weak from the drugs David has given her. She comes to Pine Valley, where her daughter Kathy and son JR see her, but think that they're hallucinating. Eventually, officer Brot Monroe finds her and takes her to Oak Haven. At Oak Haven, she runs into Erica, who has recently been admitted. Erica helps Dixie get out, along with Annie Lavery, Marian Colby, and Janet Dillon. Marian, Erica, and Dixie make their way to Erica's daughter, Kendall's house. When Kendall brings up David's name, Dixie runs away in fright. She still hasn't gained back her senses yet. Dixie makes her way to the park and finds Tad, who is talking to her through the stars. On August 8, 2011, Tad asks for a sign from Dixie, and she calls out his name. At first, Tad thinks he's imagining it. Then, Dixie calls out again. Tad turns around and sees Dixie, and they finally reunite. As they spend time under the stars that night, Dixie slowly regains her senses and strength again in Tad's presence. Tad takes Dixie home the next morning, where she meets their daughter, Kathy, face to face for the first time.
Дикси выходит замуж за Адама, не подозревая, что он заинтересован лишь в получении полной опеки над их ребенком. Тэд продолжает предупреждать Дикси об истинных намерениях Адама, но она просто не слушает. "Я его жена, Тэд, конечно же, он любит меня!" – часто отвечает Дикси, когда Тэд намекает, что Адаму нужен только ребенок. Несмотря на упрямство Дикси и ее нежелание видеть правду, Тэд не перестает предупреждать свою возлюбленную, и его настойчивость приводит к тому, что его избивают подручные Адама. Дикси выхаживает своего лучшего друга, и они вновь чувствуют ту близость, которая была у них в начале дружбы. В день рождения Адама-младшего (позже известного как Джей-Ар) Тэд признается Дикси, что хочет от нее больше, чем дружбы. Он влюбился в девушку из Голубиной долины и наконец признается в своих истинных чувствах. Хотя для зрителей очевидно, что Дикси тоже любит Тада, она решает остаться с Адамом и говорит Таду, что они больше не могут быть друзьями и видеться. Расставание оказывается очень болезненным и трудным для Тада и Дикси, особенно учитывая, что Пайн-Вэлли – маленький город. Как бы она ни старалась, Дикси не может держаться подальше от Тада, и когда Джей-Ар похищен, Дикси сразу же звонит Таду. Пока все думают, что похитителем является Скай Чендлер, Таду удается доказать, что похитителем была женщина по имени Карен. Решившись получить единоличную опеку над Джей-Ар, Адам разрабатывает сложный и садистский план, чтобы заставить Дикси поверить, что она сходит с ума. Со временем план Адама срабатывает, и он отправляет Дикси в психиатрическую лечебницу. Адам с нетерпением ждет возможности воспитать сына и вернуть Брук, но не учитывает, что Тэд не остановится ни перед чем, чтобы вытащить Дикси из психиатрической больницы. С помощью Сесили и Нико Таду удается освободить свою возлюбленную из лап Адама и его сообщника, доктора Сноу. Находясь в бегах от Адама, Дикси наконец признается Таду в своих истинных чувствах: она не любит Адама, она любит его. Даже если им удается доказать, что Дикси здорова, она все равно теряет опеку над Джей-Ар, и Адам предлагает ей щедрые права посещения в обмен на быстрый развод, на что она соглашается. Освободившись от Адама, Дикси падает в объятия Тада, и он делает ей предложение, надев яркий желтый костюм курицы. Дикси с радостью соглашается, и они начинают планировать свадьбу. Их счастье укрепляется, когда Дикси возвращает опеку над сыном, а Палмер выигрывает дело у Адама. Тад и Дикси наконец женятся в конце декабря 1989 года. Однако спустя несколько месяцев, в мае 1990 года, они разводятся из-за вмешательства матери Тада, Опал, и Палмера. Они снова становятся близки, но их планы на повторный брак рушатся после того, как Тада считают погибшим в результате взрыва. Почти через три года, в конце 1992 года, выясняется, что Тэд выжил после взрыва и жил в Калифорнии под другим именем. Они с Дикси мирятся, и в 1994 году снова женятся. С помощью Тада она наконец-то возвращает опеку над Адамом-младшим.
Dixie marries Adam, not knowing that he is only interested in gaining full custody of their child. Tad persists in warning Dixie about Adam's true intentions, but she simply will not listen. "I'm his wife, Tad, of course he loves me!" is what Dixie often replies whenever Tad suggests that Adam is only after the baby. Despite Dixie's stubbornness and refusal to face the truth, Tad persists in warning his beloved, and his insistence gets him beaten up by Adam's thugs. Dixie nurses her best friend back to health, and the two once again feel the closeness they shared at the beginning of their friendship. On the day Adam Jr. (later known as JR) is born, Tad reveals to Dixie that he wants more than friendship from her. He has fallen in love with the girl from Pigeon Hollow and finally admits his true feelings. Although it is obvious (to the audience) that Dixie loves Tad as well, she decides to stay with Adam and tells Tad that they cannot be friends or see each other anymore. Staying away from each other proves to be very painful and difficult for Tad and Dixie, especially considering that Pine Valley is a small town. Try as she may, Dixie is unable to stay away from Tad and when JR is kidnapped, Dixie immediately calls Tad. While everyone thinks that Skye Chandler is the kidnapper, Tad manages to prove that the baby snatcher was really a woman named Karen. Determined to get sole custody of JR, Adam comes up with a very elaborate and sadistic plot to make Dixie think that she is losing her mind. In time, Adam's plan works and he sends Dixie to a sanitarium. Adam looks forward to raising his son and winning back Brooke, but has not counted on the fact that Tad will stop at nothing to get Dixie out of the mental institution. With characters Cecily and Nico's help, Tad manages to free his beloved from the clutches of Adam and his accomplice, Dr. Snow. While on the run from Adam, Dixie finally admits her true feelings to Tad; she does not love Adam, it is him she loves. Even though they manage to prove that Dixie is sane, she still loses custody of JR, and Adam offers her generous visiting privileges if she agrees to a quick divorce, which she does. Finally freed from Adam, Dixie falls into Tad's arms and he proposes to her wearing a bright yellow chicken suit. Dixie happily accepts, and the two make plans to wed. Their happiness is further cemented when Dixie regains custody of her son, and Palmer gets the best of Adam in a business deal. Tad and Dixie finally marry in late December 1989. The couple divorces, however, just months later in May 1990 after Tad's mother, Opal, and Palmer interfere. They soon grow close again, but their plans to remarry are spoiled after Tad is presumed dead following an explosion. Nearly three years later, in late 1992, it is revealed that Tad had survived the explosion and has been living in California under a different name. He and Dixie reconcile, and in 1994, they remarry. With Tad's help, she finally regains custody of Adam Jr.
Their second marriage, lasts about 2 years until JR (then 8 years old) catches Tad having an affair. Dixie divorces Tad, takes JR and moves to Pigeon Hollow, West Virginia. But she returns to Pine Valley in 1998 when Adam Chandler demands to see his son. She and Tad began dating again, and in 1999, they marry a third time. By late 2001, their marriage has collapsed. In January 2002, Dixie leaves Tad and JR, off to the Caribbean, where she gets a divorce from Tad. Dixie regrets this decision, however, and returns to Pine Valley to try and reconcile with Tad. She and Tad make up, but Dixie learns that she is pregnant with a baby girl and flees to Switzerland to give birth to the child in secret. When Dixie is in her third trimester, she writes Tad a letter, telling him that she is pregnant and wants to come back to him. However, on May 10, 2002, while driving back from Geneva to Bern, she is in involved in a horrible car crash and is presumed dead. Tad and JR mourn, but eventually move on with their lives. When I looked at Dixie, all I ever saw was home. And when I held her, I knew I was where I was supposed to be.|Tad, at Dixie's first memorial
Dixie is still mentioned, and there is a time where a woman named Di Kirby claims to be the "back from the dead" Dixie. It is later revealed that she is rather Dixie's half sister. On December 23, 2005, it is shown (to the audience) that Dixie did indeed survive the automobile accident that was thought to have claimed her life while she was in Europe. Di, the only one who knows that Dixie is alive, goes to visit her, and urges her to return to Pine Valley and let her family know that she is alive. Dixie seems adamant on not taking Di's advice at first, but soon returns to Pine Valley in February 2006. She attends the Mardi Gras ball thrown by Erica Kane. Because her face is hidden by a mask, no one from her family recognizes her. She does, however, witness a tender moment between Tad and Di, as well as JR and Babe. Janet Dillon rigs the hot water heater at the mansion where the ball is being held so that it will explode. When it does, many people die and are injured and Dixie is trapped by some rubble. She manages to escape without being discovered by anyone. She goes to Wildwind, where Di is staying. In the middle of confronting her sister, Tad arrives and Dixie runs off before he can see her. Later, she runs into Zach Slater, and he promises not to reveal the fact that she is still alive. Later, she secretly watches in horror as her son holds a gun to Krystal Carey at a cabin, demanding to know where his ex wife, Babe, has taken their son. Dixie hides as Tad arrives and tries to wrestle the gun away from JR, but the gun goes off and hits Dixie (who is outside) in the arm. It is soon revealed that Tad and Dixie's baby, Kate, is in fact alive, but was taken by Dr. Greg Madden, a famous surgeon who is hated by virtually everyone in Pine Valley. A few months earlier, Tad had informed Erica that Greg stole her baby, the one she aborted twenty something years ago, and Erica's son is also alive, going by the name Josh Madden. On April 14, 2006, Tad and Dixie finally come face to face since her presumed death. Tad looks at Dixie with an astonished expression and leaves with her, resulting in him punching Dr. David Hayward, who was and is determined to keep Tad from Dixie. Tad first thinks that David's obsession with Dixie has led him to have plastic surgery performed on someone, but once Dixie says the words "Ozzie and Harriet", he knows that this woman is his true love. Tad is furious, however, that Dixie let him and JR think that she was dead for four years without a word. He grows even angrier when he learns that she gave away Kate after letting Greg Madden convince her that Tad could not love a daughter, who, Madden claimed, would remind him of Dixie's death too much for him to love the child properly. Tad vents his anger while testifying at Dixie's trial when she stands accused of Greg Madden's murder. Afterwards, though, the two begin to reconcile. Tad invites her for a date one morning, and Dixie accepts. However, in 2007, she dies that day after eating poisoned pancakes that were meant for her daughter in law (Babe). Babe's attempted murderer is known as the Satin Slayer, a serial killer killing off the women of Fusion Cosmetics. Dixie's ghost/spirit later sees Tad playing with a little 4 year old named Kathy and instinctively knows that the little girl is actually their lost daughter — Kate. At first, no one else in Pine Valley knows this but Dixie. Adam, however, later discovers the child alive and keeps the knowledge to himself. He is conflicted on a number of occasions on whether to tell Tad, but ultimately decides against it when he finds out that Tad has married the woman he loves, Krystal Carey. In May 2008, Dixie's spirit returns to Pine Valley. On a mission to reunite Tad with his daughter, she haunts Adam, telling him that she will only stop if he tells Tad where Kate is. Adam constantly refuses, but finally relents once Tad is shot by a deranged Rob Gardner at Jesse Hubbard and Angie Baxter's wedding, where celebration has just ended. As Tad experiences the life he could have had with Dixie while lying in Pine Valley hospital hanging between life and death, Adam calls out to him. At Tad's bedside, he tries to reach Tad through the unconscious. Dixie hears Adam calling Tad and smiles, still in Tad's embrace. Tad and Dixie say once last goodbye, after one last kiss, and part hands. Tad goes back to the land of the living to be a father to Kate. On May 17, 2011, despite her ghostly appearances, Dixie is revealed to be alive and being held under observation in a locked cell by David. It later turns out she is one of the patients in David's medical experiment called Project Orpheus. Dixie manages to escape, still disoriented and weak from the drugs David has given her. She comes to Pine Valley, where her daughter Kathy and son JR see her, but think that they're hallucinating. Eventually, officer Brot Monroe finds her and takes her to Oak Haven. At Oak Haven, she runs into Erica, who has recently been admitted. Erica helps Dixie get out, along with Annie Lavery, Marian Colby, and Janet Dillon. Marian, Erica, and Dixie make their way to Erica's daughter, Kendall's house. When Kendall brings up David's name, Dixie runs away in fright. She still hasn't gained back her senses yet. Dixie makes her way to the park and finds Tad, who is talking to her through the stars. On August 8, 2011, Tad asks for a sign from Dixie, and she calls out his name. At first, Tad thinks he's imagining it. Then, Dixie calls out again. Tad turns around and sees Dixie, and they finally reunite. As they spend time under the stars that night, Dixie slowly regains her senses and strength again in Tad's presence. Tad takes Dixie home the next morning, where she meets their daughter, Kathy, face to face for the first time.
Их второй брак длится около двух лет, пока Джей-Ар (тогда ему было восемь лет) не застает Тада на измене. Дикси разводится с Тадом, забирает Джей-Ар и переезжает в Пиджон-Холлоу, Западная Вирджиния. Но она возвращается в Пайн-Вэлли в 1998 году, когда Адам Чендлер требует увидеть своего сына. Она и Тад снова начинают встречаться, и в 1999 году они женятся в третий раз. К концу 2001 года их брак распадается. В январе 2002 года Дикси оставляет Тада и Джей-Ар и уезжает на Карибы, где разводится с Тадом. Однако Дикси сожалеет об этом решении и возвращается в Пайн-Вэлли, чтобы попытаться помириться с Тадом. Они мирятся, но Дикси узнает, что беременна девочкой, и бежит в Швейцарию, чтобы тайно родить ребенка. Когда Дикси на третьем триместре беременности, она пишет Таду письмо, сообщая, что беременна и хочет вернуться к нему. Однако 10 мая 2002 года, по дороге из Женевы в Берн, она попадает в ужасную автомобильную аварию и считается погибшей. Тад и Джей-Ар скорбят, но в конечном итоге продолжают жить дальше. Когда я смотрел на Дикси, я видел только дом. И когда я держал ее в объятиях, я знал, что нахожусь там, где должен быть. – говорит Тэд на первой памятной церемонии Дикси.
Dixie marries Adam, not knowing that he is only interested in gaining full custody of their child. Tad persists in warning Dixie about Adam's true intentions, but she simply will not listen. "I'm his wife, Tad, of course he loves me!" is what Dixie often replies whenever Tad suggests that Adam is only after the baby. Despite Dixie's stubbornness and refusal to face the truth, Tad persists in warning his beloved, and his insistence gets him beaten up by Adam's thugs. Dixie nurses her best friend back to health, and the two once again feel the closeness they shared at the beginning of their friendship. On the day Adam Jr. (later known as JR) is born, Tad reveals to Dixie that he wants more than friendship from her. He has fallen in love with the girl from Pigeon Hollow and finally admits his true feelings. Although it is obvious (to the audience) that Dixie loves Tad as well, she decides to stay with Adam and tells Tad that they cannot be friends or see each other anymore. Staying away from each other proves to be very painful and difficult for Tad and Dixie, especially considering that Pine Valley is a small town. Try as she may, Dixie is unable to stay away from Tad and when JR is kidnapped, Dixie immediately calls Tad. While everyone thinks that Skye Chandler is the kidnapper, Tad manages to prove that the baby snatcher was really a woman named Karen. Determined to get sole custody of JR, Adam comes up with a very elaborate and sadistic plot to make Dixie think that she is losing her mind. In time, Adam's plan works and he sends Dixie to a sanitarium. Adam looks forward to raising his son and winning back Brooke, but has not counted on the fact that Tad will stop at nothing to get Dixie out of the mental institution. With characters Cecily and Nico's help, Tad manages to free his beloved from the clutches of Adam and his accomplice, Dr. Snow. While on the run from Adam, Dixie finally admits her true feelings to Tad; she does not love Adam, it is him she loves. Even though they manage to prove that Dixie is sane, she still loses custody of JR, and Adam offers her generous visiting privileges if she agrees to a quick divorce, which she does. Finally freed from Adam, Dixie falls into Tad's arms and he proposes to her wearing a bright yellow chicken suit. Dixie happily accepts, and the two make plans to wed. Their happiness is further cemented when Dixie regains custody of her son, and Palmer gets the best of Adam in a business deal. Tad and Dixie finally marry in late December 1989. The couple divorces, however, just months later in May 1990 after Tad's mother, Opal, and Palmer interfere. They soon grow close again, but their plans to remarry are spoiled after Tad is presumed dead following an explosion. Nearly three years later, in late 1992, it is revealed that Tad had survived the explosion and has been living in California under a different name. He and Dixie reconcile, and in 1994, they remarry. With Tad's help, she finally regains custody of Adam Jr.
Their second marriage, lasts about 2 years until JR (then 8 years old) catches Tad having an affair. Dixie divorces Tad, takes JR and moves to Pigeon Hollow, West Virginia. But she returns to Pine Valley in 1998 when Adam Chandler demands to see his son. She and Tad began dating again, and in 1999, they marry a third time. By late 2001, their marriage has collapsed. In January 2002, Dixie leaves Tad and JR, off to the Caribbean, where she gets a divorce from Tad. Dixie regrets this decision, however, and returns to Pine Valley to try and reconcile with Tad. She and Tad make up, but Dixie learns that she is pregnant with a baby girl and flees to Switzerland to give birth to the child in secret. When Dixie is in her third trimester, she writes Tad a letter, telling him that she is pregnant and wants to come back to him. However, on May 10, 2002, while driving back from Geneva to Bern, she is in involved in a horrible car crash and is presumed dead. Tad and JR mourn, but eventually move on with their lives. When I looked at Dixie, all I ever saw was home. And when I held her, I knew I was where I was supposed to be.|Tad, at Dixie's first memorial
Dixie is still mentioned, and there is a time where a woman named Di Kirby claims to be the "back from the dead" Dixie. It is later revealed that she is rather Dixie's half sister. On December 23, 2005, it is shown (to the audience) that Dixie did indeed survive the automobile accident that was thought to have claimed her life while she was in Europe. Di, the only one who knows that Dixie is alive, goes to visit her, and urges her to return to Pine Valley and let her family know that she is alive. Dixie seems adamant on not taking Di's advice at first, but soon returns to Pine Valley in February 2006. She attends the Mardi Gras ball thrown by Erica Kane. Because her face is hidden by a mask, no one from her family recognizes her. She does, however, witness a tender moment between Tad and Di, as well as JR and Babe. Janet Dillon rigs the hot water heater at the mansion where the ball is being held so that it will explode. When it does, many people die and are injured and Dixie is trapped by some rubble. She manages to escape without being discovered by anyone. She goes to Wildwind, where Di is staying. In the middle of confronting her sister, Tad arrives and Dixie runs off before he can see her. Later, she runs into Zach Slater, and he promises not to reveal the fact that she is still alive. Later, she secretly watches in horror as her son holds a gun to Krystal Carey at a cabin, demanding to know where his ex wife, Babe, has taken their son. Dixie hides as Tad arrives and tries to wrestle the gun away from JR, but the gun goes off and hits Dixie (who is outside) in the arm. It is soon revealed that Tad and Dixie's baby, Kate, is in fact alive, but was taken by Dr. Greg Madden, a famous surgeon who is hated by virtually everyone in Pine Valley. A few months earlier, Tad had informed Erica that Greg stole her baby, the one she aborted twenty something years ago, and Erica's son is also alive, going by the name Josh Madden. On April 14, 2006, Tad and Dixie finally come face to face since her presumed death. Tad looks at Dixie with an astonished expression and leaves with her, resulting in him punching Dr. David Hayward, who was and is determined to keep Tad from Dixie. Tad first thinks that David's obsession with Dixie has led him to have plastic surgery performed on someone, but once Dixie says the words "Ozzie and Harriet", he knows that this woman is his true love. Tad is furious, however, that Dixie let him and JR think that she was dead for four years without a word. He grows even angrier when he learns that she gave away Kate after letting Greg Madden convince her that Tad could not love a daughter, who, Madden claimed, would remind him of Dixie's death too much for him to love the child properly. Tad vents his anger while testifying at Dixie's trial when she stands accused of Greg Madden's murder. Afterwards, though, the two begin to reconcile. Tad invites her for a date one morning, and Dixie accepts. However, in 2007, she dies that day after eating poisoned pancakes that were meant for her daughter in law (Babe). Babe's attempted murderer is known as the Satin Slayer, a serial killer killing off the women of Fusion Cosmetics. Dixie's ghost/spirit later sees Tad playing with a little 4 year old named Kathy and instinctively knows that the little girl is actually their lost daughter — Kate. At first, no one else in Pine Valley knows this but Dixie. Adam, however, later discovers the child alive and keeps the knowledge to himself. He is conflicted on a number of occasions on whether to tell Tad, but ultimately decides against it when he finds out that Tad has married the woman he loves, Krystal Carey. In May 2008, Dixie's spirit returns to Pine Valley. On a mission to reunite Tad with his daughter, she haunts Adam, telling him that she will only stop if he tells Tad where Kate is. Adam constantly refuses, but finally relents once Tad is shot by a deranged Rob Gardner at Jesse Hubbard and Angie Baxter's wedding, where celebration has just ended. As Tad experiences the life he could have had with Dixie while lying in Pine Valley hospital hanging between life and death, Adam calls out to him. At Tad's bedside, he tries to reach Tad through the unconscious. Dixie hears Adam calling Tad and smiles, still in Tad's embrace. Tad and Dixie say once last goodbye, after one last kiss, and part hands. Tad goes back to the land of the living to be a father to Kate. On May 17, 2011, despite her ghostly appearances, Dixie is revealed to be alive and being held under observation in a locked cell by David. It later turns out she is one of the patients in David's medical experiment called Project Orpheus. Dixie manages to escape, still disoriented and weak from the drugs David has given her. She comes to Pine Valley, where her daughter Kathy and son JR see her, but think that they're hallucinating. Eventually, officer Brot Monroe finds her and takes her to Oak Haven. At Oak Haven, she runs into Erica, who has recently been admitted. Erica helps Dixie get out, along with Annie Lavery, Marian Colby, and Janet Dillon. Marian, Erica, and Dixie make their way to Erica's daughter, Kendall's house. When Kendall brings up David's name, Dixie runs away in fright. She still hasn't gained back her senses yet. Dixie makes her way to the park and finds Tad, who is talking to her through the stars. On August 8, 2011, Tad asks for a sign from Dixie, and she calls out his name. At first, Tad thinks he's imagining it. Then, Dixie calls out again. Tad turns around and sees Dixie, and they finally reunite. As they spend time under the stars that night, Dixie slowly regains her senses and strength again in Tad's presence. Tad takes Dixie home the next morning, where she meets their daughter, Kathy, face to face for the first time.
Дикси все еще упоминается, и однажды женщина по имени Ди Кирби заявляет, что она "воскресшая" Дикси. Позже выясняется, что она является сводной сестрой Дикси. 23 декабря 2005 года зрителям показывают, что Дикси действительно выжила после автомобильной аварии, которая, как считалось, унесла ее жизнь, пока она находилась в Европе. Ди, единственная, кто знает, что Дикси жива, навещает ее и уговаривает вернуться в Пайн-Вэлли и сообщить своей семье, что она жива. Дикси сначала категорически отказывается следовать совету Ди, но вскоре возвращается в Пайн-Вэлли в феврале 2006 года. Она посещает бал-маскарад, устроенный Эрикой Кейн. Поскольку ее лицо скрыто маской, никто из ее семьи не узнает ее. Однако она становится свидетельницей трогательного момента между Тадом и Ди, а также между Джей-Аром и Бейб. Джанет Диллон подстраивает взрыв водонагревателя в особняке, где проходит бал. Когда он взрывается, многие люди погибают и получают ранения, и Дикси оказывается заваленной обломками. Ей удается выбраться незамеченной. Она идет в Wildwind, где остановилась Ди, и в разгар конфронтации с сестрой прибывает Тэд, и Дикси убегает, прежде чем он успевает ее увидеть. Позже она сталкивается с Заком Слейтером, и он обещает не раскрывать, что она все еще жива. Позже она тайно наблюдает в ужасе, как ее сын направляет пистолет на Кристал Кэри в хижине, требуя узнать, куда его бывшая жена, Бейб, увезла их сына. Дикси прячется, когда прибывает Тэд и пытается вырвать пистолет у Джей-Ар, но пистолет случайно выстреливает и ранит Дикси в руку (которая находится снаружи). Вскоре выясняется, что ребенок Тада и Дикси, Кейт, жива, но ее похитил доктор Грег Мэдден, известный хирург, которого практически все в Пайн-Вэлли ненавидят. За несколько месяцев до этого Тэд сообщил Эрике, что Грег украл ее ребенка, того, которого она абортировала двадцать с лишним лет назад, и что сын Эрики тоже жив и известен как Джош Мэдден. 14 апреля 2006 года Тэд и Дикси наконец-то встречаются лицом к лицу после того, как ее считали погибшей. Тэд смотрит на Дикси с изумлением и уходит с ней, в результате чего он ударяет доктора Дэвида Хейварда, который полон решимости разлучить Тада и Дикси. Тэд сначала думает, что одержимость Дэвида Дикси привела к тому, что он заставил кого-то сделать пластическую операцию, но когда Дикси произносит слова "Оззи и Харриет", он понимает, что эта женщина – его настоящая любовь. Тэд в ярости от того, что Дикси заставила его и Джей-Ар думать, что она мертва четыре года, не сказав ни слова. Он еще больше злится, когда узнает, что она отдала Кейт после того, как Грег Мэдден убедил ее в том, что Тэд не сможет любить дочь, которая, по словам Мэддена, слишком сильно напомнит ему о смерти Дикси, чтобы он мог любить ребенка должным образом. Тэд выплескивает свой гнев, выступая на суде Дикси, где ее обвиняют в…
Dixie marries Adam, not knowing that he is only interested in gaining full custody of their child. Tad persists in warning Dixie about Adam's true intentions, but she simply will not listen. "I'm his wife, Tad, of course he loves me!" is what Dixie often replies whenever Tad suggests that Adam is only after the baby. Despite Dixie's stubbornness and refusal to face the truth, Tad persists in warning his beloved, and his insistence gets him beaten up by Adam's thugs. Dixie nurses her best friend back to health, and the two once again feel the closeness they shared at the beginning of their friendship. On the day Adam Jr. (later known as JR) is born, Tad reveals to Dixie that he wants more than friendship from her. He has fallen in love with the girl from Pigeon Hollow and finally admits his true feelings. Although it is obvious (to the audience) that Dixie loves Tad as well, she decides to stay with Adam and tells Tad that they cannot be friends or see each other anymore. Staying away from each other proves to be very painful and difficult for Tad and Dixie, especially considering that Pine Valley is a small town. Try as she may, Dixie is unable to stay away from Tad and when JR is kidnapped, Dixie immediately calls Tad. While everyone thinks that Skye Chandler is the kidnapper, Tad manages to prove that the baby snatcher was really a woman named Karen. Determined to get sole custody of JR, Adam comes up with a very elaborate and sadistic plot to make Dixie think that she is losing her mind. In time, Adam's plan works and he sends Dixie to a sanitarium. Adam looks forward to raising his son and winning back Brooke, but has not counted on the fact that Tad will stop at nothing to get Dixie out of the mental institution. With characters Cecily and Nico's help, Tad manages to free his beloved from the clutches of Adam and his accomplice, Dr. Snow. While on the run from Adam, Dixie finally admits her true feelings to Tad; she does not love Adam, it is him she loves. Even though they manage to prove that Dixie is sane, she still loses custody of JR, and Adam offers her generous visiting privileges if she agrees to a quick divorce, which she does. Finally freed from Adam, Dixie falls into Tad's arms and he proposes to her wearing a bright yellow chicken suit. Dixie happily accepts, and the two make plans to wed. Their happiness is further cemented when Dixie regains custody of her son, and Palmer gets the best of Adam in a business deal. Tad and Dixie finally marry in late December 1989. The couple divorces, however, just months later in May 1990 after Tad's mother, Opal, and Palmer interfere. They soon grow close again, but their plans to remarry are spoiled after Tad is presumed dead following an explosion. Nearly three years later, in late 1992, it is revealed that Tad had survived the explosion and has been living in California under a different name. He and Dixie reconcile, and in 1994, they remarry. With Tad's help, she finally regains custody of Adam Jr.
Their second marriage, lasts about 2 years until JR (then 8 years old) catches Tad having an affair. Dixie divorces Tad, takes JR and moves to Pigeon Hollow, West Virginia. But she returns to Pine Valley in 1998 when Adam Chandler demands to see his son. She and Tad began dating again, and in 1999, they marry a third time. By late 2001, their marriage has collapsed. In January 2002, Dixie leaves Tad and JR, off to the Caribbean, where she gets a divorce from Tad. Dixie regrets this decision, however, and returns to Pine Valley to try and reconcile with Tad. She and Tad make up, but Dixie learns that she is pregnant with a baby girl and flees to Switzerland to give birth to the child in secret. When Dixie is in her third trimester, she writes Tad a letter, telling him that she is pregnant and wants to come back to him. However, on May 10, 2002, while driving back from Geneva to Bern, she is in involved in a horrible car crash and is presumed dead. Tad and JR mourn, but eventually move on with their lives. When I looked at Dixie, all I ever saw was home. And when I held her, I knew I was where I was supposed to be.|Tad, at Dixie's first memorial
Dixie is still mentioned, and there is a time where a woman named Di Kirby claims to be the "back from the dead" Dixie. It is later revealed that she is rather Dixie's half sister. On December 23, 2005, it is shown (to the audience) that Dixie did indeed survive the automobile accident that was thought to have claimed her life while she was in Europe. Di, the only one who knows that Dixie is alive, goes to visit her, and urges her to return to Pine Valley and let her family know that she is alive. Dixie seems adamant on not taking Di's advice at first, but soon returns to Pine Valley in February 2006. She attends the Mardi Gras ball thrown by Erica Kane. Because her face is hidden by a mask, no one from her family recognizes her. She does, however, witness a tender moment between Tad and Di, as well as JR and Babe. Janet Dillon rigs the hot water heater at the mansion where the ball is being held so that it will explode. When it does, many people die and are injured and Dixie is trapped by some rubble. She manages to escape without being discovered by anyone. She goes to Wildwind, where Di is staying. In the middle of confronting her sister, Tad arrives and Dixie runs off before he can see her. Later, she runs into Zach Slater, and he promises not to reveal the fact that she is still alive. Later, she secretly watches in horror as her son holds a gun to Krystal Carey at a cabin, demanding to know where his ex wife, Babe, has taken their son. Dixie hides as Tad arrives and tries to wrestle the gun away from JR, but the gun goes off and hits Dixie (who is outside) in the arm. It is soon revealed that Tad and Dixie's baby, Kate, is in fact alive, but was taken by Dr. Greg Madden, a famous surgeon who is hated by virtually everyone in Pine Valley. A few months earlier, Tad had informed Erica that Greg stole her baby, the one she aborted twenty something years ago, and Erica's son is also alive, going by the name Josh Madden. On April 14, 2006, Tad and Dixie finally come face to face since her presumed death. Tad looks at Dixie with an astonished expression and leaves with her, resulting in him punching Dr. David Hayward, who was and is determined to keep Tad from Dixie. Tad first thinks that David's obsession with Dixie has led him to have plastic surgery performed on someone, but once Dixie says the words "Ozzie and Harriet", he knows that this woman is his true love. Tad is furious, however, that Dixie let him and JR think that she was dead for four years without a word. He grows even angrier when he learns that she gave away Kate after letting Greg Madden convince her that Tad could not love a daughter, who, Madden claimed, would remind him of Dixie's death too much for him to love the child properly. Tad vents his anger while testifying at Dixie's trial when she stands accused of Greg Madden's murder. Afterwards, though, the two begin to reconcile. Tad invites her for a date one morning, and Dixie accepts. However, in 2007, she dies that day after eating poisoned pancakes that were meant for her daughter in law (Babe). Babe's attempted murderer is known as the Satin Slayer, a serial killer killing off the women of Fusion Cosmetics. Dixie's ghost/spirit later sees Tad playing with a little 4 year old named Kathy and instinctively knows that the little girl is actually their lost daughter — Kate. At first, no one else in Pine Valley knows this but Dixie. Adam, however, later discovers the child alive and keeps the knowledge to himself. He is conflicted on a number of occasions on whether to tell Tad, but ultimately decides against it when he finds out that Tad has married the woman he loves, Krystal Carey. In May 2008, Dixie's spirit returns to Pine Valley. On a mission to reunite Tad with his daughter, she haunts Adam, telling him that she will only stop if he tells Tad where Kate is. Adam constantly refuses, but finally relents once Tad is shot by a deranged Rob Gardner at Jesse Hubbard and Angie Baxter's wedding, where celebration has just ended. As Tad experiences the life he could have had with Dixie while lying in Pine Valley hospital hanging between life and death, Adam calls out to him. At Tad's bedside, he tries to reach Tad through the unconscious. Dixie hears Adam calling Tad and smiles, still in Tad's embrace. Tad and Dixie say once last goodbye, after one last kiss, and part hands. Tad goes back to the land of the living to be a father to Kate. On May 17, 2011, despite her ghostly appearances, Dixie is revealed to be alive and being held under observation in a locked cell by David. It later turns out she is one of the patients in David's medical experiment called Project Orpheus. Dixie manages to escape, still disoriented and weak from the drugs David has given her. She comes to Pine Valley, where her daughter Kathy and son JR see her, but think that they're hallucinating. Eventually, officer Brot Monroe finds her and takes her to Oak Haven. At Oak Haven, she runs into Erica, who has recently been admitted. Erica helps Dixie get out, along with Annie Lavery, Marian Colby, and Janet Dillon. Marian, Erica, and Dixie make their way to Erica's daughter, Kendall's house. When Kendall brings up David's name, Dixie runs away in fright. She still hasn't gained back her senses yet. Dixie makes her way to the park and finds Tad, who is talking to her through the stars. On August 8, 2011, Tad asks for a sign from Dixie, and she calls out his name. At first, Tad thinks he's imagining it. Then, Dixie calls out again. Tad turns around and sees Dixie, and they finally reunite. As they spend time under the stars that night, Dixie slowly regains her senses and strength again in Tad's presence. Tad takes Dixie home the next morning, where she meets their daughter, Kathy, face to face for the first time.
Общий
Романс Тада и Дикси был представлен, упомянут и изучен в нескольких книгах и считается вечным, классическим романом. Журнал Soap Opera Digest проанализировал причины успеха этой пары: «То, что делало Тада и Дикси такими волшебными, – это их искрящийся юмор и блестящее умение Майкла Э. Найта и Кэди МакКлейн его выражать». Entertainment Weekly отметила: «Родственные души Тед (Майкл Э. Найт) и Дикси (Кэди МакКлейн) разожгли мир мыльных опер своими прямыми и часто забавными взаимодействиями, сражаясь с бывшими мужьями, бывшими женами и бесчисленными другими, чтобы быть вместе». В своем исследовании Паркин и Стоун проанализировали, как в современной сериальной среде семья, состоящая из мужа и жены, живущих со своими биологическими детьми, стала «крайне редкой» и создание «идеальной» семьи больше не является ожидаемым элементом дневных драм. Еще один писатель, изучавший роман Тада и Дикси, использовал его в качестве примера, анализирующего силу слова. Его книга «Языковой инстинкт», которая, как утверждается, объясняет все, что человек хотел знать о языках (как они работают, как дети их учатся, как они меняются, как мозг их обрабатывает и как они эволюционировали), получила премию Уильяма Джеймса от Американской психологической ассоциации и премию общественного интереса от Лингвистического общества Америки. В качестве демонстрации Пинкер просит читателя на несколько мгновений отдать свое воображение власти его слов. Он утверждает, что может заставить читателя думать «очень конкретные мысли». Ее внимание было сосредоточено не только на реальных парах, но и на вымышленных. Она отметила, что потерянная любовь также является центральной темой в мыльных операх и фильмах. Роман Тада и Дикси был одним из примеров, которые она отметила. Персонаж Мэри Мэддиган подробно описывает влияние истории любви Тада и Дикси на людей в ее жизни: «Я была уверена в одном: если мама не устроилась на работу, она была дома, потому что пришло время смотреть «Все мои дети». И Мэйэнн, и мама были сильно заинтересованы в браке Тада и Дикси, единственном союзе на земле, который они считали нерушимым. Это было источником большинства их споров». Другой анализ романа Тада и Дикси посвящен последствиям первой «смерти» Дикси. Ее сестра Ди притворяется ею в одной из сюжетных линий шоу. Части романтических отношений пары были спародированы в книге «Телепародия: предсказание/предотвращение телевизионного дискурса завтрашнего дня». Кроме того, All My Children: Daytime's Greatest Weddings задокументировала Тада и Дикси как один из величайших романов, когда-либо рассказанных. Авторы посчитали, что убийство Дикси было неожиданным и выходило за рамки «просто истории о женщинах из Fusion». Убийство Дикси было сигналом о том, что следующим может быть кто угодно. 18 февраля 2007 года сообщалось, что Кэди МакКлейн, исполнительница роли Дикси, высказалась о произошедшем в своем блоге, чтобы прояснить ситуацию и успокоить нервы поклонников. Зрители часто утверждали, что Дикси убили из-за того, что МакКлейн открыто высказывалась по вопросам, с которыми она не согласна, касающимся мыльной оперы и руководства. В декабре 2006 года МакКлейн узнала, что Дикси станет одной из жертв Сатин Слейер. Однако новость об уходе МакКлейн просочилась в СМИ лишь несколько недель спустя. Зрители предположили, что ее увольнение связано с ее откровенностью по поводу ухода Эмми-лауреатки Джулии Барр (бывшей Брук Инглиш). Дополнительным подтверждением слухов послужил репортаж Fox News Channel, в котором говорилось, что откровенность МакКлейн привела к увольнению МакКлейн руководством ABC. МакКлейн ответила в своем блоге: «Кто этот парень из Fox News и что он знает?» Она заявила, что ее записи в блоге всегда утверждались руководством ABC перед публикацией в Интернете. «Я говорила о характере Брук, когда сказала, что «жизнь несправедлива», а не о том, что Джулию уволили». Давая представление о том, что происходило за кулисами, МакКлейн заявила, что «триумвират топ-менеджеров шоу решил, что убийство Дикси – лучший способ двигаться вперед с персонажем, с которым никто уже не знал, что делать». Она сказала: «Это было взаимное решение Брайана [Фронса, президента Daytime для Disney ABC Television Group], Джули [Хэнан Каррутерс, исполнительного продюсера AMC] и Меган [МакТавиш, главного сценариста AMC]». МакКлейн отметила: «Мне сказали, что все они согласились с этим решением». К еще большему разочарованию поклонников, ABC, казалось, удалила все упоминания о МакКлейн и Дикси со своего официального сайта «Все мои дети» в начале того месяца, что еще больше возмутило поклонников. На это МакКлейн ответила: «Я всего лишь актриса. Я не думаю, что меня когда-нибудь вернут, особенно если они удалили биографию персонажа Дикси с сайта». МакКлейн добавила: «Все кончено. AMC станет совершенно другим, чем раньше. Все будет новым, все будет другим. Почему? Я могу только предполагать». Думая о своих коллегах-актерах, она позже призвала зрителей не отказываться от шоу: «Не прекращайте смотреть «Все мои дети», – заявила МакКлейн. «В этом шоу есть хорошие актеры, продюсеры пробуют что-то новое и инновационное, а сценаристы экспериментируют с множеством концепций и идей, которые в конечном итоге могут вам понравиться». Поклонники романа Тада и Дикси, в частности, уважали слова МакКлейн, но все же искали способы вернуть Дикси на экран до выхода серии со смертью Дикси. Зрители отправили «тысячи гневных писем», угрожая прекратить просмотр шоу, чтобы заставить руководство ABC обратить внимание на их просьбу. Однако их просьба не была удовлетворена. В марте 2008 года руководство ABC Daytime и МакКлейн подтвердили, что Дикси вернется в Пайн-Вэлли в виде призрака, чтобы направить Тада к Кейт. Первый выход МакКлейн на экран состоялся 2 мая 2008 года. Ее последний выход в роли персонажа состоялся 12 июня 2008 года. МакКлейн также вернулась в роли духа Дикси в 2010 году, когда ее сын, JR, боролся с раком. Она приветствовала «дядю Палмера» Кортландта в загробном мире после смерти актера (Джеймса Митчелла). 29 апреля 2011 года [на странице МакКлейн в Facebook] было подтверждено, что она снова исполнит роль Дикси Куни Мартин в последний раз. 17 мая 2011 года было раскрыто, что Дикси жива, позже выяснилось, что ее оживил проект «Орфей» Дэвида Хэйварда, и она содержалась в подвалах Оук-Хейвен.