Sam McCall
| Sam McCall | |
|---|---|
| File:Samabcpromo001.png Kelly Monaco as Sam McCall. | |
| First appearance | October 1, 2003 |
| Portrayed by | Kelly Monaco |
| In-universe information | |
| Alias | Angela Monroe |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Host of Everyday Heroes |
| Family | See below. |
Sam McCall (full name Samantha McCall) is a fictional character on the popular ABC soap opera, General Hospital. The role has been played by Playboy's April 1997 Playmate of the Month and the first champion on ABC's Dancing with the Stars Kelly Monaco (an actress from the series Port Charles) since October 2003. In 2006, Monaco was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for the role, in the category of Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She is the daughter of Alexis Davis and the host of Everyday Heroes.
Brief fictional details
Aliases
- Sandra McIntire
- Angela Monroe
- Susan Curtis
- Linda Powell
- Linda Black
Fictional history
 | This article describes a work or element of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. (July 2007) |
When Jasper "Jax" Jacks was called to his ailing father's bedside, he learned that his father had heavily relied upon the Dead Man's Hand, and he was missing four of the cards. Jax immediately went on a mission to find the missing cards. This is when he met Sam McCall, who was also in search of the cards. During the ensuing weeks Sam and Jax became close and Sam didn't want Jax to get the cards and leave her.
Jax, scared his dad would die without his 'luck' found that A.J. Quartermaine had the last four cards. Sneaky Jax told AJ that he and Sam were dating. In an attempt to make Sam, who was not exactly elegant, more ladylike, he tried to give her a makeover. Ultimately Sam got all five pieces to the Dead Man's Hand, but she would not hold onto them for long.
Jax ended up with the cards. when Sam sabotaged his car they decided to gamble until it was fixed. Jax ended up winning Sam a boat, the Haunted Star, and then they made love for the first time. Unfortunately by the time Jax got to his father, he was too late. Sam was racked with guilt because it was her fault they didn't get the lucky cards to save Jax's father's life. When Jax discovered Sam sabotaged his car, he pushed Sam away. Jax and Sam vowed revenge against each other, but they both actually had strong romantic feelings for each other. Sam soon found herself wrapped up with another man, mobster Sonny Corinthos.
When Sonny Corinthos was on the run from trying to kill Lorenzo Alcazar, he took Sam hostage and forced her to drive away from the crime scene. Ultimately Sonny let Sam go, but they did make an immediate connection bonding while trapped in the car.
Sam, who had broken up with Jax, ran into Sonny, who was angry thinking his wife, Carly Corinthos, was cheating on him, ended up sleeping together. Although their relationship started out as purely physical, both Sam and Sonny could not help their growing feelings for each other. And although Sam did make love to Jax during the Port Charles Hotel fire, she was falling in love with Sonny. Sam found out she was pregnant soon after. A paternity test proved Sonny to be the father. She (Sam) initially planned to abort the baby, but Sonny's best friend, Jason Morgan convinced her not to abort or leave town and offered to raise the baby as his own.
Sonny reunite with his wife, Carly Corinthos and his sons, Michael Corinthos and Morgan Corinthos. Sam moved into Jason Morgan's penthouse. She and Jason started to have feelings for each other and planned to raise Sonny's child.
When Sonny's daughter with Alexis Davis and Sam's maternal half-sister Kristina Davis was ill and needed a bone marrow transplant, Alexis Davis, Kristina's mother, asked Sam to induce labor a week early for the purpose of harvesting stem cells to save Kristina's life. Sam refused.
Although initially believed by Sonny and Jason to be stress-induced from Alexis' yelling at Sam, it was later determined that the death was because of a pre-existing condition in which the placenta separated from Sam's uterus. While Sam was recovering, Sonny Corinthos authorized the harvesting of the stillborn's stem cells at the request of Alexis and Kristina's condition turned around. Sam has often been seen blaming Alexis for her daughter's death, despite the medical conformation that her daughter's death was unstoppable. Sam feelings were further charged when Alexis chose to save herself while Sam's mentally-handicapped older brother died. Any chance at a rekindling of feelings for Sonny and Sam ended when Sonny gave the final authorization to harvest the stem cells after the baby's death while Sam lay unconscious.
As Sam deals with the lose of her child, she becomes closer to Jason. Jason and Sam attend Emily and Nikolas's wedding. Sam drinks a little too much and shares a kiss with Jason.
After a bumpy start, Sam and Jason are again living together. Sam and Jason become foster parents of sorts by agreeing to care for a baby that Bridget, one of Courtney's foundation kids, has given them. Jason isn't so sure at first but then supports Sam and the baby. Jason even proposes to Sam. Sam happily accepts. Bridget decides she wants her baby back. To avoid a serious court battle, Jason decides it would be best for baby Hope to be raised by Bridget and her grandmother. Sam tearfully returns Hope to Bridget, but makes it clear to Jason she'd never forgive him for this.
In 2006, she learned that she had been adopted and had never been told. During an encephalitis epidemic, the dying Danny McCall told Sam how glad he was that their parents "chose her." DNA tests revealed that Danny could not have been her biological brother. After she and Jason investigated, they found records indicating that Alexis Davis is Sam's biological mother. Sam was dismayed by this news, as she disliked Alexis. Sam has blamed Alexis for the death of her baby, whose stem cells were used to save Kristina, the daughter of Alexis and Sonny, when she had aplastic anemia. Alexis had begged and yelled at the pregnant Sam to get her to agree to have labor induced so her child could be born early and her stem cells harvested to save the ill Kristina. Sam went into labor early and the baby was stillborn. Although her obstetrician later told Sam that the baby died because of a medical condition, not because of Alexis's actions, Sam still blamed her. Later, Sam also blamed Alexis for Danny's death in the epidemic, as the doctors chose the deathly ill Alexis to receive the antidote ahead of Danny and Danny was the one who died. Sam also disliked Alexis for pursuing charges against her fiance Jason, a mafia hitman, and later for representing Manny, a criminal who had stalked Sam. Sam believes Alexis is arrogant and supercilious.
Health crisis
Jason ultimately told Alexis the truth when Sam was in the hospital suffering from a bullet wound through her uterus and near death. Interestingly, Nikolas Cassadine, the son of Alexis's half-brother Stavros Cassadine, proved to have the same rare AB negative blood type as Sam. Nikolas donated blood when Sam needed transfusions and there was a shortage of her type at the hospital. There has been widespread fan speculation about the shared blood types and what they might imply about Sam's paternity. When Sam asked Alexis if she was "in love" with her baby's father, Alexis quickly changed the subject. No DNA tests have been done to confirm Sam's identity as Alexis's daughter and the father has not been definitely identified on the show. Alexis did say that the man never knew she was pregnant. She said her father, Mikkos Cassadine, pressured her to give up her daughter and apparently altered the records to make it appear that Alexis's daughter died in a car accident when she was three. Alexis thought he did this so she could never find her daughter. Alexis told Sam she often thought about the daughter she gave up for adoption.
Alexis disagreed with Jason about the best course of treatment for Sam and had a team of doctors arrested for performing a surgery on Sam that another doctor said would kill her. The surgery saved Sam's life. Later, Alexis had Sam moved to a private hospital where Jason could not find her and tried to persuade Jason that he should break up with Sam for her own good. Jason later decided to end his engagement to Sam, though he told Alexis he came to this conclusion on his own and not because of Alexis's arguments. Alexis badly wanted to establish a relationship with Sam and asked Sam to move in with her family after she got out of the hospital. Sam got new clothes, thought of becoming a lawyer and got a job in the district attorney's office. However, Sam also blames Alexis for breaking up her relationship with Jason and is determined to get even. Sam and Alexis had a bitter fight after Sam told Alexis's husband Ric Lansing that Alexis is a bitch. Alexis doesn't understand Sam's willingness to rely on men for her self esteem or her determination to be with a mobster. She told Sam she doesn't want her to poison Kristina and Molly with her pitiful attitude and ordered her to leave her house.Alexis and Jason both separately witnesses the affair in action. Alexis kept silent though because she was secretly dealing with lung cancer. She wants Kristina and Molly to be raised together and feels that leaving them with Ric and Sam is the best of a series of imperfect choices. Alexis attempted to push Sam and Ric together as an attempt at a self-fullining prophecy for them to hook-up again. Sam, feeling guilty about her mother's illness, has tried to reconcile with Alexis. She also learned that Jason slept with Elizabeth Webber that same night he saw her and Ric sleeping together. Before she was placed in a medically-induced coma to treat pneumonia, Alexis made Sam promise that she will not see Jason again though as time went by Sam could not keep her promise and got back together with Jason.
Back with Jason
Sam has since reconciled with Jason and moved back in with him. During the Metro Court Hostage Crisis she was able to escape with the aid of Jason (who was masked as one of the gunmen). She then warned the police that the Metro Court lobby was rigged to explode. She is being regarded as a hero by the media and appeared on an episode of the fictional show Everyday Heroes.
On Everyday Heroes, Sam met a television producer by the name of Amelia Joffe. She recognized Amelia's wrist watch as the one she had lost awhile back. Behind Sam's back, Amelia has been snooping around to learn as much as possible about Angela Monroe, Sam's previously mentioned alias. Amelia's recognition of the strong resemblance between a photograph of Angela, and Sam, is what caused her to grow suspicious.
Jason and Sam attempted to have children, but she learned that due to scarring from her gun shot wound, she is not able to carry a child to term. Sam is emotional and sentimental around children, especially after losing her baby and finding she couldn't carry another.
The truth comes out
Sam found out that Jason is the father of Elizabeth's baby, Jacob Martin Spencer. She is deciding to keep it to herself instead of telling Jason she knows the truth.
Eventually Sam found out that Amelia Joffe was the daughter of Bill Monroe. She hates Sam and blames her for her father's death. She had launched an investigation in order to find out anything she could about Sam's past and her aliases. She had planned to make Sam a star, give her a taste of it, and then reveal to the public about everything she found out about her but later changed her mind because she did not want to destroy her career even though she wanted to get revenge on Sam. However she made it clear to Sam that she still wanted to see her pay and Sam warned her not to mess with her.
After she found out, Sam paid a visit to Jason while he was in lock-up and told him about all the lies and secrets she had kept from him and her past. She told him that in the past she had used faked names, became a man's ideal woman, and married them for their money. Then, she would clear out their bank accounts and leave to start again. She got away with it for four times because none of the men she had conned wanted to press charges against her and were too upset to face public humiliation. However, her fifth husband Bill Monroe found out what she was up to after he received a phone call from the bank to inform him that his wife had emptied his bank accounts. He came home and found Sam packing and getting ready to leave. He was so angry at her that he confronted her and nearly beat her to death. Sam shot him in the chest and killed him. She was arrested, put on trial, and found not guilty because she had killed him in self-defense. She came to Port Charles. She fell in love with Jason and wanted to marry him and have his baby. She also told him that Amelia Joffe was Bill Monroe's daughter, who hated her and blamed her for her father's death and wanted to make her pay.
Sam also told him that she knew Jake Spencer was his son and not Lucky's. She was angry at him for sleeping with Elizabeth, getting her pregnant, and giving her a baby and not her and lying to her about it for months. She felt Jason did not trust her anymore. She suggested that maybe Amelia had kidnapped him in order to frame her and was offended after Jason suggested she may have done it. Lately,
She told Elizabeth they are the same since she lost a baby and Jake is missing, but at least she still has Cameron . She even refused to allow Lucky and Elizabeth use her show to plead with the kidnapper to bring Jake back home.
She has not told Jason that she spied on Elizabeth in the park the day Jake was kidnapped and witnessed a woman named Maureen who lost her baby girl take Jake. Jason knows that she is hiding something and when he came to speak to Amelia about Jake, she told him about her call to Maureen. Maureen had talked with Sam on the loss of her baby girl on the set of Everyday Heroes, and Amelia told Jason she heard the crying of an infant in the background of her conversation with Maureen about why she does not want the episode of her released, which happens to be right after baby Jake was kidnapped.
Jason and Amelia teamed up in order to find Maureen and bring Jake home. After they went to Maureen's house, Jason told Maureen he knew she had kidnapped Jake and that she had made his father, mother, and little brother Cameron cry and worry about Jake. Maureen felt bad, apologized, and gave Jake back to them. She said she only wanted another chance to take care of another baby and had not meant to hurt anyone. She told Jason and Amelia that Sam had watched her kidnap Jake and assumed she had told them, but in reality, Sam had watched Jake get kidnapped and did nothing to stop it.
Sam went to Alexis and asked her if she could be arrested and put in jail for witnessing a crime and doing nothing to stop it. Later, Amelia told her Jake had been found and brought back home to Lucky and Elizabeth by Jason and her, and that Jason knew she saw his son get kidnapped and did nothing to stop it. She said that Jason will now hate Sam, break up with her, and will no longer provide her with food, clothing, jewelry, money, cars, entertainment, or a place to live. Afterwards, Sam asked Elizabeth if she knew where Jason was and she informed Sam that Lucky had him arrested for jumping bail and he is getting sent to prison to await his trial. Sam rushed to see Jason, but he was gone when she got there and Carly yelled at her for not being there to say good-bye to Jason.
Later, Sam paid Elizabeth and Jake a visit and told her she was mad at Lucky and Elizabeth for being married, having a happy little family, and showed no gratitude towards Jason for bringing Jake home. Then Sonny called her and told her he wanted to see her. He told her that Jason was Jake's biological father and she said she knew for weeks and was angry that Jason had slept with Elizabeth, got her pregnant, and gave her a baby when he denied to give her one and lied to her for weeks but she had been shocked when she found out Maureen had kidnapped Jake. She claimed Maureen was too full of grief to realize how her actions would hurt Jake's parents and cause them the same grief she felt. She went on to say she was happy that Jake was found and brought back home safely and did not want Jason and Elizabeth to go through the pain of losing a child when she knew how they felt since she lost their daughter. Sonny claimed she was lying to his face and told her he knew that she stood by and watched Jason's son get kidnapped and did nothing to stop it in order to hurt Jason.
Carly later found out what Sam had done, and warned her that her days with Jason were numbered. She told her that Jason would never forgive her for what she did and he would break up with her and make her pay.
Sam showed up to see Jason while he was in prison. The two argued due to Sam feeling betrayed by Jason, due to him lying about impregnating Elizabeth. Jason feels that her betrayal was much worse than his since she stood by and watched while Jake was kidnapped and did nothing to stop it. Jason and Sam break up. Sam threatens to tell Lucky the truth, but Jason says if she does that then he will tell the police of her part in Jake’s kidnapping and have her arrested.
Family and relationships
Parents
- Alexis Davis (biological mother)
- Cody McCall (adoptive father; deceased)
- Evelyn Bass (adoptive mother; deceased)
Sibling(s)
- Danny McCall (adoptive brother; deceased)
- Kristina Corinthos (maternal half-sister)
- Molly Lansing (maternal half-sister)
Children
- Baby Girl McCall (daughter, with Sonny Corinthos; stillborn, November 8, 2004)
Grandparents
- Mikkos Cassadine - (maternal grandfather; deceased)
- Kristen Bergman - (maternal grandmother; deceased)
- Helena Cassadine - (maternal step-grandmother)
Aunts and uncles
- Kristina Carter Cassadine - (maternal aunt; deceased)
- Stavros Cassadine - (maternal half-uncle; deceased)
- Stefan Cassadine - (maternal half-uncle; deceased)
- Anthony "Tony" Cassadine - (maternal great uncle; deceased)
- Sophia Cassadine Davidovitch - (maternal great aunt; deceased)
- Victor Cassadine - (maternal great uncle; deceased)
Cousins
- Nikolas Cassadine - (maternal half first cousin)
- Spencer Cassadine - (maternal half first cousin once removed)
Marital status
- Single
Past marriage(s)
- Mr. Powell {under the name Linda Powell} - (invalid)
- Mr. Black {under the name Linda Black} - (invalid)
- Mr. Curtis {under the name Susan Curtis} - (invalid)
- Todd Sullivan {under unknown alias} - (invalid)
- Bill Monroe {under the name Angela Monroe} - (invalid, deceased)
- Andrew Olsen - (invalid; deceased)
Romantic entanglements
- Nico (dated; deceased)
- Chase (lovers)
- Jasper "Jax" Jacks (dated/lovers,2003)
- Michael "Sonny" Corinthos Jr. (affair, Jan 2004-July 2004)
- Jason Morgan (lovers/engaged, December 2004-July 2007)
- Richard "Ric" Lansing (one-night stand, August 2006)
External links
- Sam McCall profile at SoapCentral.Com