These are the final minutes from the Friday, June 2, 1989 episode of the 1952-09 CBS daytime drama "Guiding Light".

The whole town of Springfield is gathered for the wedding of Phillip Spaulding (Grant Aleksander) and recently Springfield resident Christina Blake Lindsey (Elizabeth Dennehy) when Alan Spaulding (Daniel Pilon) shoots his enemy Adam Malik, who has recently arrived in town with a mission to protect Blake. The bullet hits Phillip and is tended to by his best friend Dr. Rick Bauer (Michael O'Leary).

As Rick's father Dr. Ed Bauer (Peter Simon) is tending to him, Adam groans out the word "Christina" before losing consciousness. Ed then looks at Adam with shock. Longtime friend Ross Marler (Jerry verDorn) also has a look of contempt on his face. Meanwhile, Blake's mother Holly Lindsey (Maureen Garrett) has a look of fear and nervousness on her face. The trio knows one thing for sure: no one ever calls Blake by her real first name except her late, unlamented father, the nefarious Roger Thorpe (Michael Zaslow).

Ed instructs Holly to leave, but she stays and insists that Ed remove the mask Adam is wearing. Reluctantly, he does. Ed, Ross, and Holly then get the shock of their lives at the identity, for Adam Malik really is the not-so-dead Roger Thorpe, who miraculously survived his fall in Santo Domingo nine years earlier.

Ed is horrified. Ross is contemptible. But Holly just lets out a bloodcurling scream, for her nightmare has just become a reality again.

Michael Zaslow originally portrayed the role of Roger Thorpe on "Guiding Light" from April 1, 1971 to April 1, 1980. He returned to the role from February 15, 1989 to April 23, 1997, when he was dismissed from his duties due to his accelerating ALS condition. Zaslow would later sue the producers and the production company over his dismissal, that was settled out of court. He then returned to another role he played in between his GL stints as David Renaldi on the ABC soap "One Life To Live" with his ALS condition being written in. (He originally played the role from 1983 to 1986)

Michael Zaslow passed away from ALS on December 6, 1998 in New York.

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