The Love Story of Carly and Jack
2000
- It seemed Carly and Jack had finally found the happiness they
had so long desired, but that was just not to be. Danger was
lurking in Oakdale and Carly's past was about to come back to haunt her.
After finally getting most of Oakdale do like her, she did the
unexplainable to them and made them hate her. She left Jack
standing at the altar! She said she had been offered a design job
in Paris and was going to take her chance at grabbing the "Brass Ring."
In reality a thug named Phillips was forcing her to leave by threatening
the lives of Jack and Parker. She had to leave to protect those
she loved the most.
Jack was heartbroken and once again Julia Lindsey was
there to pick up the pieces. While Jack had some doubts about what
had
happened, Julia convinced him to forget Carly and move on and once again
they started a relationship. In the meantime, Carly was actually
being held by Winston Lowe in Hong Kong. At one time Carly had
married him when he offered to get her out of a Hong Kong prison where
she had been falsely imprisoned for a crime she did not commit.
Carly tried to get word to Jack to help her but Julia found and
destroyed the faxes Carly sent.
Jack and Julia began to have problems due to Jack's insistence on
investigating Carly's whereabouts. Jack swore he was pursuing the case
like a cop, but Julia was concerned that Jack still had feelings for his
ex. Julia became worried, however, when she realized that Carly was with
Winston Lowe, who she knows was
dangerous.
Carly saw her ticket to freedom when American businessman Craig
Montgomery arrived for a meeting with Lowe. They made a deal, but Craig
reneged his offer. When Julia faxed Carly that Parker had been in an
accident, she was determined to get back to Oakdale. Lowe refused, but
in the midst of a heated argument, he died of a heart attack!
Carly
finally made it back to Oakdale and her son, who was going to recover
from the accident. Jack along with the rest of Oakdale was angry
for what Carly had done. Carly tried to explain her actions.
Jack was furious that she was a bigamist that had
still been married to Winston Lowe when she married Hal, John and Brad.
Carly tried to explain that a lawyer told her the marriage had been
annulled, but there was no convincing Jack of that and he found her
story of the threat against his life and Parker's to be too far fetched.
Jack decided he could no longer be fooled by Carly and this just
intensified his relationship with Julia. Soon they were off to Las
Vegas to marry. With the help of Molly, despite Molly's concerns,
Carly headed to Las Vegas to try to convince Jack that he was making a
huge mistake and to give her another chance. Despite her best
efforts, Carly could not get Jack to change his mind. The wedding
took place but the romantic mood was ruined.
After
returning to Oakdale, Carly was intent on getting custody of Parker
again. To do that though she needed some stability in her life and
took Craig up on his offer to move in with him.
Jack began investigating Craig, which brought him to question Carly.
With renewed hope that she could win back Jack's love, Carly decided to
go undercover to bring down Craig, and work her way into Jack's good
graces again. Craig was trying to sell the microchips that were part of
the deal he had with Winston Lowe. Carly agreed to help him but
was secretly planning on turning him in to Jack. The deal
was to take place at Craig's Halloween Gala and the chips were concealed
in earrings that Carly would be wearing. Working together, Jack
and Carly were drawn to one another once again. But Julia fearing that
she would lose Jack, had stopped taking her birth control and soon
announced that she was pregnant with Jack's baby. Even after Jack
discovered that Julia knew all about Winston Lowe, and had in fact told
him where Carly was, he still forgave her for the sake of the baby.
2001
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As part of the
Julia continued to manipulate Jack and Carly, including getting Jack to
give her Carly's prize, the treasured land he and Carly planned to build
their dream house on. Jack continued to press for a divorce but
Julia insisted she would not sign the divorce papers unless Jack took
her to Barbara and Craig's wedding, which he reluctantly agreed to do.
Moments before the wedding, Craig kissed Carly, something that would
later come back to haunt them. Julia announced that she was having
herself declared mentally
incompetent, and her signature on the divorce papers was not valid.
Jack having reached his limit, picked Julia up and put her in the punch
bowl, as Carly watched with pleasure. Jack was still determined to make
Carly his wife, and Julia vowed revenge on both of them. Jack and Carly
moved in together, but Carly's business relationship with Craig caused
tension between them.
While
Jack was trying to end things with her once and for all with Julia, she
overheard his phone call with Barbara, and mistook Barbara for Carly.
Barbara had learned that Craig was embezzling money from her and wanted
Jack's help. Julia called Owen, a fellow psychiatric patient, and
ordered him to blow up the boathouse. Craig was put on trial, and Carly
was also implicated in the crime, with a picture of that kiss she
exchanged with Craig in front of the Lakeview on Barbara and Craig's
wedding day coming back to haunt her. Near the end of the trial, Julia
made one last-ditch effort to kill Carly.
Jack arrived in the nick of time to save Carly from being drowned in
quicksand on the razed Carly's Prize. After the ordeal, Jack and Carly
decided they needed some time apart and went their separate ways. Carly
moved to
Carly was soon back in Oakdale, being romanced by Craig and secretly designing for Paul at BRO. Barbara had been severely burned in the explosion at the boathouse and besides becoming a recluse, she had lost her creative ability. Paul approached Carly to help design the line for BRO. Carly was there for Craig when he lost his son Bryant, and they grew closer.
Carly designed the spring line for BRO, which turned out to be a big
success. Barbara discovered that Carly was behind the designs and was
outraged. She made a scene at the big 
show, but it turned out to be a night of glory for Carly. Jack, who had
encouraged Paul to give Carly the credit she deserved, looked on as
Craig and Carly toasted her success. In the aftermath of her success,
Paul wanted to make Carly a partner in BRO, but she decided to take an
offer to work with designer Rimbaud in
