during her time in a psych hospital, kate relives painful memories concerning her teens. she relives the painful memories of being raped by joe scully, jr. (richard steinmetz), which resulted in her pregnancy. she admits that while left sonny because of the pregnancy and for the fear of what sonny could have done if he ever knew. she confesses that after having her son, she left him in a drawer in her boarding school, and legally changed her name to kate howard to escape the painful past. kate later discovers her son is alive, and living under the name trey mitchell (eric valdez), and has been dating sonny's daughter kristina davis (lindsey morgan). after sonny proposes, kate begins to feel conflicted again, and reverts to connie. at their wedding, connie unveils herself and reveals her marriage to johnny, as a blackmail situation to keep johnny's secret over killing cole and hope, a confession connie took credit for. connie continues to blackmail johnny and todd. she later comes across a manuscript of a novel written by molly lansing, and changed it around and sold it to todd's publishers. after johnny tells connie he is ready to confess his crimes, she kidnaps him and traps him in the back of her car. on new year's eve, trey and kristina get suspicious and follow connie's car through the fog. trying to get away from the other car, connie accidentally hits ellie trout, and then collides with the other car.