viki engages in an extramarital affair in 1993 with writer sloan carpenter (roy thinnes), who authors victor's biography, "lord of "the banner"". while penning the book, dorian (now, robin strasser onward) nervously plots to prevent its publication as sloan's papers allude to dorian's complicity in victor's death, a tale which became a llanview urban legend in the years following victor's apparent death. intrigued by dorian's intense interest in the book, viki implores the llanview police department to investigate the circumstances of victor's death. they comply, leading to the arrest (and conviction, after trial) of dorian for victor's murder. when dorian is sentenced to death by lethal injection, con man david vickers (tuc watkins) arrives in town in 1994, claiming to possess the alleged diary of viki's late friend and tina's mother, irene. later revealed to be a forgery, the diary claims dead irene smothered victor, exonerating dorian at the eleventh hour. soon afterward, an actual diary entry from irene reveals she bore victor another son, reformed rapist todd manning (roger howarth).