in 2007, during the funeral of asa buchanan, dorian and viki are trapped together in asa's wine cellar. the two argue and dorian tells viki that she, not viki, killed victor. viki, flabbergasted, reminds dorian that neither she nor dorian had killed victor because he had returned from the dead a few years before. dorian then plants a seed of doubt in viki's mind, responding "if that really was him." during the episode first aired on november 26, 2008, viki visits her father's grave, and the date of death shown is "june 16, 1976", the date of the episode in which victor originally died. it was never mentioned onscreen whether or not the victor who appeared in 2003 was an imposter, and the 2003 storyline is not mentioned again in the series, leading to speculation that it was simply retconned out of continuity.