Alex Van

Ben throws a prenuptial party for his goddaughter at his house, resulting in murder.

She leads him to a house which turns out to be the place that Judith Temple used to help abandoned children. With Gail they discover drawings from the young children as well as several drawings of Lucas done with a great amount of love by Judith. Merlyn is trying to make Ben aware of the truth about her mother's death. Gail confronts Lucas about Judith. Lucas tries to explain to Gail how much he loved Judith and wanted to marry and have a family with her. He also claims that Judith was in love with him, but could never leave her husband. Caleb confronts a school bully, Tina, who is later discovered living at the abandoned house.

Merlyn discovers that Lucas is not dead when she goes to the grave to question Lucas about Caleb's behavior. Because Lucas is not dead, the full potential of his evil powers are not yet recognized. Billy discovers from medical tests that Lucas is not dead. He and Ben dig up the casket before Lucas suffocates. Lucas does not want anyone to know that he is still alive. Meanwhile, Caleb is trying to find out the full potential of his powers by attempting to kill Gail, leaving him sole heir of Lucas' will.

Yancy can't find certain files and believes Lucas has them. Billy and Selena go to Lucas' house to look for the missing files and end up making love in Lucas' bed. After their moments of passion, Billy continues the search for the files, but ends his search when Lucas suddenly returns home. Caleb is getting more enthralled with the notion of being Lucas Buck's son and reveals his new found powers when Lucas is mysteriously "murdered." The evil is passed when Lucas "dies" and his dying words are spoken to Caleb. Billy is arrested for the murder of Lucas Buck. Lucas is remembered by a good number of people who attend his funeral.

Lucas calls on the ghost of the Boston Strangler to come to Merlyn. Lucas leaves town to attend a convention and Albert De Salva (aka The Boston Strangler) decides to do more than just try to kill Merlyn. He murders a nurse and goes after Gail. Albert tries to gain the trust of Caleb to get to Merlyn. But when Caleb realizes what he is doing, he uses his "special powers" to prevent his sister from being strangled and eliminates Albert.