Expert: Judy Date: 7/23/2007 Subject: Days of our lives
Question I remember a woman at the Kiriokis mansion burying another woman names Carley and Carley had a baby---Tell me about all of this...Thanks, Peggy
Answer Vivian Alamain injected morphine into Carly to put her asleep because Vivian knew Carly's son was still alive and didn't want Carly to know because he was an heir to the Alamain fortune and Vivian wanted all of the fortune for herself.
With the help of Dr. Wu and his herbs, Vivian "killed" Carly. She injected a serum into her IV that induced a deathlike paralysis. Tom Horton pronounced her dead, as she had no pulse. Before they could embalm Carly, Vivian told everyone that Carly had told her she didn't want to be embalmed if she died. She claimed that Carly had been close to nature and wanted it that way. Since Vivian and Carly had been SUCH good friends, they believed her and did not embalm her. Vivian took care of all the funeral arrangements. After Carly was buried, Vivian returned to roll around in the freshly-covered grave in maddening ecstasy. She was not aware of it, but the herbs Vivian was taking for her heart ailment were making her quite insane.
Soon after, Carly woke up in her coffin. Vivian had rigged the coffin with lights, a limited oxygen supply, a tank of water, and a radio transmitter. From the Alamain mansion, Vivian taunted Carly on her walkie-talkie. For a while, Vivian continued to torment Carly. However, she had stopped taking her herbs (Ivan had been withholding them.) Just as Carly was running out of oxygen, Vivian came to her senses and told Lawrence what she had done. In the nick of time, Lawrence dug Carly out of the grave. She was unconscious. When she woke up, she had amnesia; she thought that it was 1983. Lawrence and Vivian decided to keep Carly in the attic of the mansion; Dr. Wu warned them that Western medicine would kill Carly. After Carly was found to be alive, Vivian ran. She contacted Ivan from Brookville, where she was working as a waitress at Harvey's Diner. Her plan had been for Ivan to arrange her getaway to Europe, but Bo and Lexie were on to her. Vivian tried to convince Bo to let her go in order to keep Carly in town (Bo had arrested Carly to keep her in the country), but Bo didn't fall for it and arrested her. With Victor's help, Vivian avoided going to prison; she blamed the herbs for her actions. Instead, Vivian was sent to Pine Haven Sanitarium for a psychiatric evaluation.
