Markko's teacher, Robert Ford (David A. Gregory), begins to seduce his girlfriend, Langston, and Cole gets a new project partner named Hannah O'Connor (Meghann Fahy). Hannah's ex is Ford and she wants him back, even though he only used her for sex. Hannah later sets her sights on Starr's boyfriend Cole. Hannah tries to seduce Cole after finding out that Starr might be cheating on Cole with Ford's little brother James Ford (Nicolas Robuck). Hannah even goes far as to kidnapping Starr, James, and Hope, and force them to bury themselves alive on Halloween so that she could get Cole all to herself! Hannah is later caught and sent to prison on kidnapping charges. Cole later goes to prison himself for killing evil serial killer lawyer Elijah Clarke (Matt Walton), (who was married to Blair Cramer at the time, and is the brother of con artist and beach bum surfer Ross Rayburn (Michael Lowry, Billy Warlock), who is also Dani's adoptive father) because Cole thought that he kidnapped Starr and Hope.