Cutter later ends up in the Minute Man Motel sharing a motel room with his now ex-girlfriend Aubrey (they broke up after Cutter found out that she fell in love with her mark Joey, but later got back together after he was kicked out of the Buchanan Mansion and lost his share of the Buchanan fortune) and Rama (Rama and her husband Vimal Patel (Nick Choksi) were Cutter's houseguests when he owned The Buchanan Mansion). David is rescued from a Morocco prison by Bo and Rex, and after being held hostage at St. Blaze's island by Alex Olanov. David returns to Llanview where he and Dorian reunite and marry for a third time. Viki's marriage to Charlie Banks hits rocky roads when he continues to briefly relapse into alcoholism and when Echo DiSavoy returns to town, revealing to be an old lover of Charlie's after she left Llanview in 1983. Soon enough Echo manipulates Charlie's grief over losing his sons, his alcoholism to enter into an affair. It is later discovered that Echo is in fact Rex Balsom's biological mother, and though she states that Charlie is the man's father in a way to grow closer to him it is really Clint who is Rex's father. However, Clint informs Echo that he knew he was Rex's father since Shane got sick and his blood was a perfect match for Shane's stem cells. Yet, he sees Rex as a gold digger and refuses to acknowledge him as his son.