22 Facts About Alistair Crane

Alistair Crane is a fictional character from the NBC and DirecTV daytime soap opera Passions.

An extremely powerful and wealthy businessman, Alistair is, for the first five years of the program, a mysterious character whose face is never directly seen by the audience.

Alistair Ephraim Crane was born into the wealthy, prestigious Crane family of Harmony, New England.

Alistair Crane's parents were cold and unloving, and he grew up to be a bitter and harsh man himself.

Unable to let her go, Alistair Crane kidnapped Rachel and faked her death in a boating accident.

Early in their marriage, Katherine gave birth to the couple's son, Julian Linus Crane, whom Alistair raised and molded in his own image to ensure that the Crane empire would live on.

Alistair Crane regularly cheated on her with other women, and one such liaison in the 1970s with Edna Wallace resulted in the birth of a daughter, Beth Wallace.

Alistair Crane was an emotionally distant father; he tolerated Julian as his heir and paid little attention to Sheridan when she was young.

When he learned that Julian had bedded and impregnated an African American woman, Eve Johnson, Alistair Crane ordered Julian to leave her and marry Ivy Winthrop, daughter of the state's former governor, and then had Julian and Eve's son kidnapped at birth; he later faked the baby's death, blaming it on Eve's drug and alcohol abuse early in her pregnancy.

Luis and Sheridan choose to go on their honeymoon to Bermuda anyway, and while they are out in the Atlantic on a boat, they discover that Alistair Crane has planted a bomb on board; it explodes, and Sheridan is presumably killed in the blast.

Sheridan is an emotional wreck after the presumed death of her baby, and Alistair Crane convinces the weak-minded Antonio to place his wife in a psychiatric ward in 2004.

When Fancy complains to her "grampy" of the treatment to which she had been subjected at Noah Bennett's hands, Alistair Crane declares war on the Bennett family; he first has Sam Bennett fired from his position as chief of police, which he had held since July 1999, and then has his henchman, Spike, lead Sam's troubled daughter Jessica into a life of drugs and prostitution.

At some point during this time, Alistair Crane emerges from his coma and pays the director of the nursing home to keep his recovery quiet; he then has another comatose man fitted with a latex mask of his face in order to convince his enemies that he is still unconscious so that he can carry out his omega plot.

Luis and Fancy pursue the three, and Alistair Crane becomes so enraged by the aid that his beloved granddaughter lends Luis that he sets lions loose on the pair, forcing Fancy to accept her grandfather's true nature.

In revenge, Alistair Crane sends poisoned strawberries to her honeymoon suite, but Ethan mistakenly eats them instead and falls into a coma.

Ethan eventually pulls through, but Alistair reminds Theresa that he is her legal husband and, fearful of being made a laughingstock for making a non-Crane his heir, threatens to harm her if she tells anyone about Little Ethan's paternity.

Alistair Crane is horrified to learn that his beloved Fancy is in a relationship with Luis.

Alistair Crane is taken to the hospital and arrested for Chad's murder, but he refuses to name Viki as his attempted murderer, preferring to use the seemingly innocent young girl as an assassin; Viki's attempts to murder Ethan Winthrop fail, and Alistair Crane is sent to prison pending his trial.

Alistair Crane's death fulfills the prophecy of witch Tabitha Lenox that this is the first of the signs of the destruction of Harmony.

Alistair Crane is very much a megalomaniac and a control freak; most of his actions are driven by a need to control his family members.

Furthermore, Julian is not publicly known to be Endora's father, though Alistair Crane is aware of the girl's paternity and status as a half-witch, and it is therefore highly unlikely that Alistair Crane has included her in his will.

Alistair's will becomes especially important once it is revealed that Little Ethan, whom Alistair adopted on the belief that he was a Crane, was fathered by Ethan Winthrop and not Julian.