| Joshua Fallon | |||||||||||
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| Days Of Our Lives | |||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Steven Brooks (1980-1981) Scott Palmer (1981-1982) | ||||||||||
| Cause/reason | Left town | ||||||||||
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| Alias(es) | John Talbot Jr (birth name) | ||||||||||
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Joshua Fallon is a character from the soap opera Days of Our Lives, portrayed by Steven Brooks from 1980-81 and Scott Palmer from 1981-82.
Storylines
Joshua Fallon was born John Talbot Jr. He is the father of Nick Fallon. He is married to Jessica Blake, daughter of Marie Horton and Alex Marshall.
Joshua came to Salem as a military man, who was being treated in the emergency room for recurrent malaria. He became friends with the nursing student, who was there to help him out, the young Jessica Blake. Joshua had come to Salem looking for answers to his past, and a reason to explain why he was such an angry young man. He soon learned that [[Todd [[Chandler was his half-brother, and that Kellam Chandler, a respected businessman in Salem, had drove his mother to suicide many years earlier. Joshua couldn't stand that Kellam was so popular in town, and was grateful for Jessica's friendship, as it helped him deal with the pain. Joshua dated Marlena Evans a few times, but the two soon realized they were better off as friends. Around this time, Joshua opened up a health club called The Body Connection with a good friend, Chris Kositchek.
Joshua was always very protective of his friends, and when he learned that Kellam had raped Marlena, all the rage he had felt toward the man came boiling to the surface. Joshua went to confront Kellam, and during the confrontation, when they went over not only what had happened to Marlena, but what Kellam had done to Sunny years earlier; Josh pulled out a gun, but he was unable to shoot Kellam, and dropped the gun. Kellam was ready to shoot Josh, but Todd had overheard everything, and came in. He demanded to know if it was all true, and a struggle for the gun ensued. Todd and Kellam struggled over the gun and Kellam ended up dead after accidentally being shot. Joshua went to Marlena and asked him to intercede on Todd's behalf, and thanks to Marlena's intervention, Todd went to an alcoholic treatment center with a temporary insanity plea rather than to prison.
Joshua and Jessica began to grow closer, but there wasn't an actual relationship. Jessica was having problems of her own. The stress of learning that her mother was Marie Horton and that her father was Alex Marshall had resulted in Jessica suffering from multiple personality disorder. A good girl by day, by night Jessica was a waitress at the Twilight Bar, where she met and got involved with Jake Kositchek. Luckily, Hope (who had dated Jake previous and was jealous of his relationship with Angel) clued Marie in to Jake and Angel running off to get married, and Jessica returned to Salem for therapy, where she was supported by her family and Josh. Josh knew he was in love with Jessica, but even after integrating her personalities, she stayed with Jake, and the two ended up getting engaged.
Joshua had a whole new problem to deal with now though...a number of women in town had been found murdered, and he and Jake were the primary suspects, because they'd both known the victims through The Body Connection, where they both worked. Jake used this an excuse to keep Joshua and Jessica apart, and the cops were very suspicious of the silk scarves found in Joshua's locker, and the fact that he had no alibi for when the women were killed. Around this time, Jessica broke things off with Jake for good, because she realized that she still had feelings for Joshua. Learning Jake was the Salem Strangler pushed Jessica back over the edge, but with Marlena and Joshua's help, she was able to finally rid herself of the destructive Angel personality once and for all. With all their ghosts behind them, the two married in a huge Horton family wedding, and later moved to Ohio to get a fresh start on their lives together.