In 1982, Paul and April Williams broke up. April moved to New York with her long-lost sister, Barbara, because she was certain the change of scenery would be good for their daughter, Heather. April asked Paul for the divorce and he agreed so long as Heather would never forget him.

Paul joined the police department. His father, Carl, already on the force got himself into some trouble when he got too close to breaking up a vice racket. Carl was framed and later suspended from the force.

Captain Frank Lewis thought Carl's case was related to police corruption so he asked Paul to infiltrate the mob. Paul staged a falling-out with his family and went undercover. Paul and Andy Richards both took jobs working for Tony DiSalvo who ran the Golden Torch bar. The bar was headquarters for Pete Walker's prostitution ring.

Paul met Cindy Lake, one of Tony's babes, and befriended her thinking she would give up Pam Warren, another prostitute, who framed his father. As it turned out, Paul fell in love with Cindy who would do anything for him. Cindy begged Paul to leave town when Walker put out a hit on him.

Paul managed to get the mob leader to spring Cindy from her life as a whore and promised Cindy they would spend time together once he had solved the case.

Meantime, Paul's mother, Mary, had discovered a lump in her breast and went into the hospital for surgery. Captain Lewis told Paul who went to the hospital and left a rosary with her has she slept. Mary later woke up after dreaming her son had been there and was surprised to find the rosary. She also refused to sign a consent form to have a mastectomy should the lump in her breast be found cancerous. A biopsy proved it was not.

Pete Walker ordered Paul to kill Pam to keep her quiet so he took Pam to his mother's home where she hid until placed in protective police custody. When Paul couldn't prove he had killed Pam, Pete ordered him killed.

As 1983 rolled around Pam wound up dead. Paul freaked. Pam was the one person who could free his dad. The mob thought Paul had killed Pam and welcomed him to the family. Fearing Cindy might be next to die he asked her to leave town. She refused. Meantime, Captain Lewis has been wounded, went into a coma, came out of the coma and had a heart attack which sent him back into a coma.

The editor of the Chronicle, Stuart Brooks wrote an editorial about Paul's mob connections and Cindy went back to working the streets. For months Paul continued working undercover. While this was going on Mary Williams was kidnapped by the mob and Carl worked out a settlement in which he would exchange Paul for Mary.

In a shocking development, Alex, who just happened to be a crooked cop, and Pete shot and killed each other. Mary was rescued and reunited with Carl and Paul. Cindy came forward to testify against the mob and Paul proposed to her.

Tony DiSalvo later turned up with a tape showing Nikki Newman stripping and a look-alike named Boobsie having sex making it appear to be Nikki. Nikki didn't want Victor to find out so she tried seducing Tony with a marriage proposal hoping he'd turn the tape over to her as a wedding gift. Paul was still trying to expose the mob and urged Nikki not to go through with her plan.

After the wedding Tony went to fetch the tape and ran into Paul and Andy. Tony pulled a gun and was about to fire at Paul when Cindy popped out of the woodwork and took the bullet. A dude working with Paul and Andy named Jazz shot Tony dead.

In 1984 Paul would marry Lauren Fenmore.

Jack Abbott denied he ever demanded sex from Jill Foster to sort of enhance Jill's position at Jabot but Jill sued him anyway for one-million dollars. Knowing she'd never be able to prove her case, Jill managed to settle the case for ten-thousand. Meanwhile, Patty Williams was seeing Jack and her parents didn't like it. To celebrate her eighteenth birthday, Patty gave her virginity to Jack. As a reward, Jack promised Patty would become a top Jabot model. Mary Williams was very upset when Patty moved in with Jack. So that Mary would stop whining about living in sin, Jack proposed to Patty. As a wedding gift, John Abbott made his son the president of Jabot.

Patty asked Ashley Abbott to be the maid of honor and Traci Abbott agreed to be a bridesmaid. The day before the wedding, Jack had too much to drink and spent the night with another Jabot model, Diane Jenkins. Ashley found Jack and Diane in bed, tossed Jack in the shower to sober him up, told Diane to take a hike and told Jack if he ever did anything to hurt Patty she would make sure his butt got kicked out of Jabot.

Diane wasn't about to be put off so easily. She used the night with Jack to her advantage by warning Jack if he didn't make her the number one model at Jabot she would blow the whistle. Jack signed Diane up for the summer ad campaign and at the same time managed to sign Julia Newman who had become a leading fashion designer.

It wasn't long before John Abbott became concerned with how Jack was running Jabot. Brewing about the problem one day, Jill moved in and soon John found himself falling in love. When Jack found out he did everything to break them up including paying Diane to find another woman for his father. Nothing worked until Jack told daddy about Jill's son, Phillip. John was outraged that Jill hadn't told him she had a child. But, Jill told John she didn't want to burden him with the story of how Phillip Chancellor died. John was so impressed with Jill's honesty he proposed marriage.

Upset, Jack began searching for his mother, Dina, who had abandoned the family years earlier. When that plan didn't work, Jack snookered Katherine Chancellor into telling Ashley that Jill was trying to get her claws on the Chancellor fortune via a paternity suit. Ashley refused to get involved.

Jill's mother, Liz Foster, agreed to be the matron of honor. After the honeymoon, Jack welcomed them both to the family.

Like most married people in Genoa City, Patty grew tired of Jack. For one thing, she was tired of living at the Abbott house. Patty wanted a family but Jack threatened to get a vasectomy.

1982 - Living at the Newman ranch, Nikki Newman was trying to get Victor Newman back into her bed. Unfortunately, Victor wanted to fix Nikki up with a younger stud and arranged a date with architect Kevin Bancroft who was working for Victor at the time. Nikki went along with the plan thinking it would make Victor jealous. When Bancroft found out Nikki had been a stripper he told Nikki she wouldn't fit into his high class world.

Nikki told Victor she was really in love with him so Victor had sex with her as a one-time deal only.

While this was going on, Katherine Chancellor was helping Jerry Cashman, the owner of the Bayou who hired Nikki as a stripper, with some gambling debt problems. Katherine wanted to marry Cashman but he was killed by some upset creditors. Nikki and Katherine cried on each others shoulders over their losses.

It wasn't long before Nikki discovered she was pregnant. Victor declared the baby was Bancroft's so Kevin proposed to Nikki. Before the wedding, Kevin's parents arrived in town. They forbid their son from marrying Nikki. Kevin's mother even tried to buy Nikki off but the couple got married.

Soon, Nikki grew tired of Kevin and asked for a divorce. Katherine told her to tell Victor the baby she was carrying was his. Victor told Nikki again he wanted nothing to do with her. He was more interested in Lorie Brooks whom Victor was showering with gifts. The only gift Lorie wanted was Prentiss Industries and if Victor really loved her he'd give the company Victor owned to her before the wedding. Amazingly, Victor did just that. On their wedding day, Lorie was a no show!

Meantime, it was learned that Kevin Bancroft's mother was having problems. She had just learned that her husband had once had an affair with Katherine and out of the blue, the man was hot for Katherine again.

As luck would have it, Kevin was injured in a construction site accident. To give Kevin the will to live, Nikki told him she'd stay with him for the rest of their lives and - oh yeah, the baby is Victor's.

Kevin confronted Victor who said he couldn't be a daddy because he had a vasectomy. Kevin's mother told Nikki to give Kevin up or she would go public. Frustrated, Nikki left Genoa City. Victor went to see his doctor and learned, yes indeed, he could be a father.

After some time had passed, Nikki returned with her baby girl named after Kevin's mother's husband's mother, Victoria.

Victor convinced Katherine to tell Nikki that Kevin was the father. Nikki was shocked but decided to move back in with Kevin even though she didn't love him.

The Mob

Wanting to do something positive with his life Paul Williams joined the police department where his father, Carl, has just bumbled breaking up Pete Walker's vice racket. Walker had set the elder Williams up and as a result he was suspended from the force.

Thinking that Williams was part of wide-spread department corruption, Captain Frank Lewis assigned the rookie Williams to infiltrate the mob.

To set the stage Paul faked banishment from his family. Both he and pal Andy Richards went to work for Tony DiSalvo who ran the Golden Touch Bar - not to be confused with the Golden Comb Salon - a front for Walker's prostitution ring. Sound familiar?

At the GTB Paul met hooker Cindy Lake and tried to get her to rat out hooker Pam Warren who was thought to have framed old man Williams. As with most women Paul meets he couldn't stop himself from having sex with Cindy. They fell in love and soon Cindy was urging Paul to leave town because Walker had put out a contract on his life. During the interim Paul managed to set Cindy free from her whoreable life style.

Sad that her son had flown the coop Marry Williams found a lump in her breast cancer. When Frank Lewis found out he told Paul who raced to the hospital to lay a rosary on his sleeping mother's pillow. It just so happened that Mary was dreaming about her Paulie at the time. When she woke up she refused to allow the doctors to perform a mastectomy. Lucky for Mary, the lump wasn't toxic.

Following this little heart-tugging interlude, Paul was ordered by Walker to off Pam. Paul took her to what he must have thought was a safe house - the Williams home. There, Pam came to realize that she had been responsible for breaking up the happy Williams family and agreed to turn State's witness.

The police took over and placed Pam in protective custody. Paul told Walker that she was dead but couldn't produce the proof so Walker ordered him killed on sight.

As 1993 rolled around Paul was getting a call from the cops to identify Pam's body. Bummer! The one person who could free Carl Williams was dead. The mob was pleased and welcomed Paul into the family as a reward. The gangsters hugged and kissed him and made Tony jealous. Then Paul got more bad vibes; could Cindy be next on the hit parade? Now it was Paul's turn to urge Cindy to leave town. She, of course, refused. A few days later when she hadn't seen or heard from Paul she began poking her nose into the wrong places.

While all this was going on Captain Lewis has been wounded during the line of duty, went into a coma, came out of it only to have a heart attack and back into a coma!

Meantime, newspaper editor Stewart Brooks was writing editorials about Paul's gangland connections, Cindy was ordered back to her whoring chores and Pete found another woman for Paul. For months this went on with Paul trying to protect Cindy as they were both being hunted by the mob and the cops.

Making matters worse, Mary was kidnapped by the mob forcing Carl to cut a deal with the thugs to exchange his son for his wife. Things got strange when a crooked cop named Alex and Pete shot and killed each other during Mary's rescue which resulted in Paul being reunited with his family.

As for Cindy, she hid out in a convent for a spell before coming forward to testify against the mob. Not that it mattered as her testimony was inadmissible in court. Still in love, Paul proposed marriage.

Stranger still, Tony DiSalvo was free to surface later with a XXX-rated videotape titled Hot Hips showing Nikki Reed stripping and engaging in sex acts. Nikki figured the best way to get the tape was to seduce Tony, get him to propose marriage and as her wedding gift give up the tape. Tony agreed and after the ceremony went into the cellar to get the tape. That's where Tony ran into Paul, Andy and their side-kick, Jazz.

Tony was about to shoot Paul when Cindy sprang out. She took the bullet as Jazz snuck up behind Tony and shot him dead.

And that was how Paul Williams came to save his father's career and at the same time rid Genoa City of the mob.