AMC
Character Descriptions
Richard Wesley "Richie" Novak
PLAYED BY: Billy Miller (August 30, 2007 - September 19, 2008)
The younger brother of Annie Lavery, Richie arrived in
Pine Valley after spending seven years in prison for assault
and armed robbery. Believing that her brother was a
disturbed murderer who pushed their father out of a window,
Annie falsely testified against him so he could get the help
he needed. Instead he was imprisoned and their mother, Emma,
hanged herself following an argument with Annie, who was
then estranged from her family. Upon his release, he began
tormenting his sister with threats, phone calls, and gifts
designed to remind her of their troubled past, while making
it look as if she were initiating them herself.
When he arrived in Pine Valley, Richie used the name Wes
Rich and worked as a bartender at The Comeback where he
became romantically interested in Babe Chandler, co-owner of
the bar with her mother, Krystal. In order to appear the
hero he orchestrated a robbery, perpetrated by a prison
cellmate, in which he saved Babe from harm. His cohort then
conveniently died of a drug overdose.
While Richie and Babe were on a picnic with her son,
Little Adam, and his niece, Emma, Ryan and Aidan discovered
his true identity and reported him to the police as a
dangerous sociopath. After they returned, Ryan and Aidan
attempted to use some strong-arm tactics to get him to
confess his true intentions, but their plan backfired when
the police arrived and Richie made it look like they had
tried to hang him. At their arraignment, however, Richie
again played the hero when he dropped the charges against
Ryan and Aidan, who then vowed to unearth mistakes from his
past which they could use against him. Eventually, they
discovered that Richie was dying of leukemia. Although they
found a childhood friend, Tom Brennan, who knew that Richie
had committed murder, Annie's heinous brother ran the
witness off. While "borrowing" J.R.'s car to find Tommy,
Richie ran down Zach Slater and left him for dead in the
woods, making most of Pine Valley believe that a drunken
J.R. was responsible for Zach's disappearance. After Ryan
figured out that Richie came to Pine Valley to get Ryan and
Annie to kill him so his prison psychiatrist could collect
on his life insurance, he succeeded in having his dying
brother-in-law committed to the hospital Psych ward. While
on the run, Greenlee's path crossed Zach's, and the two fell
down an abandoned underground bomb shelter. After spending a
long month trapped there during which they became close,
Zach and Greenlee were finally rescued by Aidan and Kendall.
When they were brought into the hospital, Richie (who had
escaped with Janet Green's help) feared that Zach would be
able to identify him.
P.S. Annie killed her brother, Richie, in September 2008)
Proofread by Laura on 2/22/11
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