| Jessica Blake | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Days of our Lives | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Jean Bruce Scott (1980–82, 2012) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Current status | Former; Recurring | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 1980–82, 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | April 30, 1980 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | September 6, 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Cause/reason | Went back to Ohio after visiting her son Nick in prison | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Created by | Nina Laemmle | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Introduced by | Betty Corday and Al Rabin (1980) Ken Corday, Lisa de Cazotte and Greg Meng (2012) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fullname | Angelique Horton (Birth Name) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Alias(es) | Angel Angelica (DID alters) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Gender | Female | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Nurse | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Ohio | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Jessica Blake Fallon is a character from the soap opera Days of Our Lives, portrayed by Jean Bruce Scott from 1980–82, and briefly in 2012.
Jessica is the daughter of Marie Horton and Alex Marshall, and the mother of the late Nick Fallon.
Storylines
Jessica came to Salem and applied for a student nursing position. She began dating Joshua Fallon and was legally adopted by Alex Marshall in 1981. Alex eventually told her he was her biological father, and Jessica hated her mother Marie Horton For hiding the truth from her. Jessica ran away to join a convent, but was turned down when Marie talked with the Mother Superior.
Jessica suffered from Dissociate Identity Disorder and her alter Angel started seeing Jake Kosnitchek, while her altar Angelique also terrorized her mother. Angel and Jake eloped to get married, but Marie stopped the ceremony and Jessica was hospitalized. She broke it off with Jake and got engaged to Joshua and they left Salem.
Jessica with her son
Off-screen, they had a son named Nick Fallon who came to Salem without his parents in 2006.
2012 Return
In 2012, Jessica came to Salem to see Nick, who was in prison for murder, and was getting paroled. Nick was put on probation and choice to serve out his probation in Salem, so Jessica left Salem alone.
In 2014, Jessica received horrible news that Nick had been murdered, and Julie Olson Williams delivered Nick's body to her and Joshua, so they could bury him. Nick's murderer, Gabi Hernandez, accepted a plea deal and Jessica agreed to it, not wanting the heartache of a trial.