Jason and Sam Morgan

Jason Morgan and Samantha "Sam" McCall are a fictional couple from the popular daytime soap opera General Hospital. Jason is portrayed by Steve Burton and Sam is portrayed by Kelly Monaco. They have been involved on and off since 2004. Amidst turmoil, separation and heartache, this couple continues to have a strong bond and always manage to find their way back to one another. The couple was nearly an instant success when they began their romance back in 2004 and have maintained their popularity throughout the years. Throughout the years, certain sources, both critics and fans alike, have deemed them a supercouple, a power-couple and a fan favorite couple. In 2009, the couple was named one of the best soap opera couples of the decade.

Sam is the daughter of headstrong attorney Alexis Davis and a member of the aristocratic Cassadine family. Jason is the son of doctors Alan and Monica Quartermaine and a member of the prestigious Quartermaine family.

Casting and Original Music
The role of Samantha McCall was orginated by Daytime Emmy nominated actress Kelly Monaco on October 1, 2003. Monaco has portrayed the feisty and daring Sam McCall for eight years on General Hospital. In 2006, Monaco was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in the Outstanding Lead Actress category for her portrayal of Sam.

The role of Jason Morgan has been played by Daytime Emmy award winning actor Steve Burton since 1991. Burton made his debut on December 19, 1991 and has been portraying Jason on General Hospital for twenty years. After leaving the show in 2000 to pursue other interests, Burton returned to General Hospital full time in May 2002. In 1998, Burton won a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Jason.

The couple's official song is "Just You and Me" written by musician Rie Sinclair and Bob Harty and performed by Jayson Belt. In 2009, after guest starring on General Hospital, American Idol contestant and tenth place finalist Chikezie Eze, covered the couple's theme song on his YouTube account. Also in 2009, a new instrumental version of "Just You and Me" was composed for the couple's reunion.

2003: The Beginning
Jason Morgan first met Samantha McCall in the PCPD interrogation room. They both had been arrested for aiding and abetting Sonny Corinthos and Scott Baldwin stuck them in the room together in an attempt to pit them against one another. But, Sam and Jason turned the tables on Scott when Sam refused to testify against Jason and Sonny and to show his gratitude; Jason offered to cover all of Sam’s legal expenses. Sam later became involved with Sonny and in an attempt to protect Sonny’s family with Carly Corinthos he offered Sam a million dollars to leave town. Insulted, Sam refused to offer and decided to stay in town with Sonny, who she continued to have a relationship with. During her relationship with Sonny, Sam witnessed someone putting a bomb in Sonny’s car. As a result of what she saw, she was stabbed and Jason was assigned to protect her until they could find the bomber. Jason and Sam fought a lot and did not get along at all, at first because she believed that Jason disapproved of her and Jason who believed that Sonny and Carly belonged together, wanted her to end her relationship with Sonny.

2004: Pregnancy and Tragedy
In early 2004, Sam found out that she was pregnant with Sonny’s child. Sam wasn’t sure if she wanted to be a mother or if she even wanted to tell Sonny. Jason found out about the pregnancy and began pressuring her to tell Sonny. Sonny reunited with Carly and Sam decided to have an abortion, but realized that she couldn’t go through with it, just as Jason ran in to stop her. Sam finally told Sonny that she was pregnant, but the baby also could have been Jasper Jacks’s, whom she had a relationship with before Sonny. Jax and Sonny began arguing over the baby, but Sam decided to give the baby up for adoption and ran away to a convent in South America. Jason followed her and eventually convinced her to return home. Jason offered to let her stay at his place to avoid the fighting and Sam agreed.

Jason offered to marry Sam and pretend to be the father of her baby in order to protect Sonny and Carly’s marriage. He switched Sam’s paternity test without her knowledge and everyone thought that he was the father of her child except for himself, Sam and Sonny who all knew the truth. Over time, Jason and Sam started to trust each other and care for each other. They continued to grow friendlier as Jason protected her from her abusive ex-boyfriend Nico Dane and helped give her mentally handicapped brother Danny McCall a better life at a specialized school in Hawaii. Sadly Sam’s daughter, Lila McCall was stillborn. Jason grieved with her and helped her make the choice of donating her child's stem cells to save the life of Sonny’s other daughter Kristina Corinthos-Davis, who had leukemia. By supporting each other through this tragedy, Jason and Sam slowly began to grow even closer as their bond grew stronger.

2005: New Love and Adventure
Jason and Sam realized they had feelings for each other but Jason did not want to start a relationship with her for fear of her safety. Jason and Sam reconnected after Sam helped a young woman, named Bridget give birth to her baby. Jason and Sam became happily engaged and planned to adopt their foster daughter, whom Jason named Hope Morgan. The birth mother reclaimed her child and this put a strain on Sam and Jason's relationship because he agreed that Bridget should take her child. Jason and Sam slowly worked through these problems. Sam broke into Sonny's house, stole $100,000, and tried to buy a baby of the black market. Her plan failed and Sam was arrested for kidnapping Kristina, who had recently gone missing. Michael Corinthos and Morgan Corinthos also later went missing. Jason believed Sam was innocent and the two of them worked together to discover that A.J. Quartermaine and Faith Roscoe were the kidnappers. They tracked down the children and were able to bring Morgan and Kristina home safe, but Michael was presumed dead. Jason however refused to believe he was dead and with the help and support of Sam, they were able to track Michael down and bring him home safe and alive. Michael had been brainwashed and Sam was very instrumental in helping him get therapy and deal with the trauma of his ordeal.

Jason and Sam went on a romantic vacation on Sonny's yacht but were kidnapped by phony police. They were taken to an island and met a woman named Allegra who wanted Sam’s help. They also her met her daughter Alicia Montenegro who looked identical to Sam and was being held captive in the basement of her. Allegra needed Sam to impersonate her daughter, and marry her rich fiancé named Andrew Olsen in order to have the rich lifestyle she was accustomed. Sam reluctantly agreed to her plan in order to save Jason and herself. Jason and Sam eventually escaped after Andrew was killed but Allegra kidnapped them again and Sam was arrested as Alicia for Andrew’s murder. Allegra helped Jason break Sam out of jail, get the real Alicia arrested, and got them off of the island.

In the fall of 2005, Jason began to suffer from life threatening headaches, seizures and amnesia. He quit working for Sonny and got a job on the docks. He quickly fell back in love with Sam. Jason’s condition was fatal, but he refused treatment. Jason and Sam decided to move to Hawaii because he wanted to start fresh and wanted nothing to do with his old mob life. During this time, Manny Ruiz became a serious threat. He tried to kill Jason and repeatedly tried to kidnap and rape Sam. Sam, determined to save Jason’s life, learned that Robin Scorpio had developed an experimental treatment for the disorder Jason had. Sam and Robin met in New York City and Robin agreed to help Jason. They were both on a train on their way back to Port Charles when Manny Ruiz caused a train collision and both became trapped. Jason suffered from another seizure but escaped the hospital in order to save the people he loved. Jason stayed behind in the tunnel to find Carly, and defuse the bombs Manny had set to explode. He was believed to be dead but eventually found an escape tunnel. Jason proposed to Sam again in November 2005. He agreed to allow Robin to become his doctor and Robin treated Jason with her experimental drug treatment. Robin’s treatment managed to help Jason regain his memory but did not cure his disorder. Jason and Sam moved back to Hawaii to live out his last days of his life because he initially did not want the surgery, but he decided to have the surgery to stay with Sam. Robin tracked down renowned surgeon Patrick Drake and got him to operate on Jason. Jason’s surgery was successful and Jason credited Sam for saving his life by convincing him to have the surgery.

2006: New Mother, Separation, and Betrayal
In 2006, the encephalitis virus invaded Port Charles and Sam became deathly sick. Jason and Carly teamed up to investigate the illness. They rescued a kidnapped Lucky Spencer and found the antidote in the fictional Maarkam Islands. They returned to Port Charles with the antidote. Unfortunately, they were not in time to save Courtney Matthews or Sam’s brother Danny. Danny told Sam before he died that their parents had picked her especially for him. Suspicious of this statement, Sam had a DNA test which confirmed that Danny and Sam were not biologically related. Sam was convinced she was adopted and Jason helped her investigate the truth about her past. Jason and Sam were stunned to learn that Alexis Davis was Sam’s biological mother. Jason remained supportive of Sam, but both of them decided it would be best for them to keep Alexis in the dark.

Although Sam wanted to have children, she was shot by Manny Ruiz resulting in her inability to become pregnant again. Alexis was told that she was Sam’s mother and convinced Jason to break up with Sam for her own safety even though they were still very much in love. After months of trying to win him back and not succeeding, in her grief Sam slept with Ric Lansing who is one of Jason's biggest enemies and was at the time her mother’s husband. After seeing Sam and Ric together, Jason was tormented and went back to the penthouse to drown his sorrows in alcohol. Elizabeth Webber showed up during a blackout needing a shoulder to cry on after seeing her husband with another woman. Jason and Elizabeth slept together, which resulted in a pregnancy, but Elizabeth said that her husband Lucky Spencer and not Jason, was the father of her child. Jason and Sam reconnected in late 2006 after having many emotional fights where they worked through their problems. Ric in an attempt to get revenge on Sam and Jason framed Sam for murder and had her arrested. Sam broke out of jail and she and Jason went on the run to find the evidence they needed to clear her name. They tracked down Lorenzo Alcazar’s computer hacker Damian Spinelli who had fabricated the evidence against her and had the ability to clear her. Sam was eventually cleared when Spinelli explained how he fabricated the evidence against and Jason and Sam were free to continue on with their lives together and in the clear.

2007: Falling Apart
Sam and Jason decided that they wanted a family and began trying to conceive. When Sam didn't get pregnant quickly she went for a check-up and was told that she could never have kids and Sam was devastated. Jerry Jacks took the Metro Court Hotel hostage and Jason helped Sam escape to warn the police that the lobby was wired to explode. While stuck in an elevator, Elizabeth admitted the truth to Jason and told him that he was the father of her baby. Jason wanted to tell Sam the truth, but Elizabeth wanted to keep it a secret and pass the baby off as her husband’s. Jason agreed to keep the secret and not tell Sam, allowing her to pass the child off as Lucky’s. Sam was seen as a hero for her actions during the hostage crisis and was given a new job as the host of a television show called Everyday Heroes. But the show turned out to be a set up by a woman named Amelia Joffee who wanted revenge on Sam because Sam killed her father Bill Monroe in self-defense. Sam’s new job and the secret Jason was keeping caused them to drift further apart and Amelia’s manipulations caused them to spend less time together.

When Sam was out of town, Elizabeth gave birth to a son who she named Jake Spencer. Sam returned and went to congratulate Elizabeth and was shocked and devastated when she overheard Elizabeth mention that Jason was Jake’s real father. Sam tried to get Jason to tell her the truth but his guilt caused him to pull away every time Sam tried to get him to tell. Their relationship suffered from the weight of the lies, secrets, guilt and the manipulations of outside parties. Jason was arrested for the murder of Lorenzo Alcazar and soon his son Jake was kidnapped. At this point Jason and Sam’s relationship began rapidly deteriorating. Sam saw the kidnapping and did nothing to stop it and Jason found out when he rescued the baby. When Amelia told Sam that Jason knew, Sam asked Spinelli to help her get into the prison to see him. At the prison they had a heated fight, laid all their cards out on the table and Sam broke up with Jason. Sam and Jason were no longer on speaking terms having already done too much damage to one another and Sam in true Cassadine fashion, started to spiral out of control. She hired Elizabeth's husband Lucky as her bodyguard to seduce him and make Jason jealous. She slept with Lucky and later hired two crewmen from her Everyday Heroes set to scare Elizabeth and her two sons with guns in the park so that Jason would stay away from them for their own safety. Unfortunately, Sam's plan worked too well, and when Jason discovers Sam's involvement, he was furious and threatened her life if she tried anything again. Sam and Jason continued on with their separate lives and avoided one another, too hurt and angry to face each other.

2008: Reconciliation
In 2008, while still living their separate lives, Jason and Sam began to soften to one another again. Sam went to comfort Jason when Michael was shot and went into a coma and she helped him track down Ian Devlin who was the man responsible for shooting Michael. Jason and Sam crossed paths again due to their similar conflicts with Jerry Jacks and the Russian mobster Andrei Karpov. Sam was working undercover for Karpov to bring down his illegal drug ring that was making patients sick at General Hospital. Jason, who was at the time, boss of the Corinthos Organization was having territorial conflicts with Karpov. Sam was kidnapped by Jerry who wanted to use her for his get away, but she was rescued by Jason. After the Russian’s burned down Sonny’s coffee shop Sam offered to help Jason bring them down. Jason was hesitant but Sam insisted and started to help him anyways.

Tensions heated up even more with the Russians after Jason and Sam were involved in a shootout in one of their warehouses. With Jason and Lucky’s blessing, Sam took Elizabeth and her boys to Lucky’s out of town cabin for their own safety. Sam and Elizabeth while at the cabin were involved in a shootout with a few of the Russian mobsters. Sam did her best to fend off the gunfire but at the end of the shootout they discovered that Jake had been taken again, this time by the Russians. Jason and Sam tracked Jake down together and Sam risked her own life to save Jake’s. Jason was very thankful to Sam for saving his son. At this point their relationship began to thaw even more. Later after overhearing the Russians talk about eliminating Jason, Sam is corned by them and taken. Just as they are about to kill her, she escapes but falls into a pit. She tried to get out but injured her hip and as she began to suffer from the cold she dreamt of Lucky, Alexis, and a scenario where she stopped Maureen Harper from taking Jake in the summer of 2007. Jason found Sam, who was suffering from hypothermia and rescued her from the pit. Sam apologized to Jason for letting Jake get kidnapped that summer, and continued to express her remorse and sorrow over her actions. He reassured her that it was all in the past and encouraged her to hold on as he tried his best to keep her warm. With the past now behind them, Sam and Jason started to move forward and become friendly again.

2009: Reconnection and a Second Chance
In early 2009, Sam and Jason were inside General Hospital when it went into lockdown due to an outbreak of toxic poisonous gas contained in tiny balls. When they hospital began to burn down, they stayed together and stayed behind to find Spinelli who was still trapped inside the building. Once they found Spinelli, the three of them escaped and were the last ones out of the hospital. Spinelli later ran into trouble with the FBI. He went on the run and Sam, Jason, and FBI agent Winifred Leeds worked together to clear him. When the situation stated looking dire, Sam was able to destroy the evidence against Spinelli and clear him. Both Jason and Spinelli were very grateful for her help. Once Spinelli and Jason were free, Sam began focusing on getting her PI license and setting up her business with Spinelli who was going to be her partner. Jason helped them get established through his accountant Bernie Abrahams who is a licensed PI and Sam later received her PI license and began working on her cases with Spinelli.

When Jason’s nephew, Michael Corinthos woke up from his yearlong coma, Sam supported Jason and was there for him when he needed her, encouraging him and giving him advice. They began reconnecting and rebuilding their friendship which was growing stronger every day. When Sam’s sister Kristina Corinthos-Davis caused Sonny's latest wife Claudia Zacchara to crash her car and lose her unborn child, Kristina and her half brother Michael Corinthos ran away to Mexico. Sam and Jason tracked the siblings but a resurfaced Jerry Jacks managed to capture Sam, luring Jason into a trap. During the ensuing shootout, Jason is pinned beneath a pile of rubble and Jerry shot him twice and left him for dead. Sam escapes and returns just in time to rescue Jason and takes care of him. Sam helps him heal and for a while, Jason starts hallucinating that he is in Hawaii with Sam. Jason and Sam grow closer as Sam nurses him back to health and at the end of the ordeal, they end up making love. Shortly after they decide not to talk about it. They find the teens and return back to Port Charles. After they return, Jason and Sam remain drawn to each other, continue sleeping together and soon admit they have feelings for one another.

Sam and Jason begin to date and attend a carnival together, during which Jason sees Jake with his family at the Merry-go-Round. While Lucky and Elizabeth are distracted, Jake runs off. The carnival takes a chaotic turn when Jason's grandfather Edward Quartermaine has a drug-induced heart attack and passes out behind the wheel, plunging his car down the carnival midway. Jake is injured at the carnival, but turns out fine and Jason and Sam are relived. Jason later asks Sam to be his date for Spinelli's wedding to Maxie Jones, which they attended together. They spent the evening together and Jason asked Sam to come home with him. She did and they made love again. Later that night they discussed their fear of discussing the past but Jason assured Sam that things will be better than okay between them. Sam and Jason continue to try and find evidence that Claudia is responsible for Michael’s shooting. They soon find the proof they need to bring Claudia down and when Jason brings the evidence to Sonny, Claudia is brought down in front of Port Charles by Sonny for getting Michael shot. She kidnaps Carly, who is pregnant and goes into labor just as Claudia escapes. Jason and Sam go looking for them, but Michael finds them first and kills Claudia. Sam takes Carly and her newborn baby Josslyn Jacks to the hospital, while Jason helps Michael deal with killing Claudia. Sam and Jason continue to grow closer in their relationship and admit that they are in love with each other right before Christmas time. On New Years Eve, they set up a date to spend time together, but Sam is taken by a crazed artist Franco, who is obsessed with and stalking Jason.

2010: Renewed Love and Strength
and Lulu Spencer are also taken by the crazed artist Franco. Jason rescues Carly and finally gets Franco to admit where he has Sam and Lulu. Jason goes to save Sam and calls Dante Falconeri to save Lulu. Sam was never in actual danger, as Franco was only toying with Jason, but Jason later feels bad when it is believed that the only bomb Franco set killed Lulu and Dante. He later reassures Sam that he does not regret coming after her first and thankfully Lulu and Dante survived the explosion. Jason was supportive of Sam and helped her deal with her own emotional pain over her past abusive relationship, when it was discovered that her sister Kristina was being abused by her boyfriend Keifer Bauer. Later when Keifer was killed in a hit and run, Jason helped Sam deal with the fact that her mother Alexis Davis had been the one to run him down. With Jason as her anchor, Sam was there for her sisters and mother, counseling and reassuring them throughout the ordeal.

Due to semi-doctored evidence Sonny was accused and put on trial for the murder Claudia. In an attempt to protect his father, Michael confessed to the murder and was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Jason made a deal with prosecutor Claire Walsh and had himself sent to prison to protect Michael. While upset at first Sam came to understand his decision and supported him protecting Michael. Before Jason turns himself in, they go away together and spend a few days at a cabin. When Jason finally went in to prison, Sam remained supportive and visited him regularly. Dante and Claire soon got Michael released, but Jason had to stay behind and finally released as bait to catch Franco. The hunt for Franco ensues and Franco shows up at Jason’s penthouse to taunt Sam when she was there alone. Jason and Dante track Franco to California to stop him and once he is presumed dead Jason is sent back to prison. However due to a loophole in his plea bargain his is permanently released from prison and free to resume his life with Sam.

In late 2010, Sonny's old flame Brenda Barrett returned to Port Charles on the run from the Balkan, an international crime lord whose son was murdered by Brenda. Jason was appointed her bodyguard and she moved into the Penthouse with him. This left Jason and Sam with very little time to spend together. Jason asked Sam numerous times to move in with him, but she declined not wanting to move into his already crowded penthouse. Wanting to get Brenda out of the penthouse quickly, Sam and Jason with the help of Lucky Spencer began searching for the real identity of the Balkan so that they could stop him and then Brenda would be safe. Searching for the Balkan was stressful, but with the help of Sam’s youngest sister Molly Lansing, Sam and Jason were still able to make time for each other and spend time together. At the end of the year, Sam and Jason spent Christmas with Molly and Michael.

2011: New Horizons
In early 2011, Sam learns from Dr. Kelly Lee that she could become pregnant with the assistance of an experimental procedure called "fertility reconstruction". Sam returns to the hospital to talk to Dr. Lee about the procedure more. Jason later finds the pamphlet about the procedure and they discuss having children and what a family would mean for their lives. They ultimately coming to the mutual agreement their lives are too dangerous and hectic for them to have children. Jason and Sam soon discover that the Balkan is Brenda’ lawyer Theo Hoffman and they move to apprehend him. Jason is caught in an ambush and on the way to Sonny and Brenda’s wedding, Sam disappears. After Sonny and Brenda’s wedding reception, their limo explodes after Brenda gets in and everyone thinks she is dead. However, when the authorities managed to get through the wreckage, everybody was shocked to discover Sam in the limo, with no sign of Brenda and Jason was devastated. Due to their resemblance, Theo's henchmen had swapped Sam for Brenda and blown up the limo as a distraction. The bomb-proofing in the limo saved Sam and she survived with only a concussion. But, when she regained consciousness with Jason at her side, they discovered that she had lost her hearing. Jason was supportive and loving to Sam even using some of the sign language that they learned from Molly to communicate with her. When the tests returned they confirmed that her hearing loss was temporary. Sam regained her hearing and Jason took her home from the hospital a few days later.

Sam was at Jake's bar with Maxie Jones and Lulu Spencer, when she began to feel nauseous and dizzy. Maxie believed the nausea and dizziness was happening because Sam might be pregnant. Sam buys a pregnancy test, but later goes to the hospital to get it done there. On Valentine's Day, during a romantic meal with Jason, they find out she is not pregnant. Sam knew it wasn't possible, but it still hurt to hear. Later Jason’ son Jake Spencer was hit by a car and severely injured. Sam is one of several people who were on the road at the time of the accident. When Jake dies on the operating table, Sam teams up with Dante Falconeri to discover who is responsible, motivated by guilt over what she had done to Elizabeth and Jake back in 2007. They discovered Sam had been driving on the road. They sent her car down to forensics to be tested. Sam and Dante then uncovered six other suspects. As soon as they discovered Carly was a suspect, forensics called Dante back and told him there was no damage to Sam's car and she was cleared off the suspect list. Sam helped Jason cope with the death of his son in the same way that Jason helped her cope with the death of her daughter. Jason leaned on Sam for emotional support to help him through this tragedy.

Later, Sam and Jason revisit the idea of the fertility reconstruction procedure. Sam decides she wants to go through with it. She meets with Dr. Lee about the procedure, and discovers not only is she an excellent candidate for the procedure, but if it is successful, she could get pregnant and carry a baby safely to term. Sam went in to have the procedure and it was completed without any complications. Sam later learns the surgery was a success and when she is fully healed, she will be able to carry a baby safely to term. This prompts Sam and Jason to revisit the idea of having children again and this time they both agree that they would love to have a child together.