Roy DiLucca and Nurse Bobbie Spencer are fictional characters and a formerly engaged couple from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
Roy was portrayed by A Martinez and Bobbie was portrayed by Jacklyn Zeman.
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Roy DiLucca arrived in Port Charles in 1978 to join his business partner Luke Spencer and run The Campus Disco together. Roy met and fell in love with Luke's sister Nurse Barbara Jean "Bobbie" Spencer, whom herself was just getting over her obsession with Scotty Baldwin. Roy and Bobbie became engaged, but when a former john exposed her hooker past, an ashamed Bobbie returned the ring.
When pressured to assassinate a local politician, Luke sunk into a depression and ended up raping Laura Webber who concealed her rapist's identity. Roy was prime suspect in her rape, but Bobbie gave him a false alibi until Laura came forward and cleared him.
Bobbie and Roy resumed their engagement. Laura cared for Luke and knew that on election night, he was going to do something to harm himself. Laura threw his car keys away and Luke was unable to do the job. In a race against time, Roy decided to kill Mitch himself! Roy fired a shot wounding Mitch Williams. Roy was then shot by the security guards and stumbled his way outside where he seemingly died in Bobbie Spencer's arms.
In 1999, Roy returned to town, having spent 20 years in prison and was released to secretly be an FBI informant. He secured a job in Sonny Corinthos' coffee warehouse and quickly was entrusted with Sonny's organizational duties. He and Bobbie resumed their relationship, but she secretly followed Roy to a mob meeting and was kidnapped.
Roy told Bobbie he was a fed, and responsible for her ex-boyfriend Jerry Jacks' arrest. A furious Bobbie threw him out, but she forgave him when she learned he was going to jail. Because his cover was blown, Roy was sent to Pentonville Penitentiary to serve the rest of his sentence. Just before he left for prison, he confessed his love to ex-flame Bobbie, who confirmed that she had never stopped loving him.
Now fugitives, Roy and Bobbie traveled to Florida, getting the goods on a corrupt cop to clear his name and somehow managing to return to Port Charles with only a few scrapes of danger. Afterward, Bobbie and Roy went to Hawaii for a vacation.
Bobbie's ex-husband Dr. Tony Jones questioned the effect on their son Lucas Jones that Bobbie's relationship with an ex-con might have; Bobbie, not knowing Roy was trying to pay off Mike Corbin's gambling debts, feared Roy was working for Sonny when she saw Roy having meetings with Joseph Sorel.
In December 2000, Bobbie found a letter from a woman named Melissa in Roy's apartment. Roy claimed Larkin must have put the letter in there, but he refused to report a break-in. Lying to Roy, Bobbie went to Chicago to visit Melissa.
Melissa Bedford was a surgical nurse, with a brother named Leo Bedford who ran a club with Roy. Roy and Melissa went out for months, until Roy mounted enough evidence on Leo to arrest and imprison him. Roy then left. Melissa had never forgiven him. Bobbie went to see Melissa again with more questions.
Roy found out Bobbie had lied to him and visited Melissa, so he did the same. She told him Leo had forgiven him, and asked her to. She had until Leo was killed in prison. But seeing him again made her want to forget animosities of the past. Roy apologized for his cowardice in leaving without an explanation, and they parted peaceably.
Shortly thereafter, Melissa moved to town, joined the nursing staff, and was with Roy at every turn. Bobbie, increasingly edgy and jealous, misplaced files and accused Melissa of the deed. Melissa quit her job, but after a few more confrontations with Bobbie, changed her mind and began fighting back.
Roy tried his best to stay true to Bobbie, supporting her as her son Lucas lay near-death from a mysterious illness. Bobbie's daughter, Carly Spencer, convinced him to turn her oft husband, the mobster Sonny, into the feds so he would join Witness Protection - but Sonny refuses.
When Bobbie heard, she flew into a rage, accusing Roy of destroying Carly's happiness. She broke off her relationship with him, shutting out his every attempt to explain, and finally telling him she had set Melissa up with the files. Despite this, Bobbie refused his several attempts at reconciliation.
Eventually, she softened, and they parted as friends - and Bobbie, in 2001, showing no hard feelings, even invited Roy and Melissa to her annual Thanksgiving dinner.
