Michelle Lucca had worked for The Centre as a clinical psychologist, and had been assigned to help Sydney with The Pretender Project until 1974 when she suddenly vanished without a trace.

In March 1998, Sydney goes looking for Michelle and discovers a birth certificate for a boy named Nicholas. Michelle is listed on the birth certificate as the mother but there is no father listed.

Sydney goes to Michelle’s house and confronts her about Nicholas. She explains that when she discovered that she was pregnant with Sydney’s child, she rushed back from her doctor’s office to The Centre to tell him, but had been intercepted by a man she had never seen before. This man somehow knew about her pregnancy already, and told her she had to leave The Centre. The Centre would see to her re-location, would let her keep her son, and even set up a trust fund for him IF she agreed never to see Sydney again. Sydney, the man told her, had to be kept focused on The Pretender Project, and a son would only distract him from his work. Michelle, at first, was reluctant to leave and the man then threatened that if she didn’t go, he would see to it that Sydney had a “terrible accident.” So she left.

Michelle then explains that she is now married to a man named George who she loves and who is raising Nicholas as his own. Sydney agrees not to push the issue.

In November of 1998, George Stamatis is hospitalized and is dying. Sydney goes to the hospital to see Michelle and George. Nicholas ends up finding out that Sydney is his biological father.

In January of 1999, Michelle and Sydney are brought together again when Nicholas is abducted all with a group of teachers in the Appalachian Hills. Jarod appears to help facilitate the return of the teachers and save Nicholas.