Alex

Alex is a recurring character throughout the shows Second and Third Season. He was romantically involved with Rachel, and was a semi-antagonist to the series, acting under the orders of Wayne.

Biography
Alex and Rachel first met in Season 2. Whilst it seemed them meeting was fate, it was actually set up by Wayne in order to make the two connect with one another. At first, Alex had no feelings for Rachel, and was only interested in "wooing" her to find out information about her form the orders of Wayne. However, as the two started spending more and more time together, Alex started to develop feelings for Rachel. Knowing Wayne was planning something, and now wanting Rachel to get hurt, Alex tried his best to hide his true feelings for Rachel around Wayne, lying to him and saying she isn't interested in him, though Wayne doesn't care and wants Alex to get information out of her, threatening Alex into doing so. Wayne later uncovers the truth and realizes Alex has been lying to him, and as a result beats him up, threatening to do worse if he doesn't come clean. Alex tells Wayne what he knows, and reluctantly hands his phone over to Wayne. Having enough information to find out where Rachel lives, Wayne sends a break up text from Alex's phone to Rachel, leaving her heartbroken. Alex asks Wayne not to hurt Rachel, and Wayne confessed Rachel's not the one he's after. Alex asks why he needed him to find stuff out about her, but Wayne remains cryptic.

Alex is MIA for the start of the third season, after presumably being thrown out by Wayne and living on the streets. At some point off-screen, he confronts Wayne again, and learns of his plan to hurt Rachel's family. With little resources at his disposal, he tries to get in contact with Rachel and warn her, but she refuses to take any of his calls. Rachel eventually picks up telling Alex to leave her alone, and Alex is able to warn her, albeit too late. Rachel's house is burned down as a result of Alex being a pawn in Wayne's game. Alex speaks to Mark about his guilt over the situation, to which he is told it's not his fault and was simply manipulated by Wayne, but tells Alex to leave his family alone. Mark tells his daughter he spoke to Alex, and she asks if she can speak to him, too. Alex and Rachel finally talk about what happened, leaving Rachel as a loss for words. Alex then reveals he's being taken into the foster system, and doesn't know where he'll end up.

After Rachel moves away, Alex is never seen again. It's assumed he was taken in by a foster family.

Behind The Scenes
Alex was originally supposed to be Wayne's son. At her old school, Rachel was dating Alex, but once their family had successfully busted Wayne, they moved away due to their safety. Alex and Rachel, being too young to understand what was going on between their families, tried their hardest to find out where each other went, after Rachel was told by her family never to contact him again. Rachel would have had scenes in Season 1 alluding to missing someone from her previous school, however, due to this idea being scrapped, they went along with it. Eventually, the two found each other again and started secretly dating. Wayne would eventually find proof that he and Rachel were dating, and would then use Alex to find out where Rachel lived, to seek revenge on her family. It's not known why the storyline was changed, but was most likely done to simplify the plot. Though the intricacies of the plot were changes, the general outcome of Alex being used in Wayne's revenge scheme remained the same.

Trivia

 * Alex was originally written as a Mute Character, but was later changed as the writers felt Rachel would be more drawn to someone with musical talent like her.