Scotty Wilson

Scotty Wilson is a quadriplegic lawyer who has appeared in many episodes of Highway to Heaven. The first episode he appears in is One Fresh Batch of Lemonade. He also has appeared in A Match Made In Heaven, where he met and married Mark's cousin, Diane Gordon. Scotty was doing an audit for her former boss when she mentioned how her plans for a building where stolen while having dinner with Mark and Jonathan. Scotty helped her get her job back and they fell in love soon afterward. But after being in an accident involving a drunk driver, Scotty begins to have second thoughts and calls the wedding off. Jonathan, however, brings Scotty along when he visits an old wheelchair-bound friend who's married with kids. The visit sways Scotty, and he proposes to Diane soon afterward. They are married at the end of the episode. Scotty is also in The Monster, part 1 and part 2. He and Diane are having marital trouble, and Scotty is in denial. He is having trouble finding any clients. However, when the town's " boogeyman", a man named Julian with a large birthmark on his face, is accused of attempted murder of Rachel McCullough, a blind girl he fell in love with. Scotty tries Julian's case and wins. Scotty also accepts that he needs to try harder to get more clients and more cases, to overcome the fact that he's handicapped.

Scotty and Diane make another appearance in A Special Love, part 1 and 2. Diane and Scotty find out that they are unable to have children, and Scotty refuses to adopt. Meanwhile, Jonathan needs Scotty's help to persuade a young boy named Tod, who is mentally impaired, to compete in Special Olympics. Scotty and Diane fall in love with Tod, who is in foster care, and Scotty changes his mind about adopting. However, Tod's parents never actually gave him up, which means without their consent, the Wilsons could not adopt him. Tod's parents have a restraining order put on Scotty and Diane, barring them from seeing Tod. Scotty then finds a way that Tod can separate from his parents so Scotty and Diane can adopt him. Eventually, once Tod's birth parents see how much their son loves the Wilsons, they sign the agreement and Tod becomes Scotty and Diane's son. Scotty and Tod enjoy nature walks, and Scotty was also dead set on teaching Tod to read.