 During the second season, after discovering a dead male prostitute in the garbage bin behind the diner where she works, Debbie attempts to find out his name, actually beating the police force in discovering it.In this season, it was also discovered that her high-school sweetheart, Danny Devore, could be the father of Michael.They never married and she later took on the last name of Novotny after reading the name of a soldier who died in Vietnam.