Tea is the cherry on top of the One Life To Live sundae, AKA “November Sweeps”. Sweeps began with John Mc Bain doing a little house cleaning at Todd Manning’s house. He began by shooting the body guard and then sweeping the floor with Mr. Manning. Todd, of course, has been keeping the love of his life in his home, sheltered from the cruel, cruel world. (Did I mention that she has amnesia and remembers nothing of her life before her near fatal accident?) This of course all works out just swimmingly for Todd, her rapist, turned healer, turned friend and turned lover.
If you haven’t been watching, you might be wondering just where Tea fits into the scheme of things. (I’ll get there momentarily.) The fallout over this “He’s my rapist!” “He’s my lover” storyline eventually landed Todd back in jail, and that’s where Tea comes into the picture. She is a lawyer and she is the only lawyer in the whole wide world who will defend Todd. She has no scruples and she will defend anybody if the price is right, but hold the presses… She’s not asking for a fee. She just wants to help Todd because she understands him.
This of course will not sit right with anybody in Llanview, which is pretty cool because it makes Tea, once the town’s “Goodie-Two-Shoes” an outsider. (I think that even I can deal with her on that level, though it doesn’t in anyway make me like her.)
I will always remember her as the unscrupulous lawyer who married Todd for 5 million dollars so that he could keep custody of his daughter when wife # 1 fell into a coma. Todd presented himself to the court as a good family man, married to a substantial member of society. No one at the time knew what an abuse sucking parasite she was, and Todd was there for her “needs”. He gave her what she craved, a right hook to the jaw, frostbite when he threw her out of their home, wearing nothing but her snakeskin, when she tried to seduce him. His rejection was brutal, but Tea is like a Timex watch; “she takes a lickin’ and she keeps right on tickin’”.
So, here she is again! The Window Crashing Mama is back!
If you haven’t been watching, you might be wondering just where Tea fits into the scheme of things. (I’ll get there momentarily.) The fallout over this “He’s my rapist!” “He’s my lover” storyline eventually landed Todd back in jail, and that’s where Tea comes into the picture. She is a lawyer and she is the only lawyer in the whole wide world who will defend Todd. She has no scruples and she will defend anybody if the price is right, but hold the presses… She’s not asking for a fee. She just wants to help Todd because she understands him.
This of course will not sit right with anybody in Llanview, which is pretty cool because it makes Tea, once the town’s “Goodie-Two-Shoes” an outsider. (I think that even I can deal with her on that level, though it doesn’t in anyway make me like her.)
I will always remember her as the unscrupulous lawyer who married Todd for 5 million dollars so that he could keep custody of his daughter when wife # 1 fell into a coma. Todd presented himself to the court as a good family man, married to a substantial member of society. No one at the time knew what an abuse sucking parasite she was, and Todd was there for her “needs”. He gave her what she craved, a right hook to the jaw, frostbite when he threw her out of their home, wearing nothing but her snakeskin, when she tried to seduce him. His rejection was brutal, but Tea is like a Timex watch; “she takes a lickin’ and she keeps right on tickin’”.
So, here she is again! The Window Crashing Mama is back!
