Margaret "Marty" Saybrooke Thornhart
Actor History
Susan Haskell (January 1992 to September 1997; 2004, 2005; June 11, 2008 to Present)
Christina Chambers (November 10, 2006 to December 4, 2007)
Occupation
Psychiatrist
Resides At
Llanview
Formerly in San Diego
Formerly in Ireland
Marital Status
Single/Annulled (Miles Laurence) [Married: Jun 6th, 2007; Annulled: Sep 14th, 2007]
Past Marriages
Dylan Moody (1996; divorced)
Patrick Thornhart (1997 to 2005; dissolved by his death)
Miles Laurence (Married: Jun 6th, 2007; Annulled: Sep 14th, 2007)
Relatives
David Saybrooke (father; deceased)
Samantha Saybrooke (mother; deceased)
Kiki Saybrooke (paternal aunt; deceased)
Children
Cole Thornhart (son; with Patrick)
Hope Manning Thornhart (granddaughter, via Cole; born November 2008)
Flings & Affairs
Todd Manning (one-night stand; he later raped her)
Andrew Carpenter (initially a crush; later nearly lovers)
John McBain
Todd Manning (with amnesia while under his care following accident)
Wes Granger (never consummated)
Crimes Committed
Accused Rev. Andrew Carpenter of molesting teen-age Billy Douglas
Maladies & Hospitalizations
Hospitalized for lupus [1992]
Treated at hospital after being raped by Todd Manning [1993]
Paralyzed and suffered amnesia following van explosion [2007]
Treated at hospital after being discovered alive at Todd Manning's [2008]
Brief Character History
Marty Saybrooke was orphaned at an early age and grew up alone in her family's mansion in the same neighborhood as the Lord family home, Llanfair. In 1992, Marty was hospitalized for lupus and became the roommate of Megan Gordon Harrison, Viki Buchanan's daughter, who was dying of the disease. Marty's condition had become exacerbated because her hard-partying lifestyle. After Megan passed away, Marty became close to Viki and became infatuated with one of Megan's closest friends, the Rev. Andrew Carpenter. When Andrew rebuffed Marty's advances, she launched a smear campaign across Llanview and accused Andrew of carrying on an illicit relationship with gay teen Billy Douglas, who attended Andrew's church and was a friend of Viki's son Joey. Andrew eventually was cleared of any wrongdoing, and Marty's reputation was severely tarnished.
While attending Llanview University, Marty met football quarterback Todd Manning and had a one-night stand with him. Marty rejected his subsequent advances, however, and Todd began to resent her. Marty became his tutor, but after failing a course because he didn't study, Todd blamed Marty and plotted to get even with her. During the Spring Fling party on campus, Marty became drunk and passed out upstairs in the fraternity house bedroom of Kevin Buchanan. While the party raged on, Marty was gang raped by Todd and two of his fraternity brothers, Zach Rosen and Powell Lord, III. Marty reported the rape and all three men are arrested, in addition to Powell's distant cousin Kevin, whom Marty mistakenly believed had raped her. Due to Marty's checkered past and wild behavior, most people in town didn't believe Marty, including attorney Nora Gannon, who was hired to represent Todd in court. When another woman, Carol Swift, came forward and revealed that Todd had raped her as well, Nora realized her client was guilty and intentionally caused a mistrial.
While awaiting another trial, Todd cornered Marty and Luna Moody in an alley and threatened to rape both of them. Luna hit him with a lead pipe, permanently scarring Todd's face. Marty managed to trick Todd into confessing to the rape on a hidden tape recorder and he was sent to jail.
Marty finished medical school and briefly flirted with Andrew Carpenter, who decided not to risk his marriage to his wife Cassie. She then grew close to Luna's brother Dylan Moody and even married him, but it didn't last. Marty then was in a car crash with Jessica Buchanan and youngsters C.J. and Sarah Roberts. Todd, who had escaped from jail, happened upon the scene and freed all of them. Todd subsequently was pardoned and set free. Todd and Marty forged an uneasy truce, and Todd even encouraged Marty to confront her Aunt Kiki, who had been raiding Marty's trust fund to finance her extravagant lifestyle. Marty traveled to Ireland, where her aunt was staying, and severed ties with her. While in Ireland, Marty met and fell in love with poet Patrick Thornhart, a former Irish terrorist who was trying to evade his former associates in the terrorist group Men of 21. However, back in Llanview, a young AIDS patient whom Marty had cared for was dying. Todd flew to Ireland and offered Marty his private jet to fly back on, while Todd remained in Ireland to help Patrick. Todd however was mistaken for Patrick and was seemingly shot to death by the assassins. Todd's pregnant wife, Blair Cramer, harbored great resentment toward Marty for her part in Todd's apparent death. Meanwhile, Patrick used Todd's passport to get to Llanview, where he found solace in Blair's arms. Todd, who was not dead after all, caught them and vowed revenge on Patrick. In his revenge attempt, Todd set up an explosion that killed a man and made Patrick look guilty. Patrick was arrested for murder but later cleared of all charges when a videotape revealed he wasn't in Llanview when the explosion occurred.
Over a period of time, Marty and Patrick reconciled and were in the process of planning their wedding when Mahoney, a terrorist from Ireland, arrived in Llanview. Mahoney believed that Patrick would implicate him in a bombing death in Ireland and tried to kill him. Mahoney's bullet missed Patrick and hit Mel Hayes. Patrick followed Mahoney to Todd's where more shots were exchanged and Mahoney was killed. Patrick also appeared to have died, but while en route to the hospital Patrick's body began to stir and it was revealed he wasn't dead after all. Marty didn't reveal that Patrick was alive but instead got him out of the city to recover. Eventually, Marty and Patrick returned to Ireland and sent a note to Bo and Nora telling them that they were fine and were expecting a child.
In 2004, Todd was accused of raping his estranged wife Blair. Marty, who had been working as a psychiatrist in California, mostly with sexual offenders, returned to provide her expert opinion on the case.Marty testified that recent events of Todd's past had affected his life so much that he would never rape again. Blair, as it turned out, was suffering from a brain tumor and was wrong about Todd raping her.
Marty again left Llanview but reappeared as a figment of Todd's mind in 2005 after his own rape at the hands of Margaret Cochran.
Marty returned to Llanview in November 2006, shocked to discover that her and Patrick's son, Cole Thornhart, was being accused of attackingTodd's teen-age daughter Starr Manning. Feeling pressured to lead his high school team toward a championship, Cole had turned to steroids and had an uncontrollable outburst of rage while at a party. Marty explained that the source of his problems stemmed from the mysterious death of his father.
Marty immediately became the lead psychiatric consultant in the case of Dr. Spencer Truman, who was accused of murder. Marty's defense of Truman incurred the wrath of Llanview police detective John McBainand Blair and Todd Manning. However, Marty's work with Truman ended when he was murdered at the hospital during an assault on Blair. Later, Marty herself sought therapy after having flashbacks of blood and a scalpel in the hospital room where Truman was murdered.
Overwhelmed by her flashbacks, Marty insisted that she had murdered Truman. In the meantime, Marty was stalked by Miles Laurence, whom she gently rebuffed while attempting to maintain a cordial friendship. But Laurence would not be easily dismissed. He began following Marty and repeatedly showed up unexpectedly at her door. At one point, he arranged to have her attacked so that he could rescue her and become her hero. However, his efforts were thwarted by John McBain, who had recently become Marty's friend. Laurence finally resorted to eavesdropping on her while she was in therapy and orchestrated a theft to obtain the audio-taped confession of the murder between Marty and her therapist. He then used the tape to blackmail Marty into marriage. But John McBain detected that something was wrong with Marty's marriage and speculated that Laurence might have damaging information. She finally told John what she believed she had done and her own confession led her to be arrested as a prime suspect in the murder of Spencer Truman. John continued to uncover the facts and eventually found conclusive evidence that led to Lindsay Rappaport as the real murderer.
After being cleared of murder, Marty annulled her marriage to Miles. Marty and John continued their friendship, which soon blossomed into love. In the Fall of 2007, Cole was abducted from his home and Marty was taken from a hotel room that she and John were sharing. Their abductor was Simon Ryerson, who Marty believed was Patrick's friend but as it turned out was the one who had killed Patrick. He held Marty and Cole captive in Ireland and threatened to kill Cole if Marty didn't hand over Patrick's list of names of the Men of 21. Marty was unaware that the list had been hidden on a microchip in a book Patrick had given to her.
John began his search for Marty and Cole at her apartment and found the book with the microchip. He and FBI agent Lee Ramsey flew to Ireland and contacted Simon with plans to exchange Marty and Cole for the microchip. An impatient Ramsey fired shots into the van holding Marty and Cole and the van rolled down a cliff into a quarry. John raced to the scene and found Marty alive but Cole missing. He struggled to free Marty from the wreckage but she insisted that he first locate Cole. Thrown from the van, Cole was seriously injured but alive. As John returned to rescue Marty the van exploded and Marty was presumed dead. John and Cole returned to Llanview, where Cole was taken in by Nora Buchanan. Cole entered grief counseling sessions while his relationship with Starr Manning grew closer.
In the spring of 2008, John became suspicious about Ramsey's shady activities since he became Police Commissioner of Llanview. Banding together with fellow police officers Antonio Vega and Talia Sahid, John worked to expose Ramsey as a dirty cop and avenge Marty's death. During the course of their investigation, the trio learned about a mysterious woman Ramsey was keeping hidden away in his high-rise penthouse, tended to by a private nurse named Janet Ketring. John became convinced the woman was the key to unraveling the mystery behind Ramsey's double dealings. John was correct: Ramsey masterminded the theft of the crown jewels of Mendorra from Lindsay Rappaport's art gallery in order to fence them and pay for his houseguest's costly medical care. Ramsey's mystery woman not only was bedridden but also mentally impaired. John discovered X-rays in Ramsey's office that detailed the severe physical trauma of an unidentified female patient.
John had a surveillance device planted inside Ramsey's penthouse. John, Antonio, and Talia staked out the building, waiting for Ramsey or his guest to come into audio range of their "bug." On June 11, 2008, the officers listened in as Ramsey spoke to the woman, who said only two words on tape before the surveillance device went out of range: "Help me." John struggled to identify the familiar voice, but he was unable to figure out that the mystery woman being cared for by Lee Ramsey was none other than Marty.
Ramsey, meanwhile, planned to sell the stolen jewels to none other than Viki and Todd's sister, Tina Lord Roberts, who was masquerading as the Crown Princess of Mendorra. When Tina arrived at Ramsey's penthouse for the jewels, two thugs hired by U.S. Ambassador to Medorra Jonas Chamberlain showed up and shot Ramsey dead. Tina, who was hiding out in another room, escaped unharmed with the jewels. Todd followed his sister Tina into the apartment and discovered Ramsey dead upstairs and a very-much-alive Marty upstairs. Todd quickly realized Marty had no idea who he was - she had amnesia, and also was unable to walk. Todd whisked her away to his new home and began nursing her back to health. He even hired the woman who was nursing Marty under Lee's care, Janet Ketring, to continue caring for her at Todd's home. Todd led Marty to believe they were old college friends and did not tell her about her past or about his part in raping her. He also lied to Marty and told her that John had left her to die. He claimed John had stole his wife and family from him. Marty came to rely on Todd as a caretaker and friend during her slow rehabilitation and soon found herself growing close to him. Isolated from his own children and newly divorced yet again from Blair, Todd also began to lean on Marty as his only confidant. In several dreams, Marty had interactions with John, who urged her to question Todd's motives. But Todd managed to convince Marty that the dreams were not reality and that she should fear for her safety from John.
Todd's niece Jessica, who was under in the influence of her alternate personality Tess, discovered that Marty was alive and living with Todd. But Tess agreed not to say anything, in exchange for Todd keeping quiet about her reemergence. Over time, Marty and Todd's new "relationship" intensified, and Marty began to express romantic feelings for her caretaker. When Todd helped Marty walk for the first time since her accident, they shared a passionate kiss. They later nearly had sex, but Todd backed off. Soon however, Todd began to fantasize about a "clean slate" for himself and for Marty, free of all the "mistakes of the past." In a manic outburst, Todd offered Marty a shocking proposition: Run away with him and raise his daughter's unborn child with him. Todd claimed that Starr wanted him to have the baby, when in reality Starr wanted nothing to do with her father and planned to give the baby up to Todd's nemesis Marcie McBain. Making matters worse, Marty had no idea that the baby's father was none other than her son, Cole. Marty ultimately agreed to start a new life with Todd and the baby and gained the strength to begin walking more confidently for the first time since the accident.
Caring for Jessica's baby, Bree, Marty began to have flashbacks of caring for a young boy whom she did not recognize. Marty felt a deep connection to this child, but Todd dismissed the visions and urged her to focus on the baby that was about to be theirs. John McBain, meanwhile, obtained definitive proof from Todd's old bodyguard that Marty was the woman being cared for in Todd's home. At the same time, Todd began to have misgivings about his plan to steal Starr's baby and raise her with Marty. He ordered her to leave him, but Marty refused and admitted that she loved him and wanted to be with him. Todd said he loved her too. Marty guided Todd upstairs to her bedroom and encouraged him to make love to her. Todd initially resisted and had visions of Marty in the same outfit she was wearing the night of the infamous Spring Fling. But convinced by an unsuspecting Marty that he had changed from those college days, Todd gave in to his temptation and he and Marty had sex.
The same night Todd and Marty had sex, Starr went into labor and delivered a healthy baby girl. Todd went to the hospital and told Dr. Joplin that he had changed his mind about stealing Starr's baby. While he was gone, John broke into Todd's house and came face to face with Marty. Marty was at first scared John was there to hurt her, and John realized that Marty was suffering from memory loss. He told her that Todd had not told her the truth about himself, and told Marty that Todd was the one who had led her gang rape all those years ago - just as Todd walked in the bedroom! Marty was devastated when Todd admitted the truth, including the fact that she had a teenage son, and watched as John beat Todd to a bloody pulp. Marty then took John's gun and pointed it squarely at Todd, threatening to pull the trigger. But John convinced her that the authorities should take care of Todd, and she reluctantly agreed. Marty was taken to the hospital, where she came face to face with a stunned Cole, who had just learned that his child with Starr had supposedly died. Nora, who was alerted to Marty being alive, came to the hospital and helped Marty try to sort through her conflicting feelings about Todd. Marty took the morning after pill, to ensure that she wouldn't get pregnant from her encounter with Todd, and went to stay with Nora at the Buchanan mansion.
Marty soon grew frustrated with Cole and everyone else because she couldn't remember anything about her life before Todd, and she secretly began researching everything she could about Todd so she could get even with him for what he had done to her. Nora promised Marty that Todd would pay for what he had done and Marty agreed to press charges of rape and kidnapping against him. During the court hearing, however, Todd's attorney Tea Delgado forced Marty to testify under oath that she had consensual sex with Todd. The judge dismissed the charges, and Marty set out to get even with Todd another way. She lured him to the Palace Hotel on New Year's Eve and convinced Todd to jump from the roof to make up for all that he had done to her. Marty was relieved when Todd jumped, only to be angered when John pulled Todd from the river below and Blair revived him.
Marty struck up a friendship with former Navy SEAL Wes Granger, who had come to town several months earlier to look after his friend Brody Lovett. She even moved out of Nora's house and began staying with Wes at the Angel Square Hotel, although their relationship was platonic. Marty began drinking heavily again, reverting to her old ways as "Marty the Party Girl." She rubbed John's nose in the fact that she was hanging out with Wes, who happened to be working for John at the Rodi's Tavern, which John had recently purchased. She distanced herself from Cole, who secretly turned to drugs to escape his miserable life.
Marty still held out hope that Todd would be put away for plotting to kidnap Starr and Cole's baby, especially when Janet came out of hiding and agreed to testify against Todd. But when Tea had Todd run a front-page story in the Sun, outing Janet as a con artist with many secret aliases, Janet got scared and escaped from the safehouse where she was being kept awaiting Todd's trial. Marty was shocked to learn that back when she was known as Lee, Janet had seduced Wes' father and left his family fatherless and penniless. Hours later, Janet turned up stabbed to death at Todd's home. After Starr lied on the stand and claimed her father had not told her about his plan to kidnap her baby, Todd was set free. But when Nora threatened to arrest Starr for perjury, Todd admitted he had planned to kidnap Starr's baby and admitted that the sex he had with Marty in November had amounted to rape.
In February 2009, Marty dragged Wes to the Go Red Ball, one of the big social events of the year, and proceeded to get drunk and make a scene in front of everyone. The event devolved into a drunken free-for-all, with Todd and Wes exchanging blows and Tea punching Marty after Marty egged her on. Wes pulled a knife on Todd, but Antonio Vega broke it up. John publicly accused Wes of murdering Janet, and back in his hotel room Wes and Marty argued about what had occurred at the ball. Marty woke up the next morning to find herself covered in blood, and was horrified to discover Wes lying in the bed beside her, stabbed to death with his own knife. John heard Marty scream and broke down the door. Marty told John she didn't remember anything after getting in an argument with Wes. As John and Marty discussed what to do, Blair walked in on the scene and called the cops. Marty was taken into custody and arrested for Wes's murder. Marty was freed for a lack of evidence, and she realized she needed to get her life back in order and reconnect with her son Cole. But when she went to see Cole, she discovered a letter addressed to her saying Cole was flunking out of school. She then discovered the drugs Cole had been abusing for months. Cole walked in and they had a vicious argument and Cole stormed off. She called John, just as John and Blair were about to make love, and John went after Marty. Blair screamed at him to never come back, and soon after she was stabbed and nearly killed by an unknown assailant. While John and Marty were out searching for Cole, they heard a car accident and were shocked to discover that Cole had wrecked his car and nearly hit Gigi Morasco and her son Shane. Marty, summoning unknown strength, managed to lift the overturned car and free Cole, who was pinned underneath. Marty went with Cole to the hospital and was relieved to learn he was going to be OK, after having his stomach pumped. But when Cole asked about Matthew Buchanan, who was riding with him in the car, Marty realized that Cole wasn't alone in the car and called Bo. Matthew was found alive but paralyzed from the waist down, and Nora let out her rage at Cole and Marty. When Nora decided to press felony charges against Cole, Marty hired Téa to represent Cole. After Matthew told Nora he forgave Cole, Nora decided not to press charges against Cole so long as he entered a drug treatment program.
Marty confided in Jessica Brennan that she was attracted to John, and Jessica urged her to follow her heart. But as Marty was about to let John know her feelings, he told her that he had married Blair so she wouldn't lose custody of her children to Todd while she was in the hospital recuperating from her stab wounds. Marty was disappointed but said she understood. Police thought they had found their serial killer after one of Marty's former attackers, Zach Rosen, showed up in town and took Starr and Cole hostage after Todd refused to give him money. But when Police Officer Talia Sahid was found stabbed to death at La Boulaie, while Zach was still in custody, it was clear that the attacker was still out there. John was arrested after authorities found the knife used to stab Blair in his apartment, with his fingerprints on it. John escaped jail and realized Marty was the next target after finding a picture of Marty in his apartment with a knife through it. John went to Marty and warned her to be safe, but Marty said she was going to go with John to find out the truth. They ended up outside Rochester, New York, where Marty's third attacker, Powell Lord, was being held in an sanitarium. Using false names, Marty and John got in to see Powell. Powell pretended that he didn't remember Marty, but in fact he was colluding with one-time love Rebecca Lewis to get back at Todd. Rebecca was even posing as Marty so she could get access to the sanitarium. When John returned to the sanitarium to see Powell, he found an administrator dead and Powell gone and soon was locked in the room by Rebecca. Marty, meanwhile, received an invitation to a "spring fling" reunion slipped under her motel room door. The invitation was laced with a chemical that made Marty pass out. Powell and Rebecca then kidnapped Marty and took her to the KAD house, where Powell Lord had reconstructed the room in which Marty was raped in a twisted attempt to make Todd pay for his crimes. Todd, Blair and Tea were kidnapped and brought to the KAD house, and Powell urged one of the women to kill a bound Todd as payback for all of his crimes. Tea tried to kill Powell instead and ended up locked in the boiler room downstairs with Blair. Alone in the room, Todd helped jog Marty's memories about the fateful night when he raped her and all of Marty's forgotten memories came flooding back to her. Rebecca then showed up with Jessica's baby Chloe and told Powell that the baby was in fact Todd and Marty's granddaughter John showed up and shot and killed Powell, freeing everyone.
Todd and Marty were stunned to learn they were grandparents and eventually broke the news to Starr and Cole, who were reunited with their baby. Once Marty had her memories back, she wanted to explore her relationship with John again. John got a divorce from Blair and he and Marty tried to renew their relationship. But Marty was unable to have sex with John, instead having flashbacks about her time with Todd. Marty was reinstated as a psychiatrist at Llanview Hospital and was stunned to learn that her first patient was Todd, whose was undergoing court-ordered therapy.
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