55 Facts About Marty Saybrooke

Marty Saybrooke is a fictional character from One Life to Live, an American soap opera.

Margaret Bedford Marty Saybrooke was created by Michael Malone, named after his daughter, Margaret, and the town in Connecticut in which he lived.

Marty Saybrooke is at first positioned as causing significant problems for character Reverend Andrew Carpenter.

Marty Saybrooke develops a crush on him, but he does not respond to her romantic advances.

Marty Saybrooke just wants to love and be loved, but that hasn't worked for her yet.

Marty Saybrooke is the scion of one of Llanview's oldest and most prestigious families.

Orphaned at an early age, "poor little rich girl" Marty Saybrooke grows up alone in her family's mansion and is the sole heiress to her parents' fortune.

Marty Saybrooke comes to be a troubled young woman who resorts to binge-drinking to garner attention.

On January 24,1992, Marty Saybrooke is introduced as the roommate of the ailing Megan Gordon Harrison during her stay at Llanview Hospital.

The rumor is eventually squelched, and Marty Saybrooke's reputation is severely tarnished.

Marty Saybrooke's life is forever changed when she meets cocky Llanview University defensive back Todd Manning and has a one-night stand with him.

Marty Saybrooke rejects her immediately after the encounter, and she becomes bitter.

Ladies' man Todd learns he has met his match when the flighty Marty Saybrooke rejects him the next day.

Marty Saybrooke tells Marty's then-boyfriend that he and Marty slept together the night she was tutoring him, and Suede broke up with Marty, but Todd wasn't done with his revenge.

Marty Saybrooke has her doubts about Kevin's involvement, and he tries at every stop to convince her he is innocent, and that he was just trying to retrieve his keys that night.

Nora believes Todd and the others are innocent and is clearly winning the trial, especially after Marty Saybrooke remembers that Kevin had nothing to do with the attack and exonerates him, which damages her case even further.

Marty Saybrooke's life remains turbulent even after Todd is convicted of his crimes; after finishing medical school, she revisits the past in a brief, foolhardy flirtation with Andrew Carpenter, who is tempted away from his new wife Cassie.

Nonetheless, over time, Todd and Marty Saybrooke forge a strange kind of understanding and attempt to gain some closure.

Todd encourages Marty Saybrooke to confront her aunt, Kiki, who is her guardian.

However, back in Llanview, a young AIDS patient whom Marty Saybrooke has cared for is dying.

Marty Saybrooke makes no mention of Patrick or their child, or how they have eluded the terrorists hunting the Thornharts.

Marty Saybrooke is shocked to learn that her son, high school quarterback Cole, is being accused of attacking Todd and Blair's daughter, Starr.

Marty Saybrooke reveals that she has just recently moved back to Llanview and has set up her practice, and that she and Cole are still reeling from Patrick's mysterious death.

Todd, Blair, and Marty Saybrooke are all determined to keep their children apart.

Marty Saybrooke, meanwhile, begins having disturbing visions of being in Blair's hospital room on the night of the murder, and seeing a scalpel.

Marty Saybrooke confesses her fears of having killed Spencer to her therapist, but can not fully remember what her mind has blocked out from that fateful night.

Soon thereafter, John deduces that Lindsay Rappaport is the real murderer, and Marty Saybrooke is released from prison.

Cole and Jessica Buchanan urge Marty Saybrooke to consider a romantic future with John McBain, but a bashful and unsure Marty Saybrooke refuses to consider it.

Regardless, Marty Saybrooke seeks John out, and the two spend an afternoon walking the Llanview docks.

Marty Saybrooke instantly apologizes, but an intrigued John tells her not to be sorry.

John and Marty Saybrooke continue to bond during the custody trial for Tommy McBain, but after Marcie McBain goes on the run with her adoptive son, John leaves Llanview to pursue his sister-in-law, along with Todd Manning.

Marty Saybrooke reveals that Patrick was killed by old enemies from Ireland, and that his old friend Simon Ryerson came to her door to give her the news.

Simon is determined to get an incriminating "list of names" which Patrick kept from his days with the "Men of 21", but is frustrated to discover that Marty Saybrooke has no knowledge of the list; in reality, Patrick hid the list on a microchip inside one of his own poetry books.

Marty Saybrooke is presumed dead, and the bereaved John and Cole return to Llanview.

Later, Todd arrives, having followed Tina, and discovers Marty Saybrooke, who has been left with amnesia after the explosion in Ireland and has no idea who Todd is.

Marty Saybrooke comes to rely on Todd as a caretaker during her slow rehabilitation, and finds herself growing close to the man he represents himself to be.

Marty Saybrooke is shaken by Todd's request to run away and start a family with him, but, still unknowing of the truth, she agrees; however, when Marty Saybrooke continues to dream about John McBain and regains her ability to walk, Todd fears that his lies will be exposed.

Marty Saybrooke refuses, saying she needs to understand who she was before she can move forward into the future.

Marty Saybrooke's memories are stirred when she babysits Jessica's daughter Bree and flashes back to caring for an infant.

Marty Saybrooke pleads with Todd to help her understand what the strange images of a child mean, but Todd lies, insisting that Marty Saybrooke never had children and that she is thinking only of "the son she never had", further encouraging her to join him in raising his daughter's soon-to-be-stolen child.

When Starr goes into labor on October 31,2008, Todd and Marty Saybrooke finalize their plans to leave Llanview forever, with Todd buying them a large home in New Mexico and making plans for Marty Saybrooke and he to marry.

Unaware of the true impact or significance of her words, or how Todd has manipulated her, Marty Saybrooke tells him that he is 'not the man he once was,' and that she is 'healed and new, not the woman she used to be.

Tragedy strikes when Marty Saybrooke suffers a miscarriage after being pushed down a flight of stairs by a mystery assailant, who is later revealed to be Eli Clarke.

Marty Saybrooke tries to take the blame, but Natalie soon squanders that plan and Cole is sent to prison.

Marty Saybrooke confronts Natalie and attempts to blackmail her into springing Cole from jail, threatening to tell John about the DNA test if she does not.

However, when Natalie's water breaks before she can leave, Marty Saybrooke turns the tables on her, turning a deaf ear to Natalie's pleas and departing, leaving the laboring Natalie alone with no way to send for help.

However, Marty Saybrooke has a pang of conscience and returns to help Natalie give birth.

When Marty Saybrooke holds Natalie's baby, she suffers a complete nervous breakdown, believing it to be her and John's baby.

At the hospital, it becomes clear to all that Marty Saybrooke is completely insane, as she is convinced that it was Natalie and not Eli who pushed her down the stairs.

However, instead of going to Natalie and John with the truth, Marty Saybrooke keeps it to herself in the hopes that she will be able to reconcile with John.

In May 2011, Marty Saybrooke becomes even more unhinged and sees not only Natalie but Kelly as a threat to her reunion with John.

When Marty Saybrooke arrives at John's to prepare him dinner, she has a confrontation with Kelly, who pick up a knife in defense.

Marty Saybrooke then takes her to the airport where he tells her that she's going to see her husband, but before Marty leaves she tells Todd that she forgot to tell John that Liam is his son.

Marty Saybrooke gets Todd to promise that he will indeed tell John the truth, and afterwards Marty Saybrooke leaves town with Patrick on the plane.

At the time of Haskell's return to the role in 2008, Marty Saybrooke was called "one of those tentpole characters [characters who hold enormous sway with viewers] that everyone who has watched One Life to Live at some point remembers".