THERESA LOPEZ-FITZGERALD CRANE

'Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald Crane' (formerly 'Casey' and 'Winthrop')is a fictional character on NBC's daytime drama ''Passions''. She has been portrayed by Lindsay Hartley since July 5 1999. Priscilla Garita assumed the role temporarily from August 30 to September 28 2004 while Hartley was on maternity leave. On December 31 2001 and January 2 2002, Alyse Gregory portrayed Theresa in flashbacks. Taylor Balen portrayed Theresa in another flashback in 2005.

Contents

Fictional character information

Biography

Quotes

Theresa's Marital Status

Family

Marital Status

Marriages

Children

Parents

Siblings

Grandparents

Uncles and aunts

Nephews and nieces

References

Fictional character information

Biography

Theresa was just a toddler when her father disappeared. With her mother working two jobs, Theresa was raised primarily by her oldest brother, Antonio, for the next few years. Antonio disappeared when Theresa was a teenager, at which point in time Pilar and Luis then took over caring for Theresa and Miguel. Theresa was always a dreamer, and even believed she was a real princess as a child. As an adolescent, she would pore over the tabloids, and developed a teenage crush on Ethan Crane (now Ethan Winthrop), the son of her mother's employer, Ivy. Although she had never met him, she became convinced that Ethan would show up at her door one day and tell her that he wanted only her, and refused to date in high school or even to go to school functions or dances for fear of missing Ethan's visit. The show picked up the summer before Theresa's senior year of high school.
Theresa began a brief relationship with Ethan Crane in the fall of 2000. They were engaged to be married Christmas Eve of that year, and remained so even after Ethan learned he was Sam Bennett's son and turned his back on the Crane fortune, changing his surname to Winthrop. Theresa promised her mother that she would not sleep with Ethan before the wedding, and the two kept that promise until the eve of their wedding, when they decided that they weren't technically breaking their promise because it was after midnight. The wedding was interrupted when Ethan's enraged mother, Ivy Winthrop, crashed her car into the church before they could take their vows and produced a tabloid claiming that Theresa had sent the information on Ethan's paternity to the tabloids (the information had actually been sent from Theresa's computer by her rival Gwen Hotchkiss and Gwen's mother, Rebecca). Ethan didn't believe the tabloids and told Theresa that, but Theresa fled to Bermuda, determined to find Julian and convince him to adopt Ethan and make him the Crane heir any way she had to.
After weeks in Bermuda (which the show originally purported was only two days, but later had to revise for storyline consistency), Theresa returned home to Harmony and resumed her relationship with Ethan. He was furious to learn she had drunkenly married Julian, but forgave her on the condition that she stop lying to him. She soon learned she was pregnant but lied to Ethan about it when she signed the annulment papers. Although she had initially planned to pass the baby off as Ethan's, she soon realized that he would know she was not far enough along for it to have been his child (it was this plot that necessitated the Bermuda timeline revision), and she briefly considered having an abortion. Unfortunately, Ethan learned of her pregnancy, like her marriage, in yet another tabloid reveal, and broke things off with her because he couldn't trust her.
Although Theresa continued to pursue Ethan with varying degrees of success, they were never able to get their romance back on track. He wed Gwen Hotchkiss in 2003 when he found out he had impregnated her. In early 2004, Theresa declared that she was over Ethan, and took a trip to Los Angeles to absent herself from Gwen and Ethan's relationship during Gwen's problem pregnancy -- but as it turned out, Ethan and Gwen were already there to see a surrogacy specialist. While Gwen was in the hospital, Ethan and Theresa shared a few kisses; they were caught on camera, and Gwen ended up seeing them from her hospital bed on the evening news! Gwen and Theresa had an encounter at the apartment complex that evening that led to Gwen and Ethan's daughter being stillborn. ^[1]
After they all returned to Harmony, Rebecca formulated a plan to take Little Ethan away from Theresa. Little Ethan was eventually adopted by Ethan and Gwen. To get her son back, Theresa drugged and kidnapped Ethan and Gwen's surrogate Heather Downs and had herself implanted with Gwen and Ethan's fertilized embryo. She planned to trade the baby for Little Ethan. When Theresa believed she lost the baby, she initially tried to get Fox Crane to impregnate her, but he refused. Knowing she had only a small window, she stole a date rape drug from Eve Russell and slipped it into Ethan's wine, then dressed up like Gwen and snuck into his bed. Ethan has always assumed that the night was completely consensual, as Theresa has continued to lie to him about drugging him.
Thereafter, Theresa was pregnant with a strange set of twins -- one presumably belonged to Ethan and Gwen, and the other to Ethan and Theresa. After the baby girl was born, Theresa shocked Gwen (who believed she was the child's biological mother) with the news that the child might be hers, and that she had no intent on giving her up no matter who the biological mother was. DNA tests were performed on the newborn to establish both paternity and maternity, and Ethan and Theresa were confirmed to be the biological parents of Jane. Ethan's intent was to sue Theresa for custody of Jane, but after Gwen kidnapped Jane and stabbed Theresa, Ethan offered to let Theresa have the baby if she would stop the war with Gwen and not press charges.
After she pressed charges and Ethan realized it was because she was hoping that he would leave Gwen for her, Ethan went ahead with his original plans to sue for custody of his daughter. Gwen was acquitted in court after Eve testified to the court that her break from reality had been brought on by drug interactions and that Gwen could not be held responsible for her actions, and the judge awarded temporary custody to Gwen and Ethan, in part due to her concern over how Jane was conceived. Gwen and Ethan later had Theresa stripped of visitation rights and made plans to move out of the country with Jane, which Theresa foiled by again blackballing Ethan career-wise.
Unfortunately, Theresa's inability to get past her need to have sole custody of Jane, once the situation had stabilized, in combination with the unsavory details of Jane's conception, led to Ethan and Gwen successfully winning custody of Jane later that year, after which time Theresa insisted she would never forgive Ethan.
Theresa wed Alistair Crane in 2005 after he promised to help her get back her daughter Jane, and because she wanted access to the Crane mansion itself, where she believed she could uncover information that would clear her name in regards to her wedding day tabloid scandal.
Unbeknownst to Theresa, Harmony's arch villain had plans to use her, as well; she signed a pre-nuptial agreement in which she consented to sexual relations with him (her later attempts to renege led to her being repeatedly raped in the fall of 2005) and she also signed her consent to Alistair's adoption of her son, Little Ethan, who would become the new Crane heir, to be molded in Alistair's image.
Unable to leave her son despite Ethan's offers to help her escape, Theresa made the best out of her situation, frantically fantasizing about the man she loved while the elderly Alistair used her body (and while, on one notable occasion, her rival Gwen prevented Ethan from stopping Alistair from raping Theresa). She eventually began repeated attempts to murder Alistair, one of which attempts went horribly awry when Ethan consumed the poison intended for Alistair and went into a coma.
Both during her husband's coma (which he faked as part of a trick to lure Harmony residents to Rome) and since his supposed July 2006 demise in Italy (where his train was struck by a missile), Theresa assumed control of Crane Industries on behalf of her son. She's used Alistair's money and power to mixed ends--bribing and blackmailing employers to prevent Ethan from getting a job and to trap Gwen in one, but also shoring up Crane fiscally, attempting to make the company both stronger and fairer as her son's inheritance.
There remains some question as to the extent to which Theresa would have power at Crane were it publicly known that her child is not Julian Crane's son, but Ethan Winthrop's, a question complicated by Alistair Crane having legally adopted the boy.
Jared Casey was the new guy in town in July/August 2006 when he set his eyes on Theresa. Jared first met Theresa when she spilled her drink on Jared at the Blue Note night club. Jared became irate and began to argue with Theresa. Later he apologized and asked Theresa to dance; she agreed in order to annoy Gwen by making Ethan jealous. The two had a tense early relationship, with Jared repeatedly making claims and remarks that Theresa perceived as being chauvinistic, materialistic, or otherwise intolerant, a fact which was complicated by Jared's failure to recognize Theresa as the CEO of Crane Industries; but, once the case of mistaken identity was overcome, he gradually proved to her that she had been oversensitive. She gave him a chance to help her move on from Ethan, as well as what had been earmarked as Ethan's job as head legal counsel at Crane Industries, and he gave her romance, attention, and the pet name "Tess," which she initially didn't care for.
The arc of their relationship from the time they met in the late summer 2006, until Jared proposed to Theresa at Kay and Fox's wedding around New Year's 2007, was characterized by Theresa's conviction that Jared would be the man who finally allowed her to get over Ethan Winthrop. However, Ethan's jealousy of Jared and conviction that the man was a liar and a criminal who was hiding a significant secret led to Ethan's frequent interference in Theresa's relationship with her new beau; Jared, in that time, broke off his relationship with "Tess" multiple times, believing she was still pining for her old flame.
Recently, Jared and Theresa's relationship was cemented with their marriage, but all is much more complicated than it seems to Jared Casey (see "2007" section below).
In January 2007, Harmony's "Nightstalker" (who is presumed to be the same entity alternately referred to as "the peeping tom," "the rapist," "the blackmailer," and "the half-man/half-woman") put Ethan in a potion-induced trance, whereupon Ethan drove across town, crawled into bed with Theresa and began making love to her in the darkness. The pair were caught by Jared and Gwen; Gwen decided to leave Ethan and filed for divorce, while Jared, believing Theresa's claim that, in the darkness, she'd believed she was making love to him and not Ethan, insisted that Theresa file sexual assault charges. When Theresa refused, Jared left her, accurately perceiving that she still had feelings for her ex.
Shortly thereafter, Ethan and Jane moved into the Crane mansion with Theresa, and Theresa and Ethan discussed starting anew with one another now that they were both free. With Gwen out of the picture, Theresa prepared to tell Ethan the truth--that her son was also his, and not Julian Crane's.
The idyll, however, was short-lived; Theresa realized she needed her son's Crane status to hold onto the money and resources necessary to save her brothers' lives, as the blackmailer, who had framed Theresa's brothers for crimes they were innocent of, used his knowledge of Theresa's secret and the power he had over her brothers' futures to coerce her into leaving Ethan--whom the blackmailer wants for himself--and marrying Jared.
Theresa stalled, making desperate efforts to recover the evidence of her secret, hiring manipulative tabloid reporter Vincent Clarkson, and even telling Jared that she was being blackmailed and enlisting his help. Jared made contact with mysterious "old friends," entering what he cryptically described as a "deal with the devil" to try to help her, but ended up getting shot in the abdomen, probably by the blackmailer, for his efforts.
Eventually, Theresa was out of options, and was coerced into marrying Jared and attempting to conceive his child, much to Ethan's dismay. Jared remains ignorant about his bride's lack of enthusiasm about their marriage and family, and also doesn't know that Ethan and Theresa have continued their affair, with Ethan repeatedly insisting that Theresa will divorce Jared as soon as he manages to exonerate her brothers and reveal the blackmailer's identity; because Ethan and Theresa have repeatedly ignored the blackmailer's demand that they stay away from one another, they've been violently attacked multiple times, including Ethan having been tied naked to a chair and molested, Theresa being threatened at knifepoint, Ethan nearly being pressed to death between two walls, and Ethan and Theresa being trapped inside the burning Crane Mausoleum.
Presently, Theresa finds herself in an unenviable position, wanting both to help her brothers and to protect her secret, in part because she doesn't trust Ethan to forgive her for keeping the secret when he finds out. Despite Theresa's secret and the fact that both she and Ethan remain married to other people, Theresa accepted Ethan's proposal of marriage on June 27 2007; upon finding out about her continued relationship with Ethan, Jared gracefully bowed out of the picture and wished Theresa every happiness, while Ethan's wife, Gwen, has also signed her divorce papers.
Increasingly, Theresa's refusal to tell Ethan her secret seems more motivated by fear of his reaction than fear of the blackmailer or fear for her brothers. Her situation is complicated by the fact that as many people in Harmony know her secret as don't; while Ethan remains in the dark, people who know that he is Little Ethan's father include Whitney, Pilar, Chad, Julian, Eve, Father Lonigan, Luis, Jared, Vincent, and, perhaps most pressingly for Theresa (who is being encouraged on all fronts to tell Ethan the truth), Gwen and Rebecca, who have committed to using Theresa's secret to destroy her relationship with Ethan.
Theresa finally married Ethan on August 20, 2007. Gwen tried to stop the wedding and honeymoon by telling Ethan the truth but was stopped by Alistair who wants to keep Little Ethan's real paternity a secret to protect his corporate interests. Alistair has other plans for revenge on Theresa.
On August 29, 2007, Theresa finally revealed to Ethan that he has a son after he was hospitalised eating poison strawberries that Alistair, who revealed he was not dead after all, had left for her. And the next day Theresa was told by a nurse that she believed that Ethan could indeed hear everything Theresa said. Theresa tested that by asking Ethan to squeeze her hand, which he did.

Quotes

Theresa's Marital Status

Theresa has legally been married to Alistair Crane since October 3, 2005. Alistair was declared legally dead in 2006 and Theresa went on to remarry twice, to Jared Casey in April 2007 and Ethan Winthrop in August 2007. Even though, both marriages were legal at the time of the union, they are legally invalid due to Alistair Crane being alive. Alistair and Theresa never had any legal form of dissolving their marriage. As stated by Rebecca on the August 23, 2007, episode, "if Alistair's not dead, then Theresa's marriage to Ethan is not legal. She is a bigamist." ^[2]

Family

Marital Status

★ Alistair Crane - (married; October 3,2005 - presently)

Marriages

★ Julian Crane (August 14 2001 - March 25 2003; invalid)

★ Jared Casey (April 2 2007 - July 30 2007; invalid)

★ Ethan Winthrop (married August 20 2007; invalid)

Children

★ Ethan Lopez-Fitzgerald Crane (son, born June 21 2002, with Ethan; adopted by Alistair in 2005)

★ Jane Winthrop (daughter, born December 2 2004, with Ethan)

Parents

★ Martin Fitzgerald (father)

★ Pilar Lopez-Fitzgerald (mother)

Siblings

★ Antonio Lopez-Fitzgerald (brother; deceased)

★ Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald (brother)

★ Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald (brother)

★ Paloma Lopez-Fitzgerald (sister)

Grandparents

★ Brian Fitzgerald (grandfather, via Martin)

★ ''unnamed'' O'Leary (grandmother, via Martin)

★ Antonio Lopez (grandfather, via Pilar)

★ Maria (grandmother, via Pilar)

Uncles and aunts

★ Florencia Lopez (aunt, via Antonio and Maria)

★ Francisco Lopez (uncle, via Antonio and Maria)

★ Maria Lopez (aunt, via Antonio and Maria)

Nephews and nieces

★ Marty Lopez-Fitzgerald (nephew, via Luis)

★ Maria Lopez-Fitzgerald (niece, via Miguel)

References

1. Seen on-air from September 25, 2003, through September 29, 2003, and continued on October 7, 2003, and October 8, 2003.
2. Seen on-air and discussed in episodes that aired between August 23, 2007, and August 29, 2007.