"Tainted Love" Diary 86 (c) Alison Armstrong
An analysis of the "Tainted Love" episodes of the show "Port Charles," formerly of ABC-TV. This site will focus on the scenes featuring the vampire character
Caleb Morley (portrayed by actor Michael Easton). The character of Caleb Morley and any other characters relating to Port Charles are the property of ABC and
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As Livvie sacrifices herself in orgasmic surrender to Caleb's fatal allure, Alison despairingly prepares to perform
her own sacrifice for Jack. Holding a knife in her hands, she places the blade against her wrist, ready to cut her
arm so that Jack may be nourished with her life-giving blood. Alison's tear-spattered face and Jack' contorted
grimaces of agony contrast with Livvie's moans of dangerous pleasure and Caleb's sighs of sexual arousal.
When Livvie gives Caleb life, she is also reborn. Her rapture as Caleb drinks from her is like that of a saint in
ecstasy, reminiscent of Bernini's sculpture featuring St.Theresa being pierced by an angel's divine shaft of
illuminating bliss. The feel of Caleb's fangs penetrating her flesh, his hungry lips suckling at her neck, delivers her
into a realm of unparalleled pleasure.
Snappies of
"Tainted
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"Olivia," Caleb sighs in ravenous need, as he pauses momentarily, his mouth bloodstained, his eyes full of
desperate longing.
"Yes, Caleb. Yes," Livvie sighs at the riverbank, while Jack, in the cave, perhaps sensing Livvi's betrayal, screams
"No!"
"Drink, my love," Livvie gasps. "Oh, I never dreamed it would feel this way."
"Sweet, Olivia," Caleb pants.
"Please, don't let go," Livvie begs.
"Not so fast," Caleb softly cautions.
"More. Please, Caleb," Livvie urges.
"You leave it to me," Caleb murmurs. "Leave it all to me."
"Always," she whispers.
"It's all waiting for us, a lifetime of power," Caleb promises. "A magical, limitless world where every wish will be
granted, a love forevermore with a family."
"Our family," Livvie repeats.
"This is our moment, Olivia," he vows. "Our moment, and no one can ever take it away from us. No one.
Olivia," he sighs as he bites her again.
"Caleb, don't stop," she pleads.
"I don't want to hurt you," he says, pausing, his eyes suddenly sad with concern.
"You are so far away from hurting me, you don't know," Livvie moans. "It feels like I'm somewhere else. I feel
so happy. Oh. Yes. Caleb, yes."
As Caleb sinks his fangs once more into her throat, Livvie is transported to the Villa, Caleb's enchanted palace of
pleasure and endless possibility. Whereas Jack and Alison are rescued by Jamal, Jack's violent impulses
temporarily tamed, Livvie is, in a sense, liberated by her impulses, propelled by them into a world of sensory
experience beyond human imagining.
"You look beautiful," Caleb says admiringly as he gazes at his reborn bride in her wedding gown, the former
Livvie Locke now forever to be Olivia Morley in her heart and soul.
"How?" Livvie asks, in wonder.
"This place exists in your heart and mind," Caleb explains. "It's where we want to be. Our home."
"But I thought Michael killed you," Livvie replies.
"Don't worry, my love. The good father will get what' s coming to him," Caleb smirks sweetly.
"I felt so lost in this world without you," Livvie tells him.
"Your sacrifice proves what I told you the night we first met," Caleb reminds her.
"You're my future," Livvie says softly.