Rebecca Torres

Age: 30

Assistant District Attorney, Cape County

Friends: Sam Davis, Jack Carter, Tyson Emerson

Rebecca is the formerly wild younger sister of Manny Torres. Rebecca and Manny lost their parents when Rebecca was thirteen, and the task fell to Manny to raise Rebecca. Rebecca didn’t make it easy for him. Deeply troubled by the loss of her parents, Rebecca rebelled. She was constantly searching for affection, and acceptance, and a place to belong. She tried to find that with men- lots of them. In high school, Rebecca was considered a tramp, and did her best to live up to the reputation. She got a little scare her junior year when she thought she might be pregnant and didn’t know who the possible father might be. Luckily it was a false alarm and Rebecca wasn’t pregnant, but it was enough for Rebecca to change her ways.

Rebecca became more serious and studious. Manny pressured her to make something of herself, and Rebecca left her family in Mexico and moved to the United States to enroll in college, hoping to make her brother proud. She excelled in college, but after she finished her undergraduate work, she still had no clue what she wanted to with her life. Trying to delay the decision, she enrolled at CCU Law School on a scholarship. Law school was difficult, and she had to study most of the time to keep up her class rank and retain her scholarship. It kept her so busy that Rebecca seldom dated at all.

After passing the Bar, Rebecca found a job with the Cape County DA’s office. She has been working there about 5 years and is really enjoying it, though she sometimes butts heads with her boss, Michael Kelly. She has also developed a rivalry with defense attorney Emily Rutledge, whom she often opposes in the courtroom. Her position at the DA’s office requires her to work closely with CHPD on many cases. She began dating Esteban Alvarez six months ago when they became close after working on a case together. The relationship is starting to get serious, but is sometimes complicated by Rebecca’s close working relationship with Tyson Emerson and Esteban’s jealous streak.