![]() But Ted doesn’t understand how or why he can travel back in time, and each time he returns, Jem is getting thinner. At first, their relationship is a monetary one, but it quickly turns into something neither man is quick to label, drawing Ted back in time again and again searching out Jem just to be with him. The lad’s name is Jem and he’s a local whore who has mistaken Ted for competition. Then amidst the horse carriages and people rushing by Piccadiily Square, Ted sees a beautiful young man leaning nonchalantly against a lamppost whose very face beckons Ted away from the theatre doorway. With its dim lamps for street lights and sooty air, the sights and sounds of a 1800’s London surrounds him and Ted starts to wonder if the accident had not caused more damage to his brain than had been acknowledged. One night during a production at the Criterion Theatre, Ted slips out the backdoor to grab a smoke and steps back in time into Victorian London. When stressed, one the of the things that helps to calm Ted is smoking. ![]() ![]() ![]() The crash has left Ted with some permanent physical issues as well as emotional ones, his hand shakes and his voice and speech changes under duress. Devastated and scarred from the car accident that killed his husband and parents, Ted Ennis decides to work as a theatre assistant at the Criterion Theatre for his friend Rob,the manager of the theatre, rather than return to the bankers job he held prior to the accident and his disability. ![]()
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