Swan's Crossing was a TV show that featured a character named Sara who was extremely manipulative.
Sarah Michelle Gellar's character, Sydney Rutledge, was the daughter of the woman mayor of Swan's Crossing. Various incredible intrigues, some involving spies in a submarine and others pitting various preteens against one another as they competed for the boys or girls on whom they had momentary romantic crushes, fueled the plots, such as they were.
