Pierce Dorman
Deceased
Actor History
Bradley White (1996)
Rob Youngblood (1996)
Tuc Watkins (1996 to 1997)
Occupation
Former physician at General Hospital
Resides At
Unknown
Marital Status
Single/Never Been Married
Past Marriages
None
Relatives
None
Children
None
Flings & Affairs
Monica Quartermaine
Marilyn Cooper (deceased)
Rebecca Chase
Crimes Committed
Sued Monica Quartermaine for sexual harassment under false pretenses
Had nurse Marilyn Cooper drug Sonny with heroin
Murdered Marilyn to hide his connection to her
Drug dealing
Got Emily Quartermaine addicted to drugs to get revenge on Monica for breaking up with him
Used Emily's diary to give Quartermaine secrets to the press.
Hid a stash of heroin in the morgue of General Hospital
Maladies and Hospitalizations
Drugged with sodium pentothal by Monica
Brief Character History
Dr. Pierce Dorman is a name that at one time sent shivers down your
spine. Dorman was a man who earned the hatred of anyone he came into
contact with -- eventually. But looks were almost always initially
deceiving, since Dorman had a habit of luring poor unsuspecting women
into one trap or another, just to get himself ahead.
Dr. Dorman debuted in 1995, as a bigoted GH doctor who refused to treat
Stone Cates for HIV. Dorman also lent Damian Smith his winter cabin,
which Damian used to frame Katherine Bell for his murder and skip town.
In 1996, breast cancer had devastated Dr. Monica Quartermaine. She was
in remission, but the unattractiveness that she felt stayed with her.
Unable to face her husband, Dr. Alan Quartermaine, certain he felt
disgusted by her, Monica found herself talking to Dorman, who was a new
surgeon on staff. Dorman found his boss extremely attractive, and began
sending her anonymous gifts, much to Alan's dismay. But Monica was
flattered by the attention that the handsome young doctor paid her. It
was just what her battered ego needed and the two soon became
romantically involved.
While Dorman continued to romance Monica, he also became Alan's doctor,
as Alan's old hand injury acted up, requiring a surgery that Dorman had
perfected. Alan was less than thrilled to have the man he suspected was
sleeping with his wife as his surgeon. Alan wanted Monica back. Like
most affairs in the Quartermaine family, this too was short-lived. It
wasn't long before Alan and Monica reunited. Monica knew she had to
break things off with Dorman, and set out to tell her lover that their
affair was over. Only Dorman refused to let her go! The sweet, caring
man that Monica knew quickly turned violent and Monica feared for her
life, and Alan's, since Dorman was scheduled to perform surgery on
Alan's hand, which would decide the fate of Alan ever being able to
perform surgery again.
In 1997, when threatening to hurt Alan didn't bring Monica back to him, Dorman sued Monica for sexual harassment, alleging that his superior
forced him to have sex with her in exchange for his continued employment
at General Hospital. The Quartermaines, acquainted with scandal, were
rocked by the news of the harassment suit. Suddenly, Monica's sex life
was front-page news, which embarrassed the family, especially Alan and
their teenage daughter Emily. But the Quartermaines weren't about to
give up without a fight.
When Alexis Davis, one of the top litigators in the country, approached
them about the case, Alan and Monica graciously accepted, despite the
fact that she was a member of the diabolical Cassadine family that had
recently returned to Port Charles. In Monica's bitterly contested winter trial, Ned took the stand and was forced to admit an embarrassing truth: that he had a brief affair, years earlier, with Monica at the Green Meadows Spa. The shocking revelation rocked Emily who killed her pain with drugs. A.J. drowned his anger with alcohol and Alan (whose hand had been surgically repaired by Dorman) with pain pills.
Sonny Corinthos was marked by Dorman when Dorman's first accomplice,
Nurse Marilyn Cooper, drugged Sonny with heroin to make it appear as
though Sonny overdosed. As Sonny closed in on Marilyn and was about to
uncover her connection to Dorman, Dorman murdered his devoted lover to
cover his tracks. Things were looking up for the Quartermaines until Dorman played his trump card. The last nail in Monica's coffin was Rebecca Chase, Dorman's sometime-lover, who perjured herself on the witness stand, claiming to have heard Monica tell Dorman that he would lose his job if he didn't
sleep with her. Confronted with an "eyewitness," the jury had no choice,
and Monica was found guilty of sexual harassment.
Monica's son Jason began investigating Dorman's connection to the Port
Charles drug problem. Someone was running drugs in Port Charles against
their wishes and Sonny and Jason didn't believe it was Jax, who stood
accused by the Port Charles Police Department. Sonny and Jason began
tracking Dorman's actions and found that he had some very interesting
South American connections. While Jason and Sonny played detective, Emily reeled from her friend Matt Reynolds's death, and Monica slowly realized who was behind Matt's overdose and Emily's drug problem. Monica reached her breaking point when she realized that Dorman got Emily addicted to drugs to get revenge for Monica breaking things off with him. Monica was ready for a little vengeance of her own. Discovering the depths of Dorman's crimes, Monica captured him and injected him with Sodium Pentothal, and "tried him" for his crimes in a seedy hotel room. In a mock trial, she found her secret
prisoner guilty on all counts and prepared to impose the ultimate
punishment on him - a lobotomy. Jason stopped Monica from killing
Dorman, and Mac arrested him. However, the mayor did not approve of Mac's tactics and fired him as Police Commissioner and released Dorman. Dorman wasn't through with the Quartermaines yet. Next, Dorman leaked Quartermaine family secrets to the press, after reading them from Emily's diary which Matt had stolen for Dorman, his drug dealer.
After Dorman exposed to the press that AJ was responsible for the car
accident that left his brother Jason with severe brain damage, Emily
realized that Dorman found out about AJ from her diary. It was Emily
that had caused her family all this pain -- or so she felt. Emily's
world spiraled out of control as she stumbled down the Quartermaine
staircase. The Quartermaines rushed to General Hospital to be at Emily's side. The family scattered frantically around the hospital, Monica devastated by guilt, Ned trying to protect everyone, AJ drinking, and Alan popping
pills. Sonny and Brenda trailed Dorman to GH, as did Jason, all of whom
were aware Dorman was responsible for Emily's drug problems. Everyone
was at General Hospital when the electricity went off, plunging the
hospital into darkness. Even Emily left her bed and grabbed a scalpel in
the excitement. Dorman went to the morgue to retrieve a stash of heroin
he'd hidden there. But he was not alone in the morgue -- he was stabbed
in the heart with a scalpel!
Dorman had been murdered by one of his South American contacts, a hitman
known as the "Tin Man," who made origami animals out of foil gum
wrappers. The Tin Man set Brenda up to take the fall for Dorman's
murder. Sonny and Jason broke Brenda out of jail and Sonny and Brenda
went on the run. Jason's investigation of the Tin Man pointed Sonny and
Brenda in the direction of Tiger Key Florida. The Tin Man learned what
Jason was doing and tried to kill him and Robin at Mac's house. Jason
was severely wounded, but managed to recover.
Meanwhile, the Tin Man realized that Sonny and Brenda were on the trail
to find who was behind Dorman's murder and the drug trade. Sonny and
Brenda soon discovered that it was Hernando Rivera, Sonny's former
father-in-law, who had been the mastermind. Apparently Rivera had not
died as Sonny had thought, but was ill and wheelchair bound. Rivera
blamed Sonny for the death of his daughter Lily and wanted to kill
Brenda for revenge.
Meanwhile, Jax learned that Brenda had escaped jail and he and his
newfound friend, Officer V Ardanowski, tried to look for her and Sonny.
They managed to track Sonny and Brenda down and helped free them from
Rivera. Sonny wound up shooting Rivera dead and tracked down the Tin Man
only to see him sink into the quicksand of the Florida swamps. Brenda
and Jax discovered a library of video tapes in which Rivera admitted
that he had Dorman killed and was responsible for the drug trade in Port
Charles. The evidence cleared Brenda and made Dorman's name mud. The
fallout over Dorman made it possible for Monica to clear her reputation
and return to her duties at the hospital.
