Asher Thomas (Larry Poindexter)

'Dr. Asher Thomas, was a fictional character on the ABC daytime soap opera, General Hospital''. He was portrayed by actor Larry Poindexter.

Storylines
Dr. Asher Thomas first appears on-screen in 2005 as a psychiatrist at General Hospital. He is assigned to Michael Corinthos III's case after Michael's biological father A.J. Quartermaine kidnapped him, and later died by being smothered to death with a pillow. At first there is suspicion that Michael may have killed A.J., and Dr. Thomas uses hypnosis to try to bring back Michael's memory of that evening.

Some are skeptical of Dr. Thomas, especially Michael's uncle Jason Morgan. Dr. Thomas was one of Jason's doctors ten years earlier after he was in a car accident, and it is shown through various flashbacks that in 1996, A.J. hired Dr. Thomas to kill Jason while he was in a coma after the accident. The plan failed but A.J. had been blackmailing him ever since. A final flashback shows Dr. Thomas smothering A.J. to end the blackmail.

When Michael remembers him as the killer in one of his sessions, Dr. Thomas uses hypnosis to make him believe Rachel Adair was the killer, another doctor at the hospital whose body had recently been found with a suicide note. Jason is not convinced Rachel killed A.J. and is still suspicious of Dr. Thomas. He uses an experimental drug to try to regain his memory of when Dr. Thomas was treating him after his accident.

Slowly Jason, Sam McCall, Sonny Corinthos and Reese Marshall begin to put the pieces together and realize that A.J. hired Dr. Thomas to kill Jason and that Dr. Thomas killed A.J. and Rachel. They confront Dr. Thomas, who tries to make an escape by holding Sam hostage holding a syringe to her neck. Right before he reaches a helicopter he injects Sam and makes a run for it. However Jason arrives just in time to rush Sam to the hospital. Meanwhile Dr. Thomas enters the Quartermaine mansion and ties Alan Quartermaine to a chair and tells Monica Quartermaine to get him out of town. Jason arrives and Dr. Thomas grabs Monica hostage, but Jason is able to shoot Dr. Thomas in the heart and he dies.

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