Zander Smith and Dr. Emily Quartermaine are fictional characters and a former married couple from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
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In 2000, Zander Smith worked at a local rave club and sold drugs to young kids for mobster Joseph Sorel. One night Emily Quartermaine attended the club and was drugged. She woke up in a hotel room with a dead undercover cop named Ted next to her.
At first, it was believed that Zander was responsible for Ted's death because he had been in the room that night, but Zander had actually prevented Sorel's men from killing Emily as well. When evidence was planted in Zander's car, he got scared and grabbed a frightened Emily at gunpoint and drove away.
While on the run, Zander and Emily fell in love. Her brother Jason Morgan tracked them down and Emily pleaded with him not to kill Zander. She told her brother that Zander didn't kill the cop and that Sorel was behind it. Jason let him go but told him not to come back. But Zander did come back to Port Charles to see Emily because he couldn't stay away from her. He wanted her to run away with him but she knew she couldn't leave her family. Instead, she convinced him to turn himself into the cops since he hadn't actually killed anyone. He agreed to it but brothers Nikolas Cassadine and Lucky Spencer saw them talking in Rice Park and attacked Zander. Despite Emily's protests, they called the cops and Zander went to jail.
Emily's family hated Zander and tried everything to keep the two apart. When they shipped her off to boarding school, Zander went after her and they came back to Port Charles to live together. So her grandfather Edward Quartermaine faked an assault on himself and claimed Zander was responsible. Zander was arrested and Emily broke up with him as part of deal with Edward to get the charges against Zander dropped. Everyone eventually found out what Edward did and Zander was released.
She moved in with Zander above Kelly's against her family's wishes. He even took Emily to her prom in style and the two made love that night for the first time. Emily's jealous sister, Skye Chandler-Quartermaine, set them up to get rid of Zander. The scheme got out of control and their bus crashed into a train and Emily was temporarily paralyzed. After another attempt was made by Sorel to kill them, Zander begged Emily's parents to send her away to rehab and not tell him where they were sending her in order to keep her safe.
Soon after, Emily returned to Port Charles, and Zander's arms. When Zander caught Emily injecting herself with something, he convinced her to get help. But he didn't realize that she was really taking alternative medication for breast cancer treatment. As her treatment failed, Emily pushed him away, not wanting him to see her die. She dumped Zander and claimed to be in love with Prince Nikolas Cassadine. Zander was blindsided, and found comfort in Gia's arms.
Upon learning the truth, Zander rushed to her side. By this point, he and Nikolas were both in love with her, but they managed to remain civil as she fought for her life. Certain she was going to die, Emily married Zander at her hospital bedside. But she recovered and they moved into Nikolas' old cottage. They tried hard to be happy, but Zander eventually had to face that Emily was truly in love with Nikolas, and had only married him out of guilt.
He demanded that Emily make a choice: Nikolas or Zander. Although she chose Zander at first, Emily could not ignore her feelings for Nikolas. Zander realized this and broke it off before she could leave him. But after some encouragement from Nikolas' ex-fiance Gia Campbell, Zander decided to try to fight for Emily. On Halloween night, Zander found Emily in the arms of Nikolas, making love at the cottage.
Devastated, Zander fell into bed twice with the married Elizabeth Webber. Zander finalized his divorce to Emily with few words but later shed tears over the loss of Emily - not knowing that Elizabeth was hiding that she was now pregnant by him.
Zander later tried to convince Emily that he still loved her. But Nikolas came on the scene and right in front of her Zander threatened to kill Nikolas. In a scuffle over the gun, Zander got shot in the leg. His father, Dr. Cameron Lewis, and the teenage Maxie Jones who crushed on him, helped him get medical help and hid him in the basement of the Port Charles Hotel. When the PCPD came to arrest him, sub-standard and faulty wiring caused a fire, burning down the hotel, supposedly killing Zander.
Emily felt guilty and distraught over Zander's death. A few days later Ric Lansing, Elizabeth, Emily, and Nikolas all received letters from Zander courtesy of a lawyer. Each letter accused the person's significant other of killing Zander. The two couples spent the next few weeks trying to figure out who killed Zander.
Soon, evidence began to surface that Zander might still be alive. Emily saw him everywhere she went, but she figured she was only hallucinating. She went to the cottage she had shared with Zander in order to say goodbye. Instead she found Zander in the flesh. Zander told Emily that he loved her and they should be together. But Emily realized that Zander was mentally unstable. He took her hostage and demanded that she make love to him. He found he couldn't force her after she refused. When S.W.A.T. arrived, Emily tried to soothe Zander and convince him to give himself up, and he finally agreed to walk outside with her. Once outside, Zander pushed Emily away and made a move like he was reaching for a gun. The cops then opened fire and Zander died in Emily's arms.
