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 Dr.
Grant Jameson appears for the first time in the beginning of November
1990, at Kelly Capwell's bedside, victim of a fall in staircases.
Faithful friend of C.C. Capwell's, it is him who has the responsibility
to announce to Kelly that she is paralyzed and risks to be never able to
walk again. He brings however the idea that her paralysis problems are
maybe more psychological than really physical. In spite of the trust
that the Capwells have for him for years, he disappears from the screen
after some episodes, to reappear only in July of the next year, this
time with a much shadier personality...
While
we thought he was a general practitioner, here he is responsible for the
psychiatric ward of the Santa Barbara hospital, where Santana Andrade is
treated for several years. This latter, feeling victim of an exaggerated
medicalization and prisoner of the doctor, calls in for help to her old
friend Warren Lockridge, who comes at her bedside. As he forbids Santana
any visit, as well of her mother Rosa as of Warren, Dr. Jameson seems to
consolidate the charges this latter lays against him. Indeed, it seems
that helped by a faithful nurse, Dr. Grant Jameson takes pleasure to
give drugs to his patients and to keep them unwillingly in his service
without reason, just for financial motives. Even Dash Nichols, who
temporarily comes to work with him during his community work, notices
anything, and believes in the professionalism of this old experienced
doctor appreciated by all.
While
one evening Santana succeeds in stopping alone her treatment and in
escaping from the hospital, Dr. Grant Jameson finds her along a deserted
road. He rushes at top speed against her with his car to knock her down,
and hides her body in bushes. He joins then a party in his honor
organized in the Oasis, without suspecting that Santana survived and was
driven to the hospital. When she recovers, this latter resumes her
accusations against the doctor, and draws this time the listening of her
friend Cruz Castillo and the lawyer Julia Wainwright, who both agree to
help her. No much time is needed so that a witness who saw Dr. Jameson
knocking Santana down is found, and so that a trial can open against him.
It
is Mason Capwell who takes his defense, convinced as the rest of his
family by the innocence of the doctor. Santana stands firm, and
testifies in the court without sure proofs can however confirm her
accusations. The manipulation that Michael Donnelly exercises on the
nurse accomplice of the doctor led this latter to appear in court, while
Dr. Jameson is called as a witness. In front of his accomplice, Grant
Jameson goes to pieces and understands that he cannot continue to lie
any more. Struck by a impulse of honesty filled with remorse, he
suddenly makes a confession and recognizes his guilt, while apologizing
to Santana and to the other patients whom he mistreated.
The
storyline around Dr. Jameson so comes to an end as so fast and abrupt as
it had begun. It is clear that it especially aimed at offering a
comeback in the show to Santana and at making Warren play her valiant
knight. The fact remains that the intentions of Dr. Grant Jameson would
have deserved to be less abstruse and his personality, very fluctuating,
better drawn...
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