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 Shannon
Pressman is the home care nurse who comes to the district attorney Ethan
Asher's
apartment, after his accident orchestrated by his wife Laura who tries
to kill him. Hired by friends of Ethan's (Stephen Slade, Derek Griffin
and Craig Hunt), Shannon is in charge for taking care of him.
While
they soon begin to have feelings for one another, Shannon is confronted
with Laura Asher's
murderous madness. It is Shannon who drinks the poisoned tea destined to
Ethan. It is
again Shannon who drinks the poisoned cognac and who will be
driven to the hospital by Ethan. It is still Shannon who thwarts Annie
DeGeralamo's project, came to electrocute Ethan. Finally, it is once
again Shannon who surprises Annie came to put a bomb at the Ashers'
home. During
their relationship, which becomes more and more intimate over time,
Shannon confides in Ethan and admits being the daughter of Frank
Pressman, a death row inmate, convicted for the murder of a little girl
named Cassandra Benedict. Shannon finally believes in the innocence of
her father and discovers that Frank was imprisoned primarily because of
her mother's
false testimony. Convinced of his innocence, like Ethan, Shannon goes to
jail to meet him, but this latter turns to be very cold towards his
daughter. Shannon is deeply hurt by this meeting. However, she does not
lose hope and, helped by Ethan, she requests an appeal to delay her
father's execution. Later,
Shannon meets her father again thanks of the
intervention of Ethan and his allies. These latters, convinced of Frank's
innocence, openly accuse during a party at the Capwell mansion a member
of this family to be Cassandra's murderer. After
a love night with Ethan, Shannon will however leave the town with her
father, as from his release from prison, eager to make up with him all
these years lost for nothing. Portrait
written for this site by Lilian
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