| Portrayer |
Lori
Hallier |
| First
Appearance |
April
13,
1990
Episode
#1439 |
| Last
appearance |
June
4,
1990
Episode
#1475 |
| Occupation |
Nurse |
| Father |
Frank
Pressman |
| Romances |
Ethan
Asher |
| Episode
count |
16 |
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Shannon
Pressman was a
fictional
character
who appeared on Santa
Barbara from
April to
June 1990. She
was
portrayed by
actress Lori
Hallier.
Introduction
When Ethan
Asher,
the District
Attorney of
Santa
Barbara, recuperated
at home from
his
near-fatal
car
accident, he
was
surprised
when nurse Shannon
Pressman
arrived at
his door.
Shannon
explained that she had
been hired
by his old
friend, Craig
Hunt,
to take care
of Ethan. Before long,
Ethan found
himself
highly
attracted to
Shannon, and
the feeling
was mutual.
After a few
weeks, they
kissed for
the first
time.
Ethan's
deranged wife, Laura
Asher,
was in a
sanitarium
at the time
and plotted
to kill
Ethan. She
secretly put poison
in his tea
tin, but
Shannon
wound up
throwing the
tea out.
Determined
to kill
Ethan once
and for all, Laura
sent her
crazy
roommate, Annie,
to throw a
radio into
Ethan's bath,
but
Shannon's
presence
thwarted
Annie's
attempt at
electrocution.
Annie then
poisoned
Ethan's
cognac, but
Shannon
drank it
instead and
collapsed.
Ethan found
Shannon and
got her to
the hospital,
where she
quickly
recovered.
Annie was
caught
rigging a
bomb in
Ethan's
house by
Shannon,
Craig Hunt and the
police.
Laura's
guilt was
also proven.
The
Pressman
case
Shannon
confided in
Ethan that
she was the
daughter of
Frank
Pressman, a
man
convicted of
killing a
little girl
named Cassandra
Benedict
twenty years
before.
Although the
past was
painful for
Shannon,
Ethan told
her about
his belief
that her
father was
innocent of
murder.
Shannon
reluctantly
agreed to
look at the
court
transcript
and was
mortified
when she
realized
that her
mother had
lied about
her father
on the
stand,
sending him
to death row.
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Shannon
was
Ethan's
nurse
after
his
accident.
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Now
convinced of
her father's
innocence,
Shannon
visited him
in prison.
He was
unreceptive
to her
apologies,
however, and
left her
in tears.
Soon after,
Shannon was
distraught
when her
request for
a stay of
execution
for her
father was
denied.
Meanwhile, Ethan,
Craig Hunt, Derek
Griffin
and Stephen
Slade
believed
that one of
the Capwells
was Cassandra
Benedict's
real killer.
They had
grown up
with Cassie
in the
orphanage
and were
determined
to avenge
her death.
Ethan
brought
Shannon to a
Capwell
dinner
party, which
was also
attended by
the other
men, and
planted a
tape
recorder in
hopes of
snaring a
confession.
The party
became a
disaster
when Ethan
outright accused
the Capwells
of
Cassie's
murder.
Afterwards,
Shannon
visited the
Capwells to
retrieve the
tape
recorder for
Ethan.
Ethan
and Shannon
made love.
She shared a
touching
reunion with
her father
when he was
finally
released
from prison.
That was the
last time we
saw Shannon.
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