Gordon Page is a major villain in The Resident, being the main antagonist of Season 2. He was the immoral owner of the QuoVadis company and the second villain of the show. He was portrayed by Michael Weston.
Biography[]
As a young man, Page worked as an intern for a company that illegally imported medical devices from China, at least one of which was defective and deadly to its owner. He eventually created the medical device company QuoVadis, where he sold medical devices to hospitals and the military that he insisted were proven safe. The devices were implemented by Chastain Park Memorial Hospital to treat Henry Barnett, a young boy with a seizure disorder. However, another of Page's devices caused a patient to lose his life.
As Page's plans progressed, QuoVadis representative Julian Booth discovered that he was committing blatant fraud by importing his devices from China, repackaging them as being created in the United States and then selling them. When Julian tried to expose him to an FDA agent, the agent instead alerted Page, an old friend from college, and Page confronted Julian. Page revealed himself to be immoral, showing no remorse for his blatant fraud or the lives his devices were threatening or taking. He only cared about the money he was making off of them. After firing Julian, Page had his henchmen run her off the road into a river, resulting in her disappearance. Page then made sure that Dr. Devon Pravesh didn't know anything and attempted to frame him for Julian's disappearance.
As QuoVadis prepared to install its devices into hundreds of soldiers, Henry Barnett became ill again and Page ordered Doctor Randolph Bell to handle it quietly. However, Henry had a very public collapse and it was discovered that the VNS device was stopping Henry's heart every three minutes. Doctor Conrad Hawkins managed to deactivate the device and save Henry, but Page was undeterred. To stop from being exposed, Page successfully bribed Henry's mother Zoey into silence by paying for Henry's future medical care. As the surgeries began, Doctor Abe Benedict considered betraying QuoVadis by revealing damning information to his former protégé Dr. AJ Austin, but was foiled by Page's bodyguards and Austin being busy in surgery. However, Marshall Winthrop's investigators were able to find a source within QuoVadis which provided him with proof of Page's fraud. With the proof, both the military and Chastain publicly pulled their contracts with Page and ended the surgeries, leaving him disgraced.
After being exposed, Page was contacted by Marshall who offered to buy out QuoVadis to save the company as he had done many times before and made himself and everyone involved wealthy in the process. Page had Benedict attacked in an attempt to silence him through murder disguised as suicide, but he was found by Austin. Page rejected Marshall's original offer as he had found another investor in Howard Loomis, but Marshall convinced Loomis to back off. Page later met with Marshall, unaware that Marshall was working with the FBI and wearing a wire. Marshall attempted to make a deal to buy QuoVadis while Page could use the money to run, but Page refused and suggested that he could start over and had done so in the past. Marshall bluffed that Benedict was awake and talking which would cause the authorities to soon arrive.
When Page demanded to talk to Benedict, Marshall called Conrad, reaching him shortly after the doctors had managed to stabilize Benedict and wake him up long enough to get the clue "Sever" out of him. Hearing that panicked Page enough that Marshall managed to provoke him into confessing to Benedict's attempted murder. Page realized too late that Marshall's watch was in fact an FBI wire and attempted to flee with Marshall held captive. As a shootout erupted in QuoVadis between Page's bodyguards and the FBI, Page fled, getting into a high speed chase with the police. The chase ended when Page flipped his car several times causing it to explode, killing him.
In the aftermath of Page's death, QuoVadis fell. Julian was revealed to have survived Page's attempt on her life and hid out for a time before Marshall found and convinced her to turn over the evidence she had gathered, starting with the takedown of QuoVadis. Marshall decided to buy out QuoVadis to rebuild it as a medical device company that actually cared about and helped its patients. During a meeting with Julian in the ruins of QuoVadis, Marshall revealed that the reason Page panicked so much when Sever was mentioned was because Sever was a study where twenty patients were implanted with VNS devices and only five of them survived. Sever proved to be the final blow that destroyed QuoVadis after it was exposed.