As the villain among the GH interns, Chris Ramsey is always up to no good -- although his colleagues don't usually know to what extent. Having promised to secure the other interns' research data, Ramsey is now in cahoots with Bennett Devlin, whose wife he once slept with.

"Chris is in a situation that he thinks he has some control over, but it spirals completely out of control," explains writer Scott Hamner. "Once again, he gets himself into terrible trouble that is of his own making."

As we've seen, Chris will do just about anything to win the Quartermaine residency -- recently, he nearly got Matt, Grace and Ellen killed in the process. But as a major event rocks Port Charles in the very near future, Chris' association with Devlin will prove to be very dangerous.

As an actor, North can certainly relate to wanting something badly, he says. But his methods of accomplishing his goals are vastly different from his character's. "I would just work harder than the next guy to get (the Quartermaine residency) and then let the chips fall where they may," North says. "The irony about the character is that he's a very talented doctor, and he's very smart. He probably would win the Quartermaine residency on his own merits, but something in his past has made him insecure, and he's learned that doing these things will give him what he wants, even though he doesn't need to do them."

North got a huge dose of the competitive world as a journalist after college; in fact, he left the field because it bred a negativity he couldn't handle. "I once had someone I interviewed say that I have too much heart to be in the business. I was working in the tough part of New Jersey where 16-year-olds were being shot, and I had to talk to their families," he explains. "It tore me up to be involved in that. In order to be successful in that business, I would have had to desensitize myself to it. For me, it wasn't possible. Of course, Ramsey could," Nolan reflects on his TV counterpart. "Doctors have to. When a body comes in, they're trained to look at it almost like a mechanic would look at an automobile. Then it's, 'Don't ask me to care, but I'll fix you.' The only thing I share with Chris is his sense of humor," North relates. "At least, I hope that's all because he can do some pretty nasty things."

And how! "In the coming months, we're going to be finding out a lot more about Chris," promises head writer Lynn Latham. "We'll explore his background, his family, the way he lived before we met him and what motivates him."