Frank Rausch

**Frank Rausch** is a fictional character in the ABC daytime drama *General Hospital*.

He was portrayed by Scott Hamm in 2006. Hamm returned in 2022 as a gunman named Eric.

## Storylines

In January 2006, Brook Lynn has dinner with Lucas who tells her he is gay. She plans to meet a friend named Frank at Jake's. While there, Dillon, Georgie, and Brook Lynn convince Lucas to play a game of pool with Frank. Lucas ends up alone with Frank, who seems interested in him. It is later revealed that Frank asked Lucas out for pizza and said he would drive there. But they never made it to the pizza place and ended up in the park. Frank hit Lucas with a lead pipe and started calling him derogatory names. When Lucas fell to the ground, Frank kept kicking him. Georgie and Dillon later find Lucas badly beaten.

Jesse decides to go undercover as a lonely gay man to lure Frank into another attack.

Later Lucas attacks Frank at Coleman's. After punching him several times, Jesse breaks them up and Frank realizes Jesse is a cop. Frank says he is pressing charges and is taken along with Lucas to the PCPD by Lucky. Once there, Frank outs Lucas to Lucky, but Lucas still won't admit he is gay until Bobbie comes to visit him. After seeing how Bobbie is shocked, Lucas assumes she is disappointed and runs out the door. Jesse wants to go after Frank, but Bobbie tells him to wait until she speaks with her son.

On March 8, Frank whispered something to Guy who is working as a waiter at the Metro Court Restaurant. Lucas, Lulu, and Dillon suddenly heard a loud crashing noise outside of Kelly’s. They find Frank beating up Guy in the alley. Lucas confronted him and Dillon threatened Frank with a baseball bat if Frank didn’t leave.

Lucas, Lulu, and Dilon took Guy to the hospital. Lucas didn't think Guy should say anything about Frank but Guy wanted Frank charged with assault or for a hate crime. Liz took Guy to get stitches in his forehead. Guy planned to press charges at the police station. Lucas admitted that Frank had attacked him too for being gay and he hadn’t pressed charges. Guy headed to the station and Lucas agreed to go with.

Lucas and Guy made statements against Frank who denied their accusations and threatened Lucas. Frank got a high-powered lawyer and fought the hate crime charges. He claimed Lucas and Guy came onto him and he was forced to defend himself. Later Lainey did a psychiatric evaluation on Lucas and walked in to do one on Frank. He says he isn’t letting a black woman do an evaluation on him and she should bring a white man back in. Justus overhears what Frank is saying and Frank accuses him of sleeping with Lainey. Justus pins Frank to the table and starts to strangle him. Jesse comes in and pulls Justus off of Frank who complains about the attack. Jesse says he will file a full report and closes the door.

## Crimes Committed

* Gaybashing; hit Lucas in the head with a lead pipe and kicked him when he fell to the ground [offscreen; Jan 17, 2006; details revealed on Mar 10, 2006]
* Punched Lucas in the stomach [Jan 20, 2006]
* Gaybashing; broke a bottle over Guy's head and punched him when he fell to the ground [Mar 9, 2006]

## Health and Vitals

* Punched by Lucas in the face multiple times [Jan 20, 2006]
* Punched and kneed in the gut by Guy in self-defense [Mar 9, 2006]
* Pinned to a table by Justus who started to strangle him; stopped by Jesse [Mar 22, 2006]