Gerard
Names: GerardCousin GerardGerard TremblayTremblayGerryCongressman TremblayGerry TremblayRepresentative TremblayPoor Gerry
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 4 (3)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 43Tremblay, a thirty-one-year-old former granite-quarryman with an M.D., was put in charge of the Dartmouth lab's public affairs.
- Ch 43Rogatien liked Tremblay least of the Coterie, thinking him obsequious and unconsciously envious of Denis; later he caused the disastrous Coercer Flap under President Baumgartner's second term.
- Ch 54Gerard Tremblay was the Metapsychology Department's public-relations expert; he caught the bouquet and married Emilie Bouchard later in 1995.
- Ch 60Researcher into coercivity, resentful of Denis's fame; announces he will leave Dartmouth and academia, and plans to run for Congress once the Benson Act is struck down.
- Ch 60Is divorcing his wife Emilie amicably and plans to marry Shannon O'Connor; says 'What I had to give Denis took.'
- Ch 61Tremblay is an operant psychologist with coercivity ability, an Associate Professor who has just married Shannon and is running for the House as a Democrat from Massachusetts.
- Ch 61Under O'Connor's hypnotic control, Tremblay accepts the Left-Hand Path and promises to covertly coerce President Baumgartner; afterward he is made to forget the trance.
- Ch 63Gerry, a Massachusetts Congressman and Coterie black sheep, is charged with assaulting the US President in the Coercer Flap and has defected from Denis's staff.
- Ch 64Gerry, Shannon's husband, faces a scandal and a criminal case in Washington; Victor suspects Shannon is using it to set her father up.
- Ch 65Gerry Tremblay was the only operant congressman, elected in 2004 from Massachusetts; he served on the House Special Committee on Metapsychic Affairs.
- Ch 65Tremblay publicly opposed federally funded operant schools, arguing they would create elite operant groups, and helped defeat the Operant Education Bill, dismaying the operant establishment.
- Ch 65Tremblay acted as Kieran O'Connor's agent, pushing military-industrial contracts and discouraging special privileges for operants.
- Ch 65On 27 October 2007 Tremblay coercively took over President Baumgartner's mind to make him decline a third-term run, but was exposed and arrested.
- Ch 65Tremblay was convicted of aggravated assault and battery and interfering with a federal official, expelled from the House, and served two and a half years.
- Ch 65After parole in 2012 he joined Roggenfeld Acquisitions and acknowledged Shannon's baby Laura as his own, never learning Shannon had engineered his exposure.
- Ch 70Gerry is Shannon's husband, fertile but described as tainted, valuable to O'Connor; due out of somewhere next week.
- Ch 71Gerry is imprisoned at Lewisburg, due for release in four days, after a 'dumb move' he believed would save operants from Baumgartner.
- Ch 71Gerry is under a command-inhibition placed by Kieran O'Connor that compels absolute loyalty; he loves O'Connor yet despises him and begs to be freed.
- Ch 71Gerry was a quarry worker who scored one hundred percent on Zener cards, unaware of his own operant ability.
- Ch 71After the probe, Gerry's memory of Denis's visit is erased; he returns to his cell puzzled and looking forward to release.
- Ch 71Gerry did not know of the alleged Zap-Star control center and was shocked by the accusation.
- Ch 75Gerry was forced out of Roggenfeld Acquisitions and is preparing to work for a Boston branch of Cams, Elsasser, Lehmann; he seems to hide a secret.
- Ch 76Gerry, a psychiatrist, sensed in Kieran O'Connor a powerful metapsychic manipulator and believed Shannon sane, though he lacked knowledge of the Zap-Star scheme.
Connections
- member ofDartmouth Coterie
- related toDenisassociate who runs his lab's public affairs
- partner ofEmilie Bouchardmarried
- ally ofDeniscolleague on the same research team, but resentful
- partner ofShannon
- family ofEmilie Boucharddivorcing
- family ofShannonrecently married husband
- family ofKieran O'Connorson-in-law
- enemy ofKieran O'Connorsecretly dominates and manipulates him
- related toEric Boutinreplaced him as Denis's chief PR person
- related toKieran O'Connoracts as O'Connor's agent and son-in-lawplaced command-inhibition compelling loyalty
- member ofRoggenfeld Acquisitions
- friend ofDenislongtime friend and Coterie member
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 21Disastrous Fourth of July barbecue
Roger introduced Elaine to his Remillard relatives at Cousin Gerard's barbecue in Berlin; she clashed with them, and Don used coercion to seduce her once.
- Book 1 · Ch 4360 Minutes interview arranged
Tremblay arranged a November 1991 CBS 60 Minutes hour with Denis and a tour of the lab, a program that Rogatien says became nearly as memorable as MacGregor's Edinburgh demonstration.
- Book 1 · Ch 54Wedding of Denis and Lucille
On 22 July 1995, Denis Remillard and Lucille Cartier wed in Hanover's Catholic church, attended by Glenn Dalembert and Ume Kimura, then left for a symposium in Brussels.
- Book 1 · Ch 60Nobel ceremony in Stockholm
At the Konserthuset, Queen Victoria Ingrid presents the 2003 Nobel Prizes; Xiong Ping-yung and Denis Remillard receive theirs while Lucille and Gerry watch from the loges amid the backlash against operants.
- Book 1 · Ch 60Gerry reveals his plans
On the intimate mental mode, Gerry tells Lucille he is divorcing, will marry Shannon, leave Dartmouth for Cambridge, and run for Congress, shocking her.
- Book 1 · Ch 60Paulson's warning
Paulson warns Tremblay not to let envy drive him to a reckless course and that others will use him; Gerry dismisses him as a nut.
- Book 1 · Ch 61O'Connor hypnotically enslaves Tremblay
After offering campaign advisers, O'Connor puts Tremblay into a trance, indoctrinates him in a nihilistic creed, and implants a mission to covertly coerce President Baumgartner into pursuing antioperant policy.
- Book 1 · Ch 65Attempted coercion of the President
On 27 October 2007, Tremblay mentally seized Baumgartner as he answered the Republican delegation, forcing him to decline a third term. Amanda burst in and denounced him, Fairweather opened Tremblay's mind, and the Secret Service arrested him.
- Book 1 · Ch 65Tremblay's trial and conviction
In July 2008 Tremblay was tried and convicted on Amanda's and the President's testimony, upheld by the Supreme Court, then expelled from the House and imprisoned.
- Book 1 · Ch 71Denis probes Gerry Tremblay
In a prison room shielded against bugs, Denis gets Gerry's consent, probes his mind about Kieran O'Connor's alleged conspiracy and Zap-Star, and tries to crack the loyalty inhibition. He then wipes Gerry's memory of the visit.