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GENERAL HOSPITAL: A Gaslighted Anna ‘Seems’ to Have Had a Mental Break; Willow Has The ‘Key’ to Win Custody of Her Kids (Recap)

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On the Wednesday, February 4 episode of General Hospital, Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) executes her new plan to get full custody of her children from Michael (Rory Gibson), Felicia (Kristina Wagner), Mac (John J. York) and Emma (Braedyn Bruner) wind up in France and are shocked by the shape they find Anna (Finola Hughes) in, and Jason (Steve Burton) reveals to Sonny (Maurice Benard), who is responsible for trying to kill him and setting the fire to his penthouse that sent Michael to a burn clinic in Germany and more.

First, now in France, Felicia (Kristina Wagner) and Mac (John J. York) go to see Anna inside her room at the mental health clinic. Anna’s doctor explains that she has been through some type of traumatic ordeal. Sadly, when the Scorpios see Anna, she begs them to get her out of the clinic because she has to stop Faison, and that he is alive.

Anna goes to explain how she was kidnapped, chloroformed in Port Charles and taken to a small room. The super spy and PCPD commissioner (who is on leave) spells out how Liesl (Kathleen Gati) was in the room when her Polycythemia Vera reared its head and gave her a blood treatment. Felicia explains to her that Liesl has been in Port Charles this entire time.

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A GASLIGHTED ANNA LEADS TO A MENTAL BREAK?

As she continued on, Anna explains how Faison talked to her through an intercom, which Mac thinks is impossible, because he’s dead, but Anna fires back that Britt (Kelly Thiebaud) and Nathan (Ryan Paevey) were believed dead and are alive, so that could be true for Faison! Next, Anna says Peter August (Wes Ramsey) also visited her in her cell, causing major worry for Mac and Felicia how their friend has seemingly lost it!

The doctor tells the Scorpios that Anna cannot be moved to the United States at this point, because she is also facing assault charges and she is advising that Anna stay in France until she is mentally strong enough to return to Port Charles.

Emma insists on seeing her grandmother. When she goes in, Emma is gut-punched to see what bad shape Anna is in; especially when she tells Emma that Faison is keeping an eye on them. Anna tells her to go before it’s too late, but Emma doesn’t want to leave her like this. Anna gets even more upset and agitated. Suddenly, the doctor and an orderly give her a sedative to calm Anna down. The episode featured excellent performances by Finola Hughes and Braedyn Bruner.

JASON IS ON TO CULLUM

Meanwhile, Jason visits Sonny and tells him Anna is in terrible trouble, but instead of going after her, he has to first stay in Port Charles to help Britt. Jason reveals to Sonny what Britt told him in confidence, that she is being forced to work for Cullum (Andrew Hawkes) and Jenz Sidwell (Carlo Rota). Jason also reveals that Cullum has involvement as the one who tried to kill Sonny and set fire to the penthouse that caused Michael his burns. Sonny wants to take Cullum out. Jason says they have to wait because he has to get his hands on Britt’s medication to reverse engineer it. He needs Cullum alive for now, otherwise Britt could die too.

WITH THIS KEY, I THEE FRAME YOU

Michael and Willow meet with Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn) and Ric (Rick Hearst) to work out a custody agreement to present to the judge for Amelia and Wiley. Willow thinks she’s in a better position than Michael and wants to take her chances in court; especially since he has been dating a hooker and was seen at the scene of Drew’s shooting. Alexis pipes up that Drew blackmailed Judge Heran and then killed her. Willow can’t believe she would lose her kids because of Drew, now that he is incapacitated.

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Next, Michael says Willow can have the kids every other weekend and a month during the summer, but Willow balks at that set-up. Willow says Michael’s rule was to keep Drew out of the kids’ lives, and since he is basically in a coma and unable to talk, what’s the problem?

Alexis proposes a 60/40 custody split in Michael’s favor. Willow says she needs a minute to think about it, and so she wants to be alone. She walks out into the waiting area. Her next move … but of course! She grabs Michael’s key ring from his jacket pocket and adds Drew’s house key to it.  Willow walks back inside the law office and says she is fine with the custody terms. Alexis says she’ll draw up the papers and give them to the judge.

So, who is going to help Anna escape the mental facility? Will it be Jason or Emma? Is she so far gone from being drugged and gaslighted by Cullum, Pascal, Sidwell, and company? What did you think of Willow’s move with the key ring, where someone will find that Michael has Drew’s house key, making him look guiltier than ever? Is Willow about to get full custody of her children? Weigh-in via the comment section below. But first, check out these key scenes featuring Finola Hughes from today’s GH.

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Braedyn is a real find for this show. As Emma, she has the ability to drive story for years to come.

Some of Finola’s best work in a while.

I absolutely agree. The fact that this young actress can hold her own in scenes with the amazingly gifted Finola Hughes speaks volumes about her talent. They were completely believable as grandmother and granddaughter. While I don’t enjoy seeing the formidable Anna Devane in this weakened state yet again, these two actresses are making it worth watching.

Finola is fantastic as always.
I find the rest of this story very confusing. I don’t like when I can’t follow a soap’s logic.

I suspect this story will begin to pick up now. What you have seen the last few months, with Anna trapped in the underground dungeon, tripping balls on unknown psychedlics, and hallucinating visits from Faison & Whiny Heiny, I’m thinking this was a clever way to cover for Finola’s usual three month vacation. They likely filmed all the “dungeon scenes” before hand, and since they didn’t really disrupt the continuity of any other storylines, they could slip a scene into an episode every week or two, and make her extended absence far less noticeable.

So now that she’s somehow ended up in France, I’m guessing that’s when she came back to work for real, so hopefully we will see some movement here.

Now on the other horn… she’s in France. The last we saw of Robert Scorpio, he was also in France. Is that just a coincidence, or did they bring the Scorpios to France to set up the sad story of Robert’s departure from the mortal realm?

I love Finola Hughes and love Braeden Bruner as Emma( I still see the WSB in her future) but this storyline is dragging, like Anna said since Halloween, and I hope its Anna who saves herself along with the Scorpios, because well Jason decided his new young gf is more important to save,Drew is now learning what happens to you when you go young. (way to go willow), ok, I’m projecting but the show needs to start moving things along, with almost all their storylines playing out right now, I mean Valetin is just living in the attic, and Nathan is more interested in hooking up with Lulu then finding out where he’s been for the past seven years, what’s up with Chase obsession with getting Michael back for stealing Willow from him?

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‘General Hospital’s’ Finn Carr Weighs-In on Potential Rocco and Scout Teen Romance

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Finn Carr, who delivered powerful performances on General Hospital, when Rocco shot WSB director Ross Cullum (Andrew Hawkes) and its aftermath, may be headed for his first on-screen love story on the ABC soap opera.

Ever since it was announced that the long-running daytime drama decided to age-up Scout Cain, and in a few recent scenes between Rocco and Scout, it’s clear these two share similar interests and like each other.

Scout is now played by Kayden Brenna Tokarski, who made her GH debut back on July 20 as the daughter of Drew Cain (Cameron Mathison) and the late Sam McCall (Kelly Monaco).

Rocco and Scout

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In a newly-released virtual segment with ABC11 North Carolina’s GH virtual insider, Dearon Smith, both Finn Carr and Asher Antonyzyn talked about working on a soap opera, while finishing high school, and teasing what’s ahead for Danny and Rocco. While Finn and Asher couldn’t give too much away, Smith asked Finn Carr if there is something brewing between Scout and Rocco?

WHAT’S NEXT FOR ROCCO AND DANNY?

Carr responded, “That’s an interesting question. Kaden is great to work with, and I love working with her. There definitely is some great stuff coming up that people are going to want to watch. It’s good stuff and really fun.”

Apparently, Danny and Rocco will also find themselves once again in some trouble, but as Finn tells it looks like this time, Danny will take the brunt of it. “We get into a lot of trouble … well, Danny gets into a lot of trouble … but I do a lot though.” Very cryptic indeed!

You can check out the full conversation with Finn and Asher with ABC11 below.

Now, let us know, would you like to see Rocco have a girlfriend, and that it would be Scout? Do you think Finn and Kayden work well together on-screen? Share your thoughts via the comment section.

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Laura Wright Signs New Contract with ‘General Hospital’

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While there have been plenty of on-screen newcomers in recent weeks on General Hospital, no need to worry about one of its mainstays, with the news from Daytime Emmy winner, Laura Wright, herself. Wright who plays Carly Spencer on the ABC soap opera has revealed on X, that she just re-signed a new deal with the soap opera to remain in Port Charles.

Wright is the fourth actress to play Carly, following in the footsteps of the OG Carly, Sarah Brown, Tamara Brown, and Jennifer Bransford. In fact, Laura left her major role on Guiding Light as Cassie Layne Winslow to take over the role of Bobbie Spencer’s (the late Jackie Zeman) complex daughter in November of 2005. Now almost 21 years later, Laura has made Carly her own and has delivered memorable performance after memorable performance throughout her run.

When a fans commented on X, “Can I just say if you ever leave General Hospital as Carly I will stop watching the show. I honestly have loved you and think that you are the best person to play Carly,” Laura Wright jumped in to the thread and assured her and other GH fans, that she has no plans to go anywhere else.

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LAURA WRIGHT STAYING PUT AT GENERAL HOSPITAL AND FANS ARE HAPPY SHE’S STICKING AROUND

Laura expressed, “I’m not going anywhere, just signed a new contract!!!” Since she made her public statement, many GH fans were thrilled with the news with comments such as: I would’ve been devastated if you weren’t sticking around. You’ve truly made Carly your own after so many years, ” and Happy to hear this, I always enjoy #GH more when Carly is on,” plus “So glad you’re sticking around as Carly. Love Carly and can’t wait for more #Caradine and #Jarly”

One fans hopes Laura will be on for years to come a la Jane Elliot’s tenure as Tracy Quartermaine saying, “Awesome. It’s so fun getting to see the full life of a character. Hope you stick around for many more years. I think Carly will be a hoot in her Tracy Quartermaine era.”

Laura Wright’s road to General Hospital started back on ABC’s Loving when she first played  Allison “Ally” Rescott on Loving (1991 to 1995) and then its spinoff The City (1995 to 1997). She later joined Guiding Light as Cassie, who was revealed to be the sister of Reva Shayne played by Kim Zimmer. She played the part from 1997-2005. From then on its been all GH scoring a Lead Actress Daytime Emmy win in 2011, along with eight total nominations throughout her daytime career.

Currently, Carly is involved in a romance with Valentin Cassadine (James Patrick Stuart), but it’s on shaky ground with Anna Devane back in the picture not so happy to see the two canoodling, and Carly having been warned by Sonny that Valentin is not trustworthy.

However, after seeing Laura’s post that she has signed on to stay at GH, James Patrick Stuart commented on X  reacted by stating, “Phew!”

So, happy to hear Laura has re-signed with General Hospital and will continue her role as Carly Spencer? Let us know via the comment section below.

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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Willow Feels The Effects of Jacinda’s Drugs; Josslyn Find Out She’s CEO of Jasper Jacks Enterprises

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On the Friday, August 7, episode of General Hospital, Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) unknowingly has put her children Amelia and Wiley in danger, Drew (Cameron Mathison) and Ava (Maura West) appear to be in collusion against Sonny, and Josslyn (Eden McCoy) and Hudson (Troy Lennon Appel) get off to a rocky start (which as you know in soaps could be a love match down the line!).

Here’s what went down as most of the action took place at the Metro Court pool area: First, Josslyn meets with Hudson, who reveals himself to be none other than the VP of Operations for JJE (Jasper Jacks Enterprises). Hudson tells Josslyn he was sent to Port Charles from Australia, while her dad was sailing around the world as he had named her the new CEO of his company.

Josslyn immediately puts her foot down and tells Hudson she is not accepting the position. He asks, why? She informs him that she works as a WSB agent. Hudson seems stunned and his interest is piqued.

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HUDSON DOESN’T KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF JOSSLYN

In turn, they get into a tiff, where Hudson is annoyed that he flew all the way around the world and wasted his time. Meanwhile, Josslyn is annoyed that her father didn’t even bother to ask her if she wanted to run the company. In the end, Josslyn tells Hudson to get her a list of qualified candidates, one of which she can sign the company over to.  She then storms off.

However, Hudson spots Ava Jerome, whom he knows was speaking with Ethan in Norway, and who knows about Ethan’s involvement with baby Phoebe. Ava is busy talking with Drew on how they mutual disdain of Sonny, and it should be the driving force for them to work together to take him down. Ava wants no more threats over her head of having Avery taken away from her by her father. Drew is all ears!

Michael (Rory Gibson) meets up at the pool with Jacinda. She shows him the restraining order that Willow got from the courts against her to stay away from the children. Michael promises to get his lawyers to fight it.

However, Michael knows something is up when Jacinda said, “Willow is about to make a public mistake,” hoping that pills she put in Willow’s iced coffee have begun to spin the congresswoman out of control. Michael demanded to know what Jacinda had done to Willow.

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WILLOW’S ABOUT TO GO FOR A DANGEROUS DRIVE

Elsewhere at Nina’s, Willow got a surprise when Amelia and Wiley showed up. Now, she will have them for the afternoon and decides they are going to have fun day. After a slight scare when Wiley picked up her iced coffee, Willow told her son to put down the drink because it has caffeine in it. However, then Willow began to drink it herself unaware that Jacinda spiked it with drugs.

In the final moments of the episode, Willow’s behavior changes as she is now over-excited about taking the kids to the arcade. A drugged Willow grabs her car keys, and she and Amelia and Wiley head out to the car. We fade to black.

So, did you feel on-screen chemistry between Hudson and Josslyn? Do you like Drew and Ava teaming up? Do you think Willow gets into a car accident with Amelia and Wiley in the car, which in turn, will kick Jacinda to the curb with Michael? Share your thoughts on what happens next and more in the comment section below. But first for some clues, take a look at the General Hospital preview that aired for Monday’s August 10th episode during the closing of today’s GH.

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