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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Josslyn Puts an End to Cyrus Renault’s Reign of Terror; Will Brennan Help Her Cover Up the Crime Scene?

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By the time the Thursday, February 20th of episode General Hospital began, viewers knew this would be the end of the line for Cyrus Renault (Jeff Kober), but who would kill him? As it turns out, it looked at the beginning that there would be two likely suspects, Jason Morgan (Steve Burton) or Josslyn Jacks (Eden McCoy).

As the action picked up, Lucky (today played by Guy Wilson subbing for Jonathan Jackson) has been stabbed by a syringe full of digitalis by Renault, who flees the scenes at Liz’s (Rebecca Herbst) house as she calls 9-1-1. Once the paramedics arrive, Lucky is rushed to GH. Liz calls Laura (Genie Francis) and alerts to Lucky’s health crisis.

Eventually, Anna (Finola Hughes) arrives at Liz’s house and puts out an APB for Cyrus. Aiden (Colin Cassidy) comes home and Anna takes him to the hospital where he sits with Laura. Isaiah (Sawandi Wilson) is the attending physician and learns from Liz, Lucky received a lethal dose of digitalis and begins to save his life. Later, he comes out to tell the family of Lucky’s condition, only he pauses before he reveals any update.

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Meanwhile, Jason is visiting Sam’s grave having a crisis of conscious. He wants to kill Cyrus right now. However, he knows that Sam would want him to do what’s best for their son, Danny and that is to not leave Danny with the possibility of losing two parents, or even having one behind bars for the rest of his life. In the end, Jason chooses doing what’s best for their son is paramount, and to honor what Sam would want him to do.

Josslyn, who is now in the cabin the woods where Cyrus lives, continues to rummage through drawers, closet, the couch anything she can turn upside down determined to find incriminating evidence to bring Renault to justice for killing her boyfriend, Dex Heller. Not giving up in her search, she finds an envelope taped under a desk drawer and there finds the hospital bracelets of all the patients Cyrus killed including Dex and Sam McCall!

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As Josslyn is photographing the evidence with her phone, Cyrus shows up at the front door wielding an ax! An ominous Cyrus tells Joss that she shouldn’t have come to the cabin and is about to go after her. However, Josslyn pulls out a gun from seemingly her back pocket and fires two bullets through him, one hitting his chest. As Cyrus slumps to the floor, he calls Josslyn “a murderer” is his final moments on earth.

Stunned by her actions, and not knowing what to do, she looks at her phone and a list of names pops up including Jason and Jack Brennan. She makes a call saying she needs some help. Then, at the end of the episode, Brennan (Chris McKenna) shows up at the cabin door looking over the crime scene.

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Now the question becomes, is Brennan going to be there to help Josslyn clean up the crime in order to protect her, or does Brennan have an ulterior motive to hold over her head? Remember, he is the one that led Josslyn directly to Renault with breadcumbs on the cabin location. So is he on the up and up?

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According to GH co-head writers, Elizabeth Korte and Chris Van Etten, when speaking with Soap Opera Digest, “We’ll soon learn why. Brennan’s presence in Port Charles and his proximity to Carly is no accident. His feelings for Carly are accidental, though, and those feelings will come into direct conflict with his intentions for Josslyn.”

So, what did you think about Josslyn being the one to shoot and kill Cyrus Renault? What is Brennan’s plan in all of this? Are you glad Cyrus has been brought to justice? Share your thoughts in the comment section. But first, take a look at the preview for today’s Friday, February 21st episode of General Hospital.

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Cyrus came after Joss with an ax. It is definitely self defense.

I hope we see Joslyn tell Sonny. It would be a great “bonding” moment as she now can understand Sonny in a way she had never thought possible…

My dragons had a nice dinner last night. Welcome to Hell, Cyrus!

Did they eat that awful pony tail too?,Yuk!

Why, why, why can’t we have a whodunnit on this show anymore? Once again, they set up a wide range of characters that can off the villain and instead show the assailant on camera.

Another missed opportunity (after both Shiloh and Peter). Whodunnits can’t be that difficult or expensive to film. I know I’m going way back, but the “Who Killed Susan Moore” storyline was one of the best whodunnits in daytime.

That said, count me intrigued as to where this alliance between Joss and Brennan winds up.

Frank seems to be immune to doing “Whodunit” murder mystery stories. They’ve passed on the opportunity many times in recent years. Most recently Jagger Cates, also Ryan Chamberlain, Peter, the list goes on. You had half of Port Charles that wanted Cyrus dead, which they set up perfectly. They could have made an exciting story out of that. Instead there’s no drama, there’s no mystery. Just like with Sonny shooting Jagger, a story they dropped cold, two bullets to the chest, and a 5 year run on the show is over just like that. The character of Cyrus deserved a better exit. No creativity, no imagination.

I agree in principle, but the issue with whodunnits is that they can quickly spiral out of control if they are not written properly. Remember the “who killed Silas Clay” story? Or the “who killed Diane Jenkins” story on Y&R? Given the direction of the writing recently, I’m not sure I would have trusted it to be written in a satisfying way.

I understand your point, but the writers need to craft the story before putting into scripts. They need a beginning, middle, and end, as well as to know who the murderer is. Too often they don’t plot out that point or change it halfway through the arc; then nothing makes sense.

This is true, Rodd.

Completely agree with you. I’ve been harping about the same thing for years.

This whole story went off the rails when they started having Cyrus kill random people, and it never recovered. Even though Jeff Kober was great, as he always was, in the scenes with Becky Herbst trying to make sense of Cyrus’s actions, the explanation was weak, which is what you get from a weak story that never made sense.

Josslyn killing him was very blah and very anti-climatic after they had seemingly set up a classic ‘Whodunit” on a silver platter with half of Port Charles wanting to see Cyrus dead. That would have been interesting, this wasn’t. Instead the story becomes about Brennan and Josslyn, and his apparent intention to recruit her for the WSB, which is a story I really couldn’t care less about. I don’t like the Brennan recast, either. But that’s a story for another day.

Cyrus deserved a better ending story. He was a good villain at the beginning, but in the end, he went out with a whimper, like many GH villains over the years.

Kudos to Jeff Kober, he took a role that was supposed to last 6 months and turned it into 5 years. Sorry to see him go. Thanks Jeff, it was a pleasure to watch you work!

Good riddance to Cyrus!

She goes in there sleuthing without gloves on, leaving her finger prints everywhere. After she shoots him she moves the ax. Ugh….. It was annoying to watch. Just call 911! I doubt she’d have the book thrown at her. He went after her with an ax. And although I like Brennan, it DID bother me weeks ago when he suggested to his colleague that Josselyn should search for Cyrus. He knowingly sent this young girl down this dangerous path. He gambled with her life.

And Brennan wants her to be a WSB agent? She did everything wrong including letting Cyrus know she was on to him. I think what the writers are doing is paving the way for Joss to have a star struck romance as a WSB agent ( think of young Anna with Scorpio and Duke). Sidwell and Natalia’s son is surely on his way to PC and most likely going to be paired up with Joss. Try as they might, Joss is no Anna Devane.

I know, right? She’s got Carly’s temperament!
Very reactive. Acts before thinking. Righteous indignant. She is hardly someone who lives under the radar.

Bring on Beyond the gates: Finally there will be equality in storylines! I like Joss but she’s always front and center in her own story or someone else’s! Certain characters on GH are never put on the back burner! Also these are the people who are always up for daytime awards because thy always get the stories!!

What terrible timing for Johnathon Jackson to not be there for the pivotal scenes he was to play this week. Strange no explanation as to why.

The scenes where Lucky and Elizabeth met Tobias came across as flat with Guy Wilson. As well his life and death struggle this week due to Cyrus were flat as well.

There was a death in Jonathan Jackson’s immediately family.

I get it. But it really didn’t matter as Lucky lied tgere with all the tubes and the mask hiding much of his face. Had I not known there was a temporary replacement, I would have believed it to be JJ in that hospital bed.

Too bad it wasn’t someone else that got the treat of getting rid of Cyrus, someone who would have really enjoyed and appreciated it more. Yes, Joss wanted revenge for her BF, but she was more or less forced into it.

I feel cheated that we got robbed of a who-dunnit. GH sets up these great story opportunities and then lets us down with showing us exactly who offed the bad guy right from the start. I see where this plays into the WSB vs Josslyn recruiting story, but geeze!, I really wanted a good mystery like in the golden days.

Can they at least close out one long-standing semi-mystery and have Austin’s morgue tag among those in Cyrus’ collection?

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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Sonny Tells Dante, “I Don’t Want a Son Like You,” While Michael Tells Brook Lynn to Bide Her Time Till Chase and Willow Have an Affair

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On the Thursday, October 1 episode of General Hospital, both Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) and Michael Corinthos (Rory Gibson) had some things to say and what they had to say didn’t go over well with whom they were talking to!

Sonny had a confrontation with his son, Dante (Dominic Zamprogna), while Michael leveled with Brook Lynn (Amanda Setton) over Chase (Josh Swickard).

GH is setting up a scenario where everyone is going to make it look like Sonny was responsible for having Sidwell (Carlo Rota) beat up in Pentonville; while viewers already know Ava (Maura West) and Drew (Cameron Mathison) were behind it.

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A VISIT WITH DAD

Now, Dante comes to Sonny’s house. He wants to know straight up from his dad if he ordered the attack at Pentonville. Sonny flatly denies any culpability or responsibility, but Dante refuses to believe him.

Dante informs Sonny he has video footage of Sully and Vito at the prison. Sonny explains to Dante he doesn’t know why Sully beat up both Curtis and Dante. Things escalated when Sonny was deeply hurt that Dante refused to believe him. Dante says he was disappointed that his father didn’t respect him enough to be truthful with him!

Sonny asks Dante to consider that he was being set up. He says all he did was to tell Vito to instruct Sully to keep a watchful eye on Sidwell, not to harm him. No matter what Sonny said, Dante continued hammering him with how he knew deep down, even though he said he left the mob, he had to finish off Sidwell for himself.

Next, Sonny explains everything he has ever done was to provide for and to protect his family. Dante fired back that he doesn’t want to deal anymore with Sonny’s half-baked truths. As the two men argue, Gio (Giovanni Mazza) shows up at Sonny’s front door and overhears Sonny losing his temper and shouting at Dante, “Get out of my house! I don’t want a son like you!”  The scenes featured an excellent performance by Maurice Benard.

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MICHAEL THE MANIPULATOR

While this is going down, outside the Quartermaine boathouse, Brook Lynn opens up to Michael about living at the Q’s with Chase being there, since he only came back due to legal advice from his lawyer, Monet Mitchell (Blythe Howard).

Brook Lynn questioned whether they should get legally separate. Michael insisted that would be a big mistake. When she asks why, Michael tells Brook Lynn to bide her time until Chase and Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) have an affair; then she’d have full custody of Phoebe.

An angered Brook Lynn pushed Michael into the water and accuses him of moving Willow back into the gatehouse with intent on putting Chase and Willow in closer proximity and sacrificing Brook Lynn’s family in the process.  As the two cousins bicker, Chase shows up asking Brook Lynn if she is OK. Michael punctuates their talk with “You know, I’m right.”

CURTIS FIGURES OUT A WAY TO GET OUT OF THE SLAMMER

At GH, Willow visits Curtis (Donnell Turner) in his hospital room. Curtis wants Willow to get him pardoned and keep him out of jail, and in return, he will help her nail Sonny.

Next, Willow tells Dr. Tristan Roberts (Dean Geyer) she wants Curtis held for observation for three more days. He agrees to do so under one condition, that she understands that he may need to call in a favor from a congresswoman.

So, what did you think of how Dante accused his father and refused to believe Sonny’s answers? Is this the end of their father and son relationship for good? Is Michael the most manipulative person of all, except for Willow? Do the two deserve each other? Do you want Chase and Willow to have an affair? And what of Curtis? Does he have many redeeming qualities left? Share your thoughts via the comment section,  but first check out the talk Michael had with Brook Lynn.

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GH Alum Tajh Bellow and Y&R Alum Loren Lott Star in New Tiktok and Microdrama ‘Love Island’ Spoof

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Two soap opera alums very familiar to fans of General Hospital and The Young and the Restless are paired together in a new short-form digital series from none other than Issa Rae’s production entity HOORAE Digital.

Look for Tajh Bellow (ex-TJ Ashford, GH)) and Loren Lott (ex-Ana Hamilton, Y&R) as part of the cast of  The Compatibility Experiment, premiering on October 14, 2026, exclusively on TikTok and its companion microdrama platform, PineDrama.

In the video teaser, it appears that Bellow and Lott play a couple, Kelvin and Camila, set in a Love Island reality show-esque environment trying to win the one million dollar cash prize, only what could go wrong?

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The Compatibility Experiment loglines share that it brings a fast-paced, relationship-focused reality check—much like Love Island with a twist. The show takes a participant’s current relationship, introduces them to a potentially more compatible partner, and forces them to navigate the differences with life-changing money on the line.

The new series is part of a groundbreaking content deal between HOORAE Digital and TikTok to develop premium short-form storytelling. The ensemble cast also features; Ayona, Reggie Luck, JaNa Craig, Tosin Morohunfola, Jessica Jacoby, Georgia Warner, and Nick Cassidy.

General Hospital fans know Tajh Bellow for his performances as TJ Ashford, and who earned two Daytime Emmy nominations along the way during his run. Bellow took over the role in 2018 and last appeared on the ABC daytime drama series in December of 2024.

Loren Lott first appeared as Devon’s (Bryton James) sister Ana Hamilton on The Young and the Restless from 2018 to 2019; making a brief return in 2024. She has continued to perform on the stage and screen with recent credits including: Bel-Air, Cherish the Day, and All American: Homecoming.

Check out the trailer for The Compatibility Experiment below and let us know what you think of its concept and if you are glad to see Tajh and Loren again? Hoping they might return to daytime in their GH and Y&R roles at some point in the future? Weigh-in via the comment section.

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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Ava and Drew Revealed to be Behind Framing Sonny for Sidwell’s Prison Beatdown

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If you thought that the person responsible for the Pentonville brawl that saw Sidwell (Carlo Rota) and Curtis (Donnell Turner) taken to General Hospital was Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) or even Sidwell himself, you were dead wrong! On the Wednesday, September 30 episode of GH, it turned out that the culprits were actually Ava (Maura West) and Drew (Cameron Mathison).

In story, Drew apparently bankrolled the attack on Sidwell and framing Sonny. He told Ava their planned worked (she came up with it!) but was horrified when Drew informed her that Curtis got caught in the crosshairs. Ava is visibly upset because of her longtime friendship with Curtis’ daughter, Trina Robinson (Tabyana Ali). Drew tried to make Ava see the bright side. Curtis was witness to it and his presence will cast doubt on Sonny’s claims to that he had gotten out of the mob and gone legit.

Later, Vito shows up at Drew’s. They informed him that his guy on the inside of the slammer made a big mistake by hurting their friend and ordered him to leave town.

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BOATHOUSE BRAWL

In other major developments, Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) and Rocco (Finn Carr) have a blow out fight as Danny blames his “brother” for the reason Charlotte was sent off to boarding school.

Rocco told off Danny for Charlotte’s (Bluesy Burke) reckless behavior and he explains he had to protect his sister. He went in on Danny saying that his mother Lulu (Alexa Havins) has been right to send Charlotte to boarding school and far away from Danny.

However, Rocco went a bit too far when he shouted, “And if your mom was alive, she would send you away too!” Next, Danny punched out Rocco, leading to a terrible brawl. An angered Danny yells at Rocco to, “Stay away from me and everyone in my family. And don’t you ever mention my mom again!” Danny storms off.

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Now alone outside the boathouse, Rocco flashes back to his first kiss with Scout (Kayden Brenna Tokarksi), hoping that his fight with Danny will not escalate and ruin their budding romance. Meanwhile, a bloodied-mouth Danny heads over to Sonny’s and Jason (Steve Burton) is there at the same time. He then admits that he has a bad fight with Rocco and they are both beaten up.

WILL SCOUT WISE UP?

At the end of the episode, Scout, who had a fight with Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn) over Drew, and who keeps telling everyone how good a man her dad truly is, comes upon a suspicious scene.

Scout hides behind the wall outside Drew’s. She sees her dad, Ava and Vito talking. Next, Scout seems to overhear Vito assuring Drew and Ava that their business dealings are done, and he’ll be leaving Port Charles for good.

So, what did you think of the reveal that Ava and Drew were behind framing Sonny for the prison beatdown of Sidwell (and Curtis)? Do you think Danny and Rocco’s relationship can be repaired, or do you think the teenagers will continue to be at each other’s throats? Finally, do you hope Scout gets a clue and stops thinking her dad walks on air? Weigh-in via the comment section, but first check out how Ava and Drew conspired below.

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