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Oops! General Hospital Just Revealed More Than It Could’ve Possibly Meant to About the Killer’s Identity
Tuesday, September 27th, 2022
Strange as it sounds, we’re super-mega-relieved that Dex has been moved to the top of the suspects list.
General Hospital had us worried there for a while, what with the way that it kept piling up evidence that Dex is The Hook. Evan Hofer is the rare soap newbie who was able to hit the ground running; he just has “it.” And — sorry, Cameron — his chemistry with Eden McCoy (Josslyn) is off the charts. So we were loath to think that the show was writing Sonny’s right-hand man and Michael’s secret operative into a corner from which he wouldn’t be able to get out.
That was then, this is now?
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We’re not concerned anymore. Like, at all. When the September 26 episode found Mac hauling Dex down to the police station and observing that he’d now been at the scene of two attempted murders and one successful one, we actually breathed a sigh of relief. Why? Because we’re obviously supposed to believe what Mac does — that Dex could be guilty. And if the show wants us to believe that, it can’t be true. That’s Murder Mystery 101!
“Don’t worry, kid. You’re way to good-looking to be The Hook.”
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So Whodunit, Then?
Of course, if Dex isn’t The Hook, the question remains: Who is? As slight of frame as the maniac is, a lot of taller, beefier characters are ruled out. Ryan, for instance. Elizabeth could certainly fit into the killer’s Baby Gap raincoat, but she was at the hospital when The Hook was stalking Diane. If Nelle isn’t as dead as everyone (except viewers) believes, she’d be the right size and have every reason to want to pick off those who are near and dear to Sonny. But if General Hospital went so far as to make her a hook-wielding murderess, we’d never get to play out the incredible family reunion pictured below.
“Can we get Finn over here to stand in for Daddy?”
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Who does that leave? Esme, whose return is only a matter of time, right? And it would make sense for her to attack Ava and go after Joss (as the killer seemed to be doing when Brando wound up in the wrong place at the wrong time). Esme would also be only too happy to hurt Sonny, who went all “godfather” on nephew Spencer’s treacherous ex. But would she really try to strike out at the mobster by killing his… lawyer? Don’t think so.
“Is it too soon to call dibs on her shoes if she dies?”
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The Unlikeliest Suspect
That brings us to — dun-dun-dunnn — Rory. Now, why he’d be running around attacking people in Sonny’s orbit, we can’t imagine. But he’s the right body type, and really, we know nothing about him aside from the fact that he’s super-sweet with Trina. Maybe he’s secretly the son of another girl like Karen Wexler, who Sonny plied with drugs and seduced during his days running a strip club. Maybe he’s the offspring of a rival gangster that the don fitted with cement shoes. Beats us.
More: Will Josh Swickard dare to go bare?
“How many personal days do we get if we have to go on the lam?”
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It would be a shame to lose Rory, because he presents to Trina such a viable alternative to Spencer. Unless Rory is a psycho killer, he’s delightfully uncomplicated. Spencer may be delightful, but uncomplicated he ain’t!
Who do you think is The Hook? On your way to the comments, get up-to-date on the relationship status of all of your favorite General Hospital couples in the gallery below.
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> He’s served her with divorce papers rather than breakfast in bed. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Nina’s decision to rat out Sonny’s ex Carly to the SEC has put their relationship to the test — one that it just might not pass!</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> In the end zone. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Learning that Dex was willing to kill Cyrus on Sonny’s orders prompted Josslyn to take out a hit on their relationship.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> TBD. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Jason’s in a mess of trouble. But if his former wife has anything to say about it, he won’t be in it alone.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Cue The Carpenters’ “We’ve Only Just Begun.” <strong>Their biggest obstacle: </strong>Take your pick — Blaze’s super-religious and disapproving family or Kristina’s decision to act as sis Molly’s surrogate.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> See photo above. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> They’ve rebounded from the misstep that nearly did in their romance. But is the attraction of these opposites strong enough to make them lifers?</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Happily married. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> None. Their relationship is healing as quickly as Curtis is nowadays.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Splitsville. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> The minute Drew heard that his “late” brother Jason was back among the living, he knew that his relationship with Carly had one foot in the grave. He just gave it a shove over the edge.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Made for each other. <strong>Their biggest obstacle: </strong>It’s only a matter of (very little) time before Brando’s widow and her hero leave the friend zone for good.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Married… with problems. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> His keeping her mother’s S-E-C-ret from her has left her as ticked at him as she is Nina. And she’s <em>hella</em> ticked at Nina!</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Frenemies. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Though Avery’s parents would probably make a killer power couple, she’s just happy that she still has a pulse after murdering his old flame, Connie.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Oh my. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> She’s committed to Martin. Yet plotting anew with Scotty left Lucy making hay with her ex too quickly for either of them to bail.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Long done. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Like Sam after her, Elizabeth refused to risk her children’s lives to be with Sonny’s enforcer. But, should she get another chance with Jake’s dad, would she throw caution to the wind and — sorry, Finn — take it?</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Amicable exes.<strong> Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Ned’s happily hitched to Lois’ pal, Olivia. On top of that, Rena Sofer thinks that it would be cruel to her and former husband Wally Kurth’s spouses to re-pair them on screen. (<a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/general-hospital/news/696903/spoiler-will-ned-lois-get-back-together/" target="_blank">Read her comments here.</a>)</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Together. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> The shadow of his comatose wife, Lulu, looms large over their future. Which is odd, because Lulu is not very tall. There’s also the fact that her favorite ex, Jason, just rose from the grave. Yes, again.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Happily hitched. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> It’s hard to keep a relationship stable in a town as quake-prone as Port Charles. Plus, are they really ready to step in as baby Ace’s parents?</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Finished. Done. Forever. Er, for now. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Now that Sonny has left Nina, there might have been a chance that Carly would forgive and forget — if Jason hadn’t come back, that is.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Married. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> It’s resolved now that the amnesiac has remembered who he is and, just as important, who his family is.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Together at last. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> First, she recalled killing his wife. Then, she lied that she was having Nikolas’ baby. And still, they couldn’t just say, “Enough already.”</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> The picture of a perfect couple. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> The marrieds’ family tree is sure to be uprooted when they find out that a branch needs to be hung for Cody.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Life partners. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> With Kristina acting as surrogate, the couple’s efforts to start a family just might be the end of ’em.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Consider their interest piqued. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Diane is understandably reluctant to hold out her heart to a guy whose own still belongs to his exes, Anna and Holly. Robert, in turn, has reservations about dating the local crimelord’s biggest defender.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Old flames with warm feelings. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Is there one, really? Now that Anna’s dumped Valentin and Sonny’s on the outs with Nina, the scheme team could discover that they’d also make a dream team.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Past tense. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Even before his latest demise, she’d stuck a fork in their dangerous relationship. Now that he’s back, she thinks he shot her new love, Dante.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> A non-starter. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> As hot as they were and as warm as the pairing’s reception was, <em>General Hospital</em> seems to have decided to instead pair her with Brick.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Let’s say… strained. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Deception isn’t just the name of Lucy’s embattled company, it’s also one of her and Marty’s favorite pastimes.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Fun while it lasted. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> The coconspirators had scarcely left the starting gate when the doctor was sent to the permanent finish line.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> “Exed” out. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> It’d be pretty hard for them to come back from Ava “killing” Nikolas (here Marcus Coloma) to keep him from kidnapping daughter Avery. Then again, before he left Port Charles, we <em>did</em> see some of those old, less homicidal feelings beneath the surface…</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> RIP. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> First, their baby died, then so did Brando. Yeah, 2022 was <em>not</em> a good year for Sasha.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Divorced. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Again, divorced. But besides that, he’s now married to Portia.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Kaput — we hope. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Her abduction of her ex and girlfriend Trina made the kind of splash from which neither Spencer nor Esme seemed likely to return anytime soon.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> A non-starter. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> They were just beginning to really connect when The Hook hastened the terminally ill doctor’s demise.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Broken up.<strong> Their biggest obstacle:</strong> The sex-tape debacle threw such a cold bucket of water on them that it was easy for Dex to reheat her.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Alas, only a memory. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> A combo platter of Valentin’s lies and Anna’s shooting his daughter added up to a soul-stomping split.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Divorced. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Brad’s lie about Wiley’s parentage was the kinda deal-breaker that his husband didn’t want to renegotiate.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> A thing of the past.<strong> Their biggest obstacle:</strong> His hookup with his son’s scheming girlfriend will go down in history as one of his biggest regrets.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Longtime pals. <strong>Their biggest obstacle: </strong>Their shared grief over Spencer’s “death” could lead to the duo reevaluating their residence in the friend zone… just in time for Trina’s “late” boyfriend to return.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Sparring partners. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Having been diagnosed with ALS, Gregory is more concerned with his life than his love life.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Sadly ended. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> The <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/general-hospital/news/709626/sonya-eddy-tribute-anniversary-death/" target="_blank">real-life loss of Sonya Eddy</a> cut short her character’s <span style="text-decoration: line-through">latest</span> last love story.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Over… board. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/general-hospital/news/716184/what-happened-to-spencer-when-will-he-return/" target="_blank">Nicholas Alexander Chavez’s temporary exit</a> as Spencer left Trina’s honey, however unintentionally, telling her, “<em>Sea</em> ya.”</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Dead and buried. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> It’s pretty hard to get a relationship going when <span style="text-decoration: line-through">both characters are</span> one of the characters is pushing up daisies.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Apart… for now. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> In the end, we’re pretty sure they’re going to realize that they’re meant for one another. But in the middle, oof. She’s letting for grief over daughter Britt’s death bury her relationship, too.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Separated… though not by choice. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Just as the Falconeris appeared to be on the verge of reuniting, she slipped into a coma and he, into Sam’s arms.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Classmates… and crushes. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Elizabeth is a blessedly accepting and supportive mom. But homophobia and intolerance threaten to make Aiden’s first love as scary as joyful.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Finito. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> After she fell for fake husband Michael for real, Chase moved on — and <em>toward</em> Brook Lynn.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Over before they began. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> His sister Amy’s conniving moved him right out of town — and her boss’ life.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> They are, as k.d. lang would sing, one another’s constant craving. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Circumstances keep conspiring to keep them from being together long enough to do more than steal the occasional kiss.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Done. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> There was more to the doctor than met the eye — and Maxie didn’t like what she saw.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Playing detective.<strong> Their biggest obstacle:</strong> The police commissioner is all business, the investigator, all funny business.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Dating. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> This is one case of puppy love that just might bite, owing to the fact that Charlotte creepily takes after her malevolent late grandmother, Helena.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Former General Hospital colleagues. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> First she stuck him in the friend zone. Then she herself got stuck in the morgue!</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> A grave matter. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> If her love for Spencer drove one nail after another into their relationship’s coffin, Rory’s death drove the final one in.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Old friends, ex-lovers and coconspirators. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Liz is in a relationship with Finn, and Nikolas is behind bars. For now.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Sweethearts. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Given their lack of screentime, we can’t tell whether they’re getting enough quality time.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Matching wits… and more? <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> ALS may shorten Gregory’s life to the point that Tracy doesn’t get to play a very big role in it.</p>
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