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General Hospital’s Austin Sets Off a Guessing Game That Leaves Fans Fearing the Worst: ‘Please Not He Who Shall Not Be Named!’
Thursday, June 16th, 2022
If a meeting takes place in the woods and no one hears it, did it really take place?
Well-played, General Hospital. ABC’s soap got its whole audience talking after the June 15 episode found Austin sneaking off in the woods to talk to…
Well, that’s the question, now isn’t it? We don’t know who interrupted his evening of smores and campfire songs. We didn’t see the individual that the doctor was so displeased to have stalking him while he was hanging with Maxie and the gang.
“Who could ask for anything smore?”
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Many a fan suspected that Ned or Valentin had armed himself with bug spray and ventured forth to discuss with Austin the latest skirmish over ELQ. Others ventured a guess that maybe he was being paid a surprise visit by Jonah, the half brother we’ve yet to meet. Still others floated the possibility that maybe pop Jimmy Lee wasn’t as dead as he was said to be.
After all, once a person’s drunk the water in Port Charles, can they ever really die?
Could Jimmy Lee, macking on cousin Celia here, still be alive… and hiking?
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That, in turn, brought us to an option about which few and far between were excited. What if somehow the person Austin was so unhappy to see was… Peter? “Please not He Who Shall Not Be Named,” exclaimed BlackCat in the comments that followed Soaps.com’s recap. DeElva seconded that emotion, crying simply, “No! Nooo! Please no!”
At that, a reader named Bonny warned posters to be careful. “If you say his name one more time, you might just conjure him up.”
“Anybody got an Advil?”
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What do you think? Was it Peter who surprised Austin in the woods? Weigh in in the comments, and while you’re here…
Find out which General Hospital couples are sticking together and falling apart — and which are next — in our new photo gallery dedicated to Port Charles’ dynamic duos.
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Together at last. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Spencer wouldn’t be gullible enough to be suckered by Uncle Victor, would he? Oh dear.</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 her “killing” him to keep him from kidnapping daughter Avery.</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.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Madly in love. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> The Grim Reaper keeps threatening to crash their remarriage ceremony.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Hooking up. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> His side hustle — working with Michael to bring down Sonny — could get him killed.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Finished. Done. Forever. Er, for now. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> We’ll give you a hint — it rhymes with “Trina,” and he’s devoted to her.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> TBD. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Getting out of their own way and realizing that every great fire begins with the kind of sparks that fly whenever they’re around one another.</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> 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> 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> Kaput. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> It was game over for these two once he realized that she wasn’t drawn that way, she actually was bad — to the bone.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Unhappily married. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> The wedding-day reveal that Curtis, not Taggert, might be Trina’s father ended the couple’s honeymoon before it had even begun.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Together at last. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Their relationship, like they themselves, will be in danger so long as his nefarious father is out and about.</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!</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Life partners. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Ready or not, they want to start a family.</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. Also, where <em>is</em> Lucas these days?</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 — that is, if he ever emerges from that coma.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Kaput. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> For them to try, try again, she’d have to get over his whopper of a lie about Sasha being her daughter. Considering that she has since told a few herself, it could happen.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> As dead as he is. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> His passing brought their new beginning to an abrupt end. For the moment.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Sparring partners. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> The trick for them — and the fun — is realizing that the sparks flying aren’t just animosity.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Committed. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> The don’s family hates “the other woman” as much as he loves her. Maybe more.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Sadly ended. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> The real-life loss of Sonya Eddy cut short her character’s latest love story.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> The picture of a happy marriage. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Their 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> Dead and buried. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> It’s pretty hard to get a relationship going when both characters are pushing up daisies.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Wholly enamored of one another. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Obstacle? What obstacle? They’re perfect for each other.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Separated… for now. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> The straight arrow couldn’t abide his honey’s willingness to bend the truth — especially when it came to his career with the PCPD.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Apart… 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> Split up. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Their relationship was well and truly done in by her lie that she was having Nikolas’ baby.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Head over heels. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Her participation in the plot against Victor has kept them apart more than either of them would like.</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 have once again conspired to part the soulmates so that she can rescue her son from Victor.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Deader than dead. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Even before his latest demise, she’d stuck a fork in their dangerous relationship.</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> 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> Frenemies. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Though Avery’s parents would probably make the perfect 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> Old friends, ex-lovers and coconspirators. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> In their hearts, they want more than anything to be with other people (Ava and Finn, respectively). Also, Nikolas’ whole coma thing.</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> Married. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> None. Whether dealing with ELQ concerns or Leo’s autism, the Qs fight their battles together these days.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Secretly canoodling. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Were their romance to come to light, they could be prosecuted for insider trading.</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> Status? Are you kidding? <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Ava would sooner drop dead than have anything to do with the obsessed serial killer. Thankfully, he was dispatched before it came to that.</p>
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