Daddy Or Dollar Signs?! Does General Hospital’s Jude Jacks Want A Daughter Or A Family Fortune?

JUDE JACKS TURNED DOWN SONNY’S DEAL BUT NOT THE FORTUNE

TL;DR: On General Hospital, Jude Jacks swears he wants his daughter, but he walked away from Sonny’s price on Phoebe without ever walking away from the Jacks fortune, so is she a child to him or a bargaining chip?

A Daddy With Paperwork And A Very Big Hole In It

Jude Jacks (Wil Traval) would like Port Charles to believe he is a father first and a Jacks second, and he has built a very tidy case for it. He knocked on the Quartermaine mansion door asking for his daughter, Phoebe, told Brook Lynn Quartermaine (Amanda Setton) he spent months hunting for Delilah Wilson only to learn she had died, and informed Alexis Davis (Nancy Lee Grahn) that he holds the IVF paperwork to prove it. It is a lovely story. It also has a hole in the middle big enough to park a Quartermaine limousine in.

Nothing about that claim has been proven, and the Metro Court made the hole bigger. When Brook Lynn begged Ava Jerome (Maura West) for answers, Ava admitted that Ethan Lovett (Nathan Dean) forged the DNA test to protect Phoebe from her actual father, yet she could not confirm that man is Jude Jacks. Brook Lynn passed that along to Jason Morgan (Steve Burton). A forged test is hiding somebody, and the only man in town waving paperwork is him. That does not make him a liar. It makes him a man who has proved exactly nothing.

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The Best Clue Is A Deal He Turned Down

Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) tried to buy his way to an answer. He offered to help force Josslyn Jacks (Eden McCoy) out of JJE so Jerry Jacks’s son could take over the company, as long as Sonny got his piers back and the would-be daddy left Phoebe and Brook Lynn alone. The piers were negotiable. Phoebe was not, and he vowed to get his rightful share of JJE without bargaining away his daughter. Sonny left the offer on the table and promised the next one would be far less attractive, which is how Sonny says goodbye.

Notice what he never said. He never said he does not want the company. He said he would get it without trading away his daughter, which sounds noble until you consider that she may be the reason anyone is taking his calls. Take Phoebe out of the picture and he is a Jacks with a gap in his old JJE file and nobody in his corner. Keep her in and he is a dad with paperwork, and a mansion that has to open the door.

The Family Already Smells A Fortune Hunter

Josslyn smelled it first. At the Brown Dog he warned her he had as much right to anything Jacks-related as she did, and she walked away convinced he wants the family legacy more than the baby. Carly Spencer (Laura Wright) fed that fear by warning her not to let him exploit the family connection the way Jerry did with Jax (Ingo Rademacher) for years.

Then Jax cut him off, which is the family version of a restraining order, and Jason concluded he must be using Phoebe as leverage for another agenda. Everyone who has dug into him has found the same suspicion and no receipt.

One Bottle Of Water Could End The Whole Act

Brook Lynn has stopped asking questions and started collecting evidence. She handed Josslyn a bottle of water, insisted on recycling the near-empty thing, and Josslyn spotted the move and handed it over anyway. The empty went to the hospital next to a sample from Phoebe. Brook Lynn also swore that their only job is making sure he never gets a DNA test of his own, which would be a more convincing vow if she were not carrying a bottle to the lab.

He offered to take a paternity test. If Jude Jacks is bluffing, it is the boldest bluff in Port Charles, and if he is not, it is the most confident move anyone has made yet. Chase (Josh Swickard) met him face to face and had to be held back from swinging, while Britt Westbourne (Kelly Thiebaud) answered the whole scene with a kiss, which makes him either the most devoted dad in town or its most efficient multitasker.

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What Will The Water Bottle Say?

A man who truly wants a daughter can survive a swab, and a man who wants a fortune cannot afford one. Jude Jacks keeps insisting he is the first kind of man, and everybody holding a bottle of water and a lawyer is about to find out.

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