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CUFFED AND CORNERED! Britt Westbourne Got Hauled Off in Handcuffs Seconds Before a Loaded Syringe Could Finish Cullum’s Dirty Work
On GH, Britt Westbourne got arrested for kidnapping seconds before injecting the poison Cullum swapped into her meds, with nobody the wiser.
BRITT WESTBOURNE GOT ARRESTED RIGHT AS THE REAL TRAP SNAPPED SHUT
TL;DR: On GH, Britt Westbourne was arrested for kidnapping seconds before injecting the poison Cullum secretly swapped into her meds. We predict custody is the very trap that hands her back to Cullum, sending Dante and Lulu racing back to save her.
The Arrest That Accidentally Saved Her Life
Leave it to a soap to turn a pair of handcuffs into a guardian angel. Britt Westbourne spent her last quiet moment in Tortola talking Rocco Falconeri into leaving with his parents, swearing she would keep moving and keep taking her medication. He made her promise. Neither of them had any idea that promise was a death sentence in disguise.
Once the Falconeris drove off, Britt readied her injection, the same medication keeping her relapsing condition at bay. What she did not know is that Ross Cullum had already gotten to the vial and swapped her medicine for poison. She was one push of a plunger away from doing his dirty work for him, alone in a safe house with nobody left to find her.
Then the door exploded open. Two officers stormed in and arrested her for kidnapping before the needle ever touched her skin. The cuffs that should have felt like the end of her freedom were the only thing on that island standing between Britt and a corpse. We have rarely seen a worse moment with a better outcome.
Here is the wrinkle that makes our stomachs drop. Before the family left, Dante Falconeri made a quiet, mysterious phone call, and he has wanted Britt to face charges all along. The rescue that saved her may have been set in motion by the man who wanted her behind bars, which means nobody who loves her knows she is now in the worst possible place.
Think about who runs the agency that put eyes on Britt. Cullum is WSB, and Britt is now inside a system he can reach into whenever he wants. He poisoned her medication from a distance, so imagine what he can do once she is processed and sitting in a holding cell with a paper trail telling him exactly where she is. Custody looks like the end of her run. We think it is the beginning of the real nightmare, and the poison is still out there waiting for the next dose nobody knows to check.
Got a theory about who Dante really called before leaving Tortola? Email your wildest predictions to amber@soapoperamagazine.com and we may feature your take.
Why We Think This Sends Dante and Lulu Racing Back
Here is where our heads went. Rocco told his parents flat out that he would never forgive himself if anything happened to Britt, and that guilt is a loaded gun in a teenager’s hands. The second word reaches the Falconeris that Britt has been taken into custody by the same agency Cullum controls, we predict Rocco forces the issue, and Dante has to reckon with the fact that the charges he wanted may have signed her death warrant.
Our bet is this becomes a race. Dante knows the WSB from the inside, knows how dirty Cullum plays, and knows better than anyone that a holding cell is not protection when the director is the threat. The moment he connects the dots, the man who wanted Britt to face justice has to flip into the man trying to break her out of the exact net he helped cast. That is a guilt no parent shrugs off in a single afternoon, and it puts Lulu Spencer right beside him.
Imagine the timing. Britt sits in a cell believing she sacrificed herself to save Rocco, while the boy she saved begs his parents to turn the car around. We think the rescue gets there, but not before Britt Westbourne comes face to face with how completely Cullum boxed her in.
Whose name do you trust least in this mess, the agent who poisoned her meds or the man whose mysterious phone call put her in cuffs?
Does Britt Westbourne Walk Out of Custody or Vanish Into Cullum’s Web?
So how does this powder keg actually blow? Does Britt Westbourne find a way out of custody before Cullum’s reach closes around her, or does the arrest hand her straight to the man who has been hunting her all along? And when Dante and Lulu realize what they left behind, do they make it back in time? Drop your verdict with us on our Facebook page.
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