GH UNRAVELING! Brook Lynn Quartermaine Wants to Adopt Phoebe and the Background Check Is About to Pull Every Thread She Has Been Hiding

BROOK LYNN QUARTERMAINE IS WALKING INTO THE BACKGROUND CHECK THAT COULD UNRAVEL HER

TL;DR: Brook Lynn Quartermaine sat in the park with Alexis Davis on today’s episode of General Hospital and asked about adopting baby Phoebe. Alexis warned her about the extensive background check she and Harrison Chase would have to pass. Brook Lynn covered her panic. We saw it. She thinks she may have been the driver who left Jordan Ashford on the side of the road that night. Tracy thinks so too. And the adoption she wants more than anything is the one thing that could pull every thread she has been hiding.

Brook Lynn Quartermaine Asked the Wrong Question to the Right Lawyer

Brook Lynn Quartermaine was in the park with baby Phoebe when she ran into Alexis Davis and asked the question that could detonate her entire life. Could she officially adopt Phoebe if the baby were declared a ward of the state?

Alexis was kind. Alexis was professional. Alexis told Brook Lynn she could not cut the line, but offered to help plead her case to the child welfare system. Then Alexis dropped the sentence that should have stopped Brook Lynn cold.

Be prepared for an extensive background check on you and on Harrison Chase.

Brook Lynn covered her anxiety. She nodded. She thanked Alexis. She held the baby a little tighter. Inside, the woman is screaming.

Got a wild theory about whether Brook Lynn Quartermaine actually was the hit-and-run driver or if she has been blaming herself for nothing? Send your hottest takes to [email protected] and we just might publish them!

The Suspicion Is Sitting in Her Chest and Will Not Stay Down

Here is what nobody talks about with maybe-cover-ups. The not knowing is the thing that gets you. Brook Lynn has been spiraling since the moment Jordan Ashford hit that hospital bed. She is not certain she was behind the wheel of the car that left Jordan on the side of the road. She is certain enough to keep her mouth shut. She is certain enough to lie to her husband about where her car has been. She is certain enough to spiral every time someone mentions the accident.

Tracy Quartermaine thinks so too. Tracy has been running interference like a four-star general. She lied to Chase about the cars going to detailing. She talked Brook Lynn out of confessing. She called out the Trina Robinson music industry pitch the second the door closed. Tracy has been standing between Brook Lynn and a confession that Brook Lynn might not even owe.

A woman in that state cannot survive an extensive background check. Not the paperwork. The pressure. The interviews. The home visits. The questions about every car she owns and every place she was on every night the social worker decides to ask about. Brook Lynn is going to crack. Not because the background check finds something. Because Brook Lynn cannot live with not knowing whether it should have.

The cruelest part of this storyline is that the baby Brook Lynn loves is the trigger that pulls everything to the surface. Phoebe is the joy. Phoebe is the future. Phoebe is also the reason Brook Lynn Quartermaine is about to confess to a hit-and-run she is not even sure she committed.

Tracy Quartermaine Cannot Save Her From This One

Tracy Quartermaine cannot run interference on a federal background check. Tracy cannot lie to a social worker about Brook Lynn’s whereabouts on the night of the accident. Tracy cannot stand in front of the home visit and intimidate the caseworker into looking the other way. The Quartermaine matriarch is about to find out the limits of her own power, and the limits are going to come dressed in a suit with a clipboard and a polite smile.

The walls are coming. They are coming from every direction at once. Curtis Ashford is hunting an entirely different theory. Justine Turner is investigating an innocent doctor. The DA is interested. The social worker is about to start asking questions Brook Lynn has no clean answer for. And the woman sitting in the park with a baby in her lap and a marriage she is trying to protect is about to lose all of it because she wanted to be a mother.

The audacity of soap opera writers to make us watch this woman walk willingly into the very thing that could end her, all because she wants a chance at motherhood she is not even sure she deserves? Iconic.

Do you think Brook Lynn Quartermaine confesses before the background check exposes her, or has she been carrying guilt for something she did not even do? Sound off below because this one is unraveling fast!

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@soapoperamag IS CURTIS BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE WITH ISAIAH? #CurtisAshford is convinced #IsaiahGannon is the hit and run driver. We're convinced Curtis is WRONG and this is about to blow up in his face. #GH #GeneralHospital ♬ original sound – Soap Opera Magazine