Cassius Faison Is Holding a Cover Story Together With Both Hands and Ross Cullum Is Pulling It Apart on GH

CASSIUS FAISON’S COVER STORY HAS AN EXPIRATION DATE AND ROSS CULLUM IS THE CLOCK

TL;DR: Ross Cullum told Cassius Faison he was looking right at Jason Morgan when he got shot on General Hospital, which means someone else pulled the trigger. Cassius already knows it was Rocco. Cullum does not. The cover story that Jason built with his silence now has a ticking clock and the man managing the lie is the only person who knows exactly how little time is left.

The Victim Remembers

Cassius Faison visited Ross Cullum in the ICU. He was there on Jenz Sidwell‘s orders to find out if Cullum had evidence connecting Sonny Corinthos and Jason Morgan to Marco Rios‘ death. Cassius asked if Jason was the one who shot him.

Cullum said no. He said he was looking right at Morgan when it happened, so someone else had to have pulled the trigger.

Cassius Faison stood in that ICU room and heard the one sentence that changes everything. He already knows the truth. He was at Pier 55 that night. He saw Rocco Falconeri holding the gun. He wiped the scene. He managed the cover up. He has been protecting a teenager’s secret from Sidwell, from Dante Falconeri, and from the entire PCPD for days.

And now the victim is awake and telling him the cover story is wrong.

Cullum knows Jason did not shoot him and Cassius Faison is the only person managing that information. What do you think he does next? Send your wildest theories to [email protected] and we just might publish them!

Cassius Cannot Let Cullum Keep Talking

Here is the problem Cassius Faison did not plan for. Jason Morgan sitting silently in a WSB van was manageable. Britt Westbourne‘s statement that she saw Jason shoot Cullum was manageable. Lulu Spencer keeping Rocco quiet was manageable. Every piece of the cover up was holding because every person involved was cooperating with the lie.

Ross Cullum is not cooperating. Ross Cullum is a victim with a memory that contradicts the official story, and he is lying in a hospital bed with a parade of visitors asking him questions. Dante already grilled him. Cassius already visited. The next person through that door might be the one who asks the question Cullum answers with too much detail.

What if Cullum starts describing what he saw? He was looking at Jason. Someone else fired. That means the shot came from a different angle. From behind a wall. From a position that a teenager hiding on the pier would have occupied. Cullum does not know it was Rocco yet. But Cullum is a WSB director. He is trained to reconstruct scenes. He is trained to analyze evidence. And he is lying in a bed with nothing to do but think.

Cassius Faison is the only person alive who knows that Cullum’s memory is accurate AND knows who actually pulled the trigger. That puts Cassius in the most dangerous position in Port Charles. He cannot let Cullum keep talking. He cannot let Dante keep investigating. And he cannot tell Sidwell the truth because Sidwell would use Rocco as leverage against every person connected to the Corinthos family.

Dante Is Pulling the Same Thread From the Other Side

Dante questioned Cullum in the ICU and Cullum stonewalled him. But Dante is not stupid. He asked Cullum how he knew to find Britt and Jason on the pier that night. Cullum said a good agent plays hunches. Dante responded that a good cop does too.

And then Elizabeth Baldwin stopped Dante on his way out of the hospital and asked how Rocco was doing after cutting his hand. That is the cover story Lulu used when she brought Rocco to the ER the night of the shooting. Dante was caught off guard. If Dante starts thinking about the timing of Rocco’s hand injury, the night it happened, the proximity to the pier, the fact that his son was supposedly home safe while a shooting was happening blocks away, the cover up cracks from a direction Cassius cannot control.

Cassius Faison is managing Lulu on the pier, steering her away from digging. He is managing Cullum in the ICU, hearing the victim tell him the story does not add up. And he has no way to manage Dante, who is his own partner, pulling threads from inside the PCPD that lead directly to the truth Cassius is protecting.

How Does Cassius Faison Kill a Truth That Keeps Growing?

Britt and Brad Cooper went to Pier 55 to retrace her steps. Britt wants to figure out who Jason is protecting. Lulu wants to dig around and prove Cullum is dirty. Dante is asking questions Cullum will not answer. Cullum is telling anyone who will listen that he was looking at Jason and someone else fired.

Every single person connected to this situation is pulling at the same thread from a different direction. And Cassius Faison is standing in the middle of all of it, the only person who sees the full picture, trying to hold a lie together that is being tested from every angle.

What if Cassius has to do something drastic to keep Cullum quiet? What if the man who protected Rocco from Sidwell now has to protect the cover up from the victim himself? What if Cassius Faison, who has shown flashes of something almost decent, has to decide between letting Cullum talk and letting a teenager’s life be destroyed?

The victim remembers. The liar knows. And the clock on this cover story is ticking louder every hour.

How does Cassius keep Cullum quiet? And what happens when Dante connects the timing of Rocco’s hand injury to the night of the shooting? Sound off below because this cover up is living on borrowed time!

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