General Hospital
Nathan West is DEAD and Cassius Faison Is a Fraud Who Keeps Doing the Right Thing for the Wrong Reasons
Nathan West is dead on GH. His twin Cassius Faison has been living his life and he is protecting the secret of who really shot Cullum.
CASSIUS FAISON KNOWS WHO SHOT CULLUM AND HE IS NOT TELLING SIDWELL
TL;DR: Nathan West is confirmed dead on General Hospital. His twin brother Cassius Faison has been wearing his face, raising his son, and working inside the PCPD for six months. Sidwell poisoned Maxie to make it happen. And Cassius knows Rocco shot Cullum but did not tell Sidwell. For a Faison, that is almost heroic. Almost.
Nathan West Is Gone
The real Nathan West is dead. Not missing. Not locked in a facility. Not coming home. Jenz Sidwell sat in his study at Wyndemere and complimented Cassius Faison on how effortlessly he slipped into his “late twin brother’s” life. Late. That word does all the heavy lifting. The man Maxie Jones mourned, the man Felicia Scorpio welcomed back, the man James said he wants to grow up to be just like, is gone. The person standing in his place is a Faison. And Port Charles threw him a welcome home party.
Sidwell laid out the whole operation. He poisoned Maxie. Put her in a coma. By the time she woke up, Cassius had studied Nathan’s life thoroughly enough to fool everyone. The wife. The mother. The son. The partner. Sidwell then staged car trouble for Laura Collins so that Cassius Faison could play hero and position himself inside the PCPD. Every handshake, every hug, every bedtime story with James, every moment of trust that Port Charles gave this man was built on a foundation of poison and a dead man’s identity.
Nathan West is dead and Cassius Faison has been living his life. Where do you think Nathan really died? Send your wildest theories to [email protected] and we just might publish them!
Cassius Faison Protected Rocco and That Changes Things
Here is where this gets complicated in the most delicious way.
Sidwell told Cassius Faison to use his position at the PCPD to investigate Marco Rios‘ murder. Sidwell believes Sonny Corinthos ordered Jason Morgan to kill Marco and Jason shot Ross Cullum when confronted on the pier. That is the version Sidwell is operating under.
Cassius Faison knows it is wrong. He was at that pier. He saw Rocco Falconeri holding the gun. He took control of the scene. He told Jason to wipe the weapon. He got Rocco out of there. He managed the cover up from inside the PCPD while Dante Falconeri ran the investigation in the next room.
And when Sidwell asked him what happened on that pier, Cassius Faison did not give up the teenager. He acknowledged that Sidwell’s theory was “possible” and moved on. He is sitting on the single most valuable piece of information in this entire operation and he is keeping it from the man who controls him.
Why? That is the question that makes Cassius Faison the most fascinating character on General Hospital right now. Is he protecting Rocco because a teenager does not deserve to be destroyed by Sidwell’s revenge? Is he banking the information as leverage for later? Is there something human inside the Faison twin that not even Sidwell anticipated? Or is Cassius Faison playing a game so deep that even Sidwell cannot see the board?
He Found Lulu on the Pier and Told Her to Let It Go
Lulu Spencer was on Pier 55 retracing Rocco’s steps from the night of the shooting. Cassius found her there. She told him she had asked Laura to reach out to WSB contacts to help Jason. And Cassius, the man who knows exactly what happened on that pier because he was there, looked at the woman he is supposedly falling for and told her to let it go. The WSB has their shooter, he said. Do not give them a reason to look further.
That is either a man protecting the woman he is pretending to love by keeping her away from a truth that would destroy her son. Or it is a man managing a potential security breach by steering Lulu away from the facts before she accidentally exposes the cover up he needs intact.
Both versions are true. That is what makes Cassius Faison terrifying and somehow, against every instinct, almost sympathetic. He is a fraud. He is living in a dead man’s shoes. He is raising a child who is not his. And he is the only person standing between Rocco Falconeri and Sidwell’s wrath.
Sidwell Told Cassius to Deal With Britt
Sidwell said Britt Westbourne has to be held accountable for betraying them. Regardless of her familial ties. He told Cassius Faison to deal with his own sister if she compromised their operation.
Cassius agreed. Reluctantly. But he agreed.
Britt thinks this man is her brother. She trusted him with her statement about the shooting. She let him question her at the hospital. She leaned on him during the worst days of her life. And he just agreed to deal with her on Sidwell’s orders.
Cassius Faison protected a teenager he barely knows from Sidwell’s fury. But he agreed to move against the sister who thinks he is family. That tells you exactly who this man is. He will protect a stranger’s child but sacrifice his brother’s sister. The math on Cassius Faison does not add up, and that is precisely what makes him the most unpredictable person in Port Charles.
Nathan West is dead. His twin is something else entirely. Not a hero. Not a villain. Something in between that Genoa City, Salem, Los Angeles, and Fairmont Crest have never seen before. Port Charles does not know what to do with a Faison who occasionally does the right thing for the wrong reasons, and honestly, neither do we.
Is Cassius Faison protecting Rocco out of decency or strategy? And what does he do when Sidwell orders him to move against Britt? Sound off below because this man is the most complicated character on daytime right now!
WATCH THIS: I wish I was shocked, but I’m not…
@soapoperamag WE WERE RIGHT! We Nathan girlies knew that wasn't OUR man! We knew from the second he came back. We knew when he kissed Lulu. We knew when he let Maxie go. We KNEW! And, we were right. Cassius Faison?! An evil twin?! Yikes! #GH #GeneralHospital ♬ original sound – Soap Opera Magazine
