GH’s Josslyn Jacks Is Trapped in a Castle With a Killer and Has No Clue How Bad This Is About to Get

JOSS IS ALONE WITH A KILLER AND SHE HAS NO IDEA HOW MUCH DANGER SHE’S IN

TL;DR: Josslyn Jacks blew up a power grid, broke into Wyndemere during a blizzard, and is now sipping brandy with a man who wants her stepfather dead. Someone collect this girl before she becomes a cautionary tale on General Hospital.

Somebody Needs to Ground This Woman Immediately

Josslyn Jacks has always been bold. Reckless, even. Carly’s daughter through and through. But what she pulled this week? This isn’t bold. This is a one-way ticket to a body bag, and she doesn’t even know it yet.

Let’s recap the chaos, shall we? Yesterday, Joss casually asked Brick — BRICK, Sonny’s trusted security guy — how to take out the power grid on Spoon Island. Her excuse? A school project. A SCHOOL PROJECT. And Brick, bless his heart, actually gave her information before she ran off to commit actual terrorism with what looked like C4 explosives.

She blew up infrastructure. During a blizzard. To cut power to Wyndemere. And now she’s broken INTO that same Wyndemere, armed with a flashlight and a gun, like she’s some kind of one-woman SWAT team. Josslyn Jacks is out here acting like consequences don’t exist, and we’re genuinely concerned she’s about to learn otherwise.

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She’s Drinking Brandy With the Man Who Wants Sonny Dead

Here’s where it gets really terrifying. Joss hears a noise, pulls her gun, and hides — only to find a man lighting candles like he owns the place. He introduces himself as Matthew. Charming. Polite. Offers her brandy to warm up.

Except his name isn’t Matthew. It’s Ross Cullum. He’s the new WSB Director. And just yesterday, Marco asked him to take Sonny out. As in kill him. As in murder. And now Joss — Sonny’s stepdaughter, Carly’s baby girl — is alone with him in a castle during a blizzard, lying about being on her way to a keg party on “Porter Island.”

He’s already suspicious. He told her he thinks there’s more to her than just being a student. She shrugged it off with “what you see is what you get,” but Cullum isn’t buying it. This man is a trained operative. He reads people for a living. And Josslyn Jacks is sitting across from him with a gun in her bag and explosives residue probably still on her hands.

The Lies Are Stacking Up and They’re About to Collapse

Let’s count the lies Joss has told in the last 48 hours. She lied to Brick about why she needed power grid information. She lied to Cullum about why she’s on the island. She lied about where she was going. She’s lying about who she is. And she’s doing all of this while trapped in a remote castle with a murderous WSB Director who has every reason to be paranoid about unexpected visitors.

What happens when Cullum figures out she’s Carly Spencer’s daughter? What happens when he realizes she’s connected to Sonny? What happens when he puts together that she’s the one who blew the power? Because he will. Men like Ross Cullum don’t miss details. They collect them. And right now, Joss is handing him a trail of breadcrumbs that leads directly to her own destruction.

This Cannot End Well

We love Joss. We really do. She’s fierce and brave and completely incapable of staying in her lane. But this? This is different. She’s not going up against some petty schemer or jealous rival. She’s stumbled into the orbit of a man who kills people for a living and has active plans to murder someone she loves.

The blizzard means no one’s coming to save her. The power’s out because she blew it up herself. And the only person who knows she’s there is the man who introduced himself with a fake name. Josslyn Jacks wanted to play hero, and instead she’s walked directly into a villain’s lair without backup, without a plan, and without any idea how much danger she’s actually in.

Someone get Carly on the phone. Someone get Jason. Someone get literally anyone, because Joss is in that castle sipping brandy like she’s not one wrong answer away from becoming Cullum’s next problem to eliminate.

How do you think this ends for Joss? What are your General Hospital predictions? Sound off!

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@soapoperamag Oh, Joss, you are slick, but you're gonna be in T R O U B L E! How do you think this is going to play out? Will Joss end up behind bars? #GH ♬ original sound – Soap Opera Magazine