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ANNA DEVANE IS BACK ON THE JOB AT GENERAL HOSPITAL’S PCPD
TL;DR: General Hospital spoilers send Anna Devane back to work at the PCPD on Tuesday, July 21. She reopens the pier shooting and fingers the wrong suspect, while Jack Brennan sits on the truth that could sink Rocco.
Anna Walks Back Into The Squad Room
General Hospital spoilers confirm that Anna Devane (Finola Hughes) is back on the job at the PCPD, and she is not easing in gently. On Tuesday, July 21, Anna heads back to her old stomping ground with a mountain of unfinished business waiting, and the first file she pulls is the pier shooting. The trouble is that the version of events she walks in believing is dead wrong, and the one man who could set her straight would rather she keep chasing a ghost.
For anyone keeping score at home, Anna has been through the wringer. She spent months held captive beneath Wyndemere, clawed her way out on her own, and only just made it back to Port Charles, where her granddaughter Emma Scorpio-Drake (Braedyn Bruner) helped ease her back into the fold. Now she is trading the recovery story for a badge, and quietly pretending she is far steadier than she really is.
Here is the knot she is walking into. Anna assumes that Cassius Faison (Ryan Paevey) pulled the trigger in the pier shooting, since he had every reason to want the corrupt WSB director Cullum (Andrew Hawkes) gone for good. That guess is neat, and it is wrong. The real shooter never left town, and the cover story shielding him is the kind of thing that comes apart the second a sharp detective starts tugging at loose threads, as anyone following the mayhem in this rundown of Port Charles bombshells can see coming.
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The One Man Who Knows The Truth
This is where Jack Brennan (Chris McKenna) becomes a problem. Brennan already knows Cassius never fired that shot, because Danny told him the truth weeks ago: it was Rocco Falconeri (Finn Carr) on the pier, and Jason quietly took the blame to shield the boy. So when Anna Devane marches in convinced she has her man, Brennan is sitting on the one fact that blows her whole case apart. Watch how Anna Devane reads him across that table, because she has broken down liars far slicker than Brennan and rarely walks out empty-handed.
Is Anna Devane Back At The PCPD On General Hospital?
Yes. As of the Tuesday, July 21 episode, Anna is back at her PCPD desk and back in the field, digging into the pier shooting like she never left. What nobody else is spelling out is that her timing is dangerous for exactly the wrong people. She is aiming squarely at Cassius while the real culprit is family to the acting police commissioner, and she is doing every bit of it while privately haunted by hallucinations of her dead nemesis Peter, which means the department just handed its trickiest cold case to its least steady investigator.
A Power Shift The PCPD Did Not See Coming
Here is where it gets combustible. Dante Falconeri (Dominic Zamprogna) is still the acting commissioner, and he has quietly signaled he is ready to step back now that Anna is finally home. On paper that looks like a clean handoff, except the case landing on Anna Devane’s desk points straight at Rocco, Dante’s own son. If I know these writers, Anna’s first real win back on the job is going to cost someone she loves, and do not be surprised if the fallout forces Dante to choose between the badge and the boy.
Tell us in the comments whether Anna is the right cop to crack this one, or far too compromised to see straight.
For more twists from Port Charles, browse our complete General Hospital spoilers coverage.
Anna Is Home And The PCPD Will Never Be The Same
Make no mistake, the sharpest detective in Port Charles just clocked back in with a target she cannot see clearly, and that is precisely what makes this so much fun. Anna is certain she is closing in on Cassius. She is actually inches from a truth that torches her own family and drags the acting commissioner down with it.
Our gut says the writers let her get painfully close before the personal cost detonates, because a tidy win was never their style. Pick your side now, because this storyline is built to split the fandom right down the middle. Come argue it out with us over on our Facebook page.
