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General Hospital Spoilers – Franco Baldwin Keeps Remembering Things That Only Drew Cain Should Know
General Hospital viewers will recall that shortly before Drew Cain (Billy Miller) disappeared over the Gulf of Aden intending to return money to its rightful owners in Afghanistan, Franco (Roger Howarth) had the flash drive with Drew’s memories downloaded into his brain. Shiloh Archer (Coby Ryan McLaughlin) had kidnapped Cameron Webber (William Lipton), with the intentions of having Dr. Arthur Cabot (Time Winters) transfer the memories of Drew’s into his brain.
Franco arrived just in time to rescue Cameron, bravely taking his place. Franco then became “Frankendrew”, with Drew’s persona and memories before his kidnapping from Afghanistan. Dr. Andre Maddox (Anthony Montgomery) was called in to try an experimental withdrawal of Drew’s memories from Franco’s brain, with a risk that Franco’s persona and memories may be gone forever and his becoming a vegetable. However, Andre was able to extract Drew’s memories without destroying Franco’s. More recently, however, Franco was discovered to have a brain tumor re-growing.
After the explosion of The Floating Rib and a head injury, Dr. Lucas Jones (Matt Trudeau) was able to remove part of his tumor, but Franco kept hearing Peter August (Wes Ramsey) saying things that Franco doesn’t remember. At the one appointment Franco was able to keep with Dr. Warren Kirk (Jamison Jones) before he died, Kirk had come to the conclusion that the voices were coming not from the tumor, but from Drew’s residual memories. However, it would appear that these memories were from Drew’s subconscious, that he could not remember – the ones between his kidnapping and his arrival in Port Charles with amnesia as Jake Doe.
GH Spoilers – Franco Baldwin Asks His Father For Help, Liesl Obrecht’s Treatments Are Bringing Up More Of Drew Cain’s Memories
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As General Hospital viewers will recall, Franco has been through some pretty rough stuff in his life – he was sexually abused over and over as a child by the evil Jim Harvey, (Greg Evigan) who he saved Drew from being abused by. But the memories he is having now are even more violent and make him actually scream! It seems that the memories he is experiencing are from Drew’s experiences as “the scarecrow” that little Jake Webber (Hudson West) was so afraid of.
Helena Cassadine (Constance Towers) had left a scrapbook for Elizabeth Webber (Rebecca Herbst) with a lot of scary things Little Jake endured while kidnapped and living on Cassadine Island after everyone thought Luke Spencer (Anthony Geary) had killed him in a drunken hit and run. It was thought that Josslyn Jacks (Eden McCoy) had received his kidney until years later when Lucky Spencer (Jonathan Jackson) rescued him from Cassadine Island. Afterwards it was found Nelle Benson (Chloe Lanier) was the unwilling kidney donor.
Franco asks Scott (Kin Shriner) for help, to try and find him a different form of treatment or possibly to contact Andre Maddox for help. It seems like the course of treatment that Liesl Obrecht (Kathleen Gati) is administering is only making Franco worse – he is remembering Drew being tortured on Cassadine Island! It doesn’t only hurt Franco in the sense he feels Drew’s pain from then, it hurts his heart that his childhood “brother” went through it and Franco was helpless to save him!
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Franco could not remember the time that Helena had Jake and Drew. The Scarecrow situation happened after 2012. Franco only has the memories that Drew had up to the memory mapping procedure because that was all that was on the flash drive. Drew had already been turned into Jason when the Scarecrow happened. I think that if those memories were there that when Franco was first turned into Drew he wound have talked about them to someone. Franco does seem to be remembering Drew's past. Liesl is not really helping Franco because she wants revenge on Peter. Franco has been hearing Peter's voice but the reason is not clear. I hope that Scott will find Andre. It might help to get Peter to help them because he might be able to find Andre for them. I hope that Franco gets better. I hope that the situation with Franco, Liesl, and Peter will get better.
So true, Liesl is helping Liesl. She wants Peter gone at any cost.