Is General Hospital using a Franco "brain tumor defense" for Heather's hooking ways?

Heather Webber has been crazy for years, but now General Hospital might have an explanation for at least some of it.

What's a little serial killing when an actor is popular, right? That's what both Days of our Lives and General Hospital seemed to say over the last decade with the cases of Ben Weston and Franco Baldwin.

Ben's serial-killing ways were excused by mental health issues. As long as he stays on his meds, he is safe and can continue being married to Ciara and raising their children. Franco's murderous tendencies were explained by the infamous brain tumor defense. We even got to see the tumor in a jar at his trial.

In 2022, GH turned Franco's mother, Heather Webber, into a serial killer. While it made no sense that this frail senior citizen could climb in and out of windows and attack people with such force, this is the story GH is still going with, so we have to go with it, too. However, is GH now trying to find a medical excuse for her actions?

We now know that the show is ripping a page straight out of the Grey's Anatomy playbook (after all, Grey's is shot right next door in the same studio) by giving Heather cobalt poisoning as a result of a hip replacement years ago. Cobalt poisoning can affect the brain and personality, which could be used to explain away making her the Hook. Dr. Richard Webber already experienced that on Grey's, minus the serial killer part.

The problem is that Heather has been doing crazy and dangerous things for a really long time, and we are not sure when this hip replacement took place. Back in the late 1970s and early '80s, her antics were explained by a bad LSD trip. However, by the time she left town in 1983, she seemed to be doing okay, and we didn't hear from her for another two decades.

In 2004, she returned to Port Charles and was as manipulative as ever and killed a few people, kidnapped a few people, and even kidnapped a baby (Danny Morgan). We only saw her sporadically between 2012 and 2022, but when she returned in the form of Alley Mills, she was a full-fledged serial killer, murdering people with a poison hook.

Did the cobalt poisoning turn Heather into the Hook? Will she now be released from Pentonville to help Laura raise their grandson together? Will she be an accepted member of Port Charles society like her serial-killing son? If GH could do this once, why not twice, right?

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While some fans might not like the direction this story is taking, it will at least keep the Emmy-winning Mills on our screens.

What do you think? Do you want to see Heather's crimes excused so she can stick around? We want to hear from you -- so drop your comments in the Comments section below, tweet about it on Twitter, share it on Facebook, or chat about it on our Message Boards.

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