General Hospital (GH) spoilers tease that there is no longer any reason to leave Shawn Butler (Sean Blakemore) rotting in Pentonville, but will GH showrunners do the right thing and craft a storyline that sees Shawn freed from prison for Hayden Barnes’ (Rebecca Budig) shooting?
At this point, there are at least four Port Charles people – in addition to Shawn himself – that know he didn’t do the crime for which he’s now doing time. Liz, Laura, Hayden and Curtis all know – and are in the wrong for letting this go on as long as it has.
Liz Webber (Rebecca Herbst) and Laura Spencer (Genie Francis) didn’t come forward before because, if they did, Nikolas Cassadine (Tyler Christopher) would have faced jail time himself for paying a hit man to whack Hayden. But now that Nikolas is presumed dead, why keep quiet?
Of course we know Nikolas is NOT dead as Tyler Christopher’s announcement on his return makes clear – unless of course Nik will be a ghost in the future! But after all what counts is what PC people think for know, before they know Nik didn’t die and is alive.
Hayden also knows that Shawn couldn’t have her shot – she even talked face-to-face with Shawn about it. So why isn’t Hayden trying to save Shawn? Is she too busy with lizard-loving doc Hamilton Finn (Michael Easton) to do the right thing and get him out of prison?
Curtis Ashford (Donnell Turner) also knows and him keeping the secret seems the worst of all four that know the truth. Now that TJ Ashford (Tequan Richmond) knows Shawn is his father, this shooting lie is keeping father and son apart.
Shawn and TJ never got to be father and son, although they had a close relationship for years. But now that Jordan Ashford (Vinessa Antoine) finally came clean, it seems awful to let prison bars keep them apart after Jordan’s lie kept them separated for TJ’s entire life.
Shawn portrayer Sean Blakemore is a busy actor with a lot on his plate, but surely he’d find time to come back and do a short arc where he’s exonerated and released from jail. GH fans are boiling that he’s been left behind bars for so long – especially when so many people know he’s innocent.
There is absolutely no reason for anyone to keep this secret, so why is no one making a beeline to the PCPD to tell the truth?
General Hospital spoilers tease that Lulu Spencer (Emme Rylan) and Dante Falconeri (Dominic Zamprogna) are back in Port Charles next week and will rush to the PCPD to exonerate Jason for Nikolas’ faked Wyndemere death. Where is the same justice for Shawn?
What do you think GH fans? Is it wrong that Shawn has been left to rot in Pentonville? Who do you think should be the one to come forward, tell the truth, and get him out of prison? Are you upset that the GH writers seem to have forgotten they jailed an innocent man?
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