General Hospital led viewers to believe that it had killed off Cesar Faison years ago. But the mystery surrounding the resurrection of his

son Nathan West and daughter Britt Westbourne has Anna Devane going “Hmm” along with viewers — with good reason. Could the

madman have cheated death once again? Looking at his past below, we have a sneaking suspicion that he still has a future!

 

 

General Hospital gave viewers a whole other reason to “beware the Ides of March” in 1990 when it introduced Anders Hove as P.K. Sinclair, an adventure novelist whose true story was wilder than even his bestselling Crystalline Conspiracy. The author was, in fact, the nefarious Faison, who had been Anna’s boss during her days as a double agent for the DVX.

Mind you, Faison wasn’t just interested in the intel that Anna could glean from her day job at the WSB. He was also interested in her — to the point of obsession. He even conspired with then-WSB chief Sean Donely to blow up her marriage to Robert Scorpio, aka the spy who loved her. Though that threat was neutralized, Faison returned like the bad penny that he was.

Years after planting a bomb in Jenny Eckert’s wedding bouquet and serving Tiffany Donely a glass of poisoned milk — gee, does a body… bad? — Faison resurfaced alive and well, with a new alias as Herr Krieg and a new accomplice, the equally demented Helena Cassadine. Once more, he ran roughshod over Port Charles until the Cassadine matriarch arranged for him to “die” again.

A decade later, Anna was stunned to be reunited with back-from-the-dead husband Duke Lavery. But alas, Duke wasn’t Duke but Faison in an apparently very convincing mask. The real Duke was alive, too, it turned out. But Faison was holding him prisoner in a Swiss clinic rather than draw attention to the fact that there were suddenly two of him.

Every other day, it seemed, Faison hatched a new plot. If he wasn’t faking Robin’s death and having besotted henchwoman Liesl Obrecht watch over her, he was having Drew Cain brainwashed into believing that he was his own twin brother, Jason Morgan. The mind game worked so well that it even fooled Jason’s “widow,” Sam McCall.

In the mid-to-late-2010s, we kept learning that Faison’s family tree was much more sprawling than we’d originally imagined. First it was revealed that he had a daughter with Liesl — Britt — then it came out that Nathan was also their child. But the worst was yet to come.

Faison also had a son named Henrik roaming around Port Charles masquerading as mild-mannered publisher Peter August while committing one horrific act after another. But the less said about that loathed villain, the better.

In 2018, Faison returned yet again, this time delighting in the fact that Nathan’s wife Maxie Jones was carrying his grandchild. Natch, a happy reunion didn’t ensue. Faison kidnapped Lulu Spencer (then Emme Rylan), held a gun on Hamilton Finn and shot both Peter and Nathan, the latter of whom succumbed to his injuries.

Only once Faison was recovering from his own gunshot wound did he realize that Peter was Henrik. As the older man struggled to breathe and reached for the call button, his chip off the old block tore it from his hand. “You taught me better than that,” Peter sneered, leaving his father to die — for real this time, or so we think. Or so for now we think. Or… well… thought.

Whether “Nathan” really is Faison or Peter, Maxie is going to be in for one hell of a shock when she wakes up from her coma. She had happily reunited with lost love Damian Spinelli when she was KO’d. And upon regaining consciousness, she’s going to feel like she’s stepped into a dream that very well may be leading her to a nightmare.

Adding fuel to the theory that Nathan isn’t really Nathan is the fact that Britt seemed a whole lot less surprised by his “comeback” than did mom Liesl. Could the “C” who was holding her at the Five Poppies be her supposedly deceased papa Cesar?

By and by, we learned that Anna was being held prisoner by the wicked Jenz Sidwell and his henchman, Pascal. They even messed with Anna’s mind to the point that she mistook her nurse for Obrecht. But to what end were the baddies so determined to make Anna think that Faison was her captor?