General Hospital : Owning a dog cage is suspicious?

I am at a total loss to understand why the police would think that Franco owning a dog cage is suspicious and immediately bring it in as evidence. Owning a dog cage is not a crime, and Franco was more than able to explain why he would own one even though he doesn't have a dog. His explanation that he bought it because he bought a dog for Jake, and then kept it because he is a pack rat and never throws anything out sounds completely believable. It seems to me that the only way that the police could possibly know that the cage is evidence is because Jordan has been watching GH in the break room on her lunch break.

Along with the DUMBEST POSSIBLE ACTION trope, the SUSPECT EVERYTHING trope is alive and well on GH. It's writing like this that makes me miss the 80s.

I agree. In the 80's, they would at least have shown in the autopsy that Tom had had something around his neck or some strange bruises from lying against the grate something. Then "the team" would have brainstormed it a bit and the appearance of the cage would have been a piece of the puzzle, not a shot in the dark.

I can't wait for the day someone on the show says, "He's a guy who watches soap operas!"

I've stopped watching all of the scenes daily because of Julian, Ava, and now this Franco storyline. I was hoping Alexis would get arrested, and deal with her addiction incarcerated. She doesn't have to be the one who killed Tom. I'm hoping Elizabeth did that. But, I'm tired of Alexis blaming everyone but herself. I'm always reminded of that scene in the remake of the film "The Woman", where one of the fiends as how you were culpable in the fiasco. Alexis was of sound mind when she said yes to everything Julian was offering.

And yes, Jordan is written so poorly since she has become the commissioner. I do enjoy Valentin, and maybe he will get the girl in the end. Maybe they are going to killFranco off, and bring back Todd. Because to be outsmarted by Julian is laughable.

And what fresh Hell is this?, Malory from Archer(Dorothy Parker)

I think Jordan's suspicion came from Liz's reaction when Liz saw the cage.

Liz didn't show up to Franco's apartment until after the police hauled the dog cage away.

The cage was still there. They commented on the cage when Franco was there, but when Liz looked at it and started, that's when Jordan said she wanted it transported and tested. Then she tried pumping Liz for info. I assume Jordan was going to test it anyway, but she was clearly trying to rattle Liz.

Seriously, for someone who is always covering up for someone, Liz has no chill.

And even got called a liar over it twice by Jordan.

Loved their scenes today!

Liz just about jumped out of her skin when she saw the cage. Jordan called her out on it and Liz ran off. The main thing that bothered me was Franco keeping the receipt for the opinel (the murder weapon!). That would have been the first thing I got rid of.

I don't see anything wrong with him keeping the receipt, if he hadn't decided to lie about it. Given that the murder weapon is something that an artist would have, it would make sense that he would have one. He just shouldn't have decided to lie about it.

All insults will be interpreted as an admission that you cannot contribute to the discussion.

Jordan is a joke as a police commissioner. I miss Burt Ramsey, Robert Scorpio, and Sean Donelly in the role. Mac was never given a chance to be good.

So you've been watching before eight on Hulu? I also find myself trying to watch it in the afternoon when it originally airs. I have a difficult time making time to watch it later. The desire isn't there to try to make the time later either.

The do crate thing was stupid. It was weird though to have in a small studio. Franco should have said he was now dabbling in sculpture and planned to utilize it. That made more sense than to say he had such a large crate still around for a small puppy he'd given away months ago.

Jordan has never been my favorite. She doesn't have chemistry with anyone. She asks like she's everyone's mother, ironically except TJ, rather than Police Commissioner.

I got a phone call late in the day on Tuesday telling me not to come into work for the rest of the week because they are cutting hours. So I guess I'm at home until the Spring semester starts next week.

I hope you enjoy your time off.

I'm not particularly happy about it, but there's nothing I can do, January and February are the slowest months in year, I'm usually lucky if I can get as many as 10 hours a week.

Take advantage and make the best of it. Go on a vacation or even a staycation.

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It seems to me that the only way that the police could possibly know that the cage is evidence is because Jordan has been watching GH in the break room on her lunch break.

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Maybe she bought the old Burns and Allen "magic TV" off of Ebay. George used to keep track of the other characters' doings in scenes he wasn't in using that TV.




I don't know what they have to say. It makes no difference anyway. Whatever it is, I'm against it.

As big as it was in the space it was in, I would be concerned to.

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Little Mikey Myers that lived across the street.

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You would immediately draw the conclusion that it must be evidence in a murder case?

A conclusion wasn't drawn. They were suspicious. The response from Franco and reaction from Liz increased their suspicion.
As another pointed out, the crate was large enough to be a cage. It did seem out of place. It is better for police to be cautious. If it didn't pan out then no harm done but it seems that it did.

I don't buy it, there's way too many logical leaps there.

That chain of reasoning reminds me of the old Adam West Batman trying to decipher one of the Riddler's clues.



The police aren't that clever. That kind of logic only works on TV. Adrian Monk can do it, but a real life police officer couldn't.

Yeah, cops are notoriously stolid, which is why most major crimes are solved by the Feds when they are called in.

This is on TV.

Didn't he confess to the cops at one point that he did threaten Tom at the hospital? Or was that just to Liz? In any event, no I wouldn't think he had killed tom right of the back but wit the little bit of info about threatening him I would think he did something.

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Little Mikey Myers that lived across the street.

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Eell does Franco jave a dog or a good reason to have a dog cage. He is a sociopath afterall.

Since when is someone obligated to provide law enforcement with 'a good reason' to own something which is not illegal?

When one is under suspicion for murder.
People don't have to talk to the police. If they choose to then their lawyer can speak for them.

It isn't just one thing but more than one thing adding up to probable cause. The dog crate alone, although out of place, isn't enough but add that to Franco's history, his public run-in with Tom, dating the woman Tom had raped, the murder weapon being an artist's style of knife (opinel?) and Franco being an artist, no alibi for the time of the murder, etc.

The dog crate was large enough to cage a human, Franco doesn't have a dog, he gave away a puppy the day he got it never having planned to keep it, it was too small for that crate, it was given away months ago, the crate takes up a large amount of a small space, and he gave the questionable excuse about the puppy.
I'd be suspicious. Maybe cops should be soap watchers and they'd then question more.

Franco should have gotten rid of it, having dismantled it first so it would be less noticeable. Or he could have said he planned to use it in his art. The dog excuse was flimsy which is why the cops became even more suspicious.