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Ethan showed up at the hospital to get a cheek swab. Why? No
explanation, only an odd remark to Elizabeth like, "no one will be
hurt." But Liz hadn't prompted that remark with a question or a facial expression, so why say it? I think I must have missed a scene or two
that led up to it.

Was the cheek swab for a paternity test? If so, why would he be doing
that when he claimed to Alexis that he is Phoebe's father, wants a
closed adoption, and doesn't want Phoebe or anyone else to know his
identity.

If no one and nothing prompted him to take a paternity test, why would
he do it voluntarily then swap his sample with one he had presumably
stolen from the PCPD evidence room? That was what he stole from the
evidence room, wasn't it? If so, whose DNA was it? Some rando's or
someone's in particular?

Detective Fitzpatrick told Lucas that a discarded syringe found in
Britt's room at Kelly's had contained a saline solution. So what, Cullum
has been shooting her up with a placebo all this time? If so, how could
saline have kept her Huntington's symptoms at bay?

The discarded syringe had only residue in it, but apparently that was
enough for the police lab to test. Britt has been talking about reverse engineering the stuff since Croatia, so if there was enough of it left
to test in a syringe she had tossed in the trash, why wouldn't she have
tried to reverse engineer that instead of tossing it?

When Britt first came back to PC with Jason, Cullum kept her supplied
with a little kit containing syringes and several vials of the
"medication," so as far back as then she had access to enough to test in
a lab and reverse engineer. But no, let's lollygag about to the point
we'll need to send someone to steal it from Sidwell's safe and get
stabbed to death by a psycho for their trouble.
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Kaitlin <above.stairs@bobbie's.diner.INVALID> said"

Detective Fitzpatrick told Lucas that a discarded syringe found in
Britt's room at Kelly's had contained a saline solution. So what, Cullum
has been shooting her up with a placebo all this time? If so, how could >saline have kept her Huntington's symptoms at bay?

Wild speculation, but could the Huntington's have been caused by another "magic
potion" (like the "stroke"-inducing drug) all along, so Britt doesn't actuallly
have Huntington's?
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am.nospam@cox.not.invalid wrote in <111b9as$1ghe0$1@dont-email.me>:

Kaitlin <above.stairs@bobbie's.diner.INVALID> said"

Detective Fitzpatrick told Lucas that a discarded syringe found in
Britt's room at Kelly's had contained a saline solution. So what, Cullum
has been shooting her up with a placebo all this time? If so, how could
saline have kept her Huntington's symptoms at bay?

Wild speculation, but could the Huntington's have been caused by another "magic
potion" (like the "stroke"-inducing drug) all along, so Britt doesn't actuallly
have Huntington's?

A really good point. Someone, maybe at the direction of Faison or even
Cullum, could have dosed Britt with a "magic potion" that caused Huntington's-like symptoms and gave a positive result for the disease in
a blood test or whatever diagnostic method is used to confirm it.

But if she doesn't have Huntington's and was dosed with something to
make it appear that she does, then it would have to work long term,
otherwise she might discover that she was being dosed with something on
a regular basis. And whatever that something is would have to be
counteracted by saline.
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On 6/22/2026 6:06 PM, Kaitlin wrote:

am.nospam@cox.not.invalid wrote in <111b9as$1ghe0$1@dont-email.me>:

Kaitlin <above.stairs@bobbie's.diner.INVALID> said"

Detective Fitzpatrick told Lucas that a discarded syringe found in
Britt's room at Kelly's had contained a saline solution. So what, Cullum >>> has been shooting her up with a placebo all this time? If so, how could
saline have kept her Huntington's symptoms at bay?

Wild speculation, but could the Huntington's have been caused by another "magic
potion" (like the "stroke"-inducing drug) all along, so Britt doesn't actuallly
have Huntington's?

A really good point. Someone, maybe at the direction of Faison or even Cullum, could have dosed Britt with a "magic potion" that caused Huntington's-like symptoms and gave a positive result for the disease in
a blood test or whatever diagnostic method is used to confirm it.

But if she doesn't have Huntington's and was dosed with something to
make it appear that she does, then it would have to work long term,
otherwise she might discover that she was being dosed with something on
a regular basis. And whatever that something is would have to be
counteracted by saline.

I also did not understand those scenes showing Ethan accessing the
evidence room and then getting a cheek swab and switching that swab with another, presumably one from the evidence room. What that was all about
will require more information. Does anyone remember what was written on
the box from the evidence room?

The syringe containing just saline also does not add up. All those
syringes should contain the magic drug that had kept Britt healthy. If
Britt was only tricked into believing she had Huntington's, it seems
like she should not be exhibiting Huntington's symptoms now, because she
never had Huntington's.

All of this is just too convoluted.
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SteveR wrote in <111fdcv$2m9f0$1@dont-email.me>:

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I also did not understand those scenes showing Ethan accessing the
evidence room and then getting a cheek swab and switching that swab with another, presumably one from the evidence room. What that was all about
will require more information. Does anyone remember what was written on
the box from the evidence room?

Yeah, it had a case file number and a year--1992, I think. If the
evidence was from an unsolved case, Ethan wouldn't have known whose DNA
he was stealing unless he knew who had committed the 1992 crime. But the
box seemed to me to have been a random selection on Ethan's part. He
didn't look around for a particular box, just grabbed one off the shelf
and rummaged around in it until he found a vial. Good thing for Ethan's purposes that the vials the PCPD used to store DNA from cheek swabs 34
years ago are identical to the ones GH uses today!

But maybe Ethan *did* pull a particular box from the shelf and we just
weren't shown him looking for it, or maybe he knew where to look, or
maybe I just don't remember seeing him look for it. IAC, if the
selection wasn't random, Ethan would have to have known the identity of
the perpetrator of the 1992 crime. And because he would have been a very
young child back then, if he knows about the crime and knows who
committed it, someone with that knowledge would had to have told him.
Holly and Luke would be a good place to start. For it to be believable
that the originator of the stolen DNA is Phoebe's biological father,
then when she was conceived, that person would at least need to have
been capable of making a baby and need not to have been incarcerated.
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