Back to Life, Back to Reality...And Out of the Attic: General Hospital Two Scoops For the Week of July 6

General Hospital felt like the calm after the storm all week, but that didn't mean it wasn't jam-packed with soapy goodness, side-splitting reaction shots, and the set-up for one heck of a summer to come.

Valentin and Carly came out of the attic in a big way right in the middle of the GH parking lot. Britt learned she had a whole new lease on life that she was allowed to live. And her brother lives too, but only Z (and the audience) knows that. Anna came home, but sadly, so did Peter August. Chase finally put his detective skills to good use...sorta. Elizabeth is using her amateur detective skills again, but is not quite getting there (yet). And Josslyn? Well, she appears to be running the WSB from her hospital bed, so all in a super spy's day's work, right?

The Parking Lot Reunion We Never Knew We Needed

Lulu and Sonny learned all about Caradine in an epic way | Image: ABC

GH's use of...the outdoors...almost always works. While Port Charles' Upstate New York park had palm trees at one time, production finally realized it needed to edit those out. It didn't 100% happen on the new and improved (?) Spoon Island last week, but at least the ABC Prospect Studios...we mean the hospital parking lot...doesn't look like sunny Los Angeles.

Thanks to the studio parking lot, GH fans were treated to one of those epic romantic movie reunions we lived for in the golden age of Hollywood. Or at least one of those epic reunions we lived for during the golden age of soap location shoots in places like Paris or New Orleans. Yes, we had to swoon. And then, we had to laugh.

There was Carly, breaking the "wait, what?" news to Sonny that her ditzy college student daughter was an international spy. And there was Lulu, in the car with her belligerant daughter after learning she'd been in contact with her international fugitive father for months.

And then there was a long, black SUV (not the one that Jordan forced onto a guardrail when she just had to kiss Curtis). And who should emerge? Well, our favorite piano-playing, Billy Joel-singing, French-speaking, coq au vin-cooking girl dad, of course. He took one look at Carly, she took one look at him, and they went running, non-sensible shoes and all.

The faces said everything.

Sonny: "I should have known why he was so quiet while Jason's been in an international prison. Here we go again."

Charlotte: "Ohhhhh! This is why Cousin Carly has been so nice to my dad all these months."

Lulu: "Wait, did I just fall back into a coma for the last six months? How did I miss this?"

Um, Does He Live With Her Now?

Carly and Valentin aren't going to let Sonny rain on their parade | Image: ABC

But Carly and Valentin didn't care. After she finally got in to see Josslyn and Valentin stopped by to see his daughter and tell her mother how things are going to be from now on, Carly and Valentin went right back to domestic life in her kitchen. We can assume he is no longer sleeping on a cot in the attic and gets to enjoy that big, comfy bed every night now.

Yes, Carly's attic boyfriend is no more. Instead, he is her parking lot and kitchen boyfriend, and her boyfriend anywhere they want to be, even if Sonny doesn't like it very much. Many fans expected Carly to have a cow when she learned that Valentin was the one who messed with Sonny's bipolar meds, but she shrugged it off and told him she'd be scolding him later.

Lulu lost her mind on her, but Carly didn't budge. She just warned her that whether she liked it or not, Charlotte loved her dad and Lulu would be doing herself a disservice if she tried to keep them apart.

A Word About Lulu...and Valentin

So, Lulu has every right to detest Britt for the rest of her life for stealing her embryo and stealing her son for the first half-year of his life. And Lulu has every right to hate Valentin for adding to Helena's Spencer-Cassadine combo experiment by keeping Charlotte from her biological mother for the first few years of her life. But (soap) reality is a b**** and Lulu needs to live in it.

She does not have to like Britt or Valentin, but she does have to accept the fact that her two teenage kids feel an attachment to Britt and Valentin, whether she likes it or not. For Rocco, his attachment to Britt is a bit weird, but he is a quirky kid who was curious about his origin story and found that he liked the lady who gave birth to him. Valentin is Charlotte's father. Biologically. And for better or worse, that girl knows him as a parent more than she knows Lulu.

Lulu needs to accept the fact that she was in a coma for four years and her kids' lives continued without her. Rocco loves his mom, but might feel a disconnect from her. But for Charlotte, Valentin was her only parent. And while she lived with Dante and Sam for a while, that was to keep her safe when Valentin and Anna were in trouble.

Lulu missed Valentin's entire semi-redemption arc, the one in which he bought a house to settle down, got a legit job, and tried to raise his daughter living a normal (for soaps) American life. (Sure, there were some weapons deals and international fugitive time, but that's neither here nor there.) So, when she stands in front of Carly talking about how diabolical Valentin is, she looks foolish. Someone should give her the "Lulu Is In a Coma Valentin Primer." It turns out that Helena was wrong. Her son is not the "most evil Cassadine of them all" after all.

Anna and Her Houseguest...WHY???

Anna's back. And we are so happy Anna is back. And so is her family. Too bad they don't know she brought a guest with her who's living rent-free in her head. Anna has to suffer and so does the audience.

GH needs to understand that while there are some villains we love to hate (we're lookin' at you, Jenz), there are others who we just hate. They need to go the way of soap opera villains we never hear from again because their first run was such a traumatic experience for the entire fandom. And one of those villains is Peter August.

There is nothing about Peter that is intriguing or entertaining. But we are stuck with him for the foreseeable future anyway, aren't we? He has apparently been living with Anna since the bowels of Wyndemere and now he is in her apartment.

We want to believe Anna is all better, so maybe her latest visitor can help. Valentin is at the front door to deliver a message that could help with Anna's quest for sanity and the truth. And boy, did she smile when she saw her old lover's face. We smiled too, which means this is going to be a soap triangle for the ages.

As we watched Carly and Valentin fall for one another over the last seven months, we knew Anna would be back eventually. There is certainly unfinished business between them, as well as an undeniable chemistry. Valentin has held a torch for Anna for decades. Is he still or did something so unexpected happen when he jumped out of a plane last December that he realizes some things are just not meant to be...and some things are...

Cesar Faison's Other Kids

Some people think Cesar Faison now has three dead kids out of his four, but it's really only two. Nathan and Peter are no longer with us (well, Peter is in Anna's head, but hopefully, that won't last long), but it doesn't look like Britt and Cassius are going anywhere any time soon.

Who didn't know exactly where Z was going when he walked down that long hallway to a Ferncliff-looking room, he wasn't going to find Cassius there? We did think he'd be in a coma, kept alive by life support, but nope, he was perfectly fine and even got a job offer. So, that's that. He'll be back.

And Britt? She will live! Without Huntington's Disease, because it was all a lie. What will she do now with $5 and the clothing on her back? Is her room at Bobbie's still empty? Will the hospital board allow her to have her job back? Did she ditch that expensive car at the airport? Yep, Britt may be back to square one where she was a year ago, but at least Jason will be on a plane back to Port Charles, so there's that.

Two Strokes, One Living Room...

Elizabeth is not quite getting it | Image: ABC

OMG, Elizabeth, you are thisclose. That epiphany moment is right there. You just have to find it. That wacky girl who was crying in her wedding dress, banging on Carly's window last year with bridezilla mascara running down her face really is as crazy as she looked during that moment. Do you not remember that the cops found the gun that shot Drew right in your own guest room in your home? Maybe it was there for a reason...

Because if there is no airborne substance that only causes strokes in healthy white men in their 40s and two healthy white men in their 40s had strokes in the same living room just months apart, then maybe there is a non-airborne substance that somebody gave them. And who could that somebody be? Hmmm...

But seriously, it's time to end this story. Wake Drew up. And then maybe, just maybe, WAKE CHASE UP!!!!!

Pack His Bags, Brook Lynn

Brook Lynn needs to show her husband the door | Image: ABC

Chase can't figure out that it was his sweet-as-pie adulterer of an unhinged ex-wife who shot Drew. And he certainly can't figure out that the same ex-wife (who has committed adultery now twice) injected her current husband with a paralytic drug. But it took him about a minute to figure out that Brook Lynn was the one who set this ex-wife up to take the fall for a non-crime that she didn't commit (when she committed so many others).

And why was he mad at Brook Lynn? Not because she did something so sneaky, underhanded, and illegal behind his back. No, apparently that's neither here nor there. Chase is furious at Brook Lynn because she had the nerve to do this to Saint Willow. Yeah, pack his bags, Brook Lynn. The days of living rent-free in Tracy's house (Monica gave it to her) are over. The end.