The Hook

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**The Hook** was a fictional character and an antagonist on the ABC daytime drama *General Hospital*.

She is best known to keep her face and identity concealed for most of 2022 until New Year's Eve when Heather Webber was revealed to be the killer.

## Storylines

On August 26, 2022 during the Quartermaine picnic; an unknown woman goes into the Quartermaine Boathouse and takes a pair of gloves. The person looks around and take a hook off the wall with her left hand. Ava is outside the boathouse as she comes up behind her and stabs her in the stomach with the hook since her face and identity are concealed nine months after the death of Jason Morgan on Cassadine Island via tunnel collapse and replaced by Johann Bauer in the beginning of 2022 and four months after the armed robbery at Charlie's Pub by Eric Watson and Harry DeFranco who were wanting revenge for the late Peter August.

On October 4, Diane is recovering from surgery and a successful use of the anti-venom when she tells her children Keith and Sally that The Hook is a woman with jangling bracelets. That was when Keith, Sally, Ric, and Martin upped their game to try to find her.

On October 6, she attacked and killed Oz Haggerty on Pier 55.

On October 20, Willow finds a woman in black hiding in the Quartermaine Boathouse. It was revealed to be Holly Sutton. Drone footage shows a woman dressed in black shooting Lucy twice at Pier 55. The woman has Anna's face but she was on Pier 47 at the time.

Over a week later on October 28; another woman named Heather Webber came from D'Archum Asylum to General Hospital after the deaths of Cesar Faison, Nathan West, Jim Harvey, Mary Pat Ingles, Hank Archer aka Shiloh who bore a striking resemblance to the late Nathan West, Franco Baldwin, Jason Morgan, and Peter August; and Cyrus Renault's imprisonment.

On November 7, Nikolas points out to Esme that she has been held in the North Tower of Wyndemere for a month and the Hook attacks have stopped. She claims she isn’t the Hook.

On November 8, Esme ties bedsheets together and forces open a window with a knife before escaping.

On November 9, Nikolas is attacked by the Hook in Wyndemere. He falls and recognizes the hook as one from his boathouse. He suspects Esme attacked him. Esme in a hood hides on the pier when she sees someone coming. It is Liz who is waiting for the launch to meet Nikolas at Wyndemere.

On November 10, Nikolas accused Esme of attacking him. She claims she didn't and he locks her back up in the North Tower.

There was limited anti-venom left and even after being given it, Rory dies at GH. Liz finds a gold earring in his pocket and suspects it might belong to the Hook as Trina says it isn't hers.

On December 22, it is revealed that the earring had DNA from Gloria Wilson. Ryan tells his past lover and Esme's biological mother Heather Webber that she stole that earring years ago from his chain of keepsakes regarding his murder victims.

On New Year's Eve in 2022 (shown from December 30, 2022 to January 3, 2023); the Hook tried to attack Josslyn again, but Dr. Britt Westbourne intervened attacked her to save Josslyn. Later on, Dex showed up and shot The Hook in the arm before she took off. It was finally revealed that The Hook is Heather Webber returning the favor to the now deceased Cesar Faison five years later because Heather was wanting revenge for Faison.

In February 2023, Heather escapes from Spring Ridge with Ryan and Esme as she wants to hook Josslyn. Ryan stops at Wyndemere to take Ava with them. Heather hooks Austin but later reveals the hook wasn’t poisoned. It is revealed she was The Hook and she is arrested. Alexis did some research and found out that The Hook's letter to her was typed on a typewriter at D'Archam Asylum. She realizes Heather is the Hook. As Heather is being led away, she tells Spencer on Pier 55 that he was next.

At the PCPD, Heather is taken to the interrogation room where Sasha poses as a lawyer. Heather claims she was confused and Ryan took advantage of her. When Sasha leaves, Heather is questioned about the hook attacks and confesses to all of them including the one on Nikolas which the PCPD weren't aware about.

## Main Suspects

* Female
* Male

* Eileen Ashby: Is secretly working for Victor Cassadine, may be doing his bidding as the Hook killer.
* Elizabeth Webber: After a fight with Hamilton Finn in the Quartermaine Stables; Liz found herself wandering with a cut on her head, unsure how it happened. She later told her old friend and ex, Nikolas Cassadine that she was blacking out. She admitted her alibi was shaky to the first victim Ava Jerome, Nikolas' estranged wife.
* Esme Prince: The Hook attacks are against Trina. Was Esme really in the North Tower when Rory was killed? Did Demetrius help her escape?
* Heather Webber: She has a bacterial infection. Related to the snake venom The Hook uses? She is Esme's mother making Esme have two maternal half-brothers Steve Webber and the late Franco Baldwin. Does she want revenge for the late Cesar Faison after Faison's death? Is she taking excursions from being locked up? She had the earring found on Rory's body after the unnamed woman killed him.
* Roz Venta: Victor and Esme's African-American henchwoman represents him as their attorney got Victor released.
* Selina Wu: Has risen as a new power in town as Head of the Wu mob family and Brad Cooper's aunt. Is she creating fear to control the town and overtake the Corinthos mob?

* Jason Morgan: Presumed dead in a tunnel collapse on Cassadine Island caused by a shootout with Peter August and is replaced by Johann Bauer in the beginning of 2022. Was he removed from the debris by Victor, Esme, and their men and women and did they make him become the Hook killer and order him to betray the Corinthos mob family and the people of Port Charles to join the True Believers?
* Jerry Jacks: Former Port Charles resident who was imprisoned, then escaped, and now a wanted fugitive who is nowhere to be found. Did he secretly return to Port Charles and want revenge?
* Johann Bauer: The right hand and personal guard for Victor Cassadine and bodyguard for Esme Prince, may be doing their bidding as the Hook killer.
* Gavin Crawford: Henchman for Victor Cassadine and bodyguard for Esme Prince, may be doing their bidding as the Hook killer.
* Linc Brown: Music producer who was withholding Brook Lynn Quartermaine's songs and denies any involvement being the Hook killer.
* Mark Whitten: Agent working for Eileen Ashby, Victor Cassadine, and Esme Prince to go after Anna Devane. Could he be doing their bidding as the Hook killer?
* Ryan Chamberlain: He discovered his beloved Ava was the cause of his daughter Esme Prince's fall off the parapet to her presumed death.
* Victor Cassadine: He finds his great-nephew Nikolas fighting with his drunk son Spencer Cassadine. When he asks about it, Nikolas tells Victor that "Ava happened." Victor sees both Trina and Ava as liabilities to keeping the Cassadine family strong.

## Crimes Committed

* Identity theft; assumed the name Liesl Obrecht [Aug 26-Oct 6, 2022]
* Stabbed Ava in the stomach with a hook [Aug 26, 2022; as Liesl Obrecht; Ava hospitalized on Aug 29, 2022]
* Stalked Josslyn [Sep 13, 2022; as Liesl Obrecht]
* Murdered Oz Haggerty by attacking him with a hook laced with snake venom [Oct 6, 2022; as Liesl Obrecht]
* Attacked Nikolas Cassadine [Nov 9, 2022]
* Killed an animal smuggler named David North [revealed Dec 15, 2022]
* Attacked Rory Cabrera with a hook laced with snake venom; he died in the hospital [Dec 15, 2022; died Dec 16, 2022]
* Escaped to avoid capture [Dec 15, 2022]
* Stalked Trina and Spencer; was about to attack one of them with her hook until Maxie Jones unknowingly saved them [December 30, 2022]
* Tried to attack Josslyn [Dec 30, 2022-Jan 3, 2023; failed when Britt Westbourne and Dex Heller intervened and saved Josslyn]
* Cut Britt Westbourne with a hook laced with snake venom; she died from the venom [Jan 3, 2023; died Jan 4, 2023 resulting of returning the favor to the late Cesar Faison five years later]

## Health and Vitals

* Attacked by Britt Westbourne in defense of Josslyn Jacks [Jan 3, 2023]
* Shot by Dex Heller in defense of Britt and Josslyn [Jan 3, 2023]

## Relationships

* Friends
* Enemies

* Eileen Ashby - The Hook's friend and Jordan's predecessor (deceased)
* Johann Bauer - The Hook's associate/friend/bodyguard
* Linc Brown - Music producer (captured)
* Victor Cassadine - (deceased)
* Gavin Crawford - Victor's African-American henchman and The Hook's friend/ally (deceased)
* Harry DeFranco
* Keith Fletcher - Victor's henchman and The Hook's friend/ally
* David Hadley - Victor's henchman and The Hook's friend/ally
* Renee Laveque - (deceased)
* Roz Venta - The Hook's African-American lawyer
* Eric Watson
* Mark Whitten - The Hook's new friend/ally/co-conspirator

* Elisha Adams - Officer of the Port Charles Police Department
* Haley Adams
* Leah Adams
* Randy Ashcroft - Sheriff of the Eerie County Sheriff's Department
* Curtis Ashford - Trina's father
* Jordan Ashford - Former Commissioner of the Port Charles Police Department, current Deputy Mayor of Port Charles, and Elieen Ashby's successor
* T.J. Ashford
* Marshall Ashford - Curtis's father
* Hayden Barnes - Violet's mother
* Cody Bell
* Rory Cabrera - Officer of the Port Charles Police Department (deceased)
* Drew Cain - Former Navy SEAL
* Charlotte Cassadine - Victor's granddaughter
* Donald Cassadine - Victor's grandson
* Nikolas Cassadine - Victor's great nephew
* Spencer Cassadine - Victor's great-great nephew
* Harrison Chase
* Lucy Coe
* Kevin Collins
* Laura Collins - Mayor of Port Charles
* Brad Cooper - Britt's best friend
* Brando Corbin - (deceased)
* Carly Corinthos
* Michael Corinthos
* Sonny Corinthos - Dante and Michael's father, Rocco's paternal grandfather, and Spencer's uncle
* Wiley Corinthos
* Anna Devane - Former Commissioner of the Port Charles Police Department
* Alexis Davis - Former District Attorney
* Kristina Davis
* Dante Falconeri - Detective of the Port Charles Police Department
* Hamilton Finn - Violet's father
* Violet Finn - Hamilton and Hayden's daughter
* Austin Gatlin-Holt
* Andrew Grey
* Liz Grey
* Martin Grey - Cyrus' brother and Laura's paternal half-brother
* Oz Haggerty - (deceased)
* Dex Heller
* Ava Jerome - Victor's ex-great niece-in-law
* Julian Jerome - (deceased)
* Maxie Jones
* Molly Lansing-Davis - Assistant District Attorney
* Ric Lansing - Former District Attorney
* Ethan Lovett
* Sam McCall
* Kirsi Mikkonen
* Diane Miller - Keith's and Sally's mother
* Keith Miller - Diane's son with an unknown man
* Sally Miller - Diane's daughter with an unknown man
* Jason Morgan - (deceased)
* Liesl Obrecht - Former General Hospital Chief of Staff
* Brook Lynn Quartermaine
* Monica Quartermaine - Former General Hospital Chief of Staff, Jason's adoptive mother, and Michael's biological grandmother, and Wiley's great-grandmother
* Ned Quartermaine - Former Mayor of Port Charles
* Olivia Quartermaine - Rocco's paternal grandmother
* Portia Robinson - Trina's mother
* Trina Robinson - Curtis and Portia's daughter
* James Scorpio - Detective of the Port Charles Police Department
* Mac Scorpio - Former Commissioner and current Chief of Detectives of the Port Charles Police Department
* Robert Scorpio - Former Commissioner of the Port Charles Police Department, former WSB agent, and current District Attorney
* Steven Scott - Brad's parole officer
* Bobbie Spencer - Michael's maternal grandmother and Lulu's aunt
* Luke Spencer - (deceased)
* Damian Spinelli - Private investigator
* Ellen Scully - Officer of the Port Charles Police Department
* Marcus Taggert
* Elizabeth Webber
* Mary Wells - Head Nurse at General Hospital
* Britt Westbourne - Former General Hospital Chief of Staff (deceased)
* Selina Wu