Brick

Stephen A. Smith as Brick

**Brick** is a fictional character on the ABC Soap opera *General Hospital*.

He has been portrayed by Stephen A. Smith since March 31, 2016.

Stephen previously played a reporter during the Metro Court Hostage Crisis in 2007.

On September 1, 2020, Soaps.com revealed that Smith is heading back to *GH* as Brick. He returned on September 3 and 9 in 2020. He returned again on December 16, 2020 and again from January 14-15, 2021.

He next returned from April 29 to May 4, 2021. He also returned for one episode on June 18, 2021.

On August 24, 2021, Smith revealed on *Jimmy Kimmel Live* that he's back on *GH* as Brick.

## Storylines

Brick was first seen on March 31 and April 1, 2016, when Sonny Corinthos called him to wire Paul Hornsby’s office so Sonny could hear Paul’s discussion with Carlos Rivera.

He saw Sonny again on August 18 to keep tabs on Julian Jerome. Brick asks about Carly Corinthos who he has a crush on and he implies that he has known Sonny a long time.

On November 11, Max Giambetti tells Drew Cain (as “Jason”) that Brick found Mezzo, the broker who set up the hit on Julian and he is waiting inside Sonny’s house.

Brick came back on February 3, 2017. “Jason” and Curtis Ashford were there too as Brick helped to find Morgan Corinthos’ real killer. “Jason” was familiar with Brick but Curtis had just met him and asked questions about the equipment Brick was using which made Brick upset.

On September 26, Brick helped Sonny trace the mysterious call from Russia related to Patient 6 on Sonny’s private line. Griffin Munro gave Brick the name Piotr Boronsky to research since Ava Jerome was at his clinic.

Brick comes back on October 5 with an update. Ava called from Russia and hoped Sonny would trace the call. Carly wanted Brick to do research on Michael’s girlfriend Nelle.

Brick is next seen on October 16. He tells Sonny that Sonny’s phones have been tapped by someone using sophisticated equipment. Sonny wants Brick to find out who is tapping his phones.

Brick used his tech expertise on September 6, 2018 to fix Sonny’s father's cell phone.

Brick returns on February 1, 2019 to help Sonny find his son Dante who had gone missing and on July 5, he was told he needed to forge records that stated that Dev Cerci (a Turkish orphan) was actually a member of Sonny's family. On July 10, Brick brought Dev the forged documents.

On September 3, 2020, Brick meets Sonny at Turning Woods. Brick sees Cyrus Renault and tells Cyrus that he knows who Cyrus is. Cyrus claims he is volunteering at this facility. When he leaves, Brick offers to do some research on Cyrus but Sonny turns him down. He is waiting for Cyrus to make a move and show his weakness.

On September 9, Brick confronts Valentin Cassadine and Martin Grey at the Metro Court Hotel. He later flirts with Carly and talks to her about how Mike is doing.

On December 16, Sonny and Jason meet with Brick at the Brooklyn Union Pub. He tells them they were lucky he was in the area. Also he was sorry to hear that Dev had died since he had helped Dev out with forged documents.

Sonny catches Brick up on how Julian bombed the Floating Rib because he was working with Cyrus. Brick says he can find Julian using facial recognition software. Later he discovers Julian is in Secaucus, New Jersey where he is waiting for a bus to Montreal, Canada. Sonny and Jason head over to catch him.