General Hospital has been teasing Professor Dalton’s work for months, dropping hints about cold fusion while keeping every door locked and every answer just out of reach. But as of this week, the story finally cracked open — not in some grand WSB briefing room, but in the eerie quiet of his PCU lab, where Rocco, Charlotte, and Danny stumbled right into a secret the adults should’ve found first. Dalton’s project with Sidwell and Britt is supposedly about clean energy, yet the latest episode made one thing painfully clear: whatever they’re building has nothing to do with saving the world, and everything to do with bending it.
Key Takeaways
- Dalton’s lab is built for neural mapping, not cold fusion.
- The teens found DNA models and a holographic brain — no animals at all, suggesting copying cognition, not generating energy.
- Faison’s preserved brain and the hologram feel connected.
- The project points to a digital resurrection, not a physical one.
- Dalton wants Rocco arrested because the kids saw too much.
- Whatever’s in that lab isn’t power — it’s immortality.
A Lab Built for Power — But Not the Kind They’re Claiming
The Port Charles teens expected to find heinous animal experimentation when they used Britt’s (Kelly Thiebaud) stolen key fob to enter the lab. But instead of animal cages and test chambers, Rocco (Finn Carr), Danny (Asher Antonyzyn), and Charlotte (Bluesy Burke) found something far stranger: walls humming with data, consoles blinking like beacons, DNA equations on a whiteboard, and a holographic brain suspended on a monitor like a ghost waiting for permission to speak.
Cold fusion doesn’t need a neural lattice. It doesn’t need DNA sequences lining the digital walls. It doesn’t need a workstation designed to map cognition down to the synapse. Yet that’s exactly what Dalton’s lab showed — a workspace obsessed with imitation, replication, and the raw scaffolding of identity. Emma’s (Braedyn Bruner) been convinced for a long time that Dalton (Daniel Goddard) is testing on animals. Ironically, the truth is worse. There are no animals here because the test subject might not even be alive anymore.
And that’s where the shadow of Cesar Faison (Anders Hove) creeps in. Years ago, Port Charles watched his brain get removed and sealed away like evidence. Now, a hologram sits glowing in Dalton’s lab, and the resemblance — the shape, the structure — feels less like a coincidence and more like a warning.
A Project Decades in the Making
Sidwell (Carlo Rota) isn’t the type to bankroll simple science. Britt isn’t the type to return from the dead for paperwork. And Dalton absolutely isn’t the type to drag Laura’s (Genie Francis) grandson to jail over a misdemeanor break-in unless he’s terrified the kids saw something they shouldn’t have.
The teens walked into a room full of hardware meant to encode personhood. Tools designed to capture memory. Systems built to preserve thought. It’s the kind of tech people chase when they want to make someone live forever — even if the body is gone, even if the mind needs a new place to live.
If that holographic brain is even inspired by Faison’s neural structure, then GH isn’t hinting at a resurrection. It’s hinting at an upload. A digital doppelgänger doesn’t need a heartbeat. It only needs a server.
And with Sidwell pulling the strings, Britt circling the operation, and Dalton willing to arrest a teenager to keep the truth buried, Port Charles may be standing at the edge of a storyline that rewrites every rule the show’s ever used about life, death, and identity.
Whatever they’re building in that lab, it isn’t energy. It’s immortality — and the wrong person might already be inside.
