General Hospital’s Nathan and Lulu were stuck in the Bad Jen Café during the blizzard, waiting on word about Charlotte and killing time the way people do when there’s nothing to solve in the moment. They agreed to play the game Two Truths and a Lie, and as a result, Nathan ended up reciting the Periodic Table much to Lulu’s shock. When she asked how he knew it, he said his father drilled it into him, which went against what Lulu knew about him.
Key Takeaways
- Nathan and Lulu were snowed in and played a game of Two Truths and a Lie, which led Nathan to recite the periodic table from memory.
- He said his father drilled it into him, contradicting what Lulu believed about his childhood.
- He described being pushed into science to make him useful.
- Nathan did not reconcile conflicting versions of his father’s presence.
- The tone of Nathan’s memories felt detached and oddly rehearsed.
- The scene was left unresolved, with discomfort lingering rather than explained.
What Nathan Remembered
Nathan (Ryan Paevey) described his childhood in practical terms, explaining that his father pushed him into science because he was bad at math and needed to be useful. That word sat there between them without either of them reaching for it.
Lulu (Alexa Havins) pointed out that he’d previously said his father was barely around, the kind of inconsistency that usually invites explanation. Nathan didn’t push back or correct it, allowing both versions of his childhood to sit there without trying to line them up.
That was the part that felt off. Not the facts themselves, but how easily they were delivered, as if the emotional context had been removed long ago. The way he was talking felt as if he was speaking from Faison’s (Anders Hove) perspective, not Nathan’s. It was like Faison going on about his own father’s mistreatment and emphasis on science. (Find out about Nathan’s uncharacteristic slip-up with police evidence.)
How It Sounded Out Loud
The way Nathan spoke didn’t change as the story continued. There was no pause to consider what it meant or how it might have shaped him. The recitation carried the same steady tone from start to finish, giving the impression that it lived somewhere separate from reflection.
Faison had always defined people by what they could provide, not who they were, and that logic hovered in the background of Nathan’s explanation without ever being named. Even when Lulu pushed back, calling out the cruelty of a parent who measured worth by productivity, Nathan absorbed the defense calmly, almost distantly.
The scene never insisted on its own importance. It didn’t stop to underline what viewers were meant to take from it. The conversation drifted forward, but the residue stayed behind, attached to the idea that some of what Nathan carried wasn’t memory in the usual sense.
GH allowed the moment to remain unsettled. No explanation arrived to smooth it over, no revelation rushed in to give it shape. It was left as an impression, one that suggested that whatever Nathan survived may have brought something else back with him; something learned through repetition rather than love, still operating quietly beneath the surface. (Who’s the one person that will know if Nathan is truly not Nathan?)
