Sonny Was Still Sonny Enough

We are recapping the week of March 16 to 20, 2026. It was a slower week in terms of big moments, but the details mattered, and we ended it with something we had been watching build for weeks. Here is what had us talking.

Port Charles Pipeline

We heard from a fellow endometriosis warrior this week who said she has been following Molly's storyline closely and wanted us to know that March is Endometriosis Awareness Month. She also shared that she has her own rainbow baby, little AJ, who is five months old. We were not crying. We were absolutely crying. One in ten women lives with this condition, and it affects everyone differently. The show putting this story front and center right now is not a coincidence, and we are glad it is landing the way it is.

Miranda wrote in about the Rena Sofer animal rescue event in Pittsburgh. She rescued a pitbull two years ago and wanted to name him Sonny, but her husband had other ideas, and they landed on Harvey Specter from Suits. We respect the compromise. We will absolutely let everyone know if we end up at that event, and the idea of getting a table is very much a possibility..

And a comment came in on our TikTok this week with a theory about Emma that we are not over: what if she is pretending she cannot play guitar on purpose? The idea is that she is doing it to pull Gio back toward music, giving him a reason to engage again. That would make her one of the smartest people in Port Charles right now, which honestly tracks.

Jason on a Roof in Broad Daylight

Sonny gave Jason the go-ahead to take out Cullum this week, and for the first time that either of us can remember, Sonny used the actual word murder. No euphemisms, no talking around it.

Then Jason went to the roof. In the middle of the day. He assembled the rifle, picked it up, set it down, and picked it up again. Brennan walked into the line of sight, and Jason packed up and left. JD watched this with Shannon before she left for Nashville and had the exact question we were both already thinking: how is Jason standing on a rooftop in broad daylight with no WSB cameras and no one noticing? Jason, in 2002, would have been done in fifteen minutes and sitting courtside before anyone found the body. Whatever he has been through, it has not done great things for his instincts.

Cullum, meanwhile, figured out that Brennan is working with Jason to protect Britt. He told him to go ahead and bring that theory to their superiors since he had no proof and would only look like he had his own agenda. It was a clean move by Brennan that bought them a little more time.

Ric, Elizabeth, and a Moment She Is Going to Regret

Ric had many conversations this week. He thanked Alexis for the basement, told her it genuinely changed things for him, and asked her to extend Sonny some grace, given that he now plans to work alongside him. When he sat down to dinner with Elizabeth, he told her his plan to build a life in Port Charles runs through Sonny, and that the only roots he actually wants to put down here are with her.

Lucas arrived and pulled Elizabeth away from the table under the cover of a work conversation and a fictional patient named Ruth. What he actually wanted to know was how she was feeling about Ric. He told her he understood taking emotional risks and encouraged her to follow her heart. She went back to the table.

By the end of dinner, Ric started to tell her the truth about the detox. She stopped him. That is going to come back around. When she finds out, and she will find out, he is going to point to this exact moment and say he tried. She just did not let him finish.

Elsewhere, Diane confronted Sonny about the Rochester pier paperwork and asked point blank if

she was being fired. Sonny told her he was keeping her on retainer to make sure neither side could use her against the other. He framed it as protecting her. It is really just strategy, and Diane knows exactly what it is.

Marco

Cheri flagged something we had already been turning over: the line about Faison having four children was not a throwaway. Joss had already climbed through a window to ask Britt directly whether Cullum knew her father. She had seen the cigarillos and the book at Windermere and needed an answer. That fourth name is the question the show is now sitting with, and we have been circling the possibility that Cullum connects back to Faison for a while now.

Britt also said goodbye to Brad this week. She ordered him his favorite drink, a Pomegranate Cosmogroni. We tried to find what a Pomegranate Cosmograni is and came up empty. Perry Shen got into mixology during COVID and we are now genuinely wondering if he invented it himself.

Rocco came by the hospital to ask Britt to sponsor him in a medical mentorship program. She redirected him to Lucas instead, and that connection ended up mattering more than anyone realized. Lucas sent Britt a text: Pier 55. When she got there, the figure in the shadows turned out to be Rocco.

Then Cullum went to Marco's office. Alone. Wearing gloves. Carrying a gun.

Every scene Marco had this week felt like a goodbye. He talked to Lucas about the house on the lake. He said that helping Britt was worth the risk. He seemed genuinely convinced that Cullum was not going to hurt him. He was wrong. Lucas is going to blame himself, Rocco is going to carry what he saw, and Pascal, who was the one who tipped Cullum off about the medication in the first place, turned in the person he supposedly had feelings for. That is a hard way to show someone you care.

Jordan, Stella, and Portia

Stella showed up to push Jordan into taking a pregnancy test before Jordan was ready. She was supportive, but she was also very demanding, and those two things were working against each other. This is Jordan's body and Jordan's timeline. If she needed a few more days to sit with the possibility before getting a result, that should have been her call.

Once the test came back, Stella went straight to Portia to shut things down before any conversation could start. We understand the instinct. Portia talks. But sharing anything, even a denial, was still not Stella's place. Isaiah later asked Portia why she was so bothered by the idea of Curtis having a baby with someone else if she had already moved on.

Cody Shows Up

Molly told Cody to give her space. He showed up anyway, basket in hand, with everything he could find that might help. He asked her to walk him through what she was dealing with and actually listened. She told him about her endometriosis, about how well she has learned to hide the pain, and that she cannot have children. He said that as long as he had her, they were fine. He mentioned adoption. She said she was not open to it, and left it there for now. 

The Quartermaine Family Meeting

Olivia walked into the gatehouse at the wrong moment and later called a family meeting to address her concerns about Jacinda's profession. Michael shut it down before it got going, pointing out that no one in this family had a history clean enough to be having this conversation. Tracy agreed and refused to participate. The best line of the week came out of that room somewhere, the observation that as a teenage boy, Danny gets ideas just from looking at a paper plate. We want to know if that was scripted or improvised.

Kristina and Jacinda had a quieter moment on the other side of it, sharing the Crimson closet and talking about dating. Jacinda asked about Kristina's last relationship without making any assumptions. Kristina brought up Blaze, and Jacinda went straight into girlfriend mode. Do we hate her, do we still talk, how did it end? It was natural and warm. Michael later walked into the Metro Court, told Jacinda that if he had not made it clear how important she was to him it was on him, and kissed her. 

Quick Notes

Tracy went to Laura, furious about a deal Laura made that opened up protected airspace near their homes. Laura called it a legitimate business arrangement. Martin told Tracy to stop talking to his sister that way. Nothing was resolved, but Ezra was the one pushing for those airspace changes a few weeks back, and that connects directly to Sidwell.

Lulu's romantic dinner for Nathan fell apart when James showed up, Lulu burned the chicken in five minutes, and the evening ended with Mac and Felicia saving the night. James mispronouncing charcuterie was the sweetest moment of the week. Cullum later showed up asking to see Charlotte, and Nathan could not reach Lulu shortly after. Dante thought he was overreacting.

Brook Lynn and Chase named the abandoned baby Phoebe. Brook Lynn wants to keep her while the family search continues. Abandoned infants become wards of the state and that is not how the system works, but we understand the impulse completely.

Jason told Danny he was leaving. Danny asked if he could come along. Jason said no, told him that living with Alexis was not what Sam would have wanted, and said he was proud of him. Then Danny mentioned he had a basketball game that afternoon and Jason showed up for it. Alexis also attended with no idea how basketball works. Amanda was completely with her in knowing nothing about basketball.

This Thursday on the Port Charles 411

We are starting our retrospective on Ric Lansing and Elizabeth Webber. Part One covers the end of 2002 through the spring of 2004, and if you have ever wondered why we keep saying these two cannot simply pick up where they left off, this is the episode that will answer that. There is a lot of ground to cover, and many reasons Liz keeps hesitating. Come find out why.

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