On a Related Note… : Untangling the Branches of Finn and Chase’s Family Tree on General Hospital
On a Related Note… : Untangling the Branches of Finn and Chase’s Family Tree on General Hospital
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The Doctor Is In
The first member of the family to show up in Port Charles was Hamilton Finn, an infectious-disease specialist whose expertise was needed to treat Tracy Quartermaine. And thank heavens he was as brilliant as advertised!
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He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Half Brother
Two years later, softhearted hardbody Harrison Chase joined the Port Charles Police Department. He was eager to catch up with his estranged older sibling, but alas, Finn “copped” an attitude anytime Chase came around — at first.
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What’s the Problem?
Chase wasn’t really to blame for Finn’s attitude. He just resented the fact that after mom Jean Nichols’ passing, dad Gregory Chase moved on faster than seemed appropriate with another woman. Not just any other woman, either!
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*Hot* Off the Presses
Gregory’s second wife — Chase’s mother, reporter Jackie Templeton — also had a fling with Finn. In fact, she couldn’t be altogether sure whether Gregory or Finn was Chase’s father. (To everyone’s relief, the detective got to keep calling his dad Dad.)
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Close But No Cigar
Finn was set to marry police commissioner Anna Devane — until he learned on their wedding day that she’d confided in future lover Valentin Cassadine rather than her present lover that Peter August wasn’t her son after all.
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In a Family Way
Though Finn’s romance with sometime schemer Hayden Barnes didn’t stand the test of time — how could it, really, with Nikolas Cassadine manipulating his old flame? — it did leave the doctor with the cutest souvenir in recorded history.
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Not Just Our Favorite Color Anymore
When Hayden was scared outta town — and where the heck is she these days, anyway? — she left in Finn’s care their daughter, Violet.
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Playing Doctor
A long series of false starts almost ended Finn’s relationship with General Hospital colleague Elizabeth Webber before it had really even begun. Not only is she Hayden’s half sister, but it turned out that she accidentally killed her beau’s first wife.
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Unforgettable? Not So Much
Liz didn’t mean to keep her involvement in the demise of Reiko Finn a secret. It was just that the nurse’s parents had “helped” to ensure that she wasn’t haunted for the rest of her life by that traumatic incident from her past.
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Welcome to the Family
In 2024, Chase pledged to love, honor and cherish Brook Lynn Quartermaine. And, it goes without saying, to do his damnedest to stay on the good side of her granny, Tracy!