Spy Games
Finola Hughes Returns to GH!

By Janet Di Lauro

Anna drops smack into the middle of the action this week on General Hospital. Literally!

"Anna has found out what is going on with this whole adventure and shows up on the Maarkham Islands," sets up head writer Bob Guza. "Luke, Holly, and Robert are in grave danger, along with Dillon, Lulu, Patrick, and Robin. Anna drops from a helicopter dressed totally in black like Emma Peel on The Avengers."

"It's got to be one of the best entrances I've ever had," declares Finola Hughes (Anna). "It's fantastic. Exactly what I like."

While viewers will think Anna is there to rescute Luke and Robert, "that's not necessarily so," teases Guza. "Maybe she wants a cut of the action. Let's just say there's a bounty on Luke and Robert's head - and on Holly's head. There's money to be had. There's also jewelry in the mix. So it's played for high adventure and great romance."

Before Anna arrives on the scene, Luke and Robert are surprised when Lulu and Robin show up with Dillon and Patrick in tow. "Lulu and Robin are worried about their fathers," explains Guza. "Frankly, they feel like Luke and Robert are not as swift as they used to be. So they take off and try to rescue them."

While the girls attempt to save their dads, Luke and Robert get into one misadventure after another. But they still find time to compete for Holly's affection in between dodging bullets from bounty hunters, which is when Anna shows up.

"The first person who sees Anna is Robin," reveals Guza. "It's touching. Then Anna walks up to Robert, who holds his arms out and says, 'Luv, it's so great to see you.' Anna karrate-kicks him to the ground and they proceed to have a huge fight. That['s just the beginning of the return of the...romance."

"Anna's definitely got her fighting [spirit] back," asserts Hughes. "If they write Anna with the intelligence she has, and the expertise from all the different jobs she's had throughout her life, it will be amazing. That would be taking it back to the character we used to have, that people enjoyed watching. It's great to see a woman up there with the guys."

Meaning Robert. "We'll see how they are now together," muses Hughes. "Perhaps they've mellowed, but I doubt it. They always had an adversarial realtionship, but there's trememendous attraction there, too."

As for where the Anna/Robin relationship stnads, Hughes says the opportunity to work with Kimberly McCullough again "probably sealed the deal" when she was deciding whether to return to GH. "I watch the show and there's a lot going on in Robin's life. She's strong, but it might be nice to have somebody around her that's stronger, since she's fighting so hard with Robert right now."

"This is the first chance the show has had in 15 years to do real father/daughter/mpother stuff with Robert, Anna, and Robin," adds Guza. "It's cool that in the midst of this high adventure, Robert and Anna will have to deal with the fact that they let Robin think they were dead."

What about Holly, Luke, and the rest of the cast of characters? "Expect one weird reveal after another with this story," grins Guza.

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