Annie Guthrie and husband Tommaso Cioni were the ones who received imposter Derrick Callella’s ransom text messages after Nancy Guthrie went missing.

According to court documents obtained by Us Weekly on Thursday, February 5, Annie and Cioni both received text messages from Callella after the Guthrie family — which includes Annie, Camron and Savannah Guthrie — made an emotional video addressing Nancy’s disappearance.

Callella, who is from Hawthorne, California, was arrested on Thursday and charged with transmitting a demand for ransom in interstate commerce without disclosing his identity and utilizing a telecommunications device with the intent to abuse, threaten, or harass a person.

“The Department of Justice will protect victims and families at all costs, and grief profiteers will be held accountable,” U.S. Attorney Timothy Courchaine said in a press release. “This case came together in under 24 hours because of the coordinated work of the FBI, local law enforcement and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.”

FBI Phoenix Special Agent in Charge Heith Janke also shared, “To those imposters who are trying to take advantage and profit from this situation – we will investigate and ensure you are held accountable for your actions.”

Both messages allegedly read, “Did you get the bitcoin were [sic] waiting on our end for the translation.”

Nancy, who lives in Tucson, was reported missing by her family on Sunday, February 1, after a friend noticed that she did not attend church that morning. Nancy, 84, was last seen on Saturday, January 31. Police believe that Nancy was abducted due to evidence found at her home and her mobility issues.

“Something unusual at that house occurred that made us go, ‘Wow, something’s wrong here. Something doesn’t fit,’” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos exclusively shared with Us on Monday, February 2. “We’re gonna pull all the stops and go at all angles. We really do hope it’s a search-and-rescue mission and we find her and she’s safe and sound. But it would be unjust if we didn’t look at what’s in front of us and go, ‘We need to act.’”

Amid the ongoing search for Nancy, Savannah and her siblings made an emotional video pleading for their mother’s safe return.

“On behalf of our family we want to thank all of you for the prayers for our beloved mom, Nancy. We feel them and we continue to believe that she feels them too,” Savannah said in a Wednesday, February 4, Instagram video while sitting alongside Annie and Camron. “Our mom is a kind, faithful, loyal, fiercely loving woman of goodness and light. She is funny, spunky and clever. She has grandchildren who adore her and crowd around her and cover her with kisses. She loves fun and adventure. She is a devoted friend. She is full of kindness and knowledge. Talk to her and you’ll see.”

The family also acknowledged the reports of an alleged ransom note.

“We too have heard the reports about a ransom letter in the media,” Savannah said. “As a family, we are doing everything that we can. We are ready to talk. However, we live in a world where voices and images are easily manipulated. We need to know without a doubt that she is alive and that you have her. We want to hear from you, and we are ready to listen. Please, reach out to us.”

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The FBI subsequently joined the investigation, and is offering a $50,000 reward for information about Nancy’s whereabouts. On Thursday, it was revealed that there was an arrest for an “imposter” ransom demand.

“We have made one arrest related to an imposter ransom demand, and a complaint will be presented to a magistrate judge later today,” Janke said during a press conference. “You will get more on that from the FBI and our U.S. Attorney’s office here in Arizona when it becomes available.”

Janke also shared some details about the note including a 5 p.m. deadline.

“First, I think [it] was 5 p.m. today, and then it had a second deadline after that,” he said. “So we are continuing in a normal kidnapping case, there would be contact by now trying to discuss that. But those are the time frames we’re looking at as we move forward.”

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Industry Season 4, Episode 4.]

One of the easiest ways to understand the HBO series Industry is to look at Harper Stern (Myha’la) and Yasmin Kara-Hanani (Marisa Abela), former co-workers at the now-defunct Pierpoint & Co. financial group, at its emotional center. Their friendship runs deep and their ambition can’t help but put them at odds, but no one understands them better than each other. Even still, Season 4 is testing that, as financial journalist James Dycker (Charlie Heaton) digs into the fintech company Tender, where Yasmin and her husband, Sir Henry Muck (Kit Harington), are working with its enigmatic co-founder Whitney Halberstram (Max Minghella).

During this interview with Collider, co-stars Myha’la, Abela and Harington discussed the sibling-like relationship between Yasmin and Harper, how long they’ve each come since they first met, that Abela and Harington try to find moments of real love between Henry and Yasmin, shooting that three-way scene in episode three, Harper’s own sexual machinations, and how hard it is for Harper to have Eric (Ken Leung) pull away from her.

Myha’la and Marisa Abela Think Harper and Yasmin’s ‘Industry’ Bond Is Ride or Die

“They have been through so much together that there’s no denying that they’re just beyond the point of no return.”

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Collider: There’s such an interesting dynamic between Yasmin and Harper. They’ve been rivals who care about each other. They’ve been hostile toward each other. Their co-dependence has been a bit toxic at times. I’m always fascinated by watching them because I feel like if they share the same space for too long, they might either kill each other or just implode. How do you view the relationship between them?

MYHA’LA: I think they’re like sisters. People are like, “Are they friends? Are they enemies?” They’re sisters. When you have a sibling, you understand that there’s nothing that your sibling can say or do to you that’s going to make them not your family anymore. You’re stuck with them. They have been through so much together that there’s no denying that they’re just beyond the point of no return in terms of, is there anything they could do to not be friends or not support each other? No. I think they really crave a safe space because of all the stuff that they’ve gone through together. No one knows Harper better than Yasmin does. No one knows Yasmin better than Harper does. And they really need that.

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MARISA ABELA: I see it the exact same way. They’ve come a long way since the people that they were when they met each other. I think that they keep each other honest. They reflect the most innocent versions of themselves back to each other because they knew each other at that point. I think it’s reassuring to see someone who sees that person in you still. They’re both masters at controlling a narrative about themselves, so to have another person that keeps them honest is actually really necessary.

Kit Harington Found It Very Natural to Movie Into the World of ‘Industry’ After ‘Game of Thrones’

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Kit, you joined this series in Season 3. How quickly did you find your footing in this world? What’s it like to drop yourself into a show like this, where there is such a specific tone and vibe and delivery to it all? Does that actually make it easier, or are there specific challenges in figuring that out?

KIT HARINGTON: I found it very natural, moving into the show, actually. It’s got a lot of similarities to what I spent 10 years doing on Game of Thrones. It’s a huge ensemble show. I’ve realized recently that the thing I love more than anything in what we do is when we get in a room and chat shit. I think it’s underestimated how important those bits are, actors getting to know each other. When you step on set in Manchester, you know each other as friends, and that makes things sing on camera.

Myha’la, there is a comfort and confidence that Harper has in her own skin and body. Her sex scenes are interesting because sometimes they feel purely transactional and other times it feels like there is story being told. Does Harper have any actual emotional connection with anyone? Do you feel like it’s a fair assessment to say that it’s impossible for her to let people like her?

MYHA’LA: I feel like the only people that she’s ever had a romantic, intimate moment with were her ex, who gives her those forged transcripts, and maybe Robert. He kisses her in Season 1 and that is very honest. It doesn’t feel transactional, at all. She’s also not the one in either of those scenarios, initiating any sort of sexual thing with an end. It feels like those are two people who actually know her and two people who actually care about her. I would say the same about the kiss she shares with Yasmin. The reason it doesn’t feel transactional in those moments, to me, is because it’s with people who know her and care about her. All the other sex that she’s having is absolutely transactional. It is about getting off or a kink in power play with whoever it is that she’s sleeping with. It’s about feeding her own power. That’s why I said kink.

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Kit, there’s a moment in episode two when Yasmin tells Henry to stand up out of the bath, and he ends up telling her that she can be with other men if she wants to. What do you think that exchange between them says about their relationship?

HARINGTON: I think he’s at his lowest level of confidence there. He’s an incredible narcissist. He’s self-involved and an egotist. That doesn’t mean his confidence is particularly high. He’s going through something incredibly deep and traumatic, and she’s wanting to sexualize that moment. She thinks that’s the way to get him reinvigored, and it’s not. She goes from what is quite an intimate moment into something quite sexual. That throws him and his only defense is, “Go fuck someone else. Just leave me alone.” I think there’s quite a male quality to that. There’s a reverting-into-oneself, boyish quality. It’s desperately sad, actually. Me and Marisa [Abela] were keen, in that episode especially, to find the moments of real love and connection between them where we could, so we see that does exist and we care about that breaking down a bit quite quickly. There’s some real pathos to their relationship.

‘Industry’s Yasmin Is Always Vying for Power, Even With Her Own Husband

“She knows that she is the person that is able to provide a service.”

Marisa, in episode three, Yasmin is essentially in charge of her husband and Hayley being together. What was that dynamic like to figure out? Did you have conversations about how that would play out? What was that like to shoot?

ABELA: First of all, that stuff was in the script, so it was just deciding when those moments might happen and also how Yasmin feels about it. Does she feel the same way from the beginning to end of the scene? When it starts, she doesn’t necessarily really know where it’s going to go and how she’s going to feel about what it is that she’s doing, but she knows that there’s something in this. Yasmin is always searching for a way to be a powerful person in a room, and oftentimes she’s failing. In that moment, she is, without a doubt, successful at being the most powerful person in the room. I think it’s an origin story moment for Yasmin.

The way we see Yasmin go this season, she knows that she is the person that is able to provide a service for men, and she becomes invaluable to those men. For me, it was just about not losing sight of that. With intimacy scenes, there’s always a lot of just making sure that everyone feels safe, and it’s comfortable, and it feels right, and it doesn’t feel awkward, and that you are also able to continue to play your action like you would in any other scene, on top of the moment. I had two of my fellow actors being incredibly vulnerable in front of me, and it was my job to play the scene. The dynamics were just making sure everyone was comfortable enough that when they say action, I am Yasmin watching Henry and Hayley do this, and it’s believable.

Kit, what was that scene like for you?

HARINGTON: It was an interesting moment. I felt quite protective of Henry. He’s trying to change. He’s trying to be good. He’s trying to alter his core, and the person he’s falling in love with, his wife, undermines that quite badly and pushes him into something that he doesn’t want to do. I do think there’s an element of that scene of Henry being abused in some ways. He’s not comfortable doing it. Even though he goes through with it, he’s not comfortable, and it’s a schism in their relationship. It breaks it. And I think that Marisa’s character, Yasmin, has a lot to answer for in that moment. Henry’s historically very badly behaved around women and manipulative around women, but at that moment, he’s trying to change and she undermines it.

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Myha’la, how difficult is it for Harper to feel Eric pulling away?

MYHA’LA: It’s devastating. She’s been saying to him the entire season that she was not trying to get personal and that this was just business. It’s working really well, but it’s just business. She needs someone. She needs him on a really personal level. When her mother dies, they go to a place that feels very paternal. She cracks open the door and he kicks it open, and there they are. She trusts him and she says, “Okay, we’ve gotten here now.” As soon as she’s given him what he asks for, it feels like he totally pulls the rug out from underneath her, not just as her business partner, but now it’s as a paternal figure and he can’t give her an answer or a reason. She says, “We’re being honest with each other,” and he can’t do that with her.

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A former LA County employee has been charged with attempting to scam Savannah Guthrie’s family as they continue their search for the Today anchor’s missing mother.

Los Angeles Magazine reported on Thursday, February 5, that Derrick Callella, was previously involved in an overtime theft case last October before having new federal charges leveled against him after he allegedly reached out to the family of missing grandmother Nancy Guthrie, 84.

Callella was one of 13 LA County employees charged with stealing $430,000 in unemployment benefits between 2020 and 2023.

“As government employees, we have an obligation to uphold the public’s trust,” Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said via a press release in October 2025.

He continued: “When a civil servant steals from the government, that trust is broken. The scale of fraud in these cases is shocking, spanning seven different County agencies, including employees whose very job was to help the public determine whether they were eligible for public benefits. Most egregiously, these individuals allegedly claimed to be unemployed during the COVID pandemic when millions of Californians were legitimately in need of unemployment benefits. I thank Los Angeles County Auditor-Controller Oscar Valdez for his partnership and commitment to holding government employees accountable. Today, we are putting all government employees on notice: If you steal from taxpayers, you will be prosecuted.”

According to court documents seen by Us Weekly on Thursday, Callella was allegedly connected to what the FBI described as an “imposter” ransom scam after he contacted Nancy’s family following her disappearance.

Per a criminal complaint obtained by Us, Callella initially sent a text message to Savannah’s sister Annie Guthrie and Annie’s husband Tommaso Cioni.

The text read, “Did you get the bitcoin were [sic] waiting on our end for the transaction.”

Callella then allegedly made a phone call to an unidentified family member of Nancy, which lasted nine seconds.

Authorities tracked Callella down on Thursday morning, he admitted to sending the ransom demands. He told the FBI “that he pulled family information from a cyber website, and that he had been following along and watching TV.” He told authorities his text messages were an attempt to “see if the family would respond.”

FBI Phoenix Special Agent in Charge, Heith Janke, addressed the ransom note received by the Guthrie family via a press conference held on Thursday, February 5.

“I think we start to look at what the deadlines were in the note,” Janke shared. “First, I think [it] was 5 p.m. today, and then it had a second deadline after that. So we are continuing in a normal kidnapping case, there would be contact by now trying to discuss that. But those are the time frames we’re looking at as we move forward.”

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Addressing the “imposter ransom” arrest, Janke added, “We have made one arrest related to an imposter ransom demand, and a complaint will be presented to a magistrate judge later today.”

He continued, “There’s no evidence to connect this to Nancy’s case. It was someone that was trying to profit off it.”

Janke also warned that authorities would come down hard on anyone trying to exploit the Guthries’ situation for profit.

“To those imposters who are trying to take advantage and profit from this situation, we will investigate and ensure you are held accountable for your actions,” he said. “This is an 84-year-old grandma that needs vital medication for her well being. You still have the time to do the right thing before this becomes a worse, much worse scenario for you.”

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department confirmed the news of Nancy’s disappearance on Sunday, February 1, sharing a missing person report via X. Nancy was described as a “vulnerable adult” who was last seen “at her residence” within Arizona’s Catalina Foothills area on the evening of Saturday, January 31. The report noted that it is “unknown what clothing she may be wearing.”

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Episode 4 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.]

Set a century before the events of Game of Thrones, the HBO series A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms follows hedge knight Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey) and his young squire Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell) as they wander through Westeros. Nothing is ever that simple, and when it’s revealed that Egg has been hiding that he’s really Prince Aegon Targaryen, it gets Dunk into trouble that will be resolved in a trial by combat. Learning that it will actually be the rarely practiced trial of seven, Dunk must find six additional men to fight alongside him or he’ll be declared guilty. By some miracle, after an impassioned plea, it all comes together for Dunk, but he’s not out of danger yet.

During this interview with Collider, co-stars Claffey and Ansell discussed the humor of this Westeros story, building the bond between Dunk and Egg, how Dunk feels about Egg’s betrayal, filming at the trial, the epicness of the moment when Dunk is looking for a final knight to join him, and whether Egg feels guilty about what he put in motion.

‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Has a More Lighthearted Touch Than Other Stories Set in Westeros

“But you don’t want to make it all about being a comedy.”

Collider: A lighter, more comedic tale in Westeros doesn’t sound like something that ever would have happened, but here we are. What has it been like to find the comedic timing and the humor in an otherwise quite serious world? Was it something that you guys had conversations about and worked on, or do you feel like you really found the humor of it pretty quickly?

PETER CLAFFEY: We knew that (creator) Ira [Parker] really wanted to have this lighthearted touch to this Westerosy world, but you don’t want to make it all about being a comedy, make it all about jam and jokes down people’s throats, and make it too slapstick and forced. With all these situations, they are all very Game of Thrones-Westeros situations where there’s serious dramatic moments, but with every situation you have in your life, you can either keep it on the serious route or try and find the lighthearted humor in it. It was little things like dramatic moments exclamating conversations, like he hits his head off the wall walking out and takes the wrong turn to go down a hallway and come back. It was just trying to find those small nuances of comedy and allowing them to come through. It’s more of an organic, earthy tale spoken from the point of view of the small folk. When you’re not in these big, great halls with highborn people arguing over who’s to be the king of Westeros, there is an air of comedy that comes from those kind of country folk. I come from small town Ireland, and when you’re back there, no matter what you’ve doing or achieved, people are always ready to take the mick out of you, and Ashford has that same quality. It was just trying to dance along the line of that, for sure.

DEXTER SOL ANSELL: The funniest bit for me is probably one of the first scenes when Dunk is walking through in Ashford and there’s this guy with the horse, and he goes, “Are you Baelor Targaryen?” It’s the funniest scene.

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CLAFFEY: It’s those little awkward interactions.

ANSELL: Yeah, they make the show.

CLAFFEY: I think it draws the comedy out of Egg as well. As a highborn person, that interaction with these people …

ANSELL: … It’s just really funny.

CLAFFEY: Yeah.

Is Dunk and Egg’s Bond in ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Strong Enough To Make It Through the Young Squire’s Betrayal?

“Dunk is not the brightest spark in Westeros.”

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To jump into spoilers, we learn in episode three that Egg lied to dunk about who he is. Peter, prior to that reveal, what did Dunk see in Egg that made him want to take him on as squire? And how do you think it made him feel to learn that not only had he been lied to, but he’s really put into a bunch of things that he was not expecting because of that lie?

CLAFFEY: It is betrayal. Dunk is not the brightest spark in Westeros, of course. He tries to see the goodness in everybody, and he really sees a lot of himself and believes that Egg is from Flea Bottom and has journeyed here and tried to make something of himself. He thinks, “What would Ser Arlan do?” He brought him on as his squire, and he thinks it’s his duty to bring this young lad from the same place as him, when he says he’s from King’s Landing. It’s just complete and utter confusion and then betrayal to think that this prince of the realm knew that he would get this man in serious trouble, but he just couldn’t help himself but want to be a squire and be in the tourney.

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I think it’s a massive testament to the relationship and the bond that they build in the first half of The Hedge Knight, to see that those things not only fizzle out, but they end up together and they want to go off and see the world. At that very end point when Egg shows up, Dunk may not show it, but I knew filming it that he’s incredibly happy to see him. It was hard to leave him behind. Seeing as the way things unfolded towards the end, Dunk definitely feels that he has a duty to Westeros to try and provide them with some decent king or some good Targaryen that could replace the person that he feels at fault for taking.

There Was an Epicness to Dunk’s ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Trial of 7 Moment

“There were a thousand people around.”

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There’s that really big moment in episode four when Dunk is trying to get everybody together so they can have this battle, and then Prince Baelor Targaryen comes in to say that he’s going to join you and you have the sweeping Game of Thrones music. What is it like to film a moment like that, especially when you don’t have all the music that comes with it and everything else on set? Does it still feel like a very important moment to shoot?

CLAFFEY: Yeah, it was. Ever since I got into this, the beauty of film sometimes gets taken from you. It’s kind of a sacrificial thing to become an actor because those things, a lot of the time, are not as flashy as they seem on screen. The thing with the speech on horseback, trying to add somebody for a sixth, that felt as cinematic as it looks, for sure. But those bits are so bitty and you have to pick them up from so many different ways. It’s a hard thing. But that was a big day on set. There was a lot of crowd. There were a thousand people around. You have all these horses. You have everybody dressed up as knights and in armor. There was an epicness to it. You have to deliver that, “Are there no true knights among you?” bit, and you see the gates open. Even without the music, it did feel amazing. But I’m so glad about how that turned out with the music. It’s insane.

ANSELL: I think really, for any movie, no matter what style of the movie, the music makes it. If it’s a horror movie, in real life, it’s not going to be scary, looking and seeing a monster behind you. I’ve done this loads of times and it’s so fascinating, but if you put like a horror movie on, and then you turn the music off and turn the sound off, it doesn’t feel scary. It honestly feels like a comedy.

CLAFFEY: Yeah. So true.

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Dexter, do you think, at any point, that Egg feels guilty for what he’s set in motion?

ANSELL: A bit. He feels a bit guilty, but he knows he’s done the right thing. Honestly, it’s not his fault his family is horrible to him. And it’s not his fault that Dunk chose him. A tiny bit, but he’s really just annoyed it had to go this way. But it turns out good.

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General Hospital sees Harrison Chase (Josh Swickard) still totally fooled into thinking that Willow Tait (Katelyn MacMullen) is innocent. It looks like him being so naive about her is about to ruin everything for him—first his career and soon, maybe, his marriage to Brook Lynn Quartermaine (Amanda Setton).

We’re going to talk about how Chase and Brook Lynn might fall apart soon. Because even though Willow was found not guilty, Chase isn’t going to stop. He also wants to prove that Michael Corinthos (Rory Gibson)’s guilty, which would fully confirm her innocence.

Willow’s Shocking Transformation on General Hospital

At one point, I think we can all agree Willow did seem like a decent human being. But that was before Drew Cain Quartermaine (Cameron Mathison) got his claws into her. Now Willow is getting worse by the day. I suspect everybody in Port Charles is going to know the truth about her eventually, but I’m not sure Chase will ever believe that she’s bad. Ever since Willow was accused of shooting Drew, we’ve seen Chase as her biggest champion. He has defended Willow left and right.

Chase Risks Everything for Willow on GH

Chase was investigating the shooting in his own time to try and prove Willow is innocent, even while the PCPD was building a case against her and had some pretty good evidence. Bottom line, Chase put his career on the line by taking Willow’s side.

Chase was adamant that it was worth it to prove that Willow was framed. To be fair, Chase was thoroughly convinced that Michael not only shot Drew but framed Willow for his crime. Now, Chase has ruined his friendship with Michael because of this false assumption of Willow’s innocence.

Even worse, Chase has also just about ruined his friendship with Dante Falconeri (Dominic Zamprogna), who was his best friend. He defended Willow and accused Dante of bias and of protecting his brother, Michael, at all costs. When Chase was on the stand at Willow’s trial, he was really hard on Dante.

We saw Chase saying under oath at the trial that he thinks the PCPD went about the investigation the wrong way. Chase said they didn’t investigate anybody else; they targeted Willow. Of course, Dante was furious and so was DA Justine Turner (Nazneen Contractor).

The Fallout of Chase’s Demotion to Beat Cop

After that, Chase got demoted back to beat cop and now his professional future is at risk. It’s kind of sad because Willow is 100% guilty and Chase is totally wrong about her. We all know Willow is headed down an even darker path.

Once her twisted secrets come out, Chase is going to look like an even bigger fool. Once all the ugly truth comes out, it is going to be egg on his face. If you remember, this Willow fiasco isn’t the first time Chase jeopardized his career as a cop over a woman.

He did it before—and not just any woman, mind you, but Willow’s awful twin sister, Nelle Benson (Chloe Lanier). This was part of Chase’s pre-Port Charles history. Back in the day, before Nelle also wound up in Port Charles, she killed somebody close to her.

Chase was assigned to work the murder case of Nelle’s fiancé, Zachary Grant, down in Florida. The guy had money and Nelle convinced him to push his family away and leave everything to her in his will. Then Nelle killed her fiancé and tried to make it look like a kayaking accident.

History Repeats Itself with Wicked Twins Nelle & Willow

The entire family swore that Nelle had killed him, but she swore she was innocent. Then Chase got assigned to the case and Nelle seduced him into believing her. Chase fell for Nelle’s innocent act.

Chase was wrong then, too, because Nelle was guilty just like Willow is now. But Chase has been telling anybody who will listen that Willow is innocent and she isn’t the kind of person that could shoot somebody. It turns out Chase is very wrong.

Willow has changed. At this point, she’s pretty much pure evil. Chase got suckered by one twin, Nelle, and now the other twin, Willow, has him thoroughly fooled and all twisted up.

This week we’re going to see Brook Lynn upset at Chase. She confronts him because it doesn’t seem like it’s enough for him that Willow was acquitted at trial. Chase really wants Michael to go down for this. They even came to blows over it.

Brook Lynn Reaches Her Breaking Point on General Hospital

BLQ is ranting at Chase and asking, “Why won’t you let this go?” I think he’s also being insensitive to his wife because Willow’s twin sister, Nelle, is the reason Brook Lynn can’t sing anymore. Do you remember that? Nelle slashed Brook Lynn’s throat backstage at the Nurses Ball several years ago.

That’s not on Willow, that’s on Nelle, but Chase got played by Nelle and now he’s getting played by Willow. Chase seems willing to ruin his career over Willow. Unless he does something drastic to alter the course he’s on, Chase is going to ruin his marriage over Willow also.

The bottom line is Chase should be putting his wife first before anybody else. Instead, Chase keeps putting time and energy into trying to prove Michael’s guilt. It is as if it’s not enough that the jury found Willow not guilty.

In the end, Chase is going to look like the biggest fool in the world when the final truth comes out. I suspect that’ll happen sooner rather than later because Willow’s current scheme to frame Michael for shooting Drew is going to blow up in her face.

Will Chase Exit Port Charles?

That is confirmed in General Hospital spoilers. In the end, I think Willow is going to be exposed for shooting Drew but can’t be arrested for it since she already faced trial. However, Willow could be prosecuted if they find out she caused Drew’s stroke.

I’m hoping she’s also busted for messing with baby Daisy and driving Sasha Gilmore (Sofia Mattsson) out of the country. In the short run, Willow’s plot to frame Michael may gain traction, especially after she slipped Drew’s spare key onto Michael’s key ring.

I’m sure Chase is going to feel justified for a while. He may push back on Brook Lynn and tell his wife, “Look, see, I was right. It was Michael.” But eventually, Willow’s lies are going to catch up with her. Her world’s going to come crashing down and Chase is going to look like an idiot for defending Willow.

Chase Eats Crow on General Hospital

Chase is going to owe Michael, Dante, and most of all his wife Brook Lynn an apology for his actions. All this has Chase and BLQ’s marriage on a rocky path. Part of that is down to Chase wanting to adopt and Brook Lynn continuing to push back and put those plans on hold.

I suspect things are going to get worse for Chase and Brook Lynn until Willow is finally exposed. All of this may be setting the stage for Josh Swickard’s exit from General Hospital. We reported a leak from a reliable source a while back that said Chase was going to be written off GH and Swickard would be exiting.

Now that Dante suspended Chase and he got busted down to beat cop, he’s thinking of leaving law enforcement. You would think after Nelle snowballed Chase that he would learn to be more cautious, especially around women from this gene pool.

In the end, I am really afraid that Chase is going to ruin his life and his marriage over this Willow fixation. It could cost Chase everything. I think all that could be to lay the groundwork for his character’s exit. We’ll see.

By Robert Scucci
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After watching 1975’s Dog Day Afternoon critically, and for the first time as an adult, I might have to go out on a limb here and say that Al Pacino is my favorite comedian. I remember passively watching this one on cable when I was a kid, but the minor details were fuzzy, and I was long overdue for a proper rewatch. I could give you the usual spiel about how Dog Day Afternoon is based on a real-life hostage situation orchestrated by John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile, but I’ve made my feelings clear about how source material is used countless times, and that applies here as well.

Fully understanding that creative liberties are always taken in this context, I’m simply here to watch a movie for entertainment’s sake, and I’m actually disappointed with myself for not getting to this one sooner. It’s billed as a biographical crime drama for obvious reasons, but it’s funnier than it has any right to be thanks to Al Pacino’s portrayal of a bank robber who is completely out of his depth. If anything, it plays more like a comedy of errors, where each escalation creates even more unintended spectacle.

Failure To Prepare Is Preparing To Fail

Dog Day Afternoon wastes no time getting into its heist, and it deliberately avoids showing any of the planning that took place beforehand. You’ll soon see why, because it’s painfully evident that Sonny Wortzik (Al Pacino), Sal Naturile (John Cazale), and Stevie (Gary Springer) are grossly unprepared to rob the First Brooklyn Savings Bank in every conceivable way. For starters, they clearly didn’t do any kind of loyalty test, because Stevie immediately changes his mind and bolts.

Sonny then struggles to pull his gun out of the flower box he used to smuggle it inside the bank, which does nothing to make him look intimidating. He’s further humbled when he realizes the bank already completed its daily cash pickup, leaving him and Sal with just over a thousand dollars to show for their efforts. Frustrated, Sonny sets fire to the bank’s ledger, which attracts outside attention and quickly results in the police surrounding the building. With no exit strategy, Sonny and Sal are forced to hold everyone hostage while they try to figure out what to do next.

As the hours tick by, the press becomes an increasingly dominant presence outside, and Detective Sergeant Eugene Moretti (Charles Durning) urges Sonny to step out for negotiations. Sonny, having no real grasp on bank robbing protocol, insists on running everything by Sal first. Through these conversations, Sonny’s true motive comes into focus. He was trying to raise money for his lover Leon’s (Chris Sarandon) gender reassignment surgery, only to learn that his actions may have made Leon an accessory to the crime.

Pacino’s Comedic Timing Is Next Level

Before Sonny starts making demands for a jet to stage his escape, Dog Day Afternoon truly shines thanks to how Pacino carries himself throughout the ordeal. Sonny is borderline bumbling in his attempts to control the situation, and it’s the small throwaway moments that really sell it. When a hostage asks if they can use the bathroom, Sonny casually asks another teller where the bathroom is. That’s not a question a competent bank robber should ever be asking, because a competent one would have cased the place weeks or months earlier.

Whenever Sonny is presented with a counteroffer to one of his demands, he averts his eyes and mutters that he needs to consult with his partner before locking the bank down again. The earnestness behind Pacino’s portrayal of a man who is wildly unqualified for the situation lands so well because of how seriously he plays it. The humor is further amplified by just how bored the hostages seem to be. They quickly realize they’re not in immediate danger and mostly just wait things out, humoring Sonny as he continues to dig himself deeper.

Holding a near-perfect balance between crime thriller and comedy of errors, Dog Day Afternoon remains such a satisfying watch because of how fully Al Pacino commits to the premise. In Sonny’s mind, this is deadly serious business. For the audience, the comedy comes from watching someone this ill-equipped try to control a situation that keeps slipping further away from him, and it’s still a joy to watch unfold over 50 years later.

Dog Day Afternoon is streaming for free on Tubi as of this writing.