General Hospital
GENERAL HOSPITAL: Alexis is Arrested for the Murder of John Cates While Sonny Looks On; Kristina Admits to Michael She Wanted to “Kill” Him
On Friday’s, September 13th episode of General Hospital, Kristina (Kate Mansi) and Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn) are caught in the crosshairs as the police continue to investigate who shot and killed John “Jagger” Cates (Adam J. Harrington).
Sonny (Maurice Benard) comes to visit Alexis and she tells him they need to find a way to keep Kristina from being charged for a murder they both know she didn’t commit. When Sonny asks where Kristina was the night of Cates murder, she says “She was here with me until she left to steal a gun from you!”
Alexis explained the night of the murder, Kristina came into the house soaked having visited Adela’s grave in the thunderstorm. She tells Sonny a gun is against her bail restrictions. Next, Alexis shares her worries that she had feared that Kristina would shoot someone or even herself that is why she got rid of the gun that night. At the time, she did that, she had no idea Agent Cates was being murdered with the same type of gun!
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Admitting to Sonny, the police have already questioned her about the night of the murder, Sonny asks her what she said. Alexis fires back if he is wondering if she incriminated Kristina or him. Alexis wants Sonny to confess to murdering Cates. However, Sonny claims he had nothing to do with it and Carly (Laura Wright) has his alibi. Alexis is not buying his act for one second, and if he were innocent he wouldn’t need Diane (Carolyn Hennesy) to defend him, which is why Diane can’t defend her.
At Michael’s (Chad Duell) office, he tells Kristina he has a plan to help get Alexis and her out of this jam and to pin the crime on one of Cates’ long list of enemies and pay them off to do so. After Kristina is called to the PCPD and questioned by Chase (Josh Swickard), with Michael present, Chase asks Kristina where she was the night Cates was murdered. She explains she was home all night, except for going to the cemetery for about 30 minutes. Michael says she is done talking until she has a lawyer present.
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Later, Michael asks Kristina, do the police have anything on her that she is not telling him? He can tell she is hiding something because she is blinking her eyes rapidly. Kristina admits she made one more stop that night. She pulled into the Quartermaine driveway for a few seconds, where she admits she considered murdering Cates.
At the end of the episode, Mac (John J. York) goes to Alexis’ house and arrests her for the murder of John Cates as Sonny stands by and watches. Alexis shoots him daggers while she is being hauled off to the PCPD.
Elsewhere at General Hospital, Isaiah (Sawandi Wilson) warns Jason (Steve Burton) that Sidwell (Carlo Rota) is too dangerous for one man to take down by himself. Jason is intent on rescuing Lucky (Jonathan Jackson) at Carly’s request and says he needs some kind of advantage to get him in the door. Isaiah says there is only one weakness to exploit: Sidwell’s girlfriend, who Sidwell calls “English” (which GH fans know “English” was the name Luke Spencer called Holly Sutton).
Meanwhile, Anna (Finola Hughes) is determined to get Lucky’s location in Africa from Jack Brennan (Charles Mesure). She explains Luke and her were friends and that he always looked out for her daughter, Robin. She pays her debts. Brennan snark he’ll remember that when it’s time for him to collect and gives her the newest location for Sidwell.
Carly says goodbye to Jason who is heading to Africa, and leaves a message for Laura that Jason is on his way to help her find her son, while Felicia (Kristina Wagner) and Anna talk before Anna takes off on her mission to save Lucky with her gun.
In the GH hallway, Brennan tells Carly that it’s a special kind of hell when you don’t know if someone you care about will come home. She didn’t expect him to understand what anyone of them is going through with trying to rescue Lucky, but clearly he does, giving us more questions about Brennan’s motives and his past than answers.
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At the end of the episode, Anna and Jason find themselves travel partners as their seats are seemingly next to each other as they both head out of Port Charles to find Lucky, leading some fans to speculate that perhaps, a Anna and Jason pairing could be right around the corner? Hmmm.
So, what do you think about Sonny watching Alexis being handcuffed and taken into custody for a murder she did not commit? Comment below.
I love GH characters but I’m tired of the dynamic between Alexis and Kristina. If getting arrested is what finally gets Alexis to stop coddling Kristina, then so be it. I’m so glad someone finally said out loud that Kristina should be in a facility getting help. The irony being Sonny is the one who said it. I was sympathetic toward Kristina during the pregnancy and for a while after. But now I’m over it. It’s clear Kristina may have other mental health issues aside from PTSD and postpartum. She’s Sonny’s child after all. They need to look into that once and for all.
Despite Wackadoodle Kristina calling her “Adela”, the baby’s name was Irene.
At this point, anyone with the last name of Corinthos (over the age of 18) is just vile. Michael has lost any shred of decency by covering up Sonny’s guilt and now suggesting they hire a fall guy. Kristina needs Kevin to come back from his adventure quick to examine her. And Sonny, just make it stop. What’s next – will Avery will be a suspect?
Switching gears, someone on social media found Carly and Lulu’s last scene together was in 2013 (7 years before Lulu went into a coma.). The shoehorning of Carly into leading storylines may be unnecessary but was probably done here to give her more scenes with Jack.
Thank you for confirming what I was wondering about Carly and Lulu having few scenes together.
That baby was physically her child and she named her Adela, which I think was her right, just as T.J had the right to call her what he wanted, with him being the bio father. We are all never going to see eye to eye on this , but all I know if I carried a baby for 9months, from my egg, it would definitely be my child, and anyone but the father laying claim to it,could go to hell!
Look up surrogacy. Kristina violated her agreement time and time again.
No,No,No. I’d never watch with that relationship! Makes me sick just thinking of them together, especially with what they’ve done to her character. I wonder how she likes playing this new Anna that seems to hate everyone, since she lost her lover, and even when she’s at her worst and giving someone a hard time, she has her demonic smile going full speed. Yuk!, so sick of her, if she ever gets her claws in Jason, that’s the end for me. You can have her Satan, just kidding, I like you and wouldn’t wish her on you or ANYONE!
The part in Anna’s hair changed when her character changed too.
Well, her part has sure changed, period!
Nancy looks good for 68 she is a good actress not watched since 2019 I got tired of both sides constantly harping on Twitter politics you know we just what a escape and since you can’t stop it I stopped you.
Tracy was team Sasha for a long time. Not liking this writing change. Tracy makes me laugh and I love her but this switch in the writing is annoying.
It’s not a switch in the writing. Lois called out the fear & loneliness that Tracy’s feeling. She lashed out because of her fear of losing Brook Lynn to a baby and her growing family, and losing her friendship with Cody to Sasha and his newfound family with Mac. Tracy needs a relationship; it’s a shame (and a wrong decision) that they killed off Gregory.
Yes I know both Lois and Felicia explained it but I still think it’s a desperate change in writing. Tracy fought for Sasha to be the face of Deception over Blaze in the beginning. Sasha later won Tracy over again when she became the Q cook. She’s always known Cody and Sasha were headed toward being an item. This feels like a stretch even for Tracy. The actor who portrays Cody already teased he would be game for a Cody-Tracy pairing so whatever. GH is going full tilt with the bazaar pairings. Jason and Anna. Drew and Willow. Tracy and Cody. Feels like someone over at GH wants to be as outrageous as RC.
I don’t really know what to say about Michael and how calculated he can be. Willow is better off getting away from him. I’m grossed out by the Drew pairing but if it gets her away from Michael I guess I don’t care anymore.
I think there’s a twist coming here. The fact that it was a “dark and stormy night” when Jagger got sent down here to Hell is going to play into it.
What we thought we saw on screen was Jagger going out of his way to provoke Sonny, resulting in Sonny saying “you should have never threatened my daughter” and then putting two bullets in his chest.
But if it was really going to be that simple, why bother with the weather theatrics? Are storms like that really the usual weather in late August in upstate New York??
Now that Kristina has admitted to Michael that she was at the Quartermaine estate on the night of the murder, it opens up some other possibilities. For one thing, we know that she was driving Alexis’s car. If the Q’s had surveillance cameras at the gates, they probably caught the car on tape, ran the plates, and this – along with the gun tossing – might be the reason they sent Mac to arrest Alexis. Because the assumption is, if her car was at the scene of the crime, so was she.
The other possibility here is… given Kristina’s emotional state and the physical injuries she’s recovering from, is it possible she might have “blacked out” after driving to the Quartermaines, made her way to the boat house, and shot Jagger from a distance, either at the same time her daddy shot him, or the sound of her gunfire was muted by thunder from the storm, maybe?
Some mortals have questioned whether Jagger might have been wearing a vest, even equipped with fake blood packs, to set Sonny up on a fake murder charge. Yet Jagger is indeed in Hell, so if that was his plan, it failed. Most bullet proof vests have a front and a back, but not “sides”. So what if the two bullets Sonny put in him only hit a rigged vest, but a third shot hit him in the unprotected side, did some major organ damage when it got there, and turned his fake death into a real one. Yeah, I realize this last part is a stretch, and somebody should have noticed the fakery when they took the body away. But we’re just now hearing that Krissy was on the premises for a reason… because it previously looked like she was rolling in the mud on her baby’s grave that entire time.
I always felt since Sonny was seen shooting Cates that it was too obvious. Of course, he’s a thug and has shot his own son but this time it was so open and shut. My (lame) theory is Sonny actually blacked out and someone else shot Cates. I don’t think it was anyone important but I just don’t think it was Sonny. Now, the last minute red herring about being at the driveway at the Q’s further makes me believe it wasn’t Sonny. At first, I was getting confused when Michael kept questioning Kristina about that night. I started questioning myself if he knew about Kristina stopping by Sonny’s place and getting the gun. Then all of sudden she says she was at the Q’s?!?! So (somehow) Sonny blacked out, Cates was shot and Michael came up upon it seconds later.
The writing on this show is such a mess, no wonder they’ve been hemorrhaging viewers in the ratings. Been watching GH for 31 years, and there have been few times that have pissed me off as a viewer as much as what’s been going on for the past couple of weeks. Some of the garbage they’re writing is almost so bad that it’s insulting.
GH is built around Sonny, Carly and their family. A family where one of them commits murder, they all lie about it and cover it up, and then allow an innocent person to be arrested for the crime. Are we as viewers supposed to be rooting for the Corinthos family? Are we supposed to want to see Sonny get away with murder? Are we supposed to be happy that Michael and Kristina are conspiring to cover up their father’s murder, along with his ex-wife? What a backwards way to write a show!
Sonny, Kristina and Michael make me sick. I hope the entire Corinthos family ends up in a prison cell when this murder/cover up scheme is done with. But we know that will never happen, Sonny is never made to pay for any of the crimes he ever commits. Carly makes me sick. Trying to make it look like all of a sudden she has this close relationship with Lulu and the Spencer side of her family, give me a break. The idea of an Anna/Jason romantic pairing makes me sick. No thank you. Drew and Willow make me sick, instant fast forward for me every time they appear on the screen.
Dan, I had to read your name more than once to realize that this post wasn’t written by me. Needless to say, I completely agree with you and couldn’t have said it better myself. Cheers!
I’d definitely be open to a Jason/Anna romance, though I’m not sure that’s where the story is headed. It seems to be, the writers are definitely trying to lead us to think there might be, but if the writers are testing the waters (and viewer reaction) they might nix the idea because of all those who seem “aghast” and “appalled” as if they’re new to soaps. I think it could be really interesting to see these two in a relationship neither saw coming… And, I don’t care that she’s Robin’s mother. Robin and Jason were thirty years ago. There have been quite a few couples where the parent is dating their child’s ex or vice versa. And, in reality, Finola and Steve are only about ten years apart. In-story, their characters, maybe 14. If there was a vote, I’d say go for it…
I don’t see Jason ever hooking up with a cop. Let alone Robin’s mom. That would be too weird.
Well.. at least it is not an uncle going after his nephews wife. Willow is best away from both Drew and Michael.
Where the hell is Scott Baldwin? I know he isn’t well liked but not even Elizabeth nor Lulu wants to officially report him missing? Is he locked away on the island with the pharmacist? Is the pharmacist still being held or did Sonny and Jason let him go? Has Scott been free all this time and was lurking around spying on Sonny? Was he at the Q’s on that stormy night?
Oops I meant Lucy, not Lulu.
So glad that Marty Grey is coming to Alexis’s rescue, even if she thinks she doesn’t need another lawyer’s help. I’m still wondering what they did with Scotty, probably stashed him down in Puerto Rico at Sonny’s place with the naughty Pharmacist.
General Hospital
GENERAL HOSPITAL: Sonny Tells Dante, “I Don’t Want a Son Like You,” While Michael Tells Brook Lynn to Bide Her Time Till Chase and Willow Have an Affair
On the Thursday, October 1 episode of General Hospital, both Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) and Michael Corinthos (Rory Gibson) had some things to say and what they had to say didn’t go over well with whom they were talking to!
Sonny had a confrontation with his son, Dante (Dominic Zamprogna), while Michael leveled with Brook Lynn (Amanda Setton) over Chase (Josh Swickard).
GH is setting up a scenario where everyone is going to make it look like Sonny was responsible for having Sidwell (Carlo Rota) beat up in Pentonville; while viewers already know Ava (Maura West) and Drew (Cameron Mathison) were behind it.
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A VISIT WITH DAD
Now, Dante comes to Sonny’s house. He wants to know straight up from his dad if he ordered the attack at Pentonville. Sonny flatly denies any culpability or responsibility, but Dante refuses to believe him.
Dante informs Sonny he has video footage of Sully and Vito at the prison. Sonny explains to Dante he doesn’t know why Sully beat up both Curtis and Dante. Things escalated when Sonny was deeply hurt that Dante refused to believe him. Dante says he was disappointed that his father didn’t respect him enough to be truthful with him!
Sonny asks Dante to consider that he was being set up. He says all he did was to tell Vito to instruct Sully to keep a watchful eye on Sidwell, not to harm him. No matter what Sonny said, Dante continued hammering him with how he knew deep down, even though he said he left the mob, he had to finish off Sidwell for himself.
Next, Sonny explains everything he has ever done was to provide for and to protect his family. Dante fired back that he doesn’t want to deal anymore with Sonny’s half-baked truths. As the two men argue, Gio (Giovanni Mazza) shows up at Sonny’s front door and overhears Sonny losing his temper and shouting at Dante, “Get out of my house! I don’t want a son like you!” The scenes featured an excellent performance by Maurice Benard.
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MICHAEL THE MANIPULATOR
While this is going down, outside the Quartermaine boathouse, Brook Lynn opens up to Michael about living at the Q’s with Chase being there, since he only came back due to legal advice from his lawyer, Monet Mitchell (Blythe Howard).
Brook Lynn questioned whether they should get legally separate. Michael insisted that would be a big mistake. When she asks why, Michael tells Brook Lynn to bide her time until Chase and Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) have an affair; then she’d have full custody of Phoebe.
An angered Brook Lynn pushed Michael into the water and accuses him of moving Willow back into the gatehouse with intent on putting Chase and Willow in closer proximity and sacrificing Brook Lynn’s family in the process. As the two cousins bicker, Chase shows up asking Brook Lynn if she is OK. Michael punctuates their talk with “You know, I’m right.”
CURTIS FIGURES OUT A WAY TO GET OUT OF THE SLAMMER
At GH, Willow visits Curtis (Donnell Turner) in his hospital room. Curtis wants Willow to get him pardoned and keep him out of jail, and in return, he will help her nail Sonny.
Next, Willow tells Dr. Tristan Roberts (Dean Geyer) she wants Curtis held for observation for three more days. He agrees to do so under one condition, that she understands that he may need to call in a favor from a congresswoman.
So, what did you think of how Dante accused his father and refused to believe Sonny’s answers? Is this the end of their father and son relationship for good? Is Michael the most manipulative person of all, except for Willow? Do the two deserve each other? Do you want Chase and Willow to have an affair? And what of Curtis? Does he have many redeeming qualities left? Share your thoughts via the comment section, but first check out the talk Michael had with Brook Lynn.
General Hospital
GH Alum Tajh Bellow and Y&R Alum Loren Lott Star in New Tiktok and Microdrama ‘Love Island’ Spoof
Two soap opera alums very familiar to fans of General Hospital and The Young and the Restless are paired together in a new short-form digital series from none other than Issa Rae’s production entity HOORAE Digital.
Look for Tajh Bellow (ex-TJ Ashford, GH)) and Loren Lott (ex-Ana Hamilton, Y&R) as part of the cast of The Compatibility Experiment, premiering on October 14, 2026, exclusively on TikTok and its companion microdrama platform, PineDrama.
In the video teaser, it appears that Bellow and Lott play a couple, Kelvin and Camila, set in a Love Island reality show-esque environment trying to win the one million dollar cash prize, only what could go wrong?
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The Compatibility Experiment loglines share that it brings a fast-paced, relationship-focused reality check—much like Love Island with a twist. The show takes a participant’s current relationship, introduces them to a potentially more compatible partner, and forces them to navigate the differences with life-changing money on the line.
The new series is part of a groundbreaking content deal between HOORAE Digital and TikTok to develop premium short-form storytelling. The ensemble cast also features; Ayona, Reggie Luck, JaNa Craig, Tosin Morohunfola, Jessica Jacoby, Georgia Warner, and Nick Cassidy.
General Hospital fans know Tajh Bellow for his performances as TJ Ashford, and who earned two Daytime Emmy nominations along the way during his run. Bellow took over the role in 2018 and last appeared on the ABC daytime drama series in December of 2024.
Loren Lott first appeared as Devon’s (Bryton James) sister Ana Hamilton on The Young and the Restless from 2018 to 2019; making a brief return in 2024. She has continued to perform on the stage and screen with recent credits including: Bel-Air, Cherish the Day, and All American: Homecoming.
Check out the trailer for The Compatibility Experiment below and let us know what you think of its concept and if you are glad to see Tajh and Loren again? Hoping they might return to daytime in their GH and Y&R roles at some point in the future? Weigh-in via the comment section.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Ava and Drew Revealed to be Behind Framing Sonny for Sidwell’s Prison Beatdown
If you thought that the person responsible for the Pentonville brawl that saw Sidwell (Carlo Rota) and Curtis (Donnell Turner) taken to General Hospital was Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) or even Sidwell himself, you were dead wrong! On the Wednesday, September 30 episode of GH, it turned out that the culprits were actually Ava (Maura West) and Drew (Cameron Mathison).
In story, Drew apparently bankrolled the attack on Sidwell and framing Sonny. He told Ava their planned worked (she came up with it!) but was horrified when Drew informed her that Curtis got caught in the crosshairs. Ava is visibly upset because of her longtime friendship with Curtis’ daughter, Trina Robinson (Tabyana Ali). Drew tried to make Ava see the bright side. Curtis was witness to it and his presence will cast doubt on Sonny’s claims to that he had gotten out of the mob and gone legit.
Later, Vito shows up at Drew’s. They informed him that his guy on the inside of the slammer made a big mistake by hurting their friend and ordered him to leave town.
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BOATHOUSE BRAWL
In other major developments, Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) and Rocco (Finn Carr) have a blow out fight as Danny blames his “brother” for the reason Charlotte was sent off to boarding school.
Rocco told off Danny for Charlotte’s (Bluesy Burke) reckless behavior and he explains he had to protect his sister. He went in on Danny saying that his mother Lulu (Alexa Havins) has been right to send Charlotte to boarding school and far away from Danny.
However, Rocco went a bit too far when he shouted, “And if your mom was alive, she would send you away too!” Next, Danny punched out Rocco, leading to a terrible brawl. An angered Danny yells at Rocco to, “Stay away from me and everyone in my family. And don’t you ever mention my mom again!” Danny storms off.
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Now alone outside the boathouse, Rocco flashes back to his first kiss with Scout (Kayden Brenna Tokarksi), hoping that his fight with Danny will not escalate and ruin their budding romance. Meanwhile, a bloodied-mouth Danny heads over to Sonny’s and Jason (Steve Burton) is there at the same time. He then admits that he has a bad fight with Rocco and they are both beaten up.
WILL SCOUT WISE UP?
At the end of the episode, Scout, who had a fight with Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn) over Drew, and who keeps telling everyone how good a man her dad truly is, comes upon a suspicious scene.
Scout hides behind the wall outside Drew’s. She sees her dad, Ava and Vito talking. Next, Scout seems to overhear Vito assuring Drew and Ava that their business dealings are done, and he’ll be leaving Port Charles for good.
So, what did you think of the reveal that Ava and Drew were behind framing Sonny for the prison beatdown of Sidwell (and Curtis)? Do you think Danny and Rocco’s relationship can be repaired, or do you think the teenagers will continue to be at each other’s throats? Finally, do you hope Scout gets a clue and stops thinking her dad walks on air? Weigh-in via the comment section, but first check out how Ava and Drew conspired below.
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