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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.
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) revealed on Thursday, the lineup of presenters for 53rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards taking place on Friday, October 30, 2026, at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, California.
The ceremony will stream live on the NATAS YouTube channel at YouTube.com/@theemmys and watch.TheEmmys.tv.
Scheduled to present from the current soaps are: Katelyn MacMullen (Willow, General Hospital), Delon de Metz (Zende, The Bold and the Beautiful), James Preston (Nick, The Bay), Paul Telfer (Xander, Days of our Lives), Tamara Tunie (Anita, Beyond the Gates) and Susan Walters (Diane, The Young and the Restless).
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In addition soap alums, Crystal Chappell, Lesli Kay, Joe Lando, Eva LaRue, who is also a nominee this year, A Martinez, Juliet Mills, and Alicia Leigh Willis, will also be on hand to present.
The ceremony which celebrates nominated lifestyle programs and dramas will also include presenters: Eva zu Beck (Superskilled with Eva zu Beck), Danielle Chang (Lucky Chow), Sunny Hostin (The View), Derek Hough (Extra), Pati Jinich (Pati’s Mexican Table), Star Jones (Divorce Court), Michael Jr. (Stand Up and Do Something), Judge Greg Mathis (Mathis Court with Judge Mathis), Keke Palmer (Glam Through the Ages), Nischelle Turner (Entertainment Tonight), and Andrew Zimmern (Andrew Zimmern’s Wild Game Kitchen).
The 2026 Daytime Emmy Awards will bring together an exciting mix of presenters representing the full spectrum of daytime television,” said Adam Sharp, President & CEO of NATAS. “From familiar faces in daytime drama to the personalities and creative voices behind talk shows and lifestyle programming, this year’s lineup reflects the breadth of talent that makes daytime so special. We look forward to celebrating the people who continue to shape the genre.”
Matthew Hoffman (Love Island USA, Cheap A$$ Beach Houses) will serve as the ceremony’s Voice of God, bringing his signature comedic narration to the evening’s celebrations. As previously announced, Lifetime Achievement honoree Genie Francis (Laura, General Hospital) will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by her husband, Jonathan Frakes.
So, what do you think about the list of presenters for the 2026 Daytime Emmy Awards? Let us know who you are looking forward to seeing via the comment section below.
General Hospital fans took to social media following the airing of the Wednesday, October 21 episode of the ABC daytime drama series. In story, Molly (Kristen Vaganos) reveals to Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn) that she has received an offer to join the top law firm in Chicago that practices civil law. She says it’s her dream job.
The problem Molly says is relocating from Port Charles and uprooting her life and being away from her mother, Scout and boyfriend Cody Bell (Josh Kelly). Wistful that she may lose another daughter to a long-distance situation (Kristina left a few months back to go to medical school in California), Alexis urged Molly to get Cody to go with her.
Molly still seemed concerned and has trouble committing to the idea. Alexis tells her to talk it over with Cody. Meanwhile, Cody asked Tracy (Jane Elliot) is he can have Thanksgiving off because he and Molly planned to spend Thanksgiving together with their families. After initially balking, Tracy agrees.
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WILL MOLLY AND CODY HEAD TO CHI-TOWN?
Later, Cody shows up at Miller & Davis and the conversation turned to Thanksgiving dinner that Alexis is hosting. Molly and Cody asked her not to cook anything. Cody hugged Molly reassuring Alexis that he and Molly would take care of whatever was needed on Turkey Day.
So, this raises the question, why out of nowhere are we learning that Molly received an amazing law offer in Chicago, if the character was not being written out? If Molly leaves the canvas, would the character of Cody make his exit too?
Kristen Vaganos joined GH as a recast Molly Lansing-Davis back in September of 2023 and went on contract in August of 2024. Josh Kelly began playing Cody Bell back in June of 2022. Initial reports were that Kelly joined the show on contract and then as of June 2025 went on recurring status with the show per his choice.
Do you see a world where GH is writing out Molly and Cody? Would you be sad to see Kristen and Josh exit the soap opera? If this is not what is going on, is this just a plot point for some other story that is upcoming? Share your thoughts and theories via the comment section.
It’s been over two-years since his last appearance on General Hospital, now fan favorite Kin Shriner (Scott Baldwin) has taken to social media to share his thoughts on the casting of his grown-up TV daughter, Serena Baldwin now played by Kelly Kruger.
Kelly took over the role of Serena on-screen starting with the July 30, 2026 episode and has been ensconced in the storyline with her mother, Lucy Coe (Lynn Herring), in trying to win back full creative control of Deception for her.
In fact on the Monday, October 19 episode of the ABC soap opera, Serena tried to dupe Jason Morgan (Steve Burton) into signing over Michael’s (Rory Gibson) shares of the company. Jason caught on and wondered why she was doing this. She claimed she just wanted to help her mom gain creative control from Tracy (Jane Elliot) rather than full ownership, and begged Jason to keep quiet about it, which he agreed to for now.
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WHERE IS SCOTT?
On Monday, Shriner also took to X and said, “I think Kelly Kruger is doing a great job on General Hospital, and she and Lynn Herring work well together.” That was followed by comments in his thread about the show needing to bring back Scott too.
In fact, back on August 25, Shriner also took to X with a reminder that Scott is still around and ready to come back to Port Charles, sharing, “Scotty Baldwin always fits in he just needs the right sport coat !!!!”
The last time Serena mentioned her father Scott was when Kruger made her debut and informed Lucy that her father was, “living his best life in Key West.” Meanwhile, Shriner posts on his X account continually and shared back on August 2, that it has been 49 years since he made his on-screen debut as then teenaged, Scotty Baldwin and thanked the fans for al the love and support.
So, now let us know, are you enjoying Kelly Kruger as Serena Baldwin? Do you want to see GH bring back Scott Baldwin into the story, so Serena has both her parents in Port Charles? Do you like the potential of Jason and Serena pairing? Weigh-in via the comment section below.
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