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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Jason Zeroes in on His Target, Marco Gets His Hands On Britt’s Meds Believing Sidwell Will Protect Him
Emotions were running high and are about to reaching their tipping points after the Thursday, March 19, episode of General Hospital. First, Jason (Steve Burton) is preparing to eliminate Cullum (Andrew Hawkes) inside his storage unit, but has a series of flashbacks of the goodbyes with the people he loves, before he tries to kill the man that is a threat to him and Britt Westbourne (Kelly Thiebaud).
The flashbacks are tender and deep for Jason, as he remembers talking with Tracy (Jane Elliot) after his mother, Monica Quartermaine died, Carly (Laura Wright) advising him to not promise his son, Danny, when he would return, but that she will watch over him while Jason is gone, plus promising Carly if she died because of her relationship with Jack Brennan (Chris McKenna), he would kill him.
Jason prepares the long-range rifle, packs it his duffle bag. and locks the storage unit and heads out. Steve Burton once again brings the heart to the hitman in what is turning out to be his final scenes before his hiatus from the soap.
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LYING TO MY FACE
Meanwhile, in an excellent performance from Laura Wright, Carly sits across her kitchen table from Jack Brennan. Armed with the knowledge of how Jack is deceiving her about her own daughter being in the WSB because of him, she tests him. She says, when people aren’t who you think they are, it’s probably because they aren’t being honest – and that’s not real love. Jack responds that he hated his job because it requires him to keep things from Carly, and while he is well-aware he wasn’t enough of a partner for her, he truly loved her.
An emotional Carly, with tears in her eyes, says that sometimes loving someone meant risking being honest, and asked Jack if he loved her enough to do that. However, before Jack could answer, duty called when he got an important message and had to leave. As he does, the camera reveal a devastated look on Carly’s face.
ONE GOOD DEED DESERVES ANOTHER?
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At his office at GH, Lucas (Van Hansis) is concerned because he hasn’t heard from Marco (Adrian Anchondo). While at Wyndemere, Pascal (Marc Forget) told Sidwell (Carlo Rota), once again, his concerns about Lucas. Sidwell headed him off at the pass, because he knows he has a crush on his son and wants Marco all to himself. Marco arrives with contracts for his father to sign, so Pascal exits.
In a seemingly touching moment (but is it?), Sidwell thanked his son for sticking around, even though it’s taking time to avenge his mother’s death and bring down Sonny. Sidwell heads out to meet Ava on the mainland. Marco is then able to break into the safe and obtain two vials of Britt’s medication.
Later at Wyndemere, Pascal opens the safe and sees two vials missing and calls Cullum. He puts the blame on Lucas, Cullum says he will handle it. Cut to: an anxious Lucas worried about Marco, when suddenly his boyfriend shows up and hands Lucas two vials of Britt’s medication. Marco tells Lucas to get them to Britt ASAP because it’s only a matter of time before someone figures out they are missing. Marco reassured Lucas that everything will be alright because his father will protect him.
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While Jason is an outside stairwell with his gun aimed at Cullum, the WSB director is at WSB headquarters telling off Jack for the Five Poppies debacle and demanding a resolution to the situation now. Suddenly, when Jack walks into the rifle’s view, and both he and Cullum are in range, Jason hesitates and tries to decide what his next move will be. We fade to black.
What did you think will happen next? Will Jason be able to shoot and kill Cullum? Will Sidwell turn on his own son, and potentially end his life? Will Lucas be in the line of fire, because he has the vials to reverse engineer the medication that saves Britt? Weigh-in via the comment section below.
Britt told Josslyn that Faison had FOUR children. I only know of 3(Peter, Britt, & Nathan). Many on social media claim he had a child named Sonny that was mentioned on Night Shift. I watched it & don’t even remember Faison being on that show. Does Faison really have a fourth child & if he did who is it? If anyone would know the correct answer to this question it’s you Michael.
It’s possible that the writers just messed up. Like they did a few months ago when they said Scout was 12 years old… which would have been impossible, because her father (Dragon Chow Drew) wasn’t even heard of then.
Double agent Cullum does resemble Faison a little bit. So it wouldn’t be out of the question if he were a chip off the old literally brainless block. But it would seem a little odd that neither Britt or Nathan have reacted to him as if he were a “long lost brother”.
And having Cullum as a son would be a major contradiction to Dr Obrecht’s past narrative of why she hid the fact that Nathan was her son from him and everybody else for decades. She said that she knew Faison would be obsessed with his son if he knew about him, to make sure he was raised up as a proper heir to the evil empire. But he wouldn’t have as much reason to be obsessed with Nathan if he already had a son. And Cullum is definitely older than Nathan. Or Heiny, for that matter.
Before they cut to Lucas (who was in the hospital) for his first scene, there was an establishing shot. That building looked nothing like LA County Hospital, which has been used as the exterior of GH since at least 1978. What gives, Frank? Wasn’t there enough backlash to the Wyndemere (cheap hotel) shot earlier this year, than to change the exterior of the building that’s still at the end of the opening credits? Heck, the building even looked the same when it was rebuilt after it blew up in the late 2000’s.
It feels like someone is having fun utilizing AI generated images. It’s stupid and tacky.
It seems they have copied this idea from Days of Our Lives, who has been using these AI generated “external” shots for a while. Some of which make no sense at all, like showing the Horton house – which has been standing since the show’s beginning in 1965 – looking like it’s right in the middle of a recently built subdivision.
LA County Hospital built a new, modern hospital several years ago. That may have been a picture of the new building. That old hospital is a broken down mess. Since the sets for the show are updated, they may feel it’s time to show an updated exterior.
I noticed the same thing. Having once lived in LA, and driven past the old General Hospital many times, when I saw the new building in the recent episode, it made me wonder if there had been a new addition built somewhere near the main hospital. In the far background, it looked like the very top part of the old hospital showing behind the new building. Llanviewer717 mentioned a new addition built, earlier.
I had a gut feeling the medication in the safe wasn’t the real thing.
So the butler is gay too?
The latest ratings are out for the week of October 26-30, 2026 and the big takeaways include: that CBS daytime’s Beyond the Gates was separated by only 23,000 viewers behind third place (of the soaps) General Hospital! For the last several weeks, Beyond the Gates has been closing the gap on this year’s winner for Outstanding Daytime Drama Series, and continuing to best GH in the key demos.
According to the latest Nielsen ratings breakdown from Soap Opera Network, the final week of October brought Beyond the Gates 1.790 million on average tuning-in and the show set a season high in total viewers. Meanwhile, General Hospital hit a new season low! The long-running ABC soap had 1.813 million for the week, and once again the series did not go over the 2 million mark.
Meanwhile, in the key Women 18-49 demo, Beyond the Gates was firmly ahead of GH with a rating share of 0.21, while General Hospital had 0.17 rating share.Then, in the key Women 25-54 demo, Beyond the Gates was once again ahead of the ABC soap with a ratings share for that demo at 0.30 while GH came in with 0.26.
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MORE BY THE NUMBERS
In addition and comparatively, Beyond the Gates +22,000 viewers week-to-week, and had the largest gains in viewership year-to-year in daytime TV with +267,000 from this in 2025.. However, General Hospital seems to be going in reverse. The show was down -56,000 viewers week-over-week and down -22,000 year-over-year .
BEYOND THE GATES
Let’s take a look at some of the storylines that had people tuning-in to Beyond the Gates during the ratings week:
Hayley (Marquita Goings) attempted a massive shocker regarding her pregnancy and tried to use it to extract money from Bill Hamilton (Timon Kyle Durrett). Although, Bill saw right through her game, he demanded a paternity test, and made it clear he has no intention of raising the child—planning instead to pay her off to take the baby and leave. Meanwhile, Hayley confided her plan to her cousin Randy (Maurice P. Kerry).
Jacob Hawthorne (Jibre Hordges) and Naomi Hamilton (Arielle Prepetit) clashed over Jacob’s ongoing investigation into The Impaler, causing significant strain in their marriage. At the same time, Smitty (Mike Manning) considered taking matters into his own hands—including potentially heading to Mexico for evidence—while Martin Richardson (Brandon Claybon) worried about what comes next.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL
Over at General Hospital for the ratings period, the story served up included:
Carly (Laura Wright) and Valentin (James Patrick Stuart) teamed up to investigate what really happened to Jack Brennan (Chris McKenna). Later, Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) leads them to Jack’s dead body.
Jude (Wil Traval) dropped a bombshell claim to Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn); that he is Phoebe’s father, while Brook Lynn (Amanda Setton) and Chase (Josh Swickard) signed their divorce papers.
Then, Danny caught Rocco (Finn Carr) and Scout (Kayden Brenna Tokarski) sharing a kiss, plus the shocking return of Heather Webber (Alley Mills) capped the week.
Now the questions become; without having much promotional synergy in the ABC day-part to draw more eyeballs it is not helping but hurting General Hospital. It seems Beyond the Gates is also a benefactor of a one-two-three punch of CBS soaps (Y&R, B&B and BTG) and promotion.
However, that still doesn’t take away the fact that Beyond the Gates is close to besting GH in all ratings category as they go head-to-head in some markets across the country.
So, are you excited to see Beyond the Gates climb in the ratings? Are you concerned for General Hospital? Do you think they can stave off Beyond the Gates in total viewers or will the upstart soap overtake them in the next ratings report? Share your thoughts in the comment section.
Antonio Sabáto Jr., the former Jagger Cates of General Hospital and GH: Night Shift, and the former Dante Damiano of The Bold and the Beautiful has issued his first public statement since the incident involving his son, Jack’s arrest in Alaska for a fatal hit-and-run.
Jack is the son of Sabáto Jr. and Oscar-nominated actress Virginia Madsen, and according to court documents obtained by KTUU Jack, was allegedly driving a white Chevy Tahoe when he hit and killed Carl Simmonds, 42, near an intersection in Anchorage around 5:35 a.m. on Monday, November 9.
The reports indicated that Jack fled the scene — but later decided to called the cops to say he hit “something” that “suddenly appeared in the road” while he was “doing late-night DoorDashing.”
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Now, Antonio has taken to his Instagram breaking his silence on the situation, sharing, “At this time, my family and I are navigating an extremely sensitive and deeply personal matter.”
He added, “As a father, my love for my children remains unconditional, and my priority is the well-being of my family. We ask that the public and members of the media honor our privacy during this difficult time and keep us all in your thoughts and prayers.”
The soap alum concluded, “I also wish to extend my heartfelt condolences to the family and loved ones of the gentleman who tragically lost his life. My thoughts and prayers are with them as well. We sincerely appreciate your compassion, understanding, and respect for the privacy of everyone affected.”
Jack Sabáto was arraigned in court on Tuesday, November 10 with bail set at $5,000, and a no-driving order and the potential of $5,000 penalty fees if he fails to attend future court appearances.
Antonio is the father to Jack, 34, daughter, Mina Sabato, 24 and son, Antonio Sabáto III, 15.
This is a developing story. You can check out Antonio’s official statement below.
So, let us know your thoughts on this tragic hit-and-run, which claimed the life of another man, and Antonio’s statement, via the comment section below.
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Sonny (Maurice Benard) and Ava’s (Maura West) daughter Avery looks quite different, starting on today’s November 9 episode of General Hospital. That’s because GH has made Avery into a full-blown teenager and the role is now being played by actress Alya Bullington.
In her debut, the Tennessee native was thrown into the deep soap waters with Daytime Emmy winners, Maurice Benard and Eden McCoy (Josslyn). Bullington weighed-in to TV Insider about her first scene which featured Avery overhearing a fight between Sonny and Josslyn.
She explained “It was something I have never done before, I did not have a lot of experience with the screaming and the crying stuff, but I got my first script, and I was like, ‘OK, this is a huge opportunity to learn so much about how that stuff works and to become this character that I have never even tried playing before.’”
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THE TEENAGED VERSION OF AVERY WILL HAVE A LOT TO CONTEND WITH
Speaking of working with McCoy, Bullington shared, “She’s incredible. I remember her just laughing and making jokes on set, and then the minute that they started taping, she just locked in and she cried immediately, and my first thought was, ‘I want to be able to do that.’
The soap opera newcomer added, “I think she just inspired me so much because she is so great and she can just lock into whatever character she wants to in the moment.”
The character of Avery was born back in 2014, but as recently as the October 8 episode of General Hospital, the character was suddenly referred to as a teenager. This is the second young female character in recent months to be aged up following the casting of Kayden Brenna Tokarski as Scout Cain.
As for her take on Avery and what’s ahead, Alya said,“She’s emotional, and she’s curious, and she’s a really fun person to play because so much stuff is happening in her life. I think she’s kind of confused about what’s happening and what to believe.”
So, what do you think about General Hospital making Avery a teenager? Are you excited to see the conflict between Sonny, Ava and Avery now that they have aged up the character? Share your thoughts and welcome Alya to GH via the comment section below.
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