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GENERAL HOSPITAL: After Saving Kristina, Marco Sees Natalia Dead; Michael Reveals He Takes Pain Pills as a Result of His Burns
In a dramatic and emotional episode of General Hospital that aired Tuesday, July 1st, several lives were in peril with Jenz Sidwell (Carlo Rota) and Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) feud at the epicenter of it all.
At Charlie’s, the fire that was ignited by the gasoline poured inside around the bar worsened with Kristina (Kate Mansi) trapped inside. She grabs a fire extinguisher to start to try and squelch the flames, but they are about to get dangerously close to her. Meanwhile, Marco (Adrian Anchondo) who was headed to the Metro Court Hotel to see his mother, Natalia (Eva LaRue), sees the fire from his car and decides to go in and help.
Once he hears and sees Kristina, he grabs a blanket and is able to shield himself and Kristina enough from the flames to get them safely out the back. Now affected by smoke inhalation, the two get help from the firefighters and paramedics who arrive on the scene. Dante (Dominic Zamprogna) shows up and wants to know what happened.
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Meanwhile, after the christening, and at the Quartermaine’s after learning about the fire at Charlie’s, Michael’s (Rory Gibson) starts to descend the staircase and begins to flashback to being trapped in a fire at Sonny’s penthouse that burned him so badly. It marked the first time that we saw Michael’s PTSD over the incident.
Later, Michael opens up to Sasha (Sofia Mattsson) as he needed a drink to calm his nerves, as he was worried about Kristina, but he realizes, he can’t drink because he just took a pain pill. Sasha feels terrible as she never knew Michael was still in this much discomfort. Michael levels with her and says he has some residual nerve damage and hopes to soon be pain-free. He also explains it’s not as bad as the debridement (the process of removing all of his burned dead skin). Sasha and Michael connect over his trauma. He promises her that nothing like what happened to him, or Kristina, will happen to his children.
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At the Metro Court, Sonny’s security guard cannot get Natalia to open up the hotel room door. He leaves to get some help, but Anna (Finola Hughes) and Chase (Josh Swickard) arrive. Anna gets the key from the hotel and they open the door to find an unconscious Natalia. Chase and Anna also see the bottle of empty pills, the liquor bottle and glass, and Natalia’s clothes thrown all over the place, looking like she was trying to pack for her trip to Belize.
Next at GH, Elizabeth (Rebecca Herbst) and Dr. Isaiah Gannon (Sawandi Wilson) are on their shift, when Natalia is brought in by the paramedics. They are not able to revive her and she is declared dead. Elizabeth calls Lucas (Van Hansis). He thought Marco would have shown up at the Metro Court to see his mother by now. But, Elizabeth tells Lucas the news.
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Molly (Kristen Vaganos) arrives at the Quartermaines and then learns of the fire at Charlie’s and is becoming emotionally overwrought. Cody (Josh Kelly) drives her there. She is in tears and in a panic that she cannot lose another sister. Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn) has been with Sidwell at Spoon Island going over legal documents, and gets the call about Kristina and she heads out. Alone, Sidwell makes a call and is furious at whoever he is talking to that they were not supposed to burn down Charlie’s with anybody in it.
Alexis makes it to outside Charlie’s and reams out Sonny. She tells him she will not lose another child because of him. At Carly’s (Laura Wright), Brennan (Chris McKenna) is there (after talking with Joss about WSB business), and Carly becomes emotionally distressed thinking back to Michael’s burns. Brennan says she must have PTSD from seeing her son in so much pain and suffering.
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At the end of the episode, after being urged to get checked out at GH, Marco runs into Lucas who tries to break the news to him about Natalia, but they get interrupted by Anna and Chase. They say that they need to speak to him about his mother.
“My mother? Why? Is she here? Is she OK?,” an emotional Marco’s asks before pushing past Lucas. Next, he runs to a hospital room and stands there in shock looking at his mother’s lifeless body in the bed as he breaks down in tears.
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So, what do you think about how the life of Natalia Roger-Ramirez came to an end? How do you feel about Kristina being saved by Marco in the fire; the daughter of one mobster, and the son of his rival? Do you think that Michael may become dependent on pain pills, or Drew will find out about the pills and do something to make Michael look like an unfit father? Share your thoughts in the comment section. But first, watch the moment that Marco rescues Kristina.
I really hope that Michael’s mention of the pain pills was meant as a PSA, since he stopped himself from having a drink, even though he wanted one after having “fire flashbacks” because of what happened at Charlie’s.
In that sense it would have been a relevant detail that Mikey is smart enough not to combine booze and pills, which of course is a lesson that Natalia had to learn the hard way.
But what I hope it does NOT lead to is a story of Michael becoming an addict, and Hallmark Drew & Willow using that as an excuse to steal his children from him.
Not that it wouldn’t be a “family tradition” for Michael. Alan, Monica, and AJ all famously had their addiction issues. Hell, at one point Monica even imagined an “alternative timeline” where Jason completed his medical training, became a famous doctor, but also a big time coke head!
So the genetics are there… I just don’t want these writers propping up Drew & Willow anymore at Mikey’s expense. Certainly not because he’s on drugs that he would have never been on if some terrorist (probably Sidwell) hadn’t attacked him
I missed that storyline when Monica dreams Jason was a cokehead. It must have been amusing.
It was during that odd period in 2011 after Bob Guza left as head writer and Garin Wolf took over at least until the Valentini/ReRon regime took over in February 2012. Most of his writing was atrocious, especially towards the Spencer family. But this piece was entertaining in a way. Even if it was an alternative timeline, triggered by Jason’s 666rh brain surgery and Monica wondering what his life might have been like if he were a doctor.
Wolf’s one saving grace was his respect for Monica. It was during a writers’ strike that Wolf wrote a newly alcoholic Monica hitting Sam with her car.
Then, during his short stint as head writer, Wolf brought Monica back from attending every single medical convention as Guza (instructed by JFP) stopped writing for Monica.
As good as that was, there was no excuse for the lady in white or the character of Siobhan.
I hope the writers don’t turn Michael into a drug addict but with the recent horrible writing, they might mess this up also. I like the possible PSA announcement
but go no further with a drug storyline. Let Michael be happy and recover from everything he’s had to deal with – without drugs.
And end Drillow!!!!
Interesting connection with the Michael not drinking and Natalia. If they were to portray Natalia’s death as a true suicide, wouldn’t they have to put a special warning on the episode and the national hotline number?
Right now, I think they’re in the last steps of moving along some of the Q-adjacent stories to launch Monica’s goodbye and the who gets the house story to follow. The studio is dark for the next 4 weeks, so I wonder if that’s already bern shot.
Oh good catch paralleling Natalia mixing her prescribed drugs with alcohol with Michael’s reticence to do the same. I really hope nothing prolongs this endless custody battle. Even on a good day I despise child custody battles and this one is especially dreary. Moreover, I’m tired of Teflon Drew winning at the expense of others as it reminds me too much of someone who shall not be named. I really could use an injection of positivity into my escapism right about now and that’s not something I normally say.
Time flies Harry.. just keep remembering that.
But what we’ve irrevocably lost in such a short amount of time.
I cannot disagree. This Canadian guy will always love your General Hospital
Why the hell didn’t Kristina run out the back door she came in from? That was ridiculous. And why didn’t she turn on lights when she came in from the back? She had plenty of time to get out on her own. I wish Michael & Sasha would get together. And I love Cody & Molly together. Hurry up!
Interesting how cool Joss is. Never a bad dream about murdering Cyrus. No flashbacks. Like it never even happened!
Glad to see Natalia gone. They really trashed her character. She started out as a tough as nails “momager” of Blaze’s career. Yes, a homophobe but we got past that. She worked well with the girls at Deception. But suddenly she’s the ex of Sidwell! And oh the mother of Marco too who is also gay? And she is a drunk with a previous DWI conviction! I could have seen her & Sonny together if not for all that. She was very supportive of him when he was sick. They destroyed her character & could go nowhere else with it. Too bad.
They have to destroy any woman who dares to fall in love with Sonny whose name is not Carly. I swear, there’s a writer’s template that says so.
Eva La Rue, but her character was a homophonic bitch.
I was referring to the character, Natalia, not Eva LaRue the actress.
How ironic that Marco saved his sister’s former girlfriend from a Blaze.
So tired of EVERYTHING always being Sonny’s fault. These writers are ruining a good program. Bout ready to stop watching
But Sonny is planning to warn Sidwell by harming his son, Marco, who saved his daughter’s life. Not excusing Sidwell for starting the fire that burned down Charlie’s but he gave orders that Charlie’s had to be empty. He wasn’t trying to hurt Histrina. Now Sonny is willfully going to plan to hurt Marco, again, the man who saved Sonny’s daughter. Maybe Sonny is the propeller that keeps the vicious cycle going. And maybe Sonny is not only as bad as Sidwell but worse. I’m with Tracy on this. I’m weary of Sonny being portrayed as some cuddly, charismatic, town hero with dimples when really, he is a stone cold killer and criminal.
I’m as tired of Sonny as Maurice Benard is tired of Sonny. Time to retire both the character and the actor.
Maybe with Jonathan Jackson leaving.. they had to burn down Charle’s since the main reason for giving the bar a make-over with a stage and a bunch of neon and real guitars hanging on the walls, was gone.
Interesting connection with JJ, but they never really have to destroy a set unless it’s critical to story.
With Charlie’s and The Floating Rib gone, the only bar set is The Brown Dog – which is actually a smaller reworked Rib.
Frank & team have remodeled many sets over the last 5 plus years. Next on the list should be the main Metro Court dining room and we’re almost due for some tweaks to the hospital hub.
I had hoped for a few live / open mic performances from a few cast members when Lucky starting working there.
I really liked Natalia’s character and I thought Eva did an excellent job portraying her, No redemption needed. She was the realest character on there. General Hospital is getting too heavy. No humor or lighthearted moments that I see
It’s interesting that not long ago, Elizabeth told someone that she couldn’t give them any medical information on someone, due to HIPPA, but she turns around & calls Lucas, about Natalia? She’s NOT related to Lucas. Unless Natalia or Marco had listed Lucas as a contact, Elizabeth just broke the law. I used to work in the medical field, & they take HIPPA SERIOUSLY. Of course, this is a soap, & things are not necessarily done, by the book. Natalia ‘s death is sad. She really felt alone, & in a way, she was. Unfortunately, Marco now has no chance to apologize to her or vice versa. Lucas was pushing Marco to make good w/Natalia, before it was too late. NOW, IT’S TOO LATE..
Let Marco go after ADA for trying to use her to get to Sonny. L I bes to see if he is as ruthless as his dad
He should go ruthless ON his dad. It would be easy for Marco to convince himself that if he did not have to stop to rescue Kristina from the fire started by his daddy’s goons, that he might have made it to the Metro Court in time to save his mama’s life.
Probably not, since I’m pretty sure she was dead the moment she passed out on the couch, but at least the case could be made to make old Sidwell feel guilty about it, in his son’s eyes.
Whatever you writer decide to do please,please don’t have Micheal depending on pills and for god sake don’t let Drew find out bouth the pills so sick of him he needs to go please hurry up and get ridge of him and willow
Whenever anything is mentioned presumably in passing, it becomes a plot point. It wouldn’t be realistic to believe Michael still doesn’t have residual effects from almost being burned to death. It would seem the deck is stacked against him, either from family history of addiction or Drew finding out about the pills and using it against Michael for his nefarious reasons.
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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