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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Sam’s Cause of Death Revealed; Lulu Tries to Escape Turning Woods as Cyrus is Looming
The loved one of Sam McCall’s (Kelly Monaco) have returned home from her funeral, and are wracked with guilt over her death during the Thursday, November 20th episode of General Hospital.
Dante (Dominic Zamprogna) believes Sam would still be alive if she hadn’t donated her liver to Lulu (Alexa Havins), because that’s what she thought would make him and his son, Rocco (Finn Carr) happy. Lucas (Van Hansis) couldn’t even bring himself to attend his sister’s funeral after being the doctor who operated on Sam and she later died. He is more tortured over it after Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) blamed the death of his mother on Lucas shortly before the service started and Lucas walked out.
Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn) is searching for Sam’s last will and testament as Molly (Kristen Vaganos) watches her demeanor, and they discuss Ava’s (Maura West) court case which begins tomorrow. When Alexis finds the folder containi it says that Sam wanted Drew (Cameron Mathison) to raise both Danny and Scout together. Both Molly and Alexis are perplexed at what to do now.
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Danny and Jason are spending time at Sam’s grave, which is beside baby Lila’s gravesite. The scenes between Asher Antonyzyn and Steve Burton have been some of the most emotionally-affecting and touching of this whole story. Later, Danny admits to his dad, that he yelled at Lucas and blamed him for Sam’s death, while Danny also asks Jason what happened between him and his uncle Drew since both men have been punched in the face. Danny is upset that Jason could have been arrested.
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At Turning Woods, Lulu figures out she had some kind of surgery and sees her transplant surgery scar under bandages. Next, she overhears Cyrus (Jeff Kober) talking to the Turning Woods director outside her room, and about the great care she’s getting. Lulu has a flashback ( an all-new one with Havins in the role) in a previous run-in with Cyrus at GH; before the bomb explosion that ultimately led to her coma. Lulu continues to listen as Cyrus claims to the director that his sister, Laura (Genie Francis) asked him to represent the family at Lulu’s bedside. He says he will be the person to tell the family that Lulu has made some improvements.
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Now, Lulu wants to get out of dodge and tries to walk for the first time in four years and drags herself out of the bed, but lands on the floor. Then, she pulls herself back up with a very ‘Lulu’-esque expression. But, of course! she is Luke and Laura’s daughter.
Portia (Brook Kerr) calls Lucas to the hospital to go over Sam’s autopsy report. She is pleased to tell him no surgical error that he or anyone else did let to Sam’s heart attack. Lucas asks what caused the heart attack and Portia hands him over the toxicology report. Next, Portia asks Liz (Rebecca Herbst) to come to her office as Lucas calls Lucky (Jonathan Jackson) and tells him to get to GH because Liz is going to need him.
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At the end of the episode, we learn that Sam received an overdose of Digitalis. Liz says that’s impossible it wasn’t prescribed. Unfortunately, Portia says they need to conduct a full investigation to find out exactly what happened. She suggests Liz call her union rep.
So, why would it be, that if proven true, that Cyrus Renault would want to kill Sam? It would seem his target is Lulu. After all, four years ago, Cyrus forced Julian Jerome (William deVry) into rigging a bomb meant to kill Jason. However, the plan failed and the bomb went off and caught Lulu in the blast, but the bomb killed Dev and Dustin. He obviously wants to silence Lulu.
Now weigh-in: what do you think about how Sam McCall died? Are you glad that Lulu has finally woken up? Were you touched by the Danny and Jason scenes today or someone else’s? Share your thoughts in the comment section. But first, check out what went down after Lulu woke up after four years and Cyrus was hovering.
The scene re-creation was a genuine surprise, and it was nice to see Alexa Havins Bruening already putting her stamp on the role of Lulu.
Agreed, Scott—It took a while, but I like Cyrus now—too bad.if he is the killer, it proves that redemption is unachievable by the unredeemable .LOL.
I’m sure that Cyrus’s holy roller act is fake and that he’s the killer.
Wow. After dragging the Lulu wakes up story for months – she finally wakes up and sees Cyrus?
Why did Laura not foresee the trauma of her daughter possibly waking up to Cyrus and make sure he was banned?
How long is the show intending to drag out a missing Lulu? This was supposed to be our one tiny piece of joy in months and the show wants to make sure we all suffer for it endlessly.
Like I said previously – I no longer trust the story telling on GH. They will do anything for a twist or bomb to shock us no matter what the fallout.
We could take all the drama when we had a happy couple or two to root for – but the show ripped that away from us. So now the piling drama on top of tragic circumstances just doesn’t hit right.
Next up – GH is taking Danny away from Jason and giving it to creepy Drew the guy who sleeps with his young niece in law the day Sam died.
As I stated on the other site, it’s very possible that Cyrus is somehow responsible for Sam’s death—-He wanted his niece, once awakened, to get back with Dante. With Sam out of the way, the path would be cleared.
So Cyrus wanted Lulu and Sam both dead, is that what we’re supposed to understand?
The Lulu thing I can kind of understand, because he doesn’t want her remembering that he was responsible for the bomb at the Floating Rib. But he never had anything to do with Sam, and the narrative about him wanting to get rid of Sam so Dante and Lulu can be together doesn’t square with the fact that he also apparently wanted Lulu dead.
They should have just left it that Sam died of a blood clot, which is believable, because it actually can happen to someone after surgery. Instead this convoluted, nonsensical plot involving Cyrus apparently wandering in and out of patient’s rooms, messing with ventilators, slipping Digitalis to Sam, and not one person saw him, is just typical for the writing on GH these days.
Lulu woke up and became aware enough to get out of bed from a 4 year coma faster than I get out of bed on a Monday morning, lol. And where is her mother? Genie Francis has been MIA. Laura wasn’t at Sam’s funeral, she wasn’t at Turning Woods with her daughter. They’re writing characters that we know and love to be the worst parents in the world to facilitate their ridiculous storylines.
How do we know that Lulu knew/knows that her uncle was responsible for that bombing? Does Laura know? If so, why does she have anything to do with him?
I am thinking that it is more the investigative reporting she was doing at the time of her coma. Cyrus does not want anything to stand in the way of his Laura happy family scenario.
Sam – collateral damage – to make it look like the hospital is bad news.
Why is Laura MIA now that her lousy killer brother is probably the one that killed Sam and is now”stalking” LuLu? We know she won’t die, after coming this far with the story,but why can’t something be good once in awhile, instead of giving that damn Cyrus so much screen time, I’m so sick of him, can’t wait until someone takes him down, and we’re rid of him for good.
That would be a Festivus miracle!
I couldn’t have said it better. There’s nothing about Cyrus I like. Some villains have humor or some characteristic that makes you want them to stay on the show even if they’re awful. Not him. He’s full blown creepy and irredeemable.
It just doesn’t make sense why Cyrus would kill Sam?? This is really strange ans senseless?
Well, you could write it in a twisted way that would sound logical to Cyrus, if not anybody else. Remember that the bombing at the Floating Rib was supposed to be Cyrus’s attempt to kill Jason, who as it turns out, wasn’t even there when the bomb went off.
So in Cyrus’s mind, Julian screwed up by somehow setting the bomb wrong or whatever. Jason was unharmed, but Lulu ended up spending 4 years in veggieland. Cyrus didn’t know she was his niece at the time (or did he? ) but he eventually developed at least a shred of a guilty conscience about that. Which caused him to take out vengeance on somebody. Can’t be Juilan, as he’s dead. And Jason was believed to be dead for a while. But when he came back, maybe that stirred up Cyrus’s anger again. Even though the one he should be angry with is himself.
So how do you hurt both Jason and Julian? By targeting the one person they had in common: Sam.
Does any of this make sense? Sure… if you think like a psychopath, which is what Cyrus is.
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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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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