On General Hospital, Josslyn Jacks came to deliver her former stepfather Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) a message; she won’t back down on her vendetta against him no matter how dirty he plays. This was the impetus of a week of scenes that featured Daytime Emmy winner, Eden McCoy.

On the November 9 episode, Josslyn comes to see Sonny loaded for bear; confronting him for the bug he planted on Hudson (Troy Lennon Appel) and for trying to bride her VP of JJE.  This entire conversation is overheard by the new Avery (Ayla Bullington).

As Josslyn and Sonny go at it over ownership of the piers, Sonny tells Josslyn under his control he was able to keep the people of Port Charles safe, and under Josslyn (who currently owns the piers under JJE), she won’t be able to do that.

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JOSSLYN GIVES SONNY AN EARFUL

It’s at the point Josslyn with years of rage, trauma and disappointment, and with tears in her eyes, screams at Sonny. She firmly tells him that he can’t hurt her, because that would hurt her mother, Carly (Laura Wright). And, he can’t kidnap anyone she loves, as they are the same people he loves.

Josslyn breaks down telling Sonny sees him for who he really is, and she doesn’t need favors from a man who has been involved for 35 years in organized crime and the spilling of blood!

An hysterical Avery, who overheard Josslyn tear down her father, comes into the living room, and tell Josslyn to shut up and stop lying about her dad! Sonny tells Josslyn how she offended him coming over to his house and saying these things in front of his daughter.

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JOSSLYN TELLS AVERY ONE DAY SHE WILL LEARN ABOUT HER SONNY’S LIES

Before she leaves with tears in her eyes, Josslyn goes over to Avery and tells her that she’s sorry, but someday someone will tell her the same thing about her dad, and then she’ll know it’s not lies that she overheard.

Josslyn goes so far to say she used to defend Sonny all the time, but what he tells her about who he is and what he does is all a lie. Sonny kicks Josslyn out and she leaves in tears. The scenes were played to perfection by McCoy: the angst, the history and her complicated feelings for Sonny on full display.

Later in the week, Josslyn meets with Hudson on the pier. She explains how guilty she feels for breaking Avery’s illusions about Sonny. She admits her anger over took her, and everything she felt just spilled out of her about Sonny and his past. She realizes she broke her sister’s heart.

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JUDE GETS A SURPRISE VISITOR WHEN JOSSLYN WANTS HIM OUT OF PORT CHARLES

McCoy’s big scenes for the week weren’t over yet; when Josslyn surprises Cousin Jude Jax (Wil Traval) in his room at the Metro Court. She claims she knows why he’s really in Port Charles. She tells him she is not working for the WSB anymore since she runs JJE, the same company Jax fired Jude from for bribes to get around laws in Australia. She calls out Jude for being reckless like her dad!

Josslyn believes he wants to steal his “daughter” Phoebe’s inheritance. So, he offers to pay him to drop his agenda and leave town. Jude tells Josslyn she’s in no position to tell him how much he loves his daughter or what he’d do for her. Josslyn refuses to allow Jude to destroy her father’s legacy, and he already blew a legitimate chance to be a part of Jacks family. It’s at that point Josslyn storms out.

Whether you like or hate the motivations of the character of Josslyn Jacks, this past week, Eden McCoy delivered an emotional journey of angst, hurt, seeking justice, and an unwavering backbone to stand up to what she believes. But as Ms. Jacks may find out, some of what she thinks or perceives is going on, may not be the actual truth.

For all the reasons noted above Michael Fairman TV names General Hospital’s Eden McCoy the standout of our Power Performance of the Week honors.

Let us know, do you agree with our pick of Eden McCoy? What do you think about Josslyn’s feeling towards Sonny, Jude et al? Let us know your thoughts via the comment section. In case you missed some of this week’s standout performance, you can check out these scenes below!

On the Friday, November 13 episode of General Hospital, Drew (Cameron Mathison) convinces Ava (Maura West) they need to get married, to each other! Brook Lynn (Amanda Setton) hopes to get the DNA results on Jude (Will Traval) she has waited for, and Elizabeth (Rebecca Herbst) and Dante (Dominic Zamprogna) secretly co-conspire to find out who in Port Charles had the infamous tick!

Here’s what went down: Drew explained to Ava that they needed to get hitched ASAP, that way, they couldn’t be forced to testify against each other in the Jack Brennan case. After initially being kind of sick of the thought of marrying Drew, he made her change her mind, by throwing out the fact that if she lands in jail Sonny (Maurice Benard) will have Avery (Ayla Bullington) all to himself.

Next, Ava heads to GH to ask Lucas (Van Hansis) to be her witness in marrying Drew. Lucas has already figured out the reason Ava is marrying Drew because it has something to do with Brennan’s death. Explaining she hates the idea of getting married to Drew, she has run out of other options. Lucas agrees to help her, but firmly tells Ava nobody would believe it was a real marriage anyway.

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CAN MOLLY AND JOE STOP THE WEDDING?

At the same time, Drew asked Martin (Michael E. Knight) for a post-nuptial agreement. Martin was not happy to hear that Drew was going to marry Ava, warning that prison was a better option than tying himself to a woman like Ave Jerome.

Eventually Ava, Lucas, Drew, and Martin gathered at the city clerk’s office. Lucas comes up with a way to derail or stall the nuptials by saying that they need to wait for Scout (Kayden Brenna Tokarski) and Avery to show up, as they should be a part of this, too.

Lucas may have saved the day, because Molly (Kristen Vaganos) and Joe (Jonathan Bennett) went to Drew’s office to serve him his warrant, but found the office door open. Next, Joe found a sticky note on Drew’s folder that revealed Drew had obtained a marriage license. A light bulb goes off in his head and he realized Ava and Drew are getting married, so he and Molly rush off to City Hall to try and stop it.

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IS JUDE THE TRUE BABY DADDY?

Elsewhere, after receiving a text message that the DNA results are in at the hospital, Brook Lynn ends her discussion over Jude and baby Phoebe with Gio (Giovanni Mazza) and runs out of the Quartermaines.

Once Brook Lynn gets off the elevator at GH, she sees Jude and Britt  Kelly Thiebaud) looking might close. She quickly heads back towards the elevator sight unseen and was clearly shaken by what she saw. Earlier at the doctors and nurses hub, Elizabeth helped Dante by confirming by an ear gesture they had worked out; that the patient with the tick was Ava Jerome.

You can check out the scenes where Lucas gets a visit from Ava and he learns she wants him to be her witness in marrying Drew at City Hall.

Now weigh-in: do you think Ava and Drew will tie the knot before Joe and Molly make it to City Hall? What do you think the DNA results will show once Brook Lynn gets her hands on them? Have they been tampered with? Let us know your thoughts via the comment section.

On the Thursday, November 12 episode of General Hospital, as battles line are drawn by Carly’s (Laura Wright) ex-husband, Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) and her daughter, Josslyn Jacks (Eden McCoy), she realizes things are about to get a whole lot worse, and she expressed her fears to Valentin Cassadine (James Patrick Stuart).

After Sonny came to see Carly to get her daughter to back off of him; especially when Josslyn lit into him in front of nuAvery (Ayla Bullington), Carly is terrified that Sonny could retaliate against Josslyn. Realizing, Josslyn is in danger, Carly won’t sit by and let anything happen to her. She tells Valentin, “I’ve already lost one kid because of that man. I won’t lose another.”

Viewers won’t soon forget the devastation Carly felt when Morgan (Bryan Craig) died in a car bomb explosion back in 2016 because of Sonny’s dealings in the mob in a complex story involving Julian (William deVry) and Olivia Jerome (Tonja Walker).

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SONNY IS READY FOR WAR

Meanwhile in the aftermath of his visit with Carly, Sonny told his brother Ric what went down when Josslyn disrespected him in front of his own daughter and hurt Avery. Since Josslyn already make it known that she no longer considers herself part of Sonny’s family, he’s decided to treat her accordingly.

Sonnys first step in payback is to take away her support system at JJE by approaching Hudson Parker (Troy Lennon Appel) again, but this time in a much less-friendly way.

Ric points out that this would go against every move Sonny made as a legitimate businessman in Port Charles and would mean he’s back in the mob? Sonny doubles down, saying Josslyn changed the game when she involved Avery. While he showed concern of how bad Carly would feel over all this year, he said he is ready to finish what Josslyn started.

At the Metro Court, Ava (Maura West) is listening to Avery explain what happened between Sonny and Josslyn and how much she hates Josslyn right now, which Ava seems to be OK with.

WILL JOSSLYN’S WORLD BLOW UP ON HER?

Speaking of Josslyn, she is on the pier still after her talk with Hudson and still crying over her confrontation with Sonny and Avery overhearing it, and what she told her sister. Lucas comes across her at the pier while out for his run.

Explaining how badly she feels for what she said about Sonny to Avery, Lucas says that eventually Avery will discover the truth about Sonny. He explains to Josslyn that even though Avery hates her now, she will come to realize that what she said about her father was the truth, and that Josslyn was not lying to her at all.

So, what do you think about Sonny ready to play dirty to take down Josslyn? How will Carly ensure her daughter does not wind up dead? Who do you think is in the right here? Is Josslyn’s vendetta against Sonny justified, at the cost of the relationships with her family? Let us know your thoughts in the comment section.