The Monday, August 31 episode of General Hospital brought with it plenty of espionage, close encounters, and ended with a horrifying discovery in the Metro Court Hotel pool by none other than Charlotte Cassadine (Bluesy Burke)!

Here’s what went down in the main arc of the key stories; culminating in what appears to be a body of a man in a suit floating in the water. In the pick-up from the last Friday’s cliffhanger, Ava (Maura West) is able to sway Jack (Chris McKenna) to sit and talk with her so she could give him some insight into Nina’s (Cynthia Watros) history with her daughter, Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) and Nina’s complicated past. Jack succumbs to Ava’s charms and lies, and starts to down the drink she spiked with the sleeping pill given to her from Drew (Cameron Mathison).

Eventually, Jack divulges to Ava he feels overheated and decides it’s best he heads back to his room. However, Jack only makes it to the elevator where he is stumbling around pushing the wrong hotel floor buttons. Meanwhile, Ava is panicked. She texts Drew to hurry up and alert him that Jack is on his way back to his room.

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THE MASTER KEY

In Carly’s (Laura Wright) office, she receives a call from the front desk about a package that has arrived for Drew Cain.  Carly tells Valentin (James Patrick Stuart), with whom she began to make out with, that she wants to find some evidence on Drew to hold against him. The two decide to use the hotel master key to look around Drew’s office at Aurora Media.

At the same time, Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) and Charlotte decided to snoop around Drew’s office, so he could have some kind of leverage over Drew to enable him to see his sister, Scout (Kayden Brenna Tokarski). Danny swiped the master key he stole from housekeeping, but he and Charlotte were interrupted by Carly and Valentin showing up and having the same idea as them.

Inside Drew’s office, Valentin finds a business outline and plan of Drew’s to enter back into the corporate world and to take down Sonny. Then, Carly says they should take the file themselves and use it to bring down Drew.

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PHYSICAL SPACE

Meanwhile, a shirtless Chase (Josh Swickard) and Willow encounter a very physical and intense moment between them when the exes lock eyes at the boathouse. Chase pulls back and Willow apologizes for leaning on Chase so much.

Chase reaffirms out loud that his wife, Brook Lynn (Amanda Setton) and their adopted child, Phoebe means everything to him, but he could still be there for Willow, but as his friend, especially give their past.

Next, Rocco (Finn Carr) and Scout show up from behind the bushes having overheard the entire conversation between Willow and Chase. At that point, Scout doubts Willow ever loved her father, Drew Cain, and feels she betrayed her.

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CONFLICTED ABOUT HIS EX

Chase meets up with Dante (Dominic Zamprogna) at the Hotel Gardens and opened up about his feelings about Willow with who he believes is still in love with him. Dante advises Chase not to get involved in Willow’s issues with Michael, their kids and Drew. Will Chase heed the warning?

Next, Britt (Kelly Thiebaud) and Willow ran into each other and knocked back drinka at the Metro Court Hotel bar. Britt and Willow discuss Chase and how Willow knows that she blew it with Chase when she cheated on him with Michael (Rory Gibson).

Elsewhere, in Carly’s office, Drew knocks out the hotel’s security system with a computer virus. Later as he searches Jack’s room, Ava runs in and tells Drew they need to get out of the room before Jack finds them there.

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DEAD IN THE WATER?

At the end of the episode, Charlotte and Danny wind up to the Metro Court pool, which is now closed for the season. Scout suggests that she and Danny take one last swim, so when they “borrowed” Chase’s truck, it wasn’t all for naught.

However, once in the pool and into the deep end, Charlotte lets out a blood curdling scream (the scream heard in this week’s latest GH promo). Suddenly she sees what looks to be a man’s body floating in the water who looks to be clothed just like Jack.

So, is it Jack who is dead in the water? Is this a red herring? The timing of Willow showing up at the Metro Court Hotel bar is suspect, given that she suddenly appeared and had drinks with Britt. Did she push Jack who was already drugged into the pool, and then join Britt to cover her tracks?

What do you think of Chase’s behavior? Is he falling for Willow again, and cant seem to help himself? Let us know your thoughts via the comment section, but first check out the scenes leading up to the ending with Ava distracting Jack and getting him to sip on the spiked drink below.

The Friday, August 28 episode of General Hospital confirmed viewers suspicious from the ABC weekly promo that dropped earlier in the week. Ava Jerome (Maura West) is definitely the woman who is spiking the drink of Jack Brennan (Chris McKenna).

How did it all go down? Let’s recap. Ava met up with Drew (Cameron Mathison) at the Metro Court poolside, and he filled her in on his plan to use the thumb drive given to him by Martin Grey (Michael E. Knight) to interfere with the Metro Court Hotel’s security system by way of Carly’s (Laura Wright) office computer.

Next, Drew hands over an envelope with a sleeping pill in it with the demand the Ava somehow slyly slip into Brennan’s drink. Ava is not liking the idea of drugging the WSB Port Charles Bureau Chief.

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KEEPING BRENNAN OCCUPIED

Drew wants insurance that he has enough time to get into Brennan’s room unnoticed, and get the evidence that proved he embezzled money from the McConkey Esplanade project to fund his Congressional campaign away from Jack. He feels the sleeping pill will buy him the time he needs.

Ava accuses Drew of setting her up to take the fall, and she is now having second thoughts about them working together especially after her friend, Nina (Cynthia Watros) warned her about Drew, yet again.

Drew has a comeback for Ava. That is that Sonny (Maurice Benard) has a powerful ally in Mayor Laura Collins (Genie Francis), and he thought that he and Ava were each other’s best shot to team-up and take Sonny down for both their mutual gains. After all, Drew is targeting Sonny as the lynchpin for all his revenge, and Ava is sick of how Sonny dictates when she will see and raise their daughter, Avery.

DRINK UP!

Reluctantly, Ava took the pill from Drew to use on Brennan, only if she absolutely finds it a necessity to do so. As she is on her way to meet Brennan, she flashes back to Sonny calling her a “cancer who should be cut out of Avery’s life.” So, what does Ava do? For insurance, she crushes up the sleeping pill!

Next, Ava sits at a table at the Metro Court poolside with Brennan, and he seems to be knocking back a few drinks upset over his run-in earlier with Valentin (James Patrick Stuart) and Carly. He suddenly gets a phone call that has to take in private and gets up from the table. That moments enables Ava to slip the crushed up sleeping pill into Brennan’s drink and stir it around. We fade to black.

Take a look at the scene where Drew slips Ava a drug to help tide over Brennan while he tries to retrieve the evidence Brennan is using to blackmail him below.

Now weigh-in: were you disappointed to see Ava back to her old devious ways? Do you think Drew will be successful getting back the evidence? Is this the beginning of the end of Jack Brennan since it as has been reported Chris McKenna is exiting the soap? Share your thoughts and theories via the comment section.

One of the hot button topics in soap opera’s this week has been that The Young and the Restless; Kyle Abbott (Michael Mealor) and Victoria Newman (Amelia Heinle) took their relationship to a whole other level, after drinking some whiskey … but, of course!

On the Thursday, August 27 episode, as the Kyle and Victoria were in the Jabot offices, teasing each other with the plan to relaunch Vibrante by manufacturing a conflict with Jabot, the two got hot and bothered. Complete with lines of dialog such as Victoria saying, “Kyle, I am so going to love knocking this swagger out of you,” and Kyle whispering to her, “It’s going to make winning that much sweeter.”

Suddenly, Kyle leans in for a passionately charged kiss and we are off to the races as Kyle locks the office door and clothes begin to go flying. In the pick-up later in the episode, Kyle and Victoria are laying on the Jabot office couch covered in rugs err blankets.

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FROM WHISKEY TO THE COUCH

In that moment, the two are a bit mortified from their actions and that they let their attraction get this far. After all, she is a Newman and he is an Abbott, and the two waring families don’t mix, plus there is an element of the older woman/younger man drama going on too. But, it appears that this seeming forbidden love, try as the two might, is not going to be a one time thing as much as they protest.

Victoria tells Kyle in the aftermath, “We definitely had too much celebratory whiskey,” and Kyle agreed, and added  that they were just so “excited” about their new project and venture together.

Kyle asks if this is a one-time thing. Victoria responds, “definitely.” However, Kyle acknowledges the truth of it saying, “It was pretty great, though.” After they get dressed and prepare to leave the office, Kyle turned back for one more kiss. Victoria swore him to secrecy, as he pronounced that no one will ever know what happened between them.In the end, and as the episode comes to its conclusion, it’s clear, Kyle and Victoria are thinking of each other.

WHAT’S AHEAD NOW FOR KYLE AND VICTORIA?

Speaking with Soap Opera Digest on the romantic story turn between the two characters, Michael Mealor previewed what’s to come, expressing, “What we’ve been doing over the last month or so or however long, it only gets better and it gets more intriguing. And it’s really gonna have the viewers really pick sides.”

However, where the story ultimately goes depends on newly-planted Y&R co-head writers Jamey Giddens and Dan O’Connor, whose stories will not be seen on-air until October. Until then, this was the story laid out by exited head scribe, Josh Griffith.

So, what did you think of Kyle and Victoria having sex? Are you on Team Yay, Yuck or Don’t Care? Let us know where you stand as of now via the comment section below.