General Hospital: Nina’s Costly Error Frees Drew – Major Twist Ahead!

General Hospital just saw Nina Reeves (Cynthia Watros) make a real doozy of a mistake when she got distracted and didn’t give Drew Cain (Cameron Mathison) the injection that keeps him paralyzed and locked in. Unless she notices and circles back around to give him the shot, this could change everything.

So, we’re going to talk about how Nina getting distracted could give Drew the advantage he needs over Willow Corinthos (Katelyn MacMullen) to regain his freedom. Nina’s little oopsie could cost Willow everything.

Nina Gets Distracted While Babysitting Drew

All right. So, this week we saw Nina over at Willow and Drew’s place. She’s over there all the time. Because again, Willow asked Nina to babysit Drew while she takes care of some congressional work. And Willow told Nina about her deal with Jack Brennan (Chris McKenna) to get more funding for the WSB.

General Hospital: Willow Fills Nina in on her Evil Plan

Willow said that she was doing that in exchange for Jack getting her leverage to use against Drew so he can’t retaliate against her for the shooting or paralyzing him. And Willow told Nina that if Jack doesn’t do what she wants that she promised she would make sure to cut funding to the WSB. Now Nina thinks this is a bad idea and she’s playing with fire, but of course Willow doesn’t.

So, she’s got calls to make so that she can abuse her congressional power for her own benefit, you know, like Drew used to do. And Willow asks Nina to babysit Drew and move him into the bedroom to keep Kai Taylor (Jens Austin Astrup) away from Drew. And then Nina asked Willow, shouldn’t she just fire Kai.

Because he knows Willow shot Drew? This was not a great conversation to have in front of Willow’s locked-in hubby. Because Drew just got critical info he didn’t have before because now he knows that Kai knows the truth about Willow shooting him. So he’s the perfect person to try and communicate with.

Willow’s Watching Kai Like a Hawk

So Willow then told Nina that she wants to keep Kai close to keep an eye on him, a keep your enemies close thing. And Nina compared those tactics to mob boss Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard), which is kind of interesting. So Kai showed up to drop something off. He asked to see Drew, but Willow lied and said Drew was taking a nap. And then before Willow bailed on her mom, she told Nina, “Be sure to give Drew his next paralytic injection.”

So once they were alone, Nina got the shot ready and apologized to Drew for drugging him, but said, you know, she has to support Willow. That’s when things started going off the rails. Because Nina got distracted by a phone call and she put the syringe down and it was Valentin Cassadine (James Patrick Stuart) calling to say he had a job for her.

Nina’s Mistake Could Blow Up Willow’s Plan

Now, I’m sure this is something to do with trying to find out what happened to Josslyn Jacks (Eden McCoy), you know, so that Carly Spencer (Laura Wright) doesn’t go berserk with worry. Because they both suspect that Jack might have been involved. So, Nina made a huge mistake by not giving Drew his shot.

And since Valentin is likely going to urge Nina to do what he wants ASAP, I don’t think that she will remember to give Drew the shot, you know, we’ll see. But if she doesn’t, this mistake of Nina’s could blow up Willow’s plan, blow up her whole life, honestly, because missing his scheduled injection could help Drew function just enough to get a message to somebody.

So, while I doubt Nina forgetting the shot will be a miracle cure, it could be a game changer. I don’t expect Drew to just stand up and walk off if his shot is a couple of hours late, especially because he’s been drugged and locked in for several months. He shouldn’t be able to walk around or run off. But then again, Lulu Spencer (Alexa Havins Bruening) woke up from what a multi-year coma and then just jogged out the door. So, there’s that to keep in mind.

Drew Will Try to Communicate with Kai

But I’m guessing it’ll be Kai that Drew tries to communicate with, seeing as Nina was just telling Willow to fire him. And Drew just found out that Kai knows that Willow is a would-be killer. And plus, Drew really likes Kai. He knows the young man is a good person. They got to be friends when he interned for Drew on General Hospital.

And while Kai’s opinion of Drew plummeted once he found out how awful he is, Kai is still worried about Drew because Willow’s his caregiver and he knows she tried to kill her husband. Plus, knowing that Kai would do the right thing, you know, I think Drew can see right away he’s the perfect person to try to communicate with. Elizabeth would have been a good person to figure it out medically, you know, what Willow is doing to Drew, but Willow seems to have convinced Liz to back off.

How Drew Might Be Saved by Kai on General Hospital

So, let’s talk about some ways that Drew might end up being saved by Kai very soon. First, if Drew can regain the ability to speak because it seems like that, you know, speaking would come first and maybe bodily movement later. Even if he could just whisper a few words to Kai, he might be able to alert him to what’s going on. You know, Drew could whisper, “Help me. Willow’s drugging me.”

I think that would be enough to let Kai know that Willow is again doing a very bad thing to her husband. You know, Drew might whisper, “Call 911.” And you know, Kai could call an ambulance. And since he knows Willow’s schedule, he might be able to get an ambulance or the cops there when Willow isn’t there because he knows her schedule since he works for her.

General Hospital: New Charges for Willow?

While Willow cannot, as we’ve talked about before, be arrested or charged for shooting Drew because that would be double jeopardy because she already had a trial for it. She could absolutely be charged with drugging Drew, with spousal abuse, I’m sure other charges, and that could definitely land Willow in prison and make sure she loses her kids.

Another option is that Kai might think enough is enough. And when he finds out what Willow is doing to Drew, he may just go to the cops himself and tell top cop Dante Falconeri (Dominic Zamprogna) that he knows that Willow shot Drew. You know, Kai can go ahead and confess. Okay, look, I didn’t come clean before. But I was at Drew’s that night. I think he would leave, you know, his girlfriend out of it. Leave Trina Robinson (Tabyana Ali) out. And Kai could say that he heard Willow’s ringtone for Wiley when the shooter was in the house. And then Kai can also tell the cops about the drugs that Willow’s using on Drew now.

Kai Steps Up for Drew

And Kai might be willing to face whatever consequences there is for not coming forward before. I mean, they could charge him with obstruction of justice, but likely Kai wouldn’t face any charges at all because he’d be coming forward to save Drew from ongoing spousal abuse at the hands of his awful wife, Willow. I also think there’s a chance Drew could whisper to Kai that Willow drugged him and may tell Kai, “Go tell Elizabeth.” You know, since she already realized he was trying to tell her something. So, he might try a multi-pronged approach.

This Is Drew’s Big Chance to Get Help

However it goes down, this I think is Drew’s big chance to get help and get out of this locked in situation. And Kai seems like his best option. Of course, Drew also knows that Sidwell’s coming to kill him. He’s not planning on letting him come out of this locked in state. So, there’s a deeper urgency there. And Willow, of course, doesn’t know any of that. So, I think if Nina is the reason that Drew gets out of this, Willow might be enraged. You know, she may never forgive Nina, even though it’s an honest mistake.

With May sweeps ending May 20th, next week is the last full week of sweeps. I’ve been expecting Willow to be busted and diabolical Drew saved from her during sweeps. So, things are moving along right as I expected. And the thing is, what’s funny with this plot is most fans hate Willow. A lot of fans don’t like Drew any better. So, it’s almost hard to decide who to cheer for in this scenario. All I know is Cameron Mathison has done a great job of acting using nothing but his eyeballs. Not sure if the eyeball stuff would be good for an Emmy reel, but it is impressive work.