General Hospital: Willow Faces Reckoning – Who Brings Her Down?

General Hospital suggests that the walls are closing in on Willow Tait (Katelyn MacMullen) as her enemies continue to get evidence on her and the upper hand. And her downfall should be coming quickly.

General Hospital Fans Need Willow Brought to Justice

Fans have been really eager to see Willow finally pay consequences for all her crimes and awful deeds. We’re going to talk about who’s the one to finally take Willow down and make her pay for all the bad things she’s done. And of course, the big question is, will Willow go to Pentonville? Will she go to Shady Brook? Or will she run off?

Last week, we saw Michael Corinthos (Rory Gibson) getting the upper hand with Willow because he has those affidavits from Kai Taylor (Jens Austin Astrup) and Trina Robinson (Tabyana Ali) saying that Willow is the one who shot Drew Cain (Cameron Mathison) twice in the back and tried to kill him.

Of course, they didn’t see Willow shoot him. But they heard her ringtone after the shooting and there’s phone records to corroborate. So now, Michael has forced Willow to move into the gate house on the Q grounds so he can keep her close and keep an eye on her.

Willow Scheming against Michael on GH

And Willow is now trying to get blackmail on Michael instead of just trying to find a more amicable way forward. But that’s what she does. Willow lashes out and escalates every time. And then this week we had Alexis Davis (Nancy Lee Grahn) confronting Willow. Alexis told Willow that she knows she tried to kill Drew.

And Alexis agreed to stay quiet for now. But she said if Willow comes after Kai and Trina, then Alexis will destroy Willow and make sure she loses her kids and her seat in Congress. So, the threats are starting to pile up against Willow and she’s panicking and it does seem like her downfall is fast approaching.

General Hospital: Who Defeats Willow?

But of all the people with grudges against her and evidence against her, the question is which one in the end is going to take down Willow? So, I think the person who most wants to see Willow go down is Drew Cain. He’s going after Jack Brennan (Chris McKenna) to try and get the evidence that he has against Drew because as long as Jack has that blackmail leverage, Drew can’t go after Willow and Nina Reeves (Cynthia Watros).

Drew Comes after Willow on GH?

But that may change soon because this week, Drew convinced Ava Jerome (Maura West) to keep Brennan busy while he searches his hotel room for the incriminating evidence that could send Drew to prison. So, it looks like Ava might wind up drugging Jack to make that happen. We know that if Drew gets that evidence away from Jack, then Willow is in serious trouble.

Obviously, Drew wants payback on Willow, not only for trying to kill him. But for keeping him a prisoner in his own body for so many months. Drew suffered in silence while locked in. And he also had Sidwell threatening him. Plus, he missed out on all of that time with his daughter, Scout Cain (Kayden Brenna Tokarski).

So, if Drew is able to get this evidence away from Brennan, I think he’ll absolutely destroy Willow. I suspect that he would want to see her in Pentonville and that Drew might press criminal charges on Willow. But Drew is not exactly a sympathetic victim, and still he could probably get Willow sent to prison because of what she did.

Alexis Fed Up with Willow on General Hospital

Another person who’s poised to take her down is Alexis Davis. She just told Willow she wouldn’t turn her in for shooting Drew. Not yet. But if Willow does anything about Trina and Kai or goes after them, Alexis said she go straight to the PCPD and give them the evidence against Willow.

However, doing that might get Alexis’s law license revoked again, which Willow was quick to taunt her about. But I think Alexis is willing to risk it. Willow could face perjury charges. That’s small beans, though. But she could also face false imprisonment and assault charges for drugging Drew and keeping him locked in.

Alexis is threatening to take aim at her children and her seat in Congress. But unfortunately she gave Willow a heads up and with that she might do something crazy to Alexis that gets her in trouble with the law. Another person who might destroy Willow is Michael.

If he finds out Willow is pressuring Jack to get leverage against him, Michael may lose patience and he may just turn around and take those affidavits to the PCPD to get Willow exposed for shooting Drew.

Michael right now is being pretty reasonable given that he knows Willow tried to kill her husband. You would think that she’d be grateful that Michael didn’t already take that evidence to the PCPD. But Willow’s not. Instead, she wants to take Michael down.

So, you know, he may have enough of Willow and decide she’s too unhinged to be around their kids. I think Michael may wind up having her sent away to protect their children.

General Hospital: Tracy Despises Willow

There’s also Tracy Quartermaine (Jane Elliot). She would love to take Willow down. Because Tracy hates her and the tensions at an all-time high now that Willow’s living on the estate again because of Michael. Bottom line, Willow’s hanging around Harrison Chase (Josh Swickard) and Tracy is very protective of Brook Lynn Quartermaine (Amanda Setton)’s marriage.

So, I could see Tracy triggered by Willow’s close proximity to Chase if she won’t stay away. And if Tracy finds out what kind of evidence to use against Willow, I think Tracy would not hesitate to use it. I don’t think she’d blackmail Willow. I think Tracy would just turn her into the cops in a heartbeat.

Brennan Does the Honors on GH

One last person to consider is Brennan. Because he’s going to lose it when he finds out that Willow recorded him admitting that he used WSB resources to get rid of that footage of her. And if you remember, she was on Drew Street the night she tried to kill her hubby. That’s the surveillance footage that he used his WSB resources to get rid of.

And I expect Brennan is going to go after Willow hard. We also know Brennan is dying this fall. So, it might even be Willow that ends up killing him, whether it’s intentional or accidental. Nina might be involved with that, too. Bottom line is too many people know Willow is a bad seed and she’s lashing out and taking risks that are increasingly larger. Alexis wasn’t off the mark when she called Willow a monster.

But I also think there’s something deeply wrong with Willow, like psychologically. Because she grew up without her dad most of her life. She was raised in a cult. Her mom, Harmony Miller (Inga Cadranel), handed her to Shiloh Archer (Coby Ryan McLaughlin) to rape from the time she was a teenager.

General Hospital: Willow Breaks Down?

So, I suspect when the ugly truth comes out that Willow will lose her grip on reality, between Shiloh controlling her, Harmony betraying her, and Drew gaslighting her, I think Willow is finally going to snap and have a complete and total nervous breakdown like something we’ve never seen with her before.

So, for all those reasons, because of her messed up history, I kind of don’t think she’ll do time in Pentonville. Although a lot of fans would like to see her behind bars, I tend to think whoever outs her, Drew or Tracy, you know, or maybe Willow gets herself caught red-handed doing another bad thing. I do suspect she may wind up in Shady Brook instead of prison.

And I mention this because we had a recent leak from our inside source who says Katelyn McMullen wants to take a break, a nice long one like Steve Burton and Finola Hughes did. So, General Hospital might send Willow away temporarily so that they can accommodate Katelyn McMullen’s request.

In the end though, I suspect Willow Tate will pay some consequences. But I don’t think it’s going to be life in prison like so many fans think that she deserves. There’s also some talk about Katelyn McMullen’s contract renewal and whether Willow’s absence is factored into that.

Because she’s up for renewal in October. So, they’re probably already negotiating. And I’ve also heard that if Katelyn doesn’t renew, Frank Valentini is open to recasting the role. So, Willow is here to stay either way.