General Hospital Drew Shooting: Fans Are Convinced This Person Pulled the Trigger
After many weeks — months, even — of building up motive for almost everyone in Port Charles to have a reason to want Congressman Drew Cain (Cameron Mathison) shot, General Hospital delivered when a mystery assassin shot him in the back. Twice. At close range. So which GH character was pushed past the brink to commit such a heinous act?
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Soap Opera Digest polled fans to ask which character could have done the deed. There were 12 characters to choose from (along with a final option of “someone else”), but there weren’t enough votes for Alexis, Carly, Curtis, Martin, Michael, Portia, Sonny, Stella or Tracy to register much more than a single percentage point on their own, but added together, they accounted for 10% of the total vote. Considering Alexis’s lethal past and the ample motive she had — Drew was keeping her granddaughter Scout away via a restraining order — it appears fans believed her when she said she was tending to her ex-husband Ric, who is still being kept restrained in her basement. Curtis and Portia also had very strong motives to want to do away with the man who was blackmailing them — and Curtis certainly knows his way around a gun. Alas, fans don’t think they had anything to do with the crime.
Mama Bear Outrage
Interestingly, 5% of those responding to the poll could see Nina being angry enough to plug her ex-lover in the back for what he did to her darling daughter Willow. Nina blames Drew for seducing the nurse away from her loving husband, coming between them and betraying her when he wanted to win Willow back. Nina proved she was willing to do whatever it takes to stop Drew when she worked with Portia to hire sex worker Jacinda to drug him with Ketamine to ruin his reputation. Unfortunately, even that didn’t make Willow turn her back on him. Nina watched helplessly as he lured her daughter back with more promises that he’d help her regain custody of her kids. Or was Nina not as helpless as it seemed?
Outliving His Usefulness
Few would dispute that Jenz Sidwell is a man willing to do whatever it takes to come out on top. Kill a judge? Probably. Blow up an entire enterprise to cover his tracks? Sure. That’s why almost 27% of those who responded accused Sidwell of doing Port Charles the ultimate favor by shooting the loose cannon who used to be his ally. Drew proved he didn’t have the big picture — or rather Jenz’s big picture — foremost in his mind and instead was all about winning Willow back her kids. Sidwell didn’t care about the custody of those kids except in the way it gave him a bargaining chip against his true rival, Sonny. He saw that Drew had taken his eye off the true prize and he couldn’t afford that. So was it really Sidwell?
Building a Mystery
Despite having 12 characters to choose from, a solid 27% voted for “Someone Else” in the poll. Jason wasn’t included because he seemed to be somewhere in Europe — having left Britt, yet still poised to return and rescue her. Are fans thinking he flew back to the States, did the deed, and flew back? Perhaps Sonny hired someone else like Brick to do it? What about Marshall, who seemed to be all about protecting Curtis from being accused moments after his Port Charles return. What does Marshall know about the shooting? Perhaps fans suspect that one of the kids — Danny, Rocco, or even Drew’s own daughter Scout — might have been involved in shooting Drew?
Cult of Personality
Beating everyone else out to snag 31% of the vote was Weeping Willow herself. Fans have witnessed the dark turn the usually sweet nurse has taken recently and believe she may have embraced her darker side to end her torment once and for all. She did toy with Michael and Sasha’s baby, Daisy, by changing the infant’s outfits and moving her around the house to torture poor Sasha, driving her to leave Port Charles. If Willow is the culprit, the repercussions could be huge and felt across Port Charles. General Hospital employed an attempted murderer as a nurse? Would Michael ever allow his and Willow’s children, Wiley and Amelia, to see their mother again? Would Nina blame herself for not having prevented this by confessing much earlier that she had slept with Drew? And there’s the victim — how would Drew react to knowing he drove his precious Willow to shoot him — twice — in the back? Could this really be true? Stay tuned.
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