General Hospital Recap: Willow And Drew’s Wedding Is A Bust, The Britt Mystery Deepens And More!

The wedding of Drew Cain (Cameron Mathison) and Willow Tait (Katelyn MacMullen) came to a dramatic conclusion on the July 28th episode of General Hospital as the bride lit into the groom for his lies and left him at the altar, while Kristina (Kate Mansi) confessed her just-shy-of-murderous actions to Michael (Rory Gibson), Cody (Josh Kelly) got new insight into Molly (Kristen Vaganos) and the mystery surrounding Britt’s (Kelly Thiebaud) return deepened as Jason (Steve Burton) remained convince he saw her in Paris. Read on to find out how it all went down!

Wedded Miss

At the church, all eyes were on Willow as she tremulously made her way down the aisle. When she reached the altar, Elizabeth took her bouquet, and Drew reached for his bride’s hand. She hesitated but ultimately placed her hand in his. Lucy began the ceremony, and when she got to the part about anyone with reservations speaking now or forever holding their peace, Ava eagerly scanned the pews to see if any of her fellow guests would pipe up. Obrecht shot Nina a pointed look, and Nina shook her head to indicate that she planned to remain silent. As Lucy spoke of the sanctity of marriage, Ava caught Ric looking in Elizabeth’s direction and a look of outrage flashed across her face.

Lucy invited the couple to begin reciting the personal vows they had written. Drew went first, gushing about his love for Willow and promising that soon, Wiley and Amelia would be back home with them. He praised Willow’s bravery and strength, and described their future as “bright and beautiful.” Drew pledged that he would do everything in his power to make Willow as happy as she had made him and that they would build on their love, which already felt like it was bursting out of his chest. “You and me — now and forever,” he beamed.

Then it was Willow’s turn to speak. “Drew,” she began. In a slo-mo shot, she withdrew her hands from his. Then, her face curling with rage, she demanded, “Did you sleep with my mother?”

Family Secrets

Kristina and Michael were chatting at Alexis’s empty house and when their talk turned to Cody and Molly, Kristina revealed to her brother that she’d hired Cody to seduce Ava. Michael was confused and wanted an explanation. “I did something really horrible and I’ve been wanting to tell you about it for a long time,” Kristina began. She noted that she had to face the consequences of her actions and steeled herself before confessing, “I tried to kill Ava.” Instead, she added that, “Ric and Elizabeth almost died.” She unfurled the whole story of how she had cut the brakes on what she thought was Ava’s car, but the vehicle turned out to be Ric’s. “You got really, really lucky,” Michael declared. Kristina shared that Ric and Ava had figured out what she did. “That’s bad,” observed Michael. “That’s really bad.” Kristina warned Michael that it was actually even worse — Ric and Ava had been extorting Alexis for money ever since!

Opposite this, Kristina’s harsh words about Cody were ringing in Molly’s ears as she sat with Cody on the Metro Court pool deck. Cody was caught off-guard when instead of finding his banter charming, she snapped at him. “I’m not falling for your advances,” she grumbled. Cody denied that he had been hitting on her. Molly brought up the way Ava had been “fawning all over” Cody, and Cody wondered if Kristina had said something about him to Molly, who didn’t confirm his suspicions. With the tension growing, Cody decided to move to a different chaise and told Molly to enjoy her book. He picked it up and she was embarrassed when he saw that she had been hiding a romance novel inside her copy of War and Peace. Cody ribbed her, reading aloud from the book, which Molly did not find amusing. She told him she had been “obsessed with all things romance since I was a kid. Even wrote a book. Two, actually.” Cody was impressed. Molly elaborated that her books had been titled Love In Maine and Maine Squeeze, and explained that she thought it might be time for a third installment. She gathered her things to leave — but before she did, she advised him to get the mole on his back checked out, causing Cody to panic slightly and try to get a view of the mole in question.

Groom and Doom

Back at St. Luke’s, Drew’s eyes widened. “What did you just ask me?” he gasped. “You heard me,” Willow hissed, repeating her accusation about his indiscretion. He asked her where such a question was coming from, and she erupted in anger. “Stop! You literally just vowed to love me forever! Loving includes honesty, so let’s be honest. While you and I were falling in love, did you sleep with Nina?” He stammered, “Before you and I said that we loved —” and she cut him off: “Yes or no?!” Alexis took that as her cue to rush Scout out of the church.

Drew confirmed that he and Nina had had “an encounter.” “So it happened just once?” she snapped. “No, it happened more than once,” he conceded. “But I never developed feelings for her.” Willow shot a glance in her mother’s direction and said she didn’t know if that made it better or worse. Drew tried to explain that he had been fighting his feelings for Willow at the time, as she had asked him to do. “Oh, so now it’s my fault?” she asked angrily. He reminded her that she had been married to Michael at the time and he had been trying to honor that. “So you did it for me?” she said sarcastically. Willow bellowed that Drew had done more than compromise her marriage — he had destroyed it.

Need To Know Basis

At Carly’s, Jason and Carly visited with Wiley, who was still bummed over Willow marrying Drew. Carly did her best to lift his spirits. Once alone with Jason, Carly vented about Willow and Drew’s thoughtlessness and remarked that she couldn’t believe she had once been romantically involved with Drew herself. They agreed that Willow “wanted someone to tell her what to do, and Drew’s got no problem doing that,” as Jason put it. Carly opined that Michael was in the right to keep Willow away from the kids. Jason and Carly’s discussion turned to their own long-ago decision to keep A.J. (Michael’s biological father) away from Michael, and Carly worried that Wiley and Amelia would one day be as angry with Michael as Michael had been with her. But, she noted, she and Michael had loved each other enough to get through it.

Carly got emotional as she reflected on how painful it had been when Drew returned home from Greece and reported that Jason was dead. In retrospect, Carly said, she could see how she had gotten entangled with Drew as a substitute for Jason. Carly could tell Jason was still thinking about the woman he’d seen in Paris who looked like Britt. Jason wondered what had happened to Britt’s body, whether it had been buried or cremated. Carly was aghast that Jason might be thinking of digging up her grave. “I just have to be sure,” said Jason.

Going, Going, Gone

With Willow in flip-out mode, Drew suggested they move their conversation somewhere more private. “Right here is fine,” she clapped back. Willow questioned whether she and Drew had genuinely fallen in love, even as he protested that he had never lied about his feelings for her. “I defended you,” Willow said, getting increasingly worked up as her voice filled with scorn. “People would try to warn me and I would say again and again, ‘You’re just wrong!’ I was adamant that you were different, better, that we were open and honest with each other, because you, Congressman Cain, were a decent and honest man. I was such an idiot!”

Willow berated herself for believing Drew when he had said she was the only woman he wanted. “You were,” he insisted. “Along with my mother!” she shot back. Anguished, she said that him telling her she could keep her children was just another lie. “Let me be clear,” she said. “I would never, ever, give up my children for you. But that’s exactly what happened,” she concluded. “Every time I listened to you, I gave Michael ammunition against me.” She accused Drew of not caring about Wiley or Amelia, but being willing to promise anything in order to get her. “Oh, God,” Willow gasped in horror. “Michael was telling the truth, wasn’t he? Wiley did hear you say that Michael didn’t want him and Amelia anymore.”

Cornered, Drew told her, “That was strategy, pure and simple. I was trying to get your kids back for you, trying to get custody!” Willow snarled, “Your lie hurt my son, Drew. You made it possible for Michael to take my children from me. I trusted you and now I have nothing!” When he reached out to her, she went ballistic and forbade him from touching her ever again. With that, Willow stormed out of the church.

Bad News Travels Fast

Back at Alexis’s, Kristina was surprised when instead of judging her, Michael voiced his regret over not being there “to help you — or to stop you.” Kristina told him she took full responsibility for what she did and lamented that as a result of her actions, Alexis was compromising her morals and stealing from the Cassadine trust to keep her out of prison. She explained that to claw back power from Ric and Ava, she was trying to get them to turn on each other — which she didn’t think would be hard given that Ric was still carrying a torch for Elizabeth — and had enlisted Cody to flirt with Ava to show Ava that she could do better than Ric. Kris said she was surprised by Molly’s interest in Cody and broke down what she had done to plant seeds of doubt about Cody’s intentions in Molly’s mind. “Am I deluding myself in thinking that this is for the greater good?” posed Kristina. Michael didn’t know the answer to that — the only thing he was sure of was that Kristina had dug a big hole for herself. He promised to get her out of it. Kristina was appreciative, but asked that Michael never let on to Alexis that he knew about the blackmail because “she would freak.”

Just then, Alexis returned home with Scout. The little girl reported that her dad and Willow had not gotten married. Alexis privately informed Michael that the wedding had ground to a halt because it came out that Drew had had an affair with Nina. Kristina came back into the room and they filled her in on Drew and Nina’s involvement, with Alexis recapping the drama of the wedding that wasn’t. Michael couldn’t believe that Drew had been “screwing Nina” the whole time he was pursuing Willow. Michael noted that Willow finally knows who Drew really is.

The Blame Game

Drew tried follow Willow out of the church, but Nina intercepted him in the aisle and refused to let him pass. She spat that while she hated to see Willow hurt, “at least now everyone knows what a poor, pathetic excuse for a human being you are.” She called him out for pursuing a married woman while sleeping with her mother. “You were right there with me, Nina!” Drew pointed out. After Nina accused Drew of ruining Willow’s life, he noted that she could have told Willow the truth any time, “But you waited until her wedding day?” Nina retorted that she had held her tongue because she was “clinging to hope” that Drew would have done the right thing and come clean.

Drew suggested that Nina drop the victim act and announced to the remaining guests (Martin, Lucy, Ric, Ava, Elizabeth and Obrecht) that Nina was the one who had hired the escort to drug him. Nina scoffed that no one would believe him (and Ava nodded emphatically at that). “People know who you are now,” she taunted. “And you know what that means? You’re done! Your credibility? Torched. Respect? Out the window.” She added that the silver lining of the day’s events was knowing that Drew had lost Willow, and that Willow would never, ever be able to forgive him. With that, Nina strode out.

Who’s Zoomin’ Who?

Josslyn went to Brennan’s office as he was receiving a phone update about the courier, Greta. He hung up and told Joss he had already gotten Vaughn’s “side of the story” — and now he wanted hers. Brennan said it was something Carly had said (about how happy she was that Joss was moving on after the tragic loss of Dex) that had raised his concern. Joss was confused, given that Brennan had tasked her and Vaughn with convincing everyone they were dating. Brennan pointed out that Joss was new to the WSB game, and it could be confusing “playing a version of yourself. It’s easy to get caught up in the feelings that you’re faking.” “I know what’s real and what’s not,” countered Joss, insisting that nothing real was happening between her and Vaughn. Brennan asserted that Vaughn was definitely only playing a part. Joss was confident that she could handle it.

Brennan then got a call from an agent who reported that the courier was on the move, and he had tailed her to an exclusive resort on the Adriatic Sea called The Five Poppies. The agent didn’t know if Greta had delivered the backpack. After he hung up, Brennan noted to Joss that if the courier left the resort and the tracker remained behind, they would be “one step closer to knowing who Dalton is sharing his research with.” Brennan’s phone beeped, and he cursed when he saw that the location’s tracker had been turned off. “We lost the tracker,” he grumbled to Joss.

Location Is Everything

Back at the church, Martin sidled up to Lucy and asked if a lot of the ceremonies she officiated ended in disaster. “You would be surprised how many,” she replied to her ex-lover. Kai offered to drive Drew home, but he was insistent on finding Willow. Flagging down Martin, he told the lawyer he had a job for him.

Meanwhile, Nina reported to Liz that Willow’s car was gone. “Where could she have gone?” sighed Nina. Her face streaked by her cried-off mascara, Willow frantically knocked on Carly’s door. Carly flung it open and was surprised to find her former daughter-in-law there. “I need to see my children,” Willow implored.

Open Communication

After leaving the church, Obrecht sidled up to a bar and ordered a triple Schnapps, noting there was “much to celebrate.” She bubbled to the server that the wedding had been the best: “The bride and groom did not get married!” Jason entered and told her he had some questions. “About your brother’s wedding that wasn’t?” she queried. “About Britt,” he replied.

At a lab overseas, Britt flung open a door to receive a visitor — Greta! “You’re late,” Britt chastised. Greta handed her the backpack, and Britt said she trusted there had been no complications.

Were you satisfied with the tongue-lashing Willow (and Nina) gave Drew? What do you think Britt is up to? Are you liking the potential pairing of Cody and Molly? Let us know your thoughts about today’s dramatic episode of GH in the comments below!