General Hospital Threats: Will Willow blackmail Alexis to save herself?

General Hospital's Willow Tait is keeping multiple secrets close to the vest. Her biggest secret is that she really did shoot Drew Cain, but may have convinced a jury she is as sweet and innocent as she appears on the surface. Her other secret is about Alexis's grandchildren, and it might just get Willow what she wants.

General Hospital's Alexis knows the truth

Willow has had it with her husband and even shot him | Image: ABC

Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn) has quite a dilemma on her hands now that she knows her client is guilty as sin and has been fooling everyone for months with her "golly gee, not me" act. However, Alexis is also bound by her job, and that is to defend her client to the best of her ability, whether that client really did it or not.

While we'd love to see Alexis go all Nora Hannen Gannon Buchanan (Hillary B. Smith) on Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) and throw the case during closing arguments, we doubt that's coming. Nora had just learned that her client, Todd Manning (Roger Howarth), really did rape Marty Saybrooke (Susan Haskell) at a college frat party and told the jury just that on One Life to Live way back in 1993.

Alexis is ready for her closing arguments with her own personal dilemma, as her family is at stake. If she throws the case, then not only does she betray her duty as an attorney, but she risks never seeing her granddaughter Scout (Cosette Abinante) again. However, what happens if she later learns that her grandson is at risk, as well?

Willow's other big secret

General Hospital's Alexis is in a pickle | Image: ABC

When Scout couldn't contain herself and confessed to Willow that she saw Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) at Alexis's house at their Christmas celebration, we knew that knowledge had to be of use to Willow at some point. We expect to see Willow acquitted by the end of the week, but that also might be just the beginning.

What if Alexis confronts Willow and tells her she knows all about her little September shooting spree in Drew's living room and threatens Willow with the fact that she perjured herself? Willow could easily inform Alexis that she's aware that Scout was with Danny, something Drew won't like at all.

With all the threats that Drew has made against Danny over the last few months, Alexis might fear that Drew will have her teenage grandson arrested for violating a restraining order. Alexis could find herself in quite a bind, knowing she has to keep her mouth shut to keep one grandchild out of jail while allowing another grandchild to be raised by an abusive congressman and his would-be murderess wife. The Gruesome Twosome sure are a pair.

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