WILLOW TAIT DID WHAT NEEDED TO BE DONE AND WE’RE CHEERING

TL;DR: Drew Cain terrorized Port Charles for months. Now he’s a vegetable in a hospital bed, Willow destroyed the evidence, and Tracy called it karma. On General Hospital, we’re officially Team Willow and we have zero regrets.

Give This Woman a Standing Ovation
Listen up, American General Hospital fans — your episode got pre-empted today, but lucky for you, we watched it air in Canada and we’re here to deliver the tea piping hot. And oh, what glorious tea it is.

We need to talk about Willow Tait, because our girl just pulled off the smoothest takedown in soap opera history and we are HERE for every single moment of it.

Let’s recap for those who missed yesterday: Drew Cain has spent months terrorizing everyone in Port Charles. He’s manipulated Willow, threatened custody of her children, blackmailed half the town, and generally made everyone’s life a living nightmare. The man was a menace wrapped in a politician’s smile, and literally nobody could stop him.

Nobody except his wife.

The MOMENT Willow Tait got home from being acquitted — thank you, double jeopardy — she looked Drew dead in the eyes, pulled out a syringe, jabbed it into his neck, and whispered “Everything is going to work out, Drew. You’ll see.” And you know what? She was absolutely right. Everything IS working out. For her. Because as of today’s Canadian episode, Drew is lying in a hospital bed, possibly a vegetable for the rest of his days, and Willow is walking around GH collecting sympathy hugs like the queen she is.

We have no choice but to stan.

The Evidence? Gone. The Syringe? Incinerated. The Audacity? Immaculate.
Here’s the part that really has us cackling with glee: while everyone at the hospital was scrambling to save Drew’s miserable life, Willow calmly slipped away and dropped that syringe into the medical waste bin. You know, where things get destroyed forever. Where evidence goes to die. Where Willow’s little secret will literally go up in flames.

She didn’t panic. She didn’t fumble. She just handled her business like the unbothered icon she’s becoming. Meanwhile, she’s out there playing the concerned wife, crying to Liz about how “scared” she is, accepting comfort from Nina — and nobody suspects a thing. The RANGE this woman has! The commitment to the performance!

Drew spent months thinking he was the smartest person in every room. Turns out Willow was ten steps ahead of him the entire time, and honestly? We love to see it.

Locked-In Syndrome Would Be Poetic Justice
Doctors are saying Drew could have aphasia or locked-in syndrome now on General Hospital. For those unfamiliar, locked-in syndrome means he would be fully conscious and aware of everything happening around him but completely unable to move, speak, or control anyone ever again.

Let that satisfying thought sink in for a delicious moment.

Drew Cain — the man who built his entire personality around controlling and manipulating everyone in his orbit — could spend the rest of his life trapped in his own body, watching helplessly as Willow lives her best life. He’d be a prisoner in his own flesh. Unable to threaten anyone. Unable to blackmail anyone. Unable to do anything except exist and suffer.

If that’s not poetic justice, we don’t know what is.

Tracy Quartermaine Said What We Were All Thinking
And because this episode truly delivered on every level, let’s give a standing ovation to Tracy Quartermaine. When Nina and Tracy were discussing Drew’s condition at the hospital, Tracy looked at the situation and declared: “Karma has finally come for Drew.”

ICONIC. SAVAGE. ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.

Nobody at that hospital shed a single tear for Drew Cain. Tracy called it karma. Nina didn’t exactly rush to defend her former flame. The overwhelming energy was less “thoughts and prayers” and more “well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences.”

Willow Tait really said “if you want something done right, do it yourself” and then DID IT. Twice. She shot him, got acquitted, went home, injected him with mystery juice, and destroyed the evidence before anyone even knew what happened. This woman is operating on a level we didn’t even know existed, and Port Charles has absolutely no idea what hit them.

All hail the queen of getting away with it. We’re Team Willow forever.

Do you think Drew deserves everything he’s getting? Sound off to the editor at amber@soapoperamagazine.com!