General Hospital: Drew Cain’s Drastic Plan Lands November 13, and Marrying Ava Jerome Is the Wild Card

DREW CAIN NEEDS AVA QUIET, BUT A RING WON’T DO IT

TL;DR: ABC confirms Drew Cain pitches a drastic plan on Friday, November 13. One prediction says he asks Ava to marry him so neither can testify. We rank his real options and explain why a wedding may not protect either of them.

Drew’s Week Ends With a Drastic Plan

Drew Cain’s drastic plan is confirmed for Friday, November 13. ABC’s lines for the week have Drew Cain (Cameron Mathison) trying to reassure Ava Jerome (Maura West) on Wednesday, getting a reality check on Thursday and pitching that plan on Friday. The line does not say who hears it, or what it is. Every beat is in our two weeks of General Hospital spoilers.

One circulating prediction has an answer: Drew suggests that he and Ava get married so they cannot testify against each other. It is a guess, not a spoiler. But it fits a man who just watched his partner in crime remind him who holds the cards.

On November 6, Drew ordered champagne to toast the arrests of Carly Spencer (Laura Wright) and Valentin Cassadine (James Patrick Stuart). Ava was not celebrating. “If I’m exposed, you are exposed,” she warned him. Tristan Roberts (Dean Geyer) saw them, then told Dante Falconeri (Dominic Zamprogna) the police may have arrested the wrong people.

Ava Has Made This Threat Before

Ava and Drew moved Jack Brennan (Chris McKenna) out of the Metro Court pool on September 1 and buried him on the Quartermaine nature preserve. Two days later, Ava warned Drew that if she went down for Jack’s death, so would he. Drew promised nothing would be traced back to them, then planted Jack’s wallet in a car registered to Nina Reeves (Cynthia Watros).

So the last time Ava said those words, Drew did not reach for a ring. He reached for a scapegoat. Our look at whether Ava is the weak link in Drew’s cover-up called this tension a month ago.

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Will Drew Cain Marry Ava Jerome on General Hospital?

Nothing confirmed says so, and a wedding would not buy what the prediction promises. In New York, a husband or wife can still take the stand. The law shields private conversations between spouses during a marriage, which may not cover anything Ava and Drew said or did before the vows. The pill, the pool and the grave all came first.

Then there is the optics problem. A sudden wedding while Tristan is telling the PCPD it has the wrong people would look less like romance and more like a confession with a cake.

And Ava already has a way out. On October 28, Alexis Davis (Nancy Lee Grahn) agreed to represent her and said she would look into leniency if Ava testifies against Drew. Ava wants full immunity. Alexis makes a bold move on Thursday, the same day Drew’s reality check lands. Our story on Alexis weighing a deal against Drew lays out what that could cost him.

Drew Cain’s Drastic Plan, Ranked

Most likely, he buries Carly deeper, the most Drew move on the board. He framed Nina in September, he toasted Carly’s arrest in November, and Carly just refused a deal to give up Valentin, which means the case against her is still the one the PCPD likes. Our Carly story shows how thin that case really is.

The wild card is marrying Ava. It would tie her to him in public, and Drew Cain may believe it shuts her mouth even if the law disagrees. Would Ava say yes while her own lawyer is pricing a deal against him? Only if she thinks a ring buys her more than immunity.

Third, he flips first. On October 20, Justine Turner offered Drew immunity for anything he could bring her on Sonny. A man who smells a deal forming against him might decide to make one of his own.

Last, he runs. It is possible, but Drew has never been the type to leave a fight he thinks he can still win.

Which plan is Drew pitching? Leave your pick in the comments.

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A Ring Is the Worst Alibi in Port Charles

My gut says Drew’s plan points at Carly, not the altar, because that is what he did the last time Ava threatened him. If he does propose, Ava should hear it for what it is: a man trying to own her testimony. She has a lawyer, a leniency path and a partner who already showed her how fast he picks a fall guy.

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