General Hospital: Alexis Davis Is Ready to Testify That Jack Brennan Was Blackmailing Drew Cain

ALEXIS DAVIS JUST HANDED THE POLICE THE ONE THING THEY LACKED

TL;DR: It’s confirmed: on November 11 Alexis Davis told Molly that Jack Brennan was blackmailing Drew Cain and said yes to testifying, giving the police the motive they were missing. She heard it from Jack himself, so her client Ava’s secrets stay locked, but Ava may be the one who pays.

The Motive the Police Were Missing

It’s confirmed: on Wednesday, November 11, General Hospital turned Alexis Davis (Nancy Lee Grahn) into the witness Drew Cain (Cameron Mathison) never saw coming. Molly Lansing-Davis (Kristen Vaganos) told her mother the case is now aimed at Drew and a possible accomplice, that the police want a warrant to search his SUV for Jack’s DNA, and that they still have no motive. Her mother had one.

Alexis said Jack Brennan (Chris McKenna) was blackmailing Drew over something from his time in office. When Molly asked if she would say it under oath, knowing the price, Alexis said yes. She has not testified, signed a statement or walked into the PCPD. But the gap in the case just closed.

So does she hand Joe Fitzpatrick (Jonathan Bennett) his motive and lose her granddaughter? The motive, yes. The granddaughter, not yet. The real danger sits in her client chair.

Jack Brennan Told Her Himself

Here is the part everyone is missing. Alexis Davis did not get this secret from her client. She got it from the dead man. On August 14 at the Metro Court Gardens, Drew refused to let her see Scout, and Jack strolled in to warn the former congressman that his record from his time in office was not exactly clean. Once Drew stormed off, Jack offered to share his dirt on Drew in exchange for JJE information.

Jack never handed over the details. But on Wednesday, Alexis recalled that he flat out confirmed the blackmail. Viewers know more than she does: the August 28 episode spelled out that the evidence showed Drew embezzled money from the McConkey Esplanade project to fund his Congressional campaign. That is why Ava Jerome (Maura West) crushed his sleeping pill into Jack’s drink that night.

Why does that matter? Jack was never Alexis’s client, so attorney-client privilege does not cover his words. Whether a dead man’s admission holds up in court is a fight for the lawyers, but Alexis can talk. Ava is another story. Everything Ava confessed on October 28 stays locked, and our breakdown of the secrets Alexis is holding mapped exactly that line.

Should Alexis have kept her mouth shut, or is this long overdue? Tell our editor at amber@soapoperamagazine.com.

Her Client Is the Accomplice

Now the twist that should keep Alexis Davis up at night. The police have not named the possible accomplice, but Alexis knows exactly who it is, because she represents her. On October 28, Ava asked her for full immunity to testify against Drew. A motive for Drew makes the person beside him that night the next target.

And Drew is a step ahead. In the same episode he told Ava the pill came from his own prescription, Ava threatened to tell police he masterminded everything, and Drew recorded every word. Our November 11 recap has the whole scene. If Alexis tightens the noose on Drew, he now has a tape to drag her client in with him.

On Thursday, November 12, Alexis makes a bold move, and one preview already asks whether it might backfire. Drew also gets a reality check, and on Friday he pitches a drastic plan. My gut says the backfire lands on Ava first. Keep our two weeks of General Hospital spoilers close.

Will Alexis Testify Against Drew on General Hospital?

She has said she will, and nothing on the schedule says she has changed her mind. No listing yet puts her on a witness stand or in Joe’s office, and nobody has been arrested. Back on November 6 we watched Alexis weigh turning the case on Drew, and after the prescription turned up in Drew’s records, a motive is the last big piece.

Fan chatter is cheering. In the Reddit episode discussion, one fan begged Alexis to help take Drew down, while another asked whether Molly should be sharing all this with her mother at all.

What It Costs Her With Scout

Drew is raising Scout Cain (Kayden Brenna Tokarski), Sam’s daughter and Alexis’s granddaughter. Molly warned that Scout might never forgive the grandmother who put her father away. Alexis plans to be honest with Scout, and she made it plain she will not let a killer keep raising her.

That is a grandmother’s math, and plenty of fans agree with it. On our Facebook post about Alexis turning on Drew, one reader wrote, “I agree go for it Alexis but Scout will be upset.” Alexis already lost Sam, and she is not about to lose Sam’s daughter to the man she blames. If Drew goes down, who takes Scout? That question has no answer on screen yet.

Team Alexis testifies, or team protect Scout first? Share your verdict in our comments section.

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Alexis Picked Scout Over Her Own Client

Alexis Davis found the one secret she is free to use, and she used it for her granddaughter. Drew finally has a motive hanging over him, from a blackmailer who told a lawyer more than he meant to.

Our call: Alexis keeps Scout in the long run, but Thursday’s bold move blows back on Ava before it ever reaches a courtroom. Agree or disagree? Fight it out with us on our Facebook page.