General Hospital: Drew Cain’s Car Warrant Is in the Works as Justine Turner Hopes for a Break in the Brennan Case

DREW CAIN’S CAR IS THE ONE THING A WEDDING CANNOT PROTECT

TL;DR: It’s confirmed: on November 12 Dante asked for a search warrant for Drew Cain’s car, and on Friday Justine Turner begs for a break in the Jack Brennan case. No listing says a judge signs it yet, and Drew’s “make it official” pitch cannot stop a car search.

The Warrant Dante Asked For on Thursday

It’s confirmed: the Drew Cain car warrant is in the works on General Hospital. On Thursday, November 12, Dante Falconeri (Dominic Zamprogna) took a statement from Alexis Davis (Nancy Lee Grahn), then asked Molly Lansing-Davis (Kristen Vaganos) to take the new information to a judge. The goal is a search of the car belonging to Drew Cain (Cameron Mathison). Molly hopes the car gives up traces of Jack Brennan (Chris McKenna).

Friday’s promo turns up the heat. Prosecutor Justine Turner (Nazneen Contractor) tells the acting commissioner, “Please let this be the break in the case we’ve been waiting for.” Dante has just brought her something new. Nobody has said what it is.

So does the PCPD get its warrant on November 13? Not on any listing yet. The request is real, the hope is real, and the ruling is still blank. That leaves a race nobody in Port Charles can see coming.

Is Drew’s car the break Justine needs, or is the real prize somewhere else? Write to the editor at amber@soapoperamagazine.com and tell us what the police find.

Why the Car Is the Center of Everything

Go back to Monday, November 9. Tristan Roberts (Dean Geyer) told the police he saw Drew and Ava Jerome (Maura West) move something heavy from a laundry cart into an SUV in the Metro Court lot the night Jack was last seen. He could not see what it was. By Wednesday, Molly was talking about a warrant for Drew’s SUV, and Alexis had handed the police the blackmail motive they were missing.

Now put that sighting next to what Drew Cain said on Thursday. Alone with his brand new lawyer, Monet Mitchell (Blythe Howard), he admitted he and Ava found Jack in the Metro Court pool and buried him at the nature preserve. That is in our November 12 recap, and it is what viewers know that Dante does not.

Here is our read. Drew’s confession is locked behind attorney privilege, and the police may never hear it. A car is not. Whether anything is still inside it is the open question, and the show has not answered it.

Will the Police Get a Warrant for Drew’s Car on General Hospital?

Not yet, as far as anything printed shows. The request went to a judge on Thursday, and one Friday preview says the PCPD is working hard to get it. No preview or listing says it is signed, served or refused.

So what is Justine’s break? We rank three candidates: the car, if the judge moves fast, then the hospital, where the official listing has Elizabeth Webber (Rebecca Herbst) bending the rules for Dante, and finally Alexis, who still has to come back and sign her statement. Our money is on the hospital, because it is the one thing on Friday’s listing nobody can explain.

A Ring Cannot Lock a Car

Friday, Drew pitches a drastic plan, and the promo has him telling Ava, “We can make it official today.” The show has not said what official means. Every outlet is reading it as a wedding, the same wedding prediction we walked through last week.

If that is the plan, the clock is already against it. In New York a husband or wife can still take the stand, and the law shields private talk between spouses during a marriage. A search warrant for a car is about physical proof. No marriage license stops a judge from signing one, and no vow reaches inside an SUV.

Readers saw this coming. On our Facebook page, one fan called a wedding “another way for Drew & Ava to avoid jail time”, while another under our recap warned “he’ll just wiggle out of it like he always does.” Add the prescription in his own medical records and Monet’s idea for keeping Ava off the witness stand, and the noose is getting tight.

Who Moves First Before the Weekend

My gut tells me Drew Cain is racing the wrong opponent. He thinks Ava is the threat, which is why he taped her and why his lawyer wants her silent. The race for a deal matters, but a signed warrant does not care who talks first. Check our two-week spoilers as next week’s lines land, because nothing for November 16 to 20 is listed yet.

Is a wedding Drew’s smartest move or his dumbest? Tell us in the comments and pick your side.

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The Warrant Beats the Wedding

Drew can buy a ring, hire the sharpest lawyer in town and tape his partner all day long. None of it reaches the car Tristan watched him load. If a judge signs, the vows are just a pretty ceremony for two suspects.

Our call: Justine gets her break from Liz first, and the car follows. Do you think the warrant lands before Drew gets Ava to the altar? Tell us on our Facebook page.