GH’s Willow Tait Is Not Desperate Anymore – She Is Dangerous – and Nina Reeves Has to Decide if She Is a Mother or a Survivor

WILLOW TAIT JUST BLACKMAILED NINA REEVES WITH A SYRINGE AND A CONFESSION

TL;DR: Willow Tait told Nina Reeves she shot Drew Cain in the back, has been injecting him with a paralytic drug supplied by Jenz Sidwell, and tricked Nina into putting her fingerprints on the needle on General Hospital. Then she told Nina she has chosen for her. Nina is on Willow’s side now or she goes down too. The question is not whether Nina fights back. The question is how.

This Is Not a Confession, This Is a Hostage Situation

Willow Tait sat across from Nina Reeves today and laid out the entire truth like a woman reading terms and conditions before clicking accept.

She shot Drew Cain in the back. Not in self defense. Not in a struggle. She took Edward Quartermaine’s gun, waited until Drew’s back was turned, and pulled the trigger. She told Nina she snapped after Judge Heran was murdered and she lost her only legal path to getting her children back.

Then Willow told Nina something even worse. The injections she has been giving Drew are not pain medication. They are a paralytic drug supplied by Jenz Sidwell. She has been keeping a man trapped inside his own body on purpose. Not out of guilt. Not to help him heal. To keep him silent and controllable until she can guarantee he will never come after her again.

And the syringe Nina used to give Drew his injection earlier? That was not pain medication either. That was the paralytic. And Nina’s fingerprints are all over it.

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Willow Chose for Her

Here is the part that makes this truly chilling. Willow told Nina she can see how conflicted she is about Jack Brennanpressuring her to choose between Willow and Charlotte Cassadine. So Willow chose for her.

That sentence deserves to be read twice. Willow Tait did not ask her mother for help. She did not beg. She did not appeal to the bond between them. She told Nina Reeves that she has eliminated her options. Side with Willow, or the syringe with Nina’s fingerprints becomes the evidence that takes her down.

Nina was stunned. She told Willow she understood the desperation of shooting Drew in a moment of crisis. But keeping him trapped inside his own body with a paralytic is something else entirely. And Willow Tait looked at her mother and said she will not survive being separated from her children again. So she has to have control over Drew. And over Nina. Even if Nina hates her.

Nina said she does not hate her. She said she would be on Willow’s side even without the blackmail.

We are not sure we believe that. And we are not sure Nina believes it either.

Three Roads for Nina Reeves

This is where it gets fascinating, because Nina Reeves is not a woman who takes orders well and she never has been. So we are speculating on three possible paths for her.

Path One: Nina Takes It. She swallows the blackmail, protects Willow, fights Brennan, and becomes Willow’s silent partner in the cover up. This is the version of Nina who has spent years trying to earn her daughter’s love and will do anything to keep it, even if “anything” means becoming an accessory to drugging a paralyzed man. Nina said today she would be on Willow’s side even without the leverage. Maybe she meant it. Maybe a mother’s love really is that unconditional.

Path Two: Nina Sells Willow Out. She takes everything Willow told her today and goes straight to Alexis Davis or the PCPD. She hands over the truth about Drew’s shooting, the paralytic, all of it. She burns her own daughter to save herself. This is the version of Nina who has survived everything Port Charles has thrown at her by choosing self preservation over sentiment, and Willow just gave her the one thing she never had before: proof that her daughter is more dangerous than anyone in that city ever suspected.

Path Three: Nina Plays Her Own Game. She tells Willow she is on board. She smiles. She cooperates. And then she quietly builds her own leverage. Nina Reeves has been blackmailed by Brennan. She has been manipulated by Willow. She has a syringe with her fingerprints on it floating around. But Nina also has information now. She knows Willow shot Drew. She knows about the paralytic. She knows Sidwell is supplying the drugs. And she knows Trina Robinsonand Kai Taylor also know the truth. A woman with that much information and that much to lose does not sit still. She schemes.

Willow Tait thinks she has Nina cornered. But Nina Reeves has been cornered before, and the woman who comes out of the corner is never the one people expected.

Nina said she would side with Willow even without the blackmail. Do you believe her? Or is Nina about to play a game Willow never saw coming? Sound off below!

WATCH THIS: Nina took the bait!

@soapoperamag Willow did Nina DIRTY! Willow knows how to play the game and she even played her own mother today! Dark Willow strikes again and she's getting more and more diabolical by the day! #GH #GeneralHospital ♬ original sound – Soap Opera Magazine