General Hospital: Nina Reeves Has the Audacity to Cry About Jack Brennan As If She Hasn’t Done Way Worse for Way Less

NINA REEVES CRIES IN PUBLIC AND DRUGS JACK IN PRIVATE

TL;DR: Nina Reeves cried to Ava at Bobbie’s today about poor Jack Brennan having nobody to support him on General Hospital, then walked straight to the hospital with the syringe Willow handed her to keep him in his coma. The unhinged theory: Jack woke up the moment she lifted the needle. Nina has ten seconds to choose between drugging him again and getting caught, or running and getting caught later. Either way, the whole Willow operation is one scream away from imploding.

Nina Cried at Bobbie’s and Then Drove Straight to the Hospital

Nina Reeves sat across from Ava at Bobbie’s today on General Hospital and cried about how worried she was for Jack Brennan.

Jack had nobody. Jack was alone. Jack was unconscious in a hospital bed and Nina was so distraught she could barely eat her salad. Ava listened. Ava nodded. Ava warned her friend to be careful with the WSB.

What Ava did not know is that the woman crying about Jack in front of her had a syringe in her purse and was on her way to inject him with it.

The unhinged theory: Jack woke up the moment Nina lifted that needle. Jack saw her. Jack knows. And Nina has ten seconds to decide whether she finishes the dose, runs, or screams for a nurse and plays victim before Jack can speak.

Whatever she picks, the Willow operation is one Brennan testimony away from total collapse.

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The Bobbie’s Performance Was Pure Theater

Watch the Bobbie’s scene back and the only correct response is laughter. Nina Reeves, the woman who has been personally dosing Jack with the same medication Willow used on Drew, sat in a public restaurant and performed concern for the man she has been keeping comatose. She rubbed her eyes. She lowered her voice. She told Ava she was worried about Jack. She let Ava pat her hand.

Ava, an actual murderer, looked at Nina with the only honest energy in the scene and said the WSB was dangerous and Nina should stay away from it. Ava meant the WSB. The audience knows the actual danger to Nina is Nina, walking out of Bobbie’s to go inject a comatose man with the second round of the drug she put him under with.

The crying was for the room. The crying was for the alibi. The crying was so Ava would remember later that Nina seemed so worried.

Willow Handed Her the Syringe Like It Was Aspirin

The handoff happened in Willow’s office and the choreography was sociopathic. Willow had to get to the hospital to keep Jack incapacitated because she was afraid he would wake up and talk about the injection. Willow realized her visit would look suspicious, since everyone knows she was the last person with Jack before he collapsed. So Willow handed Nina the syringe and asked her to do it.

Nina took it. Nina put it in her purse. Nina did not ask what was in it. Nina did not ask whether Jack deserved it. Nina did not push back. Nina took the syringe from her future stepdaughter and carried it through the hospital like it was a granola bar.

This is the friend Drew thought he had. This is the woman Sonny is going to find out about. This is the Nina nobody has been calling out, because Willow gets the headlines and Nina gets the sympathy. Today Nina Reeves earned the headline.

The Moment Jack Opened His Eyes

Here is the cliffhanger that ends the episode. Nina is alone in Jack’s hospital room. She has the syringe out. She is about to inject. And Jack’s eyes fly open.

Jack does not know Nina did it the first time. Jack might not even know what hit him. But Jack sees a woman over him with a needle and the second the door opens for a nurse, Jack starts asking questions. Whatever cover story Nina builds in the next ten seconds is the one she has to live with.

Option one: drop the syringe in her purse, scream that Jack is awake, pretend she was holding his hand. The syringe is still in her bag. A search reveals everything.

Option two: finish the dose, knock him back out, and run. Jack saw her. He may remember.

Option three: freeze and say the wrong thing and Jack does the work himself.

The unhinged theory says it is option three. Jack opens his mouth. Nina opens hers. The wrong word comes out. The story unravels.

The Scream That Brings the Whole Operation Down

If Jack speaks, the Willow operation collapses in real time. Drew will be sitting on the same hospital floor running the same blood panels. The PCPD already has Cullum investigating two suspiciously identical strokes. The match takes one lab tech and one phone call.

Willow goes down for drugging her husband. Nina goes down for drugging Jack. Sidwell goes down because the prototype operation runs on Britt working under coerced medication, and the second the Cullum-Willow operation cracks, the Britt operation cracks with it.

Bring popcorn. Nina Reeves cried about poor Jack Brennan today on General Hospital while carrying his next dose in her purse, and Jack opened his eyes at the exact moment her audacity was supposed to win her the year. The performance was perfect. The timing was catastrophic.

Does Jack speak before Nina runs, or does she finish the dose and live with it? Drop your verdict in the comments on our Facebook page.

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