Charlotte, Ava, Drew, Brennan , Anna: General Hospital Best of the Week, August 31 to September 4, 2026: Drew buries a problem while Chase digs up another

General Hospital characters spent the week proving that secrets are much easier to keep when nobody leaves a corpse floating in a hotel pool, buries it in a nature preserve, loses jewelry on the body, owns an unusually talented dog, or starts asking questions about an old car crash during a family barbecue.

Drew and Ava turned body disposal into an increasingly elaborate group project. Chase finally began pulling at the thread that Brook Lynn had been hoping nobody had noticed. Anna wandered into the woods with a tarp and a gun because, apparently, Labor Day plans were scarce this year. Somewhere in the middle of all that, Rocco and Scout managed to be adorable, which was probably the town’s way of apologizing.

Spotlight Scenes

Drew and Ava's laziness could be their undoing | Image: ABC

Ava and Drew’s attempt to get rid of Brennan's body somehow turned into one of the funniest disasters of the week. First, they had to stuff the head of the WSB into a laundry basket and wheel him through the Metro Court under a pile of towels, because apparently international espionage ends wherever housekeeping supplies begin. Brennan's hand hilariously hung over the edge of the basket, and they didn't seem to notice or care. Then they hauled him out to the nature preserve and started digging, despite neither one looking remotely prepared for manual labor. The whole thing had the energy of two people who had watched exactly half of one true-crime documentary and decided they were qualified.

The burial itself somehow got even better. Ava actually stopped and insisted on a moment of silence for Brennan after they had just rolled him into the hole, which was bizarrely sincere under the circumstances. Drew went along with it, because once you have drugged a man, transported his body in hotel linens, and dug a grave together, basic funeral etiquette apparently becomes important again. It was one of those scenes where the show managed to make the situation absurd without completely draining the weight out of it.

Of course, the grave may end up being the thing that wrecks the whole plan. Ava and Drew were too lazy to dig anywhere close to six feet, which leaves Brennan sitting disturbingly close to the surface and makes discovery much easier. There is even the wild possibility that if Brennan were not actually dead, that shallow grave gives him at least a fighting chance to dig his way out and make everybody’s week considerably worse. And the grave itself was so perfectly rectangular, with those crisp visible edges, that the SFX department looked about as eager to break a sweat as Ava and Drew did.

Wardrobe MVPs

Anna was literally dressed to kill on General Hospital | Image: ABC

Anna was absolutely dressed for the occasion. The all-black look is sleek, sharp, and just severe enough to make it clear that this was not a casual trip into the woods. Add the protective glasses and ear protection at the range, and she looked less like someone blowing off steam and more like she was mentally rehearsing for something much darker.

Then she carried that same killer look straight into the nighttime confrontation with Britt. She had a black jacket, black top, gun in hand, no wasted movement, and a face that looked completely locked in. If Anna really intended to drop Britt onto that tarp at Peter’s behest, she at least arrived dressed like a woman who had already decided the evening was not ending with cocktails.

Best Camera Moment

Jack Brennan was found apparently dead in the Metro Court pool | Image: ABC

The sequence surrounding Brennan's discovery was staged for maximum dread, with the camera letting each reaction build before finally showing us what everyone was seeing. Charlotte and Danny were the first pairing to give the moment its emotional jolt, both visibly shaken as they realized something was horribly wrong. Their fear made the scene feel immediate and personal, especially because the camera stayed with their faces long enough for that awful realization to register before moving on.

Ava and Drew brought a different energy to the discovery. Their reactions were more stunned and adult, the kind of horror that comes with understanding exactly what you’re looking at and what it means. The camera bounced between them and the water, allowing their expressions to carry the scene instead of overplaying it. That restraint worked because by the time everyone’s attention had been pulled toward the pool, the audience already knew the reveal was going to be ugly.

But the most effective shot was unquestionably Brennan himself, floating motionless in the water. There was something deeply unsettling about the stillness of it, especially after all the frantic reactions surrounding him. The blue water, his soaked clothes, and the eerie calm of his face created an image that was far more disturbing than anything more graphic could have been. It was the kind of shot that freezes the scene for a second and makes the audience absorb the full horror of what Charlotte, Danny, Ava, and Drew had just found.

Observations, Complaints & Unhinged Theories

Rocco and Scout are a cute pairing on General Hospital | Image: ABC

Rocco and Scout became the cutest pairing in Port Charles. Their scenes worked because the show did not force them into some giant romantic declaration before they were ready. They simply talked, listened to each other, and admitted that they felt understood in a way they were not getting from the adults around them. By the time they kissed, it felt earned instead of manufactured, which is downright refreshing in a town where most relationships usually arrive with blackmail, murder, or a disputed paternity test attached.

Curtis should make friends with Sidwell. They are already stuck sharing a cell, and Sidwell made it clear that Curtis could end up caught in the crossfire if Sonny’s prison connections come after him. Curtis does not have to trust the man, invite him to Thanksgiving, or exchange friendship bracelets, but there is a decent survival argument for keeping things civil. If your cellmate is a dangerous criminal with enemies everywhere, “let’s not murder each other” is probably a reasonable opening position.

Hopefully, Britt does not fall into Willow’s orbit. Britt was actually kind to Willow and offered some genuine perspective about love and missed chances, which was nice enough on its own. The concern is that Willow has become a kind of emotional black hole lately, pulling everyone around her into whatever crisis she is currently creating. Britt already has enough trouble involving Anna, Jason, Cassius, and the lingering damage from Cullum, so becoming Willow’s newest confidante could send her straight into somebody else’s mess.

Danny and Charlotte sneaking into the Metro Court pool was already asking for trouble before Brennan entered the picture. The pool was closed for the season, which meant they were trespassing in a place they had no business being, and then they discovered the dead head of the WSB floating in it. Their decision to simply run away and leave him there was completely insane, even allowing for teenage panic.

Jason immediately realizing Brennan’s room had been searched was a nice reminder that he actually notices things other people miss. Carly saw a disheveled room, but Jason started reading the scene and thinking about who had been there and what they might have wanted. That is the Jason who spent years surviving mob wars, assassins, kidnappings, and assorted Port Charles nonsense because he pays attention to details. Leaving the mafia does not mean he suddenly forgets how to read a room.

Hudson’s fascination with Brook Lynn’s baby stories is getting awfully specific. Most people can only hear so much about feeding schedules and infant milestones before their eyes glaze over, but Hudson keeps leaning in, asking questions, and showing real interest in Phoebe.

It was great that the show actually explained why Ava was wearing sneakers in the grave scene. Ava is usually dressed like she might be photographed at any moment, so seeing her trudge into the woods in sensible shoes could easily have looked like a random wardrobe choice. Instead, the show acknowledged that she had changed because she knew she might be doing something messy. Grave digging in designer heels would have been fabulous television, but terrible planning.

It was good to finally get more information about Joss’ WSB assignment at JJE. Until now, becoming CEO had felt like a convenient way to give her a corporate cover story, but Agent Baines finally explained that the WSB specifically wants access to JJE and its subsidiaries. That instantly makes the job more interesting because Joss is not just sitting behind a desk pretending to be a businesswoman. She is being positioned to get inside parts of the company that the WSB apparently cannot reach on its own.

Everything is getting more tangled because the people who should confide in someone are refusing to do so. Ava should probably tell Nina what happened with Brennan, especially now that Nina is trying to protect her from Drew without knowing what she is really protecting her from. Danny should absolutely tell Jason about finding Brennan’s body because Jason has the experience to understand the danger and keep his head. Port Charles characters love secrets right up until those secrets grow legs, dig themselves out of shallow graves, and start ruining everyone’s lives.

Chase is finally putting together Brook Lynn’s involvement in Curtis and Jordan’s accident, but there may still be another shoe waiting to drop. He has the timeline, Lucy’s shifting statement, Brook Lynn’s presence on Route 91, and now Trina has overheard enough to confront Brook Lynn herself. That makes this secret much harder to contain because Trina has a deeply personal stake in what happened to her father and Jordan. Still, Isaiah could somehow turn out to have caused the actual crash, which would be the kind of last-minute twist that blows up everybody’s assumptions at once.

Jason should absolutely still carry a gun. He may have left the mafia, but there is no retirement clause requiring decades of enemies to stop wanting him dead. Jason has been shot at, hunted, kidnapped, framed, and targeted more times than most people have changed phone plans. Going legitimate does not mean walking around Port Charles defenseless just to prove a philosophical point.

Epilogue

And so another week ended in Port Charles with one buried intelligence chief, one highly suspicious tick, one dog who appears qualified for both search-and-rescue and homicide investigation, one marriage wobbling under the weight of an old accident, and Anna standing in the dark beside a tarp with a firearm. Join us next time when Outback applies to the PCPD, Ava develops a sudden allergy to forests, Drew discovers that “nature preserve” does not mean “complimentary body storage,” and somebody finally asks whether the Metro Court laundry department has started charging extra for dead WSB directors.

General Hospital airs weekdays on ABC and streams on Hulu.