There are days when a character snaps. And then there are days when a character shows you who they’ve really been becoming, slowly, inch by inch, until the mask drops. On General Hospital, Drew didn’t just drop into Scrooge territory — he’s already been living there. Something about him feels winter-bitten now. Not the prison toughness, not the post-Carly bruising, but the calcified smugness of someone who’s convinced he’s owed restitution from the entire town. By the time he left Ned sprawled on the pavement, clutching his chest, you could almost hear the ghost of Edward Quartermaine muttering from the beyond: “Well, the boy learned it somewhere.”
Key Takeaways
- Drew’s cold dismissal of Ned mirrors Tracy’s infamous moment with Edward, revealing how far he’s slipped.
- His behavior at Crimson shows a growing pattern of suspicion, cruelty, and transactional thinking.
- Recent episodes frame Drew as a modern Scrooge, hinting that he’s sinking deeper rather than heading toward redemption.
The Echo of a Quartermaine Sin
The eerie thing about Drew’s (Cameron Mathison) laugh — that flat little bark when Ned (Wally Kurth) folded toward the ground — wasn’t just the cruelty. It was the déjà vu. Anyone who’s been around GH long enough remembers the night Tracy withheld Edward’s heart medication. That slow, chilling sequence where she stood over her own father and let him crawl toward his pills. Drew wasn’t in the room back then, but he replicated the beat almost note for note: the accusation, the refusal to believe the pain, the casual dismissal as someone begged for breath.
Ned buckled, gripping the chair like it was the last thing tethering him to earth, and Drew just smirked, tossed out that Edward-once-faked-it shrug, and limped off with a sense of satisfaction that didn’t look like anger anymore. It looked like rot; Quartermaine rot. The kind Tracy once swam in before she learned to live with the guilt of it.
The parallel wasn’t subtle. It wasn’t even shaded. GH staged it like a deliberate echo, a way of saying: this is who Drew has become, not by accident, but by choice. And it’s probably the clearest sign yet that the writers aren’t angling him toward redemption — they’re letting him sink a little deeper, letting him taste what it’s like to be the one who walks away.
Scrooge Energy, Full Stop
Earlier in Monday’s episode, you could already see the frost creeping in. The way he stalked into Crimson and flattened Jacinda (Paige Herschell) with that casual suspicion that she must’ve been bought. The way he snapped at Nina (Cynthia Watros), as if firing her once wasn’t enough of a bloodletting. Every interaction felt transactional — like people were bargaining chips instead of human beings — which is peak Ebenezer Scrooge.
Drew seems to have forgotten who he used to be. No compassion left for Ned. No hesitation in the cruelty. No warmth in the places he once poured it. Just the brittle edge of someone who’s built a new philosophy: hurt first, question later, empathize never. And if GH is really leaning into the Dickens parallel, then Drew’s only hope is a haunting — something big enough to shake the ice loose.
Until then? Port Charles is living with a Scrooge. And he’s not even pretending otherwise. (Find out why Drew’s also angry at Danny (Asher Antonyzyn)).
