Redeeming Ava: How General Hospital Is Pulling Off the Impossible

General Hospital’s Ava Jerome had been evil incarnate since she stepped foot in Port Charles.

Murder? Check. Setting up someone else to take the fall? Check. Ordering hits and kidnappings? Check.

Then, Ava (Maura West) topped it all off by switching Morgan’s (Brian Craig) bipolar meds with placebos, leading to his downward spiral and inadvertently his eventual death.

To say redemption seemed impossible for the sinful siren is an understatement. Yet, somehow, General Hospital is pulling off the impossible in four carefully calculated steps.

Step 1: Up in Flames
After being confronted by Sonny (Maurice Benard) and Carly (Laura Wright) about her role in Morgan’s death, Ava admitted all and a fierce battle ensued between the threesome.

Desperate to take off before Sonny could exact revenge on her, Ava tossed a lit lantern at Carly — and the warehouse they were in went up in flames. While Sonny and Carly escaped, Ava was nearly killed and suffered major burns.

Step 2: Scar Face
Awakening in the hospital in excruciating pain, Ava begged Sonny, who snuck into her room, to end her miserable life. He refused, announcing that her pain and suffering was perfect payback for all her crimes.

The worst was yet to come. When Ava finally saw her hideously scarred face in a mirror, she cried out in horror, realizing it was her comeuppance — the punishment and fate she deserved.

Step 3: Enter Griffin
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Step 3: Enter Griffin
Determined to live her life alone in the confines of her apartment, Ava found solace in alcohol. Kiki (Hayley Erin) enlisted Griffin’s (Matt Cohen) help to reach her desperate mother. The doctor/priest lifted Ava’s spirits and coaxed her back to the land of the living.

He sensed her deep remorse and insisted that there was goodness inside her. However, when he rebuffed her advances, Ava had a temporary slip-up. She made a deal with Valentin (James Patrick Stuart) to have her face restored at a Russian clinic in exchange for recanting her statement that he killed Nikolas.

Step 4: Saving Jason
Just when it looked like evil, self-centered Ava was back, the tables suddenly turned again. She discovered Patient 6, unbeknownst to her possibly the real Jason Morgan (Steve Burton), was being drugged and held at the clinic against his will.

Although she was warned to stay away from him or be tossed out without receiving the surgery that would restore her face, Ava decided to do the right thing: help the troubled mystery man.

Imagine Sonny and Carly’s joy when Ava brings their best friend back to them? Suddenly, the wicked witch of PC will have come full circle to redemption.

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