Not So Fast: General Hospital Throws a Last-Minute Curveball Into Sam’s Exit Storyline
In the next episode of General Hospital, it’s not too late for Sam to change her mind about donating part of her liver to boyfriend Dante’s ex-wife, Lulu — and she’d have every reason to do so.
Turns out, even with the transplant, a blood clot has lessened Lulu’s odds of survival from slim to… well, even slimmer. (Read the recap.)
Desperate, in the October 21 episode, Lucky recruited reluctant pal Isaiah to scrub in and perform not only the surgery but a miracle.
But that doesn’t mean that Sam has to go along with this Hail Mary play. In fact, in the latest preview, she’s surprised to discover that Isaiah will now be performing the operation.
Given all that Sam has to live for — her kids, her relationship, her sisters, her whole future — she’d have no choice but to rethink whether she wants to go through with the donation.
If there’s almost no chance of Lulu pulling through, what’s the point of Sam risking her life and health?
Of course, given the sneak peek we got at what comes later (see the photo here), we know that Sam ultimately decides that she can’t back out.
In the Thursday, Oct. 24, episode, her friends and family gather round as she prepares to go under the knife. (Spoilers here.) As the week ends, mom Alexis is awaiting news.
Unfortunately, there’s only one way that the news she’ll receive will be the good kind — and that’s if this promo really comes to pass. (Watch it here.)
General Hospital’s Sam… Lives? Kelly Monaco’s Response: ‘Bravo’
It would seem that Sam McCall’s fate is sealed. Kelly Monaco has even finished working at General Hospital.
Rumors have started swirling that Cyrus Renault kills her character by injecting digitalis into her IV after she undergoes surgery to donate part of her liver to boyfriend Dante Falconeri’s comatose former wife, Lulu Spencer.
But #IStandWithKelly fans aren’t giving up without one hell of a fight.
They’ve parked the “phoenix on wheels” truck outside the soap’s studio once again and are playing on a loop their own promo video in which it is revealed that Sam isn’t nearly as dead as everyone thinks.
(They even cleverly wove in clips of new Lulu Alexa Havins from other shows to make her a part of the mix.)
🐦🔥WHAT IF… THE PHOENIX ON WHEELS WAS BACK🐦🔥
That’s right, our truck is back at Prospect Studios and ABC/Disney. Here is what we have playing on an 8-hour loop! As always, we added sound just for you!
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— I STAND WITH KELLY (@IStandWithKelly) October 18, 2024
Although at this point, it seems unlikely that General Hospital will reverse its decision — we’d bet on Monaco being reunited on a different show with an ex-leading man of hers — the actress was deeply moved by the elaborate gesture. “Thank you,” she tweeted. “Y’all are the best, most loyal people ever!!!
“It doesn’t go unnoticed… at least by me,” she added. “Bravo!”
In late August, the news broke that the fan fave had been let go by ABC’s soap after 20+ years. The reason?
Unclear. Fans speculated that perhaps she hadn’t been willing to take the cut in pay or guaranteed number of episodes that was being implemented by parent company Disney across the board. But Soap Opera Network reported that she said, “I took the cut.”
Two months later, Monaco linked her exit to that of the late Billy Miller as Drew Cain in 2019. When he “was fired,” she Instagrammed, “Sam’s storyline stopped.
Stripping Sam of every characteristic she had. Something I worked for decades to build… Slowly dismantling her, into a character that I did not recognize, let alone the audience. Call it what you will… retaliation at it[s] finest.”