General Hospital Recap Jan 7: Martin is guilty, Gio is recruited, Drew threatens his way into court

In the General Hospital recap for Wednesday, January 7th, 2026, Drew threatened Alexis to testify, Trina and Kai enlist Gio’s help, Ezra wanted a commitment from Jacinda, and Alexis’ tipper-offer was revealed.

General Hospital Recap

At Lulu’s, Tracy was furious that she broke her promise to Monica to protect the family by being tricked. After some questions, Lulu helped her deduce that Alexis didn’t have proof, she was just tipped off and couldn’t use it in court as it would be hearsay.

Tracy realized that since she and Michael only ever talked at home about her seeing him at Drew’s the night of the shooting, that the informant was inside of her house and deduced it was Chase.

At the Port Charles Grill, Ezra couldn’t help himself but to bother Laura when he spotted her. Martin joined his sister and once alone, she told him how Kevin and Ace moved to Ireland. 

Laura cited needing to keep Ace safe as the reason for the move, but told him the threat was Valentin being on the loose since Ace was the Cassadine heir.

Tracy arrived and told Martin again that he’d better get her heirlooms back from jail or she could send him to prison. Martin said he would try to reach Drew again and then left.

Laura told Tracy she hoped they could move past what Martin did someday. Outside though, Martin had a flashback to overhearing Tracy and Michael talking in the Q kitchen about how she’d seen him at Drew’s on the night of the shooting.

Meanwhile, Jacinda met Ezra at his table. She was shocked when he said he wanted a real relationship with her. Jacinda tried to make excuses about her reputation being bad for her career, and that she thought she was getting fired from Crimson. 

When nothing deterred Ezra, Jacinda said she was moving away, and then she took off when he was at the bar.

Michael came home, upset, and Gio asked what was going on. Michael calmed down and talked to Gio, who offered his support with Wiley and Amelia. 

On his way out, Gio saw Kristina, who was coming to talk to Michael. Kristina told him that she found out about Alexis going after Michael but couldn’t get to him in time, so instead she tried to get Jacinda to leave town to protect him.

Michael told Kristina about Jacinda’s time on the stand. He said that although he hoped she hadn’t left town so they could work things out about Ezra and her testimony.

At the station, Dante wanted Nathan to go over every piece of evidence again. He needed to ensure an innocent woman wasn’t committed for a crime his brother may have committed. Dante said he no longer trusted himself on the case. 

Later, Nathan was reviewing the files when Molly came in for an update on the missing security footage. She said she was there on ADA Turner’s behalf, but when Nathan told her he was going through Michael’s phone records, she got a little snippity.

Molly reminded Nathan that Willow was the one on trial. Nathan asked Molly if she was speaking professionally or as someone related to Michael. 

Molly said she was relieved not to be on the case with so many people involved that she cared about, but she was there on behalf of Turner — who needed evidence on Willow to win in court. Nathan promised to leave no stone unturned.

Suzanne and Alexis were discussing the case when Drew and Willow came to her office and insisted they both wanted to testify. Alexis and Suzanne told them it was a bad idea.

Drew ranted about wanting to go after Michael and prove to the jury that Michael had a temper. When Alexis told him no, he threatened to keep Scout from her if she didn’t let him get on the stand.

At Trina’s apartment, Trina and Kai discussed what to do. She reminded him that their whole point of going to Drew’s that night was to help her parents, and since it’s a moot point now, they should stay out of it.

Trina told Kai that Josslyn had been there for him and she couldn’t bear hurting her by hurting Michael. Kai’s argument was that their silence could send an innocent person to jail.

Gio came over and they tried to finagle a way to get Gio to tell them if he knew what Michael’s ringtone for Wiley was. Eventually they had to tell him theywere trying to help Wiley’s mom.

Gio agreed to get involved by setting up a way to have Michael get a call from his son so they could determine if his ringtone was “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.”