Love her or hate her, General Hospital‘s Dark Willow is here to stay. That was abundantly clear at the end of Thursday’s episode in that downright chilling scene. She leaned down over a locked-in Drew, and made sure he could hear and understand exactly what she was saying to him.  When he blinked yes, she casually tucked his hands in his blanket as she talked, making clear without having to say it that she was in control of his body.

Then she just said it: He was now her captive audience, after all that time of him talking over her. “And you should know. It was me.” She leaned in even closer. “I’m the who shot you.” All Drew could do was blink “No” over and over, helplessly. It was threatening, it was cold, it was kind of terrifying. But it was nearly as terrifying to us as it was to Willow’s helpless captive!

Because that’s exactly what Drew is now. There’s nowhere for him to go, no way for him to tell anyone or ask for help. He’s at Willow’s mercy and after watching that, we don’t think she has much in her. If what happened to Drew was an accident, Willow’s confession might just be another way to torment him. It wouldn’t matter if he knew since she could never be tried again in the criminal justice system for attempted murder.

But since attacking Drew, injecting him, giving him a stroke and paralyzing his entire body is a huge crime in and of itself, this seems more like Willow’s toying with him before finishing him off for good. She has to know that if word got out that she shot Drew, folks would be very suspicious about Drew’s stroke and start looking into it and her. (Of course, little does she realize there are a few people already who know the truth.)

But there’s clearly no way Willow ever intends to let Drew tell anyone. And that means he’s living on borrowed time. Eventually, once she gets tired of toying with him and playing Misery, she’s going to have to kill him. It’s the only way to keep the secret safe forever.

His only hope is that Kai can accomplish what he’s setting out to do and keep Drew safe from Willow. Unfortunately for Drew, it might already be too late.