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General Hospital’s Maurice Benard Playfully Reveals ‘Why I’m Not Smiling’ in Pic That Foreshadowed That Epic Sonny/Peter Face-Off
Friday, December 10th, 2021
It’s been a long time coming and a moment that won’t soon be forgotten.
Fans who watched the Wednesday, December 8, episode of General Hospital were treated to an amazing scene between Wes Ramsey and Maurice Benard when Sonny paid Peter a visit in jail to warn that he would be the one to kill him — and would smile knowing that he was dead once and for all. Even though Peter tried to threaten Sonny with information he had on him and Nina, a video of them kissing, it was clear that the villain was no match for the seasoned mob boss.
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Prior to the episode airing, Ramsey shared a photo with Benard to let his followers know just how much he admires his castmate and how deep his respect for him truly runs. “Honored by the opportunity to finally square off face to face after all these years,” he stated. “Getting to work together is definitely on my personal highlight reel for 2021. I know that we both hope you all enjoy it.”
Benard reposted the same photo and joked, “Please I need everyone to know Peter has kidnapped me. He has a gun to my ribs in this picture, that’s why I’m not smiling And he has that smirk. Please notify the authorities.”
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The only thing that would have made the scene better would have been if Sonny and Peter faced off outside of the jail without any restrictions between them. While Sonny wants to be the one to kill Peter — and who could blame him after what he did to Jason — there are many others out there who want to do the honor themselves. Could General Hospital already have dropped a killer clue as to who will be the one to finally take Peter down — for good? You be the judge!
We’d love to hear what you think, so feel free to leave your thoughts in the comment section then look through our photo gallery below filled with Peter’s many crimes, to which gives a few people ample reasons for wanting him dead.
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Image: Jill Johnson/JPI
1/21
<p>As sinfulness goes, you don’t get much worse than Helena Cassadine. Years before he ever came to Port Charles, Peter teamed up with Port Charles’ Wicked Witch to kidnap Jason and Drew. This diabolical duo kicked off the whole twin/conditioning/mind-swap/Patient 6/replacement/assassination debacle that took Jason away from us for five years and is still confusing us to this day. </p>
Image: ABC screenshot
2/21
<p>Nathan’s death wasn’t technically Peter’s doing… but he wasn’t exactly broken up about it, either. Peter (and Lulu, admittedly) published an article with the big reveal that Nathan was Faison’s son. They wanted to lure the criminal mastermind out of hiding and, well, it worked. When Faison reared his head, he took Maxie hostage and shot Nathan while the dashing cop tried to save her. Peter, we learned afterwards, was also Faison’s son. He gleefully informed his dastardly dad that he’d outmaneuvered him — and that Cesar had killed the wrong son! Eh, what’s a brother compared to revenge?</p>
Image: Jill Johnson/JPI
3/21
<p>While his culpability in Nathan’s death may have been a gray area (Maxie seemed to have no problem forgiving him and shacking up once her hubby was gone), for Obrecht at least, it was black-and-white. Peter killed her son. So Peter would pay. OK, OK, the grieving doc kidnapping Peter, holding him hostage and torturing him for weeks is not one of August’s misdeeds. But it <em>did</em> pretty much kick off their little game of tit for tat, so we’re throwing it in. </p>
Image: ABC/Nick Agro
4/21
<p>OK, so that wasn’t a thing, but Peter actually ingratiating himself to decent folks has <em>got</em> to be one of his most <em>heinous</em> crimes ever. No, sir, you do not get playtime with Violet and Anna. You are evil! Evil! Also, spoiler alert, Anna: Peter becomes a lot less cuddly once he turns out to be your nephew instead of your son. Get used to being tied up around him. </p>
Image: ABC screenshot
5/21
<p>Yes, he was blackmailed into it, but Peter still sprung Shiloh from prison. And that only ended after a hostage situation with 1-year-old Wiley being held at gunpoint. Do you know how traumatizing that can be to a developing child?! So yes, we’re putting the blame squarely on Peter. If he hadn’t been such a creep and helped Helena kidnap Jason, Shiloh wouldn’t have had any ammunition to blackmail him with in the first place. </p>
Image: ABC screenshot
6/21
<p>This one came in the form of Sam’s arrest. As if Shiloh’s escape wasn’t bad enough, Peter framed her for the jailbreak. That way, shooting the cult leader in the back with a flare gun (as Sam did at the end of their hostage standoff) seemed a lot less like self-defense and lot more like pre-meditated murder. She spent two months in prison for Peter’s crimes, then almost two years on parole. And we just <em>know</em> Peter slept like a baby the whole time.</p>
Image: Jill Johnson/JPI
7/21
<p>Fine. You caught us. This is actually from the Very Special <em>Christmas Carol</em> episode of <em>General Hospital</em>, wherein Peter played Ebenezer’s nephew, Fred. But we still feel very threatened. </p>
Image: ABC screenshot
8/21
<p>Dr. Andre Maddox had to perish for the crime of being too good at his job. The doc was one of the few people with the skill to stick Drew’s memories back in his head (from a flash drive, no less). And one of those memories was of Peter kidnapping him for Helena. So Peter hired a hitman to have Andre killed. Twice. We’d say that maybe he needed to hire better hitmen, but since Peter couldn’t even get the job done by tampering with Andre’s life support in the hospital, it’s probably good that he just gave up.</p>
Image: ABC screenshot
9/21
<p>Eventually, Drew’s pesky mind ended up in Franco’s head, giving us for a little while a FrankenDrew (or is that FrancoDrew?). That was almost as bad as the real thing, so Peter decided it was time for the addled artist to go. He ordered a hit, then called it off — by killing the hitman as Franco was getting his mind back. Sorry, henchman, loyalty isn’t Peter’s strong suit. </p>
Image: Jill Johnson/JPI
10/21
<p>In one of the least shocking developments ever, Spinelli did <em>not </em>take to Peter honing in on Maxie and cozying up to his daughter. But Spinelli’s plot to expose the villain for what he was backfired when Peter figured it out. And all we can say to that is: How <em>dare</em> Peter threaten to crush our favorite computer whiz? The man’s so squishy! (We mean that in the fondest, cuddliest way possible, Spinelli.) </p>
Image: ABC screenshot
11/21
<p>Eventually, Peter’s Drew obsession paid off when one of his henchmen hijacked the guy’s plane, leaving everyone believing the lost Quartermaine had died. (Off screen, with no body, which… c’mon people!) But then Peter topped off the whole thing by framing Obrecht for Drew’s death — along with the attempts on Franco and Andre’s lives! We guess it was the least he could do after that little torture incident. It took about nine months and a stint in the Hague to clear her name, but when Obrecht finally came home, she was itching to get right back at Peter!</p>
Image: ABC screenshot
12/21
<p>Peter, if we’re being honest, is not very good at killing people. So to see him actually succeed with Franco, of all people, was a shock. When the tortured artist eventually regained Drew’s memories, he knew that “I have a (presumed) dead man’s memories in my head from a flash drive” wasn’t exactly a legal silver bullet. So he kidnapped Peter to force a confession. Franco got one, but then Peter escaped, shot him and left him to bleed out in his own art studio. Sigh.</p>
Image: ABC screenshot
13/21
<p>Since Jason was the first person to find Franco’s body, it just made sense to pin the murder on him. So Peter worked with Cyrus to send the hitman up the river, and it worked brilliantly. Honestly, though, Jason seemed to have a little too much fun with it. After being stabbed and shot in Pentonville, he ran off to become a Canadian fugitive with Britt. File that under words we never thought we’d write. </p>
Image: ABC screenshot
14/21
<p>Ticked off by Aunt Anna, Peter wanted to get revenge by taking out her beau, Finn. To that end, he bribed a waiter to slip some poison into the doc’s drink… but a mixup poisoned Chase instead. That resulted in months of drama, culminating in Chase flatlining after marrying Willow on his deathbed. At least he survived. Which is more than we can say about his marriage to Willow.</p>
Image: ABC Screenshot
15/21
<p>Remember when Maxie gave birth to Louise in the woods because her nurse turned out to be a psychopathic imposter hired by Peter to kidnap his babymama, induce labor and give him the opportunity to run off with both of them? Well, Maxie certainly does.</p>
Image: ABC
16/21
<p>Peter was one of the few people aware that Sonny was alive and well in Nixon Falls, suffering from amnesia and going by the name “Mike.” And Peter chose to tell no one. Partly, that was because he learned the truth while stalking Maxie, but mainly it was to give him leverage with which to blackmail Nina. And since she kept the “Mike” secret for <em>months</em>, maybe Peter was the lesser of two evils in this case.</p>
Image: ABC screenshot
17/21
<p>OK, scratch that part about Peter being the lesser of two evils. He’s just plain evil. Once discovered, Nina tried sending her blackmailer off into a trap set up by her Auntie Liesl. It failed. So Peter returned to the Tan-O and went scorched earth on Nina. Literally. He tied her and poor Phyllis up and burned the bar down around them for revenge. Good thing he’s not very good at actually killing people — they both survived.</p>
Image: ABC
18/21
<p>Unlike Sam, we don’t have much to say here. Dante tried to kill Peter while under Obrecht’s mind control, but honestly, we just wanted to include a pic of the baddy getting yelled at by Jason and Drew’s sometime wife. Enjoy. </p>
Image: ABC
19/21
<p>By now, Peter is irredeemably evil. (At least <em>we</em> think he’s irredeemable. <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/gallery/general-hospital-villains-redeemed-photos-sonny-sam-carly/" target="_blank">Stranger things have happened</a>.) Drew’s been held in Victor Cassadine’s Greek island dungeon for years (and denied access to a shirt, the poor guy!), and Obrecht’s been hijacked over there, too. And… Did we mention that Peter’s evil now? </p>
Image: ABC Screenshot
20/21
<p>Working with Victor was bad enough, but then Peter had to one-up him and prove who was the real criminal mastermind. When Victor decided that his young partner was getting a bit too big for his britches, he tried to have him killed… only for Peter to turn the tables — and the Cassadine henchmen — on their boss! That is impressive. Horrible… but impressive. </p>
Image: ABC Screenshot
21/21
