One thing you’ve gotta say for General Hospital: The show is not afraid to take big swings. And we may have gotten a major hint about what its next one will be in the September 23 episode.

Fancy Meeting You Here

Since there are no coincidences in a daytime drama, we took notice when Dex made himself Molly’s drinking buddy and listened to her unload about all of the things that she wouldn’t get to do with ill-fated Irene. A flirtatious scene, it wasn’t. But…

Yes, there is a “but.” Every time, there is a “but.”

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At emotional rock bottom, Molly could one of these nights be moved to act on impulse and attempt to use Dex as a kind of pain reliever. Consider it sexual healing, if you will. It wouldn’t be the first time that she’d strayed from TJ, either. (Remember her hookup with Brando?)

What Was He *Thinking*?

Why would Dex sleep with Molly, though, when he’s so happily joined at the hip with Josslyn? He could get caught up in the moment. There could be drinks involved. He could be so eager to make Molly stop hurting that he opens himself up to a world of hurt.

As it is, things are pretty stable for Dex and Joss… perhaps too stable. Remember when she cheated on Cameron with Dex? At that point, Eden McCoy and then-leading man William Lipton “found [their on-screen relationship] a little boring… ” she said at the time. “We were together for a million years in soap opera terms, as I call it. Nothing was really happening [in our storyline].”

The Upside of a Downfall

Once Joss slept with Dex, McCoy and Lipton got some seriously meaty material into which they could sink their teeth. The same would be sure to happen for her and Evan Hofer, as well as Kristen Vaganos and Tajh Bellow. In the aftermath, we could be left with a bunch of anything-goes couplings: Dex and Molly, TJ and perhaps Willow, with whom Nina already thought her daughter was having an affair, and Joss and…

Hmm. Maybe, just maybe, the time is right for Cameron to come home from college and remind his ex of what she’s been missing. What do you think? Are Dex and Molly headed for an affair? Catch up on the relationship status of all the couples on General Hospital in the below photo gallery.