Whoo boy, General Hospital isn’t just having its cake and eating it, too, these days, it’s going back for second and third helpings. On one hand, you have Sonny running around free as a bird and no one even wondering anymore who murdered Cates in cold blood. On the other, you have Sonny running around free as a bird and promising daughter Kristina that if the justice system fails her, he won’t.

Translation: If the court doesn’t punish Ava, he will.

Before we dive into the implications of his not-even-veiled, much less thinly-veiled threat, let’s all take a minute to stop laughing about Port Charles’ longest-running criminal even speaking the words “the justice system.”  Everybody ready? Cool. So what we are left with is another storyline in which Sonny is planning to send Ava for a swim with the fishes. And yet somehow he is still considered the show’s hero, not its foremost villain. Amazing, right? (Just look at his rap sheet!)

Now, will the mobster really add Avery’s mother to his list of kills, which also includes Michael’s father A.J. and damn near his own son, Dante? Doubtful. If the powers that be were going to take away another of Ava’s nine lives, they would have done so before the writer switch, when half of Port Charles wanted her dead for messing with Sonny’s meds, outing Natalia as a homophobe, getting Alexis’ law license revoked…

But we could still be hurtling toward a “Who tried to kill Ava?” mystery. And if so, Sonny would be far from the only suspect. Take a look at the below list of suspects, all of whom would be only too happy to dance on Ava’s grave.