General Hospital: Night Shift Spoiler Alert!

Robert Scorpio - used to dealing with enemy agents and angry ex-lovers on General Hospital - faces cancer when he checks into General Hospital: Night Shift tonight.

Tristan Rogers, pictured, who has played Scorpio for nearly 20 years here and there, told The Knox News that the decision to give his character a life-threatening illness wasn't an easy one.

"I got a call and they said, 'We have this great story. Do you want to do Night Shift? I came in, and we started talking about it," Rogers said. "Everyone got nervous because he comes back with a health issue," Rogers says. "I don't look at it that way. It's one more problem he has to go through in life. He deals with it."

Crucial to the story will also be the dynamic between Scorpio and his grown daughter, Robin (Kimberly McCullough). She'll be his doctor.

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