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Apr 10, 2008 04:40
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Tracy: Luke, i didn't expect you back so early.
Luke: No? Since when do you serve tea to out-of-towners?
Claudia: Seems tracy would like to pay me to stay out of your life. Thing is, i don't need the money, and i don't much feel like going.
Lulu: I have kate howard for ms. Donner. One moment.
[Doorbell rings]
kate: Hi, celeste, how are you?
Sonny: Is she here?
Kate: Ok, great, could you just send me an email on that? Yes, i'll have someone on my end take care of it. I -- celeste, i actually have to run. Thank you.
Kate: Hey.
Sonny: Hey.
Kate: How are you? How's michael?
Sonny: I haven't seen him.
Patrick: The nature of michael's injury is severe. Although it was a successful surgery, there's a strong likelihood that michael will never wake up from the coma.
Carly: No.
Patrick: Carly, i wish i had better news, but i don't.
Jason: Carly --
carly: You're wrong. Michael is getting better. He's getting better. I am his mother. I can tell he's getting better.
nadine: So this is why you wanted me to stay, to play trains?
Nikolas: [Laughter] no, i got it for spencer's birthday, but i don't know how to put it together.
Nadine: I guess it's greek to you, huh?
Nikolas: What? Excuse me?
Nadine: The expression "it's Greek to me" -- it's what people say when they don't understand something.
Nikolas: Oh, right. Yeah, yeah, except i actually speak Greek and Russian and a couple of others.
Nadine: You do not. Ok, say something to me in Russian.
Nikolas: Ok, um -- [speaks Russian]
nadine: Wow, i'm impressed. And i couldn't agree more.
Nikolas: Do you know what i said?
Nadine: Absolutely.
Nikolas: Well, then what was it?
Nadine: You said, "put this train together and i will give you a pony." No problem. We just need a little common sense and a channel lock wrench. Oh, right. Yeah, we have one just like this in pedes, actually. Every dad should build his kid a train set. So this is going to be easy. I just need a philips head.
Nikolas: A who? Who's philip?
Nadine: A philips head screwdriver. Ok, just give me the toolbox.
Nikolas: I'll ask alfred about that.
Nadine: Alfred?
Nikolas: The butler.
Nadine: Oh.
Nikolas: Alfred, could you -- could you come in here, please? Right, ok, thanks. It's going to take a few minutes. He's breaking in the new chef.
Nadine: Oh. Well, while we're waiting for alfred, why don't you learn a thing or two?
Nikolas: Ok. Where do you suppose this goes?
Nadine: It's sort of like a jigsaw puzzle. You've had those, right?
Nikolas: Yeah, yeah, i had them as a kid, so?
Nadine: Good, so it's not really about the specific piece. You just want to look at the shape of it and then try to find another one with the same shape. So look for a male and female.
Nikolas: What?
Nadine: The male part fits into -- i mean, come on --
nikolas: Oh, right, ok.
Nadine: You must have learned this in basic woodshop, right?
Nikolas: No, no, no, i didn't. I never had woodshop at school.
Nadine: Well, it was either that or home ec, and i can't really see you baking a tuna casserole, so you must have taken something.
Nikolas: I only attended public school for a couple of months. The rest of my education has been from private tutors.
Nadine: Hmm. Well, looks like i'm going to have to give you a crash course on everything you should've learned in high school. Here.
Kate: Lulu, you're done here for the day. Just run these errands, and then check back with me later. You can go.
Lulu: I'm praying for michael, sonny. Johnny didn't do it. He was with me at the haunted star when it happened.
Kate: We're done here, lulu.
[Door closes]
kate: I am trying to remember if i was that obsessed with myself and my boyfriend at her age.
Sonny: Well, she probably saw me tear into jason at the hospital about not doing his job going after the zaccharas, so it probably made her a little nervous.
Kate: What can i get you?
Sonny: I just wanted to see you.
Kate: You want to tell me why you're not with michael?
Sonny: I did it all wrong. Now i can't go see my son without making it worse for carly.
Carly: Michael's color has been better since this morning. Jason noticed it, too. Jason, tell him.
Jason: It seems like it.
Carly: Yes.
Robin: Michael's blood pressure has risen since the surgery. That means he'll have a little bit more color in his cheeks, but he still may not wake up.
Carly: I didn't ask your opinion. And you of all people -- you don't have a say in this.
Robin: Page me if you need me.
Carly: And you, the brilliant dr. Drake -- you can either tell me now that you believe in my son, because if you don't i'll find someone who does.
Alexis: I will sit with you, but i'm not going to have a drink. It would be highly inappropriate, and then i have to go over to sonny's and question him about michael.
Diane: We have a police commissioner and several very handsome detectives. Let them do their job.
Alexis: He needs special handling.
Diane: Sonny is my client. I promise you he's not going anywhere.
Alexis: You're a very bad influence.
Diane: Yes, i'm a very, very bad influence. You are wound tight as a drum, you're terrified for your children, you're incapable of rational thought. In short, alexis, you're an utter mess. You need a drink. You need a double. You will thank me for this later.
Coleman: Ladies, what can i get for you?
Diane: What's it going to be, sweet and sticky or down and dirty?
Alexis: I'll have a glass of chardonnay.
Coleman: Chardonnay, and why don't you let me make you one of my specialties?
Diane: Why don't i let you do that?
Coleman: What do you say?
Diane: Ok.
Coleman: You like that?
Diane: You know, i have to admit this. Every once in a while when i am dozing off over a warm copy of "equitable remedies: Restitution and damages," i think about him.
Alexis: Good god, diane.
Diane: Oh, please. From the top of his tousled head to the tips of his steel-toed cowboy boots, this man is a pure dose of testosterone.
Alexis: You're out of your mind.
Diane: Well, come on. I mean, once -- you know -- once we're done, i would show him to the door politely and firmly. A man like this, once he's served his purpose, there's really no need to keep hi around.
Alexis: I hope you're speaking hypothetically.
Diane: It's pure speculation. It's just that it's been so long between drinks of water. Oh, give me a break. You can't tell me that he hasn't crossed your mind at least once or twice.
Coleman: Here we go.
Alexis: Twice.
Diane: Why, mr. Coleman, are you trying to get me drunk?
Coleman: Oh, not to worry, lady lawyer. I'll see you make it home safe. Sweet and sticky.
Diane: Excuse me?
Coleman: Yeah. The drink.
Diane: Oh.
Coleman: Sweet and sticky. I chose sweet and sticky.
Diane: Yes, well, i'm -- no surprise.
Coleman: Yeah. Shame, shame.
Alexis: You know what? I am a mess. You're absolutely right.
Diane: Mm-hmm.
Alexis: And i need to talk, so i hope you don't mind. In fact, i don't care if you mind because i'm going to talk anyway.
Diane: You go right ahead. I'm just going to be sitting here sipping on our sweet-and-sticky.
Alexis: You know, i'm obsessed about michael and everything that happened here with sonny. I -- i feel so upset for carly. I can't even imagine what sonny is going through. Yes, actually, i can, and you know what i'm worried about? That i'm going to go over there, and i'm going to just snap like a twig. I'm this tangled-up mess, and i'm going to unravel right on him and tell him that it is all his fault. He created this. He's a danger to everyone around him. This was bound to happen. Everybody knew it, and i don't wish it -- i don't wish that it happened, but it did, and it's inevitable.
Diane: That's harsh. It's true, but it's harsh.
Alexis: The truth is i'm maddest at myself. Because i'm the one who's really responsible for this. I created it. I knew who he was, and i did it anyway. I went there anyway. I slept with this man, and i had his baby, and as a result, we have this beautiful, beautiful, beautiful little girl. And there's finally proof that having sonny as her father could get her shot.
Luke: Are you sure you want to do this now, popsicle?
Claudia: You call her "popsicle"?
Luke: When she's bad, i call her spanky buns.
Claudia: What does she call you?
Tracy: Deluded for having anything to do with you. I know what lulu means to you, luke, so i'm going to paint you a little picture, ok? There's a boy lying in a hospital bed with his skull shattered. Now, imagine for a moment that that child is not michael corinthos, but it's lulu -- battered, broken, and near death -- because that's what you're going to have to live with if you allow john access to lulu.
Carly: What michael needs is for us to be positive. I mean, look at you. Look how amazing you are, and the doctors didn't give you a chance. And i was shot. It's possible, jason. Everything is possible. And michael knows that, don't you, baby? Don't you? Those doctors don't know you like i know you, and i know you're going to wake up and you're going to prove them all wrong.
Mike: Hey.
Carly: Hey.
Mike: Lulu called me last night, but i -- i thought i'd give things a chance to settle a little.
Carly: Look who came to see you, baby. Grandpa mike's here.
Mike: Are you sure it's ok?
Carly: Yeah, talk to him. I want him to hear your voice.
Mike: Uh -- did sonny take a break? I mean, maybe i could get him a cup of coffee or something.
Carly: Sonny left the hospital last night, and i haven't seen him since.
Kate: Why would you even question whether you should be with michael?
Sonny: Well, you saw me in the hospital unloading on jason. I -- i pretty much said it was his fault that michael got shot.
Kate: You were emotional, sonny.
Sonny: Carly holds me responsible. She's right.
Kate: What carly said was in the heat of the moment. You both said things out of the worst kind of pain and fear, and what matters, sonny, is that you have a child -- michael -- and he needs you.
Sonny: I got to do what's right by my son. I don't know how to do that anymore! Claudia: Old "spanky buns" there certainly has a flair for the dramatic, doesn't she?
Tracy: Lulu's life is in danger. Hanging around with johnny is a tragic headline waiting to happen.
Luke: If lulu chooses to hang with trouble, there is nothing i can do to stop her.
Claudia: But i do like how "popsicle" there uses lulu as a cover for being jealous of me.
Tracy: You are a bug on my headlight. You are something stinky on the bottom of my shoe. The only point of this conversation is my stepdaughter, lulu.
Lulu: What are you guys talking about?
Luke: Your favorite subject, princess -- you.
Claudia: Your stepmother would like to pay me to get john to sell his shares of the haunted star, but something tells me that's not going be ok with john. Have a good day.
Lulu: Um, claudia, i actually saw sonny this morning, and i told him that johnny had nothing to do with michael's shooting.
Claudia: Why are you telling me this?
Lulu: Because i think sonny heard me.
Claudia: Good. I hope you're right.
Tracy: I rest my case. If you don't get lulu away from john zacchara, she's going to be mobroadkill.
Alexis: I don't get it. I honestly don't get it. We are intelligent women. Why do we keep being drawn to these narcissistic, impenechable --
diane: "Impenetrable."
Alexis: Cliched meatheads?
Diane: It's one of the great mysteries of the ages, my dear.
Alexis: I mean, we're smart. For God's sake, we're insightful. We're attractive.
Alexis: We have very good taste.
Alexis: And -- and we fall into these patterns, these predictable, boring patterns.
Diane: Oh, god, alexis, tell me i'm not becoming a cliche.
Alexis: You're walking a fine line. We all are. You, me, kate howard --
diane: Who, by the way, has fallen into the same miserable trap.
Alexis: We both should be smart enough to know that getting involved with sonny will only lead to heartache and gunshot wounds.
Diane: But a man like sonny is tremendous in bed. I mean, not sonny specifically. Not that i -- not that i would know, you know, or ever want to find out or anything. It's just, a man like that is, you know, passionate and insatiable.
Alexis: Stop it! You know what's wrong with that, is that they're the ones that are in control. I don't want them to be in control. I want to be in control. I want us to be in control for once!
Diane: Then why do you keep picking the same kind of guy?
Sonny, ric, jerry jacks.
Alexis: He's a client, with an accent.
Diane: You know what i think? I think we need to get in touch with our inner rebel and find a safer way to satisfy it.
Alexis: Fine, got any ideas?
Diane: Yeah, let's buy hogs. Let's buy big, fat harleys.
Alexis: I don't have time to buy a harley. I have to question sonny. Oh --
diane: Whoa, whoa. No, no, no, no, you need to get a cab.
Alexis: Why, so you can go home with coleman?
Diane: Fine, we'll split the cab fare.
Alexis: Chicken. [Clucks]
patrick: Ladies.
Alexis: How's michael?
Patrick: You want the truth or the carly version?
Diane: What does that mean?
Patrick: Carly thinks michael's going to be fine. I have learned to not get between a mother and her instincts.
Carly: It doesn't surprise me at all that robin would give up on michael, but i expected more from dr. Drake. I mean, you don't possibly believe -- look at me, jason. Tell me you haven't given up on michael.
Apr 10, 2008 04:48
Jason: I -- I know that doctors don't know everything.
Carly: Yeah. I mean, you survived the impossible. You made it through your accident, and no one thought you would. Doctors are wrong all the time, and they're wrong about Michael. He's going to wake up. He's going to wake up. You are.
Sonny: I had to fight for michael, I had to fight the Quartermaines. But I knew that I would be his father because it was a -- it was a fact of my life. We were great together.
Sonny: One day, right, he looked up at me, and he -- I was -- I was tucking him in, all right, and I was telling him that he's going to be safe and, you know, that I loved him and all. So as I was walking away, he said, "Dad, I love you." And that was the first time he had ever said that to me, and I thought my chest was going to explode. I never -- after hearing him say that, I -- that was when I realized what it means to be a father.
Kate: I am not going to get that because it can't be that important.
Sonny: No, no, get it, get it. It's ok. I'll be fine. It's all right, i'm fine.
Mike: Hey. Oh, you are here. Well, this is terrific.
Mike: So i go by your house, certain i'm going to find you drowning in alcohol or god knows whatever, and milo tells me you're over at kate's. Now, what the hell is wrong with you?
Kate: Ok, mike, just stop it.
Mike: No, wait a minute. Your -- your son is lying unconscious in a hospital, and max and milo are more torn up about it than --
kate: Oh, i don't think you want to go there, mike. I don't think you want to talk about fathers who turn their backs on their sons. Now, this is my house. You either apologize to sonny right now, or you can get the hell out.
Nikolas: Look who's up from his nap.
Nadine: Hi.
Nikolas: Look what we got. Look what we got for you. Isn't that neat? Trains. You love trains.
Nadine: I thing you two are going to be spending a lot of time with this train set.
Nikolas: Well, we couldn't have done it without you -- i know it fell.
Nadine: You got that right, although i'm sure alfred would've helped. He seems very handy.
Nikolas: He is. Hand me that train right there.
Nadine: Oh, yeah.
Nikolas: I got it.
Nadine: Do you want to do this? See how they go like that?
Lulu: Who i date is nobody's business, especially yours, and my dad will back me up on that.
Luke: Yes, i will. Who you date is nobody's business.
Lulu: Thank you. So, if we could change the subject forever, that would be wonderful.
Luke: Before we do, let's discuss the concept of dating. Dating is going out to dinner and a movie, going dancing, or a concert, having sex or not. That's dating. When you spend your morning negotiating a truce between two rival factions of organized crime, that's not dating. That's insanity! You've put yourself in the middle of a mob war. That's not dating, that's stupid. When you refuse to see danger right in front of your face, that's stupidity. And i didn't raise my kids to be stupid!
Lulu: Oh. But you forget, you didn't raise us.
Luke: Next time it's not going to be michael corinthos laying in a hospital bed with a bullet in his brain. It's going to be you.
Lulu: I don't even know if i want to be with johnny, but if i don't it will not be because i'm afraid.
Carly: Hey, you know what i was thinking? I was thinking that when you wake up you're probably going to have to stay in the hospital for a while. And it's most likely going to be a few good weeks of physical therapy. So i wanted to make this room like home. I thought i could go get your little tv and your dvd player and go pick out your favorite movies. And then i thought that i could go to the library and check out a whole bunch of books because i know how much you love to read. And then i realized that i should probably go and buy all those books because then we could donate them to the hospital library. It'd be very important for us to give things to people, you know, who are -- who are less fortunate than you are.
Carly: I just thought that you would like that a lot.
Jason: Hey. I spoke to monica's doctor at rehab, and she -- she doesn't know what happened. I should -- i should go tell her.
Carly: That should be me. That should be me. I should be filled with all monica's pain and anger. With all the lies i told, all the choices i made, where i thought it would be for michael's good.
Carly: Look how smart i was, jason. Look what a good mother i've been. He's in this bed because of the choices i've made.
Jason: You didn't do this alone, carly. I've made choices, too. I'm as responsible as you are.
Jason: Are you going to be ok if i go?
Carly: Yeah. Michael and i are going to be ok, aren't we, baby?
Kate: Sonny isn't with michael because of carly.
Carly is angry. She is looking for someone to blame, and that someone is sonny because michael was with us when he got shot.
Sonny: Kate, kate, let me just talk to him.
Kate: No, sonny, mike needs to understand that you are staying away from michael out of respect for his mother.
Mike: Kate's right. You're right. I'm sorry that i jumped on you. And i get that you're concerned about carly, but however well-intentioned your reasons, staying away is a mistake. Michael needs to hear your voice. Sonny, carly is yelling at doctors, she's clinging to jason, and it's horrible. But michael needs his father.
Sonny: You don't know. It's not that easy, mike. What do you want me to say to you?
Mike: Of course it's not easy! He's fighting for his life. But, damn it, don't make the same mistake i did, sonny. Don't justify pulling away from your own kid, because i promise you, if you're not there for him right now when he needs you the most, you're going to hate yourself for the rest of your life. Now, you need to get over there, and you've got to fight for your child. Nadine: There you go.
Nikolas: Excuse me.
Nadine: What's wrong?
Nikolas: Norma, could you come in the study, please, and get spencer for me? Thank you.
Nadine: Are you ok?
Nikolas: Thank you, thank you for helping us. Spencer, thank nadine, honey. She has to go now.
Nadine: Emily's here.
Nikolas: We'll play with the trains another time, ok? Ok? Promise. Excuse me, excuse me.
Nadine: Uh-huh.
Nikolas: Hi, norma, would you take him upstairs for me?
Norma: Of course, Mr. Cassadine.
Nikolas: Thank you.
Nadine: Emily's here, isn't she? Yeah, i can always tell. You were having such a good time, and then --
Nikolas: I did, i did. I had a wonderful time, and i'm grateful for everything, really. But i'm going to have to ask you to leave.
Nadine: Yeah. As my grandpa used to say, "here's your hat, what's your hurry?" Yeah, a girl can hardly refuse an offer like that, so, uh, thanks for everything, nikolas. I'll see you later.
Nikolas: Ok.
Emily: Nikolas, you shouldn't have done that.
Nikolas: I missed you.
[Phone rings]
Robin: Hello?
[Music plays]
Patrick: Hello.
Robin: Patrick?
Patrick: Robin.
Robin: Where are you?
Patrick: Wherever i am.
Robin: You're at jake's.
Patrick: Ok, that's a little bit creepy. What, can you see through the phone now, or something?
Robin: Uh, the jukebox, pool table, and you're drunk.
Patrick: I am considerate and caring and, yes, i've had a couple drinks. I'm a little drunk.
Robin: All very positive traits. Did you call me for a reason?
Patrick: I was just wondering if you needed anything, like maybe a father for your baby, or something.
Robin: That's not funny.
Patrick: Ok, well, how about some ice cream and ribs for old times' sake?
Robin: You know what, i think i'm ok right now. But that is very caring, considerate, and slightly drunk of you to ask. How about you?
Patrick: How about me?
Robin: Do you need anything?
Patrick: Yes, so i'll talk to you sometime.
Robin: Wait. What do you need?
Patrick: Coleman, hit me.
Claudia: This one's on me.
Carly: Hey, baby. Let's surprise jason. He's going to be back here soon, and wouldn't it be so great if he walked in here and you were awake? Just squeeze my hand, michael, ok?
Sonny: Carly --
Carly: Just squeeze --
Sonny: Can he squeeze your hand?
Carly: He's getting stronger.
Sonny: Can i spend some time with him?
Carly: Yeah, i'm sure he would like to hear your voice. But we're only allowing family in here.
Kate: Oh, i'll stay out of the way.
Sonny: No, carly, kate's part of my life. She cares about michael. I want her here. I've been respectful of your feelings. Can you do the same for me?
Carly: I'm going to go stretch my legs.
Kate: Carly -- carly, please wait. I want you to know that i'm truly sorry for what you are going through. And under any other circumstance, i would stay away rather than have my presence upset you.
Carly: So why are you here?
Kate: Because michael's father is going through his own pain. And if sonny needs me here, i guess that's something we all have to get used to. Patrick: Do you have a relationship with your father?
Claudia: My father is a psychotic murderer. What's not to love?
Patrick: You know, you're wrong about robin on pretty much every level. She's smart, strong, she hasn't let h.I.V. Ruin her life. She's got a ton of courage.
Claudia: I just think that it's selfish to risk passing h.I.V. To a little baby. But, hey, that's just me. You guys are so in love, why don't you adopt or, you know, use a surrogate?
Patrick: She wants to carry, nurture, and feed and grow a baby. Modern medicine says she can do it with minimal risk.
Claudia: And you're ok with that?
Patrick: I never wanted to be a father. Not because of h.I.V., Just because. That's why we broke up.
Claudia: Why did you get back together?
Patrick: A one-night stand and a defective condom.
Claudia: Oh, my God, you think that was a coincidence, don't you? You were set up.
Patrick: You know, that's probably your style, but it's not robin's.
Claudia: No, hey, it's classic. She probably timed your reunion to hit her cycle just right. See, now she's got the baby that she wanted and the baby-daddy -- that would be you -- under her thumb. Look, face it, the girl's not much for looks or personality, but she's got you snowballed. God, under her thumb.
Robin: Oh, no. You're in more trouble than i thought.
Monica: Jason. Hello.
Jason: Hi, how you doing?
Monica: Um, well, i'm better. I mean, it's one day at a time, as they say.
Jason: So, they're -- i mean, they're helping you? You trust them?
Monica: Well, i guess i'm learning to. I -- i think my biggest problem is learning to trust myself.
Jason: This isn't all your fault, monica.
Monica: Well, it was my decision to drink.
Jason: You lost two people you loved.
Monica: Yes, but i certainly could've handled it in a much different way.
Jason: Some things hurt so bad that you can't carry them alone.
Monica: Has something happened?
Jason: Michael was shot.
Monica: Oh, my god.
Jason: I mean, he's alive, but he's in a coma.
Monica: Who's the doctor?
Jason: Patrick drake. Robin's been consulting.
Monica: Tell me, please, tell me what happened.
Jason: Um -- oh, gosh. Sonny took michael to the coffee warehouse to --
Monica: Oh --
Jason: Just to watch this big shipment come in, and then somebody took a shot at sonny and they hit michael.
Monica: Where did he hit him? Oh, jason.
Jason: They don't think he's going to wake up.
Monica: Oh, baby. I'm sorry.
[Monitor beeps]
Kate: You should talk to him.
Sonny: Hey, buddy. It's your daddy. I love you so much. Your mom and i are never going to leave you. We're going to be waiting right here for you. We're actually going to be taking -- we're actually going to be taking turns, so that way when you wake up and open your eyes, we're going to be right here waiting for you. You remember i promised you a long time ago --
Sonny: That i would never leave you? Well, that stands today, because i'm your father, and you are not getting rid of me that easy. Because you are the very best part of me.
Alexis: How is he?
Sonny: His mother says he's getting better. Do we have to do this right now? Please?
Alexis: It'll only take a minute.
Kate: Sonny, i think that they can get their investigation going and they can find the monster who did this.
Det. Harper: This is what we know. You and your son and ms. Howard were on the loading docks. Your people were unloading a shipment of beans, you had talked to the customs agents. Nothing unusual.
Sonny: No, i just -- it was -- the shipment was bigger than usual. That's all, there's nothing different about the whole situation.
Det. Harper: Did you have any sign that there was a shooter?
Sonny: I saw a reflection. I looked up, there was a rifle. So i didn't think, i just reacted. I -- kate was right in front of me. I grabbed her, threw her to the ground because i didn't want her to be in the line of fire again.
Carly: You bastard.
Carly: You protected kate instead of protecting your own son?
>> On the next "General Hospital" --
Emily: You're going to die because you're afraid to live without me?
Nikolas: Yeah.
Elizabeth: If something like this had happened to jake, i wouldn't want to live.
Carly: You don't deserve to be a parent. You are not Michael's
Apr 11, 2008 04:37
Nikolas: I haven't had any blackouts or seizures in weeks. This drug, it's working. I mean, it's giving me some semblance of a normal life.
Emily: It's not that simple.
Nikolas: But i -- i need you. Don't you understand? I need you. I mean, i am doing all of this -- all of this -- so we can be together.
Emily: Nikolas. You're seeing me less because you know this is wrong.
Claudia: [Laughs] you actually believe that she accidentally got pregnant with a baby that she wanted and you didn't? Oh, for a brain surgeon, you're not very bright.
Robin: I don't see how my pregnancy is any of your business.
Claudia: I was just making conversation.
Patrick here is the one who brought up the baby you tricked him into having.
Jason: I'm sorry i've taken so much from you.
Monica: No, no. You are not to blame.
Jason: Yes, i am.
Carly: You could have saved michael or kate, and you chose kate?
Alexis: Carly, i don't blame you for being upset--
carly: Is that what happened?
Sonny: I saw a rifle, carly, and i reacted.
Carly: You put our son in the line of fire to save kate.
Sonny: Yes!
robin: So, you couldn't find someone else to get drunk with?
Claudia: Guess i'm just irresistible.
Patrick: Hey, you know what? I was defending your honor. See, here's the thing. I was an ass to robin. She started talking about babies, and we broke up, and i basically jumped on the first gurney that i could find with the first woman that i could find, and -- i told her in not so many ways i didn't want to be a father. She's basically just doing what i wanted her to do so...
Claudia: You are good, honey.
Patrick: Leave her alone.
Claudia: I'm just trying to help you out, ok?
Robin: I don't think he needs your help.
Claudia: Relax. I can see where you would be threatened.
Robin: Really?
Claudia: Mm-hmm.
Robin: Ok, i don't even know why you're talking to this woman.
Patrick: She wanted to thank me for saving michael's life.
Harper: We're still piecing together exactly what happened.
Carly: Yeah, well, you better get to work, and you better find proof that sonny left his 12-year-old boy alone and unprotected, and that's why he was shot.
Kate: Carly, it happened very quickly--
carly: You shut your mouth because you took my kid to that warehouse.
Kate: I wanted to help michael.
Carly: You wanted to help yourself to sonny, so you took my kid somewhere you knew was dangerous.
Sonny: Don't yell at her. I'm the one to blame.
Carly: You bet you're the one to blame. You are the most selfish man i've ever met. You only think about yourself or your trophy of the moment.
Alexis: Carly--
carly: You decided you're in love with kate, so anything and everything goes out the window, including your kid?
Sonny: I was wrong! What do you want me to say? I love my kids.
Carly: You saw the rifle. And michael and kate were standing there, and who did you instinctively protect? Kate! Michael didn't even cross your mind.
Sonny: I would do anything for michael.
Carly: Except love and protect him. You swore to me, you swore to me that you were gonna protect him and keep them safe. And when his life was on the line, you didn't give a damn. Michael was disposable.
Kate: Carly, don't say that.
Carly: Shut your mouth! You don't care about michael. You only care about who you're sleeping with at any given moment. You don't deserve to be a parent, and you are not michael's father any more.
Jason: I put michael in the line of fire, starting with the first lie i told about being his father. I thought that i was saving him from the quartermaines, but i was risking his life, so i'm the reason that he was at that warehouse.
Monica: No, jason, listen. Any kind of mistakes that you made with michael were just out of ignorance. It wasn't because you were malicious or you wanted to hurt him.
Jason: What difference does that make to michael right now?
Monica: You love michael, and he knows that. And you want the very, very best for him, and he knows that, as well. And i forgive you. I forgive you. I just pray you forgive yourself. Please.
[Cell phone rings]
Jason: Sorry. Yeah.
Elizabeth: Jason, it's me. Carly needs you right away.
Jason: Ok, thanks.
Nadine: I mean, nikolas was my patient. End of story. I shouldn't let myself get carried away.
Leyla: Yeah, what were you thinking? I mean, what could you possibly see in a handsome, rich, bona fide prince?
Nadine: What i thought was that i could save him. But he doesn't want to be saved. He wants to keep doing things his own completely self-destructive way.
Leyla: Oh, dear, you did get carried away, didn't you?
Nadine: Ok, so he invites me out to see his horse and meet his son, spencer.
Leyla: He introduced you to his son? That's a big step.
Nadine: Yeah, and we were having a great time, and it seemed like, for all our differences in background and social standing, that we actually had things in common. And then, out of the blue, he just pulls away and asks me to leave, so that's it. Done. No, no more beating my head against the wall.
Leyla: Right, if you say so.
Nadine: No, i'm serious. If nikolas needs help and wants it, then he'll ask for it. Otherwise, he is on his own.
Leyla: You know what i'm hearing? You speeding head-first into the same disaster that nearly wrecked me.
Nikolas: I know that i've been seeing you less and less lately. I don't understand it. I even asked dr. Devlin about it. He didn't have an answer for me. I don't understand why.
Emily: I think you understand --
nikolas: No.
Emily: More than you think you do.
Nikolas: Why are you fighting me on this? I love you. I want to share my life with you. Is that so bad?
Emily: No, because you're lying to everyone that you love. Because you're lying to yourself. And why? What, you're gonna die because you're afraid to live without me? Nikolas: I remember every detail of the night you died. I woke up. You were lying on the ballroom floor, completely still. I thought you were asleep or passed out, and i tried to wake you up. I tried to will your eyes open. But they never did. They never opened. And then the police came. They tried to take you away from me, emily. But i wouldn't let them. Because i refused to believe that you were really gone.
Emily: But i am.
Nikolas: No.
Emily: I died that night. And none of this -- me, sitting here, this conversation, none of this is real.
Nikolas: It's more real than my life would be without you altogether. Don't you understand? None of this -- i don't have anything if you're not in my life to share it with. God, i can't -- i can't do this anymore. I can't take it any more. If i'm a coward because i want you in my life, i don't care. I love you and i want you in my life.
Emily: I love you so much.
Nikolas: Then you -- then you understand why i can't let you go.
Emily: Nikolas, you have to. You have to for your own sake, for spencer's. You have to let me go so that you can live.
Nikolas: [Inaudible] look at me. I am, i'm alive. I am alive because you're with me right now. I don't care what lies i've told or what i've done to have this moment with you right now. As long as we're together, that's all i care about.
Leyla: When patrick went back to robin, i felt hurt and used and angry.
Nadine: Eh, i'm not in that deep.
Leyla: You sure about that? I mean, you're hoping that when nikolas finally comes to grips with the fact that emily's dead, he'll realize how much he cares about you.
Nadine: Sounds pretty pathetic when you put it that way.
Leyla: I am an expert on pathetic. I mean, there i was, pining away over patrick, and the truth is he never promised me a thing, and i never told him what i had invested.
Nadine: Do you think it would have made a difference if you had?
Leyla: Maybe. Maybe he would have taken it all a bit more seriously or maybe not. The window of opportunity has passed, so i guess i'll never know.
Nadine: I'm sorry.
Leyla: Don't pity me. Learn from me. Look, you can either go to nikolas and tell him exactly how you feel or walk away. But don't lie to yourself that your heart's not on the line.
Patrick: Miss zacchara was worried the her brother would be blamed for the shooting of michael and that sonny would turn around and kill him.
Claudia: My brother's innocent, and i just sincerely want to thank you again for working your magic in the o.R. No harm, no foul.
Patrick: It's a lovely world you live in where children are targeted right along with their parents.
Claudia: I would never target a child. Neither would my brother. This is obviously a third party who wanted to take out sonny and didn't care who got caught in the middle.
Patrick: Yet another reason to leave fathers out of the equation.
Claudia: You've really got him dancing on a string, girl.
Robin: Ok, it's time to go. You know, you're right about one thing. Patrick did save michael.
Patrick: For all the good it did. Michael's in a permanent coma.
Claudia: Oh, my God, i'm sorry. I didn't know that.
Robin: You know, what's crazy to me is that there's a 12-year-old boy lying in a hospital bed incapacitated for the rest of his life, and all you can think about is whether or not your brother gets blamed for it. Here. Come on.
Carly: I owe you an apology, alexis. You were right when you tried to hide kristina from sonny. I called you paranoid. I called you overprotective, but you were trying to be a good mother. Not like me. I failed my kid.
Alexis: You didn't fail him, carly,
carly: Oh, yeah, i did. Sonny's poison, and i knew it, i ignored it, and now michael's paying for it.
Sonny: I never wanted michael to get hurt, carly. You know that.
Carly: Yeah, because you madesome kind of bargain with the zaccharas, and then you went to michael and you said, "guess what, son? I made peace with my enemies, so now we're all gonna be safe." And he said, "that's great, dad." Why? Because he trusted you. Because he's a sweet, innocent boy who believed in you and who believed that you were gonna protect him.
Sonny: I wanted to show michael that he can live without violence for the first time ever, pretty much, right?
Carly: Yeah, and you thought you could just snap your fingers, and that danger would leave. You risked your son's life on wishful thinking, sonny.
Sonny: How many times do i have to say it? I was wrong.
Carly: Oh, you don't give a damn about your kids, sonny, except when you want to pull them out as a little badges --
alexis: Carly --
carly: And use them to pretend that you're some kind of a good father.
Sonny: Ok, you know what? You can hate me all you want, but don't you ever tell me that i don't love my kids.
Carly: If you loved michael, you would have saved him.
Alexis: This needs to stop. You have a little boy in there that needs you both.
Carly: Yeah. That's my little boy in there. He's not sonny's son. Don't you come near michael again. Nikolas: I've -- i've already chosen. I want to be with you, no matter what the cost.
Emily: Nikolas, i'm only in your mind. You're going to see me less and less. Until one day, i'm gone forever.
Emily: Because the better part of you, nikolas, the part of you that knows what's right wants me to.
Nikolas: I don't know how to live without you.
Emily: Yes, you do. Yes, you do.
Nikolas: Don't do this! Emily, i need you.
Nadine: Emily's going to have to wait. You and i need to get a few things straight.
[Doorbell chimes]
diane: Judging by your appearance, i assume sonny isn't home.
Max: Mr. C's at the hospital visiting michael.
Diane: I'll wait.
Max: He'll probably be a while.
Diane: I'm sure he will be. However, you look like you could use some company. And i just happen to be available .
Max: You're very observant, diane.
Diane: Yeah, that's why they pay me the big bucks.
Max: Please, have a seat.
Diane: Thank you.
Diane: It's terrible what's happened to michael.
Max: You know, i wanted to go to the warehouse with mr. C. But he told me not to come. Mr. C and his family need round-the-clock protection. I knew that, and i stayed behind.
Diane: That's exactly what sonny told you to do.
Max: I should have shadowed him. What kind of a bodyguard am i?
Diane: You have always been a superb employee.
Max: And it takes one mistake, and i made it.
Diane: You're being a little too hard on yourself, max.
Max: Look, i've been guarding michael most of his life. You know, driving him around, watching over him, making sure he's safe whether he's in the park or he's at home or he's at a friend's house. And when it really mattered, i wasn't there.
Diane: Max. You are a sweet and wonderful man, but you're an idiot.
Patrick: The only reason why you were at jake's is because i was dumb enough to go get drunk and talk to...Miss--
robin: Claudia.
Patrick: Claudia.
Robin: Actually, to be accurate, you drunk-dialed me. And i didn't know until i got to jake's that you were drunk enough to talk to claudia.
Patrick: I wasn't hitting on her. I didn't do anything. She--
robin: I know. It's fine.
Patrick: Because she's intolerant, she's ignorant--
robin: Ok. Can we focus here? I'm talking about you.
Patrick: In that case, my favorite subject. Go ahead. Hit me.
Robin: Well, um, i'm worried about you. I think maybe you're blaming yourself for michael being in a coma.
Patrick: The damage was too great to michael. There's no -- no surgery would have saved him.
Robin: That's right. There isn't, but you are a perfectionist, and you've been known to hold yourself to impossible standards.
Patrick: Oh, i wasn't drinking -- i wasn't drinking because of michael. I left the hospital and went to jake's because i couldn't stop thinking about michael's father in this situation.
Apr 11, 2008 04:40
Sonny: What are you doing?
Policeman: Forensics is done. Place is no longer a crime scene.
[Indistinct police radio chatter]
kate: I was afraid i'd find you here.
Jason: Any change?
Carly: No. Sonny was here. And he brought kate. I left them alone so they could have some time with michael. Then when i came back, alexis was here with a detective, and they were asking him questions about the shooting.
Jason: Go on.
Carly: I don't know if you want to hear this, jason. I don't want your heart to break anymore than it's breaking. And it's my fault.
Jason: Just tell me -- tell me what happened.
Carly: Sonny saw the rifle. He knew the shot was coming. And he pushed kate out of the way. He let michael stand there. Michael was unprotected. This is the man i chose to be michael's father.
Nadine: Is emily here?
Nadine: I don't believe you.
Nikolas: What are you doing?
Nadine: Did i hit her?
Nikolas: She's not here.
Nadine: Exactly. Emily died the night of the black and white ball, and she's gone. Forever, and there's nothing you can do to change that.
Nikolas: Listen, we've been through this. You know my situation.
Nadine: I know that you've turned a fantasy into your entire world. You're throwing your life away, because you can't face the fact that the woman you love doesn't exist except in your mind. That's the dumbest reason to die that i have ever heard of. So, if you won't save yourself by getting rid of emily, i will gladly do it for you. Tell me when i hit her.
Diane: You work for sonny, just like i do. We can offer our opinions, but we are in no way responsible for his choices. It was his decision to take michael to that warehouse, his decision to go without guards.
Max: I knew he was wrong.
Diane: And i'm sure you tried to convince him of that, and you failed, right?
Max: I should have followed them.
Diane: Blaming yourself is not going to ease your grief or help you to make sense out of something that is senseless.
Max: You know, i keep thinking about michael, lying in that bed and not moving. Just a few days ago, he was helping me buy a mountain bike off the internet, you know, showing me how to bid on it. We were talking about all the times we used to bike ride in the park when he was little. I would go real slow, so he could keep up with me, and i --
diane: I understand. I truly, truly do.
Max: I should have done something to stop it, and i hate that i didn't. And no matter what you say, i think you feel the same way.
Diane: What do i have to blame myself about, huh? I mean for every time that i -- that i kept sonny from being arrested? Every time that i accepted a big fat paycheck just to keep him on the streets, so that he could have access to his children? So, that he could put michael in harm's way? Why should i care? I mean, i have a big closet full of beautiful shoes. There's no blood on these hands.
Max: Shh, it's not your fault.
Diane: Oh, shut up.
[Diane moaning]
carly: Michael had already been paying for my choices, jason. I mean, if it hadn't been this, it was just going to be something else.
Jason: You have been the best mother you can be.
Carly: Oh, all my life has been a train wreck. Whenever something good happens,i find a way to screw it up. That's how i got involved with sonny in the beginning.
Jason: Don't -- don't do this to yourself, right now.
Carly: Oh, come on, i have to do this. I got to take a long look in the mirror and see that this is my fault. I -- i self-destructed, and i cheated on you by crawling into bed with sonny. That's where it all began.
Jason: Michael was in the warehouse with sonny, not you. You're the one who wanted to go get him. I stopped you from --
carly: I brought sonny into michael's life, and i made him his father. I set my son on the path that led him to this hospital bed.
Jason, this is all on me. It's all on me.
Patrick: You've always said that sonny was a loving, conscientious father. So, why isn't he involved in michael's treatment?
Robin: Well, he was there during the surgery.
Patrick: Yeah, and he basically got shoved out of the icu. He hasn't been back since.
Robin: I don't know, maybe carly figured that michael was shot because of what sonny does for a living.
Patrick: Oh, carly -- sonny is a mobster, ok? And as far as i know he always has been, and carly knew that when she --
robin: Yes, she did. I am not defending her. Obviously, carly and i are not friends. I'm just trying to see this from a mother's point of view.
Patrick: So, a mother makes all the decisions for her kids, and when she's not happy with the father, he, basically, becomes disposable.
Robin: No, it's a little bit different with carly and sonny.
Patrick: Because sonny is not michael's biological father?
Robin: No, i mean, sonny and michael are just as close as any biological father and son could be.
Patrick: Sonny becoming michael's father was a conscious choice, ok? Carly knew that. Carly knew that sonny's business was a dangerous business.
Robin: She also probably hoped that sonny would do everything he could to protect his children.
Patrick: Well, i'm sure -- look, carly cares about michael. That's obvious. And she's going to sit by his side for as long as it takes. And i am sure sonny would do the same way. But what gives her the right to take a father away from his son?
Sonny: The investigation is over. They got what they could get, which was basically nothing.
Kate: So the police can't identify the shooter?
Sonny: It's not going to matter, because even with the police id, it's not going to make michael any better.
Kate: Well, i'm sure that you want to know who did this.
Sonny: Why? Why do i want to know? So i can find them and kill them? The one thing i didn't do that i should have done to save my son's life was shield him, protect him. But, of course, i didn't do that Kate: Sonny, i respect that carly is michael's mother. But, she's grieving right now. I can't even imagine how devastating this must be. And she's hurt, and she's angry, and she needs a place to put all of those feelings. And i -- i can see how she could put them on you.
Sonny: She was right about all of it.
Kate: No, she wasn't.
Sonny: Why didn't i -- why didn't i look to see where michael was? I call myself a father. I don't know the meaning of the word.
Kate: Sonny, don't do this. Don't go there. Don't put all of this on yourself.
Sonny: Who else is there to blame?
Kate: Sonny, i was there. I saw what happened, and you did absolutely nothing wrong. Coleman: Why so sad, pretty girl?
Claudia: Never mind.
Coleman: Ok. I can take a hint. How about one on me?
Claudia: No, i got someplace that i -- i gotta go.
Elizabeth: Go on, baby. Home, sweet home. Cameron, look at what's on that table? It's your book. I told you you didn't leave it at day care. Do you think you can put it back together for me? Hey, you want to know something?
Cameron: What?
Elizabeth: Come here. I am the luckiest mommy in the whole wide world. Do you know why?
Cameron: Why?
Elizabeth: Because i have two perfect boys. And i will love you and take care of you and protect you forever and ever and ever. And even when you grow up, and you get real big, and you get married and have a family, i am always going to be there for you. How does that sound?
Cameron: Good.
Elizabeth: Are you sure? Give me some love. I thank God every day that i'm your mommy.
Jason: You, me, and sonny, we're all to blame. We put michael in that warehouse.
Carly: He's my baby. It's on me to protect him.
Jason: I'm just trying to hold on to something monica told me. She said my decisions -- i didn't really know what i was doing in the beginning with michael, you know.
Carly: Jason, that works for you, but not for me,
jason: What are you talking about? You did the best you could for him.
Carly: I took this kid wherever i wanted to go. I did what was good for me. And then i justified it by telling myself that it was good for him.
Jason: Carly, you couldn't know how this was going to turn out.
Carly: And if i would have been honest with myself, i would have admitted that sonny wasn't a good father. He never would have been.
Jason: He made a mistake.
Carly: You would have never made that mistake in a million years. Sonny does what's good for sonny. Whatever makes sonny happy, whether it be the girlfriend at the time, the power, everyday violence -- it's always there. And i knew it, jason, i knew it. But then i fell in love with him. So, i knew, and i ignored it, and i pushed it away. Made up stories that sonny was such a great man. I'm such a great liar. I even convinced myself. And look where it got me? My son's in a coma.
Jason: Hey. Come on. You could not know the future, carly.
Carly: I would give anything, jason. I would give my life if michael was just ok and up and walking around. I just want him better so bad.
Jason: There's something i need to do. You going to be ok?
Carly: I'm going to be fine. There's nothing else anybody could do to me. The worst has already happened.
Nikolas: This is crazy.
Nadine: No crazier than you've been acting. By the way, have i bonked her yet?
Nikolas: She's not in the room.
Nadine: Why would that be?
Nikolas: Because she told me that i needed to move on for spencer. Ok, there you go.
Nadine: Ha, that's great. Glad you guys have worked everything out.
Nikolas: I -- i'm sorry if this hurts you in some way. I really am.
Nadine: Ok, fine, you know what? Yeah, yeah, you want me to admit it. Yeah, it hurts me. But it also hurts spencer. The three of us were playing with his train set, and she shows up, and boom -- you sent me and spencer away. Everything in the real world, including your own child is being eclipsed by a dead woman. So, forget love -- you left that in the dust a long time ago. This is flat-out obsession.
Nikolas: Emily -- emily was everything to me. If you don't understand that, i am sorry. It's not my problem.
Nadine: Ok, well, you know, i guess, i seem to have got the message, so give emily my regards, aah! Ow.
Nikolas: You all right? What did you do?
Nadine: I'm fine, i'm fine, i'm fine. I'm fine.
Nikolas: No, you can't even -- you can't even stand on it.
Nadine: It'll be fine in just a minute.
Nikolas: Just come over here and sit on the couch. Put your foot up. You're not going to limp all the way back to the mainland. You can just stay here for the night. You'll be fine. alexis: Sonny. Sonny, i need to speak with you. I'm sorry to interrupt.
Max: I like couture.
Alexis: Aah! Oh, my God.
[All screaming]
alexis: Oh, my God!
Kate: The shooting happened so fast. There wasn't time for you to think.
Sonny: So i acted on instinct. I protected you, am i right or not?
Kate: Yeah. Michael wasn't standing next to you, sonny. I was.
Sonny: But you don't know -- you don't remember. You told the police you didn't remember.
Kate: The police said that he was hit by a ricochet, right? The rifle was aimed at you. If you had gone after him, you would have brought that bullet towards him.
Sonny: A -- a father is supposed to think of his children first, kate.
Kate: Well, sonny, you do. You are a very good father. Look, this -- sonny, this was an accident, nothing more.
Sonny: All these years, i've been telling myself there's nothing more important than family. I am not selfish like mike. I am not brutal like deke. Now, my son has been shot, and i hurt him a lot worse than they ever hurt me.
Kate: Ok, you know what? Let's just go home.
Sonny: No, i don't want to go home. I don't want to go home. I don't want to go. I just want to -- i just want to be alone.
Kate: I'm not going to leave, sonny. I don't think that you should be --
sonny: Listen to me -- no, no, i am sorry about that. I did not mean to do that. I know you're trying to help, and i love you for that. But the thing is, it's like, every time that i look at you, it reminds me of what i didn't do for my son. Please leave.
Elizabeth: Come in. I was just starring at the phone, trying to figure out when would be the best time to call you.
Jason: Well, we really haven't talked since...
Elizabeth: Jason, I am so sorry. I've been watching you since Michael was brought into the ER. And it's like somebody's -- is cutting your heart out right in front of me, and I can't even do anything to help you.
Jason: It's ok. You called and told me that Carly needed help.
Elizabeth: She was screaming at Sonny, screaming with such rage and grief. And all I could think of was I wouldn't want to live if something like this had happened to Cameron or Jake. I don't think I could keep going. I would lose my mind.
Jason: And I could never ask you to put yourself or your children where Carly and Michael are right now. I could never do to you what I've done to them. You know I love you. I just don't see how we can do this.
Claudia: Michael, i am so sorry. I never meant for this to happen to you. When the shooter saw you in the warehouse, he should have put his gun away. He should have -- he should have left. He should never have taken a chance. It never occurred to me that you would be there with your father. And it should have because i've been there, myself. I know what it's like to grow up in a world full of violence with a bunch of adults who don't give a damn. I never wanted to do that to another person. But i have. I'm so sorry, michael. This was my mother's. You hold on to it for me, ok?
Carly: You get the hell away from my son.
>> On the Next"General Hospital" --
Elizabeth: You're choosing that life over me and the boys.
Sonny: I have failed my son.
Robin: Michael needs you.
Claudia: I'm really sorry.
Carly: Michael's fighting for his life because of people like you.
Apr 14, 2008 04:45
Monday, April 14th Part 1: Lulu: That was beautiful. What's it called?
Johnny: It's a piece by rachmaninoff. What're you doing here, lulu?
Lulu: I just wanted you to know that no one's going to blame you for michael's shooting. I made sure of it.
Jason: When carly was pregnant with Michael, she had a fight with Dr. Jones and showed up at my doorstep. And she asked me to be her baby's father. Well, at the time, I was running Sonny's business and I tried to explain to her that it would not be safe for her and her baby. She didn't care. So I let her stay and when Michael was born, I promised to protect him. Because everybody thinks that I can keep everybody safe... And I can't. I can't keep anybody safe. And the truth is, with what I do... I shouldn't be anywhere near a child.
Carly: Get out.
Claudia: I'm not here to hurt michael.
Carly: If you want to go after sonny, that's fine. You give him all the sympathy sex he can stand. But i'll be damned if my son gets caught in the middle again, because michael has been hurt enough because of his father.
Michael: Love you, dad.
sonny: Who's there?
[Footsteps]
sonny: Who is there?
Robin: It's robin.
Robin: Hey, are you ok?
Sonny: Yeah.
Robin: Sorry, that was a dumb question. I'm just here to help.
Sonny: Why'd you come down to find me?
Robin: Alexis called me.
Sonny: Figures.
Robin: She said that carly walked in on you when they were questioning you about the shooting and things got ugly.
Sonny: You know why alexis called you to come check on me instead of herself? Because she is the mother of one of my children and it takes a lot for her not to look at me and say, "i told you so."
Robin: Alexis doesn't blame you.
Sonny: Well, she should because carly was right about all of it. I am a selfish bastard who got his son shot.
Lulu: I went by the hospital to see carly this morning and --
johnny: How's michael?
Lulu: He's still unconscious but he's holding his own.
Johnny: Is there going to be any permanent damage?
Lulu: They won't know anything until he wakes up, but carly seems hopeful.
Johnny: That's good.
Lulu: Carly knows that you were with me when michael was shot and i told the same thing to sonny and i think that he believed me. And even if he didn't, spinelli saw us together on the haunted star, so he can vouch for you with jason, so everything --
johnny: I do not need you defending me to sonny.
Lulu: I was just trying to help.
Johnny: Who asked you to?
Alexis: You're having sex with max. That's your principle client's number one henchman. What on earth were you thinking?
Max: Yeah, what were you thinking?
Diane: Emotions are running very high since michael got shot. Max and i were looking for a little mutual consolation.
Alexis: In the middle of sonny's living room?
Max: The boss isn't here.
Diane: And now might be a very good time for you to make a discreet exit.
Alexis: I don't want to be here any more than you want me here. What i have just seen has burned holes through my corneas.
Diane: Oh, stop it.
Alexis: As your friend and colleague, i'm going to stay here because you seem to be making very self-destructive choices.
Max: Excuse me. I happen to hold ms. Miller in a very high esteem.
Diane: Thank you, max.
Alexis: I'm sure you do.
Diane: That's very kind of you to say.
Alexis: I'm sure you do, max, and i say this in the nicest possible way, but you're a thug.
Max: I'm a bodyguard.
Alexis: He's a minion to a thug. And this is ok with you? You're sleeping with a flunky.
Max: What?
Elizabeth: What if we just leave Port Charles? What if we move to, like, Montana or Hawaii or Louisiana or something, anywhere?
Jason: Can't leave. I can't leave right now. I can't leave Michael, Carly, Monica, who's sitting in rehab knowing that her grandson, the last person she had left, was shot in the head and may never wake up because of some of my choices. I couldn't lie to you and tell you that you and the kids will be safe. I -- I've made enemies and you and the kids would always be in the line of fire.
Elizabeth: Ok, so -- just so I'm clear on this... You're choosing that life, the violence, over me and the boys?
Jason: No. I made the choice before I ever even met you.
Jason: I've risked your life... And jake's and kim's. And I refuse to be the reason... That any of you would die.
Elizabeth: I've loved you more than you've loved me, and I've tried really hard to stop, but I just can't. Even now.
Claudia: I came to pay my respects and i'm not here to hurt your son.
Carly: He's not on display. You don't get to come check out the kid with the hole in his head.
Claudia: No child deserves this.
Carly: You can save your sympathy because sonny is not here. That's why you're doing this, right? To get close to his father? You may want to rethink that strategy. Being close to sonny is a dangerous thing, even for a wannabe mob queen like yourself. Take a look at the flip side of this life.
Claudia: Carly, i'm really sorry about your son.
Carly: Screw your sympathy and your pity. I told you to stay the hell away from my family and i mean it. Now, get out. Get out!
Jax: Carly, what's going on here?
Jax: I don't know who you are, but you've obviously upset my wife --
carly: She's claudia zacchara, johnny's sister.
Jax: Oh, you've come to admire your brother's handiwork.
Claudia: My brother didn't do this.
Jax: Am i supposed to take your word on that?
Claudia: No, ask lulu spencer. She was with john when it happened.
Jax: Maybe johnny wasn't the one who pulled the trigger, but i'm sure he gave the order to the person who did.
Claudia: My brother would never target a child.
Jax: I believe my wife asked you to leave. I suggest you do that before i call security.
Claudia: I'm sorry.
Jax: Hey.
Carly: I'm so glad you're here.
Jax: I'm sorry. I was going out of my mind on that runway. How's he doing?
Carly: He's doing ok. He's getting better. I know it. Aren't you, baby? You're getting better.
Sonny: All i wanted to do was teach my son that my business is more than just guns and violence, so i brought him here, ok, without any guards so he could watch a coffee shipment being loaded. And i left him wide open. And now he's lying in a hospital bed -- [sniffs] with a hole in his head.
Robin: But the police said that the bullet ricocheted, which means that they weren't even aiming at michael.
Sonny: They were aiming at me, robin. And once again, i just get off without a scratch. Everybody -- it always happens like this. Everybody i care about, you know, my family, carly, kate -- they pay the price. I -- i'm always, you know, just standing there, all fine and everything's great.
Robin: You were trying to give your son a better life, right? You brought him here to show him that the mob isn't the only option. You can't blame yourself for wanting to be a good father.
Sonny: When i saw my son get shot... All i thought about was getting to the hospital as fast as i can because i wanted to save my son's... Life. And it wasn't until i was at the hospital that the police started questioning me, and carly's coming at me, that i realized what had happened. There was a rifle. It was going to shoot at me. I grabbed kate, threw her to the ground -- kate, not michael. Carly's right. I don't -- i don't deserve to be a father.
Robin: Carly's full of crap. Michael needs you. Every child needs his father.
Lulu: I didn't think you would have a problem with me trying to save your life.
Johnny: What was the last thing that you said to me at the haunted star before spinelli came in and told us about michael being shot? That you were sick of thinking about me. So why are you here again?
Lulu: You're the one who kept pushing me away, and when i finally decided to end things between us, you wouldn't let go.
Johnny: I haven't called you once since michael got shot. That should tell you something.
Lulu: Yeah, that you're afraid sonny's going to blame you for michael's shooting and you don't want me caught in the middle. I get it.
Johnny: No, you don't. I'm sick of all this back-and- forth, so quit playing the games and tell me what you want.
Lulu: I am not the only one who's playing games here. What do you call buying into my father's business?
Johnny: I call it a business investment.
Lulu: It is a way for you to keep me in your life.
Johnny: Oh, you know what, lulu? Not everything i do is about you, ok?
Lulu: My mistake for trying to help you. Have a nice life.
Elizabeth: You're right about everything. I can never risk my boys getting hurt like Michael. And I know that I should be making this easier, because it's my choice, too.
Jason: I'm sorry.
Elizabeth: I'm not. I have loved every minute that I've spent with you. And the first son. I thank God that we made him together. I don't -- I don't want this to just be over. I just hope that somehow there's a way that I can I accept that you lead a dangerous life, and I accept that you should never step foot into this house, nor be with my children, but i'm a different story. Why can't we just continue to meet at the safe house?
Jason: If you call, I'll meet you.
Elizabeth: But you're not going to call me.
Jason: I couldn't ask you to take the chance.
Elizabeth: God, Jason, why does it always have to be up to me?
Jason: Because you're the one with everything to lose.
Jason: You know I love you. But before you call, you got to think of Carly screaming for Michael.
Elizabeth: That's not fair.
Jason: I'm just being honest.
Jason: I want you... And Jake and Cam... To have a safe... And amazing life.
Elizabeth: Jason. Is there anything I can do for you?
Jason: If you could... Pray for Michael, I'd appreciate that.
Elizabeth: Yeah, of course. The boys and I will pray for all of you.
Diane: Alexis, while i appreciate your concern, however misguided, i fail to see how belittling max is going to do anybody --
alexis: Getting involved with anyone from sonny's organization could get you killed, or worse, disbarred. Now, is the allure that you feel for this particular brand of bad boy worth losing your career?
Diane: I did not sleep with max because he is a bad boy. Yes, his line of work is less than desirable, but that does not define him as a human being. He is quite sensitive. He's endlessly sympathetic. He's got boyish good looks. And he's remarkably limber for a man of his size.
Alexis: Yes, i've seen max's flexibility.
Diane: Max?
Max: Oh, no, no, no, no, never.
Alexis: No, i meant when i walked in, i saw his leg over -- forget it.
Diane: Fine. My point is that there is much more to max than meets the eye.
Alexis: He carries a gun and his job is to terrorize people.
Max: My job is to protect sonny.
Alexis: Same thing. Max, can you look me in the eye honestly and tell me that you've never fired a gun at one of sonny's enemies?
Diane: Don't you answer that.
Alexis: Well, it's a valid question.
Diane: It's entrapment.
Max: No, it's ok, ms. Miller. I've got nothing to hide. Well, if someone were to make an attempt on sonny's life, i would stop at nothing to protect him, hypothetically speaking, of course.
Diane: Good boy!
Alexis: Bad boy. I know how this works. You find yourself finding something decent and caring about this otherwise dangerous criminal, you go to bed with him and then the next thing you know, your life is utter chaos. I know, you want to put yourself through this? He's never going to love anyone but carly.
Max: Oh, no, um...
Jax: How did claudia zacchara even get in here? Where was sonny, or jason, for that matter?
Carly: Jason's been with me every minute since michael got out of surgery. He left right before claudia got here.
Jax: What about sonny?
Carly: I don't want sonny anywhere near michael ever again.
Jax: But at least his men should be guarding the door, don't you think?
Carly: If sonny wanted to protect michael, he should've put a guard in every corner of that warehouse. Instead, he sent them home, just so he could impress his girlfriend. See, sonny decided that he was going to focus on the coffee business, so kate could think she could have a normal life with sonny. So when the shots were fired, sonny protected kate, not michael. He was more concerned with his girlfriend than he was his own son. When i think of all the times that i insisted that sonny was a good father and insisted that his kids spend time with him -- i'm such a fool.
Jax: Hey, hey, you did what you thought was best.
Carly: Michael almost died last night because he was standing next to sonny. And you told me so many times. Why didn't i listen to you? Why didn't i do more to protect my kids?
Apr 14, 2008 04:46
Robin: My heart breaks for what you and carly are going through right now. No one should have to sit by their child's bedside and wonder if they'll ever wake up. But that doesn't excuse carly's behavior. I mean, she may not need you right now, but michael does. You're his father. He needs you now more than ever.
Sonny: Carly's just doing what she can to protect michael and morgan -- i can't fault her for that. It's more than i did.
Robin: Listen, i have no doubt that carly loves her children, ok? But that being said, she has also used them to manipulate them with any man that she happens to be with at the moment. I mean, she did that with michael before he was even born. She used her preganancy to play tony and a.J. Off of each other, and then after that, she told jason to lie about being michael's father, and then when he got fed up and left, she used michael to work you, so i am sorry. Carly is in no position to tell you what is in the best interest for your child.
Sonny: Listen to me. When i adopted michael, i promised that little boy that i would keep him safe and love him. Listen. I should have put michael first above myself, above kate. So basically what i have done... Is i have failed my son in every way that matters.
Max: With all due respect, ms. Davis, you have no right to judge me or ms. Miller. It's not like you are the relationship expert. I mean, you married ric lansing.
Diane: Max makes an excellent point, and ric lansing is only one of the reprehensible men that you have slept with. There's sonny and jerry jacks..
Alexis: I never slept with jerry jacks.
Diane: Ok, but you've kissed him.
Alexis: How do you know that? Never mind. It's none of your business.
Diane: Ok, so my relationship with max is open to your criticism, but i am supposed to respect your privacy and remain mute when you fall apart when jerry jacks walks into the room?
Alexis: I do not fall apart.
Diane: Alexis, you are projecting your fear and your doubt, and given your affinity for choosing all the wrong men -- i can't say as i blame you, but i have absolutely no regrets about sleeping with max.
Max: Likewise, ms. Miller. Maybe we can do it again some time.
[Diane laughs]
diane: Now might be a perfect time for you to make that discreet exit.
Alexis: Ok.
Max: Bye-bye.
[Door slams]
diane: I am so sorry. You're gonna have to -- no -- oh, i'm sorry.
Max: No, i --
diane: No, go ahead.
Max: I... I just wanted to say thanks. I've never had anyone defend me like that.
Diane: It was my pleasure.
Max: Ok.
Diane: Ok, great. Well, i guess -- i guess i should be --
max: Yeah.
Diane: I should be going.
Max: Did you see my sock anywhere?
Diane: I, uh, i have not seen your sock, but --
max: No, thanks, i'll find it.
Diane: Yeah, it's here. Didn't run away.
Max: Yeah, that's right.
Max: Oh, ms. Miller --
[max sighs]
diane: I'll call you.
Max: Yeah.
[Max sighing]
max: So that happened.
Robin: Relationships are -- they're just difficult, aren't they? I mean, whether you're together or not. I don't have to look past my own crazy relationship with patrick to know that. I mean, how -- how two well-intentioned, intelligent people managed to mess things up the way we have is beyond me.
Sonny: Yeah, but the difference is patrick can't get you and that beautiful baby you're carrying killed.
Robin: Sonny, carly knew who you were and what you did before she even married you. It was her choice to bring michael into your life and to have morgan, for that matter. I mean, it's a little late for her to start acting like it was all a big mistake, don't you think?
Sonny: What if -- what if the best thing for me to do is walk away from my sons?
Robin: You grew up without a father, right? You honestly telling me that you're better off because of it?
Sonny: Well, mike was a gambler. He wasn't a gangster, so the only enemy he had was his bookie. My kids have been a target their whole lives. I can't blame carly for wanting to keep michael and morgan safe.
Robin: No, no one has the right to push a father out of their child's life.
Carly: Hi.
Jax: Hey. So what did the doctor say? Have they given you any idea of michael's prognosis?
Carly: Dr. Drake was able to stop the bleeding when we removed the bullet, so --
jax: Ok, did they give you a time frame of how long it'll be before he regains consciousness or --
carly: They're not sure, but he's getting better. I can tell. I mean, his color's better than it was yesterday, and he squeezed my hand earlier when i was talking to him.
Jax: Well, that's good.
Carly: Yeah.
Jax: Did you tell patrick about that?
Jason: Hey.
Carly: You're back. Hi.
Jason: Glad you made it home safe.
Jax: Thank you. I wish i could have been here sooner, but thanks for staying with carly through the surgery. I believe michael's doing better. He squeezed carly's hand this afternoon.
Carly: Why don't you get back in there in case, you know, he does it again for you?
Jax: Yeah.
Carly: Ok.
Jason: You need to tell jax what the doctor said.
Michael is getting better.
Jason, i know this.
Carly: Did you take care of what you had to take care of?
Jason: Yeah, i did.
Carly: Good, because michael needs you, and i need you.
[Piano chords]
claudia: Hey, i thought i might find you in here. Remember when we were little, and i used to lock you in here when daddy would get out of control, teach you how to play? You used to play for hours and hours and hours until he'd calm down.
Claudia: We'd just get lost in the music, huh? Forget about everything else.
Johnny: It's not that easy anymore.
Claudia: I did something stupid, john. I went to see michael corinthos in the hospital.
Johnny: If you're hanging around sonny's kid, sonny's gonna know you had something to do with it.
Claudia: I told you it was stupid.
Johnny: Why would you do that?
Claudia: Because, i just -- i don't know, i wanted to see him for myself. I guess i thought maybe he'd be sitting up in bed eating an ice cream cone or something. It wouldn't be that bad, and i wouldn't feel that guilty, but he was just laying there still, with all these tubes down his throat. He looked like a little doll, and i just kept thinking to myself, you know, when you were a little boy, i promised that i would protect you, no matter what happens. I promise i am not gonna let you pay for my mistakes.
Johnny: Could anyone see you at the hospital?
Claudia: Carly walked in on me standing next to michael's bed.
Johnny: Did she accuse you of anything?
Claudia: Her husband jasper jacks i think has his suspicions, but carly seems to think i was just there because i want to work sonny. I did the only thing i could. I -- i just let her yell at me, but i kept thinking to myself, how would she react if she knew that i was responsible for her little boy getting shot?
Johnny: You didn't hurt michael on purpose.
Claudia: He's in a hospital, johnny. He can't speak or move because of me.
Johnny: You didn't pull the trigger. At worst you're guilty of trusting the wrong person. That's all.
Claudia: He could have died last night.
Johnny: You wouldn't let me go to sonny and take responsibility for this, and i'm not gonna let you do the same thing. We need to make an agreement. Nobody can know that you hired somebody to take him out, ok?
Claudia: Why are you excusing what i did, john?
Johnny: Because you're my sister. I'm not gonna let you throw your life away out of guilt and remorse.
Claudia: Yeah, well, don't worry about it. If sonny finds out what i did, you won't have to be concerned about my life.
Sonny: I lied to myself, thinking that i could turn down my involvement in the mob like you turn down the volume on the radio, shove it aside, and... Try to make everybody believe that i'm a legitimate coffee importer.
Robin: Right, and you can still do that.
Sonny: No, i can't. You know why? Because i'm in too deep, can't get out, but i thought that i could fool, you know, fool myself into thinking, hey, you can change.
Robin: Ok, but you are still michael's father. That counts for something.
Sonny: Not more than my son's life.
Robin: Instead of just blaming yourself for all of this, have you thought about what your son wants? I mean, do you even know?
Sonny: He would want me to be with him.
Robin: Then that's what you should do.
Carly: Hey, sweetie. Jason's back. Do you want him to tell you another story? When michael was a baby, jason would sit and talk to him for hours, and michael got so used to the sound of jason's voice, and even now if he can't sleep, he'll call him, and they'll talk for hours.
Jax: I didn't know that.
Carly: That's because michael works so hard at convincing everyone he's grown up when down deep inside, he's still a little boy, who sometimes still needs to talk to his uncle jason.
Jax: What kind of things would you talk about?
Jason: I just, you know, used to read him books about africa and asia and other countries.
Carly: Places that you're gonna take him when he's better.
Jax: By all means, sit. I'm sure michael would love to hear a story.
Jason: I brought him a book, but i know -- i know you want to spend some time with him.
Jax: I think i have some things to do anyway. You'll be ok?
Carly: I'm ok.
Jason's here, ok.
Jax: Ok, i'll be back soon.
Jason: All right. Here. "There's this town in the north of spain called pamplona. People come from all over the world to run with the bulls during the festival of san fermin.
Claudia: If anyone ever did to you what i did to michael, i'd kill them in a second.
Johnny: We made a mistake.
Claudia: No, the only mistake that you made was trusting me to handle this.
Johnny: Ok, well, it was my responsibility the whole time. I'm in charge of this family. I should have handled the hit on sonny.
Claudia: I didn't want you anywhere near this, john. That was the whole point.
Johnny: I'm not a little boy anymore. You don't need to protect me forever.
Claudia: I can try.
Johnny: Look, we screwed up, but risking your life and going to sonny isn't going to wake michael up any sooner.
Claudia: If he wakes up at all.
Johnny: I'm serious, claudia. Nobody can know we were involved. Promise me.
Claudia: For now. What? If sonny tries to pin this on you, there is no way i am gonna sit by, keep my mouth shut, and watch you take the fall.
Johnny: Ok, then we need to make sure that sonny never finds out, which means no more seeing his family, no more going to the hospital to visit michael or to apologize to carly. If jax is already suspicious, you need to keep a low profile.
Claudia: Well, you know what? You might do the same thing with lulu. Look, john, i am sure that she cares about you, but i guarantee, at the end of the day, her family is always gonna come first, as it should.
Johnny: You don't need to worry about me and lulu. We're done, for good this time.
Claudia: Was that your choice or hers?
Johnny: Does it matter?
Claudia: I just don't want to see you hurt.
Johnny: Ok, i'd be a lot worse off if something happened to you.
Claudia: Why, you're stuck with me.
Johnny: I wouldn't have it any other way.
Claudia: I'll see you later, ok?
Claudia: I thought you said you and lulu were over.
Johnny: We are.
Claudia: Why was she here?
Lulu: Nina?
Logan: Nina took the night off.
Lulu: I know. I was supposed to be covering for her. What's going on?
Logan: Well, i wanted to surprise you, and it looks like it worked.
[Knock on door]
jax: Hi, i'm sorry to bother you at home. I tried to get ahold of robin and patrick, but they wouldn't answer their pagers.
Elizabeth: No, that's ok. Come in.
Jax: Thanks.
Elizabeth: Has something happened with michael?
Jax: I was hoping you could tell me. You assisted in the surgery, right?
Elizabeth: I did.
Jax: Was there any complications at all?
Elizabeth: Sit down. The bullet was lodged in michael's temporal lobe right behind his ear. Dr. Drake was able to extract the bullet, and it did relieve some pressure on his brain.
Jax: Ok, so based on the damage, do you think that michael will recover?
Elizabeth: Jax, i'm not a neurologist, but you should talk to carly. I -- i know dr. Drake has spoken with her about michael's test results.
Jax: Yeah, it's -- you see, carly thinks that he's getting better. I just need to know if that's a possibility.
Carly: You know you have to keep up your end of the bargon. You can't tell about all these wonderful places and then not take him.
Jason: I know.
Carly: You have to promise me that when he gets better we're gonna take him some place really special. Remember when we went to florida?
Jason: Yeah, i remember being really hot.
Carly: You took michael in the ocean to cool him off, and we laid him down for a nap, and he was so relaxed with his little fists by his head. Then he woke up and smiled at us. I would give anything for him to wake up right now and smile at us.
Sonny: How's michael?
Carly: There's a hole in his head. How do you think he's doing?
Sonny: Carly, come on, i don't want to fight. I just want to see my son.
Carly: He's my son, and i'm never gonna let you hurt him again.
claudia: You want lulu? Keep her.
Lulu: I just can't do this anymore.
Robin: Have your feelings changed about this baby?
Elizabeth: Michael's coma is permanent.
Sonny: I'm not leaving my son.|
Apr 15, 2008 04:43
Lulu: So, I'm guessing Nina's sister isn't stranded on the side of the road somewhere waiting to be picked up? Logan: Yeah, i don't even know if nina has a sister. Um --
Lulu: Huh.
Logan: Yeah, i -- i convinced her to do this. I wanted this to be a surprise, you know?
Lulu: Well, mission accomplished. I had no idea you were planning this. What is this?
Logan: This is dinner. Look, i know it's probably not going to be the best thing you ever tasted, but it's got to be better than that hospital crap i've been eating. You like your steak medium well, right?
Lulu: I -- i -- you really shouldn't have gone to all this trouble.
Logan: Lulu, it's no trouble. I mean, it's not a gourmet meal. I grabbed a couple of steaks, threw them on the grill. I got a bag of salad. Listen, why don't you grab a seat here.
Lulu: I'm sorry, i can't have dinner with you, logan.
Logan: Why not?
Lulu: Well, i mean, the lights, the flowers and the candles --
logan: Yeah?
Lulu: I mean, this feels like a date.
Logan: Yes, that -- that was the idea.
Lulu: I'm -- i just can't do this anymore.
Logan: You were there with me when i woke up. I mean, you spent, like, every day by my bedside. I -- lulu, this is just my way of thanking you for all of that.
Lulu: I almost killed you, logan. And when you woke up, i wanted to make things right as a friend, not as a girlfriend. That's not how i feel about you anymore.
Johnny: Lulu came by to let me know she had talked to sonny and carly on my behalf.
Claudia: To say what? Why do you make me pull this stuff out of you?
Johnny: She alibied me for the time of michael's shooting.
Claudia: Well, i bet that went over well.
Johnny: It's legitimate, by the way. I was with her.
Claudia: I'm not sure sonny and carly are going to buy it, but little lulu get's an "a" for effort.
Johnny: Do you have to make fun of everything?
Claudia: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It was a really nice thing for her to do.
Johnny: And guess how i repaid her. I blew up at her, basically threw her out the door.
Jax: Look, i'm not oblivious to the fact that i'm putting you on the spot. Carly's keeping something from me. I can tell just by looking at her. Michael's my stepson. I love him with all my heart. I want to help him, but i'm at a distinct disadvantage here.
Elizabeth: It's hard when you feel like you're out of the loop.
Jax: I wish that was the worst. See, i shouldn't have gone away. Carly didn't want me to go houston. Maybe she had a premonition. But i was so caught up in business. Anyway, the point is, i have no idea how to help my wife, and she's going through the most difficult time of her life. I just -- i just need to know. Tell me what needs to be done for michael.
Elizabeth: That's the thing, jax. There's nothing anyone can do.
Jason: Don't do this, carly, not in here.
Carly: Fine. I meant what i said. When you left michael standing there in the line of fire, when you left him vulnerable and alone so you could protect kate, you made a choice, sonny. And you lost all rights to call yourself his father. I want you to stay the hell away from michael.
Sonny: You be as mad at me as you need to be, but i'm not leaving my son.
robin: I got some cookies for us to share.
Patrick: I completely appreciate the concern, but i -- you don't have to baby-sit me. I'm completely sober. Getting there, at least.
Robin: If you'd rather be home, you can leave. But if you'd like to stay, i'd enjoy your company.
Patrick: What? Since when?
Robin: Well, since i listened to sonny's grief and regret for about an hour. You know how sometimes you don't realize you're doing something until you see someone else doing it?
Patrick: Yes, i know that.
Robin: That's what happened. Sonny is shredding himself from the inside out over what happened to michael, questioning every decisions he's ever made including starting the business to begin with, right up until the point he pushed kate out of the way of that bullet.
Patrick: Is that what happened?
Robin: Unfortunately, yes. I mean, you can imagine carly's reaction to that, right?
Patrick: I would imagine she went crazy, yeah.
Robin: She did. She ordered sonny out of michael's life, told him that he didn't deserve to be michael's father. And that just wasn't in the heat of the moment. I mean, she meant that. She is that vindictive. Never mind what michael wants, you know, or the fact that he needs his father just as much as he needs his mother. Anyway, i was saying that, settling into my comfort zone of, you know, always judging carly, and then it hit me. I have no room to talk because i've been doing the same thing to you.
Patrick: Robin, those are completely different situations.
Robin: Not really. Two mothers keeping fathers away from their children, me holding you to positions that you took before this baby was even conceived, you know, not really making any allowances for the fact that months have passed and you might feel differently about it. I -- is that possible? Have your feelings changed about his baby?
Lulu: No more mixed signals, no more back and forth, i owe you that much.
Logan: Lulu, i don't have a problem with back and forth. I like it. It means my foot's still in the door, ok? Seriously, listen, if the whole dinner thing -- it feels like a lot of pressure, you know what? It's no problem. We'll forget about it. We'll call it a night.
Lulu: Running out on this is not going to change anything. We would still have this conversation tomorrow.
Logan: Maybe not. No, maybe we wouldn't. Ok, you might sleep on it. Your perspective might be different in the morning. It wouldn't be the first time.
Lulu: I know my own mind, and i am not changing it. Logan, straight out honest, i like you. I think that you are a great guy, but i am done talking myself into an attraction that i just don't feel.
Logan: You faked being attracted to me?
Lulu: No, no, no, not at first, but after time, things just changed, and they're not going to change back.
Logan: How can you be so sure about that? This isn't a rash decision. It's -- it's not a -- a reaction to something. This is something that i've thought about for a long time. I had to. I can't keep jerking us around.
Logan: Lulu, i still haven't heard a valid reason why you're blowing me off, ok? Now if you're going to be honest -- if you're going to be honest, you need to go all the way with it and tell me -- just tell me.
Lulu: Haven't i hurt you enough?
Logan: If this is about you choosing johnny over me, you need to woman up, and you need to say so.
Claudia: So you were with lulu when michael was shot?
Johnny: I found her at the haunted star.
Claudia: So all's well in paradise?
Johnny: Hardly. We had a huge fight.
Claudia: You want to share it?
Johnny: That depends. Do you really want to know or are you storing up future ammunition?
Claudia: I can't even believe you just said that. Of course, i want to know, john. If it concerns you, it concerns me. I love you.
Johnny: I know that. Basically, lulu said that i was i lying to her, not letting her make her own choices, that i was jerking her around. She says, one minute i'm pushing her out of my life and the next minute i'm jumping back into hers.
Claudia: Is she right?
Johnny: Somewhat. But she does the same damn thing to me.
Claudia: Sounds like a recipe for a headache. What's the deal, johnny? What's really going on with this girl?
Johnny: I'm not going to lie and say i don't care about her. I do. And i know she cares back, but she's scared. Who can blame her? I mean, look at my life. My crazy family --
claudia: Hey.
Johnny: Present company included. But, seriously, i mean, sometimes you look at the fire and you know how bad it's going to hurt when you get burned, but you can't help but stick your hand in anyway. If i was -- i don't know what, noble? I'd hurt her so bad that she'd have to write me out of her life for good. But, honestly, i like waking up and knowing that she's in my life and maybe i'd turn a corner and she's there.
Claudia: Do you want my opinion?
Johnny: Do i have a choice?
Claudia: You want lulu in your life? Keep her. Just don't fall in love, john, because if you do, you might as well eat your gun.
Jax: What do you mean, nothing anyone can do? I'm sure michael's case isn't hopeless.
Elizabeth: I'm not a doctor. I'm not qualified to give you an accurate prognosis.
Jax: Yeah, but you know something, elizabeth.
Elizabeth: Jax, i shouldn't even be discussing this with you.
Jax: Ok, you know what? I'm not going to mention your name to anyone, so whatever assurances you need, consider them made. Please, help me help my wife.
Elizabeth: When michael was on the table, it was clear that the damage he sustained was as serious as it gets. There was a bullet lodged in his brain. He almost bled out. The only reason he's still alive is because no one is more amazing in the operating room, under pressure, than dr. Drake. Jax, i was there when michael's test results came back, and i heard patrick telling robin that michael's coma is permanent.
Jax: Permanent? He's -- he's not going to wake up again?
Elizabeth: I'm just telling you what i heard.
Jax: Oh, she knows.
Elizabeth: What do you mean?
Jax: Carly. Somebody must've told her, right? Which means this -- this certainty that michael's going to wake up is denial. Carly can't face the fact that michael's already gone.
Sonny: I understand why you're angry. I respect it. I deserve it. I would change my life --
carly: I don't want to hear your remorse. I'm not interested.
Jason: Ok, listen, i get that you're mad.
Carly: I am mad as hell and don't try and talk me out of this.
Jason: I'm not. I'm just saying, prioritize. What's more important, ripping into sonny or keeping -- keeping the peace for michael's sake?
Carly: You understand this. I don't care how sorry you are or how much regret you have because it's empty and i've heard it before. And i can't spare any sympathy or compassion for you because i need it for that little boy in there, the little boy who's recovering from brain surgery because he got shot on your watch, sonny.
Sonny: We're clear about that, carly, but why don't you tell me where michael would fit in here?
Carly: Well, he can't really speak for himself right now. Sonny: He would want me to be with him.
Jason: Sonny's right. Michael needs his father.
Claudia: Look, i realize that "love kills" is not a universal truth. There are happy, normal nuclear families that exist somewhere. People fall in love early, and they stay together until death do they part. They invest in the whole 2.5 Kids and a golden retriever a white picket fence, the american dream, and they have it pay off. But then, on the other hand, there people who never catch that gravy train. They fall in love and they get stomped, and then they meet someone else and they start the whole sad, sick cycle over again, never getting anywhere, just running in place. And then -- then there's us in a category all of our own. We come to the table already warped. You add love to the equation and you're standing in the doorway that leads to full blown insanity. You need hard core proof, john? Look at your father in the local loony bin. He loved your mother so much he shot and killed her?
Johnny: So you think i'm going to end up like him. Thanks for the vote of confidence.
Claudia: I have more confidence in you than i do in myself, and that is saying a lot. I'm just your big sister trying to give you a little bit of advice from my own experience. Love makes you vulnerable. You leave yourself open to betrayal and disappointment. And genetically unstable psyche? That's enough to push it right over the edge into full blown whackdom. Why -- why take that chance?
Johnny: Isn't that what life's about? The chance? The risk? The edge?
Claudia: All i'm saying is choose your risks.
Lulu: I don't know if johnny and i have a future. Maybe we do, maybe we don't. But what i do know right now is that he makes me feel --
logan: All right, i get the picture.
Lulu: My feelings for johnny just go way beyond friendship, and my feelings for you don't.
Logan: Look, because of what i did with maxie, i understand, but i promise you --
lulu: No, i -- i have already forgiven you for what happened with maxie, and i just hope that at some point you'll be able to forgive me with what happened with the wrench.
Logan: Lulu, i already told you i know why you did that. You -- you know, you were trying to protect yourself. I scared you. I promise you that will never happen again.
Lulu: No, no, no, no more promises. It's over, logan. Please, just accept it.
Jax: You know, i don't often find myself at a loss, but i have no idea how to help my wife through this devastating time.
Elizabeth: Well, maybe you don't have to right now.
Jax: I don't understand.
Elizabeth: Maybe carly's not ready to hear the devastating truth. Maybe she's just doing everything she can to hold herself together with what she does know. Denial isn't always a bad thing. Sometimes it's necessary. I know that she loves michael and morgan more than anything, and she would never intentionally put her children in harm's way, but, really, that's exactly what she did by allowing sonny to be a part of their lives. And i'm sure she's realized that. Talk about a devastating truth, knowing that you put your own happiness or a comfortable relationship with an ex at your children's expense? The guilt must be overwhelming. So if carly needs to cling onto hope for just a little while longer, what's the harm? She's going to have to face reality soon enough. And you -- you just need to be there to love and support her through this next stage of pain.
Jax: Yeah. Well, you know, this is the first thing i've heard in the last 24 hours that makes any sense at all. Thanks. I really appreciate your insight and your generosity. I know that carly hasn't always been kind to you.
Elizabeth: I could have easily made the same mistake as carly. I just thank God i didn't.
Jason: There's enough blame to go around. We all failed michael on some level, but fighting about it isn't going to do him any good. You know how upset he gets when you two fight each other.
Sonny: Mm-hmm.
Jason: You're not helping him by bringing anger and guilt and blame into a room where he's trying to get well. Nothing can change what happened. Michael needs us. That has to come first. Just be parents.
logan: All right, point made, you and me, over. Nice memory, can't say it doesn't hurt. But there is something to be said about knowing where you stand, because i can't afford to continue to bang my head against the wall for a girl that doesn't want me.
Lulu: Logan --
logan: Look, no, do not try and make it better. You can't. I am sorry, truly, i am, for putting you on the spot like this, but it will not happen again.
Lulu: I'll clean up around here.
Logan: Whatever.
Claudia: I'm not telling you something that i read in a -- in a book somewhere, john. I've had my own experiences with how love equals emotional disaster. You didn't know my mother.
Johnny: Dad wouldn't even allow questions about her.
Claudia: Well, let me tell you. Domenica zacchara was a strong, powerful woman. She was a force of nature, not for the faint of heart. I was in awe of her -- a little afraid of her. And i wanted to be just like her till the axe fell, and dad decided that he was done or bored or outmatched an banished her, divorced her, erased her from his life as if she had never existed. I didn't even see my mother again until i was a teenager and i didn't -- i didn't recognize her. That flamboyant, beautiful woman that i remembered was gone. She was hard. She was brittle. She had no spirit. She was dull. She was ruined because she loved a man who threw her away And i said right then and there, i will never let a man make a shell out of me.
Johnny: Yeah, but what if someone takes you by surprise?
Claudia: That's not going to happen. It's not because i could only love someone that i could trust unconditionally. Somebody who'd stand by me no matter what. Somebody who would keep my secrets no matter how much it went against there grain and who would never leave me. And that man doesn't exist. So i can wipe love off the agenda and just concentrate on things that, you know, i could actually make a difference at, like in the business, you know? And, hey, if you have any sense of self-preservation, you'll do the same thing. I'm telling you this because i love you, john, because i care about you. Love is a losing proposition. There's one person in this world that will always have your back, that you can always trust, that you can count on. That's me. You're looking at her.
Carly: I know michael loves you. More than that, you're his hero and, every word you say is gospel. So if you go in there and you tell him that he can fight his way through this and come out the other side, he will. So you go in there, and you tell him to fight. But don't you, for one second, believe that you deserve to be there.
Apr 15, 2008 04:44
Jax: I left a message for dr. Drake earlier.
Nurse: Yes, it's right here, mr. Jax.
Jax: I don't need it anymore. You can throw it away.
Nurse: Ok.
Jax: What's the matter? You're upset. Did something happen?
Carly: Sonny's with michael. Jason talked me into it. He said it was good for michael.
Jax: Well, i don't often agree with jason, but this time he's right.
Carly: I am so -- i am so angry with sonny right now. All these years, jax -- all these years, no matter how crazy and wrong things got between us, no matter how badly sonny hurt me, i could always hold on to the fact that he loved those kids. He loved those kids more than he loved his own life. And he would do anything he could to protect them.Turned out not to be true.
Sonny: I -- i've seen your mother furious, but never -- never like this. She'd happily put a knife in my heart, and i can't really blame her. I let you down, buddy. I just -- i was -- i was supposed to protect you. That was my job. That was my privilege. But i did not honor it. I keep -- i keep wondering, you know, put myself in your place, trying to figure out -- did you hear a noise? Did -- how you saw it -- did you have time to be afraid? Did you ever think for one second, why didn't daddy save me?
Sonny: I failed you in the worst possible way. I -- i'm going to carry that -- i'm going to carry that for the rest of my life, but you know what? You're not going to have to because you're a better person than i am. You will not fail yourself. If you can hear me, little boy that i love so much, wake up. Come back to us. All you have to do -- listen, it's not that hard. You got to make a choice. You've got to choose to live. Your mommy and daddy need you so much. Patrick: You know, i have been paying attention to fathers and babies. Yes, i know, i'm very surprised myself even. But, you know, i've been watching the way they interact. Everybody giggling and cooing, everybody's all cute and bundly. Then out of nowhere, for no apparent reason, the kid starts screaming and wailing. And then --
robin: And you want to run to the nearest race track, get in your car and floor it to 180 miles per hour.
Patrick: Basically, yes. Straight into a wall.
Robin: Poor patrick.
Patrick: I just -- you know, i don't know. I mean, dirty diapers and daddy boot camp? I mean, what is daddy boot camp anyways? But still, i can't deny that this kid is coming. Especially when i see your belly popping out a little bit more every day.
Robin: See, there it is -- the ugly truth.
Patrick: What are you talking about?
Robin: I will spare you from having to say it out loud -- i am fat. I am. You think it and i know it.
Carly: The only person who carries more of the blame than sonny in all this is me.
Jax: How do you figure?
Carly: Because i chose him. And i wouldn't stop until sonny was entrenched in my life.
Jax: This anger isn't helping anyone, ok? You need to harness all your positive energy and focus it on michael. I'm not saying that you can't be angry. Or that you should reconsider sonny's place in the boys' lives. But that can be put on hold because right now it's aboutmichael. And michael needs his parents to be acting in concert, ok? Listen to me -- the best thing you can do for your boy is to get along with his father within these walls.
Carly: This coming from a man who hates sonny and every single thing he stands for.
Jax: And that hasn't changed. But for now, we need to focus on michael. And i would really like to go and tell my stepson that's exactly what we're going to do. Hey -- are you going to stand with me or not?
Sonny: You've always been so much like your mother -- the same stubbornness, determination, strength. That's a good thing because you are going to need that to draw from. Michael, you don't want to go into that deep, still place. Do you hear me? You don't --
sonny: Um, i'm going to come by tomorrow. And i'm going -- i'll just call ahead if that's all --
carly: You don't have to do that. You can come whenever you want.
Sonny: I just want to -- i don't want to --
carly: We can deal with what is going on with us later. Michael matters right now.@@uuppxx|~ Patrick: You're not fat, you're pregnant -- and there's a huge difference.
Robin: Operative word being huge. And don't tell me you haven't noticed that i can't stop stuffing my face. I mean, how many cookies did you have, one?
Patrick: None, actually. I mean, i thought we were going to share, but that's ok.
Robin: Exactly -- i mean, i literally can't stop myself. I'm puffed up like a blowfish, and my feet are swollen, but i still want more. More ribs, more ice cream, more cookies. I mean, i look like a cross between a penguin and a cow.
Patrick: That's not true -- you glide across the room like poetry in motion.
Robin: That's really nice of you to say that you think i'm still pretty even though i'm crammed to the gills with a baby you don't even want in the first place.
Patrick: Hey, you have a sweet little bump, and you're glowing. You're more beautiful than ever.
Claudia: Hey, you the moron on the motorcycle going 90 down the alley?
Jason: I guess so.
Claudia: You almost made me run into a dumpster.
Jason: Well, you were doing 50 going the wrong way.
Claudia: Ok, so maybe we both like to go a little too fast. Neither one of us can call the cops on the other one, so it looks like a standoff. You think it's a trend?
Kate: I saw your car come in, and i'm worried about you.
Sonny: I'm here.
Kate: Right, ok, um, i shouldn't have come.
Sonny: No, no --
kate: No, you made it clear that my presence is painful since it reminds you of protecting me instead of michael.
Sonny: Please -- you've got to understand something, ok? I don't blame you, and i don't regret saving your life. It's precious to me, and i love you very much. But i just don't know, right now, how to fix this.
Kate: Neither do i. Maybe we shouldn't try right now. Maybe you should just let me hold you.
Jax: I'm sorry, michael. I'm sorry this happened to you. I'm sorry that i wasn't here. But i always carry you in my heart wherever i go. It will always be that way. You know, you changed the course of my life. Instead of shutting me out and seeing me as an obstacle keeping your parents apart, you opened your heart. You welcomed me into your home. Then you taught me how to fit into a functioning family with all the ups and downs and everyday chaos The best thing that ever happened to me. I've loved being your stepfather. Yeah, from the big moments like going to disney world, tucking you into bed at night -- it's been a joy watching you grow up.
Carly: Hold on -- why does it
sound like you're saying goodbye to him?
Robin: This is nice.
Robin: I've missed us.
Patrick: Yeah, me too. It's been weird for like a year. Together, apart, somewhere in the middle. One thing has always stayed the same though, i -- i love you just as much as ever.
Robin: I love you, too. You know, maybe that can be -- maybe that can be enough for now, if we just love each other. Maybe everything else will just work itself out.
Patrick: You think we can do that?
Robin: I think it's worth a try
patrick: Yeah, it is. Although i would like to put something on record.
Robin: Ok.
Patrick: I meant what i said earlier. You're more beautiful than ever.
Robin: I don't believe you. I think you're just into my big boobs.
Patrick: But i do like them, so bring them over here.
Claudia: How's michael?
Jason: No change.
Claudia: I was with carly when she found out.
Jason: Why's that?
Claudia: No reason, i just was there. I was at the hotel. We got into an argument -- business as usual. I was with her when she got the call. And so, i just -- i don't think that people in our line of work should procreate. It's not fair to the kids, making them grow up in that environment. When they grow up with bodyguards, and guns, and bulletproof glass. Even if they manage to adjust or they live long enough to make their own choices, they usually become nothing but gangsters themselves. I personally have always known kids were not in my future, and i am ok with that. I have nothing to lose and a whole lot less to regret, right? I think we're alike in that way, too.
Carly: Look, i know it's scary to see michael like this. You find yourself thinking that he's not going to recover. Because look at him -- he's so small and tiny and helpless. But michael is getting stronger. His color is coming back in his cheeks. He's gathering strength to come back to us, and i know it. I know it. I'm his mother. You have to believe me, jax, and you have to believe in michael.
Jax: You have the best instincts of anyone i've ever known. If you say that he's coming back, then i'm a believer.
Carly: He's coming back.
Kate: Well, it's a good sign
carly let you in to see michael.
Sonny: Yep, i guess. She still holds me responsible for what happened. But, you know, jason -- he's a good guy, you know. He convinced her that it's the best thing for michael.
Kate: I just wish she wouldn't take her pain and anger out on you.
Sonny: I can take what i deserve.
Sonny: You know what i realized?
Kate: What?
Sonny: It's very easy for me to tap into despair, to go into the dark place. But i'm not going to let that happen. Do you know why?
Kate: Why?
Sonny: Because that would mean that i'm just being self-indulgent. And that would mean that i would be abandoning michael. And as God is my witness, i will never let that happenagain.
Lulu: The Haunted Star is reopening tonight.
Lucky: And I was hoping you would go with me.
Carly: He's going to wake up, and I am going to be here.
Jason: We're going to find who shot Michael. We're going to go after
Apr 16, 2008 04:41
nadine: Good morning.
Nikolas: Morning.
Nadine: What?
Nikolas: Nothing, just thinking how beautiful you look in the morning light.
Nadine: You are quite the romantic, aren't you?
Nikolas: A frustrated one, after i couldn't convince you to come upstairs with me last night.
Nadine: I was tempted.
Nikolas: Yeah, i do have to admit that i tossed and turned a bit, dreaming about you last night.
Nadine: [Growling]
nikolas: Morning.
Nadine: Morning. What?
Nikolas: Nothing, i was just thinking how sore your ankle must be. 27 Bedrooms here and you had to be stubborn and spend the night on this cramped couch.
Carly: And i remember how easy it was just to stay in that water and drift off to sea. And then i looked back and the shore was getting so far away and i was so scared that i was going to be lost. And then i thought about you and morgan, and i knew i could make it. I knew i could make it because of my boys and all the people who were home who loved me so much and who were waiting for me to come back. Just like you're going to come back. Because everyone here loves you so much, michael, and they're waiting for you to come back.
nadine: The swelling's definitely gone down, see?
Nikolas: I'm sorry, not to state the obvious here, but you are limping and clearly in pain.
Nadine: I'm not limping.
Nikolas: Oh.
Nadine: It's all emily's fault.
Nadine: I never would have tripped if she hadn't flung that caboose at me.
Nikolas: Now who's hallucinating?
Nadine: Well, you're dying for emily. The least i could do is sprain my ankle.
Nikolas: Are we really having this conversation right now?
Nadine: Don't worry, i'll deny it ever happened. Although you deserve to have things thrown at you for choosing a hallucination over life-saving surgery.
Nikolas: Like you deserved to hurt yourself?
Nadine: Absolutely. And for giving a damn about you in the first place.
Nikolas: Then i guess we're even, huh? So, shall we seal the truce with a little breakfast? According to alfred the new chef makes a really great french toast, so --
nadine: I'm going to be late for work.
Nikolas: Come on, how can you care for patients when you can't even stand?
Nadine: I'll walk it off. I have a new pair of heels that i want to fit into tonight.
Nikolas: Oh, you got a date?
Nadine: The haunted star's reopening. I thought i'd try my luck at a little blackjack.
Nikolas: I didn't think you were much of a gambler.
Nadine: You don't have to be rich and spoiled to have fun in life. Oh God, i forgot. You've given up on any fun, haven't you?
Nikolas: Well, it sounds like you'll have enough fun for the both of us.
Nadine: Have a nice breakfast. Oh, don't forget to tell alfred to put extra syrup on emily's french toast.
Luke: Thanks. Oh, cupcake. Well, what brings you to your old man's unholy house of worship?
Lulu: I came by to see how you're doing. This place really looks great.
Luke: Yeah, young mr. Z ponied up enough money to make the old tub sparkle and shine.
Lulu: So, tonight is the big reopening?
Luke: It is. Are you planning to make an appearance?
Lulu: Well, the haunted star is closed more than it's open, so i figure it's my one night to see it before you pull another disappearing act.
Luke: Oh, so you're going to come just to spend time with me.
Lulu: Yeah, it's all about family togetherness.
Luke: As opposed to being about hanging out where my business partner might be.
Lulu: Yeah, well, if johnny wants to see me, he knows where to find me.
[Random piano notes]
claudia: Original composition. You think i got talent?
Johnny: None whatsoever. You could use a few lessons.
Claudia: So teach me.
Johnny: First we need to focus on keeping you alive.
Claudia: I've been taking care of myself for a long time, little brother.
Johnny: Ok, but sonny has been too grief-stricken to think straight. Once he starts thinking, he's going to put pieces together. He'll be out for blood.
Claudia: Not yours.
Johnny: You hired the shooter. He could decide to turn you in.
Claudia: Johnny, i told you, i can handle this. You don't need to worry about it.
Johnny: Ok, then there's jason morgan, who's the best enforcer in the business. He'll put a piece together that links back to us. That's why i need to go to sonny first.
Claudia: No, you can't.
Ric: Looking well, mr. Zacchara.
Anthony: For a rutabaga? Thanks.
Ric: I mean you're looking much more aware.
Anthony: I'm aware that so far you're nothing but a grab bag of empty promises about getting me out of here. Where is that sword when i need it?
Ric: Mr. Zacchara, i've made progress in your release. If you haven't noticed, you have all new guards and nurses.
Anthony: I noticed. The pill-pushing broad with the hairy arms is gone. The rest all look alike.
Ric: Yes, and they were all on your children's payroll.
Ric: You know, it seems to me that the biggest obstacle in your release hasn't been your history or your insanity or your crimes, or even the justice system. It seems to coming from your loving son and daughter.
Anthony: Claudia, maybe. But not john.
Ric: Oh, come on. Take the blinders off, anthony. You're smarter than that. Your children want to keep you locked up so they can use your empire to do with whatever the hell they please.
Jax: Why don't you go home and get some rest for a few hours?
Carly: I need to be here with michael.
Jax: I can stay here with him. I mean, you could change your clothes and get some decent food into you.
Carly: I'm fine, jax.
Jax: Carly, you've practically been living off vending machine food and drinking coffee the whole time.
Carly: So, i can have mike bring me some take-out and i can use the nurse's shower and you could bring me a change clothes.
Jax: Carly, come on.
Carly: Michael could wake up and i need to be here.
Jax: Look, i'll stay here with him. And i'll call you if there's any change in his condition.
Carly: When michael went to the warehouse, i should have gone and picked him up. And i didn't, and that's the biggest mistake of my life.
Jax: Carly, you couldn't have known.
Carly: I am not leaving michael again.
Jax: You can't stay with him. You cannot stay with him every second of the day for the rest of his life.
Carly: This is my son. He's going to wake up, and when he does i'm going to be here.
Spinelli: Stone cold has returned. May the jackal assume he spent the night at the hospital with the valkyrie and young michael?
Jason: I stopped by to see carly, but i spent most of the night riding.
Spinelli: And now you have returned to casa de stone cold for some much-needed rest and to partake of restorative nutrients. Fortunately, the jackal --
jason: Spinelli, we're going to need your help. So i need you to focus. We're going to find who shot michael..
Spinelli: It is not surprising that you'd wish to avenge the shooting of young michael, to make the denizens of darkness who hurt him pay.
Jason: I hurt him.
Spinelli: Uh, that is most untrue. You have been young michael's most devoted protector.
Jason: The choices i made for michael affected everything in his life. He was never safe. I put him in that bed. He may never wake up again.
Epiphany: Nice of you to join us, nurse webber. Are you going to be here for the rest of the day, or will you be running off to attend to other crises?
Elizabeth: Excuse me for having a life.
Leyla: I'll check on mr. Gibson.
Elizabeth: You asked for it.
Epiphany: What happened?
Elizabeth: It doesn't really matter. My so-called life just got a lot smaller and safer.
Elizabeth: Icu?
Epiphany: The shooting of the corinthos boy rattled all of us. I can assign another nurse to the floor.
Elizabeth: No, no, no, it's fine.
Epiphany: It's hard to see a child wounded by an act of violence. Don't think i don't know it.
Lucky: Hey, elizabeth, you got a minute?
Elizabeth: Um, barely.
Lucky: Well, i don't want to put you on the spot.
Elizabeth: Just ask.
Lucky: My dad, he's reopening the haunted star, and i thought i should keep a close eye on him just in case he keels over or something. So i was hoping you would go with me.
Elizabeth: Tonight?
Lucky: Well, it's not a date. I just thought it would be nice to have somebody with medical training on hand. He hasn't been taking good care of himself ever since his heart surgery.
Elizabeth: Yeah, sure. Yeah, i would be glad to go.
Lucky: Great. It's a date. But if you don't mind, i'd like to come by the house earlier so i can see the boys.
Elizabeth: Yeah, that would be nice. They would like to see you.
Lucky: All right, we'll see you later.
Elizabeth: Ok.
Ric: After our last visit, johnny had me picked up. We had a little discussion. I get the feeling that your son doesn't want you loose among respectable folks.
Anthony: Sounds more like claudia. She's always been bitter and spiteful. She never forgave me for divorcing her mother.
Ric: Oh, it sounds like john has his own axe to grind.
Anthony: Claudia's lying to johnny about how things were, putting poison in his ears to keep me locked up in this joint.
Ric: The point is, that i am taking substantial risk if i continue to facilitate your release, mr. Zacchara.
Anthony: Oh, and how much is this substantial risk going to cost me?
Ric: How much is it worth to you?
Anthony: I'm getting better every day. When i'm free and in charge of the zacchara family again, you can name your price.
Ric: I knew we'd understand each other.
Anthony: Oh, i'll be a hell of a lot more understanding when i get out of here.
Ric: Don't worry about it. I'm setting up a hearing right now, and you'll have a court date. Uh, but do me a favor. Don't discuss any of this with your family.
Claudia: John, we made a deal. You agreed you were not going to turn yourself in to sonny for michael's shooting.
Johnny: Even though we're both responsible.
Claudia: I planned the whole thing. It was my idea.
Johnny: That makes me --
claudia: What did you do? You went along for the ride, john.
Johnny: So i'm guilty too, then.
Claudia: But the whole point was to keep you safe. That's why i took the hit out on sonny in the first place.
Johnny: Taking the blame and getting both of ourselves killed isn't going to accomplish anything. But sitting around and waiting isn't going to work either, because sonny's going to come after us. So i'm going to go to him and tell him that we had nothing to do with it.
Claudia: That's way too dangerous right now.
Johnny: Well, it's exactly what we would do if we were innocent. I'll even invite him to interrogate any member of our crew, if he wants. Assuming what you said is right and this third party can't be traced back to us, we'll be fine.
Claudia: There's no link between us and the shooter.
Johnny: Well, let's hope not. Things could get ugly.
Luke: Make sure sandy has five cases of that ready to open.
Lulu: Dad, johnny and i are over. I've told you that a million times. Remember, you said you were going to stay out of my love life?
Luke: Yes, i did. And you remember that i told you i thought it was really stupidfor you to try to insert yourself into a mob war for romantic or any other reason?
Lulu: I'm not.
Luke: Little michael corinthos is in a coma because somebody tried to shoot his father. Now, johnny z has plenty of reasons to want to see sonny dead.
Lulu: So end your partnership with him.
Luke: What, and give up all that lovely money? It's so green, it's so fresh, there's so much of it.
Lulu: Ok, fine. Then tell sonny that johnny didn't put out the hit.
Luke: How do i now that he didn't? I mean, i think johnny is probably smart enough not to hire some hit man to try to whack sonny, but i can't be sure. He's subtle, this young man you're interested in. And he's smart. I mean, look what he did here. He inserted himself into my business just so he'd have a reason to be near you. I've gotta say, i like his style.
Lulu: So which is it? Do you like him or do you think he's a walking disaster?
Luke: Both.
Jax: Did patrick examine michael today?
Jax: Does he think he's making progress?
Carly: Patrick doesn't know michael. My child has amazing inner strength, and he's fighting. And i know it.
Jax: And patrick is familiar with hundreds of similar cases.
Carly: If you don't believe in michael, jax --
jax: No, it's not -- i just don't want you clinging to false hope.
Carly: Michael is going to surprise everybody. You'll see, he's going to.
Jax: I'll get you some coffee.
Alexis: How's it going?
Jax: The doctors think that michael's condition is permanent.
Carly refuses to believe that, of course. How do i help her accept the truth?
Alexis: I don't know that you can.
Jerry: Dr. Devlin, are you absolutely certain that left no trace that ties you to michael's shooting?
Ian: My, my, my. Getting jumpy, are we?
Jerry: It's a simple question.
Ian: I already told you, there's no evidence whatsoever.
Just as i told you i'm the last person sonny or jason would suspect. And if you're still thinking about killing me to cover your tracks, my death would only raise questions you won't be able to answer. If you want to protect yourself, protect me. I look blameless, so do you.
Jerry: That still leaves claudia.
Ian: Who's highly motivated to keep her mouth shut.
Jerry: She's far from being discrete.
Ian: She'll keep quiet to protect her brother. Because if sonny finds out she was responsible for putting his child in a coma, he won't stop until claudia and john are both dead.
Luke: And it will be an open bar tonight, pouring all the good stuff, unwatered. We're going to have these people totally greased up and ready for high stakes wagers.
Tracy: No one ever said you weren't good at spending other peoples' money, sweetheart.
Luke: Oh, and that reminds me. I'm afraid you won't be able to play on the house tonight. You're going to have to buy in like everybody else.
Tracy: You are having a good time, aren't you?
Luke: It's the smell of sheep ready to be fleeced.
Tracy: I hate to put a crimp in your style, but please remember that the doctor said that you are a heart attack waiting to happen if you don't pay attention to his suggestions.
Luke: Oh, damn. I left that list home.
Tracy: Allow me to recap. Stay away from alcohol.
Luke: I've cut way back.
Tracy: Eat a healthy, low cholesterol diet.
Luke: Nothing lower on the food chain than caviar.
Tracy: Get plenty of exercise.
Luke: I'm going to be walking the decks all night on my three legs. And doing bicep curls lifting a big fat cigar to my mouth.
Tracy: Good. I'll plan on taking you to the emergency room.
Luke: No, you plan on having a good time. Relax.
Tracy: It's hard to do when i know you could drop dead at any minute.
Luke: Sweetheart, we could all drop dead at any minute. What's important is how you live just before that moment comes.
Tracy: That old song.
Luke: Spanky -- spanky buns. You know, if anybody dies tonight, it's probably going to be my business partner.
Apr 16, 2008 04:43
Jason: Did you find anything?
Spinelli: The jackal has hacked into the surveillance cameras in the warehouse environs, but has yet to turn up anything of consequence.
Jason: Keep looking.
Spinelli: With all due respect, you are still reeling from the shock of young michael's most severe injury. Are you certain that you're ready to resume work?
Jason: Work? Michael is in a coma, and whoever did this is walking around free, and they need to pay.
spinelli: Um, vixenella, this is a most inopportune time for a visit.
Claudia: We need to talk about who shot michael.
Jax: She's not ready to face reality yet. But false hope is only going to hurt her and morgan more in the long run.
Alexis: I'm not sure that there is any alternative, really.
Jax: Well, morgan's been asking questions about her. So if i can get carly home, maybe she will have to admit the truth to him and to herself.
Alexis: I guess you could try that.
Jax: But?
Alexis: If i were carly i would be doing the same thing. Hell, i was in carly's situation and i did do the same thing. You believe you can keep your child alive by the sheer force of will.
Jax: Yeah, but Kristina is -- the situation was different.
Alexis: No, it wasn't. They told me she wouldn't recover, they're telling carly michael won't recover. Carly believes that she can get him well by simply believing that she can. And who's to say that she can't?
Jax: Michael's doctors, the medical community.
Alexis: The worst thing that a mother can feel is helpless. You need to just let her find her way through this. Maybe at some point she'll reach acceptance.
Jax: Yeah, well, i'm afraid of what will happen when she finally does.
Leyla: What happened to your ankle?
Nadine: I tripped over my own stupidity. Your former father-in-law owns the haunted star. Do you know what time it's reopening tonight?
Elizabeth: Eight, are you going?
Nadine: I wouldn't miss it -- i love to gamble.
Elizabeth: Great, i'll see you there.
Nadine: Great. Please tell me you know something about gambling.
Leyla: I've played blackjack a few times.
Nadine: Great -- you have to teach me, fast.
Leyla: I thought you loved to gamble. Wait, why do i get a feeling this has something to do with nikolas?
Nadine: Uh, i went out to wyndemere and it was a disaster.
Leyla: What happened?
Nadine: I made a total fool of myself. And to top it all off, i told him i was going to the haunted star. And then went on to say that i love to gamble. Even though where i grew up, the closest thing to a game of chance was bingo night at the church. I've never even seen a casino.
Epiphany: The casino is the devil's workshop, especially if you start winning.
Nadine: Not much chance of that happening.
Epiphany: [Chuckles]
nadine: So you'll give me a few pointers?
Leyla: So nikolas doesn't show up and realize that you're lying?
Nadine: I don't think that nikolas and luke spencer get along very well. He probably won't even be there, which is fine by me. I've had enough nikolas cassadine to last me quite a while.
Lulu: Hi, spencer -- are you having fun with your dad?
Nikolas: Yeah, we're just about to go to the paddock, do you want to join us?
Lulu: Actually, i have a favor to ask.
Nikolas: Ok, why don't you take him in the kitchen and get him a bag of carrots for me. Thank you.
Nikolas: What sort of favor?
Lulu: Um, the haunted star is reopening tonight and i need you to take me.
Nikolas: Ask lucky.
Lulu: I did, i did -- and he's taking elizabeth. Please, if i go myself it's going to seem like i went there to meet johnny.
Nikolas: Oh, ok -- so it's about johnny zacchara.
Lulu: Well, you don't want me to see him, right? So now's your chance to make sure of it.
Johnny: Is someone planning on killing me tonight?
Luke: I certainly hope not, pal. Nothing dampens an opening night like a dead body.
Johnny: If you're afraid that sonny is going to come after me because his son got shot, i'm going to assure him i wasn't involved.
Luke: Well, i hope you can assure him. If it were my kid --
johnny: Sonny's not going to do anything here -- the two of you being old friends.
Tracy: This is perfect. Here i was worried about you overextending yourself on booze and cigars, but instead you'll just be on the receiving end of a mob hit.
Luke: It's exciting, isn't it? Doesn't it make you all tingly?
Tracy: Can i remind you that your daughter's going to be here? And perhaps i could get your word of mob honor that you'll stay away from lulu.
Johnny: I'm part owner of this casino, i plan on being here for the opening. What lulu does with her life is her business.
Claudia: John's planning to go to sonny and tell him we had nothing to do with the shooting. I want you to make sure that my brother leaves that meeting alive.
Jason: Sonny does what he wants.
Claudia: Johnny did not do this. He did not send that shooter. He agreed to a truce to keep things like this from happening.
Jason: Sonny locked up johnny, maybe johnny wanted revenge.
Claudia: Look, john knows -- we both do. A war costs more than it solves. Someone else did this. Some third party wanted to take advantage of the tension between our two families. And you know what? If all hell breaks loose, jason, they're going to sit back and watch us destroy each other. Then they're going to walk in and take what's left. And if you let that happen, you're rewarding the person who shot michael.
Jason: First of all, sonny's not going to act without proof. But once we get it, we're going to go after the shooter. And there's nothing on this earth that is going to stop us.
Carly: And this is the giraffe that jason gave you. Do you remember it? This is a picture of you and jason when you were a baby. You were so cute. Do you remember this?
Jax: Hi -- what's all this?
Carly: Stimulus, memories -- you know, works in cases like michael's.
Jax: Oh.
Carly: This is bits and pieces of his life just sitting here. This is his favorite --
epiphany: Michael needs his bandages changed.
Epiphany: I need you to leave the room, please.
Jax: All right.
Carly: We'll be right outside, baby.
Jax: Why don't you go home for a while?
Carly: I've already been through this. I'm not going to leave michael.
Jax: Look, i need to tell you something, and it's purely out of love and concern.
Carly: What?
Jax: You have another child at home. Morgan needs his mother.
[Applause and cheering]
luke: Thank you. What a hot looking crowd. Ok, well, welcome to another reopening of the haunted star. We are newer and even more improved. I would bore you with a very long speech, but i know we all got better things to do. So, the gin is cold, the tables are hot. Have a wonderful time, everybody.
Tracy: Elaine. Pace yourself.
Luke: You know, you're right -- i should start with bourbon.
Luke: Natasha.
Alexis: Hey.
Luke: Always nice to see you. Are you here for recreational purposes, i hope?
Alexis: I'm here to have a good time. Unless, of course, you have something to hide.
Luke: Always. This, for example, will be our little secret.
Alexis: Well, would your doctor approve?
Luke: How long have you known me?
Alexis: My lips are sealed.
Jerry: Hello, darling. Care to place a few bets with me?
Alexis: I'm afraid i don't have any chips.
Jerry: Well, you do now.
Alexis: I'm a very bad investment. I've tried every strategy in the book and i never win.
Jerry: I have strategies that you've never even dreamed of. So why don't we start with a few tricks i learned in the back room of this delightful chateau near monaco.
Alexis: We are still talking about gambling, aren't we?
Jerry: For starters.
Nadine: Thanks for letting me drag you along. I'm sure the rules will make more sense once i see the tables.
Leyla: Don't count on it. There's a blackjack table, you ready?
Nadine: Ok, wait -- jacks, kings, queens are 10. Aces, one or 11.
Leyla: Maybe roulette -- let's do roulette.
Tracy: Do i have to put you on a collar and a leash?
Luke: Mama, you want me kneeling?
Lucky: You see why i asked you to come?
Elizabeth: I'll keep me eye on him.
Lucky: Thank you.
Elizabeth: Yeah, sure, it's no problem. You needed the distraction tonight.
Lucky: No, i meant for letting me come see the boys.
Elizabeth: It's good for them to be with you.
Lucky: It's good for me, too. I'm hoping i can do more.
Lucky: Excuse me. Sam, sam -- i didn't expect to see you here.
Sam: Obviously not. You know, i really don't think i'm up for this anyhow.
Lucky: I asked elizabeth to come because she's a nurse. My dad, he might party too hard and need medical aid.
Sam: Yeah, well, gee, that makes perfect sense.
Lucky: I would have asked you to come. But i figured you wouldn't want to come because of your hip.
Sam: You don't have to make excuses. If you don't want to be with elizabeth, that's fine.
Lucky: I want to be with you.
Ric: Scotch rocks, please.
Elizabeth: Ric.
Ric: Hi.
Elizabeth: How are you?
Ric: Well, if you would have asked me that a week ago, i probably would have said terrible. But things are looking up this week a bit, thanks.
Elizabeth: How's marianna?
Ric: Sore subject.
Elizabeth: Oh, sorry.
Ric: No, don't be. Just regarding it as a learning experience.
Elizabeth: Are you thinking about taking over as d.A. Again?
Ric: No, i'm looking to get into business for myself pretty soon.
Alexis: You learned all that in the chateau?
Jerry: Yes, from a beauty named philomene.
Alexis: In the back room?
Jerry: Well, for starters.
Alexis: You're appalling
jerry: I know -- here, place a bet.
Alexis: Five dollars -- that's all the chance you're willing to take on me?
Jerry: Just say the word and i will give you anything you want. Who knows, you might get lucky.
Alexis: I'll stick with the five dollars. Something wrong? Jerry: No, i'm just having one of those "someone is walking on my grave" moments.
Alexis: Philomene, perhaps.
Jerry: No, she adored me.
Alexis: Until she got to know you.
Jerry: Until her husband came home. Go ahead, take a chance, darling.
Alexis: Don't get your hopes up.
Jerry: You won't lose. I've taught you all my best secrets, after all.
Alexis: Somehow i'm not reassured. Take your hand off my --
jerry: Ok.
Nadine: Tell me again what people enjoy about this.
Leyla: Cheating chance, defying odds. Winning a fortune at the spin of a wheel or a turn of the card.
Nadine: Well, when you put it that way.
Leyla: Or you can lose everything and wind up penniless and miserable.
Nadine: You're enjoying this, aren't you?
Leyla: And i haven't placed a single bet.
Nadine: It's just overwhelming, how many numbers. Red, black, even, odd.
Ric: I'm seeing red at the moment, if that's any help.
Nadine: Good enough for me. Red, red, red, red. Red, red, red --
[squealing] oh, my God, i won, i won.
Carly: Mercedes is great with morgan. My mom went by there this afternoon, you're home now to help.
Jax: Yes, but none of us can replace you.
Carly: And i asked my mom to explain to morgan that i am here with michael.
Jax: Carly, you've been here for days, ok? Morgan is confused and scared. He knows something is wrong, but he doesn't know what. If you don't care what this is doing to yourself, think about what this is doing to him.
Carly: I don't know what to tell him.
Jax: You have to tell him the truth. Listen -- you have to tell him that michael is in a coma, has been shot and he can't play video games with him or chase him out of his room, ok? He needs to hear all that from you.Not from me, or from Bobbie. And you can't put it off any longer.
Johnny: Waiting for someone?
Lulu: I was supposed to meet nikolas at the launch from wyndemere, but either i'm late or he was early, and he left without me. My cellphone battery is dead.
Johnny: I could take you.
Lulu: Tag, you're it.
Johnny: What does that mean?
Lulu: I guess it's your turn to be sending mixed signals.
Johnny: Is that what i'm doing?
Lulu: Well, you're the one who pushed me away.
Johnny: And you're the one who told me that i would know where to find you. Guess what? I found you. Should we get going?
Logan: Well, well, well. Looks like we're all headed to the same spot.
Luke: Miss zacchara, you look ravishing.
Claudia: I like your choice of words, spencer.
Luke: Can it be you don't have a date?
Claudia: I decided to go solo. It's good to keep one's options open, don't you think?
Luke: [Laughs] hey -- heart patient with a bum leg.
Tracy: So long as you remember.
Alexis: I think i'll go say hello to my daughter.
Jerry: Would you like me to keep your chips warm?
Alexis: Keep your hands off my chips.
Nadine: Thanks for the tip on red.
Leyla: Do you always have this kind of intuition on gambling?
Ric: Well, let's just say i'm luckier at the tables than i am at love.
Leyla: I can empathize.
Ric: Really? Well, you seem like a very bright girl, i'm sure you can find a way to change your odds.
Leyla: Any pointers?
Ric: Me? Absolutely not. Experience has taught me nothing.
Leyla: Would she happen to be one of your past experiences?
Ric: No, i just have some dealings with her father.
Croupier: Place your bets.
Jerry: Our good dr. Devlin is here, and seems to be in high spirits.
Claudia: Why do i care?
Jerry: Well, he assured me there was no way to trace him back to the -- you know what. He also assured me that if he got caught, he'd give both of us up.
Jason: Nothing, nothing.
Spinelli: That concludes every piece of video footage that i jackaled from the bank, the convenience store and the diner across the street from the warehouse.
Jason: Is there anything that we missed?
Spinelli: There is one last possibility. I accessed some footage from the outskirts of the warehouse district.
Jason: Where is this?
Spinelli: It's the lobby of the new business tower. It's the security camera angled out into the street facing east.
Jason: Right there, that car driving by. Did you see something in the back window? Back it up. Freeze it right there. What is that right there?
Spinelli: Doctor i.D. Tags -- you know, to get into the special lot at the hospital.
Jason: That's kind of weird. What would a doctor be doing near the waterfront that time of night?
Carly: What if he wakes up while i'm gone?
Jax: I can stay here if you like.
Carly: I'll be right back, ok?
Jason: Which doctor was driving past the warehouse the night michael was shot?
Sonny: I will find out who shot michael.
Apr 17, 2008 04:36
tracy: Who are we watching, the -- the nursie with the accent or the moll with the bad attitude?
Luke: I'm trying to keep one eye on each. It's giving me a headache.
Claudia: You better find him and shut him up before he gets us both killed.
Jerry: Well, you brought dr. Jekyll here, i didn't.
Claudia: I never imagined him taking a shot with a child in the line of fire.
Jerry: And he won't hesitate to turn us in if he's caught.
Claudia: What's he even doing here?
Jerry: Living dangerously, as we all are.
Sam: So is carly sitting with michael?
Alexis: I'm assuming sonny's with him. I got to tell you, my heart goes out to both of them.
Luke: Welcome back to the haunted star, pal. Anything you need, it's yours.
Sonny: I'm just here to play.
Jax: Carly, you need to explain to morgan what's going on.
Carly: Morgan would never want me to leave his brother alone.
Jax: Nurses will be here. I can stay here if you like.
Logan: Well, i guess we all had the same idea, a little evening of gambling at the haunted star, huh?
Johnny: I don't know. Talk to lulu.
Lulu: I'm not going anywhere with you.
Spinelli: Numbers, a caduceus, you know, the snakes intertwined with the wings at the top, a slightly ambiguous symbol for american medicine.
Jason: Just finish the trace on the plates.
Spinelli: Ok, right.
Jason: I need to know which doctor was driving past the warehouse the night michael was shot.
luke: What? You're welcome here any time.
Sonny: Thank you, luke.
Luke: John zacchara will be here later.
Sonny: Yeah?
Luke: And you know the star is neutral territory.
Sonny: I'm just here to gamble.
Luke: Ok. Jennifer. For old time's sake.
Sonny: No, thank you. I'm going to be spending my own money tonight.
Luke: Oh, man, that's music to my ears. Enjoy.
Sonny: Thanks.
Tracy: Why didn't you frisk him?
Luke: Why didn't you?
Tracy: Those two goons need frisking.
Luke: Go on, popsicle, have some fun. Enjoy your little self.
Ric: How's michael?
Sonny: [Mumbles unintelligibly]
ric: What are you doing?
Sonny: Uh, i'm -- i'm gambling.
Ric: You're gambling? I see.
Ric: Whatever you're trying to prove, sonny, it's not going to help your son.
Carly: If michael wakes up and i'm gone, he'll be scared, and i can't take that risk.
Jax: I may not understand what this is like for you, but i know what it's like to be a little brother left alone. I'm not saying that, you know, michael's like jerry. He's not. But my parents spent a lot of time getting jerry out of trouble when i was growing up. Sometimes i felt alone and scared, even though i knew my parents loved me.
Carly: You think that's how morgan feels?
Jax: Just go home for a while, give him a hug, tuck him into bed, let him know that you're ok.
Carly: I -- i wanted to go home after michael woke up, and then i could tell him the good news.
Jax: Hey, it'll be good news just seeing you. Morgan needs to know about his brother, and he needs to know about you. Ok? You can't -- you can't make him wait any longer, carly.
Carly: Hey, michael, i'm going to go for just a little while. But if you wake up, don't be scared, because i'll be right back, and the nurses will call me, ok?
Carly: I love you, baby.
Robin: I am so sorry. I closed my eyes for two minutes.
Patrick: No, it's ok. You were dead asleep, though. You just want to stay home and get some takeout? We don't have to go.
Robin: No, no, because once this baby is born, i'm going to have to stay home every single night for years.
Patrick: Every single night for years?
Robin: Yeah, i mean, besides parent-teacher conferences and dance recitals, this might be my last hurrah at the haunted star. Ow.
Patrick: Robin, you sure those shoes are ok?
Robin: Yeah, my feet are a little swollen, but it's fine.
Patrick: I'm sure you have bigger shoes. Let's just get some.
Robin: I like these shoes. They go with my outfit. Let's go. Come on.
Lulu: So, did you have to sneak out of the house to escape claudia?
Johnny: I told her i have other plans.
Lulu: What did you think i was going to do? Did you think i was going to just wait here for you and be really grateful that you followed me all the way over here?
Johnny: Maybe i'll see you inside.
Logan: That looked like fun.
Lulu: It's getting late. I should probably go.
Logan: Why don't you let me walk you over? Not a date, just a walk. Safety precaution.
Lulu: Logan, it's --
logan: I know. You don't have to say it again, ok? We're over. I understand, i'm cool with it.
Lulu: Ok.
Logan: All right.
Jason: Yes?
Spinelli: No.
Jason: No? Why is this trace taking so long?
Spinelli: State computers are lethargic and of a bygone era, but the archaic software is reliable in the sense of the turtle finishing the race.
Jason: Can you just please focus?
Spinelli: Right.
Jason: Please, focus, please.
Spinelli: Sorry, sorry. Does mr. Corinthos, sir, have any enemies that by chance might be doctors? I mean, perhaps you could compose a list that i could cross-reference.
Jason: I mean, sonny has a lot of enemies, you know? I mean, a lot of people don't like him The quartermaines -- but they would never -- they would never do anything like this. You know a.J.? It's michael's biological father, and i honestly believe that a.J. Did not have the right to raise his own kid. I mean, sonny, carly, and i kept michael away from a family that loved him. Look where he ended up.
Sonny: Double up.
Ric: Have you talked to your therapist? What about your medication?
Sonny: I'm not having a breakdown.
Ric: Then what are you doing here, sonny?
Sonny: I'm winning. Look. Look!
Sonny: Ok?
Ric: Hey, hey. Why are you putting yourself through this?
Sonny: Hit me.
Sonny: Whoo.
Luke: Good evening, partner.
Johnny: Looks like a pretty good crowd, huh?
Luke: Not bad at all. Remember all the money you put in the joint, and also remember shootouts are not good for business.
Johnny: Now's the time.
Claudia: No, this is -- no. Listen to me. It's way too weird, sonny just showing up like this out of the blue. Something's up.
Carly: This is the last place i saw michael. He was playing a video game and i yelled at him for it, and then i went to work. I didn't even kiss him goodbye.
Morgan: Mommy.
Carly: Hey, baby. I love you so much.
Spinelli: The program's working. It -- it will provide accurate information, eventually. Oh, while we wait, might i inquire as to how it fell upon you to name michael after mr. Corinthos, sir?
Jason: It doesn't matter.
Spinelli: Well, we can wait in silence if you prefer.
Jason: After --
jason: After carly had michael, she suffered from postpartum depression, and she couldn't take care of him, so she left him with me, and i -- i didn't know how to take care of a baby.
Spinelli: Well, you must have learned with alacrity.
Jason: I gradually realized that michael needed more than food and a safe place to be You know, he needed love. He needed a home, parents. He needed a name. He didn't -- he didn't have a name, so i -- i tried to call carly. I couldn't reach her, so i made a decision. I named him after a man i respected the most, a man who was like a father to me. What's the point of taking care of a baby, giving him a name, and surrounding him with love if you can't even keep him safe?
Luke: Have fun.
Lulu: Oh, have a nice night. Where were you? You were supposed to be my date.
Nikolas: Where were you. I waited for a half an hour. I called you.
Lulu: I told you -- i told you that i might be late.
Nikolas: When's the last time you turned your cell phone on?
Lulu: Let's go check out the bar.
Nikolas: I'm right in the middle of a game.
Nadine: It's ok, you should go.
Robin: Maybe there's a table somewhere. Oh, yeah, can we just sit down for a second? Ow. Oh, so much better.
Patrick: You can barely walk.
Robin: Well, it's just little tight, but that's normal. It's -- it's fine.
Robin: Wow. Look at kate howard. She's so gorgeous.
Patrick: It's her job to look gorgeous. Maxie: What are you going to do?
Kate: We are going to talk up the magazine. We're going to tell everyone we're back on track. We're going to downplay michael's accident without appearing cool, but the point is to generate interest and goodwill.
Maxie: Ok.
Nikolas: You all right?
Lulu: Yeah, i'm fine, i guess.
Patrick: A white mother russian -- just milk, a little bit of honey, and ice.
Robin: That sounds really great. Thank you so much.
Patrick: You know, you are the most beautiful woman in this room.
Robin: You know i love it when you lie to me.
Patrick: What?
Robin: Ugh -- the ice, it's just floating in the milk.
Patrick: Robin, you going to be sick?
Robin: Not if i get something fizzy, quick.
Patrick: Ok.
Johnny: Mr. Corinthos.
Johnny: I want you to know how sorry i was to hear about what happened to your son. My heart goes out to you and the rest of your family. I want to assure you that my sister and i had nothing to do with it, and the truce is still intact as far as we're concerned.
Sonny: Ok, so then i won't rush to judgment. But i will find out who shot michael, and whoever did it will pay. Can you put 10,000 on black? Thank you.
Luke: Let me have that cup there. Thank you.
Luke: Get rid of that for me.
Claudia: Well, we liven up the place, you got to give us that.
Luke: Yeah. All right, let's get something clear. I'm here to make money tonight. This is my opening. A shootout would really cut into my profits.
Claudia: We have a truce, remember? But if you could, put in a good word with sonny, huh?
Luke: And why would you want me to do that? Don't you think he believed you?
Claudia: Look, we would never shoot anybody's kid.
Luke: I hope not. I really hope not.
Johnny: You made it.
Lulu: Obviously.
Johnny: Where's logan?
Lulu: I'm here with nikolas. I told you that.
Maxie: I heard you were one of the owners. It's an amazing opening.
Nice work.
Johnny: Thank you.
Lulu: You, too.
Maxie: I'm just doing my job. What's your excuse?
Lulu: For not sucking up? Integrity, maybe.
Kate: That's quite a performance.
Sonny: It's over.
Kate: Is there no possibility that you would leave here with me right now? I could collapse or twist an ankle if you need an excuse, if saving face was an issue.
Sonny: Yeah, but you got work to do, right?
Kate: And you have the perfect opportunity to show everyone here that you're not alone in this.
Sonny: Let's go, milo.
Carly: I'm so sorry that i have been gone so long. I know it's been tough, and you have been such a good boy for jax, mercedes, and grandma bobbie.
Morgan: Where's michael?
Carly: Michael is in the hospital. Yeah, see, there was an accident, and he was hurt, so he has to stay in the hospital so his body can rest and heal. And it is. Your brother is getting stronger every day, and that's why i need to be at the hospital, because i really want to be there when he wakes up. And when he wakes up, he's going to come home, and he's going to be so happy to see you, and we are going to be together. We're going to be together.
Spinelli: Ok, the plate belongs to a rental agency which also leases cars.
Jason: Find out who the doctor is.
Spinelli: Why would the doctor be involved in such a heinous act?
Jason: I have no idea. Maybe it's a coverup, but it's a place to start.
Spinelli: Even if my highly evolved skills do reveal the evildoer, it won't change what happened to michael.
Kate: You know, i know why i'm here. To promote "crimson" and put on a good face, no matter how i feel. Now why don't you tell me why you're here, unless it was to meet up with the zaccharas.
Sonny: Well, that was their call, not mine.
Kate: Sonny, why are you doing this?
Sonny: Doing what?
Kate: You want everyone to think that you don't care.
Sonny: I'm just -- i'm not -- i'm having a good time. I mean, you know, luke's an old friend. Every time i go to the hospital, carly, you know, gets upset. She thinks that i don't deserve to be a father, so there's nothing i can do for michael tonight, right?
Kate: I know, i know, sonny. It must be hell.
Sonny: Yeah, it's hell, but it's my hell. It's not your hell, right?
Kate: Don't do this. Don't shut me out.
Luke: So far, so good, wife.
Tracy: You think kate and sonny are going to be back?
Luke: Who knows?
Diane: Good evening, mr. And mrs. Spencer. Oh, i can't believe how late i am. I got caught in a conference call. So, have i missed anything?
Luke and tracy: Nah.
Diane: Oh, can you tell me where kate howard is? I want to see who she's wearing.
Tracy: She left with sonny corinthos.
Diane: Oh. Oh. Well, what a shame. Excuse me.
Luke: Mm-hmm.
Alexis: Ok, ok, ok. Just -- just -- just think for just once. There's so many nice men here who aren't trigger-happy mob guards. What about any of them?
Diane: Ok, here are your choices as i see them. You can get out of my way, or i will grab you by your hairpiece --
alexis: Bitch.
Diane: Thank you -- and throw you off the boat.
Apr 17, 2008 04:39
Max: Good evening, ms. Miller.
Diane: Mr. Giambetti.
Max: You -- you want to play?
Diane: Well, i just might, actually, yes. I hear mr. Corinthos is no longer on the premises.
Alexis: Oh, for pete's sake, i can't watch.
Jerry: Well, then allow me to accompany you on a moonlight stroll around the deck. We can discuss the complexities of my latest currency transfer, and that way my time's billable and we can pretend we're not flirting. Come on.
Max: You're welcome.
Maxie: Must be nice owning a place like this.
Johnny: I'm liking it so far.
Maxie: I'd like to own my own business someday, maybe a fashion house or a magazine.
Johnny: If you've got a dream, go for it.
Maxie: Yeah, but dreams take money.
Johnny: Go out there and make some. To get you started --
johnny: Why don't i stake you for the night?
Maxie: You would do that for me? Why?
Johnny: Pretty woman at the tables is never bad for business.
Johnny: Enjoy. Sonny: I'm not shutting you out. I just want to gamble a little bit, you know, drink, get my mind off what i did to michael.
Kate: It's just like the night you picked up claudia.
Sonny: Oh, come on.
Kate: Sonny, you're making a very dark, self-destructive choice.
Sonny: It doesn't matter what choice i make, kate, because it's not going to bring my son back. I could sit by his side 24/7 for the rest of my life, i could gamble everything i own, and he's still going to be laying there with a bullet hole in his head.
Kate: So you're going to punish yourself.
Sonny: I don't have a choice. I got to live my life, right?
Kate: Fine, are you going to let me help you?
Sonny: You want to help, you can help.
Kate: Ok. What can i do?
Sonny: Ok, you're going to go back in there, right? You're going to launch your magazine, you're going to work the room, and, uh, please don't ask me to explain what i'm doing because i don't really understand, myself. Can we just go back into the haunted star, please?
Lulu: Talk to me.
Elizabeth: About what?
Lulu: Anything to get my mind off the skank that is throwing herself at johnny.
Maxie: Come on, number seven!
Johnny: Nine.
Maxie: Whoo! All right!
Johnny: Congratulations.
Maxie: Oh, i'm just getting started.
Lucky: So, did you make any money?
Sam: No, i probably should've just stayed home.
Lucky: Well, i'm glad you didn't.
Sam: Did it even occur to you to at least warn me that you were bringing her here and at least tell me why?
Robin: Ok, i can't lose, so pick a number -- first thing that comes to mind.
Patrick: Ok, uh, when's the baby due?
Robin: October 21.
Patrick: 21. Let's go.
Robin: 21 It is.
Patrick: Put it down.
Robin: Ok. Excuse me.
Patrick: Put them both.
Robin: All of it? Ok.
Robin: Yes! Yes! I think that is a cue that the baby is ready to call it a night.
Patrick: Ok, grab your chips.
Let's go.
Carly: I read morgan a story, i tucked him in, so i'm just going to go back to the hospital.
Jax: Uh, i was just making some dinner. I thought maybe we could eat something together.
Carly: I've been gone too long.
Jax: Carly, you really could use some rest.
Carly: I really wish you were on my side with this.
Jax: I am. I am on your side. It's just at some point you're going to have to face what the doctors are saying.
Carly: Don't tell me that my little boy is not going to wake up. Don't even.
Jax: Look, elizabeth was in the o.R., Ok? She said that --
Carly: Since when is elizabeth a medical expert? She's a nurse. She does what the doctors tell her to do. So why would you go to her about michael's condition?
Jax: I know that she's a nurse, ok, but patrick and robin weren't available to talk to. And i wanted to talk to somebody that was actually in the o.R. She watched patrick remove the bullet from michael's brain, ok? He's terribly injured.
Carly: I don't care what Elizabeth said. She's wrong.
Spinelli: The trace on the leased auto should reveal all we need. You know, this might be a good opportunity for you to eat something, maybe take a nap.
Spinelli: At the risk of overstepping, you are not responsible for what happened to michael, regardless of what mr. Corinthos, sir, might have said in that moment of anger and pain.
Jason: I put michael in that life and i helped him stay there.
Spinelli: You were working with the best possible information available at the time. Mr. Sir and the valkyrie -- sonny and carly are loving parents. This terrible curse doesn't change --
jason: Sonny and carly are in so much pain, they can't even function as parents. They're ripping each other apart. I don't even know how to stop them.
Spinelli: Why must you be the peacekeeper?
Jason: I just am, spinelli.
Spinelli: When do you get the opportunity to be angry?
Jason: I wasn't at the warehouse. Ok? I don't want to believe that sonny saw the rifle and he protected kate instead of michael. Robin: Next time i promise i'll wear my moccasins. And my pajamas. I will have my own little bottle of fizzy water and sit right by the ladies' room the whole night.
Patrick: Oh, come on, that was a good time.
Robin: Yes, it was. I don't know, i mean, it was kind of awful, though.
Patrick: It was not awful. Look at how much money we won. This is enough to start a college fund. Can't believe i just said that.
Robin: Admit it, i completely ruined your night.
Patrick: You did not. Listen to me. I had a great time.
Robin: Name one thing you like about me being pregnant. And these do not count.
Patrick: Oh, damn. Um, ok. I love making fun of you from behind.
Robin: What?
Patrick: It's hilarious. And i love seeing you eat like there's no tomorrow.
Robin: You know what, speaking of, i am so hungry. You want something?
Patrick: Come here. I love seeing you this happy. You've wanted this baby more than anything, and i'm so glad that your dream is coming true.
Spinelli: Do you blame mr. Corinthos, sir, for his unfortunate choice?
Jason: Sonny made a terrible mistake.
Spinelli: Is that what you believe?
Jason: Yeah.
Spinelli: How's the valkyrie doing?
Jason: She keeps telling herself that michael is going to wake up. You know, that hope is keeping her alive.
Spinelli: Do you believe her?
Jason: I mean, the doctors were wrong about me. Maybe they're going to be wrong about michael, i don't know. I don't want to believe that he's going to be in that be forever, you know?
[Computer beeps]
Spinelli: Oh. At last, the necessary data has surfaced.
Jason: Is the car leased to a doctor?
Spinelli: Indeed. Dr. Ian devlin.
Claudia: Why don't you pack up your chips and go home.
Ian: Why would i do that? I'm winning.
Sonny: Ok. 10 On 12.
Croupier: 10,000 On 12.
Ian: High stakes indeed.
Sonny: 30. On 12. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ian: Wasn't michael 12?
Sonny: You know what, let's just double it. There we go. All right.
Diane: Come here.
Sonny can't see us over here.
Lulu: Kate's looking for you. Maxie's working tonight, doing p.R. For the magazine.
Johnny: You're on the clock?
Lulu: Yeah, she's the next fashionista of port charles. Didn't she tell you? She's supposed to be chatting up all the rich guys in the room. I guess that would include you.
Maxie: Yes, i'm working. There's nothing wrong with that. Johnny's working, too. It's part of having a career. You wouldn't know anything about that.
Lulu: I need some air.
Maxie: Bye.
Lulu: If you want to come with me, it's your choice.
Maxie: I really hope you're not going to fall for that.
Johnny: Lulu and i have a couple of issues to resolve.
Jax: It isn't fair to lie to morgan or to yourself.
Carly: But it's fair to use morgan to bring me home so you can ambush me?
Jax: I'm just saying at some point we have to make some choices.
Carly: On your timetable, or your terms. How do you give up on michael so easily? How do that?
Jax: Carly, he's totally unresponsive. And he's going to stay that way.
Carly: Would you be saying this if he were your child? Or is it easy to say because he's your stepson?
Jax: That's not fair. That's not fair. You can't keep lashing out at people because they're trying to tell you the truth.
Carly: You want the truth? You left me for no good reason when i practically begged you to stay. The truth is i had to deal with the surgery, kate, sonny, my son in a hospital bed, by myself. Then you go behind my back to elizabeth, of all people. Then you pull me away from michael under false pretenses. So don't stand here and talk to me about truth, pain, or being a father.
Robin: All that education -- yale -- all that research -- paris -- and look at us now. Burgers, beer, and a baby on the way.
Patrick: Don't apologize for being pregnant. This is perfect.
Robin: But it's weird, right? I mean, i'm morphing into this completely different person.
Patrick: Two, actually.
Robin, you're acting like nothing has changed, though. We're still working the same hours, you're staying out late, wearing the same clothes, the same shoes. How are your feet?
Robin: Ooh, they hurt. The shoes definitely won tonight, and i think my gambling days are over. And the mood swings will probably get worse.
Patrick: Yes.
Robin: You sure you're ok with that?
Patrick: I'll find a way. Come here.
Spinelli: According to the hospital records, dr. Devlin was on call the night michael was shot. But his car wasn't reported stolen, so maybe someone borrowed it?
Jason: Or devlin could be the shooter.
Spinelli: With a falsified timesheet for an alibi.
Jason: Find out everything you can on this guy. What he did before port charles, where he practiced. You hack into his bank accounts. I need to find out who ian devlin is doing business with.
Nadine: I like this one. You get to use your intuition.
Nikolas: Gamblers call that trusting your luck, a fatal error in life. And you?
Nadine: You don't think you're being just a little bit overdramatic?
Nikolas: No, i'm just saying luck is no substitution for skill or the basic understanding of the law of averages, that's all.
Nadine: That may be true, but i am still going to bet 13.
Nikolas: 13'S come up twice since we started playing.
Nadine: And i won, and so now now i'm going to win that.
Nikolas: The odds of a number repeating itself are -- actually, really, really good.
Leyla: Oh, my God, you won again! That's amazing!
Nadine: Oh, my God.
Nikolas: How do you do it?
Nadine: My horse is 10 years old and he has three socks. How could i lose?
Nikolas: Right.
Jerry: It's been a fairly good night. Let's split it, shall we say, half and half?
Alexis: That's kind of generous of you.
[Chips clatter]
Jerry: Oh, excuse me.
Alexis: You're going to go under the table, the dirty floor, to get a $5 chip?
Jerry: That's 5,000, darling.
Diane: Are you sure this is ok?
Max: Yeah, the boss is gone. We can stay here as long as we like, or we could go back to my place.
Max: Oh. Oh, i'm sorry, let me get that.
Diane: It's all right.
Luke: Bring it on.
Kate: Well, congratulations on a very successful opening.
Luke: Thank you. If you're looking for corinthos, he left about 15 minutes ago.
Kate: Yes, and it looks like claudia has gone as well.
Luke: Did she? Good night.
Kate: Good night.
Johnny: Lulu, you've asked me to step up, i stepped up.
Lulu: Yeah? When was that?
Johnny: Ok, if i had technically asked you to go to the opening with me instead of just offering you a lift, would you have gone?
Lulu: You didn't technically ask me.
Johnny: Come on. I had to deal with sonny. You were in there. You saw it.
Lulu: Do you think that he believed you?
Johnny: No. He's grieving so hard right now, i don't think he knows what he's doing.
Lulu: You didn't have to flirt with maxie all night.
Johnny: At least she's a girl who knows how to go after what she wants.
Lulu: She's a skank.
Johnny: I think she's nice.
Lulu: I'll show you nice.
Jax: I'm sorry. I'm going about this all the wrong way. I really am trying to help.
Carly: By giving up on michael.
Jax: I really wish you wouldn't go.
Carly: I really wish that you would come. Why can't you hope that my son pulls through this? Why can't you believe that he is tough and he's strong and he's resilient like me? And why do you want me to accept the worst possible outcome when it hasn't even been a week, jax?
Jax: I know if you could bring michael back through sheer force of will and love, you would. But that's not how it works. Ok? I just -- i can't hurt you by supporting your denial.
Carly: I'm going to the hospital.
Sonny: I made a big entrance at the haunted star tonight. I made sure everybody noticed me gambling and drinking a little bit. Everybody thinks that i'm punishing myself. They're worried, but that's ok because that's -- that's the whole point. I put you here. And, as your father, it's my job to make it right. So i'm going to be going out a lot all over town. No guards. And it may take a while, but people are going to notice. And whoever shot at me and shotyou instead is going to try again. And when they do, for you, i'm going to kill them.
Sonny: I'm looking for whoever tried to kill me.
Kate: Why are you doing this, sonny?
Spinelli: I jackaled the most astonishing information from dr. Devlin's financial records.
Ian: Hello, claudia.
Carly: Michael? Michael?
Apr 18, 2008 04:44
First line or two are missing. I will fix it later on.... jackal in the zone like the tangy freshness of orange soda.
Jason: Then why aren't you finding anything else on dr. Devlin?
Spinelli: The curiously educated oncologist/plastic surgeon is most difficult to trace for a civilian, as are his financial records.
Jason: Ok, spinelli, if he's that hard to find, he's got something to hide.
Claudia: I still want to run the shipment. I just want to cut devlin out. I don't need a middleman. Find out who's running things from the Canadian end. I'll take care of it.
Johnny: Don't you mean we'll take care of it?
Claudia: I thought you'd be sleeping in after your late night.
Johnny: Is that your little way of asking me where i was after i left the casino last night?
Man: The district attorney's here. Says she has business with you.
Alexis: I have some questions for both of you regarding the shooting of michael corinthos.
Carly: I remember when you were little, and you wanted to bake cookies. And we did, and they turned out like hockey pucks. So, of course, we sat around eating the cookie dough, laughing, and talking and just hanging out. And you said that you didn't care that i wasn't like other moms. I know you're older now, baby, but we are going to bake cookies when you wake up. And you're going to wake up, baby, i know you are.
Carly: If you don't believe that, you know, if you don't believe that michael's going to wake up, i don't want you here.
Anthony: Aw, what do you want?
Sonny: You know who i am.
Anthony: You're not the doctor.
Sonny: I'm the enemy.
Anthony: You came to torment a sick old man?
Sonny: No, i came because i'm looking for whoever tried to kill me and wound up shooting my son.
jax: I can't pretend i don't know how serious michael's condition is. The doctors told me the same thing they told you.
Carly: Which means you want me to give up, the way you've given up.
Jax: No, this is not about giving up. This is about facing --
Carly: That's why you wanted me to go see morgan and tell him about his brother.
Jax: You're his mother. He needs you.
Carly: You thought that if i told him about michael, somehow i would come to my senses. That believing that michael is going to get better is wrong.
Jax: I really feel for you, carly.
[Carly sighs]
Jax: But you've got to do this your own way in your own time.
Carly: Yeah, which means you think that i'm crazy and michael doesn't stand a chance.
Jax: I love you. I will always love you and want to give you what you need.
Carly: Can you give me my son back? Because that's what i want. I want michael whole and well, and i will not give up until he is.
Nadine: Here you go.
Leyla: Someone's in a good mood.
Nadine: Yes, and...
Leyla: And something tells me the source of all your joy is not the hemorrhoidectomy.
Nadine: I had fun last night.
Leyla: Oh, yeah?
Nadine: Yeah.
Leyla: Was it all the money you won gambling or the time you spent with nikolas?
Nadine: It was nice to see him smile.
Leyla: Despite the rotten luck he was having.
Nadine: I don't know. I think something changed in nikolas last night. Like, he was finally ready to get back into life.
Nikolas: I'm running out of pills.
Ian: I'll get you more by the end of the day.
Nikolas: Listen, i shouldn't have to track you down like some sort of street dealer here. I paid you $10 million, remember?
Ian: Right, so you can keep having hallucinations of your dead fiancee.
Nikolas: My motives are none of your business.
Ian: You know, all the money in the world isn't going to change the fact that you need to have the surgery. You're just buying yourself time, that's all.
Nikolas: How much time?
Ian: Weeks. A month at the outside. Without the surgery, drug or no drug, you're going to die.
Jason: Devlin's car was near the warehouse the night michael was shot. I'm saying that is not a coincidence.
Spinelli: Just -- given the years of study that the doctor dedicated to the healing arts --
jason: He's hiding something.
Spinelli: An illicit romance would be more likely, or perhaps a patronage for a high-priced escort service. I'm speaking as a certified private investigator trained in the 47 rules of detecting, which did prove invaluable --
Jason: Can you find devlin's bank records?
Spinelli: Right. I'm just trying to follow the master's reasoning so i can learn.
Jason: I've only talked to the guy a few times, but he seemed pretty arrogant.
Spinelli: Like most highly skilled surgeons.
Jason: No, like a guy who thinks he can get away with anything.
Spinelli: Ok, well, he graduated second in his medical school, behind his friend dr. Patrick drake.
Jason: What, then he specialized in plastic surgery?
Spinelli: And immediately went abroad.
Jason: Where?
Spinelli: That information is not available.
Jason: So you're saying a top plastic surgeon -- you'd think he'd set up practice in l.A. Or new york, but you're -- you're just telling me he disappeared?
Spinelli: Perhaps he chose to work with those less fortunate.
Jason: Ok, you know what? This isn't making any sense. I want you to keep digging, ok?
Spinelli: Mm.
Jason: See if you can connect anybody to devlin who'd want sonny dead.
Spinelli: Thank you.
Alexis: The night michael was shot, you said that you would be willing to testify against trevor lansing.
Johnny: I did, and i would.
Alexis: Oh, well, that's unfortunate because his alibi does check out. He was, in fact, having drinks with the mayor.
Claudia: Then i don't see how we can be of any more help to you.
Alexis: I was thinking that perhaps trevor may have hired someone to pull the trigger. I mean, given his association with your family for so many years, he would, in fact, have access to any number of qualified assassins.
Claudia: As entertaining as this little exercise is, i assure you we have better things to do with our time.
Johnny: Trevor does want sonny dead. And you're right, it would have been very easy for him to find someone to do the job.
Alexis: Mm-hmm. That's what i was thinking. You know, i'm also thinking how interesting it is that you're so determined to implicate your own attorney.
Claudia: Trevor's a slime, but he's not the only one with motive. I mean, i'm sure sonny has a long list of enemies.
Alexis: Mm-hmm. You being one of them. Maybe. Well, rumor has it that you are a woman scorned, so... And rumor has it that you were locked up or kidnapped or something when michael went missing, so seems to me that either one of you or both of you might want sonny dead.
Sonny: You know, even paralyzed, you're more of a man than trevor will ever be. You know, he keeps dismissing you like --
Anthony: A man has to work. Has to work among his roses if he's going to truly --
Sonny: Here we go with the roses.
Anthony: Enjoy them --
Sonny: That's great.
Anthony: But they still come anyway.
Sonny: Yeah, yeah.
Anthony: Creeping. They try to suck the life out. And look at me. There's nothing i can do.
Sonny: This is a coward's way, anthony. And it's pathetic. It's insulting. I know you've been getting treatment, medication. Your mind's working just fine. You never used to be this madman. You used to be a force to be reckoned with, somebody who, even tied to a bed in prison, could arrange for a rival to be killed.
Anthony: If you think i had your son shot, you should kill me right now. Nikolas: You said yourself that the drug was experimental. Maybe i have more time than you think.
Ian: This party in your brain is going to end.
Nikolas: Ok. Now you mentioned that you may have access to other experimental medications that could increase my chances. If you do, i'll pay.
Ian: Fine. I'll see what i can do.
Nikolas: Well, for someone who doesn't know the first thing about gambling, you sure did clean house last night. Maybe you should be giving me pointers.
Nadine: How can you talk about the fun we had last night when you're still paying dr. Devlin for an illegal drug because you'd rather hallucinate about emily than save your own life?
Maxie: As ms. Howard's personal assistant, it's my job to give her your messages, not force her to respond to them. Our first day in the new office, and you're late again, without kate's coffee, nonetheless. Half-caf latte --
Lulu: With cinnamon and low-cal sweetener.
Maxie: Yes, the blue packet, not the pink one. I realize you're color-challenged, but you should be able to handle that. And sprinkle the cinnamon on. Don't dump it.
Lulu: And should i serve it on a pillow with lots of little tassels as well?
Maxie: If that's what i ask you to do, yes.
Lulu: Ok, let's get something straight.
Maxie: Uh, yes, let's. This is my desk. This is your desk. Don't put any of your things on my desk. In fact, don't come near it. Don't answer the phones unless i'm with kate or handling business for the magazine, and at the beginning of each day, i will give you a list of responsibilities. It's your job to complete them.
Lulu: Ok, if you think i'm cleaning up after adrian's froofy little dog again --
maxie: You wanted the job as kate's second assistant. This is it.
Lulu: This is your way of getting back at me for taking off with johnny last night.
Maxie: That would be petty and vindictive and completely unnecessary because that's the last time johnny will be going anywhere with you.
Lulu: You can't seriously be thinking of making a play for him.
Maxie: Oh, i don't need to. He's already interested in me, and the added bonus -- i haven't been giving him mixed signals for the last few months.
[Telephone rings]
Lulu: Oh, yeah, you should really go for him because you deserve the humiliation when he dumps you.
[Second telephone rings]
Maxie: Like logan did? Didn't hear him complaining.
Lulu: Wow, you --
Kate: Could either of you two be bothered to answer the phone?
Lulu and maxie: Kate howard's office.
Claudia: I was standing in the middle of the metro court hotel when michael corinthos was shot.
Alexis: Did anyone see you?
Claudia: As a matter of fact, i was talking to carly when she got the news that her son was hurt, and my brother was on the haunted star with lulu spencer.
Alexis: Would lulu be willing to swear to that?
Johnny: Why not? It's the truth.
Alexis: If trevor lansing could have hired an assassin, so could you have.
Claudia: You have a child with sonny corinthos, don't you?
Alexis: Sorry?
Claudia: A little girl who's in just as much danger as michael every single day of her life.
Alexis: And why does this concern you?
Claudia: You have more reason to want sonny dead than either of us. Do you have an alibi for the night michael was shot?
Alexis: This is not a joke.
Johnny: Whatever my problems may be with sonny, i would never fire a gun at or around a child. I have no idea who shot michael corinthos, but i do know it wasn't me or my sister or anybody who works in this organization.
Alexis: Well, i hope you're telling the truth. Careful.
Sonny: Did you send the person who shot my son? Was he acting on your orders?
Anthony: What if i said yes?
Sonny: Oh, i'd want to kill you.
Anthony: It's a terrible thing, your son being hurt. Especially if you know it was deliberate. You find yourself staring into the eyes of the person responsible, the person who inflicted damage on your child. Who could blame a father for whatever he does?
Sonny: You want me to snap right here, right in prison so that way the guards can pull me off of you, right?
Anthony: You think you're different than me, better? That's a lie you need to tell yourself.
Sonny: I'm not going to walk right into a murder conviction, 'cause there is a chance that i could be wrong and you are as pathetic as you seem to be, but just in case you're not, understand this. I'm not hiding. I'm going to be out in public. Come get me. Kill me if you can. Kate: Jen, you are the best layout person in the business, which is why i expect more out of you. Now, this is going to be "crimson's" very first eveningwear spread, and it fairly reads "boring," "dull," "ordinary." Honey, just make it work. Maxie, do you have a copy of that relationship article?
Maxie: Yes.
Kate: It's just not right. I mean, the title -- "how to get off the see-saw with a guy who won't commit." Why don't you look at it?
Maxie: Me?
Kate: Girls 15-25, that's who we're targeting. You're in the demographic. See what it's lacking.
Lulu: Maybe you should let me read that, since i can actually read.
Maxie: Yeah, you know, after watching you with johnny last night, it's clear you're an expert on guys who can't commit.
Lulu: You don't know anything about me and johnny.
Maxie: I know he's wasted on you. Well, was.
Lulu: He would never go for you, maxie.
Maxie: He was about to go for me last night. That's why you needed to drag him off for your important conversation. Pathetic.
Lulu: How pathetic were you? You were throwing yourself at him all night.
Maxie: Throwing myself? Lulu, don't be upset just because johnny was paying attention to me all night last night.
Lulu: He couldn't help it because you were clinging onto him so hard he couldn't pry you off.
Diane: Ladies, good morning. Is she in?
Kate: Diane, hi.
Diane: Oh, i love the new space.
Kate: Thank you.
Diane: Now, listen. I know you are swamped. Launching a new magazine, a thousand and one details, but i just came by to look at the contracts, make sure that everything is in order, and let you know that i am spreading the word in all the proper circles. In fact, last night i was at a little soiree at eleanor green's.
Kate: Oh, i don't think eleanor will get what we're trying to do here.
Diane: You're absolutely right. The woman has abysmal taste.
Kate: No, i meant who we're targeting, because actually the magazine is geared towards --
diane: People on the cutting edge. I know -- everyone knows -- what to expect from a kate howard publication, and i am just thrilled to be doing my little part.
Kate: And i can't thank you enough, diane.
Diane: Well, actually, you can, in fact. You could just let me have a sneak peek at the shoe layout.
Kate: Mm...
Diane: Ok, or not. Ooh.
Carly: I'm sorry for the way i acted earlier. The last thing i want to do is push you away. I love you, and i need you so much right now.
Jax: Hey, i'm not going anywhere.
Carly: I don't need you just to love me back. I need you to at least hope that i'm right.
Jax, i believe that if i stay with him and i talk to him, that he is going to find his way back. You know, he's like me. He's not a quitter.
Jax: My brother's here. I'll give him an update.
Jerry: How's michael doing?
Jax: No change. The doctors say that he's not going to come out of this.
Jerry: Oh, God, what this must be doing to carly.
Jax: Yeah, the thing is, she refuses to believe it.
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Claudia: It was a thing of beauty the way we turned the tables on our illustrious d.A. You handled her so well.
Johnny: I told the truth, really. I don't know who shot michael. And i wouldn't fire a gun around a child any more than you would, ok? This is on whoever you used, and i'm starting to think it's time to feed this idiot to sonny.
Trevor: Spending every waking moment with your sister is not healthy, and it is not wise, john.
Claudia: Make you nervous, trevors?
Trevor: Why should i worry, claud? The police have just confirmed my alibi. I was having drinks with the mayor while young michael corinthos was being shot.
Claudia: Yeah, alexis davis mentioned it when she came here to question us. She also mentioned it'd be real easy for you to arrange someone to do the shooting for you.
Trevor: I think you two should be more discreet. Trying to pin that shooting on me in front of alexis? It only made you two look more guilty.
Man: Someone to see ms. Zacchara.
Spinelli: Dr. Devlin's financial records are most tortured and tangled. However, there is a transfer to his local account from a foreign source.
Spinelli: The grand keys.
Jason: Grand keys, that's the bank capital for drug smugglers. You need to get into --
Spinelli: Ah, mr. Corinthos, sir. Greetings and all good thoughts for a speedy recovery for the little dude, your son. Um, stone cold and i here are on the trail of valuable information that could possibly lead to the --
Sonny: I need to speak to jason. Could you go upstairs?
Spinelli: Yes, mr. Sir. If you need any further assistance, i'll be in the pastel-infused room.
Sonny: I just want you to know i sent my guards away, and i want to be completely unprotected.
Jason: Is that how you're going to deal with what happened to michael? You want to die?
Anthony: I hope you're not here with excuses, because i don't like them any more than i like disappointments.
Ric: No, i wouldn't waste my time. Or yours, for that matter. It's a court order. You have been granted a hearing to decided whether you are fit to stand trial or declared legally competent and released outright. You have also been made a ward of the court, so your children have absolutely no legal power against you.
Anthony: You're good.
Ric: Yes, i am. Now, in the meantime, you are going to be transferred from this prison facility to a private hospital near port charles called shadybrook.
Anthony: Another prison, nicer name.
Ric: No, no, no. There's absolutely no guards there, mr. Zacchara. I successfully argued that you're not a flight risk considering you're, uh, paralyzed from the neck down.
Anthony: I always said, if you have a good lawyer, you can do anything.
Jax: You know, i sit by carly's side and listen, as she tells herself that michael's going to get better, that he is going to pull through this. I try to say the right things, but all i want to do is scream at everyone -- at sonny and myself for not being there.
Jerry: It was beyond your control.
Jax: You know, michael's a kid who should have been out playing baseball, having his first crush on a girl, not buying a gun trying to protect his family and be like his father. You know, i suggested to sonny that he should get out of michael's life. He said that he would never abandon his children. Well, where is he now, when his son is in a coma?
Jerry: He's probably trying to find out who did this.
Jax: Yeah, and a lot of good that's going to do.
Carly's a wreck. She's falling apart, unable to accept the truth.
Jerry: Now, look. You're a gambler, you've beaten the odds many times. And maybe -- maybe, michael will.
Jax: Jerry, i'm afraid for carly. I'm afraid of what will happen if michael doesn't wake up.
Claudia: Dr. Devlin.
Ian: You never came in for that follow-up on your injuries, so i decided to check on you in person.
Claudia: Oh, well, i do appreciate your hands-on approach. But unfortunately right now is not a good time.
Trevor: Now that's what i call devotion to one's profession.
Ian: Thank you, mr. Lansing. I do take my work very seriously. Especially, when i tell a beautiful woman that there will be no residual damage. Ms. Zacchara, if you put this off, i may not be able to make good on my promise. Things could get worse.
Claudia: I will call you the first change i get, and we'll have a private consultation.
Ian: Ah, i look forward to it.
Trevor: Poor john. You're risking your life for this? You alienate me for a tramp who will do the dirty with anybody, including her own personal physician. Claudia is an embarrassment -- makes you look weak.
Johnny: You're the one who's becoming the liability, trevor. Find a way to get along with claudia or you're gone.
Trevor: Let me ask you both a question. Whose name is on the property that controls the piers? Who holds the balance of power in port charles? If anybody goes, it won't be me.
Anthony: Help me move my legs to the other side of the bed.
Ric: You sure you need help, or is this just for effect?
Anthony: I've been able to sit up and move my arms and hands for a couple of months. The other stuff is coming slower. I can move my feet a little, but i can't stand up...Yet.
Ric: You've just been lying there all this time playing invalid, is that it?
Anthony: I had to look helpless, didn't i? To convince people like your father that i was no threat. Now, thanks to you, i'm going to get out of this hellhole.
Ric: Just as long as we understand each other, mr. Zacchara. Your thanks is not what i am after.
Anthony: I'm going to give you the money and the power to do whatever you want. But i need to be careful.
Ric: That's why i thought it was best to deny access for your children, at least for the time being.
Anthony: You need to watch out for that scheming bitch claudia. She's pouring poison in john's ear, trying to control him.
Ric: You know, when your children find out about this, they are going to try and block your hearing.
Anthony: Well, you make sure they don't. The faster i'm a free man, the more i'll reward you.
Sonny: Michael wasn't the intended target, i was. The shooter might, you know -- he's out there somewhere. He might try again. So what i am going to do is i'm going to draw him out. And as soon as he comes after me, i'm going to make the son of a bitch pay.
Jason: Spinelli and i, we have a good lead. Ok, that's what he was trying to tell you.
Sonny: Michael is my son. I'm going to handle this my way.
Jason: Ok, you blame me for -- you blame me for michael being shot. That's why you're going to put yourself in front of a bullet?
Sonny: I don't blame you for -- i don't blame you for anything. Look, i know i've been coming down on you. I've lashed out, and you were there, and so it landed on you. And i apologize for that. Follow your lead. Do what you have to do. I will follow mine, and do what i have to do. You know what? Just to let you know, i went to see anthony today. And he is not the pathetic madman he wants you to think he is. Just think about that.
Spinelli: Stone cold. I jackaled the most astonishing information from dr. Devlin's financial records. Claudia: First, devlin botches the hit on sonny. Shoots his little kid in the head, and now he's threatening to expose my involvement.
Jerry: How brilliant. Does anyone else suspect?
Claudia: Not yet. But let me tell you something. If this lands on me, i'm going to take you down with me. So it's in both of our best interests that you shut ian up.
Jerry: Don't threaten me, ms. Zacchara. It makes me cranky.
Johnny: You feeling ok? You don't look so hot. Maybe we should call that doctor back to take a look at that injury.
Claudia: I flirted with him a little bit. And he thinks, what, i'm gonna drop on the floor? In his dreams.
Johnny: Trevor may have bought that, claudia, but i think i know you a little better. When devlin walked in, you were rattled.
Claudia: I was annoyed.
Johnny: "If you don't get this looked at, things could get a lot worse," i believe is what he said. The man was threatening you. It sounds like he's holding something pretty big over your head. If i had to take one guess, devlin shot michael, didn't he?
Ian: Mr. Cassadine, about the matter we discussed earlier.
Nikolas: The delivery.
Ian: May i drop by your office later?
Nikolas: That's fine. I meant what i said earlier. If you do have access to other medications that could be more effective, i'll pay.
Ian: So would most people.
Nikolas: Nadine, wait. Wait. Look, i'm sorry if i'm not dealing with my loss or my health the way you would like.
Nadine: You're not dealing with them at all.
Nikolas: Ok, what i was trying to say tyou earlier is that last night was the first time since emily died that i was able to have any fun. And i just -- thank you.
Nadine: Here are your messages. One of them is urgent.
Maxie: Yes, i'll hold. Why don't you just admit it, lulu? Johnny's way too much for you to handle.
Lulu: What happened to being all about your career, maxie? One night playing roulette with johnny and your big dream goes out the window.
Maxie: Yes, mr. James, i'll give her the message. See, i can be an amazing assistant to kate and still have a social life. Besides, johnny is too wild for you.
Lulu: Johnny is too smart for you. He's too everything. You're a big joke, maxie.
Maxie: Well, i'll just call you after i have sex with him, and then we will see who's laughing. Hi, ms. Davis, it's so nice to see you.
Alexis: Hello, ladies.
Diane: Oh, kate, i just couldn't accept.
Kate: Oh, please, diane, they're samples.
Diane: Oh, well, in that case, fine Please don't mention a word of this to alexis. I pride myself on --
Alexis: Hello.
Kate: Hello, Alexis.
Alexis: What are you doing here and why do you look so guilty?
Diane: I am not guilty. I am well accessorized. And these are samples that kate insists i have.
Kate: Go, go, go, go.
Alexis: Samples.
Diane: No. Wh -- i was -- i was just about to pick those up.
Alexis: Oh, how much?
Kate: Retail, 695.
Alexis: Now how much do you want them?
Diane: What do you want?
Alexis: I want the earrings, the purse, and the shoes.
Diane: The earrings are my personal property.
Alexis: Don't care.
Kate: Not really a fair trade.
Alexis: Kate, kate, don't get in the middle of two lawyers negotiating.
Diane: We will chew you up and spit you out.
Alexis: Deal or no deal?
Diane: Deal.
Alexis: You first.
Diane: You first.
Alexis: No. We'll count to three.
Diane: Fine.
Alexis and diane: One, two, three.
Kate: Oh, for heaven sakes. The two of you.
Alexis: These are very nice. Thank you.
Diane: Sorry. I want to hit her in the head.
Sonny: Tom, how you doing?
Foreman: Good, mr. Corinthos.
Foreman: We're all praying for michael.
Sonny: Thank you. Listen, i'm going to be supervising the coffee shipment from now on.
Foreman: Oh. Ok, great. It'll be good to have you around.
Max: Mr. C.
Sonny: Ok, bernie was supposed to talk to you.
Max: Yeah. He said you don't want anymore bodyguards.
Sonny: You're not off the payroll. You just work with the other guys, rotation-wise, and you guys can watch the kids.
Max: What, you think this is about money? This job is way more to me than that. Look, i've guarded michael for years. I love that kid.
Sonny: I know you do, max.
Max: You know what? I should have ignored your orders that day and showed up anyway.
Sonny: It's not your call. You were just following orders. Don't put this on yourself.
Max: You know, we all feel guilty. We all just want to punch someone, you know, do something crazy. 'Cause we got nowhere to put this weight. We have no way to explain what happened to michael. You know, and so we act out -- we do things we wouldn't ordinarily do. You know, like sleep with diane. Oh.
[Stammers] Nikolas: Thanks. I was surprised to get a message from you. We didn't talk much before emily died and talked even less since.
Jason: When emily died, you would have done anything to find her killer, right? That's how i feel about whoever shot michael. So, i just need you to be honest. It'll go no further than this room. All i want is information.
Nikolas: About what?
Jason: Why did you pay dr. Ian devlin $10 million?
[Pistol clicks]
Jerry: Did you know that a surprising number of people die in the shower? I mean, it's one of the most dangerous rooms in the house, or the hospital, as the case may be. Oh, dear, dear, dear. You know what? I can't remember if i put three or two bullets in the chamber, which drastically reduces the odds that you are about to lose something very, very dear to you right now.
Vaughn: Nice and easy, mr. Z. I got you. Ok. Now, i have a car at the side entrance. And i made arrangements with shadybrook to get you in there without drawing any attention, ok?
Anthony: It's nice to have you back on board, vaughn. You must be sick to death of taking orders from trevor.
Vaughn: Well, sir, i'd much rather be working for you.
Anthony: Of course. What else are you going to say? I want you to prove it. Follow claudia, find out who she meets with and where she's vulnerable. It's time my daughter was put in her place.
Claudia: John, i know that you don't like it when guys flirt with me, and dr. Devlin was certainly less than subtle.
Johnny: If that guy's your shooter, he was here to threaten you. Let me help.
Claudia: I worked with dr. Devlin, before, in milan. He was very reliable, and he assured me that he could take care of sonny.
Johnny: A doctor?
Claudia: Ian devlin is much more than a doctor.
Johnny: Is there anything that can be traced back to you?
Claudia: No money changed hands. There's nothing that ties me to the shooter. But ian's going to probably try to blackmail me. That won't work, and i promise you that i can take care of it.
Man: A mr. Lansing to see you.
Claudia: You were so much more interesting when you held the deeds to the waterfront property. It's a shame you had to let your daddy get the best of you.
Ric: Mm. It's your father i'm here about.
Johnny: What about him?
Ric: Anthony zacchara has been made a ward of the court. Which means you two are no longer allowed to see him. He's being moved to a private psychiatric facility pending his hearing.
Claudia: Hearing for what?
Ric: Competency. If all goes well, by next week, your father will be free.
Sonny: What did you say?
Max: It only happened once, boss.
Diane and me were very emotional, not that she isn't an attractive woman. She's very attractive and smart. She's got these cute little toes. Look, i'm sorry. It won't happen again. Please don't tell mrs. C.
Sonny: Max, michael was lying in a hospital bed with a gunshot wound to the head. Do you think carly or i really care that you slept with diane?
Max: So, it's ok?
Sonny: No, it's not -- it's not right. You know, it's just diane should know better, you should know better. She's a great lawyer, and i can't have a romance distract her from what she's doing. Do you get it?
Kate: This is crazy, sonny.
Sonny: What are doing here?
Kate: Milo called me. He's concerned about you.
Sonny: Max, please, can you just give us --
Sonny: You shouldn't be here.
Kate: Why are you doing this, sonny? You're going to stand where michael was shot and give whoever tried to kill you a second chance?
Jax: You know, jerry reminded me of all the times that i've beaten the odds.
Michael can, too.
Carly: Thank you. He -- it's going to be all right. You'll see, it is. Isn't it, michael? He's opening his eyes. Michael?
Jason: So, old Devlin is providing illegal drugs. What can you tell me about Dr. Devlin?
Sonny: I got Michael shot. It's up to me to get justice for my son.
Carly: Michael, you're going to
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Monday, April 21: Part 1 Carly: I'm here. Jax is here. There's nothing to be afraid of, ok? You're going to be ok. Michael? You look at me, baby. It's mommy. Can you hear me?
Kate: You're parading around town with a virtual target painted on your back. You're showing up in places with little or no security. I thought that you were done punishing yourself for what happened to michael. I thought that you were going to try to find a way to go on living.
Sonny: That's what i'm trying to do.
Kate: Then why are you here?
Sonny: Because i have a business to run.
Kate: I've met your foreman, sonny. Tom is more than capable of handling the day-to-day operations on his own. You do not need to be here to oversee every single shipment while your son is laying in a hospital.
Sonny: I'm -- i need to keep busy.
Kate: No, you need to grieve --
Sonny: I --
Kate: As any parent would.
Sonny: I got michael shot! It's up to me to get justice for my son.
Jason: I -- i've seen the bank records. You had $10 million wired into an account, offshore, set up by ian devlin. That's a lot of money, nikolas. What was it for?
Nikolas: What does that have to do with michael's shooting?
Jason: I don't know. I'm not going to know until you answer the question.
Nikolas: You -- you really wouldn't understand.
Jason: If you know something about this guy, i need to know, ok? Why did you wire that money into his account?
Nikolas: It was the only way i could see emily.
Jerry: I've heard these kinds of wounds are excruciating and impossible to repair, even for a great plastic surgeon, which you clearly are. I mean, my new face is a testament to your technical prowess with a scalpel. However, i think that you may find it rather difficult to detach yourself, so to speak, from this particular case. So if you prefer that i shoot you in the brain to spare you the great pain and humiliation, speak now, please. No? All right. Oh, i can't bear to watch.
Jerry: Oh, dear, dear. Well, the odds seem to be in your favor this time. Should we do it again?
Ian: Are you out of your mind? This is a hospital. Anyone could walk in here.
Jerry: Yes, which could drastically reduce your chances of losing an appendage. Come on, be a sport.
Ian: If you're so worried about being tied to this shooting, try to show some discretion.
Jerry: Like you did last night at the haunted star? Or this morning by paying a visit to claudia zacchara?
Ian: We had some unfinished business to attend to.
Jerry: So do we. If sonny corinthos even glimmers that you shot little michael in the head, i will put a bullet in yours before you bring my name into it. You understand? Good. Now dry yourself off.
Nikolas: When i came home from emily's funeral... She was there... In her ball gown. I know. At first, i thought it was -- i thought i was dreaming or maybe it was a manifestation of -- of my grief. I don't know. She was real, jason. I could -- i could see her. I could talk to her. I could even -- i could touch her. And it didn't make sense to me at the time. It just -- it just didn't matter.
Jason: How does -- how does devlin fit in?
Nikolas: Well, he has access to an experimental -- an experimental medication that can lessen some of the other side effects, allowing me to keep seeing emily.
Jason: Well, why wouldn't you just ask patrick or robin?
Nikolas: Because the medication's in a -- in a trial stage and it's not approved for use in this country.
Jason: So devlin's providing illegal drugs. Do you know who he's working for?
Johnny: I thought i told you to stay away from my father.
Ric: You made a very compelling argument. The armed thugs were a nice touch. However, your desire to see anthony locked up does not outweigh his right to an attorney.
Claudia: My father is an evil bastard who deserves to burn in hell for everything that he has done.
Ric: I understand. Mr. Zacchara was a very, very sick man.
Claudia: There's no past tense about it. Anthony zacchara is a twisted, sadistic freak. And if you get him released... You won't live to regret it.
Ric: Miss zacchara, i realize you've been gone for some time and this must come as quite a shock. But i can assure you your father is not responsible for his previous actions.
Claudia: How much is my father paying you?
Ric: Anthony was diagnosed with a mental illness and he has since undergone treatment. I have a whole team of doctors who can assure me that your father is a changed man.
Johnny: I don't care how many doctors you have, ric, or papers you file. My father stays locked up.
Kate: I'm not sure if you're trying to seek justice or revenge. I don't think you know either. Sonny, if you want to help michael, go talk to his doctors, research other treatment options, sit down with carly and figure out what the best way is to help your son.
Sonny: Ok. I know that you're trying to help, but this is something that i -- that i have to do on my own.
Sonny: What -- what do you mean, why?
Kate: What possible good can come from avenging michael? It's not going to change what happened. It's certainly not going to heal your son.
Sonny: But it will send a clear message to my enemies not to come after anybody that i care about again.
Kate: Sonny, what happened was a terrible accident.
Sonny: You -- you were here, kate! My son was here. They may not have been aiming at my son, but they -- they did it anyway. I can't -- I can't let that go.
Kate: So you're just going to make the situation worse for everyone around you.
Jax: So how's he doing?
Patrick: There's no change.
Carly: How can you say that? Michael's eyes are open.
Patrick: It was an involuntary reflex. Michael's not responding to light or painful stimuli. His eyes are open, but he's still not conscious.
Jax: So you're saying he's still in a coma.
Patrick: I wish i had better news, but michael's prognosis hasn't changed.
Carly: No! He opened his eyes. He's trying to come back to us.
Patrick: I know this is difficult to understand --
carly: You know what, you don't know my son. You don't know my son. He is getting better.
Patrick: You can get a second opinion, but any doctor that examines michael is going to tell you the same thing. Excuse me.
Carly: I want a specialist. I want someone in here who is familiar with michael's injuries and who is committed to helping him make progress. That's what i want.
Jax: It's -- it's not progress, carly.
Carly: His eyes are open.
Jax: I know, but you heard dr. Drake. He said that it was a reflex.
Carly: It's a sign.
Michael is a fighter. And we cannot give up on him, jax. Sam: Hey, what do you think you're doing?
Spinelli: Fair samantha, greetings. It is -- hey, it is good to see you -- see you looking so agile. I assume the recovery regimen is going well.
Sam: I assume so. I am actually here on my very last visit, thank you.
Spinelli: Well, i appreciate the salutation, but, you know, you really should stretch before all physical exertion.
Sam: Come on, nice try. What are you up to?
Spinelli: I was just looking for an update on michael for his uncle. That's all.
Sam: Jason's been here day and night. He knows exactly how michael's doing.
Spinelli: Yeah, but he only knows what the medicinal ones are willing to divulge and that's all been news of a dark nature, so i thought maybe i could find a little hope on michael's chart.
Sam: Listen, spinelli, the doctors are doing everything that they can. We are all worried about michael, but all we can do now is wait, ok?
Maxie: Spinelli, i've been looking all over for you. Don't -- don't you check your phone? Don't shush me.
Spinelli: Ok, look, the wounded and somewhat strident blond one's boisterous nature is drawing undue attention to the jackal's activities.
Maxie: Oh, well, whatever it is that you're doing, drop it. I have an emergency.
Nikolas: I have no reason to believe that dr. Devlin is involved in anything criminal other than providing me with a drug that's technically illegal in this country.
Jason: He charged you $10 million.
Nikolas: I know. I know, but since i've been -- since i've been taking it, i haven't had one episode of rage or a blackout or anything. And i don't -- i don't see emily as much as i -- as much as i would like to, but i still can see her. And to me, that's worth and amount of money.
Jason: This guy's preying on your desperation to make a profit.
Nikolas: What do you want me to do? Is it -- is it wrong for me to want to take this drug? Is it wrong for me to pay any amount of money to keep seeing emily?
Jason: I don't know. I don't. I mean, i know how much you loved her. If i could take a pill and see emily again, i'm not sure i would turn it down either.
Nikolas: All right. Well, thanks.
[Door opens and closes]
Kate: Anything that you do to avenge michael will be at the expense oyour other children, sonny. The violence will escalate Morgan and kristina will be caught in the middle of a mob war. Is that what you want? You want them hurt or even killed?
Sonny: If... If i don't retaliate, it will be a sign of weakness.
Kate: Well, it's better to weak, sonny, than dead.
Sonny: I'm not fighting with you on this.
Kate: I'm sorry. Do you expect me to just stand back and watch you throw your life away? What? That is what you'll be doing.
Sonny: That's not what i'm doing. You don't know understand what i'm doing.
Diane: I'm sure you didn't call me down here to see my fabulous new designer bag. Thank you very much.
Sonny: It's business.
Kate: Fine, i'll leave you toit.
Sonny: Ok.
Diane: While i've got you, do you by any chance have a pair of those --
Kate: I'll have neela's people call you.
Diane: Yeah, thank you.
Diane: That woman is fabulous. And you should stop seeing her immediately because the fashion world cannot afford to lose kate howard, but -- but you can.
Sonny: Who are you to be giving relationship advice?
Diane: I'm your attorney.
Sonny: Well, as my attorney, you shouldn't be sleeping with my bodyguard.
Ric: I can see why you would want things to remain as they are. I mean, after all, you are the big man right now, the one with the power and respect. I mean, if anthony were released, he would want all that back.
Claudia: That's not going to happen.
Rick: Really? Your father has been released from a maximum security prison and moved to a private psychiatric facility with not so much as guard standing at his door And after this hearing, there is a very, very real possibility that he's going to be released altogether. Perhaps you should prepare for that possibility now.
Claudia: Schizophrenia is the best thing that ever happened to my father or his family. Everyone was better off when he was just insane, because in his right mind, my dad is lethal. He will love you one minute and he will turn on you the next. The best thing for everyone, including you, would be to leave him there until he rots.
Ric: Now, that's not a very nice thing to say.
Johnny: It's the truth.
Ric: I thought you might feel that way. That's why i had the court petition to suspend your visitation. You know, i'm starting to think that anthony's children don't really have his best interests at heart.
Claudia: He can't get out.
Johnny: He won't. I'll make sure of it.
[door opens]
Ric: How do you like the view?
Anthony: The roses are a big improvement from the ceiling i've been staring at for the last five months. But they don't compare to the ones i got in my garden at home.
Ric: One step at a time.
Anthony: I don't like to be kept waiting.
Ric: Look, i'm pushing through your release as fast as i can, anthony, which is no small feat considering you're a confessed killer. I'd be very happy that you're here instead of in a prison cell.
Anthony: I was a sick man when i did those things. I'm well now. I want to be with my family.
Ric: Well, your family has much different plans.
Anthony: Be specific. That's what a lawyer's for.
Ric: Claudia and john are determined to do whatever it takes to keep you locked away for the rest of your life.
Claudia: Ever since trevor took control of those waterfront piers, i understand ric has been looking for a way to get back at him. What better way than by letting daddy out?
Johnny: We can block this.
Claudia: How? You heard him. He's been declared a ward of the court, john. He's already been transfered to another facility.
Johnny: Ok, ric has one attorney. We can afford 20. We'll do whatever it takes to make sure dad stays locked up.
Claudia: He's not just some crazy old man anymore, john, who's going on about his roses. If he's got his mind back, then he's not just sane, he's smart. And he knows the best way to control you is to get rid of me.
Sonny: Hey, max, get in here for a second.
Max: Do you need something, boss? Ms. Miller -- oh!
Sonny: You see that?
Diane: You are basing these ridiculous assumptions on max's propensity for two left feet?
Sonny: Well, he walks perfectly well when he's around me. And then he gets around you --
Diane: Max, would you please tell sonny that his assumptions are completely unfounded?
Sonny: Max, are you sleeping with diane?
Max: Well, boss, "sleeping with" tends to imply that there's an ongoing --
Sonny: Just say yes or no. Answer the question.
Max: Yes, and it was the best sex of my life. Ms. Miller is incredible.
diane: Well -- well, thank you, max, and likewise, i'm very, very sure.
Max: Thank you.
Diane: But it remains that that is none of sonny's business.
Carly: I know you're tired, baby.You had such a big day. It's ok to sleep. You did so good opening your eyes, and i know you're going to open them again. You are so brave and you are so strong and you're a fighter, just like me. But i need you to keep fighting, because i know you're going to come back to me. You're almost there. Michael, you're almost there.
sam: I'm sorry to interrupt.
Carly: Then don't.
Sam: Carly, look, i just -- i came to see if you needed anything, maybe coffee, something to eat --
carly: You know, you don't have to be nice to me. I don't want your pity and michael doesn't want it either.
Sam: No, look, i am not here to give you pity. I'm concerned about michael.
Carly: Don't be. Don't be. I mean, michael is getting better. And you and everyone else need to stop acting like he has a terminal illness or his life is over, because it's not. My son is fine. He's fine.
Jax: Hey, you have a minute?
Jason: Actually, i was on my way to the hospital. How's carly doing?
Jax: That's what i wanted to talk to you about, about carly.
Jason: Oh, ok.
Jax: You were with her when i couldn't be, through michael's surgery and when the doctors told her the prognosis.
Jason: Yeah, you know, i did -- i did what i could.
Jax: Yeah, and i appreciate that. What concerns me is how carly is taking the news. You saw her at the hospital, jason. I mean, she's still in complete denial.
Jason: It's -- it's hard, you know, it's hard to accept what the doctors are saying at this point.
Jax: Yeah, especially when michael just opened his eyes. Patrick said -- patrick said that it was just a -- a reflex. Of course, carly's taking it as a sign that he's getting better and that he's going to wake up and be the same little boy that he was before the shooting. I can't get through to her, and i was hoping that you could.
Apr 21, 2008 04:47
Claudia: I still remember so vividly the day that daddy sent me away. I came home from school one day, and my little suitcase was packed and sitting by my door. I remember i went upstairs to say goodbye to you.
Johnny: And i smashed my toy piano to splinters. I know.
Claudia: You wouldn't even look at me, but when i was driving away, i remember looking back at the house and --
Johnny: I was watching from the rooftop.
Claudia: What did you do, sneak out through the attic window?
Johnny: Yeah.
Claudia: You were just standing up there on the ledge, crying and calling my name. Broke my heart to leave you. I didn't want to leave you, john. You have to believe that. Daddy made me go.
Johnny: Yeah, he said you were a bad influence.
Claudia: Dad was... He was jealous. He was jealous of us because it was you and me against him, and he didn't want to be on the outside, so he had trevor take me away.
Johnny: As much as i missed you, part of me was glad you were gone, though, away from all this madness.
Claudia: You should never have been left alone here with him. I promised you that i was gonna protect you, and --
johnny: You didn't have a choice.
Claudia: Well, i do now.
Johnny: Ok, but i'm not that little boy you have to protect anymore. As for our father, he's not gonna hurt you again. I'm sure of it. Come here.
Kate: Sorry to interrupt, but this is important.
Johnny: You're gonna have to handle this one on your own. I got something to take care of.
Claudia: What the hell do you want?
Sonny: Ok, you need to get this, diane. Max works for me, so i have a say in anything that affects his job performance.
Diane: Max is a fully grown adult, capable of making his own decisions, as am i. You do not get a vote in who he sleeps with.
Sonny: It's not a good idea for, you know, the attorney to sleep with her clients.
Diane: Could not agree with you more. It is unprofessional. It's unseemly and completely inappropriate, but since i don't represent max -- i represent you -- there's nothing even approaching conflict of interest.
Sonny: Ok, what if max needs you to defend him down the line?
Max: Boss --
Sonny: I need you -- shut up. I need you to be able to do that, right, without getting all lovey dovey, emotional --
Diane: Ok, that is condescending and completely chauvinistic to think that i --
Sonny: Oh, well, it -- it happened to alexis. She went from a no-nonsense, capable attorney to hyperventilating mess.
Diane: Ok, with all due respect, perhaps if you had thought a little bit, taken a little precaution while in the heat of passion, then maybe alexis would not have gotten pregnant and would not have been reduced to a blithering pile of hormones.
Sonny: Diane, i love kristina. She's my only daughter. She means the world to me, but that one night changed alexis forever, and i'll be damned if i'm gonna let that happen to the best attorney i have. Ok? So here's the deal. You are forbidden -- are you listening now?
Max: Yes.
Sonny: To sleep with diane, date diane, be around diane. You are off limits.
Diane: This is outrageous. You cannot -- you cannot dictate to him --
[phone rings]
Diane: Don't you -- don't answer that. Don't even think about answering that Sonny: Can you just -- yeah? I'm on my way.
Diane: No, you're not. You're not going any -- we're not done.
Sonny: We are done. Let's go.
Diane: You misogynistic, self-centered --
Sonny: Yes.
Diane: Control freak. I am billing you triple!
Jason: For as long as i've known carly, she's always done what she wants. I've -- i've never been able to tell her anything, jax.
Jax: Well, you could try. You know, she may accept the fact that michael's never going to wake up if she hears it from you.
Jason: But it's not gonna matter what i say to her. She's gonna fight for michael as long and hard as she can. There's no way to stop her.
Jax: I know how much she loves michael. She'd give her own life to save his, as would i, but sadly, there's nothing more we can do for him. But carly has another little boy at home, and he's scared and confused, and he needs his mother, and morgan's already asking questions, and it's not fair to keep telling him that michael is going to get better when he's not.
Jason: Morgan's too young to understand what's going on.
Jax: No, jason, he's -- he understands. He's -- he's grown up quite a bit. He knows his brother's hurt, and he also knows that his daddy and his uncle jason never leave the house without a gun. I mean, it's -- it's better he learns the violence of your world now than end up like his brother. Now, you know that i've never approved of your -- of your lifestyle. That said, i am also aware of how much carly loves you. It pains me to say it, but she trusts you more than anyone else. Carly needs to understand the reality of michael's situation, and the only person who can tell her that is you. Maxie: Move.
Spinelli: While the demanding blonde one may doubt the jackal p.I.'S sleuthing ability, i assure you, i have been trained in all things stone cold, including --
Maxie: Your way is taking too long. See? Much easier.
Spinelli: Aye. Dare i ask how you procured a key?
Maxie: Well, i told the clerk behind the desk i was locked out of my room, which would be really funny if i was staying here, because the place is a dump -- and completely crawling with bugs!
Spinelli: Shh.
Maxie: We have to get out of here.
Spinelli: No, the jackal p.I. Has yet to look around. Just relax.
Maxie: Ok, well, get whatever it is you need, and do it fast, because i want to get out of here and have you help me out with my projects.
Spinelli: So the resourceful blonde one does need the jackal's assistance after all.
Maxie: Well, not to open a door. I need you to help me break into couture's computer system so we can get a mock up of there next issue, so crimson will have an advantage.
Spinelli: Hey, sleuthing for stone cold takes presence over fashion subterfuge.
Maxie: You said you would help me.
Spinelli: Yes, after i obtain potentially incriminating data from the dastardly doctor's dirty abode.
[Keys in lock]
Maxie: Hurry.
Maxie: You're probably wondering what i'm doing here.
Ian: I'm sure you'll have an entertaining explanation.
Jax: How you doing?
Carly: Michael hasn't opened his eyes since you left, but he will. He's resting, and he's gonna wake up, and he's gonna talk to us.
Jax: Hey, i asked about you.
Carly: I'm sick of defending myself for believing in my son. That's for sure.
Jax: You know, i would give anything to have michael back, watch him play with his little brother.
Carly: Jax, he will. He will. You know he's -- he's getting better. He's just resting, and he's healing right now, but we have to have faith.
Patrick: Dr. Scorpio has agreed to take over michael's case until you find another doctor.
Carly: What's this?
Patrick: It's a list of specialists. You're welcome to contact all or none.
Robin: In the meantime, we're going to be moving michael to a regular room.
Carly: Because he's getting better. That's why you're moving him out of i.C.U. Michael is getting stronger.
Ric: Oh, glad you could make it.
Logan: I was curious. What could we possibly have to talk about?
Ric: Business proposition.
Logan: You're gonna have to find another mole for sonny's organization. I already told you the man fired me.
Ric: Hang on, logan. This has nothing to do with my brother.
Logan: Ok, well, then what are we doing in his warehouse?
Ric: Somebody tried to kill sonny right here at this very spot. Bullet ricocheted and hit my nephew. Now sonny's looking for payback.
Logan: What does that have to do with me?
Ric: Well, you spent a couple of years dodging bullets and car bombs over there in iraq. That military experience as well as your medical training makes you the perfect candidate to protect a client of mine in case a mob war breaks out.
Logan: Why would i want to work for you, huh?
Ric: Other than knowing the events that led up to your dishonorable discharge? Remember, a black spot like that on your record severely limits your employment possibilities.
Logan: So you're doing me a favor then.
Ric: Look, i'm offering you access to a real power player. In exchange, i expect you to be loyal to me.
Nurse: It's time for your medication, mr. Zacchara.
Anthony: You know, my friends call me tony, and this seems like a friendly place, so you should call me tony, too.
Nurse: Do you have any children, tony?
Anthony: Yes, i do. I have two children, a boy and a girl. Ah, my son, john, he looks just like his mother. Same eyes, same smile. He was the light of maria's life. Isn't that right, johnny? This is the guy we're talking about.
Nurse: I'll let the two of you talk. I'll be back to check on you later, tony.
Anthony: All right.
Nurse: Have a nice visit.
Anthony: I was wondering when you were gonna stop by. I missed you.
Johnny: You can drop the act. She's gone.
Anthony: I'm a changed man, johnny. I'll prove it to you.
Johnny: Yeah, you're sane. Just means you're more dangerous.
Anthony: See, that's claudia talking. She was always a bad influence on you.
[Johnny sighs]
Kate: Sonny is grieving for michael, you know, that little boy that you and your brother quite possibly shot. Now, i don't know if this is how you do business, but personally, i find it --
Claudia: You don't know anything about my business! Shut your mouth, and get out. You are in way over your head.
Kate: The person who sent the gunman to shoot sonny might possibly try again. In fact, i think that sonny is counting on it. Yeah, he's in a reckless mood these days, so if anything happens to sonny --
Claudia: Sonny gets reckless, and he goes to bars and picks up strangers, and that's why you're here, isn't it? Hmm? You're worried that sonny might come around for round two? You should be. But hey, go ahead. Feel free. Look in my closets, under my desk, wherever you want.
Kate: So if you hurt sonny in any way, i will shine so much publicity on you and your family, you won't be able to hide. I will paint you and your brother as murderers, and i'll crucify you in the press, ok? I will ruin your life.
Claudia: Come and get me, skinny bitch. I can't wait to kick your ass.
Sonny: Back off, claudia.
Robin: Michael's condition is stable. He's breathing on his own, and his vitals are good. He doesn't need the constant monitering of i.C.U.
Carly: It means he's getting stronger.
Patrick: That's not what she said.
Carly: You know, you're not my son's doctor anymore. You gave up on him, remember?
Jax: Carly, this isn't helping.
Carly: No, you're right. It's not. Michael needs to be surrounded by positive people who believe that he's going to get better, so your negative energy -- you just need to go.
Robin: Carly, patrick's not being negative. He's just -- he's being realistic. You know, we -- we have done everything we can possibly do for michael. You are welcome to call in specialists, but as far as we're concerned, he should be released by the end of the week. It's time to start talking about michael's long-term care.
Sam: Hey. How's michael? Is there any change?
Jason: Jax said he opened his eyes.
Sam: Wow, my God. You must be so relieved. I -- i mean, i just -- i know how much everybody has been worrying since the surgery.
Jason: It was -- it was only a reflex. They don't think michael's gonna come out of the coma.
Sam: I am so sorry.
Jason: I mean, carly's still holding on, you know.
Sam: Yeah, i know. I... I went to visit michael's room to see if carly needed anything, and she was less than happy to see me, which, like, i completely understand, but she did make it pretty clear that she didn't need me or my pity.
Jason: It was nice of you to offer.
Sam: I know how much michael means to you, jason, and if there is anything, and i mean anything at all that i can do, please just let me know.
Jason: Well, actually, there is. Well, what can you -- what can you tell me about this dr. Devlin?
Sam: Dr. Devlin, i -- he's a great surgeon. I mean, i -- i just finished my last physical therapy session. My hip is great. Everything went without any sort of complications.
Jason: That's good, that's good.
Sam: But not what you're looking for.
Jason: No, i just -- i wanted to know if maybe he told you why he was here or what brought him to port charles in the first place.
Sam: Oh, i don't know. I know he went to med school with patrick drake. I don't know where, but i do know that they were friends.
Ian: I met you at the hospital, didn't i? Aren't you a friend of dr. Scorpio's?
Maxie: Cousin, actually, sort of. Well, by marriage. See, her uncle married my mother, and --
Ian: You can skip the recitation of the family tree. Tell me, what was your name again?
Maxie: Maxie.
Ian: Maxie, that's right. Maxie. Well, maxie, perhaps you can tell me what you're doing in my room.
Maxie: Well, you're a sexy guy. That is, you're a respected doctor and vaguely mysterious, single, hot, so, you see, i thought you would be perfect.
Ian: Well, i tend to prefer brunettes, but i've long since learned the art of compromise, and you have saved me a call to the escort service, so, maxie, entertain me. Make me forget the color of your hair.
Logan: If you want to go work for some whack job that skewered you up against the wall, that's your business, ok? I'm not gonna play nursemaid for some drooling nutcase.
Ric: Anthony zacchara is a paranoid schizophrenic. He's perfectly sane. There's a good chance that all the charges against him are gonna be dropped, at which time he is gonna resume his position as head of the zacchara family.
Logan: What -- i'm sorry. Isn't the man paralyzed from the neck down? I mean, he -- he barely blink. How is he supposed to run an entire organization?
Ric: Well, anthony regained the use of his arms some time ago. Yeah, once he's on his feet, he is gonna be one of the most powerful men in this country.
Logan: Mm-hmm. I have you to thank for it, right? So how does that bring me in?
Ric: Well, everything that i've done for anthony up to this point has been completely within the boundaries of the law. Now he's gonna go outside of those boundaries, i'm sure, and when he does, i'm gonna have to get real creative in order to maintain deniability. See, that is where you come in. I need you inside to feed me information, to be at the center of the power base.As anthony's bodyguard, you're gonna be able to get me what i need, and you're gonna be able to make his son look bad. Look, once anthony gets in there, johnny's gonna lose his power base. He's no longer gonna be able to use his mob prince trappings, and he's gonna be much less enticing to somebody, say like, i don't know, lulu spencer. Do you want to take the job, or should i talk to somebody else about this?
Logan: Mr. Lansing, i think you got a deal.
Anthony: Why would ric lansing help me if i was still the same man who stabbed him the night of the ball?
Johnny: Ric's got his own agenda working. Getting you out of prison was just a power play against his father.
Anthony: Ric understands that i was suffering from a terrible illness and i'm not responsible for the things i did.
Johnny: Ric hasn't seen half of what you're capable of. I have.
Anthony: Johnny, i've been ill for a long time. I did unspeakable things, out of anger, to you and your mother, but the doctors have found a way to control it. Things will be different from now on.
Johnny: You're right. It'll be worse.
Anthony: Don't push me.
Johnny: Or what?
Anthony: You're my son, and i love you, johnny, and i would never do anything to harm you, but i'm not gonna put up with your defiance either. Welcome me back with open arms, or i'll do what i should have done years ago.
Johnny: What's that?
Anthony: I'll kill claudia.
Claudia: How did you even get in here? This is my house. You don't get to barge in here and order me around any more than your girlfriend here gets to barge in and make threats.
Sonny: You should go.
Kate: Come with me.
Sonny: No, listen. Trust me on this, ok? Max is outside in the car waiting for you. He's gonna take you home.
Kate: I keep telling myself that you're grieving for michael and you don't mean half of what you're doing, but this excuse... Is starting to wear very thin.
Claudia: Better go after her. The ice cream's melting.
Sonny: Kate can wait. Actually, i'm here for you. What are -- you got any plans for dinner tonight?
Claudia: Tons. Why?
Sonny: Uh, because, you know, you've been so hot for me and all that kind of stuff. I was figuring maybe we could go out on a date.
Spinelli: The jackal is in dire need of assistance.
Johnny: You're not getting out of here.
Anthony: Give my best to your sister.
Claudia: I don't want anything to do with you.
Sonny: I want justice for my son. If i find proof, God help you.
Apr 22, 2008 04:37
[No Data] doctor who believes that michael stands a chance.
Robin: Ok, well, as i explained,we'll be moving michael to another room and you and jax can investigate long term care --
carly: Any long term care michael's going to get is the care that i give him when he wakes up and he comes home with me.
Jason: You see, i'm working on something that dr. Devlin might be involved.
Sam: The only thing you could be working on right now is who shot shot michael and i do not think that ian had anything to do with it.
Johnny: You're as sane as i am. And you want to know how i can tell? When you threaten to kill your own daughter, i believe you. That's the father we all know and love and that's exactly why you're not getting out of here.
Sonny: Well, i mean, you know, you've been after me ever since we met, so here's your chance.
Claudia: You know, it's not that i expect roses from you, but i'm so over being insulted and treated like a whore.
Sonny: I'm sorry, i thought that's the way you like it.
Claudia: Well, you're a whack job and i don't want anything to do with you.
Sonny: Well, you do if it has anything to do with helping your brother.
Claudia: You know what? You leave my brother out of this.
Sonny: Well, that's too late. What is your little brother worth to you and how far are you willing to go?
anthony: I am so forlorn, truly. I'm in the depths of despair.
Johnny: Oh, i'm sure there's something they can give you for that here.
Anthony: And it's not because you turned against me. I always said you were too impressionable, especially where your sister is concerned. It's because your instincts are atrocious. And that begs the question whose kid are you anyway? I mean, you seem incapable of reading the situation and adapting.
Johnny: What situation?
Anthony: Reality, john -- the world as it is, not as we want it to be.
Johnny: [Laughs] that's great, all of this from a paranoid schizophrenic.
Anthony: A recovering paranoid schizophrenic. You listen to me. I am no longer in prison. I am no longer confused. I am on my way to being a free man. And the sooner you can adjust to and accept and embrace that fact, the greater the chance that you'll survive.
Johnny: Oh, so you're threatening me now?
Anthony: You're my son. What do you take me for?
Ric: You are in violation of a court order. Give me one good reason why i shouldn't have you arrested where you stand.
Claudia: How would going out with you help out john?
Sonny: Well, my son was shot by an unknown assailant. I was the intended target. You probably know that, right?
Claudia: It's in all the papers. I'm sorry, john told you we had nothing to do with it.
Sonny: Yeah, well, you can say that till hell freezes over, but the thing is, see, i need proof. So i was thinking we go out in public, right? And then people can see that two families don't -- don't have bad blood.
Claudia: I get it. So if john's the one who hired the hit man, he wouldn't risk shooting me. And if someone else is trying to kill you, i make an excellent human shield. It's a win-win for you.
Sonny: Go visit my son in the hospital and tell me what i win.
Claudia: Do you even care if someone shoots at you again?
Sonny: You know what? There's a -- there's a place called il dolce downtown. Plenty of people can see us there, so if you want to just go ahead and meet me there --
claudia: You want to risk your life, sonny? Be my guest. But if you're looking for a human shield, stick with your girlfriend -- not that she would provide you with much protection.
Carly: Hey. How soon can you get the new doctors here?
Jax: I talked to two specialists. They're going to be here tomorrow. One's from berlin and the other one is from geneva.
Carly: Great, ok.
Jax: Ok.
Carly: Can you talk to patrick and robin about it? I don't want to deal with that. I just want to stay with michael.
Jax: Sure.
Robin: I'm sorry, jax, but no matter who you call, they're going to tell you the same thing.
Jax: I expect that to be true.
Patrick: Don't let them take advantage of carly's grief or your bank account.
Jax: I have to let carly exhaust all of her options.
Robin: Right, she has every right to do that. The only other option she has is to accept that this is all that is left of her son.
Jax: Hey, as good as you are, both of you, can you be absolutely certain that it's hopeless?
Robin: Jax, i wish i was wrong about this, but i'm not. We're not.
Jax: You know, one of the reasons i fell in love with carly was when i saw how hard she fights for people she cares about. Now i don't know how to make her stop.
Jason: You see, the problem is dr. Devlin's car was spotted in the area around the time michael got shot.
Sam: Gosh, i don't know what tell you. All i know is that he was a really good surgeon and --
jason: And what?
Sam: I don't know. I don't know --
jason: What?
Sam: I would hardly call this a crime, but he made me really uncomfortable.
Jason: What did he do?
Sam: He came on to me really strong. I mean, not just -- it was bad.
Jason: Did you -- did you encourage him?
Sam: No, i did not encourage him. I was polite, nothing more. That is it. He would flirt with me until it was borderline inappropriate and then -- and then turn around and -- and completely blow me off. It was weird. It was really weird. Now, at first i thought that that was his game. Now -- now after this, and hearing everything, i wonder if he does have something to hide.
jason: Yes, spinelli.
Spinelli: Stone cold, the jackal is in dire need of assistance.
Jason: Where are you?
Spinelli: In the closet.
Jason: Who -- whose closet?
Spinelli: Dastardly dr. Devlin's -- room six at the motel at meadow and lake. Maxie is trying to extract herself from his smarmy advances.
Jason: On my way.
Maxie: Wow, this is really embarrassing. You obviously misunderstood why i'm here.
Ian: Hey, you said that i'm a sexy guy and i'm perfect for whatever you have planned.
Maxie: It's not like that at all.
Ian: I come in here to my room, and i find you waiting for me. If you're not here to do anything --
maxie: I am kate howard's assistant. You know, kate howard -- editor, fashionista extraordinaire.
Ian: Maxie, that still doesn't explain your breaking and entering.
Maxie: No. What, me? Break -- let me explain. You've heard about kate's new magazine "crimson," right? Everyone's talking about it.
Ian: I didn't get the memo.
Maxie: Ok, well, in our second issue, we're featuring a spot on real life hotties. You know, guys that women just can't resist. I'm kind of following up on hot doctors and i told kate about you. She thought maybe we could get you to do a photo layout or an interview.
Ian: Wow, no kidding.
Maxie: No kidding, congratulations.
Ian: Hmm, well, you know, i might be interested if i believed a single word coming out of your lying mouth. Maxie: I probably should have called first. Why don't i just leave you my office number --
ian: What's your hurry?
Maxie: I feel like it was inappropriate for me to just show up. Blame it on my out-of-control ambition. I'm just trying to impress my boss -- who's a total pain in the ass, by the way. I don't mean that.
Kate howard's great. She's just super tough, and i want her to see how motivated i am.
Ian: Maxie, you old enough to drink?
Maxie: No -- i mean, yes, i am, but i don't want to have a drink with you. Why don't we make a deal?
Ian: What kind of deal?
Maxie: Well, you mentioned earlier about calling an escort service and i'd be happy not to tell my father, the police commissioner, that you're patronizing hookers, which is a felony. And, you know, we could forget the photo layout and interview. No harm, no foul.
Ian: No problem. But first, i want you to tell me why you're really here.
maxie: Hello, come in.
Ian: What the hell do you want?
Maxie: Oh, good, you made it. Thank you for coming, jason. Unfortunately, i think the whole concept is DOA.
Jason: What are you talking about?
Maxie: Well, it's supposed to be on the two theories of hot guys, you know, sexy, brooding, inarticulate versus sophisticated, urbane, smooth. No judgment. I'm not saying one is better than the other, but it would've given women a real chance to have some insight on the two different types. Since dr. Devlin clearly is not willing to participate, i think that we should just leave.
Ian: Hey, i will find out why you're here. And the next time you have questions for me, morgan, ask them yourself instead of sending this airhead.
Jason: Where's spinelli?
Maxie: In the closet.
Ric: You know, the court order was very clear. Anthony is not to have any contact with either of his children until after the hearing.
Anthony: Down, boy. My son is always welcome. He brightens my day.
Ric: Anthony, john is trying to take advantage --
anthony: Richard, don't get me wrong. I think the work you're doing is great. I'm very pleased with it. I'm looking forward to being released and returning to my normal life, but never come between me and my children.
Johnny: What the hell is he doing here?
Logan: Hey, john boy, how's tricks?
Ric: Logan's your father's new bodyguard.
Johnny: No, he's not.
Anthony: I have bodyguards, richard.
Ric: Really? Ones that you can trust?
Anthony: Why should i trust him?
Johnny: You can't.
Ric: Logan's perfect for you,anthony. He's an iraqi war veteran with special training. He was also a medic, which means he can tend to your physical needs as well as your safety. Logan will protect you, anthony, if anyone tries to hurt you.
Johnny: He's not coming anywhere near you.
Ric: Come on, john. You want the job? It's yours. You need to be tied to your father day and night, though. You got to lift him in and out of the bed, get him in the chair, feed him, shower him. He has physical therapy twice a day, as well as somewhat personal aspects of caretaking that i'm sure only a son can tend to.
Anthony: Then it's settled. Richard thought of everything. His father used to be like that until he started making idiotic mistakes. Come visit us anytime, john, m and my bodyguard, mr. Logan. And don't forget, you give my best to your sister.
Claudia: You are so out of touch with your own reality, it's frightening.
Sonny: Believe me, i've -- i've never been more real.
Claudia: You can rationalize it all you want. I know why you're really here. You just had the most awful kind of reminder of how short life is and now you're faced with a choice. How do you want to live -- sex with me or cuddling with the little ice queen of a girlfriend you've got. You really have to think twice about that?
Sonny: You couldn't be more wrong.
Claudia: Come on, sonny. You want me in a powerful way, and it scares you. Who i am, how i make you feel scares you so much, you'd rather make up excuses and blame me for everything than just accept it.
Sonny: What delusional world do you live in?
Claudia: Whatever. You want me so bad. I know you do, but you know what? I'm done with you. So crawl back into bed with kate and fake it.
Sonny: I want justice for my son. And if i find proof that you or your little brother had anything to do with it, God help you.
Jax: I'm going to wait until the specialists i've spoken to arrive, let them examine michael. And if they can help him, i'll move heaven and earth for him.
Robin: Good, just -- just be careful. There are a lot of doctors out there that will want to take advantage of you --
jax: I'm not naive, robin. I've checked these guys out thoroughly.
Robin: Ok. Let me know if there's anything i can do to help.
Jax: If they reach the same conclusion as you, what kind of long-term help will michael need?
Robin: It would be a permanent facility like shadybrook, somewhere where he'd get ongoing care to sustain him.
Jax: Right. We couldn't -- we couldn't do i it at home?
Patrick: Michael's needs would be better met at a specialized facility. He'll eat through a feeding tube. He'd be turned over often, massaged, physical therapy if you want to prevent atrophy.
Jax: Well, i'm sure carly will probably want to do that herself.
Patrick: It's a full-time job for two at least.
Robin: Yeah, if carly tries to take care of michael by herself, she'll have nothing left to give morgan or you. It's close. The family can see michael whenever they want to and he will be well cared for.
Patrick: It's worth taking a look at shadybrook. I can tell you who to talk to over there --
jax: No, no, she's not ready for that yet.
Robin: There's no reason to keep michael here for longer than a week. He's breathing on his own. His organs are functioning.
Jax: Ok, i'll broach it with carly. Thanks, both of you.
[Robin sighs]
patrick: You ok?
Robin: I was the first person to hold that little boy when jason brought him home from the hospital. I mean, i sang to him. I changed his diaper.I gave him his bottle. Condemning him to a bed for the rest of his life, it's just -- it's a nightmare. I mean, on top of all of that, i'm terrified. alexis: Hi.
Diane: Hi.
Alexis: Ok, so why did you want to meet me here? I have an office, you know.
Diane: I did not ask you here on any legal pretext. When sonny does arrive, i need you to convince him that the professional meltdown you suffered after you slept with him is specific only to you and not to all female attorneys.
Alexis: What? You want me to what?
Diane: Apparently you had some sort of meltdown after you and sonny spent your one night together.
Alexis: He told you that? I did not freak out after i had a one-night stand with him. I freaked out before i had the one-night stand with him because i was so freaked out that i even wanted to.
Diane: Either way, i refuse to pay the price for your bad judgment.
Alexis: Why were you two even talking about me? You know, that makes me very uncomfortable.
Diane: The emotional collapse that you suffered has sonny now convinced that my association with max will have exactly the same results.
Alexis: He's so full of it. He's so full of himself. God! I'm so pissed at him. I am far more stable than you.
Diane: That's exactly what i told sonny. Wait a minute, what?
Alexis: I am. I thought that you just slept with max once. Is this some sort of an ongoing affair?
Diane: What are we, 12? Is this a slumber party? I don't kiss and tell.
Alexis: Yes, you do. You do it all the time. You know what? You're the one that brought this up. It's too much information. Tell sonny to mind his own business.
Diane: Sonny has forbidden max to be with me. And max is so unshakably loyal that he agreed.
Alexis: What a sport. Trust me, you're better off.
Diane: Not by a long shot! I want to be with max, and i deserve to be with somebody who is so -- so lovely and manly. So trust me, girlfriend, it is now on you. It is up to you to convince sonny to come to his senses.
Apr 22, 2008 04:39
Elizabeth: Can i help you find a chart?
Robin: You know what? If you found it for me, i probably couldn't read it anyway. I don't know. I feel like i'm having an anxiety attack. The books call it "mommy-panic," but it feels like plain old terror to me.
Elizabeth: Just keep breathing. Tell yourself it will pass.
Robin: You know, there's not a lot of things in carly's life that i think she does right, but no one can criticize how much she loves her children. And all the love in the world could not protect michael, so how am i supposed to keep my baby safe?
Carly: Jax has found some wonderful doctors, and they're traveling thousands of miles just to come see you. And when they get here tomorrow, they're going to help you wake up again. Right, jax? Jax: Yeah, they're good doctors. If michael can be helped, they are the right people --
carly: When -- when michael, not if.
Jax: I -- i don't want you to get your hopes up.
Carly: There is hope, jax. Look at this little boy. I mean, don't you think there's hope?
Jax: Why would patrick and robin lie to us?
Carly: I don't know. I don't know, and i don't have the energy to argue with you. I need to focus on michael right now. And you -- you could take a break, you know.
Sonny: Any change?
Jax: No. Robin and patrick want to move michael to a regular room now that he's stable. They said that he can be released by the end of the week to a permanent care facility.
Sonny: Permanent? So that's it.
Carly: This isn't it. I still believe in michael, sonny. Do you?
Maxie: So when did you come out of the closet?
Spinelli: Um, the jackal took advantage of stone cold's most swift and menacing arrival and fleed from my hiding place.
Jason: What the hell were you doing there in the first place?
Maxie: Looking for incriminating evidence. Although, you haven't told me for what.
Spinelli: Yeah, well, i'm -- i'm afraid --
jason: What were you thinking involving her?
Maxie: Hey, i'm the one that came up with the cover story.
Spinelli: I have a weakness.
Maxie: Do you know how hard it is to come up with a lie like that with zero prep time?
Jason: Why don't you call me if devlin contacts you.
Maxie: Dude, that guy was a complete perv. He pretty much jumped my bones, and threatened me when it was clear i wasn't having sex with him. So considering i'm the one who put my life on the line to cover spinelli's behind so he could get out of the closet before devlin even noticed he was there, i think the least i deserve is an explanation. What kind of evidence were you looking for? What, is he dangerous?
Spinelli: Stone cold hasn't -- he -- i don't think he has an opinion whether or not he's --
maxie: Well, when you show up five minutes into it and blow my cover, i know something's going on.
Jason: Thank you for helping spinelli. You can leave now.
Maxie: Oh, you could tell me now, or i could call my dad.
Johnny: You ok?
Claudia: Peachy. Why wouldn't i be? Because the guard just told me sonny corinthos was here. What's he want now?
Claudia: He asked me out on a date.
Johnny: He wants to be seen in public with you? Why?
Claudia: He's got this theorythat whoever took a shot at him is going to try it again. So he wants to use me as his shield and use himself as bait to draw the shooter out, which is not a bad plan except i don't much feel like getting caught in whatever web he's trying to spin.
Johnny: He's provoking us.
Claudia: I also think he might be bored with kate howard and looking for a way to get back into bed with me.
Johnny: Ok, first he sleeps with you, then he leaves you to die at the cannery. Then he threatens you in your hospital room, now he asks you out again. Charming.
Claudia: Yeah, he's a pig, justlike daddy. Please tell me you didn't go and see him again.
Johnny: He's out of bed and in a wheelchair and he knows exactly what's going on.
Claudia: I was afraid of that.
Johnny: Yeah, our father is "sane."
Claudia: If he gets out, there will be no stopping him.
Alexis: You know sonny is a bully and a chauvinist
diane: That's very true.
Alexis: And i think it's unconscionable that he thinks he can order you two not to sleep with each other.
Diane: Simply because he pays my retainer, he now thinks he can dictate my love life and it's arrogant.
Alexis: And typical.
Diane: It's a violation of my civil rights and an invasion of my privacy.
Alexis: That part i agree with.
Diane: You traitor.
Alexis: I just want you to use your common sense.
Diane: You don't even know max.
Alexis: Yes, i do -- i've known him longer than you have.
Diane: I'm sorry, but the occasional wave to someone in a hallway does not constitute a close personal relationship.
Alexis: That's not necessarily true. I can actually cite several cases --
diane: Don't start quoting precedent to me. What kind of a person polices her friend's' love life?
Alexis: You are my new best friend. I want you to learn from my mistakes. I want you to use me -- use me as a shining example.
Diane: Just because you have admittedly made a neurotic mess of your love life does not mean that i will do the same.
Alexis: Now, i'm going to clarify something. I want to be very specific about my regrets. I do not regret my two beautiful children at all. What i regret is that i slept with their respective fathers. I mean, that was two of the worst mistakes that i ever made.
Ric: Is that so?
Johnny: We need to be smart about this.
Claudia: I know there's more, john, what did he say?
Johnny: Ric lansing is a damn good attorney. He has already petitioned for a competency hearing. With our father on top of his game, he will get let out of that institution.
Claudia: And promptly try to take control as head of the family again. We can't let that happen, john. At the very least, he's going to have to share power with us.
Johnny: He feels threatened by you. That makes him dangerous.
Claudia: Well, you know, i can't be afraid of him forever. I can't. I'm not scared of him.
Johnny: Ok, well, maybe you should be. Maybe it's time to go back to italy.
Spinelli: The jackal is most grateful for the wounded blonde one's detective work and matchless ability to tell a tale. It is now time to make a discrete exit.
Maxie: Are you calling me a liar?
Spinelli: You miss the larger point. Your part in this investigation is ended. It's time to turn your talents to your other pressing matters.
Maxie: Oh, well, what's in it for me if i do?
Jason: What do you want?
Maxie: Well, carly listens to you. You could probably convince her to have lulu quit her job as kate's second assistant.
Jason: Carly's with michael. You think she's going to get involved in your crap?
Maxie: Yeah, bad idea and probably kind of inappropriate. Well, i better get something out of this. Spinelli should pay up.
Spinelli: What do i have that you could want?
Maxie: How about the complete layout for couture's fall edition? And a permanent back door into their computer system so i can look at all their future layouts. You know, to stay a step ahead of the game. I'd kind of like that set up by tomorrow.
Spinelli: The demanding blonde one sets a near impossible --
jason: Spinelli!
Spinelli: Fine, done.
Jason: Leave.
Maxie: Ok, well, bye, you two. It's been a blast.
Spinelli -- tomorrow.
Jason: Do i need to say anything to you?
Spinelli: Sorry!
[Knock at door]
sam: Hey.
Ian: Hey, what are you doing here?
Sam: Is this a bad time?
Ian: No, no problem. Sorry, i just wasn't expecting anyone.
Sam: Yeah, um, i just wanted to thank you.
Ian: What did i do?
Sam: Well, i just finished mylast physical therapy session. No one would ever guess that i was barely able to walk a month ago.
Ian: Good, another satisfied customer.
Sam: See, that's funny. Most doctors would say "patient," but you said "customer."
Ian: So you are.
Sam: I thought there might be some way i could show my gratitude.
Ian: Well, i've been enjoying a drink, would you care for one?
Sam: Yeah, sure, that sounds like a good start.
Ian: Great.
Sonny: Carly, i'm not here to fight with you. I just want to see michael.
Carly: Go ahead.
Jax: You're really tense.
Carly: I need to stay strong for michael. He needs me.
Sonny: Hey, buddy. They -- they want to take you to another room because they want you away from all this stuff. Your mom takes that as a good sign. You don't care, do you? Because you're not here at all. This body that i allowed to be damaged, tied down to a bed, it's not -- it's not you, michael. I am sorry. And wherever you are, wondering, i pray that you are happy and you're not in any kind of pain. And whatever i did to you, michael, i just want you to always know how much i love you and that will never change.
Robin: I have this image in my head of where i go when i think about being a mom. It's like all of my senses know what it's going to feel like. I'm in my baby's room and there's a soft light on and i can hear sweet music from one of those little mobiles. I'm holding my baby. I don't really know if it's a boy or a girl, but it doesn't matter because all i feel is peace and fullness.
Elizabeth: Sounds like you have a pretty good idea what being a mom is all about.
Robin: Except when i'm picturing hospital beds and machines breathing for your child. I mean, you know, if they're not struck by a bullet, they can get hit by a car or they hit their head --
elizabeth: You can not let that fear paralyze you because you are going to pass it along to your child.
Robin: I just don't even know how you've done this twice. I mean, having a child means giving your heart away forever, knowing that there is a life on this earth more infinitely precious than my own. I know that i'm going to feel their pain a gazillion times more than my own. There will be higher hopes for them, bigger dreams, constant uncertainty. Every single decision i make will affect this child that i've created. [Exhales] i can't breathe.
Elizabeth: Yes, you can. You're doing it right now.
Robin: Please, don't tell patrick this, but being a single mother is way more than i bargained for. And this one hasn't even been born yet.
Elizabeth: Robin, you're going to be just fine. You're going to do the best you can, because that's all any mother can do.
Carly: Jax found a specialist from overseas. And when they get here tomorrow, they're going to tell us what we should do for the next phase of treatment.
Sonny: I'm happy to hear whatever they have to say. I don't think the prognosis is going to be any different.
Carly: Why do you have to go there?
Sonny: Because we have to figure out what we're going to do with michael when he's released.
Carly: He's going to come home with me.
Sonny: He needs special care, carly.
Carly: You know, i'm not going to do this with you.
Sonny: I'm being realistic here. I'm just trying to do what i think is right.
Carly: Michael is coming home with me.
Sonny: How is that fair to -- to morgan or to you?
Carly: I want you to leave. I want you to leave.
Sonny: Let me know what the doctors say, please.
Jax: I will.
Carly: They're wrong. The doctors are wrong, sonny is wrong. My son is going to be fine. He's getting better. No, don't touch me.
Jax: Ok, ok.
Carly: I don't want anyone to touch me right now. I'm sorry.
Alexis: It's not what you think.
Diane: No, it's worse.
Alexis: We're having girl talk.
Diane: And while i always appreciate alexis' wisdom, even when she's wrong -- why are you here, mr. Lansing?
Ric: Where's sonny?
Diane: My client is not on the premises, but i'll be certain to tell him that you stopped by.
Ric: I should probably inform both of you, since you're going to hear it from somebody else. I'm representing anthony zacchara.
Alexis: Tell me this is a bad joke.
Ric: No, not at all. As a matter of fact, i've been granted a hearing where i will petition to have mr. Zacchara released from custody.
Claudia: You want me to leave the country?
Johnny: I don't want you getting killed because of me.
Claudia: Look, i promised myself when daddy sent me away the first time that i would find my way back to you. And now i'm here, and it's you and me. We are going to bury that bastard together.
Johnny: Ok, claudia, for a smart girl you're missing the picture, ok? Dad would never hurt me directly, but he would hurt you.
Claudia: What's that supposed to be, a news flash? That's what he's done my whole life, john, but now it's you and me together. We are going to beat him. We just have to tie up the loose ends first.
Sam: Whoa! You ok?
Ian: I'm glad you stopped by.
Sam: Well, i actually thought you might be. Come on, you haven't exactly hidden your interests. Every time i think you're going to get personal, you sort of back off. I don't know. Don't get offended, but sometimes i think you are sort of kind of just a little bit mean about it.
Ian: And yet, here you are.
Sam: Yeah, well, maybe you just need somebody to talk to.
Ian: My world is kind of complicated. I can't just trust anyone.
Sam: That's fine. You know, everybody has to start somewhere.
ian: Devlin here.
Claudia: I'm coming over. We need to talk.
Ian: Ok, got it.
[Groans]
sam: Everything ok?
Ian: Yeah, uh, we're going to have to finish this sometimelater. I forgot i had some previous commitment to attend to.
patrick: We should run a couple more tests before michael is moved.
Jax: What kind of tests?
Patrick: A c.T. Scan, mri.
Carly: That's not your call. You're not his doctor anymore.
Robin: Well, the specialist that jax arranged for will want current information. This way it will be waiting for them.
Jax: You know, this would be a good time for you to go home and get some rest.
Carly: I can't.
Jax: You don't have to be here with michael when he's doing the tests. You could go home and get some of his personal things. You know, his pajamas, some pictures for the room. You could see morgan. For God's sake, carly, you could get some rest.
Carly: I can't rest. I can't do anything. I can't leave. Michael needs me.
Diane: Once again, mr. Lansing, you have made an exceptionally poor choice in clients.
Ric: This is from the woman who represents sonny corinthos.
Alexis: Anthony zacchara ran a sword through you, ric. What on earth possessed you --
ric: Look how many times -- we're all lawyers here. How many times have we represented clients who we thought were undeserving?
Sonny: Who's undeserving? Did i call a meeting? I don't know what's going on here.
Ric: I'm just informing alexis and diane that i'm now representing anthony zacchara.
Sonny: Well, he's paralyzed and insane, so you could probably double bill him --
ric: My client has been granted a hearing, and i fully expect him to be released soon.
Sonny: I you know what you're doing. You -- you want revenge against trevor, so you're going to le anthony out of the hospital. That way, he can go after your father.
Ric: I'm sure you could come up with a laundry list of motives, but the fact remains i'm still representing him.
Alexis: I think you should reconsider.
Sonny: Well, he's not going to -- he's not going to say anything right now, right, ric?
Ric: I just thought i'd give you the professional courtesy of letting you know. See you.
Sonny: Can you stop him?
Alexis: If you stop talking about me behind my back, i will give it my full attention.
Sonny: You do that. Because if anthony is freed, things are going to get even uglier around here.
Jason: $10 Million is what nikolas paid devlin for the drugs. I want you to look for other large deposits.
Spinelli: I don't get it. With $10 million, he could reside in someplace nicer than that rat hole. The doctor lives like someone that has no intention of staying in one place.
Jason: I talked to sam. She thinks he's hiding something, too.
Spinelli: The goddess has excellent instincts in that regard. But there's still no evidence that doctor devlin fired the shot that hit the littlest mobster.
Jason: Now that devlin knows that i'm watching him, spinelli -- thank you -- he is going to be covering his tracks, ok? The key is in his bank account.
Spinelli: Yes, follow the money.
Jason: Follow the money. Look for large deposits, trace them back. That's how we're going to find out who shot michael.
Johnny: I am prepared to transfer $1 million into any account you want. All you need to do is leave town.
Ian: No, jason is already sniffing around here. If i run, they'll assume it's proof of my guilt and come after me.
Claudia: How much to change your mind?
Ian: You're getting panicky, claudia. There's no evidence tying me to the corinthos kid shooting.
Johnny: You're the evidence. That's why you're leaving.
Ian: Running is the equivalent of committing suicide. It's not going to happen. Oh, and if jason morgan comes around here trying to kill me, i'll make sure right before he pulls the trigger that he knows i was working for claudia zacchara.
>> On the Next "General Hospital" --
Ian: I found a new drug, but it's going to cost you.
Carly: What are my son's chances of waking up from his coma?
Claudia: I have information about who shot michael.
Apr 23, 2008 04:44
Nikolas: I didn't realize you were here.
Nadine: I'm taking you up on your offer to ride ruby.
Nikolas: That's rubicon, actually. And i prefer a dressage bit, myself.
Nadine: Well, i like a curb bit and i think it should be my choice, since you're not going to be around to take care of him much longer.
Carly: You're at a regular hospital room right now. And jax is flying in some special doctors, and they're going to tell us -- well, they're going to help us.
elizabeth: I'm here to update michael's chart.
Carly: The doctors are going to be here tonight. And they're going to tell us how we can help you wake up, baby.
Robin: Yeah, i just called over there. Do you have any idea how many pieces of paper and documentation it takes to renew a license? It's so ridiculous. But i'm sorry, i'll be right there. Wait a second.
Robin: [Screams]
logan: Good work today, mr. Zacchara. That physical therapist really put you through the paces.
Anthony: Make my next session for tomorrow morning at 8:00.
Logan: He said you should wait a few days.
Anthony: If i listened to peons like him, i'd still be a doorstop. I'm doing this on my timetable, not his. I need to get out of this chair and back on my feet. I got a family that i have to look after.
Claudia: Hi, daddy. It's wonderful to see you looking so well.
nadine: My aunt raylene used to say, "if you've got to mind someone else's business, your own must not amount to very much." So, forget i said anything. It's your life. You can do what you want with it.
Nikolas: Even if it means throwing it away? I mean, that's what you were thinking, right? See -- see, you are appallingly readable, which is probably why you're not a big gambler.
Nadine: I was the other night. I pretty much beat the pants off you at the haunted star.
Nikolas: I know, with that amazing system you use. What, your horse's age?
Nadine: It worked.
Nikolas: So? I don't think luke's worried about you breaking the bank anytime soon. And that luck you had on the roulette table won't do you any good out here.
Nadine: Why would i need luck?
Nikolas: Ok, all right. I'll tell you what, i'll have the groom saddle another horse. Ok? So, here's the chance for the rodeo girl to prove she can keep up.
Nadine: The idea of an old barrel racer like me taking on a real equestrian like yourself?
Nikolas: Hey, look, if you're not up to the challenge, i understand.
Nadine: No, no, i just thought i'd give you fair warning. I mean, i think you should probably have the servants bring out some water because you're going to get pretty thirsty eating my dust. Come on. Come on.
>> Today, the role of patrick drake will be played by ethan erickson.
Patrick: Robin, what is it? Cramps? Did you fall?
Robin: No, no. I'm fine. Well, the baby's fine, anyway. I locked my keys in the apartment.
Robin: I'm picking the lock.
Patrick: You're -- that's it?
Robin: The keys to my apartment, the keys to the house, the keys to the lab, my life, basically.
Patrick: Robin, you screamed.
Robin: Yeah, in frustration.
Patrick: In -- "in frustration," of course "in frustration." I almost had a stroke. And then i called you back. Why didn't you answer the phone?
Robin: Because my phone is dead, ok? I didn't have a time to charge it last night. I laid down at 8:30 Just to close my eyes for a minute, and of course, i wake up in a pile of drool because i am exhausted all the time and my mind is like a sieve.
Patrick: The common side effects of pregnancy.
Robin: Says the condescending male. You know, people love to talk about the miracle of childbearing, but their brain isn't going to mush and their body isn't taking on a life of its own.
Patrick: Taking on another life, you mean. Robin --
robin: Whatever.
Patrick: You're used to being in complete control.
Robin: Yeah, right now, i will settle for a functioning human being.
Patrick: Well, the baby's making demands already. Better get used to it.
Robin: Just hold on a second. I've almost got it.
Patrick: You know, there is an age-old custom you might want to explore. It's called getting the super to let you in.
Robin: I am not a helpless pregnant person, ok? I am perfectly capable of breaking and entering.
Claudia: You've been taking good care of my father?
Anthony: Been losing sleep over my condition, have you, claudia?
Claudia: I have been very worried about you, daddy.
Anthony: I can imagine. But there's no need. My new lawyer arranged for this young man to be my full-time attendant. And logan's got military credentials, combat experience to go along with his medical training. So, he can protect me against anyone who might want to do me harm.
Claudia: Well, you can't be too careful, daddy. That's why johnny and i were very specific with ric. We told him when you were transferred here, you'd need a guard like logan to look after you.
Logan: She's lying to you, mr. Zacchara. Ric lansing is the one who got you out of prison.
Claudia: Careful, bodyguard. You speak when you're spoken to. Johnny and i hired ric to look after you.
Sam: Hey, there.
Ian: Hey.
Sam: Hi.
Ian: I thought you finished your physical therapy yesterday.
Sam: Yeah, i did, but there was some trouble with my insurance. It's sort of embarrassing, but after the accident, i kind of lost my job. They said it would only be temporary, but i'm not holding my breath.
Ian: In this doctor's opinion, you're in perfect shape to go back to scaling buildings and teaching women how to handle that fellow who just won't say "no" --
sam: No way. You watched my show, huh?
Ian: A guilty pleasure of mine.
Sam: Oh, one of many, i have a feeling.
Ian: Imagine my disappointment that i had to cut our evening short.
Sam: Well, you know, i hate to disappoint a fan.
Ian: I'll give you the opportunity to make it up to me. First, you got to explain to me, why the sudden interest.
Elizabeth: Thank you.
Carly: How's he doing?
Elizabeth: He's stable and his vitals are still strong.
Carly: Can you let robin know that the specialists are coming tonight?
Elizabeth: She left instructions to be paged as soon as they arrive.
Carly: Thanks.
Jason: You know what? You should get something to eat. Let me take you down to the cafeteria.
Carly: No, i want to be here when the doctors get here. Gosh. I can't wait to leave this place for good. I thought it would be easier when we got out of icu, but it's even worse, you know? Everyone is so matter-of-fact. Elizabeth, patrick, robin, even sonny. They've all written him off like it's just so easy.
Jason: It's not easy. Carly --
carly: No. Don't tell me you've given up on him, too?
Jason: Carly, i don't want to believe that this is all there will ever be for michael.
Carly: People recover from brain injuries all the time. I did, you did.
Jason: I did not recover. I'm not lying in a bed like michael, but i suffered permanent brain damage, and no matter how hard the quartermaines tried, the doctors, the therapy, it could not bring their son back that they loved.
Carly: Ok. What are you trying to tell me?
Jason: I just want you to be prepared that michael might not be the same.
Patrick: Thanks.
Robin: That really wasn't necessary.
Building super: You know what? I'll leave a spare key with the wife. She was so absent-minded when she was pregnant. There was this one time she left the car running in the driveway for three solid hours. Finally ran out of gas.
Robin: Great, something to look forward to.
Patrick: Hey, have a good one, sir. Building super: Sure, anytime.
Patrick: All right. Well, if we were going to get back to the hospital, we'd better -- wait a minute. Let me guess. You can't remember where you put the keys.
Robin: I just have to retrace my steps. I can't believe that my mom taught me how to pick a lock when i was 10 years old, and i can't even break into my own apartment. It's so embarrassing.
Patrick: Well, your energies are directed elsewhere at the moment. You know, it's kind of charming.
Robin: Charming?
Patrick: Yeah, you know, the little changes you're going through.
Robin: Really? What changes are you referring to? The nausea, my swollen ankles, my lack of energy, or the flatulence? Let's not forget the flatulence.
Patrick: But it's natural, right? It's like the mood swings.
Robin: I'm not having a mood swing right now, ok? I just refuse to be that cliche, absent-minded pregnant woman. I just -- from now on, i just have to keep my mind focused on what i'm doing and just think and not... Ah -- see? It's already working. Ok. Let's go.
Patrick: Hey, need this?
Nadine: I think you had a pretty big advantage knowing every inch of this island.
Nikolas: I thought you actually rode pretty well, considering it's dark out, you don't know the horse, and you're used to riding western.
Nadine: You should see your face when you say that word, "western." Like it's something embarrassing, almost criminal.
Nikolas: Yeah, i think it's a time-honored tradition to ride western. If you like riding with a chair on your horse's back.
Nadine: That flimsy piece of leather you call a saddle would never cut it if you actually had to herd cattle all day.
Nikolas: That's just it. I don't. That's not why i ride.
Nadine: Why can't you just admit it? You are a hopeless snob.
Nikolas: What? I mean, some of my earliest memories are on horseback. I've loved riding my whole life. You know, horse and rider together in perfect harmony? If i ever have a chance to pass that love on --
nadine: Onto your son? You still can.
Sam: As i recall, you are the one who first showed interest in me, dr. Devlin. Yes, uh-huh. You said you were going to make me your special patient, and then you went into this whole thing about women who fall for dracula and dr. Jekyll, mr. Hyde --
ian: None of whom had a happy ending. Perhaps you should have taken that as a warning.
Sam: Warnings make me curious.
Ian: Ah, danger junkie.
Sam: No, maybe i just recognize a kindred spirit. Yes, another member of the walking wounded.
Ian: You're walking just fine now.
Sam: Hiding a not-so-pretty scar.
Ian: And you think that's a neat, little metaphor for who we are?
Sam: Absolutely not. Actually, i am trying not to think too much at all right now. Yes, i'm thinking, given the state of my life right now, cave-dwelling is starting to have a certain appeal. And maybe that's why i showed up at that dive that you are living in.
Ian: Hey, there's something to be said for a good cave. And for not thinking too much.
Sam: Really? Is that an invitation?
Claudia: Ric lansing charged us a small fortune, but he's gotten results. You're out of that prison hospital and you have a hearing on wednesday.
Logan: I wouldn't believe a word of this, mr. Zacchara. She's trying to work you.
Claudia: I'm not going to tell you again. We were reluctant to use trevor's son. Trevor's been giving us a really hard time, daddy. That's why we were pushing so hard to get you out of that prison.
Ric: What is this, some sort of bizarre family ritual? First your brother decides to violate the restraining order and now you?
Claudia: Why are you suddenly trying to keep us away from our father?
Ric: Well, for a list of reasons, ms. Zacchara, but the best is for his own protection.
Claudia: He obviously doesn't want you to know that john and i hired him to get you released.
Ric: Were you up all night thinking of that one? Do you really think your father's going to believe that?
Anthony: Somebody's lying. Give me one reason to believe you over my daughter. Logan: It's claudia that's lying. Ric hired me because he knew that you wouldn't be able to trust your own kids.
Claudia: Ric told you that. You never actually heard me or my brother john threaten our father. That is an outrageous lie. You need to fire him, daddy.
Anthony: Go make that physical therapy appointment for me. I'm sure i'll be safe while you're gone. Only one of these two can't be trusted.
Logan: Excuse me.
Ric: Now, claudia, anthony knows that i came to him of my own volition. He also knows that i am the one who formulated the legal strategy to get him free.
Claudia: John and i paid you to do that, and now you're trying to cut us out of our own father's life?
Ric: No offense, anthony. I know she's your daughter, but don't believe a word out of --
claudia: You're working for your brother, sonny.
Ian: Well, here we are again. This time, i promise, no prior engagements to interrupt us.
Sam: Oh, good. May i ask you a personal question?
Ian: I was hoping you might.
Sam: Why on earth would you choose to live this way? I mean, and don't tell me it's some sort of gandhi rejection of the material world thing.
[Ian chuckles] ian: No, nothing nearly so noble.
Sam: Ok. I mean, i understand cave-dwelling and all, but i'm pretty certain you can afford a better cave than this.
Ian: Well, the women that i'm used to entertaining here aren't usually here for the ambiance.
Sam: Hmm.
Ian: You're shocked.
Sam: No. You're hoping i am so you can avoid the real answer.
Ian: Staff at larger hotels can be so overeager, downright intrusive.
Sam: Really? You don't seem like a man who would be afraid of having his life of debauchery exposed.
Ian: On the contrary, i'm actually quite proud of it.
Sam: Really? So, then what are you afraid they will intrude on?
Ian: You know what?
Sam: What?
Ian: This is starting to sound less like foreplay and more like an interrogation.
Nikolas: Look, i know the solution is obvious to you. I have the operation, live to a ripe old age, raise my son.
Nadine: We all lose people we love.
Nikolas: I know. And we all deal with it in our own way. I don't expect you to understand how it feels to see emily, to hold her, to touch her. I don't expect you to understand that.
Nadine: This manifestation of the tumor --
nikolas: Look -- no, it's more than just the illness, ok? Our love is that strong. It's that connected. You understand?
Nadine: It was that connected, but she's not here anymore. And this hallucination is keeping you from realizing that and from moving on.
Nikolas: No, she is a part of me. She is an essential part of me. She is connected to me right here, right now. Have you ever felt love like that?
Nadine: This isn't just love --
nikolas: No, so you don't know what it feels like to lose it. Spencer, he's too young to miss me right now. He has my aunt and my brother, my sister. He'll be fine.
Nadine: You're saying that you literally can't live without emily.
Nikolas: Yes.
Nadine: I'm sorry, but that's just crazy. You've been blessed with a great love. Don't use that as an excuse to stop living.
Jax: Dr. Markus giona of the giona institute in switzerland, and dr. Henrik ploen of berlin's international hospital.
Robin: Hello, i'm dr. Scorpio. I have taken over michael corinthos' case. I'll be happy to brief you.
Jax: I'll leave you to discuss this.
Dr. Giona: Well, thank you so much for your warm welcome and for your cooperation.
Robin: Of course. We all want the same thing, for michael to have the best possible care.
Dr. Ploen: The boy couldn't have asked for a better surgeon than dr. Drake. I've gone over some of the tests and scans. I know the skill it took just to keep mr. Jacks' stepson alive.
Robin: I assisted dr. Drake in the surgery, and i have also managed michael's post-op drug therapy.
Dr. Ploen: I think it's understood why mr. Jacks brought us in.
Robin: I mean, i could only imagine what it's like to be a parent going through this kind of nightmare.
Apr 23, 2008 04:45
Jason: I know that you would do anything for your kids. I know that.
Carly: If i'm such a good mother, why did i let this happen?
Jason: First of all, you trusted me to protect him.
Carly: Oh, come on. This isn't your fault. You didn't do this.
Jason: Just stop, right now. We need to make this about michael, not our guilt.
Carly: I know. I've been saying this since the operation. This is about michael.
Jason: Ok. I know that. You've been focused on keeping him alive. You've been focused on having him wake up. But carly, sometimes you get so caught up in what you want, you actually -- you miss what's really possible. I know this is hard. I -- i know that. I'm just asking you to take a step back. Take a deep breath and just -- you need to hear what the experts say, ok? And then you can just -- you can do whatever you want.
Carly: I can't give up hope. I can't stop believing because i can't imagine my life without michael.
ric: You've got to be really desperate to link me with sonny. My brother's hatred of me is legendary.
Claudia: Oh, you seemed pretty chummy at the haunted star opening.
Ric: Oh, i'm sorry. Should i have pulled out a gun?
Claudia: It all makes sense now. You sold trevor the alcazar piers so you could keep them out of our hands.
Ric: Trevor blackmailed me and got those piers away from me, sweetheart --
claudia: He's trying to convince you that we have shared enemies and you need to be afraid of your own children.
Ric: You know, if you had been around a little bit more, miss zacchara --
claudia: You want to hand our heads to sonny on a silver platter. And then you're going to go after trevor. You know what's ironic here? He is trying to use you to get back at his own father.
Ric: Finally. Security guard: Ma'am, you're in violation of a court order. I'm going to have to ask you to leave.
Claudia: I'm going to fix this, daddy, i'm going to find a way to fix this, but you need to listen to me. In the meantime, be careful. Your own lawyer here, he's trying to trick you. And he's trying to make us all work against each other. You need to not let that happen, ok? I can find my own way out. I'm way more than you can handle, trust me.
[Cellphone rings]
jason: Yeah.
Claudia: I need to meet you.
Jason: I'm busy.
Claudia: The road out of shadybrook hospital -- there's an overlook, meet me there. I have information about who shot michael.
Ric: Anthony, if she was really worried about you and wanted you released, then why is she showing up just now? And if she hired me, why wouldn't she trust me? It's a desperate ploy.
Anthony: I'll deal with claudia. Actually she made some good points. Maybe i have trusted you too much.
Sam: Well, this is how it works.
Ian: Could you be more specific?
Sam: Yes, of course -- getting to know each other. I tell you mine, you tell me yours. And if it only goes one way, you might as well be talking to a priest. I know absolutely nothing about you. I don't know where you're from I don't know if you have any family. Have you ever been married? I mean, that's normally a good start.
Ian: My past is none of your concern. Your past, however, is quite interesting to me. For instance, i understand that you and jason morgan used to be a couple.
Sam: Yeah, of course, it's one of my many relationship train wrecks.
Ian : You know, it suddenly occurs to me that maybe you could be here trying to get some information.
Sam: Really? Well, first of all things did not end well between me and jason. He can barely stand to be in the same room with me.
Ian: Well, wouldn't this be a great way of mending some fences --
sam: And second, you are a doctor.
Ian: Bring him some pillow talk.
Sam: Are you serious? What kind of information --
ian: I'm not like the fools you are used to dealing with, ok -- who are so eager to get a piece of the poor, wounded sam that they'll do and say anything. You better go now.
Sam: You are so wrong about this.
Ian: And when you do see mr. Morgan, please tell him that you did your best to take one for the team. And the next time he tries to pull something like this, i won't be nearly so pleasant.
Nikolas: You're here.
Emily: Because you want me to be.
Nikolas: Changing the medication, i don't see you as often anymore.
Emily: Well, you must be worn out. That was some crazy ride you just took with nadine.
Nikolas: Yeah, i guess there's a certain amount of freedom that comes with knowing you're going to die.
Emily: Nikolas, don't say that.
Nikolas: I don't want to argue with you or with myself about it anymore. I just, i need to be with you.
Robin: I've also started michael on hepalamine, 12 milligrams a day. I have had promising results with other patients who have similar cognitive deficits. I would share with you my ideas for continued care, but i don't want to influence your recommendations. I really hope that you can find a way to help michael.
Dr. Giona: There are a lot cases that are referred to my clinic by doctors who are feeling the same frustration as you do now.
Robin: If you don't mind, i'd like to be honest about something else. I know part of the reason you two are here is because jax is a wealthy man who can afford to indulge in his wife's denial. She hasn't been able to accept what has happened to her son. She will cling to any hope, however unrealistic.
Dr. Ploen: I appreciate your candor. I think we're ready to see the patient now.
Robin: Elizabeth, will you show them to michael's room, please?
Elizabeth: Of course.
Robin: Thank you.
Elizabeth: Right this way.
Carly: I don't want robin and patrick to influence these doctors with their negativity.
Jax: Look, these specialists didn't fly all the way from europe to rubber stamp robin and patrick's diagnosis. They're experts, they're the best in their field.
Carly: Thank you -- thank you for moving heaven and earth to get these doctors here.
Jax: Just know that there are no guarantees.
Carly: I know -- and i promise you i'm going to try really hard to listen to what they say, and not just hear what i want to hear.
Jax: Well, that's all i'm asking.
Elizabeth: The doctors are here.
Jax: Oh, great. Dr. Ploen and dr. Giona, this is my wife carly.
Carly: Hi, thank you so much. Ok, well, let me introduce you to michael.
Emily: If you die, do you really think that spencer won't feel that loss, nikolas? That his life would be just as rich and full if he were raised by lucky or alexis?
[Throat clearing]
ian: The butler said i could find you out here.
Nikolas: What's wrong?
Ian: This is good news. I found a new drug. It's in its infancy stage and illegal in this country. I can get it to you, but it's going to cost you.
Nikolas: And what will this drug do for me?
Ian: Keep you alive and keep you seeing emily indefinitely.
[Knocking on door]
elizabeth: Hi.
Robin: Oh, come in. The baby clothes you brought me.
Elizabeth: I guess you forgot.
Robin: I am so sorry. I forgot again, i forgot.
Elizabeth: No big deal, it was no problem. Just bringing it by.
Robin: You shouldn't have to do that. I hate that my brain is deserting me. I'm really starting to think that i might mess up at work. Were you ever worried about that?
Elizabeth: Honestly, i was under so much strain when i was pregnant with jake, every time i forgot something i just chalked it up to stress.
Robin: I know things were difficult with lucky.
Elizabeth: Yeah, well, i was living a lie. I mean, i was staying in the marriage for his sake while i was in love with jason. Here i am, a year later and --
robin: Are you all right?
Elizabeth: Yeah, i'm fine.
Robin: I know that we both lost a good friend when emily died. And i'm here for you if you need me.
Elizabeth: Maybe it is a good thing i brought this stuff by. Because i do need to know -- how did you do it? How did you stop loving jason?
Carly: They're taking a long time.
Carly: Am i wrong to think that's a good sign?
Jax: I don't know, i mean --
carly: So?
Dr. Giona: Well, michael has received excellent care here.
Jax: There was never any question of that.
Carly: Did you guys find anything, anything out?
Dr. Giona: It's really too soon for us to make any recommendations now. We really need to run some further tests.
Ric: You know, anthony -- if it weren't for me, you would still be rotting in that prison hospital right now. Don't forget, the hearing hasn't come through yet. You're a long way from being a free man. Look, if you think that claudia wants to see you released because she wants to share some long walks on the beach or some sunday dinners with you --
anthony: You've worked legal magic here, richard. And i am fully intending to show proper appreciation. Now at the same time, i am reminded that you're not doing this out of the goodness of your heart. You're after power, my power.
Ric: Power -- yes, absolutely, but not yours. Ok, there's plenty to go around, and i want to use it against my father. That much your daughter did get right.
Anthony: Be careful that our interests don't conflict. Don't make the mistake of trying to separate johnny from me or turn me against him.
Ric: Ok, what about claudia?
Anthony: Claudia is all mine.
jason: I'm by the overlook.
Claudia: I got held up at shadybrook, talking to the doctors about my father. I'm almost there.
Jason: I think i see you. You got the same car you had in the alleyway?
[Tires screech]
[glass shatters]
Elizabeth: I didn't tell you this before. Actually i haven't told anybody this. But i was seeing jason in secret. I had decided that i could have a life with him and that my kids would be safe. And then michael got shot. Now every time i see jason in the hospital, we act like we don't even know each other. And all the things that were said and all the promises that were made. It's like they never even happened. I know that's the way it has to be, but i'm having a real hard time with the adjustment.
Robin: I don't know what to tell you. I wish i could offer some wisdom, but the truth is it took me a long time to get over jason. It took living in paris and it took falling in love with patrick.
Elizabeth: He is a good guy.
Robin: He comes with his own set of problems.
Elizabeth: I know i'm not in any position to give advice, but he does love you. And at least his life is safe and stable, right?
Robin: Well, don't tell him that. Because then he'll think he's boring and want to do something crazy.
Patrick: Elizabeth, hi.
Elizabeth: Hi.
Patrick: I don't want to interrupt. I just came by to make sure robin didn't need leave her car ignition running.
Robin: Ha ha, funny.
Elizabeth: Thanks for the talk. And remember that there's no time like the present.
Robin: Thank you, bye.
Patrick: What was that all about?
Nikolas: I thought you said there was no cure for my condition.
Ian: From the trials i've seen, this particular regiment should significantly reduce the size of the tumor. Which will eliminate the need for surgery and allow your hallucinations for emily to continue. A miracle like that ought to be worth another, what, $10 million at least?
Dr. Giona: Dr. Ploen and i both agree that it is unlikely michael will make a full recovery.
Carly: Unlikely.
Dr. Ploen: There is a degree of irreversible brain damage apparent. It could manifest itself in a wide variety of ways. Limited personality shift or a permanent coma. We just don't know yet.
Dr. Giona: We'll return tomorrow and we'll start michael's formal diagnostics.
Carly: And you'll let me know the second you know anything?
Dr. Giona: Of course.
Jax: Thank you both very much.
Dr. Giona: You're welcome.
Carly: Ok. I get it. It's not going to be easy. Michael's not going to wake up and be perfect like the end of a fairy tale. But he is going to get better. And when they're ready to release him from the hospital, i'm going to take him home and i'm going to care for him myself.
Logan: All right, it's all set.
Physical therapy at 8:00 A.M.
I'll see you then, ok?
Anthony: Why did you defend ric lansing? What makes you so sure he's telling the truth?
Logan: Well, i've heard your son talk about you. He hates your guts.
Anthony: Be nice.
Logan: To johnny?
Anthony: His sister -- you don't want claudia for an enemy.
Vaughn: The ambush on claudia hit a snag. She lost control of the car -- it crashed. But jason morgan's there. And apparently, he pulled her out safely.
Anthony: Tell the shooter to go after them. This is a chance to get two for one.
Vaughn: Roger that.
Jason: What happened?
Claudia: The brakes gave out, all of a sudden --
[gunshots]
claudia: I guess they wanted to finish the job.
Jason: We're trapped.
[Gunshot]
lulu: I'm ready to have some fun.
Spinelli: Do you know the secret to taming the wild heart?
Jason: You called me up here and now i'm getting shot at?
Robin: I haven't told her i'm pregnant
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