Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2008
Part 2


Elizabeth: Carly thinks she practically owns Jason. You knew it'd make her crazy to find out that Jake is his son, and that we've kept it from her.

Sam: Carly will have to get over it.

Elizabeth: She's going to make my life a living hell -- and Jason's, too -- but that's what you wanted, isn't it? And, unfortunately, Jake is the one that's going to pay for all this. So, really, you're the one who's gotten away with murder here.

Sam: No, really, the truth was going to come out eventually, so -

Elizabeth: Yeah, when Jason and I decided, but you took that choice out of our hands. And what do you have to lose for shooting off your big mouth?

Sam: Nothing, Elizabeth. I have nothing left to lose.

Elizabeth: You have Lucky. But I'm sure you have a million and one tricks to make him feel sorry for you, to forgive you. Unless -- unless he were to find out what a cold-blooded bitch you really are, and that you really don't give a damn about Jake.

Sam: Come on, that is not true.

Elizabeth: Oh, come on, you stood there and watched Jake get kidnapped by a mentally unstable woman, and hired two men to threaten us with guns in the park!

Sam: You were never in any danger!

Elizabeth: You just wanted to be the hero. You wanted to drive home to Jason that he's a danger to his son and that he shouldn't be around us -- of course, that's when you were still trying to get back with him.

Sam: Right, he knows all this. It's all out in the open, so -

Elizabeth: And I wonder what's going to happen when Carly goes running to him with all of this.

Sam: No, look, "this" is none of Carly's damn business.

Elizabeth: Oh, I doubt she would see it that way if I told her what you've done -- to Jason's son.

Carly: You are the best father that that baby could have.

Jason: I wish that were true.

Carly: It is true -- I know it, you know it, Elizabeth knows it. She's being so unbelievably selfish by not letting you -

Jason: Elizabeth didn't talk me into this, ok, we all agreed -- even Lucky -- that this is what's best for Jake.

Carly: I can see how she could convince Lucky, but you I don't understand.

Jason: You're just mad I didn't -- I didn't tell you.

Carly: No, I'm mad as hell at Elizabeth for convincing you and manipulating you into not telling anyone -- that's what I'm mad at.

Jason: And Sonny -- Sonny knew that you would be like this, too.

Carly: Sonny knows that Jake is your son? So who else knows?

Jason: Spinelli and Lulu, Emily even suspected.

Carly: You could trust them, but you couldn't trust me.

Jason: Look how you're reacting. I didn't want you to come up with some crazy plan and try to find a way to get Jake for me.

Carly: That's exactly what I'm going to do.

Lucky: What?

Luke: Well. I'd say "it's nice to see you," but I have a feeling it ain't.

Lucky: Tracy called, I thought something happened to you.

Tracy: Something is going to happen if we don't stop him. I want you to arrest him.

Luke: She's crazy.

Tracy: You smuggled contraband tobacco into this hospital and endangered the lives of nonsmokers.

Luke: She can't do this.

Lucky: She can if she produces evidence.

Tracy: I intend to.

Luke: Are you going to let it go that far, Officer Spencer?

Ric: You're joking?

Skye: No. Actually, it's probably the cleanest thing I've ever done.

Ric: We haven't even discussed a price yet.

Skye: There is none, Ric. Lorenzo's money he left me is enough for 10 lifetimes. I know what goes on down at those piers, and believe me, I don't want any money with blood on it, I don't want that kind of thing following me.

Ric: You're just giving me the piers?

Skye: Yes -- as a parting gift. I'm leaving Port Charles.

[Music plays]

[Mouths words]

Man: I can show you some real moves.

Diane: Oh, a beer. Yes, well, I bet you could. We're just going to borrow your friend's phone and be on our way.

Man: Big Dave look like he just warming up.

Diane: Hmm. Oh -- man: What you got in there -- gold?

Diane: Close -- high fashion.

Man: Oh, you mean couture?

Diane: You know that word?

Man: Had a girlfriend, that's all she could talk about.

Diane: Oh.

Man: Fashion, fashion, fashion. Me -- I just liked seeing her with her clothes off. How about you? You shy around mirrors?

Diane: I do my share of primping.

Man: I got a nice mirror myself.

Diane: Oh?

Man: I put it right up on the ceiling over my bed.

Dave: You girls off to a prom or something?

Alexis: We're going to an awards ceremony -- Litigator of the Year.

Dave: Say what?

Alexis: Litigator -- we're lawyers!

[Bar quiets]

Cassius: Uh -- Nurse J, um, this package came for you.

Epiphany: I'll get to it.

Cassius: Ok.

Epiphany: It's -- uh -- it's Stanford's things. His personal effects. The police said they would mail it to me. I can fill thousands of boxes with the memories I have of that boy. I know what to do with his things. I just wish someone would tell me what to do with the memories.

Tracy: Of course Lucky will arrest you -- if that's what it takes to keep you from killing yourself.

Luke: Ok. I'll be a good little, pathetic patient. Your work is done here, officer turncoat.

Lucky: Give me a minute with him, please.

Tracy: Oh.

[Tracy sighs]

[Lucky sighs]

Lucky: You've cheated death how many times?

Luke: More than you can count. Lucky, I just -- the last time I see death's face, I want it to be in a blaze of glory.

Lucky: Well, then why not wait until no one can stop you -- when the doctors say that you're stronger and say you're ready to be released?

Luke: Because, cowboy, more people die in hospital beds than anywhere else, that's a fact.

Lucky: I don't know what to tell you anymore, except that there's a lot of people who love you and want to see you around.

Luke: I know. I didn't expect you to understand.

Lucky: Don't give Tracy any more ammunition.

Luke: I won't. I will be the drooling, doddering old man who sips his soup through a straw and watches life go by on the TV screen instead of living it.

Tracy: Lucky?

Luke: You win -- again. I just hope I live long enough to see you in this position. And remember, when you were comatose and vegetating, I gave you the dignity of unplugging the machines.

Sam: I may have already lost Lucky over this, and if you tell him -- yeah, I will.

Elizabeth: And if I don't, I'll be letting him live a lie.

Sam: Do you know I hate what I did even more than you do?

Elizabeth: I doubt that.

Sam: You doubt that? Do you understand, do you have any idea how twisted up I was about Jason, about that baby?

Elizabeth: Are you trying to make me feel sorry for you?

Sam: No, I'm trying to make you understand, even if Jason won't.

Elizabeth: No, he understood. That's one of the reasons why he didn't want the truth to come out. Because even though the two of you weren't together, he didn't want to see you hurt.

Sam: Right, just like you didn't want to see Lucky hurt.

Elizabeth: Yes.

Sam: Ok. Well, you'd be hurting him if you told him all the terrible things that I've done.

Elizabeth: Oh, please. I see where this is going.

Sam: I know you probably don't want to hear this -- I mean, I wouldn't -- but Lucky is actually really happy with me. And -- and I think that how this whole lie got started was to protect him so he didn't -- he didn't go back to drinking and drugs again. How much do you think he can take before he starts using again?

Elizabeth: My god. You'd say anything to get me to keep my mouth shut.

[Sam sighs]

Ric: You're taking -- you're just taking a little extended leave until this -- the dust settles?

Skye: No. I'm leaving. It's time.

Ric: What about your family?

Skye: Oh, please, Ric. The Quartermaines are not my family -- a point Tracy continually reminds of now that Alan is gone. I -- I really don't want Lila Rae to grow up as an outsider, you know? I know what that's like.

Ric: You're going to get bored.

Skye: Uh-huh. Sure, eventually, but, you know, right now it's -- it's all I really need, it's what I want. But you -- look at you with all that power, all that temptation. You can either use it against Sonny or your father, or you can use it for you and your daughter.

Ric: Do you realize what you're giving me?

Skye: Damnation? Salvation? Really, it's up to you.

Ric: I don't know what to say.

Skye: I'd say thank me, but there might come a time when you regret that. Who knows, Ric? Another time, another place, who knows what might've been? But this is now. I may get a chance to see you again, but in case I don't -

[Rock music plays]

Alexis: What -- what'd I say?

Dave: A dirty, six-letter word.

Man: "Lawyer"! The kids, the house -- that was bad enough. My ex wound up with my boat because of her damn lawyer.

Alexis: You should've had your own attorney.

Man: I did. I was spending four months in county because the bastard forgot to file some motion.

Dave: Bet he charged you double for that.

Man: And he sued me to get the money.

Diane: What -- well, naturally, there are incompetent lawyers -- just as there are incompetent plumbers.

Alexis: Yes.

Man: Hey, Dave? She's comparing you to a lawyer.

Diane: No, no! No, I -- I wasn't talking about you or any plumber in particular!

Bartender: You know, that's an insult to any man working a hard day's work for a hard day's pay.

Man: What do you have when a lawyer is buried up to her neck in sand?

Bartender: Not enough sand.

[Laughter]

[Diane chuckles]

Bartender: Why is a lawyer like a bait shop?

Dave: Because of all the leaches, night crawlers, and maggots.

[Lamp breaks]

Diane: Next one takes out an eye -- or something else you might consider more useful.

[Rock music plays]

Diane: I've killed a man before, I'll do it again. Now, my friend and I -- behind me -- my friend and I are just going to back out of this bar real slow, and no one's going to do anything. Get the door.

Diane: Now!

Alexis: You incited a mob!

Diane: I saved us!

Alexis: You were very convincing -- I actually believed you when you said that you really killed someone.

Diane: That was the truth. I have killed someone.

Spinelli: I -- I got your message. If I have not said so, I am greatly sorry for the loss of your son.

Epiphany: I still don't get it. I thought that you two did not like each other much.

Spinelli: We were cyber-rivals.

Epiphany: Well, what about in the real damn world?

Spinelli: Uh -- huh -- a begrudng respect. Um -- but the cyber-world and this one have lost a good person. Is he to be buried here?

Epiphany: Stanford wanted to be cremated. He -- uh -- he thought that humans took up too much space while they where alive, and he didn't want to waste space when he was dead. I'll scatter his ashes when they send them to me. In the meantime --

[Epiphany sighs]

Epiphany: Here. For you and Jason. I want you two to be the first ones to take a look at his personal effects.

Spinelli: For clues. Um -- what about the police?

Epiphany: Hmm. Stanford would never forgive me for handing them over to the establishment like that. I want you and Jason to do right by my boy.

Spinelli: We will do more than that. I give you my solemn vow, we shall find out who ended his life.

Elizabeth: I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you'd try to turn this around and lay a guilt trip on me after everything you've done.

Sam: No, I'm trying to keep Lucky from being hurt.

Elizabeth: Well, then maybe I would be doing him a favor by telling him the truth -- letting him see what kind of woman he's gotten himself involved with.

Sam: Isn't it enough that I'm going to pay?

Elizabeth: Oh, but you haven't.

Sam: Oh, I haven't? I pay every single time I see that little boy. I pay every time I see Jason. I have to live with what I've done for the rest of my life. And even if you never tell anybody, people take their cue from -- from you and Jason and Sonny, and I will be treated like the garbage of this town. Isn't that enough?

Elizabeth: I don't know.

Sam: What are you going to do?

Elizabeth: I'm going to go home and love my children. And maybe I won't have to do anything to you at all. Maybe I'll just let Carly do it for me.

Jason: I want you to leave this alone, Carly. Jake is where he belongs.

Carly: He belongs with you. I can see the pain in your eyes, you can't lie to me anymore, Jason.

Jason: I was protecting my son. Do you want me to apologize -

Carly: No, no, I don't. It hurts, but I know why you did it.

Jason: This -- this was my choice, it was not Elizabeth. Do not blame her.

Carly: I'm going to straighten it out.

Jason: No, you're not -- Carly.

Carly: Don't worry, ok?

Jason: Carly!

[Door closes]

>> On the next "General Hospital" -

Logan: Where's Lulu?
Lulu: Why do you have me locked up in here?
Jerry: Where is it? You know what to do.
Carly: What's best for Jason is being with his son.
Sonny: You're telling me you can't claim your son because of me?