Diego: Come on! Come on!

[Sam gags]

Sam: Get off! Oh!

[Sam pants]

Sam: Oh -- god, god --

[Sam pants]

Sam: Ow!

[Diego yells]

Diego: You just made it harder on yourself.

Sam: What are you going to do?

Diego: I'm going to make sure you end up just like my father.

Nikolas: Look, you're -- you're jumping to a lot of conclusions here and skipping logic along the way. Are -- are you questioning what happened to Logan or his guilt?

Lulu: He's in a coma.

Nikolas: I know. And when you hit him, you were afraid for your life --

Lulu: Just like mom.

Nikolas: Just like mom and Rick Webber. Listen, stop operating from guilt, please? It -- it -- listen, it doesn't help anything and it doesn't change anything. The second that you hit him, did you think he could hurt you?

Lulu: I panicked.

Nikolas: Yes or no?

[Lulu sighs]

Nikolas: Yes or no?

Lulu: Yes.

Nikolas: Yes. See? So at -- so at worst, you made a terrible mistake. But you said -- you said that when Johnny knocked on the door, Logan grabbed you and said that he was going to take you somewhere and make you believe him or whatever.

Lulu: Yes, but --

Nikolas: But what? If Logan were innocent, why didn't he just let Johnny in?

Lulu: Because he was probably afraid of what Johnny would do to him, or the police, or if I didn't believe him or if I left with Johnny.

Nikolas: So -- so he panicked and acted out of fear, the same as you. Lulu, if he's innocent, you know, he's just as responsible for what happened you are. And we're not going to know anything anyway until he wakes up.

Lulu: Oh --

Nikolas: You know you put yourself in between two pretty dangerous men, you know that?

Lulu: I was confused, I didn't know who I wanted to be with.

Nikolas: Well, I vote for neither one.

Lulu: Hmm. Why can't life just be simple? Why can't love be simple?

Nikolas: Hmm. Because love comes and goes when it wants. And what we're left with is what we're meant to carry, I suppose. Look, if it were easy, it wouldn't mean much to have it -- or lose it.

Lulu: I'm sorry about Emily.

Nikolas: Yeah, she's still with me. It's not the same, of course, but it's something.

Lulu: You know, you don't have to answer me, but why haven't you had the surgery?

Nikolas: Because of my fears.

Lulu: Of dying?

Nikolas: No. I'm afraid that I'll open my eyes and never see her smile or hear her laugh or feel her next to me ever again.

Lulu: That won't happen.

Nikolas: Our love was really strong, you know?

Emily: It is so strong.

Lulu: Well, love comes and goes when it wants, and --

[Nikolas laughs]

Lulu: What we're left with is what we're meant to carry. I'm sure that you will find a way to have Emily in your life forever.

[Music plays]

Maxie: "Your table"? So this is your table now? I'm invading your space, breathing your air?

Spinelli: That was succinct.

Maxie: No, it was garbage. This is public property. You -- you have your own personal space, I have mine. We have our own air to breathe. I'm going to sit here if I feel like it.

Spinelli: But that's what confuses The Jackal. Why -- why do you want to?

Maxie: Because you believed me and helped me when you didn't want to. You helped me prove Coop was innocent. And even though you were too dense to see that Georgie was in love with you, you cared about her enough to make sure her killer was punished.

Spinelli: The wounded blond one is lonely.

Maxie: No. The wounded blond one just doesn't want to be wounded anymore.

Spinelli: Well, what would heal her?

Maxie: Mark your calendar, because you're going to sit next to me at Logan's trial when he's sentenced to life in prison.

Spinelli: Ok, look, although vengeance is best served cold, sometimes it doesn't serve anything else.

Maxie: You can't just speak English, can you?

Spinelli: Ok, look, my words have English derivation, although some of them have Latin roots.

Maxie: Stop.

[Maxie sighs]

Maxie: What?

Spinelli: We share something, I think, you and I. Um -- we are often grossly and most unfairly misunderstood.

Singer: They lost the garden looked out in the northern sky

Spinelli: Ugh!

Trevor: Here I am thinking that you are in it for band-aids and a couple of bucks, and you are crazy enough to think that you have feelings for him?

Marianna: Think what you want. Ric is good to me. He sees things in me, he talks to me, and he took me from this awful place when he didn't have to. I won't help you.

Trevor: Hmm.

Marianna: Do what you want, ok? Make the phone call, send me back. But when Ric knows, you're never going to get anything from him.

Trevor: Mm-hmm. You think my son sees you as anything more than a social service project? You are an illegal immigrant masquerading as a citizen. He is the district attorney of Port Charles and it is his job to report you. Do you really think that you fit into his life?

Ric: She fits into my life a hell of a lot more than you do.

Sonny: Come here. This is what you want, right? Huh? Huh?

Sonny: Get off me, bitch.

Claudia: Bastard.

Sonny: I said it was a one-night stand, and I meant it.

Claudia: You are whipped.

Sonny: Yeah?

Claudia: You are whipped and Kate Howard is nothing.

Sonny: You're the one who passed me the note saying you were no lady, and you know what? You were right.

[Claudia chuckles]

Jason: I see you don't need me after all.

Claudia: Hello, handsome.

Sonny: You guys know each other?

Jason: Apparently not as well as the two of you know each other. Sonny, we need to go.

Sonny: Did you find Michael?

Jason: No, no.

Sonny: Ok, then I'm not --

Jason: Listen -- listen to me. You need -- you need to come with me, there's something you need to hear about right now. Ok, the guards are going to come back around, they're not going to be too happy this time.

Sonny: Give me the gun. Hold this.

Jax: Uh-uh. It came from "unknown caller," there's no way to trace it. I'm sorry, I know -- I know you wanted more, but at least we know he's ok.

Carly: There was a man who yelled and then a noise, and the line went dead.

Jax: Yes, and it's enough to make any parent's imagination run wild, but we don't really know anything -- except for Michael saying that -- that "it was his fault."

Carly: Yeah, you're right. He was really angry when he left here. You know, he's just wandering around somewhere, you know, maybe where he shouldn't be.

Jax: Have you heard from Sonny or Jason?

Carly: No.

Jax: Sonny is probably still with Kate. I'm going to go talk to him about calling the police.

Carly: He's never going to agree to that, Jax.

Jax: Well, even if he says no, it's at least something I can do, you know? I mean, I call myself Michael's father. I should've been more aware of what was going on with him. Maybe I should've been more confrontational.

Carly: I'll go with you, ok?

Jax: No, somebody needs to stay here in case he comes home. Ok?

Ric: You know, Elizabeth said that you should probably get some rest. I think that's a good idea, huh?

Marianna: Yeah.

Ric: It's been a long night.

Trevor: Yeah -- been a long, hard night.

Ric: You don't know a damn thing about Marianna.

Trevor: Richie, what are you getting upset for? For something like that?

Ric: You are to treat her with respect and kindness for as long as she is here, otherwise don't bother coming around. Do you understand?

Trevor: How long is she going to be here?

Ric: For as long as she wants.

Trevor: You mean you are going to give an open invitation to someone like her?

Ric: "Someone like her?" I see. Are you going to add racism and -- and class bigotry now to your repertoire of stellar characteristics, Trevor?

Trevor: Richie, think with your head instead of your zipper.

Ric: Ok, that's it, now, enough!

Trevor: You are the district attorney of Port Charles, and it is your duty to report her. She's already started with the lies -- big, imaginary ones -- just to get her hooks into you. She probably did it with somebody before.

Ric: Ok, this conversation that we were going to have about the waterfront property is over.

Trevor: Richard, have you signed the deed to that property? Are you ready to take ownership?

Ric: No, I'm ready for you to leave.

Trevor: All right. We'll talk about it later.

Ric: Yeah -- when hell freezes over, ok?

Trevor: You know, Richie, they're telling me it's getting colder every day.

Ric: Get out.

Trevor: I'm still going to keep my eye out on you because you're absolutely incapable of watching out for yourself. Huh.

Johnny: Sonny Corinthos isn't somebody you just play games with!

Claudia: Oh, what, you think what you did wasn't playing games, John -- daring him to kill you?

Johnny: Sonny lets his temper get the best of him, yes, t he's a smart man.

Claudia: What do you do -- defend this place with spitballs and your good charm? I need a damn gun!

Johnny: What, you think we leave them lying around like after-dinner mints?

Claudia: I don't know -- Uncle Rudy does. He taught me to be prepared, John.

Johnny: Apparently -- unless there's a man involved. Come here. You're a mess.

Claudia: I know. I know. It'll pass.

Johnny: Do you want something?

Claudia: No.

Johnny: Have you thought about being on something?

Claudia: John, you think this house was hell for you? You don't know what hell is.

[Monitor beeps]

Kate: I don't know why I'd bring up the name of someone I haven't thought of in years. I -- I don even know if Olivia had a --

[Monitor quickens]

Kate: Last name. There was just so many models that came through "Couture" -- hundreds. I'm sure that more than one of them was named "Olivia."

Alexis: I'm sorry I'm upsetting you.

Kate: I'm not, Alexis.

Alexis: Well, your heart monitor says otherwise. Every time that name gets brought up, your heart starts racing, which is a terrible idea in your condition. So before I give you cardiac arrest, I'm going to go pick up my daughter.

Kate: I'm fine, Alexis, I'm just tired. Dr. Julian's going to give me demerits.

Alexis: You hang in there, ok?

Kate: You, too, and best to Kristina.

Alexis: All right.

Kate: I hope she's better.

Alexis: Thank you, and I'll see you tomorrow?

Kate: Ok.

Alexis: Ok. Get some sleep.

[Monitor beeps normally]

Sonny: Can you hold on for one second?

Jason: What?

Sonny: Can -- you pull me out of the Zaccharas' place to tell me this garbage? Kate's been shot, my son's missing, I had the prime suspect right in front of me. And now you're spinning stories about, what, a phone call that a psychopath like Jerry Jacks gets about Lorenzo Alcazar.

Jason: Yeah, isn't -- isn't that worth thinking about?

Sonny: No, it's not, because he's dead. He's been dead, you saw to it -- unless you're telling me that you don't know what dead is.

Jason: I'm saying at this point, you can't rule anything out.

Sonny: No, I can, because I know who did it!

Jason: No -- no, Sonny, no, you don't. You want it to be the Zaccharas. Why -- why do you want a war?

Sonny: I don't want a war, Jason. They started this, they came after my territory. What do you want me to do?

Jason: If this were anybody but Trevor --

Sonny: Yeah, if it were anybody but Trevor, they'd end up in the funeral. Ok, you know what? You don't want to help me? Go ahead and chase ghosts. I know what I got to do, and I'm going to go do it.

Ric: Ok.

Marianna: Ok.

Ric: Can I look now?

[Marianna laughs]

Ric: Uh -- I don't know -- you look amazing.

[Marianna laughs]

Marianna: It's beautiful.

Ric: Yeah?

Marianna: Yeah.

[Marianna gasps]

Marianna: Dios mio.

Ric: What's the matter, you got a pin or something?

Marianna: No, the price.

Ric: Oh, they were supposed to remove that.

Marianna: It's so simple. Why is it so much?

Ric: Sounds like something your mother would say about life. Listen, I -- I called Alexis and I told her I was back in town. So while I'm visiting Kristina and Molly --

Marianna: I can't do this. I -- I just can't -- I can't do this to you one second longer. I can't.

Ric: Do what?

[Marianna sighs]

Jason: What -- what?

Carly: We heard from Michael.

Jason: Is -- is he ok?

Carly: I don't know. I don't know. He sounded like he was being held against his will, but he got away long enough to make a call, but the number was unknown and we can't trace it.

Jason: All right, all right, I'm going to take this to Spinelli. Where's Jax right now?

Carly: He went to talk to Sonny, he wants to get the police involved now, Jason.

Jason: Carly, that -- that is a bad idea.

Carly: Why? What aren't you telling me here?

Jason: Sonny thinks the Zaccharas may have Michael.

Carly: And you don't?

Jason: No, I'm thinking a lot of things right now, what I don't have is any kind of proof.

Carly: Oh, come on! Don't you make me play 20 questions, we're talking about my son here!

Jason: Just calm -- calm down, please, and listen to me. I need your help. When you and Jerry went to Caracas trying to prove that Alcazar was still alive, did you ever, ever think it was possible that he was?

Carly: Oh, my god!

Jason: What -- what?

Carly: Oh --

Jason: Carly --

Sonny: Hey. No fair -- coming around when I wasn't here.

Kate: Well, you're here now.

Sonny: Dr. Julian said something upset you. He didn't like the way it looked, what happened?

Kate: Um -- Kate's an a-type personality, Sonny, she doesn't like not being in control.

Sonny: Well, you know what? Kate is also my type, and she's going to get better.

Kate: Why do you keep looking at that clock? Got a hot date?

Sonny: No, no, no, listen to me. It's just -- it's just I got a -- a sensitive business deal going down and I -- I just got to make sure it goes down as planned.

[Phone rings]

Johnny: I was just thinking about you. You're not calling to cancel on me, are you?

Lulu: Um --

Johnny: Huh. Well, because it turns out I want to see you more than I thought. Don't disappoint me.

Lulu: Ok, ok. Um -- I'll see you at the Haunted Star.

Johnny: Oh -- oh, nice to meet you.

Emily: What are you thinking?

Nikolas: About what I said to Lulu about -- about acting on her fear. I told you that I was afraid if I remember who did this to you, that I'd lose you. Well, if I am able to identify who the killer was, then maybe -- maybe you'll be able to be at rest or -- I don't know.

Emily: Maybe I would.

Nikolas: You know, I just -- I've been so afraid and so selfish, I just can't do this to you anymore.

Emily: Wait, Nikolas, where are you going?

Nikolas: You'll know soon enough. I can't do this without you.

Sam: Don't --

Diego: Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh. Now, I realize we have a lot of catching up to do, and we will. There's plenty of time -- well, less for you, of course, but enough so you don't have to die with any questions. Come on.

Sam: [Muffled] No -- no -- stop -- god --

Maxie: Oh --

>> On the next "General Hospital" --

Diego: Well, look who's here.
Kate: Do I know you?
Claudia: I know you.
Sonny: What happened?
Patrick: It's not just your baby, is it?