Alexis: Hmm.

Diane: Ok, you have two choices -- late-night supper or pole dancing.

Alexis: We went pole dancing last night.

Diane: You know, I knew you'd say that. Good -- we're going out to dinner. But first -- an aperitif.

Alexis: I can't. I've got this -- this --

Diane: You don't seem to realize, Alexis -- this is an intervention.

Alexis: She says holding a beer in her hand.

[Diane chuckles]

Alexis: I can't. I'm -- I'm up to my --

Diane: Yes, I can see exactly what you are. What you are is sitting alone in your office, late night, all alone, going over, what -- uh-huh, closed case files. You remind me of my father during the last year of his life -- just poring over the obituary columns.

Alexis: No, really, stop with the flattery. Why aren't you toiling away, burning the midnight oil on your star client

Sonny, making sure that he remains the powerful man that he is?

Diane: Sonny is a bit preoccupied lately now that Kate's, um -- well, what's the district attorney's office calling it?

Alexis: "Under investigation."

Diane: And off the record?

Ian: I'm sure Dr. Drake can recommend a colleague that knows his way around a hip and I know at least a few hundred plastic surgeons out in L.A. Yeah, you go out there and you -- you pick them off the celebrities like ticks.

[Sam chuckles]

Sam: Oh, ok. Well, what if I want you?

Ian: I reserve the right to refuse my service to anyone.

Sam: No. I will not let you. You're the reason I'm back in here.

Ian: Excuse me?

Sam: Yes, you are. You -- you were in the E.R. the night I was run down and Patrick said you did an amazing job on me.

Ian: Yeah, I did.

Sam: Yes, yes -- so good, in fact, that you made me heal so quickly that you basically pushed me into the arms of the killer.

Ian: Blackmail, emotional or otherwise, doesn't work with me.

Sam: All right. Then what does work with you?

Ian: I'd like to keep you overnight for observation, if you don't mind.

Sam: Oh! Gross -- now that was a cheap come-on line.

Ian: Don't baby that hip, ok?

Sam: Oh.

Ian: I'll have a nurse walk you up and down the floor. Stay on it as often as possible for as long as possible. There's a guard that's going to be posted outside, so no one's going to bother you for the rest of the night, including me.

Diego: You came back quicker than I thought.

Nikolas: I'm motivated.

Diego: So am I! It's even more fun the second time around, isn't it? Just because you know I'm out there doesn't mean I can't get to you.

[Emily gags]

Diego: I can get you anywhere, you know? I could get you in your living room, maybe in your bed, hmm? Huh? I can even get you when you're visiting your sister. That would almost make it worth it to let you go -- almost. Huh!

[Emily chokes]

[Maxie groans]

Diego: Ah! Ah! Oh, oh, oh!

Jason: Aren't nurses supposed to be more encouraging than this?

Elizabeth: Yeah, you're right. I'm sorry. I know you're going to be fine.

Jason: I'm -- I'm shooting for perfect. It's -- it's what I need to do --

Elizabeth: What you do. I know you, I can see it. Stop fighting the sedative. It'll be better if you just give in to it.

Jason: I don't -- I don't like this feeling.

Elizabeth: I know, I know.

Jason: And I know you. Please don't feel guilty.

Elizabeth: How did you even know where to come find us?

Det. Rodriguez: I have the same question.

Sonny: So it -- it calms you down to vandalize other people's property?

Johnny: I'd say it's a lesser crime than kidnaping. Oh, yeah. Yep.

Sonny: A woman I care about was shot and almost killed, my son is missing. That makes a guy very tense and when you're tense you want to hit something like a bag or something, but I don't see a bag here. You see -- you guys see a bag here?

Milo: I don't, no, Mr. C.

Sonny: You know, sometimes --

Johnny: Ugh!

Sonny: Oh, but I feel better now. I feel a lot better. How about you?

Johnny: Yeah -- that all you got, cowboy? I already told you I don't know a thing about your son or your girl. I do

know I haven't had a thing to eat or drink since I've been here.

Sonny: Good. That means that my people are following orders. You guys get out.

Sonny: You know, it occurred to me that Trevor has set up everything and he -- he don't care what I got or how you wind up.

Johnny: Yeah, well, let's just hope whoever's got Michael is taking better care of him than you are of me.

Sonny: Well, you better do better than hope. You better pray. Write yourself a hymn. Bye, Johnny.

Luke: Time to go, snake face.

Scott: You know, now that I think about it, it's a little more sinister than I thought. Maybe you're -- you're happy that Logan's in a coma.

Lulu: That is not true.

Scott: Because if he wakes up, he might rat somebody out or he might say that you went off on him again.

Luke: Went off on him how?

Lulu: It's nothing.

Scott: Yeah. Now that I think about it, Johnny probably showed up, tried to save the day and he's the one that hit

Logan, and now you're saying that you did it because it's more sympathetic from --

Lulu: No, that is not true, either. Logan already apologized for getting out of hand with me.

Luke: What do you mean, "getting out of hand"?

Scott: So you -- you thought that he wasn't going to rape you but he was going to kill you?

Luke: Hey, I'm talking here! What did his son do to you and why is this the first time I'm hearing about it?

Scott: He got a little possessive trying to make a point.

Lulu: He wouldn't stop when I asked him to let go.

Luke: Hey, you -- out, now!

Scott: You know, you're in no position to do anything there, gimpy.

Alice: Is there a problem here, Mr. Luke?

Scott: What's she doing here?

Luke: Alice, my delicate flower, would you toss this hunk of hair out of here?

Alice: Face first or --

Scott: All right, all right, all right -- let go, you're bending the threads here. Lulu? You're hiding something. It's going to come out -- it always does.

Lulu: You mean like what you did to my mother?

Luke: What did he do to your mother?

Marianna: Hmm.

Ric: I want to take you somewhere tomorrow.

Marianna: Hmm. We just came from somewhere.

Ric: No, no, no. This is downtown. You know that deed that my father wants to get his hands on so badly?

Marianna: The waterfront properties?

Ric: Mm-hmm, yeah. I want to take you to see it.

Marianna: Why?

Ric: You got a good sense about things.

Marianna: Huh -- except where my life is concerned.

Ric: Well, you had the good sense to be nice to me, right?

Marianna: Oh, that is awful.

Ric: What?

[Marianna chuckles]

Marianna: Makes me sound so calculating.

Ric: Oh -- well, you're not and you know that I know that, so calm down.

Marianna: Oh.

Ric: I'm sorry.

Marianna: No, I just -- I can't help it. It's my mom, she had nothing and she just -- she still had so much happiness in her. She always warned me "never want more than you can hold in your arms or someday you'll just have to leave it behind."

Ric: Oh. Well, I think that's good and bad advice. See, I want everything for Molly.

Marianna: Well, no one could have everything. Hey, I mean, if someone did then -- then there wouldn't be anything to wish for or -- or to dream about.

Ric: What do you want? Hmm?

Marianna: I want to be free.

Ric: Oh, well, you're well on your way.

Marianna: And what do you want?

Ric: Well, we both have a lot of things that we got to think about here. And for right now, I want what I can hold in my arms.

[Marianna sighs]

Alexis: Let's just say that I have a source -- not a particularly reliable source. As a matter of fact, I don't remotely trust this source at all, but it's a knowledgeable source.

Diane: Just say "Jerry Jacks."

Alexis: I did not say that.

Diane: Just say it -- what did he say?

Alexis: You said that, not me. Jerry said that Sonny and his competitors were all vying for the same waterfront property.

Diane: So, what, Kate is collateral damage?

Alexis: It's a leading theory.

Diane: I knew it. I knew I was right when I told her to run when Sonny made that marriage proposal.

Alexis: The heart does not always follow what logic dictates.

Diane: Doesn't that also apply to you and your criminally minded, roguishly attractive source? See, I knew I should give you the same advice about Jerry Jacks that I gave to Kate about Sonny.

Alexis: There is no comparison.

Diane: There is every comparison. It can't -- it -- it is one thing to help powerful men move the levers of power, it is quite another to let your heart get involved.

Alexis: I'm very well aware of what his motives are. I know that he's using me, trying to use me to capitalize on the fact that he probably saved my daughter's life. And the truth is if he hadn't been driving by and didn't see her on the -- my sole focus is to find the maniac who chased Sam into the oncoming traffic.

Elizabeth: Jason's on his way to surgery. He can't answer questions right now.

Det. Rodriguez: I thought you were one of the victims in tonight's incident.

Jason: She was.

Det. Rodriguez: But so devoted to duty that you're dispensing care on the side or just to Jason in particular?

Elizabeth: You should leave.

Det. Rodriguez: I think I should capitalize on the moment. Wounded, sedated -- couldn't be a better time to get the truth out of Jason Morgan. Amazing rescue, really -- nick of time and all that.

Elizabeth: Have you found Diego yet?

Det. Rodriguez: No, but we're working on it. We obviously don't have the kind of intuition that Mr. Morgan has in

finding him. What we got from the scene from Ms. McCall was that Diego Alcazar wanted to make sure that she ended up just like his father. I wonder how that correlates to driving out in the middle of the night to a deserted bridge. This wouldn't happen to be a site for illegal dumping -- would it?

Patrick: You have exactly five seconds to get away from my patient.

Det. Rodriguez: I'm investigating a crime, several of them.

Patrick: And I'm taking him to the O.R. If your questioning in any way gets linked to a delay in Mr. Morgan's surgery, he will have the grounds to sue the pc especially if something goes wrong. There's already two witnesses that'll be more than happy to testify to your behavior.

Jason: It's the warehouse.

Patrick: Say good night. We got a lot of work to do.

Jason: It's where Sam shot Diego. I would -- I would look there.

Det. Rodriguez: More intuition?

Jason: Just common sense.

Diego: Ah!

Nikolas: Die!

Diego: Ah! Ah! Ah! Ugh! Oh! Ah!

Luke: It's pretty hard for me to swallow that you two know something about Laura that I don't.

Scott: She's talking about the night that Rick Webber died and how we covered things up to protect the people that we care about. Sometimes, though, these things just percolate up and we've got to put a lid on it so that nobody else gets hurt.

Alice: I'm going to go make sure he uses his seat belt.

Lulu: So how long is Alice going to stay here?

Luke: I don't know. You know, she busted me out of mercy. She's offered to drag me around until Tracy and I patch things up, but I guess we'll be here till I can move around on my own steam. Lesley Lu? Is there any truth to what that dimwit is selling?

Lulu: About what?

Luke: About you protecting Johnny Zacchara?

Lulu: Huh. No, I hit Logan. I thought he was the killer.

Luke: You wouldn't keep anything from me about your mother, would you?

Lulu: What I did to Logan and what she did to Rick Webber are a little too close for comfort and he knows that. I just don't want to talk about it anymore.

Luke: Ok. Something else on your mind, though?

Lulu: Um -- mom used to have a lot of old records.

Luke: You mean her -- huh -- music-to-nod-off-by collection?

[Lulu chuckles]

Lulu: Yeah -- um, yeah. Do you know where they are?

Luke: Well, I think the last time I saw them, they were in the back of a closet somewhere upstairs. I'm sure Lucky didn't throw them out. Lesley Lu? You don't have to play games with me. I'm not much on advice, but I did used to write fortunes for cookies, and my favorite one was "secrets always come out -- especially the ugly ones."

Mac: Maxie!

Maxie: Dad! Diego, he --

Mac: We know, we know.

Lucky: Where is he?

Mac: We know. Oh.

[Siren]

Nikolas: He's upstairs -- hanging from the catwalk.

Spinelli: Yeah. The Jackal believes that the text message killer is indeed dead for real this time.

Nikolas: Nadine, what happened -- Nadine --

Spinelli: Oh.

[Classical music plays]

Johnny: See? It's lonely.

Lulu: No, it's not. It's more like a sad, beautiful yearning.

Prostitute: Hey! Go.

Second prostitute: Hey there, handsome. Want to party?

Ian: Yeah. Yeah, I do -- not with you. With you.

Patrick: I have nothing but guesses about how this is going to turn out -- just a caution. I know that you and Jason were close once.

Elizabeth: Oh, it's history. I have two children now.

Patrick: Well, I'm glad. Call me sentimental, but I always hope there's a chance that a mother and father can get back together, especially when there's children involved.

Elizabeth: Always a chance.

>> On the next "General Hospital" --

Kate: Sonny cheated on me.

Robin: This is a bad idea. You collapsed again.

Nikolas: I need to find Nadine.

[Nadine screams]

[Bomb beeps]