Alexis: I realize that you were raised to be a self-absorbed, entitled prince of a man by your father, but you have a mother, too. Remember her? Generous, kind, caring. And everything that just came out of your mouth right now is spitting at what -

Nikolas: Don't you guilt me! This is my life!

Alexis: And your son's! Or doesn't he count? I realize that what happened to Emily was cruel and senseless, but not as stupid and ridiculous as what's coming out of your mouth right now. You've decided that you can't live without Emily, so you're going to join her? What about the person who can't live without you? What about your son?

Nikolas: He's not old enough! He's not old enough to be affected by any of this!

Alexis: Well, maybe I am. Maybe your brother is. Maybe Lulu and Kristina and Molly and all the other people who happen to love you -- what are we supposed to do, just accept this romantic gesture and be happy about it?

Nikolas: No, I'm just asking you to understand it, that's all!

Alexis: I'm not going to understand it! I'm never going to understand it! And by the way, one day your son is going to be old enough to understand what you've done. And he's going to be wondering his entire life why you didn't care enough -

Nikolas: Just stop, stop, stop! I should be able to die any way that I want to, ok? So I've drafted a living will. And once it's official, nobody can step in and stop me.

Alexis: I will, I will. I'll stop it, I'll fight it.

Nikolas: Fine. Then I'll fight you right back. And by the time it leaves the judge's desk, I'll already be dead anyway.

Alexis: And I will have you declared insane, because that's exactly how you're acting.

Nikolas: Ok, here it is. If I survive this tumor and have to live the rest of my life without Emily, that is what you don't want to see! Now, this is what I want, and you or anyone else won't stop me.

Emily: Then I will.

Lucky: Are you ok?

Sam: Yeah, I think so. I mean, I wouldn't have been if I would've landed wrong. Of course, I could say the same thing about falling several hundred feet off of a bridge, but you were there to catch me, too, even though you were shot. And -- I know. You know, nothing -- nothing personal, all in a day's work. It's just your job. I got that.

Lucky: You know, it was good that you remembered Diego going off to set some explosives because we found a whole bunch of them in the drainage system under the PCPD. We don't know how many there are or where he put them, but we think that it's controlled by his computer, which we found, which the hard drive was really smashed with -- with the fight with him and Nikolas, you know, which we haven't recovered too much.

Sam: Nikolas? How is Nikolas?

Lucky: You know, I don't know. I thought he might be here scheduling surgery, but -- I left a whole bunch of messages for him at home, and I just haven't heard anything back. And I've just been too busy doing follow-up and -- or to even to check on him.

Sam: It's good that he's the one who got Diego. I mean, just -- he stole Emily from him.

Lucky: No, he stole Emily from all of us.

Sam: It is not easy to lose somebody that is really important to you, especially when you didn't have anything to do with it, unlike me. Anyway, detective Spencer, I would just like to say, for the record, thank you. Thank you for saving my life.

Lucky: You know, for the record, it had nothing to do with the job.

Patrick: I'm sorry. That was way too much information.

Elizabeth: Please. Finding out you're going to be a parent is life-altering. You're allowed to have a little trouble processing.

Patrick: And here I thought I was handling it so well.

Elizabeth: Why did Robin finally tell you?

Patrick: She didn't. I guessed it, and I made her admit it. I heard her talking to Mac, and she said that she never used a sperm bank. Then she mentioned some unflattering characteristics about the daddy, so -

Elizabeth: Well, for what it's worth, I encouraged her to tell you.

Patrick: You need to work on your persuasion skills.

Elizabeth: Oh. I didn't want to turn a happy time into a stressful one. And I did use the argument that the truth has a way of coming out.

Patrick: Did you use that argument to convince her that I might be a good father after all?

Elizabeth: Have you?

Jerry: I didn't think you'd be so prompt.

Jax: Oh, you didn't think I'd come at all.

Jerry: Well, that's quite true after I rejected your kind offer to be Jacks and Jacks brothers, incorporated.

Jax: Kindness had nothing to do with it, Jerry. My offer to go into business with you is strictly to keep you out of trouble and it still is. But, according to you, that's impossible, right, because you don't want to subject me to your somewhat questionable past.

Jerry: Oh, now that is kind.

Jax: So what changed? Why should I trust you now?

Mike: Hey, guys, I'll be able to finish this up in a minute. Just have a seat and I'll be with you as soon as I can, ok?

Ric: It's ok.

Mike: All right.

Ric: I wanted to grab a quick bite, but looks like it's kind of busy in here. I imagine it probably reminds you of that place you used to work in Martha's Vineyard. Come on, I'll take you someplace nice.

Marianna: No, this is nice.

Ric: Oh, come -

Marianna: And it's not that. And I'm not afraid of being deported anymore.

Ric: All right. Have a seat.

Marianna: Thank you. I am with a charming, handsome man.

Ric: Oh.

Marianna: And there's no Randy glaring at me with hooded eye behind the counter and that awful plaid shirt he always wore. Thanks to you, he can't touch me anymore.

Emily: I'm not going to let you hurt yourself for me, Nikolas.

Alexis: I can't let you do this to yourself.

Nikolas: You need to -- please, you need to leave right now.

Alexis: No, no, no. You need to get ahold of reality.

Nikolas: And you need to get ahold of what it feels like to be so in love with someone you can't live without them. Oh, wait, I'm sorry. That's right, you can't. You're not capable of turning that kind of power over to anyone, are you?

Alexis: I know you didn't mean that.

Nikolas: If I said I did, will you please leave?

Nikolas: God. God.

Emily: That was awful, Nikolas.

Nikolas: I don't -- I don't care! I just wanted her to leave, ok? Oh, god. What -- what -- why are you wearing this? It's like -- it's like you're a part of everything.

Emily: Well, yeah, that I'm a part of everything around you? Yeah, Nikolas, that's the natural progression of things when someone you love dies!

Nikolas: No, it's not. It's different with you, right?

Emily: Because of a tumor.

Nikolas: No. No, not because of that, because of -- because of our love. You said you believed that, Emily.

Emily: Yeah, ok, that's right, Nikolas. What do you think is going to happen to you when you die?

Nikolas: We'll be together then.

Emily: Yeah. How can you be so sure, huh? Because what you feel, what you see, what we have, Nikolas, it's not real. It's not death. It's a defiance of death.

Nikolas: Know what this is? It's an affirmation of our love. Remember? That's what you -

Emily: For now. Yes, but it's not going to last. Nikolas, your tumor is going to get worse. Your symptoms are going to get worse. If you don't go through with this surgery, then this little piece of me that you're holding on to, Nikolas, it's not going to comfort you in your sleep. It's going to turn your dreams into nightmares.

Patrick: I barely had time to make any arguments with Robin. I guessed the truth, she admitted it -- kind of took the wind out of me.

Elizabeth: Maybe you were hoping you were wrong.

Patrick: Maybe. But I wasn't. I said all the wrong things. We fought. She said nothing had changed, that as far as she and the world were concerned that the father of her baby came from a sperm bank, and, as you could imagine, it kind of went downhill from there.

Elizabeth: What do you want?

Patrick: Huh. I don't know. I mean, I'm a father now, so that comes with a certain amount of responsibility. I love the baby's mother. I don't know, maybe when this baby's born, there will be some miracle and the love I have for her will work wonders on me.

Elizabeth: Have you told Robin this?

Patrick: She hasn't really given me the chance, you know.

Elizabeth: Maybe she's afraid.

Patrick: Yeah, well, maybe she's not the only one.

[Lulu sighs]

Lulu: I don't know where you are, Johnny, or if you're even ok. Um -- I know that you and Sonny are having problems. I told him not to hurt you. There's so much that I want to say and it's just not going to come out right over the phone, so I guess I'll wait till I can see you. I really need to see you. I -- just be careful.

Lulu: How do I ever make this up to you?

Robin: Well, you've obviously retained your ability to detach from a woman as soon as I walk in the room. But you know what? It doesn't matter because I know that, number one, Elizabeth knows better, and, secondly, I don't care.

Elizabeth: I have rounds to make. You two need to talk.

Patrick: She's right.

Robin: No, she's not. We have nothing to talk about.

Patrick: I told Elizabeth. I told her about the father.

Robin: Well, then you are spreading false information, and I want you to stop right now.

Lucky: That night, I saw that car going over the bridge and I heard you screaming. I yelled for you and I didn't hear a thing.

Sam: Lucky, please, let's not make this any more than what it was, ok? Maybe saving me wasn't about you doing your duty as a police officer, but it certainly wasn't about you risking your life for the woman that you would die for. Your reflexes to -- to grab me from the brink of death was about you being an amazing, generous, giving man. Your instinct was to risk your life to save someone else. Someone else, ok? My instinct is about self-preservation.

Lucky: Sam -

Sam: No, please, Lucky. Please, just let me say this, ok? No more lies by omission or sweeping things under the rug. I thought we were past that the night you threw me out.

Lucky: I shouldn't have thrown you out.

Sam: But you did, and it's ok because it was my fault, ok? I am -- I am the one who destroyed everything that was good between us. I lashed out at Jason and Elizabeth, and I put innocent children's life at risk to do it.

Lucky: I lashed out at Elizabeth -- drugs, infidelity.

Sam: Yes. Drugs, Lucky, drugs! You had an excuse! I didn't. I don't. I'm just -- I am tired of the hurt. I am -- I am tired of being angry.

Lucky: You said loving me changed you. I didn't want to believe that that night.

Sam: Ok, well, what do you believe now? Hmm? Can you honestly tell me that you believe everything, every single word that comes out of my mouth? You have your truth and I have mine. You know, Lucky, there's just -- there's too much hurt between us. I think we both deserve people who can look at us and see the beauty and the promise and not all of the ugly failures, ok?

Lucky: We know who we are.

Sam: And we know who we're not. Can you really tell me that you want to build a future on that?

Ian: Well, as pleased as I am that you're getting some fresh air and exercise, I don't think you should be on that hip for so long. Allow me.

Sonny: I should've been watching Michael and Morgan closer.

Kate: Sonny, they don't live with you. And even if they did, I'm not sure you could change the course of history. Boys Michael's age start hiding things from their parents.

Sonny: I already knew Michael was wound up.

Kate: About what?

Sonny: He -- Michael took Leticia and Emily's death a lot harder than Morgan did, and he has this thing that he wants to be like me. So he was out running around trying to protect his mother and Morgan from the text message killer. I said, "you don't have to do that, Michael. We don't need your help. Me and Jason are handling it." He says, "no, you're not, dad, because the killer's still out there," which is true.

Kate: No.

Sonny: Yes, it is true.

Kate: It's probably not true, Sonny. And you're probably feeling more than the normal parent guilt right now because of your father and your stepfather and Trevor and how they treated you growing up. You cannot protect a child from childhood, Sonny.

Sonny: This isn't childhood, Kate. Michael's out buying bullets, trying to steal guns? Because he thinks that's the solution and he got that from me and Jason? That's probably why he was down in the waterfront in the first place. My men found his backpack near where I found you.

Kate: It doesn't mean that he was taken, Sonny. It doesn't mean that anything happened to him.

Sonny: There's a connection, you know? It's like you and Trevor get in a fight, right? He threatens you, and then you end up getting shot at the same place you tell him where you're going, the same place that Michael ends up missing.

Kate: You're taking this all out on yourself now.

Sonny: Well, no. Here's what I'm going to do -- I'm going to take it out on the people who are to blame.

Kate: What are you going to do?

Sonny: I'm going to end this game with the Zaccharas once and for all. Yes.

Kate: Sonny, this is not my business, and I'm -- I'm just going to say it. You were always like this. Someone hurts you and does something against you and you lash out. You lash out without thinking, without consequences, and you always end up hurting yourself. I mean, look at what you did after I refused your proposal.

Claudia: You know, I could've just driven to New York and gotten this information from Carlo myself.

Anthony: Yeah. You could've gotten a lot of things from Carlo dressed like that.

Claudia: Daddy, that is inappropriate, really. You sure this information is correct?

Anthony: Yeah, give or take a few names and addresses. Some of the people might be dead by now.

Claudia: You wouldn't be setting me up, now, would you?

Anthony: Anybody hurts you, I'll see they eat dirt the hard way -- buried alive in it. You don't think I'll come back and get what's mine? You wait. You all wait everybody can have the same damn look of surprise on their mugs as you do when they die. They'll be sweeping the bodies off the streets like confetti after a parade.

Claudia: It's not so much that I'm surprised at your ruthlessness. I'm -- I'm surprised to hear you talk about protecting me. I mean, you know, you -- I don't understand you at all, daddy. I really don't. I certainly didn't get the best of you, and Johnny -- I don't know. Sometimes I think Johnny would've been better off if I had stuck around to take care of him.

Anthony: You and Johnny would've gone nuts.

Claudia: No, well, you did go nuts enough for both of us.

Anthony: Where is Johnny? He ain't been here. Maria says she's hasn't seen him, either.

Claudia: I'm going to bring Johnny out to see you myself, ok?

Anthony: Claudia, wait. You bring my son here soon. I want to see my son.

Nikolas: What are you talking about?

Emily: Nikolas, do you think it's just going to go on like this until, what, you take a nap and you fade away? You slip off with me somewhere, hand in hand?

Nikolas: Why can't it be that way if that's the way we want it to be?

Emily: Because, Nikolas, you're a romantic. Because you're so in love that you've been able to see me this way. You've been able to see me this way up until now.

Nikolas: I don't know what you're talking about. What do you mean?

Emily: All right. I'm a doctor, ok? For lack of a better word, I'm the practical one. I'm the one who sees what you want to remember. I'm the one who sees what you can't remember. I'm the one who can see what's going on inside of you. I'm the one who can see how ugly it's going to get.

Nikolas: No. No, it won't, I promise.

Emily: Your tumor is going to get worse. Your symptoms are going to get worse. You're going to lose control. There's going to be madness before death. You're not going to be in charge of anything.

Nikolas: Oh, god, it hurts.

Emily: You're not going to be able to see me the way you want to see me.

Nikolas: Yes, I will.

Emily: You're only going to be able to see me the way you're afraid to see me -

Nikolas: No, that's not true. That's not true.

Emily: Dead -

Nikolas: No -

Emily: Dying --

Nikolas: No -

Emily: And in pain.

Nikolas: No, you're lying. You're lying to me right now because you just want me to live.

Emily: Yes. And if you love me, Nikolas, if you truly love me, then you will.

Nikolas: No. Emily, wait. Wait, please. Oh! Oh, god! Oh!

>> On the next "General Hospital" -

Lulu: We can make this right. His hand moved, I felt it.
Patrick: You don't get to decide what kind of father I am going to be.
Robin: As far as I'm concerned, you're not.
Jason: What were you doing at Sam's?