Friday, March 14, Part 2:

Carly: Michael?

[Noise]

Carly: Michael? Michael! Oh, baby. Oh.

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Lulu: Logan and I had a lot of problems. He's demanding and he has a huge chip on his shoulder and he does things on impulse and he's sorry for them later. I know how that is -- I've done them, too. He and I are a lot alike, so I'm going to help him any way I can.

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Sam: You can't suspend me. I have a contract.

Wes: Well, force majeure.

Sam: What does that mean?

Wes: That car running you down was an act of God, an unforeseen circumstance, and now the network can essentially do whatever it wants.

Sam: Okay, let me get this straight -- I'm suspended, not fired, for how long exactly?

Wes: It's just 13 weeks, depending on your health. And we found a terrific replacement -- Sam, you're going to love her.

Sam: Replacement? But that entire show was built around me.

Wes: Yeah, back when you were rappelling off of buildings and deep-sea diving and kickboxing.

Sam: No, no, no, no. This is my show, I practically created it.

Wes: No, Sam, "Everyday Heroes" is about beautiful women who dive into danger and save the day. I mean, you can't do that with a bad hip. But you know, Tiffany -- she wants to meet you anyway. You have been, like, her hero since day one.

Sam: Tiffany? You're kidding me, right?

Wes: No, the kid has not missed an episode, okay? I mean, she -- she knows more about this show than I do. And we stumbled across this woman at a beauty pageant in Utah. Apparently, she graduated college at 4.0, she's been modeling since she was 2, and she's, like, a tri-athlete on the short list for the Olympics.

Sam: Oh, this is good -- a beauty pageant?

Wes: Oh, Tiffany -- she is 6'1" in bare feet, blond, gorgeous. And she -- she nailed the screen test, boom, one take. I'm telling you, she -- she's easy to work with and she's just -- talk about clean living. I mean, this one doesn't even drink coffee, Sam. She signs her contract, two minutes later she runs down --

Sam: Wait a minute -- a contract? How can she possibly have a contract?

Wes: Sam, why wouldn't she have a contract?

Sam: I --

Alexis: Is there a problem?

Sam: Yes, there is a problem. I have been replaced by Tiffany the beauty pageant winner who happens to be blond and six feet tall -- I guess that matters -- and a tri-athlete, to add that.

Wes: Actually, she rides horses, too. I mean, she was the rodeo queen at Provo, like, three years in a row. She's won all these awards for horse jumping. I mean, I think for the opening sequence, we're going to have her riding bareback --

Sam: That's enough. Really, Wes, it's enough.

Alexis: You can't replace my daughter.

Wes: Well, we're suspending your daughter until she can meet the physical requirements of the show.

Alexis: You can't do that, either.

Wes: Her contract is quite clear. Look, once Sam is up and running again, she's welcome back on the show -- at our discretion, of course -- and depending --

Sam: Oh, great.

Wes: On Tiffany's numbers.

Alexis: Do you have lawyers?

Wes: We do.

Alexis: Have them call me.

Wes: Not a problem. It's great seeing you both.

Sam: Yeah.

Alexis: Hmm.

Sam: Fantastic.

Alexis: I'll get your job back.

Sam: No, I would never be on that show again -- you wait and see. It's just typical, you know? I've -- I've lost my daughter, I lost my brother, I can't have kids anymore, I lost Jason, I lost Lucky, and now because of whoever hit me with their car, I lost the only thing I had left.

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Lucky: I don't want to believe it's in you to deliberately injure another person. But I know you're capable of living with a lie, so I don't know what to think.

Elizabeth: I wasn't the only person on Tuckerton Road that night.

Lucky: Jason said he has some more leads. I think he suspects Monica.

Elizabeth: Do you?

Lucky: Well, Tracy's trying to prove that Monica was driving drunk that night. They just had a big fight right out in front of the elevators, and I confirmed that Monica's car was involved in an accident, but she swears that her car was stolen.

Elizabeth: Do you believe her?

Lucky: There have been a lot of auto thefts in the area recently.

Elizabeth: Then maybe it was me. Maybe I hit Sam and just kept on driving.

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[Bomb beeps]

Michael: Mom --

Carly: It's okay, I'm here.

Michael: I -- I can't breathe.

Carly: Okay.

Michael: I'm so sorry.

Carly: It's okay. I brought you some water and some candy bars and we're going to get you out of here.

Michael: Not yet.

Carly: What do you mean, "Not yet"? You've had me scared to death. I don't know what happened and I don't care -- I'm going to take you home.

Michael: You can't tell Dad.

Carly: I can't tell dad what -- that I found you?

Michael: Tell -- tell him I'm on a school trip or something and -- and you forgot about it and I forgot to call.

Carly: You need to talk to me, Michael, and tell me what's going on here.

Michael: I just can't see Dad -- not tonight, not ever again.

Carly: Why? Michael? Did you hear something, did you see something you shouldn't have seen?

Michael: No.

Carly: What did Sonny do?

Michael: It's not him. It's me.

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Sonny: Well, there's a good chance that Michael ran away and I'm not very happy about that. But at least I know now that the Zaccharas didn't take him.

Kate: I hope you're right, Sonny.

Sonny: I mean, he's the kind -- he's -- he does this thing the whole time, you know? Does these little stunts here and there just because he wants his mother and I to get back together and --

Kate: Well, he's a little old for that, don't you think?

Sonny: But he's been under a lot of pressure, with Leticia and Emily dying and -- he just wants to protect his mother and I think it all just came down on him.

Kate: And he didn't come to you for help?

Sonny: Well, uh -- I've been a little preoccupied lately as you know, and -- wow. I came down on him hard a couple of days ago. I may not always be a perfect father. But he's got to know how much I love him.

Kate: Is there anything I can do to help?

Sonny: Well --

[Phone rings]

[Sonny sighs]

Sonny: Hello?

Claudia: I have a proposition for you, and I promise you won't want to turn me down.

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Elizabeth: I think I've known all along that I hit Sam. Jason tried to look at the situation from all sides, but I knew --

Lucky: He was trying to protect you. But if you had come forward the night it happened --

Elizabeth: Would I be better off?

Lucky: The judge might go easy on you.

Elizabeth: Huh. You want to know where I was going that night? To see Jason. We have been meeting at a house in the middle of t country for weeks now. He's the only person in my life who calms my anxieties and my fears, and I had to see him, no matter what the cost.

Lucky: Yeah, well, maybe your lawyers can keep all that out of the courts.

Elizabeth: And what about Jake? What happens to him? If this goes to court -- and you know it will -- the truth is going to come out about him. That's why I kept quiet for so long. Jason wanted to make absolutely sure, and -- and I just -- and I hoped and I prayed that none of this --

Lucky: Sam will be out for blood.

Elizabeth: I'll lose custody. Sam will make sure the world knows who Jake's father really is. And that little boy will lose the only family he has ever known. And everything that we have gone through -- all the pain and all the sacrifices we have made will be for nothing.

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Alexis: All right, I have a plan. First of all, the police are going to find out who left you in this condition. I'm going to make sure that person is penniless and in jail for the rest of their lives. Then I'm going to sue the network, because what they're doing to you is illegal.

Sam: No, no. Listen, Wes is right. He's right. Nobody wants to see the host of "Everyday Heroes" hobbling around on a cane. I am damaged goods. I always have been --

Alexis: Stop, stop, stop --

Sam: So it's fine.

Alexis: Stop.

Sam: Okay, but it's true.

Alexis: No, it's not. Because what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. And in your case, you should be really, really strong by now. You are, Sam. You are. You have overcome enormous odds. And you will do it again. I have faith in you. I'm proud of you. And I love you.

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[Phone rings]

Ric: Hello?

Marianna: Thank God.

Ric: Marianna, where are you? What's wrong?

Marianna: Andele. I need your help, please.

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Carly: What do you mean, it was you? What happened that was so terrible to make you disappear and scare the hell out of all of us?

Michael: I called.

Carly: I know you called, baby, but then you didn't call back, and it scared me even more because I thought somebody had you.

Michael: I'm sorry.

Carly: I know you're sorry. You keep saying that. Michael, come on, I can't help you if you don't talk to me. You need to tell me what's going on here.

Michael: It's Kate.

Carly: What about Kate?

Michael: I did it.

Carly: You did what?

Michael: On the docks -- I killed her.

Carly: Oh, my God.

Michael: It was an accident, I swear. I was trying to throw the gun in the dumpster, but it went off.

Carly: You shot Kate Howard?

Michael: I killed her.

Carly: She isn't dead, Michael.

Michael: Yes, she is. I touched her. I got her blood on my hands.

Carly: Okay, stop, stop. I need to -- you were throwing away a loaded gun in a dumpster on the docks?

Michael: I dropped it and it went off.

Carly: And you knew Kate Howard was shot?

Michael: It was an accident.

Carly: You didn't call anyone? You didn't call 911; you didn't call me or your father?

Michael: I thought she was dead!

Carly: So you just left a woman lying there, bleeding, and you ran away?

Michael: I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

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Sonny: I'm in the middle of a meeting.

Claudia: I'm offering a trade for Johnny.

Sonny: What else is new?

Claudia: Are you interested?

Sonny: Well, you've wasted my time so far. You call me, okay, when you have a real offer.

Claudia: The St. Lawrence shipping lanes, all of them.

Sonny: I'm listening.

Claudia: In return for my brother. Even though my family did not take your son.

Sonny: Who gave you the authority?

Claudia: Carlos Zambrano from upstate. He'll sign over all of them in return for John.

Sonny: When?

Claudia: Tonight. If you bring my brother to the cannery, I'll bring the papers.

Sonny: Did Trevor sign off on this?

Claudia: Trevor is out. Okay? But do not show up without Johnny.

Sonny: Be ready to make a deal.

Sonny: You all right? Because I -- I got to take care of this.

Kate: Yeah, I imagine you do.

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Lulu: Any change?

Doctor: Not yet, but that doesn't mean there won't be.

Scott: Well, we saw his hand move. There's no question there.

Lulu: He was reaching for me. His fingers touched my hand.

Doctor: Then just keep doing what you're doing.

Scott: Does that mean he's going to wake up?

Doctor: It means all of you had a good day. Excuse me.

Scott: Oh -- what's he talking about? That's a little vague.

Lulu: I don't care. You saw what I saw.

Scott: Yeah. He is responding to you.

Lulu: He's going to wake up, I know it. And I don't want him to wake up to this feud that you have with my father. In a way, it's what brought this on and it's hurt enough people already.

Scott: Well, then you better talk to your father, because he doesn't give a damn about my son.

Lulu: And you obviously don't give a damn about me, but you're going to have to get over it, both of you. That's what I'm going to do. I'm not going to tell my dad that you killed Rick Webber and let my mom take the blame, not because I like you, not because my dad will kill you and I would never see him again, but because it's not my fight, and I don't want it in my life. Nor in Logan's.

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Lucky: There were mitigating circumstances. You were completely stressed out.

Elizabeth: I was in no shape to be driving and I knew it.

Lucky: There's still no hard proof that you hit Sam.

Elizabeth: Do you doubt it?

Lucky: I always want to believe in you.

Elizabeth: But you're a cop. You follow leads, you gather evidence, you eliminate suspects. Which leaves me. Sam has wanted to tear apart my family for so long. Now she can. Now she will.

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Michael: I know I messed up. But I sort of did okay.

Carly: What part of any of this is okay, Michael?

Michael: I -- I did what Jason would do. I got rid of the gun and disappeared.

Carly: Don't mention Jason, because if he knew you had a gun, he'd be so upset with you right --

Michael: He does.

Carly: Where'd you get the gun?

Michael: From some kids on the docks. I had to go back later and get the bullets. Grandpa Mike caught me and he made me throw them in the ocean, but I saved one.

Carly: Mike knows?

Michael: I know it was dangerous with Morgan in the house. But I was trying to be careful.

Carly: Oh, my God, Michael. Your father has to know about this!

Michael: He knows.

Carly: He just decided not to tell me?

Michael: Well, he didn't want to worry you.

Carly: Huh.

Michael: Well, that's why I had to run away. Dad told me that if he ever caught me with a gun, I should run, and keep on running. So I did.

[Bomb beeps]

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Trevor: When Claudia arrives, you track her and put a bullet in her heart. I'll give you the signal.

Mr. Vaughn: This one I do for free.

[Trevor chuckles]

Trevor: Johnny is going to think that Sonny did it, and he will not rest until he destroys Corinthos. Or vice versa -- it's all the same to me.

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Claudia: I'm not armed.

Claudia: Tell your boss I don't have all day.

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Johnny: You came here by yourself? What's wrong with you?

Sonny: Can you shut him up? Because --

Claudia: Hey, hey! You touch my brother, the deal is off.

Sonny: First things first.

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Elizabeth: I'm sorry. I've already caused you so much pain, and now this.

Elizabeth: Lucky? Has the paperwork on this case been done yet?

Lucky: No. You're not even a suspect.

Elizabeth: And what about Sam?

Lucky: She doesn't know any of the details.

Elizabeth: So what if this case went on the books as -- as unsolved? Would that be possible?

Lucky: It'd be better for everyone if I just closed this case right now.

Elizabeth: Thank you.

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Ric: You all right?

Marianna: Oh, baby --

Ric: What's wrong?

Marianna: Thank God.

Ric: What's wrong? What happened, what happened?

Marianna: Look. Oh, my God. Oh --

[Bomb beeps]

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Sonny: Don't bother me with papers. I need a sign of good faith.

Claudia: What kind of good faith do you have in mind?

Johnny: You don't owe him a damn thing. He knows we don't have Michael.

[Bomb beeps]

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Carly: You will never be a part of your father's world, do you understand me? That was never part of the plan. Let's go.

[Bomb beeps]

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Claudia: You want good faith?

Sonny: Get Carlo on the phone.

[Bomb beeps]

[Bomb beeps]

[Gunshot]

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>> On the next "General Hospital" --

Lulu: Please wake up, Logan.

Robin: I'm the biggest hypocrite and I'm sorry.

Jax: Where are Carly and Michael?

Sonny: You're going to be okay.