Nadine: That's your answer? You're just gonna walk away?

Nikolas: I'm on my way to see Dr. Ford right now.

Nadine: Nikolas, I have gone above and beyond for you, ok? The least you owe me is some sort of explanation. What makes you think you're not dying?

Carly: It was a girl. I was of sure of it and so was Jax, and he bought this dress and it just arrived here today.

Jason: Carly, I'm -- I'm so sorry.

Carly: God, I should have been more careful, you know. I was just so caught up with Jax and the baby. I didn't see all the warning signs that Michael was in trouble. I just didn't.

Jason: I -- should've warned you.

Carly: Why didn't you? Why didn't you? What has happened to us, Jason? Why don't you trust me anymore?

Claudia: Where were we? Oh, that's right, Maxie -- how to lose a guy, something Kate Howard is an expert at. But you know, not to worry. Her techniques are easy to copy. Who could stand being with a victim for too long? Do you want specific examples, because I could probably give them to you.

Kate: Are you actually proud that Sonny used you?

Claudia: Somebody used somebody for something, girl. That poor guy, he didn't know what hit him.

[Door opens]

Sonny: What are you doing here?

Claudia: Oh, well, I just came to see Kate, but actually, since you're here, it's time we got a few things straight. I set you up.

Luke: I'm gonna be in the living room. Would you be so kind as to ask Alice if there's any Russian caviar available? If not, I'll take whatever the snack du jour --

Tracy: Lulu, if you're feeling charitable, you can drive your father back to town. If not, let him make his own way back to the Haunted Star or Kelly's or a homeless shelter, for all I care.

Edward: What's this god-awful racket? Oh, no, not you. I swear, you Senders are worse than a plague of locusts.

Tracy: Daddy, don't worry. Luke is about to hobble out of here permanently.

Lulu: Monica's making amends.

Edward: Well, Monica's amends are not my problem, but I will not have this freeloader hanging around this house --

Luke: Edward, it's Monica's house.

Lulu: Alan gave it to her.

Luke: Right.

Edward: Yes, but they're my cigars and my liquor, and I refuse to argue.

Alice: You'd better rethink that, Mr. Q.

Luke: Alice, my sweet.

Alice: Welcome home, Mr. Luke.

Tracy: This is not his home, Alice.

Luke: Whither thou goest goest I, wife.

Tracy: Don't quote the Bible to me, you atheist.

Lulu: Dad, I have some errands to run. Are you gonna be ok if I leave you?

Tracy: Did you hear that? Your ride is leaving. You better go with her. It's a long walk back to town.

Luke: Go ahead. Have fun. I'll be fine. Alice, does Cook have any Russian caviar?

Alice: All chilled and waiting, and she's made those little toast points just the way you like them.

Tracy: Alice, Luke is not staying.

Alice: Well, then neither am I, or Cook or any of the other staff. If Mr. Luke goes, we all go.

Nikolas: As I mentioned, I was on my way to see Dr. Ford.

Nadine: You're really not gonna answer me?

Nikolas: I appreciate all your concern, but I really don't have time for this.

Nadine: Oh, great, well, as long as you appreciate me.

Nikolas: Look, look, nothing's changed here. I still have the tumor, and it's still probably gonna kill me, but in the meantime, I'd like to do something worthwhile with my life, so I was on my way to set up a program in Emily's name for people who don't have insurance, ok?

Nadine: You should do something that she would really want and have the surgery.

Elizabeth: Is everything ok?

Nadine: You were Emily's best friend, right?

Elizabeth: Yeah.

Nadine: What if I told you that Nikolas was willing to die to be with her?

Carly: Why didn't you tell me Michael wanted a gun?

Jason: Because you'd just found out you were pregnant. You weren't supposed to be stressed, and I already upset you if you were the one who hit Sam, that's why.

Carly: More like interrogated me.

Jason: Ok, more like interrogated. I'm sorry, Carly. I was wrong -- I was wrong about that, too.

Carly: Don't you know that if I hit Sam or anyone else you'd be the first person I'd call to help me cover it up?

Jason: Yeah, of course, yes, I do know that.

Carly: Then why didn't you believe me?

Jason: Because Elizabeth had an accident the same night you had an accident, and I was trying to prove that she didn't hit Sam.

Carly: I didn't know you were trying to protect Elizabeth, and I stood here and asked you over and over again why you were so interested in Sam's accident, and you wouldn't tell me.

Jason: Because I didn't want to have another fight, that's why.

Carly: We were already fighting, Jason. You didn't want me to turn Elizabeth in to the police.

Jason: Would you do that?

Carly: I don't know, maybe. If Elizabeth went to prison, you could stand up and claim your son. But then you'd hate me. Yeah, sure, you'd show up to help me if I really needed you, but it wouldn't be out of friendship, and it wouldn't be out of love. It'd be an obligation. And that's what I feel like I am now.

Jason: Carly, you know that's not true.

Carly: How do I know that? You don't talk to me anymore. You barely listen when I come to talk to you, and I don't understand. When did I become such an annoyance to you, Jason? I mean, here you always tell me when I'm doing something wrong, but I never felt like you had to tolerate me, and now I feel that's all you do.

Jason: You hate the mother of my child.

Carly: Yeah, I hate her. I do. I think she's a selfish bitch because she makes you believe that you're not good enough to raise your child.

Jason: This is exactly what is wrong between us, right here. I did what I did and I love who I love. You can't ask me to stop or sit here and listen to you trash her. You can't. Come on, Carly, you do things all the time I don't agree with that I don't like, and I stand by you. Why can't you stand by me?

Sonny: You know what? You go ahead and tell your brother this is not my idea of keeping a truce.

Claudia: Well, I just thought you should know that's why I slept with you that night. That's why I came on to you. I knew exactly who you were in that bar. I did all sorts of research before I left Milan. You have a reputation, Sonny. You like a certain kind of woman, so I gave it to you, and you ate it up like candy. But I guess you're just too starved for decent sex to think straight, huh?

Sonny: No, no, no, no, I knew exactly what you were the second that I saw you, and nothing you say or do would change my mind.

Claudia: I admit it. I enjoyed you. Not enough to keep following you all over town, though. And, by the way, sticking your tongue down my throat and then jamming a gun in my side or forcing me to walk through your coffee warehouse in my underwear -- that was brutal, nasty. And a really big turnoff.

Sonny: Then you should have stayed away.

Claudia: See, there's a real evil side to Sonny, dark Sonny. You don't believe me, Kate? Why don't you ask my brother where he ended up after you got shot?

Sonny: Oh, that's what this is about?

Claudia: No, this is about --

Sonny: Revenge for Johnny?

Claudia: This is about if the truce is gonna work, then we need to start off on equal footing.

Kate: Maxie, Mr. Corinthos and I are going to need a few moments --

Maxie: Yeah, I'm gonna go fax some things that need faxed from the machine that's upstairs.

Sonny: I -- I guess you want an explanation.

Kate: No, I'm not sure I do.

Marianna: Am I late?

Ric: No, no, you're right on time.

Marianna: Oh, we were so busy at Kelly's. I hope we get that kind of business at our new restaurant.

Ric: Yeah, well, there's not gonna be any restaurant, Marianna. Or a waterfront complex. I signed the papers over to my father. Thought he would have told you.

Marianna: Why would he tell me?

Ric: Well, you've been working for him all along.

Carly: Did it ever occur to you that when I try to warn you against Elizabeth, it's because I see you hurting and I want it to stop?

Jason: Carly, you've hated every woman I've been with except Courtney.

Carly: You know why?

Jason: Yeah, because you want to be first in my life.

Carly: No, I have to be first. I love Jax, and I want to spend the rest of my life with him, but I know that I could just push him too far, that I could do something so big and painful, and he would just have to leave. But no matter what I do, you would still be there, and that goes both ways because I would stand by you no matter what, Jason.

Jason: Then why can't you trust me and -- trust me? Why?

Carly: Because she had you lie to me for months!

Carly: You became a father. Jake is the biggest thing to happen to you, and you didn't tell me.

Jason: Because I knew you'd think I was wrong to give him up. Then you'd convince yourself that you had to fight for me, you had to fight for my son, and once you do that, Carly, once you decide to fight, you are impossible to stop.

Carly: I thought you liked that about me.

Jason: Carly, you take huge chances and you don't quit, no matter how bad you get hurt. Not everybody is made up that way.

Carly: You are. You are, Jason, and I knew that. The first time I saw you with Jake's, I didn't know anything about you, but I knew you weren't afraid. I knew you took huge chances, because that's who you are. You are fundamentally different people. What scares her the most is what keeps you alive, and that's why you two will never be happy.

Jason: Why can't you just let it go?

Carly: I have let it go.

Carly: You made a decision, I disagree. But I love you, right or wrong. So I swear I will never say another word against Elizabeth, as long as you promise me one thing.

Jason: What?

Carly: Don't ever lie to me again.

Elizabeth: You know, there's no right way to deal with losing someone you love.

Nadine: Nikolas doesn't have time to deal with it at all. His tumor's getting worse, he won't have the surgery, and no one in his family seems to care.

Elizabeth: That's not true. We care, believe me. But we also know how stubborn Nikolas can be and the harder we push, the less likely he is to do something.

Patrick: I need the Hallisy chart. Robin's on her way back. If I don't have recommendations, I may not survive.

Lulu: You're doing better.

Logan: Yeah, yeah, I'm walking almost as good as a 5-year-old.

Lulu: Because of me. I am so --

Logan: Ah, ah, ah -- no, no. It sounds like another apology.

Robin: Is that the Hallisy chart?

Patrick: Yes, just finished.

Robin: You're recommending surgery.

Patrick: I think it's his best option, and I'd like you to scrub in if you --

Robin: Don't you dare say "if I feel up to it."

Patrick: I was going to say if you can admit that the drug protocol's not working.

Logan: How about this? I'm going to fine you a dollar every time you try to apologize. No, no, wait, even better. I get a rain check for a meal cooked with your own hands when I get back.

Lulu: Oh --

Logan: Mm-hmm.

Lulu: Yeah, you do not want me to cook anything.

Logan: You want to go over there and say hello?

Lulu: No, I'm here to see you. Let's go, we're almost at the sun room.

Edward: Alice, I'm going to call your bluff. Cook will not quit on Luke's behalf.

Alice: Cook is absolutely devoted to Mr. Luke.

Tracy: Since when?

Luke: Since I taught her to beat me at poker.

Edward: You play cards with Cook?

Luke: I play cards with the whole staff every Thursday night when I'm in town. Cook has great card shark instincts. The gardener couldn't bluff his way out of a Petunia patch.

Edward: Well, why haven't I been invited to join this game?

Luke: Edward, you're welcome any time.

Tracy: Daddy.

Edward: Well, I've been looking for a new game ever since mine at the club folded.

Tracy: Oh, now, wait a minute. This is not about cards or food. This is about my marriage. Luke cheats on me, he spends my money, and he treats me disrespectfully.

Edward: Well, then why don't you divorce the lout and be done with it?

Luke: Because she loves me. Don't you, popsicle?

Ric: Yeah, my father stopped by my house right after you left. He said that he had the tire iron that killed Randy with your fingerprints all over it.

Marianna: I swear I didn't kill Randy.

Ric: No, I know, I know, I know. My father probably did -- or, more accurately, somebody who works for him. But I can't prove that in court, so I did the only thing that I could to save you, and that was sign over the Alcazar properties, which is what he hired you to do in the first place, right?

Marianna: It wasn't like that. I swear it wasn't.

Ric: Ok. Who did he approach first, you or Randy?

Marianna: Me, but Randy forced me to take the money.

Ric: Probably because of the way you look.

Marianna: What?

Ric: You're like my mother. I mean, not that I have any real memories of her, but I -- I do have pictures. Ah, you know, my father knows me better than I even realize and he knew that I was going to go to Martha's Vineyard and that I was going to revisit the house where it all began. He probably sent an investigator, too, right? And whoever that was found you, and then Trevor came in and he wound up closing the deal. What, did he -- did he show a picture of me to you? Did he -- did he make arrangements for you to be there at the house? And then he told you to be sympathetic to me. I mean, that was the most important part, right? He wanted you to be empathetic with my pain so that you kept telling me over and over again that I was a good man.

Marianna: You are, and he did not tell me what to say.

Ric: Yeah, but he paid you, Marianna. He paid you to do whatever it took in order for -- in order for me to sign over those properties to him.

Marianna: Yes, but I told him to leave me alone. I kept telling him to leave me alone.

Ric: Yeah, well, he got his money's worth.

Marianna: He did not pay me to fall in love with you. I did that on my own.

Jason: How's Michael?

Carly: He's scared and confused. I don't want him to blame himself about the baby, you know? I just told him that miscarriages happen and there's no reason for them.

Jason: Is that what you think?

Carly: I don't know. I almost died. I had that crazy hallucination. I told you I was at Jake's running the table and you showed up and slapped a 20 on the side rail. That sounds familiar to you, doesn't it?

Jason: Well, that's how we always did it when we went to Jake's.

Carly: You were having your surgery while I was unconscious.

Jason: Uh, I don't know. It's possible.

Carly: And they put you under, right? They gave you anesthesia?

Jason: Uh, Carly where --

Carly: Just answer yes or no, yes or no.

Jason: Yes, that's what they do.

Carly: You had the same dream, didn't you? Except it wasn't a dream. My soul was stuck in the corner between death and life and you came and got me. That makes us soul mates.

Jason: Ok, that -- if that's what you want to believe.

Carly: I don't believe it, I know it, and you know it, too. You just have to admit it.

Jason: I don't know about that.

Carly: Come on. Hey. You know it's true.

Jax: Jason, I didn't realize you'd be stopping by.

Jason: Uh, yeah, I actually came to apologize to Carly and to you. I should have told you Michael was messing around with guns.

Jax: Yes, you should have.

Jason: And, uh, I'm sorry for your loss.

Jax: Well, I realize there's no point in asking you to stay away from Carly. That's just wishful thinking on my part. But maybe you can consider what the violence you represent has cost her.

Jason: I have. I'll see you later.

Carly: Did you have to do that? I mean, Jason was making me feel better.

Jax: Yeah, Jason seems to be the only one that can do that.

Carly: You're not really going to do this, are you?

Jax: Sorry. I'm sorry, ok? How was your appointment with Dr. Lee?

Carly: It was good. She said I'm healthy, you know? There's no side effects from the miscarriage.

Jax: That's good. That's good.

Carly: She even said we could start trying again. I mean, not right this second, but we could.

Jax: Yeah, we should probably wait a little, you know? Wait a little while. Focus on Michael and Morgan and on each other. You know, getting pregnant can wait.

Carly: Yeah, if that's what you want.

Jax: Well, it's -- we should probably just wait a little while, you know, before we get our hopes up again.

Carly: Yeah, we don't really need the added pressure.

Jax: Right, exactly. Ok. You want to go to lunch? I've got a meeting with Kate this afternoon but, you know, we can go to that -- that place you like on Fourth Street and we can sit down and --

Carly: I'm not really hungry. Headache, you know, I'm just going to go upstairs and lay down.

Jax: Ok, feel beer.

Carly: I will.

Sonny: I promise you, Kate, that I will do everything I can to make sure Claudia doesn't bother you again.

Kate: Oh, I'm not some fragile flower who can't stand the sight of another woman you slept with, Sonny.

Sonny: You hurt her. I mean, it was not about sex. It was a power play. So was this.

Kate: Yeah. Claudia came here to see if she still gets to you, and guess what -- she does.

Sonny: No, she doesn't. Look, I mean, the only -- the only thing that I feel for Claudia Zacchara is anger, because she hurt you.

Kate: But she's right, Sonny. I distract you, right? She set you up, and because of me you couldn't see it. And then again because of me, you overreacted and did something horrible to her brother.

Sonny: She wants to make me look like an animal. She's doing it on purpose. Don't fall for it, Kate.

Kate: Is she lying, Sonny? Is she lying about the things you did to her brother or the things you did to her?

Sonny: I slept with her once. I'm never going to do it again. Either you believe it or you don't.