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Jason: Then why aren't you finding anything else on dr. Devlin?

Spinelli: The curiously educated oncologist/plastic surgeon is most difficult to trace for a civilian, as are his financial records.

Jason: Ok, spinelli, if he's that hard to find, he's got something to hide.

Claudia: I still want to run the shipment. I just want to cut devlin out. I don't need a middleman. Find out who's running things from the Canadian end. I'll take care of it.

Johnny: Don't you mean we'll take care of it?

Claudia: I thought you'd be sleeping in after your late night.

Johnny: Is that your little way of asking me where i was after i left the casino last night?

Man: The district attorney's here. Says she has business with you.

Alexis: I have some questions for both of you regarding the shooting of michael corinthos.

Carly: I remember when you were little, and you wanted to bake cookies. And we did, and they turned out like hockey pucks. So, of course, we sat around eating the cookie dough, laughing, and talking and just hanging out. And you said that you didn't care that i wasn't like other moms. I know you're older now, baby, but we are going to bake cookies when you wake up. And you're going to wake up, baby, i know you are.

Carly: If you don't believe that, you know, if you don't believe that michael's going to wake up, i don't want you here.

Anthony: Aw, what do you want?

Sonny: You know who i am.

Anthony: You're not the doctor.

Sonny: I'm the enemy.

Anthony: You came to torment a sick old man?

Sonny: No, i came because i'm looking for whoever tried to kill me and wound up shooting my son.

jax: I can't pretend i don't know how serious michael's condition is. The doctors told me the same thing they told you.

Carly: Which means you want me to give up, the way you've given up.

Jax: No, this is not about giving up. This is about facing --

Carly: That's why you wanted me to go see morgan and tell him about his brother.

Jax: You're his mother. He needs you.

Carly: You thought that if i told him about michael, somehow i would come to my senses. That believing that michael is going to get better is wrong.

Jax: I really feel for you, carly.

[Carly sighs]

Jax: But you've got to do this your own way in your own time.

Carly: Yeah, which means you think that i'm crazy and michael doesn't stand a chance.

Jax: I love you. I will always love you and want to give you what you need.

Carly: Can you give me my son back? Because that's what i want. I want michael whole and well, and i will not give up until he is.

Nadine: Here you go.

Leyla: Someone's in a good mood.

Nadine: Yes, and...

Leyla: And something tells me the source of all your joy is not the hemorrhoidectomy.

Nadine: I had fun last night.

Leyla: Oh, yeah?

Nadine: Yeah.

Leyla: Was it all the money you won gambling or the time you spent with nikolas?

Nadine: It was nice to see him smile.

Leyla: Despite the rotten luck he was having.

Nadine: I don't know. I think something changed in nikolas last night. Like, he was finally ready to get back into life.

Nikolas: I'm running out of pills.

Ian: I'll get you more by the end of the day.

Nikolas: Listen, i shouldn't have to track you down like some sort of street dealer here. I paid you $10 million, remember?

Ian: Right, so you can keep having hallucinations of your dead fiancee.

Nikolas: My motives are none of your business.

Ian: You know, all the money in the world isn't going to change the fact that you need to have the surgery. You're just buying yourself time, that's all.

Nikolas: How much time?

Ian: Weeks. A month at the outside. Without the surgery, drug or no drug, you're going to die.

Jason: Devlin's car was near the warehouse the night michael was shot. I'm saying that is not a coincidence.

Spinelli: Just -- given the years of study that the doctor dedicated to the healing arts --

jason: He's hiding something.

Spinelli: An illicit romance would be more likely, or perhaps a patronage for a high-priced escort service. I'm speaking as a certified private investigator trained in the 47 rules of detecting, which did prove invaluable --

Jason: Can you find devlin's bank records?

Spinelli: Right. I'm just trying to follow the master's reasoning so i can learn.

Jason: I've only talked to the guy a few times, but he seemed pretty arrogant.

Spinelli: Like most highly skilled surgeons.

Jason: No, like a guy who thinks he can get away with anything.

Spinelli: Ok, well, he graduated second in his medical school, behind his friend dr. Patrick drake.

Jason: What, then he specialized in plastic surgery?

Spinelli: And immediately went abroad.

Jason: Where?

Spinelli: That information is not available.

Jason: So you're saying a top plastic surgeon -- you'd think he'd set up practice in l.A. Or new york, but you're -- you're just telling me he disappeared?

Spinelli: Perhaps he chose to work with those less fortunate.

Jason: Ok, you know what? This isn't making any sense. I want you to keep digging, ok?

Spinelli: Mm.

Jason: See if you can connect anybody to devlin who'd want sonny dead.

Spinelli: Thank you.

Alexis: The night michael was shot, you said that you would be willing to testify against trevor lansing.

Johnny: I did, and i would.

Alexis: Oh, well, that's unfortunate because his alibi does check out. He was, in fact, having drinks with the mayor.

Claudia: Then i don't see how we can be of any more help to you.

Alexis: I was thinking that perhaps trevor may have hired someone to pull the trigger. I mean, given his association with your family for so many years, he would, in fact, have access to any number of qualified assassins.

Claudia: As entertaining as this little exercise is, i assure you we have better things to do with our time.

Johnny: Trevor does want sonny dead. And you're right, it would have been very easy for him to find someone to do the job.

Alexis: Mm-hmm. That's what i was thinking. You know, i'm also thinking how interesting it is that you're so determined to implicate your own attorney.

Claudia: Trevor's a slime, but he's not the only one with motive. I mean, i'm sure sonny has a long list of enemies.

Alexis: Mm-hmm. You being one of them. Maybe. Well, rumor has it that you are a woman scorned, so... And rumor has it that you were locked up or kidnapped or something when michael went missing, so seems to me that either one of you or both of you might want sonny dead.

Sonny: You know, even paralyzed, you're more of a man than trevor will ever be. You know, he keeps dismissing you like --

Anthony: A man has to work. Has to work among his roses if he's going to truly --

Sonny: Here we go with the roses.

Anthony: Enjoy them --

Sonny: That's great.

Anthony: But they still come anyway.

Sonny: Yeah, yeah.

Anthony: Creeping. They try to suck the life out. And look at me. There's nothing i can do.

Sonny: This is a coward's way, anthony. And it's pathetic. It's insulting. I know you've been getting treatment, medication. Your mind's working just fine. You never used to be this madman. You used to be a force to be reckoned with, somebody who, even tied to a bed in prison, could arrange for a rival to be killed.

Anthony: If you think i had your son shot, you should kill me right now.

Nikolas: You said yourself that the drug was experimental. Maybe i have more time than you think.

Ian: This party in your brain is going to end.

Nikolas: Ok. Now you mentioned that you may have access to other experimental medications that could increase my chances. If you do, i'll pay.

Ian: Fine. I'll see what i can do.

Nikolas: Well, for someone who doesn't know the first thing about gambling, you sure did clean house last night. Maybe you should be giving me pointers.

Nadine: How can you talk about the fun we had last night when you're still paying dr. Devlin for an illegal drug because you'd rather hallucinate about emily than save your own life?

Maxie: As ms. Howard's personal assistant, it's my job to give her your messages, not force her to respond to them. Our first day in the new office, and you're late again, without kate's coffee, nonetheless. Half-caf latte --

Lulu: With cinnamon and low-cal sweetener.

Maxie: Yes, the blue packet, not the pink one. I realize you're color-challenged, but you should be able to handle that. And sprinkle the cinnamon on. Don't dump it.

Lulu: And should i serve it on a pillow with lots of little tassels as well?

Maxie: If that's what i ask you to do, yes.

Lulu: Ok, let's get something straight.

Maxie: Uh, yes, let's. This is my desk. This is your desk. Don't put any of your things on my desk. In fact, don't come near it. Don't answer the phones unless i'm with kate or handling business for the magazine, and at the beginning of each day, i will give you a list of responsibilities. It's your job to complete them.

Lulu: Ok, if you think i'm cleaning up after adrian's froofy little dog again --

maxie: You wanted the job as kate's second assistant. This is it.

Lulu: This is your way of getting back at me for taking off with johnny last night.

Maxie: That would be petty and vindictive and completely unnecessary because that's the last time johnny will be going anywhere with you.

Lulu: You can't seriously be thinking of making a play for him.

Maxie: Oh, i don't need to. He's already interested in me, and the added bonus -- i haven't been giving him mixed signals for the last few months.

[Telephone rings]

Lulu: Oh, yeah, you should really go for him because you deserve the humiliation when he dumps you.

[Second telephone rings]

Maxie: Like logan did? Didn't hear him complaining.

Lulu: Wow, you --

Kate: Could either of you two be bothered to answer the phone?

Lulu and maxie: Kate howard's office.

Claudia: I was standing in the middle of the metro court hotel when michael corinthos was shot.

Alexis: Did anyone see you?

Claudia: As a matter of fact, i was talking to carly when she got the news that her son was hurt, and my brother was on the haunted star with lulu spencer.

Alexis: Would lulu be willing to swear to that?

Johnny: Why not? It's the truth.

Alexis: If trevor lansing could have hired an assassin, so could you have.

Claudia: You have a child with sonny corinthos, don't you?

Alexis: Sorry?

Claudia: A little girl who's in just as much danger as michael every single day of her life.

Alexis: And why does this concern you?

Claudia: You have more reason to want sonny dead than either of us. Do you have an alibi for the night michael was shot?

Alexis: This is not a joke.

Johnny: Whatever my problems may be with sonny, i would never fire a gun at or around a child. I have no idea who shot michael corinthos, but i do know it wasn't me or my sister or anybody who works in this organization.

Alexis: Well, i hope you're telling the truth. Careful.

Sonny: Did you send the person who shot my son? Was he acting on your orders?

Anthony: What if i said yes?

Sonny: Oh, i'd want to kill you.

Anthony: It's a terrible thing, your son being hurt. Especially if you know it was deliberate. You find yourself staring into the eyes of the person responsible, the person who inflicted damage on your child. Who could blame a father for whatever he does?

Sonny: You want me to snap right here, right in prison so that way the guards can pull me off of you, right?

Anthony: You think you're different than me, better? That's a lie you need to tell yourself.

Sonny: I'm not going to walk right into a murder conviction, 'cause there is a chance that i could be wrong and you are as pathetic as you seem to be, but just in case you're not, understand this. I'm not hiding. I'm going to be out in public. Come get me. Kill me if you can.

Kate: Jen, you are the best layout person in the business, which is why i expect more out of you. Now, this is going to be "crimson's" very first eveningwear spread, and it fairly reads "boring," "dull," "ordinary." Honey, just make it work. Maxie, do you have a copy of that relationship article?

Maxie: Yes.

Kate: It's just not right. I mean, the title -- "how to get off the see-saw with a guy who won't commit." Why don't you look at it?

Maxie: Me?

Kate: Girls 15-25, that's who we're targeting. You're in the demographic. See what it's lacking.

Lulu: Maybe you should let me read that, since i can actually read.

Maxie: Yeah, you know, after watching you with johnny last night, it's clear you're an expert on guys who can't commit.

Lulu: You don't know anything about me and johnny.

Maxie: I know he's wasted on you. Well, was.

Lulu: He would never go for you, maxie.

Maxie: He was about to go for me last night. That's why you needed to drag him off for your important conversation. Pathetic.

Lulu: How pathetic were you? You were throwing yourself at him all night.

Maxie: Throwing myself? Lulu, don't be upset just because johnny was paying attention to me all night last night.

Lulu: He couldn't help it because you were clinging onto him so hard he couldn't pry you off.

Diane: Ladies, good morning. Is she in?

Kate: Diane, hi.

Diane: Oh, i love the new space.

Kate: Thank you.

Diane: Now, listen. I know you are swamped. Launching a new magazine, a thousand and one details, but i just came by to look at the contracts, make sure that everything is in order, and let you know that i am spreading the word in all the proper circles. In fact, last night i was at a little soiree at eleanor green's.

Kate: Oh, i don't think eleanor will get what we're trying to do here.

Diane: You're absolutely right. The woman has abysmal taste.

Kate: No, i meant who we're targeting, because actually the magazine is geared towards --

diane: People on the cutting edge. I know -- everyone knows -- what to expect from a kate howard publication, and i am just thrilled to be doing my little part.

Kate: And i can't thank you enough, diane.

Diane: Well, actually, you can, in fact. You could just let me have a sneak peek at the shoe layout.

Kate: Mm...

Diane: Ok, or not. Ooh.

Carly: I'm sorry for the way i acted earlier. The last thing i want to do is push you away. I love you, and i need you so much right now.

Jax: Hey, i'm not going anywhere.

Carly: I don't need you just to love me back. I need you to at least hope that i'm right.

Jax, i believe that if i stay with him and i talk to him, that he is going to find his way back. You know, he's like me. He's not a quitter.

Jax: My brother's here. I'll give him an update.

Jerry: How's michael doing?

Jax: No change. The doctors say that he's not going to come out of this.

Jerry: Oh, God, what this must be doing to carly.

Jax: Yeah, the thing is, she refuses to believe it.