Ian: All i'm doing is offering my help.

Nikolas: Then why does it sound like you're in trouble to me?

Ian: I have a very limited opportunity to make this deal with my supplier. Pass now, and i won't get a second chance.

Nikolas: I never should have taken you up on the offer in the first place. All you've done is play on my desperation, and that's just no way for anyone to live now, is it?

Ian: You got what you paid for. You're still seeing emily.

Nikolas: No, actually the whole thing has been an insult to emily and to my love for her, and you're an insult to your profession. You continue to push your miracles on me or anyone else, and i'll just turn you in to the medical board and any regulatory agency i can find.

Ian: You'll be sorry.

Nikolas: I already am.

Nikolas: What did i just do?

Emily: Nikolas, you just proved you're still the man i love.

Nikolas: Without those pills, my only option is to have thesurgery.

Emily: Then that's what you'll do.

Nikolas: But then -- then i'd lose you.

Emily: You lost me the night of the ball. I've never really been here. I'm just a symptom of what's wrong with you.

Nikolas: No, no, you're not. You're my life.You're my whole life.

Emily: You can't keep living in the past. Hey, spencer needs you. You have to go on for him.

Nikolas: How do we do that? How do i go on without you in mylife?

Robin: Of course i wanted to tell my mother that i was pregnant the second that i found out, but, you know, she's undercover somewhere, and -- and the shock of the news could have thrown her off her game a little bit.

Patrick: Yeah, i don't think your mom is easily thrown.

Robin: Right, right, you didn't have to see the look on my mother's face when i told her that i was thinking about having a baby. Just the idea of being a grandmother terrified her, so now that it's a reality, she's gonna go into overdrive and try to prove that she's not getting old. God, this is gonna be such a disaster.

Patrick: Don't you think you're overreacting just a bit here?

Robin: No, no, i don't. This is my mother that we're talking about. When she's not jumping out of planes, she's chasing armed mercenaries in the jungle with nothing but a machete. Not exactly your conventional grandmother.

Patrick: Hmm, yeah, good point. But you got to give anna credit. She loves you, and she knows how badly you've wanted to have a baby. I mean, why wouldn't your own mother be happy for you?

Robin: Oh, she will be happy. She will be thrilled. She'll be giddy, and then she'll have a nervous breakdown.

Kate: I'll have my assistant set up something next week. You too, adrian.

Sonny: Busy? I won't take long.

Kate: No, is it michael?

Sonny: No, no, no, it's me. Alexis and diane were in my office. They were butting heads, and alexis said something that hit home. She said that kate, you know, a savvy, smart career woman, had no business being with a guy like me. I think she's right.

[Gunshots]

claudia: My father's been out of prison twenty-four hours, and he's already trying to kill me.

Jason: Why you? Your brother's the one who took over.

Claudia: He thinks i'm a bad influence on john, trying to steer his precious son against him, which is so silly, because my brother wants him dead more than i do.

Jason: Why don't you take anthony out once and for all?

Claudia: He's my father, for God's sake. That's where you're supposed to come in.

Jason: I told you, i'm not killing anyone for you.

Claudia: Really? Even if he's the one who's responsible for the guy who shot michael in the head?

[Gunshot]

Spinelli: Stone cold, the jackal needs your counsel on the most urgent of matters.

Diane: I'm sorry, mr. Grasshopper. There's no one here but us thoroughly chastised.

Spinelli: I'm sorry. Had i known that mr. Corinthos' office was otherwise occupied, my entrance would have been preceded by a knock. Please forgive the untimely intrusion.

Diane: Well, i was just on my way out. But since i am here and still on retainer, maybe i can be of some assistance. What is the topic of the day, money laundering, tax evasion, perjury? All hypothetically speaking, of course.

Spinelli: Women.

Diane: Women. Women in general, or is there one in particular?

Spinelli: One. Who i at first thoroughly
loathed, and then begrudgingly admired, and now --

diane: Wish to deflower?

Spinelli: The jackal is most certain her petals are long fallen.

Diane: Nothing wrong with a little experience. So what's the question?

Spinelli: How does one go from distant admiration to actually claiming the woman of one's dreams?

Diane: And this said woman, i'm assuming, has no inkling of your affection?

Spinelli: Sadly, n no. Once again, the jackal is doomed to love from afar.

Diane: Heavens, not necessarily.

Spinelli: Do you know the secret to taming the wild heart?

Diane: It's very simple. Listen. A woman wants a man who is strong and powerful and completely uncowed by the consequences of affection. She wants him to fight for her against fair-weather friends and social stigma and uptight bosses. She wants a man. Seized with heat, swept away with desire so that he may in turn sweep her away. In short, mr. Grasshopper, carpe diem.

Spinelli: Seize the day!

Diane: More traditionally translated as "harvest the day." As one would harvest fruit before it spoils.

Spinelli: Right. The brusque lady of justice is indeed inspiring.

Diane: Absolutely. So why are you still standing here? Go, harvest.

Diane: Oh, yes. Most definitely yes.

Kate: I think we've had this conversation several times.

Sonny: Well, we're gonna keep having this conversation until you listen, because you deserve better than what i can give you.

Kate: I don't' need to you to keep telling me why we shouldn't be together, sonny.

Sonny: Well, why haven't you left?

Kate: I think i have. Several times. Something keeps drawing me back.

Sonny: I don't want you to stay here for me.

Kate: Ok, fine. Any romantic gestures aside, i've put in a lot of time and money and effort into starting "crimson" and abandoning it right now would be a disaster for me, professionally and personally.

Sonny: So this is all about business? See, it's not about me. It's all you.

Kate: Oh, sonny. Let's just not forget the simple fact. I love you. Enough to stand by your side.

Sonny: You still think you can handle my life?

Kate: Sonny, i'm not just here to love you, i'm here to help you. And i can't do that if you don't let me.

Sonny: I can't bring michael back and nothing i can do can change the fact that i put him where he is. And i know you are trying to help, but the problem is you can't. Nobody can.

[Door closes]

emily: Nikolas, i'm not the only person you're ever allowed to love, you know?

Nikolas: I don't want to love anybody else.

Emily: You say that now because i'm still here. Or at least the idea of me is. The person i was -- nikolas, the emily who could think, feel, and love you on her own -- that person left a long time ago. You have to know in your heart that that's true.

Nikolas: I know. I know i haven't been fair to you.

Emily: You haven't been fair to yourself.

Nikolas, you know me better than anyone. And you know that this is not what i would've wanted for you.

Nikolas: I know.

Emily: To shut yourself off and waste everything that you are and everything that you have to give on a memory.

Nikolas: I just -- i can't stop thinking about when we first met. You were just an awkward teenager who grew up into this beautiful woman that i loved. And that's the problem, i still do. And it's just not fair. It's not fair that after everything that we've been through -- cancer, divorce -- and then we finally find our way back to each other, and it's all over.

Emily: No, nikolas, don't you see? It's not over. As long as you're alive, we're not over. I'll always be with you.

Nikolas: Just don't go.

Ian: The blood work on mr. Perkins hasn't come back, has it?

Nadine: The lab dropped off the results a couple hours ago. I have his chart here somewhere.

Ian: Nikolas cassidine hasn't left me any kind of messages, has he?

Nadine: Nope, and that's probably a good thing.

Ian: Do you have a problem with me, nurse crowell?

Nadine: Since you asked, i have several, actually. For starters, i can't stand the way you act around the nursing staff. We are here to assist you, not amuse you. Instead of treating us all as your next conquest, you might try showing a little respect.

Ian: Respect goes both ways.

Nadine: My aunt raylene would say respect is not something even the richest man can buy.

Ian: And did your loquacious aunt offer any advice about how to treat your superiors?

Nadine: I get that you're some big shot doctor and i should be grateful that you're even bothering to acknowledge the existence of little old me, but i think you should be ashamed of the way you are preying on

nikolas' undying love for emily. Taking advantage of him, selling him illegal drugs.

Ian: How i treat my patients is none of your concern.

Nadine: You may call yourself a doctor -- you may even have the diplomas to prove it, but i don't think you're any different than the dope dealer standing on the corner.

Ian: In case your aunt raylene never warned you, girls with loose lips can often wind up in tight places and never find their way out again.

[Gunshots]

claudia: He's not returning fire. That cannot be a good sign. He must be closer than we think.

Jason: Stop. I need you to get ready to run

claudia: What, and get picked off the minute i'm out in the open? No, thank you.

Jason: He can't shoot what he can't see. On my signal, i want you to head for that tree line.

Claudia: You want to give the guy some target practice, go for it, be my guest. I'm not --

jason: I need you to draw his fire.

Claudia: So you can run the other way?

Jason: I could've done that a long time ago. Either you want to trust me or you don't want to trust me.

Claudia: Ok.

Jason: Go.

[Gunshot] [gunshots]

maxie: Ok, well, why don't you tell her if she changes her mind --

[dial tone sounds]

maxie: Not to call us back because her last movie sucked anyway and we'd have to fumigate the dress if she wore it.

Kate: Maxie, i'm leaving for the evening. How did you do on the photo shoot?

Maxie: I'm sorry -- i've left --

kate: Always the preamble for an excuse.

Maxie: No, it's not my fault.

Lulu left and left me to make all the phone calls.

Kate: Ok, fine, i'll sacrifice my evening and do it myself. Give me the numbers.

Maxie: Ok.

Kate: All right, why don't you see that you sacrifice your evening and immerse yourself in something useful, maxie. Like, i don't know, the alphabet.

Maxie: Ok.

Kate: E-mail me the numbers when you're through.

Lulu: For somebody who doesn't like to play games, you sure took a long time to call.

Johnny: I've had a lot going on.

Lulu: I guess i should lie and say i have, too, but i've been sitting by the phone waiting to hear from you. I know that sounds pathetic, but i guess i thought after that kiss i would at least rate a text.

Johnny: I meant to call sooner, lulu.

Lulu: That's ok. You're here now. I'm ready to have some fun.

Johnny: We can't. Ric lansing had my father transferred to shadybrook, and now he's trying to have him released altogether. You remember my father, right? The guy that tried to kill you?

Ric: Anthony, if you don't trust me at this juncture i don't think we have much of a future together.

Anthony: Sounds like you're gonna propose. Beat it, kid. Lansing and i need to talk. Sending the monkey out may have been a mistake. The way my children tell it, you're the one i need protecting from.

Ric: Well, your children said a lot of things, anthony. None of which happen to be true. They would rather see you rotting in a prison cell instead of home as a free man.

Anthony: Well, john has seen a lot of stuff he shouldn't have over the years, but he's always stayed with me.

Ric: Not that you gave him much choice, right?

Anthony: My son is loyal. It's his bitch of a sister i need to keep my eye --

ric: John's biding his time, anthony, ok? He waited for the opportunity to take control. Now he's got your money, he's got your power. Why would he want to give that up? Your son is trying to alienate you from the one person who is truly in your corner, and that would be me. Don't fall for it.

Anthony: Mr. Corinthos, to what do i owe this honor?

Sonny: I'm not here for you, anthony. I want to talk to my brother.

[Glass shatters]

claudia: It's dead.

Jason: Stay down. Keep away from the windows.

Claudia: Listen, my dad only hires the best. This guy is not gonna stop until we're dead.

Jason: If you don't stay down, you're gonna be dead.

Claudia: We have a few bullets left. We have no way of calling for help. How long do you honestly think that we're gonna last?

[Knocking at door]

robin: You don't have to check on me every five minutes. I'm pregnant, i'm not helpless.

[Woman screams]

robin: Hi, mom.

[Elevator beeps]

nikolas: Can i help you find something there?

Nadine: I can't find thumb bunny.

Nikolas: I'm sorry, you can't find what?

Nadine: Thumb bunny. I can't put on the puppet show in peds without him.

Nikolas: Ok. And it's not in your survival kit there?

Nadine: You mean my clown bag?

Nikolas: Here.

Nadine: Oh.

Nikolas: There you go. I'm sorry. I shouldn't tease you about that. The bag is you. It's who you are. And i think it's good to be different.

Nadine: It's all part of being alive. If you're looking for dr. Devlin, you're going to have to get someone else to page him because i don't want anything more to do with the guy.

Nikolas: Neither do i.

Nadine: Have you told him that? Because he came by here earlier checking his messages and he said he was expecting a call from you.

Nikolas: Well, i don't care what he expects of me anymore. I don't want anything to do with him or his experimental drugs. I'm going to reschedule the surgery with dr. Drake.

Nadine: You mean that?

Nikolas: Yeah. I need to let go of emily. It's time for me to move on with my life.

Spinelli: The jackal must --

maxie: What are you doing here?

Spinelli: There comes a time in a man's life for seizing and --

maxie: What?

Spinelli: I'm here for the harvest. To let ignited passions sweep off that which must be swept.

Maxie: How many barbeque potato chips have you had?

Spinelli: Carpe, carpe --

maxie: English.

Spinelli: A man must seize his grapes before they wither.

Maxie: Spinelli, you kind of sound like you're having a stroke. Maybe you should sit down and take a load off. I'm gonna change out of this dress before i ruin it.

Spinelli: No, wait.

Maxie: For what?

Johnny: If ric convinces the courts that my father is sane, then he'll be a free man.

Lulu: Why should i be afraid of your father if he's not crazy?

Johnny: He's more dangerous this way.

Lulu: But i'm not a threat to your father.

Johnny: He's gonna try to use you to control me, and i'm not about to sit by and watch that happen again. We have to end this. We're over.

Lulu: What if i don't want to?

Jason: Did you find anything?

Claudia: Nothing that'll do us much good.

Jason: Keep looking.

Claudia: I wouldn't mind finding a bottle of scotch, whiskey, vodka, anything to take the edge off. So, i know you're good at what you do. Why do you do it, man? What is it, the money, the rush? You ever feel guilty after?

Jason: Why don't you try to find a better weapon than that butter knife?

Claudia: Hey, how long do you honestly think we're gonna last here? What do you got, five bullets? Why did you even go after me when my car went over the embankment? Wouldn't it have been better to just let me die?

Jason: Probably, yeah.

Claudia: So, why did you risk your life to save mine?

Sonny: Ric, i know you want trevor to pay for all he's done to you, the way he shut you out, the way he's made you feel like nothing. They guy is an ass. I don't blame you for wanting to see him squirm, but don't use anthony to do it. There's no way in hell you can control that freak.

Anthony: Hey, the freak is still in the room.

Sonny: You set him loose, ric, we're all gonna pay.

Anthony: Uh-oh, the big man is shaking in his shoes. You gonna cave?

Sonny: Ric! All this talk about wanting to be my brother, and all those years you've wasted hating me and all that? Now's your chance to prove it.

Ric: Let me ask you something. Do you ever notice every time you want to use the brother card because it's convenient for you? When it's something that you want or need? If it come from me, you spit in my face -- no matter what it is. What makes this time any different, sonny?

Sonny: Look, as of right now, you have an opportunity to be a decent human being. Listen, all you gotta do is walk. Let him rot like he deserves.

Ric: Really. What's in it for me?

Sonny: Me.

>> On the next "General Hospital" --

ric: Anthony free gets me what i want!

Lulu: I want you to choose me.

[Beep beep]

johnny: How long has claudia been out of touch?

Jason: You said you had information on who shot michael.

Johnny: Where is she?