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Maxie: That man is still alive.

Coroner: What's going on?

Spinelli: Whoa -- whoa --

Maxie: Spinelli. Oh --

Lulu: What if somebody else had walked in when you were shooting sonny? What if it was kate or carly or some other innocent bystander? Would you have killed them?

Johnny: All i know is, if you hadn't walked in, i would have blown sonny's head off.

Sonny: So the gun was in my shoulder holster, all right? It was just random luck -- look at that -- that johnny's bullet hit the slide instead of my chest.

Kate: Sonny, you have to call the cops.

Shooter: I'll kill her.

Jason: Drop the gun.

Shooter: You want her dead? All i got to do is pull this trigger.

Luke: Ah, ms. Miller, welcome. It's always a pleasure to see one the town's leading barristers.

Diane: If you are salivating, mr. Spencer, at the thought of taking my money, i can assure you i am a cautious and judicious gambler.

Luke: Hmm, terribly sorry to hear that. Have a drink. Choose a table. Perhaps we can change your mind.

Diane: You know, alexis was right. You do have a certain idiosyncratic charm. Is max giambetti here tonight, by any chance?

Luke: No, he isn't, but if he comes in, i'd be happy to tell him you're looking for him.

Diane: Please do.

Lucky: Dad.

Luke: Oh, hey.

Lucky: Hey, how's business?

Luke: Really good. We're busy. Opening night seemed to give us a jump start. Choose a table. I'll stake you to some chips.

Sam: Ooh, nice.

Lucky: Thank you. So what is your pleasure?

Sam: Roulette is calling my name.

Lucky: Roulette it is.

Sam: This is going to be so much fun. I love to gamble. I -- i've told you that, right?

Lucky: Yeah, i've noticed. Hey, is your hip bothering you? Because if it is, i'll --

Sam: No, no, no, no, listen -- nothing is going to ruin my evening with you.

Nikolas: So you planning to demonstrate some more of your astonishing gambling intuition?

Nadine: You just invited me here to make money off of me, didn't you?

Nikolas: Perhaps. I mean, i do admire your skill.

Nadine: Are you going to butter me up and ply me with drinks and steal my secrets?

Nikolas: No, no, thought never even crossed my mind.

Nadine: Too bad, because it could work.

[Cheering]

Sam: Do that again.

Lucky: You are --

Sam: Thank you.

Ric: How was your day with anthony?

Logan: Nothing too eventful.

Ric: Well, i'm sure you can manage a more detailed description than that, you know,like who visited him, how's his physical therapy going, did anthony have any phone conversations of interest?

Logan: Just be clear, you expect me to spy on him for you?

Ric: Why else would i bother giving you the job?

Maxie: Are you ok?

Spinelli: The jackal appreciates maximista's concern and assures he is most contented.

Maxie: Yeah, ok. Well, now maybe you should try and sit up because i want to get out of here. This place creeps me out.

Spinelli: Oh, my god. The unfortunate dr. Devlin's cranium --

Maxie: No, spinelli, that is not ian's body.

Spinelli: Are you -- are you certain?

Maxie: Yes. Trust me. It's some guy half his age, but don't worry. I don't blame you for passing out. It was gross.

Spinelli: Then where exactly is the fiendish physician?

Maxie: How am i supposed to know? He must have disappeared.

Lulu: Do you even care that sonny's child is in a coma after being shot in the head?

Johnny: My sister's missing. Sonny implied he had something to do with it.

Lulu: He is grieving. He's lashing out. Where the hell is your compassion?

Johnny: I don't have any and neither does sonny, ok? Compassion is a liability.

Lulu: No, compassion is a human emotion. You're a person. You are not a robot. You have feelings.

Johnny: I have enemies, and i kill them. It's part of the life that i lead, the business that i'm in. Sonny's no different.

Lulu: And the point of all this killing would be?

Johnny: To hold on to what's mine.

Lulu: Ok, and no guilt or remorse, right? Who cares that little child has been shot. You have nothing to be sorry for, right?

Johnny: Yeah, i'm sorry that i picked you up that first night because i knew we'd end up here.

Lulu: Well, don't worry. I'll live because i'll be a lot better off without you.

Sonny: I'm not calling the cops.

Kate: Why not, sonny? They can build a case. They can send a forensic team, come out and collect evidence --

Sonny: So they can interview lulu, get her to testify, so she can lie through her teeth to cover for johnny?

Kate: Lulu would tell the truth.

Sonny: Maybe, but he wouldn't be convicted.

Kate: Why not? He's guilty.

Sonny: Why not? Let me tell you why not. I locked johnny in a padded room in an abandoned mental ward. I didn't give him food for days. I had him beaten up because i wanted to break -- i even -- i even threatened his sister that i would send pieces of him to her.

Kate: Ok, it's wrong.

Sonny: Well?

Kate: And i won't try to justify that --

Sonny: He didn't -- he didn't even shoot you. He didn't even kidnap michael. But you know what? I -- he -- i went after him anyway, right?

Kate: He shot you, sonny, at point blank range, and --

Sonny: I --

Kate: For all he knew, you were an unarmed man.

Sonny: I would've done the same thing.

Kate: Ok, you want a truce, right? Ok, you go back to him, and you tell him you're going to honor that truce, and that it's in both your best interest's to stop attacking each other.

Sonny: The truce ended when michael was shot.

Kate: Then go to the police.

Sonny: I'm not going to the police for my business. Johnny zacchara tried to kill me, and i'm going to kill him.

Jason: Who sent you? Who sent you?

[Gunshot]

Jason: Why did you kill him?

Claudia: Why didn't you? You had the shot.

Jason: I wanted him alive so i could question him. Obviously, you wanted him dead so I couldn't.

Sam: Yes.

Luke: Hey, partner.

Johnny: Hey, how's business? Looks good.

Luke: Yeah, we're grinding out a nice, thick profit margin.

Johnny: Got a second to discuss it?

Luke: Absolutely.

Tracy: Mr. Zacchara, and what brings you here tonight?

Johnny: Checking on my investment.

Tracy: Good, now go.

Luke: Spanky, why don't you play a little twenty-one while we have a little chat about business?

Tracy: I believe the agreement was that mr. Zacchara would invest and you would run the casino. Why do the two of you look like thieves?

Luke: Why don't you have a drink on the house? We just got in some new bourbon
made in the black hills of kentucky. Smooth like silk, it goes down.

Tracy: I'm watching you.

Johnny: You get the deposit?

Luke: Yeah, $500,000 in unmarked greenbacks.

Johnny: Great. Cycle it through. Declare it next week's profits.

Luke: No problem. It'll come out smelling like a rose.

Johnny: [Laughs]

Luke: Come, i'll show you around.

Logan: Well, the prodigal son arrives.

Ric: Anthony's obsession with his son, johnny, is his weakness.

Logan: No, not according to anthony, he's not.

Ric: He's going to be a very powerful man very soon. You and i are going to have to work together to protect him

Logan: You're asking me if i'm going to side with you over johnny?

Ric: You got a problem?

Logan: No, anything i can do to make johnny zacchara pay is fine by me.

Sam: Come to mama. Thank you very much.

Lucky: God, you win every time.

Sam: Yes, i am a skilled player.

Lucky: Is your hip ok?

Sam: You know, it's -- it's bothering me a little bit. I just -- the doctors prescribed some medication, and i don't feel like it's working very good anymore.

Lucky: Well, you know, you better be careful with that stuff. You could get hooked before you know it.

Sam: I know -- i know -- i know you had a bad experience.

Lucky: You know, pills nearly destroyed my life.

Sam: I know. I'm just -- i'm following the doctor's instructions. I just wish it was doing some good. That's all.

Diane: [Laughs]

Nadine: God, i'm snake-bit tonight. I should be learning tricks from you.

Nikolas: I'll explain the odds to you. We should do it in a quiet place away from the table.

Nadine: We should see if the library's still open.

Nikolas: The library -- no, we'll just -- we'll just go back to my house later.

Nadine: Ok.

Kate: All right, so let me get this straight so that i -- i understand this. You will try to kill john zacchara. John zacchara will try to kill you. A great big mob war will ensue, and this is what you want?

Sonny: No, what I want is whoever shot michael to pay.

Kate: But you don't know that the zaccharas are responsible.

Sonny: They've done enough for me to want them dead, kate.

Kate: So you -- you lock up john zacchara because you think that he shot me and that he kidnapped michael, and then you find out that he wasn't responsible. Sonny, shouldn't you learn something from that, that you can't leap to conclusion --

Sonny: This isn't about playing fair. It's about vengeance.

Kate: No, i actually think it's about self-destruction.

Sonny: My son is in a permanent coma.

Kate: I know.

Sonny: Ok.

Kate: And now you are punishing yourself, and you're throwing me away in the process.

Sonny: If you want to leave, i mean, you know -- no, no, i'm just saying that's your choice.

Kate: Why don't you admit it, sonny? You're trying to make your life so terrible, so repellent, that i'll be forced to leave.

Maxie: Ok, well, what do you think we should do, check the airports or the train stations?

Spinelli: The dastardly dr. Devlin could not have gone far.

Maxie: Yeah, no kidding. I shot him up with a whole needle full of sedative.

Spinelli: Yes, a desperate but clever move.

Maxie: Thank you, you know, i'd like to say that i thought about it first, but i just freaked out and grabbed the nearest thing to me which just happened to be the needle.

Spinelli: Well, that's exactly the jackal's point. Maximista is endlessly resourceful.

Maxie: Ok, well, we need to focus. Do you think that devlin was conscious enough to get in his own car?

Spinelli: Well, we must exhaust every possibility.

Maxie: I can't believe we let him get away. He could be half way to canada by now.

Spinelli: Patience, patience. We will know his whereabouts within a moment.

Maxie: How?

Spinelli: I put a tracking device in his pocket.

Maxie: Spinelli, i think you're brilliant.

Jason: What didn't you want this guy to tell me?

Claudia: What, huh? You think he's working for me, jason? You think i drove my car off a cliff and got shot at by a high-powered rifle and almost got raped because i'm trying to earn your trust?

Jason: We could've gotten some information before you killed him.

Claudia: I disagree. That man was going to rape me. Then he was going to kill me on my father's orders. I didn't think he deserved to live.

Jason: Well, he's dead because of you. What are you going to do with the body?

Nikolas: Luke, yet another enjoyable evening, although i have nothing to show for it, of course.

Luke: Well, i'm sorry to hear that, nik. Come -- come back. Your luck will change.

Nikolas: I hope so. Thank you.

Nadine: Thank you.

Luke: Good night.

Nikolas: Good night.

Tracy: Aren't you the charming host?

Luke: Hey, he's got the deepest pockets in the house.

Lucky: All right.

Sam: All right.

Lucky: All right.

Sam: Spin her.

Ric: Once anthony returns home, there's going to be a lot of infighting and jockeying for position.

Logan: Son and daughter hate his guts, a lawyer, your father -- every position on the planet -- this should be interesting.

Ric: Do me a favor. Don't overstep your position.

Logan: Hey, i'm just anthony's humble assistant.

Ric: Yes, who's going to be having access to everything -- might give you a false sense of power.

Logan: Well, ric, i'm sure you'll be right there to put me back in my place.

Ric: You know what? You got a real smart mouth. You'd be wise to keep it shut or we're going to have trouble.

Logan: You know, ric, if i'm so unreliable, why did you hire me?

Ric: Well, because you're good at thinking on your feet, because ethics aren't a problem for you, and mostly because there is no love lost between you and the zacchara heir apparent.

Logan: There is damn sure not.

Ric: Exactly. As long as you remember where your loyalty lies, you'll do fine.

Jerry: You're on quite the winning streak.

Sam: For now.

Jerry: It must run in the family. Your mother won quite handily on opening night.

Sam: Why don't you leave my mother the hell alone?

Jerry: Because i like your mummy, sweet sam.

Alexis: Excuse me, everyone. I'm sorry to interrupt this, but i'm going to have to ask all of you to leave. The haunted star will be closed until further notice.

Luke: Hey, you can't close me down.

Alexis: I just did.

Nikolas: Very good. Ok, and so now, what if you have an ace and a nine?

Nadine: Uh, ask for another card.

Nikolas: No, no, see, your two cards -- they already add up to twenty. You don't want another card.

Nadine: Well, yeah, but if i ask for another one, then i might be -- i give up. I'm going to stick to games i'm good at like checkers.

Nikolas: Checkers? Well, you're in luck because i happen to have an antique checkers set. Oh, yes, an antique checkers set back at wyndemere.

Nadine: Why am i not surprised?

Nikolas: Launch -- launch should be here any minute.

Nadine: Will spencer still be up?

Nikolas: No, no, his bedtime was an hour ago. That norma, she's a strict woman.

Nadine: Shoot. I was hoping we could share a bowl of that fudge ripple that alfred keeps in the freezer.

Nikolas: Too late. Spencer and i already did.

Nadine: Oh, sounds like fun.

Nikolas: Yeah, i'm just -- i'm trying to share as many memories with him as i can right now. Tomorrow, i'm going to meet with alexis and go over the estate just -- just in case something happens during the surgery.

Nadine: Patrick is a brilliant surgeon, and you've got a really good shot, assuming that yo actually want to live.

Nikolas: I do. It's just -- it's just hard for me to imagine what life's going to be like when emily's gone for good.

Maxie: What's taking so long?

Spinelli: The jackal is encountering technical difficulties.

Maxie: Ok, well, you're going to need to hurry or else ian devlin's going to be on his way to china by the time you track him down.

Spinelli: I -- i've been locked off from the gps signal. I -- i -- i -- i have to --

Maxie: You're babbling.

Spinelli: It helps to verbalize whilst jackalling.

Maxie: Well, it's really annoying. Although, i guess i'm not in the position to criticize. I've been known to blurt out whatever pops into my head when i feel like it. I guess i'm kind of doing that right now.

Spinelli: Verbalizing one's thoughts can lead to creativity and inspiration. It's a sign of intelligence.

Maxie: Oh, well, those are a few words that have never been associated with my name.

Spinelli: Oh, maximista sells herself too short.

Maxie: Spinelli, you know, you don't have to give me another compliment.

Maxie: Another?

Maxie: Yeah. Remember you told me that i was smart for stabbing devlin with the needle? One ego boost a day is more than enough.

Spinelli: The jackal's motives go -- do not go beyond the utmost sincerity, ok? Maximista is astute, intuitive, and brimming with creative intelligence.

Maxie: Ah, you're really sweet.