Diane: Psst. Just some notes i jotted down.

Alexis: Stop bothering me.

Diane: Stop being so stubborn.

Spinelli: Good morning, esteemed jurist.

Diane: Excuse me, but what is this?

Spinelli: It is i, spinelli.

Diane: I know who you are.

Spinelli: I just thought maybe you didn't recognize the jackal in his disguise.

Alexis: Hi.

Spinelli: Oh, hi.

Alexis: What are you doing here?

Spinelli: Oh, i'm here as the eyes and ears of stone cold and mr. Corinthos, sir.

Diane: Do they know you're hear being their eyes and ears, or is this your own private little secret?

Spinelli: Shh. The jackal must remain diligent.

[Footsteps]

ric: Counselor.

Alexis: I'd wish you luck, but i wouldn't mean it.

Ric: I know.

Bailiff: All rise for the honorable judge marcus wright.

Judge: Court is in session. Are the parties ready?

Alexis: Yes, your honor. The district attorney's office would like to appoint ms. Diane miller as special prosecutor. Ms. Miller will be serving as co-counsel.

Ric: And your honor, with the court's permission, defense would like to submit trevor lansing as co-counsel.

Judge: Thank you, mr. Lansing, madame district attorney. The court will now hear arguments on whether anthony --

spinelli: The jackal objects. I -- i object. I -- i object.

Lucky: You know, we agreed to take care of cameron and jake together, so it's not a burden for me. I want to do this as their father.

Elizabeth: And you have been a wonderful father. And an even better ex-husband than i deserve. But honestly, i'm looking forward to spending some alone time with them this weekend.

Lucky: You know you have me if you need me

elizabeth: Well, if you get home from the game early enough, why don't you swing by for dinner?

Lucky: I'll try.

Elizabeth: Ok

nadine: [Laughing]

nikolas: Is everything a race with you?

Nadine: Don't tell me you're afraid of a little competition.

Nikolas: You just don't know the island as well as i do. What if you had taken a spill? Do you know how guilty i would have felt?

Nadine: I know how to keep my butt in the saddle.

Nikolas: But you lost. Not that i'm competitive or anything.

Nadine: Right, well, i guess you deserve a prize. So, how about i cook dinner for you tonight?

Lulu: I did not delete that email, i swear.

Kate: I don't like excuses, lulu.

Maxie: Well, maybe it was just an accident. You know how distracted you can get.

Kate: I need to respond to the budget. If i don't, henri-laurent will think i'm blowing him off.

Maxie: I can get it back for you. I'll just call spinelli. He's a computer whiz, he can retrieve whatever it is lulu lost.

Lulu: I did not lose it!

Kate: Do what you can, spare me the details.

Lulu: Ok, i did not delete that email. Maxie must have done it to make me look bad.

Kate: I have no interest in your petty rivalry. In fact, from now on if one of you messes up, you both mess up. And this time, you messed up big.

Tracy: Another career change, sam? Just when you were getting so good at -- whatever that was.

Sam: Actually, "everyday heroes" brought in another host while i was recovering from my accident. And they love her -- she's tall, she's blonde, i'm not. So they released me from my contract. Which means i am yours for the taking.

Tracy: Oh, you want to cushion your fall from grace with my husband's lap.

Sam: On his boat, to be more specific. Listen, luke, i need a job. I can play every card game there is, and i have never been more comfortable than when i am on board a ship.

Luke: Ok, now are we talking about dealing or something more creative? I'm a businessman, deals have to be mutually beneficial.

Tracy: Or mutually stupid.

Sam: Look, i am thinking about something a little bit more high end. Raise the glamour quotient around here. I can put in a full, solid work week. I'll play for the house.

Luke: What's the going rate for a great shill these days?

Sam: Well, i don't know, i guess i could manage with a cut from the losses that i bring in from the high rollers, standard stuff.

Tracy: Oh -- is there a standard for shilling? What is it, a union thing? A sliding pay scale from carney to grifter to shill?

Luke: You start the minute the city lets us reopen, with all your assets on display.

Sam: Yes, sir, thank you very much.

Luke: You're welcome.

Spinelli: Damian spinelli, your honor, for the people of port charles.

Ric: Your honor, i object.

Judge: Let's hear what the young man has to say.

Spinelli: I come with dire warnings of the consequences if this courtship decides to unleash the unhinged one on the people of this fair city. The murderous mr. Zacchara personally chased me through the underbelly of the castle wyndemere.

Judge: I heard you now, mr. Spinelli.

Spinelli: The darth lansings, senior and fils, joining forces against all that is fine and good.

Judge: Shut up, mr. Spinelli, now. Madam district attorney, is this your witness?

Alexis and diane: No, your honor.

Judge: Then you don't mind if he leaves?

Spinelli: Your honor, with all due respect, your honor, i have the right -- nay, the obligation to witness these proceedings --

judge: Escort him out.

Spinelli: No -- your honor. Your honor, removal is punishment for the denizens of darkness. The jackal is on the side of right.

Judge: You may leave on your own or be arrested. Which will it be?

Spinelli: Have a good day, your honor. Your worship, your holiness. I think he's warmed up.

Judge: I hope the d.A. Maintains control much better over her other witnesses.

Alexis: I can assure you, your honor, that mr. Spinelli is not one of our witnesses. However, given the level of disruption, i'm going to request a continuance.

Judge: Mr. Lansing?

Ric: Your honor, i see no reason to delay this hearing. Mr. Zacchara has been in custody far too long.

Judge: Please move forward now.

Alexis: All right. Well, your honor, i am sorry for the disruption, but what i would like to say is that mr.

Spinelli was correct in one thing -- that mr. Zacchara is in fact a killer.

nadine: It won't be anything fancy. Not like anything you're used to, obviously. But i love to putter in the kitchen. People tell me i'm a pretty good cook. And so far i haven't killed anybody. The truth is, i think it's pretty good therapy -- it gets you in touch with all your senses. You start cooking, and you're working with your hands. So, a sense of touch -- then it hits your nose, a sense of smell. I guess when you serve it, that could be pleasing to the eye. And then, finally, your taste buds -- it's just really sensual.

Nikolas: I would love for you to cook for me sometime, just not tonight.

Nadine: Oh, right -- i'm sure you have a billion things to do before the surgery.

Nikolas: Yeah -- but once it's over and i recover, i'd love for you to cook for me, i would. Even though i'm the one who should be doing something nice for you.

Nadine: Why should you do that?

Nikolas: Because you never gave up on me, you really were a true friend.

Nadine: That's me, true blue.

Sam: Epiphany, is there somebody i can talk to about my pain medication? It doesn't seem to be working at all.

Epiphany: What are you taking?

Sam: Hydrocodone -- but i really don't feel like it's working. I feel like i get more relief from plain old acetaminophen.

Russell: I want the meds administered as prescribed.

Elizabeth: Dr. Ford, i am sorry but --

russell: I don't want your excuses. A man who should be getting ready to go home is having a seizure. A patient almost died because of your incompetence.

Kate: I'll come back right after the meeting. I'll expect that budget email waiting for me on my return. Whatever you have to do to get

maxie: I already left spinelli a message.

Kate: Maxie, leaving messages is for ordinary people. Extraordinary people find more creative ways of accomplishing their business. Those people who want a future. And i'm only interested in employing extraordinary people. Find that email or you're both fired.

Maxie: You bitch. Why did you have to ruin this for me?

Lulu: You tried to make me look bad by deleting that email, and now it's all falling back on you.

Maxie: You don't even care about this damned job. You just took it to make my life miserable. I'm not going to be fired because of you. Spinelli?

Spinelli: It is i -- you sound distressed.

Maxie: You have to come to the crimson office right away, my life depends on it.

Spinelli: I'm supposed to be monitoring the trial of the unhinged one.

Maxie: Did you not just hear what i said? If you're not here in five minutes, i'm never speaking to you again.

[Dial tone]

lulu: There it is -- proof from your mouth that you're using spinelli.

Luke: I take your silence as an indication that you have made peace with my decision.

Tracy: You're a hedonist, luke, it rules every decision you make.

Luke: So that's a yes.

Tracy: You have survived heart attacks, murderers, mobsters, you have looked death in the eye again and again. And you have convinced yourself that you are immortal. So you will continue to spit in death's face until he proves you wrong.

Luke: Tracy, i don't want to live forever. I just want whatever life i have to be worth the time and energy.

Tracy: Fine. I'll stop nagging. Why don't you paint a bull's eye on your back, so you can prove that you're still the great luke spencer. But don't expect me at your funeral.

Alexis: It is well documented that this defendant did in fact go on a homicidal rampage. There is also no question that the actions of mr. Zacchara seem incomprehensible, that they are consistent with the actions of a mob boss. They are violent, they are unpredictable, and they are designed to target its enemy. We're aware that the defense has deposed medical experts that will testify to the fact that mr. Zacchara may have been schizophrenic at the time of this latest rampage. But it is our office's position that mr. Zacchara knew and understood the difference between right and wrong. He knew that his actions were wrong, which is why he avoided capture. He also was aware enough to know to target his enemies. Ok, so that being said, even if our office were to stipulate that mr. Zacchara was, in fact, mentally ill at the time of this black and white ball, he is no longer mentally ill and able to stand trial. So it is our position that mr. Zacchara is legally subject to answer to our charges. Thank you.

Ric: Your honor, the court knows full well that you cannot convict a man on hearsay without proof. Anthony zacchara is a very wealthy and very powerful man, which makes him subject to slander. Those who want to undercut his power, those who want to take away what he worked so hard for his entire life. Being powerful doesn't make you popular, but it doesn't make you a criminal. What we do know about my client -- he was ill with schizophrenia, very ill. As such, he is not responsible for the crimes he committed. Thanks to the miracle of modern medicine, anthony zacchara has had his sanity restored. And we do have medical experts who will testify that not only is anthony zacchara sane but he does understand the difference between right and wrong, and he is ready and willing to be a fully functioning member of society once again. Anthony zacchara just wants to go home and spend time with his children, who are in this court today. So we petition the court to give mr. Zacchara his basic human rights back. He's already regained his sanity. Give him his freedom.

Emily: Nikolas?

Nikolas: I knew you'd come back to me.

Russell: One of our patients is having post-operative seizures because you couldn't read a simple chart or follow a doctor's instructions.

Elizabeth: I administered the medication exactly as prescribed, i'm sure of it.

Russell: Well, then perhaps you can tell me why mr. Randall's bloodworm shows no sign of the anti-seizure meds he was supposed to take.

Elizabeth: No, i can't.

Russell: Well, clearly an error was made. And your unwillingness to admit it alarms me. It makes me wonder if this isn't the first time you have endangered a patient by covering up mistakes or denying them altogether, rather than admit you were wrong.

Elizabeth: Dr. Ford, i resent that because i tried really hard.

Russell: All those resentments wouldn't amount to a hill of beans if that man had died all because you were too careless to read a chart. I'm watching you, nurse webber. And i can assure you this incident will go on your permanent records.

Spinelli: Maximista, who has threatened you?

Maxie: She has.

Lulu: Liar.

Maxie: Trying to make me look bad to kate.

Lulu: Maxie deleted a critical email to make me look bad and

kate saw right through it and said if we don't get it back, we're both going to be fired. So that's why maxie called you to save her. Because that's all you are to her -- someone she uses to get what she wants. She's not your friend, spinelli, and she never has been.

Maxie: Hey -- you know nothing about spinelli and me.

Lulu: Spinelli is my friend. And i hate to see you get involved in things where you can get hurt. Which is why i'm telling you right now, you need to stay away from her.

Maxie: Lulu is just jealous that you and i have become friends, because she was too busy to pay attention to you. But now that all those loser guys don't want her anymore, she wants you back. She's a spoiled brat, and you're just a toy to her. But you're not a toy to me, spinelli.

Luke: Tracy, i've taken risks my whole life. I don't even know how to stop.

Tracy: No matter what the consequence is to me or lulu?

Luke: There's no way that i can keep lulu from hanging around john zacchara. She's made that perfectly clear. She's going to have to learn about consequences all on her own. And as far as you and the haunted star goes -- you don't care about the zaccharas or corinthos. You're only interested in keeping me financially dependent on you.

Tracy: I so resent that.

Luke: You know what the irony of this whole thing is? You think the only reason i come home to you is to line my pockets, to pour your father's booze, and to take advantage of cook's blueberry pancakes.

Tracy: You've never once denied that.

Luke: I could live without the pancakes. And i don't need your bank account. I've lived in the back of a car, in a tent, under a bridge -- i'm very adaptable.

Tracy: So why do you keep showing up at my doorstep? Why can't you just go and stay gone?

Luke: You really don't know?

Luke: Tracy, i love you. I love you.

Judge: The court will hear testimony now from ms. Davis.

Alexis: Uh, yes, your honor. Thank you. I'd like to call claudia zacchara to the stand, please. Bailiff: Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

Claudia: I do.

Alexis: Can you state your name for the court please?

Claudia: Claudia antonia zacchara.

Alexis: Thank you. Ms. Zacchara, what is your relationship, if any, with the defendant?

Claudia: He is my father, i'm his daughter.

Alexis: Do you spend much time with your father?

Claudia: He sent me to live with my mother and her family in italy when i was 16 years old. I only returned to this country a few months ago.

Alexis: So when you left for europe at the age of 16, did your father exhibit the signs of good mental health?

Claudia: He was already starting to get sick.

Alexis: Would you say that your father was still suffering from schizophrenia when --

ric: Objection, your honor. The witness is not an expert.

Alexis: Certainly a daughter can testify to her own father's behavior. I'm just wanting to know what she noticed, or if she noticed a difference in his behavior when she returned.

Judge: I'll allow it.

Alexis: Thank you.

Judge: Ms. Zacchara, you may answer the question.

Claudia: He seemed perfectly normal -- sane since i've been back.

Alexis: In the time since you've been back, has your father ever threatened your life?


>> On the Next "General Hospital" --

Kate: You're blackmailing me for saving your life?

Nikolas: I'm just hoping for one last dance.

Emily: I'd love that. I'll always be a part of you. Fill your life with meaning. Honor what we shared.