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Maxie: Now what are you going to believe? A kiss that proves i care about you or lulu spewing that i don't?

Spinelli: Well, the jackal is most thoroughly conkissed -- convinced.

Maxie: Ok, now that that's out of the way.

Lulu: Bring on the manipulation.

Maxie: I have gone out of my way and comfort zone, as you know, to help you when you needed it, and all i'm doing is asking you to return the favor.

Lulu: Ok, spinelli, please tell me you are not believing this transparent witch. She is using you. This kiss was a means to an end.

Spinelli: The jackal takes exception to your most ill-informed opinion.

Nikolas: I was starting to be afraid i'd never see you again.

Emily: I don't know about that. Nikolas, why else would you be standing here?

Nikolas: Just hold me for one last dance.

Emily: I'd love that.

Tracy: Knowing that you love me, hearing you say it when i know that isn't easy for you, it means more to me than i can possibly convey, and i love you back. Look, spencer, you are my favorite mistake, and honest to God, i try to accept you as you are. I honor our marriage vows, even though i don't know what they are. And i could divorce you for abandonment, infidelity, fraud -- but i don't. I hang tough. There are those that would say it's because i don't like to be wrong, but you and i know different.

Luke: We are the match from hell, and it's a glorious thing.

Tracy: Hitching your wagon to the mob is as life-threatening as three heart attacks. If you do love me, as you say you do, then sever the ties.

Sonny: Oh, i'm sorry to interrupt, but we have some business to discuss.

Alexis: Ms. Zacchara, is it true that you visited your father at shadybrook institution yesterday?

Claudia: I did.

Alexis: And at any point in your interaction with your father did he threaten your life? Did you understand the question, ms. Zacchara?

Claudia: I'd rather not answer that.

Alexis: You're under oath. You don't have a choice.

Alexis: All right, let's approach this from another direction. After you left your father, did you find the brakes in your car had been tampered with?

Claudia: I had a little car trouble.

Alexis: Do you have reason to believe that anthony zacchara tampered with your brakes, that he in fact engineered this car trouble?

Claudia: Not at all. No, see, i don't really want to get into it. I mean, it's personal stuff. I -- after i left my father's, i had a date.

[waltz music]

emily: Oh, nikolas, you've made me so happy. I don't regret one moment of loving you.

Spinelli: I -- i'm sorry, the jackal didn't mean to snap. As you know, he has been in your blonde thrall for some time now, in awe of your fierce nature and wise insight, but the words you just used against maxie, not only were they out crude, and beneath you. The jackal readily concedes that maximista's thought patterns are not always linear, and she does have a propensity for making self-distructive choices but so do you. And -- and while your mistakes do not define who you are, the same goes for maxie, who is otherwise intelligent and perceptive and capable of unwavering loyalty, which the jackal has had the honor of experiencing.

Lulu: I'm sorry, i'm sorry. I can't listen to that anymore.

Maxie: What's the matter? Truth hurt?

Lulu: You are in this worse than i thought, so you need to listen to me. You are setting yourself up for heartache worse than you can even imagine if you think maxie cares about you. Read my lips Maxie is using you. It's what she does. It's what she's always done. You're just -- you're just maxie's latest sucker.

Spinelli: You don't think much of me, do you?

Lulu: That is not true. I am just trying to remind you of who we're dealing with here, spinelli. Remember who supplied my addict brother with drugs? That was maxie. Who broke up lucky and elizabeth's marriage and then faked a pregnancy to trap him? That would be maxie. Anybody who could successfully lie about the existence of a baby could easily manipulate somebody as trusting as you, and i just don't want you to fall for it. Spinelli, maxie only cares about maxie.

Maxie: Ok, now it's time to get off your high horse, because this isn't about protecting spinelli. It's you taking the latest opportunity to talk garbage about me because, well, you hate me.

Luke: Your timing is a little off.

Tracy: Oh, i don't think so. It's a perfect opportunity for you to respect my feelings.

Luke: You mean to do your bidding?

Tracy: Oh, no. Why don't you think of it as a heartfelt request?

Luke: It's emotional blackmail, no matter how you cut it.

Tracy, i meant exactly what i said about us, but when it comes to business, i choose my own associates. Always have, always will.

Tracy: Fine. Let me suggest you have your bosses take out a key-man insurance policy on your life. Because i am not throwing my money into the ground after your dead body. Mr. Corinthos.

Luke: Women -- can't live with them, can't poison their martini glasses a second time.

Sonny: What does she want you away from? The zaccharas, me, or both?

Luke: The zaccharas. She's convinced that any involvement with them will lead to my game but battered body on a morgue slab.

Sonny: I hate to say this. Your wife is right.

Claudia: I'm sorry, ms. Davis apparently completely misunderstood me. No one tried to kill me last night. I -- i did go and see my father, and then i dropped out of sigh for a couple of hours, but --

alexis: When you had car trouble.

Claudia: Mm-hmm. I'm not the best at maintenance, but i got it started eventually.

Alexis: Can i have a recess with my client please?

Ric: Objection, your honor. The d.A.'s Case is predicated on the assumption that mr. Zacchara attempted to murder his own daughter as recently as last night. Ms. Zacchara's testimony, uninfluenced by counsel, is directly relevant to the outcome of these proceedings.

Judge: The objection is sustained, but stay on topic.

Claudia: Sure. Like i said, my car wouldn't start, and i met up with a friend, and we had a little date in a log cabin in the woods. He's a little weird, but surprise, surprise.

Alexis: Ok, i'm gonna have to object, i guess.

Trevor: Counselor, she's your witness.

Claudia: He was compelling, certainly, and exciting. And --

judge: There's an objection on the table, ms. Zacchara. That means you stop until i rule.

Claudia: Oh, i'm sorry.

Judge: Perhaps you can enlighten the court. How do you see your character assessment of your date as being relevant to this case?

Diane: It isn't, and we would like to withdraw the objection and proceed with a different line of questioning.

Judge: Good idea.

Diane: Ms. Zacchara, on what date did you return from milan to new york?

Claudia: Date?

Diane: Yes, date, as in month of the year, day of the month.

Claudia: I mean, i don't know. I don't keep track of time. It's like trying to catch running water. It's here today, here tomorrow, unless it's not, and then it's gone and doesn't matter, so --

diane: Thank you for that fascinating insight, for sharing that. Is there any possibility now that you might answer my question?

Claudia: I came back from italy in the beginning of january.

Diane: And in that time has anthony zacchara ever threatened your life, either directly or indirectly?

Claudia: Of course not. My father loves me. Right, dad?

Judge: I've heard enough, ms. Zacchara. You may step down.

Claudia: Thank you, your honor.

Luke: Your warning could be interpreted as a threat. I'm trying hard not to jump to that conclusion.

Sonny: Well, we've been friends for way too long for you to think that i would deliberately try to hurt you. It's just that i want you to see things from my perspective.

Luke: Talk to me. Want a drink?

Sonny: No, i'm fine. You know, there's a hearing today to get anthony zacchara released.

Luke: Yeah, i know.

Sonny: Ok, if he is set free, the tensions between my organization and his are going to accelerate.

Luke: And this concerns me how?

Sonny: Well, because you opened the casino doors to the zaccharas.

Luke: To john zacchara.

Sonny: Yeah, but you know, to anthony, that's not gonna mean anything, and he's not gonna allow you to stay neutral.

Luke: Well, i've already done a do-si-do with papa zacchara, and i know he's a bloodsucker.

Sonny: Right.

Luke: I appreciate your warning, but it seems to me that this is my problem.

Sonny, i'm not gonna get pulled in on either side.

Sonny: I hope you can manage that. If you need my help, i will not turn you away.

Luke: Thank you. Appreciate it.

Judge: I have reviewed the moving papers for the petitioner's release and the accompanying points and authorities very carefully. There's no doubt in the court's mind that while suffering from schizophrenia, anthony zacchara was a danger to himself and to others. However, the law is clear in cases such as this. Mr. Zacchara did not have the mental capacity to form intentions at the time his crimes were being committed, and since then, mr. Zacchara has been under medical supervision and treatment, and testimony evidence presented by his attorney and physicians establish the petitioner as sane. And since no testimony was offered to refute that finding or to convince me that mr. Zacchara is a present danger to himself or to others, it's the court's decision that anthony zacchara be released from protective custody, effective immediately.

[Gavel strikes]

[waltz music]

emily: Nikolas, you keep saying one more dance.

Nikolas: I know.

Emily: At this rate, we're gonna be here forever.

Nikolas: I wish we could. God, i love seeing you smile.

Emily: Nikolas, you've made me smile more than anyone.

Nikolas: Not always. I really regret that.

Emily: Nikolas, our good times far outweighed the bad.

Nikolas: Yeah.

Emily: I mean, how many women can say they've lived their dream? You know, this and dancing in your arms, wearing these clothes, having you look at me with so much love in your eyes. It's my teenage fantasy come true.

Nikolas: I just -- i just can't help but wonder how different our lives would be if i would have recognized back then that you were -- you were the love of my life, you know, and -- and i --

emily: Nikolas, don't.

Nikolas: I could have made any one of a thousand different choices along the way, and i can't help it. If i had, would you be alive today? Instead of just a hallucination in my head? Maybe we would be off on some incredible new journey right now instead of -- instead of having to say goodbye.

Emily: Nikolas, look, we both made choices that affected our lives together, some for the better and some not so much, but it's done now.

Nikolas: I know.

Emily: There's no point in rehashing it.

Nikolas: I'm just -- just trying to pinpoint the crossroad, you know, that one choice that could have put us in a different place.

Emily: Yeah, to what end, nikolas? To torture yourself? We are where we are, and there's nothing we can do about it.

Nikolas: It's just not fair. It's not fair. We lost so much time. We cheated -- we were cheated out of our past, and now we're getting cheated out of our future. We should have had a happy ending.

Emily: Yeah, you know, fairy tales end with "happily ever after" because they're not real. Life's more complicated. And besides, we were never really fairy tale material, nikolas. We had flaws, and we made mistakes, and we loved each other in spite of everything, completely and realistically, and now in ways that no one will ever know or understand.

Nikolas: What if that's not enough for me? What if i'd rather die than live without you?

Anthony: All right, now that i'm free, i'll need someone to file papers restoring my assets into my name.

Ric: I'll handle it.

Trevor: No, i'll do it. I know the family's finances.

Ric: Which is precisely why i don't want you involved.

Trevor: Richie, you've done a great job, so slink away now while you can and let the big boys complete our business.

Anthony: Now, now, no fighting amongst ourselves. Not in public, anyway. You two worked like a well-oiled machine for me today, and it's good to know you can pull that out when you have to, but i'm looking forward to the private dogfight. Which one of my brilliant father/son attorney team is gonna be left standing when the dust clears? What fun, huh?

Logan: Mr. Zacchara, we should probably get going. You got a four o'clock you got to be at.

Anthony: I'm ready. Work it out.

Anthony: Aren't you gonna congratulate your old man?

Johnny: Way to go.

Claudia: Congratulations, daddy. I knew the system couldn't hold you for long.

Maxie: Oh, come on, jackal, be brilliant.

Kate: Calling in mr. Spinelli was a valiant but futile effort, so clean out your desks. I'll make sure you get your final paycheck.

Spinelli: Wait, wait, wait, lay your career-ending acts aside, fashionista. The jackal has successfully restored the deleted email.

Maxie: You're kidding.

Lulu: You're amazing.

Kate: Wow, so you have. Looks like you ladies got a last minute repreive, but make no mistake. Something like this can never happen again. In fact, from now on, i want you to consider yourself a team. If one of you messes up, you both pay the price. Thank you, mr. Spinelli.

Spinelli: Yes, it is the jackal's pleasure to come to the aid of such a lovely assortment of feminine charms.

Kate: Mm, you're a gentleman and a scholar. Now say your goodbyes. We have work to do.

Maxie: Spinelli, your brain is a thing of awe and wonder.

Lulu: Don't worry. It's not contagious.

Spinelli: It is my sincerest hope that the original blonde one is not mad at me.

Lulu: No, of course not. I think you're wonderful. Thank you, but fair warning -- if you hurt him in any way, i'll destroy your life.

Maxie: Oh, go stuff yourself. I'm gonna walk spinelli out.

[Phone rings]

lulu: Kate howard's office. Um, hold please. I have a doctor ian devlin on line three.