Kate: Put him through. Why am i hearing from you?

Ian: I wanted you to know that i arrived at my location safely, and i'll be contacting you in the future should the need for any additional funds arise.

Kate: So let me make sure i understand this. You're blackmailing me for saving your life?

Ian: I'm just trying to make our little deal work on a long-term basis for me like it does for you. You see, money is fluid. It comes, and it goes. So my motivation wavers, but you, on the other hand -- you won't want sonny to know that you financed my way out of town after i shot his beloved child, will you?

kate: I'll take your position under advisement, but i suggest you don't try my patience. Hi.

Sonny: Sorry to interrupt. I didn't mean -- if you were on the phone.

Kate: No, i'm glad you're here.

Sonny: I was thinking, the way we left it last night -- that you would be running back to manhattan --

kate: I'm not going anywhere, sonny. I love you and i want to be here. But i admit, i don't understand what you're doing or why.

Sonny: You know something, i don't understand what i'm doing. I spent the morning at michael's bedside and -- you know, jax is bringing all the specialists and they're doing all kinds of tests. And, uh, they can't say anything until they have conclusive results. But i gotta tell you, in my heart, i don't think my son's gonna change. He's gonna be a prisoner in his own body. I can't -- i just don't understand. I just want you to know, ok -- i don't know what i would do if i ever lost you.

Kate: I'm here, sonny, i'm here. I'm alive and i'm whole and i'm in your arms, and i'm exactly where i choose to be.

Trevor: Richie, you made a big mistake. And true to form, you're already regretting it.

Ric: I just did what i was paid to do.

Trevor: No, rich, this was much more than a job for you. You thought that anthony was gonna be your instrument of revenge against me and sonny. And now you're slowly recognizing how he's going to wreak havoc in all of our lives. You really stepped in it this time.

Ric: My shoes, my problem.

Trevor: No, son, please listen to me. It's too late to stop the train wreck that you set in motion, but you can get out of the way. I beg you, sever all your ties with anthony while you still have the chance and go find yourself some happiness.

Ric: You know what, you can shove your fatherly concern. You're trying to deal with the fact that i'm not running off with my tail between my legs for once, and that's got you a little bit worried. So you're hoping that i'm just gonna lay back and let you take advantage of everything that anthony zacchara has to offer. Well, you can forget it. See, zacchara may be a whack job, dad, but deep down he knows that i'm the one that got him free, so he owes me. If i were you, i'd grow eyes in the back of my head, because you never know when i'm gonna sneak up behind you and bury your ass.

Emily: I know you would die for me without hesitation, nikolas.

Nikolas: I would.

Emily: But that's not what i want. Live for me instead.

Nikolas: You mean, without you.

Emily: No, nikolas. I'll always be a part of you. We're a part of each other that's not bound by time or space.

Nikolas: I need you with me, don't you understand? I need you here with me right here, right now.

Emily: I can't be.

Nikolas: Why?

Emily: And stopping your life isn't going to honor what we shared.

Nikolas: I want to be that, baby, i really do. I just can't.

Emily: You just don't how?

Nikolas: No.

Emily: I'll tell you. Lookit, you raise spencer. Give him all the love and guidance you have to offer. You meet someone.

Nikolas: No, i'll --

emily: Allow yourself to love again.

sonny: I say no guards, max, and i trip over you and milo every two seconds.

Max: I'm not here to guard you, boss. I got urgent news from puerto rico.

Sonny: What's going on in puerto rico?

Max: The partners are holding back their shipments due to your family situation, but i told them --

sonny: You know what, business doesn't slow down. Make them understand that. It's not that big a deal.

Max: I understand that, boss.

Jason: Anthony zacchara's out. He's free.

Sonny: You're kidding me, right?

Jason: No, i'm not kidding you. I'm working extra security right now, i'm talking to bernie about rerouting shipments. I got everything --

sonny: Oh, that's just --

diane: I see jason's already broken the news.

Sonny: I'm not a happy man right now, diane. I told you if you slip up, i'm the one that's gonna get screwed. Now anthony zacchara is set free to come after me, the people that i love. Why? Because you're panting over this man every two seconds.

Diane: That is outrageous, that is absurd. I am not off my game.

Sonny: I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it. This has to end. I am sending max to puerto rico. Permanently.

Claudia: John, what's the point of making me chase you and race you home?

John: I needed to drive fast. You shouldn't have tried to keep up.

Claudia: I need to talk to you before they get here.

Johnny: I don't want to hear a damn thing out of your mouth. You set him free.

Claudia: It was the only way i had to make him trust me.

Johnny: Why would you want to?

Claudia: Well, if you calm down a minute, i will tell you. Look, i could see from opening arguments that daddy was gonna be set free. There was nothing that i could do to stop that. You know he tried to kill me. I know he tried to kill me. But where's the proof, john? Where? Floating in the lake somewhere? There is none. So i made a strategic decision to appear to support daddy. It is so infinitely much better than some act of defiance that's gonna get me killed.

Johnny: I spent most of my life as that man's prisoner. I'm not about to go back there.

Claudia: I would never ask you to go back there. I would never, ever ask you to do that. Nothing's changed, john. You and me, we're gonna destroy that crazy old man. He's never going to hurt either one of us ever again. Do you want to hear how?

Anthony: You must hate my son less than i thought to put up with this.

Logan: Just doing my job, sir.

Anthony: Suffer today for a payoff tomorrow. That's a worthwhile ambition, as long as you can stay alive long enough to collect. Wait in the car. I'll call you when i'm done.

Luke: Hey, we're closed, pal.

Anthony: No problem. We can put business hours on the agenda, partner.

maxie: Ok, prepare yourself.

Kate: I don't like it already.

Maxie: I think that maybe we should bring spinelli back in.

Kate: Maxie, please tell me you didn't lose something again.

Maxie: No, not me. I mean, not this time. There's a million dollars missing from your operating account.

Max: Come on, jason, speak up. Tell the boss you need me here and not exiled to puerto rico.

Diane: You're not going to puerto rico.

Sonny: He damn well is. I'm on the brink of war with the zaccharas. I need my attorney focused on me. He's a distraction to you.

Diane: Jason, you were there. You were in the courtroom, you saw what happened. Would you tell sonny the law is the law and this time it came down squarely on the side of anthony zacchara?

Sonny: Come on, diane, you've bent the law for me many a time. You could've done more to keep anthony zacchara locked up if you didn't have images of him dancing naked in your head.

Max: Back off.

Sonny: I'm sorry. What?

Max: You're out of line, mr. C. I've been more than loyal to you. I've put my life on the line for you so many times over the last five years, i've lost count. I'd do anything for you and your family and i have proven that. With all due respect, keep your nose out of my personal life, please.

Diane: I couldn't have said it better myself. But if you insist on appointing yourself the romance police, you might start with yourself. Don't date kate -- or, better yet, tell jason not to date claudia zacchara.

Claudia: Ric and trevor are gonna be jockeying for position as consigliere. We need to outmaneuver them. We need to play our father like a stradivarius. He should never have any reason or see any reason to question our loyalty to him. But to each other, it's a different story.

Johnny: You want dad to think there's some sort of rift between us?

Claudia: Yeah, because if he thinks he's getting what he wants, which is a house divided, he'll never see us coming, john. But we need to make a promise to each other right here and right now.

Johnny: What?

Claudia: It's you and me. This is all pretend. You're my goal. I'm yours. We're in this together. You and me against the world, no matter what.

Johnny: No matter what.

Anthony: They tell me when i was tearing my way through windermere, you and i fought, and subsequently you suffered a heart attack.

Luke: The damage has been repaired. I see you've had some troubles of your own.

Anthony: The damage has been repaired. I was impressed and concerned to hear about my son's decision to buy into your casino.

Luke: Impressed because?

Anthony: It's a good place to launder money.

Luke: And concerned?

Anthony: I don't think that's why johnny bought in. Well, look who's here -- the lovely lulu. Whatever are we gonna do about you?

Nikolas: No, how could i ever love again? How? My heart is too full of love for you. You know that.

Emily: Nikolas, you stay open and fill your life with meaning. Have other children.

Nikolas: No.

Emily: A little girl that you can spoil rotten. And when the day comes, when she meets the man of her dreams, you tell her about us. You promise me, nikolas.

Nikolas: I promise that i will live for you And i promise that i will keep you in my heart for the rest of my life. That's what i promise.

Singer: The broken clock is a comfort

emily: I have thought about this from every angle and i have decided that it is best to let zander go.

Nikolas: Don't you think he's going to want to fight you on that?

Emily: Not if you pretend to be in love with me.

Singer: And i am here still waiting though i still have my doubts i am damaged at best like you've already figured out i'm falling apart i'm barely breathing with a broken heart that's still beating in the pain there is healing in your name i find meaning so i'm holding on i'm holding on i'm holding on i'm barely holding on to you the broken locks were a warning you got inside my head

nikolas: I'm free to love you with my whole heart.

Emily: I love you the same way. With all my heart.

Singer: Inside my eyes that are looking for purpose they're still looking for life i'm falling apart

minister: I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss the bride.

Singer: That's still beating in the pain is there healing in your name i find meaning so i'm holding on i'm holding on i'm holding on i'm barely holding onto you i'm hanging on another day

nikolas: I will love you forever.

Emily: I'll love you forever.

Singer: You said that i will be ok the broken lights on the freeway left me here alone i may have lost my way now having forgot my way home i'm falling apart i'm barely breathing with a broken heart that's still beating in the pain there is healing in the name i find meaning so, i'm holding on i'm holding on

>> On the Next "General Hospital" --


Maxie: I need to know where the money is.

Robin: The father of my child thinks you're hotter than i am.

Jason: Somebody put a hit on claudia. I ended up saving her.

Sonny: Why?

Carly: We're getting michael's test results back.