Tracy: For once, would you please put your safety ahead of your ridiculous pride? Admit it, you are in over your head with this the zaccharas.

Luke: Tracy, i'm not going to turn coward and liquidate what promises to be a very lucrative business because of a nagging wife.

Tracy: You're equating cowardice with personal safety. How about it's just a smart thing to do?

Luke: How about you leave this decision to your husband?

Tracy: You haven't saved the world in years, luke. You can barely save yourself.

Luke: I could still save the world if it deserved it. Don't sign me up for bingo night at the senior center just because you are losing your nerve. When did you start needing a safety net?

Anna: Hi, tracy, mr. Spencer --

luke: Ms. Devane -- well, my goodness, what an unexpected and welcome diversion you are.

Anna: I'm looking for some action. I assume this is still the best game in town, right?

Johnny: Claudia did not put the hit out on sonny, and neither did i. But you many want to question your faithful retainer here. Apparently, i am a comedian. Trevor has been itching to get rid of sonny.

Anthony: Well, let us all in on the joke.

Trevor: Well, it just struck me how eager each one of us would be if sonny were actually dead. Take richie, for instance, he's become quite an opportunist. It's not too far of a stretch that he could take out his brother and blame me or john or claudia. Why not an evil conspiracy, huh, richie? Take us all out together, then your way would be clear, right?

Anthony: It doesn't matter. Corinthos lives. I'm home. Wait in the library. I need time with my children. Well, alone at last.

Claudia: It's really good having all of us under the same roof again.

Johnny: We'll see about that.

Anthony: My son, the skeptic. Not that i blame you. Listen, i owe you both apologies. Claudia, for having sent you off without regard for your feelings, i apologize. And john, for leaving you at the mercy of trevor for all these years, i apologize.

Claudia: Well, it's all behind us now, huh, daddy?

Anthony: All that time, wasted. But no more.All right. This family is back -- solid, unstoppable. There's nothing we can't accomplish as long as we stand strong together.

Jason: Ok, find out who transferred the money to devlin, who authorized it -- if he made any cash withdrawals, pinpoint where now.

Maxie: Ok, but you can do that after you transfer the money back to crimson, right?

Jason: Why are you still here?

Maxie: Were you born this rude, or do you practice? This is my career on the line.

Jason: Ok, you need to go now.

Maxie: Either spinelli transfers the money back to the crimson accounts, or i'm going to tell my dad you guys are doing something illegal.

Jason: Or do you want kate to fire you?

Maxie: I'll leave. Spinelli --

Spinelli: Yes, i will call as soon as i have any more information, ok?

Spinelli: I'm sorry. Begging the master's pardon -- don't you think your tone with maximista was a little harsh? I mean, she was just trying --

Jason: Devlin -- right now.

Spinelli: Yes, the jackal obeys. And no doubt if we find the evil one in port charles, we will take the suv and track him, right?

Carly: I don't like the look on your face. Where are the specialists?

Patrick: The doctors thought it would be better to hear about michael's condition from someone you knew.

Carly: Ok, so how do we make him better?

Patrick: Both doctors concurred that michael is in a deep coma.

Sonny: We know that.

Carly: Yes. How do we wake him up?

Patrick: We can't.

Carly: What do you mean, you can't?

Sonny: Ok, patrick, are you saying he's brain dead?

Patrick: No, there's function.

Carly: Ok. See, there's function.

Patrick: There have been cases, rare cases, when patients in michael's condition wake up after --

Carly: So, there's hope.

Patrick: I am talking about a one in 10,000 chance, Carly.

Carly: Oh, my God.

Sonny: What -- what do we do to help my little boy?

Patrick: Michael will be fed through a g-tube. He'll have around the clock nursing care and physical therapy to minimize muscle atrophy.

Sonny: That's just physical maintenance, right?

Patrick: I'm sorry, sonny.

Sonny: What do you -- patrick: I wish there was more we could do to bring michael back to consciousness. And i wish we could make a difference, make his life more than it is.

tracy: The city shut this casino down. Until further notice, there will be no action here tonight.

Anna: Oh.

Luke: Ain't that like a bunch of tight-ass bureaucrats to butt in and spoil a good time?

Anna: Disappointed.

Luke: Well, we can't have that. I'll tell you what i'll do -- i'll open up a few tables if you are willing to play for high stakes.

Anna: Is there any other way?

Luke: You know, i was just trying to explain that concept to my lovely, but suddenly very conservative wife.

Anna: Hmm --

Tracy: You're about to prim for mary poppins here? Don't expect me to stand around and watch.

Anna: Oh, easy tiger.

Tracy: And how come you haven't retired, yet?

Anna: I'm at the top of my game.

Luke: Well, the proof is on the label.

Tracy: Hmm. Not even mildly amusing. I'll be home late.

Anna: Wow. She mad.

Luke: Yeah, she's always mad. It's part of her charm. So what's your pleasure?

Anna: Roulette.

Luke: Roulette it is. And what is it that sent you out on this lovely evening with visions of roulette wheels spinning in your head?

Anna: Mr. Spencer, can i call you spence?

Luke: I wish you would.

Anna: Ok. I am a few months shy of coming face-to--face with the most ego-destroying person of my
life, my grandchild.

[Knock at door]

Patrick: Is it safe?

Robin: All clear. My mother decided she needed to get some air. Hopefully, that doesn't mean bungee jumping or something. How's the back?

Patrick: It's fine. The verdict came in on michael. It's what we thought. His condition is permanent.

Robin: Do sonny and carly know?

Patrick: Yeah, i told them myself. I really wanted to be wrong, robin. I wanted those specialists to be better than me, be able to find something that i couldn't.

Robin: Sometimes this is the worst job in the world.

Patrick: It really hit me hard seeing the devastation on sonny's and carly's faces. I couldn't imagine being a parent and facing the living death of your child.

Carly: I don't understand. I was in a coma. I woke up. Why can't michael?

Sonny: There's no answer to that.

Carly: Where does patrick drake get off telling us that michael's condition is permanent?

Sonny: Are you -- are you gearing up to fight again?

Carly: Aren't you?

Sonny: You're going to pour all your time and energy into making michael the one in 10,000?

Carly: You're damn straight, i am.

Sonny: Carly, look at me.

Carly: No, sonny.

Sonny: Please, just look at me. Please. Do you think i -- you think i want him to be like he is?

Carly: No.

Sonny: We've been dealt something horrible. We have to accept that.

Carly: Why? Why should i accept what's unacceptable? Why?

Sonny: Because you have to find a way, just like i have to find a way to accept that this is my fault.

Spinelli: I managed to slip a tracking device into the dastardly doctor's pants, but i fear it's defective.

Jason: How did you get it into his -- never mind. Why is it defective?

Spinelli: Well, it picked up the nefarious physician at the home of mr. Corinthos, sir. Why would he dare enter there if he was indeed the shooter of the little dude?

Jason: Ok, kate was at sonny's last night. All right, she's missing one million from her magazine account, right? Now there is a million in devlin's account. You do the math.

Spinelli: Yeah, but look, it has to be coincidence.

Jason: But i don't believe in coincidence.

Spinelli: Yeah, but the queen of couture would never get mixed up with the doctor of doom.

Jason: Ok, you find him, and we're going to get those answers.

Spinelli: Ok, dr. Devlin just made an atm withdrawal across the canadian border in a place called littleton.

Jason: Ok, let's go.

Spinelli: What -- the jackal gets to accompany the master in the mob mobile?

Jason: Listen, i need you to clear your head. He is within reach.

Patrick: When i thought about fatherhood, all i could picture was an endless cycle of messy diapers and constant whining -- chicken pox and not being able to open your own cabinet.

Robin: [Laughs]

patrick: But every day, i see beyond.

Robin: And every day you become more or less opposed?

Patrick: I am not as detached as i thought i would be. I realize that what affects your child affects you. That you are suddenly vulnerable to whatever happens to them, good or bad.

Robin: I can understand you'd be thinking about that. Especially on the heels of michael getting hurt and watching sonny and carly and jax have to deal with that. But, you know, you have to find a way to not let that fear paralyze you, to know that the law of averages is on your side. I mean, for every child that gets hurt, there are tens of thousands that don't.

Patrick: So you just hope that your kid is on the right side of those numbers.

Robin: That's right. I mean, you cannot waste time worrying about it.

[Knock at door]

robin: Uh-oh. Could that be grandma?

Patrick: I'll get it.

Tracy: Granny goose is at the haunted star coming on to my husband. Would you like to put a muzzl on her, or shall i?

Luke: Are you clear on the rules?

Anna: Yeah. Remind me.

Luke: If it lands on black, you take a shot. If it lands on hot -- i mean, red, then i take a shot.

Anna: Great. And then the little -- the little green dealies in here?

Luke: The little green dealies? If it lands on a little green dealie, we mutually remove a piece of clothing, and the first one naked wins. Yeah? Oh.

Anna: Oh.

Luke and anna: Ooh, oh, ooh.

Luke: Whoo-hoo.

Luke and anna: [Singing strip tune]

Luke: Oh, the toss, my favorite move. I can do that. All right, that's enough. Ok, you ready?

Anna: [Coughs] yeah.

Luke: Here we go.

Anna: Wait. You know i love my daughter. I do, i really love her. I love her so much. I love her more than anything in the whole world. And i am so happy for her -- that she is going to be a mother. I just hate what it makes me. I know what you're thinking, that i am just such a selfish witch. I know what you're thinking, and i don't deserve this fabulous life?

Luke: Wait, wait, i am not thinking that, believe me. I totally get where you're coming from. I am no procreation enthusiast. No, kids tie you down. Grandkids hold up a mirror that nobody should have to look into.

Anna: Oh, God. You do understand, then. My God.

Luke: I completely understand.

Anna: So do you have any advice for me?

Luke: Don't change. Stay yourself. In fact, be more yourself.

Anna: But do you have anything specific in mind?

Spinelli: Stone cold?

Jason: Yeah.

Spinelli: I -- the jackal learned something while he was endeavoring to add the initials of p.I. To his name, something that might help you with your approach to dr. Devlin.

Jason: What -- what -- what -- what?

Spinelli: Lesson number 16 -- keep a clear head on approaching the subject.

Jason: What's your point?

Spinelli: You just might want to consider compartmentalizing your anger and grief over the little dude's shooting, at least, until we have irrefutable proof that dr. Devlin is, indeed, the shooter. We wouldn't want our trip to culminate with a body in the trunk unless we had answers.

Jason: I intend to keep devlin alive long enough to find out who hired him.

Anthony: All right, bring me up to date on how the various facets of our organization are being run. What's making money? Where's the deadwood?

Claudia: I have been working on an experimental route off the coast of carolina that has been saving us a lot of money.

Anthony: Do you know about this?

Johnny: Claudia fills me in on everything.

Anthony: Then you explain it to me. You shouldn't be involved, darling. This business is no place for women.

Claudia: Excuse me?

Anthony: Exactly, excuse yourself.

Claudia: Daddy, uncle rudy trained the hell out of me. I have been running his organization for years.

Anthony: Uncle rudy does things his way, and i do things my way. And the zaccharas don't involve their women.

Johnny: That's right. Let's not waste time arguing about this.

Claudia: Fine.

Anthony: Close the door behind you.

Carly: Do you think he's dreaming? That somehow through all those layers of nothingness, there's a spark of michael that knows we are here and that we've loving him?

Sonny: I'd like to believe that.

Carly: I do. I have to. Michael will be the one in 10,000 or one in a million. I don't care the odds. I will not give up on my son. He's going to be ok. He's going to be back.

Sonny: Hey.


>> On the Next "General Hospital" --

Anna: You got any rope?

Robin: Mother --

Anna: [Gasps]

Ian: I'm headed back to port charles.

Spinelli: Moose, moose.

Sonny: Michael's in a permanent coma.


Edited 1 time by laurieluvsliason May 16, 2008 06:30.