Nikolas: What are you doing?

Nadine: Wondering why you have a diamond ring in your hand.

Jerry: Oh, dear, dear, dear. You're really, really disappointing me, darling. Here you are, accusing me again of conspiracy.

Alexis: What is your association with devlin? Did you have anything to do with that botched hit on sonny that resulted in michael's injury?

Jerry: Would it be easier for you if i said yes?

Claudia: How many times do i have to tell you, jason, i didn't have anything to do with michael's shooting, and neither did my brother.

Jason: You say -- you say a lot of things. You said anthony was the one who ordered the shooter to sonny's warehouse. You want -- you want me to believe you?

Claudia: Yeah.

Jason: I want to believe you. Give me the proof.

Morgan: Michael, wake up. Wake up, michael.

Carly: Hey, baby. Hey, baby, you need to stop doing that, ok?

Morgan: But michael won't wake up.

Carly: I know. He can't. I told you that he won't wake up right now.

Sonny: Hey, come here. Come here. How you doing? Listen to me, ok. Your brother's been very badly hurt, ok?

Sonny: We're all very sad about that, ok. Hey, now, i just got to tell you something, ok? There's nothing we can do to wake him up. He's not going to wake up.

Nikolas: So did you say something about a ring?

Nadine: The one in your hand. You just woke up from surgery, and visitors haven't been allowed in yet, so where'd it come from?

Nikolas: It's emily's.

Nadine: Pretty romantic for you to take emily's ring with you into a complicated brain surgery. And it must be magic. Otherwise, why wouldn't the nurses have noticed it during pre-op, or that would account for you not losing it somewhere along the way.

Nikolas: She must have wanted me to have it.

Nadine: Well, as a good luck piece, it definitely worked. Dr. Drake said the surgery was a success.

Jerry: I mean, let's face it, alexis. As long as you make me out to be a monster, you can justify denying the fact that you're very attracted --

Alexis: Are you incapable of answering one simple question?

Jerry: I'll come clean if you will. I mean, i'll even go first. I do not know dr. Devlin. I may have bumped into him on some rare occasion but within port charles city limits. I've seen him at the hospital. I've seen him having dinner at the metro court, and the only reason i saw -- i stopped him the other night at the pier was because i knew he was treating nikolas.

Alexis: And what would prompt this sudden uncharacteristically warm concern for my nephew after everything you did to him?

Jerry: Well, i was a different man then, but i've changed because of jax and because of you, and the reason i was concerned about nikolas is because he's so dear to you and then because what i did to him built this wall between us, a wall i've been trying my -- my damnedest to break down, which is -- which is an exercise in futility, because every time there's one iota of -- of progress between us, you're busy building up that wall again, because you're so stubborn.

Alexis: And you're a liar.

Jason: You want me to kill your father?

Claudia: Yeah.

Jason: I'll do it if he's responsible for michael's shooting. This is your last chance to convince me.

Claudia: I don't have actual physical proof that you can hold in your hand. What i do have is a little voice inside my head that tells me all i need to know. It is dead on when it comes to my father. Anthony zacchara eliminates risks before they become a problem. It stands to reason, since he knew he was about to be released from prison, that he would clean his house and go after sonny.

Jason: It's still a speculation.

Claudia: It's what i got.

Jason: It's what you -- it's what you've got. It's no proof, claudia. Either you don't have it, or you do, or you're covering something.

Sonny: How's morgan?

Carly: How do you think he is? He's scared, sonny, and he's confused. What the hell were you thinking? How could you be so insensitive?

Sonny: I just told morgan the truth.

Carly: He's a little boy.

Sonny: Who -- who was trying to wake up his brother, and he can't do it, because -- and we both know that --

Carly: I know no such thing Now stop it. I don't know that.

Sonny: Ok, carly, you're an adult. If you want to live in denial, that's your choice, but to bring michael, in his condition, into this house, and forcing morgan to see him that way, he's too young. You shouldn't have done it, but you did it. The least morgan deserves is a realistic understanding of what's put in front of him.

Carly: Ok. I walked morgan into michael's room when he got home, and i sat there and i explained everything to morgan about how michael can't wake up right now, and his body's just trying to heal, and i thought he understood, ok?

Sonny: How can he if we can't? It makes no sense to him that his -- his brother's lying there. He can breathe, but he can't open his eyes. He can't smile. It's too difficult. If we could wrap our brains around it, we'd be able to handle it a lot better. I wouldn't have to be living in my own guilt, and you wouldn't have to be living in a fantasy that's not going to happen.

Carly: Stop saying that, because i don't think it's a fantasy, sonny. This is not denial. This is love. I love that little boy, and i'm not going to give up on him, and it's a damn shame that his father can't say the same.

Nikolas: So is my prognosis, really that good, or are you spinning to make yourself right, since you were the one insisted i have the surgery all along?

Nadine: Well, i will let dr. Drake fill you in on all the details, but the surgery went great. And talk about right on time -- he said if you wait even another -- as usual, i'm talking too much. I'll let him fill you in on the details.

Nikolas: Maybe i want to hear it from you.

Nadine: Hey, you know what? Do you maybe want to wear a wrist ducky while you're here? Or i guess a wrist gargoyle would be more appropriate.

Nikolas: What is it you're not telling me?

Nadine: You're not going to let this go, are you?

Nikolas: No.

Nadine: Ok, what i was going to say, like an idiot, was that if you'd waited even one more week to have the surgery, you would've died.

Nikolas: Well, then i guess i owe you my life.

Nadine: What, does that make me responsible for you or something?

Nikolas: No. No, that would be a lousy way to show my gratitude.

Nadine: I don't know. Maybe i could handle it.

Nikolas: I'm sure you -- you could, knowing you. You are a very tenacious woman.

Nadine: Thanks. Can i get you anything else?

Nikolas: No, thank you. I'm ok.

Nadine: Ok, i'll let you rest.

Nikolas: Thanks.

Nadine: I know you're really going to miss emily, but please don't question what you did. You made the right choice.

Accountant: In summary, elq will have no problem holding steady until the economy comes back. Mrs. Spencer?

Tracy: What? Oh, never mind. You can go.

Accountant: But i thought that --

Tracy: I do not pay you to anticipate my responses. I pay you to crunch numbers. You did. You can go, sir. Have a nice day. Can i have a vodka rocks, lemon twist?

Luke: Make that four.

Tracy: What do you want?

Luke: I want to spend some private time with my wife. Do you think we could get edward and alice to take a weekender?

Tracy: That's disgusting.

Luke: It is a pretty freaky visual, isn't it? Which one do you see on top?

Tracy: Oh, will you stop. And while you're at it, go away.

Luke: Come with me.

Tracy: Go to hell.

Luke: Stop making what i live hell. I want to come home.

Tracy: I like you living at the haunted star, and who knows? With any luck, anna devane might show up for some more alcohol acrobatics, and she'll help you forget the hell that is me.

Luke: Oh, God, are you still on that? That was just harmless fun.

Tracy: Not to me. Luke, i'm exhausted from the constant fighting and from stepping around your compulsive infidelities at every turn.

Luke: Tracy, i can't even remember the last time i cheated on you. Don't you get it? I happen to be in love with my wife.

Alexis: Under any name, you've always been very charming. But i know that's just a mask that you use to cover up for who you really are, whoever that is. I know that.

Jerry: I mean, how could you build your life around the concept of justice and not allow me room to change?

Alexis: Some people just can't be rehabilitated.

Jerry: I don't know. When i took nikolas hostage, i was in a very, very dark, very desolate place. I -- i thought i'd lost the one relationship that had any meaning to me. I never expected to see my brother again, you know. Thankfully, i was wrong. Jax found it in his heart to forgive me, and that changed everything. And i realized then that -- how important the connection with my brother was to me, and why else would i be in this Godforsaken town? Because of jax. And at times, because -- because of you, too, because of the hope i have that i could add one more good thing to my life. I'll never be the good brother no. But i'm a much better man than i was a year ago, and i'll prove it to you. And last night our dinner was interrupted. So can we try again?

Alexis: I'm busy.

Jerry: Come on, a couple of hours, please.

Alexis: Fine.

Jerry: Same time, same place? Ok, i look forward to it.

Mac: Alexis?

Alexis: Hey, whatever it is, can it wait? Nikolas had surgery today. I want to check on him.

Mac: Sure. While you're gone, do you want me to assign someone to investigate jerry jacks?

Alexis: He knows something about devlin, and i'm going to find out what it is, one way or the other.

Sonny: I don't want to hurt you more than you've already been hurt, carly.

Carly: Skip the qualifiers, sonny. They're meaningless. You're going to do what you want anyway. You always do.

Sonny: I don't think this is about what anybody wants. You think i want to see my son in that bed, a prisoner in his own body? You think i want to see you looking at me with hatred in your eyes, my youngest son terrified and scared because the brother that he worships can't wake up and the mother that he trusts lied to him?

Carly: I have never lied to either one of my boys.

Sonny: But the thing is, every time that you tell morgan that michael's going to be all right, that's a lie. And then to bring him in this house in his condition so morgan can see him just wasting away -- it's not fair. It's too much pain for a little boy to endure. He's five years old, carly. He doesn't understand. He doesn't get it. It doesn't make sense to him.

Sonny: Ok, listen to me. I got -- i -- i don't want to do this, but if -- if you don't agree to send michael to the facility that jax found, then i'll file a petition for an emergency guardianship of michael. I'll tell the judge what happened here with morgan today, and i'll also, you know, tell him that you have an unrealistic viewpoint of the situation, and it could harm the boys. I don't want to do it, but i will do it.

Carly: Oh, do it! Because i have a few things that i could tell the judge myself, like why michael is up there in a coma. You want to fight dirty? Bring it on. You're not taking my kid away from me, sonny.

Sonny: All right, listen to me. When you go upstairs, try -- just try not to rationalize, not -- forget about your guilt and the hope that you have and just look at that little boy in that bed, and you will know he's already gone.

Tracy: I am so not in the mood for one of your pathetic attempts at greeting card romance. On you, it sounds like a bad comedy sketch.

Luke: I think i understand this conversational glitch we're having here. You can't hear my sincerity because of the green-eyed monster screaming in your ear. It isn't that you don't want me back in your bed. It's that you're too jealous to admit it.

Tracy: Of anna devane? Don't make me laugh.

Luke: You can't do shots hanging from a trapeze, and somehow you think that's what i want in a woman?

Tracy: If i wanted to, i could down a bottle standing on my head. It's just that i choose not to make an ass of myself, and i also choose not to compete for your attention with lethal mobsters and aging spies.

Luke: Oh, God, here we go.

Tracy: No, you think you hate it when i nag? Not half as much as i hate doing it. Well, i'm done. You want the freedom to choose your associates and to run your sorry excuse for a business any way you like, be my guest, but i reserve the right to not watch while you do it.

Carly: Hey, so i -- i had mercedes take morgan to the library. I thought about having them go to the arcade. I know how much he likes the arcade, but he usually goes there with you. I know you always teach him how to play all the hard games. Your brother misses you so much. He misses you so much, so we -- we've got to get you better for him. Ok, we're going to do all your exercises, and we're going -- we're going to do all the therapy we need to do for you, and you're going to wake up, and you're going to come back. Hey, sweetie pie. Jason's come to say hi to you. Come on.

Jason: Hey, buddy.

Carly: Isn't it great seeing michael in his own room?

Jason: It's nice to have some windows open, isn't it? Look, i'm going to talk to your mom downstairs for a minute.

Carly: Look, this is going to be an adjustment, but i can make this work.

Jason: I want you to tell me how.