Lulu: Hey.

Johnny: It's started.

Lulu: What?

Johnny: I just had a disagreement with my father. He made a veiled threat against you.

Lulu: How veiled?

Johnny: I was defending claudia, and he said there might be someone out there that i would want to defend more.

Lulu: Well, it's a little unnerving, but it's not like we didn't expect it.

Johnny: Lulu, my father has once killed an entire family because they were standing --

lulu: The whole reason he wants us together is to basically use me as a hostage to keep you in line.

Johnny: Oh, God. Why the hell are we even doing this.

Lulu: Because we want him to trust you, so that we can gather evidence against him.

Johnny: I know, and it seemed like a great idea at the time, but it's too risky. I don't want to put you in any danger.

Lulu: But this is not just about me. Anthony threatened to put my father in prison for money laundering if i didn't get back together with you.

Johnny: We will find a way around that. But you need to stay away from me.

Lulu: How many times am i going to say this? I am not leaving.

Anthony: So, what do you think? Did claudia really send ian devlin to that warehouse to kill sonny?

Trevor: All i know is that devlin was connected, and he probably did a couple of drug deals. Sonny won't let anybody move drugs through port charles.
So, devlin might have acted on his own, decided to take sonny out.

Anthony: You're advising me to let it go.

Trevor: Yeah. But you already knew that. You've been pushing this just to see how far johnny would go to cover for claudia.

Anthony: You don't miss a trick, do you?

Trevor: Anthony, i pay attention. You wouldn't want it any other way.

Anthony: I could use a little less manipulation, trevor.

Trevor: Yeah. After all these years as your lawyer, you bought johnny's line, that i'm using you.

Anthony: You try to play me off against my kids. That doesn't sit well with me.

Trevor: I am only interested in you, anthony. And i wish i could say the same thing for claudia and johnny.

Anthony: I can keep johnny under control. I just don't want to constantly threaten claudia to do it.

Trevor: Enter lulu spencer.

Anthony: As long as johnny thinks he loves lulu, he'll do whatever i want to protect her.

Alexis: So, i went to the hospital to visit you, and they told me that you had already checked out.

Nikolas: I was ready to leave.

Alexis: So i don't want to be the hovering aunt, however, what were you thinking?

Nikolas: Oh, i don't know. Call it a family trait.

Alexis: Huh?

Nikolas: Huh.

[Alexis laughs]

nikolas: When you were fighting cancer, you had to be dragged to the hospital and couldn't wait to leave. So i'd appreciate a little empathy, please.

Alexis: Ok, ok, ok. There's a storm coming, you know. The water is already choppy. What happens if you need medical care?

Nikolas: I'm fine. I mean, i don't even have a headache.

Alexis: It's not just the surgery that i'm --

nikolas: All right, stop, stop right there. You don't get to be tactful right now. What do you think, i'm just going to sit out here all day
and picture emily's death? No.

Alexis: Do you blame me for wanting to spare you that?

Nikolas: No, you can't. I'll miss her no matter where i am.

Alexis: I really wish there was something i could do.

Nikolas: Yeah. There's not a moment that goes by that i don't mourn emily's death. But that's not what she would want. Nope. I'll always love her, but i need to move on and live my life in
a way that's worthy of her. You know?

Sonny: Ready to go?

Carly: Look, can't we stay for a little while?

Sonny: Well, obviously, there is nothing more we can do for him today.

Carly: Can i have minute with michael?

Sonny: Yeah.

Carly: Sweetheart, i'm going to go, all right? I'm going to come back in a few days. And everything's all set with dr. Levitt and the staff, and they are going to take good care
of you, and they're going to keep you comfortable. I love you. I love you, and i don't care what the doctors say.
I don't believe that your life is over. I know that you're going to find the courage and the strength, and you are going to keep
fighting, and you are going to come back to me. I will never, ever give up on you.


[thunder]

alfred: I took the liberty to make a spot of tea, sir.

Nikolas: No, thank you, alfred. I'm going out.

Alfred: The storm has hit full force, sir.

Nikolas: I'm not worried about a little rain.

Elizabeth: No! No!

Johnny: Your family was right to warn you against me. It's not too late to start listening.

Lulu: Yes, they mean well, but they don't know you like i do.

Johnny: Well, if you still think i'm going to turn into this soft --

Lulu: Don't try and warn me off. I may be scared of my own feelings, but i'm not scared of you. Why do you think that i got in the car with you the first time
that i met you?

Johnny: You were so mad, you weren't thinking straight.

Lulu: Ok, but even then, there were lines that you wouldn't cross.

Johnny: Lulu, i crossed them. I shot sonny. You saw me.

Lulu: Yeah, i still don't know why you and sonny insist on escalating the violence or what either of you thinks that you're going to win, but you would never hurt an innocent person.
It's like what you said when -- the day michael got shot. You would never shoot a child.

Johnny: All that matters is that we trust each other.

Lulu: Yeah. I trust you.

Warren: Please tell me that you are no longer seeing that gangster neighbor.

Kate: Ah, sonny and i had a mutual parting of the ways.

Warren: Oh, well, i must confess, i'm very happy to hear that, because when you got shot a few months ago, i was terrified.
And -- and not just for you, but selfishly for "couture" as well.

Kate: Well, i'm not quite sure how i can help "couture." I mean, after all, i'm about to launch "crimson."

Warren: Listen, kate, should it fail -- and i know that it won't. I'm sure it won't -- but i want you to know that there will always be a place for you at
"Couture."

Kate: Thank you, Warren. Nice save, by the way.

Warren: Ah, Giselle, there you are. Well, i'll leave the two of you to chat. And -- oh! Please feel free to share all your secrets with our current editor-in-chief.

Kate: Don't mind warren. He always gives me too much credit.

Giselle: It must be quite an adjustment for you to put your finger on the pulse of women 15 to 25.

Kate: Well, style is ageless.

Giselle: Absolutely. And you're doing an amazing job, especially given the challenges of your boyfriend's lifestyle.

Kate: As i already explained to warren, sonny and i had an amicable parting of the ways.

Giselle: Aren't you fortunate to have jasper jacks to console you.

Jax: Oh, no consolation required. I'm honored that kate is letting me back her new venture. It must be a relief to you.

Giselle: I'm not sure i follow.

Jax: Well, you know, if kate weren't committed to "crimson," she'd be available to take over "Couture" like warren's been begging her to. So --
[jax laughs] yeah. Well, if you'll excuse us.

Kate: I quite enjoyed you putting giselle in her place.

Jax: That woman's so threatened by you, she's practically frothing at the mouth.

Kate: Why should you care, jax? I mean, really, why should i care? How does any of it matter compared to what happened to michael?

Sonny: Remember when you and michael first moved in with me?

Carly: I didn't want to be there. So i let him loose, and he just trashed the place. He threw every toy he owned on
the floor.

[Laughs]

Sonny: I thought santa's toy bag had exploded all over my living room.

Carly: I guess i went a little overboard, huh?

Sonny: Like mother, like son.

Carly: I'm going to take that as a compliment.

Sonny: It all worked out.

Carly: You were so great with him. Remember the first time we took him to the island, and you took him out on the boat?

Sonny: He held the steering wheel, and we would crash through the waves, and he would say, "faster, faster." Nothing scared that little boy.

Carly: I can picture the day that we told him we were getting back together, and you told him that he could call you whatever he wanted.

Sonny: And all he wanted to do was call me dad.

Carly: He was so happy we were together.

Sonny: And he would do anything to keep us together, even when you got engaged with jax.

Carly: There was the time he locked us in the basement. And he put our pictures on the wine bottle. And he gave us potato chips, told us to work out our problems.[Carly laughs]

Sonny: And he was not one bit shy about, you know, telling us how he felt.

Carly: I just thought with all that creativity and determination, that michael could be whatever he wanted.

Sonny: Hey. He was amazing.

Carly: Then how did this happen to our little boy?

[thunder]

Elizabeth: Jason. Oh, my God. How did you know I was out here? How did you find me?

Jason: I was just going for a ride. What happened?

Elizabeth: I got a flat tire, and then I locked my keys in the car with my cell phone.

Jason: Here, I'll get the car open.

Elizabeth: Ok. Thank you.

[Jason grunts]

Kate: I've gone soft in port charles, jax. I used to be completely impervious to social digs, and now i'm an easy target.

Jax: Well, no one would guess. You're smiling. You're poised. You're elegant.

Kate: I'm ready to run for the hills.

Jax: Really? We can leave if you like.

Kate: No. No. It's good for "crimson." Walk the walk, talk the talk.

Jax: Well, on that note, should we at least act like we are having fun? Take a little spin on the dance floor?

Kate: Absolutely.

Jax: All right.

Kate: Oh!

[Kate and jax laugh]

kate: Wow.

Jax: You feeling better?

Kate: Well, you're quite the dancer, jax. And you're handsome, and you're gallant, and you're a true gentleman and all around perfect guy.

Jax: Well, i've certainly met my match.

Carly: I want to turn the car around. I want to go back.

Sonny: Michael's fine.

Carly: No, he's not fine. He's not fine because we left him there with people he doesn't know.

Sonny: The doctors and staff are the best in new york.

Carly: What if he wakes up? What if he wakes up and he's there with a bunch of strangers, sonny? We have to go back to him.
We have to get him now.

Sonny: We made the choice.

Carly: I didn't make this choice. I didn't make this choice. I don't want to lose my son, ok? I didn't make this choice. I want to go back.

Sonny: Come here. Come here.

Carly: I don't want to leave my son.

Sonny: I know, i know. I know, i know, i know. Hey, hey, hey.

Carly, sobbing: I don't want to leave him.

Sonny: Right. It's ok. You all right? Huh? Ok? Get up. Come here. You ok?

Carly: Yeah.

Sonny: Hmm?